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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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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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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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Injustice in the Age of Obama (Cindy Sheehan)
Barack Obama, a former law professor, should have a healthy respect for civil liberties, but his actions suggest not Oct. 20, 2010 (Al-Jazeera) -- Since being the defendant in about six trials after ...
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Obama Hires a Hustler (Robert Scheer)
Oct. 19, 2010 (TruthDig) -- One day as Wall Street was crashing, President George W. Bush had the temerity to plaintively ask his treasury secretary, Henry Paulson: “How did this happen?” Paulson, ...
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BOOKS: Empire for Liberty. By Richard H. Immerman (Jim Miles)
Empire for Liberty. Richard H. Immerman. Princeton University Press, 2010. Oct. 15, 2010 (Palestine Chronicle) -- History takes on an interesting life when written as well as Richard Immerman’s new ...
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Leakers, Beware the Corporate Media (Ray McGovern)
Oct. 14, 2010 (Information Clearing House) -- The following is a Code-Orange Advisory to patriotic truth-tellers, sometimes called whistleblowers or leakers: It is anachronistically naïve to expect ...
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