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Cities to Carpoolers: Sharing Your Car is Illegal, We Will Seize Your Car

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“The U.S. isn’t exactly a ‘free market’, with outright bribery — condoned by the U.S. judicial system — or collusive public-private cartels leading to some products and services being banned from the market.  Just ask Tesla Motors Inc. (TSLA) whose electric vehicles have been banned from sale in many states.  That debacle arose due to the fact that Tesla has no dealerships and fearful dealership lobbyists banded together to pay off state politicians to ban direct auto sales. Now the same principle is being applied to stymie the emergency of another set of companies in the transportation sector — cloud-driven ride-sharing services.”

http://www.dailytech.com/Cities+to+Carpoolers+Sharing+Your+Car+is+Illegal+We+Will+Seize+Your+Cars/article34659.htm

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$6 Billion Goes Missing at State Department

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“The State Department has no idea what happened to $6 billion used to pay its contractors.  In a special ‘management alert‘ made public Thursday, the State Department’s Inspector General Steve Linick warned ‘significant financial risk and a lack of internal control at the department has led to billions of unaccounted dollars over the last six years.’  For instance, a recent investigation of the closeout process for contracts supporting the mission in Iraq, showed that auditors couldn’t find 33 of the 115 contract files totaling about $2.1 billion. Of the remaining 82 files, auditors said 48 contained insufficient documents required by federal law.”

http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/Articles/2014/04/04/6-Billion-Goes-Missing-State-Department

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Western banking regulations could be ‘mutually destructive’: IMF

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“Western governments have put in place banking regulations that could be ‘mutually destructive’ and undermine efforts to prevent bust banks from costing taxpayers billions of pounds, according to a report by the International Monetary Fund.  Policymakers representing the world’s biggest financial centres have failed to make the banking sector stand on its own feet by ending implicit subsidies and co-ordinating rescue plans when multinational banks go bust, the Washington-based lender of last resort said.  Subsidies to the banking sector in some countries are as high as they were before the crash, amounting to $590bn (£355bn), with the eurozone the worst affected.”

http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/mar/31/western-banking-regulations-costly-mutually-destructive-imf-report

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Microsoft is using your data to target political ads on Xbox Live

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“Microsoft is trying to persuade politicians to take out targeted ads on Xbox Live, Skype, MSN and other company platforms as midterm elections begin heating up around the country. The ads, which would appear on the Xbox Live dashboard and other Microsoft products, combine Microsoft user IDs and other public data to build a profile of Xbox users. Campaigns can then blast ads to selected demographic categories, or to specific congressional districts. And if the campaign brings its own list of voter e-mail addresses, Microsoft can match the additional data with individual customer accounts for even more accurate voter targeting.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/03/07/microsoft-is-using-your-data-to-target-political-ads-on-xbox-live/

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Silicon Valley can’t keep up with Korea’s financial revolution

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“T-Money, owned and operated by a conglomerate including the Seoul City Government and LG, has quickly become the de facto cash alternative for Koreans all over the country.  Not only can T-Money be used on trains, taxis and buses, it’s accepted in most major shopping chains, online, at vending machines, in bars and restaurants, and even at theme parks and museums.  Its first incarnation as a contactless credit card has evolved into a huge variety of form-factors, including wristbands, keychains, and dongles.  T-Money is part of the financial infrastructure of Korea, directly linked to bank accounts and debit cards everywhere.”

http://thenextweb.com/asia/2014/03/22/silicon-valley-cant-keep-koreas-financial-revolution/

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U.S. Risks National Blackout From Knockout Of Nine Power Stations

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“The study’s results have been known for months by people at federal agencies, Congress and the White House, who were briefed by then-FERC Chairman Jon Wellinghoff and others at the commission.  FERC has given the industry until early June to propose new standards for the security of critical facilities, such as substations.  Executives at several big utilities declined to discuss the risks to substations but said they are increasing spending on security. Virginia-based Dominion Resources Inc., for example, said it planned to spend $300 million to $500 million within seven years to harden its facilities.”

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304020104579433670284061220

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Private Prison Firm Agrees To Nationwide Settlement Over Violence

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“GEO Group, which has been become known for inmate abuse, violations, and disregard for the truth, agreed to be subject to OSHA monitoring.  Among the allegations was its willful failure to provide adequate security staff in prisons and to equip staff with essential safety equipment that would protect staff from ‘stabbings, bites, and other injuries.’ Violations included failures as basic as failure to fix malfunctioning locks on cell doors. In one instance, there were only three guards at a prison.  GEO has faced allegations of intentionally under-staffing its prisons in a number of its facilities. In early February, the firm agreed to pay Idaho $1 million to settle a claim of chronic false staffing records.”

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2014/02/28/3345921/private-prison-firm-agrees-nationwide-settlement-widespread-claims-violence/

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FBI investigates private prison company’s Idaho ‘Gladiator School’

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“The FBI has begun an investigation of Corrections Corporation of America for the private prison company’s maintenance of Idaho’s largest prison. The company was found to have severely understaffed the violent prison dubbed ‘Gladiator School.’  Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) acknowledged last year that it had violated its $29 million contract with the state by understaffing the Idaho Correctional Center by thousands of hours. An external audit showed CCA fell short of full staffing at the prison by 26,000 hours in 2012 alone. CCA admitted after an AP investigation that employees falsified staffing reports, sometimes claiming guards worked for 48 straight hours.”

http://rt.com/usa/fbi-cca-prison-idaho-566/

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Random Drug Testing for All? Chilling Proposal Could Eradicate Privacy

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“The practice of random drug testing has become popularized in both the workplace and in public schools. But according to a recently released paper by the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM), the controversial practice is, at present, ‘underutilized’ and ought to be expanded to include people of all ages in virtually all aspects of daily life.  ASAM’s paper calls for the expanded use of random drug screening among patients undergoing palliative care as well as those seeking emergency medical treatment, psychiatric treatment or obstetric care.  Adolescent patients, as well as geriatric patients also ought to be targeted for increased drug test monitoring.”

http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/random-drug-testing-all-chilling-proposal-key-addiction-journal-major-invasion?paging=off

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Why It Took More Than 30 Years to Confirm Vitamin C Fights Cancer

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“An article in a respected scientific journal confirmed what researchers have known for decades: High-dose vitamin C injections boost the effectiveness of traditional cancer therapies.  The mainstream media acted surprised. But this is old news: In the 1970s, two-time Nobel Prize winner Linus Pauling published research linking vitamin C injections to the shrinkage of malignant tumors.  You might think that the FDA – the agency set up to ‘protect’ us from dangerous or ineffective drugs – would have immediately ordered clinical tests to confirm the discovery. Quite the opposite. [..] For the last 30-plus years, official government policy has been that vitamin C isn’t an effective cancer therapy.”

http://www.nestmann.com/why-it-took-more-than-30-years-to-confirm-vitamin-c-fights-cancer

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