Friday, July 17, 2009
News Morning Newsdome: Bank profits; more Tehran protests; Obama NAACP video
Posted by Alejandro A. Leal on Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 2:33 PM
- Artificial profits: Beleaguered financial institutions Bank of America and Citigroup have turned "handsome" profits for the second quarter, mainly due to one-time deals and not to that little thing called tax-payer funded bailout.
- Suicide bombers strike two American luxury hotels in Indonesia.
- More of the same? Police tear-gas protesters in Tehran.
- No new or damaging ammunition: SCOTUS nominee Sonia Sotomayor's confirmation hearings gracefully come to an end.
- "No excuses": President Obama delivers a fiery, inspiring sermon to the N.A.A.C.P. in New York... (video below).
- Not to flame any conspiracies or anything: NASA admits that the original recordings of the moon landing were "erased," and "copies" of the original look even "better."
- U.N. to poor countries: Stop being poor. Just, stop it.
- Too many to count: WHO has stopped cataloging individual cases of the swine flu.
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