There are positive ways to align our economic activities with our natural environment, and then there are negative ways. A sales tax is one of the negative ways  — it reduces consumption in ways tha…

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An interactive map of vanishing employment across the country, updated with the latest figures.

[Click the image to go to the Slate website to view your county’s stats.]

With trial balloons floating regarding the possibility of preventative detention and now government vaccine programs, the control necessary to keep the dollar high and government subsidies flowing gr…

Gold Derivatives: The Tide Turns
By Reg Howe

On May 19, 2009, the Bank for International Settlements released its regular semi-annual report on the over-the-counter derivatives of major banks and de…

The International Space Station as seen from the departing Space Shuttle Discovery during STS-119.
From Wikipedia.

The International Space Station (ISS) is a research facility currently being asse…

The standard insurance amount currently is $250,000 per depositor. The $250,000 limit is permanent for IRAs and other certain retirement accounts. The $250,000 limit is temporary for all other dep…

by Jon Rappoport

I’ve been talking and writing about imagination for a long time. I consider it the key to the whole ballgame. It liberates us from the so-called laws of physics and physical ma…

Credit: Antonio H. Miguel

Jim Wilson integrated two tracks of crickets singing. One was a normal recording. One was slowed down by a divisor that reflects the ratio of a cricket’s lifespan to a huma…

By Patrick McGreevy and Michael Rothfel

Reporting from Sacramento — Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and lawmakers scrambled Wednesday to avert a financial meltdown, and public officials across Californ…

U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates confirmed that Iran successfully test-fired a new missile yesterday, the Washington Times reported.

(May. 21) – Iran’s Sajjil 2 missile takes off during a test y…

BankUnited, a newly chartered federal savings bank, acquired the banking operations, including all of the nonbrokered deposits, of BankUnited, FSB, Coral Gables, Florida, in a transaction facilitated …

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President Obama told human rights advocates at the White House on Wednesday that he was mulling the need for a “preventive detention” system that would establish a legal basis for the United Sta…

A project to establish a common currency for the Gulf has been dealt a near-fatal blow with the decision by the United Arab Emirates to abandon monetary union after disagreement with Saudi Arabia o…

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Corrected – Update 1-GM Bankruptcy Plan Eyes Quick Sale to Gov’t

Chrysler: Dealership Letters in The Mail

Chrysler Closing 789 Dealerships

GM Whacks 1,100 Dealers

Chrysler Pulls Out of Hundreds …

Master Plan from http://www.indigination.com/farm.htm

The story of Crosby Mint Farm in Michigan is…

a story of why it is essential for farmers to build retail markets — both to sell their prod…

I just voted for the Worst Corporation of 2009. Here were the nominees:

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Marijuana Production in the United States (2006)
Drugscience.org

Based on a comparison with average production values of other crops from 2003 to 2005 marijuana is the top cash crop in 12 states,…

Wolfram|Alpha (also written WolframAlpha or Wolfram Alpha) is an answer-engine developed by Wolfram Research. It is an online service that answers factual queries directly by computing the answer f…

He deals the cards as a meditation
And those he plays never suspect
He doesn’t play for the money he wins
He doesn’t play for the respect
He deals the cards to find the answer
The sacred geometry of c…

By Associated Press

Andrew Feustel, left, and John Grunsfeld work to upgrade the Hubble Space Telescope during a spacewalk, Monday, May 18, 2009.

The Atlantis astronauts plan to release the space t…

Rachel Maddow Interviews Eliot Spitzer Part One

Rachel Maddow Interviews Eliot Spitzer Part Two

Each year, Americans spend a whopping $39 billion on domestically grown marijuana, and another $7-10 billion on weed smuggled in from Canada. In short, untaxed and unregulated marijuana is America�…

Now that all the money is safely offshore, and the Countrywide mortgage operations are tucked into Bank of America, will Countrywide’s founder Angelo Mozilo be used as one of the whipping boys to te…

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By Jon Rappoport

I’ve been talking to a few people lately who are knowledgeable about the bailout at ground level. There are still many mysteries and half-baked plans in the works, but whatever sh…

This past February, the Dubai Chamber of Commerce authorized the development of a “free zone” dubbed Food City. GCLA, a green landscape architect firm, proposed a master plan for the city sector…

(Artwork: Mark Clifford)

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama declared Monday he would try to block the court-ordered release of photos showing U.S. troops abusing prisoners, abruptly reversin…

The state of Montana approved what commentators are dubbing a “revolutionary” new law earlier this month. The “Montana Firearms Freedom Act” is set to trigger a legal showdown between the fe…

Is the attack on “tax havens” an attack on corporate
abuses or an attack on privacy, freedom and capital
controls by another name? Is our model to force control
of capital and then send it to inside…

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A Center for Public Integrity Project

“The top subprime lenders whose loans are largely blamed for triggering the global economic meltdown were owned or backed by giant banks now collecting billion…

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Winslow Wheeler, Counterpunch – “For decades, the media have taken their descriptions of the size of the defense budget straight from the Pentagon’s annual press release – without even rudimentary d…

Although Governor Brad Henry vetoed similar legislation 10 days earlier, House members Monday again approved a resolution claiming Oklahoma’s sovereignty.

Unlike House Joint Resolution 1003, House …

Inspired by events in Afghanistan and rumblings about Iran, I described the correlation between the creation of the Federal Reserve and the creation of an illegal narcotics industry in the United Stat…

[Artist’s concept of Earth’s magnetic field. Credit: NASA]

Sun Often “Tears Out A Wall” In Earth’s Solar Storm Shield

Earth’s magnetic field, which shields our planet from particles streaming outwa…

This week is the U.S. Fire Administration’s Arson Awareness Week.

As a former Assistant Secretary of Housing, I want to assure you that the patterns of fires related to areas of significant mortgag…

New York Fed Chairman’s Ties to Goldman Raise Questions
Wall Street Journal (4 May 09)
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York shaped Washington’s response to the financial crisis late last year, which b…

Was the public disclosure of the bank stress tests delayed so Goldman Sachs could raise capital? Is national policy managed to serve one private investment group’s convenience? As the disclosure and…

As the US government disclosure continues to diminish and the government continues to refuse to find money missing from its coffers or explain why it has refused to produce audited financial stateme…

Oath Keepers is a non-partisan association of currently serving military, reserves, National Guard, peace officers, and veterans…Below is [their] declaration of orders [they} will NOT obey:

Oath Ke…

“The banks—hard to believe in a time when we’re facing a banking crisis that many of the banks created—are still the most powerful lobby on Capitol Hill. And they frankly own the place.”

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By James Turk, Editor
Freemarket Gold & Money Report (3 May 09)

“This week Bill Murphy and Chris Powell, co-founders of the Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee Inc. (www.gata.org), will be in Lond…

Project Camelot Interviews Joseph Farrell

The banks were secured and get 28 cents on the dollars back. The people who make real things, including the 38,500 employees who will lose their jobs, will not have that benefit.

Chrysler LLC’s T…

Key Cog in South, Silverton Bank Fails
Wall Street Journal (2 May 09)

Excerpt: Federal regulators were “not sympathetic” to the argument that a Silverton failure had to be averted, Mr. Moeling said. …