Delivered June 10, 1963 “President Anderson, members of the faculty, board of trustees, distinguished guests, my old colleague, Senator Bob Byrd, who has earned his

By Humble Student of the Markets I wrote before that the likely negative surprise was going to come from China and not Europe (see Focus

“There are three kinds of people in the world: those who are asleep, those who are stirring, and those who are awake. “If you try

By Paula Vasan,  aiCIO Alongside senators, prime ministers, and banking kingpins, one (perhaps) unusual attendee is currently at this year’s Bilderberg meetings: Texas Teacher Retirement

Source:News.com.au The Financial Times (FT) reported yesterday that Lord Jacob Rothschild’s listed investment trust, RIT Capital Partners, agreed to take a 37 per cent stake

By Lee Ferran, Alexander Marquardt and Colleen Curry Flame, also known as sKyWIper, is a veritable “toolkit” of cyber spying programs that is capable of

By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard The German scheme — known as the European Redemption Pact — offers a form of “Eurobonds Lite” that can be squared with

By Elisheva Wiriaatmadja The 2012 Bilderberg Group meeting will take place from May 31st to June 3rd at the Westfields Marriott Washington Dulles hotel in

By The CNN Wire Staff The United States joins Germany, Spain, Italy, France, Britain, Canada, Australia in expelling Syrian diplomats  Tuesday in a coordinated move …

Source: Associated Press America’s newest veterans are filing for disability benefits at a historic rate, claiming to be the most medically and mentally troubled generation

By Matt Stoller “There was a kind of inflection point during the five-year period between 1997 and 2003 — the late Clinton and/or early Bush

[Note from CAF: Special thanks to Leila Dregger and the team of journalists at Tamera who documented our discussions.] The Second InternatIonal Water Symposium in

By A Solari Subscriber City of Las Cruces is cutting off utilities for the non payment of speed camera tickets. [http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/37/3774.asp] In Phx 75k people

By Wil Schroter, Fundable When the JOBS Act was signed in April, the startup community gave itself a collective high five. Crowdfunding would enable startups

From Jim Sinclair from Harry Schulz [and said to be from Bob Chapman] On May 14, Russia’s Prime Minister Medvedev delivered a speech at an

Source: Zillow With U.S. home values falling by nearly 25% since peak in 2007, many homeowners are now underwater in their mortgages, meaning they owe

By Peter Dale Scott Preface I delivered the following remarks at an anti-NATO conference held in Moscow on May 15, 2012. I was the only

By Jiji The government is considering legislation that will allow it to effectively reinsure tankers carrying crude oil from Iran to Japan, sources said. The

While I was in Portugal, one of my Portuguese friends took me by his brother’s home for an early dinner. We watched the sunset across

By testosteronepit Wolf Richter The plight of natural gas driller Chesapeake Energy could almost make you feel sorry for the board of directors and CEO

Source: The Daily Galaxy via University of Maryland New Study May Provide the Proof Is the Earth a giant living organism as the Gaia hypothesis

On Assignment: A Guide to Reporting in Dangerous Situations In the early months of 2002, Wall Street Journalreporter Daniel Pearl was abducted and executed by

Source: Bank for International Settlements, IMF, World Bank, UN Population Division The circle below shows the gross external, or foreign, debt of some of the

By Om Malik We are on the cusp of a big economic shift. I believe that the industrial era is coming to an end and

Nick Hanauer YouTube (17 May 12) Related reading: Nick Hanauer From Wikipedia About Nick Nick Hanauer.com

By Common Dreams staff Today, the Cornucopia Institute released a report titled The Organic Watergate revealing widespread corruption in the USDA’s organic food monitoring panel

[click on the image for a larger version] Source: Yahoo Finance May 21, 2012 Continue reading the article . . .

By Tyler Durden China is now on its way to becoming the biggest source of gold demand, surpassing India, but more importantly as of hours

By Bob Van Voris The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. sued a group of banks including JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) , Citigroup Inc. (C) ,

By Chris Puplava The decline in bullish optimism towards stocks is usually associated with more severe declines than what we typically see and is likely

By Danielle Douglas John Marshall Bank in Reston has de-registered its shares with the Securities and Exchange Commission, taking advantage of a provision in the

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Solari & The Money Changer Silver and Gold Payment Calculator App Price: Free   Solution: iPhone Apps That Give Us New Ideas The creator of

By Andrew Dalton Venture capitalist and Paypal co-founder Peter Thiel is inching closer towards realizing his dream of creating a government-free floating island utopia for

“About 32 leading men of the community,” according to the original minute book, assembled December 24, 1883, in Malvern Hall for the purpose of “starting

Andrew Bartholomew, son of Lydia Willits Bartholomew grew up in Chester County, Pennsylvania. He received his undergraduate degree from Lynchburg College, in Economics, in 2005,

By Olivia Oran and Alistair Barr New York/San Francisco (Reuters) – Facebook Inc priced its initial public offering at the top of its target range

Source: NYR Natural News An Italian court has ruled there is a link between the MMR vaccine and autism. In what may be a ground-breaking

By Jon Rappoport The day of the Smoking Gun has arrived. The discovery of a page, on the FDA’s own website, proves the FDA is

[CAF Note: Reposting this for the second time given ongoing events in Greece and the Eurozone] You are an opponent of the project for single

Source: Reuters Washington (Reuters) – The U.S. Justice Department has opened an inquiry into JPMorgan’s multibillion-dollar trading loss, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday,

By Paul Brodsky and Lee Quaintance of QBAMCO Two weeks ago, before Jamie Dimon’s thoughtful diversion, Charlie Munger of Berkshire Hathaway instructed viewers of CNBC

By Joseph Trento The United States deliberately allowed Japan access to the United States’ most secret nuclear weapons facilities while it transferred tens of billions of

By Teri Buhl Fallout from JP Morgan trading losses, which led to rater Fitch downgrading their debt yesterday, aren’t the only financial worries the banking

Source: Yahoo [click on the image for a larger version] Continue reading the article . . . Related reading: JPMorgan Said to Weigh Bonus Clawbacks

By Cam Hui Last week, I wrote to expect a short-term rally, which was a tactical trading call (see The “Merde” rally?) but I wasn’t

Editing by Alissa de Carbonnel and Mark Heinrich MOSCOW (Reuters) – Of all the signals and symbols that shape Russian foreign policy, this one seemed

Source: Seeking Alpha “The most valuable commodity I know of is information.” (Gordon Gecko in “Wall Street” by Oliver Stone) The Periodic Table of Commodity

Email sent to Catherine May 8, 2012 from a subscriber: Catherine, Franklin Sanders had CC’d me your email address in regards to any soil questions

Source: Pragmatic Capitalism One of the more controversial ideas I wrote about last year was the decoupling of Europe and the USA The equity market

By Sanat Vallikappen That’s what some of the world’s largest wealth-management firms are saying ahead of Washington’s implementation of the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act

By Catherine Austin Fitts [Excerpt from our Annual Wrap Up in January 2012] This year was my first opportunity to meet a lot of Solari

The Federal Reserve Board on Wednesday announced its approval of the application by Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Limited, China Investment Corporation, and Central

Tamera, Portugal, May 7th, 2012: – Tamera Water Retention Landscape has been named a 2012 Finalist in the Buckminster Fuller Challenge, the prestigious annual design

Volkswagen People’s car project. YouTube Related reading: Is VW’s Next People’s Car a Hover Car? Fox News (4 May 12)

By Tsuyoshi Inajima Japan has none of its 50 reactors operating as of today after its sole operating nuclear unit was halted for planned maintenance

By John Rubino Today’s world can be summarized in two sentences: Unless continuously fed with new credit, the global financial system will implode. And when

“When we took over berkshire, berkshire was selling at $15 a share and gold was selling at $20 an ounce. And gold is now $1600

The future of media on mobile devices isn’t with applications but with the Web. By Jason Pontin By the time Apple released the iPad in

This is not the end folks, this is only the beginning of a change that is sweeping across the World – these are stunning defeats

By Eleanor Laise EDITOR’S NOTE: This article was originally published in the April 2012 issue of Kiplinger’s Retirement Report. Traditional pension plans are supposed to

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Source: The Economist Like most sins, tax breaks are easier to condemn than to resist. Politicians regularly decry the inefficiency and complexity that tax breaks

British Atlantic Fleet on patrol in the late 1920s From Wikipedia The Invergordon Mutiny was an industrial action by around 1,000 sailors in the British

With this goal in mind, Mexico has established the following priorities: Economic stabilization and structural reforms as foundations for growth and employment.       [CAF Translation:

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“Not success.  Not growth.  Not happiness. The cradle of your love of life is death.” -Stephen Jenkinson   YouTube Continue reading the article . . .

  By Stephanie Baum A company has developed a robot to help autistic children learn social reference skills and is raising $1.25 million to produce

By Katharina Bart An indictment of Zuercher Kantonalbank by U.S. officials in an ongoing tax probe would not mean the state-backed bank’s demise, Chief Executive

By Martin Hutchinson It now looks as though Nicolas Sarkozy’s days are numbered. In the balance lies the fate of the Eurozone itself. It appears

TWO FUTURES? Privacy, piracy, security, sovereignty—the divisions on these issues reflect an even deeper split between those who want tight control and those who want

(30 April 12) Snix and Fizzy is on Facebook. [Note from CAF: One of my favorite cross platform developers created Snix and Fizzy. It is

Joel Salatin talks to Lew about Big Agra authoritarianism, and how to emancipate yourself. Joel Salatin’s Polyface Farm website Continue reading the article . .

By Catherine Austin Fitts While I was in Portugal, I received the following e-mail from my assistant in Hickory Valley: “The local energy authority stopped

By Matthew Philips [click on the image for a larger version] Continue reading the article . . .

By Fred Meier Ford announced today that it would offer a lump-sum payment to its 90,000 salaried retirees as well as U.S. salaried former employees

By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan Three targeted Americans: A career government intelligence official, a filmmaker and a hacker. None of these U.S. citizens was

Sepp Holzer is coming to the US! May 3-13 2012 Advanced Permaculture Training in Flathead Lake, MT ‘Place of Gathering’ Sepp Holzer and Michael Pilarski

By F. William Engdahl The prospect of an unparalleled Eurasian economic boom lasting into the next Century and beyond is at hand. The first steps

By Foster and Kimberly Gamble When unpacking [John] Robbins arguments we notice: He has not corrected a single fact from THRIVE; He confirms the sociopathic

Source: Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund Falls Church, Virginia, April 11, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — On March 30 federal district judge Mark W. Bennett issued an

Second International Water Symposium Tamera, Portugal- April 27 – 29, 2012 [Note from Catherine: I am attending this week] We have convened this symposium to

[CAF Note: Well, I guess these guys think precious metals is in a long-term primary trend! Or, perhaps, precious metals is good air cover?] By

Source: The Economist The first industrial revolution began in Britain in the late 18th century, with the mechanisation of the textile industry. Tasks previously done

By Associated Press, New York — Revenue from Internet advertising in the U.S. hit a record $31 billion last year, according to a study released

[click on the image for a larger version] Contributor Madison Ruppert A phenomenal series of Venn diagrams at the end of this article shows in

By Pete Kotz It was the early 1990s, and the 750 men and women at Georgetown Steel were pumping out wire rods at peak performance.

By Simone Foxman [click on the image for a larger version] Continue reading the article . . .

By Marc Ross US exports to China in 2011 total $103.9 billion?30 states now count China as one of their top three export markets Washington,

By Ernest A. Canning Would legalization disrupt the economics of the Prison Industrial Complex and its pool of slave laborers? This is the second of

By Ken Tysiac Americans’ infatuation with technology such as cellphones, cable TV, and satellite radio isn’t helping them fatten their bank accounts, according to a

By Lori Montgomery The painful trade-offs of tax reform came into sharper focus Tuesday as lawmakers for the first time began considering specific tax breaks

Posted by Michael Laprarie An unbelievable story, the source of which appeared to be a single Spanish-language news broadcast, made the blogosphere rounds yesterday: Iceland

What a wonderful brunch we had this weekend in San Jose! Australian Tony Brigstock and his beautiful family played host. Tony is a former PGA

The list below shows the largest banks in the world based on market capitalization as of January 20, 2012. Industrial & Commercial Bank of China

From Wikipedia This is a list of countries by gun ownership rate (number of privately owned small firearms divided by number of residents). [click on

< By Catherine Austin Fitts Want to learn more about your state and local government? If they issue official statements in connection with issuance of

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