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...joking. They got 70% of publicly traded home-video label Genius Products in exchange for licensing the DVD rights to Weinstein movies--a "pretty radical" move, says Genius chairman Stephen Bannon. Genius distributes material from World Wrestling Entertainment, Discovery Kids and ESPN and in November signed an exclusive rental agreement with Blockbuster. Other affiliations include ownership of a small arts and entertainment channel with Hubbard Broadcasting, J.P. Morgan Chase and Perry Capital; a publishing pact with Hachette; a production arrangement with BET founder Robert Johnson; and a new Latin American film fund...
...which was recently upgraded after a new agreement on international standards with European countries, has come under increased criticism for knowing too much, being too secret, and not allowing passengers any recourse to challenge their risk assessments. This week, the DHS extended the deadline for public comment on the ATS system; most of the complaints have attacked the system on privacy grounds. The Identity Project, a privacy-rights group, has alleged that the ATS data collection is illegal. It claims that "Congress has expressly forbidden the DHS from spending a penny on any system like this to assign risk scores...
...Angeles and Sacramento, hotel workers have recently won contracts by taking to the streets and going on strike. In Houston, Latino immigrant janitors went on strike in late October for a month, blocking downtown traffic until they won an agreement between the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and five major cleaning companies for higher wages, medical benefits, paid vacation and more hours. "We're building a much broader movement," says Stephen Lerner, director of the SEIU's Justice for Janitors campaign. "The union writes, talks and acts in the language and culture of the people we're organizing...
...with Ware, according to Edward Wong’s Nov. 26 news analysis in The New York Times, “A Matter of Definition: What Makes a Civil War, and Who Declares It So?” Wong reports that most American scholars of civil war are in agreement with James Fearon, a political scientist at Stanford, who says, “I think that at this time, and for some time now, the level of violence in Iraq meets the definition of civil war that any reasonable person would have...
...That’s pretty unconvincing, to put it bluntly, much more so in the face of overwhelming agreement amongst the country’s civil war academics and a handfull of its perceptive foreign correspondents. Even so, the majority of news organizations, as catalogued by Think Progress, continue to toe the line and opt for cutesy alliterative terms like “snowballing sectarian violence,” courtesy of Fox News, or “sectarian slaughter,” of the San Francisco Chronicle...