Flight Air France 447: Collective Negligence & Incompetence?

Extracts from http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10577643 : Start extract Air France voiced its concerns to Airbus months ago about the reliability in icy conditions of the model of speed sensors, or "Pitot tubes", fitted to the A330-200...

No, Please .... Don't Call It a Bonus! It's a 'Retention Award'!

While CEOs of eight banks sat before Congress on February 11, 2009, one of the CEOs there from Morgan Stanley, attempting to justify their questionable actions after having received Troubled Asset Relief Program...

Big Media: Masters of Deception

But you knew that; that's why you use NowPublic.com and other new media. A round up of examples of corporate media deception:"Whether it’s the military co-opting news programs to win support for the Iraq War, advertisers using deceptive ad practices in TV shows, or...

Critical Thought: Easter Symbolism

The Easter bunny = reproductionThe Easter eggs = fertilitySo now if we agree that the pagan origin of the Easter symbols in the above observation are correct, then what exactly do the children hunting for the eggs...

Tricked into Registering Republican

An article at Latimes.com reports: Dozens of newly minted Republican voters say they were duped into joining the party by a GOP contractor with a trail of fraud complaints stretching across the country. Newly...

Missing canoeist's wife 'coerced' to stay quiet

The trial of the wife of a British man who faked his death in order to reap life insurance payments is really getting fascinating. The woman lied to her sons and told them their father was dead, and then tried to go to South America to join her husband. Now the wife is...

Vanity Fair, Bill Clinton, same old Bill full of Vanity. Fair?

Bill Clinton, Vanity Fair, The same old Bill with no change in sight You want change?  Look Past the Clinton's By Albert N. Milliron, Politisite.com With every pundit spouting that McCain is just a Bush...

Bloomberg's Racist and Fraudulent Police Actions make even Giuliani look Good

Mayor Bloomberg has managed to one-up the fascist Giulianiand waist $100 million dollars of the cities money in the process. When the New York City police aren't busy chasing down andarresting city residents who...

Gay Sex Kills!

"Gay" Sex Kills"In light of the irrefutable medical facts, it should be considered criminally reckless for educators to teach children that homosexual conduct is a normal, safe and perfectly acceptable alternative...

The Peak Oil Deception: Squeezing Energy for Profit

Best way to control the price of a highly desired product is to claim it is scarce.Scientists have known for many years that oil is not a fossil fuel. Recent reports have revealed that."The Peak Oil Deception: Squeezing Energy for Profit While energy needs are set to grow...

Cheney ties Iraq, Qaeda again after question from his own biographer

"The person at the press conference who first prompted Cheney about the link was right-wing columnist and official Cheney biographer Stephen Hayes, who wrote a book entitled 'The Connection: How al Qaeda's Collaboration with Saddam Hussein Has Endangered America'"

Back-from-the-dead canoeist pleads guilty to fraud

John Darwin, the canoeist who "came back from the dead" five years after he was believed drowned, has pleaded guilty to seven fraud charges. " At a hearing at Leeds Crown Court, Mr Darwin, 57, denied nine other charges of using criminal property, while his wife Anne, 55,...

Millionaire 'beaten to death by ID thief who raided bank accounts'

"A reclusive millionaire was battered to death in his Hampstead home by a conman who raided his bank accounts, the Old Bailey has heard. Allan Chappelow, 86, was a world expert on playwright George Bernard Shaw but had become "rather eccentric" in his old age, the jury was...

Margaret Thatcher told navy to raid Swedish coast

TimesOnLine.co.uk–January 27, 2008 Pelle Neroth MARGARET THATCHER ordered the Royal Navy to land Special Boat Service (SBS) frogmen on the coast of Sweden from British submarines pretending to be Soviet...

Canoe couple face fresh fraud charges

More trouble for the "back from the dead" canoeist John Darwin and his wife Anne. "John and Anne Darwin have been charged with additional counts of deception and will appear at Hartlepool Magistrates' Court in the morning, Cleveland Police said. Mr Darwin, 57, a former prison...

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