Truth-Out - 12/26/13, Mark Karlin
 

(Photo: SEIU International)
 

Providing additional evidence that the Obama Administration's Department of Justice (DOJ) is protecting "banks too big to fail," Pulitzer Prize winning financial reporter David Cay Johnston has revealed that the DOJ has refused to force JPMorgan Chase to comply with an ongoing investigation into the bank's possible knowledge of Bernard Madoff's fraud scheme of a few years ago.

The information obtained might reveal that the bank chose to financially benefit from criminal activity.

The Raw Story - 12/27/13, Travis Gettys
 

A homeless Wisconsin couple moved into a “tiny home” Christmas Eve they helped build with fellow Occupy Madison members.

The protest group, which grew out of the Occupy Wall Street movement to protest wealth inequality, put together teams of volunteers to build two houses using a basic blueprint that can be adapted to fit the creators’ tastes.

Video and more: RawStory.com

Herald Sun - 12/22/13, Troels Sommerville, Moorabbin Kingston Leader
 

Kingston Mayor Paul Peulich officially launched the new UFO playground at The Grange, the scene of the Westall flying saucer incident in 1966. Local schoolchildren from Westall Primary were keen to try the playground with its flying saucer theme.
Source: News Limited

A UFO-themed playground has opened at The Grange Reserve, site of the 1966 flying saucer sighting.

Kingston Mayor Paul Peulich officially launched the $300,000 redevelopment, including the spaceship shaped jungle gym, in front of a crowd that included some witnesses of the original sighting.

truthout - 12/24/13, By Kristina Chew, Care2
 

A man surveys the rubble left on the site of the former Rana Plaza garment factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Nov. 16, 2013. A coalition of four retailers, none of them American, have joined a $40 million fund to compensate victims of the building collapse which hopes to begin making payments in February 2014. (Photo: Tomas Munita / The New York Times)
 

Reuters - Joseph Menn, 12/20/12