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Spain Is Doomed As Unemployment Approaches 30%

Unemployment In Spain Hits New Record High 27.2%

Canadian bank deposits safe under bail-in, but no guarantee (Watch out...)

Spain: The 2 Scariest Unemployment Charts Of All Time - The Atlantic

Greece Starts Firing Govt Workers For First Time In 135 Years (Say what?)

French jobless claims hit all-time high | Reuters

EU pours millions into groups seeking STATE control of press - Telegraph

Spain Can End Its Crucifixion By Leaving The EU – Commentary By Ambrose Evans

Obama’s Budget SAVES The Pentagon - Businessweek

USDA: We Don't Check Immigration Status For Food Stamps

Immigration Bill Contains Free Taxpayer-Funded 'Marco Rubio Phones' (Must read)

UPDATE: Rubio Responds To Criticism On Marco Phones

Dianne Feinstein's Dirty Business as Usual at California High Speed Rail (Must read)

World's Richest Man Targeted By Congress For $2 Billion In Phones For Poor

Congress And Aides May Get Obamacare Exemption (Outrageous!)

What Went Wrong Iin West Texas — And Where Were The Regulators? - ProPublica

Defense Secretary Hagel cancels new military medal for drone and cyber warriors

Gallup Poll: Only 4% of Americans Think Gun Control is an Important Problem

New York Times Admits Breitbart Was Right About Pigford Case (Massive corruption)

One Giant Leap For Mankind: The $20 Billion Quest For Limitless Nuclear Fusion

In a Cyber War Is It OK to Kill Enemy Hackers? | Big Think

Google Forbidding Users From Reselling, Loaning Google Glass To Friends | Wired.com

Is There Gold Hidden In Your 401(k)?

Women Mistakenly Shot In Christopher Dorner Manhunt To Get $4.2 Million

24 IRS workers charged with fraud on welfare, food stamps, jobless and housing benefits

Paul Hogan, ‘Crocodile Dundee’ Actor, Loses $34 Million From Secret Swiss Account

How The CIA Helped Disney Conquer Florida - The Daily Beast (Must Read)

Curt Schilling’s Delusions And Rhode Island’s Regret - NYTimes (Must Read)

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Largest Dutch bank defaults on physical gold deliveries to customers

http://www.examiner.com/article/largest-dutch-bank-defaults-on-physical-gold-deliveries-to-customers

ABN AMRO, the largest Dutch bank in the Eurozone, issued a letter to their gold contract customers of failure of delivery, and instead will pay account holders in a paper currency equivalent to the current spot value of the metal.

From April 3 - Just found this

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10 Most Memorable Moments in 116 Years of the Boston Marathon

http://espn.go.com/sports/endurance/story/_/id/9076078/boston-marathon-doug-williams-scans-race-116-years-ids-10-most-memorable-moments

Written the day before the bombings. Interesting stuff.

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Over at Bloomberg, Mark Gimein calls Bitcoin — yes, Bitcoin — an “environmental disaster.” Why? Because all that processing power used to mine for new Bitcoins requires a staggering amount of energy:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/04/12/what-bitcoin-teaches-us-about-the-internets-energy-use/

Very interesting

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Koch Block: Hacker charged with shutting down billionaires’ website

http://rt.com/usa/anonymous-koch-wisconsin-rosol-998/

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Comprehensive List Of GMO Products

http://shiftfrequency.com/comprehensive-list-of-gmo-products/

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An astonishing 90 million people absent from the US labor force

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/04/05/us-usa-economy-participation-idUSBRE9340WL20130405

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Hijackers in 1972 had airplane in nosedive heading for U.S. nuclear reactor

“A very, very scary situation” - Energy Official

http://enenews.com/book-hijackers-had-airplane-in-nosedive-heading-for-u-s-nuclear-reactor-a-very-very-scary-situation-energy-official

Some interesting history

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History of Terrorist Plots Hatched by the F.B.I.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/29/opinion/sunday/terrorist-plots-helped-along-by-the-fbi.html?pagewanted=all&_r=1&

Great read from the NYT

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The World's Most Powerful Mercenary Armies

http://www.businessinsider.com/most-powerful-mercenary-armies-2013-4?op=1#ixzz2RKnumiBH

Good slideshow all on 1 page

RECOMMENDED

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10 investing rules for the coming bond crash - Paul Farrell

http://www.marketwatch.com/Story/story/print?guid=A8DB774E-AC52-11E2-BA04-002128040CF6

Warning: Your bond funds could lose 25%

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Russia Wiretapped Boston Bombing Suspect, Recorded Conversation With Mother

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/27/russia-wiretap-bombing-suspect_n_3171102.html

WASHINGTON — Russian authorities secretly recorded a telephone conversation in 2011 in which one of the Boston bombing suspects vaguely discussed jihad with his mother, officials said Saturday, days after the U.S. government finally received details about the call.

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Legality and Secrecy of Drone Killings

In a letter sent to President Obama this week, the nation’s leading human rights organizations questioned the legal basis for targeted killing and called for an end to the secrecy surrounding the use of drones.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/13/us/politics/rights-groups-question-legality-of-targeted-killing.html?src=recg

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Nelson Castro's life of crime primed him for a career in politics

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nelson-casto-crimes-prepped-politics-article-1.1308356#ixzz2PiESu4iF

The Bronx state assemblyman's corruption scandal proves politics can sink to new lows, as politicians with rap sheets are allowed to work in Albany just to catch other crooked pols.

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Jihadists of Iraq (41 pics on 1 page)

http://www.themysteryworld.com/2013/04/jihadists-of-iraq-41-pics.html

Intense photos

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Jim Rogers On The Pollution of Chinese Cities

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jb_ktjob7J0

Interesting thoughts. Runs 1 minute.

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Nun pleads guilty to felony voter fraud; escapes prison

http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20130416/NEWS0107/304160065/Nun-pleads-guilty-voter-fraud-escapes-prison

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Former Credit Suisse Executive Pleads Guilty to Inflating Value of Mortgage Bonds

http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2013/04/12/ex-credit-suisse-executive-pleads-guilty-to-inflating-value-of-mortgage-bonds/?src=recg

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(Reuters) - Casino magnate Sheldon Adelson's reference to triad organized crime gangs in testimony in a lawsuit has hit a raw nerve in Macau, the Chinese boomtown that his Las Vegas Sands Corp helped transform from a gangland haven into a $38 billion gambling capital.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/04/14/us-sands-macau-idUSBRE93D02I20130414

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Introducing Ripple, a Bitcoin Copycat

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-04-11/introducing-ripple-a-bitcoin-copycat

If you can use Bitcoin, or even understand why it has any value, you’re in a small minority. There are all sorts of aspects to the “math-based” virtual money that make it impractical for most people to use in everyday transactions, but its proponents are fanatical believers in its potential.

Now some of Bitcoin’s earliest evangelists and supporters have created what they say is a Bitcoin for the rest of us—another digital currency, called Ripple, that, unlike Bitcoin, transfers easily into and out of other currencies from around the world.

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Why Rescue Fragile Banks? Outsource Them Instead

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-04-07/why-rescue-fragile-banks-outsource-them-instead.html

By Joshua Rosner

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Nice find DB! I could smell this one coming regarding California high speed rail....

"Both questions have the same answer: Richard Blum, the husband of California senator Diane Feinstein.

So, who won the contract? Blum, of course, as the principle owner of Tutor Perini, the lead firm in the three-firm consortium selected by the California High Speed Rail Authority.

Yes, Diane, it really does look that bad to us little people."

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Same goes for the gutted STOCK act. Congress loves insider trading.

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'Missiles fired at' Russian plane with 159 passengers onboard flying over Syria

http://rt.com/news/rockets-russian-plane-syria-575/

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US Navy experimenting with drones and blimps to fight Caribbean drug smugglers

http://www.theverge.com/2013/4/28/4278802/us-navy-testing-drones-blimps-caribbean-drug-smuggling

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WASHINGTON — It took only about five minutes for the market to tank and rebound after a group hacked the Associated Press’ Twitter feed to put out bogus information — and now the feds are taking a longer look to find out who got rich during the chaos.

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/feds_eye_ap_hoax_profits_NwLFuxUNwaKcfaDirSCl0L

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American 747 Cargo Jet Crashes In Afghanistan, Killing 7

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/aircraft-crashes-base-afghanistan

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REPORT: Israel Air Force Flew Into Syria And Bombed Chemical Weapons Plant

http://www.businessinsider.com/report-israeli-bombed-syrian-chemical-weapons-plant-2013-4#ixzz2RsvMFvcq

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An unhackable, uncrackable iPhone messaging app?

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/technology/willardfoxton2/100009104/an-unhackable-uncrackable-iphone-messaging-app-if-this-is-for-real-the-government-needs-to-pay-attention/

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CISPA godfather claims Anonymous is after him

http://rt.com/usa/cispa-author-anoonymous-579/

A co-author of the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act says the hacktivist group Anonymous threatened him and others members of Congress on account of their support of CISPA.

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Australia's central bank is gearing up to invest a slice of its foreign currency reserves in Chinese government bonds. "This decision by the RBA represents the first time that the RBA will have invested directly in a sovereign bond market of an Asian country other than Japan," observed the bank's deputy governor Philip Lowe.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-04-24/reserve-bank-to-buy-chinese-bonds-for-reserves/4649402

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Toledo, Ohio - Welcome to America's 11th most-miserable city

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSqoZlCRXBY

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Cops confiscate 2-pound joint

http://www.upi.com/blog/2013/04/23/Cops-confiscate-2-pound-joint/1211366717008/

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MASS Welfare Benefits for family of bombing suspects likely exceeded $100,000

http://www.wcvb.com/news/local/metro/hearing-set-to-look-at-tsarnaev-family-welfare-benefits/-/11971628/19933058/-/format/rsss_2.0/-/k2tsc4/-/index.html

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Tsarnaev's body is unclaimed. Department of Public Safety spokesman Terrel Harris says every case is different and there's no set amount of time the medical examiner's office will keep an unclaimed body.

http://www.wcvb.com/news/local/metro/tamerlan-tsarnaev-cause-of-death-found-not-released/-/11971628/19942794/-/ibpv1l/-/index.html

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A Battered Dream, Then a Violent Path

BOSTON — It was a blow the immigrant boxer could not withstand: after capturing his second consecutive title as the Golden Gloves heavyweight champion of New England in 2010, Tamerlan Anzorovich Tsarnaev, 23, was barred from the national Tournament of Champions because he was not a United States citizen.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/28/us/shot-at-boxing-title-denied-tamerlan-tsarnaev-reeled.html?smid=tw-share&pagewanted=all

New profile from the NYT explaining what might have triggered the radicalization of bombing suspect. According to the authors, it started when his boxing career ended.