New law would make taxpayers potentially liable for TRILLIONS in derivatives losses

© The Economic Collapse Blog If the quadrillion dollar derivatives bubble implodes, who should be stuck with the bill? Well, if the "too big to fail" banks have their way it will be you and I. Right now, lobbyists for the big Wall Street banks are pushing really hard to include an extremely insidious provision in a bill that would keep the federal government funded past the upcoming December 11th deadline.This provision would allow these big banks...

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Woman cut off from welfare payments for not reporting she was in a coma

© www.webmd.com Ohio resident Kimberly Thompson was recuperating from a month-long, medically induced coma when she was told that she'd no longer be receiving welfare payments. A letter from the county reportedly explained that because she hadn't informed them that she was in a coma, she was being kicked off of welfare.According to NBC News, Thompson, 43, who spent years scraping by while raising a teenage daughter, applied for Medicaid earlier...

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The triumph of propaganda in the wars waged by media

Why has so much journalism succumbed to propaganda? Why are censorship and distortion standard practice? Why is the BBC so often a mouthpiece of rapacious power? Why do the and the deceive their readers?Why are young journalists not taught to understand media agendas and to challenge the high claims and low purpose of fake objectivity? And why are they not taught that the essence of so much of what's called the mainstream media is not information,...

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Change in tactics? Poroshenko calls for urgent Contact Group session to achieve ceasefire

© Sputnik. Mikhail Palinchak Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has stressed that the Contact Group on Ukraine has to hold an urgent session in order for a ceasefire to be achieved in the southeast of the country by Tuesday, the official website of the Ukrainian president informs.According to the website, Poroshenko stressed "the important role of the Trilateral Contact Group and expressed hope that [Special Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office]...

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California cop is being fired for NOT using violence to resolve a situation

© Unknown Seaside, CA - A 20 year veteran of the CSU Monterey Bay police force, was given a notice of termination this week for choosing NOT to immediately resort to violent escalation during a confrontation with a suicidal student.The unidentified officer was the first one on the scene when responding to an incident involving a suicidal college student in his CSUMB dorm room in February of this year. The officer showed an heartening level of restraint...

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Russia launches new, upgraded 'wartime government HQ'

© Russia Defense MinistryNDCC war room. Computer simulation. Russia is launching a new national defense facility, which is meant to monitor threats to national security in peacetime, but would take control of the entire country in case of war.The new top-security, fortified facility in Moscow includes several large war rooms, a brand new supercomputer in the heart of a state-of-the-art data processing center, underground facilities, secret transport...

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HR 758 - An historic decision and a total news blackout

© Unknown America is on a war footing. While, a World War Three Scenario has been on the drawing board of the Pentagon for more than ten years, military action against Russia is now contemplated at an "operational level". Similarly, both the Senate and the House have introduced enabling legislation which provides legitimacy to the conduct of a war against Russia.The adoption of a major piece of legislation by the US House of Representatives on December4th...

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The rise of German imperialism and the phony "Russian Threat"

IntroductionThe principle Nazi ideological prop that secured massive financial and political support from Germany's leading industrialists was the Communist and Soviet threat. The main Nazi military drive, absorbing two-thirds of its best troops, was directed eastward at conquering and destroying Russia. The 'Russian Threat' justified Nazi Germany's conquest and occupation of the Ukraine, the Balkans, Eastern Europe and the Baltic states, with...

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New technique invented to spray solar cells on flexible surfaces

© Uniersity of Toronto Pretty soon, powering your tablet could be as simple as wrapping it in cling wrap.That's Illan Kramer's hope. Kramer and colleagues have just invented a new way to spray solar cells onto flexible surfaces using miniscule light-sensitive materials known as colloidal quantum dots (CQDs) - a major step toward making spray-on solar cells easy and cheap to manufacture. "My dream is that one day you'll have two technicians with...

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SOTT EXCLUSIVE: Terror in Chechnya, economic subterfuge, and Saudi Prince Bandar's not-so-covert war against Russia and Syria

© UnknownOn July 31, 2013 President Vladimir Putin, a strong supporter of Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad, met Saudi Arabia's crowned Prince of evil and intelligence chief Prince Bandar, after which both Moscow and Riyadh kept a lid on the substance of the talks. For a time. Only hours before Russian President Vladimir Putin's annual address before the Russian Assembly last week, a group of armed men dressed as police killed three police officers...

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'Dear John': Ukraine will no longer transport Russian gas, says Gazprom head

"Nord Stream" and a Turkey pipeline will make the transit of gas through Ukraine meaningless, announced the head of Gazprom Alexey Miller in an interview to the TV program "Vesti on Saturday with Sergey Brilev": "Yes, in fact, the role of Ukraine as a transit country is reduced to zero," - said Miller."The decision to stop the "South Stream" is a beginning of the end of our business model, when we focused on the delivery to a final consumer in...

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You shall not pass! Turkey blocks Kiev's access to U.S. gas shipments

© Bulent Kilic/AFP via Getty Images Ukraine's plan to diminish its energy dependence on Russia is adrift in the Bosporus Strait.The nation, which gets half its gas from Russia, wants to build a liquefied natural gas terminal on the Black Sea and held talks with Cheniere Energy Inc. (LNG) to import U.S. cargoes. The only path to the terminal is through Istanbul's 17-mile waterway.Turkey doesn't allow LNG shipments through the Bosporus because of...

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