Report Scores Runaway CEO Pay, Alleges War ProfiteeringChief executives at U.S. defense contractors have seen a 200-percent pay raise since the Sep. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, widening the chasm between compensation in the corner office and wages on the factory floor, a new report said Tuesday.
Average CEO pay--$11.8 million in salary, stock options, bonuses, and incentives--rose last year to 431 times what the average worker earned, $27,460, according to the report from the Washington, D.C.-based Institute for Policy Studies and Bos... (more)
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If hydrocarbons are renewable- then is "Peak Oil" a fraud?Are hydrocarbons "renewable"- and if so- what does such a conclusion mean for the future of the world's oil and natural gas supplies?
The question is critical due to the enormous amount of coverage the issue of "Peak Oil" is receiving from the mainstream press. If the supply of hydrocarbons is renewable- then the contrary to the conventional wisdom being touted throughout the mainstream press today- the world is NOT running out of oil.
Unbeknownst to Westerners, the... (more)
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Can’t Happen HereI thought Sinclair Lewis’ 1935 novel It Can’t Happen Here and Margaret Atwood’s 1985 novel The Handmaid’s Tale are the works of fiction envisioning the dystopian American society in a militant-fascist regime, but these novels have the self-fulfilling prophecy of George Orwell’s iconic masterwork 1984 [“Iraq in Utah,” Aug. 25, City Weekly].
The heavy-handed and brutish military-style raid in the name of drug prevention is the epitome of de ... (more)
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12-Hour Party PeopleTrudy Childs recalls rubbing her wrists and wincing in agony. No stranger to pain, the 52-year-old rheumatoid arthritis sufferer could barely tolerate the zip tags Utah County Sheriff’s deputies used to keep her in line. An unsympathetic officer congratulated Childs on an “Emmy-winning performance,” laughing as his colleagues—close to 90 law-enforcement officials, including Provo City police and a Utah Department of Corrections SWAT squad—cleared out hundreds of peo... (more)
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Newton says he got caught up in 'business as usual' on HillState Rep. Chris Newton pleaded guilty in federal court yesterday and called for the end of the "corruptive influence of money in politics" — while a chorus of voices across the state grew louder in its calls for Newton to resign from office immediately.
The Republican from Cleveland, Tenn., admitted in federal court here that he was guilty of bribery and extortion, becoming the only one of five sitting or former state lawmakers to reverse his plea to guilty in the Operation... (more)
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Man dies after Martin deputies fire Taser at himA 31-year-old Port Salerno man died early Saturday after being arrested and possibly shot twice with a Taser stun gun, Martin County Sheriff's Office reported.
Brian Lichtenstein had been out of Palm Beach County Jail for four days and was in the midst of a three-day crack-cocaine binge when sheriff deputies found him Friday night running naked through woods near Riverland Mobile Home Park in Stuart, according to the incident report.
Lichtenstein screamed, "Leave me... (more)
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'Terror' suspects in photos blunderANTI-TERROR cops swooped on three asylum seekers because they were taking photos near the Celtic Manor, we can reveal.
The men, two aged 20 and one aged 26, were arrested under the Terrorism Act by Gwent Police on Thursday but released without charge on Friday night. They had been detained following reports of suspicious activity in the Chepstow Road area of Newport. They are believed to have been near the five-star resort taking pictures.
Dave Phillips, chief execu... (more)
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Black box catches bad driving on filmIt's bad news for boy racers: Big Brother is watching you - and so are your parents on a new in-car video camera that records how motorists drive.
The palm-sized device, to be launched in Britain this month, is fixed to the windshield beneath the rear-view mirror and captures any dangerous or erratic driving.
Parents can then download the colour footage onto a computer to see - and hear - how their children behave behind the wheel.
The $2,100 camera, ... (more)
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Huge rise in child drinking revealed by NHSThe number of children buying alcohol illegally in shops and pubs is rising and the amount children drink in a week has doubled in 15 years, an NHS survey shows.
Campaigners fear that the problem can only worsen as thousands of licensed premises apply for extended hours under the Government's relaxation of the law.
They predict a rise in binge-drinking among teenagers and a growth in the problem of noisy and violent town centres on Friday and Saturday nights.
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HP to invest $150 Million in RFIDIf radio frequency identification (RFID) technology grows at the breathtaking clip so many are projecting, Hewlett-Packard wants to make sure it doesn't miss being out in front. It's been behind the curve before, and doesn't want to be there again.
The Palo-Alto, Calif.-based company is dedicating the bulk of a September technology forum to demonstrating RFID chips it is developing with partner Hitachi, giving attendees a first-hand showcase of the next-generation bar coding techn... (more)
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Nagin: White House ignores pleas to save New Orleans; helicopters diverted8:07 pm CDT -- New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin has given a remarkable interview to WWL TV, broadcast on wwltv.com. Nagin said that the National Guard's Blackhawk helicopter carrying the sandbags to plug the hole in the levee on 17th St. Canal was diverted to rescue misssions.
Nagin said he called the governor, and that he and other state and local officials are unsuccesfully trying to get through to the White House to ask if the people in Washington know what they're doing.
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Official: Prisoners Riot, Take Hostages In New OrleansInmates at a prison in hurricane-ravaged New Orleans have rioted, attempted to escape and are now holding hostages, a prison commissioner told ABC News affiliate WBRZ in Baton Rouge, La.
Orleans Parish Prison Commissioner Oliver Thomas reported the incident to WBRZ.
A deputy at Orleans Parish Prison, his wife and their four children have been taken hostage by rioting prisoners after riding out Hurricane Katrina inside the jail building, according to WBRZ.
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Bush's approval rating sinks lower: pollPresident George W Bush's approval rating sank to an all time low of 45 per cent, in a Washington Post-ABC poll published today that also said he could do more to ease soaring gasoline prices.
The August 25-28 survey of 1,006 adults with a three per cent margin of error found that 53 per cent of Americans disapproved of how Mr Bush was handling his job as president.
Only 45 per cent approved of his performance, the lowest approval rating ever recorded for Bush in th... (more)
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Russian Security Services Facilitated Beslan Raid — BasayevThe man behind the Beslan school siege said Tuesday a failed Russian special services sting had allowed his militants a free passage into the region to conduct the attack that killed 330 people almost a year ago, Reuters news agency reports.
Shamil Basayev, Russia’s most wanted man, issued the statement on separatist website www.kavkazcenter.com days before the anniversary of the bloodbath and at a time when authorities face criticism for failing to clarify what happened.... (more)
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Russia Releases Former Intelligence Officer Behind Probe of 1999 BombingsA court in the city of Nizhny Tagil has released former FSB officer Mikhail Trepashkin. As a former intelligence officer and lawyer, Trepashkin led a probe into the 1999 apartment bombings — attacks that claimed the lives of over 200 people in Moscow. His supporters claimed Trepashkin was punished for his attempts to reveal the truth.
The court released the former FSB officer on parole, his defense lawyer, Yelena Lipster said Wednesday. Trepashkin returned home today, she sa... (more)
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Iraq stampede deaths near 1,000Almost 1,000 people are known to have died in a stampede of Shia pilgrims in northern Baghdad, Iraqi health officials have said.
So far, there have been at least 965 confirmed deaths, making the incident the single biggest loss of Iraqi life since the US-led invasion in 2003.
The incident happened on a river bridge as about a million Shias marched to a shrine for a religious festival.
Witnesses said panic spread over rumours of suicide bombers.
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60,000 trapped in FEMA's Superdome concentration campFrom WWL-TV's wwltv.com:
"4:21 P.M. - WWL-TV Reporter quotes officials as saying there may now be 60,000 people in the Superdome and that more people are still being urged to go there."
Official spokesmen are now denying the numerous reports this morning from National Guardsmen and others that New Orleans is under martial law. But that is exactly what NO and southeast La. are under as the governor demands the entire city be evacuated..
Numerous media ... (more)
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Reader in Utah comments on police raidOn August 20 in Utah County, Utah (40 miles south of Salt Lake City) an event occurred indicative of a nation on the verge of becoming a police state. It was on this night at 11:30 p.m. that 90 members of the Utah County police department raided a “Rave” taking place on private land in Spanish Fork Canyon. Police raiding the party looked more like National Guard than local police, equipped with Kevlar vests, army fatigues and automatic weapons.
Conflicting stories have... (more)
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Reuters cameraman to be held in Abu GhraibA cameraman for Reuters in Iraq has been ordered by a secret tribunal to be held without charge in Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison until his case is reviewed within six months, a US military spokesman said today.
Ali Omar Abrahem al-Mashhadani was arrested by US forces on August 8 after a search of his home in the city of Ramadi.
The US military has refused Reuters requests to disclose why he is being held. He has not been charged.
His brother, who was de... (more)
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FBI library records probe hits home Librarians are intently following the progress of a lawsuit after disclosures that federal agents have used the Patriot Act to try to seize users' records at a Fairfield County library.
A controversial provision of the Patriot Act, a landmark federal law passed a month after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, grants FBI officials unprecedented leeway in investigations.
Court papers indicate that the institution FBI officials demanded records from is a Bridgepor... (more)
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Patriot Act Defense In Homeless Transit Case Gets Boost From FedsWhen officials in Summit invoked the USA Patriot Act to justify kicking homeless people out of its train station, the move was ridiculed in many quarters; even the U.S. Justice Department said the city had no business applying the anti-terrorism law to justify its treatment of the homeless.
But now that the federal government has issued a warning in the aftermath of the London bombings that terrorists may pose as homeless people to watch buildings and mass transit stations while p... (more)
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