Winslow Wheeler, Counterpunch – “For decades, the media have taken their descriptions of the size of the defense budget straight from the Pentagon’s annual press

Although Governor Brad Henry vetoed similar legislation 10 days earlier, House members Monday again approved a resolution claiming Oklahoma’s sovereignty. Unlike House Joint Resolution 1003,

Inspired by events in Afghanistan and rumblings about Iran, I described the correlation between the creation of the Federal Reserve and the creation of an

[Artist’s concept of Earth’s magnetic field. Credit: NASA] Sun Often “Tears Out A Wall” In Earth’s Solar Storm Shield Earth’s magnetic field, which shields our

This week is the U.S. Fire Administration’s Arson Awareness Week. As a former Assistant Secretary of Housing, I want to assure you that the patterns

New York Fed Chairman’s Ties to Goldman Raise Questions Wall Street Journal (4 May 09) The Federal Reserve Bank of New York shaped Washington’s response

Was the public disclosure of the bank stress tests delayed so Goldman Sachs could raise capital? Is national policy managed to serve one private investment

As the US government disclosure continues to diminish and the government continues to refuse to find money missing from its coffers or explain why it

Oath Keepers is a non-partisan association of currently serving military, reserves, National Guard, peace officers, and veterans…Below is [their] declaration of orders [they} will NOT

“The banks—hard to believe in a time when we’re facing a banking crisis that many of the banks created—are still the most powerful lobby on

By James Turk, Editor Freemarket Gold & Money Report (3 May 09) “This week Bill Murphy and Chris Powell, co-founders of the Gold Anti-Trust Action

Project Camelot Interviews Joseph Farrell

The banks were secured and get 28 cents on the dollars back. The people who make real things, including the 38,500 employees who will lose

Key Cog in South, Silverton Bank Fails Wall Street Journal (2 May 09) Excerpt: Federal regulators were “not sympathetic” to the argument that a Silverton

By Matt Apuzzo And Carolyn Thompson, Associated Press Writers Sun May 3, 1:45 pm ET WASHINGTON – Jack Kemp, the former pro quarterback who turned

Blast From the Past ForexHound (27 Apr 09) Excerpt: Nicholas Brady, former Secretary of the Treasury during the Reagan and Bush I administrations, gave a

YouTube Video Novavax (NVAX) Up 25% on Flu Swine Flu Propaganda – 1976 A YouTube Video Novavax (NVAX) Up 25% on Flu Catherine Austin Fitts

Now that the 5th Summit of the Americas is over, we would like to point out that there is no interest in renegotiating or reopening

Food stamp programs in the US (including by state government in Florida and Tennessee) have been outsourced to a JP Morgan operation in India. abcNews

Significant intervention in the banking system and economy with the ‘strong dollar policy’ and various forms of government credit and subsidies has paid some of

It would appear that AIG is selling everything but it’s black budget operations, which the government will then essentially own. Sounds a bit circular to

Friedman argues America’s power on the world stage will actually increase in the 21st Century for three major reason: The immense size of the U.S.

Novavax Annual Proxy Novavax Lead Investors The Unknown Knowns Albert Bates PRUDEN: A Pandemic of Panic — Are We Dead Yet? Washington Times (28 Apr

In Mercer Consultings annual Quality of Living Survey, Europe once again dominates the list of 215 countries around the world. The top three cities are,

Click here for “official story” Wall Street Journal (28 Apr 09)

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By Joan Pryde, Senior Tax Editor, the Kiplinger letters “But there may be a silver lining, at least for big corporations: Congress will consider lowering

Quarterly Report to Congress from SIGTARP: Office of the Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) is now available.

More than a decade ago, Mary Seton Corboy and her partner, Tom Sereduk, transformed a toxic industrial site into a thriving 1-acre urban farm. read

PLEASE help me find the President’s Working Group on Financial Markets. The Working Group, which is also affectionately known as the “Plunge Protection Team,” was

As part of $6.9 Billion “Build America” Bond Issue, California Issues Taxable Bonds to Fund Stem Cell Research. . . . read more

The wonderfully talented American playwright Lynn Nottage has won this year’s Pulitzer Prize in Drama—the play explores the systematic destruction of the local community through

Reports: Freddie Mac official found dead Wednesday April 22, 2009 WASHINGTON (AP) — David Kellermann, the acting chief financial officer of Freddie Mac, was found

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“Since Obama took charge he has not shown us that anything will change.” – Guantanamo captive Mohammad el Gharani Excerpt: Gharani, now 21, has been

View Article Vets Ponder What Killed 21 Ponies at U.S. Open Polo Championship Daily News (21 April 09) Army: 3 Vials of Virus Samples Missing

NetAge OrgScope provides a tool for mapping trees and networks for collaboration.

The host of this workshop is a personal friend of mine. If you are in the Ashland area, you might want to take it in.

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Two (unrelated) headlines appeared next to each other on Yahoo today: White House Will Not Prosecute CIA Officials for Waterboarding Yahoo.com (16 Apr 09) Not

47 year old Susan Boyle wows the judges with her performance in the auditions for Britains Got Talent, singing “I Dreamed a Dream” from Les

Goldman Sachs is very much in the news.  The most astute comment on Goldman these days comes from a taxi driver in Kuala Lumpur: “Why

GATA Renews Requests to Treasury, Fed for Gold Data Responding to President Obama’s instruction to government agencies of January 21 this year, seeking greater openness

“I believe that our federal government has become oppressive in its size, its intrusion into the lives of our citizens, and its interference with the

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From dog-walking to rubbish clearance, civic-minded Estonians can now draw on a virtual Bank of Happiness which trades in good deeds. Anjana Ahuja reports from

“The lack of sunspots in 2008, made it a century-level year in terms of solar quiet. Remarkably, sunspot counts for 2009 have dropped even lower.

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Morgan Keegan defended itself today against the NY Times report which we commented on yesterday, titled Liquidating Thy Neighbor – Part I.

While the wheels of state bureaucracy grind away on how to use stimulus funds and how much of those funds to accept, some communities are