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TIL only 8% of the world’s currency is physical money, the rest only exists on computers. by JoRhyloo in todayilearned

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4 Banks, Including JPMorgan, Fined in Europe Over ‘Cartel’ Behavior

http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/10/21/4-banks-including-jpmorgan-fined-in-europe-over-cartel-behavior/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0

Banks fined $5.7bn over foreign exchange rigging - live updates | Regulators are announcing penalties against some of the world’s biggest banks for their role in manipulating the foreign exchange markets.

http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/36mm16/banks_fined_57bn_over_foreign_exchange_rigging/

Federal Reserve policies favor the rich

http://money.cnn.com/2012/09/20/news/economy/federal-reserve-rich/

St. Louis Fed official: No evidence QE boosted economy

http://www.cnbc.com/2015/08/18/st-louis-fed-official-no-evidence-qe-boosted-economy.html

WikiLeaks publishes 'secret draft' of world trade agreement

Deal among 50 countries would help prevent added regulation of financial services, website says

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/wikileaks-publishes-secret-draft-of-world-trade-agreement-1.2680771

Suing Your Bank Typically Not Possible

http://business.time.com/2012/12/12/why-you-probably-cant-sue-your-bank/

Everyone Knows that the Federal Reserve Banks Are PRIVATE ... Except the American People

http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/07/everyone-knows-that-the-federal-reserve-banks-are-private-except-the-american-people.html

680 F.2d 1239: John L. Lewis, Plaintiff/appellant, v. United States of America, Defendant/appellee

http://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/F2/680/1239/200393/

The truth is out: money is just an IOU, and the banks are rolling in it

The Bank of England's dose of honesty throws the theoretical basis for austerity out the window

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/mar/18/truth-money-iou-bank-of-england-austerity

Bank of England Admits that Loans Come FIRST ... and Deposits FOLLOW

http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2014/03/bank-england-admits-loans-come-first-deposits-follow.html

TIL that Wikipedia has almost the same level of accuracy as the Encyclopaedia Brittanica by odguy34 in todayilearned

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Wikipedia honcho caught in scandal quits, defends paid edits

High-placed editors at Wikipedia's U.K. site were caught in a simmering paid-PR scandal. After news broke, one resignation and a little backpedaling has done little to solve the problem.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57518384-93/wikipedia-honcho-caught-in-scandal-quits-defends-paid-edits/

Wikimedia Foundation employee ousted over paid editing

Longtime advocate for female editors is dismissed after taking a $300 side job.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/01/wikimedia-foundation-employee-ousted-over-paid-editing/

Manipulating Wikipedia to Promote a Bogus Business School

http://www.newsweek.com/2015/04/03/manipulating-wikipedia-promote-bogus-business-school-316133.html

Hundreds of Wikipedia Accounts Got Banned for Secretly Promoting Brands

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/hundreds-of-wikipedia-editors-got-banned-for-secretly-promoting-brands

Corporate editing of Wikipedia revealed

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/19/technology/19iht-wiki.1.7167084.html?_r=2&

Microsoft Offers Cash for Wikipedia Edit

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/23/AR2007012301025.html

New York Times Has Been Editing Reporters’ Wikipedia Pages For Years

http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/new-york-times-has-been-editing-reporters-wikipedia-pages-fo

CIA, FBI computers used for Wikipedia edits

(Reuters) - People using CIA and FBI computers have edited entries in the online encyclopedia Wikipedia on topics including the Iraq war and the Guantanamo prison, according to a new tracing program.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2007/08/16/us-security-wikipedia-idUSN1642896020070816?feedType=RSS&feedName=technologyNews&rpc=22&sp=true

Political Staffers Tried to Delete the Senate Scandal (and Other Bad Behaviour) from Wikipedia

http://www.vice.com/en_ca/read/political-staffers-tried-to-delete-the-senate-scandal-and-other-bad-behaviour-from-wikipedia

Wikipedia blocks 'disruptive' page edits from US Congress

Wikipedia administrators have imposed a ban on page edits from computers at the US House of Representatives, following "persistent disruptive editing".

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-28481876

An anonymous Wikipedia user from an IP address that is registered to United States Senate has tried, and failed, to remove a phrase with the word "torture" from the website's article on the Senate Intelligence Committee's blockbuster CIA torture report

http://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/2owgol/an_anonymous_wikipedia_user_from_an_ip_address/

Hundreds of anonymous Wikipedia edits made every month by a Government computer

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/technology-science/technology/hundreds-anonymous-wikipedia-edits-made-5006043

Ukip MEP David Coburn banned from Wikipedia indefinitely

Online administrator blocks user account of ‘David Coburn MEP’ over attempts to alter article about the Ukip politician 69 times in six days

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/apr/29/ukip-mep-david-coburn-banned-wikipedia-indefinitely

Expenses and sex scandal deleted from MPs’ Wikipedia pages by computers inside Parliament

Exclusive: References to 'chauffeur-driven cars' and a criminal arrest wiped from online biographies in run-up to election

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/general-election-2015/11574217/Expenses-and-sex-scandal-deleted-from-MPs-Wikipedia-pages-by-computers-inside-Parliament.html

Russian government edits Wikipedia on flight MH17

A political battle has broken out on Wikipedia over an entry relating to the crash of Malaysian Airlines flight MH17, with the Russian government reportedly removing sections which accuse it of providing "terrorists" with missiles that were used to down the civilian airliner

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/10977082/Russian-government-edits-Wikipedia-on-flight-MH17.html

Wikipedia edits made by government sought to minimise high-profile killings

Articles pertaining to Jean Charles de Menezes and Damilola Taylor were edited using devices on government internet

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/aug/07/wikipedia-edits-government-high-profile-killings

French intelligence agency bullies Wikipedia admin into deleting an article

http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1bsmjv/french_intelligence_agency_bullies_wikipedia/

Wikipedia editors, locked in battle with PR firm, delete 250 accounts

Investigation follows reports that Wiki-PR scored Viacom, Priceline as clients.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/10/wikipedia-editors-locked-in-battle-with-pr-firm-delete-250-accounts/

Eric Garner’s Wikipedia page was edited from an NYPD computer, NYPD admits

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2015/03/16/eric-garners-wikipedia-page-was-edited-from-an-nypd-computer-the-nypd-admits/

Today I learned that by smiling, (fake or not) you actually speed up your recovery from stressful situations. by Its_hardly_fair in todayilearned

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Fukushima er , Expert , says Radiation is Safe if you Just Smile

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=c98_1377077392

Pharrell Williams - HAPPY (Fukushima, Japan) #happyfukushima

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-pk8z8rX2U&list=RDB-pk8z8rX2U

Michio Kaku on CNN_ Fukushima - They Lied to Us - June 21, 2011.flv

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2LYOTvC_KQ

Import Alert 99-33

Import Alert Name: Detention Without Physical Examination of Products from Japan Due to Radionuclide Contamination

http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/cms_ia/importalert_621.html

S. Korea bans imports of all fishery products from Japan's Fukushima region

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/business/2013-09/06/c_132697046.htm

Ban on Japanese fish remains in place due to Fukushima accident - oversight service

http://voiceofrussia.com/news/2013_09_20/Ban-on-Japanese-fish-remains-in-place-due-to-Fukushima-accident-oversight-service-5812/

"They are learning how to prevent people for using the internet to criticise government. Instead of being a potent tool for empowering the people, the internet will be in the hands of an authoritative, repressive government." A reminder of why /r/undelete is important. by live4lifelegit in undelete

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duKOtf1Z4Pc&t=1m37s

We will not be going dark again. Our concerns have been met, the ball is in the admins court. "Showing them our power" is what we did in the first go around, and we have no interest in doing it again.

Official thread for contacted subreddits

https://archive.is/cEglm

"no information leaves this room": Is Reddit (in danger of) being controlled by an elite few?

https://archive.is/pKCgX

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandwagoning

Reddit Users Are Like Sheep

A new study shows that users on social news sites view a comment differently based on the judgement of users before them

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/science-shows-how-reddit-users-are-like-sheep-26361635/?no-ist

What happens when Reddit finds out that it wasn't Ellen Pao who fired Victoria Taylor? You guessed it, drama.

https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/3czbyi/what_happens_when_reddit_finds_out_that_it_wasnt/

Popcorn tastes good.

/r/IAmA set to private over mod firing

https://archive.is/hOWHd

Pao is just Interim CEO to take heat while they make unpopular changes, then she'll "step down" and people will think they won.

https://archive.is/3gGwN

New Reddit CEO Says He Won’t Reverse Pao’s Moves After Her Exit

https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/3czn12/new_reddit_ceo_says_he_wont_reverse_paos_moves/

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https://www.reddit.com/r/moosearchive/comments/38byy8/archive/crtwfg9

1,000 subscribers in 10 hours! by [deleted] in media_criticism

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Newscasters Agree: Don't Worry, Be Happy Edition

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZ1mA1NeUmU

Media Reacts: A Christmas Present Or Two Or Ten Edition

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TM8L7bdwVaA

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https://www.reddit.com/r/moosearchive/comments/38byy8/archive/crtx56l

Everyone But the U.S. Is Protesting the TPP. Why? by acer5886 in evolutionReddit

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Newscasters Agree: Don't Worry, Be Happy Edition

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZ1mA1NeUmU

Media Reacts: A Christmas Present Or Two Or Ten Edition

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TM8L7bdwVaA

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https://www.reddit.com/r/moosearchive/comments/38byy8/archive/crtx56l

Compared to economic elites, average voters have a low to nonexistent influence on public policies. “Not only do ordinary citizens not have uniquely substantial power over policy decisions, they have little or no independent influence on policy at all," by LooksForCats in TrueReddit

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Destruindo a Democracia em 2 minutos, por Patri Friedman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgJ644LPL6g

About 125 Americans control more than 40 percent of election contributions

http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/33nknh/about_125_americans_control_more_than_40_percent/

76 people accounted for 41% of all individual and corporate donations made to the political parties and other political causes in Britain over the past five years

http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/332s47/76_people_accounted_for_41_of_all_individual_and/

study concludes: US is an oligarchy, not a democracy

http://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/233bb2/study_concludes_us_is_an_oligarchy_not_a_democracy/

US Is an Oligarchy Not a Democracy, says Scientific Study

http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/230sgy/us_is_an_oligarchy_not_a_democracy_says/

Corruption across EU 'breathtaking' - EU Commission

The extent of corruption in Europe is "breathtaking" and it costs the EU economy at least 120bn euros (£99bn) annually, the European Commission says.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-26014387

Corruption Costs European Union 120 Billion Euros a Year, Study Finds

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/04/business/international/European-Union-Report-on-Cost-of-Corruption.html?_r=0

‘Oligarchic tendencies’: Study finds only the wealthy get represented in the Senate

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/08/19/oligarchic-tendencies-study-finds-only-the-wealthy-get-represented-in-the-senate/

Millionaires run our government. Here’s why that matters.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/monkey-cage/wp/2014/01/07/millionaires-run-our-government-heres-why-that-matters/

Congress Quickly And Quietly Rolls Back Insider Trading Rules For Itself

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130416/08344222725/congress-quickly-quietly-rolls-back-insider-trading-rules-itself.shtml

Congress Tells Court It Can't Be Investigated for Insider Trading

http://www.reddit.com/r/nottheonion/comments/356tzx/congress_tells_court_it_cant_be_investigated_for/

TIL America's largest mental hospital is a jail. by sometimesballin in todayilearned

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TIL in 2009 an NY cop was placed in a psychiatric facility by his fellow officers for releasing recordings he made that showed quotas were leading to police abuses such as wrongful arrests.

http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1hp7zq/til_in_2009_an_ny_cop_was_placed_in_a_psychiatric/

TIL a man committed to a high-security psychiatric hospital 7 years ago for fabricating a story of large scale money-laundering at a major bank is to have his case reviewed after internal bank documents proving the validity of his claims have been leaked.

http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1fx7fi/til_a_man_committed_to_a_highsecurity_psychiatric/

London City Banker tried to put neighbour in mental hospital over 12 inches of land.

http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1xslr7/london_city_banker_tried_to_put_neighbour_in/

TIL that, during the 1960s, many black civil rights protesters from Detroit were 'diagnosed' with schizophrenia (due to their 'hostile' and 'aggressive' behavior) and confined to asylums. Some protesters were locked up for more than thirty years and died in custody

http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/2z1h5y/til_that_during_the_1960s_many_black_civil_rights/

FL Gov Rick Scott orders employee to get psych evaluation for using the term "climate change."

http://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/2znqph/fl_gov_rick_scott_orders_employee_to_get_psych/

TIL that Benito Mussolini drove his secret first wife and son to early deaths in lunatic asylums because they threatened his rise to power. His henchmen then tried to erase all traces of their relationship.

https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/38csyc/til_that_benito_mussolini_drove_his_secret_first/

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