Author: Mark Gilmore

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In our previous blog article about the census A Solari Report— The 2010 Census, we indicated that under 13 U.S. Code § 221, failure to respond to the decennial census was punish…

By Christopher Helman

How can it be that you pay more to the IRS than General Electric?

As you work on your taxes this month, here’s something to raise your hackles: Some of the world’s biggest, mo…

By Nelson D. Schwartz and Louise Story

The Lazarus-like recovery of the nation’s big banks did not benefit just the bankers — it also created huge paydays for hedge fund managers, including a r…

By Mish

Food stamp usage is up again except the program is now called SNAP Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.

Inquiring minds are looking at a SNAP Participation Table that shows a record 39…

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Continue reading Why The Gold-To-Oil Ratio Suggests Oil Could Go A Lot Higher

By David Sanger and Peter Baker

President Obama said Monday that he was revamping American nuclear strategy to substantially narrow the conditions under which the United States would use nuclear we…

NATO and Russia clashed on Wednesday over how to tackle the drug problem in Afghanistan, where Western nations have been fighting a Taliban-led insurgency for eight years.

The country is the world…

A new generation of 3D mobile phones that don’t require special glasses, could go on sale by the end of this year.

Japanese electronics manufacturer Sharp unveiled a new three-inch liquid crystal d…

The World According to Monsanto The following documentary is a thorough, in-depth look at the history of one of the world’s most dangerous and despised corporations and the serious..

The World Accor…

With job openings scarce for young people, the number of unpaid internships has climbed in recent years, leading federal and state regulators to worry that more employers are illegally using such in…

Tip #1:
Buy Organic Certified organic products cannot be produced using GMO ingredients. So if you can, buy only products labeled “100% organic”, “organic,” or “made with organic ingredients.”

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India is launching a new census in which every person aged over 15 will be photographed and fingerprinted to create a biometric national database.

The government will then use the information to is…

Adrian Salbuchi from Agentina. A very competent and serious gentleman. A prime example of where the train is heading. People will drive the corrupt power elites over the cliff. It is not a question if…

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Continue reading Engineered Poison Lurking in Your Everyday Food?

By John Antczak

After a decade of development, the Air Force this month plans to launch a robotic spacecraft resembling a small space shuttle to conduct technology tests in orbit and then glide hom…

Online Tour of the Sistine Chapel

Sistine Chapel is the best-known chapel in the Apostolic Palace, the official residence of the Pope in Vatican City. It is famous for its architecture, evocative of…

Jewish men wrapped with prayer shawls take part in the Annual Cohanim prayer or Priest’s blessing for the Pesach (Passover) holiday at the Western Wall in the old city of Jerusalem on April 1, 2010. T…

The World Gold Council (“WGC”) and Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (“ICBC”) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) for strategic cooperation within China’s gold market….Both parti…

‘Food Matters’ Official Trailer

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I just noticed a 3/4 page add in Tuesday’s Wall Street Journal. I thought I would publish the entire copy.

Here it is:

The Way Forward

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Small Business Lending Makes A Big D…

By The Daily Bell

So it turns out it is full speed ahead for the Trans-Texas Corridor! You know, it’s kind of incredible. We can hardly keep track of the pressure being applied to the poor, bleedin…

Advance Notice of a Meeting Under Expedited Procedures

It is anticipated that a closed meeting of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System at 11:30 a.m. on Monday, April 5, 2010, will b…

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Tim Muffett went to Stroud in Gloucestershire, which prints its own currency, to find out how it has been working.

Continue reading The Town Printing Its Own Currency

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Ever imagine getting your tie caught in a mechanical set of gears (sorry ladies – but I will spare you). The results are nasty! Now you know what the Sultans of Swap in the $695 Trillion global OTC …

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Continue reading [KR29] Keiser Report – Markets! Finance! Scandal! – And Mark Schapiro

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To Rob A Country, Own A Bank Part V…

The Chinese government is reviewing proposals to adjust its currency exchange rate system next month, Chinese media reported, as international pressure grows on Beijing to revalue the yuan.

The pro…

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Continue reading The Military: Another Spiraling Government Jobs Program

By Robert Evans

Scientists smashed sub-atomic particles into each other with record energy on Tuesday, aiming to recreate conditions just after the Big Bang that gave rise to the universe 13.7 bill…

By Gretchen Morgenson

With all the hoopla over the health care bill, hardly anybody noticed that a job creation bill that President Obama signed on March 18 makes it much harder for United States c…

Higher yields are the “canary in the mine,” Greenspan said in a March 26 interview on Bloomberg Television’s “Political Capital With Al Hunt.” The increases reflect concern over “this hu…

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold (and Silver):

Thanks to our friend Robert Ian of La Crosse, Wisconsin, video of GATA Chairman Bill Murphy’s testimony at today’s hearing of the U.S. Commodity Futures …

By Spengler

By 2014, International Monetary Fund official John Lipsky remarked March 21, the debt-to-gross domestic product (GDP) ratio of the Group of Seven countries will reach 100%, and the gove…

Dear Mr. President-Elect,

It may surprise you to learn that among the issues that will occupy much of your time in the coming years is one you barely mentioned during the campaign: food. Food polic…

By Anais Starr

The image above comes from a wonderful book I’m reading titled “Carrots Love Tomatoes” by Louise Riotte. The book’s byline is “Secrets of Companion Planting for Successful Gardening.”…

By Huma Khan

President Obama will sign the historic health care bill into law this morning, but Republicans are still fighting back with promises of lawsuits and heated rhetoric, including a shot f…

“If each household in Montana spent just $10 a week on Montana-produced food, we would redirect $186 million dollars each year to the state’s food producers.”

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“Representatives and direct taxes shall be apportioned among the several states which may be included within this union, according to their respective numbers, which shall be determined by adding …

View Dave Eggers’ Wish: Once Upon A School at YouTube

The following action alert came from Grow Montana and the Community Food Agriculture Coalition of Missoula County.

The National Farm to School Network is a collaborative project of the Center for Foo…

The international observance of World Water Day is an initiative that grew out of the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) in Rio de Janeiro.

Water Quality: Theme o…

WHAT’S ON YOUR PLATE? is a witty and provocative documentary produced and directed by award-winning Catherine Gund about kids and food politics. Filmed over the course of one year, the film follows …

By David Glovin and Bob Van Voris

The Federal Reserve Board must disclose documents identifying financial firms that might have collapsed without the largest U.S. government bailout ever, a federal…

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

The formal statement GATA Chairman Bill Murphy plans to submit as a witness at the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s hearing next week on position limits in …

The financial reform legislation passed in the House on December 11, 2009 is now in the Senate.

The Democrats in the Senate have produced a new version, .

The House version (which surely will not…

By Nicholas Larkin

Central banks added the most gold to their reserves since 1964 last year amid the longest rally in bullion prices in at least nine decades, data compiled by the World Gold Counci…

By Karl Denninger

I know you’re not going to listen to me.
I’m going to say it anyway, because as a concerned citizen of The United States of America, I must.

You are making a grave, perhaps natio…

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I have made a new loan through Kiva to Concepcion Aracely Herrera Martillo who will use the funds to increase productivity of her plantain chip business.
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Continue reading Lehman Brothers,The Next Enron?

Michael Lewis, author of one of the defining books about Wall Street excess, “Liar’s Poker,” told 60 Minutes that bonuses at banks bailed out by the government are akin to “a very elegant form of th…

Google; Hungary Beast

For all those dismayed by scenes of looting in disaster-struck zones, whether Haiti or Chile or elsewhere, take heart: Good acts – acts of kindness, generosity and cooperation – spread just as eas…