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By Greg Palast Alex Jones is right. Deport Piers Morgan. NOW. Send him back. In chains. But not because Piers doesn’t believe in the Second

[Note from CAF: As currency wars intensify, expect more attention paid to clearance and settlement systems, particularly SWIFT.] The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication

By Peter Melchett Powerful forces in Western society have been promoting genetic engineering (now usually genetic modification – GM) in agricultural crops since the mid-1990s.

By Jesse Emspak Surveillance cameras are ubiquitous, especially in the U.K.. and in the United States, Congress has already approved the use of drones for

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We’ve posted recently about the swelling pollution crisis in China, this map can show you the scope of the problem. View the Map

By The Economist WATCH Chinese television these days and you might conclude that the outbreak of war with Japan over what it calls the Senkaku

We have just posted an updated version of the transcript for the 2012 Annual Wrap Up. You can find it in the Transcript Announcement. Also

[Staff Note: I’m a big fan of America’s budding Microbrew industry. It’s based around small, local companies who strive to provide the best product they

Well….now it’s Poland. This nation has joined the growing list of countries, particularly in Europe, that are displaying some rationality and caution with respect to

By Dina ElBoghdady The ads may start coming in the next few months through e-mail, on billboards, even via a passing reference on Facebook —

Did Congress just pay NY $51 billion to pass a gun control law? New York Passes Nation’s Toughest Gun-Control Law House Approves Post-Sandy Relief Bill

By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard The move marks an extraodinary breakdown in trust between leading central banks and has set off ferment among gold enthusiasts, with some

Beijing-Shanghai high-speed rail. Beijing departure station

By Joanna Stern A book-less library. It sounds like an oxymoron, but come the fall of 2013, San Antonio’s Bexar County is going to be

By 60 Minutes One of the hallmarks of the 21st century is that we are all having more and more interactions with machines and fewer

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By Jon Rappoport In 1969, William Kunstler, the famous radical-left lawyer, gave a speech in Oakland, California, to the black community. In his concluding remarks,

By Catherine Austin Fitts Paul Levy’s new book, Dispelling Wetiko: Breaking the Curse of Evil, is now available. I wrote the forward. This is an

By Catherine Austin Fitts I took an online course on driver safety tonight. Here are two quotes from the material: “Most people do not realize

Adding to the list of mysterious deaths that have happened over the last few days, internet visionary and brilliant internet activist Aaron Swartz was found

By CNN staff As a new round of French military strikes targeted Islamist rebels in Mali on Sunday, both sides of the fight said they

1st Comment: Jon Corzine goes to jail or it’s all bull***t. Oh, and Angelo Mozilla needs to go to jail, too. 2nd Comment: I find

In September, 2011, Manitoba judge Robert Heinrichs ruled that a sixteen year old accused of murder would remain in youth court where he faces a

The music for this weekend is “4th and Vine” by Sinéad O’Connor. Check it out on Nowness.com.

By Jon Rappoport The best way to depict what’s going on in America is through a letter from the head of the Sinaloa Drug Cartel,

By Robert Johnson After repeatedly flying surveillance aircraft into disputed airspace with Japan, and Tokyo scrambling F-15s in response, China’s now sending fighters of its

By Tim Schmidt, Publisher – Concealed Carry Report Every person on earth has the natural born right to defend themself from harm. This is where

By Fox News The National Rifle Association emerged from a meeting Thursday with Vice President Biden and accused his gun violence task force of leading

By Jim Christie The second largest U.S. pension fund decided on Wednesday to sell off its investments in the manufacturer of the rifle used in

By Jillian Rayfield Joe Biden said today that the president is prepared to take unilateral action in order to implement stricter gun control measures. “The

By Eric Markowitz Just one day after Inc. covered the formal launch of Mosaic, a clean enery crowdfunding platform based in Oakland that connects investors

By Catherine Austin Fitts [Published in 2005, this checklist was designed to help people shift from large banks whose incentives are out of alignment with

By News 9 Finance The world-first change – a temporary measure – comes after a branding survey commissioned by the fast food chain found that

By Karen Weise for Businessweek The mortgage settlements just keep coming. On Monday morning, Bank of America said it reached an agreement to resolve virtually

By Peter Bergen President Barack Obama has nominated his top counterterrorism adviser, John Brennan, to be the next director of the CIA. If there is

These are invaluable sets of abstracts (data-based to be searchable) covering the RFR scientific literature, as well as collections of scientific abstracts on free radical

By Catherine Austin Fitts Ben Lizardi of Lizardi Communications  designed our wonderful new poster for 2013, using an original art work from Holly Bedrosian. We thought

By Catherine Austin Fitts The ability to kill with impunity is the power that runs the planet today. Assassination is an ancient craft. Killing successfully

By Gretchen Morgenson IF you were hoping that things might be different in 2013 — you know, that bankers would be held responsible for bad

Before launching work on the current volume, the NIC commissioned an academic study of the four previous Global Trends studies, beginning with the first edition

[Note from CAF: I don’t know the specifics of what Wegelin did or did not do. I assume the US gave them two options. Confess

By Catherine Austin Fitts Ben Lizardi of Lizardi Communications designed our wonderful new poster for 2014, using an original art work from Miki de Goodaboom.

By Jessica Silver-Greenberg Banking regulators are close to a $10 billion settlement with 14 banks that would end the government’s efforts to hold lenders responsible

[click on the image for a larger version] By Adam Mann This year has seen some amazing space photos, including gloriously shining dust in the

[click on the image for a larger version] By Cordell Eddings The world’s biggest bond dealers are growing more reluctant to give up their record

[click on the image for a larger version] By Mike Maciag Relatively few Americans moved this year, and those who did find new homes didn’t

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Over an early-morning coffee with the chief executive of a FTSE 100 business last week, talk turned to the outlook for 2013. Where I had

Dear people, speakers, team members and supporters of Globalbem. I want to wish you all on behalf of Globalbem a happy Christmas and a wonderful

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Obama: Biden to Lead Effort Against Gun Violence Source : Posted by CNN Wire Staff President Barack Obama said Wednesday that Vice President Joe Biden

Ever dream of a future free from the shackles of mindless mass-produced consumerism? A future of complete freedom, instantaneous manufacturing, and self-designed made-to-order one-of-a-kind goods?

Here is a map of US counties, again colored red and blue to indicate Republican and Democratic majorities respectively: Now the effects we saw at

By Jon Rappoport The Dark Knight Rises and The Hunger Games. We’ll get to them in a minute. This article is in the interest of

Source: Kauffman Foundation The Kauffman Index of Entrepreneurial Activity once again tops the list of downloaded reports. The leading indicator of new business creation in

E-mail sent by a Solari Report subscriber to their list, including Catherine: Shooting little children in their school is just too much. We can no

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By RT.com The next generation of military drones, unveiled by a leading US manufacturer, will not just carry a limited supply of rockets – but

You asked for it, so here it is! The Building Wealth Collection offers (5) essential interviews and commentaries from The Solari Report archive selected to

By Jon Rappoport We’ve all heard about hidden agendas, divide and conquer, controlling the narrative, and problem-reaction-solution. These are certainly time-honored and effective strategies for

By Robert Winnett and James Kirkup Owen Paterson, the Environment Secretary, made the remarks as ministers prepare to relax controls on the cultivation of GM

By Ron Unz From its 1636 foundation Harvard had always ranked as America’s oldest and most prestigious college, even as it gradually grew in size

By a Solari Report Subscriber I am assuming that divestment means getting rid of a lot of the trappings of modern life as a drive

By Parag Khanna Earlier this month, China announced plans to invest an additional $140 billion into 25 new rail projects across the country as part

Hanukkah is an eight-day holiday commemorating the rededication of the Holy Temple in Jerusalem at the time of the Maccabean Revolt of the 2nd century BCE. Hanukkah is observed

By Ed Easterling, Crestmont Research There are numerous problem-solving and decision-making processes in the military and civilian sectors. All of them start with a common

[CAF Note: Think this is a good idea? Protecting the animals? Think again. Once the drone network is in place, rules can be evolved so

By Mayuri Onerheim I was astounded to listen to the subject weekly Solari Report last night by Catherine Austin Fitts of Solari.com,  where she was talking

Transcript of The Power of IT is now available to Subscribers! From the transcript:

By Catherine Austin Fitts I often recommend Black Money by Michael Thomas for people interested in understanding Promis software and the impact it had on

Since it implemented huge education reforms 40 years ago, Finland’s school system has consistently come at the top for the international rankings for education systems.

By Gregory Korte Designed to boost homeownership, the mortgage interest deduction is one of the most popular provisions of the tax code. But Internal Revenue

Source: U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission The Securities and Exchange Commission today began administrative proceedings against the China affiliates of each of the Big Four

By Christina Wilkie and Ryan Grim The corporate CEOs who have made a high-profile foray into deficit negotiations have themselves been substantially responsible for the

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by Lucy Komisar In the tax haven of Luxembourg, a little-known outfit called Clearstream handles billions of dollars a year in stock and bond transfers

[CAF Note: We were so inspired by Daniel and Caitlin’s efforts to rebuild life-giving soil we asked them to write a blog post about the

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By Spencer Ackerman The Pentagon wants to make perfectly clear that every time one of its flying robots releases its lethal payload, it’s the result

by Usabailout.com The first thing to know about the raging global financial crisis is that it isn’t a financial crisis. It’s a legal crisis: the

We had a great lunch with subscribers in Murfeesboro, Tennessee on Saturday. It is always remarkable to watch what happens when we meet in person!

Michigan Public School System Being Destroyed.  RIGHT NOW. By Brainwrap at The Daily Kos Hyperbole? Hair on Fire? Sky is Falling? Absolutely. If you or

By Science Codex A group headed by Remco van den Bosch from the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy has discovered a black hole that shakes

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By Jerome Corsi Two years ago, as WND reported, the Obama administration was proceeding with a novel way to finance trillion-dollar budget deficits by forcing

By Sam Smith Pull out a pad of paper and on the left hand side write down the names of all the nationally prominent individuals

By Merco Press The agency stated in a communiqué that “the increased probability that Argentina will not service its restructured debt securities issued under New

Since January 2009, the number of individuals on food stamps has skyrocketed from 31.9 million to the current record high 47.1 million. By comparison, in

By Emily Badger Dan and Ben Miller began tugging two years ago at a simple question they believe is central to the failings of the

[CAF Note: Is Europe prepared to cave on GMOs now that it appears voter fraud has arranged for California to cave on GMO labeling?] By