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Measure to Abolish North Dakota Property Taxes on Ballot Inforum (29 Apr 11) BISMARCK — A proposed constitutional amendment to abolish property taxes in North

Catherine Austin Fitts understanding of the global financial system and the inner workings of the Wall Street-Washington axis are unparalleled. As the former U.S. Assistant

(Reuters) 28 Apr 2011 – Tornadoes and violent storms ripped through seven southern states, killing at least 284 people in the country’s deadliest series of

Wall Street Journal (27 Apr 11) – The Federal Reserve used its first-ever news conference to signal it will phase out a controversial bond-buying program—and

Obama to Nominate Panetta to Succeed Gates American Forces Press Service (27 Apr 11) WASHINGTON, April 27, 2011 – President Barack Obama intends to nominate

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HOUSTON, April 27 (Reuters) – Severe storms and tornadoes moving through the U.S. Southeast dealt a severe blow to the Tennessee Valley Authority on Wednesday,

The spying iPhone is no accident. A recent Apple patent application reveals that the location-tracking dossiers accumulated in iPhones are to be used in apps

Video about a project that is developing do-it-yourself versions of 50 essential machines for civilization, many of which are food and agriculture-oriented: Factor E Farm

NoMoreFakeNews.com (20 Apr 2011) Futurists are inclined to predict a world in which AI (artificial intelligence) will take over a major portion of what is

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The U.S. Department of State is proposing a new Biographical Questionnaire for passport applicants. The proposed new Form DS-5513 asks for all addresses since birth;

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I just finished Peter Dale Scott’s new book on the American military-industrial-intelligence establishment and its historical dependency on the global drug trade. This is essential

Dead / Jailed /Missing Scientists & Individuals Affiliated With The BP Oil Disaster Read the story . . .

Press Conference at Concordia University, Montreal Canada YouTube (18 Apr 11) Helen Caldicott – Wikipedia Her website

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By Jennifer Staman, Legislative Attorney Congressional Research Service (31 Mar 11) This report first provides a broad overview of state and local government finances and

Release Date: April 13, 2011 For immediate release The Federal Reserve Board on Wednesday announced formal enforcement actions requiring 10 banking organizations to address a

By Tom Foremski It’s taken a decade but Silicon Valley companies have climbed out of dotcom dotbomb recession and reported their most profitable year in

By Rady Ananda Urges USDA to rescind approval of genetically engineered alfalfa: “In layman’s terms, it should be treated as an emergency.” A plant pathologist

By Chris Lefkow The White House unveiled a plan on Friday designed to boost confidence and business in cyberspace through the creation of a single,

By Charles Hugh Smith The Con of the Decade, which I described last July, is being set up nicely. I described The Con of the

If I were managing a pension fund, I wouldn’t get within a 50 mile radius of anyone from Goldman Sachs, or their spouses, or their

By Leo Kolivakis If you missed CNN’s In The Arena on Thursday evening, then you missed the fireworks. Eliot Spitzer challenged investment banker Goldman Sachs:

By Mary Childs The cost to protect debt issued by Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS) jumped to a one-month high after the chairman of the

By James Herron The world of investment bank research is more often defined by consensus rather than confrontation. Radically conflicting opinions over the outlook for

The Official Atlas Shrugged Movie Trailer. Atlas Shrugged Part 1 opens in theaters April 15th, 2011. YouTube (8 Feb 11)

On Thursday, President Barack Obama signed into law the Comprehensive 1099 Taxpayer Protection and Repayment of Exchange Subsidy Overpayments Act of 2011 (HR 4; 1099

How a Dozen Multinational Corporations Spent a Billion Dollars on Lobbying and Campaign Contributions and Avoided Paying Taxes Twelve large American corporations have been identified

By Izabella Kaminska International regulator conspiracy? Unfortunate coincidence for the ETF industry? Or are regulators finally on to something via the power of group think?

By Gary Taubes On May 26, 2009, Robert Lustig gave a lecture called “Sugar: The Bitter Truth,” which was posted on YouTube the following July.

H.R.1489 Latest Title: To repeal certain provisions of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act and revive the separation between commercial banking and the securities business, in the manner

By Jackie Calmes Washington — President Barack Obama will call this week for a broad plan to raise revenues and cut deficits, as the battle

By Sarah Lacy Thiel’s solution to opening the minds of those who can’t easily go to Harvard? Poke a small but solid hole in this

By Justin McCurry Japan is to raise the nuclear alert level at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant to a maximum seven, putting the emergency on

The Student Loan Scam: The Most Oppressive Debt in U.S. History – and How We Can Fight Back [Hardcover] Amazon.com Related reading: Student Loan Scheme

By Yoichi Shimatsu Confused and often conflicting reports out of Fukushima 1 nuclear plant cannot be solely the result of tsunami-caused breakdowns, bungling or miscommunication.

COMMENT: The Supreme Court’s decision in Connick v. Thompson virtually gives license to prosecutors to lie, fabricate or withhold evidence, since they apparently can’t be

By Theresa McCabe New York (TheStreet) — Participation in the U.S. Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly known as the Food Stamp Program, reached an

By Gudjon Helgason REYKJAVIK, Iceland — Voters in Iceland rejected a government-backed deal to repay Britain and the Netherlands for their citizens’ $5 billion worth

Illustration by Jennifer Daniel By Jesse Drucker For the well-off, this could be the best tax day since the early 1930s: Top tax rates on

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By Jeff Zeleny Washington — President Obama opened the week by calling on Democrats to embrace his re-election campaign. He closed it by praising Republicans

By William J. Broad For the clearest picture of what is happening at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, talk to scientists thousands of miles

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One Lie Hides the Truth. One Hundred Lies Become the Truth. Your World Will Never Look the Same. THRIVE is an unconventional documentary that lifts

Entire country loses internet for five hours after woman, 75, slices through cable while scavenging for copper. By Tom Parfitt in Moscow An elderly Georgian

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Operations of a joint stock market linking Chile, Colombia and Peru are scheduled to begin May 30. The group, known as the Integrated Latin American

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By Flavia Krause-Jackson and Caroline Alexander Libyan dictator Muammar Qaddafi can tap gold reserves worth $7 billion, equivalent to a 10th of the size of