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By Vincent Fernando

If anyone mentions the just-released 3.5% U.S. third quarter GDP growth, just throw this chart in their face. Cash for Clunkers clearly distorted the U.S. eco…

I just love Mother Earth News. Their latest edition has an article “Five DIY, Low-Cost & Multipurpose Greenhouses.” I have been contemplating building a pre-fab greenhouse and am inspired to rethi…

Last year, we planted butternut squash at the lower end of the garden. It started to migrate south. Then this summer we put up a fence to keep out the deer. The squash simply ignored the fence with …

Friday, October 2, 2009

(NOTE: This Resolution and Appeal was adopted by the 2nd. Southern National Congress on 12 September 2009 while assembled upon Cheaha Mountain, Alabama)

To the Sheriffs, Poli…

By Frank Luntz
Digging still deeper, my research suggests that we can dial back American anger if we begin to fix two complaints: the lack of accountability and the lack of respect in our dealings wit…

By Rowena Mason

Police have raided the offices of KPMG and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) in Reykjavik, seizing documents and computer data as part of an investigation into alleged criminal activity …

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Continue reading The Amazing Cash-For-Clunkers Cliff Dive

Few nations are as generous with their time and money as the United States, but right now Americans are a suspicious bunch.

Sixty-six percent (66%) of voters nationwide say they’re at least somew…

By: Allison Kilkenny

This technology has been deployed in Iraq as an “anti-insurgent weapon” – it could easily be used as a torture tool.

Pittsburgh police demonstrated the latest in crowd control…

B.C. might suspend seasonal flu shots as early as Monday for people who aren’t seniors, in the wake of a Canadian study that suggests people who get the normal flu vaccine are twice as likely to contr…

By Jonathan D. Rockoff and Peter Loftus

Amid rising concern about the threat of influenza pandemics, three big drug makers announced deals Monday that give them rights to new flu vaccines, placing …

By Dan Fitzpatrick and Joann S. Lublin

After fighting to keep his grip on the bank he helped build from a scrappy Southern outsider to the nation’s largest in assets, Bank of America Corp. Chief Ex…

By John Crudele

SO, is this how Goldman Sachs does it?

“It,” of course, is making gobs of money even when nobody else on Wall Street can.

And those profits then go into outrageous bonuses to empl…

This is important information. What I’ve found and present below is that the Federal Reserve is not just supporting the housing market, it is the housing market.
Just as important as a person’s desi…

By Aliakbar Dareini and George Jahn

In an unusually frank disclosure, Iran’s nuclear chief said Tuesday the country’s new uranium enrichment site was built for maximum protection from aerial attack…

By Gretchen Morgenson

With the mortgage bust approaching Year Three, it is increasingly up to the nation’s courts to examine the dubious practices that guided the mania. A ruling that the Kansas …

By Patrick White

A “perplexing” Canadian study linking H1N1 to seasonal flu shots is throwing national influenza plans into disarray and testing public faith in the government agencies responsi…

by Adam Brochert

In the end as an investor, it’s all about the scoreboard. For those who aren’t traders, allocation to the correct asset classes is critical to long-term returns. Following are the …

The leaders of the G-20 countries, which account for 85% of the world’s income, cannot meet in an American city without 12,000 cops outfitted like the emperor’s storm troopers in Star Wars. And the …

By Erin Geiger Smith and Gayathri Vaidyanathan

The SEC alleged that Siemens had bribed officials operating metro transit lines in Venezuela, power plants in Israel, refineries in Mexico and mobile …

EDMONDS: Okay. So these conversations, between 1997 and 2001, had to do with a Central Asia operation that involved bin Laden. Not once did anybody use the word “al-Qaeda.” It was always “muja…

By Peter Brimelow

Looks like the gold bugs had reason to be wary when gold broke through $1000. But now it’s back down, they’re not particularly worried.

When I last looked, Australia’s “The Priva…

By George Friedman

There are four permutations Obama might choose in response to the dual crisis. He could attack Iran and increase forces in Afghanistan, but he might well wind up stuck in a long-…

We have reached our election goal,” said Merkel, who is about to start coalition talks with the business-friendly Free Democratic Party.

Together with the FDP, the CDU/CSU got 48.4% of the votes, e…

Continue at Rep. Alan Grayson: “Has the Federal Reserve Ever Tried to Manipulate the Stock Market?”

By Gregor Peter Schmitz

Pittsburgh, a city built on steel production, is showing its tough side as it hosts the G-20 summit. The 4,000 police officers eye anyone walking past the city center’s cordo…

By Joel Stashenko

Despite strenuous objections from New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s administration, New York Gov. David A. Paterson has signed a bill into law that opens a one-year windo…

By Evan Shamoon

Meat “ethics” are about to get even more complicated.

For electronics manufacturer Electrolux’s recent design competition, first place went to a device that creates meat and fish b…

By Sheldon I. Cohen

While the Obama Administration says it is trying to save jobs, stave off foreclosures, fight real estate fraud, and help small businesses survive, the Department of Defense is d…

By Dawn Kopecki

State housing agencies in the U.S. that provide mortgages to low-income borrowers would get as much as $35 billion in federal aid under a new U.S. Treasury Department program, people …

By Stacy Meichtry

The Holy See announced a sweeping overhaul of the Vatican bank’s management as part of Pope Benedict XVI’s push for greater transparency at one of the world’s most secretive finan…

By Mary Foster

Bullet-makers are working around the clock, seven days a week, and still can’t keep up with the nation’s demand for ammunition.

Shooting ranges, gun dealers and bullet manufacturers…

By Kenneth Chang

There appears to be, to the surprise of planetary scientists, water, water everywhere on the Moon, although how many drops future astronauts might be able to drink is not clear.

D…

Continue reading Economics 101 – Michel Chossudovsky on the Banker Bailouts

A huge outback dust storm swept across eastern Australia and blanketed Sydney disrupting transport, forcing people to stay indoors and stripping thousands of tonnes of valuable farmland topsoil.

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This image arose out of a frustration with the reporting of billion dollar amounts in the media. That is, they’re reported as self-evident facts, when, in fact, they’re mind-boggl…

By Stephen Smith

Using technology originally developed for mass disasters, Boston disease trackers are embarking on a novel experiment – one of the first in the country – aimed at eventually creati…

Continue reading Rauni-Leena Luukanen-Kilde on Swine Flu

I had several requests for old clippings. A member of the Solari team called Business Week about several articles. They recommended we simply scan in our copies. So we did.

Austin Fitts Better Be Goo…

By John Poirier

The top U.S. communications regulator plans to unveil proposals Monday for ensuring Web traffic is not slowed or blocked based on its content, sources familiar with the contents of …

By Tyler Durden

“The degree of intermediation by the Federal Reserve in the issuance of US Treasuries hit a record in Q2, accounting for just under 50% of all net UST issuance absorption. This is a…

By Kathleen E. Kraft

On March 19, 2009, the Supreme Court of Arkansas determined that Mortgage Electronic Registration System, Inc. (“MERS”) was not a necessary party to a foreclosure action invo…

Shares of VeriChip Corp (CHIP.O) tripled after the company said it had been granted an exclusive license to two patents, which will help it to develop implantable virus detection systems in humans.
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TEHRAN – Pakistan’s former chief of army staff, General Mirza Aslam Beg (ret.), has said the U.S. private security company Blackwater was directly involved in the assassinations of former Pakistan…

Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) Status Report

Stats for states involved in the pilot program of using EBT to transact USDA Nutrition Assistance Benefits.

Note the contractor for many of these s…

By Melissa Golden

Q: What role does the Federal Reserve have in our current economic downturn? — Brad Thomas, Kalamazoo, Mich.

Ron Paul: The Federal Reserve is the key element in the formation an…

The Franklin Scandal: A Story of Powerbrokers, Child Abuse & Betrayal

I just finished reading Nick Bryant’s new book, The Franklin Scandal: A Story of Powerbrokers, Child Abuse & Betrayal.

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I recently received an Action Alert about the National Leafy Greens Marketing Agreement (NLGMA) from Weston Price (available to subscribers only.)

From the Weston Price alert: “A National Leafy Green…

Here are links to draft versions of HR3200: America’s Healthy Future Act of 2009

House version
CRS Summary
Senate version

By Jason Hamlin

A series of new and significant events have unfolded over the past few weeks that have influenced the precious metals markets and will likely continue to support gold’s price adva…

The bureaucratic grind to end national sovereignty in Europe continues with German approval of The Lisbon Treaty challenged in the courts and the second Irish referendum scheduled for October 2, 2009…

Continue reading Catching L.A.’s Rain With a City-sponsored Pilot Program

By Laura Saunders

Five years ago, car-wash owner Orman Wilson set up a pension plan for himself and six employees. For that, he may owe the IRS a $1.2 million tax penalty.

Mr. Wilson, the owner of…

By Jessica Holzer

Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Chairman Sheila Bair said Friday her agency may tap its $500 billion credit line with the U.S. Treasury to replenish its deposit insurance fund, t…

The Japanese government is prepared to spend some 2 trillion yen on a one-gigawatt orbiting solar power station—and this week Mitsubishi and other Japanese companies have signed on to boost the ef…

I just watched Spike Lee’s documentary about the floods in New Orleans during the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

There is a lot that has gone unexplained about what happened in New Orleans, includ…

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By James Turk

September 18, 2009 – The performance of the gold/silver ratio over the past month has been stunning. From a high of 68.0 on August 19, the ratio closed today in …

By Jess Bravin

In her maiden Supreme Court appearance last week, Justice Sonia Sotomayor made a provocative comment that probed the foundations of corporate law.

During arguments in a campaign-fin…

By Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele
As the Bush administration waned, the Treasury shoveled more than a quarter of a trillion dollars in tarp funds into the financial system—without restrictio…

By Matt Latimer
As a speechwriter for George W. Bush during the final years of his presidency, I’d seen crises and controversies. But nothing prepared me for the imminent collapse of America’s fr…

G-20 meets in Pittsburgh this coming week in a meeting chaired by President Obama. This meeting follows up on the Action Plan on the Financial Markets and World Economy developed in the Washington m…

By Peter Henderson

California Attorney General Jerry Brown issued subpoenas on Thursday to Standard & Poor’s, Moody’s Investors Service, and Fitch Ratings as he launched an investigation of wheth…

By David Liechty

Wednesday I had the chance to amble on over to The Farm, with the blessing of organizers Greg Landua and Ethan Roland, to attend the last day of the Ecovillage Training Center Tenn…

By Steven R. Hurst

President Barack Obama is betting Moscow will return the favor on missile defense by helping him blunt Iran’s nuclear ambitions.

In what could shape a major geopolitical realignme…

James Turk’s reports have been subscriber only since 1987. He is now making them accessible for free.
James is one of the finest commentator on the precious metals markets and the economy we know.

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By David Kravets

The Obama administration has told Congress it supports renewing three provisions of the Patriot Act due to expire at year’s end, measures making it easier for the government to spy…

by: Matthew Goldstein

Sometimes legal fishing expeditions pay off.

A year ago, a Connecticut hedge fund sued UBS, contending that it knowingly sold toxic mortgage-backed securities to institutiona…

That’s the way it is down here. If you can’t be counted “on”, you can’t be counted “in.”

~ PI Burke, from Down Here by Andrew Vachss

The Official Website of Andrew Vachss

Just before President Obama gave his speech to Congress last week, 44% of voters nationwide supported his health care reform proposal and 53% were opposed. Today, eight days after the speech and a b…

By Liu Guoyuan

Many analysts are still pessimistic about the outlook of the Doha Round of global trade negotiations, despite recent positive signs.

Following a mini-ministerial meeting held on Sep…

By Matthew McDermott,

A new report coming from Optimum Population Trust and carried out by the prestigious London School of Economics says that expanding access to family planning and contraception…

By Jeremy Scahill

On September 11, the US appeals court for the District of Columbia announced in a 2-1 decision that it was throwing out a lawsuit against CACI International and L-3 Communications T…

By Michael Connelly

Well, I have done it! I have read the entire text of proposed House Bill 3200: The Affordable Health Care Choices Act of 2009. I studied it with particular emphasis from my area…