Deutsche Bundesbank Germany’s gold is in U.S. custody, Bundesbank confirms. Dear Friend of GATA and Gold: International journalist Max Keiser has just posted a nine-minute

From Wikipedia The South Atlantic Anomaly (or SAA) is the region where Earth’s inner Van Allen radiation belt makes its closest approach to the planet’s

By Brody Mullins Congress plans to spend $550 million to buy eight jets, a substantial upgrade to the fleet used by federal officials at a

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By Charles Abbott For the first time, more than 34 million Americans received food stamps, which help poor people buy groceries, government figures said on

The picture above is an article about allegations of sex slave trafficking relating to a defense government contractor named DynCorp. I became interested in DynCorp

By Joe Weisenthal and Kamelia Angelova The severe bloodletting in the construction industry is slowly waning. The pace of layoffs is coming well off its

Russian Nuclear-powered Submarine By Mark Mazzeti and Thom Shanker A pair of nuclear-powered Russian attack submarines has been patrolling off the eastern seaboard of the

Penumbral Lunar Eclipse February 9, 2009 A penumbral lunar eclipse will take place on August 6, 2009, the third of four lunar eclipses in 2009.

Credit & Copyright: Barry & Noemi Diacon Continue reading Astronomy Picture of the Day

View full article at oftwominds.com So when you’re reading the news about how randomly careless and stupid everybody was, just remember the Argentine plan: all

At tipstrategies.com Go to the website to view an animated graphic of The Geography of Jobs between 2004 and 2009.

Photo: Moises Saman for The New York Times By Campbell Robertson Throughout the marshes, the reed gatherers, standing on land they once floated over, cry

President Barack Obama is nominating Robert Hormats, a vice chairman of Goldman Sachs International, to a top economic position at the State Department. Hormats, 66,

Jackpot By Grant McCool  The report said bonuses for Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Morgan Stanley, and JPMorgan Chase & Co. were “substantially greater” than the

Our very own Susan Johann just took 1st place at the Artists Guild of Spartanburg with Winter Hydrangea. Susan Johann – Fine Art and Commercial

Wyoming Governor Dave Freudenthal has transmitted the following memorandum and proposed resolution on state sovereignty to the Wyoming Legislature’s Management Council. Continue Reading Wyoming Governor

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“Thriller” 1,500 plus inmates of the Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center in Cebu, Philippines practice Michael Jackson’s global mega hit, Thriller.

Why a Recovery May Still Feel Like a Recession New York Times (31 Jul 09)  The recession has produced declines far greater than in previous

One of the great mysteries surrounding the spread of GMO plants around the world since the first commercial crops were released in the early 1990’s

Continue Reading Obama Passing New Law to Allow Searching of PC’s, Laptops, And Media Devices

Each business day, the United States Treasury Department publishes a report on the workings of the government’s income and spending. One of the items on

In July, the Secretary of Health and Human Services announced that the federal government expects to initiate a voluntary fall vaccination program against the 2009

By Howard Berkes It was a Third World scene with an American setting. Hundreds of tired and desperate people crowded around an aid worker with

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The Moneychanger By Franklin Sanders Facing a collapsing national economy, we must revive local economies. To do that we need a local money that will

From the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund (29 Jul 09) “Call your Senators TODAY to urge that NAIS funding be cut. The Senate is expected to

I have called my representative, Rep. Marsha Blackburn to request that she vote against HR 2749 (The Food Safety Enhancement Act of 2009). The Weston

Courtesy of Rob Kirby Continue Reading US Government Orchestrates Market Moves

By Kristina Cooke Frustrated by your spouse’s spending habits? It might be why you married them, according to a working paper titled “Fatal (Fiscal) Attraction”

By Stu Woo Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Tuesday signed a plan to close California’s $24 billion budget shortfall, after using his line-item veto powers to

Memorandum to all Primary Dealers and Recipients of the Weekly Press Release on Dealer Positions and Transactions The latest list reflects the following changes: Effective

Joel Salatin at Polyface Farm, Virginia. “When was the last time you heard a group of parents bragging? Ever hear one say, “Well, you can

Photo By Phil Ewing By David Axe “On several occasions the instruments gave reading of material objects moving at incredible speed,” a sub commander recalled.

By Jason Leopold Former Vice President Dick Cheney pressured President George W. Bush and other top administration officials to deploy US soldiers to a Buffalo,

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By David Davis When I read in the pages of this newspaper this month that the Conservative Party was planning to transfer people’s health data

Chinese US Dollar The dollar may be the focus of Chinese-U.S. talks starting in Washington today as China presses the Obama administration on how it

By Peggy Noonan This is big, what’s happening. President Obama appears to have misstepped on a major initiative and defining issue. He has misjudged the

The L-Curve graph represents income, not wealth If we divided the income of the US into thirds, we find that the top ten percent of

Treasury’s is borrowing $235B in one week: * 70-day CMB (7/24/09) $30B * 13-week Bill (07/27/09) $32B * 26-week Bill (07/27/09) $31B * 19-year 6-month

I subscribe to The Kiplinger Letter. Among other things, I find it a predictor of the “official story” combined with a useful flow of tax

By David Liechty In 1863, Congress authorized the Treasury to receive “deposits of gold coin and bullion” in exchange for “certificates” payable on demand, having

By Sam Smith One of the clues that Obama was not who he professed to be during the campaign was his closeness to Harvard professor

By Richard Gray By Ed Pilkington The world is about to cross a demographic landmark of huge social and economic importance, with the proportion of

By David Liechty With irredeemable Greenbacks and precious metal coin circulating at identical legal, “dollar”, value (see Thompson v. Butler, 95 U.S. 694 at 696

I believe one of the goals of the swine flu vaccine is depopulation. Perhaps it is the goal of a swine flu epidemic as well,

by F. William Engdahl The US Secretary of Health and Human Services, Kathleen Sebelius, has just signed a decree granting vaccine makers total legal immunity

By Barry B. Burr Pension fund fiduciaries under ERISA are “arguably required” to integrate environmental, social and corporate governance factors into their regular investment decision-making

By James Howard Kunstler The eulogy for Walter Cronkite as “the most trusted man in America” on the CBS “Sixty Minutes” show said a lot

By Arthur’s Baby Clipart …from a vaccine-death case in the U.S. Vaccine Courts. Explains the physiological mechanism by which the MMR vaccine caused the child’s

Illustration by S. Kambayashi By Peter Brimelow I’m amazed: Grousing about Goldman Sachs, and fury at the financial sector, is actually reaching the point where

Watch and learn people. This is how we do it ! Jon Stewart explains the great shape of our economy… Jon Stewart Explains The Great

Hank Paulson’s testimony before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform last week was painful to watch. The hardest thing in the world is

By: Prison Planet I started F. William Engdahl’s new book, “Full Spectrum Dominance: Totalitarian Democracy in the New World Order,” this weekend and literally could

Artist: Alberto Ruggieri From BBC News “From programmes involving large capital infusions into hundreds of financial institutions, to a mortgage modification programme, to public-private partnerships

We posted this back in 2007, but thought it might be worth viewing again as we watch a parade of rich financiers insist that they

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and California legislative leaders Monday said they reached a compromise to close the state’s $26 billion budget shortfall. Continue Reading California Budget

By Tim Mullaney Venture capital investment fell 51 percent in the second quarter as firms coped with the recession and a drought in initial public

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By Rob Kirby With the former Investment Banks being granted Commercial Banking status due to the unfolding financial crisis in late 2008, it was widely

Shock: Inside the Healthcare Bill EconomicPolicyJournal.com “Following the mad recommendations of Peter Singer made in NYT’s Sunday magazine, it pays to take a look at

Under current law, the federal budget is on an unsustainable path, because federal debt will continue to grow much faster than the economy over the