By Charles Abbott For the first time, more than 34 million Americans received food stamps, which help poor people buy groceries, government figures said on

The picture above is an article about allegations of sex slave trafficking relating to a defense government contractor named DynCorp. I became interested in DynCorp

By Joe Weisenthal and Kamelia Angelova The severe bloodletting in the construction industry is slowly waning. The pace of layoffs is coming well off its

Russian Nuclear-powered Submarine By Mark Mazzeti and Thom Shanker A pair of nuclear-powered Russian attack submarines has been patrolling off the eastern seaboard of the

Penumbral Lunar Eclipse February 9, 2009 A penumbral lunar eclipse will take place on August 6, 2009, the third of four lunar eclipses in 2009.

Credit & Copyright: Barry & Noemi Diacon Continue reading Astronomy Picture of the Day

View full article at oftwominds.com So when you’re reading the news about how randomly careless and stupid everybody was, just remember the Argentine plan: all

At tipstrategies.com Go to the website to view an animated graphic of The Geography of Jobs between 2004 and 2009.

Photo: Moises Saman for The New York Times By Campbell Robertson Throughout the marshes, the reed gatherers, standing on land they once floated over, cry

President Barack Obama is nominating Robert Hormats, a vice chairman of Goldman Sachs International, to a top economic position at the State Department. Hormats, 66,

Jackpot By Grant McCool  The report said bonuses for Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Morgan Stanley, and JPMorgan Chase & Co. were “substantially greater” than the

Our very own Susan Johann just took 1st place at the Artists Guild of Spartanburg with Winter Hydrangea. Susan Johann – Fine Art and Commercial

Wyoming Governor Dave Freudenthal has transmitted the following memorandum and proposed resolution on state sovereignty to the Wyoming Legislature’s Management Council. Continue Reading Wyoming Governor

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“Thriller” 1,500 plus inmates of the Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center in Cebu, Philippines practice Michael Jackson’s global mega hit, Thriller.

Why a Recovery May Still Feel Like a Recession New York Times (31 Jul 09)  The recession has produced declines far greater than in previous

One of the great mysteries surrounding the spread of GMO plants around the world since the first commercial crops were released in the early 1990’s

Continue Reading Obama Passing New Law to Allow Searching of PC’s, Laptops, And Media Devices

Each business day, the United States Treasury Department publishes a report on the workings of the government’s income and spending. One of the items on

In July, the Secretary of Health and Human Services announced that the federal government expects to initiate a voluntary fall vaccination program against the 2009

By Howard Berkes It was a Third World scene with an American setting. Hundreds of tired and desperate people crowded around an aid worker with

Welcome to the Community Toolbox. Here you will find fliers, brochures,    documents, and more to help you in your community efforts to raise awareness. Please

From MyBudget360.com View enlarged charts as pdf file . . .

The Moneychanger By Franklin Sanders Facing a collapsing national economy, we must revive local economies. To do that we need a local money that will

From the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund (29 Jul 09) “Call your Senators TODAY to urge that NAIS funding be cut. The Senate is expected to

I have called my representative, Rep. Marsha Blackburn to request that she vote against HR 2749 (The Food Safety Enhancement Act of 2009). The Weston

Courtesy of Rob Kirby Continue Reading US Government Orchestrates Market Moves

By Kristina Cooke Frustrated by your spouse’s spending habits? It might be why you married them, according to a working paper titled “Fatal (Fiscal) Attraction”

By Stu Woo Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Tuesday signed a plan to close California’s $24 billion budget shortfall, after using his line-item veto powers to

Memorandum to all Primary Dealers and Recipients of the Weekly Press Release on Dealer Positions and Transactions The latest list reflects the following changes: Effective

Joel Salatin at Polyface Farm, Virginia. “When was the last time you heard a group of parents bragging? Ever hear one say, “Well, you can

Photo By Phil Ewing By David Axe “On several occasions the instruments gave reading of material objects moving at incredible speed,” a sub commander recalled.

By Jason Leopold Former Vice President Dick Cheney pressured President George W. Bush and other top administration officials to deploy US soldiers to a Buffalo,

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By David Davis When I read in the pages of this newspaper this month that the Conservative Party was planning to transfer people’s health data

Chinese US Dollar The dollar may be the focus of Chinese-U.S. talks starting in Washington today as China presses the Obama administration on how it

By Peggy Noonan This is big, what’s happening. President Obama appears to have misstepped on a major initiative and defining issue. He has misjudged the

The L-Curve graph represents income, not wealth If we divided the income of the US into thirds, we find that the top ten percent of

Treasury’s is borrowing $235B in one week: * 70-day CMB (7/24/09) $30B * 13-week Bill (07/27/09) $32B * 26-week Bill (07/27/09) $31B * 19-year 6-month

I subscribe to The Kiplinger Letter. Among other things, I find it a predictor of the “official story” combined with a useful flow of tax

By David Liechty In 1863, Congress authorized the Treasury to receive “deposits of gold coin and bullion” in exchange for “certificates” payable on demand, having

By Sam Smith One of the clues that Obama was not who he professed to be during the campaign was his closeness to Harvard professor

By Richard Gray By Ed Pilkington The world is about to cross a demographic landmark of huge social and economic importance, with the proportion of

By David Liechty With irredeemable Greenbacks and precious metal coin circulating at identical legal, “dollar”, value (see Thompson v. Butler, 95 U.S. 694 at 696

I believe one of the goals of the swine flu vaccine is depopulation. Perhaps it is the goal of a swine flu epidemic as well,

by F. William Engdahl The US Secretary of Health and Human Services, Kathleen Sebelius, has just signed a decree granting vaccine makers total legal immunity

By Barry B. Burr Pension fund fiduciaries under ERISA are “arguably required” to integrate environmental, social and corporate governance factors into their regular investment decision-making

By James Howard Kunstler The eulogy for Walter Cronkite as “the most trusted man in America” on the CBS “Sixty Minutes” show said a lot

By Arthur’s Baby Clipart …from a vaccine-death case in the U.S. Vaccine Courts. Explains the physiological mechanism by which the MMR vaccine caused the child’s

Illustration by S. Kambayashi By Peter Brimelow I’m amazed: Grousing about Goldman Sachs, and fury at the financial sector, is actually reaching the point where

Watch and learn people. This is how we do it ! Jon Stewart explains the great shape of our economy… Jon Stewart Explains The Great

Hank Paulson’s testimony before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform last week was painful to watch. The hardest thing in the world is

By: Prison Planet I started F. William Engdahl’s new book, “Full Spectrum Dominance: Totalitarian Democracy in the New World Order,” this weekend and literally could

Artist: Alberto Ruggieri From BBC News “From programmes involving large capital infusions into hundreds of financial institutions, to a mortgage modification programme, to public-private partnerships

We posted this back in 2007, but thought it might be worth viewing again as we watch a parade of rich financiers insist that they

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and California legislative leaders Monday said they reached a compromise to close the state’s $26 billion budget shortfall. Continue Reading California Budget

By Tim Mullaney Venture capital investment fell 51 percent in the second quarter as firms coped with the recession and a drought in initial public

More information at Wikipedia . . . Update: Asia Darkens Under Long Solar Eclipse Reuters (22 July 09)

By Rob Kirby With the former Investment Banks being granted Commercial Banking status due to the unfolding financial crisis in late 2008, it was widely

Shock: Inside the Healthcare Bill EconomicPolicyJournal.com “Following the mad recommendations of Peter Singer made in NYT’s Sunday magazine, it pays to take a look at

Under current law, the federal budget is on an unsustainable path, because federal debt will continue to grow much faster than the economy over the

Public Roads By: Ellen Dannin On July 24, 2008, the Denver Post reported that Coloradans were shocked to learn that the private contractor that had

By Paul Craig Roberts There is no economy left to recover. The US manufacturing economy was lost to offshoring and free trade ideology. It was

By Zachary Roth So: is Steve Rattner stepping down as the Obama administration’s car czar because of the investigation into whether his private-equity fund used

Under a broader definition of joblessness, some states have rates higher than 20 percent. This rate includes part-time workers who want to work full time,

AnimalFarm This morning, hundreds of Amazon Kindle owners awoke to discover that books by a certain famous author had mysteriously disappeared from their e-book readers.

Japan has again shown off one of its greatest innovations – square watermelons. For years consumers struggled to fit the large round fruit in their

“Walter Leland Cronkite, Jr. (November 4, 1916 – July 17, 2009) was an American broadcast journalist, best known as anchorman for the CBS Evening News

Goldman Sachs, the nation’s most powerful financial company, has reported the richest quarterly profit in its 140-year history: $3.44 billion between April and June. Goldman’s

By David Liechty In 1861, as the Civil War began, gold and silver coin remained the only national currency, while private-issued fractional-reserve bank notes, redeemable

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The nation’s largest public pension fund has filed suit in California state court in connection with $1 billion in losses that it says were caused

British Courtroom By Tyler Durden While momentum chasers in America quarrel over worthless data points and whether some trading desk bought an additional 20 PCs

By David Liechty Gold and silver coin conforming to the Act of 1792 formed the basis of the US monetary system for over seventy years.

Photo: M and Y Hummingbird: Experts say birds are seen as messengers of the gods so this could be a message from beyond our world.

Photo:  Swiss Guards serve as the Pope’s bodyguards. On June 3, the Italians seize $134.5 billion in US Treasuries (maybe fake, maybe not) from two

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The Bohemian Grove is a private meeting north of San Francisco along the Russian River that occurs for several weeks each July. “The Bohemian club!

July 10, 2009 Bill Moyers: Welcome to the Journal. The biggest medical drama on our TV screens this summer is not reruns of “House” or

When the Swiss bank UBS and federal prosecutors face off in a Florida courtroom on Monday, the focus will be whether UBS must disclose the

Charity in truth, to which Jesus Christ bore witness by his earthly life and especially by his death and resurrection, is the principal driving force

Mohammed Bah Abba made a really cool invention, which won a Rolex Award of $100,000 –a refrigerator than runs without electricity. Here’s how it works.

Photo: Reuters Saturday’s scheduled lift-off was expected to be delayed by more than 24 hours after the major electrical storm that struck near the Kennedy

By Franklin Sanders The fact is, gold bugs (with their blind, monomaniacal devotion to gold) miss the point. They are so ideologically wedded to the

Homeless In Tent City, USA It’s a sweltering summer afternoon, and the children are hot and miserable in the tent that’s been their home since

By: Jennifer Barry China now has the fifth largest official gold reserve, 1,054 metric tons, surpassing Switzerland. While this was a 76% jump in gold

By Terrence Keeley The lessons of the past year for central bank reserve managers – overseers of $7,000bn in foreign exchange assets, four times the