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Preparing for economic collapse? Fed issues ominous warning to JPMorgan Chase, leaders of world finance flock to secret meetings

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Tick. Tock.

Do you hear that? It's the clock on the time bomb, and it appears to be ticking relentlessly toward our economic collapse.

It seems like every day, there is a new threat to the financial well-being of the disappearing middle class in America. Of course, less affected are the members of Congress and their buddies on Wall Street. You know, the ones that put the politicians in office to get favorable decisions made on their behalf in Washington.

But if you happen to have been ignoring the folks Obama calls "peddlers of fiction" who have been warning us all of an impending economic crisis along the lines of the last financial collapse, you might want to pay attention now, because a disturbing series of events is in motion.

First of all, the Fed just issued a terrifying warning to the biggest bank in the country.

Finally, the Fed has admitted that we just can't take another hit without incurring an epic disaster.

Comment: #3. Learn to determine Skills and character traits that are hard to find during a crisis


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Seeing the green: More banks willing to deal with legal marijuana businesses

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As more states contemplate legalizing recreational marijuana, the businesses that pop up are going to need banking solutions. Fortunately for them, more US banks are becoming willing to dabble in the cannabis trade.

Over the last two years, the number of banks and credit unions open to dealing with marijuana businesses has increased by almost six times, the Associated Press reported, citing federal data. Back in March of 2014, only 51 banks and credit unions in the country were willing to deal with cash from pot businesses, but the number now stands at 301.

The large increase is surely due, in part, to the momentum that supporters of legalization have gained over the years. Since 2012, four states - Washington, Colorado, Oregon and Alaska - and the District of Columbia have legalized recreational marijuana. This year, several states, including California and Nevada, could vote to permit casual pot use as well.

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Saudi Arabia beheads gays and bloggers, puts terrorists in luxury prison resorts

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Looking at the luxurious settings in Saudi prisons for inmates with terrorism-related charges, it seems that Riyadh isn't too willing to punish people who were caught fighting on the side of terrorist organizations in Syria, RT reported.

US President Barack Obama is scheduled to visit Saudi Arabia to discuss how Washington and Riyadh will work to defeat terrorism. But it turns out the two countries have nothing in common when it comes to the treatment of inmates convicted of terrorism charges.

The high-security Al-Hair prison is the largest of five prisons established to lock up people for terrorism-related charges. First, it was full with al-Qaeda members, but more recently Daesh militants have been thrown to Al-Hair to serve their sentences.

"They also get water aerobics classes and even conjugal visits. And these prisoners are also said to have an Olympic-size swimming pool and art-therapy classes," RT's Nikki Aaron reported.


Comment: Like every state sponsor of terror, Saudi Arabia can't help but be forced to arrest their own assets on occasion. While the U.S. offers a variety of attractive retirement programs - including assassination, torture, imprisonment, or a facilitated 'jail break' and reassignment - Saudi Arabia just puts them in a luxury resort spa.


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Hello, Harriet! Andrew Jackson gets booted off the twenty dollar bill

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Former slave Harriet Tubman will replace former President Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill, Treasury Secretary Jack Lew is expected to announce.

There will also be changes made to the $5 bill to depict civil rights-era leaders and on the $10 for the suffragette movement, Politoco reported citing sources.

Comment: With the War on Cash in full swing and the dollar about to crash, does it really make a difference?


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Israel's psychopathic society: "Death to the Arabs" rally draws thousands in support of soldier who murdered wounded Palestinian

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In Tel Aviv's Yitzhak Rabin Square on Tuesday evening, thousands of Israelis rallied in support of Elor Azarya, the soldier filmed executing a gravely wounded Palestinian last month.

Rally-goers shouted anti-Arab slogans and attacked persons perceived as being leftists or journalists.

Hours earlier, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a call for leniency for the soldier.

Times of Israel reporter Judah Ari Gross tweeted that an activist from B'Tselem, the human rights group that released the video of Azarya shooting and killing Abd al-Fattah al-Sharif, had to be escorted out of Rabin Square by police in order to "protect his life."

Comment: For more context on the events leading up to this abhorrent display of racism and pathological hatred, see:

Israeli medic: "He's not dead, shoot him in the head"



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Punta Gorda airport becomes the latest to kick out the TSA

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It goes without saying that if the people of any country want something done efficiently, and in the most cost-efficient manner, they do it themselves or outsource it to private third-party service providers, instead of entrusting it to a bunch of bureaucrats and unmotivated government workers.

Finally, airports in the United States are starting to come to that realization as well. So far, private security agents monitor at least 22 airports in major cities like San Francisco and Kansas City. The latest airport to replace the TSA is the Punta Gorda Airport in Florida.

As Sputnik reports, Florida's Punta Gorda airport has begun to privatize security, taking the keys away from the what according to many is America's most inept, inefficient and often, grotesquely demeaning governmental organization, the TSA, and handing them over to a firm called ISS Action, a security company out of Queens, New York.

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Florida: Cops stand by and do nothing as three teen girls drown in submerged car

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Newly released dash cam footage reveals a Florida sheriff lied last month when he falsely claimed that his deputies took off their gun belts and attempted to save three drowning teenage girls. Instead of attempting to rescue the dying teens, the deputies can be seen on video standing beside the pond while listening to the girls' final screams.

According to Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri, a friend asked 35-year-old Damien Marriott to drive the three teenage girls to Child's Park on Wednesday, March 30. For some reason, Marriott reportedly stopped at a Walmart to buy a TV when he left his keys in the ignition with the engine running along with three girls that he did not know sitting in his 1990 Honda Accord. Although Child's Park closes at 8 p.m. on Wednesdays, Marriott did not return to his vehicle or report his car stolen until 8:30 p.m. that night.

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Rape culture: Young girls in UK fear going to school because of out-of-control sexual harassment and violence

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A major investigation into the prevalence of sexual harassment and violence in schools is underway in Britain after more than 600 alleged rapes were recorded over the last three years.

A revelation of little surprise to a mother from south east London who revealed to Sputnik that her 13-year-old daughter was missing out on her education because she felt pressured to have sex at school every day.

"My daughter came to me emotionally distraught saying that the pressure she's getting for sex at school means that she doesn't want to go to school," the mother told Sputnik.

"I took it up with the teachers and said my daughter would not be returning to school until someone deals with this.

"The school did take steps to improve the situation and my daughter goes to school every day but she tells me, 'Mum, everybody in every year has asked me for sex.' "

The Commons Women and Equalities Committee is behind the investigation into UK schools after data last year showed 5,500 alleged sexual offences, more than 600 alleged rapes and 4,000 alleged physical assaults were recorded in UK schools over three years.

Comment: Rape culture: 1 in 5 women in the UK are sexually assaulted in school


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U.S. housing watchdog says it's time to hold industry accountable for lead poisoning

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The US lead industry should be held accountable for nationwide exposure from pipes and paint that poison both adults and children daily, a scientist for an American healthy housing watchdog told RT.

"There's really no good excuse for this, the lead and copper rule, which is the EPA law governing drinking water systems, hasn't been updated since 1991, along with many other lead and copper requirements," Dr. David Jacobs of the National Center for Healthy Housing said, stressing that not disclosing possible lead contamination strips Americans of their right to protect themselves.

According to a recent report, areas of a possible lead exposure risk go far beyond Flint, Michigan, where massive pollution and poisoning drew attention to the problem in the US.

A map compiled by Vox shows areas scattered across the country where children are at the highest risk of lead exposure, most of which are concentrated in America's heartland. It is also extremely high in the country's oldest urban areas, such as New York and Chicago, where over 20 percent of the territory scored the highest on their 0 to 10 scale.

Comment: Every government agency is now deflecting blame for the crisis while the empire continues to crumble. This is the expected result when pathological individuals overtake society, and begin to systematically dismantle or ignore core necessities that in a normal society would insure the common good.


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Polling stats show majority of Americans can't see supporting Trump, Cruz OR Clinton

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© Rhone Wise/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images Nope! None of the above.
As Americans begin looking toward the general election, the path to the White House is looking rockier every day, a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll finds.

According to the new poll, seven-in-10 registered voters can't see themselves supporting current Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump in November, followed by 61 percent of voters who say they couldn't support GOP candidate Ted Cruz and 58 percent who can't imagine casting a ballot for Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton.

In addition, neither Trump nor Clinton are viewed favorably by a majority voters.

Based on the poll, which surveyed 1,000 registered voters from April 10 to 14, 65 percent of Americans have an unfavorable view of Trump, making him the most unpopular presidential hopeful in the history of the NBC/WSJ poll, and 56 percent of voters have an negative view of Clinton. Nearly half of voters have a negative view of Cruz, also.

Even more, only 19 percent found Clinton to be honest and trustworthy and only 12 percent believe Trump has the right temperament to be the leader of the free world.

"The Republicans have a party problem, and the Democrats have a candidate problem," Peter Hart, the Democratic pollster who conducted the survey along with Republican analyst Bill McInturff, said.

Comment: Who to choose when there are no good choices? If elections are rigged anyway, is there any point in voting at all?