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Record Corporate Profit Margins May Be Short-lived
By David Wilson
Continue reading U.S. Profit-Margin Outlook `Extremely Bad’: Chart of the Day
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Alex Jones Calls for Criminal Investigation of BP
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Continue reading Criminal Investigation of BP Staged Oil Spill Vital to Gulf Recovery
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Senator Kyl: Obama Holding Border Enforcement Hostage to Bargain with Republicans for Big Bill (National ID?)
Continue reading Jon Kyl Tells of Obama Holding US Security Hostage
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Meet BP’s New Legal Fixer
By Abby Phillip
When BP executives filed into the West Wing on Wednesday morning to meet with President Barack Obama, they were joined by at least one familiar Washington hand: former Clinton admin…
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Meet BP's New Legal Fixer
By Abby Phillip
When BP executives filed into the West Wing on Wednesday morning to meet with President Barack Obama, they were joined by at least one familiar Washington hand: former Clinton admin…
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Florida County Tells Feds “Stay Out of The Way!”
If you live in Okaloosa County, Florida, or Destin on Florida’s Emerald Coast and are wondering who’s going to be calling the shots if black crude oil comes ashore — wonder no more. It won’t be the…
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Florida County Tells Feds "Stay Out of The Way!"
If you live in Okaloosa County, Florida, or Destin on Florida’s Emerald Coast and are wondering who’s going to be calling the shots if black crude oil comes ashore — wonder no more. It won’t be the…
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The ‘Hearts and Minds’ of Operation Moshtarak
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The Icelandic Modern Media InitiativeIceland Parliament Votes For Strong Media Laws
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The 'Hearts and Minds' of Operation Moshtarak
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The Listening Post
The Icelandic Modern Media InitiativeIceland Parliament Votes For Strong Media Laws
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A Letter to Shareholders of SLV and GLD
By Restore Liberty
In response to fixing the obviously corrupt and broken global financial system and all of its products, we believe that the first step, even before the implementation of a new, s…
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China Announces Yuan’s Flexibility
By Michael Wei and Benjamin Kang Lim
China will gradually make the yuan’s exchange rate more flexible, the central bank said on Saturday a week before a G20 summit, strongly suggesting that it was …
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China Announces Yuan's Flexibility
By Michael Wei and Benjamin Kang Lim
China will gradually make the yuan’s exchange rate more flexible, the central bank said on Saturday a week before a G20 summit, strongly suggesting that it was …
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Here’s Why Politicians Are Falling Over Themselves To Skewer BP Right Now
By Vincent Fernando, CFA and Kamelia Angelova
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Here's Why Politicians Are Falling Over Themselves To Skewer BP Right Now
By Vincent Fernando, CFA and Kamelia Angelova
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Continue reading Here’s Why Politicians Are Falling Over Themselves To Skewer BP Right Now
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Where Americans Are Moving
By Jon Bruner
More than 10 million Americans moved from one county to another during 2008. The map below visualizes those moves. Click on any county to see comings and goings: black lines indicate ne…
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Congressman Paul Kanjorski on C-Span – Bailout
Congressman Paul Kanjorski (D-PA 11th District) responds to a caller on C-Span, who, struggling to support her family while earning fewer than ten dollars an hour, was questioning the unaccounted r…
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Simmons & Co. Has the Good Sense to Fire Matt Simmons
By Static Chaos
After busy making several outrageous comments regarding BP and the Gulf oil spill as recent as last evening, Matt Simmons abruptly announced today that he would retire from the board…
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Simmons & Co. Has the Good Sense to Fire Matt Simmons
By Static Chaos
After busy making several outrageous comments regarding BP and the Gulf oil spill as recent as last evening, Matt Simmons abruptly announced today that he would retire from the board…
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Free Raw Milk Food Safety Resources
By Jim Roberts
CHORE TIME-Part 1 from JIM ROBERTS on Vimeo.CHORE TIME-Part 2 from JIM ROBERTS on Vimeo.
Continue reading Free Raw Milk Food Safety Resources
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The Business of War & Space
By Vincent Fernando, CFA and Kamelia Angelova
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Continue reading America Industrial Output Is Breaking Record Highs In One Category
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The Business of War & Space
By Vincent Fernando, CFA and Kamelia Angelova
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Continue reading America Industrial Output Is Breaking Record Highs In One Category
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The Divisibility of US 90% Silver
By David Liechty
One of the many considerations to make in purchasing gold and silver is the divisibility of the coins you buy. With today’s gold prices at over $1,200 per ounce, a 1-ounce gold …
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The Essence of Solari
In the summer of 2006, Harry Blazer invited me to discuss the Solari investment model with him. We recorded our conversation, calling it The Essence of Solari.
When I worked in the first Bush Admini…
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Latest Coverage of Gulf Oil Spill
Scientists in Florida are concerned that large plumes of oil floating beneath the surface in the Gulf of Mexico originated from the Deepwater Horizon spill, and want to test their samples against oi…
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Tell Me About It!
Commander Adama:
“…I need some serious “out-of-the-box” thinking”
Kara Thrace aka Lieutenant Starbuck:
“Out of the box is where I live.”
From Battlestar Gallactica, The Hand of God
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Helping Young People to Plan For The Unthinkable
By Daisy Maxey
Here’s something most teens overlook as they get ready to head off for college: a last will and testament.
That’s the last thing, of course, any parent wants to think about. But som…
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Drones To Take To The Skies!
By Joan Lowy
Unmanned aircraft have proved their usefulness and reliability in the war zones of Afghanistan and Iraq. Now the pressure’s on to allow them in the skies over the United States.
The F…
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G-20 Toronto Summit 2010
The 2010 G-20 Toronto Summit is the fourth meeting of the G-20 heads of government in discussion of financial markets and the world economy which will take place at the Metro Toronto Convention Cent…
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San Francisco Passes Cellphone Radiation Law
By Jessey McKinley
Imposing roughly the same cautionary standards for cellphones as for fatty food or sugary soda, this city — never shy about its opinions — voted on Tuesday to require all retai…
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Owners Stop Paying Mortgages
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Continue reading Owners Stop Paying Mortgages, and Stop Fretting
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Quelle Surprise? Vast Mineral Riches in Afghanistan!
[CAF Note: This is proof positive that US Treasury bills and bonds are not subject to 10b-5 and other basic rules of financial disclosure and forward projection!]
By James Risen
The United States …
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Gold vs. Fixed Income
By Joe Weisenthal and Kamelia Angelova
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Continue reading Gold: The Safest Of The Safe Havens
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The World in Flags
Portugese magazine, Revista Grande Reportagem, ran a series of eight flag-related images in 2005 designed to provoke an awareness of life issues in different parts of the world.
Brazil
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IMF on International Monetary Stability
HOW DOES TODAY’S INTERNATIONAL MONETARY STABILITY COMPARE TO PREVIOUS ERAS AND SYSTEMS?
Overview
1. Gold standard. The modern history of the IMS starts with the shift from a bimetallic syst…
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State Plan Makes Fund Both Borrower and Lender
By Danny Hakim
Gov. David A. Paterson and legislative leaders have tentatively agreed to allow the state and municipalities to borrow nearly $6 billion to help them make their required annual payme…
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Europe’s Banks Face Second Funding Squeeze on Sovereign Crisis
By Gavin Finch and John Glover
European banks at risk of writedowns from the sovereign debt crisis face a funding squeeze that may depress earnings, curb lending and imperil economic recovery in th…
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Matt Simmons Spins a New Oil Slick
By Tyler Durden
Ever wonder who may have been buying up every share of BP stock earlier this week, especially when it plunged to 14 year lows on June 9 amid media frenzy based on a Fortune story in…
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The Spill, The Scandal and the President
By Tim Dickinson
On May 27th, more than a month into the worst environmental disaster in U.S. history, Barack Obama strode to the podium in the East Room of the White House. For weeks, the administ…
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Goldman Loses Popularity Contest
By Gregory White
Continue reading Guess Who’s Still Less Popular Than The Gulf Polluting BP
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Japan PM Naoto Kan Warns of 'Collapse' Under Debt Pile
Japan is at “risk of collapse” under its huge debt mountain, the country’s new prime minister has said.
Naoto Kan, in his first major speech since taking over, said Japan needed a financial restruc…
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Japan PM Naoto Kan Warns of ‘Collapse’ Under Debt Pile
Japan is at “risk of collapse” under its huge debt mountain, the country’s new prime minister has said.
Naoto Kan, in his first major speech since taking over, said Japan needed a financial restruc…
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Keiser Report – "Flash Stock Market Crash Was Blackmail"
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Continue reading On the Edge with David DeGraw & Economic Death Squad Leader, Timothy Geithner
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Keiser Report – “Flash Stock Market Crash Was Blackmail”
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Continue reading On the Edge with David DeGraw & Economic Death Squad Leader, Timothy Geithner
Video II
Video III
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Queen’s Official Birthday
The Queen’s Official Birthday (sometimes known as “the Queen’s Birthday”) is celebrated as a public holiday in several Commonwealth countries, usually Commonwealth realms, although it is also cele…
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Queen's Official Birthday
The Queen’s Official Birthday (sometimes known as “the Queen’s Birthday”) is celebrated as a public holiday in several Commonwealth countries, usually Commonwealth realms, although it is also cele…
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U.S. Fury at BP Stirs Backlash Among British
By Sarah Lyall and Julia Werdigier
Spewing oil and alienating Americans with its chief executive’s impolitic remarks, BP may be Public Enemy No. 1 in the United States. But in Britain, where the co…
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Record Inflows For Gold Funds
By Ruth Sullivan
Investors are taking flight to precious metals, particularly gold, as concerns grow about sovereign debt.
Worries over eurozone debt burden and fears of a possible resurgence of i…
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BP Oil Disaster Could Hit Europe Via the Powerful Gulf Stream Current
By: F William Engdahl
Market Oracle?Jun 10, 2010The Obama Administration and senior BP officials are frantically working not to stop the world’s worst oil disaster, but to hide the true extent o…
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1973 "Seagull" Proof Silver Dollar
1973 “Seagull” Proof Silver Dollar ~ Virgin Islands ~ This is a dollar or crown sized coin measuring 39mm diameter. It is made from .925 silver and weighs 25.1 grams. Mintage was 181,000 max.
Conti…
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1973 “Seagull” Proof Silver Dollar
1973 “Seagull” Proof Silver Dollar ~ Virgin Islands ~ This is a dollar or crown sized coin measuring 39mm diameter. It is made from .925 silver and weighs 25.1 grams. Mintage was 181,000 max.
Conti…
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Social Security to Negative Cash Flow
By Bruce Krasting
Continue reading Social Security Payouts Are Already Crippling The Government This Year
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Locate Cell Towers & Antennas
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Locate Cell Towers & Antennas
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Gulf Oil Spill to Drag Goldman Sachs Into Trading Scandal?
By John O’Sullivan
The oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico is allegedly linked to a Goldman Sachs mega sell off of its shares in BP energy conglomerate just days before.
As BP fails repeatedly in d…
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Jailed For Being In Debt
You committed no crime, but an officer is knocking on your door. More Minnesotans are surprised to find themselves being locked up over debts.
By Chris Serres and Glenn Howatt
As a sheriff’s deput…
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Happy Birthday, Scoop!
Another year older and another year wiser. Scoop is delighted to have reached the beginning of its 12th year of operations today. Our first ever post to the live website was made in the evening of T…
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Is U.S. Bank Collecting Illegal Interest Rates?
By Bob Lawless
When their customers have complained about an unexpected fee, credit card companies have pointed to the fine print in their credit card agreements. Now, a pro se litigant in Californ…
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Gulf Oil Spill – Company Update Lists
“The BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill is having a devastating impact on the environment and the economy of the Gulf Coast states and their communities. As one of the responsible parties for this event…
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New Natural Way to Starve Cancer and Obesity
By Dr. Mercola
William Li discusses a new way to think about treating cancer and other diseases — anti-angiogenesis, which means preventing the growth of blood vessels that feed a tumor. The cruci…
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Banks Are Lending Money Like Crazy To Single Borrower
Continue reading Banks Are Lending Money Like Crazy To Single Borrower
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Experiments In Torture
View (PDF) A White Paper by Physicians for Human Rights June 2010
PHR was founded in 1986 on the idea that health professionals, with their specialized skills, ethical commitments, and credible voi…
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Goldman Sachs Stung By Backlash in China
By: Jamil Anderlini
Public criticism of Goldman Sachs has come to China, where the investment bank has been lambasted in articles in state-controlled media.
Parts of the media, apparently embolden…
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Will the Current Dollar Move Be Like Its Last Double-Spike?
By Joe Weisenthal
In his latest note on comparisons between the current state of the economy and the Great Depression, Martin Armstrong provides a nice look at the dollar index between 1900-1950. Not…
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Bilderberg 2010: Why The Protesters Are Your Very Best Friends
The people who are being detained, searched and questioned are not playing some game. They are deadly serious, and they are worried to death.
Ivan was alone on the roundabout. He had been left in …
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Scientists Say Mobile Phones Responsible for the Disappearance of Honey Bee
The growing use of mobile telephones is behind the disappearance of honey bees and the collapse of their hives, scientists have claimed.
Their disappearance has caused alarm throughout Europe and N…
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Helen Thomas Resigns – Oh No!
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Morgan Stanley Shutting 300 Branch Offices
By Tyler Durden
We get a glimpse into the latest leading unemployment indicators courtesy of Fox Biz’ which notifies that Morgan Stanley in addition to previously reported job cuts, will also be shut…
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As China’s Wages Rise, Export Prices Could Follow
By David Barboza
The cost of doing business in China is going up.
Coastal factories are increasing hourly payments to workers. Local governments are raising minimum wage standards. And if China al…
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Catherine on BusinessMatters
Catherine Austin Fitts on BusinessMatters: May 28, 2010
The headlines tell us that new financial regulation is just around the corner but it feels like the same people who created the current crisis …
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The Profits of a Financial Coup
By Robert Lenzner
Focus hard on this shocking Wall Street reality: The top six bank holding companies earned an aggregate of $51 billion in pretax income in 2009. We’re talking about JPMorgan Chase…
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Alex Jones on Bilderberg 2010
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Continue reading Bilderberg 2010: Final List of Participants
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Mystery Crop Damage Threatens Hundreds Of Acres
By Shaun Chaiyabhat
FAST FACTS:
• Small dots appear to “burn” through leaves
• Area affected is along Tipton and Shelby County line
• Farmers afraid they may lose their entire crop(Memphis …
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Following The Trail of Debt
By Tyler Durden
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Continue reading On The Trail Of Europe’s “Mysterious” $2.6 Trillion In Toxic Debt
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US Total Government Debt Reaches 130% of GDP
Continue reading US Total Government Debt Reaches 130% of GDP
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Financial Revolving Doors
Organizations in the financial services sector have deployed at least 1,447 former federal employees to lobby Congress and federal agencies since the beginning of 2009, according to a joint analysi…
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Employment & Recessions
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Employment & Recessions
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Gulf Oil Spill Likely to Hit U.S. Atlantic Coast This Summer
Oil from the massive spill in the Gulf of Mexico is likely to extend along thousands of miles of the Atlantic coast and into the open ocean as early as this summer, according to a detailed computer …
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Estulin Unmasks Bilderberg Group in EU Parliament
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Ladies and gentlemen,
We are now in a position to change history. I finally believe that mankind has a future. A once demoralised population with no moral purpose is coming out …
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FBAR Forms Due June 30!
A Solari Report – Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts (FBAR) 2010
“NOTE: This article is intended only as a summary, is not complete and does not constitute individualized tax or legal advice. Inv…
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Oldie but Goodie: Let's Play 20 Questions!
Here is an article I published eight years ago. It reminds us that we should ask the question if the Greek bailouts are not just a series of infusions into banks that engaged in fraudulent inducement….
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Oldie but Goodie: Let’s Play 20 Questions!
Here is an article I published eight years ago. It reminds us that we should ask the question if the Greek bailouts are not just a series of infusions into banks that engaged in fraudulent inducement….
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No Secrets
Julian Assange’s mission for total transparency.
By Raffi Khatchadourian
The house on Grettisgata Street, in Reykjavik, is a century old, small and white, situated just a few streets from the No…
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Reinventing Your Home in Anchorage
Do you live in Alaska? Ready for your home to be reinvented for a more resilient future? Edible gardens means freedom from spending frustrating time in the grocery store trying to figure out what is…
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More Bad News On Housing
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More Than 40m Now Use Food Stamps
The number of Americans receiving food stamps in March topped 40 million for the first time as the jobless rate hovered near a 26-year high.
Recipients of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program …
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The Global Power Elite is Not That Strong!
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Continue reading The Global Power Elite is Not That Strong!
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Proposed Cell Tower in Hickory Valley
Invitation to Comment as a Consulting Party
Proposed Telecommunications Tower
Site Name: Hickory Valley
Site No.: HVTN-1
Address: 535 Lake Hardeman Road
Hickory Valley, Hardeman County, Tenness…
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Commodities’ Drop
By Millie Munshi and Elizabeth Campbell
The biggest slump in commodities since Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. collapsed is undermining Wall Street forecasts for accelerating economic growth and high…
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Gulf Oil Spill Will "Destroy South Louisiana"
By Geoffrey Lean
Oysters were broiling, softshell crabs frying, seafood gumbo simmering and spirits being obstinately kept up at the Plaquemines Parish annual seafood festival at the weekend. But t…
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Gulf Oil Spill Will “Destroy South Louisiana”
By Geoffrey Lean
Oysters were broiling, softshell crabs frying, seafood gumbo simmering and spirits being obstinately kept up at the Plaquemines Parish annual seafood festival at the weekend. But t…
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Stephen Wolfram: Computing a Theory of Everything
Continue reading Stephen Wolfram: Computing a Theory of Everything
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"When Will Euro Zone Fall?"
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By Stephen Fidler
Václav Klaus, president of the Czech Republic, has never been too worried about upsetting his European Union partners. He risks doing so again with a piece just writ…
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“When Will Euro Zone Fall?”
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By Stephen Fidler
Václav Klaus, president of the Czech Republic, has never been too worried about upsetting his European Union partners. He risks doing so again with a piece just writ…
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Debt = Imperial Power & Control
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Renaissance 2.0: Lesson 1 – Revisiting American History – Financial Empire
Renaissance 2.0: Lesson 3 – Revisiting Civics 101 – Ownership
Renaissance 2.0: Lesson 4 – The Culture of Empire
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Debt = Imperial Power & Control
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Renaissance 2.0: Lesson 1 – Revisiting American History – Financial Empire
Renaissance 2.0: Lesson 3 – Revisiting Civics 101 – Ownership
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“Whatever Works”
Whatever Works
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By Omar R. Valdimarsson
An Icelandic political group called the “Best Party” won Reykjavik’s municipality elections after a campaign in which it prom…