By Arthur Delaney

UPDATE: The White House announced Thursday afternoon that President Obama would not sign a bill that some consumer advocates worried would make it more difficult for homeowners to…

On June 30th, federal, state and local authorities raided Rawesome Foods in Venice, CA. The Colbert Report just did this piece about it.

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State should have power to block individual computers from connecting to world wide web, claims Charney.

By Paul Joseph Watson

A new proposal by a top Microsoft executive would open the door for g…

By Karl Denninger

It’s about damned time.

This is worth a read, even though it’s VERY long.  The bottom line is that all the Tickers I’ve written on this subject, from bad conveyances into REMICs, …

The mission of Project Censored is to teach students and the public about the role of a free press in a free society – and to tell the News That Didn’t Make the News and Why, About Project Censore…

By Margaret Cronin Fisk and Thom Weidlich

Citigroup Inc. and Ally Financial Inc. units were sued by homeowners in Kentucky for allegedly conspiring with Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc…

Defendants include Ameriquest Employees

Ameriquest filed a civil lawsuit alleging that the defendants fraudulently obtained approximately 75 properties in Kansas City, Missouri and its neighboring …

By David Streitfeld

The foreclosure machinery that has forced millions of Americans out of their homes is beginning to seize up as some lenders and their lawyers are accused of cutting corners in t…

By Ellen Brown
“Maybe this is like shock therapy. Maybe this will actually get the lenders to the table and encourage them to work out deals that are to the benefit of everybody.”
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By Peggy Noonan

In a recent trip to Omaha, Neb., I found a note prominently displayed in my hotel room warning of the possibility of “extreme weather” including “tornadic activity.” The clunky euph…

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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission may seek sanctions against two former State Street Corp. executives accused of misleading investors in a bond fund involved in a $313 million settlement w…

By Vincent Fernando

Total assets under management for U.S. emerging markets funds is now pretty close to the peak level it hit pre-crisis and what’s striking is how quickly money has come back.

Amer…

By Tyler Durden

Today’s latest chapter in what is now known as the new 3M: the Massive Mortgage Mess, is that Fidelity National has told lenders to halt foreclosures, and to stop sales of bank owne…

By Kara Scannell and Tom Lauricella

Regulators investigating the causes of the May 6 “flash crash” singled out a Midwestern mutual-fund company’s computer-driven trade as the catalyst that sent a s…

By Satyajit Das

Detox Cures

In the first half of 2010, angst about European sovereign debt receded and market volatility eased. In the second half of 2010, concerns about Greece, Ireland, Spain an…

By Karen Freifeld and David Mildenberg

Ambac Assurance Corp. sued Bank of America Corp. over $16.7 billion of mortgage-backed securities, saying the bank’s Countrywide Financial Corp. unit fraudu…

Ohio Secretary of State Brunner has sent a criminal referral to the US attorney general over ubiquitous mortgage fraud.

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By Lymari Morales

For the fourth straight year, the majority of Americans say they have little or no trust in the mass media to report the news fully, accurately, and fairly. The 57% who now say this…

Shares in Monsanto slumped by 10% on Tuesday amid talk that some of the group’s top-of-the-range corn seed, genetically modified to protect against insect pests, was delivering disappointing yields….

Global governance—the collective management of common problems at the international level—is at a critical juncture. Although global governance institutions have racked up many successes since …

The IRS deployed a new preparer tax identification number (PTIN) registration system Tuesday as a component of its initiative to register and regulate paid tax return preparers.

All paid tax return…

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By Shawn Tully

The housing crash not yet realized its full impact on budgets in the most vulnerable states. It’s the banking crisis all over again – and it’s time to stop ignoring it.

Meredith Wh…

By Tyler Durden

With each passing day, the revalations in mortgage-gate, which has for now implicated GMAC and JPMorgan in foreclosing on mortgages without titles, and will likely soon proceed thro…

By C. Powell

GATA’s freedom-of-information lawsuit against the Federal Reserve in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, an action seeking access to the Fed’s records involving gold and …

The Icelandic parliament, Althingi, just passed a parliamentary resolution with 33 votes against 30 to take former Prime Minister Geir H. Haarde to High Court (Landsdómur) on alleged negligence in …

By Gregory White

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By Jack Farchy Financial Times

Europe’s central banks have all but halted sales of their gold reserves, ending a run of large disposals each year for more than a decade.

The central banks of the…

By Heidi Blake

A space ambassador could be appointed by the United Nations to act as the first point of contact for aliens trying to communicate with Earth.

Mazlan Othman, a Malaysian astrophysicist…

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By Harriet Johnson Brackey

When Jason Grodensky bought his modest Fort Lauderdale home in December, he paid cash. But seven months later, he was surprised to learn that Bank of America had foreclos…

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Every good or service imported unnecessarily from outside your community means lost income, jobs, and taxes from the business that might have supplied these items local…

by Eric deCarbonnel

[You] will never know the difference if the toilet paper is 3/4″ narrower, right?

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By Pete Kennedy

More than ever S510 represents a major threat to the local food movement, states’ autonomy to regulate food, and the country’s ability to become self-sufficient in food producti…

By John Hooper

In unprecedented move, judge freezes €23m held in account at financial institution with close church links.

The head of the Vatican bank has formally been placed under investigati…

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By Joe Weisenthal

The US economy is frequently compared to Japan in the early days of its lost decade, but here’s one way it’s way different: the US is a much worse place to be a worker.

As this c…

By: David Gutierrez

he Mexican government is moving forward with plans to ban all junk foods from public school by the start of the coming school year, officials have announced.

“The kids are goin…

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By Dr. Arthur Evangelista, PhD

Food Safety Modernization Act of 2010, may be the most dangerous bill in the history of the US. It is to our food what the bailout was to our economy, only we can liv…

By Chris Dever

High-Fructose Corn Syrup – The Corn Refiners Association recently asked the FDA in the U.S. to allow high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) to be renamed ‘corn sugar’ for labelling purposes…

By: Robin Knight

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…

A gold dispensing ATM machine from Emirates Palace in Abu Dhabi

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U.S. household wealth fell by $1.5 trillion in the second quarter, according to Federal Reserve data on Friday that showed the strain a slow-paced recovery and high unemployment are putting on Ameri…

By Les Leopold

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…

US tax dollars at work.

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.

According to recently leaked docu…