U.S. Contractor Confined More Than 1000 Foreign Workers In Windowless Warehouses In Iraq…Najlaa International Catering Services, a subcontractor to KBR, the Texas firm formerly known as Halliburton, hired the men, who’re from India, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh.
UN Ambassador-nominee Susan Rice: I’m not going to ask John Bolton for advice.…Yesterday, President-elect [...]
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Author: The Christian Progressive Liberal
When I’ve interviewed for jobs (and I’ve had to do that with increasing regularity in the past month or so), I complied with EVERYTHING prospective employers requested of me. Even if I didn’t get the job, they couldn’t turn me down because I lacked the qualifications, didn’t meet [...]
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Officials with President-elect Barack Obama’s transition team this week named at least seven openly gay people to transition panels assigned to review federal departments and agencies.
Three of the seven gays named to the transition panels — businessman Fred P. Hochberg, former San Francisco Supervisor Roberta Achtenberg, and labor attorney Elaine Kaplan — held high-level positions [...]
Like so many other things, this is the White House trying to contain the damage that’s sure to come out when Obama takes office and sees exactly what sort of mess has REALLY been made:
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A class-action suit against New York City for refusing to provide food stamps to nearly 9,500 households was settled back in [...]
1. GOP congressman says Congress must investigate the Bush administration…
There should be a thorough investigation of the ways in which the current Administration may have disregarded the Constitution
2. Mormon church under investigation for possible election fraud …
California’s Fair Political Practices Commission (FPPC) confirmed Monday that it will investigate allegations that the LDS Church failed [...]
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First off, the likely plan is to break off the agency from the Department of Homeland Security, a move that would in itself help restore the pride FEMA folks felt when it was an independent agency.
Second, there’s increasing talk that former director James Lee Witt, who took over the then-troubled agency at the start of [...]
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Submitted by davidswanson on Tue, 2008-11-18 18:40
Half the story has been told. On Tuesday the Washington Post reported that Bush is creating civil service positions for loyal appointees, in order to make it hard for Obama to get rid of them.
1. AP Lifts Ban on U.S. Military Handout Photos…
The Associated Press on Friday lifted its suspension on the use of photos provided by the U.S. military after the Pentagon assured the news cooperative that it would avoid distributing altered images to the news media.
2. GM to return two leased jets amid criticism…
General Motors Corp will [...]
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David Hambling
President-elect Obama has re-affirmed his intention to shut down the detention center at Guantanamo Bay. This will come as a relief to many who have been concerned about some of the ethical issues involved and exactly what has been going on there. While much has been made of so-called “enhanced” interrogation techniques (especially [...]
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Michael Isikoff
NEWSWEEK
From the magazine issue dated Dec 1, 2008
Despite the hopes of many human-rights advocates, the new Obama Justice Department is not likely to launch major new criminal probes of harsh interrogations and other alleged abuses by the Bush administration. But one idea that has currency among some top Obama advisers is setting up a [...]
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