Mumia Abu Jamal - Tea Parties And Protests As the Occupy Wall street movement gains steam and inspires similar protests worldwide, defenders of the so-called Tea Party have decried the Occupation activists as "law breakers" "radicals", and even "un-American" (unlike themselves, of course). ... Read more...
From gagging orders to inciting rioting, and libel suits and defamation, Twitter can be a minefield for legal implications, according to new research. Amid the super-injunction controversy earlier this year, 68 percent Twitter users in the UK have “little or no awareness of their legal responsi... Read more...
A British writer struggles to fit in at a high-profile magazine in New York. Based on Toby Young's memoir "How to Lose Friends & Alienate People". Director: Robert B. Weide Writers: Peter Straughan (screenplay), Toby Young (book) Stars: Simon Pegg, Kirsten Dunst and Megan Fox Read more...
Americans have watched in astonishment, along with the rest of the world, at the violence that's erupted in England as young, disaffected Britons take to the streets to vent their rage. But could it happen in the United States as it grapples with a 25 per cent youth unemployment rate an... Read more...
The British government announced plans to modernize and reform U.K. copyright law following up on recommendations contained in the Hargreaves report commissioned by British Prime Minister David Cameron and a technical review by telecoms regulator Ofcom. The most significant decision is the scrapp... Read more...
Following LulzSec’s defacement of The Sun on Monday, the FBI swooped down on Anonymous and arrested 16 people in several states for allegedly attacking PayPal. A federal indictment against 14 of the arrested accuses them of launching a Ddos (denial of service) against PayPal after it closed... Read more...
A federal judge has denied Google's request to dismiss several lawsuits accusing the company of illegally collecting private information from open Wi-Fi networks. The ruling, filed in California court Wednesday, is a setback for Google as it tries to put its "Street View" debacle behind it. In M... Read more...
Oh say can you see…the end of American independence? This Fourth of July, the United States celebrates its 235th year of freedom from British rule. That’s emancipated us from yeasty marmite, pesky ‘u’s in our ‘neighbors’ and from having to ask God to “save the Queen”. Phew.... Read more...
Pupils at St. Ignatius primary school in Tottenham, London, have been taking part in a knife-crime project following the death of a former student Photograph: Teri Pengilley Fran Abrams, The Guardian In a classroom at St Ignatius Roman Catholic primary school in Tottenham, London, Alvin C... Read more...