Congressman Darrell Issa, Judicial Watch’s Tom Fitton, Oliver North , The Ashcroft Group’s John Ashcroft, and R. James Woolsey of The Foundation for Defense of Democracies All Asked to Opine on Prima Facie Showing DOJ’s Tony West and KVN’s Chris Young Part of Scheme to Embezzle Funds From Cal Bar Foundation vis-a-vis CaliforniaALL to Barack Obama’s Campaign
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US Congressman Posts #ACTA For Open Debate | Intellectual Property Watch
►http://www.ip-watch.org/2012/03/07/us-congressman-posts-acta-for-open-debate
A conservative United States congressional representative has posted the text of the controversial Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) to the internet and is calling for public comments out of the fear that the agreement will harm the open internet.
The website, keepthewebopen.com, created by California Republican Rep. Darrell Issa, is already collecting a numerous comments, but with the agreement already signed by the US and others, it remains to be seen if it is too late for change.
Papal Encyclical Becomes Part of Congressional Record | Religion Dispatches
►http://www.religiondispatches.org/dispatches/sarahposner/5747/papal_encyclical_becomes_part_of_congressional_record
One of the strangest moments at yesterday’s very strange hearing on whether a regulation duly promulgated under a law passed by Congress was “executive overreach” and an infringement of religious freedom was when Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Not Catholic) asked to have the papal encyclical Humanae Vitae entered into the Congressional Record.
His point, obviously, upon questioning the now-ubiquitous Bishop William Lori of the Ad Hoc Committee on Religious Liberty of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, was to show the authoritative (or rather, authoritarian) roots of the Catholic opposition to “artificial” contraception.
There it is now, part of the Congressional Record! A document few Catholics follow, and which provoked dissent from (believe it or not) American bishops when Pope Paul VI issued it in 1968.
Academic publishers have become the enemies of science | Dr Mike Taylor | Science | guardian.co.uk
►http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/jan/16/academic-publishers-enemies-science
The only winners would be publishing corporations such as Elsevier (£724m profits on revenues of £2b in 2010 – an astounding 36% of revenue taken as profit).
Since Elsevier’s obscene additional profits would be drained from America to the company’s base in the Netherlands if this bill were enacted, what kind of American politician would support it? The RWA is co-sponsored by Darrell Issa (Republican, California) and Carolyn B. Maloney (Democrat, New York). In the 2012 election cycle, Elsevier and its senior executives made 31 donations to representatives: of these, two went to Issa and 12 to Maloney, including the largest individual contribution.
