News Links 02/18/2012
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News Desk: What’s Going On With Michael Grimm? : The New Yorker
In 2010, Michael Grimm, a Republican from Staten Island and former U.S. Marine and F.B.I. agent, was elected to Congress. Grimm ran largely on the strength of his history in law enforcement—he had served undercover in a large bust on Wall Street—and his experience, before and after the agency, in business. In the past year, however, his record on both fronts seems to have come undone.
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Italy police seize $6 trillion of fake U.S. T-bonds | Reuters
Italian police said on Friday they had seized about $6 trillion of fake U.S. Treasury bonds in Switzerland, and issued arrest warrants for eight people accused of international fraud and other financial crimes.
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New Bill to Weaken Protections, Incentives for Whistleblowers Sneaks Through Committee | Truthout
The thinking behind the bill is to put blame and suspicion on whistleblowers – not the companies that are actually committing fraud.
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Citigroup whistleblower: I have no regrets | Reuters
It wasn’t Sherry Hunt’s original intent to go public on the shoddy quality control at a mortgage unit at Citigroup Inc, her employer since 2004.
But by March 2011, as it became apparent to her that the problems were getting worse and not being addressed, the Missouri quality assurance manager decided enough was enough.
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BBC News – Struggling Greeks losing belief in the state
What is clear, once you get away from the incessant shouting on Greek TV, and the flash-bang battles between the anarchists and the police, is that this rapid breakdown of certainty is having a big, but immeasurable, effect on people’s political expectations.
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Greece and the Melian Dialogue of Thucydides (obscure) – Telegraph Blogs
This was sent to me by a reader. It is from the Melian Dialogue by Thucydides. Athens (then the big bully on block) wanted control over the little island of Melos as a strategic asset in its quarrel with Sparta. The Melians chose defiance. They were crushed. Athenian arrogance backfired disastrously. In the end, Melian exiles retook their island.
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Gary Carter, Exuberant Power-Hitting Catcher, Dies at 57 – NYTimes.com
Gary Carter, the slugging catcher known as Kid for the sheer joy he took in playing baseball, who entered the Hall of Fame as a Montreal Expo but who most famously helped propel the Mets to their dramatic 1986 World Series championship, died Thursday in West Palm Beach, Fla. He was 57. The cause was brain cancer, which had been diagnosed last May.
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