[CAF Note: Actually, if you estimate for the full financial coup d’etat following the GATT adoption of the Uruguay Round and the creation of the WTO combined with the “strong dollar policy,” the number of

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech The rim of Gale Crater can be seen in the distance beyond the pebbly ground. The topography of the rim is very mountainous due to erosion. The ground seen in the middle shows

Source: qrc.depaul.edu Think back a few years.  How much did a gallon of gasoline cost then? A loaf of bread? A 10 inch sausage pizza?  A movie ticket? Almost undoubtedly these items  now cost more

By The Thinking Moms’ Revolution They say high-pitched screams, fevers and swelling at the injection site are all common, harmless, insignificant side-effects of responsible, preventative medical care. Don’t listen. They say kids get sick all

By Mat Honan Meet Mat Honan. He just had his digital life dissolved by hackers. In the space of one hour, my entire digital life was destroyed. First my Google account was taken over, then

By Catherine Austin Fitts One of the most important things we can each do is to support excellent leaders. I have made a campaign contribution to Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur’s (D-Ohio) campaign this election season and

By The CNN Wire Staff The July heat wave that wilted crops, shriveled rivers and fueled wildfires officially went into the books Wednesday as the hottest single month on record for the continental United States.

[Note from CAF: What are the private contractors who manage information and payments systems for the SEC and NYSE? It is not clear to me that any agreement between the two will solve the leakage,

By Kevin J. O’Brien Ocado, an online grocery store in England, prides itself on its delivery of refrigerated foods: When the company says the goods will arrive at a certain temperature, they mean it. The

By Scott Gold Curiosity, the largest and most advanced spacecraft ever sent to another planet, stuck its extraordinary landing Sunday night in triumphant and flawless fashion, and is poised to begin its pioneering, two-year hunt

By Phyllis D. James of Synthetic Thinking James Eagen Holmes’ interest in synthetic thinking, more commonly known as artificial intelligence, was handed down to him by his father, Robert Milton Holmes, Jr., who worked for

By an American Traveler So my family and I recently traveled to Germany and Switzerland during the last five weeks. It gave me a really different perspective, as I expected, but not in the direction

By Lesta Frank When: Saturday, August 11 , 10:00- 4:00 and Sunday, August 13, 11:00-5:00 Sign up for one or both days. Where: Lesta’s studio, 135 Evans Ave, San Antonio, TX Bring: 1. Your own

YouTube July 26, 2012 Related reading: youvebeentrumped.com

[CAF Note: I originally published this is April 2003. I am republishing as we explore ideas to rebuild income and employment.] “Arise, shine: for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is

By Josh Lederman Washington – The Internal Revenue Service may have delivered more than $5 billion in refund checks to identity thieves who filed fraudulent tax returns for 2011, Treasury Department investigators said Thursday. They

By Willie Jones How secure do you feel about the wireless router you use at home? Maybe more than you should. Researchers at AppSec Consulting Inc., in San Jose, Calif., reported new vulnerabilities at the

By Carl Herman For five weeks I journalistically hammered that California’s Comprehensive Annual Financial Report (CAFR) reveals $600 billion in surplus taxpayer assets, and the various local government agencies’ CAFRs are data-sampled to total $8

By Catherine Austin Fitts A “control file” is a private record that contains secret information or pictures that are the basis of threatening and blackmailing a person. Perhaps the most famous historical example of control

Among the 21 categories of items shipped by rail, none have a tighter correlation to GDP than waste. According to a 2010 piece on Bloomberg, economists Michael McDonough and Carl Riccadonna note that waste has

Reuters 26 July 2012 By Barbara Lewis Manipulating international commodity benchmarks such as Brent crude oil would be a criminal offence, punishable by jail, under a set of reforms the EU Commission has proposed in

THE GREATER GOOD looks behind the fear, hype and politics that have polarized the vaccine debate in America today. The film re-frames the emotionally charged issue and offers, for the first time, the opportunity for

Dear Catherine, You have been very much in my thoughts and prayer as I anticipate writing to celebrate your birthday. I am deeply aware that this is your first birthday since Georgie’s death. This time

“I beg young people to travel. If you don’t have a passport, get one. Take a summer, get a backpack and go to Delhi, go to Saigon, go to Bangkok, go to Kenya. Have your

[Note from Catherine Austin Fitts: I disagree with the conclusion of this new documentary. IMO, Bill Colby was most certainly assassinated. Whatever, the truth of his death, this new documentary on his life provides some

       ~originally published in 2006~ By Catherine Austin Fitts I resisted learning real history for many years. Instead I satisfied my curiosity about the past with the socially acceptable version of history that

By Stephen Church Stockton, one of a growing number of California cities in financial collapse, said it asked bondholders and other lenders owed more than $300 million to take less than full repayment as part

Travelers Today 20 July 2012 By John Bolton, July 18th Gun-control advocates and the Obama administration are rushing to complete negotiations in New York on a proposed international agreement called the United Nations Arms Trade

By a Reader Even though he may not be a very good lawyer.  I assumed (incorrectly, it appears) from news accounts that Dann was corrupt and that the case against him had a modicum of

By Tim O’Reilly When we hear the term “cyberwarfare” we think of government-backed hackers stealing data, or releasing viruses or other software exploits to disrupt another country’s capabilities, communications, or operations. We imagine terrorists or

Source: tax justice network Revealed: global super-rich has at least $21 trillion hidden in secret tax havens. At least $21 trillion of unreported private wealth was owned by wealthy individuals via tax havens at the

By Joseph P. Farrell Both alchemy and transhumanism aim for the transformation of mankind. There, perhaps, all resemblance ends (though, as my co-author Scott D. de Hart and I point out in the forthcoming Transhumanism

Nazih is a 55-year-old married man and father of four children. He has more than 35 years of unique experience in agriculture with a deep knowledge in the growing of various products and plant rooting.

The Largest Stand Ever Against Chemtrails August 17th – 19th , 2012Live Conference in LA & Global WebcastEbell Theatre743 S Lucerne BlvdLos Angeles, CA 90010323-931-1277 15 Experts in Chemtrails and Metaphysics Permier of “Why in

By Rob Kirby GATA was born in the late 1990’s – primarily on the back of fundamental research by Frank Veneroso regarding Central Bank Gold Leasing. Veneroso’s intellectual curiosity was aroused after being fed detailed

The Seattle Times 17 July 2012 By Jim Suhr and Steve Karnowski The Associated Press The nation’s widest drought in decades is spreading, with more than half of the continental United States in some stage

Our favorite substitute for the euro while we ride out the storm in the Eurozone is the Singapore dollar. While commodity currencies might be prime beneficiaries of the increased trigger friendliness at major central banks,

Ingo Swan “It’s unkind to point out the Obvious To those who don’t want to see it. But it’s worse to point out the Invisible To those convinced it doesn’t exist.” “What, When, and Who

[ CAF Note: I have asked Fleurette to allow me to publish her letters to me for subscribers.Fleurette is a dear friend, subscribe and force of nature from Vancouver, British Columbia.] Dear Catherine, As you

By Dr. Mercola When I first read that genetically modified humans have already been born, I could hardly believe it. However, further research into this story featured in the UK’s Daily Mail1 proved it to

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By Peter Morici No issue is more misunderstood, or been more purposefully confused by the Romney and Obama campaigns, than outsourcing. Outsourcing is merely the importing side of international trade — purchasing abroad goods and

By Staff Writers The European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company (EADS) is considering launching its own bank to better manage its accounts, the new chief of subsidiary Airbus said in an interview. Continue reading the

By Graham Ruddick Speaking at the Farnborough Airshow, Sir Richard said Virgin Galactic wants to “revolutionise the way we get to space” and that he and his children will be the first passengers when the

The story of seed has become one of loss, control, dependence and debt. It’s been written by those who want to make vast profit from our food system, no matter what the true cost.  It’s

Wal-Mart now sells to the citizens of the United States more than one-fifth of their food, which is more than the combined sales of its three largest competitors. Related reading: Walmart From Wikipedia GMO From

(CAF Note: Is the LIBOR scandal sufficiently frustrating that the UK Defense establishment thought we needed some light reading for the weekend?) By Ed Krayewski The United Kingdom’s Ministry of Defense released 6,700 pages worth

“Catherine Austin Fitts has perspective on the housing and mortgage meltdown like no other. Under President George Herbert Walker Bush, she was Assistant Secretary of Housing and Federal Housing Commissioner at HUD, where she basically

[click on the image for a larger version] By Conor Sen Robots have come to destroy our way of life, just as we saw in Terminator 2: Judgment Day, though not as we expected. They’re

Published by Harvard University Whatever the future, the analysis reported in this paper reveals some important points:  • Oil is not in short supply. From a purely physical point of view, there are huge volumes

U.S. Federal Judge Stanley Sporkin talk about the JOBS Act Judge Stanley Sporkin Stanley Sporkin (born February 7, 1932) is a former judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. He

By Sarah Horowitz For the First Time, USPTO Will Expand Operations Outside Washington, DC, to Dallas, Denver, and Silicon Valley, in Addition to Detroit, Which Opens July 13 “Intellectual property protection and innovation are engines

Andy Griffith, who made homespun Southern wisdom his trademark as the wise sheriff in “The Andy Griffith Show” and the rumpled defense lawyer in “Matlock,” died Tuesday. He was 86. Continue reading the article .

[ CAF Note: We created a mortgage bubble by fraudulent means. When the bubble burst, we solved the banks problem with fraudulent means at taxpayers expense. Now the question is if and how will we

Farmers from Miyagi prefecture raise their fists along with other farmers from across Japan during a rally against Japan participating in rule-making negotiations for the U.S.-led Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) in Tokyo October 26, 2011. REUTERS/Yuriko

By John Acher and Ole Mikkelsen * Central bank cuts main policy rate by 25 bps to 0.20 pct * Cuts CD rate by 25 bps to negative 0.20 pct * Keeps current account rate

By Soren Dreier Scientists at Cern, the Geneva-based European laboratory for particle physics, are revealing their latest findings in their search for the Higgs boson. Video the guardian (3 July 12) Continue reading the article

A social and economic system driven by network technologies that enable the sharing and exchange of all kinds of assets from spaces to skills to cars in ways and on a scale never possible before

Stand Up For Your Right To Know The California Right to Know Genetically Engineered Food Act of 2012 We All Have a Right to Know What’s in Our Food Consumers have a right to know

The home of the Large Hadron Collider is hot with excitement about what two teams of physicists will report this week By Ian Sample The teams have been searching for the Higgs boson using the

Anyone notice a pattern? By Ben Deighton A Belgian court convicted a subsidiary of commodities trader Glencore (GLEN.L) and others on Wednesday of bribing a European Union official in return for market-sensitive information. Glencore Grain

By Chuck Gibson Buried underneath last week’s news about the Supreme Court’s ruling on “Obamacare”, the House of Representatives passed a transportation bill that included an extension of the low interest rate on government-subsidized student

[CAF Note: When John Gotti, Jr. was asked by the press whether or not the Gotti crime family was trafficking in narcotics, he denied the allegation saying “who can compete with the government?” My research

[CAF Note: I’m a skeptic. Get ready for this to be seriously misused] A federal court decision on Tuesday upholding the Environmental Protection Agency’s landmark rulings to control greenhouse gases was a decisive victory for

Image: Stuart Niles / freedigitalphotos.net * By John Butler In what might be the most underreported financial story of the year, US banking regulators recently circulated a memorandum for comment, including proposed adjustments to current

[Note from CAF: Here it comes again. A new effort to push pandemics and vaccines. If ever there is a sign of real weakness in the global economy, medical terrorism is it. For more on swine

Photo: James Duncan Davidson Source: TED In pictures, quotes and more. As the world becomes interconnected, the ways we relate and learn about one another (and the rules about what we share) are changing. That’s

[click on the image for a larger version By Steven Aftergood The Department of Defense has identified 110 sites in the United States that could serve as bases for military unmanned aerial systems (UAS), or

by Catherine Austin Fitts In April, I dropped into the Verizon Store in Corte Madera, California. I was headed to Portugal. My iPhone did not work globally. On my last few trips to Europe, Verizon

From Wikipedia The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), also known as the Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership Agreement, is a multilateral free trade agreement that aims to further liberalize the economies of the Asia-Pacific region; specifically, Article 1.1.3

[CAF Note: Like Curtis Mayfield sang, “It’s like one way in and no way out.”] By Spatial Information Design Labs The United States currently has more than 2 million people locked up in jails and

By Adam Curtis All Watched Over By Machines Of Loving Grace is a series about how humans have been colonised by the machines they have built — “Although we don’t realise it, the way we

Genetically modified (GM) crops are promoted on the basis of a range of far-reaching claims from the GM crop industry and its supporters. They say that GM crops: Are an extension of natural breeding and

By Charles Riley The average American family’s net worth dropped almost 40% between 2007 and 2010, according to a triennial study released Monday by the Federal Reserve. [click on the image for a larger version

By David Jolly Paris — Washington gained another victory on Thursday in its push to extend surveillance over Americans’ financial dealings when Switzerland joined the list of countries that have agreed to cooperate in an

By Charles Hugh Smith of two minds.com The Master Narrative Nobody Dares Admit All centralized systems, open and shadow alike, act as heavy taxes on the society and economy. This is why they cannot compete

By Dakin Campbell and Michael J. Moore Moody’s Investors Service suffered a downgrade of its own as markets responded to the company’s rating cuts yesterday of 15 of the world’s largest banks by bidding up

Workshop– Saturday June 23 and Sunday, June 24, 2012 Hours: Each day-10:00-4:00 Place: Lesta’s Studio, 135 Evans Ave.,San Antonio., 78209 Fee: One day $50, both days $85 plus supply fee $10 a day Lunch: Bring your

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Source: CNBC The United States is still No. 1 when it comes to the number of millionaires in a single country, but global wealth is continuing its movement eastward. Continue reading the article . .

By a Solari Report Subscriber [CAF Note: Yikes! Has this happened to you? If you are a subscriber, post your story on the blog or, if not, let us know at communicate@wordpressdevurl.com. Let us know

Source: BBC News Japan has announced that it will restart two nuclear reactors – the first to go back online since all the country’s plants were closed following last year’s Fukushima crisis. Reactors at the

Summer begins in the Northern Hemisphere on June 20, 2012, at 7:09 P.M. (EDT). Here’s more about the first day of summer—the summer solstice—plus, facts, folklore, and some sensational summer photos! Continue reading the article

By Frank Morales Back in 1992 the Pentagon’s Joint Chiefs of Staff held a “Strategy Essay Competition.” The winner was a National War College student paper entitled, “The Origins of the American Military Coup of

By Osamu Tsukimori TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s lower house is set to pass a bill on Friday to provide government guarantees on insurance for Iranian crude cargoes, making it the first of Iran’s big Asian

By Chris Oliver Hong Kong Exchanges & Clearing HK:388 -4.45% HKXCF +2.56% , operator of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, said Friday it has entered into a framework agreement to buy the London Metal Exchange

By Ron Bennett For all the small business owners out there struggling to make it, here is simple calculation of the hidden tax paid due to inflation: How much is the tax due to 4%

By Karen Weise It’s been just two weeks since President Obama signed the JOBS Act into law, loosening requirements for companies looking to raise capital. The rules aren’t even written yet, and already one new

By Anais Starr My great good friend and doctor healer, Dr. Jim MacKimmie passed away on Monday evening, June 11. After the initial stab of a shock, jangling of heart strings, sleeping on it overnight,

Could this be the golden age of estate planning? Some financial advisers believe it is — at least until the end of the year. That’s when key income tax breaks for transferring wealth are scheduled

BISMARCK, N.D. — Since Californians shrank their property taxes more than three decades ago by passing Proposition 13, people around the nation have echoed their dismay over such levies, putting forth plans to even them,

  Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing, which counts the Chinese government among it shareholders, is understood to have tabled a £1.3bn offer for the City’s last “open cry” market, and a decision is expected to

30,000 secret surveillance orders approved each year Nate Anderson (5 June 12) If the government spies on you but brings no charges, you’ll never know. A federal judge estimates that his fellow federal judges issue

Source: Shadowstats This article replaces the earlier “Primer” on the Consumer Price Index   Consumer Price Index Has Been Reconfigured Since Early-1980s?So As to Understate Inflation versus Common Experience   CPI no longer measures the