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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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

By Justin McCurry

Japan is to raise the nuclear alert level at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant to a maximum seven, putting the emergency on a par with the 1986 Chernobyl disaster.

Nuclear safety…

The Student Loan Scam: The Most Oppressive Debt in U.S. History – and How We Can Fight Back [Hardcover]
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By Yoichi Shimatsu

Confused and often conflicting reports out of Fukushima 1 nuclear plant cannot be solely the result of tsunami-caused breakdowns, bungling or miscommunication. Inexplicable delays …

COMMENT: The Supreme Court’s decision in Connick v. Thompson virtually gives license to prosecutors to lie, fabricate or withhold evidence, since they apparently can’t be held accountable for kn…

By Theresa McCabe

New York (TheStreet) — Participation in the U.S. Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly known as the Food Stamp Program, reached an all-time high in January.

T…

By Gudjon Helgason

REYKJAVIK, Iceland — Voters in Iceland rejected a government-backed deal to repay Britain and the Netherlands for their citizens’ $5 billion worth of deposits in a failed online…

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By Jesse Drucker

For the well-off, this could be the best tax day since the early 1930s: Top tax rates on ordinary income, dividends, estates, and gifts will remain …

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By Jeff Zeleny

Washington — President Obama opened the week by calling on Democrats to embrace his re-election campaign. He closed it by praising Republicans for forging a compromise to cut spend…

By William J. Broad

For the clearest picture of what is happening at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, talk to scientists thousands of miles away.

Thanks to the unfamiliar but sophi…

By Gregory White

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One Lie Hides the Truth.

One Hundred Lies Become the Truth.

Your World Will Never Look the Same.

THRIVE is an unconventional documentary that lifts the veil on what’s REALLY going on in our world…

Entire country loses internet for five hours after woman, 75, slices through cable while scavenging for copper.

By Tom Parfitt in Moscow

An elderly Georgian woman was scavenging for copper to sell…

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Operations of a joint stock market linking Chile, Colombia and Peru are scheduled to begin May 30. The group, known as the Integrated Latin American Market, or Mila, said Tuesday that the decision w…

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By Flavia Krause-Jackson and Caroline Alexander

Libyan dictator Muammar Qaddafi can tap gold reserves worth $7 billion, equivalent to a 10th of the size of his country’s economy, as he fights a civ…

By Tyler Durden

Earlier today GM announced disappointing sales numbers, with March car sales rising only 9.6% compared to expectations of 20%. Indeed, this number tends to be quite volatile: ultima…

By Jonathan Spicer

The names and e-mails of customers of Citigroup Inc and other large U.S. companies, as well as College Board students, were exposed in a massive and growing data breach after a c…

By Scott Pelley

As more and more Americans face mortgage foreclosure, banks’ crucial ownership documents for the properties are often unclear and are sometimes even bogus, a condition that’s causing …

The Fat And The Furious: The top 1 percent may have the best houses, educations, and lifestyles, says the author, but “their fate is bound up with how the other 99 percent live.”

By Joseph E. S…

By Christina Boyle

Some workers at Japan’s stricken nuclear plant fear they may die within weeks or months after being exposed to potentially lethal doses of radiation.

The mother of one of the so…

It’s a documentary which analyzes the Thursday 26th April 1986 that became a momentous date in modern history, when one of the reactors at the Chernobyl nuclear power station in northern Ukraine, …

The American Spectator celebrated April Fools Day by announcing that after the GOP threatened to cancel their funding, NPR replaced Bill Moyer’s show with Ann Coulter.

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By Abigail Jackson

Fountain House is one of the world’s leading mental health organizations, providing employment, educational and housing opportunities to people living with serious mental illne…

By Bob Ivry and Craig Torres

A Supreme Court order that forces unprecedented disclosures from the Federal Reserve ended a two- year legal battle that helped shape the public’s perceptions of the …

By Hans David Tampubolon

Three Citibank debt collectors [in Indonesia] allegedly killed Irzen Octa, 50, secretary general of the National Unity Party (PPB), on Tuesday after he protested an increas…

By Joe Weisenthal

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By Sam Smith

Not every change in national policy and events is announced with a new conference or presidential speech.

A case in point is the rapid rise of apparent mental instability in the Repub…

A Wisconsin judge on Thursday did what thousands of pro-union protesters and boycotting Democratic lawmakers couldn’t, forcing Republican Gov. Scott Walker to halt plans to implement a law that woul…

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By Kelsey Volkmann

The Public Patent Foundation, on behalf of 60 family farmers, seed businesses and organic agricultural organizations, sue…

The Federal Reserve announced Wednesday that it was declining an offer from American International Group (NYSE: aig) to buy the mortgage-related assets it holds in its Maiden Lane II portfolio.

Ins…

By Joe Weisenthal

By now you know that the surge in silver prices has left gold in the dust.

One reason: it’s just cheaper to buy silver coins.

From Deutsche Bank:

According to a recent article …

By Dawn Kopecki

JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon said some municipalities will need to renegotiate debt and a hundred may not “make it.”

“I wou…

A Geiger counter in Itate village, some 40 kilometers northwest of the Fukushima Daiichi plant showing radiation levels of 7.66 micro Sievert per hour. People living here would receive the yearly max…

By Neil M. Barofsky

Two and a half years ago, Congress passed the legislation that bailed out the country’s banks. The government has declared its mission accomplished, calling the program remark…

Dirty Electricity tells the story of Dr. Samuel Milham, the scientist who first alerted the world about the frightening link between occupational exposure to electromagnetic fields, electromagnetic …

By Alan Fram

House Republicans plan to introduce eight bills on Tuesday that would each take a small step toward pushing taxpayer-backed mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac out of business, …

By Barbara Demick

The first pitch of Japan’s baseball season has been pushed back so people don’t waste gasoline driving to games. When the season does start, most night games will be switched to day…

By B. Blake Levitt and Chellis Glendinning

Culture Change note: As if you weren’t getting enough radiation: now comes really bad news in the form of smart grids. GE — the designer of Fukushima n…

By Joe Weisenthal

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By Mike Ludwig

A coalition of farmers and environmental groups filed a lawsuit against the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) on March 18 to challenge the agency’s recent decision to fully deregul…

Naoto Kan says the situation at disaster-hit power plant is unpredictable as officials fear breach at one reactor.

Japan’s prime minister has warned the situation at the country’s quake-hit nuclear…

By Laurent Belsie

The earthquake that struck Burma Thursday night hit one of its more remote regions, once known as the world’s premier producer of opium and its derivative, heroin.

The extent of …

By Yuji Okada, Naoko Fujimura and Kaipin Yee
March 27 (Bloomberg) — Radiation in water at Japan’s stricken nuclear plant reached potentially lethal levels even as engineers made progress in resto…

By Shannon D. Harrington and Betty Liu

Pacific Investment Management Co., manager of the world’s biggest bond fund, invested in the finance arm of Toyota Motor Corp. (7203) after the earthquake i…

By Kadhim Ajrash and Nayla Razzouk

Iraq plans next week to sign power- plant contracts valued at $6.25 billion with Caterpillar Inc. (CAT) and other companies, in its biggest effort to boost electric…

Nov. 26 (Bloomberg) — Iceland’s President Olafur R. Grimsson talks about the country’s progress since receiving a $4.6 billion International Monetary Fund-led loan. He speaks with Mark Barton on Bloo…

By Peter Garnham and Lindsay Whipp

The billions of dollars in yen sold by the world’s most powerful central banks have sent a strong message to speculative investors. Those daring to bet that the J…

By Jack Farchy and Roula Khalaf

The international community has hit Mommar Gadhafi with a raft of sanctions and asset freezes aimed at cutting off his funding. But the embattled Libyan leader is si…

By Joe Weisenthal

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By Sam Smith

By the standards of the US Constitution as well as American and international law, Barack Obama is a criminal – as are many of his recent predecessors.

The fact that most Americans …

A fearless band of scientists and workers trying to stop a meltdown have inspired the entire country.

By Robin McKie

Exhausted engineers attached a power cable to the outside of Japan’s tsunami-cr…

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By Greg Stohr and Bob Ivry

The Federal Reserve will disclose details of emergency loans it made to banks in 2008, after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected an industry appeal that aimed to shield the rec…

By C. Powell

The New York Sun today editorializes brilliantly about the ironies in the conviction of Liberty Dollar founder Bernard von NotHaus. The editorial begins:

“Here is a thought experiment…

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PLAYBOY: Is anyone asking the tough questions about Israel?

THOMAS: We’re still not getting the full story on Israel. I asked both President Obama at a news conference and Hillary if they knew …

By Ora Coren

The CEO of the Israeli company that installed the security system at Japan’s Fukushima nuclear power plant said Thursday that those workers who have elected to stay behind are “putting…

At a time when all the tough guys in Washington are making plans to cut Social Security and Medicare benefits for high-living seniors and to cut Head Start for low-income kids, it was generous of Wa…

With peer to peer digital currencies like BitCoin, it seems our ideas about what money is and isn’t, are in flux. Take the cell phone for example. There are countries where mobile phones are the m…

By Ben Dowell

The BBC World Service is to receive a “significant” sum of money from the US government to help combat the blocking of TV and internet services in countries including Iran and China.
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Earthquakes strike suddenly, violently and without warning. Identifying potential hazards ahead of time and advance planning can reduce the dangers of serious injury or loss of life from an earthqua…

By Joe Weisenthal

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Opponents contend the state’s open meetings law was violated.

By Johann Hari

The vast majority of people behave in the aftermath as altruists, saving their fellow human beings and sharing what they have.

Before the Second World War, the Ministry of War confide…

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