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myInfo User since 6/1/2002 Entries published: 3,251
Entries edited: 51
Founded the History Commons project in 2002.
My energy is devoted to developing social and technological systems that alter the relationships between consumers and producers in a way that decentralizes power and cuts out the rent-exacting middle man.
Currently taking a break away from the History Commons—been busy working for a N. Californian Solar company during the day, and developing a solar-related web application in the evenings.
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Recently Added Events 
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- FDA Scientist Angry about Industry-Friendly Decision Not to Regulate Genetically Engineered Foods, Shortly after May 26, 1992
- 10/28
- CIA Officer Later Accused of Date Rape Appointed Chief of Station in Algeria, September 2007
- 10/16
- Argentina Sells Public Water Utility to Private Consortium, April 28, 1993
- 10/16
- Argentine President Appoints Political Ally to Head Agency that Oversees Management of Buenos Aires’ Privatized Water Utility, (Between 1994 and 1997)
- 10/16
- Aguas Argentinas Raises Water Rates 13.5 Percent, (Early 1994)
- 10/16
- Aguas Argentinas Fails to Expand Water and Sewer Services to Poor Neighborhoods in Buenos Aires, 1996
- 10/16
- Aguas Argentinas Imposes $800 Water and Sewer Connection Fee, Massive Protests Ensue, Spring 1996
- 10/16
- Argentine Government Allows Private Water Company to Levy Fee That Was Not in Original Agreement, November 1996
- 10/15
- Ahead of Privatization, Water Rates Begin to Rise Rapidly in Buenos Aires, 1991-1993
- 10/15
- Aguas Argentinas Earns High Rate of Profit, Despite Failure to Meet Contractual Obligations, 1993-2001
- 10/15
- New Private Water Company in Buenos Aires Cuts Off Water to 10% of its Customers for Non-Payment, (Summer 1993)
- 10/15
- French Government Officials Lobby on Behalf of French Water Companies for Argentine Water Utility Concession, Early 1990s
- 6/7
- Buenos Aires Poor Still Lacks Access to Safe Drinking Water, 2003
- 6/6
- World Bank President Says Argentina Neoliberal Reforms Are ‘An Example for All of Latin America’, June 1992
- 6/6
- Argentine Government Official Tells Congress that Aguas Argentinas Has Failed to Keep Its Promises, (1997)
- 6/6
- Buenos Aires Residents Protest Water and Sewer Connection Fees, April 1996
- 6/6
- Aguas Argentinas Implements Third Rate Hike, January 9, 2001
- 6/5
- Buenos Aires’ Public Water Utility Company Unable to Meet Needs of Growing Population, 1980s-1993
- 6/5
- Aguas Argentinas Renegotiates Contract with Argentina, November 29, 1999
- 6/5
- Aguas Argentinas Raises Water Rates Again, May 1998
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Recently Updated Events
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- Congressional Committee Investigation Finds Dramatic Reduction in FDA Enforcement Activity, June 26, 2006
- 11/28
- Parke-Davis Launches Marketing Campaign to Promote Off-Label Uses for Neurontin, 1996-2000
- 11/21
- FBI Whistleblower Fired after Alleging Security Breaches in Translations Department, March 22, 2002
- 11/12
- Second Study Concludes that Climate is Warmer Now Than Any Other Period in Last 400 Years, June 22, 2006
- 10/2
- Rumsfeld Declares Taliban, Al-Qaeda ‘Gone’ from Afghanistan, December 18, 2002
- 9/28
- Bush Administration Intends to Reverse Ban on Snowmobiles in Yellowstone, November 12, 2002
- 8/31
- NASA Scientist Silenced by Order from Top Agency Officials, After December 6, 2005
- 7/19
- Bush Official Instructs Forest Service Employees to Play Down Public Opposition to Roadless Rule, (Between 2001 and 2002)
- 6/18
- Italian Information Peddler Agrees to Pay Niger Embassy Source for Documents, March 2000
- 6/18
- Scientists Warn G8 Not to Ignore Global Warming, June 14, 2006
- 6/5
- Iraqi Civil Servants Angry about Not Being Paid, (Late April 2003)
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