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…

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…

Leaked report: Government fears Deepwater Horizon well could…

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

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…

return to handbook view

PLAN OF SAN DIEGO. With the outbreak of revolution in northern Mexico in 1910, federal authorities and officials of the state of Texas feared that the violence and disorder might spill over into

the Rio Grande valley. The Mexican and Mexican-American populations

residing in the Valley…

By Steve Green

S 510, the Food Safety Modernization Act of 2010, may be the most dangerous bill in the history of the US. It is to our food what the bailout was to our economy, only we can live without

money.

“If accepted [S 510] would preclude the public’s right to grow, own, trade, transport, share, feed and eat each and every food that nature…

Source: Sacramento Press

WASHINGTON D.C.—Central Intelligence Agency director Leon Panetta told 300 Sacramento Metro Chamber Cap-to-Cap delegates that the next “Pearl Harbor” is likely to be an attack on the United States’ power, financial,…

By LAURA MECKLER

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Customs and Border Protection agent Jesus Gomez checks a passport at the vehicle crossing at the San Ysidro Port of Entry in California.

Lawmakers working to…

ADL Calls For “Major Law Enforcement Operation” To Deal With Obamacare

Critics

Attack group mixes in completely non-violent Internet postings with death threats in new purge against…

Mayor Daley and Police Superintendant Jody Weis didn't exactly endorse a pair of state…

Ed Merrison & Carole Erskine, Sky News…