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As you probably know, I have started working for the Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment here in San Diego, which is a new, independent, state base...
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Alan is an excellent speaker on the economy. His group at USD plots leading economic indicators and he is frequently cited in the news regarding the economic outl...
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Latest News AuditEngine Case Study Report AuditEngine was used to audit three counties in Florida: Collier, Volusia, and St. Lucie Counties. Learn about audit en...
Background This lawsuit was filed due to our request to view ballots was denied by the Registrar of Voters, Michael Vu. The goal of this request and the first few...
Battle Lines Drawn: Residents of rural Potrero fight to halt Blackwater #8217;s proposed military training camp By Miriam Raftery, The East County Californian Pa...
Latest News July 8th, Board of Governors' meeting Please attend the meeting at the SouthwesternCollege main campus, 900 Otay Lakes Rd, Chula Vista, 6:30p meet fo...
Sub projects Latest News Huge fire resulted after starting in a guard shack, charring 25,000 acres. Eventually, the tribe ejected the Blackwater spinoff. Backgr...
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LATEST NEWS * Southwestern College will send its police academy students to the Blackwater Lodge and Training Center in Otay Mesa for weapons training under an...
Blackwater Potrero "Blackwater West" Mercenary Camp BlackwaterWorldwide, part of the PrinceGroup and one of the largest private military contractors in the worl...
BlackwaterVsCityOfSanDiegoTranscript UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA BLACKWATER LODGE AND ) Case No. 08CV0926 H(WMC) TRAINING CENTE...
BlackwaterWestPromoVideo Some stills captured from the video prepared by Blackwater to promote the Blackwater West project. This video was presented by Brian Bonf...
Read and endorse our Open Letter To Congress regarding dismissal of Blackwater and enactment of the Stop Outsourcing Security Act. Blackwater Worldwide (formerly...
Latest News Background This topic includes discussion of the border fence, and the larger issue of border security and immigration reform. Immigration and Natur...
BriefHistoryofECPACTakeover Summary of the recent events surrounding the East County Performing Arts Center Perceptions of Raymond Lutz at the end of 2005. HISTO...
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Citizens' Oversight Projects (COPs) empowers the citizen to take control of a huge government that is seriously out of control. Even those responsible for underst...
Latest News * Witness.org Organization founded by Peter Gabriel to encourage people to use modern video cameras to document human rights atrocities. It was t...
CitizensOversight.org Reveals Thousands of Ballots Misplaced and Hundreds Uncounted by San Diego County Registrar of Voters in November, 2008 General Election S...
The California Coastal Commission has 12 voting members and 3 non voting members. Six of the voting members are "public members," and six are local elected offici...
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The California Labor Federation is made up of more than 1,200 AFL CIO and Change to Win unions, representing 2.1 million union members in manufacturing, retail, c...
SF, LA, SAC locations: http://www.cpuc.ca.gov/PUC/contactus/ San Francisco Headquarters: View Larger Map Address 505 Van Ness Ave San Francisco, CA 94102 Phone...
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Sub projects Latest News The Supreme Court ruling on Citizens United v. FEC a new president has been made out of whole cloth.! The majority is violating the Su...
Latest News Church Use of School District Property This issue was brought up in the RockChurchEcpacTakeover project as many city leaders were comparing renting E...
Citizens' Oversight Projects (COPs) Citizens' Oversight records selected meetings and events, and conducts extensive interviews. Our videos are in the style of C ...
This has been a successful year for Citizens Oversight and for everyone who has helped in our projects. And very recently, we have had a few breakthroughs putting...
This has been a successful year for Citizens Oversight and for everyone who has helped in our projects. The most active projects have been related to the San Onof...
This has been a successful year for Citizens Oversight and for everyone who has helped in our projects. Since this was an election year, the most active projects ...
This has been a successful year for Citizens Oversight and for everyone who has helped in our projects. Since this was an election year, the most active projects ...
See Also ElCajonCityCouncil, SaveECPAC Sub projects * Common.TakeOverofECPACbyCCT An article prepared by Raymond Lutz, at the time President of the Grossmon...
See also: EnergyPolicy Summary of Popular Climate Theory Warming trend First, we take a look at a plot of global temperature 1880. There is a clear warming tre...
This group is a party to the investigation by the California Public Utilities Commission. Parent topic is: ShutSanOnofre * SCE * public web page to make ...
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GOVERNMENT CODE SECTION 87100 87105 87100. No public official at any level of state or local government shall make, participate in making or in any way attempt t...
ConnieFrankowiak * Website: N/A * Email: progressiveconnie #64;netzero.net Statement On November 20, 2005, Connie Frankowiak made the following statement dec...
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Overview * Service Area: San Diego East County, with focus on the El Cajon City Council * Meeting Place: El Cajon Library * Meeting Time / Day: 3:00 pm, Fr...
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Latest News * December2012FundraisingEmail Background This topic will help us to organize our fundraising efforts. Citizens Oversight has reached a new level...
Latest News New tutorials added. Background This project exists to provide a place for tutorials and information about the copswiki.org colloboration platform. C...
Latest News Background I started this project mainly as a placeholder right now, to record any issues we notice about court procedures that may need further inve...
* Forest Service Map of "Kearchoffer Flat" (site of Covert Canyon): Note that the site is just over the hill from the community at the end of Lawson Valley Rd....
CrowdWatch is a smartphone app (Android and iPhone) that helps users to find important "watch points" near them, then provide instructions about how to provide ef...
Current Events Theater shows a variety of topical videos about a variety of subjects. Screenings in 2006 2008 at the RanchoSanDiegoLibrary. Starting in 2009, we w...
Latest News * 2010 06 23 "Top Cap" suction pipe no longer engaged on top of wellhead, well is now gushing full force with no containment at all. Background ...
Dianne Jacob The East County region is "District 2", currently represented by Dianne Jacob * Office Phone: 619 531 5522 * Policy Advisor: Tale K. Halse, tal...
* See Duncan D. Hunter (public site) or Duncan D. Hunter (secure site) (This is the son) * See Duncan L. Hunter (public site) or Duncan L. Hunter (secure site)...
Lawsuit filed against Potrero group, county By MiriamRaftery The EastCountyCalifornian May 3, 2007 A lawsuit has been filed by Potrero resident Zoe Rosell again...
Filner pledges to help halt Blackwater USA By Miriam Raftery, The East County Californian Congressman Bob Filner pledged to help block Blackwater USA #8217;s pl...
County won #8217;t release all Blackwater docs Deadline for public comment looms Editor #8217;s note: Freelance writer Miriam Raftery contacted county spokesper...
_Potrero Blackwater battle in national spotlight_ By Miriam Raftery The East County Californian April 26, 2007 After The East County Californian published a thre...
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Upcoming Events Recent Events Latest News After significant work in planning a single annual event, Earth Summit San Diego 2019, organizers decided to reform th...
This publication used to be a great news source, with Jack Dale as editor. As we were processing the BlackwaterWorldwide project to develop BlackwaterPotrero, the...
Overview The East County Transitional Living Center (ECTLC) is a center that provides transitional living opportunities for homeless persons. They get a lot of th...
EastlakeBonitaDemocraticClub EB Democrats is a Club of Democrats from Eastlake, Bonita, Rancho del Rey, Chula Vista, Imperial Beach, and other South Bay communiti...
Project Overview This project is to fight against election scams bent on voter suppression. A number of the popular suppression schemes range from laws that suppr...
El Cajon City Hall is located at 200 E. Main St., El Cajon, CA 92020 Current Council * City of El Cajon Website: http://www.ci.el cajon.ca.us/ * Agendas: h...
ElCajonSafetyCenter Safety Center Strips Theater Parking On July 30th, the City of El Cajon conducted an evening public review of the new "Safety Center", propos...
ElectionAuditBestPractices It is not possible to conduct an audit unless a "Voter Verified Paper Trail" (VVPT) is available. This means the voter is able to confi...
Background This lawsuit is regarding the 1% manual audit which is mandated by California Election code section 15360. That code specifies that all ballots cast in...
Latest News This project provides a place to gather up and organize links to various initiatives regarding audits, including statistical and exhaustive approaches...
Overview We need help to harvest election data during election night and as the elections are subsequently processed. We have software to automatically check elec...
Background This project is used to provide detailed information about election equipment. Verified Voting provides a database of all equipment: https://www.verifi...
This project is working to improve the integrity of our elections, one of the most critical areas in a democracy. It now seems certain that the last two elections...
Welcome! Citizens' Oversight Projects is developing a network of citizens who can help us provide oversight of our rigged and hacked elections! We need your help ...
. Welcome! *Can you volunteer to video record the random draw and manual tally! Please signup here: http://citizensoversight.org/signup * Citizens' Oversight Pro...
Latest News This topic is now being used as a basis for more general instructions, here: ElectionOversightProcedures The primary election has many new development...
ElectionOversightProcedures * Common.WelcomeElectionOversightNewbies A starting point for new arrivals to our election oversight project * Common.StateElec...
Latest News We will be improving the procedures listed above as we generalize them for the situations across the country. Audit Database We are building a databa...
Sub projects As oil prices reach record highs, we hear renewed interest in doing something, such as drilling in ANWR (Arctic National Wildlife Refuge) or reopenin...
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GCCCDBoard * Grossmont Cuyamaca Community College District Website: http://www.gcccd.cc.ca.us * Governing Board Office at 644 7682 * CER website is: www....
Sen. George McGovern was the 1972 Democratic presidential nominee, a three term U.S. Senator and two term congressman, food and agriculture ambassador to the Unit...
A second generation San Diegan and resident of East County since 1964, Gloria Chadwick, RN, was the first woman to be elected to the board in 22 years and the fir...
GMO Open Forum * This is a Facebook forum: https://www.facebook.com/groups/gmoopenforum/ * This forum uses our standard rules of etiquette: PostingEtiquette...
Sub projects Overview According to Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, "the most important office in a democracy is that of the citizen." Unfortunately, our g...
GreatGlobalWarmingSwindle * View here: (no longer available Please let me know where it is.) This is a video that presents the opposite theory, that climate ch...
The following is the list of board members as of 2010: * Contact Record: GrossmontHealthcareDistrict * Prop. G Independent Citizens' Bond Oversight Committe...
See the governmental board that oversees this special district: GrossmontHealthcareBoard. It will be the primary COPS project. View Larger Map Note: Media is post...
* Web Site: http://portal.guhsd.net/GUHSD/ * Great article that summarizes the recent takeover of the GUHSD by religious radicals Californian_Article_ _Relig...
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Overview This project is to enable activist teams who will visit local jurisdictions around the San Onofre nuclear plant and ask them to support the "Move the Was...
Please Note: This page provides the PUBLIC SUPPORT PETITION and not the formal filing (also called a petition) before the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Please vi...
For New Visitors Hello! Very glad to see you make it to this page to find out about the HELMS Proposal for storing nuclear waste around the country in a sensible ...
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Latest News Background * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Mandate_of_Palestine Outlines the original intention to establish a Jewish homeland in Palesti...
Jeff is an amazing investigative reporter at the Union Tribune and was the first to connect the dots between the "RSG Note" and the replacement steam generator ba...
Mr. Hollingsworth used to own the Singing Hills Golf and Tennis Club. He is on the Gillespie Field Development Council and board of Boys and Girls Club of East Co...
From Blog of San Diego: GERALD R. SANDERS is Mayor of the City of San Diego . Since 2004, Mr. Sanders has been a partner in Willows Creek Partners, LLC, a home...
Interaction with Ray Lutz regarding comments about his candidacy to Miller's adult (step)daughter Below is the result of your feedback form. It was submitted by ...
KOGORadioInterview102506 THE EL CAJON MAN WHOSE PROTESTS PROMPTED THE CITY TO REMOVE RELIGIOUS PROGRAMS FROM THAT CITY'S GOVERNMENT ACCESS CHANNEL SAYS THEY'D BET...
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Latest News * This project has been moved to INACTIVE. Please see AirProgressive for our streaming radio station. KNSJ Radio, 89.1FM is planned for East San Di...
The City Council meets regularly on the second Tuesday of each month at 4:00 p.m. and on the fourth Tuesday of each month at 6:00 p.m. Public hearings are held at...
La Mesa Foothills Democratic Club * Main Home page * General meetings are the first Wednesday of each month at the Common.LaMesaCommunityCenter. 6:30pm: Soc...
Sub projects Latest News * Board meeting on Sept 15 was a packed house, the public hearing the apology of the board, and at the same time, a slap to the membe...
Latest News * Two members of the Fire Board served with recall notices Background The department, with a $12 million budget, serves 60,000 residents in Lakesi...
Introduction Citizens' Oversight Projects has made progress in a focus on election integrity. It has become clear that changes in the elections code is our only c...
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Massive security contractor faces growing protest in rural California town over 824 acre base 04/03/2007 @ 2:09 pm Filed by Miriam Raftery and Muriel Kane Adve...
Filner wants review of Blackwater He considers bill to stop Potrero plan By Anne Krueger STAFF WRITER April 14, 2007 Rep. Bob Filner says he is exploring legis...
Private security contractor Blackwater USA plans to expand its business by selling airships and armored vehicles, the company's president said. The Moyock based c...
NEWS RELEASE Ray Lutz for Congress 2010www.VoteRayLutz.comMedia Contact: Brennan Purtzer, Media Director619 447 3246 / brennan@VoteRayLutz.com FOR IMMEDIATE RELE...
NEWS RELEASE Ray Lutz for Congress 2010www.VoteRayLutz.com Media Contact: Brennan Purtzer, Media Director619 447 3246 / brennan@VoteRayLutz.comFOR IMMEDIATE RELE...
HUNTER DRAWS FIRE FOR VOTE AGAINST TRIBAL LAW ORDER BILL Hunter representative defends vote on cost, transparency issues Ray LutzRep. Duncan Hunter August 3, 20...
HUNTER DRAWS FIRE FOR VOTE AGAINST TRIBAL LAW ORDER BILL Hunter representative defends vote on cost, transparency issues Ray LutzRep. Duncan Hunter August 3, 20...
Sun, 08 Aug 2010 00:55:07 GMT Afghan President Hamid Karzai has called on the United States and its allies to stop supporting private security companies, saying...
NEWS RELEASE Ray Lutz for Congress 2010www.VoteRayLutz.comMedia Contact: Brennan Purtzer, Media Director619 447 3246 / brennan@VoteRayLutz.com FOR IMMEDIATE RELE...
East County candidate threatens hunger strike BY MICHELE CLOCK, UNION TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 11, 2010 AT 6:23 P.M. Campaigning for public office c...
Lutz s last supper before the Hunter hunger strike AUGUST 13, 2010 12:43 PM Usually, when Ray Lutz goes to Greek Style Chicken in El Cajon, he gets the lemon ch...
By Anne Krueger UNION TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER July 31, 2007 EAST COUNTY #8211; Anger over the proposed Blackwater USA training facility in Potrero has led to the co...
August 11, 2010 6:13 pm One of the frustrations of political challengers is getting the incumbent to debate. Ray Lutz, a Democratic candidate in the 52nd Congre...
REGION: War rarely mentioned in congressional races LACKLUSTER ECONOMY, JOBS AND IMMIGRATION CITED AS TOP VOTER CONCERNS By MARK WALKER mlwalker #64;nctimes.com...
Candidate continues hunger strike for debate BY MICHELE CLOCK, UNION TRIBUNE TUESDAY, AUGUST 17, 2010 AT 8:09 P.M. PHOTO BY JOHN GASTALDO Congressional candidate ...
Candidates undergo hunger strike By KASIE HUNT 8/17/10 10:10 PM EDT Sen. Carl Levin (D Mich.) was probably embarrassed when a student protester shoved a pie i...
The Slatest Evening Edition MEREDITH SIMONS Congressional Challengers Go on Hunger Strike If politicians should be wary of upstarts with a " lean and hungry ...
Congressional Candidate on Hunger Strike Feels Pretty Good Ray Lutz, a Democratic candidate for California's 52nd congressional district, is hungry. He's taken an...
On Monday, August 2, we hand delivered our first request to Duncan D. Hunter to participate in a series of eight debates around the district. We requested a respo...
CA 52: Dem longshot fishing for a debate with a...unique...tactic Frontrunners often eschew debates, for the simple reason that they don't want to give media focu...
California Congressional Challengers On Hunger Strike To Force Debate With Duncan Hunter The Huffington Post Nick Wing First Posted: 08 18 10 01:13 PM Up...
Should Blackwater USA be allowed to convert a valley bordering national forest lands into a private military and law enforcement training base? No way, says a ...
REGION: Congressional longshots capitalizing on hunger strike RAY LUTZ AND MICHAEL BENOIT GETTING PUBLICITY, BUT LITTLE NOURISHMENT By MARK WALKER Posted: Wedne...
Duncan Opponents on Hunger Strikes By JANIE LORBER Rep. Duncan D. Hunter s challengers want to debate him so badly they can taste it probably because they haven...
Big Number segment on Hardball with Chris Matthews Big Number: Two California Congressional candidates, Democrat Ray Lutz and Libertarian Mike Benoit, have pledge...
going to a debate with Duncan Hunter is not important enough for me to die August 19, 2010 6:54 AM The Duncan Hunter debate me now or I won t eat story may be ...
Two Congressional Hopefuls Hungry for a Debate In the political news void that is August, the media have stumbled on two Californiacongressional hopefuls hungry f...
Reformas sí, muros no: Ray Lutz Por Alexandra Mendoza De llegar al Congreso, el aspirante demócrata Ray Lutz respaldaría una reforma migratoria que beneficie a m...
California House Candidates Stage Hunger Strike Over Duncan Debates By Christopher Weber Two congressional candidates who want Rep. Duncan D. Hunter (R Calif.) to...
Candidates Go On Hunger Strike, Jack Daniels Woos Reporters With Booze and More in Capital Eye Opener: August 19 By Evan Mackinder on August 19, 2010 10:10 AM Yo...
http://www.kpbs.org/radio/these_days;id=9288 Maureen Cavanaugh (Guest Host): A small town about 45 miles east of San Diego is divided. Today, we talk to two leade...
REGION: Hunter to debate on Oct. 15 only By MARK WALKER mlwalker #64;nctimes.com The Duncan Hunter campaign on Thursday continued to reject calls from hunger st...
Hungry for debate, two California congressional hopefuls stop eating By Daniel B. Wood, Staff writer / August 20, 2010 Los Angeles CNN anchor Kyra Phillips could ...
State court declares Roseville Galleria's speech rules unconstitutional dwalsh@sacbee.com Published Friday, Aug. 13, 2010 A state appellate court has declared...
Candidates go on hunger strike due to lack of debates By Elizabeth Marie Himchak Congressional candidates Ray Lutz and Michael Benoit are one week into a hunger ...
FRANK: Candidates are really hungry for debate By Jeff Frank TGI Saturday: Political candidates have tried a lot of stunts to push opponents into agreeing to deba...
No Partisan Politics Please Randy Dotinga's contemptuous and misleading description of the hunger strike by the Congressional challengers to Duncan Hunter's son n...
Hunger Strikes, Water Rates And Drunk Driving Fatality In East County BY MAUREEN CAVANAUGH, PAT FINN August 23, 2010 MAUREEN CAVANAUGH (Host): I'm Maureen Cavanau...
CANDIDATES SOUND OFF AT POLITICS IN PARADISE FORUM By Miriam Raferty August 22, 2010 (El Cajon ) Two Congressmen and four local lawmakers fielded questions from...
Fed up, Lutz ends hunger strike By Kasie Hunt After 11 days on a hunger strike, California Democratic congressional candidate Ray Lutz is throwing in the napkin. ...
LUTZ, BENOIT HUNGER STRIKES GAIN NATIONAL MEDIA ATTENTION Candidates are hungry for debate with Rep. Duncan Hunter East County News Service August 22, 2010 (San...
'These private contractors can get away with murder... They aren't subject to any laws at all' Published: 04 June 2007 Iraq is rapidly vanishing into the mists of...
Candidate: It's time to eat again After 11 days, East County political activist breaks fast began to get debate BY MICHELE CLOCK, UNION TRIBUNE ORIGINALLY PUBLIS...
Hungry for Publicity Getting publicity when you're not the political incumbent is difficult understatement. Well, Ray Lutz, 53, solved that problem in an innova...
REGION: Congressional candidate ends hunger strike By TERI FIGUEROA Posted: Monday, August 23, 2010 8:39 pm Eleven days after going on a hunger strike, congres...
Letters: medal deceit, debates and dogs BY UNION TRIBUNE MONDAY, AUGUST 23, 2010 AT MIDNIGHT Debate hunger strike All candidates running for an office should agr...
Polling and Political Wrap, 8/24/10 by Steve Singiser Tue Aug 24, 2010 at 08:00:05 PM PDT THE U.S. HOUSE CA 52: The debate is on, and the hunger strike is off T...
DYING TO DEBATE August 24, 2010 Political candidates often have trouble getting their opponents to debate. When you re ahead, why debate? At least that s how the ...
GOP Convention and the Duncan Hunter Hunger Strike CityBeat grades the Prop 20 T Shirt, DeMaio's Pension Tsunami and Lutz and Benoit's media stunt By CityBeat Sta...
COUNTYWIDE DEMOCRATS ANNOUNCE RALLY IN EAST COUNTY SUNDAY, AUGUST 29 Public invited to meet elected officials and candidates August 26, 2010 (La Mesa) Instead of...
Press Conference Today at RB Community Park Applauding Passage of Chelsea s Law, 1:15 p.m. Tuesday, August 31, 2010 By Staff Report San Diego County, Calif. (Augu...
The following press release was sent by Melissa Bean's 8th congressional district Democratic Party primary contender, Randi Scheurer. This release reveals a perso...
Incumbent congressman would rather not campaign It s tough running for Congress in inland North County when there s a D attached to your name.Just ask Ray Lutz,...
Battle Begins For CA Congressional Seat By Claudia Strasbaugh San Diego's "Democratic Unity Campaign" kickoff and rally was held this weekend at Harry Griffen Par...
Why won t Hunter debate?In a time of too much biased media, negative ads and million dollar commercials to go around, voters deserve the one real time experience ...
Hunter got break on taxes for home By Jeff McDonaldUNION TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER Back in the winter of 1994, after reapportionment reshaped California's congressiona...
30 False Fronts Won Contracts for Blackwater By JAMES RISEN and MARK MAZZETTI Published: September 3, 2010 WASHINGTON Blackwater Worldwide created a web of mo...
MEDIA ADVISORYRay Lutz for Congress 2010www.VoteRayLutz.comMedia Contact: Brennan Purtzer, Media Director619 447 3246 / brennan@VoteRayLutz.comHunger Strike candi...
REGION: Birthright Citizenship Debate Goes Mainstream By Edward Sifuentes, North County Times A call to end automatic citizenship for the children of illegal immi...
Californians debate debates: Who gets to participate? First it was hunger striking candidates. Now a Libertarian running for secretary of state in California laun...
BIG BANK BACKS DOWN FOR NOW; HALTS FORECLOSURE ON CANCER PATIENT'S HOME AS CONGRESSMAN LEADS VIGIL By Miriam Raftery I hope this will spread across America. C...
2010 Candidates Refuse To Debate Their Opponents: What Are They So Afraid Of? First Posted: 09 10 10 11:58 AM Updated: 09 10 10 11:58 AM Read More: 2010 Deb...
They say they are not a mercenary outfit, but Blackwater USA has one of the most profitable private armies in the world, with outposts in Iraq and Afghanistan. No...
FEATHERS FLY IN CONGRESSIONAL RACE; 2 CANDIDATES TO DEBATE SEPT. 21 IN RAMONA _ We have a chicken suit and we may have someone wear it to stand in for Duncan Hunt...
Hunter foes face daunting task DEMOCRAT AND LIBERTARIAN SAY YOUNG LAWMAKER RIDING FATHER'S COATTAILS Freshman Congressman Duncan D. Hunter says there's one thing ...
Powerlink booster may have powered up too soon Official was lobbying within 10 months of leaving the state By Jeff McDonald Thursday, July 15, 2010 at 8:14 p.m. ...
REGION: Issa won't debate Democratic opponent SPOKESMAN SAYS CONGRESSMAN FOCUSED ON WATCHDOG ROLE Rep. Darrell Issa won't debate his 49th Congressional District o...
House passes small business lending bill The congressional stalemate on the small business lending bill, H. R. 5297, ended today at 3:03 pm. The House approved th...
Net Neutrality, Telecom Monday, September 27, 2010 1:42 PM Net Neutrality Bill Gives FCC No New Rulemaking Power By Eliza Krigman The FCC will not have rulemaki...
East County Election Races Heating up We look at large and small races in the East County worthy of interest, including the competitive 77th Assembly District, Ma...
Our endorsements people Find out whom we like to serve you in national, state and local offices By CityBeat Staff U.S. Senate With California newspapers describ...
This debate was held on October 15, 2010 at the Cuyamaca College Communication Arts Theater. * Sponsor: East County Chamber of Commerce * Master of Ceremon...
REGION: Hunter assailed during congressional debate FRESHMAN LAWMAKER ARGUES HIS VALUES ARE IN KEEPING WITH 52ND CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT By MARK WALKER mlwalker ...
Only Debate in 52nd Congressional District Pits Incumbent vs. Challengers Rep. Duncan D. Hunter makes, takes shots in Cuyamaca College forum with Democrat Ray Lut...
Absentee voters change election dynamics CHANCES FADE FOR LAST MINUTE HIT PIECES AS INCREASING NUMBERS VOTE EARLY By MARK WALKER mlwalker #64;nctimes.com Post...
Highlight Reel Shows Lutz, Benoit Targeting Duncan D. Hunter at Debate Friday night's lone debate in the 52nd Congressional District featured GOP Rep. Hunter, Dem...
HUNTER DEFENDS RECORD AGAINSTS ATTACKS ON TWO FRONTS IN DEBATE AT CUYAMACA COLLEGE October 18, 2010 (El Cajon) Congressman Duncan D. Hunter, who served in the A...
Slush funds, oil imports and lying mailers CityBeat grades Whitburn and Roberts, Hunter and Lutz, and lying a union mailer By CityBeat Staff Slushy terrain Coun...
By Mighty Thor 1/24/08 11:41 AM EST 0 Comments ShareThis Just in over the transom from the Hunter for Congress campaign ... Linden Blue to Help Lead Hunter...
The meet the candidates event included only Republican candidates. Ray attempted to confront Duncan D. Hunter regarding the upcoming debate schedule but he immedi...
LGBT friendly candidate takes on Duncan D. Hunter for Congressional seat Democrat Ray Lutz held hunger strike to force a debate with Republican opponent By Pat S...
Treehuggers International 2010 Voting Guide U.S. Representative, 52nd District Ray Lutz Ray Lutz worked with the town of Potrero to kick out the corporate welfa...
REGION: Candidates in last minute push REGISTRAR REPORTS MORE THAN 303,000 BALLOTS ALREADY CAST THROUGH FRIDAY MORNING It's crunch time for the candidates. Expec...
Pros and Cons of Marijuana Legalization Aired at City Council Meeting Council members hear out speakers, including Congress candidate Ray Lutz, but don't weigh i...
Rep. Duncan D. Hunter's Campaign Money Goes in 'Other' Direction Republican lists no assets or income outside congressional pay but is using part of his war ches...
Final Turds Blossoms tally CityBeat reveals which campaigns smelled the freshest and funkiest The end is nigh! No doubt, there will be cheers in some political ...
* COPS_News_Release_2010 11 08_Manual_Tally_Issues_in_2010_AND_C00027_combined.pdf: Press Release and C00027 (Note: Corrected on 2010 11 08 by adding the word NOT...
This email was sent to GrossmontHealthcareDistrict CEO Barry Jantz on 2010 11 08 Dear Mr. Jantz: Please distribute my comments to members of the GHD Board. 1. ...
I received this email, forwarded to me from GHD CEO BarryJantz From: Jim Stieringer mailto:stieringer@cox.net To: Gloria Chadwick Cc: Michael Emerson; 'Mich...
Jim Stieringer submitted his resignation Friday in hopes of winning a job with the district, but when he didn't get it Wednesday morning, he rescinded his action....
Report after the closed session: Despite advertising in print and on line in the San Diego Daily Transcript, and posting the position on the district website, the...
Blackwater in Potrero? No way April 19, 2007 If there is any career pursuit that we, as Americans, have come to despise, it is that of the military mercenary. Ou...
By: CHRIS BAGLEY Staff Writer SACRAMENTO Although the state's chief elections official had signaled the possibility that she would order the replacement or ma...
His application for a job at the Grossmont health district was rejected By Steve Schmidt Wednesday, November 10, 2010 at 10:06 p.m. Document Download: Grossmon...
Board rejects Jim Stieringer s application for district staff job. Now Stieringer, who retired Friday, asks for his Board seat back but his future remains in limb...
The following posting was on the Grossmont Healthcare District website and has been reproduced below. Projects Liaison Monitor Grossmont Healthcare District The...
By SteveSchmidt Monday, November 15, 2010 at 7:48 p.m. Jim Stieringer Pension math Board pension: Retiring at age 69, Stieringer is expected to net a pension wit...
Jim Stieringer's old seat on the Grossmont Healthcare District board will go to someone else, the board decided Monday morning after meeting in closed session at ...
Response by CalAware, ready to bring this to court: I sincerely appreciate your very prompt reply to our concerns. I assure you that our aim is to educate and, o...
Jeff Scott, general counsel for the district board, tells California Aware that the closed session in Jim Stieringer case was legal because it involved potential ...
Letter says the board violated the Brown Act with a "secret meeting" in which directors decided not to give former board member Jim Stieringer his seat back. The ...
By: CHRIS BAGLEY Staff Writer Voting machines used in Riverside and numerous other California counties are vulnerable to manipulation by politically motivated h...
By Jeff McDonald Saturday, September 18, 2010 at 5:48 p.m. Michael Covert Palomar Pomerado Health Overall 2010 11 Budget: $480 million Population Served: 541,000...
Californians Aware used the threat of lawsuit to gain a reversal from the board, which now will meet Tuesday on Jim Stieringer's request to get his former seat ba...
By Union Tribune Editorial Board Saturday, November 20, 2010 at midnight Why a 69 year old health care district trustee tried to switch to full time employee stat...
By AnneKrueger UNION TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER October 29, 2004 Jim Stieringer says he wants to see change in the makeup of the Grossmont Healthcare District board ...
Transcript: Stieringer: Good morning. I just suddenly realized that my corrected vision is not really good for these sort of distances. Actually, I'm really glad...
* Agendas and minutes, associated documents, can be found here: GHD Docs * See also Video and transcript of 2010 11 23 GHD meeting including remarks by Stierin...
By Deborah Hastings The Associated Press Saturday 11 August 2007 There are now nearly as many private contractors in Iraq as there are U.S. soldiers ...
SDG E counting on production from Stirling dishes to meet clean energy goals. By Onell R. Soto Originally published December 13, 2010 at 6 a.m., updated December ...
There are NINE parts to this video, each one is about 40 minutes in length. The BOS did not vote on the matter until 2010 12 21. The following is the report of an...
Judith Lewis Mernit Dec 13, 2010 10:05 AM On Thursday morning, San Diego Gas Electric (SDG E), finally sunk a shovel into the ground for the transmission proj...
The following was the request to the San Diego County RegistrarOfVoters: 1 All audit logs from the central tabulator and precinct machines. 2 The "Windows E...
New California Public Utilities Commission members face growing concern by consumer advocates that regulators have authorized too many new power plants over the l...
Part 1 This part includes the analysis of LAFCO legal counsel regarding whether El Cajon Mayor Mark Lewis could be included in the closed session regarding the li...
Monday 07 February 2011 by: Kanya D'Almeida Inter Press Service Report New York In the quiet desert community of Nomirage, located just 20 kilometres east...
By Jeremy Scahill If you think the U.S. has only 160,000 troops in Iraq, think again. With almost no congressional oversight and even less public awareness, the B...
Polling site may sway your vote, study says Robbie Sherwood The Arizona Republic Aug. 14, 2006 12:00 AM Think about the place where you filled out your ballot dur...
United Methodist minister David Jenkins was meeting with fellow clergy last year in the small Kansas community of Sharon Springs when one of the pastors made what...
By JeremyScahill While BlackwaterWorldwide and other firms reject the label #8220;mercenary #8221; firms, Blackwater executives have even turned the grey area in...
See also: * The invitation on the GUHSD website: http://www.copswiki.org/Common/M1139 * Response by Superintendent to LaMesaPatch: http://www.copswiki.org/C...
The BRC final conclusion is that the CDC/PBID should be suspended because of the ineffective management by the CDC. It is our opinion that the elimination of the ...
Grossmont Schools Chief Rebuffs Demand, Will Attend Event at Sonrise Church in Santee District calls Santee church a fixture in the community that is “regularly u...
DID SCHOOL DISTRICT VIOLATE CONSTITUTION BY HOLDING EVENT AT CHURCH? Superintendent Ralf Swenson Multiple locations on district campuses were available, but ...
Session deals with abusive teenage relationships By Leonel Sanchez Monday, February 21, 2011 at 12:18 p.m. SANTEE Vicky Crompton Tetter became an expert on teen...
Published: March 6, 2011 Are State and Local Government Employees Paid Too Much? It s not an easy question to answer for a number of reasons. Here s a primer on ...
Original URL: http://www.wartimecontracting.gov/docs/CWC_InterimReport2 lowres.pdf * CWC_InterimReport2 2011 02 24.pdf: second interim report to Congress from ...
By Kevin G. Hall McClatchyNewspapers WASHINGTON From state legislatures to Congress to tea party rallies, a vocal backlash is rising against what are perceive...
Email sent to La Mesa City Clerk CPRA REQUESTPlease provide the following documents:1. Resignation by James Stieringer from position of City Treasurer, I believe ...
By J. Harry Jones Thursday, April 14, 2011 at 2:15 a.m. Miles deep into the largest Indian reservation in San Diego County, a company with ties to at least one fo...
In the third meeting after the recall election when five pro Blackwater members were replaced by volunteers who voiced their opposition to the Blackwater West pro...
Marines, SEALs confirm training on Indian reservation By J. Harry Jones Friday, April 22, 2011 at 5:35 p.m. An image from a three minute marketing video for the E...
By JAMES RISEN WASHINGTON A federal appeals court on Friday reopened the criminal case against four former American military contractors accused of manslaughter...
RALEIGH, N.C. A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit that blamed the security company formerly known as Blackwater for the deaths of four contractors killed in...
On Osama bin Laden killing: We had just arrived home on a drive from Sacramento after the Democratic State Convention when my son told me the news, and we tuned t...
Also posted: http://lamesa.patch.com/blog_posts/questioning bin laden capture events is not conspiracy theories Questioning Events is not "Conspiracy Theories" We...
Is assassination becoming a popular way to deal with political problems? Israel thinks it is appropriate to assassinate a Hamas figurehead "the same way bin Laden...
Rep. Duncan D. Hunter, in an interview recently with Laura Ingram, said that he would "Rather have a conservative dictatorship" than have to endure the frustratio...
The Afghanistan conflict has been going on for nearly 10 years now, and we now hear that Osama bin Laden has finally been killed. According to the website http://...
Secret Desert Force Set Up by Blackwater s Founder By MARK MAZZETTI and EMILY B. HAGER ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates Late one night last November, a plane ca...
DEMOCRATS v. REPUBLICANS on the issue of the U.S. ECONOMY The following research was reproduced from the site: http://www.eriposte.com/economy/other/demovsrep.htm...
This is a very informative presentation that outlines the history of Saddam Hussein as a CIA asset from early in his life. CLICK HERE TO START PRESENTATION
By Andrew Howell August 17, 2007 Despite San Diego holding one of the nation's largest concentrations of military and law enforcement, it is critically short on t...
Federal Spending Increases since 1961 by Administration * Spending_Increases_by_Administration_since_1961.pdf: Spending_Increases_by_Administration_since_1961....
A new wildfire rages on the Los Coyotes Reservation and near Warner Springs, currently at more than 10,000 acres burned and costing tax payers $2.5 million to fig...
A huge wildfire recently engulfed the backcountry, apparently started by a disgruntled ex employee of the Eagle Rock Training Center and his friend. The pair admi...
On September 8, 2011, a hot, muggy day, San Diego county went dark at about 3:40pm. The first question being asked is whether the Sunrise Powerlink would have do...
John R. Mashey, an innocent computer scientist/executive who stumbled into an alternative universe: physics does not apply and Climate scientists form an evil cab...
By LizNeely STAFF WRITER January 24, 2007 EL CAJON #8211; Rentals and attendance are up at the East County Performing Arts Center one year after new management t...
From Occupy San Diego's partner attorneys (of The National Lawyers Guild): Know Your Rights...and Use Them! 3 basic types of public police encounters: 1. Conve...
Occupy San Diego requests that the San Diego City Council accept a resolution similar to the one adopted by Los Angeles. Resolution Provided to San Diego City Co...
SUGGESTED GOALS FOR THE OCCUPATION Ray Lutz Version 6 The Occupy Wall Street movement is sweeping the nation and the world. It is the best thing I've seen in m...
Late last night after a 5 and a half hour marathon city council meeting, in which 72 speakers took the floor to express the need for the Occupy OC Tent Village to...
At the celebration on the lawn outside Irvine s City Center last night around 11:30 p.m., a fellow activist (who was instrumental in securing the City Council s s...
In the wake of last night's violent police raid on the Occupy Oakland encampment (a still tense situation that we're now on the scene covering) and two similar l...
From Lorena Gonzalez, the San Diego and Imperial County Labor Council s Secretary Treasurer, regarding the Occupy Wall Street and Occupy San Diego campaigns t...
By Edgar Stemen March 3, 2005 A lot has been said and written about the amount of money that East County Performing Arts Center owes the city of El Cajon, and muc...
We have some video extractions from this meeting, below. Entire OSD comments are MediaArchivedOffline and can be provided upon request. Part 1 http://youtu.be/7e...
Published on The Nation ( http://www.thenation.com) Where Are the Women at Occupy Wall Street? Everywhere and They're Not Going Away Sarah Seltzer October 2...
FUKUSHIMA REMEMBEREDProtest Continued Risky and Costly Operation of San Onofre Nuclear Waste Plant On March 11 Fukushima Daiichi Disaster Anniversary * Had...
Blackwater is all wrong for Potrero By Jan N. Hedlun April 19, 2007 I am the newest and the only Potrero Planning Group member against the proposed Blackwater ...
By LizNeely STAFF WRITER July 13, 2006 EL CAJON #8211; The city has reached a settlement with the former manager of East County Performing Arts Center. Advertise...
* See also: EncroachmentLaw, Occupy.OccupySanDiego Lawsuit Documents * OccupySD_complaint_for_TRO.pdf Complaint for TRO * OccupySD_memorandum_for_MPA_for_...
* See video of this meeting Here Background: * Website: http://www.smartmoneysummit.org/ don't waste your time, this website has almost no usable informatio...
Agenda and Prior meeting minutes Panel members, from left of screen: * Murtaza Baxamusa Family Housing Corporation * Kathy Patoff Union Bank * Roose...
Occupy San Diego Canvass for a Cause For immediate release 11/29/2011Contact: Rachel Scoma, Esq. Rachel #64;canvassforacause.org 760 271 0579Former Congressional ...
June 29, 2006 Russell's Christian Community Theater has been operating ECPAC for the past six months under the name Art Beat Management. CCT also operated the cen...
TRO_denied.pdf: Ruling by the court regarding request for TRO on SDMC54.0110 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURTSOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA EUGENE DAVIDOVICH, an ind...
Part 0: Press Conference at Submission of Ballot Proposition paperwork This part actually occurred 2012 01 05 http://youtu.be/ts9EFgXqr 4 Part 1: Ray Lutz bein...
_ This is what they do in banana republics and undemocratic societies. former San Diego City Attorney MichaelAguirre, calling arrest a violation of the Civil Rig...
By Liz Neely STAFF WRITER March 24, 2004 EL CAJON #8211; A proposed $14.4 million expansion of the East County Performing Arts Center would jump start interest i...
A total of 51 Occupy San Diego protesters were arrested early Friday morning and two more were arrested later in the day. San Diego Police Officers and San Diego ...
Was http://blip.tv/citizensoversight/osdlivefeed_2011_10_28_dff87 5916300 ArrestsOn2011Oct28 Winston Smith detained at offset 2:48 (at about 2am) (Total Time 8:20...
MS 2012 1.pdf: Ratification of Agreement for Temporary Change of Stadium's Name There seems to be something wrong with the numbering of this memo, it has the same...
Occupy San Diego activists marched into City Hall Monday morning, looking to make a "citizen's arrest" of Mayor Jerry Sanders. About two dozen occupiers were met ...
SAN DIEGO (CBS) Members of Occupy San Diego attempted to make a citizen s arrest of the city s mayor on Monday over allegations of embezzlement. KNX 1070 s Tom ...
A group of about 20 Occupy San Diego protesters attempted a citizen s arrest Monday of Mayor Jerry Sanders for allowing a temporary name change of Qualcomm Stadiu...
CLICK FOR VIDEO SAN DIEGO About 20 members of Occupy San Diego tried to make a citizen's arrest of Mayor Jerry Sanders Monday, alleging that he committed embezz...
Most of us have heard of Intel s marketing slogan Intel Inside. For about 10 days this holiday season, Qualcomm Stadium is going to have Snapdragon inside. And ...
SAN DIEGO (CNS) About 20 members of Occupy San Diego tried to make a citizen's arrest of Mayor Jerry Sanders Monday, alleging that he committed embezzlement whe...
By U T San Diego Sunday, January 15, 2012 I read with great dismay and disappointment that San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders tried to justify his actions that went co...
WARNER SPRINGS — A judge has ruled that a lease between the Los Coyotes Indian tribe and a military training business is invalid and ordered the business to remov...
San Diego s chief financial officer questioned whether the city was being appropriately paid for a temporary name change of Qualcomm Stadium to endorse the compan...
In addition to this cover sheet, the entire "Statement of Action" was submitted to the Grand Jury. * COPS 2012 02 23 PressRelease SnapdragonToGrandJury Timesta...
Nuclear power was supposed to be too cheap to meter, but a science based nonprofit that advocates for environmental and public health issues has published a new r...
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Spoke at the Forging a Sustainable Future Symposium. It was an amazing speech worth your time to view it. Part 1 http://youtu.be/KoQ2UfOj...
SEND TO ALL LISTS PRESS RELEASE Citizens' Oversight Projects (COPS) Ray Lutz / RayLutz@CitizensOversight.org / 619 820 5321 Residents Organizing for a Safe Env...
Part 1 First 15 minutes or so were from livestream by Jason Snyder (because I forgot to start my camera). At least we got it all. This part includes our guest fro...
It may be curtains for the theater that aimed to be East County’s cultural jewel. Shuttered and in need of major renovation, the East County Performing Arts Cente...
JayPrice, Staff Writer In yet another twist to a long running lawsuit against Blackwater Security Consulting, a federal appeals court has halted an arbitration he...
How do you move a 640 ton, 65 foot tall steam generator 15 miles up the coast? Very slowly. Over the past three weeks crews moved an enormous generator from Camp ...
Note: The text and images were extracted from the NEI document without alteration. Highlighting added. Click the "source" link above to read the article in its or...
Massive new turbines expected to increase electrical output from the San Onofre nuclear plant will be installed starting this month, part of a $280 million upgrad...
May 3, 2012 (El Cajon) It's been two years since the East County Performing Arts Center went dark. But on Monday, a group of concerned citizens seeking to "Save...
Part 1 * March from San Onofre State Beach * Charlie Imes Reverend Stickman Gathering music * Gene Stone, Residents Organized for a Safe Environment ...
AGENDA ITEM: (Approved unanimously) 16. Conduct a public hearing to consider rescission of the following approvals granted on December 21, 2010, for the Coyote We...
El Cajon city leaders on Tuesday edged away from a proposal to replace the East County Performing Arts Center downtown with a Marriott Courtyard hotel, saying the...
The chairman of the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission toured the San Onofre nuclear power plant Friday with elected officials. He later met with activists who...
Dear Readers ... A Guest Editor's Note this issue by PAUL KRUZE increases our awareness of what is happening to a favorite East County THEATER many of us ...
Back on the climate change question. There is some reluctance on your part to agree with the notion that climate change is both real and largely caused by human a...
* Press Release regarding the proposal submittal * Cover Letter to City Manager Douglas Williford re: Foundation proposal * ECPAC Foundation Proposal (PDF):...
By Jenny Mandel jmandel #64;govexec.com February 8, 2007 Army officials acknowledged Wednesday that a private security firm was hired under a contract for Iraq ...
Friends of the Earth announced their petition filed to allow them to confront Southern California Edison regarding the redesign of the steam generators at San Ono...
See also 12 11 08_NRC_Memorandum_and_Order_on_Petition_and_Stay_App * 12 06 18 NRC FOE petition to intervene San Onofre.pdf: Petition by Friends of the Earth t...
FULL TRANSCRIPTION: NRCMeetingTranscript2012 06 18 Of NRC public meeting, parts 1 4 Part 0 Friends of the Earth Petition to Intervene This action by Frie...
By Miriam Raftery June 27, 2012 (El Cajon) At a press conference on June 22, members of the new ECPAC Foundation provided details to media on their proposal to r...
OCEANSIDE About 10 people urged the Oceanside City Council on Wednesday to place on a future meeting agenda a discussion on the nuclear power plant in San Onofre....
For the past four years, San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station has had the highest number of safety complaints of any nuclear plant in the country. That s not th...
Fueled by last week's news of design flaws at San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, more than 20 anti nuclear activists on Wednesday asked the Oceanside City Cou...
LOS ANGELES (AP) The future of the troubled San Onofre nuclear power plant could balance on an inescapable question: Is it worth the money to fix it? Engineers ...
By Alan Levin and Matt Kelley, USA TODAY WASHINGTON #8212; Poor Defense Department oversight of private companies that fly military missions in war zones was par...
California energy officials are preparing for the possibility the San Onofre nuclear power plant could be offline through 2013 or 2014. While there is no timetabl...
Although state and utility officials hope San Onofre will be producing some power as soon as this fall, they're scrambling to avoid a dark 2013 and 2014. The nucl...
Replacing four of the San Onofre nuclear plant s biggest parts took 10 years and cost almost $700 million. SDG E and others said the project was premature. It was...
After last year's Fukushima nuclear disaster, a subcontracting company working to clean up the plant told workers to lie about high radiation exposure in a bid to...
(Financial Times) Nuclear power is so expensive compared with other forms of energy that it has become "really hard" to justify, according to the chief executiv...
* Press_Release_on_COPS_Review_of_AIT_Report.pdf: Press Release on COPS Review of AIT Report * Questions_to_NRC_from_AIT_Report_and_June_18_meeting.pdf: Questi...
CHICAGO #8212; The University of Illinois has canceled a partnership between its police training institute and a military contractor best known for providing secu...
I am at the airport having just left almost 1,000 of my best arts friends who had come together for the Americans for the Arts' Annual Convention in San Antonio. ...
EL CAJON What was built to be East County s premier performing arts venue remains mothballed and in need of repairs, but a campaign is underway to bring the dow...
* PRA El_Cajon ECPAC_Records 2012 08 02.pdf: Original request letter from COPS * LETTER RAY_LUTZ_081312.pdf: Cover letter #1 from the City of El Cajon in respo...
EL CAJON Dustin Holum, a 2000 Valhalla High graduate, grew up performing, volunteering and later working as a member of a youth theater group at the East County...
This book is an excellent reference, very nuts and bolts with almost everything in it regarding theatre. It mainly concentrates on production as opposed to presen...
See main subproject here: SanOnofreLicenseAmendmentIntervention Latest News A petition to intervene and request a hearing has been submitted as of Oct 17, 2012 ...
* lutz claim against sd for arrest bw.pdf: Claim against the City of San Diego (with personal information redacted) * rejection_of_claim_by_city_2012 03 15.pdf...
Goldman Sachs is majority owner of property management firm headed by Senator Feinstein s husband Story by Miriam Raftery, photos by Ron Logan November 30, 2011 (...
April 19, 2007 Blackwater Plans for New Military Facility Near San Diego Draws Fire From Residents, Peace Activists and Local Congressmember The private secur...
What was Paul Russell thinking? Russell, executive director of Art Beat Management, an affiliate of Christian Community Theater, was quoted July 12 in the Union T...
CONTACT: Ray Lutz, COPS Coordinator raylutz #64;citizensoversight.org / 619 820 5321 http://www.CitizensOversight.org San Diego County, California FOR IMMEDIA...
After the massive clearing of Civic Center Plaza and the arrest of 51 protesters in the early morning hours, this activist was arrested for supposedly setting dow...
'Shut Down San Onofre': The New Front Line in the Fight Against Nuclear Power Jon Wiener on July 5, 2012 5:52 PM ET Not long after the meltdown at Fukushima, wo...
SAN CLEMENTE (CBS) _ _ Previously classified documents along with other evidence uncovered in an exclusive CBS2 investigation point to potential hidden dangers a...
August 27, 2007: Security company Blackwater U.S.A. is buying Super Tucano light combat aircraft from the Brazilian manufacturer Embraer. These five ton, single e...
Negin: Renewable energy would create more jobs than nuclear power Elliott Negin, SPECIAL CONTRIBUTOR If Christine Todd Whitman were really serious about promotin...
Conservative group's candidates found not qualified for judicial positions by County Bar May 24, 2010 (San Diego) Judicial races are rarely headline news. But a...
ECM article helped shed light on misreprentation, Lincoln Club s Stirling reveals By Miriam Raftery Jim Miller October 11, 2012 (San Diego) Jim Miller, candidate...
By Miriam Raftery May 30, 2012 (San Diego) Accusations are flying in the contentious race for San Diego Superior Court seat 25. Candidate Jim Miller has been re...
The Lincoln Club of San Diego has rescinded an endorsement it made for San Diego Superior Court judge, after allegations that the lawyer was posting on Facebook a...
We are still investigating this, but it appears that they may vote on this at the Oct 25 CPUC meeting in Irvine. "Order Instituting Investigation on the Commissio...
New cooling system would mean more towers in coastal reserve Reducing the San Onofre Nuclear Generation Station's thirst for salt water would cost about $2.5 bill...
* Emailed to Richard Belesky on Nov. 3, 2012. * LetterToParkRangerAboutAnti SealSigns.pdf: Letter to Ranger Richard Belesky about anti seal signs at Childrens ...
When San Diego residents have an idea they think could improve their local government, Council Policy 21 tells how they can get the proposal before voters. The po...
* Real_story_about_the_state_budget_v4.pdf: Analysis of the budget of California for the prior 30 years NOTE by RayLutz: I am a bit worried that the final two cur...
Peace Festival at the gate of Blackwater North. Group of unarmed citizens gather for peace to draw attention to the world's most powerful private military firm, B...
* Original document: http://www.docstoc.com/docs/134693051/CRS Report Top Tax Rates From the Conclusion The results of the analysis suggest that changes over the...
Rally and Press Conference http://youtu.be/Ejxra54m7qw Meeting Part 1 http://youtu.be/CcEmbpvJ71E Meeting Part 2 http://youtu.be/Aomjo1bjxsw Meeting Part 3...
See main subproject here: SanOnofreLicenseAmendmentIntervention Overview This proceeding, held on Dec 5, 2012, was to determine if Citizens Oversight has conten...
SAN DIEGO Citizens Oversight Project activist Raymond Lutz asked the Nuclear Regulatory Commission Wednesday to hold a formal hearing on changes to Southern Ca...
Your browser does not support the audio element. It was a lesson in fighting city hall or, in this case, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. An activist engineer...
AUDIO: http://www.kpbs.org/audioclips/16167/ It s a David and Goliath situation, but a panel of independent judges at the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board is con...
SAN ONOFRE, Calif. If Southern California Edison thought it was moving smoothly toward firing up San Onofre's Unit 2 reactor, it received a rude awakening on Fr...
Featured Interview: Engineer and activist Ray Lutz nukes the NRC s cover up of SCE s responsibility for San Onofre s steam generator problems. PLUS: * Four n...
Original article by Roger Challberg has been withdrawn upon request of the author. You may read this article in the September 9, 2007 Edition of the BackCountryMe...
Resolution as Adopted: San Diego School Board Resolution San Onofre Power Plant Safety, 1 22 13 Press Conference http://youtu.be/XUSmmxtUO68 Resolution Agenda ...
This event was sponsored by the League of Women Voters and Common Cause, and was held in Carlsbad, CA on January 25, 2013. * Welcome Mary Crowley, President,...
The following spreadsheet is a summary of videos found on YouTube related to Occupy.OccupySanDiego. It does not include at this time videos from other video s...
Our country constantly tries to grapple with the concepts of the Federal Budget Deficit and the National Debt. You hear about "Sequestration," which is essentiall...
VIDEO OF PRESS CONFERENCE http://youtu.be/Szq8ATVhc 4 VIDEO OF HEARING MediaArchivedOffline TRANSCRIPT OF HEARING * I1210013_022113_VOL_1_PPH.PDF: Transcrip...
Revised 2013 03 18 This analysis has a robust discussion on Facebook, click here to join the fray The national economy, debts and deficits are largely totally mis...
(CNSNews.com) The Towne Center in El Cajon, Calif. is a mostly abandoned mall; an unlikely stage for battle over religious freedom. But it became a battleground w...
Late in the evening on Wednesday, one of the busiest and most unnerving times Washington has seen in a long while, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid quietly appoi...
Public Utilities Code Section 455.5 http://www.lawlink.com/research/Level2/107821 (a) In establishing rates for any electrical, gas, heat, or water corporation,...
With nuke near death, consumers staring at $3B tab By Dan McSwain5 p.m.May 4, 2013 The San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station has been closed for 14 months after ...
The CPUC, the California Public Utilities Commission is a state agency that regulates utilities. This meeting is a quasi judicial hearing regarding the San Onofre...
* Thank you to the organizers of this event, particularly Torgen Johnson. * Thank you to Cathy Iwane for great translation! Part 1: * Intro by County Super...
Opponents of a defense contractor #8217;s proposal to build a training camp in San Diego #8217;s backcountry say a lobbying firm that works both for the county an...
This is Phase 1 of the investigation by by the CPUC into the outage at San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS). This phase is constrained to the events and ...
Edison International's CEO Hosts San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station Update Conference (Transcript) Jun 7 2013, 16:40 about: EIX Executives Janet T. Clayton ...
This meeting occurred just after the announcement by Southern California Edison that they would not attempt to restart either unit at the San Onofre Nuclear Gener...
Sidewalk chalk activist lands in court City attorney: "graffiti is an issue that is very prevalent in San Diego" By Trent Seibert6:02 p.m.June 26, 2013 The San Di...
Chalk up a victory for lawful medical marijuana patients today in California. If you get busted running a collective, you should be able to raise a medical mariju...
By this case: * PEG channels cannot require permission from everyone if it is "news gathering." * Cannot limit photographers from recording illegal acts. ...
This case finds: * As to the First Amendment claim under Section 1983, we agree with the Smiths that they had a First Amendment right, subject to reasonable ti...
This case finds: * A citizen can record city council meetings to allow for expression under first amendment * "the ban on Thompson's tape recorder has s...
July 31, 2007 02:06 PM ELIZABETH CITY, N.C. (AP) Private security contractor Blackwater USA plans to expand its business by selling airships and armored veh...
The CPUC is a public agency that is responsible for regulating the public utilities in California. In this case, this agency is in the midst of an investigation i...
REHNQUIST, J., Opinion of the Court SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES 447 U.S. 74 Pruneyard Shopping Center v. Robins APPEAL FROM THE SUPREME COURT OF CALIFORN...
At an administrative hearing on January 8, 2013 of the CaliforniaPublicUtilitiesCommission on the multi million dollars costs at the broken down San Onofre nuclea...
Tibor Fischer reviews Blackwater: the Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army by Jeremy Scahill His father was a self made millionaire. He became a US Na...
Ray Lutz 1010 Old Chase Ave El Cajon, CA 92020 Sept 4, 2013 To: Rep. Susan Davis 2700 Adams Ave San Diego, CA 92116 (619) 280 5353 Dear Rep. Davis: I am hopi...
Introduction Citizens Oversight has briefly engaged with the NuclearRegulatoryCommission (NRC) over the last year or so regarding mainly the San Onofre Nuclear Ge...
* COPS_comment_to_NRC_on_Foreign_Ownership.pdf: Official submission to the NRC. To: Jo Ann Simpson Financial Analyst Financial Analysis and International Proje...
Original motion for CDSO Party status 75391894 CDSO_Motion_for_Party_Status.PDF: CDSO Original Motion for Party Status Response by ALJ Darling to Motion for Par...
Video of Afternoon Session About 7 minutes were omitted at the beginning of Part 1 and 3 minutes at the beginning of Part 2 which were facilitator remarks about l...
This Public Participation Hearing (PPH) was held in San Diego to hear comments from the public regarding the CPUC investigation into the outages at San Onofre, I....
In 1961, Eisenhower warned, "In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence...by the military industrial complex. T...
Media Contact: Ray Lutz 619 820 5321 / raylutz #64;citizensoversight.org FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE City of San Diego to Approve Settlement with Ray Lutz for Voter R...
DOWNTOWN SAN DIEGO East County activist Ray Lutz received a $60,000 legal settlement from the city Tuesday stemming from his 2011 arrest for trespassing while t...
The First Amendment is alive and well in San Diego, however, not without the help of attorneys and the courts. On Tuesday, December 10, the city council is expect...
SAN DIEGO, Dec. 10, 2013 /PRNewswire USNewswire/ A First Amendment attorney who the San Diego City Attorney was prosecuting has now had all charges against him ...
Police cleared Civic Center Plaza and Children's Park in the early morning hours of 2011 10 28 and 51 people were arrested, gear and tents confiscated. This video...
The operator of the recently retired San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station has been cited by nuclear safety regulators for failing to properly check the design of...
The operator of the recently retired San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station has been cited by nuclear safety regulators for failing to properly check the design of...
Panel in hot water over Blackwater vote Recall petition, lawsuit under way By Anne Krueger STAFF WRITER May 12, 2007 The planning group for the backcountry com...
by Nathan Hodge MOYOCK, N.C. #8212;First rule of Blackwater is: You do not talk to the clients. Back in October, I travelled to Camden County, North Carolina for ...
This was a five day Evidentiary Hearing. All days were webcast. You can access the webcast at the following links. These should be opened in RealPlayer. * 2013...
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East County Performing Arts Center in talks with Rock Church By Karen Pearlman8:47 p.m.Feb. 27, 2014 The shuttered East County Performing Arts Center is in down...
CPRA REQUEST (Sent to city using ther web based contact us form) This request is made per the California Public Records Act. Please provide information in electro...
* FormalObjectionToClosedSessionAndLeaseToRockChurch.pdf: Letter to City of El Cajon regarding improper closed session and lease of ECPAC to The Rock Church Date:...
PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Coalition to Decommission San Onofre Contact: Ray Lutz, 619 820 5321 raylutz #64;citizensoversight.org EDISON SDG E PROPO...
US Draft too? ''A warning about the prospect of an imminent but staged "9/11" attack followed by a strike on Iran and imposition of martial law in the US has be...
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* SD UT Nuke Pg1 Sun 4 20 14.pdf: Print Edition Story as PDF * SSD UTnuke_story Pg2 Sun4 20 14.pdf: Print Edition Story as PDF Pg 2 At issue is whether utilit...
This consultant report was prepared in response to Assembly Bill 1632 (“AB 1632” Blakeslee, Chapter 722, Statutes of 2006), which directed the California Energy...
For many decades, the California Public Utilities Commission and the big companies it regulates — Pacific Gas Electric, Southern California Edison, Southern Cal...
It seems right out of a shoot 'em up Hollywood thriller: A shadowy private American security company led by a messianic right winger by the name of Erik Prince wh...
PLEASE USE THIS VERSION INSTEAD OF ANY PRIOR VERSIONS YOU MAY HAVE DOWNLOADED! * I12 10 013 CDSO Settlement Opening Comment REV1.pdf: CDSO Opening Comment on t...
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California historically has offered one of the most constructive regulatory environments in the nation, says Hugh Wynne, a Wall Street research analyst. Because ...
Posted May 8, 2014 Media Contact: Maureen Brown, (626) 302 2255 ROSEMEAD, Calif., May 8, 2014 Parties representing labor, consumers and community based organiza...
Nuclear deal slams consumers, as usual By Dan McSwain5 p.m.May 10, 2014 FILE In this Friday, June 7, 2013 file photo, surfers pass in front of the San Onofre nu...
Who pays for a worthless power plant? By Morgan Lee6 a.m.May 11, 2014 San Onofre nuclear power plant Nuclear plants across the United States routinely swap out m...
Closing of nuke helps Edison to higher earnings Eric Wolff 5 November 2013 SNL Generation Markets Week GMW The closure of the San Onofre nuclear generating statio...
Heated battles over who pays for last year's permanent closure of the San Onofre nuclear power plant — and how much — are just getting started. Even some consumer...
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Settling The Bill For Closing The San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station Wednesday, May 14, 2014 By Erik Anderson Utilities, consumer advocates and critics are in...
NOTES: * This video is not the entire hearing, but the introductory remarks and the cross examination by Attorney Mike Aguirre. This version includes all the ...
Tuesday, May 13, 2014 KUSI's Michael Turko says a utility commission hearing tomorrow on a San Onofre power plant settlement could shut down the investigation ...
* Letter_To_Rov Snapshot_Request_for_June_2014_2014 05 15.pdf: Letter to the Registrar of Voters requesting cooperation in our oversight process for June 2014 Re...
* See also the Full Length video and transcript of Aguirre's cross examination, including all objections and improprieties by ALJ Darling (about an hour): Click H...
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Mike Aguirre gets cussed out at CPUC The president of the California Public Utilities Commission swore and angrily refused to answer questions last week at an unu...
PERFORMING ARTS TENANTS SOUGHT With renovation of ECPAC set to begin, El Cajon wants to arrange some long term leases By Karen Pearlman 5:06 a.m.May 22, 2014 el ...
Peeved Commissioner Peevey hints at CPUC's disarray The regulators' fixed deal is naked By Don Bauder, May 26, 2014 On May 14, the California Public Utilities...
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A San Diego consumer advocate is pushing state lawmakers to make utility regulators follow the same open meeting laws other government agencies live with. Attorne...
Attempting to solve the continuing mystery we could call Who Killed San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station? U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer has demanded that the Nuclear...
The California Public Utilities Commission is a disaster. The degree of incompetence is so high, it's hard to find anything the PUC does well under President Mich...
Barbara Boxer wants U.S. probe on San Onofre By: Associated Press May 28, 2013 06:09 AM EDT LOS ANGELES — U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer wants the Justice Department to...
Southern California Edison and the maker of steam generators at San Onofre nuclear plant knew about problems with the generators even before they were installed, ...
Yesterday (June 16), the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) held an open meeting in Costa Mesa at which proponents and opponents of the San Onofre paym...
The Coalition to Decommission San Onofre requestst that each one of the Commissioners and/or advisors, as appropriate, view the above video presentation, as if we...
By Jodi S. Cohen and E.A. Torriero Tribune staff reporters September 7, 2007 University of Illinois officials cut ties Thursday with Tom Dempsey, the beleaguer...
Erik Prince is the chairman of the Hong Kong listed logistics and securities company Frontier Services Group, an Africa focused company that is building a pan Afr...
Timing of UCAN payment questioned Consumer group and CPUC deny any connection to San Onofre matter By Jeff McDonald7:36 p.m.July 11, 2014 A surfer rides a wave i...
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Plan to Track Quake Threat Is Questioned By JOHN UPTON A hulking research vessel would haul air guns, echo sounders and other instruments along the California co...
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FILE This Monday Nov. 3,2008 file photo shows one of Pacific Gas and Electric's Diablo Canyon Power Plant's nuclear reactors in Avila Beach on California's centra...
SAN DIEGO Southern California Edison on Tuesday abandoned a plan to send a 600 ton decommissioned reactor vessel on what would have been the longest voyage ever...
IN THE PAST few years there has been increasing concern about global climate change on the part of the media, politicians, and the public. It has been stimulated ...
Editorial: California Public Utilities Commission sweetly snuggles up to PG E By the Editorial Board Published: Thursday, Jul. 31, 2014 12:00 am Last Modified...
Diablo safety committee asks for further review on cooling system BY COLIN RIGLEY In a special meeting of the Diablo Canyon Independent Safety Committee, members...
Recent years have not been kind to the California Public Utilities Commission. Two high profile disasters—the 2010 San Bruno gas pipeline explosion, which killed ...
There is an extraordinary push by certain individuals to extol the wonders of thorium fueled nuclear reactors. In fact, so concerted is this push that some blame ...
* Original document location: http://www.dcisc.org/draft addendum to bechtel assessment.pdf * Draft plan to install cooling towers to avoid once through coolin...
* 14_05_12_ECPAC_TENANT_INTEREST_11.doc: Summary description of the request for interest in leasing ECPAC * 14_05_12_Statement_of_Interest_for_Long_Term_Tenant...
DATA * All data regarding this request is at this link: https://citizensoversightinc.sharefile.com/d s24358aa6e4c447c9 REQUEST See: REQUEST * CPRA Response ...
12:00 AM CDT on Thursday, September 6, 2007 By DavidMcLemore / The DallasMorningNews dmclemore #64;dallasnews.com The Border Patrol runs glossy Web videos and a...
A new standoff has emerged in deliberations over who should pay for the breakdown of the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station. Two consumer advocates have urged ...
Rock Church to lease El Cajon arts center By Karen Pearlman9:40 p.m.Aug. 12, 2014 EL CAJON — The Rock Church will be a part time resident of the East County Perfo...
The following email was sent to Morgan Foley, City Attorney for El Cajon City Council: PUBLIC RECORDS REQUEST OF 3/10/2014 followup... Thank you Mr. Foley for thi...
* RFI1483 CajonValleyUnionSchoolDistrict ChurchUseofSchoolFacilities.pdf: Letter to David Miyashiro, Superintendent of Cajon Valley School District Received this ...
"Status of East County Performing Arts Center and Response to Request for Proposals RECOMMENDATION: That the City Council direct staff to pursue a draft final agr...
* Young_Life_Campaign_v_Patino.rtf: Young LIfe Campaign Vs. Patino Director of the Employment Development Department appealed from judgments of the Superior court...
This letter was submitted to the City of El Cajon to influence their negotiations with the Rock Church. Summary * Issue 1: Theater manager should be hired fir...
GO TO OFFSET 15:00 to index to the start of the interview! To hear RADIO INTERVIEW, by MaureenCavanaugh, visit: http://www.kpbs.org/news/2014/sep/09/controversy s...
By David Hasemyer UNION TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER September 12, 2007 City Attorney MichaelAguirre wants to know the story behind KPBS' decision to cancel its public a...
"We've produced a video about a mega church invasion," said Bonnie Mann from the dais at Tuesday morning's city council meeting. Ms. Mann is a member of Concerned...
These tutorial videos provide an overview of the election processing flowchart and how asking for a snapshot CD of the election at a critical time can put a stop ...
ROCK CHURCH RE INVITES ADULT PORN STAR RON JEREMY, SAYS JESUS LOVES PORN STARS TOO! June 10th, 2012 photo courtesy of crosebrough.com Rock Church Re Invites Adult...
Church not good neighbor, residents say Complaints include noise, traffic, parking By Jeanette SteeleSTAFF WRITER November 6, 2006 The Rock Church has become a pe...
A chip off the bold Rock Ex con says mega church fired him for reporting child molester By Dave Rice, Aug. 28, 2014 * A pastor formerly employed by the Rock...
NBC San Diego Saturday, Dec 4, 2010 • Updated at 11:34 AM PDT A lawsuit over the location of San Diego's largest church is gaining traction. A judge approved clas...
A mighty presence Rock Church has become one of the country's largest megachurches; critics see evils of traffic tie ups, noise and exclusionary message By Sandi ...
Critics say El Cajon officials are going backwards by entering into negotiations with The Rock before securing a theater manager By Kinsee Morlan Ray Lutz criti...
Update: You can read the letter submitted to the City here. Sept. 5, 2014 (El Cajon) The El Cajon City Council ordered City Manager Douglas Williford to enter int...
By: EDWARD SIFUENTES Staff Writer NORTH COUNTY Marine Corps Capt. Duncan Duane Hunter will not be the only candidate for the 52nd Congressional District seat...
Beginning in 2012, I used the Nuclear Regulatory Commission non concurrence and differing professional opinion (DPO) processes to raise nuclear safety issues affe...
Improving the Security, Transparency and Efficiency of California's 1% Manual Tally Procedures Joseph Lorenzo Hall, UC Berkeley School of Information1 Abstract: ...
SAN DIEGO (CNS) The San Onofre Nuclear Plant conducted what's expected to be the final test of its sirens Wednesday. The system is designed to alert people in c...
A recently published Harvard University meta analysis funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has concluded that children who live in areas with highly ...
U.S. nuclear safety regulators missed red flags in 2009 when they agreed to pre approve steam generators at the San Onofre nuclear plant without a thorough review...
Republican candidates have been flocking to run for California Republican Rep. Duncan Hunter #8217;s seat in the 52nd district, but this weekend, Democrats gained...
NRC InspectorGeneralReportOnSongs ML14276A478.pdf: NRC Inspector General Report on SONGS and 10CFR 50.59 Searchable Text Page 1 OFFICE OF THE INSPECTOR GENERA...
The following documents are unaltered from their original form as received from our source. We will be processing these so they are searchable but these PDF files...
Headline in hardcopy edition: EL CAJON VENUE SHOULD BE OPEN FOR WIDE PUBLIC USE The East County Performing Arts Center (ECPAC) has been closed unreasonably for f...
The East County Performing Arts Center (ECPAC), which is owned and operated by the city of El Cajon and located within the downtown district, closed its doors alm...
A San Diego based consumer coalition wants placed on hold a multibillion dollar settlement proposal for nuclear plant costs at San Onofre, in response to revelati...
A group of utility consumers announced a federal lawsuit Friday against the California Public Utilities Commission and one of the state’s largest electric compani...
You may hear that nuclear power is "green" because it does not contribute to Greenhouse Gas (GHG) pollution, and thus is a possible solution to climate change. Af...
Let's pull this apart a bit more. There are a few different "levels" that such actions may be classified into: 1. "PRIVATE ACTION" Club/Group/Forum meetings whe...
February 22, 2013 Civic Center Act Amended to Expand Definition of “Direct Costs” School Districts May Charge for Use of School Facilities and Grounds RELATED AT...
As California Public Utilities Commission President Michael Peevey and the utilities he regulated extol his legacy of largesse, we should consider what’s needed a...
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Note: this section is applicable to contractors, such as Blackwater Section 4 Contractors 1) Sending States may contract for any services, equipment, provisio...
IMPORTANT QUOTES In the context of the overall waste management system, the Administration supports the goal of siting, designing, licensing, constructing and com...
* 2015 01 15_Press_Release_ _COPS_files_legal_protest_on_decommissioning_spending.pdf: Press Release on the Protest by COPS on SONGS Decommissioning Spending *...
Registrar had vote count issues before Vu says there’s no connection between Ohio case and Chula Vista By Greg Moran8 p.m.Jan. 23, 2015 San Diego County Registra...
Meeting links CPUC probe to San Onofre Edison discloses it met at luxury hotel in Poland with former regulator By Jeff McDonald5:44 p.m.Feb. 9, 2015 Hotel Bristo...
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SCE reports private contact in 2013 with PUC head Peevey In 2013, then PUC President Michael Peevey spoke privately with an SCE executive about San Onofre. (Mark ...
By Jeff McDonald5:05 a.m.Feb. 2, 2015 Even as state investigators rummaged through Michael Peevey’s kitchen, office and garage last week, many of the people he re...
Shut up! Shut up! Edison admits secret huddle with Michael Peevey on San Onofre By Don Bauder, Feb. 9, 2015 This afternoon (February 9), Southern California Edi...
raylutz@citizensoversight.org 619 820 5321 February 11, 2015 PRESS RELEASE MEDIA ADVISORY – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Peevey Toasters Face Public Scrutiny Southern...
Furor over $250 a head party honoring former CPUC head By Jaxon Van Derbeken February 11, 2015 Updated: February 11, 2015 6:24pm Photo: Paul Chinn / The Chronicle...
* COPS_Letter_to_El_Cajon_challenging_closed_session_on_ECPAC_of_2015 02 24.pdf: COPS letter challenging closed session on Rock Church Lease of ECPAC on 2/24/2015...
Peevey Gala Event Sponsors * Sponsors paid to Don Solem, co chair, Mill Valley, CA * Report of monies collected by Pickers for this Peevey Gala. Why is this...
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QUESTION What items may be discussed under the real estate negotiations exception to the open meeting requirements of the Ralph M. Brown Act—an exception which st...
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE On February 25, 2015, Citizens Oversight and other plaintiffs, represented by attorneys Aguirre Severson LLP, made a significant filing in...
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The following are responses to CPRA requests for information regarding the unusual sponsorship of the Peevey Gala event and also the linkage between the $25 milli...
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CPUC does about face on Picker pledge Agency decided not to prove its president paid for dinner, but never said so By Ricky Young 3:04 P.M.MARCH 30, 2015 Juli...
* 3_19_15_Letter_to_President_Picker_from_Asm_Rendon.pdf: Letter to CPUC President Picker from Assembly Member Rendon, Chair of the Utilities Commerce Committee...
Prehearing conference of the San Onofre Nuclear Plant decommissioning proceeding. in this meeting, the parties make their case for issues that have been determine...
PRESS RELEASE – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE HALT SAN ONOFRE DECOMMISSIONING DURING DROUGHT, SAYS CITIZENS' OVERSIGHT Water Conservation Plan should be reviewed and ap...
NEWS RELEASE – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CITIZENS OVERSIGHT RELEASES SECRET “BRISTOL HOTEL” RSG NOTES OUTLINING SAN ONOFRE SETTLEMENT Notes were made during a meeti...
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BLACKWATER GUARDS SENTENCED IN DEATHS Men deny guilt in killing of 14 unarmed civilians in Baghdad traffic circle in 2007 By Spencer S. Hsu Victoria St. Martin...
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Ratepayer Group Citizens' Oversight Sends Open Letter to San Onofre Settlement Endorsers "It's time to pull your support" SAN DIEGO (Aug 1...
Introduction Genetically Modified Organism (GMO) is the label being used regarding food and other crops that use recombinant DNA technology to introduce traits in...
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The state’s top utility regulator has agreed to look into a request from San Diego County Supervisor Dianne Jacob concerning low level radiation emitted by the Su...
Background There is a "dose makes poison" chart which circulates on the internet. It uses a typical Monsanto sleight of hand, in that it equates Roundup with Glyp...
* Chart shows Roundup residue in GMO soy but not in organic or conventional soy: * 1 s2.0 S0308814613019201 main.pdf: Compositional differences in soybe...
Many deceptive ProGMO news articles claim that 2000 studies show that GMOs are "safe". The attached spreadsheet is the actual list of documents. * Ge crops s...
Latest News * AB 840 modified on August 28 to allow only early VBM and Polls ballots now signed into law. * In the appellate court, they judged that due t...
San Diego County Registrar of Voters Michael Vu at Interfaith Community Services in Escondido. Gary Warth Just weeks after leaving his job after three controversy...
June 23rd, 2016 Dear Readers, Three important nuclear power events occurred in the past seven days one in Nebraska and two in California which together show j...
Hearing Reminder * July 6, 3pm * San Diego Superior Court, 330 W. Broadway * Dept. C 73, (West annex, 6th Floor) * SORRY YOU MISSED IT! Here is a vide...
* 0607_E_public_notice_1.pdf: Public notice of the random draw and manual tally * Audit report and analysis * ManualTallySelectionMeetingTranscript.pdf: Tra...
SAN DIEGO (KUSI) — A court case has been filed against the Registrar of Voters for not including all votes when he conducted an audit as required by law. It charg...
TO: City of El Cajon, c/o Belinda Hawley, City Clerk N. Dean Huseby, Choi, Chin Woo, Vasquez, William G, Ilumin, Robert G, County Supervisor Dianne Jacob Jo...
Here is some evidence of possible election fraud in San Diego. It is clear that more information is needed to determine if these actions are legal or not. We find...
* Invite email and Agenda for this meeting: Election Team Email 2016 08 07 * Audio recording of the Election Oversight Team conference call of 2016 08 10 A...
Background Roster Review is conducted after the election as soon as voter sign in rosters are available. This procedure is * a check on the chain of custody o...
* ElectionTeamEmail_2016 08 16 See this topic for the email just before the conference call which includes the agenda for the conference call meeting. * El...
Please also see this topic for all lawsuit related information: ElectionAuditLawsuit Initial lawsuit filing: * Graphic summarizing the election audits:
Election Team Email 2016 08 25 (read this as a web page: ) THANK YOU FOR VOLUNTEERING TO JOIN OUR ELECTION OVERSIGHT TEAM! * This is conference call #3 since...
Election lawsuit on track for October trial Plaintiffs want registrar to count provisional ballots in quality control audit By Joshua Stewart 2:37 p.m. Aug. 23...
In this video, you will learn about: * Logging in and setting your wikiname. * The fact that you need to send an email to raylutz #64;citizensoveright.org t...
In this video you will learn about: * the general concept of the media database. * how to create a new media topic * adding a video media and embedding t...
There will be a recount. Two days after Democrat Darryl Rouson was determined to be leading fellow Democrat Ed Narain in the closest primary in Florida, Florida S...
Related Topics: * OversightSuggestionsInArizonaAndFlorida Comments, first video: * Left to right: Supervisor of Elections (SOE), Wesley Wilcox, Judge Jim Mc...
Election Team Email 2016 09 04 This email contains hyperlinks that should be clickable. If not, please view this link in your browser: Greetings: Welcome to o...
101.591 Voting system audit (1) Immediately following the certification of each election, the county canvassing board or the local board responsible for certifyin...
These files were provided in response to a request for procedures at the San Diego County ROV and also the central tabulator audit log. Request document is includ...
Observations: * No inspection of the slips of paper in the metal box before they started. * Would be easy to leave out a race or precinct which has been fixed...
Citrus County Random Selection and Audit Process Random Audit Selection September 6, 2016 Canvassing Board: Citrus Supervisor of Elections, Susan Gill, County Co...
The Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. An executive with North Carolina based private security contractor Blackwater USA has joined Republican presidential candidate ...
Press Conference Video https://youtu.be/SgHxz1 u7vY * Padillas_letter_to_ROVs.16295sr.pdf: Letter from SOS General Counsel Reyes on Election Audit Lawsuit Re...
Data archived * All data related to this issue is archived at this link: https://citizensoversightinc.sharefile.com/d sb5cc70a9f114065b * ex59 certified asr...
Ballot Images = Transparent, Trackable, Publicly Verifiable Elections as a Solution to Prevent Election Fraud. Ballot Images are an impunity buster. Fraction Mag...
The Iraqi government said Tuesday it would review the status of private security companies as anger over the alleged involvement of Blackwater USA in a fatal shoo...
Experts: State should audit election results Michael Gerstein , The Detroit News 12:06 a.m. EDT October 17, 2016 file voting machine (Photo: Robin Buckson / Detro...
The voting tallies are attached along with all relevant screenshots. Below are my notes, methodology, analysis, and conclusion. Notes: #1 Data for a greenstate co...
Comments by Patricia Gracian: Christine, Mike Russell, and I made it for the Nov 15 VBM batch random number draw. Michael Vu said he would send Ray the procedure...
Report by Main.JustinLeBlanc Regarding the "Statement of the Vote" released by the Sacramento ROV, while there is granularity to the report, there are several adm...
Hi Ray, So, I was a witness to the random selection meeting. I was unable to video record it, as the employees of Alameda County Registrar told me that it is no...
This is the second round selection for VBM batches. The only issue we have is we did not get the snapshot file for ALL batches. Part 1 Part 2 * List_1RandomS...
Our recording of the random draw for this audit is extremely concerning, visibly showing likely sleight of hand manipulation. A subsequent video from a different ...
By ERICA WERNER, Associated Press Writer Tue Sep 18, 3:13 PM ET Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert, House Republican Whip Roy Blunt and 11 other members of Congr...
On Tuesday, November 22, 2016, I took a round robin tour of four election district offices in Southern California: Orange County, Los Angeles County, San Bernardi...
On my way to LA, I called Santa Clara Registrar's office to confirm the time of the random drawing (11:00 am). At that time, I was able to video the drawing which...
They conclude that: "Overall, this study provides valuable quantitative and qualitative evidence that manual post election auditing is not an error free process. ...
The PNG image standard is a proposed format for The OpenBallotInitiative. It has many positive features: * CRC error detection on chunk by chunk basis. * Ex...
* Principles and Best Practices for Post Election Audits The following is an html version of the document with some comments. Principles and Best Practices for...
3:05 p.m. September 21, 2007 EL CAJON #8211; A former El Cajon councilman was arraigned Friday on charges of grand theft and financial abuse of his elderly mothe...
* A PRUDENT VIEW OF EARTHQUAKE RISKS, NUCLEAR PLANTS AND NUCLEAR WASTE ALONG THE CALIFORNIA COAST link to the PDF. * View video of the CEP meeting here: http...
This paper identifies a possible location for an off site nuclear waste storage facility which would be better than the one being built by Southern California Edi...
Note: This article refers to the CVR Cast Vote Record standard being developed under the umbrella of NIST, the National Institutes of Standards and Technology. ...
Scripps study finds two faults linked Newport Inglewood, Rose Canyon part of single quake system By Gary Robbins The Scripps Institution of Oceanography on Tues...
* LetterToVuOnVBMManualTallyDiscrepancies.pdf: Letter to Vu including Exh. 1 regarding Early VBM discrepancies * 1_Manual_Tally_Summary_Report_June_2016_ San...
From the section "FORENSIC EVIDENCE" on page 198 WHY THE BALLOTS WERE NOT COUNTED August 6, 2006 Revised During the summer of 2006 we photographed all the regular...
In what is a rare occurrence in San Diego’s Superior Court, Judge Judith Hayes has changed her mind about tossing a lawsuit aimed at changing plans to bury nuclea...
The threat of a nuclear meltdown is no longer a concern at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station because it’s shut down. A shuttered nuclear plant does presen...
One San Diego County congressman is taking a high profile stand against the prospect of parking tons of spent nuclear fuel on the Southern California beachfront f...
Sept. 21: After talks with Iraq #8217;s government, the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad is allowing Blackwater contractors to resume work on a limited basis. Author Jerem...
Earlier this month, a superior court judge allowed a lawsuit aimed at reversing a decision by the California Coastal Commission granting a permit to store spent n...
lawsuit by a group that wants to transfer the 3.6 million pounds of nuclear waste sitting at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS) to a facility in Ar...
A lawsuit asks a state court to order the removal of nuclear waste stored at San Onofre to the Mojave Desert. The complaint was filed before Superior Court Judge ...
This is a key hearing regarding the permit to build a nuclear waste dump 100 feet from the seawall at San Onofre by the California Coastal Commission. After this ...
CANCELED CANCELED CANCELED CANCELED For more information, see this page: StopNukeDump * 2017 04 03_Press_Rel_ _Stop_Nuke_Dump_Trial_Rev_6.pdf: Press Release, ...
Settlement Talks Announced in Suit Challenging Nuclear Fuel Storage at San Onofre April 07, 2017 Media Contact: Maureen Brown, (626) 302 2255 ROSEMEAD, Calif., Ap...
Owners of the failed San Onofre nuclear plant agreed Friday to begin negotiations aimed at relocating tons of radioactive waste from the San Diego County coastlin...
By MatthewLee, AP Posted: 2007 09 22 14:04:08 Filed Under: Iraq News WASHINGTON (Sept. 22) Federal prosecutors are investigating whether employees of the priva...
California Attorney General Xavier Becerra has come under fire for backing a decision to store deadly waste at the shuttered San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station...
Citizens Oversight, Inc. et al filed a lawsuit against the Coastal Commission to block the permit they granted to Southern California Edison to bury 3.6 million p...
Part 2: Q A Comments https://youtu.be/tJXVmUPAbEY CommonCalendar Entry * 4 May 2017 Oceanside Public Meeting on Beach Nuclear Waste Facility at Oceansi...
Citizens' Oversight vs. California Coastal Commission (See NukeWasteLawsuit) is limited to the documents in the record when the action was taken. The following fi...
CommonCalendar Entry * 1 May 2017 Presentation by RayLutz on NoNukeDump at SanJuanCapistranoCommunityCenter, 25925 Camino Del Avion, San Juan Capistrano, CA ...
Here is a letter we sent around. Your email need not be so extensive. Suggested email: To: City, county or other jurisdiction officials I understand that the Co...
OMG! San Clemente is trying a fast one to affirm that they are CONSENTING to being a consolidated interim storage site! This Is outrageous and must be removed. ...
REMARKS OF DR. TOM ENGLISH Hi, Good morning. My name is Dr. Tom English. I was the program manager for the high level nuclear waste team from the Jet Propulsion L...
CommonCalendar Entry * 25 May 2017 No Nuke Dump on the Beach Presentation by RayLutz with intro by Maria Severson (Attorney) at SeasideCenter, 1613 Lake Dr, ...
CommonCalendar Entry * 08 Jun 2017 No Nuke Dump Presentation by Ray Lutz, with introduction by Dr. Tom English at VistaLibrary, (5:30 pm) RSVP: (https://www...
Use the following as a template for your file to stay on message, but also feel free to CUSTOMIZE to your own experience! Best not to have identical letters from ...
PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE SCE STUNG WITH NRC VIOLATION NOTICE ON CONSTRUCTION OF NUCLEAR WASTE FACILITY STIRS MEMORIES OF FAILED STEAM GENERATORS DU...
September 26, 2007 6:50am. Lawmaker says Secretary of State interfered with investigation Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice (Reuters Photo) By SUE PLEMING A ...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Spent Fuel Storage Mfr Holtec Shows Alarming Imprudence Requested that 24 hr inspections be done once a month, saying it could be called '...
REDACTED FINAL AWARD, REDACTED CONCURRING AND DISSENTING OPINION, AND REDACTED CORRECTED PARAGRAPHS IN THE AWARD IN ICC ARBITRATION CASE NO. 19784/AGR/RD PUBLIC ...
CommonCalendar Entry * 22 Thu 2017 No Nuke Dump Presentation in Dana Point at HennesseysTavernDanaPoint, 34111 La Plaza, Dana Point, CA 92629 (7:30 pm, gath...
CommonCalendar Entry * 24 Jun 2017 No Nuke Dump Presentation at WomensClubOfCarlsbad, 3320 Monroe Street, Carlsbad, CA 92008 (Time 10am, gather 9:30am) RSVP:...
Email from Gary Headrick of San Clemente Green Dear ALL, I have been pressing Tom Palmisano for answers to questions we posed for quite some time now. I just got ...
By LizNeely UnionTribune STAFF WRITER September 27, 2007 Some cities in San Diego County begin their government meetings with a prayer, careful not to favor one r...
An election integrity activist has launched a campaign to personally recount votes from last year’s presidential primary in San Diego County. Ray Lutz, the founde...
* Link to the Bill as amended: http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB840 ALERT ALERT ALERT ALERT * Signed into law by...
This page was edited by RayLutz, founder of CitizensOversight Background Settlement document, press release, etc: * SettlementToMoveSanOnofreWaste This is t...
* Archived at this link: https://citizensoversightinc.sharefile.com/d sae181145b8547599 * Newsmaker RayLutz AB_840_Election_Integrity.mp3: Audio Interview of R...
This is the first in depth presentation by Ray since the announcement of the settlement on August 28. He will review the background of the waste at San Onofre and...
By JeremyScahill, TheNation So far Blackwater has only received a slap on the wrist after killing innocent civilians. Are the U.S. and Iraqi governments finally r...
Background http://www.SanOnofreSafety.org is a website run by Donna Gilmore with a wealth of good factual information about nuclear "dry cask" storage systems, as...
This book is a fairly easy read and reasonably good, but far to tightly focused on Hanford defense industry waste rather than spent fuel from civilian plants. Wri...
RayLutz says: I wholeheartedly recommend this book which gives an in depth and thorough accounting of history through the year 2013 of the nuclear waste situation...
We suspect possible tampering of the Early VBM ballots in the 2016 Primary election the only ballots where Clinton won over Sanders. All other ballot categories...
September 27, 2007 If ever there were a case history on the importance of voting, even for a panel so obscure most media outlets are unaware of it, it is the situ...
This is a horrible example of how far off our Nuclear Regulatory Commission is in estimating problem. This PRA has fatal flaws, such as: FATAL FLAW 1: No appreci...
QUOTE: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is issuing this information notice (IN) to inform addressees of recent issues and technical information concer...
This article, and the cost of energy chart that is included, is one of the most important charts of our lifetime, in my view. Photovoltaic Solar power (PV) is ext...
After eight years of closure, the ECPAC theater may get a new theater manager. Ray Lutz commented, "Wondering if Live Nation can run the ECPAC theater is like won...
The city of El Cajon has inked a five year deal with the world's largest concert promoter to manage the East County Performing Arts Center, shuttered since 2009 b...
Note: Although hearing time is 1:30pm, the actual time this case will be heard is not exactly known, and will likely be after many other cases are processed. The ...
Also can use this on line programmatic tool to provide the number of ballots to access: https://www.stat.berkeley.edu/~stark/Java/Html/ballotPollTools.htm * ev...
Documents withheld from production by CPUC in response to Attorney General's June 5, 2015/ March 9, 2016 document production Extracted Data The first 100 record...
Congressman John Hall, D Dover Plains, wants to prevent increases in the number of private security contractors in Iraq. He introduced a bill today called the Fre...
Three plus years after state regulators permitted Southern California Edison and San Diego Gas Electric to start charging consumers billions of dollars for the ...
Questions have come up regarding the San Onofre Shutdown Settlement. Instead of answering them n times, we have gathered them here so many people can be more full...
* Rehearing_Request.PDF: RUTH HENRICKS’ AND THE COALITION TO DECOMMISSION SAN ONOFRE’S (CDSO) APPLICATION FOR REHEARING DECISION D.14 11 040 (20 NOVEMBER 2014, IS...
California’s last nuclear plant to close after unanimous vote by regulators California’s last nuclear power plant — Diablo Canyon, whose contentious birth helped ...
REGION — El Cajon based nonprofit Citizens’ Oversight Projects has filed a petition with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to change the way spent nuclear fuel fr...
* Yucca_Mountain_Nevada_Report_Update_January_24_2018_nanp180124mayors_conf 1.pdf: Yucca Mountain Update and Transportation Impacts, January 24, 2018 by Robert J....
Please Note: This has been renamed simply HELMS. See more here: HelmsProposal * PrRel__Press_Conf_on_Nuclear_Waste_4_30_Laguna_Hills_Cmty_Ctr_TODAY.pdf: This i...
See Also: * HelmsProposal Base project. * HelmsCampaign Activists can help get resolutions passed at surrounding City Councils, Counties, etc. Document...
* 2017 01 31_We_Won_Press_Conference.pdf: Press Release We Won! Election Audit Lawsuit in San Diego CommonCalendar Entry * 31 Jan 2017 We Won! Press Confe...
Most of these cases were harvested from the California Association of Clerks and Elections Officials (CACEO) website. They were renamed with standard date prefix ...
Web exclusive By Kevin Peraino Newsweek Updated: 9:21 a.m. ET Sept. 30, 2007 Sept. 30, 2007 Since the fatal Sept. 16 Blackwater USA shooting in Baghdad #8217;s ...
Southern California Edison hosts a quarterly "Community Engagement Panel Meeting" to present their point of view. Public comment is accepted (3 min). Includes dis...
Southern California Edison has named a panel of experts to advise the company on how to move nuclear waste off the storage site near the beach at San Onofre. The ...
A team of six experts in the nuclear energy sector has been assembled to find a way to move the 3.55 million pounds of nuclear waste at the San Onofre Nuclear Gen...
The new “Experts Panel” that will probe re homing options for 3.6 million pounds of nuclear waste at San Onofre includes Allison Macfarlane, former chair of the U...
This meeting is the first hearing held by the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) regarding the impact on rates due to the shutdown of the San Onofre nu...
The Los Coyotes Indian tribe has issued an eviction notice to the operators of a paramilitary training center on its 25,000 acre reservation in the northeastern p...
By PAUL LEHTO The purpose of elections is freely choosing our public servants by majority rule elections. The essence of America is self government, recognizing ...
* 2018 05 07 LetterToVu.pdf: Letter to Michael Vu Regarding 2018 Election Season Oversight * 2017 03 20 LetterToVuOnVBMManualTallyDiscrepancies_Rev2.pdf: Se...
Status Imported from Congress.gov Bill Summary This bill amends the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 to direct the Department of Energy (DOE) to initiate a progr...
After the 2016 Primary election, a contest was filed. Also, we had another case in process, the ElectionAuditLawsuit. We tried to get to the ballots using the CPR...
* Bill Link: https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2125 Status Imported from leginfo.legislature.ca.gov ASSEMBLY BILL ...
Former Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Administrative Judge Dr. Peter Lam discloses that the vulnerabilities of Diablo’s Holtec dry cask nuclear waste storage...
Election Audits: Our best tool (at the present time) to improve election integrity Imagine if run a company of professional drivers, and their vehicles are equipp...
Citizens' Oversight's NRC filing "HELMS" Public Comment Period Ends June 5 at Midnight Legal Action with NRC to Improve Nuclear Waste Storage Safety Proposed “H...
2018 Primary random selection meeting in San Diego. This is a critical meeting which should be video recorded if possible so others can review and analyze their p...
Some Important Passages: As reflected in these wide ranges in cost estimates, large cost uncertainties remain. For instance, if the cancelled Yucca Mountain repos...
This is an extraction of the comments to the DCISC on June 13, 2018. The entire meeting videos are availble here: * June 13: http://slo span.org/media/video_fi...
* nwtrb mngmntanddisposal dec2017 508a.pdf: Management and Disposal of U.S. Department of Energy Spent Nuclear Fuel A Report to the United States Congress and t...
Email letter to Tommy Gong To: tgong #64;co.slo.ca.us From: Ray Lutz Subject: Follow up from Random Draw meeting. Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2018 10:14:41 0700 Dear ...
The FayettevilleObserver Published on Tuesday, October 02, 2007 By Henry Cuningham, Military editor Blackwater USA, the North Carolina based military contractor u...
* 2018 06 22 PrRel Complaint to SOS re Vu.pdf: Press Release: Formal Complaint Submitted to CA Secy of State to Investigate Malconduct by Michael Vu, San Diego Co...
ACTION REQUEST Please Send an email To: HoltecCISFEIS@nrc.gov Re: USNRC Docket No. 72 1051 I am concerned about the DESIGN LIFE of the storage system being only...
CommonCalendar Entry * 03 Jul 2018 Meeting with Rep. Susan Davis at RepDavisOffice, 2700 Adams Avenue, Suite 102, San Diego, CA 92116 (1:30 pm) Details ...
Four years after approving a plan that charged ratepayers billions of dollars for the premature closing of the San Onofre nuclear plant, state utility regulators ...
Citizens Oversight will be announcing the filing of a petition to the California Supreme Court to review the appeal of the our favorable judgment regarding electi...
Draft EIR The draft EIR can be found at this address: https://www.slc.ca.gov/Info/Reports/San_Onofre/SONGSDraftEIR_All.pdf CommonCalendar Entry * 07 Aug 2018 ...
Monday, Oct. 01, 2007 Blackwater Plans a Fierce Defense By Adam Zagorin / Washington "No individual protected by Blackwater has ever been killed or seriously inju...
David Fritch Statement “Thank you, my name is David Fritch. I, uh, I'm a worker on the ISFSI project. I work in the spent fuel project – F R I T C H. I do industr...
* 2018 08 12 COPS Press Relase on near miss incident.pdf: Citizens Oversight Calls Full Stop and Thorough Safety Review at San Onofre after Near Miss Incident Vi...
* Hilbeck_et_all_2015_NoScientificConsensusOnGMOSafety_EnvironmentalSciencesEurope.pdf: Scientific paper: no consensus on safety of GMO foods, with 50 references...
* 2018 08 21 COPS Press Release on letter to CCC_v2.pdf: Press Release: Citizens Oversight Demands Full Investigation by California Coastal Commission into San On...
If you work on any projects as an activist, you will encounter other people who disagree with you. First of all, how could that possibly be? Would not everyone c...
Judge says county must change vote counting procedures in future elections Ray Lutz, the national coordinator of Citizens’ Oversight, at his El Cajon home. (K.C. ...
The idlers who guzzle beer all day and loaf around the alley beside Sam's Market in Mission Beach, near Santa Clara Place, aren't sure whether they should still h...
Note from Margaret Carlock Ray, I attended the Marion County Random Draw last night and have uploaded the videos and a snapshot file. Unfortunately, I did not ret...
A key element of defending our democracy is ensuring elections that are fair and free of scams. There are many dimensions of this problem. You may have heard a lo...
(CNN) Erik Prince, the chairman and CEO of Blackwater USA, appeared Tuesday before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. The committee convened ...
* More information about our auditing strategy: SnapshotProtocol * Image I used in the video: This graphic does not describe a key step which is to obse...
Election Audits: Our best tool (at the present time) to improve election integrity Imagine if run a company of professional drivers, and their vehicles are equipp...
* Oct 31 Update https://www.facebook.com/raylutz/videos/10216569398254889/ Learned that in person voting at the ROV are handled just like VBM ballots. ...
A special prosecutor ended a two year drive to convict two county elections workers for rigging a ballot recount during the hotly contested 2004 presidential elec...
CommonCalendar Entry * 10 Jan 2019 Protest Govt Shutdown at San Diego Federal Courthouse, 333 W. Broadway, 92101 (6 pm) RSVP: https://www.facebook.com/events...
email to Tim Canova and others on 2019 02 07 I am definitely a supporter of hand marked paper ballots, but not to require that only hand counts be used. I am wor...
CommonCalendar Entry * 25 May 2019 EarthSummit at BalboaParkClubBallroom, 2150 Pan American Road West, 92101 (Registration 8:30am, Event 9am to 9pm) RSVP: ht...
Blamed in the deaths of Iraqi civilians, the private security firm has long ties to the White House and prominent Republicans, including Ken Starr. By Ben Van Heu...
Recently, I have read a number of documents that claim to have detected likely fraud in an election because the results did not comply with the "law of large numb...
PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE San Diego (2019 03 12) Citizens' Oversight, the organization that sued the Coastal Commission and Southern California Edis...
* 2019 03 17 (M1893) Letter to LA ROV requesting Batch report As if 2019 05 22, no response has been received for this request. Sent followup letter as 60 days ha...
* 2019 04 05 (M1899) Letter to SD ROV requesting party affiliation breakdown by precinct.pdf: 2019 04 05 (M1899) Letter to SD ROV requesting party affiliation bre...
LosAngelesTimes Apr 17, 2007 Blackwater USA, a private army that promises "the most comprehensive professional security, peacekeeping and stability operations" in...
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiPNo2Rn2TU Ray Lutz, Eve Lee, Josephine Piarulli, Patricia Gracian, and Madge Torres speak before the San Diego City Cou...
This audio was recorded from phone conference call. I apologize for the quality and that the very first part of the call was not recorded. (We are still learning ...
Notes * Here, the tally team is finishing up a single precinct they started the day before. * At offset 20min, they complete the reading and tallying part, an...
The following are links to good videos on these disasters. * 1959 Santa Suzanna CA https://youtu.be/9nAThD7WIz4?t=1339 * 1961 SL 1 disaster, Southeastern ...
EARTH SUMMIT SERIES KICK OFF EVENT "Emergency at San Onofre: From Shutdown to Nuclear Waste on the Beach" Earth Summit Series will kick off a monthly series of...
* Democracy Lost A Report on the Fatally Flawed 2016 Democratic Primaries (First Draft).pdf: Democracy Lost A Report on the Fatally Flawed 2016 Democratic Pri...
Sign the Petition Please sign the petition below and join us in pushing for this initiative to move the waste OFF THE BEACH and further INLAND but WITHIN the Camp...
Douglas Liden, Environmental Engineer at US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will provide a background of Tijuana’s water and wastewater infrastructure. He w...
Note: This analysis considers the risk factors to allow RLA audits to be compared with Ballot image audits. There are many other risks, such as due to improper el...
General Ballots are desiged by election systems to be compatible with (usually) fairly simplistic optical scanning system (very few detectors. The database of ele...
* 8 14 19 John Marion presentation to RIBOE Board.mp3: Audio Recording of Rhode Island BOE, RLA Pilot Report Presentation (John Marion) * Pilot Implementation ...
* COPS Comments on NRC CABs proposal.pdf: COPS comment on CABs to the NRC CommonCalendar Entry * 29 Aug 2019 NRC meeting on Citizen Advisory Boards (CABs) a...
Hart Verity Voting System Demo * https://www.hartintercivic.com/# * Hart uses a consistent platform. * Bar codes on the ballots do not encode voter selec...
Clear Vote Solution * https://clearballot.com/solutions * Clear ballot voting systems uses the same ballot format for ADA as not. * They use gray scale i...
CommonCalendar Entry * 07 Oct 2019 Earth Summit Presentation: "The Dangers of 5G Is it worth it?" at BalboaParkClubSantaFeRoom, 2150 Pan American Rd W, San...
Slides of this presentation * 2019 10 06 Presentation at NVRTF on RLAs and BIAs.pdf: 2019 10 06 Presentation at NVRTF on RLAs and BIAs.pdf Press Release * ...
BOTTOMLINE Petitioners respectfully request this Court order: (1) SCE to pause downloading; and (2) allow discovery to determine whether SCE is making commerciall...
For Immediate Release: October 2, 2007 Contact: Peter Karafotas (202) 226 6898 SCHAKOWSKY UNVEILS BILL TO PHASE OUT PRIVATE MILITARY CONTRACTORS Washin...
Elections: Stop Scams with Oversight and Audits If we can’t trust our elections, then all bets are off on progressive change. Now, we have only three privately he...
I have spoken with Ray Lutz, recommending the program I’ve captioned as, Beauty and The Beast to align with the healthy environment beauty relies on and in...
CommonCalendar Entry * 21 Thu 2019 San Onofre CEP meeting at QLN Conference Center, 1938 Avenida del Oro, Oceanside, California 92056 (5:30 pm) RSVP: (https:...
USA Health Care: Policy and Politics in 7 Biopsies Don’t miss this opportunity to understand healthcare from the eyes of a physician. Dr. Jeoffry Gordon, practic...
Status * Submitted to the NIST Election Cybersecurity working group on 2019 11 24 * Proposed strategy for progressing: Break into three parts: * Securin...
See below for the most recent comments to the amended regulations. The submitted documents are attached to this topic. * CA SOS RLA Regs Comment by CitizensOve...
To comment on this document, Add your comments to the Goggle Doc at this link. * Four Fatal Flaws of RLA Audits (M1938 2019 12 10).pdf: Checkpoint sent to the ...
FOR POLL TAPES PROJECT: Please see the last section that describes a spreadsheet format for your results. 1 Make sure that if you are taking photos or videos, ...
Complete meeting of the Potrero Community Planning Group. This meeting included discussions of Boutique Wineries, the Sunrise Power Link, and also the Expansion o...
THIS DOCUMENT IS A DRAFT WHICH IS STILL ACTIVELY BEING IMPROVED. Your input is appreciated but realize that the format is still being resolved. Click here to comm...
Contracts For those who want to get into the weeds ... LA County Contract w/IDEO for design and consultation on new voting system (approved Oct. 21, 2014) https...
Summary On March 21, we sent out a Public Records Request (PRR) by email and followed up with hardcopy certified letter to the top 24 counties in the state of Cal...
THE REQUEST Issue an executive order and pursue legislation so that 1. Election Audits include all, or nearly all vote by mail ballots. 2. Ballot Images and...
WASHINGTON POST Reporting from RALEIGH, N.C. — State election officials said a political operative for Republican Mark Harris orchestrated a complex scheme to il...
NOTE: This is a good example when ballot images could be very helpful in settling whether the ballots were altered to try to put the contest into a most of drawin...
THIS DOCUMENT IS DEPRECATED. Please see: https://auditengine.org/docs/user guide/sending_data/ "Sending Election Data to AuditEngine" To view googledoc for comm...
I am a bit bothered by the idea that this person was fired, but did not follow it up with a false termination case, if indeed it was an illegitimate firing. She m...
GEORGIA: SAVE AND SECURE THE BALLOT IMAGES Ballot images can thwart changes to paper ballots or magically losing or finding new ballots in the recount. Citizens...
A Brief History of Citizens' Oversight Projects I think it may help if I give a thumbnail sketch of the history of this entity. It is a 501(c)3 nonpartisan nonpro...
Visit Book website: http://www.CoilsOfTheSerpent.com Abstract: When three friends, drawn together through a neighborhood book club, have a chance encounter with ...
Those are great points and I am sorry I added an evaluation of their report. But I will add my opinion here because I did a lot of work to model these audits in M...
The "biblical" lawsuit by Sidney Powell in GA. https://defendingtherepublic.org/wp content/uploads/2020/11/COMPLAINT CJ PEARSON V. KEMP 11.25.2020.pdf Claims in s...
Now, here is a complaint re: Michigan. I created a webpage for this to allow sharing. https://copswiki.org/Common/M1963 (This one has a lot of similar language a...
Archived on Sharefile.com https://citizensoversightinc.sharefile.com/d s4dd828ed4aa343bca85bc751c46e43b0 Skip to about 20 minutes in to view the introduction.
This letter was sent by email, fax, and certified mail on 4/8/2021, with certified mail to be sent on 4/9/2021 Later, it was discovered that the email was incorre...
* COURT ORDER TO HONOR SENATE SUBPOENAS_m9467954.pdf: Court Order to Honor Subpoenas by AZ State Senate * Document Cache: https://statecraftlaw.app.box.com/v/S...
Unfazed by critics, firm keen on backcountry training area By Anne Krueger SAN DIEGO UNION TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER October 14, 2007 EAST COUNTY #8211; Blackwater US...
The Arizona Senate, apparently not satisfied with one recount, is close to signing a deal for its second review of Maricopa County’s 2020 general election ballots...
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* BEACON PHOTO/MARSHA MCLAUGHLIN MUCH APPRECIATED — Volusia County Supervisor of Elections Lisa Lewis, center, is presented with a certificate of appreciation fro...
October 14 15, 2007 Blackwater training police in American cities and towns The mercenary firm Blackwater USA is well known for the controversy involving its ...
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* This is described in recent zoom meeting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHyUp_o1fB0 * Googledoc of Election Hazards for comment: https://docs.google.com/do...
* Click for googledoc: Click Here to add comments * 2022 05 27 COPS Letter to Clackamas County OR.pdf: 2022 05 27 COPS Letter to Clackamas County OR.pdf
By JulianBarnes 7:35 PM PDT, October 14, 2007 WASHINGTON #8212; As the Bush administration deals with the fallout from the recent killings of civilians by priva...
In this video, I provide a review of the !"ElectionGuard" E2E voting system. https://www.facebook.com/raylutz/videos/10218181507276607 BTW, I also reviewed the co...
* Voting on Thin Ice 121917.pdf: Research on election issues in Shelby County TN * Voting on thin ice (Mike Kernell) * Aug 2, 2012 elections, thousands o...
COPS VVSG 2.0 Comments * This is our primary comments document to the Election Assistance Commission (AEC) as comment to the Voluntary Voting Systems Guideline...
* Story Highlights * Husband mourns wife, son a month after they were killed in Baghdad * Man's wife was a doctor; his son hoped to be a surgeon * Witnes...
Inside the Turmoil at the Agency Running Ranked Choice Voting The New York City Board of Elections, which has a history of mishaps, is now under intense fire for ...
* Letter to CO SOS Jena Griswold re_ Arvada Mayors Contest.pdf: Letter to CO SOS Jena Griswold re_ Arvada Mayors Contest.pdf * https://docs.google.com/documen...
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JeremyScahill on Blackwater http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/10192007/transcript1.html October 19, 2007 Bill Moyers talks journalist Jeremy Scahill, Part 1 BILL...
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BPv58LNAtlNeMKXYnohmAG3j77ZOVfxbu9NJyoSC_O0/edit?usp=sharing * GA Ballot Image Audits including OCR of BMD ballots in light o...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oW5Vvv6vtVc In addition to this, we later learned that some researchers found that the map, supposedly was of Atlanta, was actuall...
I frequently see people trying to use the Cast Vote Records (CVR) to analyze the election results, particularly with regard to "The Rule of Large Numbers" i.e. th...
Dallas, TX produced a remarkably complete set of data for the March 2024 primary election. This was a new step for Dallas, and it was the first such large publica...
San Francisco has been a leader in providing complete information of recent elections, including ballot images, cast vote records, etc. Main site: * https://w...
Dane County has been publishing ballot images and cast vote records since about 2016. However, this page only provides the past few years. https://elections.count...
* 2024 09 05 M2023 Letter to Biden and Garland.pdf: Letter to President Biden and AG Garland re election data retention and publication Concerned Citizens Urge P...
Email sent to GA State Election Board Dear John Fervier and GA State Election Board: Please submit this comment to the Board for consideration. There is a lot of ...
Email to GA State Election Board Dear John Fervier and GA State Election Board: Please submit this comment to the Board for consideration. There is a lot of news ...
Abstract: We developed a 2022 audit primary and a general election data dashboard that includes images of the ballots voted in Leon County. These data are embedde...
Jump to the letter: * PDF: Request for DOJ Investigation into the Integrity of the 2024 Presidential Election.pdf * Googledoc Press Release CALL FOR DOJ ...
By RICHARD LARDNER WASHINGTON (AP) #8212; Blackwater USA tried to take at least two Iraqi military aircraft out of Iraq two years ago and refused to give the p...
* Clark County Inquiry Regarding 2024 Election Data and Audits.pdf: Clark County Inquiry Regarding 2024 Election Data and Audits.pdf * Googledoc: https://docs....
/Dutiful and intense, son of a self made billionaire, Erik Prince is an adventure seeker and conservative true believer. / By Evan Thomas and Mark Hosenball Oct....
To View Photos go to: http://content.hamptonroads.com/story.cfm?story=135122 ran=149404 tref=y Seven protesters arrested at Blackwater's headquarters The Virgi...
By FrankRich The NewYorkTimes Sunday 21 October 2007 It was one of those stories lost in the newspaper's inside pages. Last week a man you've never heard of ...
By Mark Arner UNION TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER 2:45 p.m. October 21, 2007 POTRERO #8211; A brush fire that began about 9:30 a.m. Sunday in a rugged, mountainous area ...
The Hill Waxman: Blackwater may have engaged in tax evasion By Klaus Marre October 22, 2007 The chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee a...
It's about time the presidential candidates start taking positions on Blackwater. John Edwards is clear, he wants Blackwater completely out of Iraq (and only u...
* Great time lapse video by Donna Lee from images collected from the Cameras on top of Lyons Peak operated by the High Performance Wireless Research and Education...
$1.4 billion program with U.S. faces an uphill battle 10:50 PM CDT on Friday, October 19, 2007 By AlfredoCorchado / The DallasMorningNews WASHINGTON #8211; The U...
The notorious security contractor has plans for a military style complex near the U.S. Mexico border. Critics worry the firm's "mercenary soldiers" could join the...
By MiriamRaftery and LeonThompson The AlpineSun POTRERO #8212; #8220;Mercenaries are dangerous to American democracy, #8221; Congressman Bob Filner (D San ...
During rescue effort that turned tragic, an act of heroism By Tony Manolatos UNION TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER October 23, 2007 Hours after the Harris fire started on ...
Commentary by RaymondLutz: It seems that here is confirmation that Blackwater wanted the Potrero site for paramilitary border security after all. See the press r...
Fire chief says state unprepared for deadly Calif. blazes By MICHAEL R. BLOOD, AssociatedPress Writer Tuesday, October 23, 2007 (10 23) 19:33 PDT Los Angeles (...
350,000 Homes Evacuated in Calif. Fires By ALLISON HOFFMAN and GILLIAN FLACCUS #8211; 29 minutes ago SAN DIEGO (AP) #8212; Walls of wind whipped flames consumed...
Illegal border crossers brave flames, get burned Six are hospitalized; more than 200 arrested By Leslie Berestein UNION TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER October 24, 2007 The ...
The GrandRapidsPress Wednesday, May 16, 2007 By ErikPrince Special To The Press In response to a series of articles about me and my company, Blackwater USA, I am ...
by: MiriamRaftery Thu Oct 25, 2007 at 10:54:43 AM PDT (Welcome Miriam, an award winning journalist to Calitics. More info from on the ground there, following up o...
By MiriamRaftery The AlpineSun #8220;It #8217;s like Armageddon, #8221; Potrero resident Jill Michaels said of the devastating Harris and Witch fires that h...
By ANNE FLAHERTY, AssociatedPress Writer Thu Oct 25, 11:12 AM ET Congress is moving to put all armed contractors operating in combat zones under military control,...
Several Blackwater protestors are in jail for trespassing on Blackwater's property and creating a scene that looked like a make believe car bomb. "Today's demons...
Posted October 25, 2007 We couldn't make this stuff up. Brian Bonfiglio, vice president of Blackwater West, "I see a tactical operation center for East County fir...
October 28, 2007 WTKR Your NewsChannel 3, VA Blackwater Meeting Reveals New Projects Moyock, North Carolina We're learning more about what went on a community mee...
Founder Erik Prince Says Blackwater Guards Came Under Fire In Controversial Shooting (CBS) Blackwater USA has been called the largest private army in the world bu...
'Working as a team' Blackwater fury shelved as Potrero reacts to Harris fire By Pat Sherman 10/30/2007 Jan Hedlun sat on the front porch of the Potrero General St...
Wall Street Journal Killing by Blackwater Worker Poses Dilemma for U.S. Authorities By YOCHI J. DREAZEN May 14, 2007;PageA4 BAGHDAD, Iraq A Blackwater USA contr...
Some of those interviewed in an FBI inquiry reveal details of the incident and say the agents are focused on whether the security guards were fired upon first. By...
State to Blackwater: Nothing You Say Can and Will Be Used Against You in a Court of Law Posted October 30, 2007 05:53 PM (EST) Apparently there is one set of ri...
Countywide Fire Update 195 Potrero Recall Election to Proceed as Planned The December 11, 2007 Recall Election in the Potrero Community Planning Group will proce...
IRAQ: When Blackwater Kills, No Questions Asked By Ali al Fadhily* BAGHDAD, Oct 30 (IPS) The recent attacks by Blackwater USA mercenaries in Baghdad are far fro...
POSTED: 1:23 pm PDT October 29, 2007 UPDATED: 12:07 am PDT October 30, 2007 WASHINGTON The State Department promised Blackwater USA bodyguards immunity from pro...
by MichaelRoston November 1, 2007 01:22 PM The congressional vice grip is tightening on Blackwater and other contracted defense firms. Next Wednesday, Rep. Jan Sc...
Aram Roston Investigative producer NBC News updated 8:56 a.m. PT, Thurs., Nov. 1, 2007 WASHINGTON Federal agents are investigating allegations that the Blackwat...
HOLLAND Intensely private like his late father Edgar Prince, Erik Prince has moved into the national spotlight because of a best selling book about his elite priv...
Rapture Rescue 911: Disaster Response for the Chosen Naomi Klein Posted November 1, 2007 (November 19, 2007 issue) I used to worry that the United States was...
By Kevin Drawbaugh WASHINGTON (Reuters) U.S. Sen. John Kerry on Thursday asked the Bush administration for more information on how an affiliate of private secur...
By Dana Hedgpeth Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, November 3, 2007; A01 First it became a brand name in security for its work in Iraq and Afghanistan. Now i...
By Ryan Sabalow (Contact) Friday, November 2, 2007 For the past month, a former Redding resident has become a vocal critic of Blackwater USA, the private security...
By JOHN M. BRODER and JAMES RISEN Published: November 1, 2007 Correction Appended WASHINGTON, Oct. 31 #8212; Blackwater Worldwide, its reputation in tatters and ...
at the end of lines that need to break but don't need a blank line. * Mark sub headline with header 3 " " By Noah Shachtman EmailOctober 31, 2007 1:59:11...
Posted November 4, 2007 04:58 PM (EST) I have argued that in the closing stages of a `fascist shift', events cascade. I am hearing about them, even across the g...
at the end of lines that need to break but don't need a blank line. * Mark sub headline with header 3 " " Seven House Republicans have urged Oversight and Gov...
By Leo Shane III, Stars and Stripes Mideast edition, Friday, November 9, 2007 WASHINGTON #8212; A group of Democratic lawmakers wants all contractors working as ...
Thanks to some high stakes legal maneuvering, Blackwater USA may yet manage to avoid a public examination of the bloody event that catapulted the company to world...
at the end of lines that need to break but don't need a blank line. * Mark sub headline with header 3 " " October 5, 2007, 5:10 pm By Patrick Healy Mark Penn ...
at the end of lines that need to break but don't need a blank line. * Mark sub headline with header 3 " " POTRERO PLANNING GROUP MEETING NOTICE THURSDAY, OCTO...
at the end of lines that need to break but don't need a blank line. * Mark sub headline with header 3 " " By JAMES GLANZ and ALISSA J. RUBIN Published: Octobe...
at the end of lines that need to break but don't need a blank line. * Mark sub headline with header 3 " " At a congressional hearing, the security firm and...
at the end of lines that need to break but don't need a blank line. * Mark sub headline with header 3 " " By Henry Cuningham Military editor Blackwater USA, t...
A too small Army compels use of private contractors in Iraq and elsewhere By George Friedman November 4, 2007 In recent weeks, Blackwater, a private security firm...
By Paul M. Krawzak COPLEY NEWS SERVICE October 6, 2007 MOYOCK, N.C. #8211; The global storm of controversy settling over Blackwater USA is fueling opposition to ...
Blackwater keeps its eye on a tiny East County enclave. By Pat Sherman 10/09/2007 Blackwater USA Vice President Brian Bonfiglio flashed a self satisfied smile, ga...
Blackwater USA representative Brian Bonfiglio admits at the Sept. 13th meeting of the Potrero Planning Group that Blackwater intends to use the Round Potrero Vall...
Posted October 10, 2007 08:12 PM (EST) Most of us accept Tip O'Neill's adage that all politics is local. Yet, most of us want to play on the big stage, push for...
Blackwater Goes to Mexico By JOHN ROSS November 9, 2007 If and when private security contractor Blackwater USA and its heavily armed operatives are forced to pull...
by Tom Griffin America's use of corporate mercenaries in Iraq is under renewed scrutiny in the wake of the Nisour Square massacre in Baghdad on Sept. 16. Employee...
06:36 AM CST on Tuesday, November 6, 2007 The State Department's mismanagement of security contractors in Iraq has had deadly consequences, and thankfully the Pen...
Kent Hoover Washington Bureau Chief The Small Business Administration has found itself in the middle of the controversy over Blackwater USA, the private security ...
Tarnishing Iraq mission by covering up for Blackwater November 06, 2007 When it comes to the Bush administration's definition of "sovereignty," "immunity" and "ac...
October 30, 2007 If you want to know if it's a good idea for Blackwater to move into your neighborhood, you can look to Moyok, NC to get a sense of how they are o...
By DAVID STOUT and JOHN M. BRODER Published: October 1, 2007 WASHINGTON, Oct. 1 #8212; Guards working in Iraq for Blackwater USA have shot innocent Iraqi civilia...
The only punishment doled out to US security men involved in deadly shootings is a jet home Jeremy Scahill Saturday October 6, 2007 Guardian Erik Prince, the secr...
Thursday, October 11th, 2007 The Center for Constitutional Rights is filing a lawsuit today under the Alien Tort Claims Act on behalf of the families of three of ...
UNION TRIBUNE November 4, 2007 Thousands of people volunteered throughout San Diego to help victims of the wildfires, but your newspaper decided to highlight Blac...
By Noah Shachtman October 26, 2007 3:34:02 PM Blackwater guns for hire famously took over security on some New Orleans streets after Hurricane Katrina. Now, ...
BERN, Switzerland (AP) #8212; Authorities are investigating whether a Swiss national who worked for the U.S. security firm Blackwater in Iraq broke a law barring...
By Mark Sauer and Janine Zúñiga STAFF WRITERS November 1, 2007 A tent city is set to spring from the ashes near Barrett Junction as wildfire weary residents in t...
Fire destroyed 103 Dulzura buildings By Janine Zúñiga STAFF WRITER November 6, 2007 It took a few days to get it up and running, but a tent city complete with cot...
A bill to ban Blackwater ... and save democracy? By Jim Tankersley A team of Democratic lawmakers led by Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D Ill.) introduced a bill this after...
Blackwater's relief effort wins praise of project foe By Anne Krueger UNION TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER October 30, 2007 As Potrero planning group member Jan Hedlun trie...
Jeremy Scahill, author of the book "Blackwater: The rise of the worlds most powerful mercenary army" speaks and answers questions. Held at the La Mesa Community C...
by: Miriam Raftery Thu Oct 25, 2007 at 10:54:43 AM PDT (Welcome Miriam, an award winning journalist to Calitics. More info from on the ground there, following up...
By Adam Howard, AlterNet Posted on November 6, 2007 They have their own army, air force and more. Maher asks Scahill, "Could Blackwater stage a coup and if they d...
For Immediate Release Not to Be Missed Extraordinary Evening with Two of the Most Dynamic Voices of the New Generation of Independent Unembedded Journalists: A Di...
By ADAM ZAGORIN/WASHINGTON Wednesday, November 7 A little noticed court case in Florida threatens to undermine the arrangement under which some 150,000 private co...
By Paul M. Krawzak COPLEY NEWS SERVICE 3:27 p.m. November 7, 2007 WASHINGTON #8211; Rep. Bob Filner, D Calif. (San Diego), is backing legislation to replace priv...
If school boards don’t do their job, kids may be poor readers. When water boards perform poorly, we might have low water pressure. But when a hospital board is ou...
Tue Nov 6, 2007 11:38am EST By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) Private security companies operate without supervision or accountability in war zones, includi...
Thursday, November 8th, 2007 In a Democracy Now! interview, Rep. Jan Schakowsky calls for the withdrawal of all guards with the firms Blackwater, DynCorp and Trip...
Jeremy Scahill posted November 8, 2007 (November 26, 2007 issue) Jan Schakowsky is one of the few members of Congress who have made confronting the radically priv...
A two day rally was held in Potrero, near the proposed BlackwaterWest site. On day 1, educations sessions were held, with music and poetry in the evening. This vi...
(SUMMARY) "They were on a joy ride," she said of the pilots. "They were cowboying." "To know, as a mother, he sat out and froze to death bleeding internally is th...
In "Private Warriors," FRONTLINE correspondent Martin Smith travels throughout Kuwait and Iraq to give viewers an unprecedented behind the scenes look at companie...
Video may not be available on Google Video after April 29, 2011 because Google stopped supporting their site. This video was banned by congress on May 10, 2007. S...
Joseph Neff Friday, November 9, 2007 The president and CEO of Dyncorp did some corporate trash talking in a recent teleconference with investors and analysts. In ...
By Liz Neely UNION TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER November 10, 2007 EAST COUNTY #8211; Hundreds of people are picking up supplies at a tent city in Barrett Junction set up...
Sarah E. Mendelson Monday, November 12, 2007 Accounts of Blackwater personnel allegedly gunning down civilians in Iraq have thrust contractor accountability befor...
Witnesses Call Shooting From Justice Ministry Unprovoked, But State Dept. Cleared Its Security Team After a Brief Probe By Steve Fainaru Washington Post Foreign S...
By Karyn Chenoweth Nov 8, 2007, 14:50 GMT The mother of a Blackwater guard who was mutilated and killed by a mob in Iraq is demanding that the company answer her ...
Blackwater USA, infamous in the Falluja massacre, is proposing an 824 acre facility in a valley just north of Potrero, a small town (~850 people) on SR 94 about 1...
The transformation of Blackwater USA from a private security firm into the newest branch of the U.S. military has for years been a source of friction and suspicio...
November 8, 2007 11:00 AM By Michael Roston A tug of war has broken out between Congress and the Bush administration over legislation that would put private secur...
David Edwards Published: Saturday November 10, 2007 An exclusive CBS report says that all private security firms in Iraq have been notified that "immunity from Ir...
November 9, 2007 01:26 PM By Michael Rosten A group of House members and one Senator came together on Tuesday to introduce the "Stop Outsourcing Security Act," a ...
Monday, November 12, 2007 By NancyConroy The United States and Mexico recently unveiled a new US$1.4 billion anti drug aid package that aims to help Mexico fi...
Can Firm Get New Pentagon Work After Iraq Incident? By AUGUST COLE November 13, 2007; Page A6 A Defense Department contract involving antidrug training missions m...
JURIST Guest Columnist Byron L. Warnken of the University of Baltimore School of Law says that the US State Department's reported grant of "immunity" to Blackwate...
By ELISE CASTELLI November 12, 2007 Blackwater USA got $600 million in federal contracts last year and more than $1 billion since 2001. But that doesn #8217;t dis...
Full meeting of the Potrero Community Planning Group on November 8, 2007. AGENDA: 1. Park Lands Dedication Ordinance and update on teh PLDO balance for our Lo...
There is a full video of this same meeting available. This video is only on Item #4, a "Resolution to request Blackwater study and prepare period reports of the r...
* Sup. DianneJacob claims that the meeting is "informal" and therefore no subject to the Brown Act. We'll be looking into this further. * She says that she can...
By Karen DeYoung Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, November 14, 2007; 1:33 PM The FBI has concluded that the killing of 14 Iraqi civilians by Blackwater sec...
By DAVID JOHNSTON and JOHN M. BRODER Published: November 14, 2007 WASHINGTON, Nov. 13 #8212; Federal agents investigating the Sept. 16 episode in which Blackwat...
Regarding El Cajon City Council's advocation of religion in government: The United States Constitution with its Bill of Rights outlines the rights and protection...
MOYOCK, N.C., Nov. 13 /PRNewswire/ Blackwater Airships, a division of Blackwater Worldwide, is pleased to announce the successful initial test flights of the Po...
About This Video Private security firm Blackwater has had its license suspended by the Iraqi government. But the company has also stirred up debate in a remote co...
Washington Dispatch: Accused of blocking an investigation into Blackwater, State Department IG Howard Krongard told Congress that his brother Buzzy has no ties to...
The Associated Press Published: November 16, 2007 WASHINGTON: The brother of the embattled State Department Inspector General quit as an adviser to Blackwater Wor...
State Department IG Howard "Cookie" Krongard's testimony before Waxman's committee earlier this week is becoming the gift that keeps on giving. At the hearing, Kr...
Prosecuting private security contractors for shooting Iraqi civilians might be impossible. By Jeremy Scahill November 15, 2007 Federal agents investigating the Se...
November 15, 2007 01:30 AM While hundreds of thousands of citizens were fleeing Southern California's wildfires in October, Blackwater USA was charging back in. W...
After a deadly crash, one Washington family tries to bring the notorious military contractor to account. By Rick Anderson November 14, 2007 Two days after Thanksg...
Editorial Published: November 16, 2007 A report in The Times this week says that the F.B.I. is reaching the same horrifying conclusion as the Iraqi authorities: t...
By AUGUST COLE November 16, 2007 6:23 p.m. WASHINGTON #8212;Blackwater Worldwide announced that Alvin "Buzzy" Krongard has resigned from the company's advisory b...
article posted November 15, 2007 (web only) Jeremy Scahill Every day, new revelations emerge in the mounting scandal rocking the Bush Administration and the merce...
Reuters Saturday, November 17, 2007; 7:35 PM WASHINGTON (Reuters) The lawyer for State Department Inspector General Howard Krongard asked on Saturday that he no...
BAGHDAD (AFP) #8212; Iraqi soldiers detained a group of private security guards after they opened fire in central Baghdad on Monday wounding a woman and rekindli...
Published Monday, November 19, 2007 The indecision of prosecutors over whether to bring charges against hired American security guards in the September shooting o...
By Larry Chin Online Journal Associate Editor Nov 19, 2007, 01:18 New bombshell testimony before Congress has revealed that Alvin B. "Buzzy" Krongard, the former ...
By DAVID JOHNSTON and JOHN M. BRODER Published: November 20, 2007 WASHINGTON, Nov. 19 #8212; Federal prosecutors have issued grand jury subpoenas to some of the ...
A landmark lawsuit brought by the families of four employees of the security firm Blackwater USA killed in Iraq three years ago has been partially derailed. This ...
By RICHARD LARDNER #8211; November 17, 2007 WASHINGTON (AP) #8212; The brother of embattled State Department Inspector General Howard Krongard quit as an advise...
State Dept. Inspector General Must Appear With His Blackwater Board Member Brother By MATT JAFFE Nov. 16, 2007 Days after testifying that he had only just learned...
By SCOTT SHANE Published: November 17, 2007 BALTIMORE, Nov. 16 #8212; They were smart, scrappy brothers who rose from modest circumstances in Baltimore to become...
WASHINGTON (CNN) The FBI has not yet interviewed five "key" members of a Blackwater security team involved in the shooting deaths of 17 Iraqis, a Blackwater spo...
The Turret Gunner Says He Feared For His Life As He Opened Fire By BRIAN ROSS Nov. 14, 2007 A 29 year old U.S. Army veteran hired by Blackwater last year is at t...
November 15, 2007 Brian Ross Reports: The State Department plans to equip its motorcade security details in Iraq with lasers to "dazzle" suspect motorists and hel...
Floyd J. McKay / Guest columnist BLACKWATER, the secretive private army now emerging into public view, is a perfect hinge linking two key elements of the Republic...
Rick Jacobs October 24, 2007 @ 10:39 AM As I write this, massive fires are raging across Southern California. While it is quiet and normal at my house in Los Ange...
Ken Bastida POTRERO, San Diego County (CBS 5) #8213; Blackwater, it's a name that has been tarnished in Iraq and here in America. A federal grand jury is now in...
The Guardian UK Rural community opposes expansion by company at centre of Iraq allegations Dan Glaister in Potrero, California Friday November 30, 2007 Randel Par...
A US company, Blackwater, seeks to build a mercenary training center in the El Hongo area of Tecate, Mexico. Blackwater describes itself as #8220;the most compl...
November 23, 2007 By Jon W. Glass, The Virginian Pilot ELIZABETH CITY, N.C. For nearly two years, Blackwater has been developing an airship to tap a growing gove...
Election proceeds despite fires By Miriam Raftery The Alpine Sun POTRERO #8212; #8220;You can #8217;t burden a community devastated by fire and add merce...
By RICHARD LARDNER #8211; November 26, 2007 WASHINGTON (AP) #8212; The State Department's acerbic top auditor wasn't happy when Justice Department officials tol...
WASHINGTON, Nov. 27 /PRNewswire USNewswire/ The estates of two more Iraqis killed when Blackwater USA personnel allegedly opened fire on civilians in Nisoor Squ...
WASHINGTON (CNN) A quarter of Blackwater security guards in Iraq use steroids and other "judgment altering substances," according to a lawsuit filed by the fami...
Published on November 21, 2007 By Don Bauder For months, everything went wrong for Blackwater Worldwide (formerly Blackwater USA), the mercenary firm that wants t...
by Dina Temple Raston and Melissa Block All Things Considered, November 28, 2007 · Some Iraqi civilians have filed a civil lawsuit against the Blackwater guards i...
Surcharge sparks firestorm Governor's fee faulted; without it, he will warn, Cal Fire faces cutbacks By Michael Gardner COPLEY NEWS SERVICE January 10, 2008 K.C. ...
By VOA News 20 November 2007 The Iraqi government has warned it will deal firmly with private security companies that break the law. Iraqi military spokesman Brig...
In late 2006, Blackwater USA, now known as Blackwater Worldwide, submitted a proposal to build a training facility called Blackwater West in the rural San Diego C...
Part 1: http://www.cbs8.com/features/special_assignment/story.php?id=91191 Part 2: http://www.cbs8.com/features/special_assignment/story.php?id=91393 Helicopters ...
A community's call on an international issue By Barbara Chamberlain December 7, 2007 When an elected body stops listening to the people who elected them #8211; i...
There are three parts to this video Part 1 http://youtu.be/DEWY5k4UTRo (1hr 23min) Part 2 http://youtu.be/huHUvsH2kSQ (1hr 28 min) Part 3 http://youtu.be/HPZ...
POTRERO, Calif. Ron Spinneit dragged the toe of his shoe in a straight line through the chalky dust, summing up the current state of affairs in this arid desert v...
Since the recall election was completed on Dec. 11, and the Registrar of Voters finalized the result earlier in the day, the newly elected ... all » Potrero Plan...
All Things Considered, December 17, 2007 · By now, most Americans are familiar with Blackwater USA's controversial shooting in Baghdad last September. Seventeen I...
NPR.org, December 14, 2007 · The Defense Authorization Bill passed by Congress contains provisions that tighten government oversight of private security contracto...
Hero of Cedar Fire Running for Supervisor By E.A. Barrera Burned in the Cedar Fire, Reyes wants to help the people who were good to him. Photo By E.A. Barrera Ru...
Blackwater Grand Jury Resumes By MATT APUZZO #8211; 3 hours ago WASHINGTON (AP) #8212; Two unidentified witnesses appeared Thursday before a federal grand jury...
Third world warriors fight U.S. wars for dollars a day Honduran soldier was among thousands who stood guard over Baghdad embassy, but couldn't legally enter Uni...
My intention was to mail this to all the voters in Potrero as a response to some of the inaccurate comments in various publications. As I have been under the weat...
I went to the Alpine Planning Group meeting subcommittee for their processing of Marc Halcon's application to restart Covert Canyon. See also my visit to the Cov...
08:24 AM EST on Wednesday, December 5, 2007 By 13News Seven anti war activists arrested during a protest outside Blackwater USA are due in court Wednesday. The ac...
Associated Press December 4, 2007 6:45 PM ET WASHINGTON (AP) An unidentified witness returned today to a federal grand jury as prosecutors continued their inv...
By ERIC SCHMITT and PAUL von ZIELBAUER WASHINGTON, Dec. 4 #8212; Gen. David H. Petraeus, the top United States commander in Iraq, and Ryan C. Crocker, the Americ...
By Jeremy Scahill from the December 24, 2007 issue Gunning down seventeen Iraqi civilians in an incident the military has labeled "criminal." Multiple Congressi...
Tuesday, October 30, 2007 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Amy Brundage, 202 228 5511 WASHINGTON, DC #8211; Today, United States Senator Barack Obama (D IL) sent t...
U.S. Security Contractors Open Fire in BaghdadBlackwater Employees Were Involved in Two Shooting Incidents in Past Week By Steve Fainaru and Saad al IzziWashingto...
By Christian Berthelsen, Los Angeles Times December 9, 2007 BAGHDAD The security contractor settled into the back of the armored Mercedes parked under the C...
Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney cited Cofer Black, the former head of Counterterrorism at the CIA, as his advisor on issues involving prisoner interro...
KBR Told Victim She Could Lose Her Job If She Sought Help After Being Raped, She Says By BRIAN ROSS, MADDY SAUER JUSTIN ROOD Dec. 10, 2007 #8212; A Houston, Tex...
I wrote this yesterday but it was rejected due to an error of mine. Here it is. Folks: I just got off the phone with Robert Paresee (sp?) of the Registrar of Vot...
6:33 a.m. December 11, 2007 EAST COUNTY: More than half of Potrero's 509 voters have turned in ballots for a mail election to recall five members of the local pla...
POTRERO, Calif. The final votes have been cast in a recall election stemming from an East County controversy. Five members of the Potrero community planning gro...
Five People Could Lose Jobs The final votes have been cast in a recall election stemming from a controversial East County plan to set up a Blackwater trainin...
CA Author: Courage Campaign Published on Dec 12, 2007, 10:55 In a stunning victory that shocked even the most optimistic observers, five members of an elected bod...
By Nancy Conroy In San Diego County, California, a firestorm has erupted over plans to build a Blackwater mercenary training camp in the hills behind Potrero, a r...
By Anne Krueger UNION TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER December 13, 2007 Strictly speaking, a vote removing five members of the Potrero planning group for their support of a ...
WASHINGTON After years of high stakes legal wrangling, a lawsuit stemming from the gruesome deaths of four U.S. contractors in Iraq is moving behind closed doors ...
By Anne Krueger UNION TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER 1:12 a.m. December 12, 2007 EAST COUNTY #8211; Five members of the Potrero planning group were voted off the panel Tue...
UNION TRIBUNE EDITORIAL Potrero's anti Blackwater vote sends a message December 13, 2007 The East County community of Potrero has spoken emphatically that it doe...
The Vote Count Potrero Recall Election December 11, 2007. A group of about 20 people observed the election. They signed us in, had us agree to a sheet of rule...
POSTED: 10:00 pm PST December 10, 2007 UPDATED: 10:18 pm PST December 10, 2007 POTRERO, Calif. Residents in the town of Potrero will vote Tuesday on whether to ...
December 14, 2007 Five new members of the Potrero planning group were sworn into office last night following their election Tuesday in a vote propelled by opposit...
Posted December 12, 2007 05:14 AM (EST) A tiny town in the pristine high wilderness of eastern San Diego County made history tonight with the nation's first eve...
The Center for Constitutional Rights is filing another lawsuit today against the private military firm Blackwater #8212;this time for a shooting in Baghdad on Sep...
BAGHDAD (Reuters) The U.S. embassy in Iraq is investigating another deadly shooting incident involving its Blackwater bodyguards this time of the New York Tim...
By Rachel Kapochunas, CONGRESSIONAL QUARTERLY Published: May 31, 2007 California Rep. Duncan Hunter is leaving the House after 14 terms to seek the 2008 GOP presi...
The Spanish word dulzura means sweetness. And public artist Robin Brailsford found the sweet life when she moved to the hamlet of Dulzura, 30 miles east of San Di...
City seeks state law easing annexation By LizNeely UNION TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER February 7, 2008 EL CAJON #8211; The feud between El Cajon and the county over a Ho...
By Bill Sizemore On Christmas Eve 2006, in an alcohol fueled confrontation inside Baghdad #8217;s heavily fortified Green Zone, a Blackwater security contractor s...
By Allison Hoffman Associated Press Writer / December 12, 2007 SAN DIEGO #8212;Government security contractor Blackwater Worldwide reaffirmed plans Wednesday to b...
Web page contains interactive map that shows relationships to Blackwater Worldwide. BLACKWATER WORLDWIDE People related to Blackwater Worldwide: Cofer Black vi...
Archived file of Flashpoints radio program. Contains portion on Blackwater: "Blackwater defeated in Southern California as the community of Potrero recalls the pl...
Wayne Madsen Report October 15, 2007 The mercenary firm Blackwater USA is well known for the controversy involving its "shoot first, ask no questions" policy in I...
As I participate in the voiceofsandiego.org blog, it's important to note that as the vice president for Blackwater West my comments will be based on our land use ...
POSTED ON JANUARY 9, 2008: Defendants to appeal conviction By Patrick O'Neill Judge Edgar Barnes had had enough. At a Dec. 5 trial, Beth Brockman of Durham told ...
AT least three American private security companies have reportedly recruited about 300 Filipino #8220;private security operators #8221; or #8220;independent con...
January 10, 2008 By JAMES RISEN WASHINGTON #8212; The helicopter was hovering over a Baghdad checkpoint into the Green Zone, one typically crowded with cars, Ira...
And in North Carolina, seven activists are in court today to appeal their conviction for protesting outside the headquarters of the private military company Black...
County has prohibited such training on site By Anne Krueger STAFF WRITER January 26, 2008 ALPINE #8211; A proposed shooting range for the military and law enforc...
Blackwater has filed a $30 million malpractice suit against the high powered team of lawyers the firm hired to defend against a wrongful death lawsuit filed by th...
By Steve Kowit, Potrero Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2008 As a long time resident of Potrero, I can only shake my head at Brian Bonfiglio's notion that outside agitators cl...
Small Mountain Town Ousts Officials Who Backed Blackwater Training Camp (AP) Residents of a mountain village in California who oppose plans by security contractor...
Last week in Currituck County, N.C., Superior Court Judge Russell Duke presided over the final step in securing the first criminal conviction stemming from the de...
By LARA JAKES JORDAN and MATT APUZZO, AP Posted: 2008 01 14 06:26:53 Filed Under: World News WASHINGTON (Jan. 14) _ Blackwater Worldwide repaired and repainted it...
Marshall Adame is a Democrat running for Congress in North Carolina's 3rd District, a jurisdiction along the Tar Heel state's low lying eastern coast that is home...
According to reports, Blackwater Worldwide released riot control gas on U.S. troops in 2005 WASHINGTON, D.C. #8211; U.S. Senator Barack Obama (D IL) on Friday se...
By Miriam Raftery The East County Californian May 17, 2007 A coalition of concerned citizens launched a movement to recall all but one member of the nine person ...
Blackwater Watch is looking for volunteers in to help with a variety of tasks including web site/email/listserv communications, organizing public educational and ...
Submitted by davidswanson on Mon, 2008 01 28 13:13. Nonviolent Resistance Steve Baggarly is one of the Blackwater Seven recently sentenced in North Carolina for s...
Hello All: I made progress today, someone form the NEPA called me back. It's not good news. He said this (below) is the section we in Dulzura need to be focused...
Debate on the right to use mercenaries to fill roles in US Military Affirmative argument: YES by Chadwick De Las Casas The usage of private military forces is not...
By Anne Krueger UNION TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER January 31, 2008 ALPINE #8211; County officials say they will issue citations to an Alpine area man if he continues to...
Posted by Jeremy Scahill, AlterNet at 9:33 AM on February 2, 2008. If there's one thing that can be said about Blackwater Worldwide, the Bush administration's fav...
On January 16, the New York Times reported that Justice Department officials have informed Congress of #8220;serious legal difficulties #8221; in prosecuting Bla...
Posted: 02/04/2008 Regnery Publishing today announced that it has signed a contract with Erik Prince, Chairman and CEO of Blackwater Worldwide. Prince #8217;s boo...
By Miriam Raftery The East County Californian May 31, 2008 County officials have announced plans to shut down Covert Canyon, a military and law enforcement train...
Howard Krongard worked his last day at the State Department recently, having learned a hard lesson in the ways of modern Congressional "oversight." To wit, if you...
By Karthik Reddy February 04, 2008 The Bush administration has responded to America #8217;s new military commitments by relying heavily on mercenaries. These ...
The father of a 9 year old Iraqi boy who says his son was killed by Blackwater security guards tells ABCNews.com the company has offered to build a monument and m...
Whether this mattered to him or not, Judge Duke's words were interesting, given the religious fanaticism and avowed patriotism of Blackwater's owner, Erik Prince....
From intro: The Oversight and Government Reform Committee is the main investigative body in the House of Representatives, it's charged with making sure the govern...
WASHINGTON (AFP) #8212; The status and role of private security firms like Blackwater in Iraq is central to upcoming talks between Washington and Baghdad, Iraqi ...
Today, more than 23,000 representatives of private industry are working quietly with the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security. The members of this rapidly ...
Posted February 8, 2008 05:54 PM (EST) Matt Rothschild's astonishing expose of the FBI's decision to "deputize" 23,000 representatives of private industry refle...
Contractors making mistakes are sometimes paid for correcting their own errors Fri, Feb 8, 2008 (2 a.m.) A new federal audit says the military has become so depen...
By Miriam Raftery The East County Californian May 24, 2007 Citizens sounded off in public comment and rallied outside the County Board of Supervisors meeting Tue...
By: Becca Denison, staff writer Posted: 2/12/08 Growing up in Bettie, N.C., Nelson Paul was always fascinated with wind. He loved to surf and sail, but mostly he ...
Most inhabitants of idyllic Potrero like the place just the way it is. Thanks anyway, Blackwater. By Pat Sherman 02/12/2008 Though a controversial military contra...
BY WENDELL MINNICK TAIPEI #8212; U.S. based Blackwater is training members of the Taiwanese National Security Bureau #8217;s (NSB #8217;s) special protection ser...
By Josh Richman Tuesday, February 19th, 2008 at 4:31 pm in Assembly, Fabian Nunez, General, Guy Houston. Assembly Republicans voted down a bill today which would ...
Secretary of State Debra Bowen decertified touch screen Diebold voting machines and told San Diego County to use paper ballots. But guess what? They are using Die...
By Jane Hamsher, Firedoglake Posted on March 1, 2008 One of the reasons we haven't endorsed during the presidential primary, as we've said often times, is because...
BARCO, N.C. It started as a simple question during an online chat with Marshall Adame, a Democrat and retired Marine running for Congress in North Carolina's 3rd ...
Jeremy Scahill reports Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama will not #8220;rule out #8221; using private military companies like Blackwater Worldwide i...
By Miriam Raftery The East County Californian May 31, 2007 California #8217;s Secretary of State is hot on the trail of alleged election law violations by San D...
by JEREMY SCAHILL from the March 17, 2008 issue Update from Jeremy Scahill: A day after this story went live on TheNation.com, Senator Hillary Clinton, whose st...
By Noah Shachtman EmailFebruary 29, 2008 10:42:00 AM Just as Blackwater had finally fallen from the headlines and the boys in Moyock thought their State Departm...
Congress took yet another look yesterday at one of the most compelling themes of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq: the use of Blackwater and other private securit...
WASHINGTON (AP) Private security firm Blackwater USA paid $290,000 to C M Capitolink last year to lobby the federal government. The company paid C M $150,000 in...
By Sharon Weinberger February 26, 2008 10:00:00 AM Blackwater could have saved slain Pakistani politician Benazir Bhutto. In fact, Bhutto wanted to be saved by ...
Blackwater Corners the Market February 21, 2008: Blackwater Worldwide, one of the worlds largest private security firms, has provided training for the Taiwanese p...
02/22/2008 @ 9:54 am Filed by Michael Roston As John McCain's reputation as a family man and a politician with a clean ethical record came under attack on Thursda...
Need a private label armored vehicle? A detachment of Chilean infantrymen? A special forces "engagement team"? Erik Prince's expanding global private army is at y...
February 20, 2008 Eastern North Carolina is gearing up for aninflux of military personnel as the Pentagon closes bases around the country. The state is banking on...
Chris Hedges is a graduate of Harvard Divinity School and won a Pulitzer Prize as a foreign correspondent for the New York Times. Armed units from the private sec...
Winning the prestigious George Polk award is bittersweet vindication for investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill. His book, "Blackwater: The Rise of the World's M...
Weapons manufacturer Heckler Koch said it would end its relationship with Blackwater after German media reported that the controversial US run military firm was...
Security training camp won't be built in Potrero By Anne Krueger UNION TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER March 8, 2008 Blackwater Worldwide dropped its plans yesterday to buil...
March 7,2008 Mr. Jarrett Ramaiya County of San Diego Department of Planning and Land Use 5201 Ruffin Road, Suite B San Diego, CA 92123 Re: Application for Major U...
By ALLISON HOFFMAN, Associated Press Writer Friday, March 7, 2008 (03 07) 16:18 PST SAN DIEGO, (AP) Military security contractor Blackwater Worldwide has pulled...
By Anne Krueger UNION TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER 2:33 p.m. March 7, 2008 Blackwater Worldwide officials have announced they are pulling their application to build a tra...
Is there an ethics that justifies Blackwater? The state, Max Weber wrote in his classic essay "Politics as a Vocation," "is a human community that (successfully) ...
Lutz for Assembly http://www.LutzForAssembly.com http://www.StopBlackwater.net http://www.CitizensOversight.org CONTACT: Raymond Lutz, State Assembly Candidate, 7...
By Robert Brodsky rbrodsky #64;govexec.com March 3, 2008 Sen. Hillary Clinton has signed on as the first co sponsor of a bill that would ban the use of all Stat...
By SAMEER N. YACOUB #8211; Feb 29, 2008 BAGHDAD (AP) #8212; The Justice Department appears to be gathering testimony from Iraqi witnesses for a possible trial o...
Brinkmanship continues as the Jamul Indian Village has adopted a stance of #8220;we're going to build our casino and who is going to stop us? #8221; Not the sher...
By Massimo Calabresi/Washington The days of legal immunity for civilian contractors in Iraq may be numbered, as Washington and Baghdad prepare to renegotiate a lo...
Doing It Yourself Democracy looks at local Southern California issues from the eyes of resident activists who say: "If not me, who?" In the first segment, we visi...
By ANNE FLAHERTY #8211; Mar 10, 2008 WASHINGTON (AP) #8212; A senior House Democrat has called for a wide ranging federal investigation into Blackwater Worldwid...
Waxman: Firm also violates labor rules By Karen DeYoung, Washington Post March 11, 2008 WASHINGTON House Oversight Committee Chairman Henry Waxman expanded ...
10:00 PM PST on Wednesday, January 9, 2008 By JULISSA McKINNON` The Press Enterprise HOMELAND After addressing noise, traffic and several safety concerns about ...
By Sarah Nagem, Staff Reporter Bentonville Township #65533; Some residents of this quiet community aren't thrilled about a military training group setting its si...
Wednesday, March 12 2008 @ 10:58 AM PDT Contributed by: Anarcentric After addressing noise, traffic and several safety concerns about his proposal to build a stat...
By Anne KruegerM UNION TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER March 13, 2008 For more than a year, Blackwater Worldwide's proposal for a military and law enforcement training camp ...
By Miriam Raftery The Alpine Sun POTRERO #8212; Blackwater has backed out of its plan to build a private military and law enforcement training camp on an 82...
Since U.S. forces began bombarding Iraq in 2003, the impact of the war has been felt far beyond the battlefields. Monday, March 17, 2008 2004 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIO...
by JEREMY SCAHILL posted online on March 18, 2008 Hillary Clinton has just become the most significant US political figure to come out in favor of banning Black...
David Robertson, Business Correspondent Blackwater Worldwide, the private security company whose guards are accused of shooting dead 17 Iraqi civilians last year,...
David Robertson ArmorGroup, the private security company, became another casualty of the war in Iraq as it succumbed yesterday to a £43 million bid from rival G4S...
Two Iraqi Families of Victims Killed by Blackwater Guards Tell ABC News They've Refused Compensation From the Company By AADEL FAIQ March 20, 2008 #8212; At least...
Wednesday March 19 2008 FOUR young men from the Blackwater area have been sent forward for trial in the Circuit Court on charges of assault causing harm and false...
March 20, 2008 POTRERO: Everyone is welcome at a Celebrate Potrero Party from 1 to 3 p.m. Saturday at 23975 Yerba Santa Road. The purpose of the gathering is heal...
The Associated Press GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) #8212; The founder of private security contractor Blackwater Worldwide plans to speak to a meeting of the Grand ...
Published: March 24, 2008 As the nonpareil war profiteer in Iraq, Blackwater Worldwide keeps outdoing its own mercenary record. Ranking Blackwater executives have...
Associated Press March 24, 2008 7:23 PM ET WASHINGTON (AP) It's a big question in Washington; Should private contract workers have access to sensitive informa...
by: Matt Stoller Sat Mar 22, 2008 at 14:50 Reposted from OpenLeft.com Since we've been discussing whether to ban or simply regulate private military contractors, ...
Presentation by RaymondLutz Covers history of Prince Family, Start of Blackwater, recent events contributing to their success, expansion, and the Potrero "Blackwa...
by: Eartha Jane Melzer Wednesday (03/12) at 08:28 AM Company insiders say job starved Michigan was poised to make a bad investment When Sovereign Deed LLC came to...
Neither Clinton nor Obama has a real plan to end the occupation of Iraq, but they could be forced to change position By Naomi Klein and Jeremy Scahill The Guardi...
Katie DeLong A local journalist is adding to the international debate concerning the war in Iraq. It's a war entering its sixth year now, and more than any other ...
By Kevin Martinez 26 March 2008 On March 7, private contractor Blackwater Worldwide announced it was abandoning plans to construct a military and police training ...
The Potrero Community Planning Group meeting of 03 13 2008 reconsidered the Blackwater West project as a ceremonial gesture after the withdrawal of the project by...
DHS Exercises Waiver Authority to Expedite Advancements in Border Security Release Date: April 1, 2008 For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary Contact...
By ADAM LIPTAK Securing the nation #8217;s borders is so important, Congress says, that Michael Chertoff, the homeland security secretary, must have the power to ...
Iraq disapproves Blackwater contract renewal Tuesday, April 08, 2008 09:09 GMT US State Department has attributed the decision of renewing Blackwater private se...
By JHarryJones UNION TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER 6:14 p.m. April 11, 2008 The board members of the county's long range planning group overwhelmingly endorsed the Sunrise...
Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis once said, #8220;The most important office in a democracy is that of the citizen. #8221; But typical citizens find overseein...
by DeanCalbreath UNION TRIBUNE April 13, 2008 The billboard on the freeway shows a pair of stark alternatives: a dark, grimy, smoke belching power plant versus a ...
By DeanCalbreath STAFF WRITER, San Diego Union Tribune January 4, 2008 The Sunrise Powerlink project #8211; San Diego Gas Electric's disputed plan to build a $...
The Feb 20 program for the SD Renewable Energy Society promises to be revolutionary! Bill Powers will present his proposal titled "San Diego Smart Energy 2020". ...
Posted date: 4/17/2008 NTR, an Ireland based company that specializes in renewable energy and waste management, plans to invest $100 million in Phoenix based Stir...
By JHarryJones UNION TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER April 9, 2008 The chance that SDG E's proposed Sunrise Powerlink project might pose a fire risk in the backcountry was t...
By JHarryJones UNION TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER March 27, 2008 A lingering question in the Sunrise Powerlink controversy is what influence and legal powers, if any, the...
By AnneKrueger UNION TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER 1:41 p.m. April 22, 2008 Blackwater Worldwide is planning to open an indoor training facility in Otay Mesa after abandon...
Apr 22, 2008 AnaTintocalis Blackwater USA has resurrected plans to open a military training center in San Diego County. The private security contractor abandoned ...
EL CAJON #8211; Not that long ago, the East County Performing Arts Center was considered one of the best things #8211; if not the only thing #8211; downtown El...
Reported by Stew Magnuson SAN ANTONIO, Texas #8212; Tunnels underneath the southwest border are expected to proliferate as improved fencing makes it harder for s...
Designers of the Project 28 pilot program, which was envisioned as a virtual fence along the Southwest border, failed to ask users what they wanted in the system,...
NOTE: THIS EVENT IS HISTORY! SEE VIDEO HERE: Press Conference Video From: Press, Congressman Filner Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2008 1:04 PM To: Press, Congressman ...
By Anne Krueger UNION TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER April 23, 2008 Although Blackwater Worldwide has given up its plans to build a training center in East County, the gove...
POSTED: 4:00 pm PDT April 22, 2008 UPDATED: 4:58 pm PDT April 22, 2008 SAN DIEGO Military security contractor Blackwater Worldwide is not giving up on a trainin...
By Tanya Mannes SAN DIEGO UNION TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER 7:57 p.m. April 25, 2008 SAN DIEGO #8211; Local officials will challenge Blackwater Worldwide's permit for a...
Apr 25, 2008 Amy Isackson A number of Southbay community leaders say Blackwater's presence near the border in Otay Mesa will complicate U.S. Mexico relations and...
Press conference hosted by Rep. Bob Filner (CA 51) in front of the secret Blackwater facility in Otay Mesa, just a stones throw from the border. Speakers included...
Blackwater permit faces challenge Public not informed, San Diego officials say By Tanya Mannes SAN DIEGO UNION TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER April 26, 2008 OTAY MESA #821...
AMY GOODMAN: We #8217;re on the road in San Diego. The private security company Blackwater USA is being accused of trying to secretly build a military training fa...
By Liz Neely STAFF WRITER August 14, 2007 EL CAJON #8211; The East County Performing Arts Center has been temporarily shuttered after chunks of plaster fell from...
Subcontractor conducted training By AnneKrueger UNION TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER April 29, 2008 SAN DIEGO #8211; The owner of a shooting range who trained military per...
How city permits obtained at issue By TanyaMannes UNION TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER May 6, 2008 San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders wants to know whether Blackwater Worldwide ...
Four members of state agency attend By JHarryJones UNION TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER May 13, 2008 * Kristy Mundt at PUC meeting on Sunrise Powerlink: PEGGY PEATT...
By TanyaMannes UNION TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER May 15, 2008 OTAY MESA #8211; An activist paid $100 this week to file a formal appeal of Blackwater Worldwide's permits...
Backup border fence would be built on dirt By LeslieBerestein UNION TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER May 16, 2008 Environmentalists hoping to stop the filling of a steep cany...
Note: This document was provided by BobFilner's office. Click here to view Blackwater_cert_occupancy_05.19.08.pdf OCR'ed version of the document. The following ...
* blackwaterresponsetoBroughtonbyAttorneys.pdf: Letter from Blackwater's attorney's demanding occupancy permit. May 20, 2008 Mr. Kelly Broughton Development Serv...
Regarding your Q A with Paul Russell and the East County Performing Arts Center (East County Opinion, June 29): I couldn't let this slide by without a reality che...
Will These Keep the Lights On? By Joe Deegan Published Wednesday, May 28, 2008 The Sunrise Powerlink gleamed for the first time in Sempra Energy #8217;s eye on...
By Ray Huard UNION TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER 6:24 p.m. May 29, 2008 SAN DIEGO #8211; Blackwater Worldwide failed to apply for the proper permits to run a training pro...
UNION TRIBUNE 6:35 p.m. May 30, 2008 SAN DIEGO #8211; A federal judge said Friday she won't decide until Tuesday whether to order San Diego City officials to iss...
Sanders to obey Blackwater ruling By Tanya Mannes UNION TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER June 5, 2008 OTAY MESA #8211; A federal judge ruled yesterday that Blackwater Worldw...
"Unfortunately, the Audit Report completely bypasses the main issue: Whether the combined permits granted under various contractors rises from "ministerial" proce...
By Tanya Mannes UNION TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER 3:44 p.m. June 11, 2008 OTAY MESA #8211; About 70 people, many wearing green #8220;Stop Blackwater #8221; T shirts, p...
By TanyaMannes UNION TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER June 14, 2008 OTAY MESA #8211; Blackwater Worldwide filed documents yesterday in federal court saying it should be allo...
The opening of a military training facility in Otay Mesa is under fire. On Wednesday, more than one hundred protesters gathered at a new facility opened by Blackw...
It should not be surprising to anyone who attended the Nov. 8 El Cajon City Council meeting that El Cajon's Arts and Culture Commission was dissolved. The city mu...
On CPUC server: * Main Document: http://docs.cpuc.ca.gov/efile/RULC/84387.pdf * Appendices: http://docs.cpuc.ca.gov/efile/RULC/84388.pdf Local Copies: * ...
UNION TRIBUNE June 25, 2008 OTAY MESA: Blackwater Worldwide, which recently obtained a federal court order allowing it to operate a military training facility, sa...
Rifles given to sheriff in deal that skirts law The private military company Blackwater has found an unusual way to skirt federal laws that prohibit private parti...
Blackwater shielded from council review By TanyaMannes UNION TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER June 18, 2008 OTAY MESA #8211; A federal judge ruled yesterday that Blackwater ...
No matter who wins the White House, the security firm is shooting for lucrative work. By JeremyScahill June 16, 2008 From California to Iraq, business has never b...
Vote delay to notify customers overruled By AnneKrueger, STAFF WRITER May 24, 2006 SANTEE #8211; The board of the Padre Dam Municipal Water District voted yester...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Melissa McChesney Communications Coordinator (619) 258 4680 Padre Dam Municipal Water District Elects Officers for 2008 Santee,...
Assemblyman Joel Anderson Wednesday morning threw his support behind the 52nd Congressional District campaign of Duncan D. Hunter. At a press conference at a La M...
Term limits claim incumbent La Suer By MicheleClock STAFF WRITER May 12, 2006 A bilingual charter school principal. A well known city councilman. A businessman wh...
Why would the National Right to Life PAC endorse a long term supporter of abortion like Brian Bilbray? In fact, the National Right to Life PAC is the political a...
MANAMA, BAHRAIN #8212; Common images of the U.S. Coast Guard's duties include boat rescues on the Great Lakes, pursuits of smugglers in the Caribbean and patrols...
El Cajon Assemblyman Joel Anderson is enjoying international attention these days, thanks to the governor's decision to sign his bill forcing the state's mammoth ...
Helping Hitler Buy Guns Posted by: Mighty Thor 04/05/2007 5:12 PM Penned by DuaneDichiara at the Flashreport regarding the Union Tribune and Assemblyman Joel An...
JOINT LETTER on The Modified Route D Alternative to Sunrise Powerlink Assemblyman JoelAnderson California State Assembly 77th District 500 Fesler Street, Suit...
Governor to sign bill by La Mesa lawmaker By Bill Ainsworth STAFF WRITER September 25, 2007 SACRAMENTO #8211; While Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was ma...
Home Depot is pulling all the strings in El Cajon, California. On June 6, 2006, Sprawl Busters reported the controversial death of a Home Depot project in El Cajo...
LITTLE NOTES December 2005 JOEL ANDERSON, candidate for the 77th Assembly District, was one of East County's biggest campaigners for Proposition 73. A parishione...
The Open Canvass Method eliminates most hacking opportunites in our election system, does not need certification, does not care about proprietary or closed source...
* Doc35 Court_transcripts_6 17 08.pdf: Document 35 Transcript of June 17, 2008 Hearing before MarilynHuff UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CAL...
Ever want to call for an election recount? Well, the Humboldt County Elections Office might soon give you the chance to do just that, and more. The Humboldt Tran...
Company is sister to N.C. based Blackwater JosephNeff and Jay rice, Staff Writers RALEIGH To defend itself against a lawsuit by the widows of three American sol...
By Daniel J. Callahan and Marc P. Miles, AlterNet Posted on June 8, 2007, Printed on June 8, 2007 http://www.alternet.org/story/53460/ The following article is by...
The city of San Diego filed an appeal Thursday of a federal court ruling last month that allowed Blackwater Worldwide to operate a military training facility in O...
BAGHDAD #8212; Iraq's foreign minister said Tuesday that the United States had agreed to lift immunity for foreign security contractors operating in Iraq, making ...
By AUGUST COLE July 2, 2008; Page A3 Blackwater Worldwide's bid to expand its military training business in the San Diego area has already sparked controversy in ...
By Harvey Morris at the United Nations Published: June 19 2008 03:00 Last updated: June 19 2008 03:00 Mia Farrow, the actress and activist, has asked Blackwater...
Agents of the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives have confiscated nearly two dozen automatic rifles from Blackwater Worldwide, the private s...
RALEIGH BlackwaterWorldwide, the North Carolina company that is famous and in some quarters infamous for its security work in Iraq, has been misunderstood and...
COEUR D #8217;ALENE, Idaho #8212; The Idaho Peace Officer Standards and Training Council has voted to table a plan by North Carolina based Blackwater Worldwide to...
SAN DIEGO BlackwaterWorldwide, the for profit private army best known for its deadly role in Iraq, obtained a temporary restraining order in federal court on June...
By Tanya Mannes SAN DIEGO UNION TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER 3:27 p.m. June 17, 2008 SAN DIEGO #8211; A federal judge has granted an injunction to Blackwater Worldwide, ...
By Adam Howard Posted on June 10, 2007, Printed on June 12, 2007 http://www.alternet.org/bloggers//53723/ Blackwater USA, the nefarious sounding and behaving cont...
COEUR D'ALENE The Idaho Post Academy has signed a letter of intent to work with BlackwaterWorldwide if the company decides to build in the region, which is draw...
Jun 11, 2008 Andrew Phelps BlackwaterWorldwide may have succeeded in opening its Navy training center in Otay Mesa, but it has not succeeded in quieting its cri...
Independent Oversight Body Will Tackle Systemic Waste, Fraud, and Abuse Washington, DC #8211; Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Speaker Nancy Pelosi have nam...
Two videos of a torture training session with the police force of León, Guanajuato shocked the Mexican public last week and raised serious questions about human r...
WARNING VIDEO IS DISTURBING. Mayor says torture training will continue and public officials will not be punished. Exactly one day after George Bush signed the fi...
FILM SYNOPSIS In this heated election year, the U.S. Mexican border is a magnet for debate as Americans grapple with the complex issues of illegal immigration, n...
EXCERPT On October 21, 2007 at approximately 12:29 PM Air Tanker Pilot Mike VENABLE reported a vegetation fire in the area of State Highway 78 and Santa Ysabel. ...
EXCERPT 2 SUMMARY: On October 22, 2007 at approximately 4:16 AM Tom DAVIS, a resident of the area, reported a fire in the Rice Canyon area. This fire was i...
by Sandra Svoboda Training Iraqi soldiers in SWAT procedures didn't seem like mercenary work to Greg, who took a yearlong leave of absence from a Midwestern polic...
Findings on wildfires implicate Cox lines, too By JHarryJones and TonyManolatos STAFF WRITERSJuly 10, 2008A state report released last night says arcing San Diego...
By DAVE DOWNEY Staff Writer Lawsuits and possible misdemeanor criminal charges confront San Diego Gas Electric Co. now that state officials have concluded its...
Utility's new policy requires inspectionsBy J. Harry Jones STAFF WRITERJuly 11, 2008Exactly 3½ hours before an arcing power line ignited the Witch Creek fire earl...
By SIOBHAN GORMAN and AUGUST COLE July 17, 2008; Page A1 When Dave Boone complained that his fellow security contractors in Iraq were stockpiling weapons and pad...
by Matthew Schwarzfeld July 18, 2008 10:06 am EDT Tags: Barack Obama, Blackwater, John McCain, Military Contractor Abuse Scandal Senators Barack Obama and John...
by Matthew Schwarzfeld July 14, 2008 12:04 pm EDT Tags: Blackwater, Iraq, Military Contractor Abuse Scandal July 14: This post has been corrected. Private secu...
By JOHN ROSS When presumptive Republican presidential candidate John McCain brought his road show to Mexico City on the eve of U.S. Independence Day, he had one m...
Regarding Q A with Blackwater's Erik Prince and Brian Bonfiglio (Dialog, July 27): I wonder how much of what these two Blackwater executives say can be believed...
The Democratic leadership in Congress is once again gearing up for a great sell out on the Iraq war. While the wrangling over the $124 billion Iraq supplemental s...
July 27, 2008 Erik Prince, founder and CEO of Blackwater USA, and Brian Bonfiglio, a Blackwater vice president in San Diego, recently met with the Union Tribune's...
When a California medical marijuana dispensary, Organica Collective, was raided last Thursday by agents of the Federal Drug Enforcement Agency and local police, t...
* Original source: http://www.sba.gov/ig/Blackwater_Contracts_Report.pdf * SBAInspectorGeneralOn_Blackwater_Contracts_Report.pdf: SBA Inspector General report:...
Anti illegal immigration group struggling as chapters disband, donations slow By Kerry Lester Daily Herald StaffPublished: 5/19/2008 12:06 AMOne of the most vis...
Agents thought he paid man to cross By Leslie Berestein STAFF WRITER August 7, 2008 SOUTH COUNTY A local civil rights advocate who often files compliants on b...
MARCELA SANCHEZ THE WASHINGTON POST Changing the immigration debate August 9, 2008 A new effort to clear this country of illegal immigrants comes courtesy ...
Fourteen employees of an Oceanside fencing contractor, along with 13 relatives and "collateral" undocumented immigrants, face deportation following raids yesterda...
A fencing company that has contracted with the military was busted for the second time in less than 15 months Wednesday for hiring undocumented workers, some of w...
Note: Curator corrected factual inaccuracies In San Diego County, a firestorm has erupted over plans to build a Blackwater mercenary training camp in the hills b...
WASHINGTON A California company under investigation on suspicion of hiring undocumented workers won a contract in the late 1990s to help build the San Diego borde...
A company that built fences at military bases and along the border in San Diego pleaded guilty yesterday to hiring illegal immigrants in an unusual case in which ...
Christmas came early for those of us who believe that the only honest way to combat illegal immigration is to bring criminal charges against the employers who hir...
At some point, Americans are going to have to get tough on companies that knowingly hire illegal immigrants in blatant violation of the law. We're going to have d...
By Anne Krueger UNION TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER 9:17 p.m. July 30, 2008 LA MESA Board members of the public district that oversees Sharp Grossmont Hospital said Wedn...
By Angelica Martinez UNION TRIBUNE BREAKING NEWS TEAM 10:45 a.m. August 4, 2008 LA MESA Immediate changes in communication procedures are taking place at Sharp ...
By Keith Darcé UNION TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER August 9, 2008 Sharp HealthCare executives have spent the past two weeks trying to reassure the public that their hospit...
Hospital could lose all federal payments By Cheryl Clark UNION TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER July 30, 2008 Sharp Grossmont Hospital in La Mesa could lose all federal paym...
District board heard of issues in media By Angelica Martinez and Cheryl Clark UNION TRIBUNE STAFF WRITERS August 5, 2008 LA MESA The Grossmont Healthcare Distri...
"I've been a Republican for 35 years and I became a Democrat in January," La Mesa Councilmember David Allan told a crowd of over 350 people at the East County Uni...
POTRERO, CALIF. #8212; With its isolation and rustic ambience, this sparsely populated hamlet in eastern San Diego County offers the privacy and quiet its reside...
The boulder strewn hillsides of Homeland that he roamed as a child remind John Choate of the terrain in Afghanistan, where the former Navy SEAL served after the S...
By Ron Cook The East County Herald LA MESA Local Democrat clubs hosted the East County "Uniting for Change" rally Sunday, Aug. 3 at Harry Griffen Park in La Me...
POLITICS US: One Fifth of Iraq Funding Paid to ContractorsBy William FisherNEW YORK, Aug 14 (IPS) As a new report forecasts that the 190,000 private contractors...
Decision follows lapses at hospital By Anne Krueger STAFF WRITER August 16, 2008 LA MESA Officials for the public district that oversees Sharp Grossmont ado...
Raymond Lutz, creator of the website "StopBlackwater.net" and one of the leaders of the movement to stop war profiteers like Blackwater, reviews the current statu...
WASHINGTON Marine families who lived at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina over three decades drank water contaminated with toxins as much as 40 times over today's sa...
On October 20, 2007 peace activists gathered at the gates of Blackwater USA in Moyock, NC to protest the Massacre at Nisour Square that took place on September 16...
Blackwater guards face prosecution over killing of 17 Iraqi civilians Tuesday, August 19th, 2008 By James Bone Six Blackwater Worldwide security guards have ...
Sempra's gas venture gathering steam at Baja site Plant expected to boost fuel supplies by 2008 By Diane Lindquist STAFF WRITER October 24, 2005 COSTA AZUL ...
21st March 2008 By Staff Writer San Diego based natural gas firm Sempra Energy's Costa Azul liquefied natural gas terminal on the west coast of Mexico will comm...
New Evidence That Blackwater Guards Took No Fire The view on Friday of Nisour Square in Baghdad from the roof at the southwest corner. On Sept. 16, Blackwater ve...
The Hidden Campaign Ohio Voting Machines Contained Programming Error That Dropped Votes By Mary Pat Flaherty A voting system used in 34 states contains a critica...
Pat Nixon at the U.S. Mexico Border New America Media, Commentary, Joseph Nevins, Posted: Aug 22, 2008 Editor s Note: Nearly 40 years ago this month, First Lady ...
* Baja_Wind_EA_Scoping_Notice_ FR _8 4 08.pdf: Notice of Intent To Prepare an Environmental Assessment and To Conduct Public Scoping Meetings; Baja Wind U.S. Tr...
Wind Zero, Inc. makes a presentation to the Ocotillo Nomirage Community Council regarding their proposed training facility, including shooting ranges, driving tra...
Some votes miscounted in primary, officials say By Luis Monteagudo Jr. and Helen Gao UNION TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER April 8, 2004 County officials said yesterday t...
* Contribution_regarding_the_RWEP.pdf: CONTRIBUTION TO THE RECIRCULATED DRAFT EIR FOR THE SUNRISE POWERLINK August 4, 2008CONTRIBUTION TO THE RECIRCULATED DRAFT ...
Lawsuit alleges cover up of death By Cheryl Clark UNION TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER August 28, 2008 LA MESA Caregivers at Sharp Grossmont Hospital incorrectly adjusted...
Blackwater deal divided community By Anne Krueger UNION TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER August 28, 2008 Blackwater Worldwide has left Potrero behind, but the controversy eng...
EAST COUNTY PERSPECTIVE Longtime insider believes in Sharp Grossmont Hospital August 24, 2008 By Bob Yarris Reading and hearing the recent media attention around...
Raising sales taxes hurts all of us By Joel Anderson August 29, 2008 As a father of three, I know how expensive it can be to get kids ready to go back to schoo...
Videos created by David Barton, Vice Chair of the Texas Republican Party and a close colleague of disgraced former House Leader Tom DeLay, have been removed from ...
Comments This meeting was scheduled on August 26, 2008, one day after the final comment period closed for the Recirculated Draft Environmental Impact Report (RDEI...
Monica Almedia/The New York Times By FELICITY BARRINGER Published: August 28, 2008 SAN FRANCISCO California, known for its far ranging suburbs and jam packed tr...
Infrastructure issues nationwide take wind out of clean energy's sails By Matthew L. Wald NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE August 28, 2008 When the builders of the M...
My Turn with Ray Lutz Sunrise Powerlink SDG E says it will supply San Diego with renewable energy from the desert. Unfortunately, their strategy—like a broken f...
By Ray Lutz High energy prices hurt our economy. Not only do we pay through the nose at the pump, we pay through the gun barrel in our overseas military misadvent...
REVIEW OUTLOOK September 6, 2008; Page A10 Unfunded public employee pensions are a crisis waiting to erupt across the country, so a political brawl in San Die...
By Chris Moran STAFF WRITER September 12, 2008 EAST COUNTY County school board candidate Rose Urdahl acknowledged she doesn't have the credentials for two jobs...
By Ray Huard UNION TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER September 11, 2008 Former El Cajon City Councilman Charles Emmet Santos has pleaded guilty to stealing money from his ail...
By Miriam Raftery (From October 19, 2006 East County Californian) The El Cajon City Council has removed questionable videos from Channel 24, a taxpayer funded gov...
Published on HamptonRoads.com A man who held a high profile job training Blackwater security contractors for duty in Iraq now sits in a Canadian jail awaiting tri...
Citizens will soon have access to a key tool to track federal spending President Bush signs S. 2590 President Bush signs the Federal Funding Accountability and ...
Purpose: To find out if this training center is related to Blackwater West or another paramilitary group. To find out if this private military training center is...
* Planning_Dept._5.1_Procinctu.pdf: Public Use Permit No. 885 to construct a privately owned police, military, and governmental agency tactical training center ...
El Cajon yanks religious programs off city channel By Liz Neely STAFF WRITER October 25, 2006 The opening of an El Cajon city DVD (top) showed God governm...
Training facility reeks of Blackwater By Paul Jacobs as published in print and online (www.nctimes.com) for The Californian 10/5/08 Old Blackwater keeps on ro...
State Dept. Move to Let Contractors Probe Complaints Over Other Contractors May Be Illegal By KIRIT RADIA *Oct. 3, 2008 * In an apparent violation of federal reg...
Blackwater Machine Gun Found in Raid on Iraqi Insurgents Incident Was Kept Secret and Raises More Questions About the Firm's Iraq Operations By BRIAN ROSS *Octobe...
Congressman Bob Filner and Assembly candidate Ray Lutz of East County speak out against Blackwater at Otay Mesa Rally Story and photos by Gayle Early Sign fr...
Democrats on pace to lead registration By Craig Gustafson and Helen Gao UNION TRIBUNE STAFF WRITERS October 9, 2008 The electoral edge that Republicans have held ...
JACOBS: Do we really need paramilitary training here? By PAUL JACOBS For The Californian An online comment on last week's column on the Procinctu project in H...
Higher gasoline prices, dependence on foreign oil and concerns about global warming have placed biofuels in the spotlight. However, no one thinks that turning foo...
In this four part special series, KPBS investigative reporter Amita Sharma and border reporter Amy Isackson examine how San Diego based Sempra Energy got the gree...
New Fence Will Split a Border Park Sandy Huffaker for The New York Times Through a border fence, Jacqueline Huerta touched her niece, Yisell Martinez, who was...
KGTV TV CH 10 (ABC) San Diego 10/25/2006 05:00 PM 06:00 PM El Cajon news: El Cajon's Government Access Channel caused controversy, as religious programming has ...
You should see an embedded player below. If you do not see it, you can download the entire audio program from the attachment list. Gary Woods Priscilla Sch...
By Michael Mason THE EAST COUNTY CALIFORNIAN September 7, 2006 Editors Note: This is part two of a two part series looking at the relationship between Christi...
By Patrick Heald When it comes to controversial San Diego County school districts, San Diego City Schools grabs most of the headlines, what with the district bo...
County school officials consider the future of intelligent design in the classroom By Pat Sherman The clearest evidence of our evolution can be found in our ...
* OrVRC_Presentation.pps: Oregon Voter Rights Coalition "The Illusion of Democracy" (If you don't have a powerpoint viewer, you can download one Here...)
LUTZ: Thank you very much for listening to me. My name is Ray Lutz. I am the founder of Citizens Oversight Projects, and I happen to also be a candidate for the 7...
* C00015_SoS_Request_For_Support_For_Statement_of_Votes_cast2008 10 08_wattachment.pdf: Request that the Secretary of State support our request for the Scanner ta...
Exit Strategy from the Failure in Iraq Systematic Sovereignty vs. the October Surprise RaymondLutz Sept. 2006 We find ourselves in a situation that is al...
KGTV 10 on 10 26 (aired at 5:30 and 11pm) 1. 10 News Early Edition America's Godly Heritage: El Cajon's government access channel is stirring up some controversy,...
Helix High board calls for trustee to resign Grossmont leader alleges misconduct By Leonel Sanchez STAFF WRITER October 31, 2008 LA MESA Helix High School of...
RAMONA: Charter school files for bankruptcy By North County Times Sun Valley Charter School in Ramona filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy Wednesday in the final ch...
Blackwater: Layoffs It turns out that trucking wasn't as lucrative as private security for Blackwater Worldwide. One week after the government spurned the contra...
By BRUCE SMITH, Associated Press Writer LADSON, S.C. Force Protection, the military manufacturer that grew rapidly when the nation went to war, on Thursday unve...
In his first in depth interview, the former CIA head of counterterrorism and current vice chair of Blackwater talks about trying to warn President Bush before the...
Support Clean EnergyResolution Number SDL07.04 WHEREAS, the continued burning of fossil fuels for energy harms our environment and likely contributes significantl...
Opposing Coal LiquefactionResolution Number SAC07.17 WHEREAS, the Environmental Protection Agency has determined that even should carbon sequestration technology ...
Supporting Open Source Software for Electronic Voting MachinesResolution Number SAC07.12 WHEREAS, public confidence in the integrity of the election system in the...
Joseph Pena, The East County Californian, Oct 26, 2006 In a show of civil disobedience, Raymond Lutz held signs throughout the El Cajon City Council meeting Tuesd...
Local Planning to End Global WarmingResolution Number SAC07.09 WHEREAS, the California Legislature has proven its leadership through landmark environmental legisl...
Protecting Election IntegrityResolution Number MAN06.05 WHEREAS: There are serious questions about the security of electronic voting machines, and insecure and u...
November 10, 2008 By ERIC SCHMITT and MARK MAZZETTI WASHINGTON The United States military since 2004 has used broad, secret authority to carry out nearly a doze...
* NOVEMBER 19, 2008 Iraq Pact Forces Security Contractors to Confront Work Without Immunity By AUGUST COLE The new agreement covering the U.S. military presence...
By DAVE DOWNEY Staff Writer The curtain is expected to rise Friday on the long awaited proposed decision on San Diego Gas Electric Co.'s controversial $1.5 bi...
* rovmanualtallyreportforjune2008.pdf: Manual Tally Report for 6/3/2008 Election We must note that this document says "Intradepartment draft" and not final releas...
After this video, the Registrar of Voters Deborah Seilers declined to allow us to film any further meetings, so we resorted to written interaction. Transcript o...
A training camp for members of law enforcement and the military is being proposed in Imperial County that opponents say is disturbingly similar to a facility plan...
* ManualTallyResultsSpreadsheetFinal11 4 08.pdf: Manual tally results for Nov 4, 2008 election shows significant error rate. * Of the original 17 precincts sam...
Blackwater Backlash Getty Images Erik Prince, chairman of the Prince Group, LLC and Blackwater USA, holds up a picture showing the affect of a car bomb while te...
Original source: http://fairvote.org/sos/Democracy%20SOS%20 %20National%20Edition_10 27_FINAL.pdf * The first question: what voting equipment is used in the co...
By Matthew Haggman05 13 2004 A scathing internal review of the iVotronic touch screen voting machines used in Miami Dade and Broward, Fla., counties, written by a...
* Original Source: http://www.eac.gov/files/Eds2006/eds2006/edsr final adopted version.pdf * edsr final adopted version2006.pdf: The 2006 Election Administrati...
I came to the "whitewash" realization after listening to the Justice Department press conference of the 35 charge indictment. You can watch this on the CSPAN web...
Loose Change, Second Edition Screened 2006 08 13 at RanchoSanDiegoLibrary Loose Change, Final Cut See http://loosechange911.com * Have 2nd Edition DVD. * ...
By TonyPerry, LosAngelesTimes April 22, 2007 POTRERO, Calif. With its isolation and rustic ambience, this sparsely populated hamlet in eastern San Diego Cou...
by JeremyScahill from the May 8, 2006 issue It is one of the most infamous incidents of the war in Iraq: On March 31, 2004, four private American security contr...
* 05 Nov 2006 (4) 9/11 Press for Truth (Doors open at 1pm; First Screening at 1:30 2:55; Possible second screening: 3:15 4:35) Total length of movie: 84 minut...
http://www.sirnosir.com/ We purchased this DVD and even have film posters but do not know where it is. * 28 Jan 2007 (5) CurrentEventsTheater, Sir, No Sir Ra...
* 25 Feb 2007 (6) CurrentEventsTheater, The Ground Truth RanchoSanDiegoLibrary RSVP (1:00pm) Video will start promptly at 1:30pm; The terrible conflict in Iraq...
September 11th Revisited is perhaps the most riveting film ever made about the destruction of the World Trade Center. This is a powerful documentary which feature...
JFK2 The sequel to Oliver Stone's JFK, you won't see in the cinema. A thoroughly documented criminal indictment establishing beyond a reasonable doubt the guilt o...
* 11 Nov 2007 (13) CurrentEventsTheater, American Blackout, RanchoSanDiegoLibrary (1:00pm)Video will start promptly at 2pm; Reviews election irregularities in t...
http://www.shadowcompanythemovie.com/ With the situation in Iraq one of the key talking points in the upcoming U.S. Elections, see the most comprehensive, entert...
July 8, 2007 RALEIGH, N.C. Internal memos show that four security contractors who were ambushed and killed in Iraq three years ago were told to go through the da...
http://www.uncountedthemovie.com/ * 24 Feb 2008 (15) CurrentEventsTheater, Uncounted, RanchoSanDiegoLibrary (1:30pm)Video will start promptly at 2pm; How our e...
* 27 Jul 2008 (20) CurrentEventsTheater, Bill Moyers Buying the War, RanchoSanDiegoLibrary (1:30pm)Video will start promptly at 2pm;"Buying the War" examines ...
* 24 Aug 2008 (21) CurrentEventsTheater, Recount, RanchoSanDiegoLibrary (1:30pm)Video will start promptly at 2pm;"Recount" the powerful drama based on the event...
Mishaps run deeper than new machines Poll workers, voters cite tied up hotline, poor training, confusion By Jeff McDonald and Luis Monteagudo Jr. UNION TRIBUNE...
* See Request: Request C00017 Here is the email received regarding this request: Dear Mr. Lutz, Attached is the Registrar of Voters’ response to your letter of De...
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This is one of the best (brief) overviews of the supporting evidence for anthropogenic climate change and also an overview of the strategy to undermine the scient...
When four Blackwater USA security guards were ambushed and massacred in Fallujah in 2004, graphic images showed the world exactly what happened: four men killed, ...
See also our panel discussion on this film here: Forum on Israeli Palestinian conflict after seeing "Peace, Propaganda, and the Promised Land" Calendar Entry Sun...
State Department To Blackwater: You're Fired, Leave Iraq by May $1.2 Billion Contract Won't Be Renewed Following Iraqi Refusal to License U.S. Firm By BRIAN ROSS...
Security training facility faces opposition www.privateofficer.com Posted on January 29, 2009 by privateofficernews Security training facility faces opposition w...
By Rob McMillan ROMOLAND, Calif. (KABC) The Riverside County Board of Supervisors is being targeted by protestors. Demonstrators are angry about a proposed trai...
* JANUARY 30, 2009, 1:51 A.M. ET Afghan Guards Confound U.S. Forces By YOCHI J. DREAZEN KABUL, Afghanistan A contingent of Army Rangers was moving toward a ...
Blackwater: private US security firm mired in Iraq controversy Contractor effectively kicked out of Iraq over alleged killing of civilians * Audrey Gillan ...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:January 27, 2009LOCAL RESIDENTS ASK: WHY WAS THIS PRIVATE PARAMILITARY FIRM APPROVED BY THE RIVERSIDE COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS?Protest Pl...
Students to use firing range at Blackwater site UNION TRIBUNE 2:00 a.m. February 9, 2009 OTAY MESA Southwestern College will send its police academy students to...
(Video: http://www.kpbs.org/tv/full_focus;id=8977 ) The joke around Potrero is if you're on Highway 94 and you blink, you just might miss the town. Potrero is sma...
Blackwater Sheds Tarnished Name: New Name Is 'Xe' MIKE BAKER February 13, 2009 11:56 AM EST RALEIGH, N.C. Blackwater Worldwide is abandoning its tarn...
Scandal Ridden Blackwater Changes Name Controversial Security Firm Attempts to Rebrand Itself By MADDY SAUER and MEGAN CHUCHMACH *February 13, 2009 * The scandal ...
Blackwater Changes Its Name, Shall Now Be Called the Knights Who Say 'Xe' By Jeremy Scahill, AlterNetPosted on February 13, 2009, Printed on February 14, 2009 ht...
Governing board sets deal with Blackwater Filner, faculty rip SWC pact with "mercenaries" By: Esmeralda F. Ramirez Posted: 3/5/09 Southwestern College has ente...
Powerlink meeting is met with outrage Residents say SDG E didn't announce routing By Anne Krueger Union Tribune Staff Writer 2:00 a.m. February 21, 2009 LAKESIDE...
By MiriamRaftery Before and After images of El Monte Valley *February 18, 2009 (Lakeside) * Lakeside planners, fire officials and residents expressed shoc...
February 16, 2009 The Nation Think Solar, Think Small By Craig D. Rose This article appeared in the February 16, 2009 edition of The Nation. As the Obama admin...
Walter Taylor, Staff Writer ELIZABETHTOWN #8212; A wild stretch of the Cape Fear River serves as a classroom. Instructor Paul Imhoff of Blackwater USA, a private...
San Diego Reader City Lights Clouds on SDG E s Sunny Plans By Craig D. Rose Published Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2009 When it comes to fighting global warming, San ...
* bw swc mou 1 28 09.pdf: SWC BW MOU January 28, 2009 MEMORANDUM TO: Members of the Governing Board Southwestern Community College District APPROVED BY: Raj K. Co...
LOCAL LETTERS It's a new (bad) name, but same Blackwater 2:00 a.m. February 28, 2009 About the company formerly known as Blackwater: Is a bad name the same as a ...
Notice as published by local newspapers. East County Democratic Club sponsors a public forum on the Israeli Palestinian conflict, Sunday, March 1st, 2:00 pm (refr...
Jeremy Scahill Independent journalist, author, Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army Posted March 2, 2009 12:34 PM (EST) BIO Become a...
Biographical sketches of 5 Blackwater guards Biographical sketches of 5 indicted Blackwater Worldwide security guards The Associated Press AP News Dec 08, 2008 19...
July 13, 2007 When it comes to requests to give away public money, El Cajon council members just can't bring themselves to say "No." The city has become enmeshed ...
SAN DIEGO A San Diego congressman plans to ask Southwestern College to rescind its plans to partner with the private security company formerly known as Blackwat...
* 3_9_Request_for_Clarification_and_Response_to_Deployment_of_Active_Duty_Combat_Troops_on_United_States_Soil.doc: Request of clarification and response regarding...
Southwestern to rework training contract with Xe 2:00 a.m. March 12, 2009 CHULA VISTA: Southwestern College's governing board voted last night to renegotiate its ...
At this meeting, they should have simply reconsidered the prior motion, and then voted it down, thereby allowing a new motion to be put forward based on a renegot...
* LetterToSouthwesternCollege_requestingBWCorrespondence.pdf: Letter to Southwestern College Requesting Blackwater Documents. Citizens' Oversight Projects (COPs) ...
KPFK.org Riverside County Residents Protest Proposed Security Training Facility Posted By admin On March 17, 2009 @ 10:03 am Listen to this segment the enti...
COMMENTS MADE MARCH 17, 2009 AT PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION HEARING: 08 011 05: OIR: FIRE SAFETY FOR ELECTRIC UTILITIES AND COMMUNICATIONS INFRASTRUCTURE ...
U.S. Moves to Replace Contractors in Iraq Blackwater Losing Security Role; Other Jobs Being Converted to Public Sector By Karen DeYoung Washington Post Staff Wri...
Tuesday, March 17, 2009 EXCLUSIVE: New deal for Blackwater Jim McElhatton ( Contact) Days after the Baghdad government decided it no longer wanted the company t...
Mt. Kuchima, otherwise known as Tecate Peak, is an ancient sacred area. The mountains in that area contain a number of natural formations that were incorporated i...
Iraqi widow files suit; husband killed by Blackwater employee By Greg Moran Union Tribune Staff Writer 2:00 a.m. March 21, 2009 FEDERAL COURT The widow of an Ir...
Last update: 10:33 a.m. EDT March 20, 2009 WASHINGTON, March 20, 2009 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ A heavily intoxicated Blackwater "shooter" randomly murdered an I...
Blackwater like Procinctu Group Project Given Hearing without Notice Riverside County Board of Supervisors conduct mock hearing on March 17th in blatant disrega...
Notes: Byrd Hale Protest/Comment at the Board of Governor's Meeting April 15 The Board of Trustees voted to renegotiate the contract with Blackwater, removing ...
(EXCERPTED FROM MEETING MINUTES, See page 25 of the linked PDF file.) Public comments regarding Item #12 were held at this time. The following individuals spoke i...
Vote probe raises fears over 'fix' '06 Pima County result, electronic system in question by Dennis Wagner Apr. 15, 2009 12:00 AM The Arizona Republic Under the...
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la na contractors17 2009apr17,0,5505250.story From the Los Angeles Times FORGOTTEN WARRIORS Injured war zone contr...
By Brian Handwerk NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC NEWS July 19, 2007 Cyclical changes in the sun's energy output are not responsible for Earth's recent warming, a new study a...
The following article was modified by adding a count by the names. You will note that the number that they claim was on board is not reflected by the actual count...
UQ Wire: 9/11 Commission Outline of the 9/11 Plot Thursday, 17 June 2004, 10:11 am Press Release: www.UnansweredQuestions.org Distribution via the Unanswered Q...
browser does not support iframe Comment by Ray Lutz: After hearing JohnDean give a lecture on his book Conservatives without Conscience, I ran into this research ...
One of the most perceptive critics of the administration of George W. Bush in his New York Times bestsellers Conservatives Without Conscience and Worse Than Water...
AP ENTERPRISE: Blackwater out of Iraq? No, not yet By MATTHEW LEE and MIKE BAKER, Associated Press Writers Matthew Lee And Mike Baker, Associated Press Writers ...
More lawsuits filed against Blackwater security firm 2:38 PM March 27, 2009 Two more lawsuits have been filed in San Diego federal court against the former Blac...
Lawsuit targets Xe over Iraq shootings The Associated Press 2009 04 02 00:20:42.0 Current rank: Not ranked SAN DIEGO Another federal lawsuit has been filed in S...
22 Arrested at Blackwater's Illinois Compound More people have been arrested for protesting on Blackwater property than mercenaries who have killed innocent Iraqi...
Blackwater, now Xe, era ends in Iraq Published: May 7, 2009 at 10:44 AM Chairman of Blackwater USA Erik Prince is sworn in prior to testifying before a House Over...
Discussion of the Wind Zero warfare training facility by the Imperial Valley College (IVC) Academic Senate. The training facility is planned for the Ocotillo/Nomi...
* bw swc mou 5 13 2009.pdf: MOU revised for 2009 05 13 Board of Governors Meeting OCR'd version May 13, 2009 MEMORANDUM TO: Members of the Governing Board Southw...
Comments by Congressman BobFilner (CA 51) I represent the 51st Congressional District which includes Southwestern and I think you all know how much I love South...
Part 1 http://youtu.be/vW8x4J67EXw Part 2 http://youtu.be/dQcHL0a7LUw Agenda Item No.: 6.2 Area Plan: County wide Zoning District: County wide Supervisoria...
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Entire Video http://youtu.be/oELDqFu7qxc Public Hearing http://youtu.be/6hNpzMI_KCY Board Action Part 1 http://youtu.be/kNtUImdgW7E Board Action Part 2 http...
A group of Baja California State Police are training with the United States Navy in San Diego. A group of eighteen Baja California state preventive police officer...
Rosemount HS grad is keeping the seas safe Nathan Hansen, Rosemount Town Pages Rosemount High School sent Chris Waugaman out into the world in 2002 and he hasn t ...
By BILL SIZEMORE, The Virginian Pilot February 21, 2007 Cofer Black, vice chairman of Blackwater USA, announced Tuesday the formation of a new CIA type private ...
In this program, NOVA captures the turmoil that tore apart the community of Dover, Pennsylvania in one of the latest battles over teaching evolution in public sch...
* letter_from_Ron_Goldman_explaining_Procinctu_is_an_Edu_Inst.02262009.pdf: Letter from Ron Goldman of Riverside Planning Dept. explaining that Procinctu Group is...
ImperialValleyCollege Academic Senate discusses the endorsement of the WindZero (blackwater like) training facility, which is prominently displayed on the WindZer...
* LetterToImperialValleyCollegeReThreatOfArrestByPresident2009 05 20.pdf: Letter from RaymondLutz to ImperialValleyCollege president Dr. Ed Gould regarding threat...
In the media December 11, 2008 Shutting Down Public Access TV By Patrick Range Mc Donald, L.A. WEEKLY AT T and L.A. City Hall Quietly Lead a National Pus...
See http://www.wartimecontracting.gov/ for the source website. * CWC_Interim_Report_At_What_Cost_06 10 09.pdf: Commission on Wartime Contracting Interim Rep...
Blackwater Only: This includes agenda item #21: TASK FORCE FOR FIRING RANGE Pursuant to the Board’s request, recommend approval of formation of a task force to e...
To be heard, June 16th at 10am. The San Diego City Council will consider approval of a resolution to settle the case with Blackwater Xe over the Otay Mesa trainin...
The chief executive of private security contractor Blackwater USA said Thursday that better trained police officers could have helped limit the carnage in the Vir...
This is an egregious example of how a company with money and political connections can have their way with local government regulations. Donna Frye said the reso...
Summary Ray Lutz of CitizensOversight.org explains how to use a digital video camera to video record public meetings. Demonstration includes set up of the tripod,...
At this meeting, the Stop Blackwater activists asked the board to discontinue the agreement with Blackwater Xe since it was now clear that there are options that ...
This 47 minute video is a great overview of what is wrong with our current monetary system, and the rip off of the private, for profit Federal Reserve. Part 1 of...
Partner content from: The Nation: Blackwater Seeks Gag Order by Jeremy Scahill Gervasio Sanchez Plainclothes contractors working for Blackwater USA take part in ...
From tech stocks to high gas prices, Goldman Sachs has engineered every major market manipulation since the Great Depression and they're about to do it again MA...
VALLEY CENTER The sounds of combat helicopters, automatic weapons fire and other battle noises being broadcast in a rural Valley Center neighborhood has to stop...
VALLEY CENTER Residents of a bucolic Valley Center neighborhood were shocked when they began hearing automatic weapons fire, helicopter gunships, explosions, sh...
Blackwater Founder Implicated in Murder By Jeremy Scahill August 4, 2009 A former Blackwater employee and an ex US Marine who has worked as a security operativ...
Army reclaims $20 million charge Jay Price, Staff Writer The News Observer February 8, 2007 WASHINGTON The Army snatched back $20 million from the giant m...
9/11 The Myth and the Reality is already considered by many to be the best 9/11 Truth DVD available. This lecture was videotaped with six cameras at two locations...
Fact: The California Constitution is one of the longest constitutions in the world, exceeded in length only by that of Alabama and India. This panel considers the...
By Jeremy Scahill August 14, 2009 Despite the Iraqi government's announcement earlier this year that it had canceled Blackwater's operating license, the US State...
Part 1: Pre meeting protest http://youtu.be/ItpRqvuTdXM Part 2: Class Cuts Public Comment http://youtu.be/SgWOj0eJ9AM Part 3: Class Cuts Public Comment http...
There are three documents in this set. We got slow response from the RoV and so we sent a request for response and also an abbreviated version to make it easier f...
Moyock, NC (PRWEB) April 23, 2007 Blackwater USA is pleased to announce its new strategic partnership with The Backup Training Corporation, which provides top n...
By ADAM GOLDMAN and PAMELA HESS, The Associated Press 3:47 a.m. August 31, 2009 FILE In this Oct. 2, 2007, file photo, Blackwater USA founder, Erik Prince, tes...
The New York TimesAugust 20, 2009 C.I.A. Sought Blackwater's Help to Kill Jihadists By MARK MAZZETTI WASHINGTON The Central Intelligence Agency in 2004 hired o...
By JAMES RISEN and MARK MAZZETTI WASHINGTON From a secret division at its North Carolina headquarters, the company formerly known as Blackwater has assumed a ro...
News of 'Targeted Killing' Program Precedes Interrogation Report, Possible Probe By R. Jeffrey Smith and Joby Warrick Washington Post Staff Writers Friday, Augus...
posted by Laura Flanders on 08/26/2009 @ 11:25am A US drone firing missiles into a village in northern Pakistan killed at least 19 people over the weekend. The ta...
* 20.8_2008 11 04_Tally_Center_Logs.pdf: Collection Center Logs (4.89 MB, 147 pages) The file above contains log sheets with the following columns: * Wrong Sea...
By DAVID MACAULAY Staff Writer February 20, 2007 CAMDEN Blackwater USA has enlisted the services of former Ford workers to begin commercial production of an ...
This procedure is specified in California Elections Code 2007 Article 5. One Percent Manual Tally Section 15360, Manual Tally when using a voting system. 15360. ...
Who could possibly be against homeowners using solar panels to power their homes? Utility companies. ENVIRONMENT A Future So Bright Solar power breaks thro...
Jeoffry B. Gordon, MD, MPH, presents this damning critique of America's Healthcare system, with the primary culprit being the for profit insurance system. He uses...
Ire over Obama speech action draws hundreds to meeting By Michele Clock Union Tribune Staff Writer 2:00 a.m. September 16, 2009 Sixth grader Sophia Bacting got a...
School trustee sealed his political future Concerning La Mesa Spring Valley school board member Rick Winet's public statements as to why he voted to ban the presi...
Sandra, the fifth grader in our home, left for school Tuesday morning filled with excitement. She was going to hear her president, Barack Obama, speak directly to...
Union Tribune Editorial School board's holiday meeting 2:00 a.m. September 12, 2009 EAST COUNTY Mark Twain had some choice words about them: In the first plac...
Two school board members regret blocking Obama speech By Michele Clock Union Tribune Staff Writer 6:35 p.m. September 10, 2009 Statements from board members DET...
Blackwater Security Consulting, Moyock, N.C., was awarded on Aug. 7, 2006, a $7,161,101 firm fixed price contract for personal security detail services protecti...
School board's blackout of Obama speech criticized By Michele Clock Union Tribune Staff Writer 1:22 p.m. September 9, 2009 LA MESA The La Mesa Spring Valley sch...
The LaMesaSpringValleySchoolBoard ruled 3 2 to ban the live airing of President Obama's Address to Students in an emergency meeting on Sept. 7, 2009 (Labor Day) e...
District Parents Stand Up to School Board that Banned Obama s Speech by Frank Gormlie on September 15, 2009 in Civil Rights Liberties, Election, Feature, Media,...
Union Tribune Editorial A civil society? A school board polarized by politics 2:00 a.m. September 17, 2009 Resign, resign, resign! The chant rolled through...
New resource for citizen journalists Post categories: BBC News Matthew Eltringham 16:10 UK time, Thursday, 17 September 2009 What is citizen journalism? More...
Citizen journalism will remain part of changing news models, says report tweetmeme_source = 'journalismnews'; Posted: 18/09/09 By: Laura Oliver email this stor...
The La Mesa Spring Valley Emergency meeting on April 7, 2009 regarding whether President Obama's Address to the Students would be aired at any of the 21 school in...
By Bill Berkowitz OAKLAND, Jun 29 (IPS) Ten years ago, Erik Prince, the son of a conservative multi millionaire, founded the security consulting firm Blackwater...
3 BOARD MEMBERS APOLOGIZE, BUT TAPED SPEECH STILL NOT SHOWN TO MANY STUDENTS If you were students in my class, you would not pass. Maureen Paolini, teacher and...
Only comprehensive immigration reforms will work 2:00 a.m. September 22, 2009 If you are among the many who naively believe that immigration reform should begin ...
Taking a bite out of climate data 23 09 2009 Interpreting climate data can be hard enough. What if some key data have been fiddled? By Patrick J. Michaels, Natio...
By Anne Krueger Union Tribune Staff Writer 2:00 a.m. September 24, 2009 The El Cajon City Council wants to make improvements to the 1,142 seat East County Perfor...
ACTION ITEMS While most action items are routine in the sense that they appear on every agenda (e.g. purchase orders, personnel assignments, etc.), there are alwa...
You'll find this presentation on the rate of sea level rise quite interesting, more data that further buttresses the position that our climate is quickly changing...
Watchdog Report Assemblyman's campaign fund transactions raising questions La Mesa Republican may seek Senate seat By Michele Clock and John Marelius UNION TRIB...
State scrutinizes Fresno Co. Republican funds Published online on Tuesday, Oct. 06, 2009 By E.J. Schultz / The Fresno Bee SACRAMENTO The state s politica...
This video has three parts, and is about 2 hours in length. The candidates are: * Bill Gore * Jay LaSuer * Jim Duffy * Bruce Ruff It was held at the N...
New U.S. data show how heavily the Bush administration has relied on corporations to carry out the occupation of the war torn nation. By T. Christian Miller Tim...
There are a collection of documents with various revision dates on this page maintained by the SecretaryOfStateCA. http://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/elections_vsr.h...
Inquiry opens in Anderson finances State initiates probe of local assemblyman By John Marelius and Michele Clock UNION TRIBUNE STAFF WRITERS 2:00 a.m. October 8,...
ACORN's local director yesterday fired the community organizer who was caught on video providing advice about crossing the border to a couple posing as a pimp and...
This presentation information was provided as a result of a CaliforniaPublicRecordsAct request by CitizensOversight. See also the video recorded from 2008 05 13. ...
This video was shot May 13, 2008 but was only recently uploaded due to the pending closure of ECPAC, slated for Dec 24, 2009, for a period of 18 to 24 months. Thi...
CLEVELAND The Cuyahoga County Board of Elections on Tuesday announced that it has accepted the resignation of its embattled chief. Executive director Michael Vu's...
SAN DIEGO San Diego County officials said Wednesday that they had hired former Cuyahoga County, Ohio elections Chief Michael Vu as assistant registrar of voters...
Ohio Election Workers Convicted of Manipulating 2004 U.S. Presidential Recount International Herald Tribune / AP 24jan2007 Jacqueline Maiden, center, stands w...
July 5, 2007 Carl Mortished, International Business Editor Gazprom will create its own private army after Russian lawmakers gave the gas utility and Transneft, th...
Cindy McCain Bankrolled Conference That Called for Ban on Mercenaries The McCain Conference on Ethics and Military Leadership appears to be ahead of the senator...
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This conference was excellent. I understand that Erik Prince (Blackwater Xe) also made a presentation, and it is alluded to by the other speakers, but the video o...
Judge Refuses to Dismiss War Crimes Case Against Blackwater By Jeremy Scahill October 22, 2009 On Wednesday, a federal judge rejected a series of arguments b...
East County Democratic Club (ECDC) members expressed outrage last week at what they view as congressional Democrats capitulation to a right wing assault against ...
Part 1: * Introduction and Opening Remarks, Assemblymember MartyBlock, Chair * SDSU Panel * Dr. Sandra Cook, Assistant Vice President for Academic Af...
By SETH BORENSTEIN, The Associated Press 6:34 p.m. October 26, 2009 Graphic shows the departure from normal annual world temperature AP WASHINGTON Have you h...
2009 09 03: Good morning, Mr. Lutz. We have reviewed your request for information and we will respond. With respect to the first question regarding the ...
The show need not go on Saturday, October 31, 2009 EAST COUNTY The East County Performing Arts Center in El Cajon is closing for two years, foreshadowing that i...
November 2, 2009 THE SHOW NEEDS TO GO ON On Saturday, October 31, 2009, an article appeared in the UT East County section entitled: The Show Need Not Go On. ...
FIRE Letter to Southwestern College Superintendent President Raj K. Chopra November 3, 2009 November 3, 2009 Dr. Raj K. Chopra, Superintendent/President Southwes...
Union Tribune Editorial Sleazy scam Anderson must return tainted donations Saturday, October 3, 2009 at 2 a.m. The Union Tribune watchdog report published Thurs...
Blackwater Said to Pursue Bribes to Iraq After 17 Died By MARK MAZZETTI and JAMES RISEN WASHINGTON Top executives at Blackwater Worldwide authorized secret paym...
Fresno Co. GOP's aid to So Cal lawmaker investigated Published online on Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2009 By John Ellis / The Fresno Bee A San Diego County Assembl...
Donation was returned to Placer County party By Michele Clock, John Marelius Wednesday, November 18, 2009 at midnight WATCHDOG UPDATE Background: The state Fair P...
July 24, 2007 LEMON GROVE: An East County institution has closed its doors. El Cajon Councilman Bob McClellan shuttered his car dealership, McClellan Buick Pontia...
The New York Times November 19, 2009 By MARK MAZZETTI and JAMES RISEN WASHINGTON The international security company formerly called Blackwater Worldwide is fac...
From http://www.thumpertalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=592179 Ca Offroad Plates: New Assembly Bill FROM DIRT BIKE MAG'S SITE: OHV PLATES (12/6/2007) Assemblyma...
From http://www.sacbee.com/111/story/684496.html Assembly Republicans were faced with a dilemma of their own. Assemblyman Charles Calderon, D Whittier, had a bill...
By Michele Clock, John Marelius Saturday, November 21, 2009 at 12:57 a.m. About 50,500 taxpayer funded mailers were sent out by Assemblyman Joel Anderson regardin...
Obituary By Blanca Gonzalez Saturday, November 21, 2009 at 1:50 a.m. Whether she was marching for civil rights in the 1960s, demonstrating against the wars in Ir...
By Anne Krueger Monday, November 23, 2009 at 4:24 p.m. Joel Anderson Previously Oct. 1: Assemblyman's campaign fund transactions raising questions Oct. 8: Inquir...
Anderson faces big fine over donations Agency also cites Fresno GOP panel By Michele Clock, John Marelius UNION TRIBUNE Staff Writer Tuesday, December 1, 2009 at...
Blackwater s Secret War in Pakistan: Jeremy Scahill Reveals Private Military Firm Operating in Pakistan Under Covert Assassination and Kidnapping Program In an ...
By Ed Fletcher efletcher@sacbee.com Published: Thursday, Dec. 3, 2009 12:00 am Page 4B It was a win one, lose one kind of day for Placer County Republicans. ...
Most El Cajon residents probably know that Councilman Bob McClellan sells cars. But McClellan's car dealership is also a vehicle for McClellan to share his Christ...
Here, we have included both the decision and order and Exhibit 1, which includes the meat of the action. AndersonFPPCOrder.pdf: FPPC Decision and Order on Joel An...
SEE THE LINKED VIDEO * Raw video: http://www.10news.com/video_legacy/21912880/index.html * Story with protest signs shown: http://www.10news.com/news/21914...
By Michael Gardner, U T SACRAMENTO BUREAU John Marelius, UNION TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER Friday, December 11, 2009 at midnight WATCHDOG UPDATE Background: The state F...
Fined legislator chided for tactics, praised as reliable By Michele Clock, UNION TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER John Marelius, UNION TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER Sunday, December 1...
The New York TimesDecember 12, 2009 Blackwater Loses a Job for the C.I.A. By MARK MAZZETTI WASHINGTON The Central Intelligence Agency has terminated a contract...
By Chris Reed, Tuesday, December 22, 2009 at 10:24 a.m. Assemblyman Joel Anderson may think he's out of trouble now that he's paid a big fine to the FPPC for his ...
By Chris Reed, Wednesday, December 23, 2009 at 10:10 a.m. The continuing unwillingness of DA Bonnie Dumanis to confirm or deny she is considering or has begun a c...
Grossmont district to aid renovation By Anne Krueger, UNION TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER Thursday, December 24, 2009 at 12:01 a.m. LA MESA The Boys Girls Club runs ex...
The City of El Cajon arranged this community forum regarding the East County Performing Arts Center (ECPAC). The City announced termination of the management agr...
This meeting includes the controversial funding for the Boys and Girls Club using funds from the general funds budget. This was likely done because the Boys and G...
http://www.kpbs.org/tv/full_focus;id=9133 Opponents of a proposal to build a training camp in East County for military and police personnel say a San Diego County...
Politicians and their supporters have routinely funneled money through county level political party committees around the state, avoiding strict limits on campaig...
By CHARLIE SAVAGE Published: December 31, 2009 WASHINGTON In a significant blow to the Justice Department, a federal judge on Thursday threw out the indictment ...
EDITORIAL: Voters need full picture of donors Tough penalties needed to force full disclosure of campaign cash. Posted at 12:00 AM on Friday, Jan. 08, 2010 Whe...
(This topic is an email thread and is provided in reverse order, so read from the bottom up.) 2010 01 13 Dear Mr. Jantz: This topic will be called "C00023 GHD,...
REF: C00024, http://www.copswiki.org/w/bin/view/Common/M915 Dear Mr. Jantz: This is a request for public documents under the California Public Records Act. Please...
At a contentious Potrero Planning Group Meeting, held last Thursday, July 12, it was ''obvious that the recent controversial Blackwater project has caused a rift ...
Wind Zero Project to Bring Racing And Training Facility To Imperial County The Wind Zero team continues to see success with the plan of building their project in ...
(Note: this academy recently pulled their contract with Blackwater/Xe to use the BlackwaterOtay training facility. See BlackwaterInSouthwesternCollege for the ful...
Saturday, January 16, 2010 at 12:04 a.m. First of two editorials Step back for a moment and forget the controversies, the politics and even some pleasant memories...
$100,000 given to clinic for uninsured Grant is increased for Volunteers in Medicine By Anne Krueger, UNION TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER Thursday, January 21, 2010 at 12...
Biden: U.S. to appeal dismissal of Blackwater charges January 23, 2010 12:25 p.m. EST Biden in Iraq Baghdad, Iraq (CNN) The United States plans to appeal a fede...
* View a presentation on the "Immigration Survey of San Diego County Voters" Commissioned by the Immigrant Rights Consortium of San Diego County. (shift click to ...
(TheNation) This column was written by R.J. Hillhouse. The unprecedented involvement of private corporations in the Iraq War has been well documented. Private sol...
Labor excesses show in firing of chief Saturday, January 23, 2010 at 12:04 a.m. I am writing this letter as a protest to a preplanned labor union action ( Residen...
Union Tribune Editorial Saturday, January 23, 2010 at 12:04 a.m. EAST COUNTY _ Life isn t about waiting for the storm to pass. It s about learning to dance in t...
Here is a link to the Wind Zero now called Coyote Wells Draft EIR which was posted yesterday on the County's website. http://www.icpds.com/?pid=2308 As of thi...
3 local hospitals are fined for errors UCSD facility punished for third time since 2007 By Mike Lee, UNION TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER Thursday, January 28, 2010 at 1:3...
By Anne Krueger, UNION TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER Thursday, January 28, 2010 at 12:01 a.m. LAKESIDE Residents angry about the Lakeside Fire Protection District board ...
By Anne Krueger, UNION TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER Tuesday, January 19, 2010 at 12:02 a.m. The chief of the Lakeside Fire Protection District has been fired in a move th...
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 00:10:01 0800 It is with the greatest regret, on behalf of our Board, that we must announce that Air America Media is ceasing its live pr...
Activist a common sight recording local meetings Ray Lutz is government watchdog By Anne Krueger, UNION TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER Saturday, January 30, 2010 at 12:04 ...
Video Here: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi blackwater_23jul23,0,1702001.story By E.A. Torriero Tribune staff reporter July 23, 2007 MT. CARROL...
GOVERNMENT CODE SECTION 11120 11132 11120. It is the public policy of this state that public agencies exist to aid in the conduct of the people's business and th...
Synopsis: A thought provoking and powerful documentary film on the current and historical root causes of the Israeli Palestinian conflict. Unlike any other film e...
HAMANN, ROBERT DALE Robert Dale Hamann was born in Winnepeg, Canada on December 9, 1923, and went home to be with the Lord on February 11, 2010. He moved with his...
At the meeting, the citizens' oversight group Lakeside First submitted recall paperwork to two of the board members in response to the firing of the Fire Chief.
Saturday, February 27, 2010 at 12:04 a.m. LAKESIDE Two members of the Lakeside Fire Protection District s board of directors were notified this week that they v...
This video is also available on Netflix.com as an instant play. http://www.netflix.com/WiMovie/Israel_Birth_of_a_Nation/70034295 Unfortunately, substantially one ...
For the first time, Israel has approved a school book acknowledging to the country s minority Palestinian citizens what they have been learning at home: The Jewis...
By SAMANTHA GROSS, Associated Press Writer Monday, March 1, 2010 at 4:29 p.m. NEW YORK ACORN employees caught on video apparently advising a couple pos...
By KARIN LAUB, Associated Press Writer Saturday, March 6, 2010 at 9 p.m. / AP In this photo taken Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2010, a woman rests on the edge of a swimming...
By The Associated Press Sunday, March 7, 2010 at 5:52 a.m. RAMALLAH, West Bank The PLO's executive committee has approved a proposal allowing the Palestinian pr...
By ARON HELLER, Associated Press Writer Tuesday, March 9, 2010 at 8:10 a.m. JERUSALEM — Israel approved the construction of 1,600 new homes for Jews in disputed e...
By ARON HELLER, Associated Press Writer Tuesday, March 9, 2010 at 3:02 a.m. JERUSALEM The U.S. will back those willing to "take risks for peace," U.S. Vice Pres...
By The Associated Press Monday, March 8, 2010 at 12:32 p.m. JERUSALEM Israel says it will allow the U.N. secretary general and the European Union's foreign poli...
By IAN DEITCH, Associated Press Writer Monday, March 8, 2010 at 12:27 p.m. / AP General view of the Jewish settlement of Beitar Illit, near Jerusalem, Monday, Mar...
Wednesday July 25, 10:59 am ET New Division Will Investigate Fraud, provide Executive Protection, Due Diligence and Asset Validation Services WASHINGTON, July 25...
Your editorial, El Cajon s Money Pit (March 8) states that ECPAC has been a money losing proposition since ... 1977, that no organization wants to manage the...
By Union Tribune Editorial Board, Monday, March 8, 2010 at 12:04 a.m. El Cajon is considering pouring $4.3 million of redevelopment money into its now shuttered p...
By MARK LAVIE, Associated Press Writer Monday, March 15, 2010 at 8:18 a.m. / AP Israeli border police officers stand guard outside Damascus gate, at Jerusalem's O...
By MATTHEW LEE, Associated Press Writer Monday, March 15, 2010 at 5:47 p.m. / AP Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gestures as he speaks during the visit ...
By ANNE GEARAN and STEVEN GUTKIN, Associated Press Writers Tuesday, March 16, 2010 at 3:41 p.m. / AP A Palestinian man works on a construction site for a new home...
Sunday, May 7th, 2 p.m. * Alpine Community Church (2225 W. Victoria Drive, Alpine, CA 91901) * Topic: "Lesson Plan for a Brighter Future" (education, equal...
By SILVIO J. PANTA, Staff Writer ERIC MILLER PHOTO A group a protesters marches along a road Saturday morning in protest against Wind Zero in Ocotillo. ...
By DEVLIN BARRETT and MIKE BAKER (AP) 9 hours ago WASHINGTON Federal prosecutors are considering filing weapons charges against former top officials of the Bl...
By John Marelius, UNION TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER Tuesday, March 23, 2010 at 8:47 p.m. SAN DIEGO Midge Costanza, once the top woman in Jimmy Carter s White House and...
By Lawrence J. Haas July 31, 2007 War opponents have learned a thing or two over the years. Rather than take the political risk of demonizing U.S. troops, as they...
FROM AE911T Website on this video: We call upon Congress for a truly independent investigation with subpoena power. We believe that there is sufficient evidence t...
Public isn t given a chance to comment By Anne Krueger, UNION TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER Saturday, March 27, 2010 at 12:05 a.m. EL CAJON Criticism of the way El Cajon...
Power outage questions probed Shut off of Otay Mesa plant remains unclear By Onell R. Soto, UNION TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER Saturday, April 3, 2010 at 12:05 a.m. OVER...
By JUDY LIN, Associated Press Writer Thursday, April 1, 2010 at 6:24 p.m. SACRAMENTO, Calif. California Attorney General Jerry Brown determined Thursday that AC...
By Dean Calbreath, UNION TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER Sunday, March 14, 2010 at 3:17 a.m. It s been 15 years since a certain lawmaker from San Diego County stood...
El Cajon has a great concert theater but the city has had a very hard time managing it. Two times, they have let a private operator, Paul Russell of Christian Com...
Congress has swooped into the debate over a cell phone tool that would direct illegal border crossers to lifesaving water stations and other points of safety. Th...
America s shrinking defense base By Duncan D. Hunter Sunday, April 4, 2010 at 12:05 a.m. The strength of America s military is derived from the professionalism of...
There are 48,000 'security contractors' in Iraq, working for private companies growing rich on the back of US policy. But can it be a good thing to have so many m...
Posted: Monday, October 30, 2006 12:00 am U.S. Rep. Duncan Hunter, R El Cajon, officially announced his intention to explore a bid to become the Republican nomine...
Democratic Party endorses John Marelius Tuesday, April 20, 2010 The California Democratic Party made endorsements in several contested Democratic primaries in San...
By John Marelius, UNION TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER Monday, April 5, 2010 at 12:04 a.m. On the ballot Candidates in the June 8 primary election in San Diego County cong...
Violations, unpaid fees leading up to an auction of man s land By Anne Krueger, UNION TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER Monday, April 19, 2010 at 12:04 a.m. Howard Lipin / Uni...
SDG E Hosted this meeting at the Alpine Women's Club to go over the details of the construction in the middle of Alpine to underground the Sunrise Powerlink trans...
This event occurred on 2010 05 13, sponsored by the League of Women Voters at Templar Hall in Old Poway Park. The moderator was Delores A. Chavez. The candidates,...
NEWS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Press Contact: Linde Martin Snyder linde@spoos.com Lutz: Reopen investigations halted when Lam was dismissed by the Bush Ju...
Ex Congressman Duncan Hunter, at a May 2010 high school naming committee in Alpine June 2, 2010 (San Diego s East County) Ray Lutz, Democratic candidate for the...
Rep. Hunter, right, in Afghanistan By Miriam Raftery June 3, 2010 (San Diego s East County) While other candidates are hitting the campaign trail, Congressman ...
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// East County Training Center helps developmentally challenged thrive By Karen Pearlman // , UNION TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER Thursday, July 29, 2010 at midnight EL...
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See Also DieboldSystems. The elections equipment section of DieboldSystems was split off into this company so Diebold, noted for banking and security products, co...
Hot News: * Claims by AIG by contractors in Iraq: 214,000 contractors in Iraq right now, more than uniformed personnel. 1,400 killed and 31,000 have reported i...
ProcinctuFastTrackApplication Images COUNTYOFRIVERSIDE TRANSPORTATION AND LAND MANAGEMENT AGENCYTony Carstens Agency Director Planning DepartmentRobert C. John...
Background * See PublicAccessTV for information on how to produce on Public Access TV * PublicAccessProgramGuide Cox does not publish a program guide, ...
This analysis is somewhat dated and needs to be updated. Background This project can be considered a "Meta Project", that is, it is a project regarding how we ha...
ProjectForm This is an infrastructure topic. See .DataForms for documentation on Forms in general, and .TemplateTopics regarding how topic templates are used. ...
Sub projects Latest News Background Images (Just attach your images to this topic and they will automatically be added to the gallery above!) Discussion Li...
ProvisionalOversight Provisional Ballot Processing Oversight Provisional ballot processing is slightly different than usual in this election. As described above,...
Summary of articles submitted (Add All) ORIGINS OF PSEPHOS Psephos, inspired by the traditions of democracy, is an emerging nonprofit committed to preventing th...
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Laws and standards * Exposure limits of general public http://www.nrc.gov/reading rm/doc collections/cfr/part020/part020 1301.html * Total effective do...
San Diego random draw in 2014 election using ping pong balls drawn from bins by a member of our oversight team.: (Click Image for full size) The "Random Draw" is ...
* See also: Main.RaymondLutz in the Main Web. * National Coordinator, Founder, Citizens' Oversight Projects: https://www.citizensoversight.org * Lead Develo...
RequestingInformationProcedure This is a general procedure for requesting information from governmental officials and more specifically, from elections officials....
Latest News * With LiveNation taking over management of the theater and starting performances in 2019, this project has been marked INACTIVE Background Image...
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Latest News We have not been front and center on this issue but it has become of interest to us due to the recent huge document dump regarding communications betw...
SanDiegoCityCouncil * http://www.sandiego.gov/citycouncil/ City Council meets on Mondays at 2:00 p.m. and on Tuesdays at 10:00 a.m. at the SanDiegoCityAdministra...
Latest News COPs has published a report on the activities of the San Diego County RegistrarOfVoters and has published an extensive report, which can be found here...
Mission Statement: Representing the citizens of San Diego County by investigating, evaluating, and reporting on the actions of local governments and special dist...
San Diego Democratic Party The official body of the San Diego Democratic Party is the Central Committee. It meets generally on the 3rd Tuesday at the California S...
www.sandiego.gov/electionstaskforce , which contains a link to the reports which came out of that entity. There were several, including one specific to mail onl...
See ContactSanDiegoLAFCO for contact information. Latest News * 2011 02 07 Approved judgment by appeals court reversing their denial of the incorporation of...
This web page is the repository for documents and information regarding the petition to CONTEST the 2016 Primary regarding the presidential race in San Diego Coun...
Sub projects Latest News San Diego Reinvestment Task Force meets every 3rd Thursday except in August and December. Background * Website: http://www.smartmone...
Latest News This topic collects information regarding the San Onofre Canister Drop Incident on August 3, 2018 * NRC page on this incident: https://www.nrc.gov/...
The actual agreement * San Onofre Closure Settlement Agreement fully executed Motion for CPUC to adopt the settlement in proceeding I.12 10 013 (SONGS OII) ...
See parent project ShutSanOnofre Background Each nuclear power plant is licensed by the NRC, through the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board. Southern California E...
Background Our federal complaint was filed even before the settlement was approved and thus long before the Warsaw, Poland RSG Notes were revealed. There were ora...
ECPAC THEATER TO REOPEN The ECPAC theater has been closed for about 8 years now. It was very sad when they first closed it as there were many arts organizations t...
Latest News * Registrar of Voters says they don't need to create additional copies of the scanner tapes because the machines are not the "lever type" * Secr...
Sub projects Latest News Related Organizations * Seal Watch San Diego http://savesandiegoseals.com/ https://www.facebook.com/groups/110458308766/ Backgr...
To file a complaint: Complaint Form http://elections.cdn.sos.ca.gov/fraud complaints/pdfs/english voter fraud complaint form.pdf Or create a letter of your own ...
Overview The Settlement Oversight Panel has been established to provide critical oversight over the San Onofre nuclear waste settlement. This panel is advisory in...
Background The best source of background information is the Settlement FAQS (Frequently Ask Questions). Latest News * 19 06 13 Experts Team Strategy Partner A...
Get Bumper Stickers! Objective: Permanent decommissioning of San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS) WE WON! Southern California Edison announced a pe...
Diablo Canyon Nuclear Facility is DANGEROUS and must be SHUT DOWN! * All nuclear facilities are inherently dangerous because they must be actively cooled even ...
For more information about Sierra Club San Gorgonio Chapter, please contact: San Gorgonio Chapter 4079 Mission Inn Avenue Riverside, CA 92501 3204 (951) 684 6203 ...
Sub projects Latest News RayLutz, Martha Sullivan, and Mike Garcia attempt to perform a citizens arrest of Mayor Jerry Sanders for felony embezzlement. See Video...
Tutorial This is the best tutorial so far of this process. HISTORY OF ACTIONS: * June 2016 Sent letters to all 58 counties with some refinements from the pr...
Here are my notes regarding the trip to Florida in 2016 just after the election. (Still have many pictures and videos to add to the website.) Sarasota County Ele...
StateElectionDistrictTargetingProcedure This procedure determines election district targets and evaluates past audit compliance. In the following procedure, repla...
Latest News * Special Common.GrossmontHealthcareBoard meeting scheduled for Monday, November 15 at 7:30am to review the Stieringer issue in closed session. How...
Latest News * Facebook Event (Click to RSVP): https://www.facebook.com/events/1113726135320791/ * Thousands March in San Diego to Protest ALEC, Reporting Sa...
More about Blackwater: BlackwaterPotrero StopBlackwaterRally From Jill Michaels: * Pictures: http://www.flickr.com/photos/14779029@N06/sets/72157602327741204...
On August 28, 2017, a historic settlement agreement was announced to MOVE THE WASTE TO A SAFER PLACE Navigational Aids Our primary focus will be on the Pendleton...
StopOutsourcingSecurityAct 111TH CONGRESS 2D SESSION S.XXX To phase out the use of private military contractors. IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES ...
STOP THE UNFAIR SETTLEMENT Background information (so you can catch up) * ASSIGNED COMMISSIONER AND ADMINISTRATIVE LAW JUDGES’ RULING REQUESTING SETTLING PART...
SubmitPetition We appreciate your help to apply pressure to our public officials. We have a three step, relatively painless process below. 1. Compose and submi...
Latest News * 2016: Alpine is now concerned about high energy emissions from buried 500kv line through the middle of town. * EMI Safe levels: https://www...
Memories of Susan RaymondLutz 2009 11 23 I consider Susan to be one of my favorite friends of the past several years. We met on the battlefield, so to speak, ...
TakeOverofECPACbyCCT Summary of the recent events surrounding the East County Performing Arts Center Perceptions of Raymond Lutz at the end of 2005. HISTORY: The...
TestActionOneEmails The first step is to send separate emails (using your own email program is best). Just click on each one of the links below and a new email wi...
Here, we compare The OpenBallotInitiative (TOBI) with a commonly promoted approach, All Hand Counted Paper Ballots (AHCPB) in the precinct. In a nutshell: * B...
Tiny Potrero Battles County and Blackwater USA By DonBauder Published on February 22, 2007 The hamlet of Potrero in southeast San Diego County, 45 miles from the ...
Background The violations at Sharp Grossmont #8220;indicate a serious breakdown of the hospital's systems that are designed to ensure appropriate patient care, #...
Send your own Letters to the Editor to letters #64;uniontrib.com or mailed to Letters Editor The San Diego Union Tribune P.O. Box 120191 San Diego, CA 92112 0...
The San Diego Veterans For Peace will display Arlington West at the pier in Oceanside on December 9. Over 2300 crosses will be displayed with candles and flags t...
Viejas Band of the Kumeyaay Nation * Website: http://www.viejasbandofkumeyaay.org * Casino: http://www.viejas.com * Chairman: Bobby L. Barrett Press and ...
* Final TGDC VVSG 08312007.pdf: Voluntary Voting Systems Guidelines Intro Chapter 1 * Authored by: The Technical Guidelines Development Committee (TGDC), a c...
Sub projects Latest News Background Signature Verification Issues The following comments were copied in from the ElectionIntegrityList from July 8, 2020 Peter...
VoterRegistration This topic is intended to collect our knowledge about our local voter registration effort. See also: Common.StudentOutreach This Activity is V...
VoterRegistrationArrestOfRayLutz Sub projects Status * Common.RayLutz arrested while engaging in the peaceful political activity of voter registration at Com...
Sub projects Latest News This project relates to the issue of Voting Privacy, while also encouraging transparency of the results so the public can easily check t...
Sub projects Latest News Background This project explores the problem with war for profit, including the scourge of PrivateMercenaries that have recently become...
Water Fluoridation is BAD PUBLIC POLICY and we must work to stop it! In the meantime, consider purchasing a reverse osmosis filter to rid the water of this hazard...
WELCOME! Everyone can agree on this: In a democracy, you must have election integrity, or you may be spinning your wheels. We can't trust elected officials to do ...
Proposed training camp in Ocotillo area. Name changed to CoyoteWells when Draft EIR submitted for public comment on 2010 01 26. * Web site: http://www.wind zer...
ZeitgeistTheMovie The producer of this film said we could help them promote it on the http://www.BraveNewTheaters.com website. We really don't have any other info...