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Despite President Obama's January speech limiting the scope of National Security Agency surveillance, a new Washington Post article outlines a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court could turn that notion on its head. The ruling allows the NSA to conduct surveillance on 193 countries around the world. Only four countries in the world are excluded from the ruling: Canada, Australia, Great Britain and New Zealand. RT Correspondent Meghan Lopez walks us through the latest revelations.

A look at why this Bank was seized, the outlook for gold and silver, and why stocks on the TSX and the TSX Venture are set to climb.

It may be legal to buy marijuana in 22 states, but growing pot is still against federal law. And yet, the US government grows some of the purest pot in the country, spending almost a million dollars a year on a contract with the University of Mississippi to grow cannabis and manufacture marijuana cigarettes. The UMiss farm is currently the only source in the US for legal marijuana for researchers, and the government currently gives it away to researchers who get all the right approvals.

Pollution is rarely big news these days. You're more likely to hear about it in a history lesson on the Industrial Revolution. But many European cities are suffering as air pollution is becoming a serious problem. Bloomberg's Tom Gibson reports.

A look at the pipeline battle between the East and West and how the South Stream Pipeline project could cripple the Western regime.

By the end of this century, around half of the world's population will suffer from water scarcity. All according to UN estimates. The vital resource will become a main driver of regional and global conflicts, as demand for fresh water tripled over the past 5 decades. Watch to learn more.