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Economic and political elites meeting this week at the Swiss resort of Davos will be asked to urgently find ways to reform a capitalist system that has been described as “outdated and crumbling.”

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With over 150 million registered users, the file sharing site MegaUpload.com is one of the most popular on the Internet. At least, it was.

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The Joint Chiefs of Staff have produced updated doctrine on intelligence support to military operations.  The new do…

Six million people are under correctional supervision in the U.S.—more than were in Stalin’s gulags. Photograph by Steve Liss.

By Adam Gopnik

A prison is a trap for catching time. Good reportin…

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Source: December 2011 Consumer Reports Magazine.

Americans spent $80.2 billion on seafood last year, $5 billion more than in 2009, but they aren’t always buying what th…

By Yves Smith

Obama’s latest housing market chicanery should come as no surprise. As we discuss below, he will use the State of the Union address to announce a mortgage “settlement” by Federa…

By Catherine Austin Fitts

I’ve had a wonderful time in Montana.

The Solari team got lots accomplished. We’ve enjoyed some beautiful snow storms, so the snowboarders and skiers are happy! Best of…

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By Jesus Diaz

UC Berkeley scientists have developed a system to capture visual activity in human brains and reconstruct it as digital video clips.

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The Kenguru electric vehicle designed to be driven in a wheelchair

The first Kenguru—the small, yellow electric vehicle designed to be driven in a wheelchair—was unveiled Thursday in Pflugerville…

Left to right: Bram Van der Kolk, Mathias Ortmann, Fin Batato and Kim Dotcom in court today.

By Kirsty Johnston

Website Megaupload.com, which was shut down by authorities over allegations that it …

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Thank you for taking the time to contact my office regarding S.968, the ‘Preventing Real Online Threats to Economics Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act of 2011,’ or PRO…

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General Motors Co reclaimed its title as the world’s top selling automaker for the first time since 2007, after sales of more than 9 millio…

U.S. Rep. Marcy Kaptur, D-Toledo, and U.S. Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Cleveland

By Bill Rice

Rep. Dennis Kucinich is most in his element when he’s fighting against social injustice.

Wherever he sees a…

By David Kravets

The House version of the Stop Online Piracy Act, the proposed anti-piracy legislation that drew a planned and widespread internet revolt Wednesday, is likely to undergo a radical ov…

President Obama just signed the National Defense Authorization Act into law despite startling provisions that will allow the military to indefinitely detain American citizens.  It’s a travesty, def…

Catherine Austin Fitts will speak during several stops.

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Project Rogue Valley will host financial expert Catherine Austin Fitts Jan. 26 and 27. Fitts, a former senior partner a…

Note from Catherine: We have been informed that Paypal has frozen Sheriff Richard Mack’s accounts. We are asking for prayers for all concerned. Here is the report:

PayPal froze funds ($40,000+) don…

US ambassador Alan Solomont wrote: ‘[Spain] has unfortunately failed to finish the job for political reasons, to the detriment of the reputation and economy of Spain’ Photograph: Juan Medina/Reuters

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As you can see from the posters at the top of our blog, we are supporting the blackout promoted by Wikipedia against SOPA and PIPA.

I have contacted Senator Bob Corker an…

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Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, announced on Twitter Monday that the popular site would go dark in protest of SOPA and PIPA, two controversial …

New research shows that when we eat we’re consuming more than just vitamins and protein. Our bodies are absorbing information, or microRNA.

By Ari LeVaux

Update 1/12: Thanks to science and biology…

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By Chris Hedges

Attorneys Carl J. Mayer and Bruce I. Afran filed a complaint Friday in the Southern U.S. District Court in New York City on my behalf as a plaintiff against Barack Obama and Secreta…

By Emelia Sithole-Matarise and Anirban Nag

Greece will default shortly on its debt obligations, a senior Standard & Poor’s official told Bloomberg Television on Monday.

“Greece will default very …

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It may be in the nature of the way we deal with crises, and are ultimately able to overcome them, that we need to …

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For Wall Street Occupiers or other decriers of the “social injustice” of college tuition, here’s a curveball bound to scramble your worldview: a to…

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By Ellen Brown

Neither rain nor sleet nor snow may have stopped the Pony Express, but the nation’s oldest and second largest employer is now under attack.  Claiming the Postal Service is bankrup…

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Ron’s Paul’s strong second place finish in New Hampshire’s Presidential Primary greatly raises his prospects in the Republican Presidential race, and will lead to m…

By Sam Smith

Since 1989, we have occasionally published a guide to getting through the crummy era that we are still in. In 2003, we intially noted that the First American Republic was over. Last year…

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As we start 2012 with all of the promise that it brings for transformation, let’s take a look back at some of the amazing films or 2011 that brought us to this point.  The results of the voting ar…

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The Food and Drug Administration is warning patients about a potential mix-up between powerful prescription pain drugs and common over-the-counter medications made at a Novart…

By Corinne Gretler

Stocks in Switzerland (SMI) dropped as the Swiss National Bank President Philipp Hildebrand resigned after a currency purchase by his wife last year became controversial.

Novart…

Wegelin & Co one of last pure Swiss private banks
Negotiations at critical stage in Wegelin case
Investigations shake Swiss banking secrecy tradition

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Aristotle’s Politics Book V and VI

By Michael Hudson

Book V of Aristotle’s Politics describes the eternal transition of oligarchies making themselves into hereditary aristocracies – which end…

By Tyler Durden

Curious how the US, on a state by state basis, stacks up against the rest of the world, in terms of economic (and population) prowess? The following interactive graphic from the Econo…

By Gregor Macdonald

2011 was an abysmal year for the global insurance industry, which had to cover yet another enormous increase in damages from natural disasters. Unknown to most casual observers…

As state-backed firms once again become forces in global business, we ask what they can learn from the greatest of them all.

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A POPULAR parlour game among historians is debating wh…

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A 25-year-old waitress who turned down a job providing “sexual services” at a brothel in Berlin faces possible cuts to her unemployment benefit under laws introduced this year.

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The latest Fed minutes, a recap of the December 2011 Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting, revealed that the U.S. central bank is making several noteworthy changes to the manner …

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Reductions are expected in the program for the F-35 fighter jet.

By Elisabeth Bumiller and Thom Shanker

Washington — Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta is set this week to reveal his strategy that …

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Governments of the world’s leading eco…

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The Daily Bell is pleased to publish an interview with financial advisor Catherine Austin Fitts.

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The Austrian School, and Who’s “Really”…

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Montana’s Supreme Court has issued a stunning rebuke to the U.S. Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision in 2010 that infamously decreed corporations had constitutional r…

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By Robin Wigglesworth in London

Almost $6.3 trillion was erased from global stock markets this year as the euro zone financial crisis reverberated across the world in the latter half of 2011, calli…

By Peter J. Wallison

Peter Wallison has published his Dissent from the Majority Report of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission. It’s a must read for those of us interested in the financial crisi…

By David B. Collum

Precious metals were in a Utopian bull market for almost a decade. The early bulls lounged poolside, taking the occasional dip and enjoying returns in the high teens. It was a leis…

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A discourse by Markandeya in the Mahabharata  identifies some of the attributes of Kali Yuga:

In relation to rulers

Rulers will become unreasonable: they will levy taxes unfairly.
Rulers will …

By Barry Ritholtz

“What’s happened is that, almost overnight, we’ve switched from democracy in real-property recording to oligarchy in real-property recording. There was no court case behind t…

By Martin Holladay, GBA Advisor

Several GBA readers have requested a copy of a presentation I gave at the recent annual meeting of the British Columbia Building Envelope Council in Vancouver. The p…

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Beijing (Reuters) – China took a further step on Tuesday toward ending its dependence on U.S. satellites to provide navigation and positioning services with the start of trial operations…

By Eamonn Fingleton

Tokyo, Japan — In this slot a few days ago I posed some historical questions that, judging by the email I have been receiving, have perplexed a lot of readers.  

Let me now f…

By Scot Paltrow

Four years after the banking system nearly collapsed from reckless mortgage lending, federal prosecutors have stayed on the sidelines, even as judges around the country are pointing…

By Lisa Du

James Koutoulas, one of the founders of the Commodity Customer Coalition—which represents the interests of over 8,000 MF Global customers, was just on CNBC to talk about the recent blitz…

People walk over the Brooklyn Bridge from Manhattan to Brooklyn after the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center Sept. 11, 2001. 

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(AP) New York – A federal judge has si…

By Foster Gamble

Charles Eisenstein, the author of Sacred Economics, has written an article,”Synchronicity, Myth and the New World Order”, and a critique of THRIVE: What on Earth Will It Take? , …

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Watch Open Source Ecology Founder Marcin Jakubowski discuss the prospects for an open source, do it yourself civilization. Then read Isaiah Saxon’s follow-up blog post …

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By Robert Frank

Who says the rich always get richer?

Despite heated rhetoric emanating from politicians and pundits, the top 1% is hardly a fixed group that enjoys consi…

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By Joseph E. Stiglitz

It has now been almost five years since the bursting of the housing bubble, and four years since the onset of the recession. There are 6.6 million fewer jobs in the United Sta…

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CME Group Inc., operator of the world’s leading energy, grains and precious metals markets, is in talks with China’s securities regulator to enter the mainland’s financial derivati…

By Peter Hitchens

TT: What is the major failure of Christian education in the modern West?

PH: Its lack of poetry. The abandonment of the great poetic text of the King James Bible (and of the Boo…

By Margery A. Beck

Maha, Neb. (AP) — The young father stood in line at the Kmart layaway counter, wearing dirty clothes and worn-out boots. With him were three small children.

He asked to pay so…

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The men showed up in a small town in Australia’s outback early last year, offering top dollar for all available lodgings. Within days, their company, Serco, was flying i…

By Barbara Pruitt

Kauffman’s most popular content this year discovered a “jobs leak,” illustrated entrepreneurs’ contributions and recommended policy reforms for growth.

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Washington—The Internal Revenue Service in coming days will release a new information reporting form that taxpayers will use starting this coming tax filing season to report specified fo…

By Rosalind S. Helderman

Negotiations over how to extend a payroll tax holiday for 160 million Americans and avoid a government shutdown this weekend ground to a halt Wednesday after a standoff in…

The St. Columbanus Church food pantry in Chicago feeds 500 households a week, but some weeks it struggles to keep up with demand. (CBS)

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Washington – Squeezed by rising living costs, a record …

Corzine is sworn in to testify about MF Global’s bankruptcy before a US senate committee in Washington, December 8, 2011.

By Christopher Doering

Regulators now have a more complete picture of mon…

By Ryan Grim

Washington — A month ago, Google lobbyist Katherine Oyama absorbed one of the more unusual congressional tongue-lashings in years when she appeared before a hearing of the House Judi…

By Michael Corkery

Cities and states would be required to release projections of cash flows and pension costs five years into the future under a proposed financial-reporting rule due to be released…

HSBC Holdings plc is a public limited company incorporated in England in 1990, and headquartered in London since 1993.

By Linda Sandler and Tiffany Kary

An HSBC Holdings Plc (HSBA) unit sued the MF…

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By Vincent Graff

Admittedly, it sounds like the most foolhardy of criminal capers, and one of the cheekiest, too.

Outside the police station in the small Victorian mill town of Todmorden, West Yor…

The Fed’s $29 Trillion Bail-out of Wall Street

By L. Randall Wray

Table 1- Cumulative facility totals, in billions

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U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron

By Gonzalo Vina and Rebecca Christie

Prime Minister David Cameron said Britain refused to sacrifice sovereignty to save the euro, remaining outside an agreement by …