Monthly Archives: May 2013

Internet giant Amazon hit by first strike in Germany

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“German employees of Amazon staged their first-ever walkouts on Tuesday as the US Internet retail giant was hit by a dispute over pay. Employees at two logistics centres in Bad Hersfeld and Leipzig launched a strike with the start of the early shift at 6:00 am (0400 GMT), the giant services sector union Verdi said. In Bad Hersfeld, strikers planned to march to a rally in the city centre at around 11:00 am (0900 GMT), while employees in Leipzig rallied in front of the warehouse. Verdi is demanding that Amazon’s 9,000 employees in Germany be paid according to a sector-wide wage deal for the retail and mail-order industries.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/05/14/internet-giant-amazon-hit-by-first-strike-in-germany/

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Editorial-Page Fiction at the New York Times

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“They want us to believe that ‘slashed’ budgets and inadequate spending have caused ‘worse health outcomes’ in nations such as Greece, Italy, and Spain, particularly when compared to Germany, Iceland, and Spain.  But if government spending is the key to good health, how do they explain away this OECD data, which shows that government is actually bigger in the three supposed ‘austerity’ nations than it is in the three so-called ‘stimulus’ countries.”

http://danieljmitchell.wordpress.com/2013/05/13/another-example-of-editorial-page-fiction-at-the-new-york-times/

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Devastating News for ObamaCare Backers

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“A new study finds that (as far as physical health is concerned) there is no difference between being in Medicaid and being uninsured.  It’s hard to exaggerate what a blow this is to the people who gave us the Affordable Care Act (ObamaCare). Everything about ObamaCare—from the money we are spending to the damage being done to the labor market to the hassles the whole nation is going through—depends on one central idea: that enrolling people in Medicaid will give them access to better health.”

http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=3615

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Flying the Government Skies

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“The sequester cuts about $637 million from the FAA, which is less than 4% of its $15.9 billion 2012 budget, and it limits the agency to what it spent in 2010. The White House decided to translate this 4% cut that it has the legal discretion to avoid into a 10% cut for air traffic controllers. Though controllers will be furloughed for one of every 10 working days, four of every 10 flights won’t arrive on time.  The FAA projects the delays will rob one out of every three travellers of up to four hours of their lives waiting at the major hubs. Congress passed a law in 2009 that makes such delays illegal — if they are the responsibility of an airline.”

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323735604578440981119902460.html

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Police Steal $160,000 From Man During Traffic Stop

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Police Steal $160,000 From Man During Traffic Stop

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Phone Records of AP Journalists Seized by U.S. Government

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“Federal investigators secretly seized two months of phone records for reporters and editors of The Associated Press in what the news organization said Monday was a ‘serious interference with A.P.’s constitutional rights to gather and report the news.’ The A.P. said that the Justice Department informed it on Friday that law enforcement officials had obtained the records for more than 20 telephone lines of its offices and journalists, including their home phones and cellphones. It said the records were seized without notice sometime this year. The organization was not told the reason for the seizure.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/14/us/phone-records-of-journalists-of-the-associated-press-seized-by-us.html?_r=1&&pagewanted=all

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Ohio Appeals Court Forbids Traffic Stop Over Unpaid Parking Tickets

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“Since April last year, Dayton, Ohio has been trying to generate millions in additional revenue by towing vehicles said to have unpaid photo enforcement or parking tickets. The city’s policy instructed police to pull over motorists and take their car away until the alleged debt was paid. To keep a steady stream of $85 citations, Redflex Traffic Systems of Australia operates ten red light cameras and ten speed cameras in Dayton. In a decision late last month, the state Court of Appeals said Chief Biehl and the city have been flouting the Constitution.”

http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/40/4099.asp

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Internet Explorer 0-day attacks on US nuke workers hit 9 other sites

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“Attacks exploiting a previously unknown and currently unpatched vulnerability in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser have spread to at least nine other websites, including those run by a big European company operating in the aerospace, defense, and security industries as well as non-profit groups and institutes, security researchers said.  The revelation, from a blog post published Sunday by security firm AlienVault, means an attack campaign that surreptitiously installed malware on the computers of federal government workers involved in nuclear weapons research was broader and more ambitious than previously thought.”

http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/05/internet-explorer-0-day-attacks-on-us-nuke-workers-hit-9-other-sites/

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Hacker encourages Florida motorists to ‘smoke weed erryday’

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“A clever hacker broke into an LED highway sign in Winter Park, Florida on Saturday night and reprogrammed it to read: ‘Smoke weed erryday.’ The sign was clearly visible from Minnesota Avenue. It originally displayed a message about a pending road closure. Road signs like this are frequent targets for mischief-making hackers thanks to their ease of access and complete lack of basic security. Although they can be password protected, most road crews do not bother, leaving the default password as ‘DOTS.’  If they ever do, however, it won’t make much difference: all of the signs have a fail-safe that resets the password back to DOTS.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/05/13/hacker-encourages-florida-motorists-to-smoke-weed-erryday/

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First major hemp crop in 60 years is planted in southeast Colorado

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“Springfield, Colo., farmer Ryan Loflin on Monday planted the nation’s first industrial hemp crop in almost 60 years. Loflin’s plans to grow hemp already have been chronicled, and Monday’s planting attracted the attention of more media in southeastern Colorado and a documentary film crew. Its cultivation in small test plots became legal last year under a Colorado law. The passage of Amendment 64 in November allowed commercial growing, even though hemp, like marijuana, is illegal under federal law.”

http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_23232417/first-major-hemp-crop-60-years-is-planted

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