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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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Abu Dhabi Gets an ATM Machine that Dispenses Pure Gold
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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…

An Evening with Chris Martenson
Thursday Sept. 23, 2010
7:00pm- 8:30pm
Yucca Theatre
2000 W Wadley Ave, Midland, TX 79705
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Dr. Chris Martenson is an independent economist and author of a popular we…

The Senate on Thursday passed the Creating Small Business Jobs Act of 2010 (part of the Small Business Jobs and Credit Act, HR 5297) by a vote of 61–38, and sent it back to the House of Representa…

Growing an Already Disjointed and Duplicative Federal Government

In 2008, GAO testified before a House subcommittee that “FDA is one of 15 agencies that collectively administer at least 30 laws r…

Majority Leader Harry Reid said Thursday the Senate will not take up long-pending food safety legislation before the Nov. 2 elections, citing a Republican senator’s objections.

Reid announced on …

By Michael W. Savage

For those who have long argued that smoking marijuana should not be a crime, a potentially historic turning point is just weeks away.

Voters in California will decide Nov. 2 w…

BOSTON (TheStreet) — The “automatic” IRA may be on the way.

A bill filed by U.S. senators Jeff Bingaman (D-New Mexico) and John Kerry (D-Mass.) would automatically enroll most U.S. workers in indi…

The U. S. Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) and the Department of the Treasury today announced a joint public hearing on Sept. 14, 2010, and if necessary on Sept. …

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By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard

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Note from Catherine:

I am not sure why the IMF was surprised. The world jobs crisis was intentionally engineer…

Queen of The Sun creatively explores the global bee crisis as a catalyst for culture shift. We highlight unsung heroes from past and present, from poets and philosophers, to scientists and biodynami…

By Brett Michael Dykes

What you see above isn’t a rural gravel road. It’s a Louisiana waterway, its surface completely covered with dead sea life — a mishmash of species of fish, crabs, stingray a…

In earlier times, it was easier to control a million people than physically to kill a million people.
Today it is infinitely easier to kill a million people than to control a million people.

~ Zbigni…

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Catherine Austin Fitts’ Blog Commentaries

The Shrinking Middle Class
(27 July 10)

By Joe Weisenthal

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By Jeremy Scahill

Blackwater author Jeremy Scahill reveals in The Nation new evidence about the connection between the security firm and a host of companies, from Disney to Monsanto. Says Scahill: …

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By Timothy Noah

The American aristocracy is less different from you and me than it was in Fitzgerald’s day. “Before World War II,” they wrote, “the richest Americans were overwhel…

By Rebecca Thistlewaite

You watched Food, Inc. with your mouth aghast. You own a few cookbooks.

You go out to that hot new restaurant with the tattooed chef who’s putting on a whole-animal, nose-…

By Rachel Armstrong

New bank capital requirements agreed by global regulators brought relief to Asia’s financial sector on Monday as fears that lenders might be forced into fresh capital raising we…

Homeowners in Illinois are almost evenly divided on whether the value of their home is worth more than their mortgage, and they are not very optimistic about their home values in the near future.

A …

This is the movie that Pepsi and Coca Cola don’t want you to see.

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Our Sweet Water Tilapia are ready for you! This one and only batch is available for public purchase at three open house fish sales.

If you have pre-purchased your tilapia at one of our farmers mark…

Want proof of what wonderful people Americans are and how much we care about our small farmers? Just take a look at the Crosby Mint Farm “Expect Miracles” Gratitude List

The support for Crosby Mint…

Dr. Burzynski has found cures for cancer. He practices in Texas. The US government has attempted to indict him more than 5 times since 1976. Persecuted at the hands of the FDA with its long arm to t…

By Paul Laster

Photographer Edward Burtynsky knows a lot about oil and our uncontrollable dependency on it. The 2005 TED prizewinner traveled the world for more than a decade photographing polluted…

By Artyom Danielyan and Emma O’Brien

China and Russia plan to start trading in each other’s currencies as the world’s second-biggest energy consumer and the largest energy supplier seek to di…

A German dairy farmer has come up with a novel way to drum up new business — he opened a “milk filling station.”

The “Milchtankstelle” near Cologne in the town of Neunkirchen-Seelscheid dispenses …

By Robert Barr

Britain’s financial regulator hit Goldman Sachs International with a 17.5 million pounds ($27 million) fine on Thursday for failing to notify U.K. authorities about an investigation …

By David Liechty

The Austrian 100 Corona coin is a good choice for investors looking to maximize the value of their gold investment purchase. Weighing just under an ounce, at 0.9802 ounces (gold…

Margarine is the bad guy and butter and eggs are the good guys.

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The Oiling of America: How the Vegetable Oil Industry Demonized Nutritious Animal Fats…

Dairy Herdshare Told to Cease Operations by Massachusetts Dept. of Agriculture

Former 1st Assistant Attorney General Takes the Case

By Kimberly Hartke

Brigitte Ruthman is 50 years old, a career j…

By Christine Harper and Saijel Kishan

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. is shutting its principal-strategies business, a group that makes bets with the firm’s own capital, to comply with new U.S. rules aime…

By Alex Bogusky

Video Interview with Jeffrey Smith author of Seeds of Deception.

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The Great American Food Experiment and how to opt out. Jeff is in the middle of everything you see and read…

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A ticking time bomb of American debt. Over $830 billion are owed by college students in the US with $3 thousand more added on every second. This is debt that is NOT extinguished in bankruptc…

Dear Catherine,

I miss having our mini conversations but I am thrilled that you have had that road trip and time in Montana. I l-o-v-e Montana and have driven its vast and varied expanses of beauty s…