FEDS WANT MAJOR EXPANSION OF SECRET WIRETAP POWERS OVER WEB-BASED SERVICES. Facebook, Google, Skype and other brand names behind your favorite internet sites and programs are chafing at proposed new rules from the Obama administration that would force companies to comply with sweeping wiretaps and information requests from the FBI and Justice Department. While companies [...]
IN 25 U.S. STATES AND THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, A HOMELESS PERSON CAN LOSE HIS/HER CHILDREN BY THE ACT OF TRYING TO OBTAIN SOCIAL SERVICES TO HELP PROVIDE FOR THEM. As in so many ways that the homeless are “criminalized” rather than being provided for, these states make application for assistance actionable instances of “abuse [...]
MISSING IN ACTION IN PRESIDENTIAL DEBATES: THAT VISION THING. With 3 of their 4 scheduled debates under their belts, the presidential and vice-presidential candidates have failed to articulate much of anything in the way of concrete plans that might determine how the electorate votes. Beyond accusing their opponents of not having detailed such plans, [...]
President Obama’s signature health care reform law is now at the mercy of the U.S. Supreme Court, where the justices will make their final ruling in private on Friday after several days of often contentious hearings. The Court’s official verdict on whether or not the “Affordable Care Act” is constitutional will not be known publicly until June at the earliest, [...]
IS OBAMA’S PROPOSED “MILLIONAIRES’ TAX” JUST A COVER FOR MASSIVE ENTITLEMENT CUTS? (New York Times) The proverbial jury may still be out, but the first hint at details of President Obama’s proposal for deficit reduction that will sent to the almighty “super committee” looks ominous. Getting most of the play from the White House and [...]
CHINESE INVESTORS PUTTING A LOT OF “STOCK” IN THE COUNTRY’S GREEN-ENERGY CAR INDUSTRY. BYD, which makes an electric car, puts itself up for stock market sales and the market responds by large increase in price, despite the company’s recent poor earnings report. Analysts suggests that BYD is a surrogate for the interest of investors in [...]
ITALY SAYS FRANCE VIOLATES “EUROPEAN PRINCIPLES” IN STOPPING A TRAIN LOAD OF TUNISIAN IMMIGRANTS MOVING FROM ITALY TO FRANCE. E.U. SAYS “WHAT PRINCIPLES?” (Eurasia Review) E.U. says France was “within its rights” to stop a train and ask for passenger travel documentation, though this might seem to violate the principle of free cross-border travel in [...]
After just ten days of debate and discussion, and with most Americans probably knowing little of its contents, House Republicans successfully rammed through their 2012 “austerity” budget plan in a Friday party-line vote, 235-193. Not a single Democrat voted for it while four Republicans voted against it. The GOP’s proposal, devised by Rep. Paul Ryan, [...]
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