Why is the Gates foundation investing in GM giant Monsanto? (Hat Tip: Brian B.)

Congress Approves Stopgap Bill to Fund Entire Government at 12:18 A.M.–On Same Night It Published the Bill (Hat Tip: Curtis Frantz)

Jim Rogers: Gold to Soar to $2,000 an Ounce in Decade

Bernanke Says Fed Has Duty to Aid Economy, Doesn’t Detail How

WH refuses to lift moratorium, adds more restrictions

While You Were Sleeping, The Dollar Continued To Get Crushed (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)

US Is ‘Practically Owned’ by China: Analyst (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)

Don’t Forget The Real Reason That Ireland Is So Terrifying For Europe (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)

Bloomberg: Obama ‘not particularly interested in business’ (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)

Pensions: Angry populists’ next target (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)

US Stocks Already Rallying After Strong Data Out Of Asia (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)

Echoes of the Great Depression (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)

Ireland Prices Bank Rescue; Deficit at 32% of GDP (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)

Here It Comes: Title Insurance Problems (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)

The Obama Fiscal Commission is plotting the future (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)

“Outside the Box” using interstate compacts to replace Obamacare. (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)

Unemployment spokeswoman: Democrats are to blame

British scientists reverse course on global warming

Cyber Storm III Simulates Large-scale Attack (Hat Tip: Brian B.)

ISM U.S. Manufacturing Index Decreased to 54.4 in September

Fed’s Dudley Says Further Easing Probably Warranted

Emanuel Would Need to Explain $17 Million Bank Pay

Waddell & Reed Shows Long-Term Investor Can Unhinge Wall Street

U.S. Treasury Gets $1 Billion Profit on Sale of Citigroup Stake

Obamacare Lawsuit Needs Your Help (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)

SCHWARZENEGGER DECRIMINALIZES MARIJUANA POSSESSION IN CA

ATTACK ON NATO IN PAKISTAN OIL TANKERS TORCHED

‘The courts cannot afford to prosecute’

RUSH: Gold at Record for 6th Day

Elementary school plans to sell ad space on permission slips, school notices

UPDATE: Ecuador in chaos; president claims ‘coup attempt’

REPORT: ‘FLASH CRASH’ SPARKED BY ‘SINGLE TRADE’

UN warns of global unrest over unemployment

Merkel calls for calm as rail protest turns ugly

Chevron Gets Permission to Drill Off UK Coast

The Separation Between Church & ObamaCare

Ecuador coup attempt? President Rafael Correa attacked in police revolt.

Gen Musharraf warns of Pakistan coup after crisis meeting in London

McDonald’s May Drop Health Plan

Diabolically Audacious: Design, Jizya, and Sharia Financing – The Ground Zero Mega Mosque (Hat Tip: Brian B.)

Austerity Bites Ireland and Elite

Failing Water Promotion Drives Elite Insecurity

‘Finding $700 Billion Is Not Easy’ — if You’re a Socialist (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)

Nation’s Capital Braces for New Soda Tax

AFL-CIO Head Tries to Meddle in NFL Labor Dispute; Update: NFL Says ‘No Thanks’

Gibbs: GOP Holding Non-Existent Tax Bill ‘Hostage’

Climate Change Is Worse Than War Says…Osama bin Laden

‘It Was the Democrats’: Jobs Advocate Shocks Ed Schultz With Unemployment Theory

Forget Sugar, Doctor Screams for FDA Regulation of Food Coloring

US Postal Service Close to Going Broke

Big Bank Foreclosure Delays Signal Big Trouble (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)

China set to take center stage in gold market [Chinafornia Gold Rush about to begin….] (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)

Iris Scanning Set To Secure City in Mexico, Then the World (Hat Tip: Brian B.)

Ecuador declares emergency as police protest, president is attacked (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)

President Attacked Amid Riots In Ecuador (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)

Jobless Advocate Shocks Ed Schultz: Democrats Put Us In This Situation (Hat Tip: Brian B.)

Reviewing a Do-Nothing (Right) Congress

At This Rate, It’ll Take More Than Two Years To Sell America’s Distressed Properties

You Have A Lot To Learn If You Think Anti-China Tariffs Will Accomplish Anything

The Two Huge Themes For The Next Month: Political Uncertainty And Fed Uncertainty

Senate Expands IRS Form 1099 Reporting Requirement to Include All Rental Property Owners (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)

SurvivalBlog:

More families, friends move in together.

Letter Re: Thoughts on Upcoming Quantitative Easing

Ben Davies – The World Monetary Earthquake. Here is a quote: “Within a single week 25 nations have deliberately slashed the values of their currencies. Nothing quite comparable with this has ever happened before in the history of the world. This world monetary earthquake will carry many lessons.”

U.S. Mint says it has run out of Buffalo gold coins

Is Gold Going up or is it Just the Dollar Going Down?

Job Experts Lose Jobs!

Shut Down the Fed (Part II)

Bullion Banks are Losing Control of Gold and Silver

US Consumer Confidence Fell More Than Forecast

Economic Collapse After The Election?

Home Price Confusion Redux

If The Recession Has Ended, Why Is The Fed So Worried?

Boomer Suicides On Rise in US

America on the brink of a Second Revolution