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Will the New Owners of FaceBook Be Responsible?

By admin | Published: January 28, 2012
PHILADELPHIA, PA: The word on the street is FaceBook may be going public (in an IPO) as soon as this coming week. Will the new owners of FaceBook, those people who buy shares, be responsible for my privacy and security? Is it possible for individual shareholders to be accountable for what their company does? At [...]
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President Obama Signs Indefinite Detention Bill Into Law

By admin | Published: January 3, 2012
by the American Civil Liberties Union WASHINGTON, DC – President Obama signed the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) into law today. The statute contains a sweeping worldwide indefinite detention provision. While President Obama issued a signing statement saying he had “serious reservations” about the provisions, the statement only applies to how his administration would use [...]
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Jail is for the Little People

By sidd | Published: March 25, 2011
“The Law condemns the lesser felon That steals the goose from off the Common But lets the greater felon loose That steals the Common from under the goose” Finest justice money can buy. You got no money ?Tough luck
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No Way Out

By sidd | Published: March 24, 2011
Camp America is such an innocent name.
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Coming to a Neighborhood Near You

By sidd | Published: October 4, 2010
Now it’s ‘Rent-A-Fireman.’ Next : ‘Rent-A-Cop.’ ‘Rent-A-Judge.’ ‘Rent-A-Congressman.’ ‘Rent-A-Senator’ Who am i kidding. That’s here already. Welcome to the Company Town. “firefighters watched as an Obion County, Tennessee, home burned to the ground.”
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Mines or Tombs ?

By sidd | Published: June 24, 2010
Let us say you are a large coal mining company. And that your regulatory agency has cited you for repeated safety violations, including ineffective dust removal. And that dozens of your workers have recently died in accidents. The regulators have finally ordered you to cease using ineffective dust scrubbers. Do you take steps to fix [...]
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Rent A Monster

By sidd | Published: March 29, 2010
Looking at their pictures, they don’t look like monsters. Crooks, maybe. Paid $1000 a day, after misrepresenting themselves, not such a bad gig. Except the misrepresentation consisted of made up stories of the efficacy of torture, and their expertise at it. And the client was the CIA. “But it turns out neither Mitchell nor Jessen [...]
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Preying on the Ill

By sidd | Published: March 17, 2010
Sell expensive insurance, then drop those who fall ill. What a business. “Shortly after his diagnosis, however, his insurance company, Fortis, revoked his policy.” “Fortis had a company policy of targeting policyholders with HIV. A computer program and algorithm targeted every policyholder recently diagnosed with HIV for an automatic fraud investigation, as the company searched [...]
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Sugar Daddy

By sidd | Published: March 8, 2010
After poisoning the land, losing half a billion dollars, who you gonna call to bail you out? The politicians you bough and paid for, that’s who. “United States Sugar was, as one official put it during an interview, ‘pretty much in the driver’s seat.’ ” “On Nov. 15, 2007, two United States Sugar lobbyists met [...]
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Eat Your Share

By sidd | Published: March 6, 2010
And act like you like it. “Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac may force lenders including Bank of America Corp., JPMorgan Chase & Co., Wells Fargo & Co. and Citigroup Inc. to buy back $21 billion of home loans this year as part of a crackdown on faulty mortgages.” Heeheehee, sob. I dunno whether to laugh [...]
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