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POPSLA Police Fail to Use Funds to Test Rape Kit
US: LA Police Fail to Use Funds to Test Rape Kit "Why add to the suffering of rape victims by making them wait years to investigate and prosecute their cases -- or letting a prosecution go forward without this evidence?" said Sarah Tofte, a US Program researcher at Human Rights Watch who is researching the rape-kit backlog in Los Angeles and around the country. "The department needs to use its own budget and any future grants to make sure the job gets done." Timely testing of rape kits can be critical to bringing justice to sexual assault victims. It is often difficult to solve or prosecute a rape case effectively without this forensic evidence. Furthermore, under California law, there is no statute of limitations for bringing a case if the rape kit is tested within two years. But if it is not tested in that time frame, the statute of limitations is 10 years. "I want to thank Human Rights Watch for effectively pushing this issue into the forefront of the public arena," sai
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POPSThousands Of Convicted Felons Remain On Voter Rolls The Division of Elections has a backlog of more than 108,000 possible felons who have registered to vote since January 2006 that it hasn't had the time or staff to verify. Browning estimated that about 10 percent, once checked, would be ineligible.
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POPSMcCain vs UN and the American people McCain wants to throw off the "shackles" of the UN that prevents the U.S. from becoming a more powerful and dominant presence in the world. This coming from a man who clearly doesn't understand foreign policy and firmly believes that "might is right". We cannot afford to allow this fool to become our president.
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POPSLogjam of War Contractor Fraud Suits
The exact number of qui tam cases stuck in legal limbo is unknown because the cases are kept under strict seal. But sources who have been following the issue closely estimate that there are between 50 and 70 Iraq contracting fraud cases under seal. Under normal circumstances, when the DOJ receives a qui tam case, it conducts an investigation into the whistleblower's claims. If there is sufficient evidence of significant fraud, the DOJ joins with the whistleblower to sue the company in question and recover the government's money. The whistleblower can receive up to 30 percent of money recovered as a reward for their service to the taxpayer. Not a single qui tam case against war contractors has been joined by the Bush administration DOJ despite the possibility of recovering billions of dollars for the US taxpayer and reining in war profiteers, who continue to cheat and defraud the government and the US troops mired in battle. Go to source for full story.
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POPSNew IR laws pass Lower House The death of another system attempting to make the lot of the worker worse. The greedy bastards are all recording record profits while complaining that they have to pay it's slaves to live.
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POPS$20m for schools 'pitiful' Parents have been conned into believing that school is of secondary concern to the more immediate needs of food, shelter and clothing. Govts take the attitude that as long as they do enough to prevent the outbreak of hepatitis, or similar, they won't be sued. Keep the slave class down at all costs
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POPSColorado Car Taxes - Up Up Up The whole article is slanted in a very interesting way. Our Democrat governor isn't proposing tax increases - merely fee modifications which can be done without asking any of those stupid voters about whether they want to be told it will cost them $100 bucks more to get their license plates renewed every single year from now on till the end of time. (and that $100 comes from more honest reporting about what is being proposed). And its not even the governor's idea - its just the least costly option of some blue-ribbon transportation panel. No, no, no - he's not proposing any tax increase. Just that the wise men's recommendations be implemented.
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POPSSocial Security Disability It is very important for citizens to keep aware of what is happening with SSD. You never know what can happen in your life and keeping informed and know your rights if anything does happen to go wrong.
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POPSHoward's industrial laws 'a shambles' Everything the dotard has touched has turned to crap for the people/workers. Big business has failed miserably in it's choice of the person to rule. He is a failed lawyer and proves that an IQ is not necessarily an accurate measure of intelligence.
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POPS Hillary And Bill's Secret Archived Papers
Bill Clinton has tried to cast blame for the backlog on the Bush White House. "Look, I'm pro-disclosure," Clinton said in a testy exchange with reporters during a recent press conference. "I want to open my presidential records more rapidly than the law requires and the current administration has slowed down the opening of my own records." But White House spokesman Scott Stanzel tells NEWSWEEK the Bush White House has not blocked the release of any Clinton-era records, nor is it reviewing any. (Under the 1978 Presidential Records Act, the former president and the current president get to review White House records before they are disclosed. Either one can veto a release.) Ben Yarrow, a spokesman for Bill Clinton, says the former president was referring "in general" to a controversial 2001 Bush executive order—recently overturned, in part, by a federal judge—that authorized more extensive layers of review from both current and former presidents before papers are released.
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POPS Mexicans are flooding into Canada Most of the recent arrivals are from Florida, where Jacques Sinjuste, general director of the Jerusalem Haitian Community Centre in Naples, has been accused of grossly misleading would-be migrants of their chances of success in Canada's refugee system. The truth is far different: only 13 per cent of Mexican asylum claims were accepted in the first six months of 2007.
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POPSNew Passport Requirements and Problems New regulations will make it necessary to have a passport every time you fly even within the United States. Planning a vacation to a National Park? Better make sure you can get the new passport required!
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POPSNeed passport to visit national parks Congress.org Weekly Update carries this note about passport application problems. A new law requiring anyone entering a national park or other US territory to show a national ID. Comments?
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