Culture

Life – Week of 4.19.09

Jay Leno’s Garage Widgets NBC.com Economic Survivalists Take Root USA Today (15 April 09) Goodbye Bland Affluence The Wall Street Journal (17 April 09) The

By Catherine

In From the Network . . .

Two (unrelated) headlines appeared next to each other on Yahoo today: White House Will Not Prosecute CIA Officials for Waterboarding Yahoo.com (16 Apr 09) Not

By Catherine

Meet Susan Boyle

47 year old Susan Boyle wows the judges with her performance in the auditions for Britains Got Talent, singing “I Dreamed a Dream” from Les

By Catherine

Goldman Sachs

Goldman Sachs is very much in the news.  The most astute comment on Goldman these days comes from a taxi driver in Kuala Lumpur: “Why

By Catherine

Farming in the 'Hood

In its fourth year of operation, using the SPIN Farming method, the Somerton Tanks Farm produced over $68,000 in gross sales growing high value vegetables

By Catherine

Anybody Seen Our Gold?

GATA Renews Requests to Treasury, Fed for Gold Data Responding to President Obama’s instruction to government agencies of January 21 this year, seeking greater openness