A new Tennessee law makes it a crime to “transmit or display an image” online that is likely to “frighten, intimidate or cause emotional distress” to someone who sees it. Violations can get …

Tornados, wildfires, droughts and floods were once seen as freak conditions. But the environmental disasters now striking the world are shocking signs of ‘global weirding’

By John Vidal

Drought zo…

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Two NASA probes gliding towards the stars nine billion miles from Earth, have made a surprising discovery – our solar system is surrounded by magnetic bubble wrap.

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Re:  NJ Senate Budget Committee hearing on proposed pension and health benefit legislation. Supported by Senate President Steve Sweeney and Governor Chris Christie. (Sweeney/Christie Pension and Heal…

By Max Keiser

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By Paul Delean and Lynn Moore

Claiming widespread tax fraud in the gold refining and trading sector, Revenue Quebec and police investigators this week conducted searches and seizures at 70 location…

Thanks to the fantastic work of Bilderberg activists, journalists and the Swiss media, we have now been able to obtain the full official list of 2011 Bilderberg attendees. Routinely, some members re…

Produced by Leila Conners (The 11th Hour) and Mathew Schmid and directed by Mark Mac-Innis

A documentary from Tree Media. The film follows the urban farming phenomenon in Detroit. Urban Roots is a ti…

By Kim Zetter

A judge in Maine has ruled that a bank that allowed hackers to steal more than $300,000 from a customer’s online account isn’t responsible for the lost money, saying the customer …

By Rupert Neate

The former prime minister of Iceland has been formally charged over his part in the collapse of the country’s banks in 2008.

Geir Haarde was charged with failing to prevent the ban…

By Joe Weisenthal

A new poll shows that Barack Obama’s approval rating is falling, and that he couldn’t beat Mitt Romney in a head-to-head match up.

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On 6/5/11 12:38 pm a reader wrote:

Dear Catherine,

I’m a long-time follower of your views….

I’m a self-employed trader/investor who is retired from a +25 year career as an independent trucker. I …

Hackerspaces are community-operated physical places, where people can meet and work on their projects.

This website is for ‘Anyone and Everyone’,who wants to share their hackerspace with internationa…

The Centralization Team vs. The Decentralization Team

We were talking with the highly experienced investment advisor Catherine Austin Fitts from the U.S. to get some answers to questions which, inter…

Guest Photo: Sandpoint Idaho, Population 7365 (and growing), unique restaurant marketing.

One picture, one million thoughts. God Bless the Longbridge Restaurant.

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News of the likely victory of leftist Ollanta Humala in Peru’s presidential election has sparked a record fall on the country’s share market.

Peruvian stocks registered their biggest-ever daily fal…

By Joe Weisenthal

Are precious metals like silver and gold in a bubble?

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Chamba Lane was as known for giving back to the community as he was for his sometimes controversial commentary.

The KVMR host succumbed to lung cancer Tuesday evening at his Nevada City home.

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By Joe Weisenthal

Citi’s Tobias Levkovitch is out with a new survey of Citigroup institutional clients.

This chart really caught our eye.

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By Kelly Heffernan-Tabor

Collier County, Florida — Have you heard the one about a homeowner foreclosing on a bank?
Well, it has happened in Florida and involves a North Carolina based bank.

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By Joel Millman

Wolfgang Candy Co. is looking for capital to help the 90-year-old company expand. GreenLine Paper Co. could use a cash infusion to improve its distribution of environmentally friend…

U.S. Trust Insights on Wealth and Worth explores both the rational and emotional perspectives of the high net worth in the United States.

Key topics covered in the 2011 U.S. Trust Insights on Wea…

By Vandana Shiva

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Scientists Under Attack
Directed by Bertram Verhaag
“Billed as “a political thriller on GMOs and freedom of speech”, this film by the German film-maker Bertram Verhaag tells the stories of two…

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By Martin de Sa’Pinto and Joe Giannone

Zurich – Wealthy U.S. individuals have already pulled most of their money from Swiss private banks and could exit altogether as a global clampdown on tax evas…

By Joe Weisenthal

“Confirmed” is the word used in the latest announcement from Case-Shiller, which showed a surprise 3.61% year-over-year decline in home prices.

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By Tyler Durden

That average monthly benefit of $133.24 for 44.199 million people will help with the purchase of one third of a very edible iPad. Food stamp participation chart presented without furt…

By Tony Paterson and John Lichfield

Englishmen may see themselves as king of their own castles, but the fact that Europe largely did away with its monarchies many years ago does not necessarily expla…

By Alan Purkiss

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS) offered Libya the opportunity to become one of its biggest shareholders two years ago, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing unidentified people fam…

By Tony Arnold

There are a lot of investment options out there — but have you ever considered weather? The Chicago Mercantile Exchange has, and starting today, you can invest in rain futures. But ar…

By Joe Weisenthal and Gregory White

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By Valerie Richardson

It’s no secret that members of Congress qualify as political insiders, but a new report strongly suggests that they also may be insiders when it comes to trading stocks.

An…

By Laura Saunders

The Internal Revenue Service, moving aggressively to collect more taxes from small businesses, is telling companies being audited to turn over exact copies of the electronic recor…

By Natsuko Waki;

Cash-rich global pension funds are starting to increase their miniscule emerging market allocations, raising the prospect of a rapid acceleration in flows that could swamp the rela…

By Sam Smith

A chart showing the mentions of the Constitution by year as estimated by Google.com.

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By Spencer Ackerman

You think you understand how the Patriot Act allows the government to spy on its citizens. Sen. Ron Wyden says it’s worse than you know.

Congress is set to reauthorize three …

By Katharine Q. Seelye

The Justice Department plans to move ahead with criminal charges against John Edwards, the former senator and presidential candidate, contending that he misused campaign fund…

By Congressman Ron Paul

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By Greg Stohr

The U.S. Supreme Court refused to revive a suit that claimed Verizon Communications Inc. owed as much as $1.7 billion in additional retirement benefits because of an error made by a l…

By Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg

For the residents of Benton Harbor, Michigan the question is will America have prosperity and democracy, or live in poverty under the heel of open corporate power. Th…

By C. Martenson

Well, it now turns out that many of my worst fears about Fukushima have been confirmed with the news that TEPCO has finally admitted that Reactor #1 has experienced a meltdown event t…

Is Thomas Drake an enemy of the state?

By Jane Mayer

On June 13th, a fifty-four-year-old former government employee named Thomas Drake is scheduled to appear in a courtroom in Baltimore, where he wi…

Move Would Follow Senate Subcommittee’s Report

By Liz Rappaport and Jean Eaglesh

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. executives expect to receive subpoenas soon from U.S. prosecutors seeking more information…

By Yves Smith

Texas is not exactly a consumer-friendly state, so the Federal court ruling in the Eastern District of Texas against MERS has the potential to have broad ramifications (note a Federal…

If So, How Long Will He Survive ?

By Michael Collins

Gretchen Morgenson of the New York Times just published one of the few feel good stories in months following the 2008 financial crisis. She des…

By Chris Ordal

[arve url=”http://player.vimeo.com/video/22357807?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0″ width=”300″ height=”225″ frameborder=”0″>EARTHWORK (2011) official HD trailer from Chris Ordal on…

By Sebastian Moffett

The normally easy-to-understand Christine Lagarde walked a diplomatic tightrope Thursday over the choice of a new IMF head.

European and Asian governments are engaged in a pol…

By Stacey Herbert

There are some that since 2001 have doubted the bull market in precious metals.  In these past six weeks, however, everyone from former silver bulls to those who sell freeze drie…