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World Bank Staff Asks Wolfowitz to Resign
By Jeannine Aversa, The Associated Press World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz acknowledged Thursday that he erred in helping a close female friend get transferred to a high-paying job, and said he was sorry. His apology didn’t ease concerns among the bank’s staff association, which wants him to resign. The growing controversy has overshadowed major development…
U.S. sniper ‘bait and kill’ tactics may be a war crime
David Edwards and Adam Doster, Raw Story A classified program used by U.S. military snipers has come under scrutiny in recent days. The Washington Post reports that, “A Pentagon group has encouraged some U.S. military snipers in Iraq to target suspected insurgents by scattering pieces of ‘bait,’ such as detonation cords, plastic explosives and ammunition,…
Oversight Committee finds White House manipulated climate report
H. JOSEF HEBERT, AP News The White House has systematically tried to manipulate climate change science and minimize the dangers of global warming, asserts a Democratic congressional report issued after a 16-month investigation. Republicans called the report, issued Monday by Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., a “partisan diatribe” against the Bush administration. The report relies on…
Did Bush stack the deck against civil rights?
Raw Story Using a questionable, unprecedented maneuver President Bush has installed a solid Republican majority on a supposedly bipartisan civil rights panel, leading it to abandon racial justice and civil rights cases in favor of arguing against school integration and affirmative action. The eight-member US Commission on Civil Rights has served for half a century…
NJ Gov. Corzine among many who encounter faulty voting machines
BradBlog.com NJ Governor Delayed Casting Vote as Voting Machines Inoperable in Hoboken One Unverifiable Touch-Screen Machine Finally Fixed, No Provisional Ballots Available at Polling Place, Voters Turned Away… Blogged on the fly by John Gideon, VotersUnite.Org The Associated Press is reporting that the two Sequoia AVC Advantage touch-screen voting machines at the Hoboken Fire Department…
