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News release: “The Congressional Oversight Panel today released its October oversight report, An Assessment of Foreclosure Mitigation Efforts after Six Months. The Panel expresses concern about the limited scope and scale of the Making Home Affordable program and questions whether Treasury’s strategy will lead to permanent mortgage modifications for many homeowners. Rising unemployment, weak home …
Follow up to previous postings on the Google Book Settlement, this New York Times Op-Ed today: A Library to Last Forever, by Sergey Brin/Google: “Because books are such an important part of the worlds collective knowledge and cultural heritage, Larry Page, the co-founder of Google, first proposed that we digitize all books a decade ago, …
Environmental Working Group (EWG) EWGs Guide to Reduce Cell Phone Radiation Exposure: “Cell phones emit radiation to send voice and text messages to the other caller. Health risks arent confirmed, but some (not all) studies of frequent cell phone users suggest increased risks for brain and mouth tumors and childrens behavior problems.” Best and Worst …
Interim Review of ATFs Project Gunrunner, Evaluation and Inspections Report I-2009-006, September 2009: “Mexican drug trafficking organizations (cartels) are a pervasive organized crime threat to the United States, according to the Department of Justices 2009 National Drug Threat Assessment. The cartels use firearms trafficked from the United States primarily from the Southwest border states …
