Why the Rich Fear Violence in the Streets

Last year, I was at a billionaire’s home in California and I asked him to describe his biggest worry. He pointed to a 19^th century painting on the wall, which depicted a female beggar receiving alms from a wealthy gentleman and giving her patron a flower in return.…

NEW YORK (AP) -- Bank of America will start charging debit-card users $5 a month to pay for purchases. The move comes as the cards increasingly replace cash and as banks look for ways to offset the loss of revenue from a new rule that will limit how much they can collect from merchants.

Paying to use a debit card was unheard of before this year and is still a novel concept for many consumers. But several banks have recently introduced or started testing debit card fees. That's in…

Eat The Bankers

September 29, 2011 9:36 AM EDT

'Disturbing footage of Apache attack helicopters killing people in…

Gov't paid $600 million in benefits to dead people



By SAM HANANEL

Associated Press

The federal government has doled out more than $600 million in benefit payments to dead people over the past five years, a watchdog report says.

Such payments are meant for retired or disabled federal workers, but sometimes the checks keep going out even after the former employees pass away and the deaths are not reported,…

Terence P. Jeffrey

CNS News

Sept 25, 2011

 

The Internet has risen to its all-time high as a primary source of news for Americans with 43 percent…

Erdogan: Israel cannot be trusted

In interview with CNN Turkish PM continues with belligerent rhetoric towards Israel, questions the number of Israeli fatalities from Palestinian terror groups' rocket fire 'compared to thousands of dead Palestinians'

Ynet…

#OccupyWallStreet Is More Than a Hashtag - It's Revolution in Formation

A bystander who suffered permanent hearing loss after Pittsburgh police deployed a Long Range Acoustic Device (LRAD) against protestors during the 2009 G-20 Summit has filed a federal lawsuit against the city. The device emits pain-inducing sounds to disperse crowds and is also deployed on American warships.

Karen Piper, then a visiting professor at Carnegie Mellon University, tried to observe the G-20 protests in…

NEW YORK (AP) — The grainy photographs could have come from any undercover police file: A man in jeans talking on his cell phone. Another in a windbreaker walking past people at a coffee shop. A car parked outside a grocery store.

But the surveillance was not part of any criminal case. The photos were snapped as part of secret…

Alfreda Frances Bikowsky: The Current Director of the CIA Global Jihad Unit

 Boiling Frogs Post has now confirmed the identity of the CIA analyst at the heart of a notorious failure in the run-up to the September 11th tragedy. Her name is Alfreda Frances Bikowsky and she is the current director of…

Insurance giant sues Saudi Arabia for ‘funding’ 9/11 attacks that cost firm $215m

By Daily Mail Reporter

An insurance firm is suing Saudi Arabia in a U.S. court over claims that the country funded the terrorists responsible for the 9/11 attacks.…