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Cost of cleaning up Gulf oil disaster rises to $8 billion
British oil giant BP has spent eight billion dollars to battle the Gulf of Mexico disaster, the company has revealed as its crews retrieved key evidence from the seabed. Robotic submarines recorded the delicate operation as engineers raised a failed blowout preventer from the ruptured well and began lifting it to the surface in order [...]
12:00 PM Raw Story Muammar Gaddafi demands 4.1billion a year from EU to stop illegal immigration
| Gaddafi provoked outrage last night by demanding £4.1billion a year from the EU to stop illegal immigration ?turning Europe black?.
03:30 PM on 09/03/2010 Infowars Pentagon Watchdog Misses billion Dollar Audit
Whistleblowers charge that instead of actively pursuing fraud, DCAA management was obsessed with signing off on as many audits as possible in the shortest period of time.
02:00 PM on 09/02/2010 Alternet 7 Ways the Tea Party Sugar Daddy billionaire Brothers Are Ripping Us off08:57 PM on 09/02/2010 Alternet billionaire Tea Party Financiers and Opportunistic Hucksters Like Beck Are Playing With Fire07:19 PM on 09/01/2010 Alternet billionaire Who Denies Connection to Tea Parties Bankrolls Tea-Partying Glenn Beck Fans
David Koch, billionaire backer of the Tea Party movement, says he's never been to a Tea Party event. So, what do you call the conference full of Tea Partiers he just convened?
02:00 PM on 08/30/2010 Alternet HP To Buy Back $10 billion In Shares
Hewlett-Packard Co. said its board has authorized the repurchase of $10 billion in shares. The announcement comes as the personal computer maker is involved in a bidding contest with rival Dell Inc. for the data storage company 3Par Inc.
09:14 AM on 08/30/2010 NPR News - Politics U.S. Wasted billions in Rebuilding Iraq
| ?More than $5 billion in American taxpayer funds has been wasted,? and then, ?That amount is likely an underestimate.?
11:00 AM on 08/30/2010 Infowars AP IMPACT: US wasted billions in rebuilding Iraq
AP IMPACT: Hundreds of abandoned, incomplete projects as US hands off to Iraqis. A $40 million prison sits in the desert north of Baghdad, empty. A $165 million children's hospital goes unused in the south. A $100 million waste water treatment system in Fallujah has cost three times more than projected, yet sewage still runs [...]
03:53 AM on 08/30/2010 Raw Story billionaire Who Denies Connection to Tea Parties Addressed Crowd at Glenn Beck Rally
David Koch, billionaire backer of the Tea Party movement, says he's never been to a Tea Party event. So, what do you call the conference full of Tea Partiers he just convened?
02:00 PM on 08/30/2010 Alternet CBO: Repealing Medicare Portions of Health Law Would Increase Deficit by $455 billion01:25 PM on 08/27/2010 Alternet Swamp Politics: Can billionaires Carry the Day?
Senate and Governor Races in Florida featuring Jeff Greene, Kendrick Meek, Rick Scott and Bill McCollum bring some salacious headlines, billionaires and Mike Tyson into primaries.
10:36 AM on 08/24/2010 ABC Politics Administrator Takes Over $20 billion BP Fund
Kenneth Feinberg assumed his role as head of the $20 billion compensation fund on Monday. Until now, BP had been handling the process. Will it get any better for the thousands of people still waiting for their money?
03:00 PM on 08/24/2010 NPR News - Politics More Than Half A billion Eggs Recalled
More than a half-billion eggs have been recalled in the nationwide investigation of a salmonella outbreak that Friday expanded to include a second Iowa farm. The outbreak has already sickened more than 1,000 people and the toll of illnesses is expected to increase.
09:31 AM on 08/21/2010 NPR News - Politics billions for Teacher Unions, Nothing for Students
Here?s a story problem to get kids ready for the new school year:
If Congress borrows $10 billion to bail out the public schools, and if toilet paper costs fifty cents a roll, how many rolls of toilet paper will each of the nation?s 132,000 K-12 public schools receive?
The answer: Zero. Zip. Zilch.
The average American [...]
06:29 PM on 08/20/2010 Big Government Intel To Buy McAfee For $7.68 billion
Chip maker Intel says it has agreed to buy computer-security software maker McAfee Inc. for $7.68 billion, or $48 per share. That represents a 60 percent premium over McAfee's Wednesday close of $29.93.
08:45 AM on 08/19/2010 NPR News - Politics Mike Tyson's Defense of billionaire Senate Wannabe Jeff Greene: Less-than-Helpful04:51 PM on 08/19/2010 Alternet Republican Nonsense Is Sending billions in Green Energy Investments to China, Europe Instead of US05:46 PM on 08/18/2010 Alternet Will Anyone Be Punished For Citibank's $40 billion Subprime Lie?08:04 PM on 08/18/2010 Alternet Are Handouts For billionaires More Important Than Feeding Children?01:43 PM on 08/17/2010 Alternet Obama Administration Spending $63 billion On Global Health Care Program
The Obama administration is focused not just on health-care reform in the United States ? but also on improving health care systems around the world, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced on Monday.
01:20 PM on 08/17/2010 Prison Planet 1.8 billion barrel oilfield discovered in Afghanistan, Petraeus says US may need to stay longer
Afghanistan said on Sunday it had discovered an oilfield with an estimated 1.8 billion barrels in the north of the war-ravaged country, where U.S. and other foreign forces are trying to tame a Taliban-led insurgency.
09:57 AM on 08/16/2010 Prison Planet NY Fed to Buy $18 billion of Treasurys in Reinvestment Program
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York said Wednesday it would buy $18 billion in Treasury securities in operations to take place through mid-September.
12:51 PM on 08/12/2010 Prison Planet GM Posts $1.33 billion Profit, Prepares IPO
General Motors said Thursday it made $1.33 billion in the second quarter, a sign it's getting healthier as it prepares to sell stock to the public. It was the automaker's second straight quarterly profit for GM, which made $865 million in the first quarter.
08:40 AM on 08/12/2010 NPR News - Politics GeoEye, DigitalGlobe Get $7 billion from Intelligence Agency to Implement Next-Gen Satellite Imaging
| The next generation of hi-res satellite imaging technology is on the way, at least if the United States government has anything to say about it.
07:00 PM on 08/12/2010 Infowars White House to provide $3 billion for housing
The Obama administration is providing $3 billion to unemployed homeowners facing foreclosure in the nation's toughest job markets.
08:01 PM on 08/12/2010 MSNBC Politics California runs a billion-dollar deficit in first month of fiscal year
It's the spending, stupid.
12:20 PM on 08/11/2010 Hot Air Obama Signs $26 billion Jobs Bill
The president signed the measure into law just hours after the House passed it in a special one-day session during what would normally be the lawmakers' summer break. The bill aims to protect 300,000 teaching and other nonfederal government positions from budget cuts.
06:52 PM on 08/11/2010 NPR News - Politics Obama Approves billions for Teachers, Cops
Congress today passed a controversial spending bill aimed at saving hundreds of thousands of teacher, police officer and public health worker jobs in states grappling with budget cutbacks in a down economy.
05:46 PM on 08/11/2010 ABC Politics Freddie Mac Posts $6 billion Quarterly Loss
From AFP:
Troubled US mortgage firm Freddie Mac reported Monday a second quarter net loss of six billion dollars and sought another 1.8 billion dollars from the Treasury to contain the red ink.
The government-backed company said its strategies to boost business and “sustainable homeownership” were taking hold but cited high unemployment posing “very real challenges” for [...]
08:29 PM on 08/10/2010 Big Government Pentagon plans to cut billions from budget
Pentagon will eliminate Joint Forces Command, try to slash contractors Defense Secretary Robert Gates says tough economic times require that he shutter a major command that employs some 5,000 people in Norfolk, Va., and eliminate other jobs throughout the military. Gates told reporters at a press conference on Monday that getting rid of Joint Forces [...]
08:07 PM on 08/10/2010 Raw Story Freddie Mac Requests $1.8 billion In Aid After Loss
Government-controlled mortgage buyer Freddie Mac is asking for $1.8 billion in additional federal aid after posting a larger loss in the second quarter. Freddie Mac said it lost $6 billion, or $1.85 per share, in the April-to-June period.
10:47 AM on 08/09/2010 NPR News - Politics Freddie Mac requests another $1.8 billion in bailout money
Grueling.
12:23 PM on 08/09/2010 Hot Air Ed Markey wants an icy concentration camp for 4 billion people
The Nazis have at least dedicated villages and built new buildings to collect the people they didn't like. For environmentalists, this is too much of a luxury. A left-wing political representative of Massachusetts, Mr Ed Markey, proposed a cheaper solution.
09:45 AM on 08/09/2010 Prison Planet Goldman Made Between $11 And $16 billion In 2009 Trading CDS And Other Derivatives
As part of its most recent FCIC grilling, David Viniar left the political theater a month ago with a homework assignment to disclose all of the firm's derivative profits, as well as provide granular detail on its derivative trades.
09:46 AM on 08/08/2010 Prison Planet The billionaire boys: Beware of geeks bearing gifts
| Bill Gates, Warren Buffett and the world?s richest men are giving half their fortunes to charity ? but there is a downside, says William Langley.
06:32 AM on 08/08/2010 Infowars Pentagon can't account for $8.57 billion in Iraqi funds
B is for billions. And b is for it?s hard to believe that they?ve done it again. The last time, even more money vanished, which I noted in my article, Following Pentagon trillions to Israel and 9-11. This was under the Zionist Dov Zakheim?s watch as Comptroller of the Pentagon from May 4, 2001, to March 10, 2004.
09:42 AM on 08/07/2010 Prison Planet Clean Coal Bottom Feeders! $1 billion More For Big Coal Welfare07:13 PM on 08/07/2010 Alternet $10 billion Public School Bailout Unnecessary
Unions moved one step closer to receiving their own bailout Wednesday when House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called the U.S. House back from recess to vote on a stimulus bill for unionized public employees.
The House will vote to create a $10 billion ?Education Jobs Fund,? a euphemism for a public school bailout. Those aren?t my words [...]
11:02 AM on 08/06/2010 Big Government Is Obama about to forgive billions in mortgage principal?
August surprise?
10:47 AM on 08/05/2010 Hot Air
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