Outrage, calls for action over anti-Muslim materials in military training
By Kari Huus, msnbc.com Emerging details of inflammatory anti-Islam materials used in U.S. military training have prompted a chorus of outrage from civil rights and American Muslim groups, and growing demands for the dismissal of military leaders associated with the course, and for other actions to address the issue. The materials, first detailed by Wired.com, [...]
Source: The Activist Newsletter. Government surveillance and attacks on the privacy of American citizens were bad enough under the Bush regime but they are getting even worse during the Obama years. In addition to retaining President George W. Bush’s many excesses, such as the Patriot Act, new information about the erosion of civil liberties emerges [...]
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By KIRK SEMPLE , Source: NYTimes Samir N. Kapadia seemed to be on the rise in Washington, moving from an internship on Capitol Hill to jobs at a major foundation and a consulting firm. Yet his days, he felt, had become routine. By contrast, friends and relatives in India, his native country, were telling him [...]
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April 13, 2012 Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan was detained at a New York airport for over two hours by immigration officials after arriving from India in a private plane with Nita Ambani, to address students at Yale University in New Haven. While Nita, wife of Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani, and the rest [...]
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By Rebecca Henely Source: TimesLedger In need of new spring clothing for her 20-month-old twin daughters, Sunnyside resident Lipiara Begum bought them shirts March 23, saying “Daddy’s Little Sunshine.” For more than a month her husband had been held in an immigrant detention center and she wanted her girls to be with him again. Later [...]
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By SUDEEP REDDY WASHINGTON—The Obama administration on Friday will nominate Dartmouth College President Jim Yong Kim to lead the World Bank, choosing a global-health expert to head the development institution. Dr. Kim, an American physician who was born in South Korea and raised in Iowa, is a surprise pick for a job that has usually [...]
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Apple is set to more than double the size of its workforce in Texas over the next decade as news emerged of the tech giant’s plans to invest $304 million in a new campus there. The Austin-based facility will create more than 3,600 new jobs, mainly in customer support, sales and accounting. “Our operations in [...]
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[Munia Jabbar (mjabbar@cair.com) and Gadeir Abbas (gabbas@cair.com) are staff attorneys with the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation's largest Muslim civil liberties organization.] What if you left the United States for a short trip abroad, but when you tried to come home to your job, family and life in America, your government would not [...]
Continue reading …Surveilling Muslim Groups Is Necessary to Protect Free Press, Bloomberg Tells Reporters
February 21, 2012 No Comment
By Sam Levin Tue., Feb. 21 2012 Reporters repeatedly grilled Mayor Mike Bloomberg this morning about recent reports of the New York Police Department’s surveillance of Muslim student groups at campuses throughout the Northeast. Bloomberg shot back at them that the NYPD policies are there to protect freedoms such as the free press. Take that, [...]
Continue reading …Alexandra Schmid: Newark TSA agent arrested for stealing $5K from passenger
February 3, 2012 No Comment
In yet another embarrassing moment for the Transportation Security Administration, an agent at Newark Airport was busted for stealing thousands of dollars in cash from a passenger who was being screened. TSA employee Alexandra Schmid, 31, was caught on surveillance video taking $5,000 from the jacket of a Bangladeshi man who had placed it on [...]
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The Times tracked donors to “super PACs” as they filed reports on Tuesday detailing their activities in the final three months of 2011. Unlike candidates, who can raise a maximum of $2,500 per person for each election, super PACs are independent from candidates and can raise unlimited amounts from individuals, corporations and labor unions, and [...]
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President Obama reported raising some $39.9 million in the fourth quarter, not including money he raised for the Democratic National Committee or transfers to a joint fund-raising account with the party. January 31, 2012 By NICHOLAS CONFESSORE and MICHAEL LUO Close to 60 corporations and wealthy individuals gave checks of $100,000 or more [...]
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