The singer of Grammy-nominated US heavy metal band As I Lay Dying has pleaded not guilty to plotting the murder of his estranged wife. Prosecutors said Tim Lambesis, 32, handed $1,000 (£650) in cash to an undercover policeman with instructions on how to kill his wife Meggan. The judge set bail at $3m (£1.9m) for [...]
April 23, 2013 – 12:10 am
A Michigan judge whose smartphone disrupted a hearing in his own courtroom has held himself in contempt and paid $25 for the infraction. Judge Raymond Voet has a posted policy at Ionia County 64A District Court stating that electronic devices causing a disturbance during court sessions will result in the owner being cited with contempt, [...]
Legislation in the name of the lead singer of Aerosmith that seeks to protect celebrities’ privacy has been passed in Hawaii. The so-called Steven Tyler Act deems it a civil violation if people take unwanted photos or videos of others in their private moments. Tyler, who is from Massachusetts, on the other side of the [...]
By DeusExMacintosh
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Posted in Funnies, Law, Media, Music, Politics, Popular culture, Privacy
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Also tagged aerosmith, america, celebrity, First Amendment, freedom of the press, hawaii, Journalism, maui, national press photographers association, paparazzi, photography, senator kalani english, senator sam slom, society of professional journalists, steven tyler, the steven tyler act, US Constitution
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December 19, 2012 – 1:01 pm
Today, as promised, I’m going to talk about Sandy Hook Elementary. I’m also not going to provide you with any easy answers or solutions. This means that if you don’t want to acknowledge the grim reality that public policy is hard, stop reading now lest you get to the end of this piece and find [...]
By skepticlawyer
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Posted in Law, Public Policy
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Also tagged 2nd Amendment, AR-15, Bill of Rights, Charlie Brooker, concealed carry, gun laws, Guy Rundle, Ilana Mercer, Newtown, Sandy Hook Elementary, statistics, Voyeurism
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August 17, 2012 – 3:35 am
Ecuador has granted asylum to Wikileaks founder Julian Assange two months after he took refuge in its London embassy while fighting extradition from the UK. It cited fears that Mr Assange’s human rights might be violated. Foreign Secretary William Hague said the UK would not allow Mr Assange safe passage out of the country. But [...]
By DeusExMacintosh
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Posted in Australia, Britain, Free Speech, Funnies, Human/Civil rights, Internet, Law, Politics, Technology
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Also tagged asylum, Ecuador, Julian Assange, sweden, WikiLeaks
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Colorado awoke to its worst mass shooting since the Columbine massacre after at least 12 people were killed and 50 injured by a lone gunman wielding tear gas and firing randomly at cinema goers at the midnight premier of the Batman movie. One traumatised eyewitness caught on camera soon after the shooting said: “There was [...]
By DeusExMacintosh
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Posted in Uncategorized
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Also tagged america, aurora, batman, cinema shooting, colorado, columbine high school, dark knight premiere, denver, gun control, james holmes, lone gunman, multiplex, shooting spree, the dark knight rises
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Who would want the global monetary system to be at the mercy of the Bank of China? Not conservative, free market types in the United States and elsewhere, one guesses. Actually, it turns out lots of them do; all the people who support some sort of return to the gold standard, who think that the [...]
By Lorenzo
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Posted in Economics, History, Public Policy
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Also tagged asset bubbles, Austrian school, Bank of China, Bank of England, Bank of France, Bank of Iran, Benjamin Strong, central banks, china, clipping, convertibility, equation of exchange, Euro, fixed exchange rates, Friedrich Hayek, George Selgin, gold, gold standard, Great Depression, India, jewellery, Marc Flandreau, real interest rates, reeded edges, silver standard, Thomas Sargent, US Federal Reserve, William Garrison, Wizard of Oz, World Gold Council, WWI
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SAN FRANCISCO _ Dressed in his trademark hoodie and jeans, Facebook Inc. co-founder Mark Zuckerberg kicked off a cross-country road show to pitch his company’s initial public stock offering. Hundreds of institutional investors stood in long lines Monday to pile into a ballroom at New York’s Sheraton Hotel to hear the billion-dollar pitch from the [...]
By DeusExMacintosh
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Posted in Economics, Entrepreneurs, Funnies, Human/Civil rights, Internet, Law, Media, Politics, Popular culture, Racism, Society, Technology
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Also tagged america, barack obama, crime, Facebook, hoodie, mark zuckerberg, social media, trayvon martin, US politics
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Barack Obama is marking the anniversary of Osama bin Laden’s death with a campaign suggesting that his Republican rival, Mitt Romney, lacks the guts to have ordered the raid that killed the al-Qaida leader. Infuriated Republicans have hit back by accusing the president of dividing America, calling the campaign “shameless” and accusing Obama of seeking [...]
By DeusExMacintosh
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Posted in Funnies, Media, Politics, Religion, Terrorism
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Also tagged america, barack obama, jimmy carter, mitt romney, Osama bin Laden, POTUS, US democratic party, US politics, US republican party
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