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Body of Secrets: Anatomy of the Ultra-Secret National Security Agency James Bamford (2002) The National Security Agency is the world’s most powerful, most far-reaching espionage. Now with a new afterword describing the security lapses that preceded the attacks of September 11, 2001, Body of Secrets takes us to the inner sanctum of America’s spy world. In the follow-up to his bestselling Puzzle Palace, James Banford reveals the NSA’s hidden role in the most volatile world events of the past, and its desperate scramble to meet the frightening challenges of today and tomorrow.

1. Billy Joel Interview NYT Magazine ... NYT Magazine Billy Joel hasn’t put out an album of new songs in decades, but the last few years have brought about a burnishing of his musical legacy. Most recently, he stole the show at the 12-12-12 Sandy relief concert, no trifling feat considering he shared the stage with the Who, the Rolling Stones and Paul McCartney.

2. Who Is Graham Fuller? ... The Corbett Report As investigative reporter Daniel Hopsicker has demonstrated, the address for the Congress of Chechen International Organizations just happened to be the home address of Graham E. Fuller, formerly Vice Chairman of the Reagan-era CIA's National Intelligence Council. The relationship between Ruslan and this former top CIA official was not a loose one. Tsarni married Fuller's daughter in the mid-1990s and lived in Fuller's home for some time, basing his terror-supporting operation under Fuller's own roof.

3. John Perkins: New Confessions and Revelations from the World of Economic Hit Men ... OpEdNews While I would love to credit Confessions for this transformation in public attitude, my book has to share that honor with a number of others, such as Stiglitz’s Globalization and Its Discontents, David Korten’s When Corporations Rule the World, Noam Chomsky’s Hegemony or Survival, Chalmers Johnson’s Sorrows of Empire, and Antonia Juhasz’s Bush Agenda, as well as films such as The Constant Gardner, Syriana, Hotel Rwanda, Good Night, and Good Luck, and Munich. The American public recently has been treated to a feast of exposés. Mine is definitely not a voice in the wilderness.

4. Government Lab Reveals It Has Operated Quantum Internet for Over Two Years ... Technology Review A quantum internet capable of sending perfectly secure messages has been running at Los Alamos National Labs for the last two and a half years, say researchers.

5. Guess what? It's oil price fixing now. ... Bloomberg Three of Europe’s biggest oil explorers are among companies being questioned by European antitrust regulators about potential manipulation of prices in the $3.4 trillion-a-year global crude market.

6. The 40 most undervalued stocks in the market ... Financial Post David Kostin, Goldman Sachs‘ chief U.S. equity strategist, sees almost no upside to the S&P 500 from now through the end of the year.

7. Report: Ohio Is Illegally Throwing Poor People In Jail For Owing Money ... ThinkProgress In a report titled, “The Outskirts of Hope,” (PDF) the ACLU shines a light on a harrowing “debtors’ prison” system in Ohio — one that violates both the United States’ and the Ohio constitution. Ohioans are being jailed for “as small as a few hundred dollars,” despite the constitutional violation, and the economic evidence that it costs the state more to pay for their jail sentence than the amount of the debt.

8. Southern Europe's economic malaise echoes Great Depression ... The Guardian Today's northern European countries are running up record current-account surpluses, just as some southern European countries are experiencing Weimar-level unemployment.

9. Colombia no longer top cocaine producer ... USA Today White House drug czar R. Gil Kerlikowske announced on Monday that Colombia — the origin of much of the cocaine trafficked into the United States — fell behind Peru and Bolivia in production of cocaine in 2011. The latest estimate puts Colombia's production at 195 metric tons, a 25% reduction from the previous year and down from 700 metric tons in 2001.

10. Clockwork Angels: Stoked The Fire ... The Cyber Daily The progressive rock band Rush has stoked the fire once again with a new album — Clockwork Angels — and diehard fans are rushing to have a listen. Everybody got to elevate from the norm. .

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