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Many people are trying to blame the mortgage meltdown on “minority” borrowers and the Community Reinvestment Act. The truth is that the major players–investment banks and mortgage brokers–were not regulated by the CRA.
The Bush administration has been holding Chinese Uighurs at Gitmo even though they were cleared of all charges in 2004. A federal judge ordered them released.
The Federal Reserve Bank will provide short-term loans to companies in the form of “commercial paper.”
Pakistan will deport all 50,000 Afghani refugees from the Bajur tribal region in an effort to deport Afghani militants.
4 firefighters sued the city after gay men at a gay pride parade made comments like “I can’t breathe, give me mouth to mouth!” Would they have sued if the comments came from straight women?
Defense Secretary Robert Gates said reconciliation with the Taliban might be better than trying to kill everyone. The US invaded Afghanistan 7 years and 3 days ago.
Ethnic Bodos and Muslims have been fighting with bows and arrows, spears, and machetes for four days in Northeast India. 49 dead. 100,000 have left their homes.
A federal appeals court did not rule on the merits of the case because Bush will be out of office before the the case can be resolved.
Iceland, near Europe but not part of the EU, is a favorite offshore bank of Europeans. The US financial crisis is devastating their banks.
Turkish planes bombed Kurdish targets in Northern Iraq for the third time in three days. Casualties not yet reported.