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Dimmed excellence: 'American advantages serve those who can afford them'

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RT.com
Published: 31 July, 2012, 13:50
Reuters/Shannon Stapleton

The concept of “American exceptionalism,” which traditionally places the US ahead of the rest of the industrialized world, should be dramatically reconsidered as the health and wellbeing of US citizens are sacrificed in the name of profit.

­This is according to Dr. Howard Steven Friedman, a leading UN health economist and statistician, and author of the book ‘The Measure of a Nation.’

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Knight Capital Debacle: The Latest High-Frequency Nightmare -- Regulators, You Paying Attention Yet?

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Chief financial writer, The Huffington Post
Posted: 08/02/2012 11:52 am

Maybe this is the fastest way to get high-frequency trading robots to stop ruining our stock market: Have them destroy each and every trading company that operates them.

It might take that sort of carnage to get the attention of market regulators, who have done little to stop the freakish market meltdowns, from the Flash Crash to the Facebook IPO, that have made investors hate the stock market forever.

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80% of Spaniards mistrustful of PM for economic recovery

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PressTV
Sun Jul 29, 2012 6:36PM GMT

A smashing 80 percent majority of Spaniards are becoming mistrustful of their prime minister, Mariano Rajoy, due to his failure to resolve the country’s sovereign debt crisis, a poll suggests.

Protestors march against the labor reforms of Spanish government in Barcelona. (file photo)

Protestors march against the labor reforms of Spanish government in Barcelona. (file photo)

The Metroscopia poll, published in left-leaning newspaper El Pais, also showed 72 percent consider the prime minister not to be efficient to fight the economic crisis, Reuters reported on Sunday.
 
The sharp fall in support for Rajoy comes after his government announced a new round of deep spending cuts and tax hikes to fight the debt crisis.
 

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Bank employees hold 24-hour strike against changes

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PressTV
Mon Jul 30, 2012 6:14PM GMT

Workers from the Greek state-controlled ATEbank stage a 24-hour strike in Athens after learning larger rival bank Piraeus is to take over ATEbank's healthy assets.

A Greek man walks in front of a closed branch office of ATEbank in Athens. (file photo)

A Greek man walks in front of a closed branch office of ATEbank in Athens. (file photo)
The strike on Monday was called in opposition to changes taking place in the country's banking landscape that it says Greece is implementing under pressure from its creditors.

In a deal announced last week, Piraeus Bank acquired, from the state-owned lender, EUR14.7 billion in assets and EUR21.4 billion in liabilities, including EUR14.3 billion in customer deposits.
 

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Hunger strikes rattle North Carolina’s abusive prison system

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Workers World
By on August 2, 2012

Central Prison in Raleigh, N.C.

Durham, N.C. — Over 100 prisoners started a hunger strike on July 16 at three facilities in North Carolina: Bertie CI in Windsor, Scotland CI in Laurinburg and Central Prison in Raleigh. Prisoners are refusing to eat to underscore their demands for an immediate end to solitary confinement, torture, physical and emotional abuse, and for more nutritional food, medical care and other basic human rights.

This action follows a massive and similar strike across Georgia prisons, a hunger strike in the supermax Red Onion State Prison in Richmond, Va., this May, as well as a sit-down labor action in the kitchens at Central Prison last December.

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Simon English: In the surreal place called Planet Banker, those in charge are never to blame

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The Independent

Tuesday 31 July 2012

The bank's leadership insist that HSBC's issues are a matter of structure rather than culture

Welcome to Planet Banker, a surreal place where a seeming lack of oxygen seems to affect the eye-sight and hearing of the inhabitants.

Yesterday's conference call with HSBC to discuss their latest extraordinary disasters – half year results, they prefer – took place on this curious planet, a place that gets stranger by the week.

UFO sightings on the rise in Oz

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ZEENEWS.com

Last Updated: Tuesday, July 24, 2012, 09:12

Melbourne: UFO sightings in Australia are on the rise, and international studies indicate a growing number of “closet believers” of extraterrestrial life, according to people who track such phenomena.


But people who come forward to report sightings are still pilloried by much of society.

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30 years of secret, official transcripts prove vaccine schedules in US and UK are based on government lies

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Natural News

Wednesday, August 01, 2012
by: Ethan A. Huff, staff writer
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(NaturalNews) A comprehensive investigation into the inner workings of the U.K.'s nationalized healthcare system has revealed a shocking legacy of corruption and lies concerning the country's vaccine policy. According to Dr. Lucija Tomlijenovic, Ph.D., from the University of British Columbia in Canada, the advisory and governing bodies that set vaccination policy in the U.K. have, for many decades now, hidden the truth about vaccine dangers, and deliberately pushed unsafe vaccines on the public in order to uphold the official vaccination schedule.

Official documents uncovered from secret meetings of the U.K.'s Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI), an independent body that helps set vaccination schedule policy in the U.K., reveal that JCVI ignores independent data showing vaccines to be unsafe, and reinforces questionable data produced by vaccine companies claiming that vaccines are safe. The group also discourages all research that might question the safety of vaccines, and knowingly lies to parents in order to increase the overall vaccination compliance rate.

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