Different countries have different legal punishments for those producing counterfeit money and the punishments are quite tough. The reason why the punishments are harsh is because counterfeit money reduces the value of actual money and causes inflation due to the increase of money being circulated throughout the economy.
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The devastation that recently occurred in Haiti is truly heartbreaking, but it is always good to know that there are numerous caring people who are willing and able to take time away from their own lives to help the lives of others. For many of these people, however, the helping hand was stretched across to the people of Haiti well before the earthquake struck.
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Last month, a controversy arose surrounding Enterprise Rent-a-Car's deletion of side airbags from GM Impalas and other vehicles, and how this could increase the risk of injuries in accidents involving these rental cars. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has now decided to take note of the risk to motorists driving these rental cars, or buying them.
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The M-LEC, as it is called, has been created in order to restore investor confidence in some areas of the economy that are neccesary for credit to maintain its liquidity, or ease of transference from one entity (a bank) to another. This loss of liquidity comes in the wake of the discovery of high-risk, sickly subprime mortages that have been sold off in pieces, often in the form of supposedly secure money market funds to thousands of investors. Over the past several years, those funds have changed hands so many times that their spread is difficult to chart for the average investor, who therefore loses confidence investing in a potentially tainted company or financial institution, which, over time, results in a credit crunch, which is a surefire recipe for recession.
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To the citizens of the U.S., the religious militants who are inciting hatred against the U.S. and hatching plots to kill Americans are terrorists. But to the citizens of countries like Iraq, Palestine, Afghanistan and Iran the U.S. and Israeli soldiers are the terrorists.
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Gun crime is a growing problem within the UK. In the past guns have been the reserve of organised criminals although today an increasing number of firearms are finding their way in to the hands of young, impressionable adults and children. The link between gun crime and gang culture is clearly evident and its causes are not easily defined; fundamentally it is a combination of social and economic factors that lead young people down the path of carrying guns.
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The world is bracing itself for the effect of the Swine Flu Epidemic, which has already raised the international pandemic threat level, and taken the lives of hundreds of people in rural Mexico where it originated in Spring 2009. But how did it originate, and why has another human-life-threatening disease come up again via farm animals?
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There's one happy outcome of soaring gas prices that Bakersfield traffic enforcement officials had not planned for a corresponding drop in auto accidents in the area.
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Over half a million Poles have entered the UK after their accession to the EU in 2004, but we hear less about the vacation migration in the opposite direction; when the Brits flock to Eastern Europe. The online travel agent,globalholidays discovered the low down on the exodus !
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Writing off Africa's debts and increasing financial assistance has increased in recent years, with awareness being raised throughout the developed world by Sir Bob Geldof.
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