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Citibank Raises Checking Account Fees


OzarkFirst.com
Wed, 05 Oct 2011 10:34 UTC
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Citibank is following the lead from some of it's competitors and raising some of it's fees.

Starting in December, the minimum balance for mid-level accounts will go up from $6,000 to $15,000
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Anyone who doesn't maintain that balance will have to pay $20 a month.

Customers with EZ checking accounts will be charged $15 a month if they don't keep a balance of $6,000.

The bank is also hiking fees on basic banking accounts from $8-$10 a month.

These moves follow similar announcements from Bank of America, Wells Fargo, J.P Morgan Chase, and others.
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US: Florida county nixes fluoride in water after heated debate

Douglas Stanglin
USA Today
Wed, 05 Oct 2011 10:26 UTC
A Florida county has voted to stop adding fluoride to its drinking water after a polarizing debate that included warnings of reduced intelligence, cancer, Soviet-style tactics and forced medicating by government.


The Pinellas County Commission voted 4-3 to halt fluoridation to about 700,000 residents of the county, the St. Petersburg Times reports.

The city of St. Petersburg will not be affected, WTSP reports.
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Occupy Wall Street: A Globalist Op?

Kurt Nimmo
Global Research
Mon, 03 Oct 2011 09:04 UTC
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How can a movement originated and funded by globalists end the globalist scheme to enslave the world?
"There is one major inaccuracy in all the coverage that has been bothering me, and that is the focus on Anonymous as the architects and organizers of the event," an email received September 23 states. "The initial call for the protest was put out by the magazine Adbusters."
The person, who shall remain nameless at this point - since I have not gained his permission to quote the private email he sent to me - is not merely a bystander or an outsider making an observation. He claims to be intimately connected to the movement through the General Assembly of New York [1], described as the central planning and organizing committee for the protest. His Facebook page reveals he is indeed connected to Occupy Wall Street.

The Adbusters Media Foundation describes itself [2] as a non-profit "anti-consumerist" organization that functions as "a global network of artists, activists, writers, pranksters, students, educators and entrepreneurs who want to advance the new social activist movement of the information age."
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Secular group: 27 secret atheists in Congress

David Edwards
RawStory
Wed, 05 Oct 2011 05:36 UTC
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© Flickr/Andrew HechtCongressman Pete Stark
The president of a secular group says that there are 28 members of Congress who do not believe in God, but only one of them feels comfortable revealing his lack of faith.

Secular Coalition of America (SCA) president Herb Silverman told The Guardian that his group was aware of many members of Congress who weren't ready to make their non-beliefs known.

"Privately, we know that there are 27 other members of Congress that have no belief in God," Silverman claimed. "But we don't 'out' people."

That number is up from 2006, when SCA determined that there were there were 22 atheists in Congress.

"At the time, twenty-two of them told me they didn't believe in a god," SCA Advisory Board Chairman Woody Kaplan told the Humanist in 2008. "Twenty-one of them said, 'You can't tell anybody.' One of them said you could: Congressman Pete Stark."
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US: Woman assaults two Seattle, Washington cops at accident scene

John de Leon
The Seattle Times
Tue, 04 Oct 2011 22:40 UTC
A woman who was apparently angry that Seattle police had blocked a street to investigate a traffic accident assaulted two officers early Sunday morning.

Police had blocked traffic to investigate a hit-and-run accident in the 1600 block of 15th Avenue West when two women drove up in a cab around 3 a.m.. When the cab was blocked from continuing on, the two women got out and walked down the middle of 15th Avenue West, police said.

Police said one of the women repeatedly screamed obscenities at the officers. The two women started to walk toward the crash scene when they were told by a detective that they needed to get on the sidewalk.

One of the women complied, but the other woman continued to scream obscenities while ignoring the detective's order. Another officer stopped the woman and tried to explain that a criminal investigation was underway. The officer pointed out another route she could take to get around the crime scene, according to police.
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US: Judge Says He Will Deny Union Request to Block Use of Drivers

Chris Dolmetsch
Bloomberg Businessweek
Tue, 04 Oct 2011 14:19 UTC
A Manhattan federal judge said he will deny the request by a transit workers' union to stop New York police from forcing bus drivers to abandon their routes and transport arrested Wall Street protesters.
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US: New York Police Can't Use Bus Drivers in Protest Arrests, Union Says

Patricia Hurtado and Chris Dolmetsch
Bloomberg Businessweek
Tue, 04 Oct 2011 00:22 UTC
Police should be barred from forcing New York transit workers to abandon their routes and transport anti-Wall Street demonstrators arrested for disorderly conduct, an employees' union told a federal judge.

The Transport Workers Union Local 100, which said last week that it's supporting the protests, asked U.S. District Judge Paul Engelmayer to prohibit the New York City Police Department and the New York City Transit Authority from requiring drivers to transport such protesters.

A court hearing is set for today on the request, said Jim Gannon, a spokesman for the union, which represents 38,000 members, including about 9,000 city bus drivers. Drivers were ordered on Oct. 1 to convey some of the 700 demonstrators arrested over the weekend during anti-Wall Street protests in lower Manhattan.

"The actions of the NYPD on Oct. 1, 2011, amounted to a seizure of the bus drivers," Arthur Schwartz, a lawyer for the union, said in court papers. The police department "deprived the drivers of their liberty without due process of law," he said.
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Murders and Forced Evictions: Honduran Deaths Trigger EU Carbon Credit Clash

Rebecca Terrell
The New American
Mon, 03 Oct 2011 18:24 UTC
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The deaths of 23 Honduran farmers involved in land disputes with UN-approved palm oil plantations are raising an international outcry against alleged "human rights abuses." EurActiv reports members of the European Parliament (EP) are planning an investigative mission to Honduras this month while others are calling for a ban on carbon credits to the plantations under the EU's Emissions Trading System (ETS). Additionally, it says the UN Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) is weighing its validation process which originally accredited the plantations, a process critics call "only rudimentary, completely unregulated and badly documented."

Protests erupted in July when six international human rights advocacy groups presented a report to the EP detailing what they called murders and forced evictions of peasants in El Bajo Aguán Valley of northern Honduras. The International Federation of Human Rights (FIDH) report accuses UN-sanctioned palm oil mills of stealing farmland from Honduran natives and killing or wounding them when they attempt to defend their property. It says the companies, acting with government impunity, regularly target members of local land-rights movements who end up murdered in feigned car accidents or hunted down and shot by private security guards.

Examples of the violence are gruesome. Security guards ambushed 15-year-old Rodving Omar Villegas near his village and shot him to death with an AK-47. A car ran down and killed 60-year-old Juan Ramon Mejia. And José Leonel Guerra Álvarez was murdered inside his home in front of his wife and children by armed assailants firing from outside the house.
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US: Nader, Paul, Kucinich & Chomsky: "End The Left-Right Delusion, Corporatism Is The True Enemy"


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Tue, 04 Oct 2011 17:59 UTC
Wars cost the U.S. $30 million per hour..."

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US: Pennsylvania - Scranton police seek city couple after diaper-clad boy, 7, tells of abuse

Steve McConnell
Times-Tribune of Scranton
Tue, 04 Oct 2011 17:05 UTC
Scranton police said they are searching for a city couple after a diaper-clad 7-year-old boy told officers harrowing stories of abuse last week when they found him in a dark, bug-infested basement.

"Are you here to help me?" the frightened child said as he hugged one officer who entered the 823 Raines St. home on Sept. 26, according to an affidavit filed Friday.

"I am hungry and I didn't get dinner yet," he reportedly told another officer who asked why he was crying.

According to the affidavit, the child said he had been locked in a coffin in the basement and also duct-taped to a chair in the home, which has been condemned by the city.

Felony counts of endangering the welfare of a child and unlawful restraint were filed Friday against Lori Gardner, 26, and Brian Sleboda, 31, both of 823 Raines St.

City police were still searching for the pair Monday night, Chief Dan Duffy confirmed.

"It's a very sad case," Chief Duffy said. "That's pretty much all I can say."

Police said the boy told them the couple put him in the home's basement "often" to punish him, and told him ghosts lived there. They would even "pick up chains and drop them to scare him," arrest papers said.
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