Author: Mark Gilmore

Want proof of what wonderful people Americans are and how much we care about our small farmers? Just take a look at the Crosby Mint Farm “Expect Miracles” Gratitude List

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Dr. Burzynski has found cures for cancer. He practices in Texas. The US government has attempted to indict him more than 5 times since 1976. Persecuted at the hands of the FDA with its long arm to t…

By Paul Laster

Photographer Edward Burtynsky knows a lot about oil and our uncontrollable dependency on it. The 2005 TED prizewinner traveled the world for more than a decade photographing polluted…

By Artyom Danielyan and Emma O’Brien

China and Russia plan to start trading in each other’s currencies as the world’s second-biggest energy consumer and the largest energy supplier seek to di…

A German dairy farmer has come up with a novel way to drum up new business — he opened a “milk filling station.”

The “Milchtankstelle” near Cologne in the town of Neunkirchen-Seelscheid dispenses …

By Robert Barr

Britain’s financial regulator hit Goldman Sachs International with a 17.5 million pounds ($27 million) fine on Thursday for failing to notify U.K. authorities about an investigation …

By David Liechty

The Austrian 100 Corona coin is a good choice for investors looking to maximize the value of their gold investment purchase. Weighing just under an ounce, at 0.9802 ounces (gold…

Margarine is the bad guy and butter and eggs are the good guys.

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The Oiling of America: How the Vegetable Oil Industry Demonized Nutritious Animal Fats…

Dairy Herdshare Told to Cease Operations by Massachusetts Dept. of Agriculture

Former 1st Assistant Attorney General Takes the Case

By Kimberly Hartke

Brigitte Ruthman is 50 years old, a career j…

By Christine Harper and Saijel Kishan

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. is shutting its principal-strategies business, a group that makes bets with the firm’s own capital, to comply with new U.S. rules aime…

By Alex Bogusky

Video Interview with Jeffrey Smith author of Seeds of Deception.

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The Great American Food Experiment and how to opt out. Jeff is in the middle of everything you see and read…

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A ticking time bomb of American debt. Over $830 billion are owed by college students in the US with $3 thousand more added on every second. This is debt that is NOT extinguished in bankruptc…

Dear Catherine,

I miss having our mini conversations but I am thrilled that you have had that road trip and time in Montana. I l-o-v-e Montana and have driven its vast and varied expanses of beauty s…

By Anne E. Kornblut and Lori Montgomery

With just two months until the November elections, the White House is seriously weighing a package of business tax breaks – potentially worth hundreds of bil…

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Read How One Mother’s Shocking Investigation into the Dangers of America’s Food Supply– and What Every Family Can Do to Protect Itself The Unhealthy Truth By Robyn O’Brien

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Minnesotans struggling with debt have their bank accounts and pay seized with no judicial oversight.

By Chris Serres and Glenn Howatt

After two weeks without a decent meal, Van Tran looked tired …

By Michael Patterson and Tal Barak Harif

Emerging-market stocks are trading at the highest valuations relative to advanced-country shares in more than two years as faster economic growth persuades th…

By Leewanta

Vi tackar Catherine Austin Fitts för att ha emottagit följande artikel till att publicera på denna blogg. Mrs Fitts har tidigare verkat som VD och styrelsemedlem i investmentbanken D…

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I left Hickory Valley on August 21st. I drove into Memphis first, to pack my cooler full of fresh organic salads and fruits. I have learned not to search for fresh food on the road…

Despite a judge’s ruling putting key provisions of Arizona’s new immigration law on hold,most U.S. voters still favor passage of such a law in their own state. They also think it’s better to hav…

By Lars Schall

Hardly another serious plague to society is associated with more hypocrisy and erroneous assumptions than the drug business. So Lars Schall talked with Catherine Austin Fitts, who ex…

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By Marian Burros

The 250 farmers, bakers, millers, scientists and just plain eaters, all of them fanatics about the kind of bread that is so good it doesn’t need butter or jam, gathered here last…

By Pallavi Gogoi

Raghavan Mayur, president at TechnoMetrica Market Intelligence, follows unemployment data closely. So, when his survey for May revealed that 28% of the 1,000-odd households surveye…

From Naked Capitalism

Normally, I don’t report on anecdotes from my immediate circle, but a set of conversations in less than a 24 hour period suggests that even those comparatively unaffected by t…

If you’re in a financial pinch, you might be able to tap your 401k for a bailout — but it could really cost you.

You’re not alone in wondering if you should tap your retirement savings. With an un…

By Elizabeth Skrapits

Would local officials be powerless to stop a natural gas company from drilling a natural gas well in the middle of a housing development?

Not according to a new state court r…

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The Federal Reserve asked a U.S. appeals court to delay implementing a ruling that would force the central bank to disclose details of its emergency lending programs to banks during the financial cri…

By Andy Greenberg

As the privacy controversy around full-body security scans begins to simmer, it’s worth noting that courthouses and airport security checkpoints aren’t the only places where bac…

By Vincent Fernando

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The Case for Reforming U.S. Emergency Health Laws

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The 2009-2010 swine flu pandemic is officially over, but many serious risks remain–not so much from the flu, but from the flu vacci…

The Alex Jones Show August 24, 2010

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By Adam Cohen

Government agents can sneak onto your property in the middle of the night, put a GPS device on the bottom of your car and keep track of everywhere you go. This doesn’t violate your Fo…

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By David Hambling

Late last year, James Walbert went to court, to stop his former business associate from blasting him with mind-altering electromagnetic radiation. Walbert told the Sedgwick County…

By Justin Corr

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Cash is king, and Big Tech companies have it pouring out their ears.

A combination of cost-cutting tactics and an improving economic climate have driven tech-sector profits way u…

By Steve Watson

Law enforcement agencies in Washington D.C. have begun to use technology that they say can predict when crimes will be committed and who will commit them, before they actually happe…

By Joe Weisenthal

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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…