Recent legal precedents now make it possible for ANYONE to obtain an ID card that legally entitles the bearer to possess, transport, transmit, and use any natural herbal material they wish - as members of the Oklevueha Native American Church!
General Electric Chairman and CEO Jeffrey Immelt said “The people who are part of the business sector... have got to stop complaining about government and get some action underway. There’s no excuse today for lack of leadership. The truth is we all n
The United States may lose its top-notch credit rating in the next few weeks if lawmakers fail to increase the country's legal borrowing limit and the government misses debt payments, Moody's Investors Service warned on Wednesday.
Moody's is the f
Ronald Reagon, a liar and a contributor to Corporate Welfare and Warfare. The very problems that one of our founders Thomas Jefferson, General Butler after WWI and General and President Eisenhower after WWII warned us about; the Military Industrial C
Should we subsidize, enforce mandates, or give tax credits and deductions to industries like ethanol and natural gas? Having a thriving energy market domestically is a good thing and something the government should not hinder. Not only would decrea
Worried that Congress will not act in time to raise the country's borrowing cap, the Obama administration is enlisting the fascist taxpayer titsucking corporations to bribe lawmakers that a U.S. default will have dire consequences.
The federal government is now in the commercial airline loan guarantee business to aid Boeing with sales of its 737 jet to foreign airlines. The feds will payoff the loan if a foreign airline defaults in paying for a jet. [it gets worse]
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is offering Nevada asparagus producers financial compensation for marketing losses resulting from imports during the 2004 through 2007 crop years. USDA Farm Service Agency Nevada state executive Clint Koble announce
The EPA approved the use of 15% blend ethanol [up from 10%] for automobiles and light trucks of model year 2001 and newer. The ethanol indu$try and corn grower$ hailed the long-awaited announcement.
The federal government has spent millions of dollars to help farmers nationwide buy greenhouse-like structures called high tunnels that can add valuable weeks and even months to their growing seasons by protecting produce from chilly temperatures.
War profiteers are pocketing billions of dollars and winning the wars while we U.S. citizens are losing every day. Did either candidate read Dwight D. Eisenhower's 1961 "Military-Industrial Complex" speech?
Defense giant KBR Inc. was awarded a contract potentially worth $2.8 billion for support work in Iraq as U.S. forces continue to leave the country, military authorities said Tuesday. . .a spokesman for the Army Sustainment Command in Rock Island, Ill
Washington (CNN) -- The Department of Homeland Security has more contractors working for it than full-time employees, a situation two members of Congress said Tuesday was "unacceptable, untenable and unsustainable."
If one is alert, it is evident that the Federal Reserve and the U.S. Treasury have disposed of the need for Congressional approval, and have engineered a de facto bailout of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, at public expense.
You won't believe the sweetheart deal that the Indymac boys were given by the FDIC. Not only were they guaranteed they couldn't lose money, but the were pretty much guaranteed to make some huge bank courtesy of the U.S. taxpayer.
Starting in November 2008, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York under Timothy Geithner began urging American International Group, the huge insurer that the government had bailed out, to limit disclosure on payments made to banks at the height
Susette Kelo's little, pink house in New London, Conn. -- like the houses of all her neighbors -- is now a pile of rubble, overgrown with weeds. But Pfizer, the company that called for the demolition in order to build a new research and development
SO, is this how Goldman Sachs does it? "It", of course, is making gobs of money even when nobody else on Wall Street can. And those profits then go into outrageous bonuses to employees, which cause rancor on Capitol Hill and on Main Street.
May sound like a joke but it is not.
We all know that Goldman Sachs has been cashing in to the tune of billions, partly by getting in front of other traders. This apparently is now a family thing.
Despite chairman Lloyd Blankfein's warning to lay low and not cause money scenes, Blankfein's wife did not get the memo, or really doesn't pay attention to Lloyd memos, since she put on an attmpted front ruinning scene that will certainly be the envy of every geek front running computer programming writer, ever.
As the U.S. government moves in to effectively nationalize the U.S. auto industry we should see how others have fared. Will GM soon be producing cars that are "good enough for the idiots?" Only if the idiots allow it.
I was having one of those forum discussions, when federal farm programs came up. I pointed out that most farmers and ranchers are welfare queens. Well, this didn't sit very well with one rancher who started flaming me.
Four top AIG executives flipped U.S. taxpayers the bird by spending $86,000 on a partridge hunt at an English country manor as the feds gave their struggling firm billions to stay afloat.
These investment advisors take their best shot at explaining how Paulson and Bernanke destroyed Wall Street for the banking industry. [Adobe .pdf file -- long, but worth it.]
We couldn’t make up stuff this well if we tried to. Scam-cam vendor American Traffic Solutions has received an unspecified investment from recently bailed out Goldman Sachs. I, for one, welcome our new financial/police state overlords.
Flash video explains chart showing the Fed taking liquidity OUT of the market, right when they're begging Congress to authorize generating $700b more. Is Bernanke trying to precipitate more bank failures to upgrade the fear factor?
Use the form provided to submit bad assets for the government to take off your hands. Remember, when estimating the value of your 1997 limited edition "MMMbop" CD, it's not what you can sell these items for, it's what you think they
What should we do with the brain dead remnant of our financial system? The correct answer isn't an easy one, but it really is the only sane option. Perhaps the end of the income tax will help to ease the pain.
The United States has come under pressure to announce a ceiling for its farm subsidies, a key part of the WTO's long-delayed Doha round of negotiations for a global trade deal. [Oh yes, "free trade" means free trade]
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