Four main phone companies in Sweden have ceased retaining customers' call records, based on the court ruling against the EU data retention directive.

The FDIC is suing big banks over a tricky form of derivative, interest rate swaps, which were rigged through the LIBOR lies.

Aside from the falsification of LIBOR, banks should not be allowed to invent complex financial derivatives because that's a recipe for suckering people. If the bank can make up a game with complicated rules, it is almost certain to win the game even if the game is not actually rigged.

Banks are regulated and licensed businesses; they cannot cite "Buyer beware, especially if you're buying form us" as an all-purpose excuse for inventing gambling games that endanger the public.

Human rights observers were barred from the "open" trial of Gaddafi's sons and supporters, and not all the defendants were present.

The FBI turned a member of a Guantanamo prisoner's defense team into an informant.

The FBI did this trying to figure out how a prisoner's writings reached the press. The US government is keeping the prisoners incommunicado so that they can't tell us about how they were tortured. In effect, the whole system of "military tribunals" (which are corrupt by design) has been corrupted a second time by the US's torture coverup.

ALEC is about to publish another "Rich States, Poor States" report which grades states on how friendly they are to the rich.

It turns out this was funded by the Kochs.