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Gov. Scott touts new Boeing jobs in Florida

By | 11.01.11 | 10:54 am | More from The Florida Independent

Gov. Rick Scott announced Monday that Boeing will locate its Commercial Crew program headquarters at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral. According to a press release issued by Scott’s office, “Boeing will manufacture and test its Crew Space Transportation” spacecraft and expects to create 140

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Rep. Akin cashes in from defense industry as he runs against top contracting waste opponent

By | 09.13.11 | 12:04 pm

U.S. Rep. Todd Akin (R-Mo.) is the recipient of the second-largest amount of money from the defense industry during the 2011-2012 election cycle as he begins his campaign to replace a leading voice in the U.S. Senate opposed to defense contracting waste, fraud and abuse.

Report: top corporations spent millions on politics, paid no federal taxes

By | 08.31.11 | 7:49 pm | More from The Colorado Independent

Five top U.S. corporations racked up millions in profits last year and paid no federal taxes. They spent money instead on political campaigns and it was money well spent. Over the last decade, Bank of America, Boeing, Chevron, ExxonMobil and General Electric handed out $78.7 million to state political campaigns More…

Report Blames DHS and Boeing for Delays With Border Security Project

By | 10.19.10 | 9:24 am

One of the major tenets of the Bush administration’s border security plan was the Secure Border Initiative Network, or SBInet, a system of high-tech radars, satellites and cameras to monitor the borders. The “virtual wall” is being developed by Boeing, but four years after a contract was awarded More…

A Closer Look at Health Reform’s Effect on Corporate Profits

By | 04.06.10 | 10:44 am

With conservatives screaming from the rafters about the elimination of a business tax deduction for retiree benefits in the Democrats’ health reform law, The New York Times responds today with a pretty convincing argument for why the change makes sense.

First, here’s how the 2003 Medicare More…

Pentagon Will Extend Air Force Tanker Bid If Euro Giant Shows Real Interest

By | 03.31.10 | 5:40 pm

It’s been a tough road to refurbishing the Air Force’s refueling tanker fleet. The Pentagon’s KC-X tanker bid has seen Northrup Grumman drop out in frustration. European defense giant EADS has been playing coy about bidding on the multi-billion-dollar contract. EADS said earlier this month it’s considering More…

GOP Wants You to Cry for Boeing

By | 03.31.10 | 2:35 pm

The Republican Study Committee just blasted out a release attacking the Democrats’ health care reforms for forcing Boeing, among other large corporations, to pay a $150 million charge based on the bill’s elimination of a corporate tax deduction for employees’ prescription drugs.

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Good News for Boeing

By | 02.10.10 | 9:07 am

It’s never bad news for local business when the home-town guy takes the reins of a powerful congressional committee. In the case of Seattle-based Boeing, that credo might come with an exclamation point, as Washington Rep. Norman Dicks (D) is poised to take over the throne of the powerful defense More…

‘State Secrets’ Strikes Again

By | 12.16.09 | 11:14 am

The government’s “state secrets” argument was back in full force yesterday, this time being made by the Justice Department before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco in the ongoing case against Jeppesen Dataplan, a Boeing subsidiary. Jeppesen is accused by five alleged victims More…

The New York Times Slams Obama’s Torture ‘Cover-Up’

By | 10.26.09 | 10:03 am

The New York Times’ lead editorial today is a powerful indictment of the Obama administration’s continuation of Bush-era efforts to conceal the facts of U.S.-sponsored torture.

Running through the list of situations that we’ve been reporting on in which the Obama administration continues to conceal evidence More…