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JPMorgan’s #AskJPM Twitter Hashtag Backfires Against Bank

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Bloomberg - 11/14/13, Dawn Kopecki

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JPMorgan Chase & Co., the target of at least eight Justice Department investigations, was mocked and taunted by Twitter users after asking followers to send questions to an executive using the hashtag #AskJPM.

JPMorgan, the biggest U.S. bank, has faced criminal probes including one into possible bribery in Asia and another examining its relationship with Ponzi scheme operator Bernard Madoff. The firm has been negotiating an agreement with the U.S. to resolve multiple mortgage-bond probes, and two ex-employees were indicted for allegedly trying to cover up a record trading loss last year.

Video and more: Bloomberg.com

 

Investment Manager Explains Why 99.5% Of Americans Can Never Win

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Business Insider - 11/13/13, Gus Lubin
 

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"In my view, the American dream of striking it rich is merely a well-marketed fantasy that keeps the bottom 99.5% hoping for better and prevents social and political instability," the manager wrote in an email to Professor G. William Domhoff of the University of California at Santa Cruz.

The manager, who asked to remain anonymous to protect his relationship with wealthy clients, expresses his frustration with a financial system that is rigged to help the elites at the cost of everyone else.

More: BusinessInsider.com

 

Iran to ban morality police from targeting women

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The Telegraph - Ahmed Vahdat, 11/13/13
 

Iran to ban morality police from targeting women

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Iran's notorious morality police have been barred from arresting women deemed to be immodestly dressed, as President Hassan Rouhani moved to fulfil an election promise to ease up on the country's strict Islamic dress code

Mr Rouhani, who has displayed a more moderate bent than his hardline predecessor since taking office in June, has moved to rein in the Gashte Ershad (Guidance Patrol), that has been a trademark of the Islamic Republic since its inception in 1979.

More: telegraph.co.uk

 

Congressional approval drops to lowest ever at 9%

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MSN News - 11/13/13, By McClatchy-Tribune News Service

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Positive attitudes about Congress have been hovering in the low double digits for weeks — and, according to one survey, the body now ranks below root canals, cockroaches and traffic jams.

Just when it seemed Americans’ approval of Congress could not drop any lower, it did — to 9 percent, the lowest in Gallup’s history of posing the question, the organization said Tuesday.

More: News.MSN.com

 

UFOs – What does the President Know?

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White House UFO - 10/08/13, Grant Cameron

Cheney - "If I had been briefed on it, it would probably be
classified and I wouldn't talk about it."


 

Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties. Abraham Lincoln
 
 
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. Quote from Dwight Eisenhower inscribed on a wall surrounding his final resting place in Abilene, Kansas

 

Mystery Monday: Pilot Dies In Pursuit Of UFO

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Lex18.com - 11/11/13

 

The crash Stone witnessed would forever changed the country's perception of UFO's. There's not much that remains of the crash from 1948, but there is this one artifact - it's a piece of Mantell's plane, and it shows wear and tear not just of age, but the crash itself, it's dented and scarred with burn marks on both sides. And it remains one of the last links to this great mystery from the 40's about what exactly happened to Mantell that day.

"Here was the very first individual to be a casualty of a UFO incident," said National Guard Historian John Trowbridge.

Video and more: Lex18.com

 

Andrew Huszar: Confessions of a Quantitative Easer

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The Wall Street Journal - 11/11/13, Andrew Huszar
 

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We went on a bond-buying spree that was supposed to help Main Street. Instead, it was a feast for Wall Street.

I can only say: I'm sorry, America. As a former Federal Reserve official, I was responsible for executing the centerpiece program of the Fed's first plunge into the bond-buying experiment known as quantitative easing. The central bank continues to spin QE as a tool for helping Main Street. But I've come to recognize the program for what it really is: the greatest backdoor Wall Street bailout of all time.

More: online.wsj.com

 

ABC News: US Soldiers Being Killed by Terror Groups Backed With US Money

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ABC News - 11/11/13, by Brian Ross, Rhonda Schwartz,
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The United States has paid more than $150 million to companies in Afghanistan that are accused of helping to finance terrorist attacks on American soldiers and facilities, according to the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction.

It's like the United States government subsidizing the Taliban, al Qaeda, the Haqqani network, those groups that are trying to shoot and kill our soldiers," said Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., a member of the Senate's Armed Services and Foreign Relations committees, in an interview to be broadcast tonight on ABC News' "World News with Diane Sawyer".

More: ABC News

Students try to blockade Bulgaria's parliament, five detained

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Reuters - 11/12/13

Protesters try to block a police vehicle during a demonstration near the parliament in central Sofia November 12, 2013. REUTERS-Stoyan Nenov

Protesters try to block a police vehicle during a demonstration near the parliament in central Sofia November 12, 2013. Credit: REUTERS/Stoyan Nenov


"We want to stay in Bulgaria and live with dignity. We know that for this to happen something has to change and this government has to go. It is entangled in all kinds of shadowy interests," Kastchiyski said.

According to a poll by the independent Alpha Research, the protests are backed by 60 percent of Bulgarians.

More: Reuters.com

 

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