By Omar R. Valdimarsson

Singer-songwriter Björk Gudmundsdottir is spearheading a push that one poll shows is backed by 85 percent of Icelanders to put foreign energy takeovers to referenda if enou…

Participatory journalism taken to the extreme.

The reporters standing in front of me in line shouted in agony and crumpled in pain as the laser cannon zapped them.

With each agonizing shriek I hea…

Based on the best figures we can find, here is a chart of the actual troop levels in Iraq and Afghanistan. Non-mercenary troop levels in current wars are equivalent to US military presence in Vietnam …

By James Sterngold

ShoreBank Corp., the unprofitable Chicago lender operating under a Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. cease-and-desist order for 13 months, will be shut by the agency and most of it…

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Dirt! The Movie was inspired by William Bryant Logan’s book DIRT: The Ecstatic Skin of the Earth. It connects our deepest positive multi-denominational religious values to the ground benea…

Swedish prosecutors defended their handling of a rape allegation against the founder of WikiLeaks, saying Sunday that they had made no mistakes in issuing an arrest warrant and withdrawing it less t…

Remember the line from The Beatles’ “Taxman”? — “If you try to walk, I’ll tax your feet”?

There may be some truth in it–literally. Facing large budget shortfalls and unwilling to raise general ta…

* Fidelity exec: Savers tap funds to avoid foreclosure

* Record levels of hardship withdrawals, loans

* 401(k) balances slipped in Q2 as stock market fell

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A record number of U.S. …

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The rise of China and India has sparked a renewed surge in aggressive dealmaking in the resources sector, with more than $50bn in proposed take­overs this week a…

George Soros has slashed the amount of money he is willing to gamble on the fortunes of the US stock market in the second quarter as market volatility increased.

By James Quinn

The legendary inves…

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Wasn’t the new health care reform law supposed to make health care more affordable for everyone?  Well, imagine my surprise when I opened up a letter from my health insurance company recently and f…

A diet including unlimited amounts of junk food can cause rats to become so addicted to the unhealthy diet that they will starve themselves rather than go back to eating healthy food, researchers ha…

Near the Iraq-Kuwait border — The last U.S. combat troops were crossing the border into Kuwait on Thursday morning, bringing to a close the active combat phase of a 7½-year war that overthrew the…

Research By: Lisa Lombardi

Some places are just too dangerous for children: crocodile ponds, stores that sell barbed wire, Jacksonville. . . . Okay, the Sunshine State’s largest city may not be tha…

By Hillel Koren

No reason for the sale was mentioned in the report to the SEC.

In another blow to Israeli shares, the Harvard Management Company notified the US Securities and Exchange Commission …

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A member of our network asked me to read and comment on a new study, “Financing Farming in the U.S.: Opportunities To Improve the Financial and Busin…

Agricultural Bank of China (AgBank) said on Sunday it had fully exercised an over-allotment option for the Shanghai portion of its initial public offering, taking total proceeds from the offer to $2…

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By Lymari Morales

Americans continue to express near-record-low confidence in newspapers and television news …

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Here’s what John [Williams of Shadowstats.com] has to say about both the gold and silver price…

Despite the June 28th historic high gold price of $1,261.00 per troy ounce, gold and silver prices ha…

Prayer heals when it’s close-up and personal, and there’s a study to prove it.

It’s not just any kind of prayer, but “proximal intercessory prayer,” or PIP — when one or more people pray for some…

With midterm elections less than three months away, nearly two-out-of-three U.S. voters (65%) remain at least somewhat angry at the current policies of the federal government, including 40% who are …

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The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame will celebrate its 15th anniversary in part with a new Elvis Presley exhibit set to open this September 13th. “Elvis 1956: Photographs by Alfred Wer…

By Robert Preidt

American parents are more likely than European parents to have conflicts with their adult children, finds a new study.

Researchers examined parent-adult child relationships in six…

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While analyzing HFT (High Frequency Trading) quote counts, we were shocked to find cases where one exchange was sending an extremely high number of quotes for one stock in a single second: as high a…

By Tyler Durden

In what could be the most important news of the day, German Die Zeit reports that, in a stunning move, the EU has ordered Germany to count the holdings of WestLB and Hypo Real Estate …

“It’s a culture of do-it-yourself, organize it yourself. It’s a new economic culture. Don’t give up the value of your life for the value of their stock because the value of your life, you control. T…

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Out-of-touch leaders don’t see the need to cool things off.

By Peggy Noonan

It is, obviously, self-referential to quote yourself, but I do it to make a point. I wrote the following on New Year’s d…

By Helen Jung

It’s hardly unusual to hear small-business owners gripe about licensing requirements or complain that heavy-handed regulations are driving them into the red.

So when Multnomah County…

By Jessica E. Vascellaro

A confidential, seven-page Google Inc. “vision statement” shows the information-age giant in a deep round of soul-searching over a basic question: How far should it go in p…

Sean O’Keefe——————-Ted Stevens

Former Alaska Republican Senator Ted Stevens and former NASA administrator Sean O’Keefe were among seven others on a small plane that crashed monday evenin…

[More proposals and meetings in the “grind down your time and resources” mode – CAF]

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By Joe Weisenthal

Nothing to see here, except yet another sign of the food inflation that’s the story of the moment. JPMorgan retail analyst Charles Grom reports:

We recently conducted another rou…

By Hilary Johnson

For years, wealthy retirees from high-tax states in the Northeast and Midwest have been streaming to sunny, low-tax Florida. That stream is now turning into a flood.

We haven’t h…

So Google and Verizon went public today with their “policy framework” — better known as the pact to end the Internet as we know it.

News of this deal broke this week, sparking a public outcry that…

By John P. Hussman, Ph.D.

Just a note – if there is one weekly comment that I hope that regular readers of these comments will not miss, it is last week’s piece – Valuing the S&P 500 Using Forw…

The oil well cap is fine.

The relief well is fine.

The new BP CEO is fine

The ocean is fine.

The stories about the old munitions dumps blowing up the methane build up…well forget that, it’s al…

By Ken Sweet

Four prominent members of the U.S. Senate introduced a bill Thursday that would strike the provision in the Dodd-Frank Act that potentially gives the Securities and Exchange Commission…

By Tyler Durden

CNBC notes the apparent cause of death of the recently popular BP skeptic, and founder of oil company Simmons & Co., was a heart attack. A conflicting report according to WLBZ c…

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Highlights “potential resistance” on road from “voluntary multilateral framework” to full blown global currency.

A newly published IMF strategy document calls for the imple…

Scientists behind the European atom smasher aimed at uncovering the secrets of the universe want to build an even bigger machine with partners and funds from around the world.

Scientists from CERN …

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Camden is preparing to permanently shut its library system by the end of the year, potentially leaving residents of the impoverished city among the few in the United States unable to b…

By Caroline Salas and Jody Shenn

For all the good the Federal Reserve’s $1.25 trillion of mortgage-bond purchases have done, they’ve also left part of the market broken.

By acquiring about a q…

“Who indeed will survive as a remnant to repopulate the planet? Will it be those who have misused the planet or those who would heal the inhabitants and the planet with loving intent? Since all th…

I went to the polls on Thursday. My candidate for sheriff won!

The expensive negative campaigning did not work — indeed it may have even helped by galvanizing support.  My thanks again to Sherif…

Inspired by the scare stories about methane gas in the Gulf, I tracked down Hollywood’s story about nuclear explosions on the outer surface of the earth’s inner core causing a crack that opens aroun…

Programs provide range of services in oil spill crisis.

For most Lockheed Martin employees, the explosion that rocked British Petroleum’s Deepwater Horizon off-shore oil drilling rig on April 20 …

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I have learned that when I forward links to the fourth person who asked, it is time to do a blog post on the topic.

Dr. Laura Thompson is my nutritionist. She has bee…

Firms launched during recession show resilience in job creation and durability.

Startup companies, the nation’s most promising source of new jobs, are critical to reducing the current 9.5 percent u…

Modern Spiritual Science or Anthroposophy, as it has been established by Rudolf Steiner (1864-1925), presents a unique cultural and spiritual impulse in the history of modern thought.  Whatever one…

Buying in bulk and freezing or canning fruits and veggies are great ways to enjoy better food and cut your costs by up to 85 percent!

When you buy in bulk, you buy food without the extra costs for …

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Max Keiser interviews Captain Paul Watson of the Sea Shepherd Society about the economics of extinction.

His example illustrates the end game and the high profitability of the pursuit of extinction. …

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Florida real estate developer St. Joe Co. is suing Halliburton Co. over its role in the rig explosion that led to the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

St. Joe said late…

By Susan Shaw

Break down the oil slick, keep it off the shores: that’s grounds for pumping toxic dispersant into the Gulf, say clean-up overseers. Susan Shaw shows evidence it’s sparing some beache…

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By Paul McDougall

Federally-backed program aims to help outsourcers in South Asia become more fluent in areas like Java programming—and the English language.

Despite President Obama’s pledge to…

Recent polling has shown huge gaps between the Political Class and Mainstream Americans on issues ranging from immigration to health care to the virtues of free markets.

The gap is just as big when…

The Goldman Sachs risk system is called SecDB (securities database), and everything at Goldman that matters is run out of it. The GUI itself looks like a settings screen from DOS 3.0, but no one car…

By Amy Rolph

It’s expensive to eat well — far more expensive than eating poorly. And the gap between the price of healthy and unhealthy food is growing larger, according to research from the Unive…

By Jim Polson and Allison Bennett

The “vast majority” of crude from BP Plc’s damaged Gulf of Mexico well is gone and the rest is being broken down by waves and bacteria, reducing the threat o…

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In my opinion, scenario planning of the kind practiced by Global Business Network is a tool used by corporate leadership to ensure middle management can anticipate, plan for an…

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In another type of experiment, Harvard University psychologist Ellen Langer demonstrated that time is a relative notion. A group of people over age 70 was taken to an isolated area where a scene from…

By Erica Goldson

And now here I am in a world guided by fear, a world suppressing the uniqueness that lies inside each of us, a world where we can either acquiesce to the inhuman nonsense of corporat…

Harry Reid’s latest energy bill is designed not to pass.

President Obama’s undeniable success in passing liberal legislation hasn’t translated into greater popularity for himself or the Democratic …

Tucked into the new health-care law is a requirement that could affect nearly 40 million businesses: They must file tax forms for every vendor that sells them more than $600 in goods.

The goal is t…