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Friday, 28 October 2011 01:52

Despite Iraq Vet's Cracked Skull, DoJ Sees No Evil in Occupy Crackdown

After Scott Olsen, a two-tour Iraq war veteran, suffered a skull fracture Tuesday when police shot Occupy Oakland protestors with rubber bullets and threw flash bang and tear gas grenades at them, you might think that the Justice Department would investigate.

After all, the Justice Department has the power and responsibility to investigate state and local police violations of Americans’ constitutional rights.

Sorry, Scott Olsen. Sorry, Occupy. No such luck.

The Obama Justice Department has not opened an investigation, spokeswoman Xochitl Hinojosa told Wired.

That’s despite Oakland having a l...

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Man Pleads Guilty to Trafficking Kidneys in New Jersey

Levy Itzhak Rosenbaum, 60, of Brooklyn (left) is led by his attorneys Ronald Kleinberg (center) and Richard A. Finkel (right) into the Clarkson Fisher Federal Courthouse in Trenton today to plead guilty for his role in trafficking human kidneys. (Tony Kurdzuk/Star-Ledger)

TRENTON — The price was steep. As much as $160,000 to secure a donor willing to give up a human kidney for transplant.

And Levy Itzhak Rosenbaum — who told neighbors in Brooklyn he dabbled in construction and real estate — bragged on surveillance recordings that he had participated in many such black market deals.

Today, the...

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Internet Phone Calls Caught in Crossfire As FCC Adopts Rural Broadband Subsidies

The Federal Communications Commission unanimously adopted a radical changeover Thursday to the $4.5 billion Universal Service Fund, created by a fee attached to telephone bills, and will now channel the bulk of subsidies to expand rural broadband use, rather than rural phone service.

While updating a Depression-era program for the 21st century seems like a no-brainer, the change is pitting traditional phone service provider AT&T against Comcast, which provides calling services over its broadband network, and is exposing the FCC’s intellectual confusion over how to regulate communications i...

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