By Associated Press

Andrew Feustel, left, and John Grunsfeld work to upgrade the Hubble Space Telescope during a spacewalk, Monday, May 18, 2009.

The Atlantis astronauts plan to release the space t…

Rachel Maddow Interviews Eliot Spitzer Part One

Rachel Maddow Interviews Eliot Spitzer Part Two

Each year, Americans spend a whopping $39 billion on domestically grown marijuana, and another $7-10 billion on weed smuggled in from Canada. In short, untaxed and unregulated marijuana is America�…

Now that all the money is safely offshore, and the Countrywide mortgage operations are tucked into Bank of America, will Countrywide’s founder Angelo Mozilo be used as one of the whipping boys to te…

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By Jon Rappoport

I’ve been talking to a few people lately who are knowledgeable about the bailout at ground level. There are still many mysteries and half-baked plans in the works, but whatever sh…

This past February, the Dubai Chamber of Commerce authorized the development of a “free zone” dubbed Food City. GCLA, a green landscape architect firm, proposed a master plan for the city sector…

(Artwork: Mark Clifford)

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama declared Monday he would try to block the court-ordered release of photos showing U.S. troops abusing prisoners, abruptly reversin…

The state of Montana approved what commentators are dubbing a “revolutionary” new law earlier this month. The “Montana Firearms Freedom Act” is set to trigger a legal showdown between the fe…

Is the attack on “tax havens” an attack on corporate
abuses or an attack on privacy, freedom and capital
controls by another name? Is our model to force control
of capital and then send it to inside…

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A Center for Public Integrity Project

“The top subprime lenders whose loans are largely blamed for triggering the global economic meltdown were owned or backed by giant banks now collecting billion…

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Winslow Wheeler, Counterpunch – “For decades, the media have taken their descriptions of the size of the defense budget straight from the Pentagon’s annual press release – without even rudimentary d…

Although Governor Brad Henry vetoed similar legislation 10 days earlier, House members Monday again approved a resolution claiming Oklahoma’s sovereignty.

Unlike House Joint Resolution 1003, House …

Inspired by events in Afghanistan and rumblings about Iran, I described the correlation between the creation of the Federal Reserve and the creation of an illegal narcotics industry in the United Stat…

[Artist’s concept of Earth’s magnetic field. Credit: NASA]

Sun Often “Tears Out A Wall” In Earth’s Solar Storm Shield

Earth’s magnetic field, which shields our planet from particles streaming outwa…

This week is the U.S. Fire Administration’s Arson Awareness Week.

As a former Assistant Secretary of Housing, I want to assure you that the patterns of fires related to areas of significant mortgag…

New York Fed Chairman’s Ties to Goldman Raise Questions
Wall Street Journal (4 May 09)
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York shaped Washington’s response to the financial crisis late last year, which b…

Was the public disclosure of the bank stress tests delayed so Goldman Sachs could raise capital? Is national policy managed to serve one private investment group’s convenience? As the disclosure and…

As the US government disclosure continues to diminish and the government continues to refuse to find money missing from its coffers or explain why it has refused to produce audited financial stateme…

Oath Keepers is a non-partisan association of currently serving military, reserves, National Guard, peace officers, and veterans…Below is [their] declaration of orders [they} will NOT obey:

Oath Ke…

“The banks—hard to believe in a time when we’re facing a banking crisis that many of the banks created—are still the most powerful lobby on Capitol Hill. And they frankly own the place.”

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By James Turk, Editor
Freemarket Gold & Money Report (3 May 09)

“This week Bill Murphy and Chris Powell, co-founders of the Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee Inc. (www.gata.org), will be in Lond…

Project Camelot Interviews Joseph Farrell

The banks were secured and get 28 cents on the dollars back. The people who make real things, including the 38,500 employees who will lose their jobs, will not have that benefit.

Chrysler LLC’s T…

Key Cog in South, Silverton Bank Fails
Wall Street Journal (2 May 09)

Excerpt: Federal regulators were “not sympathetic” to the argument that a Silverton failure had to be averted, Mr. Moeling said. …

By Matt Apuzzo And Carolyn Thompson, Associated Press Writers Sun May 3, 1:45 pm ET

WASHINGTON – Jack Kemp, the former pro quarterback who turned fame on the gridiron into a career in national po…

Blast From the Past
ForexHound (27 Apr 09)

Excerpt: Nicholas Brady, former Secretary of the Treasury during the Reagan and Bush I administrations, gave a speech (below) at a dinner in his honor celeb…

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Novavax (NVAX) Up 25% on Flu

Swine Flu Propaganda – 1976
A YouTube Video

Novavax (NVAX) Up 25% on Flu
Catherine Austin Fitts Blog

Now that the 5th Summit of the Americas is over, we would like to point out that there is no interest in renegotiating or reopening NAFTA.

No need to renegotiate NAFTA to improve it: USTR
Reuters….

Food stamp programs in the US (including by state government in Florida and Tennessee) have been outsourced to a JP Morgan operation in India.
abcNews (29 Apr 2009)

If you want to read the story of…

Significant intervention in the banking system and economy with the ‘strong dollar policy’ and various forms of government credit and subsidies has paid some of us extraordinary amounts of money to …

It would appear that AIG is selling everything but it’s black budget operations, which the government will then essentially own. Sounds a bit circular to us but that is how document management on very…

Friedman argues America’s power on the world stage will actually increase in the 21st Century for three major reason:

The immense size of the U.S. economy: The current crisis is painful and America’…

Novavax Annual Proxy

Novavax Lead Investors

The Unknown Knowns
Albert Bates

PRUDEN: A Pandemic of Panic — Are We Dead Yet?
Washington Times (28 Apr 09)

The Swine Flu Pandemic—Fact or Fictio…

In Mercer Consultings annual Quality of Living Survey, Europe once again dominates the list of 215 countries around the world. The top three cities are, by rank, Vienna, Zurich (last years winner), …

Click here for “official story”
Wall Street Journal (28 Apr 09)

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By Joan Pryde, Senior Tax Editor, the Kiplinger letters

“But there may be a silver lining, at least for big corporations: Congress will consider lowering the 35% top corporate tax rate by several per…

Quarterly Report to Congress from SIGTARP: Office of the Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) is now available.

More than a decade ago, Mary Seton Corboy and her partner, Tom Sereduk, transformed a toxic industrial site into a thriving 1-acre urban farm.

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PLEASE help me find the President’s Working Group on Financial Markets. The Working Group, which is also affectionately known as the “Plunge Protection Team,” was a favorite of former Treasur…

As part of $6.9 Billion “Build America” Bond Issue, California Issues Taxable Bonds to Fund Stem Cell Research.

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The wonderfully talented American playwright Lynn Nottage has won this year’s Pulitzer Prize in Drama—the play explores the systematic destruction of the local community through the rapes of the w…

Reports: Freddie Mac official found dead

Wednesday April 22, 2009
WASHINGTON (AP) — David Kellermann, the acting chief financial officer of Freddie Mac, was found dead at his home Wednesday morning …

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“Since Obama took charge he has not shown us that anything will change.”
– Guantanamo captive Mohammad el Gharani

Excerpt:

Gharani, now 21, has been held at Guantanamo for seven years. He was order…

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Vets Ponder What Killed 21 Ponies at U.S. Open Polo Championship
Daily News (21 April 09)

Army: 3 Vials of Virus Samples Missing From Maryland Facility
CNN.com/US (22 April 09)

Scrut…

NetAge OrgScope provides a tool for mapping trees and networks for collaboration.

The host of this workshop is a personal friend of mine. If you are in the Ashland area, you might want to take it in.

It’s springtime! And I urge everyone everywhere to search out the many activiti…

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Two (unrelated) headlines appeared next to each other on Yahoo today:

White House Will Not Prosecute CIA Officials for Waterboarding
Yahoo.com (16 Apr 09)

Not On the Menu: Pizza Workers Charged in P…

47 year old Susan Boyle wows the judges with her performance in the auditions for Britains Got Talent, singing “I Dreamed a Dream” from Les Miserables.

Susan Boyle – Singer – Britains Got Talent 200…

Goldman Sachs is very much in the news.  The most astute comment on Goldman these days comes from a taxi driver in Kuala Lumpur:
“Why does Goldman Sachs run your government? What’s wrong with A…

GATA Renews Requests to Treasury, Fed for Gold Data

Responding to President Obama’s instruction to government agencies of January 21 this year, seeking greater openness in government, GATA today re…

“I believe that our federal government has become oppressive in its size, its intrusion into the lives of our citizens, and its interference with the affairs of our state,” Gov. Perry said. “T…

YouTube(16 March 09)

From dog-walking to rubbish clearance, civic-minded Estonians can now draw on a virtual Bank of Happiness which trades in good deeds. Anjana Ahuja reports from Tallinn

On one level, it was just a…

“The lack of sunspots in 2008, made it a century-level year in terms of solar quiet. Remarkably, sunspot counts for 2009 have dropped even lower. As of March 31st, there were no sunspots on 78 of t…

YouTube Video
Ask ‘But Why?’ (11 April 09)

Morgan Keegan defended itself today against the NY Times report which we commented on yesterday, titled Liquidating Thy Neighbor – Part I.

I do agree with Morgan Keegan’s spokesman that this was …

While the wheels of state bureaucracy grind away on how to use stimulus funds and how much of those funds to accept, some communities are taking matters into their own hands.

According to the “Advers…

LEWISBURG, Tenn. — Five years ago, this small factory town was struggling to pay the interest on a bond for new sewers. Bob Phillips, Lewisburg’s part-time mayor and full-time pharmacist, was ur…

In my segment on Flashpoints Radio with Dennis Bernstein. April 8, 2009, I address real levels of unemployent and describe why the financial fraud is not limited to Washington and Wall Street – fraudu…

YouTube (05 April 09)

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Electromagnetic Pulse from Wikipedia

View the full article at USA Today . . .

A four part video series at YouTube

The 10×10 website

“Every hour, 10×10 scans the RSS feeds of several leading international news sources, and performs an elaborate process of weighted linguistic analysis on the text contained in th…

This in this morning:

“My construction friend said he talked to two separate people who had been to Chernobyl recently and asked how things were there. They both separately said concrete is constan…

Fungi Perfecti (fun ji’ per fect’ i)
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From Shadow Government Statistics ~ John Williams

“A former quantitative analyst at Harvard Management Company, the university’s once-vaunted endowment manager, tells the Harvard Crimson she was fired for voicing concern to then-university president …

“Should President Obama have the power to shut down domestic Internet traffic during a state of emergency?

Senators John Rockefeller (D-W. Va.) and Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) think so. On Wednesday th…

Hyperinflation Special Report
Shadow Government Statistics (8 Apr 08)

Excerpt: “Howard J. Ruff, who has been writing about these problems and issues since Nixon closed the Gold window, rightly argu…

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