CNBC – by  Herb Weisbaum

An estimated 13.1 million Americans were victims of identity theft-related fraud last year. That’s up more than 500,000 people from 2012. According to a just-released Identity Fraud Study by Javelin Strategy & Research, someone in this country becomes a victim every two seconds.

And note, this survey of 5,600 consumers across the country was done in October, before the massive Target breach.   Continue reading “Identity theft rises as crooks get more creative”

Stern doctor rubber glove ShutterstockThe Raw Story – by Reuters

Florida’s own health insurance marketplace, long touted by Republican lawmakers as a free-market solution to providing affordable health coverage, is expected to launch as early as next week.

Six years in the making, Florida Health Choices will open for business with an inventory of products that cannot legally be marketed using the words insurance, coverage, benefits or premiums, according to Chief Executive Officer Rose Naff.

The brainchild of U.S. Senator Marco Rubio while he was a state legislative leader in 2008, Florida Health Choices has been held up by advocates as a better alternative to President Obama’s signature Affordable Care Act.   Continue reading “Florida set to launch its own limited insurance marketplace”

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Many of China’s wealthy are fleeing their home country and settling in the United States, where better schools and other opportunities await.

The 2012 Annual Report of Chinese International Migration shows immigration from China is growing, with most heading to the U.S. Nearly 90,000 Chinese became permanent U.S. residents in 2011.

The migration includes a significant number of rich Chinese. At least 25% of those worth more than $16 million have fled the country, and nearly half of this group (47%) is thinking of leaving, according to the report.    Continue reading “Rich Chinese Flee to United States…and Bring Their Money with Them”

JP MorganDescrier

A man has died after falling from JP Morgan’s European headquarters in Canary Wharf, London.

Emergency services were called to 25 Bank Street at 8am this morning after reports of a man plunging from the 150m tall building and landing on the ninth floor roof.

The man, believed to be in his 30s, was pronounced dead at the scene, and the area has been cordoned off.    Continue reading “Man dies after fall from JP Morgan offices in Canary Wharf”

Pentagon building in Washington, DC.(AFP Photo / STAFF)RT News

In a bid to beef up its missile defense systems, the United States Department of Defense intends to request $4.5 billion in additional spending over the next five years, according to a report by Reuters.

The move – disclosed by Riki Ellison of the Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance and two unnamed congressional sources – comes partly in response to failed tests that have shown the interceptors built by Raytheon Co. to be less than reliable.   Continue reading “Pentagon wants additional $4.5 bln to fix failed missile defense interceptors”

Barack ObamaMail.com

EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) — President Barack Obama on Friday signed into law an agriculture spending bill that will spread benefits to farmers in every region of the country, while trimming the food stamp program that inspired a two-year battle over the legislation.

As he penned his name on the five year measure at Michigan State University, Obama said the wide-ranging bill “multitasks” by helping boost jobs, innovation, research and conservation. “It’s like a Swiss Army knife,” he joked.   Continue reading “Obama signs farm bill that trims food stamps”

Brent Vincent Betterly, Jared Chase, Brian ChurchMail.com

CHICAGO (AP) — A prosecutor is standing by her decision to invoke a rarely used Illinois law to charge three protesters with terrorism in 2012 — days before NATO’s Chicago summit.

After jurors acquitted them Friday of all terrorism charges, prosecutor Anita Alvarez said she had no regrets. She told reporters she’d file the same charges again without hesitation. Brian Church, Jared Chase and Brent Betterly were accused of plotting Molotov cocktail attacks on President Obama’s campaign office and other targets.   Continue reading “NATO trial prosecutor stands behind terror charges”

China Daily USA – by Michael Barris

The World Bank’s former chief economist wants to replace the US dollar with a single global super-currency, saying it will create a more stable global financial system.

“The dominance of the greenback is the root cause of global financial and economic crises,” Justin Yifu Lin told Bruegel, a Brussels-based policy-research think tank. “The solution to this is to replace the national currency with a global currency.”    Continue reading “Replace dollar with super currency: economist”

World Events and the Bible

WEB Notes: Can you imagine if in America the government decided to bulldoze the homes of say all blacks? The entire country and world for that matter would be in and uproar and rightfully so. So why is the world so quiet when it comes to those who claim to be of Judah?

(RT) – International agencies in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem say the Israeli demolitions of Palestinian property have increased significantly even amid revived, US-backed peace talks.   Continue reading “Israel’s destruction of Palestinian homes at five-year high – aid orgs”

SHTF School – by Selco

Like I said before, situation can change from good to bad quickly. Especially when people are tired of whats going on. In my country 40% of people have no jobs, widespread corruption, prices are expensive for almost everything. There are now riots in several cities in my region here, spreading all over the country.

I have been in riots before, and also been in riots that lead into the full scale war we had, so there are few things that I want to explain you about riots:   Continue reading “Widespread riots now in my country. My thoughts on riots.”

Privacy SOS

Despite the fact that the crime rate on public transit systems in Boston is declining, the MBTA has just announced that it intends to install brand new surveillance camera systems inside hundreds of buses throughout the city. The Boston region’s millions of commuters and hundreds of thousands of residents can once again thank the federal Department of Homeland Security for yet another hit to our privacy.    Continue reading “Seven million dollars in new surveillance cameras to be installed on Boston buses”

PoliceInsurance Journal

An Oklahoma state senator has filed a bill to allow law enforcement officers to issue electronic citations for traffic, misdemeanor and municipal ordinance violations.

A former police officer, Sen. Al McAffrey, said Senate Bill 1872 would protect law enforcement personnel during traffic stops.   Continue reading “Oklahoma Bill Would Allow Electronic Citations for Traffic Violations”

WBKO News

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (WBKO) — To increase driving safety, Kentucky State Police is starting a new “safe driving program”.

Operation R.A.I.D (Remove aggressive, Impaired. and Distracted Drivers from Kentucky Roadways) will remain active for one year.   Continue reading “Kentucky State Police Begin Operation R.A.I.D.”

M Live – by Mark Torregrossa

Ice continued to build this past week on the Great Lakes due to the cold air and temperatures staying below freezing, and Lake Superior’s new record shows it.

The lake is 92 percent frozen, toppling a 20-year-old record of 91 percent set on Feb. 5, 1994. That statistic helped total Great Lakes ice cover soar, and we can expect to see more form in coming days.

The air temperatures this past week averaged around five degrees below normal for the Great Lakes area. This amount of deviation from normal means it was a fairly cold week.   Continue reading “Great Lakes ice cover spreading rapidly; see which lake set a new record”

Vice Motherboard – by McLean Gordon

In 1961, psychologist Stanley Milgram began an experiment that left humanity with one of the most dismal and damning self-portraits we’ve ever seen. It seemed to demonstrate that the overwhelming majority of regular Americans are willing to administer a lethal electric shock to a human victim when prompted to do so by an authority figure.

A decade later, Milgram’s fellow psychologist and former high school classmate Philip Zimbardo performed another experiment at Stanford University that captured on tape the transformation of regular college students into authoritarian monsters. In a matter of days, those playing the role of guards had the prisoners going mad in solitary confinement and defecating in buckets in their cells. Zimbardo shut the experiment down half way through, but only after his fellow psychologist and future wife appealed to his sense of humanity.   Continue reading “You’re As Evil as Your Social Network: What the Prison Experiment Got Wrong”