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So you think your money is safe? Let's examine why that assumption could cost you all or part of your savings. The MF Global losses, the Cyprus confiscations, the Sentinel case, the FDIC/BOE Joint Paper, the plans in the European Union, Canada, New Zealand, and Spain to raid private accounts, and finally the information in this article should be raising all sorts of red flags.
The unrelenting warrior Obama tends to Wall Street while the people struggle amidst a flat economy and a polluted landscape. He's reminding us of Bush.
Republicans and Democrats can't agree on anything -- and they like it that way. But now they agree that Edward Snowden's a traitor? Something's fishy.
The United States is to officially begin arms shipments to Syria, after months of doing so through third parties, such as Saudi Arabia and Qatar. The Obama administration cited unsubstantiated US and French claims that pro-Assad forces have used chemical weapons such as sarin on 10 separate occasions to claim that a "red line" has been crossed justifying an open policy of arming the opposition.
The decades-long effort to privatize public services and assets is hitting some bumps, with state and local governments reconsidering whether for-profit companies should be allowed to indiscriminately profit off of taxpayer dollars with limited accountability.
An analysis of what the Snowden affair really tells us about America's standing among the nations of the world.
Bad is good and good is bad. When the economic data comes in below expectations, stocks rise because traders know the Fed's trillion dollar stimulus program will continue ad infinitum. And when the data comes in above expectations, then--watch out-- because markets will tumble as traders worry that the $85 billion per month liquidity injections will be curtailed or terminated altogether.
"This must be a nation where people have a voice, [and] we don't have a voice anymore"; so said a Brazilian protester quoted in the Guardian. This comment could so easily have been made by a European or an American.
By Richard (RJ) Eskow
Believe It or Not! -- 13 Mindblowing Facts About America's Tax-Dodging Corporations 
The "chained CPI" cut, proposed by President Obama and supported by Republicans, is projected to "save" a total of $122 billion to $130 billion over the same time period by denying benefits to seniors and disabled people. It's true. "Serious" politicians and pundits are demanding that ordinary people sacrifice earned benefits, while at the same time allowing corporations to avoid more than 10 times as much in taxes.
Since Glenn Greenwald revealed the existence of the NSA domestic surveillance program, he and whistleblower Edward Snowden have come in for a series of ugly attacks.
This is the first post in the series "Why Everything You Know about Your 'Self' Is Wrong." The series explores how our understanding of selfhood affects our sense of individuality, our interpersonal relationships, and our politics.
Haiti is not the only country that has been negatively impacted by aid. This article tells how the system works to favor big corporations.
By Patricia Johnson
Should Limits Be Placed on the Number of Organ Transplants an Individual Receives in their Lifetime? 
The June 12, 2013 double lung transplant for Sarah Murnaghan failed, therefore, her name was added to the transplant list again, and the young lady received a second double lung transplant on June 15, 2013.
The suffering of the Palestinians is never more than "minutes" from most Israeli backyards, and it now and then violently boomerangs back on Israeli Jews. Nonetheless, a kind of contrived, willful ignorance does come into play. One can be raised in ignorance and educated to a view of history that eliminates others' suffering as well as one's role in causing it. The Israelis have made an art of this process.
Both the city of Dallas and some in the research community wish to control the message of JFK's murder.
M. E. Thomas, author of Confessions of a Sociopath, is a pseudonym for a woman who reports that she is in her early thirties, a law professor and former law firm attorney. The publisher claims this is the first book written as a memoir, by a sociopath. The book reports that she was tested by a psychologist who determined she meets the criteria for being a psychopath.
Qatar is using a shadowy arms network to move shoulder-fired missiles to Syria, ignoring American warnings that they could fall into terrorist hands. The missiles, American officials warned, could one day be used by terrorist groups, some of them affiliated with Al Qaeda, to shoot down civilian aircraft.
By Steve Consilvio
Alternative Economics 101: Chapter 4: What is a Inflation? - TAX Your Imagination! 
Different theories regarding inflation are debunked by a simple mathematical observation.
By RT TV
Greenwald On "Coming" Leak: NSA Can Obtain One Billion Cell Phone Calls A Day, Store Them And Listen 
Greenwald called Friday's scandal over the US army's blocking of the Guardian website a prize of "a significant level above" a Pulitzer of a Peabody, pointing out the seeming contradiction that soldiers fighting for the country were considered mature and responsible enough to put their lives on the line, but clearly weren't "mature" enough to be exposed to the same information that the rest of the world was accessing.
The United States has bugged European Union offices and gained access to EU internal computer networks, according to secret documents cited in a German magazine, the latest in a series of exposures of alleged US spy programs. Der Spiegel quoted from a September 2010 "top secret" US National Security Agency (NSA) document that it said whistleblower Edward Snowden had taken with him, and the magazine's journalists had seen in part. The document outlines how the NSA bugged offices and spied on EU internal computer networks in Washington and at the United Nations, not only listening to conversations and phone calls, but also gaining access to documents and emails.
US vice-president Joe Biden has asked Ecuador to turn down an asylum request from National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden, the country's president said Saturday. Rafael Correa said he had a "friendly and very cordial" conversation with Biden, and told the vice-president that Ecuador hadn't sought to be put in the situation of deciding whether to harbor an American fugitive. Correa said Ecuador can't consider the asylum request until Snowden is on Ecuadorean soil.
(Washington, DC) -- National issues strategist Robert Weiner, a former White House
Obama was elected promising to work for a post-partisan society. Partisan Democrats are so busy defending his record on issues where he has differed from Republicans that they won't look at areas where they agree but should not, like arming terrorists from Libya to Syria.
The controversy over Paula Deen is important because it reveals that we are not living in a post-racial world. Racism is leaked occasionally yet remains alive undercover today.
The politics only gets worse if the goal is to cut rather than preserve the Social Security and Medicare programs. It will almost certainly be much more difficult politically to cut Medicare and Social Security benefits in 10 years than it is today.
By Dave Lindorff
Biden/Obama full-court press on Snowden is a bad joke: The Real Traitors to America are in Washington and New York 
The US is going after the wrong guy in Snowden -- the real traitors to America are here at home living high. Meanwhile, the US is harboring convicted Ecuadoran criminals, says TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff
By earl ofari hutchinson
America's Shameful Treatment of Mandela Still Lingers During his trip to South Africa, President Obama graciously and reverentially praised Nelson Mandela as a leader who inspired people around the world and that included himself. This was more than just praise for one of the planet's most respected leaders, the man Obama called by his traditional tribal (and affectionate) name Madiba.
If it doesn't matter to you (1) that your government can maintain a massive data bank on your life and the lives of everyone you know, and (2) that there is no effective control on how the government uses its data, and (3) that your government lies about its capabilities, then there's no point in reading further.
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I believe the wild horses of the West are beautiful. They are also a part of Americana. Sadly, not everyone agrees. For years now they have been rounded up by the cruel BLM helicopters. They have also been sold for slaughter to Mexico and Canada. This will stop if we get passed the SAFE Act. Please care and help.
Former Peace Corps volunteer Will Ruddick and several residents of Bangladesh, Kenya, face a potential seven years in prison after developing a cost-effective way to alleviate poverty in Africa's poorest slums. Their solution: a complementary currency issued and backed by the local community. The Central Bank of Kenya has now initiated charges of forgery.
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A New Mexico meat plant received federal approval on Friday to slaughter horses for meat, a move that drew immediate opposition from animal rights group and will likely be opposed. Horse meat cannot be sold as food in the United States, but it can be exported. Valley Meat would be the first meat plant to be allowed to slaughter horses since Congress banned it in 2006.
Obama's first visit to South Africa as president is going ahead as planned despite the frenzy of anxiety and attention around Mandela's condition. On Saturday Obama and his wife, Michelle, did not call on Mandela in hospital out of deference to his "peace and comfort", but did meet some members of his family for about half an hour at the Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory in Johannesburg.
Peter Lee's succinct analysis of the problem that Edward Joseph Snowden's revelations (by no means the first such) of NSA (and GCHG and ...) snooping represents for the US government and how poorly they - and for the most part, the corporate media in North America and Europe - have handled the issue is a must read....
Last week, the radical right wing of the U.S. Supreme Court drove a truck bomb into one of the pillars of the civil rights revolution, the Voting Rights Act. Writing for the majority, Chief Justice John Roberts declared that its strict enforcement standards were antiquated, a throwback to a time when Jim Crow roamed the land. He didn't quite declare racism dead, but he may as well have done so. He seems to think that the law has succeeded so brilliantly that its tough oversight of certain states, mostly in the South, is no longer necessary. But it is
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