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By Joan Pryde, Senior Tax Editor, the Kiplinger letters

“But there may be a silver lining, at least for big corporations: Congress will consider lowering the 35% top corporate tax rate by several per…

Quarterly Report to Congress from SIGTARP: Office of the Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) is now available.

More than a decade ago, Mary Seton Corboy and her partner, Tom Sereduk, transformed a toxic industrial site into a thriving 1-acre urban farm.

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PLEASE help me find the President’s Working Group on Financial Markets. The Working Group, which is also affectionately known as the “Plunge Protection Team,” was a favorite of former Treasur…

As part of $6.9 Billion “Build America” Bond Issue, California Issues Taxable Bonds to Fund Stem Cell Research.

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The wonderfully talented American playwright Lynn Nottage has won this year’s Pulitzer Prize in Drama—the play explores the systematic destruction of the local community through the rapes of the w…

Reports: Freddie Mac official found dead

Wednesday April 22, 2009
WASHINGTON (AP) — David Kellermann, the acting chief financial officer of Freddie Mac, was found dead at his home Wednesday morning …

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“Since Obama took charge he has not shown us that anything will change.”
– Guantanamo captive Mohammad el Gharani

Excerpt:

Gharani, now 21, has been held at Guantanamo for seven years. He was order…

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Vets Ponder What Killed 21 Ponies at U.S. Open Polo Championship
Daily News (21 April 09)

Army: 3 Vials of Virus Samples Missing From Maryland Facility
CNN.com/US (22 April 09)

Scrut…

NetAge OrgScope provides a tool for mapping trees and networks for collaboration.

The host of this workshop is a personal friend of mine. If you are in the Ashland area, you might want to take it in.

It’s springtime! And I urge everyone everywhere to search out the many activiti…

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Two (unrelated) headlines appeared next to each other on Yahoo today:

White House Will Not Prosecute CIA Officials for Waterboarding
Yahoo.com (16 Apr 09)

Not On the Menu: Pizza Workers Charged in P…

47 year old Susan Boyle wows the judges with her performance in the auditions for Britains Got Talent, singing “I Dreamed a Dream” from Les Miserables.

Susan Boyle – Singer – Britains Got Talent 200…

Goldman Sachs is very much in the news.  The most astute comment on Goldman these days comes from a taxi driver in Kuala Lumpur:
“Why does Goldman Sachs run your government? What’s wrong with A…

GATA Renews Requests to Treasury, Fed for Gold Data

Responding to President Obama’s instruction to government agencies of January 21 this year, seeking greater openness in government, GATA today re…

“I believe that our federal government has become oppressive in its size, its intrusion into the lives of our citizens, and its interference with the affairs of our state,” Gov. Perry said. “T…

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From dog-walking to rubbish clearance, civic-minded Estonians can now draw on a virtual Bank of Happiness which trades in good deeds. Anjana Ahuja reports from Tallinn

On one level, it was just a…

“The lack of sunspots in 2008, made it a century-level year in terms of solar quiet. Remarkably, sunspot counts for 2009 have dropped even lower. As of March 31st, there were no sunspots on 78 of t…

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Ask ‘But Why?’ (11 April 09)

Morgan Keegan defended itself today against the NY Times report which we commented on yesterday, titled Liquidating Thy Neighbor – Part I.

I do agree with Morgan Keegan’s spokesman that this was …

While the wheels of state bureaucracy grind away on how to use stimulus funds and how much of those funds to accept, some communities are taking matters into their own hands.

According to the “Advers…

LEWISBURG, Tenn. — Five years ago, this small factory town was struggling to pay the interest on a bond for new sewers. Bob Phillips, Lewisburg’s part-time mayor and full-time pharmacist, was ur…

In my segment on Flashpoints Radio with Dennis Bernstein. April 8, 2009, I address real levels of unemployent and describe why the financial fraud is not limited to Washington and Wall Street – fraudu…

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Electromagnetic Pulse from Wikipedia

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A four part video series at YouTube

The 10×10 website

“Every hour, 10×10 scans the RSS feeds of several leading international news sources, and performs an elaborate process of weighted linguistic analysis on the text contained in th…

This in this morning:

“My construction friend said he talked to two separate people who had been to Chernobyl recently and asked how things were there. They both separately said concrete is constan…

Fungi Perfecti (fun ji’ per fect’ i)
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From Shadow Government Statistics ~ John Williams

“A former quantitative analyst at Harvard Management Company, the university’s once-vaunted endowment manager, tells the Harvard Crimson she was fired for voicing concern to then-university president …

“Should President Obama have the power to shut down domestic Internet traffic during a state of emergency?

Senators John Rockefeller (D-W. Va.) and Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) think so. On Wednesday th…

Hyperinflation Special Report
Shadow Government Statistics (8 Apr 08)

Excerpt: “Howard J. Ruff, who has been writing about these problems and issues since Nixon closed the Gold window, rightly argu…

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A single clause in Point 19 of the communiqué issued by the G20 leaders amounts to revolution in the global financial order.

“We have agreed to support a general SDR allocation which will inject …

The investment community was already suspicious last week when Secretary Timothy Geithner unveiled his plan, announcing that Treasury would select four or five companies as “fund managers” to purcha…

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (April 1, 2009) — America’s top economics bloggers—a diverse group of writers with wide-ranging intellectual and political vantage points—largely agree on one important issu…

This is the full version of the communique agreed by the G20 group in London today.

1. We, the Leaders of the Group of Twenty, met in London on 2 April 2009.

2. We face the greatest challenge to the…

One of the great mysteries is who controls, uses and really has access to the Department of Justice’s information and data systems. The idea of private corporations building and managing such systems…

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Max Keiser: ….they (Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan et al) are systematically undermining the entire system. They are creating a mechanism to carve out equity and capital for themselves at the expense of …