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March 03, 2008

Recommended reading

-Shares of electronic voting and cash machine company Diebold are up 60% after a $2.63 billion take over bid from United Technologies.

-As lobbying disclosure rules get tougher, hedge funds are engaging lobbyists under new labels in order to shield their agendas from public view. Lobbyists are re-branding some of their services to hedge funds under the rubric of political intelligence gathering.

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Political intelligence gathering, ahem, has the appropriate acronym. Must have been a trough call to think up that description.

The commentary put up by Truthout seems to catch it best: do we really want a company best known for supplying jet engines and helicopters to the US military to be telling us how we voted?

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