This Is The World’s First Entirely 3D-Printed Gun (Photos)The 3D-printed gun that Cody Wilson calls the “Liberator.” Click to enlarge. (Credit: Michael Thad Carter for Forbes) Eight months ago, Cody Wilson set out to create the world’s first entirely 3D-printable handgun. Now he has. Early next week, Wilson, a 25-year-old University of Texas law student and founder of the non-profit group […]
The Case That Could Cost Bank of America $60 Billion (BAC)This month is an important one for Bank of America ( ) , particularly as it pertains to one of many lawsuits concerning deteriorating mortgage-backed securities and the decaying mortgages that reside therein. Prior settlement thrown into doubt The case involves a settlement struck in 2011, for $8.5 billion, between B of A and 22 investors, pursuant to 530 mortgage trusts sold by Countrywide.
Guantanamo attorney dead in apparent suicide – RT USAAn American lawyer representing detainees at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp has been found dead in an apparent suicide. The body of Andy P. Hart, a 38-year-old US federal public defender, was found last week with a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
The Pope Called One Of The Foundations Of The Global Capitalism System ‘Slavery’Pope Francis on Wednesday condemned as “slave labour” the conditions for hundreds of workers killed in a factory collapse in Bangladesh and urged political leaders to fight unemployment in a sweeping critique of “selfish profit”. The pope said he had been particularly struck by a headline saying workers at the factory near Dhaka were being paid just 38 euros ($50) a month.
Nearly 30% of Americans advocate for an armed rebellion – RT USANearly one-third of Americans say an armed revolution might need to occur in the next few years to prevent an escalating war against constitutional liberties, a new study finds. Fairleigh Dickinson University’s PublicMind surveyed 863 US residents randomly in late April and found that 29 percent of those polled believe a revolution isn’t just imminent but imperative.
JPMorgan Caught in Swirl of Regulatory WoesGovernment investigators have found that JPMorgan Chase devised “manipulative schemes” that transformed “money-losing power plants into powerful profit centers,” and that one of its most senior executives gave “false and misleading statements” under oath.
Lenders Chip Away at Foreclosure InventoriesCompleted foreclosures rose in March, but the big drop in the number of distressed properties entering the pipeline remains encouraging, analysts say. In March, 55,000 foreclosures were completed, a 6 percent increase from February, according to a newly released report from CoreLogic. But, overall, foreclosures have fallen more than 16 percent year-over-year.
Expectation and Market Realities in Real Estate 2013This report presents an analysis of the current economy for commercial real estate investors, covering the major property sector markets
Schwab Sues BofA and Other Banks Over Alleged Libor ManipulationCharles Schwab Corp. (Bank of America Corp. ( SCHW), whose antitrust claims against banks over manipulation of the London interbank offered rate were tossed from federal court in New York, sued BAC) and other financial institutions for fraud in state court in San Francisco.
Homeland Security under investigation for massive ammo buys – RT USAThe Department of Homeland Security is under investigation for purchasing large stockpiles of ammunition, days before legislation was introduced that would restrict the amount a government agency can legally buy. The Government Accountability Office is now conducting the investigation into the alleged DHS purchases, which is “just getting underway,” GAO spokesman Chuck Young told US News & World Report.
Ten Responses to the Technological Unemployment Problem | THE DECLINE OF SCARCITYOn the internet and in the media there has been growing discussion of technological unemployment. People are increasingly concerned that automation will displace more and more workers-that in fact there might be no turning back at this point. We may be reaching the end of work as we know it.
New film looks at ‘War on Whistleblowers’“There’s a schizophrenia within the administration,” said Tom Devine, legal director of the nonprofit Government Accountability Project. “It’s been Obama versus Obama on whistleblower policy. Until recently, there was a virtual free-speech advocacy for whistleblower job rights that’s unprecedented, more than any other president in history.
Combat school must disclose traineesA federal judge in Oakland says the government must release the names of Latin American military leaders it has trained at the installation formerly known as the School of the Americas, where protesters say the United States has nurtured some of the hemisphere’s worst human rights abusers.
As cyberthreats mount, hacker’s conviction underscores criticism of government overreachWith that, the Justice Department began a case that has come to symbolize what some lawyers and civil libertarians see as overreach in the government’s campaign against cybercrime. The hacker, Andrew Auernheimer, was convicted and sentenced last month to more than three years in prison for obtaining about 120,000 e-mail addresses of iPad users from AT&T’s Web site – including New York Mayor Michael R.
Robert Shiller: Home Prices Will Remain Relatively Stagnant For Next 10 YearsMore good news on the housing market. This morning, the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price index posted its biggest annual increase since 2006-just before the housing market crash. Home prices in all 20 metro areas included in the index rose for the second month running. Phoenix led, with a 23% annual increase followed by San Francisco (18.9%), […]
Ron Paul slams Boston police. Has he gone too far?Former GOP presidential candidate Ron Paul has slammed US law enforcement for responding to the Boston Marathon bombing with “police state tactics.” In a post on the website of libertarian activist Lew Rockwell, Mr. Paul said Monday that the governmental reaction to the tragic explosions was worse than the attack itself.
FBI Report Implicates Saudi Government in 9/11But “We Can’t Afford to Irritate the Saudis” By Actually Looking Into Who Backed 9/11 … “Especially with Oil Prices Going Up Now” Contrary to the official narrative, 9/11 was state-sponsored terror. The only question is which state sponsored it.
Buddha Had It Right: Relax The Mind And Productivity Will Follow“The great enigma for psychologists and philosophers is the mind.” –Bhante Wimala Several decades ago, the term ‘mindfulness’ used to imply Eastern mysticism related to the spiritual journey of a person, originated by Gautama Buddha. Buddhists believe that being ‘well, happy, and peaceful’ comes from practicing ‘mindful’ living.