WASHINGTON—(ENEWSPF)—October 18, 2011. A Food and Drug Administration (FDA) chemist pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Court Judge Deborah K. Chasanow in the District of Maryland to one count of securities fraud and one count of making false statements, related to a $3.7 million insider trading scheme that spanned nearly[Read More…]
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Chinese National Pleads Guilty to Economic Espionage and Theft of Trade Secrets
WASHINGTON—(ENEWSPF)—October 18, 2011. Kexue Huang, a Chinese national and a former resident of Carmel, Ind., pleaded guilty today to one count of economic espionage to benefit a component of the Chinese government and one count of theft of trade secrets. The guilty plea was announced by Assistant Attorney General Lanny[Read More…]
MNA Nurses from Central Mass. Offer Support to Occupy Worcester Protesters
Delegation of Nurses to Deliver Supplies Tonight at 8 p.m. Nurses Support Efforts to Hold Wall Street Accountable for Devastation Caused on Main Street MASSACHUSETTS–(ENEWSPF)–October 18, 2011. Nurses, who every day care for the casualties of the economic crisis driven by Wall Street greed, are standing in solidarity with and[Read More…]
RNs Defend their Ground at First Aid Station in Occupy NY, Oct. 18, 2011
As NNU Sets Up More Medical Aid Tents for Protests; Los Angeles Tent Today, SF, Washington Later This Week New York–(ENEWSPF)–October 18, 2011. Legendary civil rights leader Rev. Jesse Jackson joined with nurses from National Nurses United and Occupy Wall Street volunteer medics Monday night to defend, for the second[Read More…]
Love in Action Crunch Time For Occupy Wall Street
NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–October 18, 2011, 2:06 pm A prophetic sign from Occupy Boston (albeit with a mispelling of Gandhi). Remembering the agonies I went through when the tanks moved in on Tiananmen Square in June, 1989, I was relieved that most (I wish it were all) of the protestors who make[Read More…]
Yemen: UN Human Rights Office Condemns Latest Killing of Unarmed Protesters
GENEVA–(ENEWSPF)–18 October 2011. The United Nations human rights office today strongly condemned the reported killing of a number of largely peaceful protesters in Yemen in recent days, and urged that those responsible for the death of hundreds of people since the protest movement began be brought to justice. Hundreds of people[Read More…]
Statement from NSC Spokesman Tommy Vietor on the United Kingdom’s Sanctions Announcement
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–October 18, 2011. We welcome the decision by the United Kingdom today to impose sanctions against the five individuals identified by the United States as connected to the plot to assassinate Saudi Arabia’s Ambassador to the United States. This sends yet another message that the international community rejects[Read More…]
Author and Activist Noam Chomsky to be at Occupy Boston Wednesday, Oct. 19
BOSTON–(ENEWSPF)–October 18, 2011. Internationally-recognized author, linguist, and activist Noam Chomsky will be speaking at Occupy Boston in Dewey Square tomorrow, October 19 at 6:15 pm as part of the Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series. Chomsky has already released statements of support for both Occupy Boston and Occupy Wall Street, and[Read More…]
Ben Bernanke to Be at Dewey Square on Oct. 18
BOSTON–(ENEWSPF)–October 18, 2011. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke will be passing through Dewey Square at 2 pm and 5:30 pm today on his way to and from the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston’s annual conference. Occupy Boston is putting out a call volunteers to hold signs, picket, and make sure[Read More…]
Nuclear Energy Institute Report on Japan’s Nuclear Reactors, October 17, 2011
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–October 17, 2011. TEPCO, Government to Revise Timetable for Returning Evacuees Industry/Regulatory/Political Issues Tokyo Electric Power Co. expects to achieve a stable “cold shutdown condition” of reactors 1, 2 and 3 by the end of the year, a month earlier than originally planned, according to a revised “Roadmap[Read More…]
