By Jesse Eisinger Goldman Sachs appears to be trying to clear its name. The compelling Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations report on the financial crisis is

By Amanda Gardner, No one ever claimed that watching TV was healthy, but doctors are only now discovering just how bad it can be. Evidence

A new Tennessee law makes it a crime to “transmit or display an image” online that is likely to “frighten, intimidate or cause emotional distress”

Tornados, wildfires, droughts and floods were once seen as freak conditions. But the environmental disasters now striking the world are shocking signs of ‘global weirding’

By Daily Mail Reporter Two NASA probes gliding towards the stars nine billion miles from Earth, have made a surprising discovery – our solar system

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Re:  NJ Senate Budget Committee hearing on proposed pension and health benefit legislation. Supported by Senate President Steve Sweeney and Governor Chris Christie. (Sweeney/Christie Pension

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By Paul Delean and Lynn Moore Claiming widespread tax fraud in the gold refining and trading sector, Revenue Quebec and police investigators this week conducted

Thanks to the fantastic work of Bilderberg activists, journalists and the Swiss media, we have now been able to obtain the full official list of

Produced by Leila Conners (The 11th Hour) and Mathew Schmid and directed by Mark Mac-Innis A documentary from Tree Media. The film follows the urban

By Kim Zetter A judge in Maine has ruled that a bank that allowed hackers to steal more than $300,000 from a customer’s online account

By Rupert Neate The former prime minister of Iceland has been formally charged over his part in the collapse of the country’s banks in 2008.

By Joe Weisenthal A new poll shows that Barack Obama’s approval rating is falling, and that he couldn’t beat Mitt Romney in a head-to-head match

On 6/5/11 12:38 pm a reader wrote: Dear Catherine, I’m a long-time follower of your views…. I’m a self-employed trader/investor who is retired from a

Hackerspaces are community-operated physical places, where people can meet and work on their projects. This website is for ‘Anyone and Everyone’,who wants to share their

The Centralization Team vs. The Decentralization Team We were talking with the highly experienced investment advisor Catherine Austin Fitts from the U.S. to get some

Guest Photo: Sandpoint Idaho, Population 7365 (and growing), unique restaurant marketing. One picture, one million thoughts. God Bless the Longbridge Restaurant. Continue reading . .

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News of the likely victory of leftist Ollanta Humala in Peru’s presidential election has sparked a record fall on the country’s share market. Peruvian stocks

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Chamba Lane was as known for giving back to the community as he was for his sometimes controversial commentary. The KVMR host succumbed to lung

By Joe Weisenthal Citi’s Tobias Levkovitch is out with a new survey of Citigroup institutional clients. This chart really caught our eye. [click on the

By Kelly Heffernan-Tabor Collier County, Florida — Have you heard the one about a homeowner foreclosing on a bank? Well, it has happened in Florida

By Joel Millman Wolfgang Candy Co. is looking for capital to help the 90-year-old company expand. GreenLine Paper Co. could use a cash infusion to

U.S. Trust Insights on Wealth and Worth explores both the rational and emotional perspectives of the high net worth in the United States. Key topics

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Scientists Under Attack Directed by Bertram Verhaag “Billed as “a political thriller on GMOs and freedom of speech”, this film by the German film-maker Bertram

(Source: Bloomberg) Continue reading the article . . . Related reading: Reports: Goldman Sachs Subpoenaed USA Today (2 June 11)

By Martin de Sa’Pinto and Joe Giannone Zurich – Wealthy U.S. individuals have already pulled most of their money from Swiss private banks and could

By Joe Weisenthal “Confirmed” is the word used in the latest announcement from Case-Shiller, which showed a surprise 3.61% year-over-year decline in home prices. [click

By Tyler Durden That average monthly benefit of $133.24 for 44.199 million people will help with the purchase of one third of a very edible

By Tony Paterson and John Lichfield Englishmen may see themselves as king of their own castles, but the fact that Europe largely did away with

By Alan Purkiss Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS) offered Libya the opportunity to become one of its biggest shareholders two years ago, the Wall Street

By Tony Arnold There are a lot of investment options out there — but have you ever considered weather? The Chicago Mercantile Exchange has, and

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Central Bank Gold Bullion War Reallocations Part 1 of 5 Related reading: Central Bank Gold Bullion War Reallocations Part 2 of 5 Central Bank Gold

By Valerie Richardson It’s no secret that members of Congress qualify as political insiders, but a new report strongly suggests that they also may be

National Geographic – When Aliens Attack – Part 2 (Not Available) National Geographic – When Aliens Attack – Part 3 YouTube (23 May 11) National

By Laura Saunders The Internal Revenue Service, moving aggressively to collect more taxes from small businesses, is telling companies being audited to turn over exact

By Natsuko Waki; Cash-rich global pension funds are starting to increase their miniscule emerging market allocations, raising the prospect of a rapid acceleration in flows

By Sam Smith A chart showing the mentions of the Constitution by year as estimated by Google.com. [click on the image for a larger version]

By Spencer Ackerman You think you understand how the Patriot Act allows the government to spy on its citizens. Sen. Ron Wyden says it’s worse

By Katharine Q. Seelye The Justice Department plans to move ahead with criminal charges against John Edwards, the former senator and presidential candidate, contending that

By Congressman Ron Paul YouTube

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By Greg Stohr The U.S. Supreme Court refused to revive a suit that claimed Verizon Communications Inc. owed as much as $1.7 billion in additional

YouTube (23 May 11)

By Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg For the residents of Benton Harbor, Michigan the question is will America have prosperity and democracy, or live in

By C. Martenson Well, it now turns out that many of my worst fears about Fukushima have been confirmed with the news that TEPCO has

Is Thomas Drake an enemy of the state? By Jane Mayer On June 13th, a fifty-four-year-old former government employee named Thomas Drake is scheduled to

Move Would Follow Senate Subcommittee’s Report By Liz Rappaport and Jean Eaglesh Goldman Sachs Group Inc. executives expect to receive subpoenas soon from U.S. prosecutors

By Yves Smith Texas is not exactly a consumer-friendly state, so the Federal court ruling in the Eastern District of Texas against MERS has the

If So, How Long Will He Survive ? By Michael Collins Gretchen Morgenson of the New York Times just published one of the few feel

By Chris Ordal EARTHWORK (2011) official HD trailer from Chris Ordal on Vimeo.

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By Sebastian Moffett The normally easy-to-understand Christine Lagarde walked a diplomatic tightrope Thursday over the choice of a new IMF head. European and Asian governments

By Stacey Herbert There are some that since 2001 have doubted the bull market in precious metals.  In these past six weeks, however, everyone from

By Shahien Nasiripour A set of confidential federal audits accuse the nation’s five largest mortgage companies of defrauding taxpayers in their handling of foreclosures on

Mr. Speaker, I rise to introduce legislation that allows the shipment and distribution of unpasteurized milk and milk products for human consumption across state lines.

By Stan Humphries Home values fell three percent in the first quarter of this year, marking a pace of decline not seen since 2008 when

By Jack Greiner The Cincinnati Enquirer reports that Ohio’s proposed budget for the coming year includes a plan to sell an additional six prisons to

By Washington’s Blog Americans who have been paying attention are outraged that Bush lied us into Iraq by making up false claims about weapons of

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By Michael Gormley New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is seeking records from three major Wall Street banks as part of a broad investigation into

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John Lipsky is an American economist. He is currently the acting Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund. Previously the First Deputy Managing Director, he

By Joe Weisenthal Commodities have been getting clubbed of late, but it’s not clear yet whether this is a “dip” or the start of something

The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) today completed the first and second reviews of Ireland’s performance under an economic program supported by

By Paul Joseph Watson A top Duma political leader caused shock waves in a recent television interview when he warned that Russia could deploy an

By Ben Dover After an emergency meeting of its Board of Governors on Sunday afternoon, the International Monetary Fund announced that it would sell gold

Dugersuren Tsagaantsooj is 30 years old and lives with his wife and two sons in a house in Hovd province, Mongolia. His older son goes

By Tyler Durden As we reported previously, Obama has found himself on the verge of another environmental scandal now that he has no choice but

By Joe Carroll and Michio Nakayama Tokyo Electric Power Co. said one of the reactor cores at its stricken Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant is more

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By David Derbyshire Phone signals confuses bees and cause them to begin flying erratically before suddenly dying Signals from mobile phones could be partly to

The next 50 years of spaceflight will carry many challenges and surprises for explorers hoping to extend their reach into the cosmos. But it will

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By Rolling Stone Magazine A Senate committee has laid out the evidence. Now the Justice Department should bring criminal charges They weren’t murderers or anything;

By Joe Brennan and Dara Doyle Ireland’s government will impose a temporary levy on domestic private pension savings to fund a jobs plan aimed at

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“Every 30 Minutes”: Crushed by Debt and Neoliberal Reforms, Indian Farmers Commit Suicide at Staggering Rate Continue reading the article . . .

By Nadia Damouni and Bill Rigby Microsoft Corp plans to buy Internet phone service Skype for $8.5 billion in its biggest-ever acquisition, placing a rich

Shares in American International Group Inc. tumbled on Monday, deepening a slide that’s brought the insurer’s shares to the lowest point in eight months and

By Joe Weisenthal The big news of the day: Yet again, students are graduating college with a record amount of debt. Continue reading the article

Trading set to kick off in May as Hong Kong burnishes status By Chris Oliver Hong Kong is on track to kick off a new

By Daniel Wagner Fannie Mae asked the government Friday for an additional $8.5 billion in aid after declining home prices caused more defaults on loans

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San Francisco’s one-of-a-kind program puts nonviolent criminals to work for clean records. By Caroline Cournoyer In San Francisco, people accused of low-level, nonviolent crimes were

Top contractors dominate the market with billions in government business. The Top 100 government contractors pulled in nearly $130 billion in prime contracts last year. We

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke called for more lending to people and small businesses in lower-income neighborhoods, saying they’ve been disproportionately hurt by the recession.

By Christian Reiermann The debt crisis in Greece has taken on a dramatic new twist. Sources with information about the government’s actions have informed SPIEGEL

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By Doug Palmer Tens of billions of dollars of Chinese investment could flood into the United States in the next decade, creating a multitude of

By Ivan Katz The decision by the Philadelphia Orchestra Association to file for reorganization under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code may well turn out

By Rhodri Marsden Need help producing your new album or financing a film? Just ask someone you’ve never met to stump up the cash. ‘Crowdfunding’

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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers exploded a large section of a Mississippi River levee Monday in a desperate attempt to protect an Illinois town