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.
Crime Lab Scandal Leaves Mass. Legal System In Turmoil : NPRLawyers, prosecutors and judges across Massachusetts are sorting through thousands of cases that may now unravel. With a former chemist accused of falsifying as many as 34,000 test results, hundreds of former defendants have already been released and police are bracing for an uptick in crime.
Mindfulness at school reduces (likelihood of) depression-related symptoms in adolescentsMindfulness is a form of meditation therapy focused on exercising ‘attentiveness’. Depression is often rooted in a downward spiral of negative feelings and worries. Once a person learns to more quickly recognise these feelings and thoughts, he or she can intervene before depression sinks in.
Judge rules secret FBI letters unconstitutionalSAN FRANCISCO (AP) – A federal judge has ruled that the FBI’s practice of issuing so-called national security letters to banks, phone companies and other businesses is unconstitutional, saying the secretive demands for customer data violate the First Amendment.
EXCLUSIVE – U.S. to let spy agencies scour Americans’ finances | ReutersNEW YORK/WASHINGTON | Thu Mar 14, 2013 12:01am IST NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Obama administration is drawing up plans to give all U.S. spy agencies full access to a massive database that contains financial data on American citizens and others who bank in the country, according to a Treasury Department document seen by Reuters.
Pop Goes the Law – The Chronicle Review – The Chronicle of Higher EducationBalloon design by April Gomez, photography by Matt Roth Enlarge Image Balloon design by April Gomez, photography by Matt Roth The Law School Admission Council recently reported that applications were heading toward a 30-year low, reflecting, as a New York Times article put it, “increased concern over soaring tuition, crushing student debt, and diminishing prospects of lucrative employment upon graduation.”
Top 5 Ways to Practice Non-Conformity in the Matrix – Waking Times ” Waking TimesSigmund Fraud, Staff Writer Waking Times The human mind is easily programmed, and human behavior is largely autonomous once the sub-conscious has a suggestion of what to do. By default, people seem inclined to conform to the ideas, environment and behaviors around them, at least as a means of survival and of fitting in.
Leaked: Audio of Bradley Manning Court Statement on WikiLeaks | Accuracy.OrgFreedom of the Press Foundation today released the full audio recording of Private First Class Bradley Manning’s speech to the military court in Ft. Meade about his motivations for leaking over 700,000 government documents to WikiLeaks.