http://www.kansascity.com/2013/05/10/4229168/judge-denies-haiths-petition-regarding.html

Judge denies Haith’s petition regarding bank records – KansasCity.comFrank Haith’s petition to subpoena Bank of America employees has been denied by a federal judge in Florida. Haith, Missouri’s men’s basketball coach, filed a Rule 27 petition – a tool used to collect testimony or evidence that could be used in a future lawsuit – on Monday to determine whether the bank shared detailed records from his personal business account during the NCAA’s two-year investigation of the University of Miami.

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http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/05/immigration-reform-dossiers/

Biometric Database of All Adult Americans Hidden in Immigration Reform | Threat Level | Wired.comCivil rights advocates are worrying that immigration reform the Senate began debating yesterday is the first step toward a national identification system that would grow into a dossier on Americans and chronicle our most every move. That’s because buried in the more than 800-plus-page piece of bipartisan legislation is language calling for the creation of a national, biometric identification system for workers.

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https://pressfreedomfoundation.org/blog/2013/05/freedom-press-foundation-crowd-funding-court-reporter-transcribe-bradley-manning

Freedom of the Press Foundation Crowd-Funding A Court Reporter To Transcribe Bradley Manning’s TrialCampaign will support a professional stenographer to produce transcripts and provide them to the public and press For immediate release San Francisco, CA – May 9, 2013 – Freedom of the Press Foundation is proud to announce a new fundraising campaign to hire a professional court stenographer to produce transcripts of the trial of whistleblower Bradley Manning, scheduled to begin June 3rd, 2013.

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Colony American Home Files IPO To Roll-Up Ownership of Single-Family Homes – CoStar GroupHaving stoked a strongbox with about $2.2 billion in privately raised funds, fast-growing Colony American Homes Inc., is planning an initial public offering of common stock to raise at least $100 million more. The Santa Monica, CA-based owner of single-family rental property is being spun-off into a real estate investment trust by Thomas Barrack’s Colony Capital.

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http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/05/07/us-bankofamerica-aig-lawsuit-idUSBRE9460WF20130507

AIG may pursue fraud case versus BofA over CountrywideCredit: Reuters/Issei Kato A woman stands in front of an AIG logo in Tokyo March 3, 2009. District Judge Mariana Pfaelzer in Los Angeles on Monday said AIG could pursue claims that Countrywide falsely represented in offering documents that it followed underwriting guidelines, as part of a “company-wide culture of abandonment of underwriting standards and wholesale use of ‘exceptions.'” Pfaelzer dismissed AIG claims related to alleged oral misstatements and negligent misrepresentations.

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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/top-economist-jeffrey-sachs-says-wall-street-is-full-of-crooks-and-hasnt-changed-since-the-financial-crash-8594779.html

Top economist Jeffrey Sachs says Wall Street is full of ‘crooks’ and hasn’t changed since the financial crashIn a cutting attack on America’s financial hub, one of the world’s most respected economists has said Wall St is full of “crooks” and hasn’t reformed its “pathological” culture since the financial crash.

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http://www.latimes.com/business/money/la-fi-mo-ny-to-sue-wells-fargo-bank-of-america-over-mortgage-settlement-violations-20130506,0,186027.story

N.Y. to sue Wells Fargo, Bank of America over mortgage practicesNEW YORK — New York state’s attorney general plans to sue Wells Fargo and Bank of America over alleged violations of a national mortgage settlement reached last year. Atty. Gen. Eric Schneiderman’s office said Monday it intends to sue the banks for “repeatedly violating the terms” of the settlement.

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http://commonhealth.wbur.org/2013/05/genes-altered-after-relaxation-practice

Say ‘Om’: Researchers Find Gene Action Altered After Relaxation PracticeSay ‘Om’: Researchers Find Gene Action Altered After Relaxation Practice It’s widely accepted that yoga, meditation and other practices that involve conscious relaxation can reduce stress and enhance a person’s general well-being. But for many, notions of “mindfulness” and “wellness” still come off as a tad New Age-y and amorphous.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-piper/mindfulness-meditation-benefits_b_3158080.html

10 Reasons Why You Really Need To Start MeditatingThe push-up is an incredible tool to help you get in great physical shape; that’s why it’s used in almost every gym in America. With all the scientific evidence pointing to mindfulness meditation, the practice is literally becoming America’s next push-up for the brain. Here are 10 reasons why you should do the practice.

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http://blog.sfgate.com/cityinsider/2013/05/06/barry-zito-russell-brand-david-lynch-meditate-at-sf-school/

Barry Zito, Russell Brand, David Lynch meditate at SF school | City Insider | an SFGate.com blogSo, David Lynch, Russell Brand and Barry Zito walk into a high school auditorium. While that might sound like the start of a weird joke, that eclectic combination of celebrities (surrealistic film director, zany British actor, Giants pitcher, respectively) sat in a San Francisco high school auditorium Monday with 700 students and …

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http://www.businessinsider.com/greenwald-are-all-telephone-calls-recorded-and-accessible-to-the-us-government-2013-5

Are All Telephone Calls Recorded And Accessible To The US Government?The real capabilities and behavior of the U.S. surveillance state are almost entirely unknown to the American public because, like most things of significance done by the U.S. government, it operates behind an impenetrable wall of secrecy.

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http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/05/03/this-is-the-worlds-first-entirely-3d-printed-gun-photos/

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 […]

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http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2013/05/03/the-case-that-could-cost-bank-of-america-60-billio.aspx

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.

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http://www.businessinsider.com/pope-rips-bangladesh-slave-labor-2013-5

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.

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http://rt.com/usa/americans-revolution-armed-percent-738/

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.

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