Cory Doctorow

boingboing.net

October 31, 2012

Oakland police chief told a court that he never saw emails from city officials and a federal court monitor who emailed him about police brutality and other illegal actions by his force in its response to Occupy…

Duncan Gardhan, Bruno Waterfield and Emily Godsen

Business Insider

October 26, 2012

Nicholas Mockford, a British executive for the oil company ExxonMobil has been shot…

“U.S. ambassador to Libya, Christopher Stevens, disappeared in the smoke and fire of a building under attack in Benghazi, Libya, early Wednesday.” – Hispanicbusiness.com

U.S. Ambassador Killed in Benghazi Rocket Attack

“The US ambassador to Libya, Christopher Stevens, has been killed…

Eaten by Ouroboros and Buggered by Cthulhu, in a Wal-Mart Wonder

Well, it's official, Bruce Springsteen has gone over to the other side. His brain now has the consistency of a Ding Dong or some kind of Sarah Lee composition. There's no predicting anything anymore.…

JPMorgan Chase & Co. posted a record quarterly profit on Friday as falling interest rates and a recovering housing market brought big increases in mortgage lending.

The mortgage market, long a drag on bank results, is starting to lift lenders’ earnings again, and JPMorgan Chief Executive Jamie Dimon said he was hopeful about the outlook for U.S. residential…

Leah Plante (Image from leahxvx.tumblr.com)

A third self-described anarchist from the Pacific Northwest has been jailed by federal officials for refusing to speak before a secretive grand jury that the accused have called a politically-motivated modern-day witch-hunt.

Leah-Lynn Plante, a mid-20s activist from Seattle,…

Massive US-Israel air drill set for this month

Virtual 911

From the Whatreallyhappened.com website, written by Mike Rivero: "VIRTUAL 9-11: Will Israel Hack The US Banking System Computers and Falsely Blame It On…

dnaindia.com | Jul 18, 201

By Louise Armitstead & Richard Blackden

HSBC was forced to apologise publicly yesterday (Tuesday) before the US Senate – and its compliance chief resigned – over facilitating a…

Police have readied 6,000 officers, including anti-terrorist units and rooftop snipers, to provide security during the six-hour visit. German sites in the Greek capital, including the embassy and Goethe Institute, are under special protection.

PICS Riot Cop Uses Woman As Human Shield

Merkel was given the red carpet treatment and full military honors at Athens airport. Samaras greeted her with a handshake as she exited the…

Occupy Chicago activists being arrested in Grant Park on October 22 (Timmy Caldwell)A JUDGE has dismissed all charges against nearly 100 Occupy Chicago activists arrested last fall while they tried to set up an encampment…

NEW YORK (AP) — A former manager at the Sept. 11 memorial was fired for raising health and security concerns at one of the most security-conscious places in the world, he said in a lawsuit Friday.

Thomas Cancelliere maintained he was fired from his job as director of the National Sept. 11 Memorial and Museum in retaliation for alerting his bosses to numerous problems.

But a memorial spokesman called Cancelliere's claims untrue and said his firing was the result of bad…

5 October 2012, by Jonathan Weil (Bloomberg)





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As if America’s hedge-fund elite didn’t have enough crises to worry about -- riots in Spain, the fiscal cliff, Lindsay Lohan’s hotel brawl -- the parade of underlings copping pleas to insider-trading crimes just keeps growing. Every week it seems another one flips, promising to turn state’s evidence.



Time is money, as they say. And it would take a true genius to make money out of…

Nowadays with most of us having a camera on our mobile phones, more and more people are able to film the actions of the police during a stop and search and are choosing to do so.

However, there are a few basic suggestions that may help you to be better prepared, can ensure that deciding to film the police makes a difference and can mean any footage has…