July, 2010

All about the Catalonia bullfighting ban

Spain and bullfighting go hand in hand. Yet bullfighting was banned in the Spanish province of Catalonia July 28. The bullfighting ban will have to start by year 2010 in Spain. The ban was passed by Catalonian parliament in Barcelona while animal rights activists cheered with job and happiness. Many suspect animal cruelty wasn't the ...

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Tony Hayward no longer CEO but BP career continues in Russia

Following a meeting in London to decide his fate, Tony Hayward was expected to resign Monday. He's being sent to Siberia instead, where he will work at TNK-BP, a joint venture with Russian oil barons that is one of BP's most lucrative deals . After running the careless company that began the oil spill within ...

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Social Security customers, beware bank personal loans

Those who receive Social Security likely aren't in a position to give their money away. That's why there is a plan on the table to eliminate paper Social Security checks entirely. The Treasury has plans to phase the checks out by 2013 and send funds via direct deposit and prepaid debit cards, writes The Wall ...

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New Senate Carte Goodwin, last vote for unemployment extention

Joe Manchin, West Virginia governor, appointed Carte Goodwin to replace Democratic Robert Byrd, who died June 28, in the Senate. Goodwin is the man all unemployed Americans are waiting for. As Byrd's successor, he is expected to provide the vote that finally passes a jobs bill that will extend unemployment benefits that has been stalled ...

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Lautenberg – Lockerbie bomber release tied to BP-Libya oil deal

By spilling oil all over the world, BP has made billions. And now a U.S. senator is wondering if BP stands to make billions more from a BP-Libya oil deal after helping set free a terrorist convicted of killing Americans. Libyan Abdel Bastet Al-Megrahi, the Lockerbie bomber, aroused those suspicions last August when he was ...

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