Link: http://www.chron.com/business/press-releases/article/Don-Let-the-FBI-Use-CALEA-to-Track-Americans-3560088.php

"There's nothing wrong with asserting your privacy. Privacy is as apple-pie as the Constitution," wrote Philip Zimmerman in 1991, the creator of Pretty Good Privacy (PGP), the most widely used email encryption software in the world.

Link: http://articles.philly.com/2012-05-15/news/31711956_1_president-obama-mitt-romney-julia

The Obama brain trust in Chicago recently rolled out its new campaign slogan: “Forward.” If the president’s most extreme detractors had wanted to give him a rallying cry more freighted with leftist baggage, they could not have done better.

Link: http://theintelhub.com/2012/05/15/approaching-cataclysm-a-conclusion-of-the-underground-bases/

So why all the secrecy and clandestine underground and underwater activity? Is Armageddon coming? Is the Apocalypse right around the corner? Do the clandestine movers and shakers inside the military-industrial-espionage complex know something that the rest of us don’t? Are we like lemmings unwittingly flocking toward a sheer precipice whose existence we do not evenly dimly suspect?

Link: http://www.alternet.org/news/155431/don%27t_look_now_--_banks_are_still_ruining_america%3A_6_harsh_lessons_from_the_jp_morgan_fiasco/

JP Morgan Chase is part of an entwined system of too-big-to-fail institutions that are ripping us off.

Link: http://www.alternet.org/news/155442/wells_fargo_has_blood_on_its_hands%3A_desperate_man_commits_suicide_after_shocking_foreclosure_mistreatment_/

This is the story of what happens when an average couple is up against a giant, wealthy, powerful bank. Norman and Oriane Rousseau were one more couple pushed by a huge, greedy bank to the brink of homelessness. On Sunday, desperate and with nowhere to go, Norman Rousseau shot himself.

Link: http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/05/15-13

Consider $2 billion lost on a bad bet, plus billions more as investors dumped the stock, a providential warning. When Jamie Dimon, the imperious head of JPMorgan Chase, revealed that the bank had lost so muchon a derivatives trade gone bad, it was clear warning that, four years after blowing up the economy, the big banks are still playing with bombs.