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FDA Employee Surveillance May Indicate the Agency Has Lots to Hide

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Gabrielle Pickard
 

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Imagine being at work, and the first thing that flashes up on your computer when you switch it on is a warning that you should have “no reasonable expectation of privacy”?

This is the case for employees at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), who, according to the Washington Post, have been told that any data that passes through the Agency’s systems may be intercepted by the government. (1)

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Quebec court upholds anti-students law

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Tue Jul 24, 2012
5:46AM GMT

As protests continue in the province of Quebec against planned tuition hikes, a court of appeals has rejected students’ request for the suspension of parts of a controversial law that was passed to impede their protest rallies.

University students protest Special Law 78 and the potential tuition fee increases in Montreal, June 3, 2012.
University students protest Special Law 78 and the potential tuition fee increases in Montreal, June 3, 2012.

The decision came on Monday after a lower court rejected the petition submitted by the students, which had called for the suspension of two provisions of the law, passed in May in the wake of clashes between the police and the students protesting a potential 82-percent hike in tuition fees in the French-speaking province.

The so-called Special Law 78 obliges the organizers to inform the police about the timing and location of marches at least eight hours before they stage the protest move. It also allows imposing heavy fines on the protesters who fail to do so.

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The summer of discontent: No respite from power cuts

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Published: July 25, 2012

 

PESHAWAR / SWAT:

Despite the Prime Minister’s announcement of curtailing power cuts during Ramazan, the problem persists especially during Sehr and Iftar hours. This fuelled public outrage and a number of protests were held on Tuesday in Swat, Peshawar, Haripur, Dir, Charsadda, Nowshera, Kohat and Malakand. The protesters criticised the government and Water and Power Development Authority (Wapda) for failing to put an end to unscheduled power cuts.

Policemen arresting the protesting students during a demonstration outside Swat board on Tuesday. PHOTO: ONLINE

Geithner on defense in Libor scandal questioning

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By Jennifer Liberto @CNNMoney
July 25, 2012: 1:02 PM ET

Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner defended his role at the New York Fed, which got early reports of Libor rigging.
 

Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner defended his role at the New York Fed, which got early reports of Libor rigging.

 

WASHINGTON (CNNMoney) -- Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner on Wednesday defended his role, as New York Federal Reserve president in 2008, in dealing with early warnings that a key financial benchmark was being rigged.

Geithner told the House Financial Services Committee that he briefed U.S. regulators and the White House when Barclays bankers told the New York Fed that the bank was submitting false estimates to determine Libor. He said he also briefed British authorities.

The Shots Heard Round the World: Argentina's Radical Banking Reforms

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Sunday, 22 July 2012 13:05
By Rick Rowden, Foreign Policy | News Analysis

At a time when most governments seem incapable of doing anything about unemployment, worsening economic inequality, and continuing financial instability, Argentina has adopted a set of striking new reforms that will enable its central bank to play a much more proactive role in addressing all of these problems. In fact, the reforms, adopted in March, may be the first shots fired in a quiet revolution in monetary policy. If successful, they could threaten to overturn 25 years of conservative central bank policies that have long been considered best practice by the IMF and central banks around the world.

Argentina's new central bank president, Mercedes Marcó del Pont, said the reforms challenge the conservative axiom that central banks should play a very limited role in the economy. The bank is now rediscovering its sovereign capacity to formulate and implement economic policy, she explained, adding that some of the portraits on the bank's hall of fame would be coming down -- "beginning with Milton Friedman's."

J.P. Morgan to Pay $100M to Settle Credit Card Suit

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Published July 24, 2012

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J.P. Morgan Chase (JPM: 35.81, +0.64, +1.82%) has agreed to pay $100 million to settle a three-year-old lawsuit that accused the biggest U.S. bank of unlawfully boosting minimum monthly credit card payments.

Cardholders, who called the ruling an “excellent result,” claimed the Wall Street bank enticed them to transfer balances from other lenders to Chase accounts and then would consolidate their debt into loans with “fixed” interest rates until balances were paid off.


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Heartburn pills taken by millions 'can increase risk of cancer and heart disease'

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By Jerome Burne
PUBLISHED: 17:39 EST, 23 July 2012
UPDATED: 05:56 EST, 24 July 2012
 

Drugs also increase risk of infection and vitamin deficiencies

Heartburn: Meals become times of dread as you wait for the sharp, insistent pain that follows when acid seeps from the valve at the top of your stomach

Heartburn: Meals become times of dread as you wait for the sharp, insistent pain that follows when acid seeps from the valve at the top of your stomach
 

Heartburn can make your life a misery. Meals become times of dread as you wait for the sharp, insistent pain that follows when acid seeps from the valve at the top of your stomach.

Federal Reserve Audit Bill Overwhelmingly Passes The House

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Jennifer Bendery
Posted: 07/25/2012 2:59 pm
Updated: 07/25/2012 8:26 pm

WASHINGTON -- In a rare moment of bipartisanship, the House overwhelmingly passed a bill by Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) to audit the Federal Reserve.

The bill, which has 270 co-sponsors, passed 327 to 98. All but one Republican -- Rep. Bob Turner of New York -- voted for it, along with 89 Democrats.

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The Global Elite and Their 21 Trillion Dollar Stash

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Harrison Preston
July 25, 2012

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According to a major report by James Henry for the Tax Justice Network, the so-called Global Elite have at least $21 Trillion dollars hidden away in offshore bank accounts.

$21 Trillion sounds like an unbelievable amount of money, barely comprehensible for the normal man in the street. When one considers the sum is equivalent to the economies of the United States and Japan combined, you can see why. (1)
It gets worse. The Tax Justice Network are keen to highlight the astronomical figure of $21 Trillion is only a conservative estimate, with the real figure probably being somewhere in the region of $32 Trillion.

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Two protests in two days at Morton Hall Immigration Centre

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BBC.co.uk
25 July 2012
Last updated at 16:44 ET

The UK Border Agency is trying to establish how two detainees scaled the rooftops of an immigration removal centre in two separate protests.

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Two detainees scaled Morton Hall in two days

The first climbed a building at Morton Hall, in Swinderby, Lincolnshire, on Monday evening and the second climbed up at about 11:30 BST on Tuesday.

A BBC reporter spoke to a further detainee who said many were upset with the length of time they had been held.

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