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OpEdNews - Article: End [Their Federal Reserve System = An Exclusive Banking Cartel]

Fri, 08 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Op Ed News - Jun. 08 (Opinion) -

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Scenes from Occupy Baltimore · Stories · Baltimore Fishbowl

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Baltimore Fishbowl - Feb. 07 (News) -

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Is the SEC Covering Up Wall Street Crimes?

Wed, 17 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Rolling Stone - By Matt Taibbi - Aug. 17 (Investigative Report) - Imagine a world in which a man who is repeatedly investigated for a string of serious crimes, but never prosecuted, has his slate wiped clean every time the cops fail to make a case. No more Lifetime channel specials where the murderer is unveiled after

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American Banks 'High' On Drug Money

Sun, 12 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Clarence Walker - Jun. 12 (Investigative Report) - A fraud investigator helped expose the shocking world of multi-billion dollar drug laundering by American banks and the surprising lack of oversight by the Feds. Martin Woods, an Englishman in his mid-40s, is blessed with a Sherlock Holmes instinct and demeanor. Woods is an expert at sniffing out "dirty" money passing through International Banking Systems. A police officer for 18 years and later a detective with London Metro Police Agency, Woods capitalized on his unique expertise as a fraud expert by joining Wachovia's London-based Bank in March 2005 as an anti-money laundering officer. It wasn't long after taking the job that he discovered that his own employer, one of America's leading banks, was a major player in aiding the "bloodthirsty" Mexico drug cartels to launder billions of dollars in drug money through Wachovia banks. Woods traced and identified a "number of suspicious transactions" related to Mexico-based Casa de Cambios (CDC).

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Sarah Palin e-mails: Palin maintained third e-mail account

Sun, 12 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Rachel Weiner - Jun. 12 (News Report) - Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin (R) maintained another private e-mail account for most of her tenure in office, in addition to her official government account and the Yahoo account she used frequently, the documents released Friday show. E-mails that passed between private accounts are not included in the release; only e-mails that passed through the state server in some fashion were captured. The release shows e-mails between Palin at an sp@hslak.com account and her aide Frank Bailey at ...

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Corporate America Wars on Political Transparency

Wed, 25 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

populist.com - By Robert Weissman - May. 25 (Opinion) - It’s a modest notion. Companies that bid for government contracts should disclose their campaign spending, in order to diminish the likelihood that contracts are a payoff for political expenditures. The Obama administration has indicated that it plans to impose such a rule, through an executive order. Ideally, the rule would prohibit contractors and lobbyists from campaign spending, but a disclosure standard is a very positive if modest step. The US Chamber of Commerce, the trade association for big business, however, takes a somewhat different view. “We will fight it through all available means,” Bruce Josten, the chief lobbyist for the Chamber, told the New York Times. “To quote what they say every day on Libya, all options are on the table.”

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House GOP criticizes White House visitor logs

Thu, 05 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

iWatch News - By Fred Schulte - May. 05 (News) - House Republicans criticized the Obama administration for failing to disclose the names of thousands of visitors to the White House and suggested Obama staff met with lobbyists in nearby coffee shops to avoid listing their names in the official records system.

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The Mayor’s Russian Problem

Thu, 07 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltileaks - Apr. 07 (Opinion) - We think that Nazarenko’s contribution in particular points to deeper underlying issues with the fundraising machinery of the O’Malley democratic political machine which has come to control so much of Maryland politics.

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Shh! Obama gets anti-secrecy award

Thu, 31 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Politico - By Abby Phillip - Mar. 31 (News) - President Obama finally and quietly accepted his “transparency” award from the open government community this week — in a closed, undisclosed meeting at the White House on Monday

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Despite openness pledge, President Obama pursues leakers

Mon, 07 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800

The Politico - By Josh Gerstein - Mar. 07 (News Report) - The Obama administration, which famously pledged to be the most transparent in American history, is pursuing an unexpectedly aggressive legal offensive against federal workers who leak secret information to expose wrongdoing, highlight national security threats or pursue a personal agenda.

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Iraqis Rally to Vent Anger at Government

Fri, 25 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Jack Healy, Michael Schmidt - Feb. 25 (News) - Defying attempts by Iraq’s government to curtail a day of nationwide protests, thousands of Iraqis took to the streets on Friday to call for more accountability from elected leaders.

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Spilled Milk

Tue, 01 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Town Hall - By Thomas Sowell - Feb. 01 (Opinion) - In a classic example of this process, the EPA has decided that, since milk contains oil, it has the authority to force farmers to comply with new regulations to file "emergency management" plans to show how they will cope with spilled milk, how farmers will train "first responders" and build "containment facilities" if there is a flood of spilled milk. Since there is no free lunch, all of this is going to cost the farmers both money and time that could be going into farming-- and is likely to end up costing consumers higher prices for farm products.

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Dealing With Assange and the Secrets He Spilled

Thu, 27 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Bill Keller - Jan. 27 (Special Report) - Is the WikiLeaks founder the great puppet master of the news media? He would like you to think so. But The Times’s dealings with him reveal a different story.

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U.S. can't link accused Army private to Assange

Tue, 25 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

MSNBC - By Jim Miklaszewski - Jan. 25 (News Report) - U.S. military officials tell NBC News that investigators have been unable to make any direct connection between a jailed army private suspected with leaking secret documents and Julian Assange, founder of the whistleblowing website WikiLeaks.

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In a Wikileaks Era, Balancing Public and Private

Tue, 25 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Eric Pfanner - Jan. 25 (News Report) - At a meeting of the World Economic Forum in China last year, Adrian Monck, the group’s chief spokesman, moderated a panel on social networking. Because the Internet can be a sensitive topic in China, he asked the audience whether the discussion should be kept private, to promote a freer exchange. By a show of hands, the camera-wielding journalists, BlackBerry-equipped executives and laptop-bearing bloggers agreed to turn off their gadgets. “It was an entertaining and relaxed discussion,” Mr. Monck said.

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How Congress helped thwart Obama's plan to close Guantanamo

Sat, 22 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

McClatchy - By Carol Rosenburg - Jan. 22 (News Report) - Two years after the newly minted Obama administration moved to undo what had become one of the most controversial legacies of the George W. Bush presidency by ordering the closure of the prison camps at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, a trove of State Department documents made public by the website WikiLeaks is providing new information about why that effort failed.

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Lawyer for Bradley Manning, Army figure in WikiLeaks case, alleges prison mistreatment

Fri, 21 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Ellen Nakashima - Jan. 21 (News Report) - The lawyer for alleged government secrets leaker Bradley Manning is accusing military authorities of using punitive measures against Manning at the Marine Corps jail in Quantico, Va.

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OpenGovernment (beta) launches today!

Tue, 18 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Sunlight Foundation - By David Moore - Jan. 18 (Statement) - Free & open-source, OpenGovernment is a non-partisan public resource for transparency at any level of government: state, city, local, international, and more. It’s based on OpenCongress.org, the most-visited not-for-profit website in the country for tracking the U.S. Congress, with over a million visits per month and many millions of requests for data served every day.

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How propaganda poisons the mind - and our discourse

Wed, 12 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Salon - By Glenn Greenwald - Jan. 12 (Opinion) - People devoted to a corrupt cause necessarily rely on falsehoods to advance it. And what we're seeing here is not only the government doing that, but The Watchdog Media -- as usual -- serving as its most valuable ally. At the very least, the outlets that published this serious -- and seriously false -- accusation owe their readers a prominent, clear retraction.

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WikiLeaks: Julian Assange 'faces execution or Guantánamo detention'

Tue, 11 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

The Guardian - By Esther Addley - Jan. 11 (News) - Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, could be at "real risk" of the death penalty or detention in Guantánamo Bay if he is extradited to Sweden on accusations of rape and sexual assault, his lawyers claim.

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Icelandic MP fights US demand for her Twitter account details

Sat, 08 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

The Guardian - By Dominic Rushe - Jan. 08 (News) - A member of parliament in Iceland who is also a former WikiLeaks volunteer says the US justice department has ordered Twitter to hand over her private messages.

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U.S. Sends Warning to People Named in Cable Leaks

Fri, 07 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Mark Landler, Scott Shane - Jan. 07 (News) - The State Department is warning hundreds of human rights activists, foreign government officials and businesspeople identified in leaked diplomatic cables of potential threats to their safety and has moved a handful of them to safer locations, administration officials said Thursday.

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WikiLeaks' Most Terrifying Revelation: Just How Much Our Government Lies to Us

Mon, 03 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

AlterNet - By Fred Branfman - Jan. 03 (Opinion) - Do you believe that it is in Americans' interest to allow a small group of U.S. leaders to unilaterally murder, maim, imprison and/or torture anyone they choose anywhere in the world, without the knowledge let alone oversight of their citizens or the international community? And, despite their proven record of failure to protect America -- from Indochina to Iran to Iraq -- do you believe they should be permitted to clandestinely expand their war-making without informed public debate?

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WikiLeaks Exposes Internet's Dissent Tax, not Nerd Supremacy

Wed, 22 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Atlantic Monthly - By Zeynep Tufekci - Dec. 22 (Opinion) - Jaron Lanier's recent lengthy essay about Wikileaks is not really about Wikileaks; thus, it is unsurprising that he misses the central lesson of this affair. From the beginning, he makes the fundamental conceptual mistake of conflating individual human beings and powerful institutions, like governments and corporations; he then takes off on a dystopic vision of a world dominated by an imagined "nerd supremacist" ethic of complete transparency, collapse of private life, and unrestricted information flow, in which humanity is the slave of the machine.

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NewsTrust - Government Transparency - Most Recent Stories

OpEdNews - Article: End [Their Federal Reserve System = An Exclusive Banking Cartel]

Scenes from Occupy Baltimore · Stories · Baltimore Fishbowl

Is the SEC Covering Up Wall Street Crimes?

American Banks 'High' On Drug Money

Sarah Palin e-mails: Palin maintained third e-mail account

Corporate America Wars on Political Transparency

House GOP criticizes White House visitor logs

The Mayor’s Russian Problem

Shh! Obama gets anti-secrecy award

More questions than answers about Japan nuclear crisis

Despite openness pledge, President Obama pursues leakers

Iraqis Rally to Vent Anger at Government

Spilled Milk

Dealing With Assange and the Secrets He Spilled

U.S. can't link accused Army private to Assange

In a Wikileaks Era, Balancing Public and Private

How Congress helped thwart Obama's plan to close Guantanamo

Lawyer for Bradley Manning, Army figure in WikiLeaks case, alleges prison mistreatment

OpenGovernment (beta) launches today!

How propaganda poisons the mind - and our discourse

WikiLeaks: Julian Assange 'faces execution or Guantánamo detention'

Icelandic MP fights US demand for her Twitter account details

U.S. Sends Warning to People Named in Cable Leaks

WikiLeaks' Most Terrifying Revelation: Just How Much Our Government Lies to Us

WikiLeaks Exposes Internet's Dissent Tax, not Nerd Supremacy