Oil Spill Hearing Focuses on Sickness and Other Claims BP Wants to Dismiss
Wiki Image Courthouse News Service NEW ORLEANS – A Thursday hearing focused on motions to dismiss claims in the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, including…
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Nuts, Conservators and a Judge Gone Wild
Dees Illustration Janet Phelan, Contributing Writer Activist Post Hot on the heels of a groundbreaking decision by L. A. Superior Court Judge Reva Goetz to…
Student Loan Debt, Reframed
Wiki Image Inside Higher Ed WASHINGTON — Much of the discussion about college student debt revolves around the 15 percent of borrowers who default on…
US controversial anti-terror powers extended
Editor’s Note: This report fails to mention that it was signed into law by machine (autopen). The Patriot Act provided the NSA with greater powers…
House Passes Authority for Worldwide War
Sam Milgrom ACLU The House just passed the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), including a provision to authorize worldwide war, which has no expiration date…
Members of Congress Get Abnormally High Returns From Their Stocks
Wikimedia Commons photo Dan Froomkin Huffington Post Members of the House of Representatives considerably outperform the stock market in their personal investments, according to a…
Celente predicts gold standard won’t save US economy
Gerald Celente – Trends Journal Terence Aym Helium Sometimes-controversial trends analyzer Gerald Celente is forecasting that a return to the gold standard will not be…
Eighth Grader Executed for Scaring a Cop
William Grigg Lew Rockwell Between March 2006 and November 2010, Officer Daniel Alvarado of San Antonio’s Northside Independent School District Police was suspended four times….
It’s ever more obvious, Greece must leave the euro
I’ve hardly been alone, but that’s no excuse. For more than a year now, I’ve been regularly predicting the euro crisis’s final denouement, yet still…
FBI Using Anti-Terrorism Resources on Activists (Video)
YouTube — RT According to the FBI, people scrawling with sidewalk chalk and even those attending documentary screenings of controversial films can pose a threat…
New LAPD Patrol Car To Sport Infrared Night Vision, License Plate Scanner
Editor’s Note: Please click the AOL link below to see a video showing just how cool the police state has become with your tax dollars…
Google unveils phone that can be swiped as a credit card
Daily Mail Google unveiled an app today that allows users to pay for goods with their mobile phones. In future customers will be able to…
US Senate moves forward on anti-terror powers
EN: VOMIT. “FBI and intelligence officials have warned that if the Patriot Act is not extended by the deadline they would be robbed of crucial…
US lawmakers pass $690 billion Pentagon bill
The US House of Representatives passed a $690 billion Pentagon budget Thursday © AFP/DOD/File AFP WASHINGTON (AFP) – The US House of Representatives passed a…