Utah county follows Cliven Bundy’s lead, refuses to recognize federal agenciesUtah’s residents have had a contentious history with the federal government when it comes to public lands. Now one county in the state has taken things a step further, passing a resolution refusing to recognize federal agents.
Cops hid use of phone tracking tech in court documents at feds’ requestFurther Reading Keeping tabs on civilian phones? There’s more than one way to skin that cat.On Thursday evening, the ACLU published a 2009 e-mail exchange (PDF) between police departments in Sarasota, Florida, and North Port, Florida, indicating that local law enforcement had concealed the use of cell phone-tracking Stingray devices in court documents.
‘The truth is worse than we imagine’: One-quarter of public company deals involve insider tradingAndrew Burton / Getty Images / AFP An award-winning new study claims that more than a quarter of all public company deals involve transactions that could be consider examples of insider trading. The recently published report from Menachem Brenner and Marti G.
‘Welcome to Police Industrial Complex’ – former Philly commissionerDangerous, alienating, and sociopathic: the policy of arming police to the teeth with military-grade gear shows a fundamental misunderstanding of how crime is solved and what it means for a cop to walk the beat, former Captain Ray Lewis told RT. Nine-foot tall, 55,000 pound, Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) armored-fighting vehicles rolling through the streets of America.
Bank Of America To Face $1 Billion Lawsuit Over MortgagesBank of America Corp ( BAC) will have to face a lawsuit worth $1 billion that originated from Merrill Lynch’s operations back in 2006. A New York appeals court upheld a previous ruling today, calling for the bank to face the lawsuit.
Judge allows US Marshals’ seizure of stingray records, dimisses lawsuitFurther Reading After an ordinary stingray records request, the feds drive the files 320 miles. The American Civil Liberties Union has lost in its attempt to get the city of Sarasota, Florida, to hand over city records pertaining to the use of stingrays, or fake cell tower surveillance devices.
Chelsea Manning on the U.S. Military and Media FreedomFORT LEAVENWORTH, Kan. – WHEN I chose to disclose classified information in 2010, I did so out of a love for my country and a sense of duty to others. I’m now serving a sentence of 35 years in prison for these unauthorized disclosures. I understand that my actions violated the law.
Goldman Wins Dismissal of $450 Million Mortgage-Bond SuitGoldman Sachs Group Inc. won dismissal of a suit over $450 million in residential mortgage-backed securities, with a New York judge saying that the firms that bought the bonds should have done more research beforehand.
Americans fared better after Great Depression than today | Al Jazeera AmericaThe economy is improving – or so headlines tell us almost every day. But is that true? The answer to that question depends on the time frame used for comparison, whether inflation is taken into account and how you measure improvement.
The Purchase of Our RepublicThe massive consolidation of wealth, combined with the removal of any limits on money in campaigns, has allowed for the purchase of our government. Today I am publishing a comprehensive and important guest essay, The Purchase of Our Republic, by longtime correspondent Y. Falkson. Americans know that something is wrong, deeply wrong.
The Constitution Impaired; the Bill of Rights AnnulledTruthout is serializing Beatrice Edwards’ book, The Rise of the American Corporate Security State. To read more excerpts from this book, click here. Reason to be afraid #3: The separation of powers established by the Constitution is eroding. Rights guaranteed by constitutional amendments are becoming irrelevant.
Anat Admati on Seeing Through ‘The Banker’s New Clothes’This week, Bill speaks with Anat Admati, an economist at Stanford University, about how our banks are actually larger now than they were before the 2008 crash – and still living dangerously. In this TEDx Stanford talk she delivered earlier this year, Admati explains how she fell into a “rabbit hole” when she started studying banking around the time of the financial crisis.
World economic system is madness: Pope FrancisUpdated June 14, 2014 13:36:40 Pope Francis has launched a sweeping attack on the world’s economic system, saying it discards the young, puts money ahead of people and survives on the profits of war.
The Velocity Of Money In The U.S. Falls To An All-Time Record LowPreface by Washington’s Blog: Read this for background on why the velocity of money has crashed. By Michael Snyder: When an economy is healthy, there is lots of buying and selling and money tends to move around quite rapidly. Unfortunately, the U.S. economy is the exact opposite of that right now.
The Size Of The Derivatives Bubble Hanging Over The Global Economy Hits A Record HighBy Michael Snyder. The global derivatives bubble is now 20 percent bigger than it was just before the last great financial crisis struck in 2008. It is a financial bubble far larger than anything the world has ever seen, and when it finally bursts it is going to be a complete and utter nightmare for the financial system of the planet.
Vermont’s landmark GMO-labelling law target of lawsuit by food trade groupsAFP Photo / Robyn Beck A group of four national trade organizations sued the state of Vermont over its new law requiring labels on foods with genetically modified ingredients, scheduled to go into effect in July 2016. They claim the requirement is unconstitutional.
Synchronized brain waves enable rapid learningThe human mind can rapidly absorb and analyze new information as it flits from thought to thought. These quickly changing brain states may be encoded by synchronization of brain waves across different brain regions, according to a new study from MIT neuroscientists.