National Debt Crosses $14.5 Trillion, Europe Is Doing God's Work Lying About Greek Insolvency, Hypocritical Unions Get 50% Of All Obamacare Waivers, Al Gore Was 'Horrible' Science Student (LINKS)

• Europe Is Doing God's Work By Lying About Greek Insolvency - Must Read
• Obama rewards Union pals, punish foes on Obamacare (Must Read)
• Lawmakers Concerned About Ex-IMF Director's 'Golden Parachute'
• SEC: Bigger potential payouts for whistleblowers
• AIG shares drop after big offering
• Why Bernanke will be forced to institute QE3
• TSA Threatens To Cancel All Flights Out Of Texas If ‘Groping Bill’ Passed
• Can Rand Paul single-handedly cause the Patriot Act to lapse?
• ECB’s Noyer Rejects Greek Restructuring as ‘Horror:’ Transcript
• Study tells students what their major is worth in real world
• Troubled home market creates generation of renters
• UN opens probe into Japan's crippled nuke plant
• Transcript: Al Gore Got ‘D’ in ‘Natural Sciences’ at Harvard
• Palin's Secret Weapon: New Film to Premiere directed by ex-Goldman banker
• One giant debt for mankind: U.S. national deficit would reach almost to the moon if piled high in $5 bills

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Roxi Copeland - I'll Be Groped For Christmas - TSA Special

This is exceptional. Great song and better voice.

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Peter Fonda is about to get a visit from the Secret Service

Notice Nicholson's football helmet in the photo above...

• Peter Fonda calls Obama a 'traitor' over BP spill
• Peter Fonda encourages his grandchildren to take up arms against Obama

Does he think the Secret Service doesn't monitor the internet?  I love the guy but he made a huge mistake with this statement.

Snip:

“There’s no room any more for a sissy and, like I said, don’t forget that I’ve got grandsons who I’ve trained with long-distance rifles.”

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Bulletin: CNBC Anchor Mark Haines Dead At 65 (Greatest Hits Video Collection)

Mark Haines and Barney Frank battle...

(MarketWatch) — CNBC anchor Mark Haines, a constant presence on business television for more than 20 years, died suddenly Tuesday evening, the business network said on its website Wednesday morning.

He was 65 years old.

Haines died at his home, CNBC said. He helped to create the cable channel’s morning program, “Squawk Box,” and served as its founding anchor.

“He was very important to CNBC because the great danger they face is that they’ll be perceived as a cheerleader for the markets,” said Andrew Tyndall, an analyst of news broadcasts.

“The fact that he was in that prestige spot, before the market opened, to say, ‘Let’s cut through all the rah-rah stuff and find out what’s really going on,’ was very valuable to that network,” he added. “And now, without him, there’s one less person to steer CNBC away from that cheerleading tone.”

Before joining CNBC in 1989, Haines held news anchor jobs at KYW-TV in Philadelphia, WABC-TV in New York and WPRI-TV in Providence, R.I.

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WARNING: Your Cell Phone's Radiation May Be (VERY) Hazardous to Your Health

New video and research from CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta.  Don't skip this story.

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AIG, Treasury Stock Offering Prices At $29

AIG is selling 100 million shares and the Treasury Department is selling 200 million shares.  The offering is set to raise $8.7 billion. That excludes the so-called greenshoe of 45 million shares. If the underwriters take up their option to purchase all this extra stock, that would raise another $1.3 billion for the government.  AIG is using the money it raises to settle litigation from the previous decade. Treasury is using the offering to reduce its stake in AIG from over 92%.

• Billions in Stimulus Funds Paid to Tax Cheats
• CFTC charges 3 firms with oil price manipulation
• QE2 was a bust - Economic data is worse than before

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Chris Whalen On Judicial Precedent And Foreclosure Law, DSK Aides Try Bribing Victim's Family, History Of U.S. Defaults, AIG Deal Nears, Bailout For Tax Cheats, Illinois Treasurer Says 'Don't Lend To Illinois' (LINKS)

Chris Whalen On Judicial Precedent And Foreclosure Law

Hilarious - Illinois Treasurer warns bond houses: 'Don't lend to Illinois'

Cramer: Let Greece Default

Bailouts for tax cheats

Obama Adds New Position to Deal with Unfavorable Online Media

Seriously Delinquent Homeowners Undermine Hopes Of Recovery

Richmond Fed Index Goes Negative

Traders Heavily Short Treasurys Ahead of Rally - WSJ

BofA $410 million overdraft settlement wins court OK

DSK Told Maid 'Don’t You Know Who I Am?' During Alleged Attack

France: Let us jail DSK

DSK hit on 2 other female employees at Sofitel

DSK aides try to pay off accuser's family in Africa

Felix Salmon - Hidden bank fee of the day - FX edition

Ready to Short LinkedIn Stock? It Won't Be Easy, Or Cheap

Has the United States Ever Defaulted on Its Debt? - John Carney

AIG Underwriters Signal Deal May Price at Close to $30

U.S. Taxpayers Guarantee Egyptian Bonds

Belarus Just Devalued Its Currency By 56%

How a zombie virus became a big biotech business

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Bankrupt WaMu To Become $5 Billion Tax Break For Needy Hedge Funds

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Video: High School Students Confront $14.3T National Debt

SNOHOMISH, Wash. -- "It's scary" said Mayra Araujo.  "It’s huge," added Kaitlyn Everson.  The two Snohomish High School Seniors are talking about this country's national debt. They've been studying the complex and daunting subject in Ben Doucette's Business and Marketing class and they're not too happy about what they've learned.  "It's out of their control," said Doucette, "and all this spending has been done without their consent and yet they own the debt."

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• How SUVs saved Chrysler
• White House officials in Detroit for Chrysler's $5.9B repayment
• F-35 now 'unaffordable': Defense official
• Radio host says Rapture actually coming in October
• Russia says a fifth of defense budget stolen
• Pakistan returns U.S. helicopter from bin Laden raid
• GOP braces for Medicare blowback
• The 'scathing' Palin tell-all: 5 takeaways
• When Companies Refuse to Interview the Unemployed for Jobs

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BP Gets $13 Billion Tax Break For Destroying Gulf Of Mexico (Sign The Petition To Fight Back)

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• Destroying the Gulf should not be a tax write-off - Petition

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• The Photos BP Doesn't Want You To See

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Video: Going For Gold, Utah Legalizes New Currency

Video - Henry Blodget with Aaron Task

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Pawlenty: "I'm going to tell Wall Street that if I’m elected, the era of bailouts and handouts for big banks is over"

Read Pawlenty's op-ed in USA Today:

• Pawlenty: Real change is about telling hard truths

WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — Republican presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty hits the campaign trail this week with tough talk for both Wall Street and seniors, pledging an end to bailouts for big banks and changes for what he calls unsustainable entitlement programs.

“I’m going to New York City to tell Wall Street that if I’m elected, the era of bailouts and handouts for big banks is over,” wrote Pawlenty, a former governor of Minnesota. “I’m going to Florida to tell both young people and seniors that our entitlement programs are on an unsustainable path and have to be changed,” Pawlenty wrote. He also promised he’d speak “truthfully” about farm subsidies while in Iowa on Monday.

“We will grow our economy if we shrink our government.”

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Frightening Audio Of Joplin Tornado

"The video I took while at Fastrip on east 20th street. We huddled in the back of the store until the glass got sucked out , then ran into the walk in storage fridge. Sorry for the lack of visuals but the audio is pretty telling of how intense the storm was.  The tornado hits near the 2-minute mark."

Three-Quarters of Joplin, MO Destroyed...
Damage Unimaginable...
Town Unrecognizable...
Stunning Rainbow After Tornado...
Residents 70 MILES away find X-rays from hospital...
Looting in Minneapolis...

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Video: Doomsday Idiot Harold Camping Speaks

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