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Saturday, October 8, 2011
New Boom Reshapes Oil World, Rocks North Dakota
| 10-08-2011 • arclein Two years ago, America was importing about two thirds of its oil. Today, according to the Energy Information Administration, it imports less than half. And by 2017, investment bank Goldman Sachs predicts the US could be poised to pass Saudi Arabia and overtake Russia as the world's largest oil producer. Read Full Story | ||||||
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Man sues Facebook over privacy issues
WICHITA, Kansas — A Facebook user has filed a federal lawsuit against the social networking giant, claiming it violated wiretap laws with a tracking cookie that records web browsing history after logging off of Facebook.
John Graham, a 42-year-old lawyer, is the named plaintiff in the lawsuit filed on Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Kansas. His suit seeks class action status for the 150 million users of Facebook in the United States. Graham referred all comment to his attorneys, who declined to comment on the filing.
Experts say the Kansas litigation faces an uphill battle since courts in the past have tossed out similar cases against Facebook and others filed under wiretap law, finding such computer cookies are not wiretaps. In those cases that do end up being litigated the plaintiffs typically lose because they cannot prove any harm.
Andrew Noyes, a spokesman for Facebook, said the firm was not commenting on the lawsuit at this time.
But when the controversy over the cookies was initially raised, the company issued a statement saying there was no security or privacy breach and Facebook did not store or use any information it should not have. Like every site on the Internet that personalizes content and tries to provide security for its user, Facebook places cookies on the computer of the user, it said.
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Friday, October 7, 2011
Freedom Lost
Food For Thought
10-06-2011
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Thursday, October 6, 2011
A Farewell from Fascists
Is CBS News Silencing Fast and Furious Reporter? | The Weekly Standard
Yesterday, CBS News investigative reporter Sharyl Attkisson told radio show host Laura Ingraham that the White House yelled and swore at her over her reporting on the Fast and Furious gunrunning scandal tied to the deaths of two U.S. law enforcement agents. Attkisson also revealed that she'd also been yelled at by the Justice Department.
'Today, I called CBS News in an attempt to interview Attkisson. I was told by CBS News senior vice president of communications Sonya McNair that Attkisson would be unavailable for interviews all week. When I asked why Attkisson would be unavailable, McNair would not say.
I've also heard from a producer at another media outlet that has previously booked Attkisson that they tried to book her since she made news with the Laura Ingraham interview yesterday. They were also told that she would be unavailable.
After our initial conversation earlier today, I called McNair back and left a message with her office. I also sent McNair an email asking whether Attkisson's unavailability has anything to do with reporting that the White House and Justice Department were angry at her. I further asked McNair if the White House or Justice Department contacted CBS News about Attkisson since yesterday. McNair has not responded to my inquiries.
Recall what Attkisson told Ingraham yesterday:
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Tuesday, October 4, 2011
My List Isn't As Long As Yours, But... (On the Banks)
So there are a few lists of demands and grievances from the Wall Street protestors floating around the Internet now. Those I've seen pretty much confirm what I've seen in the various clips of protestors that are circulating: That most of the protestors, while rightly outraged, don't have a clue about what caused the problems they are now outraged about, nor about what to do to fix them.
So here's my list. It's a lot shorter than the ones I've posted above, and I don't think it's because I've given the matter less thought than those folks have:
1. End the Federal Reserve and replace it with nothing.
2. Legalize competing currencies.
3. End corporate welfare, including all bailouts and subsidies.
4. Stop violating the First Amendment, and prosecute those officers and police officials who have violated the First Amendment rights of protestors.
Any other ideas? I'd like to include something about reimbursing people who have lost their homes, jobs, businesses, etc. because of the government-orchestrated boom and bust. But how would you even begin to even calculate all of that? And who would be doing the reimbursing? The taxpayers? Random financial institutions? I don't see a just way of doing this, but am open to suggestions.
Any ideas people send me that I like, I'll add to my list. And I encourage others to come up with their own lists.
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On the Current State of the Nation « yngthght
With the rise of normal citizens becoming political activists in the wake of our current economic downturn, calling themselves the 99% and Occupying Wall Street in New York City as well as the occupation of other cities all over the country by similar-minded individuals, the highly controversial and by all my knowledge and understanding unconstitutional assassination of Anwar Al Awlaki by order of President Obama, I feel the need to write this article which will be scathing and perhaps even offensive to many individuals but nevertheless what I feel is my right and duty as a citizen of this nation.
Our troubles start and begin with our progression towards communism as defined by Karl Marx in the Communist Manifesto:
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'Vivacious' grandmother who was at risk of malnourishment died after NHS staff 'forgot' to insert feeding tube | Mail Online
Sunday, October 2, 2011
The FBI again thwarts its own Terror plot
09-30-2011 • www.salon.com
The FBI has received substantial criticism over the past decade -- much of it valid -- but nobody can deny its record of excellence in thwarting its own Terrorist plots. Time and again, the FBI concocts a Terrorist attack, infiltrates Muslim communities in order to find recruits, persuades them to perpetrate the attack, supplies them with the money, weapons and know-how they need to carry it out -- only to heroically jump in at the last moment, arrest the would-be perpetrators whom the FBI converted, and save a grateful nation from the plot manufactured by the FBI.
Last year, the FBI subjected 19-year-old Somali-American Mohamed Osman Mohamud to months of encouragement, support and money and convinced him to detonate a bomb at a crowded Christmas event in Portland, Oregon, only to arrest him at the last moment and then issue a Press Release boasting of its success. In late 2009, the FBI persuaded and enabled Hosam Maher Husein Smadi, a 19-year old Jordanian citizen, to place a fake bomb at a Dallas skyscraper and separately convinced Farooque Ahmed, a 34-year-old naturalized American citizen born in Pakistan, to bomb the Washington Metro. And now, the FBI has yet again saved us all from its own Terrorist plot by arresting 26-year-old American citizen Rezwan Ferdaus after having spent months providing him with the plans and materials to attack the Pentagon, American troops in Iraq, and possibly the Capitol Building using "remote-controlled" model airplanes carrying explosives.
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"CORPORATE GREED" ?
