Uncut stage mock eviction of UK welfare baron from £1.9 million home
The organizers of the demonstration said that he spearheaded many of the policies, which have been adopted by the current government including cuts to housing benefits, which will affect people...
View ArticleRoadside bomb kills Iraqi provincial elections candidate
A roadside bomb killed an Iraqi provincial elections candidate and three other people north of Baghdad on Sunday, bringing the number of candidates killed in attacks to 14, officials said. Najm...
View ArticleSwiss defend banking secrecy
President Ueli Maurer told reporters on Sunday he saw "no need to change strategy" after Luxembourg announced its plan to ease their banking secrecy practices.Swiss Finance Minister Eveline...
View ArticleGun Background Check Measure Dying a Well-Deserved Death in the Senate
The limp and pointless Senate measure to extend background checks to all sales made at gun shows and personal sales that originate with online listings appears to be losing steam. Democratic Senators...
View ArticlePirate Bay Founder Charged With Hacking Companies and a Bank
In late August 2012, Pirate Bay co-founder Gottfrid Svartholm was deported from Cambodia to Sweden. Initially it was thought that Gottfrid had been taken to serve the prison time he was handed for his...
View ArticleGold goes over the edge: Was it foreseen and who lost most?
Those who decided that it was too early to dump gold for good, lost a lot in the past few days. Billionaire John Paulson lost almost $1 billion of his personal wealth in the past two days as gold...
View ArticleDuma gives first approval to Putin bill on mixed election procedure
The bill drafted by the presidential administration in line with Vladimir Putin’s 2012 address to the parliament in which the Russian leader pledged personal support to the move suggested by...
View ArticleObama advisers say they will urge president to veto CISPA
In a statement issued Tuesday afternoon by the Executive Office of the President, top advisers say they will ask Mr. Obama to reject the CISPA bill if it proves successful on Capitol Hill.“The...
View ArticlePirate Bay co-founder charged with hacking, fraud in Sweden
The 27-year-old’s charges include aggravated fraud, attempted aggravated fraud, and being an accomplice to attempted aggravated fraud, according to The Local. He is expected to stand trial next month....
View ArticleMorrissey on British media: A “source of insanity”
Morrissey has released another vitriolic statement inspired by Margaret Thatcher--this time chastising the British media and government for its pro-Thatcher coverage of her death.In his diatribe,...
View ArticleArkansas abortion ban faces legal challenge
The American Civil Liberties Union and the Center for Reproductive Rights have filed a lawsuit to block an Arkansas law banning abortion care after 12 weeks from going into effect.Arkansas Gov. Mike...
View ArticleInvestigators search Skolkovo innovation hub, question billionaire director
The press service of the Investigative Committee – Russia’s agency for especially grave and resonant crimes – reported that the Thursday searches were connected with the criminal case instigated...
View ArticleBailing out the Bail System
Every day in America, the personal liberty of thousands rests upon a technology originally created in the Middle Ages. No, not semi-automatic sporting rifles, those came later. I’m talking about bail....
View ArticleGreg Beato on Bailing Out the Bail System
Every day in America, the personal liberty of thousands rests upon a technology originally created in the Middle Ages. No, not semi-automatic sporting rifles, those came later. Bail. As early as the...
View ArticleApple retains Siri voice data for up to two years
Apple recently revealed the fact that they keep all Siri inquiries stored on their servers for up to two years. That’s right, every question, comment or message spoken to the personal assistant gets...
View ArticleIBM in talks with Lenovo over potential x86 server business sale
Almost a decade after famously unloading its personal computer business to Lenovo, IBM is once again looking at the Chinese firm over a potential deal to sell off its System x server business....
View ArticleAnonymous calls for internet blackout to protest CISPA
Anonymous has been calling on all websites to blackout their pages ever since the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) passed the US House of Representatives on Thursday.In a...
View ArticleGoogle fined by data protection agency
BERLIN (AP) -- A German data protection agency fined Google Inc. 145,000 euros ($189,000) for illegally recording information from unsecured wireless networks - an amount it acknowledged is "totally...
View ArticleGermany fines Google €145,000 over personal data collection
The fine slapped Monday on Google by Johannes Caspar, the data protection supervisor for the German city of Hamburg, was close to the €150,000 maximum allowed by EU law, and amounts to 0.002 percent...
View ArticleTennessee lawmaker says ‘lighten up’ after posting pressure cooker bomb joke
A Tennessee lawmaker who posted a joke about the pressure cooker bombs used to murder three people last week in Boston now says that people need to “lighten up.” In a post to his personal blog on...
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