The two sides have agreed to continue talking for at least nine months, a State Department official said. "We're going to make every effort to reach an agreement within that time frame, but... if we're making progress and we're continuing to make progress, this is not a deadline," spokeswoman Jen Psaki said.
http://aje.me/17QbZms
 
 

Bradley Manning guilty of espionage in Wikileaks case:
Pte Manning, 25, has been found guilty of 20 charges in total.
http://bbc.in/18PvfVE
 
 
European Parliamentarians call on President Obama to free Bradley Manning:
Open Letter from Members of the European Parliament to President Barack Obama and US Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel
http://bit.ly/12z9VB5
 
 
Report: New Zealand military collected data on phone calls of McClatchy contributor: -
New Zealand's defense minister said Monday that an investigation is underway into a report that U.S. intelligence agencies helped his nation's military track the mobile telephone calls of a freelance journalist while he worked for McClatchy Newspapers in Afghanistan.
http://bit.ly/14rjMD7
 
 
US developing Mind Reading: Video:
The US government is pouring money into a technology called fMRI, functional magnetic resonance imaging, which measures changes in localized brain activity over time by watching blood flow. And it can now be used to infer information about our memories. It can tell things like what we have actually seen or experienced.
http://bit.ly/14hdGfw
 
 
 
Obama Admin. Deported More Than 13,000 Unaccompanied Mexican Children in 2012;
And, when it comes to deportation court hearings, it is not unusual for a toddler or a 6-year-old to appear in front of the judge without a lawyer.
http://bit.ly/1ciuIdI
 
 
JPMorgan Accused of Energy-Market Manipulation by U.S. Agency:
 JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) manipulated power markets in California and the Midwest from September 2010 to June 2011, obtaining tens of millions of dollars in overpayments from grid operators, the U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission alleged today.
http://bloom.bg/15rTWmm
 
 
The 25 largest Banks in the world:
The largest "private" American bank ranks 8th
http://bit.ly/13tAUbb
 
 
US fast food workers walk out in organised strike against low wages:
New York City-based campaign spreads around the country as workers unite to demand minimum $15 per hour wage
http://bit.ly/16gqeBS
 
 
41% of Nation's Poor Are White, Nearly Double the Number of Poor Blacks:
As the bottom continues to fall out of the economy, and good middle class jobs are replaced with low wage jobs, one of the most striking demographic changes is the growing number of whites who've fallen into poverty or are in danger of falling below the poverty line:
http://bit.ly/13tUcNA
 
 
 
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