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

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

Introduced in the Georgia General Assembly B 416 – “Sound Money In Banking Act”; require any bank serving as a depository for the state to

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Large financial institutions that engage in speculative activities for profit should be allowed to fail if they get in trouble, White House

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

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

With Geoff Lawton Also see previous blog post: Greening the Desert

From Chris Powell – GATA – 7:45p ET Monday, February 15, 2010 Dear Friend of GATA and Gold: In a fascinating 50-minute interview with Eric

By Tom Engelhardt, Tom Dispatch Let me put American life in the Age of Terror into some kind of context, and then tell me you’re

By Mark Anderson According to an independent British newspaper editor, in the not-so-distant future, English drivers will be charged based upon the number of miles

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,

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

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

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

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

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

By Craig Torres and Christopher Condon The Federal Reserve is in talks with money-market mutual funds on agreements to help drain as much as $1

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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

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

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,

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.

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

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By Aoife White The European Parliament on Thursday strongly rejected a deal that would have allowed U.S. authorities access to European bank transfers — a

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

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

By Julianna Goldman and Ian Katz President Barack Obama said he doesn’t “begrudge” the $17 million bonus awarded to JPMorgan Chase & Co. Chief Executive

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

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

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

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

Continue reading On the Edge with Max Keiser – 06 February 2010

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

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

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

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,

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

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

Financial crisis Stalled too many customers CEO no more. – Haiku published by Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz on Twitter announcing his resignation as Oracle takes

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

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

The world’s central bankers began arriving in Australia yesterday as renewed fears about the strength of the global economic recovery gripped world share markets. Representatives

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

WASHINGTON – Al Qaeda can be expected to attempt an attack on the United States in the next three to six months, senior intelligence officials

By Jason Ditz In testimony before the House Intelligence Committee today, National Intelligence Director Dennis Blair told representatives that American citizens can be assassinated by

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

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.

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

By Stephen Bernard and Ieva M. Augstums The New York Attorney General’s office said Thursday it filed civil charges against Bank of America and its

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Dennis Bernstein, of the KPFA radio show, Flashpoints, interviewed Catherine last night (Feb 3, 2010.) Listen to the portion of the interview where Catherine talks

By Tony Capaccio The U.S. military plans to more than triple its inventory of high-altitude, armed and unarmed drones capable of 24-hour patrols by 2020.

Every year, farmers in the rural town Inakadate, Japan create rice field art by using red rice in with their regular rice in special patterns.

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By Jesse “more than 519 municipalities that face 990 million euros in derivatives losses” As the quote indicates, its a big problem, and Bank of

By Rebecca Christie U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner said he has continued to support the strong dollar policy he helped craft in the Clinton

By Brady Dennis American International Group plans Wednesday to pay another round of employee bonuses, worth about $100 million, said several people familiar with the

By Tyler Durden Yes, slowly but surely it is happening. In a federal notice filed earlier, the DOL and Treasury are soliciting a response on

From Wikipedia A Comprehensive Annual Financial Report (CAFR) is a government financial statement, which goes beyond the minimums established for public sector companies by NCGA

By Lance Lewis Since December 2009, gold bears have had a ray of hope as gold has corrected (as all bull markets do), and now

By PK Semler A proposal by former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker to limit bank’s proprietary trading will be either be dropped or significantly modified

By Tyler Durden The chart below demonstrates the amount of borrowing per state, as well as trust fund holdings. (View Larger Chart) Continue reading A

By F. William Engdahl Former President becomes UN Special Envoy to earthquake-stricken Haiti. A born-again neo-conservative US business wheeler-dealer preacher claims Haitians are condemned for

By Margaret Collins and Alexis Leondis U.S. President Barack Obama’s effort to increase retirement savings by requiring all businesses to offer automatic IRA accounts may

By David Reilly The idea of secret banking cabals that control the country and global economy are a given among conspiracy theorists who stockpile ammo,

By Scott Thompson and Paul Gallagher If the rising movement of American patriots is going to clean out the London/Wall Street swamp of the Obama

Continue reading Boston Globe Names Elizabeth Warren ‘Bostonian of the Year’

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By Doug Wakefield and Ben Hill (View larger chart) This chart is from the December 2009 issue of The Investors Mind) Continue reading Unfinished Business:

There recently was an article in the St. Petersburg Fl. Times. The Business Section asked readers for ideas on: “How Would You Fix the Economy?”

By Robert Britt Tonight’s full moon — called the wolf moon — will be the biggest and brightest full moon of the year. It offers

1. US Congress Sells Out to Wall Street 2. US Schools are More Segregated Today than in the 1950s 3. Toxic Waste Behind Somali Pirates

Whitley Strieber writes, “For years, I have grappled with strange memories from early childhood that suggested involvement in some sort of abusive program. But I

J.D. Salinger, the legendary author, youth hero and fugitive from fame whose “The Catcher in the Rye” shocked and inspired a world he increasingly shunned,

By Jesse Just returned last night from Beijing. While on standby at airport from 11:30 AM until 6:30 PM (all classes of all half-hourly flights