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BANK OF AMERICA FREEZES GUN MANUFACTURER’S ACCOUNT, COMPANY OWNER CLAIMS

By Gregory Gwyn-Williams, Jr.
January 7, 2013

Bank of America has reportedly frozen the account of gun manufacturer American Spirit Arms, according to its owner, Joe Sirochman.
In a Facebook post dated December 29, Sirochman wrote the following:
“My name is Joe Sirochman owner of American Spirit Arms…our Web site orders have jumped 500 percent causing our Web site e-commerce processing larger deposits to Bank of America. So they decided to hold the deposits for further review.
“After countless hours on the phone with Bank of America, I finally got a manager in the right department that told me the reason that the deposits were on hold for further review — her exact words were — ‘We believe you should not be selling guns and parts on the Internet.’”(emphasis added)
Sirochman also wrote that he told the bank manager that “they have no right to make up their own new rules and regs” and that “[American Spirit is a] firearms manufacturer with all the proper licensing.”
He also noted that he has been doing business with Bank of America for over 10 years, but will now be looking for a new bank.
According to Unlawful News, this isn’t the first time Bank of America has targeted a customer involved in the firearms industry.
McMillan Group International was reportedly told that its business was no longer welcome after the company started manufacturing firearms – even after 12 years of doing business with the bank.

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SENATE-PASSED DEAL MEANS HIGHER TAX ON 77% OF HOUSEHOLDS

The budget deal passed by the U.S. Senate today would raise taxes on 77.1 percent of U.S. households, mostly because of the expiration of a payroll tax cut, according to preliminary estimates from the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center in Washington.
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Dawn breaks at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Monday, Dec. 31, 2012. Photo: Jay Mallin/Bloomberg
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Dec. 31 (Bloomberg) — Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform, talks about negotiations between U.S. lawmakers over the so-called fiscal cliff of $600 billion in automatic tax increases and spending cuts set to start at midnight. Norquist speaks with Erik Schatzker on the Bloomberg Television special “America’s Fiscal Debate.” (Source: Bloomberg)
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Dec. 31 (Bloomberg) — Jim Rickards, senior managing director at Tangent Capital Partners, and Stanley Crouch, chief investment officer at Aegis Capital, talk with Bloomberg’s Matt Miller about the impact of the fiscal cliff on the U.S. economy. They speak on Bloomberg Television’s “Bloomberg Rewind.” (Source: Bloomberg)
More than 80 percent of households with incomes between $50,000 and $200,000 would pay higher taxes. Among the households facing higher taxes, the average increase would be $1,635, the policy center said. A 2 percent payroll tax cut, enacted during the economic slowdown, is being allowed to expire as of yesterday.

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CRAIGSLIST SPERM DONOR FORCED TO PAY CHILD SUPPORT TO LESBIAN COUPLE – DESPITE GIVING UP PARENTAL RIGHTS TO THE BABY BEFORE SHE WAS BORN

Angela Bauer, 40, and partner Jennifer Schreiner, 34, placed ad in 2009.
Donor William Marotta relinquished financial responsibility for child,
Kansas state ordered Mr Marotta to pay after lesbian couple applied
for welfare.

A sperm donor has been ordered to pay child support for the biological daughter he fathered to a lesbian couple who found him via Craigslist.
Angela Bauer, 40, and partner Jennifer Schreiner, 34, placed an ad on the site three years ago for a donor which was answered by William Marotta.
‘We are foster and adoptive parents and now we desire to share a pregnancy and birth together,’ Bauer wrote in the online posting.

Donor: William Marotta, pictured, answered an ad placed on Craigslist by Angela Bauer, and her partner Jennifer Schreiner looking for a sperm donor

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OLIVER STONE TO RT: ‘US HAS BECOME AN ORWELLIAN STATE’


Americans are living in an Orwellian state argue Academy Award-winning director Oliver Stone and historian Peter Kuznick, as they sit down with RT to discuss US foreign policy and the Obama administration’s disregard for the rule of law.

“Obama was a great hope for change”

RT: It took both of you almost five years to produce this series. And in it you have a chapter called Obama: Management of a Wounded Empire. You give a harsh critique of the Obama administration. What in your eyes has been the most troubling aspect of his presidency, Oliver?

Oliver Stone: I think under the disguise of sheep’s clothing he has been a wolf. That because of the nightmare of the Bush presidency that preceded him, people forgave him a lot. He was a great hope for change. The color of his skin, the upbringing, the internationalism, the globalism, seemed all evident. And he is an intelligent man. He has taken all the Bush changes he basically put them into the establishment, he has codified them. That is what is sad. So we are going into the second administration that is living outside the law and does not respect the law and foundations of our system and he is a constitutional lawyer, you know. Without the law, it is the law of the jungle.  Nuremburg existed for a reason and there was a reason to have trials, there is a reason for due process – ‘habeas corpus’ as they call it in the United States.

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HOMICIDE RATES IN CANADA RISE 7%, FIREARM DEATHS AT LOWEST LEVEL IN ALMOST 50 YEARS AS KILLERS FAVOUR THE BLADE !

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“The rate of firearm homicides per 100,000 population has generally been declining since the mid-1970s and, in 2011, reached its lowest point in almost 50 years.”

The Canadian murder weapon of choice is now the blade.

“An increase in stabbings accounted for virtually the entire increase in homicides in 2011,” the federal data agency said.

It said there were 39 more stabbings in 2011 compared to 2010. Overall, stabbings accounted for 35 per cent of homicides, firearms for 27 per cent, beatings for 22 per cent and strangulation for seven per cent.

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FRENCH COURT REJECTS 75 PERCENT MILLIONAIRES’ TAX

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By Emile Picy and Catherine Bremer

PARIS | Sat Dec 29, 2012 11:25am EST

(Reuters) – France’s Constitutional Council on Saturday rejected a 75 percent upper income tax rate to be introduced in 2013 in a setback to Socialist President Francois Hollande’s push to make the rich contribute more to cutting the public deficit.

The Council ruled that the planned 75 percent tax on annual income above 1 million euros ($1.32 million) – a flagship measure of Hollande’selection campaign – was unfair in the way it would be applied to different households.

Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said the government would redraft the upper tax rate proposal to answer the Council’s concerns and resubmit it in a new budget law, meaning Saturday’s decision could only amount to a temporary political blow.

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Random Events, Free Will or Something Darker?

MANHATTAN NY SUBWAY DEATH 2ND FATAL SHOVE IN A MONTH

By MARC SANTORA and SARAH MASLIN NIR

Queens NY, Sunando Sen was pushed to his death on Thursday night, in what witnesses said was an unprovoked attack.

The Bangladesh passport of Mr. Sen, 46. He opened a copying business this year on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Mr. Suman said Mr. Sen was proud when he had saved enough money to open the business, New Amsterdam Copy.

A woman approaching from behind who had been sitting on a bench and who had been heard mumbling to herself. The woman pushed him into the path of a No. 7 train roaring into the 40th Street-Lowery Street subway station in Sunnyside. Mr. Sen was crushed under the train.

Onlookers screamed, the woman fled the station down two flights of stairs.

The seemingly unprovoked attack, the second time this month that a man was thrown to his death on the subway tracks, stirred some of the deepest fears of New Yorkers.

“When a murder happens in New York, it can often be dismissed as being in someone else’s backyard,” said Gene Russianoff, staff lawyer for the Straphangers Campaign, a rider advocacy group. “The subway is everyone’s backyard.”

Why is the weird death toll climbing in NY ever since Hurricane Sandy? What else was contained in that storm?

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DRAGON NOGARD

Nogard is a world run by Dragons that possess the ability to take the form and live among the humans they protect and care for. Humans carrying Dragons blood contain some magical abilities that vary with the amount of Dragons blood running through their veins.

The humans and the Dragons have always cohabitated together. Fact was the humans looked to the Dragons for everything in their lives from protection to provisions and in return the humans would pay homage to the Dragons.

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LED ZEPPELIN GET A WHOLE LOTTA LOVE FROM PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA – NEWS – MUSIC – THE INDEPENDENT

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They may have been sitting down in their tuxes rather than tearing across the stage in their flares, but in the words of Barack Obama: “Guys who are not completely youthful can still rock.”The President aged 51 hailed the remaining members of Led Zeppelin average age 66 for “making us all feel young” as they received a lifetime achievement award in the Kennedy Center Honours.“When Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, John Paul Jones and John Bonham burst on to the musical scene in the late 1960s, the world never saw it coming,” Mr Obama said at the awards ceremony on Sunday, at which actors Dustin Hoffman and comedian David Letterman were also honoured.“It’s been said that a generation of young people survived teenage angst with a pair of headphones and a Zeppelin album,” the President added.

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via Led Zeppelin get a whole lotta love from President Barack Obama – News – Music – The Independent.

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U.S. AND ISRAEL LOOK TO LIMIT IMPACT OF U.N. VOTE ON PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY

Published: November 28, 2012

WASHINGTON — After failing to head off a vote in the United Nations on Thursday that would upgrade the Palestinian Authority’s status, the United States and Israel are looking ahead to how they can contain the damage from the approval of a resolution that even some European allies have signaled they will support.

The draft resolution calls on the United Nations General Assembly to upgrade the Palestinian Authority to a nonmember observer state. It is virtually certain to pass, despite the opposition of the United States and a handful of other nations.

Challenges in Defining an Israeli-Palestinian Border

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3 CHILDREN REMOVED FROM UK FOSTER PARENTS BECAUSE OF THEIR POLITICAL BELIEFS

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By Associated Press, Published: November 24

LONDON — Britain’s education secretary says he will investigate how local officials removed three children from their foster family because of concerns about the parents’ political beliefs.

The Rotherham borough council sparked criticism Saturday when it was revealed that its social workers removed the children, who are European migrants, because their foster parents are members of the right-wing U.K. Independence Party.

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LARRY HAGMAN OF DALLAS FAME DIES OF THROAT CANCER

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Larry Hagman attends the Channel 5 Dallas Launch Party at Old Billingsgate Market on August 21, 2012 in London, England. Hagman is best known for playing villian J.R. Ewing on “Dallas.” Hagman died on November 23rd at the age of 81. (Ian Gavan, Getty Images)

Larry Hagman’s co-stars on the revamped Dallas have added their tributes to the late actor, who died on Friday.

The veteran star, best known for his portrayal of scheming oil baron J.R. Ewing in the original version of the soap opera, which ran from 1978 to 1991, passed away at a hospital in Texas after suffering complications from his battle with cancer.


His long-serving Dallas co-stars Linda Gray, Patrick Duffy, Victoria Principal and Ken Kercheval paid tribute to the actor after news of his death emerged – and now several of his co-stars on the revamped show have also spoken out about the tragedy.

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‘Dallas’ Star Larry Hagman Dies at 81

‘Dallas’ TV actor, Larry Hagman dies after battle with throat cancer – New York Celebrity | Examiner.com

Hagman’s new co-stars devasted by his death – FOX23 News – The 10 O’Clock News

Larry Hagman Death: ‘Dallas’ Costars Pay Tribute to the Iconic Actor – Hollywood Reporter

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MATT LAUER FIRING: MATT LAUER SET TO GET THE AXE FROM TODAY AFTER RATINGS FREE-FALL AND CLASHING WITH CO-ANCHORS | MAIL ONLINE

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Is the king of NBC daytime TV about to lose his throne? Matt Lauer ‘set to get the axe from Today’ after poor ratings and clashes with co-stars

Long-time host is being blamed for the NBC morning show’s plummeting performance

Executives are reportedly sick of him butting heads with colleagues

Weatherman Al Roker is plotting for Today’s 9am hour co-host Willie Geist to take the sought-after anchor seat

By HELEN POW

PUBLISHED: 20:27 EST, 21 November 2012 | UPDATED: 09:40 EST, 22 November 2012

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After repeatedly clashing with co-anchors and overseeing plummeting ratings, the Today show’s Matt Lauer is reportedly being given the boot.

The long-time host, who earns a staggering $21.5 million a year, is being blamed for the NBC morning show’s dismal performance over the past three months and sources claim ratings will only improve if he is replaced.

According to The National Enquirer, weatherman Al Roker is plotting to push the 54-year-old TV veteran out of his anchor chair and is lobbying a newly appointed Today producer for help.

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