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Halliburton Secures Contract for Homeland Interment Camps
The Department of Homeland Security
has awarded a contract worth up to
$385 million to Halliburton subsidiary
Kellogg Brown and Root, for the
construction and operation of
emergency immigration detention and
processing facilities. Under the terms of
the contract, KBR will augment
Immigration and Customs Enforcement
(ICE) Detention and Removal
Operations Program facilities in the
event of an emergency influx of
immigrants into the US. KBR also held
the previous contingency contract with
ICE from 2000 through 2005.
The contract, which is effective
has awarded a contract worth up to
$385 million to Halliburton subsidiary
Kellogg Brown and Root, for the
construction and operation of
emergency immigration detention and
processing facilities. Under the terms of
the contract, KBR will augment
Immigration and Customs Enforcement
(ICE) Detention and Removal
Operations Program facilities in the
event of an emergency influx of
immigrants into the US. KBR also held
the previous contingency contract with
ICE from 2000 through 2005.
The contract, which is effective
immediately, also calls for KBR to
provide “migrant detention support” to
other unspecified government agencies
in emergency situations. The contractor
may also be asked to assist with the
federal response to natural disasters.
The contract does not specify locations
for the detention facilities.
KBR, the engineering and construction
division of Halliburton, is the largest
private US military contractor operating
in Iraq. The Government Accountability
Office has rebuked both Halliburton and
KBR for over billing in relation to its
contingency contract work in Iraq, and
the Pentagon’s own auditors said
provide “migrant detention support” to
other unspecified government agencies
in emergency situations. The contractor
may also be asked to assist with the
federal response to natural disasters.
The contract does not specify locations
for the detention facilities.
KBR, the engineering and construction
division of Halliburton, is the largest
private US military contractor operating
in Iraq. The Government Accountability
Office has rebuked both Halliburton and
KBR for over billing in relation to its
contingency contract work in Iraq, and
the Pentagon’s own auditors said
Halliburton had overcharged by $169
million for its services. The
companies have also been at the
center of a controversy surrounding a
number of no-bid government
contracts, both in Iraq and in the
Gulf Coast area of the US after
Hurricane Katrina. Vice President
Dick Cheney is a former Halliburton
CEO.
The same week as the contract with
KBR was announced, Halliburton
reported 2005 profits of $2.4 billion
on total revenues of about $21
billion. All six corporate divisions
posted record results. its all true
million for its services. The
companies have also been at the
center of a controversy surrounding a
number of no-bid government
contracts, both in Iraq and in the
Gulf Coast area of the US after
Hurricane Katrina. Vice President
Dick Cheney is a former Halliburton
CEO.
The same week as the contract with
KBR was announced, Halliburton
reported 2005 profits of $2.4 billion
on total revenues of about $21
billion. All six corporate divisions
posted record results. its all true
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Discrimination
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Discrimination
Feds Fund Reading, Writing, and Retinal Scanning
The US Department of Justice has
provided a grant of $369,000 to a
public school district in New Jersey
to implement a retinal scan security
system. Eyemetric Identity Systems
installed retinal scanning machines in
three of the schools in the Freehold
Borough School District to identify
parents who arrive at the schools to
pick up children.
Parents who have had their retinal
biometrics read and stored on school
district computers will have to
produce a driver's licence and submit
to a retinal scan before they are
allowed in school buildings. The
district allows up to four adults
provided a grant of $369,000 to a
public school district in New Jersey
to implement a retinal scan security
system. Eyemetric Identity Systems
installed retinal scanning machines in
three of the schools in the Freehold
Borough School District to identify
parents who arrive at the schools to
pick up children.
Parents who have had their retinal
biometrics read and stored on school
district computers will have to
produce a driver's licence and submit
to a retinal scan before they are
allowed in school buildings. The
district allows up to four adults
to register their biometric information
for each student on the district's Iris
Recognition Security and Visitor
Management System.
School district superintendent Phil Meara
said that the Teacher-Point
Authorization Security System (T-Pass) is
part of a "larger emphasis here in New
Jersey, on school safety." Meara said
that the Department of Justice was
looking at a "slightly urban" school to run
a pilot program to study the
effectiveness of biometric security
systems when used in a grammar school
setting. Retinal scanning technology is
currently being used in prisons and police
detention centers in the US.
for each student on the district's Iris
Recognition Security and Visitor
Management System.
School district superintendent Phil Meara
said that the Teacher-Point
Authorization Security System (T-Pass) is
part of a "larger emphasis here in New
Jersey, on school safety." Meara said
that the Department of Justice was
looking at a "slightly urban" school to run
a pilot program to study the
effectiveness of biometric security
systems when used in a grammar school
setting. Retinal scanning technology is
currently being used in prisons and police
detention centers in the US.
The technology is also used in British
grade schools. Children attending the
Venerable Bede Church of England
Aided School in Sunderland are
eye-scanned when they buy hot meals
in the school's cafeteria or when they
check out a book in the school's
library.
"Biometrics is the wave of the future,"
said superintendent Meara. So far,
one fifth of the adults available to pick
up a child from a participating school
have had their retinal data scanned.
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grade schools. Children attending the
Venerable Bede Church of England
Aided School in Sunderland are
eye-scanned when they buy hot meals
in the school's cafeteria or when they
check out a book in the school's
library.
"Biometrics is the wave of the future,"
said superintendent Meara. So far,
one fifth of the adults available to pick
up a child from a participating school
have had their retinal data scanned.
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The United States has backed an
Iranian initiative to deny United
Nations consultative status to
two groups working for gay
rights. The Danish National
Association for Gays and Lesbians
and the Brussels-based
International Lesbian and Gay
Association had applied for
membership of the UN Economic
and Social Council but the Iranian
measure summarily dismissed the
applications without a hearing.
Some 3000 non-governmental
organizations have consultative
status, which enables them to
engage in meetings of the council.
The US decision to vote for the
Iranian measure immediately
brought a torrent of criticism
from human rights groups.
Representative Tom Lantos (D,
CA), the co-chairman of the
Congressional Human Rights
Caucus, wrote a letter to UN
Ambassador John Bolton, calling
the decision a “major setback.”
Critics pointed out that the US
had joined with nations it
regularly castigates for human
rights abuses in rejecting the
applications. Scott Long, director
of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and
Transgender rights program at
Human Rights Watch, said “It is
astonishing that the Bush
administration would align itself
with Sudan, China, Iran, and
Zimbabwe in a coalition of the
homophobic.” its all true
Iranian initiative to deny United
Nations consultative status to
two groups working for gay
rights. The Danish National
Association for Gays and Lesbians
and the Brussels-based
International Lesbian and Gay
Association had applied for
membership of the UN Economic
and Social Council but the Iranian
measure summarily dismissed the
applications without a hearing.
Some 3000 non-governmental
organizations have consultative
status, which enables them to
engage in meetings of the council.
The US decision to vote for the
Iranian measure immediately
brought a torrent of criticism
from human rights groups.
Representative Tom Lantos (D,
CA), the co-chairman of the
Congressional Human Rights
Caucus, wrote a letter to UN
Ambassador John Bolton, calling
the decision a “major setback.”
Critics pointed out that the US
had joined with nations it
regularly castigates for human
rights abuses in rejecting the
applications. Scott Long, director
of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and
Transgender rights program at
Human Rights Watch, said “It is
astonishing that the Bush
administration would align itself
with Sudan, China, Iran, and
Zimbabwe in a coalition of the
homophobic.” its all true
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DOD Tracks Threat Posed
by Institutions of Higher Learning
by Institutions of Higher Learning
The Pentagon has classified major
American universities as potential
terror threats by listing them on the
so called 'Threat and Local
Observation Notice' (TALON) report.
The schools that were reported on
the list of groups of organizations
assessed to be a potential threat to
the Department of Defense and
national security in general include
New York University, the University
of California at both Berkeley and
Santa Cruz, the University of
Wisconsin at Madison among other
institutions of higher learning.
The Pentagon's TALON report was
initiated after 9-11 and is a database
American universities as potential
terror threats by listing them on the
so called 'Threat and Local
Observation Notice' (TALON) report.
The schools that were reported on
the list of groups of organizations
assessed to be a potential threat to
the Department of Defense and
national security in general include
New York University, the University
of California at both Berkeley and
Santa Cruz, the University of
Wisconsin at Madison among other
institutions of higher learning.
The Pentagon's TALON report was
initiated after 9-11 and is a database
of thousands of incidents reported by
federal, state and local law enforcement
entities. The database was ostensibly
created to monitor the activities groups
and individuals that are deemed to be a
threat to the Department of Defense.
The reason given for the inclusion of the
universities on a Pentagon terror threat
list was that each of the schools were
host to a protest in the past where
students and faculty demonstrated
against military recruitment on their
campuses. The protests were all small,
approximately 250 people at the USC
event, and non-violent. It was
previously reported in
redstateupdate.net that anti war
groups had been monitored and placed
on the TALON terror threat list.
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federal, state and local law enforcement
entities. The database was ostensibly
created to monitor the activities groups
and individuals that are deemed to be a
threat to the Department of Defense.
The reason given for the inclusion of the
universities on a Pentagon terror threat
list was that each of the schools were
host to a protest in the past where
students and faculty demonstrated
against military recruitment on their
campuses. The protests were all small,
approximately 250 people at the USC
event, and non-violent. It was
previously reported in
redstateupdate.net that anti war
groups had been monitored and placed
on the TALON terror threat list.
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source: Congressional Budget Office
News
Weather
Generosity to Poor a Foreign Concept
2005: Yet Another
Warmest Year Ever
Warmest Year Ever
Vermont has become the latest state to
accept Venezuelan President Hugo
Chavez's offer to provide discounted
heating oil to its poorest citizens. In an
agreement reached with Vermont
Independent congress person Bernie
Sanders, the Venezuelan state run oil
company Citgo will sell heating oil at a
reduced price to Vermont on the
condition that the discount is passed
along to low income Vermont residents.
Spokesperson for Representative Sanders
said that the agreement will "bring at
least several millions of discounted oil"
into the state resulting in millions of
dollars of savings for Vermont's lowest
income residents.
Other cities and states have already
accepted Chavez's offer of buying
reduced priced heating oil from Citgo on
the condition that the savings would be
passed along to low income Americans.
President Chavez, a passionate
supporter of the rights of workers and
the poor in Central and South America
who also has been a vocal critic of
George Bush, first offered low priced oil
to Americans as a charitable response to
Hurricane Katrina. Venezuela is the
largest exporter of oil in the Western
Hemisphere.
Last month Venezuelan officials came to
a similar agreement with New York
where heating oil will be sold directly to
accept Venezuelan President Hugo
Chavez's offer to provide discounted
heating oil to its poorest citizens. In an
agreement reached with Vermont
Independent congress person Bernie
Sanders, the Venezuelan state run oil
company Citgo will sell heating oil at a
reduced price to Vermont on the
condition that the discount is passed
along to low income Vermont residents.
Spokesperson for Representative Sanders
said that the agreement will "bring at
least several millions of discounted oil"
into the state resulting in millions of
dollars of savings for Vermont's lowest
income residents.
Other cities and states have already
accepted Chavez's offer of buying
reduced priced heating oil from Citgo on
the condition that the savings would be
passed along to low income Americans.
President Chavez, a passionate
supporter of the rights of workers and
the poor in Central and South America
who also has been a vocal critic of
George Bush, first offered low priced oil
to Americans as a charitable response to
Hurricane Katrina. Venezuela is the
largest exporter of oil in the Western
Hemisphere.
Last month Venezuelan officials came to
a similar agreement with New York
where heating oil will be sold directly to
low income housing authorities in the
Bronx at a 40 percent reduction in price.
The single condition stipulated by
Venezuelan officials was that the dollars
saved by the housing organizations would
be reinvested in the community in the
form of rent reductions and vouchers.
Congressman Jose Serrano, who helped
broker the agreement, said that the low
income residents who will benefit from
the generosity of Citgo are "truly
grateful" and that it is "shameful that no
American oil company has similarly
stepped forward to help communities" in
the way that Citgo has.
Citgo has also agreed to provide heating
fuel to Philadelphia, Rhode Island,
Massachusetts and American Indian
reservations in Maine. While the low
income recipients of the heating oil have
praised the agreements many
republicans, at both the state and federal
level have castigated the Venezuelan
government's act as a political ploy.
In Maine, state representative Kenneth
Fletcher, the Republican leader of
Maine's Utility and Energy Commission
said of the plan to help heat the homes
of the poor in his state, "It seems to be
a very shaky strategy, to have to depend
on another kind of government-a
dictatorship-for our supply of oil."
President Chavez is the democratically
elected leader of Venezuela. its all true
Bronx at a 40 percent reduction in price.
The single condition stipulated by
Venezuelan officials was that the dollars
saved by the housing organizations would
be reinvested in the community in the
form of rent reductions and vouchers.
Congressman Jose Serrano, who helped
broker the agreement, said that the low
income residents who will benefit from
the generosity of Citgo are "truly
grateful" and that it is "shameful that no
American oil company has similarly
stepped forward to help communities" in
the way that Citgo has.
Citgo has also agreed to provide heating
fuel to Philadelphia, Rhode Island,
Massachusetts and American Indian
reservations in Maine. While the low
income recipients of the heating oil have
praised the agreements many
republicans, at both the state and federal
level have castigated the Venezuelan
government's act as a political ploy.
In Maine, state representative Kenneth
Fletcher, the Republican leader of
Maine's Utility and Energy Commission
said of the plan to help heat the homes
of the poor in his state, "It seems to be
a very shaky strategy, to have to depend
on another kind of government-a
dictatorship-for our supply of oil."
President Chavez is the democratically
elected leader of Venezuela. its all true
Last year was the warmest ever
recorded on Earth, according to
scientists at NASA’s Goddard
Institute for Space Studies. The
record-breaking global average
temperature continued a 25 year
trend of steady warming. Eight of the
ten hottest years since modern
meteorological record keeping began
in the 1860’s have occurred within
the last decade, and the five hottest
have all been recorded since 1998.
The news comes as scientists are
noticing other dramatic effects of
global warming, such as the significant
shrinkage of the Arctic sea ice cap
reported by NASA last summer, and
increasing extinctions among certain
plant and animal species, as reported
last week by redstateupdate.net.
The research shows that the Earth is
warming at a faster rate in the
Northern Hemisphere, where there
is a greater land mass. The Northern
Hemisphere also has a much higher
rate of consumption of fossil fuels.
In the past century, temperatures
have risen by 1.44 degrees, with
about 70 percent of that increase
coming over the past 30 years.
Scientists predict that global averages
could rise by as much as 6 to 10
degrees in the next century.
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recorded on Earth, according to
scientists at NASA’s Goddard
Institute for Space Studies. The
record-breaking global average
temperature continued a 25 year
trend of steady warming. Eight of the
ten hottest years since modern
meteorological record keeping began
in the 1860’s have occurred within
the last decade, and the five hottest
have all been recorded since 1998.
The news comes as scientists are
noticing other dramatic effects of
global warming, such as the significant
shrinkage of the Arctic sea ice cap
reported by NASA last summer, and
increasing extinctions among certain
plant and animal species, as reported
last week by redstateupdate.net.
The research shows that the Earth is
warming at a faster rate in the
Northern Hemisphere, where there
is a greater land mass. The Northern
Hemisphere also has a much higher
rate of consumption of fossil fuels.
In the past century, temperatures
have risen by 1.44 degrees, with
about 70 percent of that increase
coming over the past 30 years.
Scientists predict that global averages
could rise by as much as 6 to 10
degrees in the next century.
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