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Did DOJ Ignore Trail Of Evidence In HSBC Banking Scandal?

February 10, 2015 Paul Lewis, www.theguardian.com Educate! Bank, Corruption, Law

The US government will come under intense pressure this week to explain what action it took after receiving a massive cache of leaked data that revealed how the Swiss banking arm of HSBC, the world’s second-largest bank, helped wealthy customers conceal billions of dollars of assets. The disclosure amounts to one of the biggest banking leaks in history shedding light on some 30,000 accounts holding almost $120bn (£78bn) of assets. Of those, around 2,900 clients were connected to the US, providing the IRS with a trail of evidence of potential American taxpayers who may have been hiding assets in Geneva.

Obama To Veto KXL Pipeline

February 10, 2015 Laura Barron Lopez, www.thehill.com Educate! Environment, Keystone XL, Law, Obama, Politics

President Obama is just days away from issuing the biggest veto of his tenure, with Republicans poised to send him legislation that would authorize construction of the Keystone XL pipeline. Obama’s veto — just the third of his presidency and the first since 2010 — is expected to come with little fanfare, with even opponents of the pipeline arguing the White House should avoid further angering Democrats and unions who want Keystone to be built. "We just want to see it get it rejected. Our work doesn't end with the veto, we need to make sure votes are there to sustain that veto," said Melinda Pierce, Sierra Club's legislative director.

Anti-Oil Sands Activists In The U.S. Are Getting FBI Visits

February 9, 2015 Alexandra Panetta, www.revolution-news.com Organize! Environment, FBI, Law, Oil, Tar Sands

Unexpected visitors have been dropping in on anti-oil activists in the United States — knocking on doors, calling, texting, contacting family members. The visitors are federal agents. Opponents of Canadian oil say they’ve been contacted by FBI investigators in several states following their involvement in protests that delayed northbound shipments of equipment to Canada’s oilsands. A lawyer working with the protesters says he’s personally aware of a dozen people having been contacted in the northwestern U.S. and says the actual number is probably higher. Larry Hildes says it’s been happening the last few months in Washington State, Oregon and Idaho. He says one person got a visit at work, after having already refused to answer questions.

Lancaster County Pipeline Protesters Plead Guilty To Trespassing

February 9, 2015 Marie Cusick, www.stateimpact.npr.org Resist! Energy, Environment, Law, Pennsylvania, Police

Eight protesters who were arrested for opposing an interstate natural gas pipeline in Lancaster County pleaded guilty to trespassing Thursday and each paid a $100 fine. The demonstrators were arrested January 5th after they linked arms and refused to leave a site where Oklahoma-based Williams was doing testing for its proposedAtlantic Sunrise pipeline. The protesters included members of the Northern Arawak Native American tribe who claim Williams was improperly drilling test bores on sacred grounds in Conestoga Township. The group, which calls itself the Conestoga 8, rejected a deal to have all charges dropped against them if they promised to stay off the property, which is owned by PPL.

Protest Blocks Suburban St. Louis Court

February 7, 2015 Mariah Stewart, www.huffingtonpost.com Resist! Law, Politics, Poverty

Dozens of demonstrators briefly blocked access to a municipal court in this tiny, troubled St. Louis suburb on Thursday night, protesting a local government that relies heavily on revenue from traffic tickets and municipal code violations to survive. The city of Pine Lawn, which sits on just over half a square mile of land about 10 minutes from Ferguson, has around 3,000 mostly black residents, nearly a third of whom live below the poverty line. Pine Lawn does not have enough of a tax base to survive without extracting hundreds of thousands of dollars per year from residents and drivers passing through the city. The number of warrants generated in 2013 alone surpasses the entire population of the city, and police that year issued seven tickets for every resident, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

Senator Asks FERC How They Measure Hazards

February 7, 2015 Ted Sickinger, www.oregonlive.com Organize! Congress, Law, Oil & Gas

Sen. Ron Wyden has asked federal energy regulators to provide him with information on the methods and models used to evaluate public safety hazards from potential chemical leaks at the proposed Jordan Cove Energy Project in Coos Bay. The Oregon Democrat noted in letters to the chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and the acting administrator of the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration that serious questions had been raised in public comments about the adequacy of hazard modeling for the liquefied natural gas export facility. Wyden's letter follows up on public comments filed last month by Jerry Havens, a chemical engineering professor at the University of Arkansas, and James Venart, an emeritus professor of mechanical engineering at the University of New Brunswick. Both have decades of experience as academicians in the field.

Fallout From Bibi Join Session Speech Continues To Grow

February 7, 2015 Jim Lobe, www.lobelog.com Resist! Congress, Israel, Law, Palestine

The Bibi-Boehner fiasco appears to be the gift that keeps on giving. At least, it continues to buoy the hopes of those who want the P5+1 and Iranian negotiators to forge a framework accord by the notional deadline of March 24 to be followed by a comprehensive deal on Tehran’s nuclear program by July 1. John Boehner’s unilateral invitation has served above all to persuade some nervous Democrats to rally behind Obama and his promise to veto any sanctions legislation during the ongoing negotiations. Indeed, until Boehner’s surprise announcement— which, incidentally, was extended (apparently falsely) “on behalf of the bipartisan leadership of the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate” — Sens. Mark Kirk and Robert Menendez had a shot at peeling off enough Democrats to get a sanctions bill through the Senate even before March.

Can Energy Company Go On Private Land Without Permission?

February 7, 2015 Rachel Smith, www.newsadvance.com Resist! Corporatism, Land Rights, Law

The fate of a lawsuit filed by five Nelson County residents against Dominion Transmission remains unknown after a Thursday morning hearing in U.S. District Court in Harrisonburg. The lawsuit, filed in September, asks the court to declare unconstitutional a Virginia statute relevant to the Atlantic Coast Pipeline. Section 56-49.01 of the Virginia Code allows natural gas companies to survey private property as long as previous notification has been served. Dominion asked the court in November to dismiss the suit, and that request is what Thursday's arguments focused on. On one side of the court room sat mostly Dominion representatives scattered in the pews, on the opposite side sat Nelson County residents who filled every inch of the section.

Bratton Wants Resisting Arrest To Be A Felony

February 6, 2015 The Law, www.animalnewyork.com Educate! Law, NYPD, police brutality

The NYPD does not want an apology. It has, instead, set its sights on a much bigger concession. A prize that gives the NYPD what it loves best: totalitarian power and felony arrest statistics. The nation’s largest police force now wants the mayor and our representatives in Albany to get down on their knees, beg forgiveness, and force the populace to learn to respect the boys in blue. Theinsanity and pure chutzpah of demanding that the crime of resisting arrest become a felony (a felony!) is the perfect example of an organization completely out of touch with reality and the rule of law. The language used in every complaint in the five boroughs goes something like this: the defendant resisted arrest in that the defendant flailed their arms and refused to be handcuffed.

230 Egyptian Activists Get Life Sentences

February 5, 2015 Al Akhbar, www.english.al-akhbar.com Resist! Egypt, Human Rights, Law

An Egyptian court sentenced prominent activist Ahmed Douma along with 229 other anti-Mubarak activists to life in prison on Wednesday after the court held hearings for 269 people connected to “the cabinet headquarters events” of December 2011, judicial sources said. Douma and 268 others were accused of staging “riots” outside central Cairo's cabinet headquarters and assaulting policemen during a sit-in back in December 2011 against a decision by Egypt's then-ruling military council to appoint as prime minister Kamal al-Ganzouri, who had served in this position under ousted autocrat Hosni Mubarak. In addition to “rioting,” the activists were accused of possessing white arms like knives, attacking police officers and armed forces, burning the al-Majmaa al-Alami and attacking other government buildings including the cabinet headquarters.

Activist Banned From FERC

February 5, 2015 Ted Glick, www.chesapeakeclimate.org Resist! FERC, Law, Oil & Gas

Like the vast majority of people in this country, I knew nothing about the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission until maybe 2-3 years ago. Since then, through my CCAN work fighting the plans for the Cove Point LNG export terminal at Cove Point, Md., through my work in New Jersey fighting a compressor station and pipeline going through the county where I live, and through my work in the mushrooming movement in the Marcellus Shale region and elsewhere against fracked gas infrastructure and exports, I have unfortunately learned a great deal about FERC. FERC is, quite simply, a rubber stamp for the gas industry.

This Man Faces Life In Prison For Rapping

February 5, 2015 David Loy, www.aclu.org Educate! Free Speech, Law, Music, Racial Justice

I've heard free speech isn't free, and Brandon Duncan, who raps as Tiny Doo, has learned that the hard way. Until recently, Mr. Duncan spent eight months in jail on "gang conspiracy" charges arising from several shootings in San Diego from May 2013 to February 2014. Prosecutors admit he wasn't at the scene of the crimes, and they have no evidence linking him to the shootings. Mr. Duncan, who has no criminal record, also says he had no knowledge of the crimes. But the district attorney charged him all the same because he raps about shootings. That's not only absurd; it's a blatant violation of the First Amendment.

Idle No More Message Still Resounds Across Canada

February 4, 2015 The Sheaf, www.thesheaf.com Resist! Canada, First Nations, Indigenous Rights, Law, Media

Sylvia McAdam and Jessica Gordon are remarkable women. They, with intrepid co-founders Nina Wilson and Sheelah Mclean, created Idle No More in 2012 to protest Bill C-45, the Harper government’s omnibus budget bill. Amongst other things, the bill aimed to amend the Navigable Waters Protection Act, reducing environmental protection for waterways across Canada. The movement’s largely indigenous followers marched, rallied and peacefully blockaded for months all over Canada, dominating national and international headlines. Ultimately, Bill C-45 was passed, but Idle No More is still widely seen as a game-changer within Canada regarding indigenous issues due to the youth of the movement and its’ use of social media.

Kinder Morgan Stops Court Action Against Burnaby Protesters

February 4, 2015 The Canadian Press, www.huffingtonpost.ca Resist! Canada, Law, Oil & Gas

Kinder Morgan says it will not continue court action against protesters who demonstrated against the proposed expansion of a pipeline while survey crews drilled on Burnaby Mountain. The company has filed a discontinuance of its B.C. Supreme Court civil lawsuit against five people who protested at the site last November and December. It says it approached all the defendants last month and offered to stop its proceedings and that two of the defendants agreed but discontinuing the court action doesn't require agreement from all the activists. In late November, a judge tossed out civil contempt charges against dozens of activists who were arrested after Kinder Morgan admitted it provided incorrect GPS co-ordinates when it sought an injunction.

The FBI Invents Some Plots & Ignores Others In War On Freedom

February 3, 2015 Derek Royden, www.occupy.com Educate! FBI, Law, Terrorism

After Sept. 11, 2001, the FBI was forced to re-prioritize, making counter-terrorism the Bureau’s main focus. More than 1,800 agents, almost a third of the total dealing with criminal cases from organized crime to insurance fraud, were transferred to terrorism and intelligence duties in the aftermath of the attacks. What 9/11 did, among other things, was to create a need for proof, via arrests, that the new State focus on terrorism was showing results. We’ve all seen the headlines from mainstream media sources after arrests were made and press conferences were given by high level officials announcing another disrupted “terror plot.” Yet, when one investigates these cases, as many journalists and writers in the alternative press have done, we see the score isn't as it all appears – and when compared with similar cases where terror charges were not brought, a disturbing picture emerges.

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