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Bank of America whistle-blower’s bombshell: “We were told to lie”
salon.com
30 mentions — 2 days ago
Topics:Bank of America,Foreclosure,Mortgage Crisis,Mortgage Fraud,mortgage,HAMP,Whistleblowers,Editor's Picks,Loans,JP Morgan Chase,
‘Wolf of Wall Street’ Perpetuates Negative Stereotype of Wall Street
NewsBusters
4 mentions — 16 hours ago
Apparently, three movies attacking Wall Street wasn’t enough. Hollywood’s made another anti-capitalist film to be released November 15. The biopic of former Wall Street stockbroker, Jordan Belfort, who is also a conman, stars known liberal actor Leonardo DiCaprio. The “Titanic” star is a well-known environmental activist and has ...
100 Tweets for #Fearless Summer from "Steam Drills" -a novel on climate change by Rivera Sun
Facebook
4 mentions — 21 hours ago
These tweets are from "Steam Drills, Treadmills, and Shooting Stars" a novel on coal and climate change by Rivera Sun.She is sharing them to support the #FearlessSummer social media campaign that begins June 19th.Please enjoy, share, tweet, and retweet!RiveraSun~ Do you care enough about this world, your family, and yourself to sign up for this revolution? #FEARLESSSUMMER #NoKXLRiveraSun~ The swelling crowd pushed against fear and danger, thirsty for the dropping rain of change #FEARLESSSUMMERRiveraSun~ This is no ordinary workday in America. Life as usual cannot continue on its devastating path ...
NSA Boss Asks Congress For Blanket Immunity For Companies That Help NSA Spy On Everyone | Techdirt
Techdirt
6 mentions — 2 days ago
Filed Under: blanket immunity, immunity, keith alexander, nsa, nsa surveillance, spying, tech companies Civil immunity. So that they can turn round to anyone and say, "Sorry! We're the Paladins of IMMUNE!!!"Doesn't anyone in the damned government have a brain to think with?After the last 3 weeks, there is ...
What's the most embarrassing phone call you've ever made?
masswiretap-digitalfourth.nationbuilder.com
3 mentions — 2 days ago
A new and dangerous bill in the Massachusetts Legislature would allow local law enforcement to monitor and collect data on all phone calls, just like the NSA. Right now, police and prosecutors are only allowed to wiretap your phone if they suspect you of involvement in organized crime.
City Signs Off On $4.2 Million Settlement With Women Hurt During Dorner Manhunt - CBS Los Angeles
losangeles.cbslocal.com
2 mentions — 8 hours ago
LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — The City Council has signed off on a $4.2 million settlement with two newspaper delivery women who were fired on by officers in Torrance during the manhunt for accused killer Christopher Dorner.Margie Carranza and her mother, Emma Hernandez, had reached a settlement with the ...
Breaking 6/19: Lafayette Parents, Students Occupy School - Pastebin.com
Pastebin.com
11 mentions — 15 hours ago
Chicago 6/19 2:45PM -- Nine Lafayette Elementary parents and students have just peacefully occupied a school classroom, at 2714 W. Augusta Blvd., to demand Mayor Rahm Emanuel and his handpicked Chicago Board of Education reverse the school’s closing.“Closing Lafayette will kill our neighborhood and our families,” says Rousemary ...
U.S. Companies Lobbying Furiously To Save Tax Loopholes
huffingtonpost.com
3 mentions — 8 hours ago
Tim Cook, CEO of Apple, testifies during a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Subcommittee on Investigations titled 'Offshore Profit Shifting and the U.S. Tax Code - Part 2.' Cook and other Apple officials were on hand to explain the company's filings after the subcommittee accused Apple of ...
Expect Resistance
huffingtonpost.com
2 mentions — 20 hours ago
Global temperatures are rising; literally, figuratively, anyway you spin it. Despite the desperate cheerleading of economists and Wall Street pundits, despite the cheap credit of suppressed interest rates and the ingenious accounting gimmicks of the big banks, the veneer of financial stability is wearing thin as the consumptive ...
Snowden seeks asylum in Iceland through intermediary — RT News
rt.com
9 mentions — 2 days ago
Iceland has been informally contacted by an intermediary who stated that NSA leaker, former CIA contractor Edward Snowden, wants asylum in the Nordic island-state, Reuters reports.WikiLeaks spokesman Kristinn Hrafnsson wrote in Icelandic dailyFrettabladid that a middleman had approached him on behalf ofSnowden.“On 12 June, I received a message ...
Michael Hastings
washingtonpost.com
10 mentions — 1 day ago
Michael Hastings, a contributor to Rolling Stone and BuzzFeed, died on Tuesday morning in a car crash in Los Angeles at the unforgivably young age of 33.He is best known, rightly, for his 2010 Rolling Stone profile of Gen. Stanley McChrystal, who as commander of the U.S.-led force in Afghanistan was the face of the war that Hastings saw as misguided and poorly managed. His profile, “The Runaway General,” portrayed McChrystal as a loose cannon so sure of himself and his strategy for the war that he and his staff ...
FBI Admits It Surveils U.S. With Drones | Threat Level | Wired.com
wired.com
10 mentions — 19 hours ago
FBI Director Robert Mueller testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee today. Screenshot: David Kravets/WiredThe revelation was during an FBI oversight hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee and comes as the bureau, along with the National Security Agency, are on the defensive about revelations that they are obtaining metadata ...
Civil rights group challenges NSA phone surveillance program
Reuters
3 mentions — 4 hours ago
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The American Civil Liberties Union sued senior U.S. government officials on Tuesday to challenge the constitutionality of the National Security Agency's telephone surveillance program, saying it violates rights to free speech and privacy.The suit asked the court to immediately halt the NSA's vast tracking ...
So the NSA Is 'Only' Collecting Metadata? You Should Still Worry | Wired Opinion | Wired.com
wired.com
2 mentions — 22 hours ago
We now know that every day, U.S. phone companies quietly send the government a list of who called whom and when — “telephony metadata” — for every call made on their networks, because of a secret order by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. It turns out that this ...
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31 mentions — 5 days ago
katılmak için: revoltistanbul@gmail.com . nabermedya dünyanın her yanından alanlarda canlı yayın yapan vatandaş habercileri ekranınıza getirir. globalrevolution.tv, spanishrevolutionsol, icbcn ve stopcartelgr gibi kanallarla birlikte occupystreams.org'da yer alır. katılmak için: revoltistanbul@gmail.com . nabermedya dünyanın her yanından alanlarda canlı yayın yapan vatandaş habercileri ekranınıza getiri...(more)You should receive an email confirmation ...
You, Terrorist
truth-out.org
8 mentions — 21 hours ago
The Keystone XL pipeline is not a disaster waiting to happen. It is a whole pile of disasters waiting to happen. Expected to run from the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin in Alberta through more than half a dozen American states and down to the Gulf shore of Texas,
Michael Hastings Dead at 33 | Politics News | Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone
45 mentions — 2 days ago
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Michael Hastings, the fearless journalist whose reporting brought down the career of General Stanley McChrystal, has died in a car accident in Los Angeles, Rolling Stone has learned. He was 33. Hastings' unvarnished 2010 profile of McChrystal in the pages of Rolling Stone, "The Runaway General," captured ...
Statement On Michael Hastings
buzzfeed.com
33 mentions — 2 days ago
BuzzFeed is saddened to report that Michael Hastings died in a car accident early this morning in Los Angeles. He was 33.Ben Smith, BuzzFeed Editor-in-Chief, said in a statement:We are shocked and devastated by the news that Michael Hastings is gone. Michael was a great, fearless journalist with an incredible instinct for the story, and a gift for finding ways to make his readers care about anything he covered from wars to politicians. He wrote stories that would otherwise have gone unwritten, and without him there are great stories that ...
Why Democrats Love To Spy On Americans
buzzfeed.com
19 mentions — 2 weeks ago
Besides Senator Ron Wyden and Mark Udall, most Democrats abandoned their civil liberty positions during the age of Obama. With a new leak investigation looming, the Democrat leadership are now being forced to confront all the secrets they’ve tried to hide.posted on June 7, 2013 at 12:10pm EDT ...
The Strange Case of Barrett Brown | The Nation
The Nation
8 mentions — 15 hours ago
Amid the outrage over the NSA's spying program, the jailing of journalist Barrett Brown points to a deeper and very troubling problem.Barrett Brown. (Photo courtesy of Barrett Brown's YouTube channel.) In early 2010, journalist and satirist Barrett Brown was working on a book on political pundits, when the ...
Wearing a mask at a riot is now a crime
CBC News
11 mentions — 19 hours ago
A bill that bans the wearing of masks during a riot or unlawful assembly and carries a maximum 10-year prison sentence with a conviction of the offence became law today.Bill C-309, a private member's bill introduced by Conservative MP Blake Richards in 2011, passed third reading in the ...
What’s happening in Bulgaria?
medium.com
8 mentions — 1 day ago
If you had 24 years to change and refine a country’s policies, would you twist those to your benefit?At first glance, beautiful Bulgaria has a lot of democracy going on — laws, elections, a parliament, a president, markets, EU membership, free will, the works, we have it. Look ...
Scrapping equipment key to Afghan drawdown
The Washington Post
3 mentions — 10 hours ago
???initialComments:true! pubdate:06/19/2013 18:57 EDT! commentPeriod:14! commentEndDate:7/3/13 6:57 EDT! currentDate:6/19/13 8:0 EDT! allowComments:true! displayComments:true!Ernesto Londono/WASHINGTON POST - June 17, Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan -- U.S. military contract workers tear apart an armored vehicle that is among the hundreds of such personnel carriers the Pentagon no longer has use for. KANDAHAR ...
Missing Michael Hastings
buzzfeed.com
20 mentions — 1 day ago
One of the great reporters of his generation died Tuesday at 33. The stories he wrote, and the ones he didn’t live to write.posted on June 19, 2013 at 12:12am EDT Michael Hastings was really only interested in writing stories someone didn’t want him to write — often ...
An open letter from the Turkish Hayat TV, to be closed down because it broadcasted Taksim
Inside Arab Spring
7 mentions — 1 day ago
Hayat TV, a progressive Turkish TV channel of the working people, the youth, women and the intellectuals is facing closure.The decision for the closure is made by the broadcasting regulator RTÜK, Radio & Television High Commission with the pretext that Hayat TV has no licence.Hayat TV has been ...
NPR Media Player
npr.org
3 mentions — 7 days ago
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Obama defends 'system of checks and balances' around NSA surveillance
guardian.co.uk
3 mentions — 1 day ago
Addressing leaked NSA files, president says Department of Justice is investigating 'possible extradition' of Edward SnowdenObama – with David Cameron in Northern Ireland for the G8 on Monday – was interviewed by Charlie Rose. Photograph: Ben Stansall/AFP/Getty ImagesBarack Obama addressed what he described as the public "ruckus" over ...
Edward Snowden Q&A: NSA whistleblower answers your questions
guardian.co.uk
72 mentions — 3 days ago
The whistleblower behind the biggest intelligence leak in NSA history will be live online at 11am ET/4pm BST to answer your questions about the NSA surveillance revelationsIt is the interview the world's media organisations have been chasing for more than a week, but instead Edward Snowden is giving ...
Small group of parents, students occupy school slated to close - Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
3 mentions — 15 hours ago
BY BECKY SCHLIKERMAN and TINA SFONDELESStaff ReportersJune 19, 2013 3:44PMNine people are inside Lafayette Elementary School, sitting on the floor and protesting the school’s closing, parent Rousemary Vega told the Sun-Times in a phone interview from inside the school at 2714 W. Augusta. She said the group is ...
Daily Kos: Mayor Rahm Offers Schools Grand Bargain: Teachers or Toilet Paper
dailykos.com
12 mentions — 3 days ago
Chicago schools face severe cuts as the district unveils its new "school-based" budget plan which forced Nettlehorst Elementary School in Chicago to empty out all reserves, pink slip two teachers’ aides, and eliminate a school secretary position. Other schools are not as lucky and will be cutting teachers ...
Wearing a mask at a riot is now a crime
CBC News
3 mentions — 7 hours ago
A bill that bans the wearing of masks during a riot or unlawful assembly and carries a maximum 10-year prison sentence with a conviction of the offence became law today.Bill C-309, a private member's bill introduced by Conservative MP Blake Richards in 2011, passed third reading in the ...
New banker bonus boom: Payouts leapt 64% to new record when Chancellor George Osborne cut top-rate tax to 45p in April
The Independent
3 mentions — 5 hours ago
The disclosure provoked anger, with Labour accusing David Cameron of giving a “massive tax cut” to millionaires in the City at a time when ordinary families are seeing their incomes shrink.According to the Office for National Statistics, the average weekly bonus in the financial sector was £143 in ...
Remembering James Gandolfini and Tony Soprano
hitfix.com
2 mentions — 10 hours ago
James Gandolfini, whose performance as Tony Soprano forever transformed the way we thought about the TV characters we invited into our living room, has died suddenly while on vacation in Rome. He was 51. As the star of "The Sopranos," what was so amazing about Gandolfini wasn't so ...
WikiLeaks says Michael Hastings contacted it just before his death. Are they implying he was murdered? – Telegraph Blogs
Telegraph Blogs
3 mentions — 6 hours ago
WikiLeaks says Michael Hastings contacted it just before his death. Are they implying he was murdered? WikiLeaks just threw some gasoline onto the conspiracy fire. On Wednesday night, they Tweeted: “Michael Hastings contacted WikiLeaks lawyer Jennifer Robinson just a few hours before he died, saying that the FBI ...
Sao Paulo bus hike protests bubble to 200k in half dozen Brazilian cities
Circa News
3 mentions — 2 days ago
Protests in Sao Paulo over a hike in bus fare expanded to at least a half dozen cities with an estimated 200,000 people on the streets. The protests escalated after 4 days on June 13 when police fired rubber bullets and tear gas to disperse crowds, arresting least ...
Warren on Trans-Pacific Partnership: If people knew what was going on, they would stop it
The Raw Story
5 mentions — 9 hours ago
Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) on Wednesday voiced her opposition to President Barack Obama’s top international trade nominee because of a secretive free trade agreement.“I am deeply concerned about the transparency record of the U.S. Trade Representative and with one ongoing trade agreement in particular — the Trans-Pacific Partnership,” ...