Huffington Post - 11/12/13, Luke Johnson

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) warned in a speech Tuesday that the problem of banks considered "too big to fail" has only gotten worse since the 2008 financial crisis, potentially sowing the seeds of a future crisis.

"Today, the four biggest banks are 30 percent larger than they were five years ago. And the five largest banks now hold more than half of the total banking assets in the country," Warren said in a keynote address at a conference on the future of financial reform put on by the Roosevelt Institute, a think tank. "Who would have thought five years ago, after we witnessed firsthand the dangers of an overly concentrated financial system, that the 'too big to fail' problem would only have gotten worse?"

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Press TV - 11/12/13, MSM/MN/HN/HRB

Rubbish is piling up on the streets of the Spanish capital Madrid as the city’s street sweepers, as well as public park and garden workers continue their indefinite strike over proposed layoffs and wage cuts.

Unions are angered over plans by private companies that provide cleaners for the city's streets and public gardens to slash the employees’ salaries by up to 40 percent and lay off 1,135 people.

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Natural Society, By: Paul Fassa, 11/11/2013

Another effort to discount vaccinations as a source of autism has gone into research to prove defective genes as the major culprit. Some epidemiological studies based on twins with autism spectrum disorders was done as early as the mid-1970s. Since then, autism has increased 40-fold. All this from a sudden case of bad genes? This rapid autism rise has coincided with a dramatic increase of early childhood vaccination schedules over the same period, which has been an almost four-fold increase.

The gene theory does not explain how healthy babies suddenly became autistic after undergoing part of an intense series of vaccinations, some shots with multiple-vaccines, at newly born or toddler age. As a matter of fact, there is very little effort to objectively pursue the autism-vaccination connection. Gene research opposition to the gene theories of autism, or gene theories of many diseases, comes from those who consider environmental causes as primary causal factors, not vaccinations.

Spiegel Online International - 11/11/13, by Spiegel Staff