By Catherine Austin Fitts If you follow market commentators, one of the themes you are hearing a great deal about is the question of what,

By Wikileaks Today, 15 January 2014, WikiLeaks released the secret draft text for the entire TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership) Environment Chapter and the corresponding Chairs’ Report.

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By Zack Miller With all the negativity and skepticism swirling around the SEC’s recent proposition to liberalize the laws of equity crowdfunding, it’s time for

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By Nick Turse “Dude, I don’t need to play these stupid games. I know what you’re trying to do.” With that, Major Matthew Robert Bockholt

“Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.” ~ Elon Musk By Catherine Austin Fitts In the year-end

By Lina Khan Imagine cows fed and milked entirely by robots. Or tomatoes that send an e-mail when they need more water. Or a farm

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By Tyler Durden Some may have forgotten, or not be aware, that the Federal Reserve system has its own police force. Well, it does: “The

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By Catherine Austin Fitts Engineer Onat Ekinci joined me on the Solari Report this year for an excellent briefing on 3D Printing. Onat is briefing

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By Wikipedia The global surveillance disclosure refers to an ongoing series of news reports in the international media that revealed operational details about the U.S.

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By Catherine Austin Fitts After the Fed announcement yesterday that it will begin to taper its QE by $10 billion a month in January, precious

By Dave Michaels The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission unanimously proposed boosting by 10 times the amount of money companies can raise under a simplified

By Catherine Austin Fitts South Korea just announced that they are starting a physical gold exchange; this follows on the heals of Singapore, Moscow and

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By Catherine Austin Fitts Subscribers have been asking for a recording of my speech to the Appraisal Institute in San Francisco this fall. I will

By MakerBot MakerBot has opened 3D print services in three MakerBot retail stores in New York, Boston and Greenwich, Conn. Customers can simply walk into

***CAF Note: Looks like the shadow government will own and control BIG BROTHER directly through the telecoms without interference from an agency subject to FOIA

By English.News.Cn China’s lunar probe Chang’e-3, with the country’s first moon rover onboard, successfully landed on the moon on Saturday night, marking the first time

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By Charles Kennedy At a recent petrochemical conference in Pasadena, Exxon Mobil Corp predicted that by 2040 natural gas will be used to generate 25%

By Michael del Castillo The United States is no longer tops in global app revenue, ceding the position to Japan thanks to five major companies,

By Jon Rappoport Remember something called the War on Poverty? The Great Society? President Lyndon Johnson declared it and announced it in 1965. Since then,

By BBC News Robert McDowall, Alderney’s Finance Committee chairman, has been in talks with the Royal Mint about producing coins based on the online money.

***CAF Note:The Volcker Rule has been approved. Here is the press release, draft regulation and fact sheet*** By Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve

By Tyler Durden The number of employees across the firms of the broad-based Russell 2000 equity index has collapsed by more than half from its

By Wikileaks On 13 November 2013 WikiLeaks released the draft text of the crucial Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) Intellectual Property chapter during the lead-up to

By Catherine Austin Fitts Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot is an absurdist play in which two characters, Vladimir and Estragon, wait endlessly and in vain

***CAF Note: We receive some wonderful testimonials. This one was so delightful, I asked the author if we could share it with you.*** By a

*CAF Note: As municipalities struggle to address their economic problems, the pressure is on to shift valuable land in the commons to private control. Doing

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By Gonzalo Lira However, thinking about cryptocurrencies from the point of view of the Federal Reserve, or a senator on the Banking Committee, or a

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“Our human compassion binds us the one to the other – not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to

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By Ruth Simon and Angus Loten Entrepreneur Adam Lee and his brother couldn’t get a bank loan. Then they learned that Georgia state officials had

By Marianne Garvey, Brian Niemietz and Lachlan Cartwright It’s a leak Barbara Walters doesn’t want you to know about. The ABC News doyenne pushed hard

“One’s own employees ought to be one’s own best customers. Paying high wages is behind the prosperity of this country.” ~ Henry Ford By Catherine

By Peter Coy and Susan Berfield The public images of low-paying employers such as Wal-Mart and McDonald’s take a hit during the holidays, when Americans

By Catherine Austin Fitts November was not a strong month for precious metals. The current trends in the market have me concerned. In last month’s

By Catherine Austin Fitts There is no doubt about it. The stocks of pro-centralization team leaders were high flyers this year. Here is a chart

By Alex Fitzpatrick and Courtney Subramanian Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos revealed an experimental drone-based delivery service on Sunday, in an ambitious move by the online

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By Bloomberg News China’s move to end a 14-month ban on initial public offerings and allow the sale of preferred shares led to a rally

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By Catherine Austin Fitts Chris Reinhart is now leading the MicroHouse program for Open Source Ecology (OSE) full time. OSE has exciting plans for workshops

By Wikipedia Galileo is a global navigation satellite system (GNSS) currently being built by the European Union (EU) and European Space Agency (ESA). The €5

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By Charles Seife SA Forum is an invited essay from experts on topical issues in science and technology. If there’s a gene for hubris, the

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Photo Credit: Gaston’s – White River, Arkansas “I have three treasures which I hold and keep. The first is mercy, for from mercy comes courage.

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By Catherine Austin Fitts With the North American markets moving even higher, I was reminded by a colleague of the expression TINA, as in “There