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U.S. Senator Roland Burris’s statements to Illinois lawmakers about whether he solicited political donations for former Governor Rod Blagojevich before getting named to the Senate are being reviewed by a prosecutor.
The bottom line is this: there is no constitutional duty placed on the American people to pay federal income taxes or a 23 % national sales tax to fund programs not authorized by the Constitution. Period end of story!
“By expanding the monetary base at an appropriate rate, the FOMC can signal that it intends to avoid the risk of further deflation and the possibility of a deflation trap,” Bullard said ...
DOW off 298 points (3.8%) S&P 500 off 38 points (4.6%) NASDAQ off 64 points (about 4.1%)
Facebook has an "irrevocable, perpetual" license to use your "name, likeness, and image for any purpose".
An $8 trillion negative wealth effect from declining home values. A $10 trillion negative wealth effect from weakened capital markets. A $14 trillion consumer debt load amid "exploding unemployment"
This is a shocking interview with Doug Williams, writer for Daily News Caster, about a story he’s written entitled “Is FEMA and DHS preparing for mass graves and martial law near Chicago?”
BUT... they 'appropriated' (for lack of a better word) $78,000 from Tucson Rancher Roger Barnett before they let him go home!
Michael T. Conahan, appeared in federal court in Scranton, Pa., to plead guilty to fraud for taking more than $2.6 million in kickbacks to send teenagers to two privately run youth detention centers.
From today (In England), it is illegal to photograph the police, despite the fact that they use increasingly aggressive techniques to record us.
Very informative video for anyone with (or considering creating) a Facebook account.
DOD/UN survey: How would you feel about popping a cap into dear old Mrs. Jones, soldier?
"I am pleased that Bill Clinton has agreed to come out of retirement to head up this crucial post in my administration," said Obama.
Consider "ring-fencing" the United States, pulling all swap lines and protecting ourselves. We cannot backstop the world; we don't have the money and can't raise it. We are tying an anvil to our ankles and jumping into the water,
Don't hold your breath if Kansas owes you money. Kansas suspends income tax refunds, may miss payroll.
--Most Express Doubts About Success
If you take a look at these charts I think you will understand why Meredith Whitney, Nassim Taleb, and Nouriel Roubini are so worried about the state of banking in the US and EU. The charts cover 2007 to 2009.
This is a welcome bit of news, not so much the establishment of the seed bank itself, but the expressed intent to establish a broad network of individual growers who can apply well established breeding protocols and act as conservators. The fact is t
"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." Kent McManigal's take on the second amendment
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There are troubling signs that national service could transition from voluntary to mandatory, or de facto mandatory, such as the requirement of service in order to be granted a diploma, or something along those lines.
Chandler, AZ, Kansas City, MO, Chevy Chase, MD all active this week in the fight against automated ticketing, drawing the attention of the local media and curious onlookers.
"Madison wrote, 'Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society. It will be pursued either until it be obtained or until liberty be lost in the pursuit.'"
Since all of the various federal income taxes are excise taxes just like the FairTax, how can the FairTax "replace all federal taxes except excise taxes?" They are all one in the same!
Depositors from as far away as Colombia have begun arriving in the island nation of Antigua, seeking to withdraw their money from an offshore bank under investigation by U.S. state and federal authorities.
States are facing a great fiscal crisis. Combined budget gaps for the remainder of this fiscal year and state fiscal years 2010 and 2011 are estimated to total more than $350 billion.
If implemented, it would, for those families who have some reasonable income, halt in its tracks the current wave of foreclosures.
To “save” the economy is to “save the banks,” along similar lines to the West trying to save its banks from their adventure in the post-Soviet economies. This is the basic neoliberal economic plan, after all. The U.S. economy is about to be “post-Sov
In what could turn out to be the greatest fraud in US history, American authorities have started to investigate the alleged role of senior military officers in the misuse of $125bn (£88bn) in a US -directed effort to reconstruct Iraq after the fall o
“We’re nearing the level were things could get out of hand,” said Hans Redeker, currency chief strategist at BNP Paribas.
