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31 January 2007

Leahy FISA surveillance orders statement [US Senate]

US Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy on the Bush administration's announcement that it will make FISA court orders available, US Senate, January 31, 2007. RealPlayer, 4 minutes. Watch recorded video. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

31 January 2007

Crime of aggression briefing [ICC]

Christian Wenaweser, Chairman of the Special Working Group on the Crime of Aggression of the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, briefs on the definition of the crime of aggression and on the exercise of the Court`s jurisdiction with regard to that crime. RealPlayer, 30 minutes. Watch recorded video.

30 January 2007

Colt Firearms Worker Asks Court to Order Federal Labor Board to Decide Another Long-Delayed Case

Leading case languishes in bureaucracy while UAW union officials maintain unlawful nationwide policy, agency continues to drag feet

29 January 2007

Bush Labor Board Boosts Union “Corporate Campaigns,” Whitewashes Clinton-era Policy Favoring Firings of Workers Who Won’t Pay for Union Organizing

Federal agency would not rule on employees' 17-year pending case until sued twice and ordered by federal court to act, then thumbs nose at long-standing Supreme Court decisions

21 January 2007

Google Blunder On ProjectLab Caching Proxy Servers

Interesting story and I am wondering if this is why sites like http://www.pawsitesonline.com and other sites have crashed and if Google is treating this as duplicate content.
We need answers from Google now about this blunder.

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21 January 2007

Federal Court Orders Bush’s Labor Board to Resolve Key Employee Rights Case Delayed Since 1989

Long-languishing case would determine whether nonunion workers nationwide can be fired for refusal to pay for union organizing drives

21 January 2007

Thousands of web sites being hijacked?

During the last upgrade Google did on Jaunary 15th and forward it seems to have been a huge problem with web sites being hijacked by a University computer, and that Google has been penalizing web sites thinking it is a duplicate problem.

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19 January 2007

Leahy FISC surveillance oversight statement [US Senate Judiciary Comm.]

US Senate Judiciary Committee, Hearing On Department Of Justice Oversight, January 18, 2007 [excerpt from testimony and questioning of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales on government surveillance, treatment of detainees, and the case of Maher Arar]. RealPlayer, 14 mins. Watch recorded video. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

18 January 2007

Gonzales surveillance authorization testimony [US Senate Judiciary Comm.]

US Senate Judiciary Committee, Hearing On Department Of Justice Oversight, January 18, 2007 [excerpt from testimony and questioning of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales on government surveillance of transmissions coming into or going outside of the country where one party was suspected of association with a terrorist organization]. RealPlayer, 20 minutes. Watch recorded video. Reported in

16 January 2007

SEIU and ResCare Health Giant Face Second Round of Federal Charges for Illegally Forcing Unionization on Workers throughout West Virginia

Employees fight back against unlawful union organizing campaign, seek injunction against union backroom deal kept secret from employees
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