The Galleon insider trading case reveals a world where corporate secrets are thrown around with cavalier disregard for regulations on how public company information should be disclosed.
Archive for October, 2009
Galleon Insider Trading Reveals Corporate Leaks
Posted: 30th October 2009 by Veritas in Economy | Finance, PoliticsTags: corporate, galleon, moody's, trading, wall st
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Basic Afghan Mission Turns Deadly for U.S. Soldiers
Posted: 30th October 2009 by Veritas in PoliticsTags: Afghan, Al-Qaida, attack, military, soldier, Taliban, U.S.
The mission was simple. Some 20 U.S. soldiers were to patrol a riverbed in the dead of night, camp until morning, and provide backup to Afghan troops and their Canadian mentors in a clearing operation in Chahar Bagh village, an insurgent hotbed on the outskirts of Kandahar City.
Andre Agassi Admits Addiction to Crystal Meth
Posted: 30th October 2009 by Sus Scrofa in SportsTags: addicted, agassi, crystal meth, drugs, tennis
Eight-time grand slam winner Andre Agassi has admitted in a new book that he lied to tennis authorities about his use of crystal methamphetamine in order to escape a ban. Agassi has revealed his use of the substance in his new autobiography ‘Open’ and that he received a call from a doctor working for the [...]
Dennis Hopper Diagnosed with Cancer
Posted: 30th October 2009 by Veritas in EntertainmentTags: cancer, dennis Hopper, hollywood, Movie
Dennis Hopper has been diagnosed with prostate cancer and is canceling all travel plans to focus on treatment.
14 Relationship Killers Women Commit
Posted: 30th October 2009 by Veritas in Hot Chicks, LifestyleTags: break up, Hot Chicks, love, marriage, relationship
It’s said that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. So, yes, we know that snooping around our mate’s email account is a bad idea and that believing in the fairy-tale love stories we grew up reading is silly, but sometimes we find ourselves giving [...]
9 Missing in Coast Guard & Navy Mid-Air Collision
Posted: 30th October 2009 by Veritas in Fifs, Politics, Sad NewsTags: coast guard, crash, military, navy
The U.S. Coast Guard and Navy were still hoping Friday to find survivors of a collision between a Coast Guard plane carrying two people and a Marine Corps helicopter carrying seven off the Southern California coast.
What seemed like a clever way to order food at a McDonald’s drive-through ended up with four teenage boys pursued and cited by police.
Schwarzenegger’s Secret Message to the State Assembly: ‘F*ck you.’
Posted: 29th October 2009 by Sus Scrofa in PoliticsThe California Assembly and Senate recently unanimously approved Assembly Bill 1176 to help the port of San Francisco with financing issues. But Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) has decided to veto the legislation, sending a letter to the state Assembly chastising them for focusing on “unnecessary bills.” The San Francisco Bay Guardian also notes a second, [...]
Woman Celebrates 105th B-day At Strip Club
Posted: 29th October 2009 by Sus Scrofa in Lifestyle, Oddly EnoughA Houston woman celebrated her 105th birthday in style — at the strip club, local television station KPRC reported. Juanita Black went with her granddaughter, Amy Black, to an iconic Houston ladies club on Tuesday.”We took her because she said wanted to see some men. We took her to La Bare, and she had a [...]
Look, over there. Under that blue tarp in a suburban driveway. That thing that’s the size of a Smart car? It’s Joel Waul’s rubber band ball. Waul has spent the last six years carefully wrapping and linking and stretching rubber bands of various sizes into the ball shape. The Guinness Book of World Records declared [...]
Too fat to kill? Suspect Uses Weight as a Defense
Posted: 28th October 2009 by Sus Scrofa in Crime, LifestyleA Florida man accused of killing his son-in-law in New Jersey is arguing that he was unable to commit the crime because he was too fat. When Edward Ates takes the stand in his defense Wednesday, he’s expected to tell jurors he wouldn’t have had the energy needed to climb and descend the staircase where [...]