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By Jon Rappoport

January 30, 2011. It’s a grim party. People in the streets, riots, police, soldiers, and nobody seems exactly sure what it’s for.

Take your choice: kick out the dictators; new…

By Robert Kuttner

Once again, the job numbers are dismal. In January, the U.S. economy created just 36,000 domestic jobs, far below the roughly 145,000 that economists had forecast. The unemploymen…

Assets are in billions as of Sept. 30.

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By Martha Stewart

As a professional cook, cookbook author and teacher, I have a noticed a shift in the role that food plays in our lives and in our culture. Food has become more than one of life’s…

By Better Health Guy

In a world that is full of harmful electromagnetic fields, how to evaluate these issues and what to do about them is often elusive to most of us.

In this blog post, I’ll provi…

By Darlene Heckman

Virtually all of your electronics are sucking up energy even if they’re turned off or not being used. Some of the biggest culprits include your TV, computer, and printer. Even yo…

By Nick Timiraos

More than two years after the government seized Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the Obama administration will recommend phasing out the housing-finance giants and gradually reducing th…

By Joe Weisenthal

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By Daniel Tencer

In what will likely be seen as something of a Freudian slip by the US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton said recently in a Mexican news interview that the United States cannot le…

By Joe Weisenthal

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By Ashland Current

U.S. Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) today took to the floor of the House to oppose the effort to reauthorize expiring provisions of the PATRIOT Act, which ultimately failed…

By Jeffrey Jones and Farah Master

PetroChina is purchasing half of a prolific shale gas project from Canada’s Encana Corp for C$5.4 billion ($5.4 billion), marking the largest Chinese investment ye…

We Declare:

That the political, legal, and economic systems of the United States allow, in each generation, an elite few to impose policy and governing decisions that threaten the very survival of …

By Mary Bottari, Bankster USA

Earnings and bonus reports are rolling in and the big, bailed-out banks are back in the black. In 2010, total compensation and benefits at publicly traded Wall Street …

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REBUILDING YOUR LOCAL ECONOMY
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By Joe Weisenthal

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By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard

The bee crisis has been treated as a niche concern until now, but as the UN’s index of food prices hits an all time-high, it is becoming urgent to know whether the plight…

The Chrysler 200 has arrived. Imported from Detroit.

By Los Angeles Times

New job figures released Friday might have been more meager than most economists had expected, but at least one set of numbers made some people happy. That’s because the Bureau…

By Robert Gehrke

Rep. Bill Wright, as he puts it, “grew up in the dirt,” raising dairy cattle since he was a boy.
But now he fears farming is in jeopardy, threatened by the heavy hand of federa…

By Court Skinner

I’m just getting started in a new, at least to me, software for keeping track of money. The software is the open source, GnuCash, which is available for download here http://www.gn…

From a Subscriber:

Hi Catherine,

I trust you are well. I’m still enjoying and very much impressed by your weekly Solari Reports, guests, and the Solari blog. Your perception, level head and lack of …

By KT Arasu

U.S. grain prices should stay unrelentingly high this year, according to a Reuters poll, the latest sign that the era of cheap food has come to an end.

U.S. corn, soybeans and wheat pr…

What happens when you point the Hubble Space Telescope to a seemingly blank patch of sky? A view that takes you to the edge of the universe!

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By Joe Weisenthal

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Tuesday, senior S&L regulator William K. Black slammed the FCIC for failing to call out fraud. As told the Real News:

• The Commission was unwilling to use the “F” word (“fraud”)
• “They’ve d…

By Joe Weisenthal

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Genetic Engineering in The Magnetic Field of Money

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By C. Powell

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

The Federal Reserve can keep secret most of the gold documents at issue in GATA’s freedom-of-information lawsuit against it, a federal judge ruled today….

By Paul Ferguson

A junior mining company I’ve followed for years recently announced that they were raising money.  The initial response from some investors was to cry “Dilution!”.  Virtually all mi…

Straight Talk

By Adam

This week’s Straight Talk contributor is Catherine Austin Fitts: investment advisor and entrepreneur. She is the founder of Solari, where she offers subscribers guidance fo…

There is complexity because the artist, the writer, doesn’t know why he or she is doing the work. That complexity results from a lack of clarity.

There is complexity because the creator of the work…

By Jason Fell

On the heels of President Barack Obama’s big State of the Union address last week, during which he talked up the vital role of entrepreneurs in the recovery of the U.S. economy, the Whi…

By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard

Political risk has returned with a vengeance. The first food revolutions of our Malthusian era have exposed the weak grip of authoritarian regimes in poor countries that …

Iceland’s special prosecutor into the banking crisis has confirmed that raids have taken place today and that arrests have been made. The Central Bank of Iceland is among the institutions under i…

President’s Speech Offers Hope for Some Relief; Exceptions for Rental Income Reporting Remain Vague

For small businesses that were dreading the thought of having to produce a Form 1099 for every pa…

Here’s your list of 60+ of the recent animal die-offs.  I didn’t include the honeybees, earthworms, or most insect life, as they’re a subject all by themselves.  I also skipped most frog die-offs. …

The European Food Safety Authority has launched a public consultation on its draft guidance document for engineered nanomaterial (ENM) applications in food and feed.

The guidance document, prepared…

Let’s spread the word: Wetiko

By Paul Levy

In the first part of this series, we contemplated the idea of a psycho-spiritual disease of the soul that has been wreaking havoc throughout human history …

By Sam Smith

One of the greatest myths draped over this land is that the so-called wing nuts mainly come from the far right and left. And that there is, however, a wise and moderate establishment t…

By Ronnie Cummins

The policy set for GE alfalfa will most likely guide policies for other GE crops as well. True coexistence is a must.” –  Whole Foods Market, Jan. 21, 2011

In the wake of a 12-…

By Joe Weisenthal

Today the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission releases its full report on the crisis.

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By Catherine Austin Fitts

An authorized someone from Allendale Michigan kept logging in to my Facebook space. Then I started having challenges with unauthorized posts and photo tags. Finally some m…

By Teri Buhl

Lawsuit alleges the bank took extreme measures to defraud investors, and now JPMorgan may be on the hook

Former Bear Stearns mortgage executives who now run mortgage divisions of Gold…

By Casey Chan

The world is ending! Okay, maybe not. But doesn’t it seem like every day animals are dying in masses? So, it must mean something!

I think the West Coast is safe. The South, um, prett…

From Ed Abbey’s “Desert Solitaire”

Benedicto:

May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds. May yo…

By Gretchen Morgenson

Since the government took over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, taxpayers have spent more than $160 million defending the mortgage finance companies and their former top executives…

Genetically-modified crops could help prevent a future global hunger crisis, the Government’s chief scientific adviser said.

By The Telegraph

Professor Sir John Beddington said there was no one ”s…

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By Lyndsey Layton

In response to a new federal food safety law and growing consumer interest, vast amounts of new data are being generated about the complicated path that food takes from field to s…

“I AM” – Official Trailer

In theaters: February 8th, 2011

Synopsis:

I AM, a prismatic and probing exploration of our world, what’s wrong with it, and what we can do to make it better, represents T…

By Adam Ostrow

Here’s a bit of a surprise to end the week: Keith Olbermann, host of MSNBC’s Countdown, ended tonight’s show by announcing he’s leaving, effective immediately.

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By Sam Smith

National Journal – President Obama today will name General Electric CEO Jeff Immelt chairman of the new Council on Jobs and Competitiveness, the White House announced. . .

Immelt, GE’…

By Janna Irons

Last year, 20-year-old Kyle Thiermann took a surf trip to Southern Chile, where he planned to spend a few weeks sampling the pointbreak perfection of Constitucion. But soon he realiz…

By Dr. Mercola

[arve url=”http://player.vimeo.com/video/17266941″ width=”300″ height=”200″ frameborder=”0″>Commonwealth Club 11-18-10. Panel II – Martin Blank, PhD.

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By Sam Smith

Several years after the passage of the Federal Boating Act of 1958, the Second Coast Guard District in St. Louis sent a team of unarmed men, and a van with outboard patrol boat in tow, t…

By Daily Mail Reporter

The sun over Greenland has risen two days early, baffling scientists and sparking fears that Arctic icecaps are melting faster than previously thought.

Experts say the sun s…

Monsanto garnered 38% of the vote to win the 2010 Corporate Hall of Shame. From using aggressive legal tactics to intimidate and bankrupt local farmers to its reckless promotion of genetically modif…

The documentary film, Vanishing of the Bees, narrated by Ellen Page, takes a piercing investigative look at the economic, political and ecological implications of the worldwide disappearance of the ho…

by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

It is vain to affirm that which the heart does not confirm. In contrast, a work of art bears within itself its own confirmation: concepts which are manufactured out of who…

By Gregory White

Since quantitative easing 2 really kicked off in early September, one major commodity has lagged the broader market.

Surprise, it’s gold.

And now, with all the talk of inflation st…

I am convinced more than ever that over a long-period, the real safety and growth of our capital lies in honest entrepreneurship – not in gold, silver, or government bonds.

~ Tony Deden, Sage Capit…