By Laurent Belsie The earthquake that struck Burma Thursday night hit one of its more remote regions, once known as the world’s premier producer of

By Yuji Okada, Naoko Fujimura and Kaipin Yee March 27 (Bloomberg) — Radiation in water at Japan’s stricken nuclear plant reached potentially lethal levels even

By Shannon D. Harrington and Betty Liu Pacific Investment Management Co., manager of the world’s biggest bond fund, invested in the finance arm of Toyota

By Kadhim Ajrash and Nayla Razzouk Iraq plans next week to sign power- plant contracts valued at $6.25 billion with Caterpillar Inc. (CAT) and other

Nov. 26 (Bloomberg) — Iceland’s President Olafur R. Grimsson talks about the country’s progress since receiving a $4.6 billion International Monetary Fund-led loan. He speaks

By Peter Garnham and Lindsay Whipp The billions of dollars in yen sold by the world’s most powerful central banks have sent a strong message

By Jack Farchy and Roula Khalaf The international community has hit Mommar Gadhafi with a raft of sanctions and asset freezes aimed at cutting off

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By Sam Smith By the standards of the US Constitution as well as American and international law, Barack Obama is a criminal – as are

A fearless band of scientists and workers trying to stop a meltdown have inspired the entire country. By Robin McKie Exhausted engineers attached a power

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By Greg Stohr and Bob Ivry The Federal Reserve will disclose details of emergency loans it made to banks in 2008, after the U.S. Supreme

By C. Powell The New York Sun today editorializes brilliantly about the ironies in the conviction of Liberty Dollar founder Bernard von NotHaus. The editorial

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PLAYBOY: Is anyone asking the tough questions about Israel? THOMAS: We’re still not getting the full story on Israel. I asked both President Obama at

By Ora Coren The CEO of the Israeli company that installed the security system at Japan’s Fukushima nuclear power plant said Thursday that those workers

At a time when all the tough guys in Washington are making plans to cut Social Security and Medicare benefits for high-living seniors and to

With peer to peer digital currencies like BitCoin, it seems our ideas about what money is and isn’t, are in flux. Take the cell phone

By Ben Dowell The BBC World Service is to receive a “significant” sum of money from the US government to help combat the blocking of

YouTube (21 March 11) Related reading: Spinach, Milk May be Restricted The Daily Yomiuri (21 March 11) Residents Near Japan Nuclear Plant Urged Not to

Earthquakes strike suddenly, violently and without warning. Identifying potential hazards ahead of time and advance planning can reduce the dangers of serious injury or loss

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By Johann Hari The vast majority of people behave in the aftermath as altruists, saving their fellow human beings and sharing what they have. Before

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Once hailed as a solution to poverty, microfinance lenders are criticised for profiting from exploitative usury. The recent ouster of the Nobel Prize-winning Bangladeshi economist

By Kartikeya Sharma Japan on Friday raised the severity rating of its nuclear disaster from level 4 to 5 on a seven-point international scale for

By Beth Ford Roth The Department of Defense is gearing up to help American military families evacuate from the island where the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear

By Justin McCurry Elite squad of technicians face fire, radiation and exhaustion in cramped and potentially lethal conditions to cool reactors. The men and women

Reba McEntire, Carrie Underwood, Brad Paisley and Darius Rucker will be featured in a tribute to former President George H. W. Bush. The 41st President

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By Sarah Parsons Like most parents, Michigan resident Rachael Hilliker cares very much about the kinds of foods her kids eat. Hilliker has a three-year-old

China has overtaken the UK as a global art market for the first time, a report suggests. The UK was knocked from second spot to

Nasa fears ‘Kessler Syndrome’, where there is too much space junk for it to be safe to fly out, leaving us trapped on Earth. By

By Courtney Comstock According to Gasparino, Lloyd Blankfein’s friends say he’s on the way out. They say this is Blankfein’s last year at Goldman Sachs,

By Meredith Lepore It’s no wonder Goldman Sachs is having trouble trying to sell its mortgage servicing unit, Litton Loan. The allegations against the unit are absolutely

The Japanese yen has risen against the US dollar hitting the highest level since the end of the Second World War. The yen climbed as

By Gregory White Today’s was a wild day for markets. Pretty much every dramatic movement in the Dow can be traced back to one source:

By Nachum Kaplan and Denny Thomas Foreign bankers are fleeing Tokyo as Japan’s nuclear crisis worsens, scrambling for commercial and charter flights out of the

Chuo Mitsui Trust Holdings, Inc. Tokyo, Japan The Federal Reserve Board on Tuesday announced its approval of the application and notice by Chuo Mitsui Trust

Well, I just activated and tested my radiation alert from SE International at The Farm here in Tennessee. S.E. International, Inc. is a manufacturer of

[click on the image for a larger version] By Terje Langeland Toyota Motor Corp. (7203), the world’s largest carmaker, may lose output of at least

Related reading: Modified Version of Original Post Written by Josef Oehmen NSE Nuclear Information Hub (17 March 11) All Mizuho ATMs In Japan Have Stopped Working

By Barry Brook Along with reliable sources such as the IAEA and WNN updates, there is an incredible amount of misinformation and hyperbole flying around

By Lily Nonomiya and Mayumi Otsuma The Bank of Japan began pouring cash into the banking system after the nation’s most powerful earthquake on record,

By Gabriele Steinhauser, After harrowing late-night negotiations, the leaders of the 17-country eurozone thrashed out a strategy on how to deal with the debt crisis

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By: Greg Palast I need to speak to you, not as a reporter, but in my former capacity as lead investigator in several government nuclear

(CNN) — An explosion has been reported at a nuclear plant in northeastern Japan’s Fukushima prefecture, Japanese public broadcaster NHK said Saturday, citing the country’s

By Sam Smith One of the things that has perplexed me about the current chaos is how did so many Republicans become so bizarrely crazy

By Jesse Russell Update 3 p.m.: A call to M&I’s Capitol Square branch confirms the bank is closed for the rest of the day. When

By Malcolm Foster A ferocious tsunami spawned by one of the largest earthquakes ever recorded slammed Japan’s eastern coast Friday, killing hundreds of people as

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If you are a beginning farmer or rancher: Land Link matches your interests with the farms and ranches in our data base. You will receive

Fountain House Roof Garden, New York By Elliot Madison “To know I had a part in growing my own food changed me from being a

By David E. Gumpert Here’s a Way to Eliminate the Regulators and Lawyers, and Build Community At the Same Time: Organize and Declare “Food Sovereignty,”

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California regulators will ask Pacific Gas & Electric Co. to set up a process so its customers can opt out of SmartMeters if they have

By B. Blake Levitt Things are move quickly with citizen/legislative actions regarding SmartGrids/Meters: A total of 32 California towns and counting now have either legal

By Amanda Verzello Utah might be one step closer to its own gold standard after the Senate approved a bill Thursday that would require the

March 8, 2011 Catherine Austin Fitts & Chris Waltzek Gold Seek Radio Related Solari Report Commentaries Sir James Goldsmith (24 Feb 10) Dillon, Read &

By Luke Timmerman Global health innovators have a rich new venture capitalist to turn to—the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Liquidia has attracted the interest

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By Laurence Kotlikoff The notion that education pays and that better education pays better is taken for granted by almost everyone. For college professors like

Michael Moore Speaks in Madison, WI — March 5, 2011 Contrary to what those in power would like you to believe so that you’ll give

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Legislators in at least ten states have introduced bills in the past few years to allow state commerce to be conducted with gold and silver.

By B. Blake Levitt Area Democrats were recently asked to endorse Chris Murphy for his upcoming bid for the U.S. Senate. Full disclosure—I am a

By Michael Powell and Gretchen Morgenson FOR more than a decade, the American real estate market resembled an overstuffed novel, which is to say, it

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By Paritosh Bansal and Nadia Damouni The London Stock Exchange is eyeing a takeover of its rival Nasdaq just weeks after announcing a merger with

“Board Member of Goldman Sachs and Procter & Gamble Charged in Insider Trading Scheme” Washington, D.C., March 1, 2011 – The Securities and Exchange Commission

By Daniel Indiviglio Is the 30-year, fixed rate mortgage — so beloved by Americans — in danger of extinction? That’s what banks, investors, and realtors

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Last Thursday night, I attended a dinner party for Darlene Zschech and her Hillsong team and then attended their concert at the Jubilee Christian Center

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Products made with synthetic chemicals have hidden costs that affect all of us—these externalized costs are called ag “externalities,” and they include damage and the

By Owen Fletcher and Juro Osawa Beijing—Asia’s major telecom operators scrambled Monday to eliminate the impact on their operations from damage to several submarine cables

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The Kings Speech – Official Trailer YouTube (28 Sept 10) Related reading: The King’s Speech Wikipedia Colin Andrew Firth Wikipedia List of Accolades Received by

Remarks by Angel Gurría, OECD Secretary-General, delivered at the Economic Council of Finland 10th February 2011, Helsinki, Finland Prime Minister, ladies and gentlemen, It is

By Thomas Content Under the budget-repair bill passed by the Assembly on Friday, no bids would be required for the state to sell up to

Evaluating the Performance of Genetically Engineered Crops For years the biotechnology industry has trumpeted that it will feed the world, promising that its genetically engineered

I am participating in a new loan through Kiva to Mary – To buy stock items for her store as well as items to equip

A Greenpeace statement on today’s vote on zero tolerance for GM contamination in animal feed will be sent once the vote has taken place. February

How much iodine do we need? What are the best sources? What happens if we don’t get enough? Or get too much? The Iodine Group