Government
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Iraq War Logs: Secret Files Show How US Ignored Torture (Nick Davies, Jonathan Steele and David Leigh)
Massive leak reveals serial detainee abuse. 15,000 unknown civilian deaths in war Oct. 22, 2010 (the Guardian/UK) -- A grim picture of the U.S. and Britain's legacy in Iraq has been revealed in a ...
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Eight Epic Failures of Regulating Cryptography (Cindy Cohn)
Oct. 21, 2010 (Deeplinks Blog / EFF) -- Oct. 21, 2010 (DeeplingAs noted in late September, the FBI is on a charm offensive, seeking to ease its ability to spy on Americans by expanding the reach of ...
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Too Pig to Jail? Ban Foreclosures Now (Ted Rall)
Oct. 21, 2010 -- SAN FRANCISCO (Information Clearing House) -- What would happen to you if you got caught forging a mortgage application? You'd go to jail. And rightly so. In one case in Florida, an ...
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Fraud Task Force Pursues Criminal Investigation of Mortgage Servicers (Carrie Bay)
Oct. 19, 2010 (DSNews) -- Allegations that some of the nation’s largest mortgage servicers cut corners in processing foreclosures and filed unsubstantiated paperwork could turn criminal. ...
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Jim Rogers Says Bank Balance Sheets Full of Rotten Stuff (CNBC)
Oct. 20, 2010 (CNBC) -- The problems banks have with mortgages will take a long time to be solved and bank stocks are not attractive despite the recent drop in price following fears over problems ...
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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange slams Wired magazine on Twitter (Josh Halliday)
Editor-in-chief of controversial whistleblowing website says US technology magazine 'has an agenda and is not to be trusted' Oct. 19, 29010 (guardian.co.uk) -- The founder of WikiLeaks, Julian ...
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Why The Paperwork Appears 'Sloppy' (Neil Garfield)
Oct. 20, 1010 (Livinglies) -- After centuries of lending money and preparing loan documents it seems that the least likely suspect for screwing up the paperwork on tens of millions of “loans” would ...
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When Banks Are the Robbers (Amy Goodman)
Oct. 20, 2010 (TruthDig) -- The big banks that caused the collapse of the global finance market, and received tens of billions of dollars in taxpayer-funded bailouts, have likely been engaging in ...
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The "Cyberwar" Is Over and the National Security Agency Has Won (Tom Burghardt)
Oct. 20, 2010 (Antifascist Calling) -- A "Memorandum of Agreement" struck last week between the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the National Security Agency (NSA) promises to increase ...
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Every Email and Website to be Stored (Tom Whitehead)
Oct. 20, 2010 (The Telegraph) -- Every email, phone call and website visit is to be recorded and stored after the Coalition Government revived controversial Big Brother snooping plans. It will allow ...
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America's False Consciousness (Charles Sullivan)
Oct. 20, 2010 (Information Clearing House) -- An essay authored by Patrick Martin, and published at the World Socialist Web Site Oct. 13, 2010, revealed some interesting findings regarding the ...
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