Lars Schall has just translated my article “The American Tapeworm” into German. Here it is! Freitag, 8. Oktober 2010 22:23 von Catherine Austin Fitts ,

The Cornucopia Institute’s report, Scrambled Eggs: Separating Factory Farm Egg Production from Authentic Organic Agriculture, will empower consumers and wholesale buyers who want to invest

By Suzanne Presto The International Monetary Fund concluded two days of talks in Washington Saturday without reaching a solution to address rising tensions about currency

The Navy is set to be reduced to the smallest size in its history after admirals yesterday offered drastic reductions in the fleet in order

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By Rob Kirby First reported by Dawn Kopecki back in 2006 when she reported in BusinessWeek Online in a piece titled, Intelligence Czar Can Waive

By Ezra Klein Janet Tavakoli is the founder and president of Tavakoli Structured Finance Inc. She sounded some of the earliest warnings on the structured

By Peggy Noonan Washington is turning America into Paperwork Nation. If you write a column, you get a lot of email. Sometimes, especially in a

By David Rosen and Bruce Kushnick Since 1991, the telecom companies have pocketed an estimated $320 billion — that’s about $3,000 per household. This is

By Arthur Delaney UPDATE: The White House announced Thursday afternoon that President Obama would not sign a bill that some consumer advocates worried would make

On June 30th, federal, state and local authorities raided Rawesome Foods in Venice, CA. The Colbert Report just did this piece about it. The Colbert

State should have power to block individual computers from connecting to world wide web, claims Charney. By Paul Joseph Watson A new proposal by a

By Karl Denninger It’s about damned time. This is worth a read, even though it’s VERY long.  The bottom line is that all the Tickers

The mission of Project Censored is to teach students and the public about the role of a free press in a free society – and

By Margaret Cronin Fisk and Thom Weidlich Citigroup Inc. and Ally Financial Inc. units were sued by homeowners in Kentucky for allegedly conspiring with Mortgage

Defendants include Ameriquest Employees Ameriquest filed a civil lawsuit alleging that the defendants fraudulently obtained approximately 75 properties in Kansas City, Missouri and its neighboring

By David Streitfeld The foreclosure machinery that has forced millions of Americans out of their homes is beginning to seize up as some lenders and

By Ellen Brown “Maybe this is like shock therapy. Maybe this will actually get the lenders to the table and encourage them to work out

By Peggy Noonan In a recent trip to Omaha, Neb., I found a note prominently displayed in my hotel room warning of the possibility of

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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission may seek sanctions against two former State Street Corp. executives accused of misleading investors in a bond fund involved

By Vincent Fernando Total assets under management for U.S. emerging markets funds is now pretty close to the peak level it hit pre-crisis and what’s

By Tyler Durden Today’s latest chapter in what is now known as the new 3M: the Massive Mortgage Mess, is that Fidelity National has told

By Kara Scannell and Tom Lauricella Regulators investigating the causes of the May 6 “flash crash” singled out a Midwestern mutual-fund company’s computer-driven trade as

By Satyajit Das Detox Cures In the first half of 2010, angst about European sovereign debt receded and market volatility eased. In the second half

By Karen Freifeld and David Mildenberg Ambac Assurance Corp. sued Bank of America Corp. over $16.7 billion of mortgage-backed securities, saying the bank’s Countrywide Financial

Ohio Secretary of State Brunner has sent a criminal referral to the US attorney general over ubiquitous mortgage fraud. Continue reading the article . .

By Lymari Morales For the fourth straight year, the majority of Americans say they have little or no trust in the mass media to report

Shares in Monsanto slumped by 10% on Tuesday amid talk that some of the group’s top-of-the-range corn seed, genetically modified to protect against insect pests,

Global governance—the collective management of common problems at the international level—is at a critical juncture. Although global governance institutions have racked up many successes since

The IRS deployed a new preparer tax identification number (PTIN) registration system Tuesday as a component of its initiative to register and regulate paid tax

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By Shawn Tully The housing crash not yet realized its full impact on budgets in the most vulnerable states. It’s the banking crisis all over

By Tyler Durden With each passing day, the revalations in mortgage-gate, which has for now implicated GMAC and JPMorgan in foreclosing on mortgages without titles,

By C. Powell GATA’s freedom-of-information lawsuit against the Federal Reserve in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, an action seeking access to the

The Icelandic parliament, Althingi, just passed a parliamentary resolution with 33 votes against 30 to take former Prime Minister Geir H. Haarde to High Court

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By Jack Farchy Financial Times Europe’s central banks have all but halted sales of their gold reserves, ending a run of large disposals each year

By Heidi Blake A space ambassador could be appointed by the United Nations to act as the first point of contact for aliens trying to

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By Harriet Johnson Brackey When Jason Grodensky bought his modest Fort Lauderdale home in December, he paid cash. But seven months later, he was surprised

[Thank you, Michael Shuman!] Every good or service imported unnecessarily from outside your community means lost income, jobs, and taxes from the business that might

by Eric deCarbonnel [You] will never know the difference if the toilet paper is 3/4″ narrower, right? Continue reading the article . . .

By Pete Kennedy More than ever S510 represents a major threat to the local food movement, states’ autonomy to regulate food, and the country’s ability

By John Hooper In unprecedented move, judge freezes €23m held in account at financial institution with close church links. The head of the Vatican bank

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By Joe Weisenthal The US economy is frequently compared to Japan in the early days of its lost decade, but here’s one way it’s way

By: David Gutierrez he Mexican government is moving forward with plans to ban all junk foods from public school by the start of the coming

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By Dr. Arthur Evangelista, PhD Food Safety Modernization Act of 2010, may be the most dangerous bill in the history of the US. It is

By Chris Dever High-Fructose Corn Syrup – The Corn Refiners Association recently asked the FDA in the U.S. to allow high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) to

By: Robin Knight The UK’s tax collection agency is putting forth a proposal that all employers send employee paychecks to the government, after which the

A gold dispensing ATM machine from Emirates Palace in Abu Dhabi Continue reading the article . . . Related reading: Abu Dhabi Gets an ATM

U.S. household wealth fell by $1.5 trillion in the second quarter, according to Federal Reserve data on Friday that showed the strain a slow-paced recovery

By Les Leopold How dare we ask such questions! How dare we consider targeting them for special taxes? How dare we even think about redistributing

DN! Gathered here in Bonn this week are some 80 Right Livelihood Award laureates, including the Canadian farmer Percy Schmeiser who has battled the biotech

US tax dollars at work. The US Department of Homeland Security has been spying on people who don’t like gas drilling and handing on the

An Evening with Chris Martenson Thursday Sept. 23, 2010 7:00pm- 8:30pm Yucca Theatre 2000 W Wadley Ave, Midland, TX 79705 –– Dr. Chris Martenson is

The Senate on Thursday passed the Creating Small Business Jobs Act of 2010 (part of the Small Business Jobs and Credit Act, HR 5297) by

Growing an Already Disjointed and Duplicative Federal Government In 2008, GAO testified before a House subcommittee that “FDA is one of 15 agencies that collectively

Majority Leader Harry Reid said Thursday the Senate will not take up long-pending food safety legislation before the Nov. 2 elections, citing a Republican senator’s

By Michael W. Savage For those who have long argued that smoking marijuana should not be a crime, a potentially historic turning point is just

BOSTON (TheStreet) — The “automatic” IRA may be on the way. A bill filed by U.S. senators Jeff Bingaman (D-New Mexico) and John Kerry (D-Mass.)

The U. S. Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) and the Department of the Treasury today announced a joint public hearing on Sept.

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Queen of The Sun creatively explores the global bee crisis as a catalyst for culture shift. We highlight unsung heroes from past and present, from

By Brett Michael Dykes What you see above isn’t a rural gravel road. It’s a Louisiana waterway, its surface completely covered with dead sea life

In earlier times, it was easier to control a million people than physically to kill a million people. Today it is infinitely easier to kill

YouTube Continue reading the article . . . Catherine Austin Fitts’ Blog Commentaries The Shrinking Middle Class (27 July 10)

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By Jeremy Scahill Blackwater author Jeremy Scahill reveals in The Nation new evidence about the connection between the security firm and a host of companies,

View Larger Chart By Timothy Noah The American aristocracy is less different from you and me than it was in Fitzgerald’s day. “Before World War

By Rebecca Thistlewaite You watched Food, Inc. with your mouth aghast. You own a few cookbooks. You go out to that hot new restaurant with the

By Rachel Armstrong New bank capital requirements agreed by global regulators brought relief to Asia’s financial sector on Monday as fears that lenders might be

Homeowners in Illinois are almost evenly divided on whether the value of their home is worth more than their mortgage, and they are not very

This is the movie that Pepsi and Coca Cola don’t want you to see. Continue reading the article . . .

Our Sweet Water Tilapia are ready for you! This one and only batch is available for public purchase at three open house fish sales. If

Want proof of what wonderful people Americans are and how much we care about our small farmers? Just take a look at the Crosby Mint

Dr. Burzynski has found cures for cancer. He practices in Texas. The US government has attempted to indict him more than 5 times since 1976.

By Paul Laster Photographer Edward Burtynsky knows a lot about oil and our uncontrollable dependency on it. The 2005 TED prizewinner traveled the world for

By Artyom Danielyan and Emma O’Brien China and Russia plan to start trading in each other’s currencies as the world’s second-biggest energy consumer and the

A German dairy farmer has come up with a novel way to drum up new business — he opened a “milk filling station.” The “Milchtankstelle”

By Robert Barr Britain’s financial regulator hit Goldman Sachs International with a 17.5 million pounds ($27 million) fine on Thursday for failing to notify U.K.

By David Liechty The Austrian 100 Corona coin is a good choice for investors looking to maximize the value of their gold investment purchase. Weighing

Margarine is the bad guy and butter and eggs are the good guys. Continue reading the article . . . To Buy: The Oiling of

Dairy Herdshare Told to Cease Operations by Massachusetts Dept. of Agriculture Former 1st Assistant Attorney General Takes the Case By Kimberly Hartke Brigitte Ruthman is

By Christine Harper and Saijel Kishan Goldman Sachs Group Inc. is shutting its principal-strategies business, a group that makes bets with the firm’s own capital,

By Alex Bogusky Video Interview with Jeffrey Smith author of Seeds of Deception. YouTube The Great American Food Experiment and how to opt out. Jeff