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Lost in the catastrophic aftermath of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill is the gripping tale of the rig workers and the Coast Guard crewmen who rescued them. Sean Flynn re-creates their long, harrowing, heart-pounding night


EXCLUSIVE: On Heels of Diebold/Premier Purchase, Canadian E-Voting Firm Dominion Also Acquires Sequoia, Lies About Chavez-Ties in Announcement
http://www.bradblog.com/?p=7906
'Intellectual Property' of voting systems still owned by firm linked to Venezuelan President, despite press statement to the contrary
PLUS: The election official/e-voting company revolving 'oversight' door continues to turn...
Canadian-based Dominion Voting Systems has quietly announced its second acquisition of a major U.S. voting machine company in as many months and, right out of the gate, they've lied about it. Not an auspicious beginning for the company which may now, virtually overnight, have become the dominant private e-voting machine company in this country.
Diebold/Premier's assets had been purchased by a small Canadian firm by the name of Dominion Voting. But Dominion hasn't stopped there.
Their purchase of Diebold/Premier's assets was actually made from ES&S, the world's largest voting machine company, who was forced to divest of the assets they'd purchased from Diebold (previously, the second largest voting machine company in the country) for $5 million last year, as part of an anti-trust suit settlement with the DoJ.
In our coverage, we noted the comment of Dominion CEO John Poulos who, in the company's press release [PDF] announcing the Diebold/Premier asset acquisition, stated ominously: "We are extremely pleased to conclude this transaction, which...will allow Dominion to expand its capabilities and operational footprint to every corner of the United States."
The IP for the vast-majority/near-entirety of Sequoia's voting systems was actually secretly owned by the Hugo Chavez-tied, Venezuelan-based firm, Smartmatic.
an investigation by the federal Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), subsequently forcing Smartmatic to divest of Sequoia. Sequoia was then supposedly purchased away from Smartmatic by a team of its U.S. executives, in order to make it fully independent from the Chavez-tied parent company.
But that divestiture was a lie.
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Unfortunately, federal CFIUS investigations are held entirely in secret, so we are unable to find out from them whether the federal body was informed of Smartmatic's continuing ownership of the Intellectual Property, and all the legal rights and privileges that go with it, as employed to conduct some 20% of U.S. elections.
The appalling revolving door of U.S. electoral control and administration continues to spin, along with the compromise of federal and localized oversight.

SPECIAL COVERAGE: Sibel Edmonds Disclosures

OUR MAGAZINE FEATURE ARTICLE ON FBI WHISTLEBLOWER SIBEL EDMONDS IS NOW ONLINE

Bush Officials Give (Ironic) 'Denials' to Charges

Perle: Edmonds chasing 'imagined demons'

FORMER FBI EXEC SEEKS 'SPECIAL COUNSEL' PROBE

Corroborates several key Edmonds allegations

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• 10/4: '06 VIDEO: Diane Sawyer on 1st Amendment 'Heroine' Edmonds
• 9/29: Ohio Commission's Schmidt v. Krikorian Hearing Ends
• 9/29 17-Year CIA Intel Officer: Edmonds 'Very Credible'
• 9/28 FBI Agent Confirms 'Decade-Long' Probe of Grossman
• 9/28: Schakowsky Denies on Video Edmonds: 'Sue me for libel then'
• 9/24: EDMONDS' LETTER TO REP Invites Congressional investigation
• 9/22: SCHAKOWSKY DENIES, REBUTS Edmonds: Take polygraph
• 9/21 AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE MAG: COVER STORY INTERVIEW
• 9/3 'High Drama' at Schmidt v. Krikorian Hearing
• 9/2 'Bribery, Blackmail' of Hastert, Burton, Blunt, More in Congress
• 8/31 Late Developments, Twists in Schmidt v. Krikorian Case
• 8/27 Conservative Mag: 'Sibel Speaks, But No One Listening'
• 8/25 SIBEL EDMONDS DEPOSITION: FULL TRANSCRIPT, VIDEO
• 8/14 Several Charges Dropped in OH Election Case After Testimony
• 8/14 Turkish Lobby 'Declares War' on Edmonds Following Deposition
• 8/12 House Cand. on Edmonds Depo; Google Blocks 'Denial' Ads
• 8/9 VIDEO: Whistles Blow - Scenes From Outside Deposition
• 8/8 EDMONDS GIVES DEPOSITION: BOMBSHELLS DROPPED
• 8/5 Sibel Edmonds Subpoenaed, To 'Break' Gag Order

Malaria in Brazil linked to forest clearing
http://www.enn.com/health/article/41447?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+EnvironmentalNewsNetwork+%28Environmental+News+Network%29&utm_content=Twitter
48 percent increase in malaria cases in one county in Brazil after 4.2 percent of its tree cover was cleared.

Their findings, published in the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases, shows links between cutting down trees, a rise in the number of mosquitoes and infections

of humans.

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