Gold Prices Surge, Top $1270
Alix Steel The Street Gold prices were popping Tuesday as investors turned to gold as safe-haven asset after a slew of disappointing economic data. Gold…
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Corn syrup producers to change name to ‘corn sugar’ as awareness over health concerns grow
Activist Post Bad press over health concerns has affected sales for the corn syrup industry and as a result the Associated Press reported today that…
John Williams Sees The Onset Of Hyperinflation In As Little As 6 To 9 Months As Fed “Tap Dances On A Land Mine”
ZeroHedge John Williams, arguably one of the best trackers of real, unmanipulated government data via his Shadow Stats blog, has just released a note to clients…
Six in Ten Canadians Live Pay to Pay
Tavia Grant Globe and Mail The recession may be officially over, but six in 10 Canadians are still surviving from paycheque to paycheque, a national…
Big Sis To Get Expanded Role in Policing the Internet
Democrats want “Kill Switch” bill passed this year Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet Two cybersecurity bills that would hand President Obama the power to shut…
Sheriffs want database of prescription drug users
Mike Adams Natural News Sheriffs in North Carolina are petitioning state legislators to be given access to the database of patients who are in possession…
If Costa Rica legalizes marijuana, the United States ‘would stop sending funding and cut off agricultural exports’
Wikimedia Commons image Free and Equal MILL VALLEY, Calif. – Christina Tobin, founder and chair of The Free and Equal Elections Foundation, today announced details…
La Via Campesina denounces Gates Foundation purchase of Monsanto stock
La Via Campesina Food Freedom A modified version of a press release by La Via Campesina Global peasant movement, La Via Campesina, and the Haitian Peasant…
Md. judge: Military contractors can be sued
Md. judge says soldiers’ lawsuit over burn pits against military contractors can continue. Associated Press A federal judge says military contractors can be sued…
Tightened muzzle on scientists is ‘Orwellian’
Documents reveal federal researchers, whose work is financed by taxpayers, need approval from Ottawa before speaking with media Margaret Munro Vancouver Sun The Harper government…
Former Mossad Chief: World Must Attack Iran Now
Urges World to ‘Come to its Senses,’ Start Major War Jason Ditz AntiWar Speaking today at the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism conference, former Mossad chief…
IMF fears ‘social explosion’ from world jobs crisis
America and Europe face the worst jobs crisis since the 1930s and risk “an explosion of social unrest” unless they tread carefully, the International Monetary…
Gov’t Employees Say Interference Threatens Public Health
Kate Sheppard Mother Jones In the past months, more than 1,400 Americans have become sick after eating salmonella-tainted eggs, and half a billion eggs have…
Former British PM Tony Blair gets Liberty Medal
Kathy Matheson Associated Press PHILADELPHIA — Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair received the Liberty Medal on Monday for his global human rights work and…