“While the outcome of the vote was not in doubt, your willingness to stand up for the independence of the Federal Reserve is greatly appreciated,” Bernanke wrote in the letters, which were obtained by Politico through a Freedom of Information Act request.



He continued, “Independence in monetary policy operations is now the norm for central banks around the world — and it would be a grave mistake were Congress to reverse the protection it provided to the Federal Reserve more…

by Philip Weiss

More subterfuge in our discourse. The Washington…

submitted by SD Contributor AGXIIK:

As of January 2013 the FDIC stops offering 100% coverage for all insured deposits.  That amounts to $1.6 trillion in deposits, 85-90% deposited with the TBTF mega banks.  Once the insurance ramps back to $250,000 the FDIC risk amelioration offered to large depositors will cause them to flee from the insecurity of the much reduced FDIC…

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Allows agency to ignore court order to hold public hearings until March 2013

Steve Watson

Infowars.com

Sept 26, 2012

A federal appeals court that previously ruled the TSA’s deployment of body…

College students and alumni that were injured when a police officer at the University of California, Davis, discharged military-grade pepper-spray in their face during a peaceful protest last year will split a settlement of roughly $1,000,000.

Members of the UC Regents board agreed earlier this month on a settlement to be split among the 21 demonstrators targeted by a campus cop since removed from the force, but the final…

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FTSE LIVE: Markets plunge as Spain unrest and fresh Greece strike reignite euro crisis

By This Is Money Reporters

PUBLISHED: 02:26 EST, 26 September 2012 | UPDATED: 07:38 EST, 26 September 2012…

AP Interview: Ahmadinejad pushes new world order

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaks during an exclusive interview with Associated Press editorial staff during his visit to the 67th session of…

Cities across the U.S. are marketing “micro”-apartments scarcely bigger than jail cells. Any takers? (It’s for the Earth.)

Melissa Melton

Infowars.com…

Spanish Congress Awaits Citizen Protests

Riot police have ringed the Spanish parliament in Madrid ahead of a planned…

After more than four years of research, DARPA has created a system that successfully combines soldiers, EEG brainwave scanners, 120-megapixel cameras, and multiple computers running cognitive visual processing algorithms into a cybernetic hivemind. Called the Cognitive Technology Threat Warning System (CT2WS), it will be used in a combat setting to significantly improve the US Army’s threat detection…

• Deaths from suicide up 15pc with fears more deaths go unaccounted
  
  
• $56m suicide prevention plan being rolled out after shocking statistics
• Harsher penalties for drink driving credited with reducing road deaths
  
  

Suicide is the cause of more deaths than car crashes, according…

Fred Lucas…

People who have a political opinion that “represents a fairly popular point of view” also listed as extremists

Paul Joseph Watson

Infowars.com

September 20, 2012

A leaked training manual used in the State and Local Anti-Terrorism Training (SLATT) program for law…

Egyptian cleric Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr, known as Abu Omar, was snatched in Milan in 2003

Italy's highest appeals court has upheld guilty verdicts on 23…

Piers Morgan told me how to hack a phone, says Jeremy Paxman

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