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Morning reading.

Obama Issued $216 Billion In New Regulations Last Year - RegWatch

Taxpayers Pay For Bill Clinton's Skinemax, Jimmy Carter's DISH Network

TRUMP: If GOP Doesn't Hold Firm On Spending Cuts 'Country Will Go To Hell'

Ex-U.S. Attorney Mary White Said To Be Favorite For SEC Chairman

A Case Of Goldman Sachs Greed Gone Too Far - CNN

Fed’s Richard Fisher Unhappy With QE3 Impact - Calls To Split Up Mega-Banks

Wall Street CEOs Feel A Little Bonus Pain (Laughable...)

Jamie Dimon's Bonus Cut In Half To $10 Million

The Battery That Grounded Boeing

60 Percent Of Young Americans Plan To Purchase Firearms, Study Reveals

Obama Tweets 8-Year-Old's Gun Control Letter To Earn Sympathy

Boeing’s New And Improved 30,000-Pound Bunker-Busting Bomb

America's Hardest Hit Foreclosure Neighborhoods - CNN

Bernanke Says Fed Monitoring QE Effects On Inflation - Bloomberg

REPORT: 1 In 3 Illinois Residents Lives At Poverty Level

Greek Banks Need $37 Billion More Capital, Bank Of Greece Says

Facebook Loses 1.4 Million Active Users In U.S. - MarketWatch

Facebook Enables Free iPhone Voice Calls - CNN Money

Stranger to Erin Burnett: You Work for CNN? Yeah, You're 'In the Can for Obama'

Ohio Teacher Sues School District For Discrimination, Says She Fears Children (WTF?)

Corleone Italy Apologises For Decades Of Mafia Murders - Telegraph

Man Run Over, Killed, When Dog Jumps Into Car, Pushes Accelerator (Bizarre...)

BBC - Horsemeat Found In Beef Burgers On Sale In UK And Ireland

Mexican Drug Cartels Thank Obama for Gun Control Push

How Wells Fargo Financed Mexican Drug Cartels - Bloomberg (Must Read...)

FLASHBACK - How The U.S. Work With Mexican Cartels To Traffic Drugs Into The U.S.

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Jon Stewart on Fast & Furious:

Daily Show On The ATF's Mexican Gunapalooza

A Mexican Army General holds one of the Fast & Furious Barrett .50 caliber rifles the ATF allowed to be smuggled into Mexico.

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[DailyBail]

As Germany Prepares To Repatriate Its Gold, We Hope They Have Learned From The "Monetary Sins Of The Past

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-01-15/germany-prepares-repatriate-its-gold-we-hope-they-have-learned-monetary-sins-past

Very interesting read.

[DailyBail]

It’s official. The Bundesbank is bringing (some of) its gold home.

http://blogs.marketwatch.com/thetell/2013/01/16/its-official-the-bundesbank-is-bringing-some-of-its-gold-home/

But don’t get too excited. There appears to be no huge rush.

In a press release Wednesday, the central bank said aims to have half its gold reserves stored in its own vaults in Germany by 2020. The other half will remain in storage in London and New York.

[DailyBail]

Silver Lake Management LLC and partners are close to lining up about $15 billion in funds for a buyout of Dell Inc. (DELL), the third-biggest maker of personal computers, said people familiar with the matter.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-01-17/silver-lake-is-said-to-be-near-financing-on-dell-lbo.html

[DailyBail]

Sony Corp. (6758)’s U.S. unit said it agreed to sell its 37-story New York headquarters to investors led by the Chetrit Group for $1.1 billion. The shares surged the most in more than four years.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-01-18/sony-to-sell-u-s-headquarters-to-chetrit-group-for-1-1-billion.html

[DailyBail]

WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — A federal regulator released final rules on Thursday aiming to force companies that handle mortgage payments to deliver clear information about costs and deal fairly with struggling borrowers.

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/feds-finalize-rules-to-clean-up-mortgage-servicers-2013-01-17

[john]

A Barrage Of Legal Threats Shuts Down Whistleblower Site, Science Fraud

http://www.forbes.com/sites/billfrezza/2013/01/09/a-barrage-of-legal-threats-shuts-down-whistleblower-site-science-fraud/

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Those of us concerned about the decaying credibility of Big Science were dismayed to learn that the whistleblower site Science Fraud has been shut down due to a barrage of legal threats against its operator. With billions of dollars in federal science funding hinging on the integrity of academic researchers, and billions more in health care dollars riding on the truthfulness of pharmaceutical research claims, the industry needs more websites like this, not fewer.

Regular readers of Retraction Watch, a watchdog site run by two medical reporters, got the news along with a story about the blog’s anonymous editor, who has since come forward and identified himself as Professor Paul Brookes, a researcher at the University of Rochester. Operated as a crowdsourced reference site much like Wikipedia, Science Fraud, in its six months of operation, documented egregiously suspicious research results published in over 300 peer reviewed publications. Many were subsequently retracted, including a paper by an author whose lawyer sent Science Fraud a cease and desist letter...

...Fraud, plagiarism, cherry-picked results, poor or non-existent controls, confirmation bias, opaque, missing, or unavailable data, and stonewalling when questioned have gone from being rare to being everyday occurrences. Just look at the soaring retraction level across multiple scientific publications and the increasingly vocal hand wringing of science vigilantes. Hardly a prestigious university or large pharmaceutical company is immune, with the likes of Harvard, Cal Tech, Johns Hopkins, Ohio State, University of Kentucky, and the University of Maryland recently fingered by Retraction Watch.

And if you think science fraud only impacts the scientific literature, consider the horrendous case of Dr. Scott Reuben, formerly chief of the acute pain service at Baystate Medical Center in Massachusetts. He was sentenced to prison for falsifying research data purportedly demonstrating the efficacy of analgesic medications sold by Pfizer, Merck, and Wyeth that were published in dozens of journals before his fabrications were uncovered. And while Reuben is through as a scientist the problem lingers on, as his research papers were among the most heavily cited in the field.

[john]

Delaware cracks down on Maine-registered trailers flouting tolls

http://bangordailynews.com/2013/01/17/news/state/delaware-cracks-down-on-maine-registered-trailers-flouting-tolls/



Maybe Delaware can start cracking down on all those shell and shelf LLC's registered THERE!

[SKINFLINT]

What is a man to do? When you do God's work, you just gotta press forward.http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-01-18/goldman-sachs-boosts-blankfein-stock-bonus-90-to-13-3-million.html

[john]

Honestly, I have always liked President Carter and his First Lady. Here is an interview today by Reuters and is worth watching.

http://www.reuters.com/video/2015/07/07/newsmaker-president-carter-on-middle-eas?videoId=364861537&videoChannel=5