We find the best tweets to retweets. Optic Nerve: millions of Yahoo webcam images intercepted by GCHQ. Britain's surveillance agency GCHQ, with aid from the US National Security Agency, intercepted and stored the webcam images of millions of internet users not suspected of wrongdoing, secret documents reveal. GCHQ files dating between 2008 and 2010 explicitly state that a surveillance program codenamed Optic Nerve collected still images of Yahoo webcam chats in bulk and saved them to agency databases, regardless of whether individual users were an intelligence target or not. In one six-month period in 2008 alone, the agency collected webcam imagery – including substantial quantities of sexually explicit communications – from more than 1.8 million Yahoo user accounts globally.
Yahoo reacted furiously to the webcam interception when approached by the Guardian. The company denied any prior knowledge of the program, accusing the agencies of "a whole new level of violation of our users' privacy". GCHQ insists all of its activities are necessary, proportionate, and in accordance with UK law. Alexander County Court House Web-Site. Dozens of new laws take effect in Washington state. OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) - Kimberly Aleman was brought to the United States from Mexico by her parents when she was 3 years old. Now in her second quarter at Yakima Valley Community College, she is allowed to apply for a state need grant for the first time, under a law that takes effect Thursday.
The law, officially called the "Real Hope Act" but also known as the Washington Dream Act, expands state financial aid for college students in the country without legal status. It's one of about 200 new laws that take effect this week. "So many students have been here all their lives," Aleman said. "We can go to school, but it's the money that stops us. " After Aleman graduated high school in 2013, she took a quarter off and worked at McDonald's to save money. "I want to further my education and make my parents proud so that they know that everything they've done was worth it in the end," she said. As of this week, more than 1,500 students have applied for the upcoming school year. President Obama signs bill into law, then explains why he will ignore it anyway.
Senator Ted Cruz put forth a bill that would stop Hamid Abutalebi, Iran’s new ambassador to the United Nations, from taking the post at UN headquarters in New York. Abutalebi, who was chosen by Iranian President Hassan Rouhani (how is that great man of peace working out?) , was one of the terrorists that held 52 Americans hostage for 444 days after the student takeover of the US Embassy in Tehran in 1979.
Just a note, that crisis was only ended on the threshold of Ronald Reagan taking office. Under Carter, the terrorists had nothing to fear. As Reagan came to power, they knew that their time would quickly be up if they didn’t release the hostages. Getting back to the story at hand, the bill unanimously passed both houses of the legislature and was signed into law by President Obama. "Nevertheless, as President [George H.W.] I wasn’t aware that the President’s constitutional discretion extended to UN ambassadors.
Sources: Bankrupt Obamacare! Learn how! Legal aid cuts will drive out the best lawyers, supreme court president warns | Law. Plans to cut £220m more from the legal aid budget are regrettable, will "drive out the best lawyers", and may not produce significant savings, the UK's most senior judge has warned. In his most explicit challenge yet to government reforms, Lord Neuberger, president of the supreme court, implied that access to justice for all – particularly "the poor, the vulnerable [and] the disadvantaged" – is being put at risk. Lawyers can be split into two branches of the profession, not barristers and solicitors, the 65-year-old judge suggested, but "lawyers who serve rich individuals and companies, and lawyers who serve ordinary citizens".
The first group are doing fine but "the latter are under intense pressure from legal aid cuts and, in some areas, from an overmanned profession". The consultation, Transforming Legal Aid, closed on 4 June. It has provoked mass protests by barristers and solicitors in London and Manchester. Reid: Filibuster Rule Change Coming 'Later this Month' Senate majority leader Harry Reid reiterated on Tuesday his plan to reform the rules of the Senate to weaken the filibuster and strengthen the majority party's power to move legislative debate forward. The Huffington Post reports: "Once we complete that vital legislation, the Senate will take action to make this institution that we all love, the United States Senate, work more effectively," Reid said, calling for an end to the uncompromising legislative style that has driven hundreds of filibusters in recent years.
"We'll consider changes in the Senate rules," Reid said, although he also warned it may not happen immediately. Among Reid's proposals, which originated with Senate liberals like Jeff Merkley of Oregon and Tom Udall of New Mexico, are requiring senators who object to closing debate on a bill to engage in a "talking filibuster" (that is, to actually speak on the floor of the Senate) and limiting when senators can filibuster. Lawmakers suspect money laundering issues at Wal-Mart. By Sarah N. Lynch Two U.S. House Democrats investigating bribery allegations in Wal-Mart’s Mexico affiliate said on Tuesday they have obtained new internal records that may point to evidence of tax evasion and money laundering. Reps. Elijah Cummings and Henry Waxman, who are the ranking members, respectively, of the House Oversight and House Energy committees, disclosed the latest details of their probe in an August 14 letter to the company.
“We have obtained internal company documents, including internal audit reports, from other sources suggesting that Wal-Mart may have had compliance issues relating not only to bribery, but also to ‘questionable financial behavior’ including tax evasion and money laundering in Mexico,” the lawmakers wrote in their letter to Wal-Mart Chief Executive Michael Duke. A company spokesman had no immediate comment. The company has said it is cooperating with the U.S. Law Firm Partner Compensation Study Finds Sharp Disparities Between Cities / Legal Industry News Article.
Differences in law firm partner compensation among major U.S. cities are large and growing, according to a new survey conducted jointly by Major, Lindsey & Africa and ALM Legal Intelligence. The wide ranging report, based on responses from 2,228 partners across the country, covers compensation, originations, billing rates, hours, the impact of lateral moves, and partners’ views on compensation and their firms’ compensation systems.
A city-by-city analysis in the 2012 Partner Compensation Survey found average compensation ranged from $478,000 in Philadelphia to $1.2 million in Silicon Valley for the 12 metropolitan areas broken out. Compared to 2010, the largest gains were reported for Atlanta, up 48%; Seattle, 45%; and Dallas, 28%. The only declines were in Philadelphia, down 10%, and Los Angeles, down 8%. In terms of partners’ attitudes toward their compensation, Boston stood out with the largest proportion stating they are “Not at all Satisfied” at 13%, up sharply from 2010’s 6%. 3rdWAVElands Properties: "Getting Back To The Constitution": The Truth Part 2. Miami Hedge Fund Adviser Charged for Misleading Investors about "Skin in the Game" and Related-Party Deals / In the Matter of Quantek Asset Management, LLC, et al. / Securities Law Updates / Securities Legal Updates.
The Securities and Exchange Commission has charged a Miami-based hedge fund adviser for deceiving investors about whether its executives had personally invested in a Latin America-focused hedge fund. The SEC’s investigation found that Quantek Asset Management LLC made various misrepresentations about fund managers having “skin in the game” along with investors in the $1 billion Quantek Opportunity Fund. In fact, Quantek’s executives never invested their own money in the fund. The SEC’s investigation also found that Quantek misled investors about the investment process of the funds it managed as well as certain related-party transactions involving its lead executive Javier Guerra and its former parent company Bulltick Capital Markets Holdings LP.
Bulltick, Guerra, and former Quantek operations director Ralph Patino are charged along with Quantek in the SEC’s enforcement action. Quantek, Guerra, Bulltick, and Patino settled the charges without admitting or denying the findings. Supreme Court Strikes Down Stolen Valor Law. LawTech Futures 2012 – The Future of Legal Technology – Legal IT Conference and Exhibition – London, March 2012. Netlaw Media the UK’s most successful Legal Media, Law Conference and Law Event organisation together with Charles Christian of the Legal Tech.
Minnesota's prisons locked down as feds target Indian gang. Federal charges against two dozen suspected members of an Indian gang were revealed on Wednesday in what authorities called a "sweeping racketeering indictment'' intended to "disrupt an extremely dangerous gang. " The 47-count indictment alleges that the Native Mob's gang activity in Minnesota reached back at least a decade and included murder, assault, drug trafficking and robbery. Six suspects were arrested on Tuesday, 12 were already incarcerated in state or county facilities on other charges and six remain at large. The Native Mob has long been a terrorizing presence in south Minneapolis neighborhoods, Third Precinct Inspector Lucy Gerold said.
"Anything that brings them down will bring significant peace to a number of people," she said. Gerold said the gang has battled for turf and been responsible for shootings, aggravated assaults and drug dealing. Its members also had ties to Native Mob chapters in several outstate locations. "They've just been consistently present," Gerold said. Republican National Committee Files Brief Seeking To Allow Corporate Funding Of Campaigns.
By Ian Millhiser on January 11, 2012 at 9:58 am "Republican National Committee Files Brief Seeking To Allow Corporate Funding Of Campaigns" One of the few remaining limits on corporations’ power to buy and sell American elections is that corporations are not allowed to give money directly to federal candidates. Citizens United frees them to spend billions of dollars running ads or otherwise trying to change the result of an election to suit their interests, but corporations cutting checks directly to candidates or to political committees such as the Republican National Committee is one of the few things the Supreme Court’s conservatives have not yet imposed upon the country. If the RNC gets its way, however, that will soon change. Most corporations are not large entities waiting to flood the political system with contributions to curry influence.
The collapse of American justice - Hoarding. Justice Department Says Texas Redistricting Map Violates Voting Rights Act, Discriminates Against Minority Voters. Former Boehner Staffer Suggests Rick Perry Would Be Happier With the Confederate Constitution. By Ian Millhiser on September 2, 2011 at 9:50 am "Former Boehner Staffer Suggests Rick Perry Would Be Happier With the Confederate Constitution" Analogies between Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) and Confederate President Jefferson Davis are rather obvious in light of Perry’s suggestion that Texas might secede from the union and his wholehearted embrace of the union-destroying doctrine of nullification. Nevertheless, Speaker John Boehner’s (R-OH) former staffer Scott Galupo spots an unexpected similarity between how Davis and Perry view the Constitution: I’m curious what Gov.
Galupo is on to something because, as it turns out, Rick Perry’s understanding of the Constitution is a whole lot closer to the Confederate Constitution that it is to anything resembling the Constitution of the United States: Social Security and Medicare. In other words, there seems to be a pretty good explanation for why Perry recently published Fed Up! Stealth Vaccine Laws Allow Children to Consent to Vaccines.
(NaturalNews) A current California bill, AB 499, would "allow a minor who is 12 years of age or older to consent to medical care related to the prevention of a sexually transmitted disease. "[1] That is, children as young as 12 will be able to get a Gardasil or other STD vaccine without their parents' knowledge or consent if this bill passes. Disturbingly, North Carolina has a much broader child consent law already on the books: "Any minor may give effective consent . . . for medical health services for the prevention . . . of venereal disease and other [reportable] diseases...
"[2] I call these laws "Stealth Vaccine Laws" because they provide for the administration of vaccines without the word "vaccine" or "immunization" appearing in the law. There are serious legal and moral problems with stealth vaccine bills and laws. Under Troxel, parents are presumed to be fit unless there is a showing of unfitness. Child consent laws also fail the common sense test. Students try to draw Congress into law school transparency movement. Lawyer picked as Kenyan chief justice to end row. * Nominee and deputy seen as legal reformers * Kenya's judiciary viewed as corrupt and inefficient By James Macharia NAIROBI, May 13 (Reuters) - A lawyer was nominated as chief justice of Kenya on Friday, bringing to a close a row between President Mwai Kibaki and Prime Minister Raila Odinga over senior judicial appointments.
Willy Mutunga, a former law school lecturer and chairman of the Law Society of Kenya, was chosen to head the judiciary and Nancy Baraza was named his deputy. Neither has served as a judge and both have a track record of pushing for legal reform. Their appointment is subject to parliamentary approval. The nomination of a chief justice who was not a judge was intended to make a clean break with the past and an attempt to reform a judiciary seen by many as corrupt. "We have picked on renowned reformers, a man and a woman of impeccable record," Christine Mango, the acting head of the Judicial Service Commission (JSC), which hires judges, told reporters. LaRouche Warns For Coming Martial Law And Food Riots In America After Economic Collapse.flv. THE ONE (DNA) DATABASE TO RULE US ALL. Government Corruption - Judge Brooks Blitch.
Vindication and Blame for Black Panther Case - Song of Truth Foundation. The fine-structure constant and the nature of the universe: Ye cannae change the laws of physics. Blackwater Changes Its Name to Xe. Top-level nationwide criminal racket targeting whistleblowers hits the skies - National Human Rights. Punitive actions against these honest public servants send chilling signals to other would-be whistleblowers… - Captain Dan Hanley Nationwide criminal racket involving top-level government agencies such as DHS and DOJ threatens national security and targets whistleblowers Self-identified targeted individuals’ claims of persecution and widespread, systemic Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Department of Justice (DOJ) abuse of power are mounting with the grassroots organization, Medical Whistleblowers including its Transportation Whistleblower spokesperson, also spokesperson of the Whitsleblowing Airline Employees Association, Captain Dan Hanley.
Last week, Hanley stated that the Department of Homeland Security and Transportation Safety Authority were recently responsible for the greatest national and airline passenger security risks since 911. He continues highlighting the FBI and the DOJ refusal to respond to former alleged criminal complaints involving United Airlines. Dr. Targeted Individuals. Dedicated to those now targeted by this system of control and oppression.
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