Triumph of the Cyborg Composer David Cope’s software creates beautiful, original music. Why are people so angry about that? Computer-Generated Music, is it Art?

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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.