**CAF Note: You bet they planned this!** By Laura Gottesdiener “One s****y deal.” “S****y deal.” “S****y.” The date was April 27, 2010, and Senator Carl

By Catherine Austin Fitts With the North American markets moving even higher, I was reminded by a colleague of the expression TINA, as in “There

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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Photo Credit: Ira Block, National Geographic By Dan Vergano Time to push back Buddha’s birth date a century or so? Archaeologists may have uncovered evidence

By Russell Westerholm China is all but ready to launch its own moon mission, but will not do so without hearing from the agency that

By Matt Levine A while back Greece had a problem. The problem was that it wanted to borrow more money, but didn’t want to increase

By James Huang You will be riveted by this video, not even three minutes long, showing JFK’s Secret Service protection being waved away from his

By Art Swift As the 50th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination approaches, a clear majority of Americans (61%) still believe others besides Lee

“I found out something I never knew. I found out that my world was not the real world.” ~ Robert Kennedy , speaking about the

By Wikipedia A rain garden is a planted depression or a hole that allows rainwater runoff from impervious urban areas, like roofs, driveways, walkways, parking

“This country was built by giants. They died, and midgets moved in. Tiny people were walking around inside this republic like a nine-year-old boy wearing

“Without debate without criticism, no administration and no country can succeed. And no republic can survive.” ~ John F. Kennedy By Catherine Austin Fitts The

By Catherine Austin Fitts The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has just released their study on options to reduce the federal budget deficit. They have presented

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

**CAF Note: Hey, if Mr. Global announced he wanted to get people into a fiat currency without deposit insurance because he wanted to shift to

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

By BBC News Work is to begin on the largest tidal turbine energy project in Europe after the Scottish government approved it. MeyGen is to

Photo Credit: Mark Garlick Words & Pictures Ltd/Science Photo Library/Corbis By Irene Klotz Corporations are interested in partnering with NASA for lunar and other deep-space

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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

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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 –

By Wikipedia The Libor scandal was a series of fraudulent actions connected to the Libor (London Interbank Offered Rate) and also the resulting investigation and

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

From Brothers: The Hidden History of The Kennedy Years Brothers is an epic story told from a uniquely personal perspective. Based on David Talbot’s best-selling

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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

Credit: Pat Bagley **CAF Note: Jim Sinclair points out that this is not good for the dollar. YOU BET! If you look at the interests

“Net Imports flatten for the next few years, even when nominal GDP is growing at 4% per annum… a nice boost in terms of trade

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