By PRNewswire The Institute for Responsible Technology (IRT) released a report today proposing a link between genetically modified (GM) foods and gluten-related disorders. In today’s

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By Scott Moritz & Freeman Klopott New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli and Trillium Asset Management LLC filed shareholder proposals asking AT&T Inc. (T) to

Photo Credit: Dave Simonds By The Economist Security guards (at least the good ones) are paid to be paranoid. Computer-security researchers are the same. Many

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By EFF What is the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP)? The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is a secretive, multi-national trade agreement that threatens to extend restrictive intellectual

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By Tyler Durden “We fumbled the rollout on this health-care law,” could be President Obama’s understatement of the century. In the month-or-so since Obamacare was

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By Catherine Austin Fitts JP Morgan Chase’s social media team offered folks a chance to tweet in questions to #AskJPM. The results were not what

**CAF Note: These changes could have a dramatic impact on the market for crowd funding and micro cap equities. If the IPO market continues to

By Alex Dunham As if Spaniards had not already been dissuaded by the potential €60 million fines they face for illegally generating their own solar

By Wikileaks Today, 13 November 2013, WikiLeaks released the secret negotiated draft text for the entire TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership) Intellectual Property Rights Chapter. The TPP

By Tyler Durden It would appear that the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) website – required when purchasing a gun or explosive –

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By By Chen Jia Canada’s British Columbia province has completed its sale of yuan-denominated bonds in Hong Kong, the provincial government said on Tuesday. The

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Photo Credit: Paul Sakuma/AP By Mark Memmott Much of the talk in recent years about how the U.S. Postal Service could stem has been about

Photo Credit: David Parkins By The Economist What is a central banker’s main job? Ask the man on the street and the chances are he

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By Catherine Austin Fitts The extraordinary divergence between the prices of commodities and equities this year can be seen in a chart of Starbucks. The

By Douwe Miedema The U.S. derivatives regulator on Tuesday reintroduced a plan to curb commodity market speculation, reviving a crucial Wall Street reform after a

Photo Credit: Marco Grob/Trunk Archive “Our state is in crisis. Our people are hurting. Now is the time when we all must resist the traditional,

Photo Credit: mmagallan By Marvin Ammori Net neutrality is a dead man walking. The execution date isn’t set, but it could be days, or months

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Photo Credit: Lewis Whyld/PA By Catherine Austin Fitts I was reading a commentary this morning by a Swiss money manager whose opinion I respect. He

By The Gluten Summit The goal of The Gluten Summit is to shift the scientific discussion and clinical recognition of gluten-related disorders forward by five

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By Tyler Durden Over a year ago we discussed the “next Industrial Revolution” and where it might appear from. 3D printers were envisioned among Goldman’s

By Kashmir Hill In recent months, Lavabit, based in Texas, and Silent Circle, based in Washington, D.C., both shuttered their encrypted email services. The companies

By Phys.org A theory—SuperDense quantum teleportation—posed by Hampshire College physics professor Herbert Bernstein will be tested on the International Space Station. Theoretical physicist Bernstein devised

Photo Credit: European Pressphoto Agency By Mari Iwata Japan’s nuclear watchdog on Wednesday gave a green light to a plan by Tokyo Electric Power Co.

By Paul Levy The artist casts a liberating fragrance, spelling out what is hanging in the air. When a group of people abdicate their individual

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Photo Credit: bitcoinworld.blogspot.ru By Catherine Austin Fitts The push is on for prototyping digital currencies to build out the Internet platform financial markets. The shills

By Catherine Austin Fitts After my speech at the Appraisal Institute on Tuesday am, we had a grand lunch with Solari Report subscribers at Kuleto’s

By Terence P. Jeffrey Americans who were recipients of means-tested government benefits in 2011 outnumbered year-round full-time workers, according to data released this month by

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Photo Credit: Keith Tyler By Catherine Austin Fitts On behalf of the American people, Chancellor Merkel, I would like to apologize for the invasive surveillance

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By ABC News/AP An earthquake of magnitude 7.3 struck Saturday morning off Japan’s east coast, the U.S. Geological Survey said. Japan’s emergency agencies declared a

By RT Crowdfunding is coming to Wall Street! Will a new SEC rule democratize the capital markets? Or is Joe Six-pack about to be “muppetized”

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By The Economist On June 16th something very peculiar happened in Germany’s electricity market. The wholesale price of electricity fell to minus €100 per megawatt

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**CAF Note: The cost of the US government borrowing money to generate corporate earnings is now reaching parity globally** By Daniel Kruger & Anchalee Worrachate

By AlJazeera Highly radioactive water overflowed barriers into Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station after its operator Tepco underestimated how much rain would fall and

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Photo Credit: Carolyn Kaster/Associated Press By Dave Michaels Small businesses raising money by selling shares over the Internet wouldn’t have to verify that their backers

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By David Ray Griffin There have been several good films and videos about 9/11. But the new film by award-winning film-maker Massimo Mazzucco is in

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By Catherine Austin Fitts The announcement of a bipartisan deal to open the government and keep the debt issuance humming along is a reprieve from

By Press Trust of India In a major boost for India and other countries seeking details on suspected black money stashed in Swiss banks, Switzerland

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By The Solari Team There are so many irreconcilable issues in the federal budget, and there are many pieces and aspects to understanding the fiscal

Here is a collection of links that Catherine makes note of in her GlobalBEM speech on October 11, 2013 from 11 – 12 MT. Special

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Despite U.S. opposition, a pipeline from Iran to Pakistan is inevitable. Pakistan needs natural gas to fuel its power plants and has no good options.