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Have you ever noticed the FEAR of citizens? I don't know what they fear, but it seems like people sure have a problem with voicing their opinion and getting involved in politics. I sit here online occasionally and see what people have to say about politics. I read today about...
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Okay, the White House IT "experts" are either incompetent or lying. Which is it?
This IT-email expert points out the numerous problems with the story of the "missing" emails from the White House. He's also careful to point out that it's not necessarily a Bush administration...
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From AP:
Federal prosecutors are investigating whether employees of the private security firm Blackwater USA illegally smuggled into Iraq weapons that may have been sold on the black market and ended up in the hands of a U.S.-designated terrorist organization, officials said Friday.
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Paycheck shock: Local 1000 dues up 50 percent
By Christine Mai-Duc
E-mail article
(published August 6th, 2007)
Many state workers did a double-take on their payroll stubs last week as the 50-percent increase to member dues and fair-share payments approved last year by SEIU Local 1000 took...
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U.S. Department of Labor's Office of Labor-Management Standards Reports Four Indictments, Six Convictions During July for Union Funds Embezzlement
Court-ordered restitution from enforcement actions exceeds $101 million since 2001 WASHINGTON,...
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Isn't this some batguano? But the money in the freezer is still fair game so far. From TPMmuckraker:
The FBI violated the Constitution when agents raided U.S. Rep. William Jefferson's office last year and viewed legislative documents, a federal appeals court ruled Friday.
The court...
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR (DOL)/ELECTIONS & POLITICS House Cuts Funding for Union Oversight Agency Those who read this publication soon enough come across the acronym, "OLMS" - as in the Office of Labor-Management Standards. It's the agency within the U.S. Department of Labor that...
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From Citizens for Responsibilty and Ethics in Washington(CREW):
The GOP has an image problem. A dozen years of Republican control in DC left many in the party complacent and open to the types of activities that give politics a dirty name. Of the 25 most corrupt members of Congress, 21 are...
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From the NYT:
For four years, Vice President Dick Cheney has resisted routine oversight of his office’s handling of classified information, and when the National Archives unit that monitors classification in the executive branch objected, the vice president’s office suggested...
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Rep. John Doolittle (R-CA) is taking a page from Tom DeLay and blaming all his problems on partisanship.
The thing is..this investigation was started when the Repub's controlled everything.
So to Mr. Doolittle I say..oh well, it sucks to be you at this point in time doesn't it? Not to...
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From CorpWatch:
Houston, May 15, 2007: CorpWatch and its partners today released an alternative annual report on Halliburton titled: "Goodbye Houston" The new report was prepared in association with Halliburton Watch and the Oil & Gas Accountability Project.
The new report...
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Washington, DC -- In an April 25 Politico op-ed, Tom DeLay (R-TX), the disgraced former House majority leader, claimed that philanthropist and progressive financier George Soros funds Media Matters for America -- a claim The Politico corrected in today’s print edition, stating, “A...
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He said he would support the 'deal' if the mining company also bought a tract of land that belonged to his former business partner. This didn't sit well with Renzi's Chief of Staff, who resigned and started snitching out his former boss to the FBI.
From the WSJ article:
"That...
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I rarely get stirred up by politics because there are so many other, more interesting, things to think about but this one has me in a state of - "Say What?!"
According to the American Motorcycle Association (AMA), former South Dakota Governor Bill Jankolow sped through a stop sign in...
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Halliburton reported profits of $2.3Billion last year. That's damn near equal to the $2.7 billion the Pentagon found in the company's overcharges in Iraq.
Interesting no?
Also interesting is that Halliburton will not be within firing range of subpoena's and hearings over their business...
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Reuters has an article up here about it. A short blurb:
"A former Defense Department contractor was sentenced on Monday to nine years in prison and ordered to forfeit $3.6 million for his role in a bribery and fraud scheme involving contracts to reconstruct Iraq, U.S. officials...
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This morning at http://bobs-odder-blog.blog... we look at news articles relating to fictional billionaires, cops who leave their guns unsecured and Senator Biden’s assertion that Mexican politicians are corrupt!
On http://bfwg.blogspot.com we take the KGB (and its’...
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