By Anais Starr My great good friend and doctor healer, Dr. Jim MacKimmie passed away on Monday evening, June 11. After the initial stab of

Could this be the golden age of estate planning? Some financial advisers believe it is — at least until the end of the year. That’s

BISMARCK, N.D. — Since Californians shrank their property taxes more than three decades ago by passing Proposition 13, people around the nation have echoed their

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The first privately funded mission to the Moon will launch in 2015, pioneered by a legendary roboticist and his team of students. Pittsburgh’s Astrobotic Technology,

30,000 secret surveillance orders approved each year Nate Anderson (5 June 12) If the government spies on you but brings no charges, you’ll never know.

Source: Shadowstats This article replaces the earlier “Primer” on the Consumer Price Index   Consumer Price Index Has Been Reconfigured Since Early-1980s?So As to Understate

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Delivered June 10, 1963 “President Anderson, members of the faculty, board of trustees, distinguished guests, my old colleague, Senator Bob Byrd, who has earned his

By Humble Student of the Markets I wrote before that the likely negative surprise was going to come from China and not Europe (see Focus

“There are three kinds of people in the world: those who are asleep, those who are stirring, and those who are awake. “If you try

By Paula Vasan,  aiCIO Alongside senators, prime ministers, and banking kingpins, one (perhaps) unusual attendee is currently at this year’s Bilderberg meetings: Texas Teacher Retirement

Source:News.com.au The Financial Times (FT) reported yesterday that Lord Jacob Rothschild’s listed investment trust, RIT Capital Partners, agreed to take a 37 per cent stake

By Lee Ferran, Alexander Marquardt and Colleen Curry Flame, also known as sKyWIper, is a veritable “toolkit” of cyber spying programs that is capable of

By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard The German scheme — known as the European Redemption Pact — offers a form of “Eurobonds Lite” that can be squared with

By Elisheva Wiriaatmadja The 2012 Bilderberg Group meeting will take place from May 31st to June 3rd at the Westfields Marriott Washington Dulles hotel in

By The CNN Wire Staff The United States joins Germany, Spain, Italy, France, Britain, Canada, Australia in expelling Syrian diplomats  Tuesday in a coordinated move …

Source: Associated Press America’s newest veterans are filing for disability benefits at a historic rate, claiming to be the most medically and mentally troubled generation

By Matt Stoller “There was a kind of inflection point during the five-year period between 1997 and 2003 — the late Clinton and/or early Bush

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By A Solari Subscriber City of Las Cruces is cutting off utilities for the non payment of speed camera tickets. [http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/37/3774.asp] In Phx 75k people

By Wil Schroter, Fundable When the JOBS Act was signed in April, the startup community gave itself a collective high five. Crowdfunding would enable startups

From Jim Sinclair from Harry Schulz [and said to be from Bob Chapman] On May 14, Russia’s Prime Minister Medvedev delivered a speech at an

Source: Zillow With U.S. home values falling by nearly 25% since peak in 2007, many homeowners are now underwater in their mortgages, meaning they owe

By Peter Dale Scott Preface I delivered the following remarks at an anti-NATO conference held in Moscow on May 15, 2012. I was the only

By Jiji The government is considering legislation that will allow it to effectively reinsure tankers carrying crude oil from Iran to Japan, sources said. The

While I was in Portugal, one of my Portuguese friends took me by his brother’s home for an early dinner. We watched the sunset across

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Source: The Daily Galaxy via University of Maryland New Study May Provide the Proof Is the Earth a giant living organism as the Gaia hypothesis

On Assignment: A Guide to Reporting in Dangerous Situations In the early months of 2002, Wall Street Journalreporter Daniel Pearl was abducted and executed by

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By Om Malik We are on the cusp of a big economic shift. I believe that the industrial era is coming to an end and

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By Common Dreams staff Today, the Cornucopia Institute released a report titled The Organic Watergate revealing widespread corruption in the USDA’s organic food monitoring panel

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By Tyler Durden China is now on its way to becoming the biggest source of gold demand, surpassing India, but more importantly as of hours

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By Chris Puplava The decline in bullish optimism towards stocks is usually associated with more severe declines than what we typically see and is likely

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