2004-08-19
NEWS BLIPS
Using Food as Fodder for Social Control | A lengthy analysis from the Corporate Agribusiness Research Project: "Food is ...an international weapon while multi-lateral trade agreements ...and multinational bodies like the World Trade Organization [WTO] have become simple policy and governing instruments [for]... corporations can implement their “economic imperialist” agenda"
Click here for full text of the essay Merchants of Greed
Corporate Governance | The Royal Institute for International Affairs plans, in November, to focus on the problems and ethics behind recent corporate scandals and inherent in land-based nations imposing regulatory oversight on corpornations | Raising the question "can we be sure that the new regulatory framework will prevent future corporate scandals without unnecessarily constraining companies and investors?" seems but part of the issue |
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Mandatory DNA Testing | The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled yesterday on US v. KINCADE that the Fourth Amendment permits compulsory DNA profiling of certain conditionally-released federal offenders even in the absence of individualized suspicion that they have committed additional crimes.
Click here for the ruling [pdf file]
Gay Marriages in California | The California Supreme Court repeatedly and explicitly steered well clear of expressing any views on the "ultimate" question in the California gay marriage controversy -- whether the statutes that define marriage as only between a man and a woman are consistent with California's constitution.
Click here for a Find Law analyst's read on the ruling
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Using Food as Fodder for Social Control | A lengthy analysis from the Corporate Agribusiness Research Project: "Food is ...an international weapon while multi-lateral trade agreements ...and multinational bodies like the World Trade Organization [WTO] have become simple policy and governing instruments [for]... corporations can implement their “economic imperialist” agenda"
Click here for full text of the essay Merchants of Greed
Corporate Governance | The Royal Institute for International Affairs plans, in November, to focus on the problems and ethics behind recent corporate scandals and inherent in land-based nations imposing regulatory oversight on corpornations | Raising the question "can we be sure that the new regulatory framework will prevent future corporate scandals without unnecessarily constraining companies and investors?" seems but part of the issue |
Click here for info about this conference
Mandatory DNA Testing | The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled yesterday on US v. KINCADE that the Fourth Amendment permits compulsory DNA profiling of certain conditionally-released federal offenders even in the absence of individualized suspicion that they have committed additional crimes.
Click here for the ruling [pdf file]
Gay Marriages in California | The California Supreme Court repeatedly and explicitly steered well clear of expressing any views on the "ultimate" question in the California gay marriage controversy -- whether the statutes that define marriage as only between a man and a woman are consistent with California's constitution.
Click here for a Find Law analyst's read on the ruling
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