By Steven Levy “What I’m about to show you,” Jeff Bezos says, “is the culmination of the many things we’ve been doing for 15 years.”

By Laura Sanders Instead of the indiscriminate destruction of the atom bomb or napalm, the signature weapon of future wars may be precise, unprecedented control

By Wall Street Journal Concerns are rising that the Federal Housing Administration could run out money if the economy doesn’t recover soon, raising the risk

By Jon Rappoport Mark Madden, a Pennsylvania radio host, wrote a piece about Jerry Sandusky, the accused Penn State pedophile, back in April, while a

By Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation In a beleaguered economy, the country needs entrepreneurs – the nation’s job creators. Fortunately, a recent poll shows that the

[View larger image] By Catherine Austin Fitts Something special happened this week. I finished paying off Nissan Motors. In 2000, I leased or purchased three

By Stacy Mitchell Under a measure that passed the House last Thursday, you may soon be able to invest in a portfolio of your favorite

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By Nieman Watchdog Longtime journalist and commentator Bill Moyers was the keynote speaker on October 20 at the 40th anniversary celebration of Public Citizen, the

By Malcolm Gladwell One of the great puzzles of the industrial revolution is why it began in England. Why not France, or Germany? Many reasons

By Sarah A. Low and Stephen Vogel This study uses nationally representative data on marketing of local foods to assess the relative scale of local

By Intelligent Speculator at Seeking Alpha I recently spent an entire evening talking to a good friend of mine about annuities. Why? Because his father

By Daniel Wagner and Bernard Condon He set out to create a mini-Goldman Sachs. In the end, he built a mini-Lehman Brothers. Former New Jersey

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By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard The American phoenix is slowly rising again. Within five years or so, the US will be well on its way to self-sufficiency

The New York Times (1 Nov 11) The investigation into hundreds of millions of dollars in missing money at MF Global has widened, as the

By The Wall Street Journal As the e-reader and tablet wars heat up, Amazon.com Inc. is launching a digital-book lending library that will be available

By David Hambling Against all the odds, Andrea Rossi’s E-Cat cold fusion power plant passed its biggest test yesterday, producing an average of 470 kilowatts

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By Sandrine Rastello The International Monetary Fund may create a six-month credit line for countries facing shocks, officials from Group of 20 governments and IMF

By Marc Heller – Waterton Daily Times (30 Oct 11) WASHINGTON — For three New York lawmakers, serving on the Agriculture Committee is a badge

By Mike Colpitts – Housing Predictor (31 Oct 11) Responding to homeowner complaints, Nevada has become the first state in the nation to make illegally

UK Telegraph (30 Oct 11) A laser powerful enough to tear apart the fabric of space could be built in Britain as part major new

Here is the WORST idea yet – allowing the NWO to destroy the U.S. Constitution by making it look like a neetsy keen grassroots movement.

By Melanie Pelayo The announcement of cost of living adjustments by the federal government a week ago not only heralded the first increase to Social

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(Reuters) – MERS, the electronic mortgage registry used by the banking industry, was sued by Delaware on Thursday and accused of deceptive practices that led

By Laura Bledsoe (24 Oct 11) When an over-zealous regulator shows up at a farm dinner demanding that food be destroyed as hungry guests await,

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The Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) directed FDA to collect fees on businesses that have to be re-inspected because of some noncompliance. This new requirement

By: Reuters The Vatican called on Monday for the establishment of a “global public authority” and a “central world bank” to rule over financial institutions

By Phil Howard In the last 40 years, the commercial seed industry has transformed dramatically. It has shifted from a competitive sector of agribusiness, composed

[Note from CAF: Given that the FDIC just picked up the BofA/Merrill derivatives position, you would think BofA would be a bit more sensitive to

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By Susanna Kim While many law school graduates are all too aware of their accumulating pile of debt, few may realize it can prevent them

By Jonathan Benson If you buy or sell secondhand goods and live in the state of Louisiana, you can no longer use legal tender to

The Mises Institute dug up this cartoon from 1912 showing what would happen if the Federal Reserve Act was adopted in 1913; this is exactly

By Catherine Austin Fitts I just got a message from a reader for the third time today. It proposes that we support Warren Buffet’s proposals

On October 17, 2011, the Supreme Court granted a certiorari petition to review a decision issued by a divided panel of the Second Circuit Court

A transcript of Catherine’s September 22, 2011 interview of Adam Trombly on Zero Point Energy is now available to Solari Report Subscribers! From the transcript:

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By: Jeff Cox The U.S. plans on being an active partner as efforts intensify to get Europe get back on its feet financially, Treasury Secretary

By Deirdre Walsh Congress voted Wednesday on a bipartisan basis to pass free-trade bills with Colombia, Panama and South Korea. President Barack Obama, who dined

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By SN Staff In a controversial and potentially groundbreaking decision, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has submitted a document supporting the commercial production of

By Edith Honan Pennsylvania’s capital, Harrisburg, filed for a rare Chapter 9 municipal bankruptcy on Wednesday after it was unable to resolve its debt crisis

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