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

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This interactive map shows Dagong’s credit rating for each country. Dagong Global Credit Rating is a credit rating agency based in China. It is one

From Press TV Two commanding officers in US Navy’s 6th Fleet based in Italy were stripped of their commands on Monday pending investigations into “allegations

Economic Policy Institute – Between 2007 and 2010, while median family wealth fell by 39 percent, the wealth of the Walton family members rose from

By Associated Press South Korea’s President Lee Myung-bak, left, China’s Premier Wen Jiabao, and Japan’s Prime Minister Yoshihiko – Source: PressTV South Korea, China and

By Fares Akram, Jodi Rudoren and Alan Cowell The top leader of Hamas dared Israel on Monday to launch a ground invasion of Gaza and

By The Economist THE euro crisis has eased since Mario Draghi, president of the European Central Bank (ECB), pledged in July 2012 to do “whatever

By The Economist In rich, debt-laden economies the policymaking horizon is short-term: a recovery is the priority. Very long-range forecasts from the OECD, a think-tank,

By Nicole Perlroth If David H. Petraeus couldn’t keep his affair from prying eyes as director of the Central Intelligence Agency, then how is the

By I, Cringely Earlier this year I wrote a series of columns about crowdfunding and the JOBS Act, which was signed into law last April

By Kenneth R. Harney With the House and Senate back on Capitol Hill for the lame-duck session, preliminary negotiations aimed at keeping the country from

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The European Day of Action and Solidarity is designed as a sign to leaders to abandon the programmes of tax rises and spending cuts that

Special thanks to MIT Alumni Eclipse Tour leader, Midge Bell, for this amazing photo! From Wikipedia A total solar eclipse took place on 13–14 November 2012 (UTC).

YouTube | 16 November 2012 The Thrive Movement

By MarketWatch China unveiled the makeup of its top Communist Party leadership body Thursday, elevating Vice President Xi Jinping, as expected, though some analysts worried

By Ron Paul This may well be the last time I speak on the House Floor. At the end of the year I’ll leave Congress

Beware the companies below: they are battling your right to know what’s in your food by donating large sums of money to fight Prop 37

[Note from CAF: Hmmm. Suppress energy technology. Then blame human for carbon emissions and tax them. What is wrong with this picture? Are you ready

By Ian Simpson of Reuters Citizens from more than 40 states have filed petitions with the White House seeking to secede from the union, and

By Steve Goldstein The Federal Housing Administration is expected to report later this week that it could exhaust its reserves because of rising mortgage delinquencies,

By Jon Rappoport The verdict is in. You would be a fool to accept the vote-count in the California Prop 37 election. I’ll show you

By Reuven Cohen In something that looks straight out of the CBS show “Person of Interest“, the science website Phsy.org is reporting on a potentially

[CAF Note: The turnover at the top of the military-intelligence complex is noticeable and has nothing to do with extra-marital affairs.] FBI Probe Uncovering Petraeus

By Ambrose Evans Pritchard So there is a magic wand after all. A revolutionary paper by the International Monetary Fund claims that one could eliminate

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With over 18 speakers, two conference rooms and a 3 day program, this event is designed to focus on the full scope of Breakthrough Energy

By Jon Rappoprt Hold your horses. On election night, not long after the polls closed in California, the announcement came out: Prop 37 was losing.

By Susan Stallings According to the Naval Enlisted Reserve Association, scores of military absentee ballots cast in the 2012 Election will not be counted. U.S.

YouTube | 14 October 2012 My name is Daniel ROA. I am a canadian singer-songwriter from Winnipeg, Manitoba. I released my second album almost a

[CAF Note: This is not good. If there is one thing worth fighting to the death, it is a carbon tax…] By Mathew Carr Barack

By Joseph P. Farrell India may – and in my opinion probably will – join a growing list of nations banning Duponzanto’s and Mon(ster)santo’s hideous