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DOJ TO REQUIRE ES&S TO SELL OFF ASSETS FROM DIEBOLD MERGER CITING ANTI-TRUST CONCERNS
DOJ TO REQUIRE ES&S TO SELL OFF ASSETS FROM DIEBOLD MERGER CITING ANTI-TRUST CONCERNS The Department of Justice's Anti-trust division has determined that the purchase of Premier Election Solutions, Diebold Inc.'s recently renamed e-voting division, by Election Systems & Software, Inc. (ES&S) has resulted in a voting machine monopoly. The DoJ and nine states who have joined in a lawsuit, are suing to require ES&S to divest of the assets gained in the bargain-basement priced purchase of Diebold's e-voting outfit last September. The merger with their second largest competitor Diebold/Premier, had given ES&S, a private corporation which had already controlled some 50% of U.S. elections their electronic voting systems, a full 70% control of the votes cast in this country. The acquisition had been opposed by election integrity organizations, Hart Intercivic (a much smaller Austin-based competitor), the New York Times editorial board, U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) in his capacity as ch
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Former Texas GOP chairman Tom Pauken blasts Bush, Rove in new book
5 minutes ago · AUSTIN – As Karl Rove makes the rounds this week with his memoir burnishing the Bush legacy, another book by another Texas Republican offers a decidedly different view. Former state GOP chairman Tom Pauken, a Dallas lawyer and foot soldier in the Reagan revolution, offers a sober counterpoint to Rove's full-throated defense of his former boss. In Pauken's view, the former president and "Bush's Brain" not only hijacked conservatism, they nearly destroyed it. "Republican politics is bare
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Gunmen release three terrorists from (Pakistan) police station
1 hour ago · MULTAN—Unidentified gunmen attacked a police station and got their three under-custody accomplices released here on Monday. According to details, three suspected terrorists were in custody of Lapa Police Station in Multan after their arrest a few days back. On Monday, unidentified gunmen attacked the police station and secured the release of the detained accused, while three policemen including an ASI were injured in the process. The attackers brought their three accomplices with them af
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H-1B applications to be accepted from April one
1 hour ago · 9 Mar 2010, 1944 hrs IST, PTI WASHINGTON: The US will start accepting the applications for H-1B visas, most sought after by Indians, from April one for the fiscal 2011. In a statement, the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) said it will accept petitions for 65,000 H-1B visas as mandated by the Congress. "Cases will be considered accepted on the date that it takes possession of a properly filed petition with the correct fee; not the date that the petition is postmarked," t
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Scope of salmonella-tainted flavouring recall will continue to grow
1 hour ago · It could take months for some food companies to figure out whether a popular flavouring ingredient contaminated with salmonella found its way into their products, industry experts say. In the past five days, a batch of the flavour enhancer hydrolyzed vegetable protein (HVP) that was found last month to be contaminated with salmonella has already resulted in the recall of 94 items in the U.S. and nine in Canada, with another five items added to the list late Monday. The Canadian Food Inspec
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Police confirm one OSU employee dead, two taken to hospital after shooting
4 hours ago · Two Ohio State employees are in the hospital and one dead after a shoot out occurred them around 3:30 a.m. by the Maintenance Building on Tuttle Park, police confirmed in a press release this morning. The crime location is secure, with few traffic restrictions around the building. The suspect for the shooting is in custody already and OSU police are investigating the case. No names have been released, as the family has not been notified of the shooting. Campus will remain open today as
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Education officials may scrap 13 state Regents exams
5 hours ago · State education officials are considering scrapping 13 of the state's 16 high school Regents exams - which would lower the state's graduation requirements for millions of students. The move - along with other cuts to the state's standardized tests - could save $13.7 million in the midst of the state's fiscal crisis and are on the agenda at Monday's monthly meeting of the state Regents, who oversee state education policy. The controversial proposals include scrapping translations of the e
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Freed from Haiti, missionary returns 'with mixed emotions'
5 hours ago · Haitian Judge Bernard Saint-Vil released (Charisa) Coulter on Friday. She walked out of judicial police headquarters in Port-au-Prince and headed to the nearby airport for a flight to Miami. Coulter is staying in a hotel by herself, her father said. He did not know when she might return home to Boise, Idaho. He said his daughter had been through a "trying experience" and was welcoming the solitude. Coulter, Silsby and eight other Americans had been detained in Haiti on suspicion of kidn
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STOCK MARKET WATCH, Tuesday March 9
6 hours ago · STOCK MARKET WATCH, Tuesday March 9, 2010 Bush Administration Officials Convicted = 2 Name(s): David Safavian, James Fondren Bush Administration Officials Charged = 1 Name(s): Richard Lopez Razo Financial Sector Officials Convicted since 1/20/09 = 11 Dow... 10,552.52 -13.68 (-0.13%) Nasdaq... 2,332.21 +5.86 (+0.25%) S&P 500... 1,138.50 -0.20 (-0.02%) Gold future... 1,125 -10.70 (-0.94%) 10-Yr Bond... 3.71 +0.04 (+0.95%) 30-Year Bond 4.68 +0.04 (+0.88%)
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Letter on Muslim radical roils GOP Senate race
6 hours ago · By Seema Mehta March 8, 2010 | 11:05 p.m. Terrorism and the Middle East are continuing to roil the Republican Senate contest after a letter written by former congressman Tom Campbell emerged that appeared to contradict statements Campbell and his aides had made about his dealings with a radical Muslim professor. The professor, Sami Al-Arian, contributed to Campbell's unsuccessful campaign in 2000 for the U.S. Senate. On Sept. 26, 2001, when he was teaching at the University of South Flori
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Report condemns Honduras violence
7 hours ago · Report condemns Honduras violence By Arthur Brice, CNN March 9, 2010 -- Updated 0120 GMT (0920 HKT) (CNN) -- An Organization of American States commission condemned Monday the slayings last month of three Honduran political activists opposed to a military-led coup that removed the elected president in June. The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights also said it deplores the kidnappings, arbitrary detentions, torture, sexual violations and illegal raids that the panel maintains other
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Mar 08 · That means public money in Florida is going to a private company in Virginia called Imagine Schools. That is taxpayer money profiting an Educational Management Company instead of funding public schools. Two popular Imagine charter schools in Manatee County incurred debts of nearly $900,000 and have been declared in a state of “financial emergency” by the school district. An audit of Imagine School at Lakewood Ranch revealed debts of about $600,000 at the end of its first year. Mo
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Mar 09 · l Bernard Weiner l I despise the implicit pro-Iraq War politics of "The Hurt Locker": There is no examination or even mention in the film of why the U.S. might be fighting there, no look at the neo-conservative ideology that sent our troops there, no questioning of the aggressive tactics aimed at Iraqi civilians, no overt politics at all, for that matter. But I cannot deny the movie's aesthetic power. It is a great film, one of the few war movies that really got into my gut. It well deserve
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Mar 08 · I don’t want to single out just one anti-science teacher, but Ray Shelton signed his name to a letter that proudly proclaimed his ignorance. So I’ll focus on him. Fortunately, the vast majority of teachers are well above the national average when it comes to intelligence, good demeanor and critical thinking. My mother taught English for twenty years at the high school level and now teaches at a college. And most of the teachers I know socially, the majority of my children’s teachers and most of
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Mar 08 · Interesting how Think Progress contrasted Grover Norquist’s involvement in the so called Tea Parties with that of Big Tobacco, which is helping to pay for all that Astroturf. The article may have given some the impression that the two have different motives for opposing health care reform. However, their motives are not so different. Both Grover Norquist and Big Tobacco are dangerous to your health. / We all know about the public health sins of Big Tobacco. But in case you have been living
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Mar 08 · Several Southern Baptist Ministers across the nation are leading prayers in their congregations asking God to kill Obama and “leave his children fatherless.” They reference Psalm 109:8 as a biblical commandment for all Christians to pray for Obama’s quick death. John Avlon interviews two of the ministers and reports: Praying for President Obama’s death has become a sick cottage industry for some evangelicals on the lunatic fringe. Bumper stickers, T-shirts, and teddy bears are sold with the w
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Mar 07 · Health care is not the same as a wide screen TV. The public option is just that: an option. Real hard working people, ESPECIALLY THOSE WHO OWN SMALL BUSINESSES, are getting screwed by the private health insurance industry...including you. Despite their evil socialist ways, Europe and Canada have plenty of millionaires. You're not hung up on The Gay. you're hung up on gay sex. please keep in mind that when you meet a straight couple, chances are you don't immediately picture them h
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Mar 07 · He is of course referring to the Rhode Island school at which all the teachers were fired whether they deserved it or not. This teacher's letter refers back to a moment in time in 2008 when he spoke in the Miami Carol City Senior High School Auditorium, November 10, 2008, about the problems the teachers and community encounter. There are many Central Falls High Schools throughout the country with various names. They appear to be the ones targeted for closing by this administration.
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Mar 07 · via MichaelMoore.com: March 5th, 2010 8:14 AM The Cure That Dares Not Speak Its Name By Robert Kuttner / Huffington Post In all of the debates about health care reform, one of the stubborn realities is that neither the Obama plan, nor any of the Republican alternatives, will seriously alter the trajectory of relentless cost-escalation in health care. If you look at the Administration's own projections of federal deficits in the next decade and after 2020, virtually all of the a
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Mar 08 · The health insurance bill currently under consideration in Congress would forbid states from providing their residents with healthcare. An amendment correcting that problem was passed in committee last July and then quietly removed. A new campaign is asking the Democrats who voted for that amendment to withhold their votes on the bill until it is reinstated. Several states' legislatures are close to enacting single-payer healthcare bills. This is a complete healthcare solution that elimina
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Mar 07 · She has been amazing. For several years, the town ignored the real story behind the anti-choice zealots who own and operate the Susan B Anthony birthplace museum and the press didn't look into at all. The democratic state rep helped them get grant money. After six weeks of intensive research and fighting tooth and nail with the local press to tell the real story of the anti-choice organizations, she got the story told....because SHE told it. She wrote it and she is in the process of brin
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Mar 06 · Diane Ravitch, former Assistant Secretary of Education in the Bush administration, has a new book out. The title of the book is She has a chapter dealing with the way billionaire groups have taken over the education system. Nationally known education commentator and former privatizer ally Diane Ravitch, a New York-based fellow at the Hoover Institution who was Assistant Secretary of Education in the Bush I administration, has been shifting steadily into the role of resistance leade
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Mar 06 · Bart Stupak Has Secrets He Doesn't Want You Talking About ................. .....what if a person calling himself a Democrat was so viciously against the settled law known as Roe V Wade that he was willing to kill the single most important legislation of the Democratic party's past 30 years in history? Oh, so that's not enough to question whether or not that person "seems like a Democrat"? Ok, what if that alleged Democrat kept a room on C-Street, the place where christian right zealot
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