Hammond supporters publish alleged list of foreign targets that FBI had him hackDuring the sentencing hearing of convicted hacker Jeremy Hammond on Friday, the young Chicagoan began to read from his prepared statement, saying that he had been directed to hack various foreign government websites by Anonymous leader turned FBI informant Sabu. Further Reading Judge cites “unrepentant recidivism” as the reason for a maximum sentence.
Meet the punk rocker who can liberate your FBI fileRyan Shapiro has just wrapped up a talk at Boston’s Suffolk University Law School, and as usual he’s surrounded by a gaggle of admirers. The crowd, consisting of law students, academics, and activist types, is here for a panel discussion on the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act, a 2006 law targeting activists whose protest actions lead to a “loss of profits” for industry.
Confirmed: CIA, NSA, IRS collected and shared Americans’ personal informationReuters / Handout On a mission to detect untrustworthy employees, nearly 30 government agencies collected and shared the personal information of thousands of Americans, many of whom had no ties to the federal government. A list of 4,904 people was created by US officials investigating two men for allegedly teaching people how to pass polygraph tests.
Over 3,200 US prisoners serving life sentences for non-violent offenses including shoplifting – reportReuters / Robert Galbraith Over 3,200 people in the United States are serving life sentences without parole for non-violent and often petty offenses – and taxpayers are paying billions to keep them locked up, according to a new report.
Switzerland’s Proposal to Pay People for Being AliveThis fall, a truck dumped eight million coins outside the Parliament building in Bern, one for every Swiss citizen. It was a publicity stunt for advocates of an audacious social policy that just might become reality in the tiny, rich country.
5 Scary Provisions In The Leaked Trans-Pacific Partnership ChapterAdvocacy groups and independent organizations have begun parsing the document, and they have already found quite a few problematic passages.
Spying Breaks Telemarketing Rules | Public KnowledgeIt’s like getting Al Capone for tax evasion. The CIA and AT&T figured out how to get around legal restrictions on giving the CIA access to domestic phone call information, but in doing so they violated a Federal Communications Commission (FCC) rule that protects you against telemarketing.
The Mutilated EconomyFive years and eleven months have now passed since the U.S. economy entered recession. Officially, that recession ended in the middle of 2009, but nobody would argue that we’ve had anything like a full recovery. Official unemployment remains high, and it would be much higher if so many people hadn’t dropped out of the labor force.
Hospital bills man for rectal search he was forced to undergo by policeReuters / John Gress / Files A minor traffic stop went nightmarishly wrong for a New Mexico man who was detained by police and forced to undergo a series of anal probes and other medical examinations against his will.
Activist PostPaul Adams, J.D. Activist Post The world economy is based on the sand foundation of usury, which was considered a sin and tool of covert warfare for thousands of years. The rich rules over the poor, And the borrower is servant to the lender.
United Credit Recovery Faces Lawsuit Over Deceptive Debt Collection Practices(Source: Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson) – Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson yesterday filed a lawsuit against a Florida company that purchased millions of charged-off customer accounts from large banks, and then manufactured affidavits to aid in the collection of those accounts from individuals and businesses.
Will ‘Wisdom of the Crowd’ Become a Major Financing Source for CRE Deals?With a unanimous vote, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission last week agreed to propose news rules permitting companies to offer and sell securities through what has recently come to be known as crowdfunding.
Billboard advocating jury nullification concerns local prosecutorsSince the billboard went up this month, District prosecutors have been worried that the message could sway their cases. In the past week alone, they have asked judges in three cases to ensure that jurors had neither seen nor been influenced by the billboard.
Society Controls UsNick Williams, Guest Waking Times Society controls us. To state this sounds fairly obvious but there’s more to this than meets the eye.
Judge defeats challenge to ‘medical gag order’ on health risks from frackingPennsylvania authorities have denied a doctor the right to challenge a so-called “medical gag rule” that prevents him and other physicians from warning the public about the health dangers associated with fracking.
Morales to file crimes against humanity charges at ICC against USIt may be finally getting to the point where the world has had enough of a certain country dictating to it, bombing it and attempting to shape it in its own morally bankrupt and ignorant image.
‘Homeland Stupidity’ creator sues NSA, DHSImage from cafepress.com A designer from Minnesota is suing the National Security Agency and the Department of Homeland Security for attempting to take down his parody products. Earlier this year, 38-year-old Dan McCall, owner of the website LibertyManiacs.com, was selling T-shirts and other items featuring parodied logos of both the NSA and DHS on the online merchandising platform Zazzle.
Federal Prosecutors, in a Policy Shift, Cite Warrantless Wiretaps as EvidenceWASHINGTON – The Justice Department for the first time has notified a criminal defendant that evidence being used against him came from a warrantless wiretap, a move that is expected to set up a Supreme Court test of whether such eavesdropping is constitutional.
Avast, me hearties! Antigua to legally pirate US copyrighted worksA long, long time ago in a blog far, far away, I discussed the interesting story of how Antigua was economically damaged by the United States’ clamp down on Internet gambling in the early ’00s (see the original posting below). Yep … Antigua and Barbuda is that little dot.