By Brian Faler

Since the U.S. recession began in December 2007, Congress has extended the length of unemployment benefits for the jobless three times. Now, the lawmakers may have reached their limi…

YouTube

Continue reading The Race to the Bottom

By Jim Harper

The financial regulation the Senate is debating may undo your financial privacy.

If someone asked you what’s wrong with a planned economy, your first answer might not be “privacy.” But…

YouTube

YouTube

Continue reading Glenn Beck Radio: Obama, Al Gore, Goldman Sachs And The CCX Trading Scheme

YouTube-Glenn Beck-CCX Part 1

YouTube-Glenn Beck-CCX Part 2

By David Werner with Carol Thuman and Jan Maxwell

This handbook has been written primarily for those who live far from medical centers, in places where there is no doctor. But even where there are d…

Continue reading The Horse Boy Movie – Trailer

–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
Kathryn Stockett Website

By Richard Teitelbaum

Neil Barofsky was unpacking boxes in December 2008 when the stench of sewage wafted through the hallways at the 168-year-old Main Treasury Building. The space assigned to him …

By Alison Gendar and Bill Hutchinson

Federal prosecutors have launched a criminal investigation of Goldman Sachs to determine if the Wall St. giant committed securities fraud, sources said Thursday…

By Catherine Austin Fitts

It makes sense to pause in the outpouring of news about Goldman Sachs to ponder what has happened and the nature of the game that is afoot.

Goldman is the visible target …

YouTube Video

By J.D. Tuccille

“Was that a threat?”

That’s how U.S. border guards at the Lewiston Bridge border crossing responded to a Canadian shopper when, exasperated by the abusive treatment …

The premium investors seek to hold Greek debt has soared today following a day when Standard and Poor’s downgraded Greek’s credit rating to junk status. The premium for a 10-year Greek note over the G…

By Matthew Berger

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments Tuesday in its first-ever case involving genetically modified crops. The decision in this case may have a significant impact on both the…

By Barbara Hollingsworth

Patent No. 6904336 was approved by the U.S. Patent and Trade Office on Nov. 7, 2006 — the day after Democrats took control of Congress. Former Sen. John Sununu, R-N.H., cr…

In last week’s Solari Report, Catherine interviewed author and  privacy expert, Katherine Albrecht. During the interview, Katherine mentioned a search engine that serves to protect the privacy of int…

April 26, 2010
Michael Boldin is founder and head of the Tenth Amendment Center.

“What is the Tenth Amendment, and why should we care? (“Amendment 10 – Powers of the States and People. The powers…

Nearly 700,000 prescriptions for atypical antipsychotics were dispensed for kids under 13 last year. The changes being proposed for the manual of mental illness—whose sales since 2000 have topped $4…

Lloyd Blankfein, Chairman and CEO of Goldman Sachs, testifies before a Senate subcommittee today on the role his and other investment banks played in triggering the 2008 financial collapse. The hear…

By Louise Story and Gretchen Morgenson

Goldman Sachs, which emerged relatively unscathed from the financial crisis, was accused of securities fraud in a civil suit filed Friday by the Securities and…

New York Times (25 Apr 10)

Description:

The Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations released e-mail messages on Saturday from Goldman Sachs executives that discussed the firm’s practices…

April 23 (Bloomberg) — Goldman Sachs Group Inc.’s top executives, including Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Lloyd Blankfein, were sued by investors in two lawsuits filed on behalf of the fi…

Lloyd C. Blankfein – Director since April 2003
John H. Bryan – Director since November 1999
Gary D. Cohn – Director since June 2006
Claes Dahlba?ck – Director since June 2003
S…

Percentage of men who currently own a pet: 78%

Animal the average guy is most likely to keep around: Dog

Percentage of men who say they’d risk their lives to save their pets: 72%

Percentage of me…

You want to know for which food products or plants gene technology plays a role?

Plants
Foodstuffs
Ingredients and additives
Additives according to E numbers
Enzymes
GM Crops: Growing around th…

By Brian Knowlton

Amid mounting frustration over taxation and banking problems, small but growing numbers of overseas Americans are taking the weighty step of renouncing their citizenship.

“What w…

By: Gordon T Long

This alarming chart suggests one or more of three possibilities:

There is no relationship between corporate taxes and GDP.
Corporate pretax profits have seen near exponential gr…

Goldman Sachs, the global financial institution, with fraud allegations levied against it has a long history of setting up its clients for a fall…and making handsome profits.

This is a story of h…

Negotiations on the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) resumed last week in Wellington, New Zealand, with Canada, the United States, the European Union, and a handful of other countries launch…

By Carrick Mollenkamp, Mark Whitehouse, Anton Troianovski

Aberdeen Township, N.J. — The government’s civil-fraud allegation against Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS, News) Group Inc. centers on a deal the fi…

“U.S. federal health authorities recommended … that doctors suspend using Rotarix, one of two vaccines licensed in the U.S. against rotavirus, saying the vaccine is contaminated with material fr…

By Jon Rappoport

I have received MANY inquiries about my new course. People have asked me for an outline or syllabus of the course. So here it is.

I’m happy to answer any and all questions that …

By Ralph Diermann

After selling off their electricity and gas networks to large energy corporations in the early 1990s, small towns in Germany are now banding together to buy back their energy infr…

What we do…

ProFounder is a new crowdfunding platform for U.S. entrepreneurs to raise capital from their communities to start or grow a business.

On our online platform, entrepreneurs can:

cr…

Now YOU Can Understand How The Goldman Abacus Deal Worked

Confused about this Goldman Sachs (GS) Abacus deal you’ve been hearing about?

Don’t be.

It’s really pretty simple.

Read the article at C…

By Alison Fitzgerald

March 10 (Bloomberg)—At least seven U.S. state attorneys general are investigating whether Monsanto Co., the world’s largest seed producer, has abused its market power to l…

We seem to have an epidemic of oil and gas blasts:

11 Missing After Louisiana Oil Blast
TheAge.com.au (23 Apr 10)

FACTBOX-Iraq-Turkey Crude Pipeline Blast
Reuters UK (22 Apr 10)

CBS Sends Investiga…

View this video at CBS online. . .

Release Date: April 21, 2010

For immediate release

The Federal Reserve System on Wednesday released the 2009 annual comparative financial statements for the combined Federal Reserve Banks, the 12 in…

The following is Tenth Amendment Center approved legislation to nullify federal overreach into the health care industry. Activists, we encourage you to send this to your state senators and represent…

By Liz Sidot

Public confidence in government is at one of the lowest points in a half century, according to a survey from the Pew Research Center. Nearly 8 in 10 Americans say they don’t trust the fe…

I finished Geneen Roth’s new book Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Anything this weekend. This is a beautifully written, inspiring book.

Related reading:

Geneen Roth on Women Food …

Jim Johnson played an interesting role in the pump and dump of the American economy. He launched the pump as Chairman of Fannie Mae and since 1999 (the year he joined the board of Goldman per the pr…

By Jake Tapper

In my EXCLUSIVE “This Week” interview, I asked former President Bill Clinton if he thought he got bad advice on regulating complex financial instruments known as derivatives from…

By Susan Pulliam

Rajat Gupta told Goldman Sachs Group Inc. in March he wouldn’t stand for re-election as a director, after receiving notice from prosecutors that they were reviewing recorded conver…

The SEC’s complaint against Goldman Sachs (See U.S. Accuses Goldman Sachs of Fraud) is not the first time that Goldman has been investigated for mortgage market fraud. My company, Hamilton Securitie…

BY Larry Mcshane

The great Icelandic ash plume cast its devastating shadow over international air traffic again Saturday, grounding millions of global travelers – including hundreds trapped at Kenn…

Continue reading The Fed At Risk of Bankruptcy

By Robert Higgs

Continue reading Defense Spending Is Much Greater Than You Think

Illustration by David Simonds

The great hope of transplant surgeons is that they will, one day, be able to order replacement body parts on demand. At the moment, a patient may wait months, sometimes…

We aren’t going to bother telling you the news on Goldman Sachs being charged by the SEC with fraud over mortgage products.  The notion that hedge fund Paulson & Co. is being implicated and t…

View the chart at Clusterstock

By Peter Dale Scott

View larger map and article. . .

Related reading:
The Opium Wars in Afghanistan by Alfred W. McCoy

After dominating space for a half century, the U.S. is mired in a political fight that threatens its leadership role and ambitions for manned exploration.

President Barack Obama travels Thursday to…

What is Nanotechnology? Nanotechnology is the experimental process of manipulating matter at a scale of 1/100th the width of human hair, in order to create new products and materials.

New consumer pr…

Listen to the MP3 audio file

The Solari Report – 15 April 2010

Download the MP3 audio file

Audio

On this week’s Solari Report, a special report by Catherine Austin Fitts on chemtrails, …

View the video at YouTube. . .

View the series on YouTube. . .

From Wikipedia: In nanotechnology, a particle is defined as a small object that behaves as a whole unit in terms of its transport and properties. It is further classified according to size: in terms…

HAPPY DAYS ARE HERE AGAIN! At least that’s what a recent flood of articles appearing in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Newsweek and BusinessWeek are asserting. The economy really is recove…

by Maurizio d’Orlando

Led by the New York Times, the violence campaign against Benedict XVI is meant to undermine his moral authority and that of the Catholic Church ahead of a possible war against I…