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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 sent to cri…
When you estimate the cost of trying to control everyone and everything, you realize that an out of control world could be pretty economic.
~ Catherine Austin Fitts
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 rank these companies bas…
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.
Many of the…
Fuel Prices Squeeze Shoppers
The Wall Street Journal (13 May 11)
Gas Prices Could Drop 20 Cents by Memorial Day, Experts Say
CSMonitor.com (12 May 11)
Investors Favor Cash Over Commodities in Dim …
G-10 Minutes From 1997 Show Central Bankers Conspiring About Gold
GATA (18 Feb 11)
Forbes Predicts U.S. Gold Standard Within 5 Years
Human Events (11 May 11)
Gold Mania in The Yukon
The New York Tim…
Borrowing Trouble – Sergio Cortez
Slate (9 May 11)
Borrowing Trouble – Gregory and Paula Sherman
The New York Times (1 April 11)
Banks Float $5 Billion Deal to End Foreclosure Probe
The Wall Street …
Court: No Right to Resist Illegal Cop Entry Into Home
NWI Times (13 May 11)
Texas TSA Nullification Passes House, Moves on to Senate
The PJ Tatler (13 May 11)
Lawmakers Look to Limit Taxes on Digita…
Latest Bedbug Worry: MRSA
Chicago Sun-Times (12 May 11)
Local Honey For a Runny Nose
The New York Times (9 May 11)
Bedbugs With ‘Superbug’ Germ Found
USA Today (11 May 11)
Food Rebels, Guerrilla Ga…
Floodwaters to Stay High in Memphis After Mississippi River Crests
Recordnet.com (11 May 11)
Sales of Home Safes Surge, Driven by the Recession and Recent Disasters
The New York Times (4 May 11)
The…
New “Doomsday Scenario” Map From The Corps Explained
WAFB.com (12 May 11)
It’s Time to Break Up AT&T, Verizon, Comcast, Time Warner and the Rest of the Telecoms
AlterNet (11 May 11)
NASA Sets Shutt…
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 ONLINE that Athens is considering w…
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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 American jobs if officials do not succumb to a politi…
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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 to be one of the most bone-headed business j…
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’ is taking the web by storm, says Rhodri Marsden
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How can we know the dancer from the dance?
– William Butler Yeats
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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 from rising floodwaters.
The corps said the break in…
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 staffers last week to ma…
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I thought I would post an old report made in 1996 from our Community Wizard databases. Rich place based data that facilitated re-engineering government investment by place were on …
The People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN or PLA Navy) is the naval branch of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA), the military of the People’s Republic of China. Until the early 1990s, the navy performe…
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 since 2003. The FAA …
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 Pennsylvania, culminated in the federal gov…
Measure to Abolish North Dakota Property Taxes on Ballot
Inforum (29 Apr 11)
BISMARCK — A proposed constitutional amendment to abolish property taxes in North Dakota has been approved for the ballo…
15 Web Sites for Finding Deals Online
Kiplinger (April 2011)
Paying up: Baghdad Makes KRG Payment
Upstream Online (5 May 11)
Religious Groups Question Goldman on Pay
Yahoo News (5 May 11)
Char…
Silver Has Biggest Weekly Drop Since 1980
MarketWatch (6 May 11)
Inflationary Guerilla Tactics Resume As Comex, Nymex Hike Margins On Gold, Silver, Cracks, Spreads And Other Products
Zero Hedge (20 J…
Deutsche Bank Hit With U.S. Mortgage Fraud Suit
Market Watch (3 May 11)
The Y Article
Foreign Policy (13 April 11)
Attorney General Holder Confirms Sony Data Breach Probe
Reuters (4 May 11)
Sony Says “Anonymous” Set Stage For Data Theft
Reuters (4 May 11)
Tax Breaks Fo…
From Chernobyl to Japan: Treating Radiation Sickness with Rock Dust
Zerorads
Radioactive Water Pumped Into Mississippi River
WJTV (4 May 11)
Flood Warning – New Event for Orleans County
Interactive NWS – Alert Information (5 May 11)
All Hail the PUBLIC Library
On The Commons
14 Signs That The Collapse of Our Modern World Has Already Beg…
Google, Facebook Consider Separate Skype Deals, Reuter Reports
Bloomberg (5 May 11)
Sony Apologises For Online Data Breach
Financial Times (1 May 11)
Sony Details Restoration Plans for PlayStation N…
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 Secretary of Housing/Federa…
(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 twisters in nearly four decades.
The cluste…
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 to reassure a skeptical public that the …
Obama to Nominate Panetta to Succeed Gates
American Forces Press Service (27 Apr 11)
WASHINGTON, April 27, 2011 – President Barack Obama intends to nominate CIA Director Leon E. Panetta as the next…
Clusterstock (28 Apr 2011)
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, causing three nuclear reactors in Alabam…
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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 from Apple and any number of other compa…
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 Blog
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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 now human activity. In a matter of decades,…
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Clusterstock (26 Apr 2011)
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; lifetime employment history includ…
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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 reading for anyone …
Dead / Jailed /Missing Scientists & Individuals Affiliated With The BP Oil Disaster
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“Focusing the mind’s eye is for determining impending perils. Events have natural courses, people have successes and failures: it is imperative to examine movements signalling impending perils.”
– T…
Most States Seen Raising Jobless Tax on Businesses
New York Times (27 Apr 11)
Fed Forecasts Show Transitory Inflation and Lower Growth in 2011
Bloomberg (27 Apr 11)
Most Americans Say U.S. in Rece…
U.S. Reacts Cooly to Palestinian Reconciliation
Reuters (27 Apr 11)
Reducing Influence Peddling in Government Contracting
Truthout (27 Apr 11)
FCC to Review AT&T Merger as Supreme Court Reviews …
Press Conference at Concordia University, Montreal Canada
YouTube (18 Apr 11)
Helen Caldicott – Wikipedia
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Clusterstock – (22 Apr 11)
“Until the lion has his historian, the hunter will always be a hero.”
~ African proverb
Beyond ForeclosureGate – It Gets Uglier
The Economic Populist (20 Apr 11)
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More Silver Than You Imagined – 321Gold (25 Apr 11)
Rolling Stone Readers Pick the Top 10 R&B/Soul Singers of All Time
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I arise today, through
The strength of heaven
The light of the sun,
The radiance of the moon,
The splendor of fire,
The speed of lightning
The swiftness of wind,
The depth of the sea,
The fi…
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by Catherine Austin Fitts
I am headed to Pennsylvania for a wonderful Easter weekend with my cousins from the National Bank of Malvern.
The big event is the Plumste…
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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 how these governments incorp…
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The Federal Reserve Board on Wednesday announced formal enforcement actions requiring 10 banking organizations to address a pattern of misconduct…
A meditation by
Alla Renee Bozarth
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Pack nothing.
Bring only your determination to serve
and your willingness
to be free.
Do not wait for the bread to rise
Take nourishment for the…
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 history.
The San Jose Mercury News report…
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 experienced in protecting agai…
“Making Money is Art and Working is Art.
And Good Business is the Best Art”
~ Andy Warhol
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Pop Goes The Easel
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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, secure online credential.
“By making online tran…
Study Suggests Feds Could Recoup Billions in Unpaid Taxes by Withholding Passports
FoxNews (12 Apr 11)
Amaranth Kill Shot: Collateral Damage in a 78-Trillon Dollar Derivatives Book Compliments of J.P…
BP’s Secret Deepwater Blowout
Greg Palast (19 Apr 11)
Jury Convicts Exec in $3B Mortgage Fraud Case
Yahoo News (19 April 11)
US Gave $6m to Syrian Opposition
The Australian (19 April 11)
Secret M…
Chemicals Were Injected Into Wells, Report Says
CNBC (17 April 11)
The War on PDD-NOS, Pervasive Denial Disorder-Not Otherwise Specified
Age of Autism (18 April 11)
Apples: Even Better For You Than …
Largest Earthquakes by State
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Hold it, Whippersnappers. Study Finds Older Employees More Productive
The Globe And Mail (18 April 11)
Dubai on Empty
Vanity Fair (April 2011)
Severe Storms Kill a…
As Gas Prices Rise, Businesses Explore Opportunities of Electric Vehicles
The Globe And Mail (19 April 11)
NASA Releases Sky-mapping Archive
USA Today (15 April 11)
UC Computer Scientists Release Vi…
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 Decade last July (2010). The Con makes me a heretic in the cult religio…
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 kids, or their dogs.
~ Remaining Nameless (for obvious reasons)
Rel…
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: “Sue me. You lied to the public. You sh…
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 Senate panel that investigated the financial crisis said the ban…
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 a particular company or comm…
The Official Atlas Shrugged Movie Trailer.
Atlas Shrugged Part 1 opens in theaters April 15th, 2011.
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 Act), which repeals both the exp…
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 news report…
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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?
We ask because hot on…
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. Since then, it has been viewed well over 800,000 t…
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 provided in the Ban…
By Jackie Calmes
Washington — President Barack Obama will call this week for a broad plan to raise revenues and cut deficits, as the battle over fiscal issues moves past this weekend’s budget deal…
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 Ivy League bubble by convincing some of the most talented kids t…