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Private security has once again been called upon to help conquer new frontiers for capitalist exploitation, assisting with primitive accumulation in a transnational neoliberal project that proceeds largely through "accumulation by dispossession" (Harvey, 2003:67).2 The neoliberal3 economic policies of global privatization and economic deregulation currently championed by the U.K. and the U.S.-coupled with the "war on terrorism" (which is substantially an imperialist exercise)-are creating a hothouse for private security entrepreneurs, largely U.S. and British, who offer for sale a panoply of services to governmental, nongovernmental, and transnational corporate clients. Tens of thousands of security contractors and private soldiers supplement regular military forces of the coalition (S...
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Unless you're a medical researcher, science geek or local business buff, chances are you've never heard of BioTek Solutions, a Winooski-based company that makes "multi-mode microplate readers" and "microplate pipetting systems." But you probably have heard of cancer, Alzheimer's disease and bird flu - diseases for which scientists are finding lifesaving cures with the help of BioTek brand equipment made right here in Vermont. If you were to imagine 300 years in the future, you would see on Mr. Spock's triquarter the brand BioTek," says Vice President [Adam Alpert], referring to the handheld scanners used on "Star Trek." "Because that's fundamentally what this is about: detecting the underlying mechanisms of biological systems. "Maybe because there aren't that many job opportunities he...
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Sheriffs deputies talk in front of a home near the intersection of Northeast 101st Avenue and 72nd Circle in the Sunnyside neighborhood, north of Vancouver, after a shooting Tuesday morning. ---
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Defense attorney Thomas Ullmann has charged that some members of the New Haven Police Department's Detective Bureau are "incompetent, unprofessional and untruthful" in handling witnesses and investigating crimes. Ullmann, who heads the Public Defender's Office at New Haven Superior Court, said the detectives' performance is "at its lowest level in the 30 years I've been here.
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LOS ANGELES - Investigators reopened the case of Natalie Wood's 1981 drowning after receiving new information they deemed credible enough to warrant another look at one of Hollywood's most enduring mysteries. A detective said Friday, however, that the three-time Oscar nominee's husband, actor Robert Wagner, was not a suspect.
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CHICO -- Long Beach Homicide detectives investigating the shooting death of a 29-year-old Los Angeles man gunned down in an alley in the downtown area last March are taking their search for the killer to the Northern California town of Chico. That is because the victim, Philip Victor Williamson, was a distributor of marijuana grown in the Chico area and shipped to various medical marijuana collectives throughout Los Angeles County and that may have played a part in the killer's motive, said Nancy Pratt, a Long Beach Police Department spokeswoman.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- For 12 years, Joanne Parke was an auto delivery driver and yard foreman, helping shuttle hundreds of new Volkswagens, Porsches and Audis from the Port of Oakland, Calif. But 25 years later, when she applied for her Teamsters union pension, no one had heard of her. Over the years, the union's local had moved and merged, and several office managers had either died or retired. Her pension paperwork simply was missing. "I'd clocked in every day for 12 years, but my records didn't seem to exist," said Parke, now a 69-year-old widow living in West Sacramento. "The only record they had of me was for two years of sporadic work," she said.
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ENGLEWOOD, Colo. - Denver Broncos wide receiver Kenny McKinley, who is thought to have killed himself with a gunshot to the head, had made previous statements about committing suicide, according to a sheriff's investigative report released Tuesday. The Arapahoe County Sheriff's report quoted one investigator as saying McKinley had been depressed over a knee surgery he had a month ago.
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Detectives late this morning served a search warrant on Plum Borough Athletic Association President Richard Claypoole's Plum home, seeking records relating to Claypoole's Richmar sporting- goods business. Plum police Chief Frank Monaco said he accompanied detectives from Allegheny County District Attorney Stephen A. Zappala Jr.'s office to Claypoole's Glengarry Court home around 11 a.m.
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Two Colorado Springs police detectives who drank alcohol during an undercover sting at Hooters on June 23 purchased alcohol at three other bars the same day, according to documents obtained under an open-records request. It's unknown how much alcohol the detectives drank. A spokesman said the Police Department has protocols for the amount of alcohol that is acceptable for officers to drink while conducting undercover operations.
