Chinese National Pleads Guilty of Selling $100 Million in Pirated US Software.
A Chinese national has pleaded guilty to charges related to selling illegally copied American software worth more than 0 million. U.S. officials say it is one of the most significant cases of copyright...
View ArticleUK Government Prosecutes Farmer For Selling Raw Milk
Another salvo in the war against raw milk. Despite the fact that they are ubiquitous in Europe, the UK government is prosecuting raw milk supplier Hook & Son for selling raw milk from vending...
View ArticleThe gold rush begins for fragments of Russian meteor selling for up to...
‘Meteor hunters’ are out in force as collectors offer large sums WT news feed
View ArticleHackers Black Market: Selling System Flaws And Fixes To The Highest Bidder
In the U.S., weapon manufacturers such as Raytheon and Northrop Grumman have opened “offensive computer security” departments. Several American companies have specialized in this field as well. The...
View ArticleFerrets Sold As Toy Poodles: Argentina Pet Dealers Reportedly Selling Weasels...
Apparently Argentinian bazaar salesmen are passing off ferrets on steroids as toy poodles — and people believe them. WT news feed
View ArticleRep. Pete King: Merchants Selling Ball Bearings, Beauty Products ‘Should...
Rep. Pete King (R-N.Y.), a member of both the House Homeland Security Committee and the House Intelligence Committee, wants retailers to tell police about people who buy innocuous items that could be...
View ArticleJames McCormick guilty of selling fake bomb detectors.
A millionaire businessman who sold fake bomb detectors to countries including Iraq and Georgia, knowing they did not work, has been convicted of fraud….Police said the devices, modelled on a novelty...
View ArticlePennsylvania judge sentenced to 28 years in prison for selling teens to...
In the private prison industry the more time an inmate spends in a facility, the more of a profit is reaped from the state. Ciavearella was a figurehead in a conspiracy in the state of Pennsylvania...
View ArticleHold the Phone — Tesla Didn’t Make a Profit Selling Cars
So why did Tesla report a paper profit? Because of accounting rules and nonsustainable government money. WT news feed
View ArticlePolice selling guns from buyback program.
A police department in the Chicago suburbs said some of the guns obtained from a buyback program will be sold to a pair of licensed dealers. WT news feed
View ArticleJPMorgan Is Selling The Building That Houses Its Gold Vault
On the surface, there is nothing spectacular about the weekend news that JPMorgan is seeking to sell its 1 Chase Manhattan Plaza office building. After all, the former headquarters of Chase Manhattan...
View ArticleSelling Low and Buying High: Hedging by the Gold Miners Part II
In Part I, I made several points. First, that in the last gold bear market, miners capitulated after prices were low and falling for a long time. Then they sold massive amounts of their future...
View ArticleNew TSA “Precheck Program” is selling us back our rights for $80 a year.
More than 15 million passengers have gone through the expedited screening since it began in October 2011. But 1.8 million travelers fly each day, so Pistole is trying to expand participation in...
View ArticleGTA V makes $1 billion in three days, may be fastest selling entertainment...
Calling Grand Theft Auto V one of 2013′s most anticipated video game releases would be a massive understatement, but if you wanted some sort of monetary proof of the claim, Take-Two interactive has...
View ArticleRegulator sues 13 banks in Libor rate-fixing case for selling nearly $2.4...
The US credit union regulator has filed an anti-trust lawsuit against 13 major international banks as part of the global crackdown in the Libor rate-rigging scandal. BlackListedNews.com
View ArticleGold Retraces “Stop Logic” Selling Fury As Equity Hopes Fade
With the cash bond market closed, the indicator of choice (short-term T-Bills) remains absent from view but it is clear from the equity market’s reaction (plunging back to T-Bill reality from Friday)...
View ArticleFisker files for Bankruptcy, hopes selling company will restart Karma sales
The writing has been on the walls for awhile, but now the scrawlings read true: Fisker Automotive has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. For almost a year, the company’s been sliding down a slope of...
View ArticleJUDGE GIVEN 28 YEARS FOR SELLING KIDS TO PRIVATE PRISONS
This one may not be of interest to many people, but to me it is, as I once knew someone incarcerated in one of these monstrous private prisons, who required life-sustaining medicines, which, of course,...
View Article‘Data brokers’ selling personal info of rape victims to marketers – report
“Data brokers” track, categorize and sell personal health information for marketing use, a new US Senate report reveals. Data groupings include rape victims and HIV-positive individuals, those with...
View ArticleTech-Novelty: Drone ‘robo-agents’ selling homes from the sky
These drones, much closer to remote-controlled planes than to the unmanned aircraft used in warfare, have captured the views from a Hamptons compound as well as the carvings on a Greek Revival...
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