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...there are signs that a populist, anti-copyright movement may be gaining strength. Earlier this month, Sweden voted a member of the Pirate Party, which campaigned on an anti-copyright platform, to the European Parliament. The party, which won 7.13% of the vote, is named after Swedish file sharing website Pirate Bay. Earlier this year, a Swedish court sentenced four of the Bay founders to a year in prison each and a fine of approximately $3.6 million for "assisting in making copyright content available." There is no formal connection between Bay and the Pirate Party but there is little hiding...
House Energy and Commerce Committee Republicans who rarely cross party lines went along with the Democratic bill marked up in the health subcommittee Wednesday. Sponsors had agreed in negotiations with ranking GOP member Joe Barton to lower the originally proposed cost of a new annual licensing fee for every food-manufacturing, -processing and -packing plant from $1,000 to $500, with a $175,000 cap per company - a reduction also sought by GOP allies in industry...
...served in the government since 1989, the year the prime minister's post was dissolved. Since then he has been a member of Iran's Expediency Discernment Council, which advises the Supreme Leader, and of the Supreme Cultural Revolution Council, which monitors artistic expression...
...most observers agree that election results are likely to be meddled with only to a certain extent. "If voter participation is really high, in other words, if the margin of votes between, say, Ahmadinejad and Mousavi is big, interference will not yield decisive results," says Mohammad-Ali Abtahi, a member of Karroubi's central campaign committee. There are 45,713 polling booths across Iran today, and the candidates - Ahmedinejad, Mousavi, Karroubi and former Revolutionary Guard commander Mohsen Rezai - can post one observer at each of the polling booths. Once the votes are counted and recorded at the stations, under...
...mobile ballot boxes - units that are transported to remote locations in cars, buses or planes, into which about a third of the nation's votes will be cast. "They have not provided us with the possibility of traveling with the government team [carrying the boxes]," says Morteza Elviri, a member of Karroubi's election-supervision committee. "They have said, You can follow our cars with your own vehicle, but that's not a reasonable solution," he complains...