Scotts to pay over $10 million in fines for pesticide imports, recalled bird feed

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“A federal court sentenced Scotts to pay a $4 million fine and perform community service for 11 criminal violations of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA).  In a separate agreement with the EPA, which resolves additional civil pesticide violations, Scotts agreed to pay more than $6 million in penalties and spend $2 million on environmental projects.  Both the criminal and civil settlements are the largest under FIFRA to date.  The EPA said that by the time Scotts voluntarily recalled these products in March 2008, it had sold more than 70 million units of bird food illegally treated with pesticide that is toxic to birds.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/09/08/miracle-gro-to-pay-big-fine-for-fake-pesticides-poison-bird-feed/

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How Switzerland is weathering the storm

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“How did such a small landlocked country without natural resources and a difficult geography become so competitive, innovative and prosperous, allowing it to grow into one of the largest banking centres, shipping powers and commodities players?
For experts, it is quite simple: Continual peace, economic growth of its main export partners and successful industries supported by business-friendly legislation have helped the world’s oldest democracy to thrive.”

http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/business/How_Switzerland_is_weathering_the_storm.html?cid=33400022

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Sugar-coated terrorism: Swiss chocolate inspections by US leave sour taste

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“Chocolatiers in Switzerland are infuriated by US inspections on their universally-loved confectionary for bioterrorism or radioactive threats. Factories have no choice but allow checks; otherwise will they be banned from the profitable US market.  At least 21 Swiss chocolate factories and 18 dairies are obliged to allow inspections of their work until September 20, German business journal Handelszeitung reports.  The reason is the new Food Safety Modernization Act, signed by President Obama in April 2011. Before the Act, examinations were conducted at the US border.”

http://rt.com/news/swiss-chocolate-bioterrorism-inspectors-615/

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New York Police Department Opens Offices Internationally In Israel, Germany, England & Canada

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Glenn Greenwald: Obama campaign brags about its whistleblower persecutions

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Persecuting and abusing whistleblowers. Indefinitely imprisoning people with no charges. Due process-free assassinations of citizens, even teenagers. Continuous killings of innocent people in multiple Muslim countries.  This isn’t just what Democrats do. It’s what they now boast about, what they campaign on, what they celebrate. That, as much as anything, is the Obama legacy.”

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/sep/05/obama-campaign-brags-about-whistleblower-persecutions

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Forgotten founder: YouSendIt’s Khalid Shaikh

“On a chilly Tuesday morning in December, Shaikh ran a piece of testing software, called ApacheBench, that flooded YouSendIt’s servers with traffic. The servers keeled over immediately. Shaikh never imagined that authorities would be interested in his activities. To him, they amounted to nothing more than a prank, a way to blow off steam. He was unaware that federal agents were subpoenaing his Internet records—and quietly reaching out to his friends and associates. On October 28, 2009, Shaikh was indicted on four counts of computer fraud for attacking YouSendIt’s servers. He was released on a $100,000 unsecured bond.”

http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/advisor/forgotten-founder-yousendit-khalid-shaikh-050500380.html

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Gibson Is Off the Feds’ Hook. Who’s Next?

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“The FBI has a formal, binding policy that forbids its agents from conducting witness or target interviews with the aid of electronic recording.  Instead, a ‘Form 302 report’ becomes the official version of what the interviewee said. A witness deviating from that version risks up to five years imprisonment for making a false statement to a federal official, even not under oath. In this way, it is the FBI, not the witness, who controls the witness’s official story.  Through these and myriad other techniques, federal investigators and prosecutors create an alternative reality that favors their own institutional interests, regardless of the truth or of justice.”

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443324404577594890622149010.html

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Department of Homeland Security’s untouchables: shielded by the badge

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“A woman from South Korea is enslaved by the owner of a bar in Queens, New York. The captor takes away the victim’s passport and forces her into prostitution. Terrified, the woman attempts to escape her grim predicament. The bar owner involves two goons to intimidate his prey into submission. The victim’s passport is found at the residence of Goon No. 1, who is identified as a Customs and Border Protection Officer (CBPO). Goon No. 2 is a Federal Air Marshal (FAM).  The same disturbing trend runs through the myriad of corruption cases involving the Department of Homeland Security’s employees.”

http://www.examiner.com/article/department-of-homeland-security-s-untouchables-shielded-by-the-badge?cid=db_articles

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Cop ‘handcuffed waitress, drove her to secluded park and repeatedly raped her on trunk of his police cruiser’

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“A former Houston police officer is on trial for handcuffing a waitress, driving her to a secluded park and repeatedly raping her while on duty.  In opening statements on Tuesday, the prosecution claimed the Houston Police Department had ‘a rapist on its payroll,’ referring to Abraham Joseph, 28, who is facing two counts of aggravated sexual assault against the woman, an immigrant from El Salvador.”

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2198461/Abraham-Joseph-trial-Trial-begins-shocking-case-duty-officer-handcuffed-waitress-drove-secluded-park-repeatedly-raped-her.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

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Malfeasance at State Police Crime Lab

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“The scope of the investigation into the improper handling of drug samples by a state crime lab chemist spans 34,000 cases over the past nine and a half years, according to the Patrick administration, heightening fears that the breach of justice could be widespread and difficult to unravel.  The administration said there was no estimate on how many of those cases may have been mishandled by the chemist, which could not only jeopardize convictions, but threaten confidence in the criminal justice system.”

http://www.policemisconduct.net/malfeasance-massachusetts-crime-lab/

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