Why did a three-year government inquiry into the Church in Ireland's handling of child abuse cases from 1975 to 2004 reveal rampant cover-ups, and outlines how officials even took out insurance to pay future claims?
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Why did a three-year government inquiry into the Church in Ireland's handling of child abuse cases from 1975 to 2004 reveal rampant cover-ups, and outlines how officials even took out insurance to pay future claims?
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Why are nearly 1 in 5 Americans either out of work or under-employed according to the American government's broadest measure of unemployment?
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Why is Al Gore, former Vice President and current face of the green movement, the director of Generation Investment Management LLP which is a London-based investment management firm that invests in the carbon credits that Gore advocated to the U.S. Senate in 2009? And why did Gore use an average of 16,000 kwh/m at his home in Nashville in 2006, while a typical Nashville home uses about 1,300 kwh/m?
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Why is there an underground trade in South Korea where pregnant women can sell their unborn children?
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Why did Franklin D. Roosevelt pass Executive Order 6102 in 1933 which made it a criminal offense for U.S. citizens to own or trade gold anywhere in the world, with exceptions of some jewelry and collector's coins?
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Why did William Randolph Hearst, the newspaper mogul and paper mill owner, partner with Harry J. Aslinger in the early 1930's to make hemp illegal, shortly after the Decorticator was invented, a machine which dramatically reduced the exorbitant labor costs associated with cleaning and preparing hemp for further processing and make hemp the cheapest way to make paper?
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Why are 237 of the 535 members of Congress millionaires while only one percent of the American public are millionaires?
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Why was the South Sea bubble in 1720 inflated through the manipulation of the company's stock by the company's directors and the following members of Parliament; John Aislabie (the Chancellor of the Exchequer), James Craggs the Elder (the Postmaster General), James Craggs the Younder (the Southern Secretary), Lord Stanhope and Lord Sunderland?
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Why did Coca-Cola force bottlers to purchase hundreds of millions of dollars in unnecessary beverage concentrate to make its sales seem higher?
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Why did a one-time tax break allow several multinational corporations, including; Pfizer, Merck & Co., Hewlett Packard, Johnson & Johnson, IBM, Citigroup, JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch and General Electric, to receive a 22,000 percent return on their lobbying expenditures?
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Why was a 15 year-old Brisbane school girl suspended for shaving her head to raise money for vital cancer research?
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Why has Fatma Riahi, a Tunisian blogger been arrested by the country's police for being suspected of hiding behind the pen-name Blog de Z, a controversial Tunisian cartoonist blogger whose political satire has enraged the government?
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Why is Pat Robertson's opinion still respected after he said the following in a May 1980 broadcast of The 700 Club "I guarantee you by the end of 1982 there is going to be a judgment day in the world"?
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Why did the CIA abduct terror suspects from all around the world and ship them to countries where torture was legal in an attempt to extract information from them in a program labelled 'extraordinary rendition'?Why.
Why did Judge Ciavarella and former Luzerne County judge, Michael Conahan, take more than $2.6 million from the owners of two privately-run youth detention centres in return for sending teenagers there?
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Why were hundreds of thousands of poor American children warehoused in institutions by state governments, with the compliance of the federal government in the 20th century as a part of the Eugenics movement, which aimed to separate people considered to be genetically inferior from the rest of society, to prevent them from reproducing?
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Why was professor David Nutt, the UK government's chief drug adviser fired for saying the following; "Alcohol ranks as the fifth most harmful drug after heroin, cocaine, barbiturates and methadone. Tobacco is ranked ninth, Cannabis, LSD and ecstasy, while harmful, are ranked lower at 11, 14 and 18 respectively"?
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Why are Barrack Obama and all other U.S. presidents except Martin Van Buren, related to John "Lackland" Plantagenet, a king of England and signer of the Magna Carta?
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Why did a man claiming to be 112 married a 17-year-old at a ceremony in central Somalia, his sixth wedding in total?
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Why was a 2006 rescue mission in Iraq led by Britain's secretive Task Force Black and involve the work of several Canadian agencies, including the RCMP, Department of Defence, CSIS and soldiers from the elite counterterrorism unit JTF 2, while Canadian Forces weren't supposed to be fighting in Iraq?
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Why were U.S. senators Chris Dodd and Kent Conrad given VIP mortgages by Countrywide Financial under the"Friends of Angelo" program, which was named for former CEO Angelo Mozilo?
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Why has Israel's nuclear capability never been put to inspection by the international watchdog the IAEA?Why.
Why are churches and religious organizations generally exempt from income tax and receive other forms favorable treatment under the tax law in Ameica?
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Why did executives at Fannie Mae hide $9 billion in losses from its income statements from 2001-2004?
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Why did Chicago Police Officer Joseph Frugoli crash his SUV into a car while driving drunk. killing two people, and then proceed to leave the scene of the accident?
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Why did Alan Eagleson, the head of the NHLPA, abuse his position for many years by defrauding his clients and skimming money from tournaments?
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Why did Sanjay Kumar and other executives at Computer Associates (CA) play a leading role in a $2.2 billion accounting scheme at the software company in 1999 and 2000?
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Why were five women paraded around naked, beaten and forced to eat human excrement by villagers after being branded as witches in India's Jharkhand state?
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Why was Elvis Presley an agent for the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs while being addicted to prescription medication himself?
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