Before November’s election, Republican leaders in the House of Representatives solemnly promised that they would cut spending by $100 billion this year alone if voters

The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) on Thursday issued a final rule that amends the regulations under the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) regarding Form TD

By Dennis Cauchon Americans strongly oppose laws taking away the collective bargaining power of public employee unions, according to a new USA TODAY/Gallup Poll. The

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By Yves Smith American leadership is reliable in one respect: it consistently undershoots my already low expectations. Or maybe I have it backwards because I

By Cassandra Anderson Farmers like genetically modified (GM) crops because they can plant them, spray them with herbicide and then there is very little maintenance

By Tripoli A defiant Muammar Gaddafi said on Tuesday he was ready to die “a martyr” in Libya, vowing to crush a growing revolt which

By Jon Hilsenrath and Justin Lahart The pace of consumer price increases in the U.S. is quickening after being dormant for months. But a tug

By Meredith Shiner Someone in Egypt has been paying attention to what’s happening in Madison and wanted to send a message of solidarity from across

By Bob Willis Residential real-estate prices dropped in the 12 months to December by the most in a year, a sign the U.S. housing market

18 Jan 2011 By Truth Cafe’ Former Wall Street-Washington insider Catherine Austin Fitts offers insights into the financial coup d’etat. Click to listen. . . .

Budget fight wages on as nearly 70,000 show up for peaceful rally in Madison An estimated 70,000 protesters converged on the Wisconsin Capitol on Saturday,

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By Joseph Checkler A federal judge dismissed the Internal Revenue Service’s lawsuit against Wisconsin’s Commissioner of Insurance and Ambac Assurance Corp., saying her court lacks

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By The CNN Wire Staff Egypt has agreed to allow two Iranian warships to cross through the Suez Canal in a move that puts the

By QMI Agency The U.S. Department of Homeland Security, in an effort to clamp down on websites that host and advertise child pornography, inadvertently shut

By Paul Rincon Scientists around the world will be watching closely as three eruptions from the Sun reach the Earth over Thursday and Friday. These

By Dmitry Orlov Continue reading the article . . . Solari Report Blog Commentaries Dmitry Orlov: Teaching Us to Survive and Thrive

By William Glaberson Major disasters like terrorist attacks and mass epidemics raise confounding issues for rescuers, doctors and government officials. They also pose bewildering legal

By NASA STEREO (Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory) is the third mission in NASA’s Solar Terrestrial Probes program (STP). The mission, launched in October 2006, has

By Theophilos Argitis and Greg Quinn Canadian Industry Minister Tony Clement said he will review London Stock Exchange Group Plc’s C$3.2 billion ($3.2 billion) bid

By Thom Weidlich (Corrects to show parties would come before the judge to lift the automatic ban in 20th paragraph.) Merscorp Inc., operator of the

Capital is slowly withdrawing from the American housing stock. We are transitioning from a model in which most Americans think of their homes as an

By Paul Krugman On Friday, House Republicans unveiled their proposal for immediate cuts in federal spending. Uncharacteristically, they failed to accompany the release with a

By Jacob Bunge and Aaron Lucchetti Votes on Tap; Schumer Speaks Up for Big Board’s ‘Brand’ New York Stock Exchange operator NYSE Euronext and Deutsche

By Gretchen Morgenson KUDOS to Treasury and the Department of Housing and Urban Development for some straight talk about the nation’s broken mortgage system. A

Bolivian president Evo Morales has abruptly left the southern highlands city of Oruro after protesters angered by rising prices booed him and set off dynamite.

NEW YORK and FRANKFURT, 9 February 2011 – In light of recent market rumors, Deutsche Börse AG and NYSE Euronext (NYX) today confirmed that they are

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By Stacy Herbert Stacy Summary: Max interviews Catherine Austin Fitts. They talk revolution, Ben Bernanke and the US dollar being a unit of war. (Part1)

By Jon Rappoport January 30, 2011. It’s a grim party. People in the streets, riots, police, soldiers, and nobody seems exactly sure what it’s for.

By Robert Kuttner Once again, the job numbers are dismal. In January, the U.S. economy created just 36,000 domestic jobs, far below the roughly 145,000

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By Martha Stewart As a professional cook, cookbook author and teacher, I have a noticed a shift in the role that food plays in our

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By Better Health Guy In a world that is full of harmful electromagnetic fields, how to evaluate these issues and what to do about them

By Darlene Heckman Virtually all of your electronics are sucking up energy even if they’re turned off or not being used. Some of the biggest

By Nick Timiraos More than two years after the government seized Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the Obama administration will recommend phasing out the housing-finance

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By Daniel Tencer In what will likely be seen as something of a Freudian slip by the US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton said recently

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By Ashland Current U.S. Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) today took to the floor of the House to oppose the effort to reauthorize expiring provisions of

By Jeffrey Jones and Farah Master PetroChina is purchasing half of a prolific shale gas project from Canada’s Encana Corp for C$5.4 billion ($5.4 billion),

We Declare: That the political, legal, and economic systems of the United States allow, in each generation, an elite few to impose policy and governing

By Mary Bottari, Bankster USA Earnings and bonus reports are rolling in and the big, bailed-out banks are back in the black. In 2010, total

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By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard The bee crisis has been treated as a niche concern until now, but as the UN’s index of food prices hits an

The Chrysler 200 has arrived. Imported from Detroit. YouTube Chrysler Eminem Super Bowl Commercia (5 Feb 11)

By Los Angeles Times New job figures released Friday might have been more meager than most economists had expected, but at least one set of

By Robert Gehrke Rep. Bill Wright, as he puts it, “grew up in the dirt,” raising dairy cattle since he was a boy. But now

By Court Skinner I’m just getting started in a new, at least to me, software for keeping track of money. The software is the open

From a Subscriber: Hi Catherine, I trust you are well. I’m still enjoying and very much impressed by your weekly Solari Reports, guests, and the

By KT Arasu U.S. grain prices should stay unrelentingly high this year, according to a Reuters poll, the latest sign that the era of cheap

What happens when you point the Hubble Space Telescope to a seemingly blank patch of sky? A view that takes you to the edge of

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Tuesday, senior S&L regulator William K. Black slammed the FCIC for failing to call out fraud. As told the Real News: • The Commission was

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By C. Powell Dear Friend of GATA and Gold: The Federal Reserve can keep secret most of the gold documents at issue in GATA’s freedom-of-information

By Paul Ferguson A junior mining company I’ve followed for years recently announced that they were raising money.  The initial response from some investors was

Straight Talk By Adam This week’s Straight Talk contributor is Catherine Austin Fitts: investment advisor and entrepreneur. She is the founder of Solari, where she offers subscribers

There is complexity because the artist, the writer, doesn’t know why he or she is doing the work. That complexity results from a lack of

By Jason Fell On the heels of President Barack Obama’s big State of the Union address last week, during which he talked up the vital

By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard Political risk has returned with a vengeance. The first food revolutions of our Malthusian era have exposed the weak grip of authoritarian

Iceland’s special prosecutor into the banking crisis has confirmed that raids have taken place today and that arrests have been made. The Central Bank of

President’s Speech Offers Hope for Some Relief; Exceptions for Rental Income Reporting Remain Vague For small businesses that were dreading the thought of having to

Here’s your list of 60+ of the recent animal die-offs.  I didn’t include the honeybees, earthworms, or most insect life, as they’re a subject all

The European Food Safety Authority has launched a public consultation on its draft guidance document for engineered nanomaterial (ENM) applications in food and feed. The

Let’s spread the word: Wetiko By Paul Levy In the first part of this series, we contemplated the idea of a psycho-spiritual disease of the

By Sam Smith One of the greatest myths draped over this land is that the so-called wing nuts mainly come from the far right and

By Ronnie Cummins The policy set for GE alfalfa will most likely guide policies for other GE crops as well. True coexistence is a must.”

By Joe Weisenthal Today the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission releases its full report on the crisis. [click on the image for a larger version] Continue

By Catherine Austin Fitts An authorized someone from Allendale Michigan kept logging in to my Facebook space. Then I started having challenges with unauthorized posts

By Teri Buhl Lawsuit alleges the bank took extreme measures to defraud investors, and now JPMorgan may be on the hook Former Bear Stearns mortgage

By Casey Chan The world is ending! Okay, maybe not. But doesn’t it seem like every day animals are dying in masses? So, it must

From Ed Abbey’s “Desert Solitaire” Benedicto: May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into

By Gretchen Morgenson Since the government took over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, taxpayers have spent more than $160 million defending the mortgage finance companies

Genetically-modified crops could help prevent a future global hunger crisis, the Government’s chief scientific adviser said. By The Telegraph Professor Sir John Beddington said there

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By Lyndsey Layton In response to a new federal food safety law and growing consumer interest, vast amounts of new data are being generated about

“I AM” – Official Trailer In theaters: February 8th, 2011 Synopsis: I AM, a prismatic and probing exploration of our world, what’s wrong with it,

By Adam Ostrow Here’s a bit of a surprise to end the week: Keith Olbermann, host of MSNBC’s Countdown, ended tonight’s show by announcing he’s

By Sam Smith National Journal – President Obama today will name General Electric CEO Jeff Immelt chairman of the new Council on Jobs and Competitiveness,

By Janna Irons Last year, 20-year-old Kyle Thiermann took a surf trip to Southern Chile, where he planned to spend a few weeks sampling the

By Dr. Mercola Commonwealth Club 11-18-10. Panel II – Martin Blank, PhD. Continue reading the article . . .

By Sam Smith Several years after the passage of the Federal Boating Act of 1958, the Second Coast Guard District in St. Louis sent a

By Daily Mail Reporter The sun over Greenland has risen two days early, baffling scientists and sparking fears that Arctic icecaps are melting faster than

Monsanto garnered 38% of the vote to win the 2010 Corporate Hall of Shame. From using aggressive legal tactics to intimidate and bankrupt local farmers

The documentary film, Vanishing of the Bees, narrated by Ellen Page, takes a piercing investigative look at the economic, political and ecological implications of the