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U.S. Govt. Stipulates Free Annual Credit Reports

alue writes "Under the terms of the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions (FACT) Act, passed last year, and amid growing concerns over privacy and disclosure of sensitive financial data, the three leading credit reporting agencies must provide consumers with a free summary once a year of all credit information on file for that person. Consumers in 13 Western states will be able to grab free online copies of their credit reports starting Wednesday."

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  1. Its useful! by cbelle13013 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The government is finally useful! I'm partying tonight!

  2. Re:How is this modded up... by daveschroeder · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Let's take a step back for a moment:

    First of all, it's not hidden that some vaccines contain a mercury based compound:

    http://www.fda.gov/cber/vaccine/thimerosal.htm

    "Thimerosal is a mercury-containing organic compound (an organomercurial). Since the 1930s, it has been widely used as a preservative in a number of biological and drug products, including many vaccines, to help prevent potentially life threatening contamination with harmful microbes. Over the past several years, because of an increasing awareness of the theoretical potential for neurotoxicity of even low levels of organomercurials and because of the increased number of thimerosal containing vaccines that had been added to the infant immunization schedule, concerns about the use of thimerosal in vaccines and other products have been raised. Indeed, because of these concerns, the Food and Drug Administration has worked with, and continues to work with, vaccine manufacturers to reduce or eliminate thimerosal from vaccines."

    No one said "mercury is good for the brain", but uh, this isn't used for "mind control", in any sense. I especially love how some Bush-hating-types blame Bush for the flu vaccine SHORTAGE, i.e., that it was some kind of conspiracy, and other Bush-hating-types actually believe that mercury-containing flu shots are an effort to "dumb down" the populace to keep them under control! If the latter were true, then wouldn't Bush and the evil neocons want as many flu shots as possible? Oh, wait, let me guess: they ARE for mind control (even though they've been that way since the 1930s), but the neocons staged the shortage to make it LOOK like they aren't trying to get it into as many peoples' systems as possible, thus diverting suspicion? I love it!

    As for the Pentagon:

    1. There were dozens upon dozens of eyewitness reports who say that a commercial jetliner was what crashed into the Pentagon. These were all just ordinary people, going about their business in the DC area, some affiliated with government and/or miltary, some not. Of the witnesses who say it "sounded" like a missile (note the word "sounded"): how is that even relevant? I ask because of the obvious: how many of these people even know what a missile "sounds" like? How many people have heard a commercial jetliner just hundreds of feet (and at some point, tens of feet) off the ground travelling at ~400-500mph? And to repeat, many, many, many people reported directly seeing an American Airlines commercial jetliner.

    2. All of the "conspiracy" reports talk about how "no wreckage" was found at the scene. That is patently false. There was TONS of Boeing 757 wreckage recovered, in total, from the Pentagon. Ironically, here are even large pieces of 757 wreckage visible in the photos used to try to "prove" there was no wreckage! Not to mention that the air disaster photos picked for the video were no doubt picked because there WAS wreckage.

    3. Remains 184 of 189 of the victims aboard flight 77 were identified AT THE SCENE from DNA: http://www.dcmilitary.com/army/stripe/6_48/nationa l_news/12279-1.html

    4. The ONLY place I've EVER seen any claims about supposed video from the Sheraton, gas stations, etc., is in a flash video circulating on the internet. I have seen no reference or proof ANYWHERE else, from ANY source, that videos have supposedly been confiscated "minutes" later by the FBI.

    5. Also, stop and think about this: where was the (visible) "wreckage" from the WTC towers? Is the only reason we even believe that commercial planes crashed into the towers is because we were able to see it with our own eyes? And even that isn't enough for the conspiracy theorists: they still claim that the WTC towers were *rigged with explosives*, such that they could be made to fall AFTER jetliners rammed into the buildings!

    For a detailed analysis, see:

    Detailed analysis of building, crash, and events:
    http://www.abovetopsecret.com/pages/911_p entagon_7