San Francisco’s one-of-a-kind program puts nonviolent criminals to work for clean records.

By Caroline Cournoyer

In San Francisco, people accused of low-level, nonviolent crimes were sent to cri…

Top contractors dominate the market with billions in government business.

The Top 100 government contractors pulled in nearly $130 billion in prime contracts last year. We rank these companies bas…

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke called for more lending to people and small businesses in lower-income neighborhoods, saying they’ve been disproportionately hurt by the recession.

Many of the…

By Christian Reiermann

The debt crisis in Greece has taken on a dramatic new twist. Sources with information about the government’s actions have informed SPIEGEL ONLINE that Athens is considering w…

By Joe Weisenthal

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By Doug Palmer

Tens of billions of dollars of Chinese investment could flood into the United States in the next decade, creating a multitude of American jobs if officials do not succumb to a politi…

By Ivan Katz

The decision by the Philadelphia Orchestra Association to file for reorganization under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code may well turn out to be one of the most bone-headed business j…

By Rhodri Marsden

Need help producing your new album or financing a film? Just ask someone you’ve never met to stump up the cash. ‘Crowdfunding’ is taking the web by storm, says Rhodri Marsden

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By Joe Weisenthal

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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers exploded a large section of a Mississippi River levee Monday in a desperate attempt to protect an Illinois town from rising floodwaters.

The corps said the break in…

By Kevin Johnson

In the Justice Department’s ornate Great Hall, a space traditionally reserved for its most important functions, Attorney General Eric Holder stepped before staffers last week to ma…

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I thought I would post an old report made in 1996 from our Community Wizard databases. Rich place based data that facilitated re-engineering government investment by place were on …

After 18 consecutive short-term extensions dating back to 2007, last week the U.S. House of Representatives passed the first reauthorization of the Federal Aviation Administration since 2003. The FAA …

At TED

Washington Times (28 Apr 11) – A yearlong sting operation, including aliases, a 5 a.m. surprise inspection and surreptitious purchases from an Amish farm in Pennsylvania, culminated in the federal gov…

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Measure to Abolish North Dakota Property Taxes on Ballot
Inforum (29 Apr 11)

BISMARCK — A proposed constitutional amendment to abolish property taxes in North Dakota has been approved for the ballo…

Catherine Austin Fitts understanding of the global financial system and the inner workings of the Wall Street-Washington axis are unparalleled. As the former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Housing/Federa…

(Reuters) 28 Apr 2011 – Tornadoes and violent storms ripped through seven southern states, killing at least 284 people in the country’s deadliest series of twisters in nearly four decades.

The cluste…

Wall Street Journal (27 Apr 11) – The Federal Reserve used its first-ever news conference to signal it will phase out a controversial bond-buying program—and to reassure a skeptical public that the …

Obama to Nominate Panetta to Succeed Gates
American Forces Press Service (27 Apr 11)

WASHINGTON, April 27, 2011 – President Barack Obama intends to nominate CIA Director Leon E. Panetta as the next…

Clusterstock (28 Apr 2011)

HOUSTON, April 27 (Reuters) – Severe storms and tornadoes moving through the U.S. Southeast dealt a severe blow to the Tennessee Valley Authority on Wednesday, causing three nuclear reactors in Alabam…

The spying iPhone is no accident. A recent Apple patent application reveals that the location-tracking dossiers accumulated in iPhones are to be used in apps from Apple and any number of other compa…

Video about a project that is developing do-it-yourself versions of 50 essential machines for civilization, many of which are food and agriculture-oriented:

Factor E Farm Blog

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Futurists are inclined to predict a world in which AI (artificial intelligence) will take over a major portion of what is now human activity. In a matter of decades,…

Clusterstock (26 Apr 2011)

The U.S. Department of State is proposing a new Biographical Questionnaire for passport applicants. The proposed new Form DS-5513 asks for all addresses since birth; lifetime employment history includ…

Clusterstock (25 Apr 11)

I just finished Peter Dale Scott’s new book on the American military-industrial-intelligence establishment and its historical dependency on the global drug trade. This is essential reading for anyone …

Dead / Jailed /Missing Scientists & Individuals Affiliated With The BP Oil Disaster

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Press Conference at Concordia University, Montreal Canada
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By Jennifer Staman, Legislative Attorney
Congressional Research Service (31 Mar 11)

This report first provides a broad overview of state and local government finances and how these governments incorp…

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The Federal Reserve Board on Wednesday announced formal enforcement actions requiring 10 banking organizations to address a pattern of misconduct…

By Tom Foremski

It’s taken a decade but Silicon Valley companies have climbed out of dotcom dotbomb recession and reported their most profitable year in history.

The San Jose Mercury News report…

By Rady Ananda

Urges USDA to rescind approval of genetically engineered alfalfa: “In layman’s terms, it should be treated as an emergency.”

A plant pathologist experienced in protecting agai…

By Chris Lefkow

The White House unveiled a plan on Friday designed to boost confidence and business in cyberspace through the creation of a single, secure online credential.

“By making online tran…

By Charles Hugh Smith

The Con of the Decade, which I described last July, is being set up nicely.

I described The Con of the Decade last July (2010). The Con makes me a heretic in the cult religio…

If I were managing a pension fund, I wouldn’t get within a 50 mile radius of anyone from Goldman Sachs, or their spouses, or their kids, or their dogs.

~ Remaining Nameless (for obvious reasons)

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By Leo Kolivakis

If you missed CNN’s In The Arena on Thursday evening, then you missed the fireworks. Eliot Spitzer challenged investment banker Goldman Sachs: “Sue me. You lied to the public. You sh…

By Mary Childs

The cost to protect debt issued by Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS) jumped to a one-month high after the chairman of the Senate panel that investigated the financial crisis said the ban…

By James Herron

The world of investment bank research is more often defined by consensus rather than confrontation.

Radically conflicting opinions over the outlook for a particular company or comm…

The Official Atlas Shrugged Movie Trailer.
Atlas Shrugged Part 1 opens in theaters April 15th, 2011.

On Thursday, President Barack Obama signed into law the Comprehensive 1099 Taxpayer Protection and Repayment of Exchange Subsidy Overpayments Act of 2011 (HR 4; 1099 Act), which repeals both the exp…

How a Dozen Multinational Corporations Spent a Billion Dollars on Lobbying and Campaign Contributions and Avoided Paying Taxes

Twelve large American corporations have been identified by news report…

By Izabella Kaminska

International regulator conspiracy? Unfortunate coincidence for the ETF industry? Or are regulators finally on to something via the power of group think?

We ask because hot on…

By Gary Taubes

On May 26, 2009, Robert Lustig gave a lecture called “Sugar: The Bitter Truth,” which was posted on YouTube the following July. Since then, it has been viewed well over 800,000 t…

H.R.1489

Latest Title: To repeal certain provisions of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act and revive the separation between commercial banking and the securities business, in the manner provided in the Ban…

By Jackie Calmes

Washington — President Barack Obama will call this week for a broad plan to raise revenues and cut deficits, as the battle over fiscal issues moves past this weekend’s budget deal…

By Sarah Lacy

Thiel’s solution to opening the minds of those who can’t easily go to Harvard? Poke a small but solid hole in this Ivy League bubble by convincing some of the most talented kids t…

By Justin McCurry

Japan is to raise the nuclear alert level at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant to a maximum seven, putting the emergency on a par with the 1986 Chernobyl disaster.

Nuclear safety…

The Student Loan Scam: The Most Oppressive Debt in U.S. History – and How We Can Fight Back [Hardcover]
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