Food stamp programs in the US (including by state government in Florida and Tennessee) have been outsourced to a JP Morgan operation in India. abcNews

Significant intervention in the banking system and economy with the ‘strong dollar policy’ and various forms of government credit and subsidies has paid some of

It would appear that AIG is selling everything but it’s black budget operations, which the government will then essentially own. Sounds a bit circular to

Friedman argues America’s power on the world stage will actually increase in the 21st Century for three major reason: The immense size of the U.S.

Novavax Annual Proxy Novavax Lead Investors The Unknown Knowns Albert Bates PRUDEN: A Pandemic of Panic — Are We Dead Yet? Washington Times (28 Apr

In Mercer Consultings annual Quality of Living Survey, Europe once again dominates the list of 215 countries around the world. The top three cities are,

Click here for “official story” Wall Street Journal (28 Apr 09)

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By Joan Pryde, Senior Tax Editor, the Kiplinger letters “But there may be a silver lining, at least for big corporations: Congress will consider lowering

Quarterly Report to Congress from SIGTARP: Office of the Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) is now available.

More than a decade ago, Mary Seton Corboy and her partner, Tom Sereduk, transformed a toxic industrial site into a thriving 1-acre urban farm. read

PLEASE help me find the President’s Working Group on Financial Markets. The Working Group, which is also affectionately known as the “Plunge Protection Team,” was

As part of $6.9 Billion “Build America” Bond Issue, California Issues Taxable Bonds to Fund Stem Cell Research. . . . read more

The wonderfully talented American playwright Lynn Nottage has won this year’s Pulitzer Prize in Drama—the play explores the systematic destruction of the local community through

Reports: Freddie Mac official found dead Wednesday April 22, 2009 WASHINGTON (AP) — David Kellermann, the acting chief financial officer of Freddie Mac, was found

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“Since Obama took charge he has not shown us that anything will change.” – Guantanamo captive Mohammad el Gharani Excerpt: Gharani, now 21, has been

View Article Vets Ponder What Killed 21 Ponies at U.S. Open Polo Championship Daily News (21 April 09) Army: 3 Vials of Virus Samples Missing

NetAge OrgScope provides a tool for mapping trees and networks for collaboration.

The host of this workshop is a personal friend of mine. If you are in the Ashland area, you might want to take it in.

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Two (unrelated) headlines appeared next to each other on Yahoo today: White House Will Not Prosecute CIA Officials for Waterboarding Yahoo.com (16 Apr 09) Not

47 year old Susan Boyle wows the judges with her performance in the auditions for Britains Got Talent, singing “I Dreamed a Dream” from Les

Goldman Sachs is very much in the news.  The most astute comment on Goldman these days comes from a taxi driver in Kuala Lumpur: “Why

GATA Renews Requests to Treasury, Fed for Gold Data Responding to President Obama’s instruction to government agencies of January 21 this year, seeking greater openness

“I believe that our federal government has become oppressive in its size, its intrusion into the lives of our citizens, and its interference with the

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From dog-walking to rubbish clearance, civic-minded Estonians can now draw on a virtual Bank of Happiness which trades in good deeds. Anjana Ahuja reports from

“The lack of sunspots in 2008, made it a century-level year in terms of solar quiet. Remarkably, sunspot counts for 2009 have dropped even lower.

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Morgan Keegan defended itself today against the NY Times report which we commented on yesterday, titled Liquidating Thy Neighbor – Part I.

While the wheels of state bureaucracy grind away on how to use stimulus funds and how much of those funds to accept, some communities are

LEWISBURG, Tenn. — Five years ago, this small factory town was struggling to pay the interest on a bond for new sewers. Bob Phillips, Lewisburg’s

In my segment on Flashpoints Radio with Dennis Bernstein. April 8, 2009, I address real levels of unemployent and describe why the financial fraud is

YouTube (05 April 09) Continue reading “Retracted” in The Raw Story Electromagnetic Pulse from Wikipedia

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The 10×10 website “Every hour, 10×10 scans the RSS feeds of several leading international news sources, and performs an elaborate process of weighted linguistic analysis

This in this morning: “My construction friend said he talked to two separate people who had been to Chernobyl recently and asked how things were

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“A former quantitative analyst at Harvard Management Company, the university’s once-vaunted endowment manager, tells the Harvard Crimson she was fired for voicing concern to then-university

“Should President Obama have the power to shut down domestic Internet traffic during a state of emergency? Senators John Rockefeller (D-W. Va.) and Olympia Snowe

Hyperinflation Special Report Shadow Government Statistics (8 Apr 08) Excerpt: “Howard J. Ruff, who has been writing about these problems and issues since Nixon closed

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A single clause in Point 19 of the communiqué issued by the G20 leaders amounts to revolution in the global financial order. “We have agreed

The investment community was already suspicious last week when Secretary Timothy Geithner unveiled his plan, announcing that Treasury would select four or five companies as

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (April 1, 2009) — America’s top economics bloggers—a diverse group of writers with wide-ranging intellectual and political vantage points—largely agree on one

This is the full version of the communique agreed by the G20 group in London today. 1. We, the Leaders of the Group of Twenty,

One of the great mysteries is who controls, uses and really has access to the Department of Justice’s information and data systems. The idea of

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Max Keiser: ….they (Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan et al) are systematically undermining the entire system. They are creating a mechanism to carve out equity and

By Carolyn Betts I am an attorney who was working in Washington with RTC during the S&L crisis, so I know something about “toxic asset”

From The U.S. Department of the Treasury Press Room Treasury Press Release Fact Sheet (PDF) White Paper and FAQs Catherine’s comments on her Community Business

With special thanks to one of our favorite sources, Jim Willie at Golden Jackass, here is a roundup of some of articles that indicate the

We have received many e-mails about the Food Safety Bills introduced in Congress. We share your concerns. One of our most trusted sources on food

Wikipedia on the Baltic Dry Index

“Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Mary Schapiro warned yesterday that the agency will “make significant cuts in its current operations” this year unless Congress authorizes

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“You knew what the banks were doing and yet were touting it for months and months – the entire network was. And so now to

To: The Wall Street Journal Re: “The Fed Didn’t Cause the Housing Bubble” By: Alan Greenspan, former Chairman of the Federal Reserve Dated: Wednesday, March

Investigative Reporter Seymour Hersh Describes ‘Executive Assassination Ring’ Minnesota Post (11 March 09)

Catherine Austin Fitts speaking at the GoldRush 21 conference held in Dawson City, Yukon Canada on August 7-9 2005 – predicts current crisis and the

Congress Saves on Online Contracts: Senate Makes Major Concession in Stripping Internet Posting Provision from Stimulus Internet junkies and wonks alike may have jumped the

This Kissinger image (by David Levine) is one of 320 illustrations—by 142 of the world’s most acclaimed contemporary artists – that The New York Times

If the Administration wants to provide bailout relief, here is a simple solution. Waive taxes on 401ks and IRAs and allow Americans to withdraw all

We thought we would dig out the data to update Bloomberg’s calculation of November 2008 that totaled the bank bailouts at $8.5 trillion. Here is

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“Believing that you could put together bad stuff with good stuff, mix it up, and make it great stuff, is the debauched, debased, phony belief

“I was standing there, about to put a dollar bill into a vending machine, and it hit me: I could use my dollar to buy