by Rudy | Nov 27, 2016 | Justice, Justice 2015
$5M Jury Award for One Foreclosure Fraud Makes U.S. Punishment Look Trivial by David Dayen Posted December 20, 2015 A Texas jury’s recent decision to award over $5 million in damages and fees for the fraudulent foreclosure of a single home suggests that the big...
by Rudy | Nov 27, 2016 | Justice, Justice 2015
Court Ruling Against Chicago Sheriff Proves Thuggish Anti-WikiLeaks Blockade Was Unconstitutional by Glenn Greenwald Posted December 18, 2015 The most notorious, most dangerous case was in late 2010, when Joe Lieberman blatantly abused his power as chairman of the...
by Rudy | Nov 27, 2016 | Justice, Justice 2015
Facebook Caught Secretly Lobbying for Privacy Destroying “Cyber Security” Bill by Michael Krieger Posted December 12, 2015 There’s a privacy destroying bill moving through Congress called the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act, or CISA, and...
by Rudy | Nov 27, 2016 | Justice, Justice 2015
Whistle-blower intimidation: U.S. freezes bank accounts and credit cards of former Air Force drone operators by William N. Grigg Posted December 6, 2015 For having the courage to come forward and expose the drone program for the indiscriminate murder that it is, 4...
by Rudy | Nov 27, 2016 | Justice, Justice 2015
Fractional-Reserve Banking is Pure Fraud, Part I by Jeff Nielson Posted November 25, 2015 This is a commentary which should never have needed to be written. What is euphemistically called “fractional-reserve banking” is obvious fraud, and obvious crime. By...
by Rudy | Nov 27, 2016 | Justice, Justice 2015
Arbitration Everywhere, Stacking the Deck of Justice By Jessica Silver-Grennberg and Robert Gebeloff Posted November 19, 2015 On Page 5 of a credit card contract used by American Express, beneath an explainer on interest rates and late fees, past the details about...