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www.zerohedge.com "Perhaps more to the point for TBTF, if a SIFI does fail I have little doubt that private investors will in fact bear the losses--even if this leads to an outcome that is messier and more costly to society than we would ideally like....
dandelionsalad.wordpress.com by Ellen Brown Writer, Dandelion Salad webofdebt.com April 9, 2013 Shock waves went around the world when the IMF, the EU, and the ECB not only approved but mandated the confiscation of depositor f...
blog.brazencareerist.com When my parents first announced they were taking out a life insurance policy on me, I was slightly offended. Turns out it wasn’t a cruel joke.
www.examiner.com Farmers around the country Friday expressed frustration after learning about House Resolution 193. H.R. 193 would require farmers to register their seeds with t
www.alternet.org Passive acceptance or even glorification of suffering can be adaptive when people have no choice. But why does so much religion -- particularly Catholicism -- fetishize pain?
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gizmodo.com Ah digital currency. It's all in our collective hive-mind right? Coming and going in bits and bytes. Nothing to see here. So why is a hacking process called "Bitcoin mining" using $150,000 worth of electricity a day?
www.guardian.co.uk Campaigners say that not even the US government can now stop the sale, planting, harvest or distribution of any GM seed
www.independent.co.uk Margaret Thatcher’s funeral will have a Falklands War theme, Downing Street announced today. Personnel from the Army, Royal Navy and Royal Air Force currently serving on ships and in regiments and units which played a key role...
motherboard.vice.com What the government needs, it argues, is easier access to your inbox, your Gchats, even your gaming data—and in real-time.
rt.com On top of thousands of looted or illegally obtained cultural artifacts during the war, billions of dollars have also been transferred out of “Iraq’s Central banks to US without any paper trail.” “I’m sure that everything that was stored in the...
www.commondreams.org Oklahoma grandmother Nancy Zorn, 79, locked herself to a piece of heavy machinery Tuesday morning in protest of TransCanada's Keystone XL pipeline construction, halting work on a construction site of the tar sands harbinger for several...
www.guardian.co.uk Last-ditch lobbying to sway vote in Brussels to halt use of killer nerve agents
www.csmonitor.com Peru is the first country in the Americas to ban genetically modified foods, putting its food policy closer to that of Europe, than the United States or many of its South American neighbors.
www.ynaija.com South Africa’s richest black man, Patrice Motsepe, has announced he is giving away half his wealth to improve the lives of the poor. The mining magnate said the money would be handled by the Motsepe Foundation to address education and health...
www.forbes.com The persona behind the drugs: On Silk Road's forums, the black market's libertarian founder tags his post with his character's signature motto: "As you wish..." In public, the pseudonymous Internet drug czar known as the Dread Pirate Roberts...
www.telegraph.co.uk As the Netherlands prepares for the abdication of Queen Beatrix on Tuesday, here are ten surprising facts about the House of Orange-Nassau.
www.alternet.org 25-year-old Amy Meyer has become the first person prosecuted under Utah's "ag-gag" law after filming a slaughterhouse.
www.veteranstoday.com Through a myriad of «civil society» organizations, the United States has been financing Chechen groups inside the autonomous republic, in Russia, and abroad.
www.miamiherald.com The report, much of which is blanked out, says a Saudi family that “fled” their Sarasota home shortly before 9/11 had “many connections” to people associated with the terrorist attacks.
rt.com RT is the first Russian 24/7 English-language news channel which brings the Russian view on global news.
www.reuters.com CHICAGO (Reuters) - New efforts to force labeling of foods made with genetically modified crops, including a bill introduced by U.S. lawmakers Wednesday, have struck a nerve with biotech crop developers
www.madcowprod.com The uncle of the two suspected Boston bombers in last week’s attack, Ruslan Tsarni, was married to the daughter of former top CIA official Graham Fuller.
eatlocalgrown.com Monsanto now owns 40% of the conventional seed market in the US and 20% of the worldwide market, including organics and heirlooms. It’s not terribly easy to avoid them, which is why we’ve compiled this list to help you navigate through...
gothamist.com A Bronx woman is suing the NYPD for pepper spraying her and her children in a Brooklyn subway station last summer.
