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Thursday, January 13, 2011
Project PARTY uses tax dollars to study group sex parties by Michael Richardson
The Massachusetts Dept of Public Health uses tax funds to study group sex parties in Boston

Friday, February 5, 2010
U.S. citizen gets 2 years in prison for service in Taiwan legislature
Taiwan's unresolved political status leaves the island at risk of invasion from China and caught in an upside down world where distinguished public service can end up with a prison term. ROC legislator Diane Lee will serve 2 years in prison for being an American citizen.

Saturday, January 23, 2010
Demographics may explain Martha Coakley's 3% hand count win
Martha Coakley beat Scott Brown by 3% of the hand counted votes in Massachusetts but no one wants to recount the machine votes that gave Brown a 5% win instead. Was it demographics or a hack?

Friday, July 10, 2009
Horrifying video shows murders that triggered rioting in China by Michael Richardson
Ethnic rioting in Urumqi, China was triggered by brutal murder of two Uighur men by mob in Guangdong WARNING: Violent video content

Friday, February 6, 2009
Obama's spy chief supports Taiwan arms build-up
(1 comments) Dennis Blair is Obama's pick for National Intelligence Director and has advocated increased missile sales to Taiwan while maintaining unresolved legal status of Taiwan

Thursday, February 5, 2009
Taiwan's future heard in packed courtroom in 1952 treaty lawsuit
A packed courtroom heard oral arguments in a case seeking U.S. territorial rights for Taiwan residents under the 1952 San Franciscan Peace Treaty

Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Ex-commando whistleblower gives Congress an earful about 'abject failure' of SEC to protect public in Madoff scandal
Harry Markopolos tells Congress of the need to overhall Wall Street regulatory structures and describes his intelligence team created to crack the $50 billion Madoff ponzi scheme

Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Obama flip-flop on lobbyist ban is good news for military-industrial complex
Only one week into his new administration and President Obama has already flip-flopped on his own lobbyist ban to bring a military contractor's top lobbyist into the Pentagon

Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Inspector General to investigate Boston and New York SEC offices in wake of Markopolos allegations in Madoff swindle
Boston whistleblower's allegations against Bernard Madoff have triggered a probe of the SEC for failure to protect investors in the $50 billion swindle

Friday, January 9, 2009
Madoff scam whistleblower was U.S. Army Special Ops commander
Harry Markopolos spent a decade trying to warn the SEC about Bernard Madoff's Ponzi scheme but before that he ran a 64-man U.S. Army clandestine Special Operations squad

Thursday, January 8, 2009
SEC knew for years about Madoff's $50 billion swindle and took no action
Boston accountant Harry Markopolos warned the SEC for over a decade the "World's Largest Hedge Fund is a Fraud"

Thursday, December 6, 2007
Cuban Security Forces Seize Human Rights Activists at Church
Cuban security forces stormed a church to arrest human rights protestors, 250 political prisoners alleged to be in Cuban prisons

Thursday, November 8, 2007
Waterboarding is an old form of torture long used by US military
A review of the sordid history of US military waterboarding and the Presidents who protected the practice

Sunday, May 27, 2007
Hate in the Heartland in the Summer of Love
1970 was a summer of rage in Omaha, Nebraska and two Black Panthers went to prison for life follwowing the bombing death of a police officer

Wednesday, February 14, 2007
EAC Chair knew about voting machine test lab problems but kept quiet
(1 comments) Donetta Davidson, EAC Chair, has a long history of keeping voting machine test lab problems secret

Friday, February 9, 2007
Banned Voting Machine Test Lab Gets More Time to Fix Problems
(1 comments) Election Assistance Commission Chair Tom Wilkey has given the banned CIBER test lab more time to qualify for interim accreditation

Tuesday, February 6, 2007
EAC Executive Director oversaw failed voting machine test lab in earlier role
(1 comments) Tom Wilkey has been hiding problems at the voting machine test labs for years.

Monday, February 5, 2007
Morality Play
(2 comments) Are humans really depraved as so many think or is depravity a learned behavior?

Monday, January 29, 2007
The power of rocks
(1 comments) Heat mining technology might be the electrical power plants of the future

Monday, January 29, 2007
Secret EAC report on banned CIBER voting machine test lab reveals serious flaws
(1 comments) After a half year secrecy by the Election Assistance Commission the truth about flawed voting machine test labs begins to emerge

Sunday, January 28, 2007
A death in Istanbul
(1 comments) 1915 Armenian genocide echos in modern Turkey

Sunday, January 28, 2007
Political mileage
(1 comments) Detroit automakers gear up to protect gas guzzlers

Friday, January 26, 2007
New York State Board of Elections seeks documents from EAC over banned Ciber test lab
(1 comments) EAC refusal to answer NY election officials about banned voting machine test lab sparks angry comments

Friday, January 26, 2007
Kerry says he wants to focus on Iraq war
(1 comments) Senator John Kerry is ready to fight for peace in the Senate without the burden of a presidential campaign

Wednesday, January 24, 2007
Carter wins applause at Brandeis
(2 comments) Former President Jimmy Carter defends his new book on Palestine to pro-Israel audience

Monday, January 22, 2007
Activist rains on Romney's Parade
(2 comments) Mitt Romney under attack by Republican activist for conflicting views on gay rights