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Privacy Advocates Fear Massive Federal Health Database (Jaikumar Vijayan)
Nov. 4, 2010 (Computerworld) -- Several privacy groups have raised alarms over plans by the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to build a database that would contain information about the ...
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Scariest speed camera of all... It checks your insurance, tax and even whether you are tailgating or not wearing a seatbelt (Luke Salkeld)
Nov. 3, 2010 (Daily Mail) -- Even the most law-abiding driver might feel a shiver down the spine when spotting this speed camera at the roadside. For as well as detecting speeding, it is packed with ...
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Activist and author Billy Wimsatt explains why the ‘burbs shouldn’t be bombed after all (Maysan Haydar)
Upski Grows Up: No Bombs, Please Nov. 5, 2010 (In These Times) -- Billy "Upski" Wimsatt began writing his first book, Bomb the Suburbs, as a teenager in Chicago, and it was published in 1994 when he ...
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Cracking the Cancer Consensus: It is time to put prevention before profit (Rachel Curtis)
Nov. 1, 2010 (In These Times) -- Sitting nervously in the waiting room of her doctor's office in Peoria, Ill., Margaret is filling in a standard questionnaire. It asks for details of her diet, ...
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The Surreal World: Class anxiety, hyperconsumption and mocking the poor, for your viewing pleasure (Jennifer Pozner)
Nov. 3, 2010 (In These Times) -- Potential Stepmoms were welcomed to the California estate where they'd be living while dating divorcee Don Mueller on NBC's Who Wants To Marry My Dad? "This is our ...
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In new memoir, Bush makes clear he approved use of waterboarding (Jeffrey Smith)
Nov. 3, 2010 (Washington Post) -- Human rights experts have long pressed the administration of former president George W. Bush for details of who bore ultimate responsibility for approving the ...
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Why Democrats Got Shellacked (David Moberg)
Nov. 3, 2010 (In These Times) -- Tuesday's election results provide endless occasions for progressive wailing and gnashing of teeth. It was bad enough that the Democrats lost the House–and lost it ...
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Watch Out: The World Bank Is Quietly Funding a Massive Corporate Water Grab (Scott Thill)
Nov. 2, 2010 (AlterNet) -- Billions have been spent allowing corporations to profit from public water sources even though water privatization has been an epic failure in Latin America, Southeast ...
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Quantitative easing is just devaluation (Jeff Rubin)
Nov. 3, 2010 (Globe & Mail) -- As the Federal Reserve Board gets ready for yet another round of quantitative easing (i.e. printing more money), one may well ask: Why? If previous quantitative easing ...
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The Obama Postmortem: A Political Suicide (Ted Rall)
Nov. 4, 2010 (Information Clearing House) -- It’s the day after the Republican sweep we all knew was coming. If Obama had any dignity, if he was honest with himself and with us, he would resign. ...
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US Mid-Term Elections: The Death of Hope and Change (Andy Worthington)
Nov. 4, 2010 (Information Clearing House) -- To be brutally honest, those of us concerned with “national security” issues (indefinite detention without charge or trial at Guantánamo and ...
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