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EXCLUSIVE: US Chamber's Lobbyists Solicited Hackers To Sabotage Unions, Smear Chamber's Political Opponents | ThinkProgress
ThinkProgress has learned that a law firm representing the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the big business trade association representing ExxonMobil, AIG, and other major international corporations, is working with set of “private security” companies and lobbying firms to undermine their political opponents, including ThinkProgress, with a surreptitious sabotage campaign. According to e-mails obtained by ThinkProgress, the Chamber hired the lobbying firm Hunton and Williams. Hunton And Williams’ attorney Richard Wyatt, who once represented Food Lion in its infamous lawsuit against ABC News, was hired by the Chamber in October of last year.
Papers, Please! » Blog Archive » How the USA imposes travel bans within Europe
In an article here yesterday, we mentioned a report earlier this month by Andrej Hunko, a member of the German national legislature (”Bundestag”) , based on responses to his information access requests to the German government about its collaboration with DHS and use of PNR data. There was more about this in DHS testimony at yesterday’s hearing in the U.S. House of Representatives. The following is an English translation of Andrej Hunko’s report, republished by permission of the author: Naturally enough, the website of the NoPNR campaign regularly contains material about the retroactive legalisation of exchanges of passenger name record (PNR) data between EU Member States and the United States, Canada or Australia. Members of Parliament in the EU from several parties have already done some important work on this issue and have been levelling fierce criticism at the planned agreements, which, in point of fact, have long been applied on a ‘provisional’ basis.
The fact is, working and middle class whites have supported too many Republicans who’ve dismantled the opportunity structure that created the vast (white) middle class from the 1930s through the 1960s – but that’s at least partly because too many Democrats turned their backs on those policies, too. The larger point of the piece, if a 4,000-plus word article can be said to have a single point, was this: The emerging multiracial Obama coalition has the potential to transform the way we all think about race and politics as we invent the next America — but only if we can all forgo petty racial score-setting and 20 th century conceptions about identity.
Diebold voting machines can be hacked by remote control - 2012 Elections - Salon.com
U.S. News - Possible security breach: Secret Service agents had president's schedule in rooms
New details about the Secret Service personnel alleged to have brought prostitutes to their hotel rooms have emerged, including reports that two of the 11 were supervisors. NBC's Kristen Welker reports. By Isolde Raftery, msnbc.comAfghan war whistleblower Daniel Davis: 'I had to speak out – lives are at stake' | World news | The Observer
Soldier wrote detailed report claiming US generals 'have so distorted the truth … the truth has become unrecognisable' "I am – how do you say it? – persona non grata," said Lieutenant-Colonel Daniel Davis, as he sat sipping a coffee and eating a chocolate sundae in a shopping mall, just a subway stop from the Pentagon. The career soldier is now a black sheep at the giant defence department building where he still works. The reason was his extraordinarily brave decision to accuse America's military top brass of lying about the war in Afghanistan.
US secret service agents sent home from summit over claims of misconduct | World news | guardian.co.uk
Officials say 12 agents accompanying Barack Obama to leaders' meeting in Colombia have been relieved of duties • Read the latest version of this story US secret service agents sent to provide security for Barack Obama at a summit in Colombia have been relieved of their duties and sent home after allegations of personal misconduct. A secret service spokesman would neither confirm nor deny an anonymous claim to the Associated Press that the misconduct involved prostitutes in Cartagena, where the Summit of the Americas meeting is being held. A US official said 12 agents had been relieved of duty.
U.S. President Barack Obama has been clinging stubbornly to a rejection of Cuban participation in the summits, which everyone but his northern neighbor deems unjust. “This is the last Summit of the Americas,” Bolivia’s foreign minister, David Choquehuanca, told The Associated Press, “unless Cuba is allowed to take part.” The fate of the summit’s final declaration was thrown into uncertainty Friday as the foreign ministers of Venezuela, Argentina and Uruguay said their presidents wouldn’t sign it unless the U.S. and Canada removed their veto of future Cuban participation.
Barack Obama to play defense at Summit of Americas over Cuba, drug trafficking, immigration - The Washington Post
A U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) team has found that a sharp jump in earthquakes in America's heartland appears to be linked to oil and natural gas drilling operations. As hydraulic fracturing has exploded onto the scene, it has increasingly been connected to earthquakes. Some quakes may be caused by the original fracking — that is, by injecting a fluid mixture into the earth to release natural gas (or oil).
Shale Shocked: "Remarkable Increase" In U.S. Earthquakes "Almost Certainly Manmade"
Republicans launched an unprecedented frontal assault against environmental protections and regulations this year, prompting Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) to call his chamber “the most anti-environment House in history.” Here are the 10 most powerful and outspoken opponents of clean air, clean water, conservation and climate action. That’s the Los Angeles Times editorial board opening its “ Year in Review: Congress’ 10 biggest enemies of the Earth ,” what they call “Observations and provocations from The Times’ Opinion staff.” Here are the opponents 10 to 8: 10.
L.A. Times: Earth's Top 10 Biggest Enemies in Congress | ThinkProgress
The Enemy Expatriation Act is yet another treasonous bill similar to the National Defense Authorization Act that was signed into law by President Obama on New Years' Eve. It has been introduced in the House, and just like the NDAA, the media refuses to cover it. The American public have the right to know about a bill that could revoke their United States citizenship, and the continuing media blackout poses a serious threat to the freedoms this country pledges to provide its citizens. The EEA is a short, yet dangerous bill.
Dox of Rep. Charlie Dent, Sponsor of Enemy Expatriation Act - Pastebin.com
The conservative red tribe is dominated by businessmen who have built or inherited fortunes. They also include Wall Street investors, oil and gas men, construction magnates, and retail executives. Mormons are well represented. The liberal blue tribe is dominated by men from Hollywood and media entrepreneurs — often Jewish — and the leaders of the American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) and the Service Employees International Union (SEIU). The Super PACs are not paragons of transparency, but what has been disclosed gives a sense of where the money is coming from and the interests of those giving it. Based on the donors and the origins of these groups, we can already discern what messages the Super PACs will generate in the home stretch of the campaign.
Red money, blue money: The making of the 2012 campaign - Salon.com
Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A provision of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act prohibiting unions, corporations and not-for-profit organizations from broadcasting electioneering communications within 60 days of a general election or 30 days of a primary election violates the free speech clause of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. United States District Court for the District of Columbia reversed. Citizens United v.Obama Signs NDAA Bill With Signing Statement Clarifying Indefinite Detention Provisions | Ology
After a long battle over one section of the latest National Defense Authorization Act, President Obama signed the bill into law today - but with a signing statement. The statement, which can be read in full here , clarifies why Obama signed the bill and how the controversial provisions on indefinite detention will be treated. Although Obama says in the statement that he does not agree with the entire bill, passing it is necessary to maintain the operation of our military.This afternoon, Obama signed the controversial Defense authorization bill, despite his reservations about provisions related to the treatment of terrorism suspects. The National Journal reports : Statement by the President on H.R. 1540: Today I have signed into law H.R. 1540, the “National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012.”
BREAKING: Obama Signs Defense Authorization Bill | ThinkProgress
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