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13 December 2010
US Attorney General Eric H. Holder, Jr.'s financial crime task force focuses on relatively petty crimes, ignoring the colossal Wall Street fraud that sank the economy ...
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen's patent infringement lawsuit against AOL, Apple, eBay, Facebook, Google, Netflix, Office Depot, OfficeMax, Staples, Yahoo! and YouTube is dismissed ...
Wikileaked cables allege that Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe's family is directly involved in the smuggling of "blood diamonds" ...
US Transportation Department proposes mandatory back-up cameras in cars ...
Martina Navratilova leaves hospital after aborted Mount Kilimanjaro climb ...
US Envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan Richard C. Holbrooke dies at George Washington University Hospital in Washington after undergoing surgery to repair a torn aorta ...14 December 2010
Health care reform, the Obama White House's proudest success, gets a judicial kick to the curb over must-buy requirement ...
Wikileaks publisher Julian Assange makes bail, with help and a webhosting offer from filmmaker Michael Moore ...
Afghan President Hamid Karzai, leader of the country US soldiers are fighting and dying for: "If I had to choose sides today, I'd choose the Taliban" ...
15 December 2010
Electronic Frontier Foundation wins landmark case, as 6th US Circuit Court of Appeals rules that in the U S of A, dang it, the government isn't supposed to read emails without a warrant ...
Prosecutors recommend 57 months in prison for criminal lobbyist Paul Magliocchetti ...
Hall of Fame pitcher Bob Feller dies of leukemia in Cleveland, Ohio ...
Comedic film director Blake Edwards dies from complications of pneumonia in Santa Monica, California ...16 December 2010
Fabulously corrupt ex-lobbyist Jack Abramoff finishes work-release stint at kosher pizzeria ...
The London Daily Mail is sued for copyright infringement ...
Frank Baldino, Jr., founder and CEO of pharmaceutical company Cephalon, dies from leukemia while on medical leave, at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia ...
17 December 2010
Senator Susan Collins (R-Maine) calls the cops on 9/11 first responders, while Jon Stewart welcomes them to his show ...
Wikileaks cable reveals an earlier BP blowout similar to Gulf disaster, that BP and the feds kept quiet ...
Singer Captain Beefheart dies of complications from multiple sclerosis at a hospital in California ...18 December 2010
Amusing Hollywood insults fly between "douchebag" soap opera magnate Eric Braeden and "young whippersnapper" sit-com star Neil Patrick Harris ...
Uma Thurman's stalker sent to jail for more creepy calls after judge warned, "You most certainly will go to jail" if the calls continue ...
Influential Italian banker Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa dies from a heart attack while hosting a dinner at his home in Rome ...19 December 2010
"Today is a very sad day", says US Senator John McCain (R-Arizona), as repeal of Clinton-era "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" military policy heads for President Obama's desk ...
Badly Drawn Boy has bizarre meltdown during concert, leaves after c-word rant, returns to whine about everything ...
Michael Moore says claim that Sicko was banned in Cuba is bogus, and just shows "how bureaucrats for the State spin their lies and try to recreate reality" ...
