[cia-drugs] Airing Gonzales' Dirty Laundry

2007-05-02 Thread E Bryant Holman
Airing Gonzales' Dirty Laundry

By Bill Boyarsky, Truthdig. Posted May 2, 2007.

A look at one of the real reasons eight U.S. attorneys were fired -- the 
Republican effort to stop voter registration campaigns in poor neighborhoods. 

http://www.alternet.org/rights/51317/

 Since Attorney General Alberto Gonzales' inept stonewalling before the Senate 
Judiciary Committee shed no light on the firing of eight U.S. attorneys, let's 
dig into one of the real reasons -- the Republican effort to stop voter 
registration campaigns in poor neighborhoods.

The assault is an early battle of the 2008 presidential campaign. Republicans 
are trying to limit registration of African-Americans and Latinos in a number 
of states that Democrats have a chance of carrying. It's not the only reason 
that attorneys were fired, but it is the most reprehensible.

U.S. attorneys are political appointees. When a new president and his party 
take power, the old are swept out for the new. But once in office, the 
attorneys usually work with local law enforcement and lawyers and are not often 
micro-managed from Washington. There have been exceptions to this. The power of 
local segregationists sent Kennedy administration lawyers into action to take 
over some law enforcement in the South during the civil rights movement.

This operation is different. The Kennedys wanted to give African-Americans 
rights guaranteed by the Constitution. The Bush crowd is trying to exclude 
African-Americans and Latinos.

One of the fired attorneys is David Iglesias of New Mexico, who was dismissed 
after state Republican officials complained that he wouldn't prosecute 
registration fraud allegations.

(The state produced another, unrelated, example of Republicans using the 
Justice Department to win elections. Republican Sen. Peter Domenici complained 
that Iglesias was too slow in prosecuting a political corruption case that 
would have helped the campaign of Rep. Heather Wilson, a Republican who 
eventually won a tight race.)

In 2004, President Bush beat Sen. John Kerry in New Mexico by just a single 
percentage point, 50 percent to 49 percent. In 2008, the state's five electoral 
votes are within Democratic grasp. Although that's not a lot of votes, the 
Democrats' near success in 2004 reflects the party's hopes of big gains 
throughout the Southwest and Rockies next year.

Another U.S. attorney firing was linked to efforts to stop a Democratic 
registration drive in Washington state. Kerry carried it in 2004, but a 
Republican came within 129 votes of the Democratic winner in last year's 
election for governor. U.S. Attorney John McKay, who was appointed by Bush, was 
dumped by Gonzales after Republican officials complained he would not 
investigate supposed registration fraud.

The Republicans' main target in New Mexico, Washington and other states is a 
progressive grass-roots group, the Association of Community Organizations for 
Reform Now, ACORN. It has chapters in more than 100 cities engaged in 
organizing the poor for a living wage, improved housing, jobs, healthcare, 
better schools and child care.

What angers the Republicans are ACORN's voter registration efforts, mostly in 
poor African-American and Latino neighborhoods. In the last few years, it has 
registered about 500,000 voters in poor communities.

ACORN members tend to be tough and focused. They organize poor families ignored 
by the politicians, the big contributors and the reporters and pundits who 
dominate today's political dialogue. While political writers report on the 
so-called money primary -- the contribution competition among the top 
contenders -- ACORN is signing up voters in neighborhoods where the major 
candidates and journalists seldom venture.

It's the hardest kind of political organizing. The organizers -- invariably low 
paid -- must convince the overworked and poor to give up a portion of their 
limited time to activities such as staging marches, visiting city halls and 
state capitols and organizing registration drives.

Professor Peter Dreier, director of the Urban and Environmental Policy Program 
at Occidental College in Los Angeles, told me that of all the organizations in 
the country that represent the poor, except for the labor unions, ACORN is the 
most effective. With a good political research operation and a grasp of local, 
state and national politics, ACORN targets its work in swing districts, 
registering voters who are likely to be Democrats, Dreier said.

ACORN's success woke up New Mexico State Republican Chairman Allen Weh and 
other state party officials. They accused ACORN of fraud in the 2004 drive that 
registered 35,000 potential voters, according to The Albuquerque Tribune.

U.S. Attorney Iglesias investigated the complaints. He formed a task force that 
took a close look at more than 300 of them. In fact, some ACORN workers, who 
were paid for each person they registered, weren't too fussy about whom they 
signed up. ACORN fired a 

[cia-drugs] Cryptome.org, repository of sensitive docs, gets shutdown notice

2007-05-02 Thread norgesen
Tuesday, May 01, 2007
Who Killed Cryptome.org?
 It's the one secret radical open information activist John Young can't crack: 
what drove his ISP, Verio/NTT, to finally pull the plug on his website, 
Cryptome.org, where for years he's posted every sensitive document, photo or 
map he could get his hands on.

Young -- a 72-year-old architect in New York -- has hosted countless government 
documents with the For Official Use Only markings intact; exposed the names 
of long-ago CIA collaborators; the alleged identities of current British 
intelligence agents; compiled a travelogue-style guide to the Pennsylvania 
mountain believed to be the vice president's undisclosed location; and even 
put up a map showing where major Manhattan gas pipelines are buried, which he 
posted ahead of the Republican National Convention in New York.

So what happened, after all that, to make Verio decide to stop hosting him now?

Verio isn't saying. Spokeswoman Marla Kramer sent THREAT LEVEL this statement:

  Verio customer information is confidential. As a matter of policy, Verio will 
not discuss the specific details of any customer. Verio consistently 
investigates and works with its customers to resolve issues. Recent events, 
however, related to Cryptome presented a different situation that Verio was 
unable to reconcile with its AUP. Based on these events, Verio made the 
decision that it could no longer support Cryptome as a customer.

  On April 20, 2007, Verio provided Cryptome with notification of the 
termination via both email and certified mail. Verio provided Cryptome with two 
week's notice to allow the organization to obtain another service provider.

  Verio respects both the rights of its customers and those of third parties. 
Verio is confident that it has been fair and consistent in its approach to 
these matters, and stands by its decision in this instance. 

It's admirable that Verio won't discuss confidential customer information with 
a reporter, but somewhat baffling that it's stonewalling Young on the same 
question, referring him to its AUP. Maybe he violated the clause prohibiting 
subscribers from engaging in activities, whether lawful or unlawful, that 
Verio determines to be harmful to its subscribers, operations, reputation, 
goodwill, or customer relations. Or maybe he didn't violate any clause, and 
that's why they can't say. Maybe the wrong person at Verio finally read Young's 
site. 

Young goes overboard, but there's always been something comforting about 
Cryptome's existence. Remember, the New York Times sat on the NSA domestic 
surveillance story for a year, and the L.A. Times killed its story on ATT 
whistleblower Mark Klein after talking to the top U.S. intelligence official. 
If a CIA document ever leaked that revealed JFK was killed by space aliens, 
Cryptome was the one outlet that I was 100% sure could not be cowed into hiding 
the truth. 

Young has until Friday to find a new home. He vows to keep Cryptome online, in 
the US or elsewhere. Or if necessary, underground, or via means not easily 
shuttered, or by way of whatever is invented for opposing technologies of 
information control. Maybe Young will find his own undisclosed location.

http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/05/who_killed_cryp.html

~~~

Tuesday, May 1, 2007
Cryptome.org, repository of sensitive docs, gets shutdown notice

Cryptome.org, an online document repository maintained for years by open 
information advocate John Young, has received a notice from host Verio/NTT that 
the ISP will no longer host the controversial site after Friday. 

More about this around the web: Wired News, Slashdot, Computerworld/IDG, 
Wikipedia entry. 

http://www.boingboing.net/2007/05/01/cryptomeorg_reposito.html

~~~

1 May 2007. A. writes: 

  I couldn't help but notice that Verio issued the shutdown notice on the same 
day that you posted the first information from the Coast Guard Deepwater 
program debacle. 
  Is is possible that either the Coast Guard or Lockheed is behind shutting you 
down? 

cg-unmet.htm+ Coast Guard Unmet TEMPEST Requirements   April 
23, 2007
cg-ugly.htm + Ugly Questions for Coast Guard on TEMPESTApril 
22, 2007
cg-leakage2.htm + Michael DeKort on Coast Guard TEMPEST LeakageApril 
22, 2007
cg-leakage.htm  + James Atkinson on Coast Guard TEMPEST LeakageApril 
21, 2007
cg-screwup.htm  + Coast Guard Big Time Screw UpApril 
20, 2007
Cryptome: 

  A, you hit the nail on the head. The Deepwater expose, and attempts to 
conceal it, point to the prime suspect for the shutdown. Verio would not buckle 
for anything less, based on past practice, and are probably hoping the shutdown 
would be seen for what it really is: they've been ordered not to disclose 
anything which would call attention to the Deepwater material and its threat to 
national security. 
  The congressional folks may have more to demand answers about suppressing 
Deepwater: 

[cia-drugs] Re: how the federal government is able to track those who are prescribed anti-de

2007-05-02 Thread muckblit
--- In cia-drugs@yahoogroups.com, Vigilius Haufniensis
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

  Once a person comes under judicial
  supervision they can be forced to take psych meds indefinitely. It's
  usually a life sentence to a chemical strait jacket.
 
 
 VMANN:  good thing they didnt have that at the time of EZRA POUND.
 
 
 
 Evidently the VA
  Tech shooter was induced to voluntarily sign himself into a mental
  hospital after the arson, so he was not listed in the police database
  for involuntary incarceration in a mental hospital.
  -Bob
 
 
 VMANN:  well i wouldnt expect a normal person to get treated the
same was as 
 that dude.
 vigilius haufniensis

Do you mean TEFLON? Most people who lit their dorm on fire would be
arrested and expelled, or put in a mental hospital and expelled. Cho
evidently was given a plea bargain where he could voluntarily commit
himself, in exchange for not being expelled. Great deal for all
concerned, huh?

Except for football players, who like to throw refrigerators out tenth
floor windows, all in fun.

Yes, it's possible that Ezra Pound could have been induced to commit
homicide or suicide by chemical strait jacket. That's actually the
restraining aspect, that when one tries to break out of the chem
jacket, they get suicidal homicidal.

An interesting twist on guilty until proven guilty is that the police
can line up an infinite number of police psychologists, and the first
one that is willing to sign off on incarceration proves guilt.
Guilty until proven guilty, in other words. The only hope there is
with the psychiatrist at the institution, because your lawyer shows up
in the same Mercedes as the judge for a quick hearing after the
orderlies cornhole you a few times and they juice you with a few
injections.

A friend of mine was transferred out of DC Jail after he got arrested
for protesting the Vietnam War. He was transferred to a CIA MKULTRA
clinic on Connecticut Ave, and shot up with 10,000 units of Thorazine,
a new world record, he was told. That pretty much began a history of
mental illness, during which he got to know Hinckley and several
whistleblowers; who apparently knew too much.

The mental health system was the first route around habeus corpus.
Diesel therapy in the prison system was next, which they actually did
to Congressman Hanson of Idaho. Now, abandon hope all ye who enter here.



[cia-drugs] Fw: [GATA] Quick and huge profits made in Dow Jones calls

2007-05-02 Thread Vigilius Haufniensis

- Original Message - 
From: Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee 
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2007 11:00 PM
Subject: [GATA] Quick and huge profits made in Dow Jones calls


  Quick and huge profits made in Dow Jones calls  

Submitted by cpowell on 09:00PM ET Tuesday, May 1, 2007. Section: Daily 
Dispatches 
Some of Best Bets
Added Monday,
Before News of Bid

By Mohammed Hadi
The Wall Street Journal
Tuesday, May 2, 2007

Some option traders found themselves sitting on massive profits in positions on 
Dow Jones  Co. after word that News Corp. has offered to buy the company.

But the fact that some of the most profitable positions were added as recently 
as Monday, before news of the $60-a-share offer for Dow Jones broke, had some 
in the options market crying foul. News Corp.'s offer was made in a letter sent 
before the Dow Jones annual shareholder meeting April 18. 

A spokeswoman for Dow Jones declined to comment.

Option traders have been positioning for a big gain in Dow Jones shares 
throughout April. During the month, more than 10,000 call options on the stock 
changed hands, compared with about 7,000 during the entire first quarter. The 
gains they were hoping for came yesterday as shares of Dow Jones rose $19.87 to 
$56.20 in 4 p.m. composite trading on the New York Stock Exchange.

The move left some option traders with enormous profits. For example, on Monday 
with Dow Jones shares trading around $36, traders snapped up call options that 
give them the right to pay $45 for the stock in the coming months. More than 
3,400 of the September 45 calls changed hands during the session, which was the 
first time these traded at all in almost three months, according to Track Data.

Yesterday, as the stock surged, these positions rose to $12 from 35 cents -- a 
more than 33-fold return.

Several large private-equity deals in the last year were preceded by heavy 
trading in call options.

Still, the fact that traders targeted call options that don't expire for 
several months, which are more expensive than those that expire in a few weeks, 
is a clue that they might not have known when the stock move would occur, said 
Michael Schwartz, chief options strategist at Oppenheimer  Co.

Traders yesterday were busy positioning themselves in shares of Dow Jones and 
other newspaper companies such as New York Times Co. and Gannett Co. -- stocks 
that also rose.

Some turned to put options that will profit if these stocks fall back, while 
others took the opportunity to speculate on more gains to come -- ostensibly 
anticipating a higher bid in the case of Dow Jones, said Paul Foster who tracks 
options trading for theflyonthewall.com.

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[cia-drugs] Chavez pulls out of IMF, World Bank

2007-05-02 Thread Vigilius Haufniensis
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,21658247-2703,00.html
Chavez pulls out of IMF, World Bank
VENEZUELAN President Hugo Chavez has announced Venezuela will quit the World 
Bank and the International Monetary Fund.
The practical impact of the move is unclear. But withdrawing from the world's 
two premier financial institutions, which have been associated since World War 
II with US economic policies, would send a powerful political statement. 

It also might embolden activists throughout the world who are opposed to 
privatisation and fiscal austerity, two courses that the institutions often 
require of economically troubled nations. 

It was unclear how much money the World Bank and the IMF would have to hand 
over to Caracas. 

Venezuela's share of the IMF is worth $US3.9 billion, though it wasn't known 
whether the IMF would be expected to pay Venezuela that much when its 
membership is terminated. 

In a defiant speech yesterday, Mr Chavez demanded that the World Bank pay 
oil-rich Venezuela its contributions. Now it is they that owe us, he said. 

There was no reaction from either organisation today, but the US State 
Department said Mr Chavez was only digging a deeper hole for his people. 

Look, you can't take the shovel out of the man's hand, said spokesman Sean 
McCormack. He just keeps on digging. So, and sadly, it's the Venezuelan people 
who are victimized by this. 

The World Bank and the IMF were established near the end of World War II to 
help rebuild war damage. 

The World Bank helps countries finance development projects, while the IMF 
tries to ensure orderly world trade by regulating exchange rates and providing 
assistance to countries unable to pay their debts. 

Traditionally, the World Bank is led by an American, and the IMF head is a 
European. 

In recent years, both organisations have refrained from criticising Mr Chavez's 
economic policies, including re-nationalisations of the oil and 
telecommunications industry, in hopes of quietly persuading his government to 
stick with more market-friendly policies. 

The latest World Economic Outlook, the IMF's assessment of the world economy, 
barely mentioned Venezuela when it was issued a month ago. 

No IMF mission has visited Venezuela since 2004, though Anoop Singh, the IMF's 
top Latin American official, told reporters last month that the IMF hoped to 
send a mission to Caracas to discuss inflation control later this year. 

Nations rarely walk away from the IMF or the World Bank. One of the last to do 
so was Cuba, in 1964. 

Liliana Rojas-Suarez, a former IMF official now with the Washington-based 
Center for Global Development think tank, said Chavez's move is consistent with 
his vision of creating a system independent of US influence. 

This is definitely political and consistent with Chavez's strategy, she said, 
pointing out that Mr Chavez is founding a new Bank for the South, which would 
play a role similar to the World Bank but under Latin American control. 

Venezuela has bought more than $US3 billion in Argentine bonds, allowing 
Argentina to pay off the IMF. 

Mr Chavez also has pledged money to Ecuador so that the Andean nation can 
reduce its debt to both institutions. 

Last month, Venezuela finished paying off its debts, and the IMF closed its 
office in Caracas last year. 


[cia-drugs] Are these suicide guys on drugs or something?

2007-05-02 Thread Vigilius Haufniensis
http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/

May 2, 2007 -- Cheney the brains behind the boy king? Not quite. There is 
something that George Tenet forgot to put in his book. During one CIA briefing 
for Vice President Dick Cheney on suicide bombings in Iraq just after the U.S. 
occupation, Cheney was confused as to the reason why people would blow 
themselves up with bombs. According to our Langley sources, the CIA briefer 
went into an explanation of Islamic extremists who believe that martyrdom in a 
Jihad instantly puts them into an exalted status in an after-life paradise. 
Cheney, however, was having nothing of it. He repeatedly insisted that the 
suicide bombers in Iraq must be on drugs or hypnotized. The CIA briefer got 
the impression that Cheney did not believe there was any significant religious 
angle to the violence in Iraq.



Are these suicide guys on drugs or something?
cheneysnarl.jpg

[cia-drugs] Fw: [GATA] Hedge fund risk worst since LTCM crash, Fed report says

2007-05-02 Thread Vigilius Haufniensis

- Original Message - 
From: Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee 
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2007 5:18 PM
Subject: [GATA] Hedge fund risk worst since LTCM crash, Fed report says


  Hedge fund risk worst since LTCM crash, Fed report says  

Submitted by cpowell on 03:18PM ET Wednesday, May 2, 2007. Section: Daily 
Dispatches 
By Pedro Nicolaci da Costa
Reuters
Wednesday, May 2, 2007

http://today.reuters.com/news/articleinvesting.aspx?type=fundsFundsNews;...

NEW YORK -- Hedge funds may now pose the biggest risk of a crisis since 1998, 
when the implosion of Long-Term Capital Management threatened the global 
financial system, the New York Federal Reserve said on Wednesday.

The statement represented the bank's sternest warning to date over the possible 
fate of the $1.4 trillion industry.

Recent high correlations among hedge fund returns could suggest concentrations 
of risk comparable to those preceding the hedge fund crisis of 1998, according 
to a paper written by Tobias Adrian, capital markets economist at the central 
bank.

Back in 1998, the New York Fed helped bring together Wall Street tycoons who 
eventually cobbled together enough funds for an unprecedented $3.6 billion 
bailout.

The LTCM crisis was all the more shocking to investors because of the 
individuals involved, regarded highly for their market savvy and mathematical 
prowess.

But with the crisis averted, the hedge fund industry bounced back with a 
vengeance, increasingly rapidly over the last decade in both size and scope to 
an estimated $1.4 trillion.

Hedge funds, investment pools that are aimed primarily at wealthy investors and 
institutions, have been very lightly regulated, facing only vague registration 
requirements.

Their sheer immensity has raised some red flags from policy-makers, with New 
York Fed President Timothy Geithner among those sounding repeated warnings 
about the need for cautious lending.

The Fed's latest worry arose from what it described as a rising correlation 
between the actual returns of hedge funds, which could point to similar trading 
strategies that excessively concentrate risk on too few market positions.

Similar trading strategies can heighten risk when funds have to close out 
comparable positions in response to a common shock, the economist Adrian wrote.

Still, many officials, including Geithner, have shied away from calling for 
explicit regulation, arguing instead that the large banks who lend to hedge 
funds should police themselves to make sure no one lender gets in too deep.

Hedge funds borrow large sums of money in order to take aggressive bets on 
financial markets. Many operate heavily in the derivatives market, estimated at 
around $17 trillion, raising fears about possible future shocks. 

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[cia-drugs] Fw: [GATA] Resource Investor: Central banks frantically hasten gold sales

2007-05-02 Thread Vigilius Haufniensis

- Original Message - 
From: Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee 
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2007 4:57 PM
Subject: [GATA] Resource Investor: Central banks frantically hasten gold sales


  Resource Investor: Central banks frantically hasten gold sales  

Submitted by cpowell on 02:57PM ET Wednesday, May 2, 2007. Section: Daily 
Dispatches 
By Jon A. Nones
Resource Investor
Wednesday, May 2, 2007

As bullion continues to consolidate around $670/oz, central banks within the 
Central Bank Gold Agreement have frantically quickened the pace of gold sales. 
Gold bugs debate whether sales will continue at this rate and what this could 
mean for the market.

Central bank gold activity is the largest supply side component of the market, 
comprising nearly 13 percent of global supply via annual sales, excluded gold 
swapped or loaned in the market. ...

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http://www.resourceinvestor.com/pebble.asp?relid=31420

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http://www.mineralstox.com

http://www.freemarketnews.com

http://www.321gold.com

http://www.SilverSeek.com

http://www.investmentrarities.com

http://www.kereport.com

(Korelin Business Report -- audio)

http://www.plata.com.mx/plata/home.htm

(In Spanish)

http://www.plata.com.mx/plata/plata/english.htm

(In English)

http://www.resourceinvestor.com

http://www.miningmx.com

http://www.prudentbear.com

http://www.dollarcollapse.com

http://www.kitcocasey.com

http://000999.forumactif.com/

http://www.golddrivers.com/

http://www.goldpennystocks.com/

http://www.oroyfinanzas.com/

Subscription sites:

http://www.lemetropolecafe.com/

http://www.goldinsider.com/

http://www.hsletter.com

http://www.interventionalanalysis.com

http://www.investmentindicators.com/

http://www.caseyresearch.com/

Eagle Ranch discussion site:

http://os2eagle.net/SSL/phpentry.php

Ted Butler silver commentary archive:

http://www.investmentrarities.com/

Recommended Gold  Bullion Dealers
Coin and precious metals dealers who have supported GATA
and been recommended by our members:

Blanchard  Co. Inc.
909 Poydras St., Suite 1900
New Orleans, Louisiana 70112
888-413-4653
http://www.blanchardonline.com

Centennial Precious Metals
Box 460009
Denver, Colorado 80246-0009
1-800-869-5115
http://www.USAGOLD.com
Michael Kosares, Proprietor
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Colorado Gold
222 South 5th St.
Montrose, Colorado 81401
http://www.ColoradoGold.com
Don Stott, Proprietor
1-888-786-8822
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

El Dorado Discount Gold
Box 11296
Glendale, Arizona 85316
http://www.eldoradogold.net
Harvey Gordin, President
Office: 623-434-3322
Mobile: 602-228-8203
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Gold  Silver Investments Ltd.
63 Fitzwilliam Square
Dublin 2, Ireland
...and
Tower 42, Level 7
25 Old Broad St.
London, EC2N 1HN
United Kingdom
Local Call Ireland: 1-850-GOLD-IE
UK phone: +44 (0) 207-060-4653
International: +353 1-632-5010
Fax: +353-1-6619664
www.gold.ie

Investment Rarities Inc.
7850 Metro Parkway
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55425
http://www.gloomdoom.com
Greg Westgaard, Sales Manager
1-800-328-1860, Ext. 8889
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Kitco
178 West Service Road
Champlain, N.Y. 12919
Toll Free:1-877-775-4826
Fax: 518-298-3457
...and
620 Cathcart, Suite 900
Montreal, Quebec H3B 1M1
Canada
Toll-free:1-800-363-7053
Fax: 514-875-6484
http://www.kitco.com

Lee Certified Coins
P.O. Box 

[cia-drugs] Kennedy opens a new line of inquiry into scandal in the 85$billion student loan industry

2007-05-02 Thread Quechick Barnyard
  The latest from Yahoo! News Search Results for Sen. Edward M. Kennedy
Democrats press student-loan cleanup drive (CNN.com)Wednesday May 
2, 2007 5:45 PM CDTWASHINGTON (Reuters) -- Opening a new line of inquiry 
into a scandal in the $85 billion student loan industry, the chairman of the 
House education committee asked the U.S. Federal Trade Commission Wednesday to 
investigate unfair and deceptive lender marketing practices. 
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