**Note: We are republishing each of the 22 challenges from Catherine’s fiscal cliff article – one a week. Helps to digest them bit by bit!**

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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**CAF Note: This is one of my favorite movies ever since Tony Scott made it in 1998. Given the ongoing discussion of NSA surveillance, it

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

**Note: We are republishing each of the 22 challenges from Catherine’s fiscal cliff article – one a week. Helps to digest them bit by bit!**

Photo Credit: Keith Tyler By Catherine Austin Fitts On behalf of the American people, Chancellor Merkel, I would like to apologize for the invasive surveillance

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A song inspired by the Irish Government and their efforts to work for the benefit of everyone – except the Irish people. Continue

By ABC News/AP An earthquake of magnitude 7.3 struck Saturday morning off Japan’s east coast, the U.S. Geological Survey said. Japan’s emergency agencies declared a

By RT Crowdfunding is coming to Wall Street! Will a new SEC rule democratize the capital markets? Or is Joe Six-pack about to be “muppetized”

**CAF Note: Here is a trial ballon from a respected source on one of the options to reengineer Social Security. This is one to take

By The Economist On June 16th something very peculiar happened in Germany’s electricity market. The wholesale price of electricity fell to minus €100 per megawatt

Photo Credit:Reuters/Jonathan Ernst By Sarah N. Lynch Entrepreneurs and start-up companies looking for investors will be able to solicit over the Internet from the general

By Franklin Sanders Friends, Volume 2 of At Home In Dogwood Mudhole (Best Thing We Ever Did) is now available for preorder at www.dogwoodmudhole.com. It

By Catherine Austin Fitts One of my greatest prayers for America is that men and women have an honest conversation about how we have been

**CAF Note: The cost of the US government borrowing money to generate corporate earnings is now reaching parity globally** By Daniel Kruger & Anchalee Worrachate

By AlJazeera Highly radioactive water overflowed barriers into Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station after its operator Tepco underestimated how much rain would fall and

**Note: We are republishing each of the 22 challenges from Catherine’s fiscal cliff article – one a week. Helps to digest them bit by bit!**

Photo Credit: Carolyn Kaster/Associated Press By Dave Michaels Small businesses raising money by selling shares over the Internet wouldn’t have to verify that their backers

By Andrew Pollack Legislators on the island of Kauai in Hawaii have approved a bill that would restrict the use of pesticides by companies developing

Dear Senator Warren: I write as a supporter of your campaign for Senator. It is remarkable how unpopular financial accountability truly is. The House Republicans

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By Yahoo! Finance JPMorgan Chase & Co has reached a tentative $4 billion deal with the U.S. Federal Housing Finance Agency to settle claims that

“Altogether, a Bloomberg survey in August found that the six biggest banks had spent $103 billion on legal costs since 2008.” Holman, W. Jenkins, Jr,

By David Ray Griffin There have been several good films and videos about 9/11. But the new film by award-winning film-maker Massimo Mazzucco is in

By Dave Michels Small businesses raising money by selling shares over the Internet wouldn’t have to verify that their backers comply with individual investment limits

By Catherine Austin Fitts The announcement of a bipartisan deal to open the government and keep the debt issuance humming along is a reprieve from

By Press Trust of India In a major boost for India and other countries seeking details on suspected black money stashed in Swiss banks, Switzerland

By Going Organic Magazine Going Organic Magazine is a unique publication dedicated to creating better health and lifestyles for readers. Our goal is to provide

By John Rushton Nighttime falls, I study on. I find another hero. It’s time to sleep. Sleep lasts but half the night. Burdens pile up,

By Scott Adams If you’re already as successful as you want to be, both personally and professionally, congratulations! Here’s the not-so-good news: All you are

By Schumpeter Start-ups have always been at the heart of America’s economic success. Companies that are five years old or younger account for all of

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By Mark Dansie I saved this for the Breakthrough Energy Movement Conference being held in boulder latter this week. I wanted to point out the

By The Solari Team There are so many irreconcilable issues in the federal budget, and there are many pieces and aspects to understanding the fiscal

Here is a collection of links that Catherine makes note of in her GlobalBEM speech on October 11, 2013 from 11 – 12 MT. Special

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Photo Credit: The New York Times/Mary F. Calvert By Jackie Calmes President Obama will nominate Janet L. Yellen as chairwoman of the Federal Reserve on

By Catherine Austin Fitts The Globe and Mail’s story yesterday A.M. that Tesla’s new Model S is now the # 1 selling car in Norway

Despite U.S. opposition, a pipeline from Iran to Pakistan is inevitable. Pakistan needs natural gas to fuel its power plants and has no good options.

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Photo Credit: The Verge By Ben Popper With more than 500,000 rooms available to rent on any given night, Airbnb now ranks among the largest

By Catherine Austin Fitts Here is the proof – I was at Open Source Ecology’s design sprint on September 28th for the building of the

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**CAF Note: Reported gold inventories show significant drops in the US and European positions** By Jesse’s Café Américain Here is one take on the gold

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By Kurzweil Accelerating Intelligence Researchers from three universities are proposing to add a dimension to 3D printing by developing “4D” materials that can exhibit behavior

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Photo Credit: NSA/Reuters By Andrea Peterson Just one major telecommunications company refused to participate in a legally dubious NSA surveillance program in 2001. A few

Photo Credit: Reuters/Stringer/Files By Katrina Bishop The Vatican bank published its annual accounts for the first time on Tuesday in an attempt to boost transparency

By Kashmir Hill Ladar Levison, 32, has spent ten years building encrypted email service Lavabit, attracting over 410,000 users. When NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden was

Bigger, Boulder, Better Hello everyone, thank you for taking the time to read this. We want to put up the best conference on Breaktrough Energy

By Catherine Austin Fitts Pay attention to the explosion of on-line education. There is a lot of excellent curriculum and teaching that is becoming available

By Mr. H Now-a-days, Apple is famous in the markets because its new iPhone 5S has a Fingerprint Sensor (Touch ID) as a security feature—everyone

Photo Credit: Reuters By Catherine Austin Fitts The latest headlines announce that “J.P. Morgan Chase is in talks to pay up to $11 billion to settle

Photo Credit: Fraunhofer Institute By Rob Wile A German-French research team has created a solar cell that can convert 44.7% of the sunlight it receives

By Kevin Drum Last Wednesday, the Fed announced that it would not be tapering its bond buying program. This news was released at precisely 2

Photo Credit: Reuters/Shannon Stapleton By Daniel Trotta Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff used her position as the opening speaker at the U.N. General Assembly to accuse

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Take Back Your Power takes us on a journey of revelation and discovery, as we question the benefits and risks of “smart” meters and grid

By Catherine Austin Fitts BlackBerry held out for a long time. However, successfully catering to business and investment professionals meant their data flow was much

By Dave Michaels Startup companies that celebrated the passage of a U.S. law allowing them to solicit investors more openly say regulators may undercut that

By Chris Floyd A former colleague of mine died recently, although I didn’t know he had been my colleague until I read his obituary in

By Jon Fingas When Belgian prosecutors suggested that Belgacom was the target of foreign espionage, many blamed the NSA — it has a history of

By Ian Salisbury Jeremy Grantham’s got a track record that’s impossible to ignore—he called the Internet bubble, then the housing bubble. While moves like those

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By Catherine Austin Fitts The Fed’s decision not to taper quantitative easing this week has equity and commodities markets up and interest rates falling. On

By Umberto Pascali The President of Brazil, Dilma Rousseff announces publicly the creation of a world internet system INDEPENDENT from US and Britain ( the

By Louis Lavelle Getting a Wharton MBA involves taking off from work for two years, moving to Philadelphia, and spending about $200,000 on tuition and

By Catherine Austin Fitts I copied these results from a Yahoo Finance poll that I took yesterday. It is an interesting comment on two important

Photo Credit:Reuters / Valentin Flauraud By RT Privacy concerns, fear of addiction, loss of interest – these are the reasons listed by those who have

By Tracey Turner As the list of new technologies used in the agriculture industry continues to grow, the use of unmanned aircraft systems (drones) has

By The Short Side of Long AAII survey readings came in at 46% bulls and 25% bears. Bullish readings rose by a huge 10% while

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By Catherine Austin Fitts Everyday we are presented with two diverging economies in North America. Bailouts and quantitative easing have extinguished the outstanding fraudulent securities

By Catherine Austin Fitts It’s a miracle! Glen Greenwald publishes article after article dishing out the dirt on the largest corporations and one of the

** CAF NOTE: The legal precedent that DOJ is attempting here is simply lawless. As a practical matter, it forces all news sources to link