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You may have wondered why, when you comment on some blogs these days, you have a little symbol like the one to the left, displayed with your comment. It is because many blogs allow people to define a gravator (globally recognized avatar), which identifies them when they write a comment. The gravator can be . . . → Read More: Gravators

US military fraud “bigger than Madoff”

Senior US military officials may have committed the biggest fraud in US history, the Independent reports. Fifty billion dollars seems to have gone AWOL (absent without leave) and a total of $125 billion aid for Iraq appears to have been misused: In 2004-05, the entire Iraq military procurement budget of $1.3bn was siphoned off . . . → Read More: US military fraud “bigger than Madoff”