Eight weeks to a better brainarticipating in an eight-week mindfulness meditation program appears to make measurable changes in brain regions associated with memory, sense of self, empathy, and stress. In a study that will appear in the Jan.
UN panel slams US for police brutality, torture, botched executionsA UN report has condemned the United States for violating the terms of an international anti-torture treaty. The panel took Washington to task for police brutality, military interrogations, and capital punishment protocols.
Senate Report: Scale of Wall Street Holdings Are “Unprecedented in U.S. History”Last Thursday, the U.S. Senate’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, chaired by Senator Carl Levin, released an alarming 396-page report that details how Wall Street’s too-big-to-fail banks have quietly, and often stealthily through shell companies, gained ownership of a stunning amount of the nation’s critical industrial commodities like oil, aluminum, copper, natural gas, and even uranium.
Bank of America settles with government in mortgage bond caseA final judgment against Bank of America Corp. in a mortgage-bond lawsuit by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission was signed by a federal judge, helping clear the way for the lender to complete a $16.7 billion global settlement of claims it misled investors about risk. The judgment signed Tuesday by U.S.
Meagher County couple settles with bank after alleging fraud in lawsuit : State-and-regionalHELENA – A Meagher County couple has reached a confidential settlement with Bank of America in its lawsuit alleging the bank engaged in fraudulent dealings. The lawsuit was filed by Abraham and Betty Jean Morrow of White Sulphur Springs. One of the couple’s attorneys, David K.W.
Does Religion Cause More Harm than Good? Brits Say Yes. Here’s Why They May be Right.Most British people think religion causes more harm than good according to a survey commissioned by the Huffington Post. Surprisingly, even among those who describe themselves as “very religious” 20 percent say that religion is harmful to society.
2 IL Veterans Force 102 Corrupt Officials to Resign, Place Entire Local Board Under Citizen’s ArrestWith four former governors having served time behind bars, Illinois’ government is widely-viewed as being riddled with corruption. However, according to a recen
Co-conspirator of 9/11 attacks says Saudi prince financed operationReuters / Sara K. Schwittek A former self-described Al-Qaeda collaborator serving a life sentence in prison now says he wants to testify in court about what he claims to know about a Saudi Arabian prince’s alleged role in financing the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
Corruption in America: From Benjamin Franklin’s Snuff Box to ‘Citizens United’ | BillMoyers.comThe following excerpt is the introduction to Zephyr Teachout’s new book, Corruption in America: From Benjamin Franklin’s Snuff Box to Citizens United. The Citizens United decision was not merely bad law; it was bad for politics, and displayed an even worse understanding of history.
Starved for Time? Here’s a Surprising-and Easy-SolutionAlthough I think I spent most of my childhood daydreaming, I seldom do it anymore. Occasionally, I’ll catch myself spacing out in the shower, just standing there, and I’ll try to hustle myself back on track, lest I waste any more time or water. Rarely do we just let ourselves stare into space these days.
JP Morgan Chase cost US taxpayers millions, had them pay for settlement – Matt Taibbi“Ordinary people lost enormous amounts of money” when JP Morgan Chase sold millions in faulty loans – and taxpayers still paid a big chunk of its billion-dollar settlement with the government, investigative journalist Matt Taibbi told RT.
The criminalisation of American businessWHO runs the world’s most lucrative shakedown operation? The Sicilian mafia? The People’s Liberation Army in China? The kleptocracy in the Kremlin? If you are a big business, all these are less grasping than America’s regulatory system.
World Socialist Web SiteBy Gabriel Black 10 November 2014 The failure of the insurance giant American International Group (AIG) at the height of the financial crisis in September 2008 “would have been catastrophic for the broader economy” and led to “mass panic on a global scale,” according to recent court testimony by Timothy Geithner, President Obama’s first-term Treasury Secretary and former President of the New York Federal Reserve Bank.
The $9 Billion Witness: Meet JPMorgan Chase’s Worst NightmareShe tried to stay quiet, she really did. But after eight years of keeping a heavy secret, the day came when Alayne Fleischmann couldn’t take it anymore. “It was like watching an old lady get mugged on the street,” she says.
Your Brain Peforms Better When It Slows Down, with Steven Kotler | Big ThinkBest-selling author Steven Kotler discusses hypofrontality — literally the slowing of the brain’s prefrontal cortex — and how it allows one to enter an optimal state of consciousness, known as flow.
UK intelligence agencies spying on lawyers in sensitive security casesThe intelligence services have routinely been intercepting legally privileged communications between lawyers and their clients in sensitive security cases, according to internal MI5, MI6 and GCHQ documents. The information obtained may even have been exploited unlawfully and used by the agencies in the fighting of court cases in which they themselves are involved, the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) has been told, resulting in miscarriages of justice.