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Debt = Imperial Power & Control
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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…

Latest GMO Research Findings
Continue reading Warning: This Common Food Causes Devastating Offspring Defects in New Research Study

“Top Kill” Plan Fails
As the latest attempt to stop the Gulf spill fails, a tide of anger is swamping the oil giant
BP acknowledged last night that its latest attempt to plug the leaking Gulf of Mexico oil well had fail…

Bilderberg 2010 Agenda Leaked
According to the documents—which Daniel Estulin obtained from his sources inside the secretive group—issues to be discussed in this year’s formal deliberations are:
1. Will the Euro Survive?
2….

Banks Write Down Losses Against Government Gifts
By Jon Markham
Das believes the central problem is that governments have already spentmore than $1 trillion in taxpayer-generated and borrowed funds but arenot getting as much bang for their buck as …

Notes from the Fields
Just in from a member of the network who works in a farming community:
BTW, Monsanto et. al. have stepped up their surveillance and prosecution of farmers who reuse genetically modified seed rather t…

Afghans Believe US is Funding Taliban
By Daniella Peled
It’s near-impossible to find anyone in Afghanistan who doesn’t believe the US are funding the Taliban: and it’s the highly educated Afghan professionals, those employed by ISAF, U…

Dollar index
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Recession’s Toll on Black Wealth
By Michael Powell
For two decades, Tyrone Banks was one of many African-Americans who saw his economic prospects brightening in this Mississippi River city.
A single father, he worked for FedEx an…

HUD’s Plan to Privatize Public Housing
By Lynda Carson
Public housing is home to approximately 3 million seniors, low-income families and people with disabilities.
Public housing is under attack locally and across the nation by corporate…

HUD's Plan to Privatize Public Housing
By Lynda Carson
Public housing is home to approximately 3 million seniors, low-income families and people with disabilities.
Public housing is under attack locally and across the nation by corporate…

The Bond Market Has Completely Given Up On Bernanke Exiting From Stimulus
By Vincent Fernando, CFA and Kamelia Angelova
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Rappoport Interviews Fitts
Jon Rappoport interviews Catherine Austin Fitts
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Kyrgyzstan as a Geopolitical Pivot in Great Power Rivalries
By F.William Engdahl
The remote Central Asian country of Kyrgyzstan is what Britain’s Halford Mackinder might call a geopolitical ‘pivot’—a land that, owing to its geographical characterist…

Stable Money is The Key to Recovery
By Judy Shelton
Tomorrow’s “Summit on Financial Markets and the World Economy” in Washington will have a stellar cast. Leaders of the Group of 20 industrialized and emerging nations will be there, in…

Kenneth Starr Charged With Fraud
NEW YORK — Prosecutors on Thursday charged a financial adviser who has worked for Wesley Snipes, Sylvester Stallone and Martin Scorsese with stealing $30 million from clients and accused a former ci…

Rainwater Harvesting
Brad Lancaster, rainwater harvesting expert and Permaculture designer talks about how to plant the rain, water harvesting earth works, and his seminal books,
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Hugh Hendry: “I Would Recommend You Panic”
“Let’s purge this system of its rottenness. Let’s take on a recession. It’s going to be tough, people are gonna lose their jobs. They are going to lose their jobs anyway. We can spread this over 20 …

Hugh Hendry: "I Would Recommend You Panic"
“Let’s purge this system of its rottenness. Let’s take on a recession. It’s going to be tough, people are gonna lose their jobs. They are going to lose their jobs anyway. We can spread this over 20 …

The Summit on Entrepreneurship and Expeditionary Economics
The Summit on Entrepreneurship and Expeditionary Economics will engage leading scholars, thinkers, and practitioners of economics, counterinsurgency, and stability operations to present and …

What Happens When You Shut Off Capital to Small Business
By Vincent Fernando, CFA and Kamelia Angelova
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When the Top Caves In
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By Sam Smith
What corporate America wanted was nothing less than the Third Worlding of the US, a collapse of both present reality and future…

The Rats Turn on One Another
By Tyler Durden – ZeroHedge
In October of last year we wrote an extended piece discussing the conflict between the bankrupt Lehman Brothers estate (i.e., its unsecured creditors) and Barclays, in w…

Is Gold the Next Bubble?
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Italy to Ban Cash Transactions Over 5,000 Euros
By Giuseppe Fonte
A deficit cutting package due to be approved by Italy on Tuesday will ban cash transactions for more than 5,000 euros ($6,188) in an effort to crack down on tax evasion, a governm…

63% Favor Repeal of Health Care Bill
Support for repeal of the new national health care plan has jumped to its highest level ever. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 63% of U.S. voters now favor repeal of the …

Fed and Treasury Profits on US Mortgage Market Takeover
By Joshua Zumbrun and Craig Torres
The Federal Reserve will probably transfer record earnings exceeding $70 billion to the U.S. Treasury Department this year on income from assets including mortgag…

Star Eating a Planet
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NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has observed a planet being eaten by its parent star. For a minute, that sounds like a throwback to Greek mytholog…

Gold Derivatives: GLD and Ass Backwardation
Analyzing the semi-annual report on gold derivatives published by the Bank for International Settlements, Golden Sextant Internet site proprietor Reg Howe finds evidence that the gold exchange-traded …

Angels (Back) in America
Dodd spares start-up financiers.
By WSJ Editors
We take our policy victories wherever we can get them amid Washington’s march to Europe-dom, so we’re pleased to report that the Senate finance reform…

HUD Mortgage Fraud
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Watching Too Much Television (Episode 46)
After four months of incarceration, Paulie is released,…

Connecting Vaccines with Autism Costs Doctor License in UK
By Jeanne Whalen
A U.K. medical regulator revoked the license of the doctor who first suggested a link between vaccines and autism and spurred a long-running, heated debate over the safety of vacci…

Launch of Secret US Space Ship (Keeping the US Dollar Up?)
Michael Evans, Pentagon Correspondent
Somewhere above earth is America’s latest spaceship, a 30ft craft so classified that the Pentagon will not divulge its mission nor how much it cost to build….

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“What in the World are They Spraying?”
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Accredited Investor Change: Shifting $ from Main Street to Wall Street
One of the surprises in the Restoring American Financial Stability Act of 2010 is that it proposes to raise the standard for being an accredited investor. Section 412 of the bill would require the S…

A Solari Report – Financial Reform Bill Update
Amended title:
“A bill to promote the financial stability of the United States by improving accountability and transparency in the financial system, to end “too big to fail”, to protect the America…

Scientists Create Synthetic Organism
By Robert Lee Hotz
Heralding a potential new era in biology, scientists for the first time have created a synthetic cell, completely controlled by man-made genetic instructions, researchers at the …



White House Opposes the First Amendment
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Europe: The Attack on People Continues
By Steven Erlanger
Across Western Europe, the “lifestyle superpower,” the assumptions and gains of a lifetime are suddenly in doubt. The deficit crisis that threatens the euro has also undermined…



The iPad is a Game Changer
My prediction is that the iPad is going to revolutionize communication and media. I’m soon heading to the Apple Store in Memphis to get one so I can learn more.
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Three Critical Innovation Lessons from Apple
By Scott Anthony
It was September, 2005. I was fresh off of a workshop with a media company where the company’s CEO noted, “Trees don’t grow to the sky forever.” The company’s core business was str…

Another Census Story
By Catherine Austin Fitts
A census worker came to my house. He was a lovely, intelligent Southern gentlemen. I explained that I was not participating other than to inform him of the number of people …

A Census Story
By George McClure
19 may 2010 – More Census The phone has rung at all times of day and night – from 9:30 am (office line) to 2:30 am (private number), from a local number 615 596 3422. The number c…

The Wall Street ICEcapade
By Lucy Komisar
As I write this, the U.S. Senate is debating a major financial reform bill in which the credit default swap, a kind of derivative, plays a significant part. An amendment to that bill…

Global Stock Markets Priced in Gold: Brazil +, Bombay +, Everybody Else –
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Gold Dinar A Trade Instrument
By Amer Hamzah Md Sap
Members of the World Islamic Economic Forum (WIEF) have been asked to support former Malaysian Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad’s call to consider gold dinar as a trade …

The Stock Market Glitch
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Obama Starts Massive US Air-Sea-Marine Build-up Opposite Iran
DEBKAfile’s military sources report a decision by the Obama administration to boost US military strength in the Mediterranean and Persian Gulf regions in the short term with an extra air and naval s…

A Look at Kidnapping Through the Lens of Protective Intelligence
By Scott Stewart
Looking at the world from a protective-intelligence perspective, the theme for the past week has not been improvised explosive devices or potential mass-casualty attacks. While th…

The Unbelievable Expectations of California's Pension System
By David Crane
Because Calpers failed to disclose pension costs and liabilities 10 years ago, taxpayers will be on the hook for hundreds of billions.
In 1999 then California Governor Gray Davis sign…

The Unbelievable Expectations of California’s Pension System
By David Crane
Because Calpers failed to disclose pension costs and liabilities 10 years ago, taxpayers will be on the hook for hundreds of billions.
In 1999 then California Governor Gray Davis sign…

Republican’s Block Financial Bill
By Alison Vekshin and Phil Mattingly
U.S. Senate Democrats failed to move toward a final vote on the financial-regulation bill amid resistance from both parties on parts of the sweeping overhaul of…

Republican's Block Financial Bill
By Alison Vekshin and Phil Mattingly
U.S. Senate Democrats failed to move toward a final vote on the financial-regulation bill amid resistance from both parties on parts of the sweeping overhaul of…

Investors Should Avoid Banks ‘At All Costs’
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Investors Should Avoid Banks 'At All Costs'
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University of Illinois – English Majors- Commencement Address 2010
Dan Whaley
May 15, 2010, Foellinger Auditorium
Thank you Curtis—administrators, esteemed professors, guests, parents… and thank you, Class of 2010.
Go ahead . . . make some noise!
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Libor Dispersion Surges
By Tyler Durden
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Clients Worried About Goldman’s Dueling Goals
By Gretchen Morgenson and Louise Story
“Questions have been raised that go to the heart of this institution’s most fundamental value: how we treat our clients.”
— Lloyd C. Blankfein, Goldman…

US Coast Guard Works for BP
Kelly Cobiella reports that a CBS News team was threatened with arrest by Coast Guard officials in the Gulf of Mexico who said they were acting under the authority of British Petroleum.
US Coast Gu…

Rescuing Banks and Rich Greeks
Formal German Central Bank Head Pöhl:
It [Greek Bailout] was about protecting German banks, but especially the French banks, from debt write offs. On the day that the rescue package was agreed on,…

Alea Iacta Est (The Die is Cast)
By Egon von Greyerz, Matterhorn Asset Management
Already back in 2007 we warned about the very high risk of the CDS (credit default swap) market. This is now one of the primary instruments used by th…

Goldman Sachs’ Big Round Trip
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Germany Bans Naked Short-Selling
By Alan Crawford and Shannon D. Harrington
Germany prohibited naked short- selling and speculating on European government bonds with credit-default swaps in an effort to calm the region’s financi…

Congress Blocks Indiscriminate IMF Aid For Europe
By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
Europe may have to clean up its own mess after all. The US Senate has voted 94:0 to block use of taxpayers’ money for IMF rescues that make no economic sense or bail-ou…

Greeks Today, Us Tomorrow?
I have gotten several questions asking me to explain what is happening in Greece and what it means to us. Greece is being harvested. This is a global game and it has been going on for some time.
In 2…

Shadowstats – Money Supply Decline
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Housing Permits January 1959 To April 2010
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Copper Price Decline
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Did you see what Facebook is trying to do?
Facebook recently made a number of changes to its privacy policy that make your profile information public – even if you thought it wasn’t. Many people aren’t even aware of these changes. So we (Mov…


The Dangers of Cell Tower and Cell Phones
Confidential Report On TETRA Strictly For The Police Federation Of England and Wales
What is all this really about?
Imagine the field around a magnet and imagine ordinary everyday static electrici…

Desert To Farmland
Gulf nations hope science will turn desert areas into arable land to boost food security and avoid the risks inherent in buying farmland abroad, industry insiders said Monday.
Farming in the Gulf b…

Haitian Farmers Commit to Burning Monsanto Hybrid Seeds
“A new earthquake” is what peasant farmer leader Chavannes Jean-Baptiste of the Peasant Movement of Papay (MPP) called the news that Monsanto will be donating 60,000 seed sacks (475 tons) of hyb…

Fresh Water
I watched two documentaries this weekend about the growing challenges of our fresh water supply.
This is a very important topic, one that is hidden behind many of the squabbles going on in communit…

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Hundreds Protest Outside Bankers' Houses In DC
Huge raucous crowds converged outside bank employees’ houses on Sunday afternoon to demand banks stop lobbying against Wall Street reform.
“Bank of America: bad for America!” shouted community lead…

Hundreds Protest Outside Bankers’ Houses In DC
Huge raucous crowds converged outside bank employees’ houses on Sunday afternoon to demand banks stop lobbying against Wall Street reform.
“Bank of America: bad for America!” shouted community lead…

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Evans-Pritchard: Britain & EU
By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
Just when you thought the EU could not go any further down the road towards authoritarian excess, it gets worse.
The outcome – un véritable gouvernement économique …

Evans-Pritchard: Britain & EU
By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
Just when you thought the EU could not go any further down the road towards authoritarian excess, it gets worse.
The outcome – un véritable gouvernement économique …

Gold Bull Market Perspective
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Germans Buying Gold
By Jack Farchy
At the Rand refinery in South Africa, the phone has not stopped ringing this week. Panicking German dealers and banks have been desperate to get their hands on krugerrands, the world…

SRI Demands on Goldman
By Robert Kropp
The impact on investors of the business operations of corporations has been receiving unprecedented attention lately, in the aftermath of charges by the Securities and Exchange Commis…

Complete Idiot’s Guide to 2012
By ND, Dr. Synthia Andrews, Colin Andrews
I have tried on numerous occasions to sort out what the hullabaloo about 2012 is all about. A few months ago, I spent several hours in the jacuzzi reading …

Complete Idiot's Guide to 2012
By ND, Dr. Synthia Andrews, Colin Andrews
I have tried on numerous occasions to sort out what the hullabaloo about 2012 is all about. A few months ago, I spent several hours in the jacuzzi reading …

China May Expand Yuan Settlement to 18 More Provinces
China plans to expand settlements of international trade using yuan to as many as 18 more provinces and cities to meet rising demand from companies, two bankers involved in the program said.
Cross-…

Clinton: Timing Of Goldman Sachs Suit Is “Suspect”
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I think there’s a bigger problem here, which is that too much …

Clinton: Timing Of Goldman Sachs Suit Is "Suspect"
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Clinton: … [comments on Goldman Sachs/SEC lawsuit]
I think there’s a bigger problem here, which is that too much …

Rigged-Market Theory Scores a Perfect Quarter
By Jonathan Weil
Score another triumph for the rigged- market theory.
In a feat that would seem to defy the odds, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America this week each said its trading de…

Four Nerds and a Cry to Arms Against Facebook
By Jim Dwyer
How angry is the world at Facebook for devouring every morsel of personal information we are willing to feed it?
A few months back, four geeky college students, living on pizza in a c…

Two Wise American Farmers Are Right – Hay Should Begin To Move To The Gulf Immediately
By Jeff Rense
The two wise American farmers who presented their hay solution to dealing with the massive, burgeoning Gulf of Mexico oil slick are right on the money.
It’s doubtful they remember, b…