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By Catherine Austin Fitts A subscriber from “down under” sent a series of interesting links on blog posts published last year on Australia’s plans to

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(Photo Credit: Reuters / Tomohiro Ohsumi) By RT In its first draft energy policy since 2011, Japan says nuclear energy is still among its vital

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By Jon Rappoport A few days ago, I reported on a recent study of Roundup, the Monsanto herbicide, and how Roundup is involved in causing

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By BBC News Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel has unveiled plans to shrink the US Army to its smallest size since before World War Two. Outlining

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by Paul Levy For the last few months, all I’ve wanted to do is to read about quantum physics. I’ve been studying quantum physics off

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By Catherine Austin Fitts R. J. Cutler’s documentary, The World According to Dick Cheney, is worth watching. Along with Ferguson’s No End in Sight this

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Matt Damon, a lifelong friend of Howard Zinn and his family, read excerpts from a speech Howard Zinn gave in 1970 as part of a

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By Catherine Austin Fitts The Church of England has now announced that they are pulling their endowment investments from companies that do not “play ball”

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By Joann Muller, Zack O’Malley Greenburg and Christopher Helman On an overcast Tuesday morning in dusty North Platte, Nebr., Tony Orr stands at the center

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By Adrianne Jeffries NASA is now working with private companies to take the first steps in exploring the moon for valuable resources like helium 3

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From: Catherine Austin Fitts Date: Wednesday, February 5, 2014 at 10:57 PM To:”Mayor@SyrGov.net” Subject: Letter to Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner Dear Mayor Miner: I am writing to request

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By Laura Litvan and Kathleen Hunter Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said he opposes legislation to speed approval of trade deals, rejecting a top goal

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By LeWeb Founders Hugo…updates us on his new role at Xiaomi, running their product portfolio and operations in all markets outside Mainland China. He shares

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By The Transnational Institute The Transnational Institute is proud to launch its third annual ‘State of Power’ report as the World Economic Forum meets in

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By Tenth Amendment Center The state-level effort to turn off water and electricity to the National Security Agency (NSA) got a major boost today as

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By Catherine Austin Fitts The latest round of bank profit announcements is worth contemplating, as is the chart above which shows the stock history of

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By Katie Peek The U.S. is still the only country that’s sent people to the moon, but more nations are steadily joining us in space.

By The Economist About 540m years ago something amazing happened on planet Earth: life forms began to multiply, leading to what is known as the

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By World Economic Forum First launched in 2005 by the World Economic Forum, the Global Risks report is widely recognized as one of the world’s

By Catherine Austin Fitts Mobile marketing company Jana just published a new survey of 1,000+ mobile users in Asia, Africa and South America. What they