For Immediate Release May 17, 2014 Expo Center Topeka, Kansas 6:33 P.M. CDT MRS. OBAMA: Thank you, guys. Thank you so much. Wow! (Applause.) Look at you guys. (Applause.) All right, you all rest yourselves. You’ve got a big day… Read More ›
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Gutting of campaign finance laws enhances influence of corporations and wealthy Americans
PUBLIC RELEASE DATE: 10-Apr-2014 – “This study dashes hopes for this democratic kind of interest-group influence,’ PRINCETON, N.J.—Affluent individuals and business corporations already have vastly more influence on federal government policy than average citizens, according to recently released research by… Read More ›
Jail time promised for false tweets in China
Xinhua will escape from Olympic 2020 gaffe, no doubt By Phil Muncaster Posted in Policy, 10th September 2013 04:09 GMT Use of social media in China just got more dangerous after the country’s Supreme Court announced tough new guidelines… Read More ›
10 American Foods That Are Banned in Other Countries
DNA / July 10, 2013 / : EEV: Re-Post Americans are slowly waking up to the sad fact that much of the food sold in the US is far inferior to the same foods sold in other nations. In… Read More ›
High Court Won’t Chuck Farmer’s Monsanto Debt – A WARNING to all Farmers!
By BARBARA LEONARD WASHINGTON (CN) – An Indiana farmer owes Monsanto more than $84,400 for infringing its patent by saving genetically engineered seeds, the Supreme Court ruled Monday. In addition to selling a glyphosate-based herbicide called Roundup to farmers who… Read More ›
Oil Barons Given Pass on Alleged Nigerian Crimes
By BARBARA LEONARD WASHINGTON (CN) – A group of refugees living in the United States cannot sue the foreign oil companies that allegedly conspired with the Nigerian government to torture them, the mostly unanimous Supreme Court… Read More ›
Supreme Court considers limits on class-action cases
By Agence France-Presse Monday, November 5, 2012 22:15 EST Topics: supreme court WASHINGTON — The US Supreme Court heard two cases that could limit the scope of class action lawsuits, after the court rejected a discrimination claim by 1.5 million… Read More ›
Documents found in Colorado meth house reveal inner workings of Montana dark money group
By Pro Publica Monday, October 29, 2012 9:29 EDT Topics: Colorado By Kim Barker, ProPublica, and Rick Young and Emma Schwartz, Frontline This post was co-published with PBS’ Frontline. The boxes landed in the office of Montana investigators in March… Read More ›
Former Justice Souter: ‘Pervasive civic ignorance’ in U.S. could bring dictatorship
By Eric W. Dolan Monday, September 17, 2012 18:20 EDT Topics: Justice Souter ♦ Souter ♦ U.S. Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter ♦ University of New Hampshire School of Law Retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter thinks… Read More ›
New Research on “Junk” DNA Raises Questions on Eve of Crucial Court Hearing
On September 19, the Ninth Circuit is set to hear new arguments in Haskell v. Harris, a case challenging California’s warrantless DNA collection program. Today EFF asked the court to consider ground-breaking new research that confirms for the first time… Read More ›
Engineering Evil 