Force Congress To Observe the Law on National Emergencies!!!

Author, researcher and Berkeley Professor Emeritus and former U.S. Representative Dan Hamburg (D-CA) are appealing to the readers of this post to contact your representatives in Congress to demand that they meet,...

Public needs access to electronic records says Ont. appeal court

The Ontario Court of Appeal, in a 3-0 decision issued January 13, has ruled that municipal governments must make available electronic records that the public is entitled to see under freedom of information even if it means developing new software to do so. The case was...

'Humboldt Transparency Project' Busts Diebold-Premier Vote-Rigging Machines

An open-source opscan vote-counting machine created by concerned citizen Mitch Trachtenburg has exposed that Diebold-Premier machines didn't count 200 votes in Humboldt County, CA, as reported in the Times-Standard. The Diebold-Premier machines neglected to count the 200...

Change.NOT: Left Gatekeeper Blocks Support for 9/11 Commission Records Release

By Erik Larson According to their “About” page, Change.org aims to be “the central platform informing and empowering movements for social change around the most important issues of our time”, but they are censoring support for investigating the causes of 9/11, “the...

Obama Wiki White House?

Dan Froomkin proposes ideas for how the Obama White House can live up to Obama's pledge to be transparent and responsive to the American people; make whitehouse.gov include staffer blogging about policy issues and what they're working on, enable RSS feeds, twitter and email...

Obama's "Revitalize the Economy" Agenda

"Obama's "Revitalize the Economy" Agenda According to Barack Obama's transition web site, the number ONE issue that the Obama administration will address is "Revitalize the Economy".The step-by-step plan on how to do it has also been outlined. I hope this level of...

Email Trail Raises Questions About Vision's Commitment to "Transparency"

Transparency. That’s a promise Gregor Robertson has been making as he asks Vancouverites to vote for him as Mayor. Robertson knows that Vancouver residents are upset after discovering that City Council had voted...

British law to force companies to reveal pollution levels

A new law being proposed in the UK would identify the companies which pollute the most, and which companies are the cleanest. The goal is to allow consumers to make well-informed decisions about where they shop and purchase products, as well as to allow the government to...

Five Alternative Bailout Plans

Brief points on 5 different plans proposed to deal with the financial market, to be compared with the $700 billion pig being pushed on the taxpayers by Paulson, Cox, Bush and Bernanke that some Dems and Reps in Congress have been trying to put lipstick on."The Bush...

Dennis Kucinich's Recovery Plan

Once again, Dennis Kucinich presents a clear analysis along with rational suggestions for real solutions. ..and 'borrowing' trillions of dollars from Social Security is not a solution!EXCERPT: "The same corporate interests that profited from the closing of U.S. factories, the...

2006 Zogby Poll: 92% Support Public's Right to Monitor Vote Count

92%; how's that for a demographic? I am surprised that 8% didn't agree; I thought only the owners of the companies making the secret and unnaccountable software counting US elections, and their backers in the...

Three ISPs Agree To Block Child Porn - Boon or Slippery Slope?

"Goobergunchand other readers sent in word that Sprint, Time Warner, and Verizonhave agreed to block websites and newsgroups containing childpornography. The deal, brokered by New York Attorney General AndrewCuomo, occurred after Cuomo's office threatened the ISPs with...

Tories kill access to information database

this is one of the most ironic/hilarious[?] comment i find in the cbc news report on the decision behind closing down atip:  "extensive consultations showed it [ATIP] wasn't valued by government departments."  welloff course it wouldn't be valued by govt....

Your money kills Israeli and Palestinian children

"The Funding for Peace Coalition's  latest submission to a UK parliamentary inquiry once again documents the way international funding of the Palestinians lacks transparency or adequate controls –resulting in its diversion to corruption and violence. ...

Health Care Cost Transparency Movement

The actual cost of health care is not readily available to consumers like shopping for a new car or  home. Most people really don't pay attention to the actual cost since  insurance companies or the...

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