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So far, D.C. feeling little pain from sequester’s bite

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“In the months since the automatic federal spending cuts known as the sequester took effect, the Washington area has added 40,000 jobs. Income-tax receipts have surged in Virginia, beating expectations. Few government contractors have laid off workers. It’s too early to be certain, but initial indications are that the damage from the sequester has been modest and slow to develop.  The pace of job growth from January to April was only slightly slower this year than last year. Large government contractors are reporting relatively modest revenue hits and few layoffs due to reduced contracts.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/sequester-not-biting-district-yet/2013/05/29/7e9f4d4a-c866-11e2-9245-773c0123c027_story.html

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Austrian bank employee drops 90,000 euros into river

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“An Austrian bank employee has found himself in hot water after he unloaded bags containing 90,000 euros ($117,000) from his car boot to fix a puncture — only to see the money to fall into a river below. The police, fire department and mountain rescue teams conducted a thorough search of the waterway but were only able to recover 3,000 euros, the Austria Press Agency said. The police said no criminal investigation has been launched. The employee, who was using his own car for the money run, has been sacked for not following procedure, according to the bank. The police has warned potential fortune hunters not to go searching for the money.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/06/01/austrian-bank-employee-drops-90000-euros-into-river/

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Former Citi Exec Goes On TV, Pleads That Big Banks Need More of Your Money

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Former Citi Exec Goes On TV, Pleads That Big Banks Need More of Your Money

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IRS’s Shulman had more public White House visits than any Cabinet member

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“Publicly released records show that embattled former IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman visited the White House at least 157 times during the Obama administration, more recorded visits than even the most trusted members of the president’s Cabinet.  By contrast, Shulman’s predecessor Mark Everson only visited the White House once during four years of service in the George W. Bush administration and compared the IRS’s remoteness from the president to ‘Siberia.'”

http://dailycaller.com/2013/05/29/irss-shulman-had-more-public-white-house-visits-than-any-cabinet-member/

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Seattle police pay $20,000 for cover-up involving violence against protesters

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“The Seattle Police Department (SPD) paid the Seattle Times $20,000 after admitting to withholding an internal memo criticizing the department’s response against protesters in a May 1, 2012 demonstration. The Times reported on Tuesday that the department confessed to violating the state’s Public Records Act by not making the memo public, which criticized Assistant Chief Mike Sanford for ‘contradictory orders, haphazard planning and operational interference’ during the 2012 ‘May Day” demonstration in downtown Seattle. The payout prevents the department from being sued by the Times for violating the law.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/05/28/seattle-police-pay-20000-for-cover-up-involving-violence-against-protesters/

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Ron Paul: The Real Meaning of President Obama’s National Security Speeches

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“This past Thursday and Friday, President Obama delivered two speeches designed to outline his new thinking on national security and counter-terrorism. While much was made in the media of the president’s statements at the National Defense University and the US Naval Academy suggesting that the most active phase of US military action overseas was coming to an end, this ‘new’ approach is but the same old policy wrapped in new packaging. In these addresses, the president panders to the progressives, while continually expanding and solidifying the ‘enabling act’ principle.”

http://www.ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2013/may/25/the-real-meaning-of-president-obama’s-national-security-speeches.aspx

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Glenn Greenwald: Andrew Sullivan, terrorism, and the art of distortion

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“I used to wonder how people who continuously justify any manner of violence and militarism by their own side could possibly spend so much time pointing to others and depicting them – those people over there – as the embodiment of violence and savage aggression. But at some point I realized that it’s precisely because they continuously justify so much violence and aggression from their side that they have such a boundless compulsion to depict others as the Uniquely Primitive and Violent Evil. That’s how they absolve themselves. It’s how they distract themselves from the reality of what they support and what their governments do in the world.”

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/may/25/andrew-sullivan-distortion-terrorism-woolwich

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‘Go Fetch The Paper, Bo’

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Revisiting the ‘Crack Babies’ Epidemic That Was Not

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“Scientific studies in the 1980s led to predictions that a generation of children would be damaged for life. Those predictions turned out to be wrong. This supposed epidemic — one television reporter talks of a 500 percent increase in damaged babies — was kicked off by a study of just 23 infants that the lead researcher now says was blown out of proportion. And the shocking symptoms — like tremors and low birth weight — are not particular to cocaine-exposed babies, pediatric researchers say; they can be seen in many premature newborns.  A much more serious problem, it turns out, is infants who are born with fetal alcohol syndrome.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/20/booming/revisiting-the-crack-babies-epidemic-that-was-not.html?smid=fb-share&_r=2&

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U.S. drug czar: Marijuana is drug most often linked to crime

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“Kerlikowske, a former Seattle police chief, has consistently opposed legalization since he became President Barack Obama’s top drug policy adviser in 2009. His position puts him at odds with two states, Washington and Colorado, that voted in November to legalize marijuana, a controlled substance that remains illegal under federal law. With the Obama administration doing nothing so far to try to stop them, both states are proceeding with plans to begin selling marijuana for recreational use next year. A third state, Alaska, might follow soon, with legalization supporters aiming to get the measure on the state’s primary ballot in August of next year.”

http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/05/23/3413312/marijuana-is-drug-most-often-linked.html

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