Citibank exposes 600,000 customers’ Social Security numbers

Chicago Tribune | Citi called the mistake a “processing error.”

Mayor Of Detroit’s Radical Plan To Bulldoze One Quarter Of The City

Business Insider | Faced with a 300 million dollar budget deficit and a rapidly dwindling tax base, Detroit finds itself having to make some really hard choices.

Life is Great … But Only If You Are Already Mega-Wealthy

Washington’s Blog | Even Alan Greenspan recently called the recovery “extremely unbalanced,” driven largely by high earners benefiting from recovering stock markets and large corporations.

Thomas Jefferson Dropped from Texas School Textbooks

AOL News | Texas accounts for a large percentage of the textbook market and the new standards may influence what is taught in the rest of the country.

California man refuses to take smart meter, locks up old meter

San Francisco Chronicle | “To me it’s unconstitutional, it’s an invasion of my privacy,” said Mark Dieteman.

2nd Mistrial for “National Security Intelligence” Asset Hal Turner

BusinessWeek | A New York judge has declared a second mistrial in the case against a New Jersey blogger charged with threatening federal judges.

Oklahoma Residents to be Taxed for Using Well Water

Russell Carter | If local residents don’t want to pay the fee they’ll have to connect to the water line.

Mystery Substance Found in Chinese Fluoride Added to Massachusetts Water

WCVB TV | Residue clogs machines and makes it difficult to get a consistent level of fluoride in the town’s water.

Taboo Inhibits Frank Iran/Israel Talk

Ray McGovern | Joint Chiefs Chairman Mike Mullen has warned the Israelis publicly that an attack on Iran would be a “big, big, big problem for all of us.”

States Freeze Tax Refunds

USA Today | States from New York to Hawaii that have been hard-hit by the economic downturn say they have either delayed refunds or are considering doing so because of budget shortfalls.

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