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Monthly Archives: March 2015
Mindfulness-based program in schools making a positive impact, study shows
Mindfulness-based program in schools making a positive impact, study showsA social and emotional learning program started by Academy Award winning actress Goldie Hawn to help school children improve their learning abilities, be more caring, and less stressed is now backed by new scientific evidence.
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Scientific Benifits of Meditation
Scientific Benifits of MeditationWe all have heard that “meditation is good for you”. But good in what terms? Is that just reports from people doing it for 10 years, or are there good scientific studies showing specific benefits that I care about? In this massive article I have summarised several scientific discoveries on the benefits of meditation.
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Journalist Barrett Brown sentenced to 63 months in prison for Anonymous link
Journalist Barrett Brown sentenced to 63 months in prison for Anonymous linkA Dallas, Texas court has sentenced journalist Barrett Brown to 63 months behind bars for links to the hacktivist collective Anonymous. In April the independent journalist entered a plea deal agreeing to charges of transmitting threats, acting as an accessory to hacking, and obstructing with the execution of a search warrant.
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National Banks Will Pay State Millions After Illegally Foreclosed on Mass. Homes
National Banks Will Pay State Millions After Illegally Foreclosed on Mass. HomesBank of America, J.P. Morgan Chase, Citi and Wells Fargo Bank will pay a combined $2.7 million to Massachusetts for unlawful foreclosures. Four national banks owe Massachusetts $2.7 million after settling a lawsuit from the state’s attorney general, Martha Coakley. Bank of America, J.P.
The Dire State of Our Nation (What You Won’t Hear from the Politicians)
The Dire State of Our Nation (What You Won’t Hear from the Politicians)By John Whitehead, constitutional and human rights attorney, and founder of the Rutherford Institute. “As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged.
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Why America Keeps Losing Its Wars
Why America Keeps Losing Its WarsWalter Stewart (Major General, US Army, retired) My essay explains why America is losing its wars and offers a simple solution – one requiring nothing more than moral courage on the part of our most senior military officers. 1. America is losing its wars because they are unconstitutional to begin with.
‘CIA killed prisoners, made it look like suicide’
‘CIA killed prisoners, made it look like suicide’ – Guantanamo guardReuters / Stringer / Files A former Guantanamo Bay prison guard and Marine explained in details what makes him believe three problematic detainees were killed at CIA black site in Guantanomo and their death was covered up as a triple suicide.
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U.S. Bank Faces False Claims Act Lawsuit Relating to Mortgage Foreclosure Practices
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Mortgage borrowers win at Supreme Court
Mortgage borrowers win at Supreme CourtBy The U.S. Supreme Court handed a win to mortgage borrowers when they unanimously ruled a lender erred when it insisted that borrowers who opted to back out of a mortgage because of disclosure errors by the bank had to go to court to do so.
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Secret papers show extent of senior royals’ veto over bills
Secret papers show extent of senior royals’ veto over billsThe extent of the Queen and Prince Charles’s secretive power of veto over new laws has been exposed after Downing Street lost its battle to keep information about its application secret. Whitehall papers prepared by Cabinet Office lawyers show that overall at least 39 bills have been subject to the most senior royals’ little-known power to consent to or block new laws.
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Betting on Default
Betting on DefaultImagine a lender demanding that you miss a payment. That is the situation described in a recent article in The Wall Street Journal. In 2013, GSO Capital Partners, the debt-investing arm of the private equity firm the Blackstone Group, refused to renew a $122.3 million loan to the Spanish gambling company Codere unless it delayed paying interest on other existing debt.
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The Saudi Role in Sept. 11 and the Hidden 9/11 Report Pages
The Saudi Role in Sept. 11 and the Hidden 9/11 Report PagesSince the early days after the Sept. 11 attacks, when news emerged that most of the airline hijackers came from Saudi Arabia, dark allegations have lingered about official Saudi ties to the terrorists. Fueling the suspicions: 28 still-classified pages in a congressional inquiry on 9/11 that raise questions about Saudi financial support to the hijackers in the United States prior to the attacks.
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‘Eco-terrorist’ released from prison, as feds withheld evidence
‘Eco-terrorist’ released from prison, as feds withheld evidenceA man sentenced to 19 years in prison for conspiring to commit ‘environmental terrorism’ has been granted early release from prison, as a judge agreed to a settlement between Eric McDavid’s defense and prosecutors over evidence withheld by authorities.
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Democracy and Capitalism Are Destined to Split Up
Slavoj Žižek: Democracy and Capitalism Are Destined to Split Up | Big ThinkSlavoj Zizek: Well people often ask me how can you be so stupid and still proclaim yourself a communist. What do you mean by this? Well, I have always to emphasize that first I am well aware that let’s call it like this – the twentieth century’s over.
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Allegations that Bank of America Issued Improper Tax Forms to Consumers
Allegations that Bank of America Issued Improper Tax Forms to Consumers As State Law Challenges PercolateA couple of developments from late last year involving Bank of America and its issuance of supposedly erroneous information returns are worth highlighting. One relates to Bank of America’s mortgage interest reporting on Form 1098 and the other relates to its issuance of Form 1099C addressing cancellation of debt. Both […]
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CBS journalist sues Justice Department for spying
CBS journalist sues Justice Department for spyingReuters / Carlo Allegri A former CBS journalist is suing the Justice Department, the United States Postal Service and several federal employees for allegedly hacking her computers while she investigated stories critical of the Obama Administration.
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Bank of America sued by Ambac over Countrywide mortgage bonds
Bank of America sued by Ambac over Countrywide mortgage bondsBank of America sued by Ambac over Countrywide mortgage bonds NEW YORK, Jan 1 – Ambac Assurance Corp sued Bank of America Corp to recoup hundreds of millions of dollars of losses from insuring roughly US$1.68 billion (RM5.87 billion) of securities backed at least in part by risky mortgages from the bank’s Countrywide Home Loans unit.
Leaked NSA Documents Reveal How To Hide From The NSA
Leaked NSA Documents Reveal How To Hide From The NSAIf you want a truly anonymous life, then maybe it’s time you learned about Tor, CSpace and ZRTP. These three technologies could help people hide their activities from the National Security Agency, according to NSA documents newly obtained from the archive of former contractor Edward Snowden by the German magazine Der Spiegel.
‘CIA fingerprints’ all over Kiev massacre
‘CIA fingerprints’ all over Kiev massacre – Oliver StoneThe armed coup in Kiev is painfully similar to CIA operations to oust unwanted foreign leaders in Iran, Chile and Venezuela, said US filmmaker Oliver Stone after interviewing Ukraine’s ousted president for a documentary. Stone spent four hours in Moscow talking to Viktor Yanukovich, who was deposed from power during the February 2014 coup, the filmmaker wrote on his Facebook page.
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