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U.S.
Agencies Said to Swap Data With Thousands of Firms
By Michael Riley
Thursday, June 13, 2013 7:44 PM
Thousands of technology, finance and manufacturing companies
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security agencies, providing sensitive information and in
return receiving benefits that include access to classified
intelligence, four people familiar with the process said.
These programs, whose participants are known as trusted
partners, extend far beyond what was revealed by Edward
Snowden, a computer technician who did work for the National
Security Agency.........more
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POLITICS
Syria
chemical weapons: President Obama's forced hand
By GLENN THRUSH and REID J. EPSTEIN
Thursday, June 13, 2013 8:24 PM
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Barack Obama has crossed a red line of his own on
Syria — spurred by the fast flood of bad news
on the ground and a spirited internal debate about
national prestige under his own roof. The Obama
administration’s decision Thursday to provide
military and political aid to anti-Assad fighters
wasn’t merely a result of confirmation the
Syrian regime used sarin gas on rebels.............more
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BUSINESS
Wholesale
prices up on food, gasoline; manufacturing weak
By Lucia Mutikani
Friday, June 14, 2013 |
(Reuters) - Producer prices rose more than expected
in May as gasoline and food prices rebounded, but underlying
inflation pressures remained muted, which could argue
against an early scaling back of monetary stimulus by
the Federal Reserve. A second report on Friday showed
factory output edged up just 0.1 percent last month, a
sign of lingering softness after two back-to-back declines
that offers another cautionary note for the U.S. central
bank.....more
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Benefits Come Under Knife Ahead Of ObamaCare
By JED GRAHAM, INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY
Friday, June 14, 2013
Spending on health benefits in service
occupations and among small firms exposed to ObamaCare mandates
shrank over the past year, new Labor Department data show.
Although employers face penalties in 2014 if they fail to
offer affordable coverage, this decline in spending on health
benefits shows that they're finding ways to shift some of
ObamaCare's looming costs back to the government.............more
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IG:
More Than 1,000 IRS Employees Misused Government Charge Cards;
Wrote 325 Bad Checks
By Terence P. Jeffrey
Thursday, June 13, 2013 12:59 PM
(CNSNews.com) - The Treasury Inspector General
for Tax Administration revealed in a recently released audit
report that in fiscal years 2010 and 2011 more than 1,000
Internal Revenue Service employees misused government charge
cards issued by Citibank. The report said that during the
two years in question agency employees sent Citibank a total
of 325 bad checks written on personal accounts that had insufficient
funds to cover them................more
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California
Assembly committee stalls high-profile farm labor
bill
By Dan Walters
Thursday, June 13, 2013
A high-profile bill to help the United Farm Workers
union secure contracts with growers has hit a roadblock
in a California Assembly committee that's ordinarily
very friendly to union-sponsored legislation. The
measure, Senate Bill 25, had cleared the Senate
easily -- not surprisingly, since its author, Sacramento
Democrat Darrell Steinberg, is the Senate's president
pro tem. However, it got just three votes Wednesday
in the Assembly Labor and Employment Committee --
one short of the four required................more
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California
bullet train obtains exemption from federal review
By
Ralph Vartabedian
Tursday, June 13, 2013
7:11 PM
California's bullet train agency won a key
legal ruling Thursday, obtaining an exemption from
regulatory oversight by the federal Surface Transportation
Board for construction of the first segment of the
rail system that would run 220 mph trains from Los
Angeles to San Francisco. The ruling is among several
barriers it has successfully navigated in the long-sought
start of construction, though the state still must
secure a deal with powerful freight railroads, obtain
a key permit from the Army Corps of Engineers........more
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San
Onofre shutdown won't affect Diablo Canyon, officials
say
By David Sneed
hursday,June
13, 2013
Officials with Pacific Gas and Electric Co. say
the permanent closure of San Onofre nuclear generating
station in Southern California will have little
effect on Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant. The
two nuclear plants are owned by different public
utilities, and the design flaw in the steam generators
that caused San Onofre to be permanently shuttered
is not a problem at Diablo Canyon, said Blair Jones,
plant spokesman.....more
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Gangbuster
or Gangbanger?
By Chris Meagher
Thursday,
June 13, 2013
Raymond Macias, a defendant on the city’s
proposed gang-injunction list and the Eastside program
coordinator for La Palabra??—??a nonprofit
working with at-risk youth??—??is sitting
in Santa Barbara County Jail on $3.8 million bail.
He faces allegations that he was the head of a criminal
organization that collected drug taxes from street
gangs throughout the county, and if convicted, he
could spend the rest of his life in prison..............more
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