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Odds and Ends

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> Fed Refuses to Disclose Recipients of $2 Trillion [Bloomsberg]

The Federal Reserve refused a request by Bloomberg News to disclose the recipients of more than $2 trillion of emergency loans from U.S. taxpayers and the assets the central bank is accepting as collateral.

Bloomberg filed suit Nov. 7 under the U.S. Freedom of Information Act requesting details about the terms of 11 Fed lending programs, most created during the deepest financial crisis since the Great Depression.

> Rick Warren deletes anti-gay language from his website (includes screenshot) [AmericaBlog]

> Rod Blagojevich’s Deleted Facebook Account [Gawker]

> CIA Releases Soviet Intelligence Services Docs [Cryptome]

> After a pause, Government Attic is back in action, posting lots of new exclusive documents pried from the FBI, National Archives, Interior, the JASON Group, and elsewhere.

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Pentagon docs: expenditures in Iraq & elsewhere

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Today in its Freedom of Information Act reading room, the Pentagon has posted 202 pages of documents related to its Iraqi Freedom Fund transfers/expenditures from 2002 to 2006:

DOD reading room [PDF | 9 megs]

Memory Hole mirror

The Government Accountability Office explains the Iraqi Freedom Fund:

“The Iraqi Freedom Fund is a special account providing funds for additional expenses for ongoing military operations in Iraq, and those operations authorized by P.L. 107-40 (Sept. 13,2001), Authorization for Use of Military Force, and other operations and related activities in support of the global war on terrorism.”

Some sample pages from the Pentagon’s FOIA release:

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Document flashbacks > gas prices | tax-exempt foundations | comic books

The Role of Market Speculation in Rising Oil and Gas Prices: A Need to Put the Cop on the Beat (2006) [PDF] (US Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigation via William Blum)

>> Press release: “Levin-Coleman Report Finds Speculation Adding To Oil Prices: Put the Cop Back on the Beat ” (Sen. Levin)

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Internal Memos Show Oil Companies Intentionally Limited Refining Capacity To Drive Up Gasoline Prices (2005) (ConsumerWatchdog.org) (Thanks to DM)

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Hearings on Tax-Exempt Foundations from the Reece Committee (1953) and Cox Committee (1952) [Scribd via cryptome]

>> Background article: “The Reece Committee: Social Science as a Tool for Control” [Old-Thinker News]

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* 1954 Senate Subcommittee Hearings into Juvenile Delinquency, with the special focus on Comic Books [TheComicBooks.com via Bookslut]