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The following articles by various authors are of significant interest. They cover many important topics including current events, historical documentation, commentaries, subjects in law, natural rights, and more. Take the time to educate yourself and form your own opinions. You will find it to be time well spent.

More Amerikan expatriates give up citizenship!

GENEVA, Switzerland - April 25, 2010 - Amid mounting frustration over taxation and banking problems, small but growing numbers of overseas Amerikans are renouncing their citizenship.

“What we have seen is a substantial change in mentality among the overseas community in the past two years,” said Jackie Bugnion, director of American Citizens Abroad, an advocacy group bas

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Will precious metals prices continue to rise?

LONDON, England - April 25, 2010 - After a brief tumble in February on fears that the Chinese economy was overheating, commodity prices resumed their upward trajectory. This has ensured mining shares kept moving higher - until two weeks ago.

As sector worries persist, is the relentless charge forward for miners sustainable - or are future earnings now fully priced in?

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Goldman Sachs executives cheered housing market's decline!

WASHINGTON - April 25, 2010 - As the U.S. housing market began its epic fall nearly three years ago, top executives at Wall Street powerhouse Goldman Sachs cheered the large financial gains the firm stood to make on certain bets it had placed, according to newly released documents.

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FDIC shuts down seven banks in Illinois!

NEW YORK - April 23, 2010 - On Friday, federal regulators shut down seven banks in Illinois, putting the number of U.S. bank failures this year at 57.

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. took over four banks in Chicago: New Century Bank, with $485.6 million in assets; Citizens Bank &Trust Company, with $77.3 million in assets; Broadway Bank, with $1.2 billion in assets; and Lincoln P

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SEC staffers watched porn while the economy crashed!

NEW YORK - April 23, 2010 - Senior staffers at the Securities and Exchange Commission spent hours surfing pornographic web sites on government-issued computers while they were being paid to police the financial system, an agency watchdog says.

The SEC's Inspector General conducted 33 probes of employees looking at explicit images in the past five years, according to a memo obtained

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Massive government corruption hidden by focus on Goldman-Sachs!

WASHINGTON - April 22, 2010 - As the country's attention is directed to the Goldman-Sachs scandal, a much greater story lurks beneath the surface involving massive government corruption that makes Wall Street firms pale in comparison.

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Belgian government collapses!

LONDON, England - April 22, 2010 - The collapse of the Belgian government has thrown into doubt plans to pass a law that would ban Islamic veils in public.

The government, led by Prime Minister Yves Leterme, fell after the center-right Flemish liberal party Open VLD pulled out of his five-month-old coalition. Leterme tendered his government's resignation to King Albert after an eme