Tag: congress
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most of US want afghanistan pullout deadline; congress says no
from allgov: A strong majority of Americans believe the war in Afghanistan is going badly and want Washington to establish a timetable for bringing home U.S forces. But despite negative opinions about the war among voters, Congress continues to oppose setting any limits on when the U.S. should pull out of the conflict. A new…
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Defcon 7/15: Tracked, Traced & Databased
Consumer group sniffs Congresswoman’s open wi-fi // Fmr. NSA exec Thomas A. Drake may pay high price for media leak // NSA executive leaked after official reporting process failed // Mobile phones ‘causing memory loss’ // Teens using digital drugs to get high
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Defcon 7/1: Fight the Net, Biomet & Int’l Sex Station
The secret state’s mad scheme to control the net // Windows 8 features, like biometrics, revealed in leaked Microsoft documents // Obama space plan under continuous assault // NASA commander says sex banned aboard International Space Station
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west virginia’s robert byrd, longest-serving congressman, dead at 92
from cnn: West Virginia Sen. Robert Byrd, the self-educated son of a coal miner who became the longest-serving member of Congress, died early Monday at age 92, the senator’s office said. Byrd, a nine-term Democrat, was known as a master of the chamber’s often-arcane rules and as the self-proclaimed “champion of the Constitution,” a jealous…
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obama internet ‘kill switch’ plan approved by US senate
from techworld: A US Senate committee has approved a wide-ranging cybersecurity bill that some critics have suggested would give the US president the authority to shut down parts of the Internet during a cyberattack. Senator Joe Lieberman and other bill sponsors have refuted the charges that the Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act gives…
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Monsanto GM Seed Ban Overturned By Supreme Court
The bio-tech company Monsanto can sell genetically modified seeds before safety tests on them are completed, the US Supreme Court has ruled. A lower court had barred the sale of the modified alfalfa seeds until an environmental impact study could be carried out.
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lieberman tells internet to ‘relax’ about ‘kill switch’
from raw replay: Sen. Joe Lieberman is telling his critics to “relax” over a bill that would allow the president to disable parts of the internet as he deems necessary. China has an internet “kill switch” and the U.S. should too, according to Lieberman. “We need this capacity in a time of war. We need…
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DHS Cyber Bill Would Codify Executive Emergency Powers
The Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act of 2010 (PC-NNA … PC Nana?) is “designed to bring together the disjointed efforts of multiple federal agencies and departments to prevent cyber theft, intrusions, and attacks across the federal government and the private sector,” its chief author, Sen. Joe Lieberman, will say in prepared remarks today.
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Obama/Bush Retains Right To Detain People With No Habeas Review
court denies habeas corpus rights from nytimes: A federal appeals court ruled Friday that three men who had been detained by the United States military for years without trial in Afghanistan had no recourse to American courts. The decision was a broad victory for the Obama administration in its efforts to hold terrorism suspects overseas…
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5/13 Binge & Purge: Raw Milk & Prison Food
Raw milk battle reveals FDA abandonment of basic human right to choose your food // Connecticut growing gardens at prisons to cut food costs // Explosion in bugs near Monsanto’s BT Cotton fields
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Can Watered-Down ‘Audit The Fed’ Bill Be Strengthened In Committee?
While many are expressing disappointment and even despair that the Senate voted down Ron Paul’s audit the Fed bill while passing a weakened version, Congressman Alan Grayson is confident that the stronger provisions of the original House amendment can be added in Committee, ensuring the Federal Reserve doesn’t get off the hook, as Congressman Paul…
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5/6 Binge & Purge: Labels, Launch, Lead & Listeria
Groups urge feds to change US position on food labeling // Rep Waxman sneaks anti-vitamin amendment into wall street reform bill // US food prices ‘spiraling out of control’
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Defcon 5/6: Global Cooperation & Orwellian Legislation
Summit in Dallas targets cybercrime – sponsored by Goldman Sachs & Microsoft, etc // IBM’s city sim trains planners to tackle future problems for growing urban centers // Cyber attacks hyped to justify net regulation // Report reams admins for secretly snapping student pics
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WV’s Rockefeller Calls for ‘Public-Private Action’ on Cybersecurity
Cyberattacks aren’t confined by governmental or national boundaries, and neither should cybersecurity programs, Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W. Va.), said recently in calling on government and industry to work together to meet the rapidly rising tide of attacks on U.S. information systems.
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New World Next Week #29: Euro Crash, AZ Immigrant Law, Fair Use is Good (Video)
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