Just another day in Environmental Destruction and the Failure of Government to REGULATE and INSPECT and ENFORCE!
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US Suspends Largest Private Contractor in Iraq and Afghanistan for Massive Fraud
International Relief and Development, headquartered in Arlington, Va., .....
The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction and the FBI are also investigating the organization.....
IRD also has been criticized for providing lavish salaries and millions in bonuses to its employees, including the husband-and-wife team who ran the organization, as well as their family members....
IRD was founded in 1998 by Arthur B. Keys, an ordained minister, and his wife, Jasna Basaric-Keys, who is from Bosnia-Herzegovina. As the nonprofit won more federal work, salaries and bonuses at IRD began to soar.
Together, Keys and his wife earned more than $5.9 million in compensation between 2008 and 2012. Their daughter and Basaric-Keys’s brother received more than $1.3 million during that time.
In 2013, Keys was slated to receive $690,000 in compensation, plus a $900,000 contribution to his retirement account. His wife, chief of IRD’s operations, received $1.1 million in compensation, which included a $289,273 bonus.
http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/318-66/28282-us-suspends-largest-private-contractor-in-iraq-and-afghanistan-for-massive-fraud
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Netanyahu's Strategy: Divide and Conquer
Marc Ash, Reader Supported News
Ash writes: "There is a lot of speculation right now that Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu's rather unusual visit to Congress next month could backfire. I should say so."
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Marc Ash, Reader Supported News
Ash writes: "There is a lot of speculation right now that Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu's rather unusual visit to Congress next month could backfire. I should say so."
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Obama Refuses
to Bring Up Human Rights Abuses During Visit to Saudi Arabia
Justin Sink, The Hill
Sink writes: "President Obama on Tuesday declined to commit to raising the issue of a jailed Saudi opposition blogger while visiting the kingdom to offer condolences following the death of King Abdullah."
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Justin Sink, The Hill
Sink writes: "President Obama on Tuesday declined to commit to raising the issue of a jailed Saudi opposition blogger while visiting the kingdom to offer condolences following the death of King Abdullah."
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The Kochs Put
a Price on 2016: $889 Million
Kenneth P. Vogel, Politico
Vogel writes: "The Koch brothers' operation intends to spend $889 million in the run-up to the 2016 elections - a historic sum that in many ways would mark Charles and David Koch and their fellow conservative megadonors as more powerful than the official Republican Party."
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Kenneth P. Vogel, Politico
Vogel writes: "The Koch brothers' operation intends to spend $889 million in the run-up to the 2016 elections - a historic sum that in many ways would mark Charles and David Koch and their fellow conservative megadonors as more powerful than the official Republican Party."
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US Suspends
Largest Private Contractor in Iraq and Afghanistan for Massive
Fraud
Scott Higham and Steven Rich, The Washington Post
Excerpt: "The U.S. Agency for International Development announced Monday that it has suspended one of its largest nonprofit contractors from federal work after investigators found 'serious misconduct' in the nonprofit's performance and management of taxpayer money."
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Scott Higham and Steven Rich, The Washington Post
Excerpt: "The U.S. Agency for International Development announced Monday that it has suspended one of its largest nonprofit contractors from federal work after investigators found 'serious misconduct' in the nonprofit's performance and management of taxpayer money."
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All Lives
Matter: From Ferguson to Palestine
Heike Schotten, Ma'an News Agency
Schotten writes: "At the same time as Brown was murdered, the world watched as Israel was given free reign to murder Palestinian people in the streets of the Gaza Strip (and beaches, cafes, hospitals, even their own homes) with impunity."
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Heike Schotten, Ma'an News Agency
Schotten writes: "At the same time as Brown was murdered, the world watched as Israel was given free reign to murder Palestinian people in the streets of the Gaza Strip (and beaches, cafes, hospitals, even their own homes) with impunity."
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Bjork Talks
Sexism: "Everything That a Guy Says Once, You Have to Say Five
Times."
Syreeta McFadden, Feministing
McFadden writes: "Bjork is of a certain generation that mostly believes in the idea of a meritocracy - do the work and shine in doing the work and others will notice."
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Syreeta McFadden, Feministing
McFadden writes: "Bjork is of a certain generation that mostly believes in the idea of a meritocracy - do the work and shine in doing the work and others will notice."
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West Virginia
Gas Pipeline Explosion - Just a Drop in the Disaster Bucket
Mark Clayton, The Christian Science Monitor
Clayton writes: "The fireball explosion Tuesday of an interstate natural gas transmission line in West Virginia, which left behind a huge jet of flame that burned for more an hour and melted four lanes of I-77, is just one of scores of accidents and explosions involving natural gas lines this year, federal data show."
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Mark Clayton, The Christian Science Monitor
Clayton writes: "The fireball explosion Tuesday of an interstate natural gas transmission line in West Virginia, which left behind a huge jet of flame that burned for more an hour and melted four lanes of I-77, is just one of scores of accidents and explosions involving natural gas lines this year, federal data show."
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