By Barton Gellman and Laura Poitras The National Security Agency and the FBI are tapping directly into the central servers of nine leading U.S. Internet

By Matt Clinch Tight security restrictions at Thursday’s Google (GOOG) shareholder meeting led even the company’s much-hyped Google Glass technology to be banned, infuriating a

By Brian Pretti CFA To suggest gold is a controversial asset is not bold. For those watching long term, you know gold rose over 300%

By Ashlee Vance and Brad Stone In October, a foreign national named Mike Fikri purchased a one-way plane ticket from Cairo to Miami, where he

By Veracode On April 22, 2011 Sony announced their network had been breached, but released limited details regarding the attack vector. This announcement was a

By The Top Information Post I always believed that the China internet model was an experiment which the Americans were part of in the hopes

By Leo Kelion Researchers say they have found a way to detect and recognise human gestures based on how they affect wi-fi signals. They suggest

HTTPS Everywhere is a Firefox and Chrome extension that encrypts your communications with many major websites, making your browsing more secure. Encrypt the web: Install

By Amy Davidson Among the stranger aspects of the court martial of Bradley Manning, the Army private who is accused of giving hundreds of thousands

By Scott Wilson and Colum Lynch President Obama announced Wednesday that national security adviser Thomas E. Donilon is resigning his post and will be replaced

By Cyrus Farivar On Tuesday evening, Iowa City is scheduled to hold the first reading (PDF) of what is likely the first municipal bill anywhere

[CAF Note: This is a summary of one of my favorite books, Political Ponerology. A wonderful subscriber reminded me today “Start anywhere, but read this

FROM: Getting to Real Solutions – A Dialogue with Bonnie Faulkner Catherine Austin Fitts: So let me tell you another one of my bugaboos: B

By Jess Bravin A divided Supreme Court held Monday that police can take DNA samples from people under arrest in the hope of tying them

By GaiamTV There is no doubt that the economies of the world have become increasingly turbulent over the past few years. It appears that these

Photo Credit: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg By Clea Benson A bipartisan group of U.S. senators is putting the final touches on a plan to liquidate Fannie Mae

Federal regulators have proposed a group of firms that aren’t banks to be deemed potential threats to the financial system that need stricter government oversight.

By Russ Baker A huge story can set off alarm bells everywhere, but somehow, with ever increasing frequency, we note the silence of the mainstream

By BBC Turkey’s main share index closed 10.47% down following investor concerns over the escalation of anti-government protests over the weekend. The Borsa Istanbul 100

Bloomberg Best (and Worst) showcases data that have been analyzed, organized and visualized by the Bloomberg Rankings team. These rankings seek to enlighten and entertain

Photo Credit: REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz By Wolf Richter, Testosterone Pit The “March Against Monsanto” in 52 countries, an unapproved strain of its genetically modified wheat growing

Photo Credit: Patty French/Central Ohio Beekeepers Association By Global Research News The Illinois Ag Dept. illegally seized privately owned bees from renowned naturalist, Terrence Ingram,

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This is the official book launch of Paul Levy’s new book Dispelling Wetiko: Breaking the Curse of Evil, recorded at Powell’s City of Books on

The Red Button Video

By The H Security Anyone who uses Skype has consented to the company reading everything they write. The H’s associates in Germany at heise Security

Photo Credit: Reuters/Jonathan Ernst/Files By Dave Michaels & Carter Dougherty The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission will vote next week on a proposal that would

By KristenM I am doing my happy dance. Vernon Hershberger, the Amish dairy farmer recently on trial in Wisconsin for providing raw milk to his

By Catherine Austin Fitts A naturopath who I respect greatly told me about a therapy of drinking “sole” – a salt water made with Himalayan

By Tyler Durden There has been much speculation in the recent past over what the bottom-line impact of surging stock buyback activity has been on

Catherine Austin Fitts is a former Wall Street insider and Assistant Secretary in the Bush I administration. Her background gave her a clear grasp of

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By James Cusick For three days beginning on 6 June, a five-star hotel in Chandler’s Cross  that normally hosts the England football team before Wembley

Photo Credit: Mark Collier, AP By AP Protesters rallied in dozens of cities Saturday as part of a global protest against seed giant Monsanto and

Losers Make the Pie Bigger

By Reboot With Joe It has been the most amazing two years for Joe and Team Reboot and we genuinely thank you for being part

Photo Credit: Urs Keller (ex-press.ch) By Carolyn Bandel Zuercher Kantonalbank, the biggest Swiss cantonal bank, expects to pay a fine to U.S. authorities as part

By Wikipedia Battle at Kruger is an eight-minute amateur wildlife video that depicts an unfolding confrontation between a herd of Cape buffalo, a small pride

By Heather Callaghan No, this is not a tabloid – it’s real. According to the latest video, which has now been posted below, robotic insects

By Catherine Austin Fitts There are no scandals in Washington. There is simply a turnover. We are preparing for an escalation of the global financial

By Will Shanklin Gmail lets you send all kinds of files as attachments. And Google Wallet lets you pay for just about anything. Why not

Moving the Money Video

By Tania Rabesandratana The European Commission is reforming the European Union’s plant and animal health legislation in a bid to enhance food safety across the

By Brigitte Granville, Hans-Olaf Henkel & Stefan Kawalec On the eve of the American Civil War, Abraham Lincoln famously said that “a house divided cannot

By The Committee on Financial Services The House of Representatives today passed two bipartisan Financial Services Committee bills, including one that sets a deadline for

By GuruFocus Prof. Robert Shiller of Yale University invented the Schiller P/E to measure the market’s valuation. The Schiller P/E is a more reasonable market

By Robert Wenzel This is Update 2 on news that the Department of Homeland Security has served a court order to the money exchange service

“After all, most civilized and semi-civilized countries known to history had a large class of slaves or serfs completely subordinate to their owners. There is

By Dan Kadlec The retirement savings crisis in America has brought us to this point: It’s a near certainty that mandatory savings accounts are in

[CAF Note: With G-7 Deciding this weekend to target tax havens, the US wants a new team in at the IRS who can use their

[CAF Note: I’m excited. I am headed to my first maker faire this Saturday. Check it out!] Explore makers and projects coming to Maker Faire

By Wikipedia The Raspberry Pi is a credit-card-sized single-board computer developed in the UK by the Raspberry Pi Foundation with the intention of promoting the

By David Kravets The immigration reform measure the Senate began debating yesterday would create a national biometric database of virtually every adult in the U.S.,

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By U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission The Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act includes provisions that require the SEC to undertake various initiatives, including rulemaking and

[CAF Note: The big banks can borrow at 0.75%, but students have to pay 6%+. Why is that? It is called reverse Robin Hood. Debase

By ROAR Collective A new report by the Transnational Institute — ‘Guns, Debt and Corruption: Military Spending and the EU Crisis’ — looks at the

By GoldMoney Andy Duncan has the pleasure of interviewing Catherine Austin Fitts, known for her much-read Solari report. With a wealth of experience on Wall

By Clive Cookson I start to walk across a street in a city of the near future. An autonomous electric car is gliding silently towards

By Mark DeCambre Talk about a nanny state. Irked Goldman Sachs brass recently confronted Bloomberg LP over concerns reporters at the business news service have

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By Catherine Austin Fitts I will be attending a “Special Hemp History Week Concert” by artist and ally John Trudell and Bad Dog at the

(TPP): 17th Round of TPP Negotiations Set for Lima, Peru — May 15-24, 2013 We appreciate your interest in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations. The

Click Image to See the Whole Infographic Why Buying Local is Worth Every Cent Infographic by CustomMade

The Blue Light Video

by Catherine Austin Fitts We have created our first Solari Coin – a one ounce silver round designed for Solari by Ben Lizardi of Lizardi

By BBC News Finance ministers from the G7 group of industrialised nations are set to begin a two-day meeting on Friday. Banking reforms will be

By Kauffman Foundation The pace at which the United States produces $100-million companies has been stable over the last 20 years despite changes in the

By RT A handgun made almost entirely using a consumer-grade 3D printer fired a bullet over the weekend for the first time in the history

By True Activist McDonald’s leaves Bolivia healthier forever! After 14 years of presence in the country, and despite all the existing campaigns and having a

Photo Credit: flickr / Zach Copley By Sarah E. Needleman and Spencer E. Ante Bitcoin startups are beginning to raise sizable investment capital even as

By InfoWars Addressing 2013 graduates at the Ohio State University in Columbus today, Obama’s speech writers took the opportunity to remind outgoing grads that the

By Julia Irvine In its annual Fraud Survey, it reveals that of the 3,000 board members, managers and their teams across 36 countries who were

Photo Credit: bbwbryant/Flickr By Truthdig MR: No, no. Neil MacBride, just so you know, he’s the attorney, U.S. attorney for the eastern district of Virginia.

By Marielle Segarra As companies wait for the Securities and Exchange Commission to finalize the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act rules, they may be eager

By Michael Sankowski I’ve been getting into Solar lately – the fall in prices has been absolutely shocking over the last 2-4 years. We are

Photo Credit: Eduardo Munoz/Reuters By Reuters Investigators from the agency that regulates power markets have found a unit of JPMorgan Chase & Co manipulated trading

By Michael Boldin On Thursday, Kansas Governor Sam Brownback received a letter from Federal Attorney General Eric Holder threatening action against the state should it

By Louise Yamada The technical observations suggesting risk for Gold spot price (GOLDS-1,462.09) over the past two months’ reports followed through with a severe decline

By Bifurcated Carrots There is an important vote coming up concerning proposed changes to EU seed law. This is a vote in the EU Commission,

By Robert W. Wood Bitcoin is virtual currency much in the news these days. It’s peer-to-peer so there’s no central bank or government. But if

[CAF Note: Is the planetary debt-for-equity we described in the 2nd Quarter Equity Review underway?] By Sarah Jones Central banks, guardians of the world’s $11

Transcript of Jon Rappoport and Catherine discuss Hamilton Securities is now available to Subscribers! From the transcript: Catherine Austin Fitts: Good evening. This is Catherine

By Catherine Austin Fitts Last Five Years Reviewing this comparison of the US equity markets to the performance of the largest gold and silver ETFs shows

Photo Credit: Daniel Acker/Getty By Araceli Cruz If you haven’t noticed, there’s currently a mass exodus from Facebook taking place. In the past three months

By Hoisington Investment Management Company “The Federal Reserve is printing money”. No statement could be less truthful. The Federal Reserve (Fed) is not, and has

By David Gumpert Now that a Wisconsin judge has rejected raw milk farmer Vernon Hershberger’s religious freedom arguments to justify having a witness testify on

By James Surowiecki When we all finished filing our tax returns last week, there was a little something missing: two trillion dollars. That’s how much

By Staff Writers Washington (AFP) The US army is working to limit its dependence on GPS by developing the next generation of navigation technology, including

By Riverbend April 9, 2013 marks ten years since the fall of Baghdad. Ten years since the invasion. Since the lives of millions of Iraqis

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Trusted Sources Video

Photo Credit: Reuters/Gary Cameron [CAF Note: Kudos to the EFF and all those who have stopped a really bad idea dead in its tracks for

By Liz Farmer In a move that’s expected to stir up staunch resistance from public pension managers, some Capitol Hill lawmakers have proposed new pension