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Sean O’Keefe-------------------Ted Stevens Former Alaska Republican Senator Ted Stevens and former NASA administrator Sean O’Keefe were among seven others on a small plane that crashed monday evening in Alaska. So far, officials say that five of the nine aboard the plane died and that two are badly injured, but the identities have not yet been released. Officials [...]

[More proposals and meetings in the "grind down your time and resources" mode - CAF] Come to the meeting and make your voice heard! Wednesday, August 18 Crowne Plaza Madison 4402 East Washington Avenue Madison, WI 53704 Meeting on Animal Traceability (PDF) Meeting Purpose To allow the industry and general public to provide input to APHIS and the Regulatory Working Group [...]

By Joe Weisenthal Nothing to see here, except yet another sign of the food inflation that’s the story of the moment. JPMorgan retail analyst Charles Grom reports: We recently conducted another round of supermarket pricing in Virginia comparing a 31 item like-kind basket at a Wal-Mart Supercenter, Kroger, Safeway, Harris Teeter, and Whole Foods. Overall, while the [...]

By Hilary Johnson For years, wealthy retirees from high-tax states in the Northeast and Midwest have been streaming to sunny, low-tax Florida. That stream is now turning into a flood. We haven’t had a situation like this in quite a few years,” said Greg Rosica, a tax partner at Ernst & Young LLP. “We have this impending tax [...]

So Google and Verizon went public today with their “policy framework” — better known as the pact to end the Internet as we know it. News of this deal broke this week, sparking a public outcry that’s seen hundreds of thousands of Internet users calling on Google to live up to its “Don’t Be Evil” pledge. But [...]

By John P. Hussman, Ph.D. Just a note - if there is one weekly comment that I hope that regular readers of these comments will not miss, it is last week’s piece - Valuing the S&P 500 Using Forward Operating Earnings. Economic risks and credit strains will come and go, but one thing that will remain [...]

The oil well cap is fine. The relief well is fine. The new BP CEO is fine The ocean is fine. The stories about the old munitions dumps blowing up the methane build up…well forget that, it’s all fine. You see, the Gulf is fine. The plants, animals and seafood are all fine. BP’s stock will be fine too. It’s all fine. Everything [...]

By Ken Sweet Four prominent members of the U.S. Senate introduced a bill Thursday that would strike the provision in the Dodd-Frank Act that potentially gives the Securities and Exchange Commission broad powers to deny Freedom of Information Act requests. The bill introduced by a bipartisan group of Senators on the Senate Judiciary Committee - Sen. Patrick [...]

By Tyler Durden CNBC notes the apparent cause of death of the recently popular BP skeptic, and founder of oil company Simmons & Co., was a heart attack. A conflicting report according to WLBZ cites the source of death as drowning. North Haven, Maine (News Center) - The Knox County Sheriff’s Department says Matthew Simmons, the founder [...]

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By Steve Watson Highlights “potential resistance” on road from “voluntary multilateral framework” to full blown global currency. A newly published IMF strategy document calls for the implementation of a global currency, called the “bancor”, to stabilise the international monetary system, while acknowledging that only a monumental shift toward acceptance of globalism will make it possible in the [...]

Scientists behind the European atom smasher aimed at uncovering the secrets of the universe want to build an even bigger machine with partners and funds from around the world. Scientists from CERN - the European Organisation for Nuclear Research - a particle physics laboratory outside Geneva, Switzerland, will spell out their ambitions at a conference in [...]

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By Matt Katz Camden is preparing to permanently shut its library system by the end of the year, potentially leaving residents of the impoverished city among the few in the United States unable to borrow a library book free. At an emotional but sparsely attended meeting of the library board Thursday, its president, Martin McKernan, said the [...]

By Caroline Salas and Jody Shenn For all the good the Federal Reserve’s $1.25 trillion of mortgage-bond purchases have done, they’ve also left part of the market broken. By acquiring about a quarter of home-loan bonds with government-backed guarantees to bolster housing prices and the U.S. economy, the Fed helped make some securities so hard to find [...]

I went to the polls on Thursday. My candidate for sheriff won! The expensive negative campaigning did not work — indeed it may have even helped by galvanizing support.  My thanks again to Sheriff Richard Mack whose great interview, “Who’s Your Sheriff,” helped me to understand how important it is to support excellent candidates [...]

Illustration by Victor Juhasz By  Matt Taibbi Cue the credits: the era of financial thuggery is officially over. Three hellish years of panic, all done and gone – the mass bankruptcies, midnight bailouts, shotgun mergers of dying megabanks, high-stakes SEC investigations, all capped by a legislative orgy in which industry lobbyists hurled more than $600 million at [...]

Inspired by the scare stories about methane gas in the Gulf, I tracked down Hollywood’s story about nuclear explosions on the outer surface of the earth’s inner core causing a crack that opens around the planet. Yes, a scary thought. Alas, not such a great movie! Related reading: Crack in the World Wikipedia Crack in the World Movie(1965) imdb

Programs provide range of services in oil spill crisis. For most Lockheed Martin employees, the explosion that rocked British Petroleum’s Deepwater Horizon off-shore oil drilling rig on April 20 was a tragic yet distant event. But for a group of employees who assist the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in emergency response and environmental threat situations, [...]