Feed The Machine
People throw all sorts of personal information up on Facebook that can be very useful if you’re trying to get in touch with them, or hunt them down. Phone numbers, email addresses, web pages, messages that mention your whereabouts, all of this is potentially useful to a professional skiptracer. The trick is that some people set their profile pages as private and you have to be their friend to see it. So, as a debt collection agency, just make a profile with a cute chick in it, put a plausible amount of real content in it, and have her friend the people you want to keep tabs on.
- Debt Collectors Using Cute Chicks On Facebook As Bait
by Ben Popken for Consumerist.com
As America needs most desperately to re-tool its entire environment from our current abject dependence on peripheral loot (including fossil hydrocarbons), the political establishment — dominated in the end by demagogues — will continue with the equivalent of enabling addicts with comforting lies and provision of the drugs of choice. That the drugs will run out — and this is sure — is the decisive reality that ensures Obama’s failure.
- Warring Out of Depression at FeralScholar.org
More than 240,000 contractor employees, about 80 percent of them foreign nationals, are working in Iraq and Afghanistan to support operations and projects of the U.S. military, the Department of State, and the U.S. Agency for International Development. Contractor employees outnumber U.S. troops in the region. While contractors provide vital services, the Commission believes their use has also entailed billions of dollars lost to waste, fraud, and abuse due to inadequate planning, poor contract drafting, limited competition, understaffed oversight functions, and other problems.
- Wartime Contracting Concerns
To Be Aired At June 10 House Hearing
