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Security for a Perfect World...

Sat, 19 Sep 2009 15:07:46 GMT

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Clip Source: yayeveryday.com

Grizzlies starve as salmon disappear

Thu, 10 Sep 2009 02:59:44 GMT

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clipper's remarks: We're next...

Clip Source: www.theglobeandmail.com

Grizzlies starve as salmon disappear

As salmon numbers drop, bears are also few and far between along B.C.'s wild central coast – signalling what conservationists say is an unfolding ecological disaster

Dozens of alpine cows appear to be committing suicide by throwing themselves off a cliff near the sm

Sun, 30 Aug 2009 16:37:51 GMT

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Clip Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

Police baffled as dozens of 'suicidal' cows throw themselves off cliff in the Alps

Motorhead Album Covers

Sat, 25 Jul 2009 17:41:35 GMT

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Clip Source: www.coverbrowser.com

Tags: motorhead

5 year old girl taken by social services after raid on home-based business.

Sat, 11 Jul 2009 21:24:48 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Girl wants to go home, parents did nothing wrong, all charges dropped. Courts force child to be adopted, and parents may never get to see her again.

Clip Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

I want to come home mummy: Aged five, 'Jenny' was torn from her parents by social workers after an RSPCA raid. Now a court says she must be adopted...

We reveal disturbing questions about the fate of this bewildered child who faces fears of abandonment for years to come but who just wants to come home to mummy and daddy

"If it weren't for overdraft fees, 45% of banks and credit unions wouldn't have made money in 2008"

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 22:54:48 GMT

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Clip Source: www.usatoday.com

Banks are lobbying heavily against restrictions. Why? "Overdraft fees are the mother lode of (deposit) fees," says Michael Moebs of Moebs Services, an economic research firm. "If it weren't for overdraft fees, 45% of banks and credit unions wouldn't have made money in 2008."

Even as regulators crack down on abusive mortgage and credit card practices, another type of lending threatens to mire consumers in a credit trap.

Security Flaws Found at Federal Buildings

Wed, 08 Jul 2009 12:47:18 GMT

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Clip Source: www.washingtonpost.com

Security Flaws Found at Federal Buildings

Investigators from the Government Accountability Office over the past year successfully smuggled bomb-making materials into 10 high-security federal buildings, constructed bombs and walked around undetected, according to GAO testimony set to be delivered today.

In Canada, No Expectation of Privacy On the Net?

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 23:53:43 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Can you say dense?

Clip Source: yro.slashdot.org

Your Rights Online: In Canada, No Expectation of Privacy On the Net on Tuesday June 30, @04:23PM

"In a recent interview, Peter Van Loan, the new Canadian Public Safety minister, says ISPs should be able to provide private user information without a warrant. (The only example he gave was cases of child pornography; the interviewer pointed out that in these cases ISPs are already at liberty to divulge customer information without a warrant, but that the proposed rules would make that mandatory whenever the police ask.) He was adamant that in regard to IP addresses, names, cell phone numbers, and email addresses: '...that is not the kind of information about which Canadians have a legitimate expectation of privacy.' The minister denied — even when presented with an audio clip proving otherwise — that his predecessor had promised never to allow the police to wiretap the Internet without a warrant."

"crab in a bucket syndrome"

Sun, 28 Jun 2009 13:46:50 GMT

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Clip Source: en.wikipedia.org

Crab mentality

This term is broadly associated with short-sighted, non-constructive thinking rather than a unified, long-term, constructive mentality. It is also often used colloquially in reference to individuals or communities attempting to "escape" a so-called "underprivileged life", but kept from doing so by others attempting to ride upon their coat-tails or those who simply resent their success.

Man takes photos at airport, winds up face down in handcuffs on the tarmac.

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 23:43:51 GMT

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clipper's remarks: One old-timer gruffed under his breath, "It's the U.S.A., not U.S.S.R. -- I didn't fight to protect this shit."

Clip Source: blogs.dallasobserver.com

I got an early Father's Day surprise from Homeland Security. It seems the public is not allowed on the tarmac. I thought the tarmac was the cement runway, but it's actually a hundred yards or so on each side.

Proposed Canadian Law Would Allow Warrantless Searches

Fri, 19 Jun 2009 00:24:45 GMT

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Clip Source: yro.slashdot.org

Your Rights Online: Proposed Canadian Law Would Allow Warrantless Searches on Thursday June 18, @04:58PM

"A bill introduced by Canada's Minister of Public Safety will allow police to (warrantlessly) force ISPs to provide access to any requested digital traffic records, reports News 1130. Police lobbied for the bill as means of 'combatting gangsters, pedophiles, or terrorists,' but apparently they find the legal principles of judicial review and probable cause, as well as a constitutional provision against 'unreasonable search or seizure', to be too much of a hassle, and would rather be able to search anyone's web or e-mail traffic at their own discretion and without any oversight. All in the name of public safety, of course."

NSA Email Surveillance Pervasive and Ongoing

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 00:49:59 GMT

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Clip Source: news.slashdot.org

News: NSA Email Surveillance Pervasive and Ongoing on Wednesday June 17, @10:16AM

"The NY Times has a piece about work being done by Congressman Rush Holt (D-NJ) and others to curb NSA efforts to read email and Internet traffic. Here's an excerpt: 'Since April, when it was disclosed that the intercepts of some private communications of Americans went beyond legal limits in late 2008 and early 2009, several Congressional committees have been investigating. Those inquiries have led to concerns in Congress about the agency's ability to collect and read domestic e-mail messages of Americans on a widespread basis, officials said. Supporting that conclusion is the account of a former NSA analyst who, in a series of interviews, described being trained in 2005 for a program in which the agency routinely examined large volumes of Americans' e-mail messages without court warrants. Two intelligence officials confirmed that the program was still in operation.'"

Medical bills are behind more than 60 percent of U.S. personal bankruptcies, U.S. researchers report

Sat, 06 Jun 2009 06:07:39 GMT

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Clip Source: news.yahoo.com

Medical bills underlie 60 percent of U.S. bankrupts: study

More than 75 percent of these bankrupt families had health insurance but still were overwhelmed by their medical debts, the team at Harvard Law School, Harvard Medical School and Ohio University reported in the American Journal of Medicine.

It is legally permissible for police to zap a suspect with a Taser to obtain a DNA sample

Sat, 06 Jun 2009 01:49:50 GMT

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Clip Source: www.buffalonews.com

Ruling allowing Taser use to get DNA may be nation’s first

LOCKPORT — It is legally permissible for police to zap a suspect with a Taser to obtain a DNA sample, as long as it’s not done “maliciously, or to an excessive extent, or with resulting injury,” a county judge has ruled in the first case of its kind in New York State, and possibly the nation.

Iacocca losing pension, car in Chrysler bankruptcy

Sat, 30 May 2009 19:50:11 GMT

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Clip Source: fe10.story.media.ac4.yahoo.com

Iacocca losing pension, car in Chrysler bankruptcy

Chrysler CEO Robert Nardelli told a U.S. bankruptcy court on Thursday that Iacocca's pension would be among the obligations Chrysler will no longer have to pay if it gets bankruptcy court approval to sell itself to a "New Chrysler" to be owned by its union, the U.S. and Canadian governments and Fiat SpA (FIA.MI).