Former mayor sentenced for online pharmaceutical drug sales

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7 March 2011
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A well-known Miami-Dade lawyer who pleaded guilty to selling tens of millions in pharmaceutical drugs without prescriptions on an Internet site serving buyers across the country was sentenced to 40 months by a federal judge in California on Thursday.

Robert Smoley, a former mayor of North Bay Village who has represented numerous high-profile clients during his career, admitted he and others distributed in excess of $48 million worth of drugs through his company, United Mail Pharmacy Services — via redwolf.newsvine.com

Religion on rates notice

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7 March 2011
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Councillor Geoff Peterson has warned that he’ll continue his investigation into the rates-exempt status of local religious groups.

Last Tuesday’s Goulburn Mulwaree Council general purpose committee meeting was provided with a report on the requirements to be eligible for rates exempt status after councillors requested clarification on the matter at a meeting in December last year — via redwolf.newsvine.com

Plastic fantastic! Carrier bags ‘not eco-villains after all’

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5 March 2011
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Unpublished Government research suggests the plastic carrier may not be an eco villain after all – but, whisper it, an unsung hero. Hated by environmentalists and shunned by shoppers, the disposable plastic bag is piling up in a shame-filled corner of retail history. But a draft report by the Environment Agency, obtained by the Independent on Sunday, has found that ordinary high density polythene (HDPE) bags used by shops are actually greener than supposedly low impact choices.

HDPE bags are, for each use, almost 200 times less damaging to the climate than cotton hold-alls favoured by environmentalists, and have less than one third of the Co2 emissions than paper bags which are given out by retailers such as Primark — via redwolf.newsvine.com

Lord West urges e-mail snooping crackdown

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4 March 2011
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Ministers must do more to stop internet service providers (ISPs) snooping on private e-mails without consent, an ex-cyber security minister has said. Some ISPs have trialled software that intercepts and scans e-mails to target ads.

They are meant to ask permission first – but former Labour minister Lord West says it is too easy to flout the rules — via dungbeetlemania.newsvine.com

Report e-mail scams, National Fraud Authority urges

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27 February 2011
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Millions of Britons who receive scam letters and e-mails are now being urged to forward them on just the once – to the National Fraud Authority.

The agency has launched a new operation to track down the fraudsters behind the multi-million pound industry in scam mail, but needs public input.

It wants people to forward e-mails to email@actionfraud.org.uk for analysis — via redwolf.newsvine.com

Government Tries to Keep Secret What Many Consider a Fraud

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21 February 2011
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A one-time biomedical technician with a penchant for gambling, Mr Montgomery is at the center of a tale that features terrorism scares, secret White House briefings, backing from prominent Republicans, backdoor deal-making and fantastic-sounding computer technology.

Interviews with more than two dozen current and former officials and business associates and a review of documents show that Mr Montgomery and his associates received more than $20 million in government contracts by claiming that software he had developed could help stop Al Qaeda’s next attack on the United States. But the technology appears to have been a hoax, and a series of government agencies, including the Central Intelligence Agency and the Air Force, repeatedly missed the warning signs, the records and interviews show — via candidpatriot.newsvine.com

US Government Shuts Down 84,000 Websites, ‘By Mistake’

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17 February 2011
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The US Government has yet again shuttered several domain names this week. The Department of Justice and Homeland Security’s ICE office proudly announced that they had seized domains related to counterfeit goods and child pornography. What they failed to mention, however, is that one of the targeted domains belongs to a free DNS provider, and that 84,000 websites were wrongfully accused of links to child pornography crimes — via redwolf.newsvine.com

A ‘House’ actress’s chilling pro-choice ad

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17 February 2011
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We see a woman clad in Mad Men-era finery, slowly walking from the camera down a long hallway. A voice familiar to fans of House narrates. Only decades ago, women suffered through horrifying back alley abortions, or they used dangerous methods when they had no other recourse. So when the Republican Party launched an all-out assault on women’s health, pushing bills to limit women’s access to vital services, we had to ask, she continues, as the image cuts between the woman opening a closet containing a single wire hanger and the distressed face of actress Lisa Edelstein: Why is the GOP trying to send women back to the back alley? — via supergerbil424.newsvine.com

WikiLeaks row intensifies as US makes ‘privacy’ move against Twitter

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16 February 2011
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The US secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, praised the role of social networks such as Twitter in promoting freedom – at the same time as the US government was in court seeking to invade the privacy of Twitter users.

Lawyers for civil rights organisations appeared before a judge in Alexandria, Virginia, battling against a US government order to disclose the details of private Twitter accounts in the WikiLeaks row, including that of the Icelandic MP Birgitta Jonsdottir, below.

The move against Twitter has turned into a constitutional clash over the protection of individual rights to privacy in the digital age — via redwolf.newsvine.com

Former FBI Agent Turned ACLU Attorney: Feds Routinely Spy on Citizens

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13 February 2011
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The most disturbing thing we’ve uncovered is the scope of domestic intelligence activities taking place today. Domestic spying is now being done by a host of federal agencies (FBI, DOD, DHS, DNI) as well as state and local law enforcement and even private companies. Too often this spying targets political activity and religious practices. We’ve documented intelligence activities targeting or obstructing First Amendment-protected activity in 33 states and DC — via redwolf.newsvine.com

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