Is Your Safe Haven a House of Cards? (JPM)

Seeded on Fri Apr 9, 2010 1:18 PM EDT (fool.com)

If automatically dismissing allegations about the suppression of gold and silver prices as tinfoil-hat madness helps you to sleep better at night, then I wish you sweet dreams.

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Israeli's "Auto Kill Zone" Towers Locked and Loaded | Danger Room | Wired.com

Seeded on Tue Jan 5, 2010 9:23 PM EST (Wired News)

On the U.S.-Mexico border, the American government has been trying, with limited success, to set up a string of sensor-laden sentry towers, which would watch out for illicit incursions. In Israel, they've got their own set of border towers.

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TSA Withdraws Subpoenas Against Bloggers | Threat Level | Wired.com

Seeded on Fri Jan 1, 2010 10:25 PM EST (Wired News)

In the wake of public outcry against the Transportation Security Administration for serving civil subpoenas on two bloggers, the government agency has canceled the legal action and apologized for the strong-arm tactics agents used.... The agents left, but returned Wednesday morn …

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First U.S. Official Resigns to Protest Afghan War - Political News - FOXNews.com

Seeded on Tue Oct 27, 2009 2:37 AM EDT (FOXNews.com)

WASHINGTON -- A former Marine who fought in Iraq, joined the State Department after leaving the military and was a diplomat in a Taliban stronghold in Afghanistan has become the first U.S.

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Gunman attacks center for gay teens in Israel, killing three - Los Angeles Times

Seeded on Sat Aug 1, 2009 11:44 PM EDT (The L.A. Times)

Reporting from Jerusalem -- A gunman entered a community center for gay teenagers in Tel Aviv late Saturday and sprayed the room with automatic-rifle fire, killing three people and wounding at least 10 others in what activists called Israel's deadliest crime against homosexuals.. …

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FDA Warns of 'High Levels' of Disease-Causing Bacteria Found in Certain Hand Sanitizers - Infectious Disease - FOXNews.com

Seeded on Mon Jun 22, 2009 12:26 AM EDT (FOXNews.com)

Analyses of several samples of over-the-counter topical antimicrobial skin sanitizer and skin protectant products revealed high levels of various bacteria, including some associated with unsanitary conditions, according to the agency.

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L.A.'s medical pot dispensary moratorium led to a boom instead - Los Angeles Times

Seeded on Wed Jun 3, 2009 9:50 PM EDT (The L.A. Times)

Four years ago, when the Los Angeles City Council started to wrestle with how to control medical marijuana, there were just four known storefront dispensaries, one each in Hancock Park, Van Nuys, Rancho Park and Cheviot Hills.

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Pilot claims Air France Flight 447 was blown out of the sky by terrorists as officials investigate Argentina bomb threat

Seeded on Wed Jun 3, 2009 12:02 PM EDT (the Mail online)

Investigators are examining a bomb threat called in on a flight from Buenos Aires to Paris just days before Flight 447 disappeared over the Atlantic ocean, it has been revealed.

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Medical pot challenge declined by top court

Seeded on Tue May 19, 2009 12:17 PM EDT (The San Diego Union-Tribune)

The U.S. Supreme Court ended San Diego County's three-year legal battle against California's medical marijuana law yesterday by declining to hear the county's last appeal.

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Top Bush officials not liable for Muslims' post-Sept. 11 arrests - Los Angeles Times

Seeded on Mon May 18, 2009 4:28 PM EDT (The L.A. Times)

Reporting from Washington -- The Supreme Court today shielded two top former Bush administration officials from being sued by more than 700 Muslim men who say they were arrested, roughed up and locked in a maximum security prison after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

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New York Fed Chairman, With Ties to Goldman, Resigns - NYTimes.com

Seeded on Fri May 8, 2009 12:02 AM EDT (The New York Times)

Mr. Friedman, who led or co-led Goldman from 1990 until 1994 and remains a director, was chairman of the New York Fed at the same time.

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The Real News Network - Pardon or prosecute

Seeded on Sun Apr 26, 2009 12:51 PM EDT (therealnews.com)

Bruce Fein: The President has a duty to pardon or charge Bush/Cheney and others who broke the law. There can be no "exceptionalism" when the rule of law is broken

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A world currency moves nearer after Tim Geithner's slip - Telegraph

Seeded on Thu Mar 26, 2009 12:29 PM EDT (Telegraph)

China's Communist Party seems to fear that the Federal Reserve is orchestrating a beggar-thy-neighbour devaluation - and a disguised default on America's foreign debt - by resorting to the nuclear option of printing money to buy US Treasury bonds. China's proposal is to activate …

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US Intelligence Chief Calls Economic Crisis a Security Threat

Seeded on Tue Feb 17, 2009 8:56 PM EST (VOA News)

In his first public testimony as national intelligence chief, Dennis Blair cited the global financial crisis as the primary near-term security concern of the United States.

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LiveLeak.com - Federal Reserve Police Tells Reporter to Stop Filming

Seeded on Thu Feb 12, 2009 10:25 PM EST (liveleak.com)

On a routine "broll shoot" for a news story, I was just filming wide shots of the Federal Reserve building in Washington DC. I was on the public sidewalk, no tripod, with a medium sized camera.

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The Real News Network - Video of Madoff surfaces

Seeded on Wed Dec 17, 2008 1:29 PM EST (therealnews.com)

Video of Madoff surfaces Guardian: Global trail of victims of the man on 17th floor

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Company Throws Christmas Party for Cost Cutting Competitor

Seeded on Mon Dec 8, 2008 8:04 PM EST (solecollector.com)

It appears as though the Grinch has weaseled his way into the budgets of adidas this year, who cut their holiday parties to the tune of $6.3 Million.

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Goldman Sachs ready to hand out £7BILLION salary and bonus package... after its £6bn bail-out | Mail Online

Seeded on Mon Nov 3, 2008 2:14 AM EST (the Mail online)

Goldman Sachs is on course to pay its top City bankers multimillion-pound bonuses - despite asking the U.S. government for an emergency bail-out. The struggling Wall Street bank has set aside £7billion for salaries and 2008 year-end bonuses, it emerged yesterday.

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Reading Eagle Newspaper

Seeded on Mon Sep 29, 2008 2:30 PM EDT (hosted.ap.org)

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The House on Monday defeated a $700 billion emergency rescue package, ignoring urgent pleas from President Bush and bipartisan congressional leaders to quickly bail out the staggering financial industry.

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Officer gets probation in death of police dog

Seeded on Fri Aug 29, 2008 10:39 AM EDT (The San Diego Union-Tribune)

A San Diego police officer charged in the death of his canine partner pleaded no contest yesterday to a misdemeanor charge of animal endangerment and was ordered to pay for the dog. The officer, a 22-year veteran of the department, is accused of leaving the dog in a police cruis …

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SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Metro -- Homeowner tracks down, confronts burglar

Seeded on Sun Aug 10, 2008 12:31 PM EDT (The San Diego Union-Tribune)

SAN DIEGO – Angered that a burglar had broken into his home early Saturday, a Point Loma man tracked down the suspect nine hours later at Neiman Marcus in Fashion Valley and tackled him in a Jeep outside the store shortly after the suspect had tried to return the stolen goods.  …

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Horror on Canadian bus as man beheaded

Seeded on Fri Aug 1, 2008 11:31 AM EDT (Reuters)

WINNIPEG, Manitoba (Reuters) - A man sleeping on a Greyhound bus as it rolled across the Canadian Prairies was killed and decapitated by his seatmate as horrified passengers fled to safety in the night, witnesses and police said on Thursday.

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Statesville suspect dies

Seeded on Tue Jul 29, 2008 1:05 PM EDT (The Charlotte Observer)

A Statesville man died after being shocked multiple times by Tasers at the Iredell County jail over the weekend, sources say.

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Oxnard teen to be tried as adult in gay killing - Los Angeles Times

Seeded on Fri Jul 25, 2008 1:02 PM EDT (The L.A. Times)

A Ventura County judge says a 14-year-old charged with killing his gay classmate will be tried as an adult and, as a result, may face a life sentence.

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