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The UK’s tax collection agency is putting forth a proposal that all employers send employee paychecks to the government, after which the government would deduct what it deems as th…

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How dare we ask such questions! How dare we consider targeting them for special taxes? How dare we even think about redistributing THEIR incomes… even if at the moment much of thei…

DN! Gathered here in Bonn this week are some 80 Right Livelihood Award laureates, including the Canadian farmer Percy Schmeiser who has battled the biotech giant Monsanto for years. When Monsanto se…

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The US Department of Homeland Security has been spying on people who don’t like gas drilling and handing on the data to the oil companies.

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An Evening with Chris Martenson
Thursday Sept. 23, 2010
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The Senate on Thursday passed the Creating Small Business Jobs Act of 2010 (part of the Small Business Jobs and Credit Act, HR 5297) by a vote of 61–38, and sent it back to the House of Representa…

Growing an Already Disjointed and Duplicative Federal Government

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Majority Leader Harry Reid said Thursday the Senate will not take up long-pending food safety legislation before the Nov. 2 elections, citing a Republican senator’s objections.

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For those who have long argued that smoking marijuana should not be a crime, a potentially historic turning point is just weeks away.

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BOSTON (TheStreet) — The “automatic” IRA may be on the way.

A bill filed by U.S. senators Jeff Bingaman (D-New Mexico) and John Kerry (D-Mass.) would automatically enroll most U.S. workers in indi…

The U. S. Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) and the Department of the Treasury today announced a joint public hearing on Sept. 14, 2010, and if necessary on Sept. …

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I am not sure why the IMF was surprised. The world jobs crisis was intentionally engineer…

Queen of The Sun creatively explores the global bee crisis as a catalyst for culture shift. We highlight unsung heroes from past and present, from poets and philosophers, to scientists and biodynami…

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What you see above isn’t a rural gravel road. It’s a Louisiana waterway, its surface completely covered with dead sea life — a mishmash of species of fish, crabs, stingray a…

In earlier times, it was easier to control a million people than physically to kill a million people.
Today it is infinitely easier to kill a million people than to control a million people.

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Blackwater author Jeremy Scahill reveals in The Nation new evidence about the connection between the security firm and a host of companies, from Disney to Monsanto. Says Scahill: …

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The American aristocracy is less different from you and me than it was in Fitzgerald’s day. “Before World War II,” they wrote, “the richest Americans were overwhel…

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You watched Food, Inc. with your mouth aghast. You own a few cookbooks.

You go out to that hot new restaurant with the tattooed chef who’s putting on a whole-animal, nose-…

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New bank capital requirements agreed by global regulators brought relief to Asia’s financial sector on Monday as fears that lenders might be forced into fresh capital raising we…

Homeowners in Illinois are almost evenly divided on whether the value of their home is worth more than their mortgage, and they are not very optimistic about their home values in the near future.

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This is the movie that Pepsi and Coca Cola don’t want you to see.

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Our Sweet Water Tilapia are ready for you! This one and only batch is available for public purchase at three open house fish sales.

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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…

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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…

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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 …

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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 …

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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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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.

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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…

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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…

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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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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…

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

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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…

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The Case for Reforming U.S. Emergency Health Laws

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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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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…

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

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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…

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