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• How to get around US FDA and EPA laws -

  Published: May 20, 2007, 7:20 am

  Tags: Blogroll, Government Accountability

  Make the link between the headlines you see all the time, and the products you purchase. You’re not just buying the cheaper item, you’re also purchasing… - less effective antibiotics - stronger strains of bacteria - global warming (shipping is NOT ‘free’) - an end-run around US EPA/FDA/labor laws and others May 19: A

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• Until they CHOOSE to fight for their own freedom…we need to get the heck outta Baghdad!!!

  Published: May 17, 2007, 9:40 am

  Tags: Government Accountability

  WASHINGTON - Three U.S. soldiers slaughtered in a grisly kidnapping-murder plot south of Baghdad last June were not properly protected during a mission that was not well planned or executed, a military investigation has concluded. Two military officers have been relieved of their commands as a result of the litany of mistakes, but neither

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• Someone else using your SSN? The IRS says “go ask the FTC”

  Published: May 11, 2007, 12:07 am

  Tags: Government Accountability

  So… ever try to find out who to ask about illegal use of your Social Security Number? http://www.irs.gov/faqs/faq-kw175.html What can I do if I think someone has filed a tax return using my [...]

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• IRS Returns Numbers

  Published: May 10, 2007, 11:56 pm

  Tags: Government Accountability

  This is from the IRS Tax Stats site http://www.irs.gov/taxstats/article/0,,id=102886,00.html Two interesting things to note here - one is the amount of taxes paid by individuals vs. that paid by Corporate America. The other is the HUGE difference between the ‘top ten’, ‘bottom ten’ and…. the median that is no where

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• Identity Theft

  Published: May 10, 2007, 8:46 am

  Tags: Government Accountability

  Identity Theft - Think your credit is safe because you ‘check your credit report’??? Think again! http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6814673/ On a list maintained by the IRS and the SSA, one Social Security number had been used to obtain work at 37 other employers, mostly by illegal immigrants Businesses interested in giving credit to a

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• A Green Seal for arms control?

  Published: August 15, 2007, 6:16 am

  Tags: Civil Society, Green Marketing, Pomper, Arms Control, Green Seal, Accountability

  What do environmentalists know that the peace and security community doesn't? Well, for one thing how to use the business's community marketing machinery to support their goals. One of the biggest trends in marketing in recent years is green marketing in which businesses lay claim to environmental bona fides as a means of encouraging

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• 0800-HOW-IS-MY-DIPLOMACY? Technology and humanitarian action

  Published: August 6, 2007, 5:47 am

  Tags: Humanitarian Impacts, Humanitarian Action, Disarmament As Humanitarian Action, Decision Making, Borrie, Human Security, Altruism, Civilians, Accountability

  hand-outs.)In other words, accountability is important, even in apparent situations of altruistic giving like disaster relief. Accountability is something we would do well to bear in mind in disarmament and arms control. In a recent book, former British diplomat Carne Ross argued that diplomats are a largely "unaccountable elite", who often

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• Magical September -- maybe not so magical?

  Published: September 4, 2007, 7:46 pm

  Tags: Iraq War, Government Accountability Office

  Seriously, try not to act too shocked. Republican leaders on Tuesday suggested the GOP may be willing to support keeping troops in the region through spring. Despite the GAO report detailing the abject failure of the Republican's Iraq strategy, did anyone really think September was going to bring more than the same bullshit? The White House

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• Reid response to GAO report

  Published: September 4, 2007, 5:55 pm

  Tags: Harry Reid, Iraq War, Government Accountability Office

  Reid: "Today's GAO report confirms that the President's Iraq strategy is simply not working.  Levels of violence remain dangerously high and civilian deaths show no signs of slowing.  And despite the enormous sacrifices of our troops, the Iraqi government remains both unable and unwilling to make the compromises necessary to stabilize

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• Tory Transparency: GNEP

  Published: September 8, 2007, 9:41 am

  Tags: Stephen Harper, Spp, Nuclear Power, Nuclear Waste, Transparency, Apec, Accountability

  Public Policy.Transparency? Accountability? Responsible government? I think not. Anymore than the Harpocrites negotiations around the SPP. But this more than just about jelly beans.SEE:Nuclear NIMBYFind blog posts, photos, events and more off-site about:Canada, Greenplan, APEC, Stephen Harper, nuclear waste, Australia, George Bush, uranium,

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• NFLD Danny not interested untill pushed to it eh!

  Published: September 14, 2007, 11:03 pm

  Tags: Newfoundland, All Parties, Danny Williams, Accountability

  It would seem so. The NFLD blustering premier who seems to have looked at the other side of money and not the inside of it. Looking out for his province for oil and defending them from our horrible prime minister, but not keeping tabs on his accounting within his government. He must have known how bad it was. Effusive personal spending. What

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• Zogby Poll: President sucks..congress sucks worse

  Published: September 20, 2007, 3:53 am

  Tags: Bush Accountability, Congress, Polling

  The whole damn bunch of them suck is the basic premise of the newest Zogby poll. Both branches of the Federal Government received record low ratings..is anyone surprised?Not moi my dear reader. Take a gander at what the Zogby poll has to say:Only 29 percent of Americans gave Bush a positive grade for his job performance, below his worst Zogby poll

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• Open Thread for Night Owls (Screwing the Troops Edition)

  Published: September 27, 2007, 4:20 am

  Tags: Iraq, Troops, Veterans, General Accountability Office

  missed it, the Government Accountability Office issued a report Wednesday that says - let's cut to the chase here - wounded American soldiers are still getting the shaft. The Washington Post has a take on this: More than half a year after disclosures of systemic problems at Walter Reed Army Medical Center and other military hospitals, the

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• Bush has breakfast w/Gathering of Eagles

  Published: October 3, 2007, 12:09 pm

  Tags: Bush Accountability, Carlos Arredondo, Gathering Of Prowar Idiots

  Evidently Bush has no problem showing his support for mean, violent groups..just so long as they support his idiotic war. The Gathering of Idiots..oops, Eagles were invited to dine with Bush, Laura, Condi and the Big Dick Cheney three days after they went after Carlos Arredondo during the DC March. This post, written by Hannah Johns, originally

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• DRUDGE: Clinton Assails Bush's 'War on Science'... [Framing Science]

  Published: October 4, 2007, 2:42 pm

  Tags: Frame Public Accountability

  immediately triggers public accountability as a train of thought. Read the comments on this

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