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

By Kevin Johnson In the Justice Department’s ornate Great Hall, a space traditionally reserved for its most important functions, Attorney General Eric Holder stepped before

Click to read PDF I thought I would post an old report made in 1996 from our Community Wizard databases. Rich place based data that

After 18 consecutive short-term extensions dating back to 2007, last week the U.S. House of Representatives passed the first reauthorization of the Federal Aviation Administration

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Washington Times (28 Apr 11) – A yearlong sting operation, including aliases, a 5 a.m. surprise inspection and surreptitious purchases from an Amish farm in

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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