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TrapWire: Creepy Spying System Revealed by Wikileaks

August 10, 2012

What does it mean, when Wikileaks publishes a trove of documents hacked by Anonymous from the strategic intelligence firm Stratfor — a trove that apparently details a massive electronic spying system run by the U.S. government — and is then hit by a massive and sustained distributed denial of service attack that prevents journalists...
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Study: Why Pot Smokers Are Skinnier

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Lucy is Right: Insurance Should Be a Nickel

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Suspected Saudi Terrorist Al-Harbi Visited White House

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6 new regulations that will make the economic collapse even worse

Nevertheless, the government is in the midst of employing six new regulations that will surely make…