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• The Wonderful Privatized Prison System: Misdemeanor Nets Woman the DP

  
  Reconstitution 2.0 — Authority: 430
  Right wing asshats constantly cry about how bad Gubmint is, how Gubmint makes everything worse, and how Gubmint will set up “death panels” if they ever get their hands into our healthcare (a notion the millions of senior on Medicare might be surprised about. But, I digress.)Privatized healthcare for our veterans ...
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• Geoff Berne & the Privatization of Public Education

  
  The Perimeter Primate — Authority: 111
  In his new piece for CounterPunch, Geoff Berne explains how the privatization of public education was conceived and is actively being helped along by the Obama administration and Arne Duncan. As with military manufacture, military contracting, and prison management, the federal governments education ...
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• Youth get in bed together on Lennon anniversary

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  It was 29 years ago today that a lone gunman assassinated John Lennon and the anniversary was the spur behind a youth "bed in" at the COP15 conference center. Socres of young folks from around the world used the day to remember Lennons famous bed-in protest of the Vietnam War and to put their own spin on it. They ...
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• Puerto Rico seeks to privatize Luis Munoz Marin airport

  
  eTurboNews - Travel and Tourism Industry News — Authority: 542
  San Juan - Puerto Rico is seeking permission to privatize operations at its main airport under a federal program meant to finance aviation improvements, officials said. read more
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• Thank you, EPA: U.S. solar companies

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  Many businesses chafed on Monday at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s declaration that greenhouse gas emissions endanger human health. But executives at the two largest U.S. solar power companies took a shine to the statement, which clears the way for federal regulation and came as a global climate ...
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• Fossil of the Day Award: And the winner is…

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  The UN Conference on Climate Change is a weighty gathering of serious folks looking for a way to cut carbon emissions. Its also a great place to bring some much-needed humor and along the way hammer a few perceived laggers in the fight against global warming. Enter the Fossil of the Day Awards, a tongue-in-cheek ...
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• Online drug advertising & the regulatory challenge

  
  Social Justice Librarian — Authority: 99
  Between the (minor!) bike accident , the kid’s birthday, and being out of town for a bit, blog posting has gone a bit by the wayside the past few weeks. However, something that’s been much on my mind lately, and which I’d like to discuss here, is drug advertising online. I’ve written various posts ...
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• Icebergs, Copenhagen hot topics in Southern Ocean

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  The Southern Ocean is toying with us, like some killer whale tossing its prey before devouring it. The small French research ship l’Astrolabe is being battered by 55 kmh (35 mph) winds and tossed like a cork in icy, three metre (9 feet) waves. Many onboard have retreated to the safety of their bunks where, ...
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• Chicago News Cooperative: Abu Dhabi Shares Profits From Parking Meters

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 905
  A private company projects a net income of about $58 million in 2010 from the citys meters.
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• Erik Prince: Tycoon, Contractor, Soldier, Spy for the CIA

  
  Aftermath News — Authority: 489
  Erik Prince, founder of the Blackwater security firm (recently renamed Xe), at the company’s Virginia offices. Photograph by Nigel Parry. Erik Prince, recently outed as a participant in a C.I.A. assassination program, has gained notoriety as head of the military-contracting juggernaut Blackwater, a company dogged ...
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• Homeless on the Range

  
  Ralph Maughan's Wildlife News — Authority: 506
  An article about the ill-conceived bison quarantine program that will likely be turning the majority of the progeny of these bison into privately owned livestock. Buffalo in quarantine - Kim Acheson The Montana Fish Wildlife and Parks’ bison quarantine project started several years ago in an attempt to ...
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• World Briefing | Asia: Japan: No Sale of Postal Shares

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 905
  Japan passed a law to stop the privatization of the nation’s huge postal service, a symbolic move to roll back the policies of former Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi.
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• Taking the Tesla for a spin

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  We took a short spin in a Tesla to see what an all-electric sports car was like. The Roadster Sport wasn’t totally silent, but it wasn’t loud — and it was fast (zero to 60 miles per hour in under 4 seconds). We got lots of looks, too. Tesla calls it “performance with a clean conscience” but building the ...
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• U.S. says no to Arctic fishing

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  (Reporting by Yereth Rosen in Alaska) There is currently no commercial fishing conducted in U.S. Arctic waters, and now there won’t be: a formal ban on commercial seafood harvests in U.S. waters north of the Bering Strait went into effect on Thursday. Environmentalists and fishery managers applauded the move as a ...
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• Forest carbon schemes – new hope for the Amazon?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  By Stuart Grudgings In the tiny settlement of Boa Frente on the banks of a tributary to the Amazon river, bright blue butterflies flitting through trees and the constant squawks of parrots add to the feeling of a paradise on earth. The poverty endured by most of its residents quickly shatters that illusion, but ...
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• What to do while the world burns

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  A firefighter puts out a fire at a village near Bangkok March 31, 2008. REUTERS/Sukree Sukplang This opinion piece by Mort Rosenblum originally appeared in GlobalPost . The views expressed are his own. For the full article, click here . PARIS, France — Back when primal-scream therapy was the rage in ...
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• New Paper: Human Rights and Economic Liberalization

  
  The Beacon — Authority: 596
  Carden, Art and Robert A. Lawson. 2009. Human Rights and Economic Liberalization , under review at Business and Politics . This paper has made the rounds at a handful of conferences and is finally available. Thanks to everyone who has offered comments and suggestions. The abstract: Using several case studies ...
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• INDEX: The privatized war in Afghanistan

  
  Facing South — Authority: 602
  Additional number of American troops President Obama plans to deploy to Afghanistan: 30,000 Total number of U.S. troops that will be there after the deployment: 98,000 Number of private contractors working for the U.S. in Afghanistan as of September 2009: 104,101 Percent by which that number grew ...
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• MALCO Ltd

  
  Crocodyl - Collaborative research on corporations — Authority: 113
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• In Marin County, a Public Fight Over Private Control of Sewage

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 905
  Construction at the Novato Sanitary District plant. The districts board sought a privatization deal, but residents pushed back.
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