‘Pay it Forward’ Pays Off

‘Pay it Forward’ Pays Off

For all those dismayed by scenes of looting in disaster-struck zones, whether Haiti or Chile or elsewhere, take heart: Good acts – acts of kindness, generosity and cooperation – spread just as easily as bad.

Democrats Forcing Mandatory Health Care “Tax”

Democrats Forcing Mandatory Health Care “Tax”

By Jason Leopold Nearly a year after Democrats introduced legislation to reform the health care industry – first by flirting with the prospect of having a government-run program to compete with private insurers and then

Norway Doomsday Seed Vault Hits 1/2 Million Mark

Norway Doomsday Seed Vault Hits 1/2 Million Mark

Two years after receiving its first deposits, a “doomsday” seed vault on an Arctic island has amassed half a million seed samples, making it the world’s most diverse repository of crop seeds, the vault’s operators

Bad Press on Europe, Investors Move Back Into U.S. Stocks

Bad Press on Europe, Investors Move Back Into U.S. Stocks

By Vincent Fernando and Kamelia Angelova According to the most recent fund flow data from The Investment Company Institute (ICI), U.S. mutual fund investors came back to U.S. stocks in late February as the Eurozone

A Boycott by Any Other Name …

A Boycott by Any Other Name …

By James Bowen, National Chairperson of the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign By James Bowen, National Chairperson of the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign In the late 19th century, changes in Ottoman law created a new class of large

3D Television Coming

3D Television Coming

Photograph: 20th Century Fox By Andrew Clark and Zoe Wood Korean company Samsung kicks off the industry-wide push by launching a 3D range that will be in British shops by the end of the month.

Europe Bars Wall Street Banks From Government Bond Sales

Europe Bars Wall Street Banks From Government Bond Sales

By Elena Moya European countries are blocking Wall Street banks from lucrative deals to sell government debt worth hundreds of billions of Euros in retaliation for their role in the credit crunch. For the first

GATA Appeals to CFTC to Act Against Manipulative Shorts

GATA Appeals to CFTC to Act Against Manipulative Shorts

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold: GATA today delivered to the chairman of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Gary Gensler, a letter from GATA Chairman Bill Murphy, appealing to the CFTC to act against

“In From the Internet”

“In From the Internet”

Heidi is the proprietor of a bar in Detroit. She realizes that virtually all of her customers are unemployed alcoholics and, as such, can no longer afford to patronize her bar. To solve this problem,

The Swaps That Swallowed Your Town

The Swaps That Swallowed Your Town

By Gretchen Morgenson As more details surface about how derivatives helped Greece and perhaps other countries mask their debt loads, let’s not forget that the wonders of these complex products aren’t on display only overseas.

Icelanders Reject Bank Bailout

Icelanders Reject Bank Bailout

By Anthony Faiola Icelanders this weekend resoundingly rejected a plan to reimburse overseas depositors after the failure of an online Icelandic bank, a rare public referendum on the repayment of a foreign liability that could

“By a Solari Reader”

“By a Solari Reader”

Mish Shedlock has another story out about how government is broke and union workers are selfishly asking for pay raises in the face of these fiscal catastrophes. Chicago Public Schools System Is Broke; Union Contract

The Census of Agriculture

The Census of Agriculture

From the Introduction: The 2008 Organic Production Survey (OPS) is a follow-on survey to the 2007 Census of Agriculture. It is the first organic production and practices survey conducted on the national level by the

How Big Is Big Government?

How Big Is Big Government?

By Jon Rapppoport MARCH 4, 2010. A week ago, I wrote and emailed and posted this article. Since then, I’ve had time to reflect further, and I’ve also gotten suggestions from readers. The situation is

Qwest CEO Threatened With Repercussions

Qwest CEO Threatened With Repercussions

By Wayne Madsen WMR has learned from sources who worked in senior positions for the telecommunications company Qwest that its former chairman and CEO, Joseph Nacchio, was threatened with retaliation after he refused to participate

Confidence In Economy Is Low

Confidence In Economy Is Low

Views of the country’s short- and long-term economic future are gloomier these days than they have been at any time since President Obama took office in January of last year. Forty-two percent (42%) of American

Germany: A Major Victory For Privacy

Germany: A Major Victory For Privacy

By Scribe Yesterday, there was a major victory for privacy.  Unfortunately, it was not in the US.  The German Constitutional Court threw out as unconstitutional a law which required storage of all flavors of electronic

Meet The Greeks Who Are Way Scarier Than The Street Rioters

Meet The Greeks Who Are Way Scarier Than The Street Rioters

By Joe Weisenthal and Kamelia Angelova There’s no doubt you’ve seen the wild images of rioters in Athens. They’re violently objecting to the painful budget measures officials are taking. But officials don’t need to be

Volker ‘Has Changed Mind’ Over Proprietary Trading

Volker ‘Has Changed Mind’ Over Proprietary Trading

By Suzy Jagger Washington has backed down on proposals to block investment banks from engaging in proprietary trading activities, Britain’s top financial regulator told MPs yesterday. Lord Turner of Ecchinswell told the Treasury Select Committee

Richard Dolan

Richard Dolan

One of the challenges of learning about the UFO phenomenon is finding an overview which is both thorough and intellectually rigorous. Richard Dolan has done an excellent job of providing us with one, “UFOs &

Internet – Regulation Coming?

Internet – Regulation Coming?

By Kieren McCarthy The US government’s policy of leaving the Internet alone is over, according to Obama’s top official at the Department of Commerce. Instead, an “Internet Policy 3.0” approach will see policy discussions between

Coast to Coast AM

Coast to Coast AM

ABC News does a story on Coast to Coast AM

A Simple, Healing Mountain Cottage

A Simple, Healing Mountain Cottage

Denise Franklin needed a healing place. She’d been through a major illness (more than 20 years earlier doctors had told her she had six months to live) and had walked away from a house and

Microsoft’s Global Criminal Compliance Handbook Leaked

Microsoft’s Global Criminal Compliance Handbook Leaked

U.S. Domestic Version March 2008 By Addy Dugdale Microsoft has acted swiftly after the Web site Cryptome leaked its “Global Criminal Compliance Handbook.” The guide does exactly what it says: outlines the surveillance services the

Is Your Gold At An LBMA Bank?

Is Your Gold At An LBMA Bank?

By Adrian Douglas Recently I have written several articles that have discussed how much “paper gold” has been sold, principally through the unallocated accounts of the London Bullion Market Association, though there are other vehicles

Massive Earthquake Hits Chile

Massive Earthquake Hits Chile

By Jose Luis Saavedra One of the world’s most powerful earthquakes in a century battered Chile on Saturday, killing at least 214 people, knocking down buildings and triggering a tsunami that threatened Pacific coastlines as

What Are Banks Doing With Our Money?

What Are Banks Doing With Our Money?

By James Turk Instead of depositor money being used to stimulate economic activity in the private sector by lending to businesses and consumers, the banks are helping to fund the growing federal deficits. This re-allocation

Norway Does It Their Way

Norway Does It Their Way

By Matthew Futterman and Kevin Helliker Vancouver, British Columbia Norway’s Olympic team has won a surprising 17 medals in Vancouver so far, enough to place it third overall and only one gold medal behind the

Administration to Stop Foreclosures ?

Administration to Stop Foreclosures ?

By Dawn Kopecki The Obama administration may expand efforts to ease the housing crisis by banning all foreclosures on home loans unless they have been screened and rejected by the government’s Home Affordable Modification Program.

French Government Queries USA re 1950’s Secret LSD Experiment

French Government Queries USA re 1950’s Secret LSD Experiment

By F. William Engdahl A major diplomatic and political scandal is erupting that could have significant import for French-American relations. It involves new research into the mysterious outbreak of “mass insanity” in a village in

Senate Votes to Extend Patriot Act

Senate Votes to Extend Patriot Act

Democrats have retreated from adding new privacy protections to the primary U.S counterterrorism law, stymied by Senate Republicans who argued the changes would weaken terror investigations. The proposed protections were cast aside when Senate Democrats

Sultans of Swap

Sultans of Swap

by Gordon T Long The Bond Vigilantes are dead – RIP – Long Live the Sultans of Swap Every parent has had that moment when their child asks them the simplest sounding question but in

European Banks Face Showdown Over €Trillion of Debt

European Banks Face Showdown Over €Trillion of Debt

European banks need to roll over €1 trillion (£877bn) of debt over the next two years at a much higher cost and in direct competition with hungry sovereign states, according to a report by Morgan

Fannie, Freddie Post Losses on Tax Credit Writedowns

Fannie, Freddie Post Losses on Tax Credit Writedowns

By Dawn Kopecki Feb. 24 (Bloomberg) Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the mortgage-finance companies under government control, are reporting fourth-quarter losses after writing down the value of tax credits and setting aside money for housing-market

Homeland Chief: Domestic Extremism is Top Concern

Homeland Chief: Domestic Extremism is Top Concern

Associated Press (21 Feb 10) WASHINGTON – Americans who turn to terrorism and plot against the U.S. are now as big a concern as international terrorists, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Sunday. The government

IMF Floats Capital Controls Trial Ballon

IMF Floats Capital Controls Trial Ballon

Global Crisis Leads I.M.F Experts to Rethink Long-Held Ideas New York Times (21 Feb 10) WASHINGTON — The International Monetary Fund has long preached the virtues of keeping inflation low and allowing money to flow

The Financial Crisis in Greece

The Financial Crisis in Greece

Fed Probes Goldman Role in Greek Crisis Financial Times (25 Feb 10) Bernanke Probing Goldman’s Dealings with Greece MarketWatch (25 Feb 10) London Firm Was Created to Route Cash GATA (22 Feb 10) Greece Turns

IRS Has Its Eye on Wisconsin Fund’s Gains

IRS Has Its Eye on Wisconsin Fund’s Gains

Pensions & Investments (11 Jan 10) The Internal Revenue Service wants to tax the State of Wisconsin Investment Board some $40 million, including interest, to recover income taxes owed by a company in which SWIB

Help Put the Gold Swap Question to Bernanke Next Week

Help Put the Gold Swap Question to Bernanke Next Week

GATA (20 Feb 10) Dear Friend of GATA and Gold: As you may have seen from the Bloomberg News story dispatched to you previously today,(http://www.gata.org/node/8352), Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke is to appear next week

Supreme Court Allows Manipulation Suit Against Pimco to Proceed

Supreme Court Allows Manipulation Suit Against Pimco to Proceed

Bloomberg (22 Feb 10) WASHINGTON—The U.S. Supreme Court rejected an appeal by Pacific Investment Management Co., clearing the way for a lawsuit seeking more than $600 million for the company’s alleged manipulation of the price

Conning the Climate

Conning the Climate

No, it’s not abstract, up there in the clouds!” exclaimed Talita Beck. “I can see it. I can measure it.” We were talking about carbon emissions; Beck is an emissions assessor, a profession that did

The Middle Class Two Income Trap

The Middle Class Two Income Trap

Two Breadwinners plus Extra Money to support the Banking Industry. How Middle Class Americans are losing Ground by Supporting the Financial Sector. MyBudget 360 (19 Feb 10) Continue reading the article. . .

Disaster Capitalism is Green

Disaster Capitalism is Green

The Economist (8 Feb 10) THERE was a time when conservation meant keeping people away from nature. America’s system of national parks, a model for similar set-ups around the world, was based on the idea

Ron Paul Wins CPAC Presidential Straw

Ron Paul Wins CPAC Presidential Straw

Talk about your political upsets. Texas Rep. Ron Paul, hero of a fervant band of libertarians, unexpectedly won the presidential straw poll at the Conservative Political Action Conference today, claiming 31% of the votes cast.

Tesla Motors Execs Die in Plane Crash

Tesla Motors Execs Die in Plane Crash

Tesla Motors, makers of sporty electrical cars, filed their registration statement on January 29th to go public with a $100 million offering through Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, JP Morgan and Deutsch Bank. The offering would

Plane Crash Suspect’s Online Diatribe

Plane Crash Suspect’s Online Diatribe

Posting rages at IRS, claims, “I have had all I can stand” FEBRUARY 18—The man suspected of intentionally crashing an airplane into a Texas office building today appears to have posted a lengthy online diatribe

43% Say Local Government Better Than Feds, States

43% Say Local Government Better Than Feds, States

Rasmussen Reports (16 Feb 10) Forty-three percent (43%) of U.S. voters rate the performance of their local government as tops compared to its counterparts on the state and federal level. A new Rasmussen Reports national

Requiring Banks to Offer Gold and Silver Deposits

Requiring Banks to Offer Gold and Silver Deposits

Introduced in the Georgia General Assembly B 416 – “Sound Money In Banking Act”; require any bank serving as a depository for the state to offer/accept gold and silver coin for deposit A BILL to

Volker Says Must Let Big Financial Firms Fail

Volker Says Must Let Big Financial Firms Fail

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Large financial institutions that engage in speculative activities for profit should be allowed to fail if they get in trouble, White House advisor Paul Volcker said on Sunday. “If a big non-bank

Algae to Solve Pentagon’s Jet Fuel Problem

Algae to Solve Pentagon’s Jet Fuel Problem

By Suzanne Goldenberg The brains trust of the Pentagon says it is just months away from producing a jet fuel from algae for the same cost as its fossil-fuel equivalent. The claim, which comes from

FDA Invades Non-Commercial Amish

FDA Invades Non-Commercial Amish

Kinzers, PA – At 9:40 a.m. Thursday, February 4, only a few miles from the scene of the Nickel Mines Amish massacre of 2006, another drama against the Amish began as agents of the U.S.

Bloomberg’s Lawsuit vs. the Fed

Bloomberg’s Lawsuit vs. the Fed

By Alan Feuer The critical lawsuit challenging that mystery of finance known as the Bailout started, oddly enough, with a casual newsroom chat. Mark Pittman, an investigative reporter for Bloomberg News, had filed a Freedom

Virginia Delegates Pass Bill Banning Chip Implants

Virginia Delegates Pass Bill Banning Chip Implants

By Daniel Tencer Concerns over privacy have aligned with apocalyptic Biblical prophecy in a proposed Virginia law that limits the use of microchip implants on humans because of a lawmaker’s concern that the chips will

Events and the Gold Price

Events and the Gold Price

I have been looking at the impact of various events and natural disasters on the price of gold. Paul Ferguson made this chart that marks various events on a gold price history for last week’s

The Making of a Euromess

The Making of a Euromess

By Paul Krugman For the truth is that lack of fiscal discipline isn’t the whole, or even the main, source of Europe’s troubles — not even in Greece, whose government was indeed irresponsible (and hid

NWO Prototyping in Greece

NWO Prototyping in Greece

In an attempt to rein in the shadow economy and collect more tax revenue, Greece outlaws cash transactions greater than 1500 Euros. Please consider Greek Finance Minister unveils tax reform, wage policy. “From 1. Jan.

There Has Been No Global Warming Since 1995

There Has Been No Global Warming Since 1995

By Jonathan Petre The academic at the centre of the ‘Climategate’ affair, whose raw data is crucial to the theory of climate change, has admitted that he has trouble ‘keeping track’ of the information. Colleagues

GATA Washington Conference

GATA Washington Conference

By Chris Powell While our hopes to have a documentary film made from GATA’s conference in Washington on April 18 and 19, 2008, have not been realized, videos of the 17 major presentations there now

Does Sugar Get You to Play Along?

Does Sugar Get You to Play Along?

By Jeremy Singer-Vine A boost in blood sugar appears to increase the perceived value of future rewards, according to a study in Psychological Science. Researchers asked 65 college students seven questions about delayed rewards, such

Farm City

Farm City

Novella Carpenter on her experience moving to a ramshackle house in Oakland, California, and turning a weed-choked, garbage-strewn lot next door into a small farm, complete with egg-laying chickens, turkeys, geese, ducks, rabbits, and two

Couple Pays All Cash – Bank Of America Forecloses

Couple Pays All Cash – Bank Of America Forecloses

By Tony Marrero Charlie and Maria Cardoso are among the millions of Americans who have experienced the misery and embarrassment that come with home foreclosure. Just one problem: The Massachusetts couple paid for their future

Iceland An “Offshore Publishing Center”

Iceland An “Offshore Publishing Center”

By Jonathan Stray On Tuesday, the Icelandic parliament is expected to introduce a measure aimed at making the country an international center for investigative journalism publishing, by passing the strongest combination of source protection, freedom

Is George Soros Having a Bad Week?

Is George Soros Having a Bad Week?

The dirt is flying on Soros and his investments: Good news: Obama Backs Off-shore Drilling! Update: A Soros Connection? Hot Air (18 Aug 09) Obama Underwrites Offshore Drilling The Wall Street Journal (18 Aug 09)

Crosby Mint Farm – Good News!

Crosby Mint Farm – Good News!

February 11, 2010 Dear Friends of the Crosby Mint Farm, We are thrilled to share the miracle that took place on Friday, February 5th, 2010 Some of you may have already heard through the mint

New Mexico House Votes to Move Its Money

New Mexico House Votes to Move Its Money

New Mexico’s House of Representatives voted Monday to pass a bill that allows the state to move $2 billion – $5 billion of state funds to credit unions and small banks. The municipal funds bill

Great Seed Companies

Great Seed Companies

By Karan Davis Cutler A decade ago, heirloom and open-pollinated, or OP, varieties of vegetables and flowers as well as certified organic seeds were the domain of small, regional seed houses. Today, most mainstream seed

USDA Drops Animal ID System

USDA Drops Animal ID System

The U.S. Department of Agriculture said Friday it has abandoned a program that was intended to trace the movement of farm animals around the country but garnered little support from farmers. Instead, the department announced

The Manipulation of “Safety”

The Manipulation of “Safety”

By Ari LeVaux Big Ag is at fault for the nation’s food-borne illness outbreaks — but a raft of pending food safety legislation unfairly penalizes smaller producers. Thanks to a recent spate of high-profile, food-borne

Think Government Is Corrupt? You May Face 10 Years In Jail

Think Government Is Corrupt? You May Face 10 Years In Jail

By Paul Joseph Watson Subversives who think government is corrupt and should be controlled by the people face 10 years in prison and a $25,000 dollar fine if they fail to register with authorities in

Investing in Start-Up Companies

Investing in Start-Up Companies

By Paul Ferguson “It was the best of times. It was the worst of times.” I just had one of the best weeks ever! And also, one of the worst. As an investor in the

“The Big Dogs Get A Bailout, Little Man Gets No Mercy”

“The Big Dogs Get A Bailout, Little Man Gets No Mercy”

By Kathleen M. Howley When John King stopped making payments on his home in Coral Gables, Florida, two years ago, he assumed the foreclosure ended his mortgage contract, he said. Last month, a Miami-Dade County

Pennsylvania: Bankruptcy Is A Budget Option?

Pennsylvania: Bankruptcy Is A Budget Option?

By Dunstan McNichol Harrisburg, the capital of Pennsylvania, will consider Chapter 9 bankruptcy protection along with tax increases and asset sales as options to address $68 million in debt service payments due this year, the

Raising The Bar For Nullification

Raising The Bar For Nullification

By Michael Boldin Around the country, twenty two states are currently considering a bill known as the “Firearms Freedom Act.” This bill declares that guns, accessories, and ammunition made within a state, sold within that

Who Owns Your Baby’s DNA?

Who Owns Your Baby’s DNA?

Continue reading Illegal Baby DNA Profiling Without Parental Consent – Hello Gattaca! YouTube (24 Nov 09) Related articles: The Government Has Your Baby’s DNA CNN Health (04 Feb 10)

World’s Earliest Andamanese Language Dies With Elder

World’s Earliest Andamanese Language Dies With Elder

By Anny Shaw The last member of a 65,000-year-old tribe has died, taking one of the world’s earliest languages to the grave. Boa Sr, who died last week aged about 85, was the last native

Resignation by Tweet

Resignation by Tweet

Financial crisis Stalled too many customers CEO no more. – Haiku published by Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz on Twitter announcing his resignation as Oracle takes over Sun. Related articles: Sun CEO Tweets Resignation: And 9

Testy Conflict With Goldman Helped Push A.I.G. to Edge

Testy Conflict With Goldman Helped Push A.I.G. to Edge

By Gretchen Morgenson and Louise Story Billions of dollars were at stake when 21 executives of Goldman Sachs and the American International Group convened a conference call on Jan. 28, 2008, to try to resolve

Bank Data Wars Escalate

Bank Data Wars Escalate

SWIFT headquarters in La Hulpe. The civil liberties committee in the European Parliament on Thursday recommended that the parliament’s MPs reject a deal that would allow U.S. authorities to continue accessing information held by a

Long-Term Care

Long-Term Care

Continue reading A No-Nonsense Look at Long-Term Care

CIA Moonlights at Hedge Funds

CIA Moonlights at Hedge Funds

By: Eamon Javers In the midst of two wars and the fight against Al Qaeda, the CIA is offering operatives a chance to peddle their expertise to private companies on the side — a policy

Google And NSA Tie the Knot

Google And NSA Tie the Knot

By Ellen Nakashima The world’s largest Internet search company and the world’s most powerful electronic surveillance organization are teaming up in the name of cybersecurity. Under an agreement that is still being finalized, the National

Eustace Mullins (March 9, 1923 – February 2, 2010)

Eustace Mullins (March 9, 1923 – February 2, 2010)

Eustace Clarence Mullins, Jr. was born in Roanoke, Virginia, the third child of Eustace Clarence Mullins (1899-1961) and his wife Jane Katherine Muse (1897-1971). His father was a salesman in a retail clothing store. He