An e-mail found in a collection of files stolen from Diebold Elections Systems' internal database recommends charging Maryland "out the yin-yang," if the state requires Diebold to add paper printouts to the $73 million voting system it purchased.

Warden takes on the feds: Challenges alleged order not to revive the dying. The warden of the York County Prison, one of the largest immigrant detention centers on the East Coast, said federal officials told him last month not to medically resuscitate any detainee for any reason.

The US government is implementing a huge database to track all immigrants using biometrics.

Alou Traore is being held at York County Prison for returning from a visit with his sick father in Africa. It's cases like Traore's that attracted the attention of some 25 to 30 people from the Green Party, CIRCLE of York, Every Church is a Peace Church and unaffiliated individuals, who gathered Saturday at the York County Prison. They came to protest the federal government's immigrant
incarceration practices.

A few dozen protesters braved the cold and snow to hold a demonstration at the York County Prison and the former Caterpillar parts distribution plant
yesterday afternoon.

Organizers of Saturday's small human rights demonstration called it a start. After two dozen people from Pennsylvania and Maryland gathered Saturday in Springettsbury Township to call attention to a wide range of U.S. government policies, organizers said it won't be the last time they'll gather in York County.

NY activists sealed the entrances to 31 stores run by Gap, Inc. (including Old Navy and Banana Republic) in the early morning of december 6th, during some of the busiest shopping hours of the entire year. The action was in response to Gap, Inc.'s continued use of unfair labor practices throughout the world.

A bombing raid in Afghanistan killed nine children as they played.

See also:
Grief for children as they played:
http://www.news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=1345312003

Afghan villagers torn by grief:
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/08/international/asia/08AFGH.html?pagewanted=print&position=

UN critical of US for killing children:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s1005300.htm