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2010/12/192010/12/19

Your Apps Are Watching You…AND Reporting Intimate Details Without Your Consent…

Your Apps Are Watching You A WSJ Investigation finds that iPhone and Android apps are breaching the privacy of smartphone users By SCOTT THURM and YUKARI IWATANI KANE Wall Street Journal, Sunday, December 18, 2010 Few devices know more personal details about people than the smartphones in their pockets: phone numbers, current location, often the …

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2010/12/182010/12/18

Journal: Congress Welcomes Open Gay Military…

Writing very carefully as a private citizen, IMHO, this is bad news for both the military Services and the Nation. Congress has not served us well. Nor, it appears, second below, will POTUS. Congress Overturns Military Ban of Gays Serving Openly, Sends Bill to Obama’s Desk Published December 18, 2010 | FoxNews.com WASHINGTON — In …

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2010/12/182010/12/18

Journal: 12,000+ Killed in Mexican-American Drug War

30,000 killed in Mexico’s drug violence since 2006 (AP) Mexico said Thursday that more than 30,000 people have been killed in drug violence since President Felipe Calderon launched a crackdown against cartels in late 2006. The government said the violent La Familia cartel in western Mexico has been “systematically weakened” by recent arrests and deaths …

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2010/12/16

Reference: Arianna Huffington–Wikileaks About Trust in Government–Or Not

Arianna Huffington Posted: December 15, 2010 09:19 PM The Media Gets It Wrong on WikiLeaks: It’s About Broken Trust, Not Broken Condoms EXTRACT: It’s notable that the latest leaks came out the same week President Obama went to Afghanistan for his surprise visit to the troops — and made a speech about how we are …

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2010/12/16

Search: US fraud tri-fecta

Great concept! Here are the three that first appeared in Personal for Mike Bloomberg at Huffington Post, and are now brought together under an easily remembered term. However, Chuck Spinney’s new piece just published has to be included, so we stay with your search term, and and the newest reference on top of the tri-fecta. …

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2010/12/162010/12/16

Reference: The Private War of LtCol Tony Shaffer

Shaffer’s book rips the lid off several stories the bureaucrats wanted to suppress: the role of a program named Able Danger in yielding information that could have uncovered the 9/11 plot; Operation Dark Heart, which could have nabbed Al Qaeda’s number two leader; and early indications that Pakistan’s spy agency, the Inter-Services Intelligence, or ISI, …

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2010/12/16

Reference: The Fraud-Based US Economy

The attached blog, “Failing to Prosecute Wall Street Fraud Is Extending Our Economic Problems,” is a cut-and-paste accumulation of a variety of outlooks. Most are based on analyses or accumulated wisdom, but some appear based on hunches, ideologies, etc. Taken together, however, they paint a horrifying picture of the American political economy and our prospects for …

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