By David Cutler
Parliament votes Thursday on plans to raise tuition fees for university students, an issue which has split the Liberal Democrats and provoked unrest.
Student demonstrations, sometime…
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Sallie Mae Compensation: William M. Diefenderfer III
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Born: May 3, 1945
Native of Wayne, PA
Current residence: Northern Virginia
Party Affiliation: Republican
Military service: US Army (1970-72)
University: BA, Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA (1967)
La…
Born: May 3, 1945
Native of Wayne, PA
Current residence: Northern Virginia
Party Affiliation: Republican
Military service: US Army (1970-72)
University: BA, Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA (1967)
La…
Diefenderfer, William
Groups That Have Retained Diefenderfer, William M III:
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Total Lobbying Income: $705,000
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DIEFENDERFER, WILLIAM M III
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DIEFENDERFER, WILLIAM M MR III
DIEFENDERFER, WILLIAM M III
DIEF…
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Sallie Mae/SLM SEC documents report $284,800 in charitable contributions by the corporation as directed by William M. Diefenderfer, III. See compensation chart at CLICK HERE. Duquesne University in …
Sallie Mae/SLM SEC documents report $284,800 in charitable contributions by the corporation as directed by William M. Diefenderfer, III. See compensation chart at CLICK HERE. Duquesne University in …
By Mike DiCicco
Great Falls residents, citizens association question county officials on real estate assessments.
Last year (2009), Sandra Diefenderfer’s home assessment jumped by 125 percent.
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By Mike DiCicco
Great Falls residents, citizens association question county officials on real estate assessments.
Last year (2009), Sandra Diefenderfer’s home assessment jumped by 125 percent.
…
American banking system still backing over $13 trillion in assets with a negative deposit insurance fund. 7,760 banks but 19 banks make up 50 percent of the asset base.
The growth of the too big to f…
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By Blake Ellis
Are you prepared to live on $190 a month when you retire?
For most Americans in their 50s, that’s all the personal savings they’ll have to look forward to during retirement, according…
Information has never been so free. Even in authoritarian countries information networks are helping people discover new facts and making governments more accountable.
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Doublespeak is language that deliberately disguises, distorts, or reverses the meaning of words. Doublespeak may take the form of euphemisms (e.g., “downsizing” for layoffs), making the truth less…
By Joel Salatin
American farmer Joel Salatin, the star of the documentary Food Inc, has become a “pin up boy” for the growing food “re-localisation” movement. On a recent visit to Canberra, he gives …
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I am in Philadelphia, so Franklin and I are conspirin…
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By Luke Harding
Russia has suggested that Julian Assange should be awarded the Nobel peace prize, in an unexpected show of support from Moscow for the jailed WikiLeaks founder.
In what appears to …
I hope they catch that WikiLeaks guy.
I hope they catch him and prosecute him for all its worth. I hope they, legally speaking, throttle this guy within an inch of his life. If what he has done h…
By Paul Brodsky
In practical terms, we can’t lower rates below zero and we can’t raise them. What about debt-focused quantitative easing? That won’t work either. An economy can’t be de-leve…
The odds of dying on an airplane as a result of a terrorist hijacking are less than 1 in 25 million which, for all intents and purposes, is effectively zero according to Paul Campos, a law profe…
Long Slide Into The Red
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The full year results for the SS Trust Fund can now be estimated fairly accurately from preliminary numbers. There is still an unknown. The amount of the 4t…
Banks (not borrowers) Broke the Law
• Delinquency is not a crime.
• Being foreclosed upon is not a crime.
• Bankruptcy is not a crime.
Foreclosure fraud is a crime
– Janet Tavakoli, Presentat…
By Caroline Davies and Sam Jones
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was remanded in custody today after appearing in court on an extradition warrant.
The 39-year-old Australian, who is wanted in Swe…
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-Canadian Dollar 1.00368
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-Australian Dollar 1.00598
By Carrie Budoff Brown
President Barack Obama announced an agreement with congressional Republicans Monday night to extend the Bush-era tax cuts to all Americans for two years — including wealthi…
By Carrie Budoff Brown
President Barack Obama announced an agreement with congressional Republicans Monday night to extend the Bush-era tax cuts to all Americans for two years — including wealthi…
At the current inflation and tax rates, the after-tax return on toilet paper should outperform money markets by a factor of ten times or better in 2011.
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By Courtney Comstock
The Justice Department is now announcing the details of their latest crackdown on fraud schemes like market manipulation and ponzi schemes.
The big announcement we’ve all been…
Business and Professional Association looks for ways to expand effort this year.
By Mike DiCicco
Locally owned, “mom-and-pop” businesses are what determine much of a community’s character, said …
Business and Professional Association looks for ways to expand effort this year.
By Mike DiCicco
Locally owned, “mom-and-pop” businesses are what determine much of a community’s character, said …
By Matthew Weaver
The Oregon Department of Agriculture and Oregon State University are investigating the yellowing of upward of 40,000 acres of wheat in Umatilla and Morrow counties.
So far, the c…
Julian Assange: Aspects of the Chinese government, Chinese Public Security Service, appear to be terrified of free speech, and while one might say that means something awful is happening in the coun…
Julian Assange: Aspects of the Chinese government, Chinese Public Security Service, appear to be terrified of free speech, and while one might say that means something awful is happening in the coun…
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By Tony Pugh
As Americans continue to lose their homes in record numbers, the Federal Reserve is considering making it much harder for homeowners to stop foreclosures and escape predatory home loan…
By Michael Pollaro
As of 2nd quarter June 2010, the Federal Reserve held 25.7% of the U.S. government’s public held debt outstanding, up from 15.1% 4th quarter 2000. And as for foreign central …
The future is created by the people who build it, not the people who predict it will not exist.
~ Catherine Austin Fitts
By Laura Rowley
Kelli Space, 23, graduated from Northeastern University in 2009 with a bachelor’s in sociology — and a whopping $200,000 in student loan debt. Space, who lives with her parents an…
By Sen. Bernie Sanders
At a Senate Budget Committee hearing in 2009, I asked Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke to tell the American people the names of the financial institutions that received an unprecede…
By Joe Weisenthal
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Copper: Part I The New Currency.
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10 Things I Wish WikiLeaks Would Release
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Britain is Freezing to Death
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Google Ac…
By Tyler Durden
Madoff trustee charges JP Morgan with “Enabling” massive fraud; $1 billion in profits and $5.4 billion in damages sought to be recovered. Says JP Morgan had clear doubts about Madof…
By Tyler Durden
Madoff trustee charges JP Morgan with “Enabling” massive fraud; $1 billion in profits and $5.4 billion in damages sought to be recovered. Says JP Morgan had clear doubts about Madof…
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by Catherine Austin Fitts
I am in Philadelphia helping a very dear friend transition from her …
By John Stanton
A food safety bill that has burned up precious days of the Senate’s lame-duck session appears headed back to the chamber because Democrats violated a constitutional provision requ…
By Stephen Ohlemacher
The Senate on Monday rejected an effort to reduce tax-related paperwork for businesses when lawmakers couldn’t agree on whether they would make up the revenue the new requirem…
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Big Sis forced to mothball invasive security measures, as Drudge once again confounds establishment media doubters who belittled his influence.
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Despite the e…
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By Ben Sisario
In what appears to be the latest phase of a far-reaching federal crackdown on online piracy of music and movies, the Web addresses of a number of sites that…
The Mercedes-Benz BIOME symbiosis vehicle is made from an ultralight material called BioFibre and tips the scales at just 875.5 lbs (around 394 kg). This material is significantly lighter than metal…
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By Reg Howe
On November 16, 2010, the Bank for International Settlements released its regular semi-annual report on the over-the-counter derivatives of major banks and dealers in the G-10 countries a…
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By Guest Blogger, Kimberly Usher
Food monopolies are poisoning our Good Earth food by over-spraying pesticides, which contaminates our food, and our bodies. Pesticides can be absorbed through the s…
By Brett Arends
This will be the fourth holiday season of the great slump, and for many it isn’t getting any easier. Times are tough. So how can you stop the Grinch from stealing Christmas this yea…
AIG Mulling New Debt Offer: Chairman
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Fed Loaned Hundreds of Billions to Foreign Banks and Companies
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30 Weeks Of Consecutive Equity Fund Outflows
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Fed Loaned Hundreds of Billions to Foreign Banks and Companies
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China’s Gold Imports Soar Almost Fivefold, Fueled by Inflation
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Lots of Fake Gold Shows Up in Hong Kong
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Bundesbank Joins Fed in Demanding Secrecy For Gold Swaps
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Obama Nominates Rabid Anti-gunner to Head the ATF
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Google Set to Launch E-Book Venture
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100-Million-Year-Old Crocodile Species Discovered
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By Robert Penn Warren
Long ago, in Kentucky, I, a boy, stood
By a dirt road, in first dark, and heard
The great geese hoot northward.
I could not see them, there being no moon
And the stars sparse….
Don Juan chuckled and lay down, putting his arms behind his head.
“You know exactly what you need”, he said.
I told him that sometimes I thought I knew, but that most of the time I had no self…
Thanksgiving Day, presently celebrated on the fourth Thursday in November, has been an annual tradition in the United States since 1863. It did not become a federal holiday until 1941.
The first Th…
The amazing story of a King Country dairy farmer who caught swine flu and very nearly died.
Intensive care specialists were all set to pull him off life support, saying there was no hope. But his f…
Is the bailout of Ireland really a bailout, or is it instead an economic hit designed to harvest the assets of Ireland at rock bottom prices? Those considering this question might find this earlier in…