yahoo.com | How would you like to own the White House? Maybe the Washington Monument? Or what about the Lincoln Memorial?
OK, these American landmarks aren't for sale, yet. But, the Obama administration wants to put government property on the block. Like so many homeowners, the U.S. gov...
GENEVA (AFP) – The UN on Thursday expressed alarm at a huge decline in bee colonies under a multiple onslaught of pests and pollution, urging an international effort to save the pollinators that are vital for food crops.
Much of the decline, ranging up to 85 percent in some areas, is taking place i...
yahoonews | Food manufacturers think you're stupid. In fact, they’re banking on it. Why else would Hershey’s put a ribbon on the Good & Plenty box that says “A fat-free candy.” Sure, it's true—no fat in the box—but it's also very misleading. The candy is essentially 100 percent sugar and process...
theeconomiccollapseblog.com | Bill Gross, the manager of the biggest bond fund in the world, has forgotten more about bonds than most of us will ever learn. That is why the big move that PIMCO has just made is so unsettling. At one time PIMCO held more U.S. government debt than any other bond ...
TFPM.com After being shot down earlier this week, the Arizona State Senate revived and successfully passed a bill that would create a mechanism for the state to nullify federal laws.
As TPM has reported, Senate Bill 1433 would create a 12-person "Joint Legislative Committee on Nullification o...
kingworldnews | Bill Haynes continues:| “Eric, the Mint sold about 10 million ounces of American Silver Eagles so far this year, 6.4 million in January and about half that in February. The Mint had no problem producing those record quantities, but now the US Mint is cutting allocations to its ...
endoftheamericandream.co | Haven't you heard? The coming economic collapse has officially been canceled. The U.S. economy is in full recovery mode. It has just been announced that the U.S. unemployment rate fell to 8.9% in February. That was the third monthly decline in a row...
Reuters) - Bankers can expect their bonus packages in 2011 to be 10 percent to 15 percent richer on average than last year, a widely followed compensation expert said on Friday on Reuters Insider.
Not everyone should expect that level of increase, however.
Asset managers and brokers will c...
dailymail.co.uk | Colonel Gaddafi was preparing last night for a blood-soaked final stand in Tripoli.
Thousands of hired fighters were massing on roads from the capital to join army units battling the uprising which had spread to within 30 miles of the dictator’s stronghold.
Fighting raged as Gad...
(Reuters) - A judge on Thursday put on hold his ruling that President Barack Obama's healthcare overhaul was unconstitutional, allowing the White House to continue implementing the landmark legislation for now.
But U.S. District Judge Roger Vinson failed to dispel widespread uncertainty about the f...
sltoday.com | The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday ordered the removal from the market of more than 500 prescription drugs used to treat colds, coughs and allergies because the medications had never gone through a federal review of their safety and effectiveness.
"We don't know what's in t...
NaturalNews) When the upswing in commodity prices eventually makes its way throughout the food system in mid-to-late 2011, food prices are sure to spike with levels potentially reaching those of 2008, announced U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) economist Ephraim Leibtag at the agency's annual Ou...
theeconomiccollapseblog.com | Despite what Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke says, rampant inflation is officially here. The federal government is constantly monkeying with the numbers to keep the "official" rate of inflation below 2 percent, but it is becoming very difficult to deny that ...
endofamericandream.com | Over the past couple of days, top government officials from both the United States and the EU have been openly discussing the possibility of military intervention in Libya. In fact, it has seemed like there has been a full court press in the mainstream media to sway public o...
allgov.com | After months of earthquakes, including the largest felt in 35 years, the state of Arkansas has ordered a temporary moratorium on the drilling of new injection wells related to natural gas-related drilling, which some locals believe are causing the seismic activity. More than 700 small e...
WASHINGTON (WGHP) — More than 29,000 North Carolinians have not claimed their refunds from their 2007 tax returns, and their time is running out.
The refunds total $37.5 million in this state alone, and half of the refunds are $640 or more, IRS officials reported.
The IRS said the vast majorit...
irishtimes.com | Poverty and joblessness are prompting protest in the kingdom, writes FINIAN CUNNINGHAM in Manama
THE POPULAR uprisings across the Middle East are sparking similar unrest in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, with youth groups and workers in that country now calling for a “day of rag...
theeconomiccollapseblog.com | From now on, whenever you hear the term "the global economy" you should immediately equate it with the destruction of the U.S. middle class. Over the past several decades, the American economy has been slowly but surely merged into the emerging one world economic ...
AP | WASHINGTON – You may not want to eat genetically engineered foods. Chances are, you are eating them anyway.
Genetically modified plants grown from seeds engineered in labs now provide much of the food we eat. Most corn, soybean and cotton crops grown in the United States have been genetically ...
AP | ATLANTA — Shocking as it may seem, U.S. government doctors once thought it was fine to experiment on disabled people and prison inmates. Such experiments included giving hepatitis to mental patients in Connecticut, squirting a pandemic flu virus up the noses of prisoners in Maryland, and i...