Former Telemundo reporter and anchor Vicky Gutierrez is suing the Spanish-language channel and parent company NBC Universal for age discrimination.  

In a lawsuit filed Wednesday in Los Angeles Superior Court, Gutierrez claims she was let go because she reached 50, and was replaced by a much younger woman to attract better ratings at a lower cost to the network. Gutierrez worked at LA station KVEA since 2003.  

According to the suit, the network claims to have "laid her off." However, Gutierrez claims in the suit she was actually terminated, citing reasons she was let go as "multiple complaints about the working conditions at KVEA and she was an older female earning too much money." 

This isn't the first time an older female anchor was ousted in favor of a younger face.

1983: Christine Craft became the first woman to sue for age and sex discrimination.

Craft filed a suit after receiving a demotion at ABC affiliate KMBC-TV in Kansas City. 

According to testimony from the trial, Craft was told she was demoted to reporter in 1979 because focus group research found she was "too old, too unattractive and wouldn't defer to men."

After a trial at Federal District Court in Kansas City, Craft was awarded $500,000.

1999: Janet Peckinpaugh was awarded $3.79 million after suing a network for a demotion.

Peckinpaugh accused Post-Newsweek Stations' CBS station Channel 3 of backing out on a promise to employ her for life. 

She claimed the network discriminated against both her age and sex after a demotion in 1994 and firing her in 1995.  

Peckinpaugh said she earned $250,000 per year as an anchor. 

Post-Newsweek was found guilty of sex discrimination, breach of written and oral promises, and illegal retaliation. 

She was originally awarded $8.3 million in January 1999, but that number was lowered to $3.79 million in March of '99. The number was later raised again to $4.9 million in July '99.

2002: Carol Kaplan filed a gender discrimination lawsuit against WGRZ-TV Buffalo.

In a lawsuit filed, Kaplan accused a station executive of saying she could replace her with a "younger and prettier" woman.

The case was dismissed after Federal Judge John Curtin said there wasn't enough evidence for the discrimination claims to hold up. Bazi Kanani was hired in her place.

Kaplan anchored the 5 p.m. news for the Multimedia Entertainment owned station for 11 years. 

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The Port Authority and The Durst Organization have just released a whole bunch of new renderings of One World Trade Center and it looks like a knockout.

A false fire report at the site notwithstanding, construction at One World Trade is moving along. It officially became the tallest building in New York City in late April, and will rise 1,776 feet upon its completion in early 2014.

Condé Nast will be a major tenant in the 3 million-square-foot building—the publishing company leased nearly 1.2 million square feet across 25 floors. Vantone China Center and the federal General Services Administration have also signed leases, bringing the building to 55 percent occupancy, according to the Port Authority.

The new renderings show the building from every possible angle and offer a glimpse at what the interior will look like. They also incorporate some new design features.

View from 8 Spruce Street.

The view from Brooklyn, at dusk.

And the same view, at night.

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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton let loose on the dance floor at a state dinner in South Africa Tuesday night, shoring up her reputation as the country's wildest ex-First Lady and sparking a fresh round of 2016 hopes among her growing fan club. 

Clinton has experienced a meteoric rise in popularity this year, with her favorability rating hitting a historic 20-year high after her unforgettable Conga line in Cartagena and the emergence of the "Texts From Hillary" Tumblr this April. 

The truth is, Clinton has always been kind of rad. Here are 20 pictures that show why she's a total badass. 

Because she can really dance.

Because she can wink. Clinton winked at a committee member when she testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in May 2012.

Because a store is named after her. On a visit to Kosovo, a local store changed its name in her honor in October 2010.

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Most major automakers depend on just a few models to drive sales.

Morgan Stanley is out with its US Auto Product Guidebook, which takes a closer look at just how important those top models are.

From the report: 

Isolating just the top 10 best selling nameplates alone accounted for nearly 25% of total US volume last year. The top 20 nameplates accounted for nearly 40% of sales, while the top 30 accounted for just under 50% of the market.

We've collected the three best selling US-models for each of the major car manufacturers.  We also included what percent each car represents of total US sales for each manufacturer.

Chrysler: Dodge Ram

Dodge Ram Pickup

• Price: $22,120
• Units: 138,581
• % of US Volume: 16.6

Jeep Grand Cherokee

• Price: $27,195
• Units: 75,117
• % of US Volume: 9

Jeep Wrangler

• Price: $22,045
• Units: 70,871
• % of US Volume: 8.5

Source: Morgan Stanley

Ford: F-Series

Ford F-Series

• Price: $23,500
• Units: 301,141
• % of US Volume: 26.4

Ford Fusion

• Price: $21,700
• Units: 136,849
• % of US Volume: 12

Ford Focus

• Price: $16,200
• Units: 131,423
• % US Volume: 11.5

Source: Morgan Stanley

General Motors: Chevrolet Silverado

Chevrolet Silverado

• Price: $22,195
• Units: 194,508
• % of US Volume: 14.8

Chevrolet Malibu

• Price: $22,110
• Units: 141,437
• % of US Volume: 10.7

Chevrolet Cruze

• Price: $17,130
• Units: 113,895
• % of US Volume: 8.7

Source: Morgan Stanley

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Handball has become the cult sport of the 2012 Olympics. And today, we had the most thrilling moment of the men's tournament.

Iceland led its quarterfinal game against Hungary 27-26 and was shooting a penalty shot with 12 seconds left.

No way they could lose that, right?

Wrong.

A hectic sequences ensued, and Hungary eventually won the game in overtime.

Iceland — which has never won a summer Olympic gold medal — has a great handball team. But they yet again missed a chance at gold in heartbreaking fashion.

Iceland looks to have the game wrapped up. They were up 27-26 with 21 seconds left, and they had the ball (there is no shot clock)

Iceland then got ANOTHER break with 12 seconds left, when they were awarded a penalty shot on this foul (Iceland in red)

All they had to do was score the penalty shot, and they'd go to the semifinals

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The women's gymnastics balance beam concluded with one of the most dramatic and tense moments of the Olympics.

After initially finishing fourth, Aly Raisman was awarded the bronze medal when her coach, at the urging of Bela Karolyi, filed a protest, arguing that Raisman did not get full credit for her routine.

But Mihai Brestyan, who had never previously filed a protest, only had five minutes to file the enquiry, and felt he did not have time to locate and retrieve his pre-filled protest form. Instead, he was able to get a new form, find a pen, and submit the protest in time.

On the next few pages we will take a closer look at how the tense moments played out.

When Aly finished her routine, everybody knew it was going to be close for a medal

Her dad couldn't watch

Nor could mom

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Khalid Shudooh was a football player and honor student who had lived in the U.S. since he was four and his family moved from Jordan.

But when his father fell on tough times and left the country, Khalid lost his visa. He stayed in the U.S., the only country he'd ever known, supporting himself and going to high school.

His freshman year of college, U.S. marshals came to his house and arrested him. He was thrown into prison with drug dealers and thieves.

With his bail set at $250,000 and his family overseas, Khalid didn't have many options.

Khalid Shudooh was born in Jordan. When he was 4, his father accepted a scholarship at the University of Wisconsin, and the entire family moved.

Khalid adapted quickly and pretty soon couldn't even remember his native Arabic. He's seen here in kindergarten.

Khalid said he's felt like an American for as long as he could remember. When he visited Jordan as a kid, he said he felt out-of-place.

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Casinos had a rough couple of years following the latest U.S. recession, but the numbers are turning up.

According to a new report from the American Gaming Association titled "State of the States: The 2012 AGA Survey of Casino Entertainment," casinos in the U.S. brought in a total of $35.64 billion of revenues in 2011 and "returned $7.93 billion of those revenues to states and localities in the form of direct gaming taxes — a 4.5 percent increase over 2010 totals."

13 out of the 22 states in which casinos are legal posted increases in tax revenues year over year.

Some of the increases were due to new casino openings – the report says that "in Maryland, the addition of a second casino and the first full year of operations at the first drove a 464.2 percent increase. New casinos in Kansas and New York led to increases of 38.0 percent and 17.9 percent, respectively."

Maryland, 464.2% tax revenue growth

Number of casinos: 2

Number of people employed: 290

Total tax revenue raised: $90 million

Tax revenue growth from a year ago: 464.2 percent

How the taxes are spent: Education trust fund, local impact grants, small, minority- and women-owned businesses

Legal since: 2008

Source: AGA

Kansas, 38.0% tax revenue growth

Number of casinos: 2

Number of people employed: N/A

Total tax revenue raised: $13 million

Tax revenue growth from a year ago: 38.0 percent

How the taxes are spent: State debt reduction, infrastructure improvements, property tax relief, problem gambling treatment 

Legal since: 2007

Source: AGA

New York, 15.6% tax revenue growth

Number of casinos: 9

Number of people employed: 5,082

Total tax revenue raised: $593 million

Tax revenue growth from a year ago: 15.6 percent

How the taxes are spent: Education

Legal since: 2001

Source: AGA

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Stay organized and on top of your busy life with these useful Android productivity apps. The apps on this list aim to make your life simple, easy, and eliminate excessive processes.

Keep track of your documents in the cloud by using Box, then edit them on your phone or tablet with CloudOn, a full port of Microsoft Office.

You can even type easier by using Swiftkey, remember everything with Any.DO, and much more.

Chrome for Android

The first app we download as soon as we get a new Android phone or tablet is Google Chrome. Ditch your phone's stock browser and take advantage of this excellent browser.

Chrome allows you to sign in to your Google account and sync your open tabs, bookmarks, passwords, and omnibox data from your computer to your mobile device.

On top of all that, Chrome is super fast and polished.

Price: Free

Robin

Robin is quickly becoming one of our favorite Android apps. The virtual assistant is better than Siri in many ways. She can tweet for you, give you turn by turn directions, provide real-time parking info, and so much more.

Price: Free

Evernote

Evernote is our favorite note-taking app. It's full of features and helps us to stay organized by syncing across all our devices. 

Price: Free

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Instead of heading directly to college after high school graduation, Joe Baker and Reade Paterno of Chapel Hill, NC decided to take a "gap year" and travel the world.

Read about Joe's decision to take a gap year >>

They waited tables for more than a year to raise funds for the nine-month trip, which took them to 11 countries across three continents. Baker saved around $9,000 before leaving; his grandfather donated another $8,000.

While they didn't nail down many specifics beforehand, the pair bought several major flights ahead of time. They tried to stick to a strict budget, at times eating only bread and eggs to conserve funds. Baker said he ran out of cash just a day or two before his family met him in Spain for the last leg of his journey.

Baker shared some photos highlighting the best moments of his travels, which he explains here in his own words. Click through to see what his gap year was like.

Click here to see the highlights of Joe's gap year >

Have an amazing travel story and photos to share? Send an email to thelife@businessinsider.com and we could feature your adventure next.

This is Reade and me at the very beginning of the trip as we were just figuring everything out. We decided that we wanted to get at least one souvenir from each country, so in Peru we could not resist the Bill Cosby-esque sweaters made from baby alpaca wool.

This is the beautiful view we had from our hostel room, overlooking the city of Cusco as the sun went down with the mountains in the background.

These baby alpacas are just as soft as the wool they provided for our sweaters. Groups of women would wander the city with their herds of alpacas and for a small price allow travelers to take a photo with them.

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It's been an awesome few days. But now, after the joy and jubilation of having successfully landed the Curiosity Rover on the surface of Mars starts to fade, the internet has creeped into the fun cracks, flooding the webs with Mars-based memes, cartoons and hilarity.

We've collected some of our favorites.

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That’s right.  Although having a million bucks isn’t as impressive as it once was, it’s still nothing to sneeze at.

In fact, Reuters reports that in 2009 there were 7.8 million millionaires in the United States.

See what your millionaire neighbor won't tell you >

That’s a lot of people, people.  And the odds are one or two of them are living near you.

Heck, one of them might even be your neighbor.  In fact, the odds are very good that it is your neighbor.

But, Len, you don’t know my neighbor.  That guy doesn’t look anything like a millionaire.

Well, guess what?  Your suburban millionaire neighbor called (oh yeah, we go way back) and the two of us had a nice little chat.

Here’s a few things he shared with me – but apparently doesn’t want to tell you.  (No offense, I’m sure.)

See what your millionaire neighbor won't tell you >

He always spends less than he earns

In fact his mantra is, over the long run, you’re better off if you strive to be anonymously rich rather than deceptively poor.

From LenPenzo.com

He knows that patience is a virtue

The odds are you won’t become a millionaire overnight.  If you’re like him, your wealth will be accumulated gradually by diligently saving your money over multiple decades.

From LenPenzo.com

He serves his guests inexpensive coffee

When you go to his modest three-bed two-bath house, you’re going to be drinking Folgers instead of Starbucks.

And if you need a lift, well, you’re going to get a ride in his ten-year-old economy sedan.  And if you think that makes him cheap, ask him if he cares.  (He doesn’t.)

From LenPenzo.com

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BMO chief investment strategist Brian Belski went on Bloomberg TV yesterday and made a huge call: he told viewers that "we're on the verge of the next great bull market" in stocks.

Belski said that "in the last 10 - 12 years we in the investment world have become so macro dominated we've forgotten that really fundamentals define stocks. We live by one very simple premise that stocks lead earnings, which lead the economy."

Belski put together a presentation for clients outlining his bullish thesis based on 16 economic and market indicators he factored into his call.

Note: Thanks to BMO Capital Markets for giving us permission to feature this presentation.

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Usually, luxury doesn’t come cheap.

We at Bundle wanted to discover where you can find top-notch accommodations at affordable prices, both here and abroad.

Looking for a private villa with a pool for $209 per night? Yes, it does exist.

Want to stay in a patrician house in a medieval walled town? We've got you covered. Get all of your travel essentials for the best price here.

Read on to discover some opulent getaways that won’t break the bank.

Sofitel Angkor Phokeethra Golf & Spa Resort: Siem Reap, Cambodia

This unique resort has the largest free form swimming pool in Cambodia. Its breathtaking design is a combination of Khmer and French architectural design, and guests can roam around the landscaped gardens, dine at the five restaurants and bars, and relax at the spa. The rooms have antique ceiling fans, scenic garden, lake or pool views, and the signature Sofitel’s MyBed will have you dreaming in bliss.

What it will cost you: $170 per night.

Hotel Eisenhut: Rothenburg Ob Der Tauer, Germany

Consisting of four patrician houses from the 12th and 18th centuries, this hotel is located in the medieval walled center of Rothenburg, overlooking the Tauber Valle. The houses are furnished with antiques and original artwork, and the large, spacious rooms with picturesque views are just steps from outdoor cafés and museums. You’ll be taken back in time at this resort.

What it will cost you: $135 per night.

Bon Ton Resort: Langkawi, Malaysia

Located in Langkawi, a cluster of 99 islands off the northwestern coast of Malaysia, Bon Ton Resort is a destination you’ll never forget. The resort boasts eight traditional Malaysian-style villas, all of which face the pool and lagoon. Guests are given sarongs to wear during the day, can go early morning bird watching, and experience a delicious and authentic Malaysian restaurant. Headed on an adventure? Find the best sneakers for ultimate foot support here.

What it will cost you: $209 per night.

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The drought is causing agricultural commodity prices to go haywire.

But where are things heading next?

Morgan Stanley's commodities team has addressed five pressing questions that the current commodities investing environment has prompted.

Read on to see Morgan Stanley's recommendations for how to see through the messy commodities weather.

How high will corn prices go?

Prices could reach double digits thanks to ongoing weather concerns and inelastic ethanol demand. Upstream agricultural equities stand to benefit most. Corn prices are currently around $8.00 per bushel.

Source: Morgan Stanley

What's the outlook for sugar prices?

There's still likely to be a production surplus, and MS is forecasting sugar prices to fall from $0.19/lb for 2012/2013 compared with $0.21/lb currently.

Source: Morgan Stanley

Will chicken prices rise to offset feed cost inflation?

No. Prices would need to average $0.83/lb for the industry to be profitable over the next twelve months, versus $0.73/lb in the last twelve months. MS expects chicken to be an unprofitable business for some time and remains underweight Tyson and Sanderson Farms and equal-weight Brasil Foods S.A..

Source: Morgan Stanley

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A beautiful home on Cape Cod that sits on nine acres of land is on sale for $17 million.

The home has 10 bedrooms, eight full bathrooms, and three half bathrooms.

The main mansion has classic Cape Cod-style shingles and spans three floors. There's a quaint guest house nearby.

Welcome to Osterville, Mass.

The listing describes the home as an "1880s style Manor."

The annual taxes on this gem are $81,117 a year.

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Today, a great world mystery was solved by Mike Isaac, a writer at tech news site AllThingsD.

Isaac unmasked the owner of Boo, "the world's cutest dog."

No, really. Boo is the world's cutest dog. Google it. Or check out the book that came out last year.

According to Isaac, Boo belongs to Irene Ahn, a finance lead at Facebook. She joined the company in 2008 from Yahoo.

Ahn's identity as Boo's "mom" has never been revealed before. She's used the stage name J.H. Lee to keep the spotlight on her dog.

Boo is known around the world with nearly 5 million Facebook fans. We spoke to Boo's publicist at Chronicle Books, April Whitney, to get some more color.

Whitney says not many people get rich publishing books, but according to her, Boo's first book was "pretty successful."

The $12.95 title went to market last summer and has since been published in ten languages—Portuguese, Finnish, French, German, Norwegian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Turkish, and a Chinese-language edition sold in Taiwan.

Thanks to the success of Boo's first book, he has a second that will be released soon called Boo: Little Dog In The Big City. It's about Boo and his friend Buddy talking on their city, San Francisco, and it will also retail for $12.95.

Chronicle Books has also released a calendar for Boo, which sells for $13.99. In addition, Boo has a line of Gund stuffed animals coming out and an A-B-C book for children.

While Whitney didn't confirm Ahn as the owner, she did talk a little bit about Boo's owner. Boo and his owner live in San Francisco. She also says Boo's owner never sought fame or fortune.

"She didn't contact us, we contacted her when Boo only had 60,000 Facebook fans," says Whitney. "It might appear to people like she's creating all these things for Boo, but the only online presence she's made for him is his Facebook page."

Whitney says everything else that's online about Boo, including his Twitter account, his YouTube videos, and his website, are fake.

Ok, now here's the good part.

In case you don't believe us, Boo actually is the cutest dog in the world, according to Google.

This is Boo's Facebook page. It's the only online profile Ahn has ever made for Boo. Everything else, including his website, YouTube videos, and Twitter handle are fake or run by fans.

This is Irene Ahn, the woman who owns Boo. She is a finance lead at Facebook. She joined the company from Yahoo in December 2008.

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Home prices across the nation are down 33.3 percent since they peaked in the first quarter of 2006, according to latest data from Fiserv Case-Shiller.

But home prices are projected to increase 3.9 percent between now and the first quarter of 2017.

Yesterday we put together a list of the 15 best housing markets for the next five years.

We're following this up with a feature on the 15 housing markets that are projected to see the most declines or slowest growth in home prices.

Note: The median family income and home price data is for Q1 2012. Unemployment data is for May 2012, and population data is for 2011.

Atlantic City-Hammonton, New Jersey

Annualized expected growth from 2012 - 2017: 1.2 percent

The Atlantic City-Hammonton metro area has a median home price of $193,000, above the national median of $159,000. And its home prices are 35.3 percent lower than they were during their peak in the second quarter of 2006.

It has a population of 274,338, an unemployment rate of 12.6 percent, much higher than the national average od 8.2 percent, and a median family income of $64,200 below the national median of $62,900.

Data provided by Fiserv Case Shiller Indexes

Columbia, Missouri

Annualized expected growth from 2012 - 2017: 1.2 percent

Columbia has a median home price of $145,000 and its home prices are down 0.5 percent since their Q1 2008 peak.

It has a population of 175,831, an unemployment rate of 5.1 percent, and a median family income of $63,900.

Data provided by Fiserv Case Shiller Indexes

Shreveport-Bossier City, Louisiana

Annualized expected growth from 2012 - 2017: 1.1 percent

Shreveport-Bossier City has a median home price of $151,000 and the metro's home prices area down 0.9 percent since they peaked in Q3 2010.

It has a population of 403,595, an unemployment rate of 7.2 percent, and a median family income of $54,900.

Data provided by Fiserv Case Shiller Indexes

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Before Wade Michael Page killed six people at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin, he appeared on anti-hate groups' watch lists.

The Southern Poverty Law Center and The Anti-Discrimination League monitored Page's involvement with white supremacist groups – including his own white power band.

With that in mind, we thought we'd check out who else has a spot in the SPLC's Intelligence Files. That list includes everyone from Ku Klux Klan leaders to former college professors.

Keep in mind, we are not accusing any of these people of crimes or implying that they might commit crimes. We are simply reporting their inclusion in SPLC's intelligence files, and why they merited that inclusion.

Business Insider attempted to reach all of the individuals for whom we could find contact information. We did not immediately hear back from anybody on the list.

April Gaede is one of the most famous Neo-Nazi stage moms.

Gaede, who has been linked to white supremacist group National Vanguard and the neo-Nazi National Alliance, has reportedly raised her daughters to embrace the neo-Nazi culture.

She even went so far as to create the white supremacist band Prussian Blue in which her daughters Lamb and Lynx performed, according to the SPLC.

However, after her daughters had a change of heart — Lamb and Lynx told The Daily in 2011 they weren't  white nationalists anymore — Gaede moved on to a new career: matchmaking.

She advertised her dating service, for white nationals only of course, in 2010 on the white supremacist site Stormfront.org.

"I have many references throughout WNism [white nationalism] as well as from this board who will vouch for my sincerity and my loyalty to our cause, the 14 words, and the future of our race," she wrote in her Stormfront.org posting.

“I find other races annoying. …," SPLC has quoted Gaede as saying. "I don’t like their chattering in other languages, I don’t like the way they look. I mean, 99% of them, they’re just not pretty. I don’t want to be around them. I don’t like the fact they seem to make everything just dirty and messy wherever they are. I don’t like to be around them. I want to be around all white people.”

Jeff Berry served as the imperial wizard of the American Knights of the Ku Klux Klan.

During his time leading the KKK, Berry welcomed thugs and criminals into the fold, creating the "bully-boy Klan," according to the SPLC.

In a 2005 interview with TheLiberator.net, Berry said the Klan "is in existence for equal rights."

"We're not against Blacks," he added. "We're against n-----s." He defined that term as people who take away from society without giving anything back.

Berry called being white "the most proud thing there is."

"But don't degrade me or call me a racist because I'm proud of my race," he said. "I'm proud of being White."

Berry went to prison in 2001 after he held two reporters at gunpoint, according to the SPLC.

Randal Lee Krager founded Volksfront, a neo-Nazi website.

Krager has been active in the skinhead movement since he was 15.

As a 15-year-old in 1989, Krager was sent to a juvenile detention center for allegedly attacking three teenagers, according to SPLC.

He's so embedded in the culture he reportedly has a swastika tattoo on his neck and the knuckles on his right hand bear the word "FEAR." He created Volksfront while serving time in prison for assaulting a black man, according to the SPLC.

Volksfront bills itself as the "most disciplined and active European cultural association in the world."

"We reject both conservatism and liberalism," the site claims. "No establishment political ideology adequately addresses the social and economic perils facing White and European persons today."

In an interview for the film "Listening to Skinhead Stories," Krager says: "It ain't that I'm that cold blooded, it's just I look at a little white girl and I look at a, you know, a baby black or whatever and I'm like there's no comparison."

"If there's any threat to the white, we'll kill the fucking blacks," he said in the interview. He added that he doesn't like killing but just cares deeply about his own race.

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When America wants to laugh at itself, there's not better place to turn than The Onion.

And if you think about it, humor is really one of the few healthy ways to deal with our current global financial circumstance.

That's why you'll find some great Wall Street/financial stories in the pages of this hilarious publication

No wonder some think The Onion might deserve a Pulitzer. 

Former Business Insider intern Alex Howe also contributed to this piece.

#14 European Debt Crisis Solutions

There's a range of suggestions, here are some of our favorites:

• Austria: $5 surcharge every time anyone in the world watches The Sound Of Music
• Finland: Increasing one of those European-sounding taxes, like the GATT, or the VAT, or the SCRAT, or whatever
• Italy: Suspending all sewage and trash pickup services, effective 1993
• Portugal: Quietly breaking away from Spain in the middle of the night and floating across the Atlantic in search of a better life.

#13 Goldman Sachs Hires Single Morally Decent Human Being To Work In Separate, Enclosed Cubicle

Just when Lloyd Blankfein starts trying to show a softer side, this story comes out. An excerpt:

Seeking to mollify critics over its role in the global financial crisis, Goldman Sachs announced Friday the hiring of junior analyst Greg Kohler, who executives said is the investment bank's first and only employee to possess a clear set of morals or a basic understanding of right and wrong...

"While Mr. Kohler won't be attending a single meeting or influencing any of our business decisions, we're confident his acute sense of professional integrity will prove a valuable asset," Siewert continued..

....Kohler will report to a vice president of private wealth management who will be barred from communicating with him in person, by phone, or over e-mail in the event Kohler accidentally hears about, and thus has to report, any instances of duplicitous behavior.

#12: "JPMorgan Chase Acquires Bear Stearns In Tedious-To-Read News Article"

Highlight:

"Officers from JPMorgan Chase announced Monday that they were close to finalizing plans to purchase the securities giant in an incredibly complex series of financial maneuvers and obscure legal jargon that can only be described in the most mind-numbingly dense and unreadable way."

Full story

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