By Kashmir Hill Things are getting serious for Bitcoin this month: a federal judge declared it real money, Bloomberg gave it an experimental ticker (XBT),

By Gibby Zobel Alfredo Moser’s invention is lighting up the world. In 2002, the Brazilian mechanic had a light-bulb moment and came up with a

By Alastair Thompson While the following story is about Kim Dotcom and his new encrypted data delivery network MEGA.co.nz, it addresses a great deal more

By CNBC Air cushioning: That’s the high-concept technology behind the high-speed transit concept that billionaire Elon Musk calls the Hyperloop. Musk – who already plays

By Catherine Austin Fitts In the 1990’s, the US intentionally grew the US prison population to a mind boggling per capita leadership globally. This effort

[CAF Note: This is an important signal. Now that the financial coup is complete, the trail is cold and the money across, we are proceeding

Photo Credit: Pew Research Center By Althea Chang Lawyers and business executives are among the least trusted occupations in America, and members of the military,

CAF Note: The leaders of the financial coup are now waging war on state and local pension funds. They want to lower the boom on

By James L. Payne If mandatory health insurance goes through, it will turn me into a criminal. I don’t have health insurance. I don’t want

Photo Credit: American Free Press By BBC News On Wednesday, a government official said up to 300 tonnes of highly radioactive water may be flowing

Photo Credit: Mark McGinnis By Ethan Watters In the summer of 1995, a young graduate student in anthropology at UCLA named Joe Henrich traveled to

Flamboyan I group successfully completed their first cycle with a loan from Kiva and is running smoothly. With that loan in the first cycle, their

CAF Note: We were discussing the Pope’s current dilemma with the Vatican bank – to launder or not launder? The Solari team and I decided

By Gregory Roth In a court case that could add a new risk factor to some private equity deals, the First Circuit Court of Appeals

By David Henry and Peter Rudegeair JPMorgan Chase & Co, the biggest U.S. bank by assets, said on Wednesday it is being investigated by criminal

By Wikipedia Crowdfunding (alternately crowd financing, equity crowdfunding, crowd-sourced fundraising) is the collective effort of individuals who network and pool their money, usually via the

Photo Credit: Bloomberg, Business Insider By Sam Ro The S&P 500 closed at an all-time high on Friday. Meanwhile, estimates for U.S. GDP growth in

Photo Credit: Reuters/Jonathan Ernst [CAF Note: Now that large corporate entities have accumulated large portfolios of residential real estate, the US will make changes that

By Catherine Austin Fitts Once upon a times we used to drop armies on each others lands to kill each other. We still do so

By Jennifer Saba The Washington Post Co has agreed to sell its newspaper assets, including its flagship daily, to Amazon Inc founder Jeff Bezos for

Photo Credit: AFP Photo / Fabrice Coffrini By RT HSBC has requested embassies and consulates around the world to close their accounts and transfer their

By John Naughton As an antidote, here are some of the things we should be thinking about as a result of what we have learned

By Gensler LA The intent of this Gensler Los Angeles led academic studio was to survey, understand and visualize the dynamic set of infrastructure constraints

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By Lars Schall On behalf of Matterhorn Asset Management, independent German financial journalist Lars Schall talked with U.S. financial investment advisor Catherine Austin Fitts. Inter

By Wikipedia The Parable of the talents or minas, (also known as the Parable of Talents or The Parable of the Pounds), is one of

By Connie Guglielmo Apple may get the brunt of the attention for its use of offshore havens to offset the taxes it pays in the

By Du Juan China’s investment in renewable energy during the 12th Five-Year Plan (2011-15) will reach 1.8 trillion yuan ($294 billion) in addition to 2.3

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By Catherine Austin Fitts The Buddha said, “Those who are awake live in a state of constant amazement.” If you have been following the science

By Aaron Dykes and Melissa Melton We’re no molecular biologists over here, but have you ever seen the sci-fi flick Gattaca? In that 1997 film,

By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com Money manager Catherine Austin Fitts says, “You are seeing a tug of war between the new system that’s coming up and

Photo Credit:Joshua Roberts/Bloomberg News By Catherine Austin Fitts Ben and the FOMC spoke today confirming that they will continue monthly quantitative easing at the $85

By Rob Wile Billionaire Saudi Prince Alwaleed has sounded the alarm about the threat shale oil and gas development poses to the petro-kingdom’s barely diversified

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By Catherine Austin Fitts The Chinese are doing an audit of their debt? How scary is that? Not as scary as an audit of US

Photo Credit: AFP By BBC China has ordered a nationwide audit of all government debt, underlining fears that the recent slowdown in its economy may

[CAF Note: How do we think they are handling the markets?] By Sebastian Anthony Researchers at Harvard University have created the first noninvasive brain-to-brain interface

By Susan Young Scientists have created a false memory in mice by manipulating neurons that bear the memory of a place. The work further demonstrates

Photo Credit: Bill Pugliano/Getty Images [CAF Note: The official creation of the cover story for the hit on pension funds has begun.] By Mary Williams

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By Catherine Austin Fitts Ready to start building the blueprints for the open source tools that can create a more diversified, healthier civilization? Are you

By Catherine Austin Fitts I drive the full length of North America at least once a year. From Tennessee, I drive West to San Francisco

Send Musicians To Prison Do you believe music can heal and restore? Do you believe music communicates what words alone cannot? Do you believe music

Photo Credit: Getty Images; Illustration by 731 [CAF Note: Combine this with crowd funding, and you will have quite a financial cocktail!] By Peter Coy

By Bob Ivry JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM), Morgan Stanley (MS) and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS) are among lenders whose commodity-trading is in jeopardy

By Wikipedia Solar Impulse is a Swiss long-range solar powered aircraft project developed at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. The project eventually hopes to

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By Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk Something peculiar has been going on in the treasury market during the latest round of quantitative easing (QE). If we study

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This is a clip from an interview Catherine Austin Fitts did called “The Looting of America”. Catherine, the daughter of a physician, has been watching

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By CNBC In Dubai, city of opulence and excess, the obese are worth their (over) weight in gold. In an effort to fight increasing obesity

By Pew Research Publics around the world believe the global balance of power is shifting. China’s economic power is on the rise, and many think

[CAF Note: I just finished reading Planet Earth by Rosalie Bertell. Rather than review it, I am linking to Dr. Farrell’s review from 2011] By

By Michael A. Fletcher Detroit filed the largest municipal bankruptcy in the nation’s history Thursday afternoon, capping a long and spectacular decline that left the

By Jenna Johnson Under pressure from the White House, Senate leaders are quickly moving forward with a plan to change how the government sets federal

[CAF: Pay Attention. This is a market shifting event. There will be another shift coming this fall when the SEC promulgates rules that permit solicitation

[CAF Note: Is JP Morgan shipping back $500 million to fund the $393 million in the Presidents DOJ budget for the gun campaign as well

By Garakami Scientists are eager to bring the universe a little closer to home with the soon-to-be world’s largest optical Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT). The

By Grant Williams A few weeks ago, I put a chart with which I am acutely familiar up on my Bloomberg. It is a chart

By Lidia Kelly and Douglas Busvine G20 summits do not always set the pulse racing, but this week’s gathering of finance ministers and central bankers

By Dr. Joseph P. Farrell Yesterday I blogged about that nice bright shiny new NSA facility being built (for all to photograph from their spy

By Loveday Morris and Ahmed Ramadan After more than two years of relentless conflict, Syria’s government is desperately trying to avert a secondary crisis: a

[CAF: Clifford Carnicom continues to provide leadership and invaluable information to help us understand the impact of global spraying programs. Here is his latest –

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Photo Credit: AFP By The Economist Compared with other modes of transport, train technology might seem to be progressing as slowly as a suburban commuter

By Inhabitat It’s no surprise that the country that has kicked butt at the Solar Decathlon competition (to produce energy positive solar houses) year after

Published Jul 06, 2012 EXECUTIVE ORDER – – – – – – – ASSIGNMENT OF NATIONAL SECURITY AND EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS COMMUNICATIONS FUNCTIONS By the authority

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By RT The Obama administration will not be allowed to terminate a lawsuit by asserting that a civil argument would risk exposing national secrets, a

(Click on the image to enlarge.) By Mark Koba Manufacturing jobs in the U.S. appear to be coming back—if ever so slightly. Several American firms,

Photo Credit:AP/Susan Walsh By FoxNews.com Interest rates on federally subsidized Stafford student loans doubled overnight, soaring from 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent after Congress failed

By Jon Rappoport This article is a compilation of a number of pieces I’ve written about Ed Snowden and the NSA. It doesn’t replace them,

By George Ure OK, bear with me here: The largest story of the week, when the history books are written, could be that the latest

Photo Credit: Carolyn Kaster/AP By Dr. Joseph P. Farrell Over the past two days, I’ve been blogging about the emergence of GMOs as a political

By Chris Lazare Oregon has come up with a plan to help provide higher education for free at their 7 state universities. Advocates of the

By Plansponsor Are new distribution regulations around the corner? Policymakers within the federal government sent yet another strong signal that they are reassessing the role

Photo Credit: Brendan Bannon/The New York Times By Ron Nixon Leslie James Pickering noticed something odd in his mail last September: a handwritten card, apparently

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Photo Credit: Gobierno de Chile The 18th round of TPP negotiations will take place in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia July 15-24, 2013. Stakeholder events will take

Photo Credit: Tineke D’haese for Via Campesina Published on June 15, 2013 By Salena Tramel The U.S. Court of Appeals ruled in favor of Monsanto

By Folker Hellmeyer, Translation Lars Schall Since 1997 – 2004, the U.S. was changed from an income-driven economy into an economy, whose economic performance is

By Appraisal Institute Bank of America reportedly opened a unit in India to review valuation reports in an effort to boost its share of the

By Paul Levy A few days before my interview on Why Shamanism Now? Internet Radio Show, I received an email from the well-known anthropologist, author

By BBC News The director and deputy director of the Vatican bank have resigned following the arrest of a senior Italian cleric over corruption and

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CAF Note: This article has an excellent insight into the NSA and economic warfare. By William Blum Despite these concerns the US has continued to

By Silla Brush and Cheyenne Hopkins U.S. regulators will inject risk into the derivatives market if they don’t take more time to coordinate Dodd-Frank Act

Photo Credit: Reuters/Gary Hershorn [CAF Note: Force rules] By Daniel Bases and Manuela Badawy After a 12-year hiatus, the United States reclaimed first place among