From Wikipedia Gary McKinnon (born 10 February 1966) is a Scottish systems administrator and hacker who has been accused of what one U.S. prosecutor claims

By Matthew Leising and Agnieszka Troszkiewicz CME Group Inc. (CME) has made a bid for the London Metal Exchange as the world’s largest metals futures

By Sid Perkins The average American uses enough water each year to fill an Olympic-sized swimming pool, and global agriculture consumes a whopping 92% of

News Release February 8, 2012 STATUS UPDATE FROM THE OFFICE OF JAMES W. GIDDENS, TRUSTEE FOR THE LIQUIDATION OF MF GLOBAL INC., CONCERNING THE TRUSTEE’S

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By msnbc.com staff and NBC News Emery’s 5 & 10 is believed to be oldest family-owned five-and-dime store in the U.S. But the store is

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The share of Americans’ income that comes from government benefit programs, like Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security, more than doubled over the last four decades,

Singer, songwriter and American poet Willie Nelson. By Jane Ayers, Nation of Change Little did Willie Nelson know when he recorded “Crazy” years ago just

Here was the real face of the Greek people: workers and students, … By Andrew Lilico Over the weekend, the Greek parliament voted to accept

By Robert Friedman, William Ahearn With assistance from Elena Logutenkova in Zurich. The biggest U.S. banks captured the highest share of global trading revenue in

Dr. Allan LaReau in Michigan stops treating families who refuse to vaccinate their children. ‘You feel badly about losing a nice family,’ he says. By

By LJ Goes I just put my son Noah to bed. His brother and sister went into his room and showered him with kisses. Then

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By Jessica E. Vascellaro Silicon Valley start-ups are trying to re-create the milkman. A host of new tech companies are creating ways to buy food

By Noah Feldman U.S. Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter had a close shave with public embarrassment recently — which might seem impossible for a man

By Jackie Calmes Washington — President Obama’s final budget request of his term amounts to his agenda for a desired second term, with tax increases

By Stephen Dinan “I can’t believe in 2012 the federal government is raiding Amish farmers at gunpoint all over a basic human right to eat

By Jeff Horwitz and Kate Davidson More than a day after the announcement of a mammoth national mortgage servicing settlement, the actual terms of the

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The Daily News looks back at her remarkable life and career. Here, she performs at Madison Square Garden on September 1987. Related reading: Whitney Houston

By Reuters Greece’s largest police union has threatened to issue arrest warrants for officials from the country’s European Union and International Monetary Fund lenders for

By Charles Hugh Smith Gasoline deliveries reflect recession and growth. The recent drop in retail gasoline deliveries is signalling a sharp contraction ahead. Mish recently

By Carolyn A. Betts, Esq. Who Is Participating By now you have heard that the attorneys general of all US states, save Oklahoma, have entered

A subordinate certifcate issued by Trustwave was used to monitor people accessing SSL-protected services on a customer’s internal network By Dan Goodin The so-called subordinate

  Barack Obama (D-Ill)   Net Worth: From $2,802,012 to $11,830,000   Assets: 8 totaling $2,802,012 to $11,830,000   Income: 5 totaling $358,334 Personal finance

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Washington — Attorney General Lisa Madigan today joined with her counterparts in other states and the federal government to announce a $25 billion settlement with

By Beth Buczynski In what may be the most damaging blow to Big Banks since the overwhelming success of Bank Transfer Day in late 2011,

By Mary Beth Franklin American retirement security now ranks as a top concern of the White House, right up there with unemployment and the federal

By Mark Hulbert CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (MarketWatch) — Corporate insiders are now selling their companies’ stock at a rate not seen since late last July.

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(Credit: LayerWise) The transplant demonstrates that precision 3D printing can be effective for both bones and organ implants. By Martin Lamonica An elderly woman has

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By Adam Liptak Washington — The Constitution has seen better days. Sure, it is the nation’s founding document and sacred text. And it is the

By Lori Andrews Last week, Facebook filed documents with the government that will allow it to sell shares of stock to the public. It is

By Diane Lorence The following photographs are of our home in the mountains of northern California. The house was designed by my husband, Michael Anthony

By Mandi Woodruff Finally, we’ve got some cold, hard stats on how badly banks are hurting from November’s Bank Transfer Day  movement. A new report by

View Indictment By Lynnley Browning The United States indicted Wegelin, the oldest Swiss private bank, on charges that it enabled wealthy Americans to evade taxes

By The Telegraph United States Defense Secretary Leon Panetta believes there is a growing possibility Israel will attack Iran as early as April to stop

(photo: Advocacy for Animals – Britannica) By Will Potter, Jurist A recent undercover investigation into one of the nation’s largest egg producers, Sparboe Farms, documented

By Catherine Austin Fitts At Solari, we watch our vendor and financial accounts like a hawk. We find it is the only way to stop

The “lead left” bank leads the IPO underwriting process — its name in the upper-left-hand corner of the actual prospectus — and typically receives higher

By Jeffrey M. Jones In 10 states plus the District of Columbia, a majority of residents approved of the job Barack Obama was doing as

By Yahoo Finance The European Union on Wednesday blocked the Deutsche Boerse’s planned merger with NYSE Euronext, a $10 billion deal that would have created

By Bruce Krasting The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) is out with its annual report. It’s a blockbuster. This 165 page monster is filled with dozens

Having received another repayment, I just made my next loan at Kiva.org to a group of entrepreneurs in Padre de las Casas a community in

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Three breakthroughs are poised to transform this century as much as telephony and electricity did the last. By Mark P. Mills and Julio M. Ottino

  By Reuters   Clients pulled some 4 bln Sfr of wealth in short time   Ex-UBS CEO Gruebel: More US attacks on Swiss banks

By CNN’s Josh Levs The U.S. Defense Department cannot account for about $2 billion it was given to cover Iraq-related expenses and is not providing

By Scott Patterson and Aaron Lucchetti Nearly three months after MF Global Holdings Ltd. collapsed, officials hunting for an estimated $1.2 billion in missing customer

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By Emily A Greek scientific study led by Adamantia Fragopoulou and Lukas Margaritis has demonstrated important protein changes in the brain of animals following whole

Strategic initiatives to protect yourself from security breaches By Rick Holland Last week I did a webcast, Planning for Failure, which makes the assumption that

By Ryan Lizza – The New Yorker 23 Jan 12 In a piece this week on Barack Obama’s shift from idealism to pragmatism, I describe

By Don Lee The Federal Reserve announces a subdued outlook for growth in the U.S. economy, as well as its intention to keep short-term interest

Photographer: Zhang Yan/Xinhua/eyevine/Redux By Caroline Salas Gage and Craig Torres Ben S. Bernanke laid the groundwork for a third round of large-scale asset purchases should

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Economic and political elites meeting this week at the Swiss resort of Davos will be asked to urgently find ways to reform a capitalist system

By Simon Black With over 150 million registered users, the file sharing site MegaUpload.com is one of the most popular on the Internet. At least,

By Secrecy News From the Federation of Scientists Project on Government Secrecy The Joint Chiefs of Staff have produced updated doctrine on intelligence support to

Six million people are under correctional supervision in the U.S.—more than were in Stalin’s gulags. Photograph by Steve Liss. By Adam Gopnik A prison is

Illustrations by Tom Garrett Source: December 2011 Consumer Reports Magazine. Americans spent $80.2 billion on seafood last year, $5 billion more than in 2009, but

By Yves Smith Obama’s latest housing market chicanery should come as no surprise. As we discuss below, he will use the State of the Union

By Catherine Austin Fitts I’ve had a wonderful time in Montana. The Solari team got lots accomplished. We’ve enjoyed some beautiful snow storms, so the

By: Chris Powell, Secretary/Treasurer, GATA Remarks by Chris Powell Secretary/Treasurer, Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee Inc. Vancouver Resource Investment Conference Vancouver Convention Center West Vancouver, British

By Jesus Diaz UC Berkeley scientists have developed a system to capture visual activity in human brains and reconstruct it as digital video clips. Continue

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The Kenguru electric vehicle designed to be driven in a wheelchair The first Kenguru—the small, yellow electric vehicle designed to be driven in a wheelchair—was

Left to right: Bram Van der Kolk, Mathias Ortmann, Fin Batato and Kim Dotcom in court today. By Kirsty Johnston Website Megaupload.com, which was shut

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[click on the image for a larger version] Source: Reuters General Motors Co reclaimed its title as the world’s top selling automaker for the first

U.S. Rep. Marcy Kaptur, D-Toledo, and U.S. Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Cleveland By Bill Rice Rep. Dennis Kucinich is most in his element when he’s fighting

By David Kravets The House version of the Stop Online Piracy Act, the proposed anti-piracy legislation that drew a planned and widespread internet revolt Wednesday,

President Obama just signed the National Defense Authorization Act into law despite startling provisions that will allow the military to indefinitely detain American citizens.  It’s

Catherine Austin Fitts will speak during several stops. Source: Mail Tribune Project Rogue Valley will host financial expert Catherine Austin Fitts Jan. 26 and 27.

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US ambassador Alan Solomont wrote: ‘[Spain] has unfortunately failed to finish the job for political reasons, to the detriment of the reputation and economy of

By Catherine Austin Fitts As you can see from the posters at the top of our blog, we are supporting the blackout promoted by Wikipedia

Photo by Kirsty Wigglesworth – WPA Pool/Getty Images Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, announced on Twitter Monday that the popular site would go dark in

New research shows that when we eat we’re consuming more than just vitamins and protein. Our bodies are absorbing information, or microRNA. By Ari LeVaux

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By Chris Hedges Attorneys Carl J. Mayer and Bruce I. Afran filed a complaint Friday in the Southern U.S. District Court in New York City

By Emelia Sithole-Matarise and Anirban Nag Greece will default shortly on its debt obligations, a senior Standard & Poor’s official told Bloomberg Television on Monday.

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M.I.T.’s Simmons Hall By James Marshall Crotty For Wall Street Occupiers or other decriers of the “social injustice” of college tuition, here’s a curveball bound

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By Ellen Brown Neither rain nor sleet nor snow may have stopped the Pony Express, but the nation’s oldest and second largest employer is now

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By Michael E. Salla, Ph.D. Ron’s Paul’s strong second place finish in New Hampshire’s Presidential Primary greatly raises his prospects in the Republican Presidential race,