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Submission + - Tesla Motors About to Go Belly Up? (thetruthaboutcars.com) 1

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tjstork

on Friday October 17, 2008 @12:09AM

tjstork writes: "Tesla Motors, the darling of technorati for its high performance electric car, looks about to go belly up. Venture capital is cut off, layoffs are under way, and construction plans are being canceled."

Submission + - US Government Wants Your Fingerprints, Again (openmarket.org) 2

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tjstork

on Friday May 23, 2008 @11:39AM

tjstork writes: "Never put it past the government to use any crisis to try and get more power. Just like the previously conjured crises of the Red Scare, Civil Rights Protests, the War on Drugs, the Environment, the War on Terror, the first signs are coming that the US Mortgage crisis is being used as another way to smash the rights of the people of the people be secure in their freedom. The US Senate has just passed through committee a provision which would require everyone connected with the housing industry to be fingerprinted.

Read the article here

Spare your political thunder — this is a bipartisan move. The introduced law passed nearly unanimously. America has to be safe from evil people in the housing market, at any price, and your friends in the government are going to protect you from everyone, just as much as it will protect everyone from you!"

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