Fiat money buckling, an inflationary depression, years of reckless spending, Greek debt unpayable, Euro zone in jeopardy, a loss of integrity in US markets, criminal charges for Goldman Sachs, side pockets a new hedge fun trick, Banks on subprime offensive, Fed works the printing presses overtime...



America and the world face a financial conflagration of immense proportions. The world of fiat money and massive credit is buckling under the pressure of unpayable debt. Each… Continue

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By Chris Bowlby

BBC Radio 4, Crossing Continents



In the places worst affected by Europe's economic crisis, unemployment and cuts in pay and public services are hitting the headlines. But the crisis is also having another effect with profound long-term consequences - the return of emigration.



Filippos Katampouris (left) says it was a "horrible mistake" to leave the UK



Places like Greece and Ireland thought the good times of the last decade or two… Continue

In July, we will roll-out three new pricing plans and begin phasing out our free service.

As part of this change, we'll be phasing out our free service. We will announce further details about Ning's product roadmap and different pricing options on May 4, 2010.…

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Interest on public debt costs $170-million a day

Canadians paid $170-million per day in 2008/2009 in unnecessary interest on federal, provincial and municipal debt. The cost for 2009/10 and subsequent years will likely be higher.

These costs are reflected

in taxes, fees, cut-backs in public services such as education and

medicare and deterioration of infrastructure such as…

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GM Crops Go to US High Court, Environmental Laws on the Line



Source: IPS – Matthew Berger



Washington – The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments Tuesday in its first-ever case involving genetically modified crops. The decision in this case may have a significant impact on both the future of genetically modified foods and government oversight of that and other environmental issues.



The case, Monsanto Co. v. Geertson Seed Farms, revolves around an… Continue

Arizona Has It Right

By Chuck Baldwin

April 30, 2010





This column is archived at

http://chuckbaldwinlive.com/home/?p=1490





Open borders advocates are livid that the State of Arizona has enacted a new

law authorizing State law enforcement personnel to arrest illegal aliens.

The Reverend Al Sharpton is threatening to march. The mayor of San Francisco

has declared Arizona off… Continue

Now that President Obama has done enough back-room deals to get

the Democrats' health care legislation through the House of

Representatives, he can resume making plans for a visit to his childhood

home, Indonesia. The trip was on for this week, but the White House

cancelled it so Obama could stay in Washington…

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By Matt Apuzzo ASSOCIATED PRESS

Wall Street financial firms weren't the only ones giving big bonuses in the boom years before the worst financial crisis in generations. The

government also was handing out millions of dollars to bank regulators,

rewarding "superior" work even as an avalanche of risky mortgages

helped create the meltdown.

The payments, detailed in payroll data released to the Associated Press under the Freedom of Information…

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NEW YORK (The Borowitz Report) - In what is looming as another public relations predicament for Goldman Sachs, the banking giant admitted today that it made "a

substantial financial bet against the Gulf of Mexico" one day before

the sinking of an oil rig in that body of water.

The new revelations came to light after government investigators turned up new emails from Goldman employee Fabrice "Fabulous Fab" Tourre in which he…

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Breaking News, Mississippi Press, Shared - Birmingham, Shared - Huntsville »

Leaked report: Government fears Deepwater Horizon well could…

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U.S. Needs Hit Squads, ‘Manhunting Agency’: Spec Ops Report

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Source: Zero Hedge

Where does it end? 100 billion? 1 trillion? 1 quadrillion? And yes America, this is your money, going to bail out Greece... Then Portugal... Then Ukraine....Then Dubai....Then Italy....Then Spain....Then Hungary....Then the

Baltics...Then the UK....Then Japan... and by the time we have…

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