TweetShareThe Senate voted Tuesday to reject the House bill that bans earmarks, the sometimes not-so-little funding of a legislator’s home-town projects. Earmarks get slipped into other, often unrelated, bills as the grease for vote co-operation. The 39-56 vote killed the GOP attempt to ban the practice. Previous tries at prohibiting the earmarks did not fare [...]
Archive for November, 2010
Earmarks To Stay, At Least For Now
Posted by Lateesha Jackson on November 30th, 2010
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Tags: democrat, earmarks, house of representatives, pork barrel, republican, senate 
Comments OffHiding The Cookies
Posted by Amy Sue Andrews on November 30th, 2010
TweetShareMozilla Corp., creator of the popular Firefox web browser, is looking for a way to allow users to disengage web tracking, but at the same time keep the advertisers happy. Internet tracking is done with small files called “cookies” that advertisers send to the user’s web browser for later tracking. A few months ago the Mozilla [...]
WikiAsylum In Ecuador
Posted by Jeannette McBride-Hollings on November 30th, 2010
TweetShareAustralia is investigating whether or not Julian Assange, the founder of the WikiLeaks website which has made public secret U.S. diplomatic messages, has committed a crime. The official Swedish website reported on November 20 that they had issued an International Arrest warrant for charges that Assange raped one Swedish woman and molested another. “The prosecutor [...]
Obama To Freeze Federal Pay
Posted by Jeannette McBride-Hollings on November 29th, 2010
TweetSharePresident Obama has frozen pay for civilian federal workers. It is estimated that the move will save $2 billion the first year and $30 billion over five years. There are 2.65 million civilian federal workers who will be effected. More than half of the American public thinks the federal workers are overpaid and do not [...]
Apple Readies For Patent War
Posted by James H. Abernathy on November 29th, 2010
TweetShareThe Apple Android battle is heating up. Apple has quietly been bringing in the top guns of patent law to go after Android and to beat back the legal attacks from the likes of Motorola, HTC and Nokia. Businessweek reports, “Apple has hired some of the nation’s top patent lawyers as outside counsel,” who include [...]
WikiDisappointment
Posted by Tom Carroll on November 29th, 2010
TweetShareThe newspapers who received advanced copies of the WIkiLeaks documents have begun to publish, but the material is cherry picked and cleansed, hardly the explosive expose’ predicted. The New York Times, The Guardian, Der Spiegel, El Pais and Le Monde have all admitted to redacting the documents, both in whole, and in part. The Guardian [...]
20% of California Hospitals Never Err
Posted by Amy Sue Andrews on November 28th, 2010
TweetShareCalifornia Public Health officials are trying hard to believe that 87 of the state’s 418 hospitals are really telling the truth when they claim to have had no significant medical errors in three years. The 87 hospitals represent 20 percent of the total. A 2007 State law requires mistakes to be reported if the [...]
WikiLeaks Spills the Beans
Posted by Jeannette McBride-Hollings on November 28th, 2010
TweetShareWikiLeaks is going to release new classified documents today. WikiLeaks Australian-born founder Julian Assange is believed to have given 250,000 new files to the New York Times as well as European newspapers Germany’s Der Spiegel, France’s Le Monde, Spain’s El Pais, and Britain’s Guardian. The U.S. government is bracing for the impact, and has felt [...]
Korea Tension Up Another Notch
Posted by Tom Carroll on November 28th, 2010
TweetShareNorth Korea has placed surface-to-surface missiles on launchers across the narrow waterway from South Korean Yeonpyeong Island. The North shelled the island last week killing four South Korean Marines and civilians. The North Koreans have moved in surface-to-air missiles to protect their artillery positions and surface-to-surface launchers from air strikes. Seoul replaced it’s Defense [...]
Posted in INTERNATIONAL EVENTS Tags: China, Kim Jong-il, korea, Missile, pyongyang, seoul, six party, uss george washington Comments OffICE Pulls Plug on Knock-Off Websites
Posted by James H. Abernathy on November 27th, 2010
TweetShareDozens of website domains have been seized by the federal government. Agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement division of the Department of Homeland Security replaced the site’s regular content with a message that reads “This domain name has been seized by ICE–Homeland Security Investigations, pursuant to a seizure warrant issued by a United States [...]
Posted in TRENDS Tags: Activision, coica, domain, first amendment, Motion Picture Association of America, MPAA, NBC Universal, Recording Industry Association of America, RIAA, torrentfinder, torrentfreak, Viacom Comments Off
