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Posted in September 2009 …
How To Launder Money (And Everything Else You Wanted To Know About Money Laundering)
Interesting piece from Forbes Magazine… Tough Rules You can thank the USA Patriot Act (passed after the 2001 terrorist attacks) for this rapid global change. The Patriot Act required financial institutions to set up rigorous anti-money-laundering programs, ostensibly to thwart terrorist financing. However, with a powerful new tool on their hands, various law enforcement agencies did not … Continue reading »
Sex Slaves – Where They Come From
According to a very reliable source (my cousin Molly), the highest percentage of sex slave victims (per capita) originate in the following countries: Belarus Moldova Russia Ukraine Albania Bulgaria Lithuania Romania China Thailand Nigeria
Is This What America Has Become?
In spite of decades of knowledge that science has brought forth about basic cause and effect of our actions, we are still seeing more rather than less specimens like this. POSTSCRIPT: Not that it’s relevant, but here is a description of the American consumer pictured that was included with the email from my American source… … Continue reading »
The Current Iraqi Air Force
Iraqi planes found in Serbia, but in pieces By DUSAN STOJANOVIC for The Velvet Rocket BELGRADE, Serbia — Iraqi officials, trying to trace what Saddam Hussein did with the country’s military assets, say they have discovered that 19 of the country’s Soviet-built warplanes were sent to the former Yugoslavia in the 1980s for servicing. But … Continue reading »
Photos Of The Day
Prince William Bald?
Although we do not normally stoop to celebrity gossip here at The Velvet Rocket (particularly of the sort that would leave us discussing Prince William’s hairline), a recent encounter left it impossible for us not to have our attention dramatically drawn to Prince William’s rapidly diminishing amount of hair. Yes, girls, Prince Willy is going … Continue reading »
