Cyprus bail-out: savers will be raided to save euro in future crises, says eurozone chief – Telegraph“If we want to have a healthy, sound financial sector, the only way is to say, ‘Look, there where you take on the risks, you must deal with them, and if you can’t deal with them, then you shouldn’t have taken them on,'” he said.
The FBI’s anticipatory prosecution of Muslims to criminalize speechOne of the major governmental abuses denounced by the 1976 final report of the Church Committee was the FBI’s domestic counter intelligence programs (COINTELPRO).
Investors Pile Into Housing, This Time as LandlordsLAKE FOREST, Calif.-Jeff Pintar had buyer’s remorse as he purchased 12 foreclosed homes in five Southern California counties on a single day. His regret: that he didn’t buy more homes a year earlier.
Corporate Welfare – Employees Paying Taxes Directly To CorporationsTaxes have been a part of government for as long as there have been things to tax, and the general idea behind them is pretty well understood. The government takes a portion of everyone’s income and spends it in such a way as to improve things for everyone in one way or another.
Maine officials seeking pepper-spray video leak | The Portland Press Herald / Maine Sunday TelegramBy David Hench dhench@mainetoday.com Staff Writer The Maine Department of Corrections is investigating to determine how the press obtained video and documents about a captain’s treatment of an inmate last year. In this video image, Capt.
Big Sis Refuses To Answer Congress On Bullet PurchasesDHS staying mum as members probe for explanations Steve Watson Infowars.com Mar 21, 2013 UPDATE: 14 Members of Congress Demand Investigation of Obama’s Ammo Horde Speaking at CPAC with Infowars and We Are Change reporter, Luke Rudkowski, Congressman Timothy Huelscamp revealed this week that the Department of Homeland Security has refused to answer questions from “multiple” members of Congress regarding its recent purchase of huge amounts of weapons and ammunition.
Freddie Mac Sues Multiple Banks Over Libor ManipulationFreddie Mac (Bank of America Corp. (JPMorgan Chase & Co. ( FMCC) sued BAC), UBS AG (UBSN), JPM) and a dozen other banks over alleged manipulation of the London interbank offered rate, saying the mortgage financier suffered substantial losses as a result of the companies’ conduct.
Icelandic bank Kaupthing’s top executives indicted over market riggingIcelandic banker Sigurdur “Siggi” Einarsson, who ran Kaupthing bank from offices in Mayfair until its collapse five years ago, is among nine former senior staff who have been variously charged in Reykjavik with orchestrating five large-scale market manipulation conspiracies.
DOJ RULES: ‘It Is Legal To Photograph And Film The Police’ – Home – The Daily BailEric Holder finally got one right. ‘It is settled law that citizens have the right to record police.’ Journalist Mannie Garcia was arrested for filming police as they detained two men in Maryland. Garcia was charged with disorderly conduct, but the Justice Department has confirmed that he was within his rights to film the cops.
Supreme Court Knocks Down Goldman SachsBy Lawrence Hurley and Jonathan Stempel WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Goldman Sachs Group Inc suffered a defeat on Monday as the U.S. Supreme Court let stand a decision forcing it to defend against claims it misled investors about mortgage securities that lost value during the 2008 financial crisis.
Terrorist, hacker, freedom fighter: Andrew Auernheimer parties tonight in expectation of jail tomorrowIn June of 2010, Andrew Auernheimer created a small computer program that connected to a publicly accessible, unsecured AT&T database of iPad subscribers. In November of 2012, he was found guilty of violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) and identify theft. Tomorrow, he’s likely going to jail.
Nearly one-third of the respondents (31%) have deserted a news outlet because it no longer provides the news and information they had grown accustomed to.
The State of the News Media 2013The State of the News Media 2013 is the tenth edition of our annual report on the status of American journalism. The study contains special reports on how news consumers view the financial struggles of the industry and how the local, cable and network TV news landscape has changed in recent years.
Supreme Court Rules Against Entertainment Industry in Landmark Copyright CaseThe U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled in favor of Supap Kirtsaeng, an immigrant from Thailand who challenged the $600,000 he was ordered to pay for willfully infringing a textbook publisher’s copyrights when he sold books first purchased overseas in the U.S. through eBay. The important ruling deals with the first-sale doctrine under U.S.
Realities Behind Prosecuting Big BanksAre banks too big to jail? If there was any doubt about the answer to that question, Eric H. Holder Jr., the nation’s attorney general, last week blurted out what we’ve all known to be true but few inside the Obama administration have said aloud: Yes, they are.
1.6 Billion Rounds Of Ammo For Homeland Security? It’s Time For A National Conversation – ForbesArmored Personnel Carriers in Baghdad. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) The Denver Post, on February 15 th, ran an Associated Press article entitled Homeland Security aims to buy 1.6b rounds of ammo , so far to little notice. It confirmed that the Department of Homeland Security has issued an open purchase order for 1.6 billion rounds of ammunition.
Above the lawYet last week Attorney General Eric Holder, speaking for the administration with an alarmingly casual nonchalance, traduced the whole notion of a nation of laws. First, the attorney general responded to Sen. Rand Paul’s inquiry as to whether the president claimed the “power to authorize a lethal force, such as a drone strike, against a U.S.
Court Orders CIA to Acknowledge DronesThe Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) must acknowledge whether an armed drone program exists, a federal appellate court ruled on Friday. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) took the CIA to court after filing a Freedom of Information request about drone strikes overseas.
Lawsuit: Bank of America Manipulated Financial Information creating DefaultN. James Turner,Orlando Personal Finance Examiner Jim Turner is a Consumer Rights Attorney Practicing in Orlando, Florida. He received a B.S. in Accounting from Bentley College, with highest honors, in 1972 and his J.D. degree from the University of Miami School of Law, cum laude, in 1975.
Articles and Papers – Scientific Papers – Morphic Resonance – Morphic Fieldsby Rupert Sheldrake In the hypothesis of formative causation, discussed in detail in my books A NEW SCIENCE OF LIFE and THE PRESENCE OF THE PAST , I propose that memory is inherent in nature. Most of the so-called laws of nature are more like habits.