Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Citing anti-competitive concerns, the Justice Department sued Election Systems & Software in order to force the company to divest itself of the voting machine assets it obtained from Premier Election Solutions [Diebold] last year.
The department’s antitrust division, along with nine state attorneys general, filed the civil antitrust lawsuit (.pdf) in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., [...]
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Tagged Antitrust, Corporate Mergers, Corporatism, Courts, Diebold, DOJ, Elections, ESS, Law, Monopolies, Premier Election Solutions, Voting Machines
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Wednesday, March 10, 2010
When the state-friendly Russian oil company Surgutneftegas held its annual shareholders meeting in the Siberian city of Surgut two years ago, the proceedings in the shabby auditorium started off as tightly scripted as a Politburo meeting. That is, until the moderator called for questions and Alexei Navalny took the stage. In front of some 300 [...]
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Tagged Accountability, Alexei Navalny, Corporatism, Executive Compensation, Gazprom, Greed, Russia, Shareholders, Stockholders, Surgutneftegas, Transparency
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Wednesday, March 10, 2010
“You know,” DeLay said, “there is an argument to be made that these extensions of these unemployment benefits keeps people from going and finding jobs.” When CNN’s Candy Crowley described his argument as “a hard sell” to the public, DeLay replied, “It’s the truth.”
Crowley followed up, asking, “People are unemployed because they want to be?” DeLay [...]
These torture guidelines were contained in a ream of internal government documents made public over the past year, including a legal review of Bush-era CIA interrogations by the Justice Department's Office of Professional Responsibility released late last month.
Though public, the hundreds of pages of documents authorizing or later reviewing the agency’s “enhanced interrogation program” haven’t [...]
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Tagged CIA, Crime, Detainees, Dick Cheney, DOJ, George W Bush, Hyponatremia, Steven Bradbury, Torture, War Crimes, Waterboarding
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Plumlee and other pilots have testified to Congress that they were working for a secret U.S. military intelligence operation that clandestinely sent them from the United States to bring back the so-called damaged and disappeared weapons for retrofitting and repair.
“When the weapons were repaired and tested at China Lake and Twentynine Palms, in California, they [...]
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Tagged Arms Trafficking, California, CFR, CIA, Colombia, Costa Rica, Covert Landing Strips, DEA, DOD, Drug Trafficking, El Salvador, Gary Hart, Homicide, Investigations, Iran Contra Affair, John Kerry, Kiki Camarena, Latin America, MCAS El Toro, Mexico, Military, Murder, Narcotics, Nicaragua, NSC, Operation Penetrate, Pentagon, Robert Tosh Plumlee, Senate, Tosh Plumlee, Unmarked Planes, USMC, Whistleblower, White House
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Kavita Ramdas and Sharon Bhagwan-Rolls discuss the militarization of society and how it hurts everyone, but especially women. - GRITtv with Laura Flanders
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Tagged Education, GritTV, Healthcare, Infrastructure, International Womens Day 2010, Laura Flanders, Militarization, Military, Social Problems, Social Programs, Women
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Health Care in America: Barack Obama Pwns -(X)- March 08, 2010
About half the states in the US require that a woman seeking an abortion be told certain things before she can obtain the medical procedure. In South Dakota, for example, until a few months ago, staff was required to tell women: “The abortion will terminate the life of a whole, separate, unique, living human being”; [...]
On Sept. 11, 2006, FBI and NASA agents searched Chung’s residence in Orange, California, and found more than 250,000 pages of documents from Boeing, Rockwell and other defense contractors inside the house and in a crawl space underneath it. Among the documents were scores of binders containing decades’ worth of stress analysis reports, test results [...]
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Tagged Boeing, China, Delta IV Rocket, Dongfan Chung, Economic Espionage, Espionage, NASA, Rockwell, Space Shuttle, Spying
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Perhaps it is time for the agencies to pool their resources and create a single entity that is responsible for all jurisdictions of the country and has the mandate to protect all critical infrastructures for all levels of government, private sector and its citizens. DHS and the FBI need to refocus on their other duties [...]
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Tagged BATF, CIA, Counterterrorism, Crime, Cyber Attacks, Cybersecurity, DARPA, DHS, DOD, FBI, FEMA, Hackers, Hacking, Intelligence, National Security, Networks, NSA, Pentagon, Robert Mueller, RSA Conference, STRATCOM, TSA
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Bison, the iconic animal of the American west, could once more roam wild across the great plains under a recovery roadmap prepared by international scientists.
A report by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) (pdf), prepared by dozens of scientists and bison experts from Mexico, America, and Canada, says there is a chance of [...]
We’ve all seen a television show or a movie about an undercover narcotics cop who become crooked. He loses the trust of his colleagues, then his family. Soon, the only contacts he has are with the world of drug dealers that he originally set out to destroy. Now picture this scenario of the criminal cop [...]
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Tagged Afghanistan, CIA, Cocaine, Colombia, Corruption, Crime, DEA, Douglas Valentine, Drug Policy, Drug Trafficking, FBI, Heroin, Informers, Intelligence, Law, Narcs, Pakistan, Terrorism, The Phoenix Program, Vietnam War, War on Drugs
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The chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee has issued a strong warning to the Defense Department over plans to award $1 billion in new contracts to the firm formerly known as Blackwater, accusing managers of the private security company of lying to win lucrative jobs in Afghanistan.
Sen. Carl M. Levin (D-Mich.) also cited a history of [...]
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Tagged Afghanistan War, Blackwater, Carl Levin, Contractors, DOD, Iraq War, Paravant, Pentagon, Private Military Contractors, Senate, Xe Services
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It was an open secret that the National Security Agency was bolstering a Homeland Security program to detect and respond to cyber attacks on government systems, but a summary of that program declassified Tuesday provides more details of NSA’s role in a Homeland program known as Einstein.
The current version of the program is widely seen [...]
Which states could supply their own electricity using renewable energy alone? Most of them. Using data from the recent National Renewable Energy Laboratory report, the New Rules Project put together this map, showing the percentage of its own electricity needs that each state could generate with onshore and offshore wind power, hydroelectric and geothermal power, and rooftop [...]
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