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Drug money saved banks in global crisis, claims UN advisor

Drugs money worth billions of dollars kept the financial system afloat at the height of the global crisis, the United Nations' drugs and crime tsar has told the Observer.

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Chavez threatens to nationalize Venezuelan banks

CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said on Sunday he could nationalize private banks unless they comply with the law, adding he had “no problem with that because the banks don't want to extend credit to the poor.” In a broadcast from nationalized farmland in central Venezuela, he said: “To all the country's private bankers … (I'm saying) he who slips up loses; I'll take over the bank, whatever its size.” “You want me to nationalize the banks?” he said during the broadcast of his weekly TV show “Alo Presidente.” “I have no problem with that because the banks don't want to extend credit to the poor, they don't comply, they don't want to comply with the bank's purpose for existence, and that is the law.” Chavez said the purpose of banks was not to enrich a small group of people but “should be to collect funds and savings to help aid the country's development by making loans, extending credits for housing.” In power for a decade, Chavez has nationalized broad swathes of the economy.

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Really Citi

Beginning in February, Citibank will begin charging customers $7.50 each time their checking account balance dips below $1500.

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DNC Vs. RNC On Health Care

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Maggie Gallagher Speaks Her Mind

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Alabama Hosts Convention Of Still Completely Homosexual "Ex-Gays"

Focus On The Family’s final “ex-gay” conference is being held in Birmingham this weekend, where anti-“ex-gay” activist Wayne Besen spoke at the University of Alabama to expose the myths and dangers of their “pray away the gay” campaign. Embroiled in financial difficulties and layoffs, Focus of the Family has handed off their “ex-gay” conference business to Exodus International, an organization best known for its former chairman John Paulk , who in 2000 was photographed by Besen fleeing from cameras after having been spotted having a gay ole time in Washington DC’s Mr. P’s Bar

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About That Renegade Republican….

After his lone GOP “yes” vote on the U.S. House’s health care reform bill helped its approval by only a two vote margin yesterday, right wing sites such as Free Republic and others have already launched a campaign against Rep. Joseph Cao (R-LA), branding him a “traitor” and calling for his deportation back to Vietnam, among other unrepeatable things.

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U.S. House Passes Health Care Reform, GOP Calls Bill "Dead On Arrival" In Senate

Late last night the U.S. House narrowly approved its version of the health care reform bill by a vote of 220-215. Only one Republican, first termer Rep

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Carrie’s Mom Saw The Sex Tape

TMZ reports today that Miss Ladyfingers USA’s mother was in the room when pageant lawyers played her sex tape.

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