Archive for January, 2010
FBI Sting Nets 22 Executives Charged with Paying Bribes Abroad
January 20th, 2010When arms companies do this inside the U.S., it’s called lobbying. In other news: Bribes Represent Almost One Quarter of Afghanistan’s GDP. Will the FBI arrest the people responsible for installing the crooked Afghan regime? Via: Christian Science Monitor: Twenty-two executives at military and law-enforcement supply companies have been arrested in a sting operation by […]
Google Sharing
January 20th, 2010I’m not saying to use (or not use) his plugin, but I like this summary of the threat. Via: Google Sharing: Google thrives where privacy does not. If you’re like most internet users, Google knows more about you than you might be comfortable with. Whether you were logged in to a Google account or not, […]
Google Postpones Release of Android Phones in China
January 20th, 2010Via: BBC: Google says it has postponed the launch of two Android based mobile phones in China following a dispute with the government over censorship. The formal launch was due to take place on Wednesday, a spokesperson said. The announcement came as the Chinese government said Google and other foreign firms must obey the country’s […]
PENTAGON DISASTER RELIEF EXERCISE FOR HAITI WENT LIVE AFTER EARTHQUAKE HIT
January 20th, 2010Via: NextGov: As personnel representing hundreds of government and nongovernment agencies from around the world rush to the aid of earthquake-devastated Haiti, the Defense Information Systems Agency has launched a Web portal with multiple social networking tools to aid in coordinating their efforts. On Monday, Jean Demay, DISA’s technical manager for the agency’s Transnational Information […]
France Alarmed Over Anthrax-Tainted Heroin in Europe
January 20th, 2010Via: AFP: The French health ministry issued a warning on Tuesday after eight people died and seven fell sick in two European countries from using heroin contaminated by anthrax. “Since December 6, there have been 15 confirmed cases of anthrax among heroin users, 14 in Scotland and one in Germany,” the ministry’s General Directorate for […]
Can You Do This With Your Tap Water?
January 19th, 2010Via: GaslandMovie: CAN YOU DO THIS WITH YOUR TAP WATER? from JOSHFOX on Vimeo. When filmmaker Josh Fox discovers that Natural Gas drilling is coming to his area—the Catskillls/Poconos region of Upstate New York and Pennsylvania, he sets off on a 24 state journey to uncover the deep consequences of the United States’ natural gas […]
Haiti: Dubya and Clinton to the Rescue?
January 19th, 2010FBI Broke Law for Years in Phone Record Searches
January 19th, 2010* pfft * But rest easy, citizen, “FBI officials said they are confident that the safeguards enacted in 2007 have ended the problems.” Conveniently, the article doesn’t mention domestic NSA intercept operations. Via: Washington Post: The FBI illegally collected more than 2,000 U.S. telephone call records between 2002 and 2006 by invoking terrorism emergencies that […]
Japan Airlines Files for Bankruptcy Protection
January 19th, 2010Via: AP: Japan Airlines filed for bankruptcy Tuesday in one of the nation’s biggest corporate failures ever, entering a restructuring that will shrink Asia’s top carrier and its presence around the world. Staggering under a $25.6 billion debt mountain, the carrier applied for protection from creditors under the Corporate Rehabilitation Law — Japan’s version of […]
One in Seven U.S. Mortgages In Foreclosure or Delinquent
January 19th, 2010Green shoots. Recovery. Via: Reuters: A record one in seven U.S. mortgages were in foreclosure or at least one payment past due in the third quarter, according to fresh data signaling the recovery in the housing market will be tepid at best. U.S. mortgage delinquency rates and the percentage of loans that entered the foreclosure […]
