The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Does violence spread like a disease? Epidemiolost Gary Slutkin of Cure Violence says the issues has been misdiagnosed, and instead created science-based strategies that aim to stop violence before it erupts.
BOA, Urban Lending Sued in Qui Tam by WHistleblower: They never intended to modify the loans
Neil Garfield
Living Lies Garfield Firm, 16 May 2013
Just a quick note as follow up to my article this morning. Read this qui tam complaint and see how it corroborates the facts and theories presented on this blog. Note the following quote: ” these mechanisms of fraud were and are interconnected and directly observed by Relator Mackler, who worked with various BOA executives while at Urban Lending Solutions beginning in April 2010. BOA outsources various HAMP obligations to Urban. Upon witnessing the unlawful, fraudulent practices listed above, among others, Mackler brought his concerns to the highest levels of Urban and to executives at Bank of America. Eventually, his objections to these practices led to his termination on March 17, 2011.”
US ATTORNEY GOT THIS DISMISSED BUT ANOTHER ONE IS PENDING IN MASSACHUSETTS UNDER SEAL.
Read, plagiarize This, and use it: http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/324428-greg-mackler-complaint.html
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/03/08/440628/whistleblower-claims-bofa-blocked-help/?mobile=nc
“The manhunt for the Boston Marathon bombing suspects offered the nation a window into the stunning military-style capabilities of our local law enforcement agencies. For the past 30 years, police departments throughout the United States have benefitted from the government’s largesse in the form of military weaponry and training, incentives offered in the ongoing “War on Drugs.” For the average citizen watching events such as the intense pursuit of the Tsarnaev brothers on television, it would be difficult to discern between fully outfitted police SWAT teams and the military.
The lines blurred even further Monday as a new dynamic was introduced to the militarization of domestic law enforcement. By making a few subtle changes to a regulation in the U.S. Code titled “Defense Support of Civilian Law Enforcement Agencies” the military has quietly granted itself the ability to police the streets without obtaining prior local or state consent, upending a precedent that has been in place for more than two centuries…Eric Freedman, a constitutional law professor from Hofstra University, also calls the ruling “an unauthorized power grab.” According to Freedman, “The Department of Defense does not have the authority to grant itself by regulation any more authority than Congress has granted it by statute.” Yet that’s precisely what it did.””
More:
Pentagon Unilaterally Grants Itself Authority Over ‘Civil Disturbances
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The Gordian Knot of Grand Folly: How It Got Tangled and How to Untangle It
Marietta McCarthy is a professor of philosophy. She's written a book called How Philosophy Can Save Your Life: 10 Ideas That Matter Most.
It's an excellent book because it condenses profound wisdom into a short list of key concepts, which makes them easier to remember and easier to build upon. Broad societal change will never come about as long as the general public is left out of the loop. And they need things condensed for them. They don't need to see the big picture in all it's detail. They only need to see it well enough that they will start recognizing truth from lies and traditional folly from emerging wisdom. They can learn the details as they go, just like the rest of us did. And McCarty's books is excellent for that purpose. It's written for the general reader.
But this article is not a book review. I already know something about the ideas she covers in her book, and I want to use them in a way that she didn't use them. I want to apply these 10 ideas to the ideas from another book. Conservatives Without Conscience, by John W. Dean.
Dean's book makes use of the latest findings of social scientists when it comes to the individual and group dynamics of authoritarians. These findings have been confirmed time and again by other social scientists, so there's no question about their conclusions. They have been validated by the latest cognitive science.
The 10 ideas in Marietta McCarty's book are:
Copyright Monopoly: Prosecutors in Sweden have sued the root domain registry of .SE domains to kill the domain name of The Pirate Bay. The root registry fights back heavily. This case is important to watch, as it can have thoroughly chilling results for the Internet’s domain name system if criminal secondary liability is established at the DNS level.
Nobody can say that the prosecutors are after justice – they are after results. In the initial lawsuit against IIS, the foundation that manages the root .SE domains, they insisted on an ex parte decision – meaning that they demanded the court to issue a domain seizure order, a final decision in this case, without allowing the accused to speak in their defense. That is not any normal kind of justice.
Just so we’re clear – this is not your average domain registrar, like GoDaddy, EuroDNS, or DomainDiscover. This is the domain registry, the root database of .SE domains, managed by the Swedish Internet Foundation (the IIS), which is the technical back-end to all those domain registrars you see. This makes the prosecutor’s actions even more jaw-dropping.
Swedish TVs show “Vetenskapens Värld” (The World of Science) Documentary about Cold Fusion and Andrea Rossi.
We get to see interviews with Andrea Rossi, Mats Lewan, Sven Kullander, Hanno Essen, Magnus Holm.
Douglas Rushkoff is a media theorist and the bestselling author of Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now. His earlier books include Life Inc, Program or Be Programmed, and Media Virus. He made the PBS Frontline documentaries The Merchants of Cool, The Persuaders, and Digital Nation, and speaks around the world about media, technology, and change.
Lots of official “disbelief” is still greeting this revolutionary technology, which has the potential to radically change the energy landscape, to eventually allow us to put burning carbon-based fossil fuels to rest.