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Terrorism, Kiddie-Porn, And Sword Play: Federal Reserve Bomb Plot Just Got Weird

The failed plot to blow up the Federal Reserve building in lower Manhattan yesterday just made the jump from terrifying to bizarre -- a man identified in federal court filings obtained by the Voice as a possible co-conspirator of 21-year-old Ahsan Nafis was arrested yesterday on kiddie-porn charges ... More >>

Feds Say Failed Attack On Federal Reserve Was "On Behalf Of Al-Qaeda;" Bomber's Other Target Was "High-Ranking Govt. Official"

Federal authorities thwarted a plot to blow up the Federal Reserve building in lower Manhattan this morning, in a would-be attack that was "on behalf of Al-Qaeda," the U.S. Attorney's Office announced this afternoon.(Read the federal criminal complaint below).According to the feds, the failed bomber ... More >>

Things Sarah Palin Didn't Know! A Scary List!

I don't have room to print all of them. Even though the Internet is infinite, my fingers would eventually give out at a certain point. So let's just name the things Sarah Palin didn't know according to HBO's Game Change, the riveting film which has been running over and over again to drill her clu ... More >>

Married American Women Make Less Money Than Their Husbands, Exit Workforce

Happy International Women's Day: if you are a married and educated woman in America, you probably make a lot less money than your husband -- a fact which might have prompted ladies to leave the U.S. workforce in droves, economists say. Reuters reports that the Federal Reserve is set to release a n ... More >>

Secrets of the Fed's $7.8 TRILLION Bank Bailout Revealed

Gage SkidmoreBanks benefited even more from the public bailout than previously known.​It's been three years since the the cataclysmic financial crisis that nearly destroyed the global economy, and three years since the government offered up $700 billion in public money to prop up the banks tha ... More >>

Pelosi, Boehner, Bachus, Hastert, Other Congressional Reps Traded Stock On Inside Tips, But It's All Legal (!?!)

​Ever wonder why Congress seems so willing to help bail out the financial industry? Well, a 60 Minutes report on Sunday says that lawmakers purchased stock in companies while involved in debates on Capitol Hill about bills that would affect those companies. Conflict of interest? Just a teensy ... More >>

European E. Coli Culprit Found; Taco Bell Launches In-Store Entertainment, Wi-Fi

​Newsflash: In-N-Out outranks McDonald's in a Consumer Reports survey. Oh, and chains like the Golden Arches and Taco Bell aren't as cheap as they profess to be. [Reuters] European investigators have traced the devastating E. coli outbreaks in Germany and France back to this likely culprit: f ... More >>

Joe Biden Feeds the Trolls on Yahoo! Answers

Yahoo! Answers, tough questions​Yahoo! Answers ranks barely above YouTube comments as the saddest, scummiest place for bizarre questions and offensive anonymous responses on the mainstream internet. So it's a bit strange, but not exactly surprising that President Barack takes to YouTube to con ... More >>

Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont (By Way of Brooklyn) Lets It Rip

​Those looking for the passion missing from the Democratic and White House response to the demands of the GOP/Wall Street/Murdoch media coalition, should tune in to the one man rebel band now playing in Washington named Bernie Sanders. The 69-year-old independent senator from Vermont let loose ... More >>

Smart Money, Huh? American Student-Loan Debt Now Greater Than American Credit Card Debt

​Hey, creditors, leave those kids alone! All along, it turns out, they were just another brick in the massive wall of student-loan debt Americans have now acquired which -- fun fact! -- has now surpassed American credit card debt, reports to the Wall Street Journal. Which is how much, exactly? ... More >>

Ben Bernanke Named Time Man of the Year, in Honor of Achievements TBD

​"Ben Bernanke is a nerd," says Time magazine. "He just happens to be the most powerful nerd on the planet," and thus the 2009 Man of the Year "Those green bills featuring dead Presidents," Time informs us, "are labeled federal reserve note for a reason: the Fed controls the money supply." As ... More >>

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Times Square Tea Party Denounces Obama, Media, Imaginary Tax Rates, Etc.

They had another one of those Tea Party things this evening, this time right next to the Times Square subway station on Broadway. The anti-Obama pep rally occupied part of the street and part of the sidewalk and stretched from the subway entrance to the door of Ruby Tuesday's, which is to say two- ... More >>

Trillion-Plus Fed Investment Raises Dow About 90 Points

The Street sorta liked the Federal Reserve's idea to invest over $1,000,000,000,000 of your money into your economy, which sounds like a wash but still makes us feel as if we've been gypped. $300 billion will go to buy T-bonds -- which news quickly drove demand up and yields down. The Fed will also ... More >>

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Americans start acting responsibly, sending country deeper into depression

Your own private Idaho. When you can no longer afford even a night out in Boise, Idaho, your country's in deep financial trouble. In a clever immorality tale about 21st century capitalism, the Wall Street Journal tells us this morning that people in the Intermountain West are having to give up m ... More >>

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