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Republican Senator Pleads Ignorance After Selling Millions in Stock Before the Crash Barack Obama

Republican Senator Pleads Ignorance After Selling Millions in Stock Before the Crash

Senator Kelly Loeffler of Georgia during a ceremonial swearing in to the U.S. Senate on January 6, 2020.Photo: Getty ImagesU.S. Senator Kelly Loeffler of Georgia defended herself overnight, insisting that both she and her husband had no input in the decision to sell somewhere between $1.2 million and $3.1 million…
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March 20, 2020
How McKinsey Got Greedy Oxycodone

How McKinsey Got Greedy

Dear patient readers, I had gotten most of the way through this post on how McKinsey fell from grace and scheduled it, uncompleted. It auto-launched due to my inattentiveness. But that did impel me to finish it for your delectation. So apologies for the confusion. * * * Why has…
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March 20, 2020
NIST shared dataset of tattoos that’s been used to identify prisoners – Naked Security Clearview

NIST shared dataset of tattoos that’s been used to identify prisoners – Naked Security

In 2017, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit looking to force the FBI and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to cough up info about Tatt-C (also known as the Tattoo Recognition Challenge): a tattoo recognition program that involves creating an…
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March 20, 2020
Latin America Isn’t Ready for the Virus Onslaught Headed Its Way Brasilia

Latin America Isn’t Ready for the Virus Onslaught Headed Its Way

(Bloomberg) --For weeks, as the world was gripped by panic over the spreading coronavirus, Latin America looked largely unscathed. Supermarkets were stocked, buses still crowded and, as recently as a few days ago, the Mexican and Brazilian presidents were unabashedly mingling with large crowds.Now, as infections balloon in the region,…
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March 20, 2020