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HOUSTON (AP) — BP is suing the U.S. government over a decision to bar the oil giant from getting new federal contracts to supply fuel and other services after the company pleaded guilty to manslaughter and other criminal charges related to the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
The Houston Chronicle reports (http://bit.ly/1eFijiB ) BP filed the lawsuit Monday in Houston federal court. Continue reading “BP sues to get new contracts after oil spill”
If you know about foreclosure fraud, the mass fabrication of mortgage documents in state courts by banks attempting to foreclose on homeowners, you may have one nagging question: Why did banks have to resort to this illegal scheme? Was it just cheaper to mock up the documents than to provide the real ones? Did banks figure they simply had enough power over regulators, politicians and the courts to get away with it? (They were probably right about that one.) Continue reading “Your mortgage documents are fake!”
DVIDS – by Staff Sgt. Amanda Smolinski
U.S. Army Civil Affairs and Psychological Operations Command (Airborn)
ASHWAUBENON, Wis.—As the Humvees rolled slowly through the city’s streets, children waved and others stopped to watch as soldiers dismounted their vehicles to meet with civil authorities and assess the local infrastructure.
For three days in August, 22 Civil Affairs soldiers of the 432nd Civil Affairs Battalions, Charlie and Delta Companies, traveled in their High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicles, or “Humvees,” 37 miles north of their headquarters here to the small town of Gillett. Continue reading “U.S. Army Conducts Military Occupation Drill in Small Town Wisconsin”
Boing Boing – by Cory Doctorow
Back in 2012, the major US banks settled a federal mortgage-fraud lawsuit for $95,000,000. The suit was filed by Lynn Szymoniak, a white-collar fraud specialist, whose own house had been fraudulently foreclosed-upon. When the feds settled with the banks, the evidence detailing the scope of their fraud was sealed, but as of last week, those docs are unsealed, and Szymoniak is shouting them from the hills. The banks precipitated the subprime crash by “securitizing” mortgages — turning mortgages into bonds that could be sold to people looking for investment income — and the securitization process involved transferring title for homes several times over. This title-transfer has a formal legal procedure, and in the absence of that procedure, no sale had taken place. See where this is going? Continue reading “Unsealed court-settlement documents reveal banks stole $trillions’ worth of houses”
The Guardian – by Matt Williams and Ryan Devereaux
A New York judge ruled Monday that “stop-and-frisk” searches carried out by city police are unconstitutional – and ordered that a federal monitor be brought in to oversee their reform.
In a major victory for civil rights activists who have long contended that stop-and-frisk amounts to racial profiling, US district court judge Shira Scheindlin said the stops violated individuals’ right to privacy and equal treatment under the law. Continue reading “New York’s stop-and-frisk policy is unconstitutional, judge rules”
End of the American Dream – by Michael Snyder
The American people deserve to know the truth about gun control. Passing strict gun control laws will not make us all safer. In fact, as you will read about below, even a study conducted at Harvard found that the more guns a nation has the less crime it tends to have. In other words, there is a very strong positive correlation between more guns and less crime. This is the exact opposite of what the mainstream media would have us believe, but it makes sense. Continue reading “18 Little-Known Gun Facts That Prove That Guns Make Us Safer”
Herald Net – Anchorage Daily News
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Alaska fishermen and fish consumers shouldn’t be concerned about the new disclosures of radioactive water leaking into the Pacific Ocean near the site of the hobbled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan, according to an ocean chemist and a spokeswoman for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
The amount of radioactive material flowing into the ocean is relatively minimal, compared to the size of the spills that occurred in the wake of the meltdowns that occurred at the site in 2011 following an earthquake and tsunami, said Ken Buesseler, a senior scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts. Continue reading “Scientist, FDA: Don’t worry about radioactive fish”
Information Liberation – by Chris
According to a press release from a small sustainable organic co-op called ‘The Garden of Eden’ out of Arlington, Texas, they were surveilled by unmanned police drones and police helicopters in the days prior to being raided by a SWAT team for supposedly growing marijuana. A group of over a dozen police and a heavily armed SWAT team held those present on site at gunpoint and handcuffed them while they searched their property. No marijuana was found, but the cops forced them to bring their property “up to code,” by among other things, forcing them to “mow their grass” and uproot their blackberries while they stood watch. Continue reading “SWAT Team Raid Sustainable Organic Co-Op For Drugs, Find None, Force Them To Mow Their Lawn”
A 60-foot-wide sinkhole formed under a resort in central Florida early Monday morning, causing one building to collapse and another to slowly sink.
Guests at the Summer Bay Resort, about 10 minutes from Walt Disney World, called for help, saying they heard loud noises and windows cracking. The estimated 35 people inside the buildings were evacuated. Continue reading “Florida sinkhole swallows parts of resort near Disney World”
The Israeli government has backed the construction of nearly 1,200 new apartments for Jewish settlements in East Jerusalem and the West Bank, just three days ahead of scheduled peace talks with Palestinians.
Israeli Housing Minister Uri Ariel, a member of the ultranationalist Jewish Home Party, said in a Sunday statement that in order to meet the needs of Israeli citizens, more apartments are going to be built in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. Continue reading “Israel announces raft of new settlement homes three days ahead of Palestinian peace talks”
New York Post – by PHILIP MESSING
The highly lethal nerve agent VX — used in weapons of mass destruction — appears to have been discovered in a mail facility at JFK Airport where two US customs agents were sickened this morning, a law-enforcement source said.
Both victims suffered respiratory distress and were taken for emergency treatment after being overcome while inside the US Postal Service facility on North Boundary Road at 9:40 a.m., the source said. Continue reading “Suspected lethal nerve agent discovered at JFK Airport; two customs agents hospitalized”
The Telegraph – by Andrew Trotman
When Dmitry Argarkov was sent a letter offering him a credit card, he found the rates not to his liking.
But he didn’t throw the contract away or shred it. Instead, the 42-year-old from Voronezh, Russia, scanned it into his computer, altered the terms and sent it back to Tinkoff Credit Systems. Continue reading “Man who created own credit card sues bank for not sticking to terms”
Presidential vacations often create hassles for nearby residents, and President Obama’s getaway next week at Martha’s Vineyard will be no exception.
Some locals are starting to complain about the pending closing of a key road near the president’s vacation house Saturday to Aug. 18. Continue reading “Road closure for Obama vacation upsets locals”
Story Leak – by Anthony Gucciardi
It has been common knowledge to anyone paying attention within the alternative news community for years, but once again the media is now admitting that the US military and intelligence agencies are indeed running massive propaganda campaigns that cover a vast array of online networks.
How many times now has such ‘conspiracy nonsense’ now been reported years later by the mega media as undeniable fact? In the case of the US intelligence propaganda machine that even the New York Times has covered in an article entitled ‘The Real War on Reality‘, we are seeing just that. The New York Times report goes on to detail information uncovered from hacked data regarding the military operation to stage ‘grassroots’ responses and organizations in order to deceive via psyop. Professor of philosophy Peter Ludlow writes for the Times: Continue reading “US Military Caught Manipulating Social Media, Running Mass Propaganda Accounts”
One of the more surprising news to hit the tape yesterday was that Saudi Arabia, exasperated and desperate by Russia’s relentless support of the Syrian regime and refusal to abandon the Syrian army thus facilitating the Qatari plan to pass its natgas pipeline to Europe under Syria, had quietly approached Putin with a proposal for a huge arms deal and a pledge to boost Russian influence in the Arab world if only Putin would abandon Syria’s Assad. Continue reading “Putin Laughs At Saudi Offer To Betray Syria In Exchange For “Huge” Arms Deal”
Two students and their parents are suing the Ann Arbor Public Schools‘ over its new “tuition-based” seventh-hour program.
A lawsuit was filed Wednesday in Washtenaw County Circuit Court, against the district asking a circuit court judge to prevent AAPS from charging students $100 per semester to take a seventh class. Continue reading “2 families sue Ann Arbor schools over fees for 7th-hour classes”
Yahoo News
Salon – by DAVID DAYEN
CNN – by AnneClaire Stapleton
RT News
USA Today – by David Jackson
Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden
Ann Arbor – by DANIELLE ARNDT