[CAF Note: I don’t love Obamacare!] By Greg Stohr The U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the core of President Barack Obama’s health-care overhaul in an opinion

[CAF Note: I’m a skeptic. Get ready for this to be seriously misused] A federal court decision on Tuesday upholding the Environmental Protection Agency’s landmark

Image: Stuart Niles / freedigitalphotos.net * By John Butler In what might be the most underreported financial story of the year, US banking regulators recently

[Note from CAF: Here it comes again. A new effort to push pandemics and vaccines. If ever there is a sign of real weakness in the

Photo: James Duncan Davidson Source: TED In pictures, quotes and more. As the world becomes interconnected, the ways we relate and learn about one another

By Dave Gonigam Hooray for Iceland. The nation has effectively purged an entire class of zombies. Late on Friday, the Icelandic government repaid $483.7 million in

[click on the image for a larger version By Steven Aftergood The Department of Defense has identified 110 sites in the United States that could

by Catherine Austin Fitts In April, I dropped into the Verizon Store in Corte Madera, California. I was headed to Portugal. My iPhone did not

From Wikipedia The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), also known as the Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership Agreement, is a multilateral free trade agreement that aims to further

[CAF Note: Like Curtis Mayfield sang, “It’s like one way in and no way out.”] By Spatial Information Design Labs The United States currently has

By Adam Curtis All Watched Over By Machines Of Loving Grace is a series about how humans have been colonised by the machines they have

By Jed Graham Nearly four years after a borrowing binge gave way to financial crisis, have households slashed enough debt to take on new credit

Genetically modified (GM) crops are promoted on the basis of a range of far-reaching claims from the GM crop industry and its supporters. They say

By Charles Riley The average American family’s net worth dropped almost 40% between 2007 and 2010, according to a triennial study released Monday by the

By David Jolly Paris — Washington gained another victory on Thursday in its push to extend surveillance over Americans’ financial dealings when Switzerland joined the

By Charles Hugh Smith of two minds.com The Master Narrative Nobody Dares Admit All centralized systems, open and shadow alike, act as heavy taxes on

By Dakin Campbell and Michael J. Moore Moody’s Investors Service suffered a downgrade of its own as markets responded to the company’s rating cuts yesterday

Workshop– Saturday June 23 and Sunday, June 24, 2012 Hours: Each day-10:00-4:00 Place: Lesta’s Studio, 135 Evans Ave.,San Antonio., 78209 Fee: One day $50, both days

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Source: CNBC The United States is still No. 1 when it comes to the number of millionaires in a single country, but global wealth is

By a Solari Report Subscriber [CAF Note: Yikes! Has this happened to you? If you are a subscriber, post your story on the blog or,

Source: BBC News Japan has announced that it will restart two nuclear reactors – the first to go back online since all the country’s plants

Summer begins in the Northern Hemisphere on June 20, 2012, at 7:09 P.M. (EDT). Here’s more about the first day of summer—the summer solstice—plus, facts,

By George Washington Democracy Now, Breaking the Pledge Video Continue reading the article . . . Related reading: Controversial Trade Pact Text Leaked(PDF) PublicCitizen (13

By Frank Morales Back in 1992 the Pentagon’s Joint Chiefs of Staff held a “Strategy Essay Competition.” The winner was a National War College student

Is this a mosquito…NO! This is an “INSECT SPY DRONE” already in production. Insect Spy Drone Wake Up Call (Facebook) By Alexander Higgins Wright –

By Osamu Tsukimori TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s lower house is set to pass a bill on Friday to provide government guarantees on insurance for Iranian

By Chris Oliver Hong Kong Exchanges & Clearing HK:388 -4.45% HKXCF +2.56% , operator of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, said Friday it has entered

By Ron Bennett For all the small business owners out there struggling to make it, here is simple calculation of the hidden tax paid due

By Karen Weise It’s been just two weeks since President Obama signed the JOBS Act into law, loosening requirements for companies looking to raise capital.

By Anais Starr My great good friend and doctor healer, Dr. Jim MacKimmie passed away on Monday evening, June 11. After the initial stab of

Could this be the golden age of estate planning? Some financial advisers believe it is — at least until the end of the year. That’s

BISMARCK, N.D. — Since Californians shrank their property taxes more than three decades ago by passing Proposition 13, people around the nation have echoed their

  Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing, which counts the Chinese government among it shareholders, is understood to have tabled a £1.3bn offer for the City’s

The first privately funded mission to the Moon will launch in 2015, pioneered by a legendary roboticist and his team of students. Pittsburgh’s Astrobotic Technology,

30,000 secret surveillance orders approved each year Nate Anderson (5 June 12) If the government spies on you but brings no charges, you’ll never know.

Source: Shadowstats This article replaces the earlier “Primer” on the Consumer Price Index   Consumer Price Index Has Been Reconfigured Since Early-1980s?So As to Understate

Source: Economist Our interactive overview of government debt across the planet. The clock is ticking. Every second, it seems, someone in the world takes on

The Trap: What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom is a BBC documentary series by English filmmaker Adam Curtis, well known for other documentaries including

Delivered June 10, 1963 “President Anderson, members of the faculty, board of trustees, distinguished guests, my old colleague, Senator Bob Byrd, who has earned his

By Humble Student of the Markets I wrote before that the likely negative surprise was going to come from China and not Europe (see Focus

“There are three kinds of people in the world: those who are asleep, those who are stirring, and those who are awake. “If you try

By Paula Vasan,  aiCIO Alongside senators, prime ministers, and banking kingpins, one (perhaps) unusual attendee is currently at this year’s Bilderberg meetings: Texas Teacher Retirement

Source:News.com.au The Financial Times (FT) reported yesterday that Lord Jacob Rothschild’s listed investment trust, RIT Capital Partners, agreed to take a 37 per cent stake

By Lee Ferran, Alexander Marquardt and Colleen Curry Flame, also known as sKyWIper, is a veritable “toolkit” of cyber spying programs that is capable of

By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard The German scheme — known as the European Redemption Pact — offers a form of “Eurobonds Lite” that can be squared with

By Elisheva Wiriaatmadja The 2012 Bilderberg Group meeting will take place from May 31st to June 3rd at the Westfields Marriott Washington Dulles hotel in

By The CNN Wire Staff The United States joins Germany, Spain, Italy, France, Britain, Canada, Australia in expelling Syrian diplomats  Tuesday in a coordinated move …

Source: Associated Press America’s newest veterans are filing for disability benefits at a historic rate, claiming to be the most medically and mentally troubled generation

By Matt Stoller “There was a kind of inflection point during the five-year period between 1997 and 2003 — the late Clinton and/or early Bush

[Note from CAF: Special thanks to Leila Dregger and the team of journalists at Tamera who documented our discussions.] The Second InternatIonal Water Symposium in

By A Solari Subscriber City of Las Cruces is cutting off utilities for the non payment of speed camera tickets. [http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/37/3774.asp] In Phx 75k people

By Wil Schroter, Fundable When the JOBS Act was signed in April, the startup community gave itself a collective high five. Crowdfunding would enable startups

From Jim Sinclair from Harry Schulz [and said to be from Bob Chapman] On May 14, Russia’s Prime Minister Medvedev delivered a speech at an

Source: Zillow With U.S. home values falling by nearly 25% since peak in 2007, many homeowners are now underwater in their mortgages, meaning they owe

By Peter Dale Scott Preface I delivered the following remarks at an anti-NATO conference held in Moscow on May 15, 2012. I was the only

By Jiji The government is considering legislation that will allow it to effectively reinsure tankers carrying crude oil from Iran to Japan, sources said. The

While I was in Portugal, one of my Portuguese friends took me by his brother’s home for an early dinner. We watched the sunset across

By testosteronepit Wolf Richter The plight of natural gas driller Chesapeake Energy could almost make you feel sorry for the board of directors and CEO

Source: The Daily Galaxy via University of Maryland New Study May Provide the Proof Is the Earth a giant living organism as the Gaia hypothesis

On Assignment: A Guide to Reporting in Dangerous Situations In the early months of 2002, Wall Street Journalreporter Daniel Pearl was abducted and executed by

Source: Bank for International Settlements, IMF, World Bank, UN Population Division The circle below shows the gross external, or foreign, debt of some of the

By Om Malik We are on the cusp of a big economic shift. I believe that the industrial era is coming to an end and

Nick Hanauer YouTube (17 May 12) Related reading: Nick Hanauer From Wikipedia About Nick Nick Hanauer.com

By Common Dreams staff Today, the Cornucopia Institute released a report titled The Organic Watergate revealing widespread corruption in the USDA’s organic food monitoring panel

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By Tyler Durden China is now on its way to becoming the biggest source of gold demand, surpassing India, but more importantly as of hours

By Bob Van Voris The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. sued a group of banks including JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) , Citigroup Inc. (C) ,

By Chris Puplava The decline in bullish optimism towards stocks is usually associated with more severe declines than what we typically see and is likely

By Danielle Douglas John Marshall Bank in Reston has de-registered its shares with the Securities and Exchange Commission, taking advantage of a provision in the

YouTube (17 April 11) Related reading: Canada’s Genocide (Documentary) YouTube (7 Oct 11)

Solari & The Money Changer Silver and Gold Payment Calculator App Price: Free   Solution: iPhone Apps That Give Us New Ideas The creator of

By Andrew Dalton Venture capitalist and Paypal co-founder Peter Thiel is inching closer towards realizing his dream of creating a government-free floating island utopia for

“About 32 leading men of the community,” according to the original minute book, assembled December 24, 1883, in Malvern Hall for the purpose of “starting

Andrew Bartholomew, son of Lydia Willits Bartholomew grew up in Chester County, Pennsylvania. He received his undergraduate degree from Lynchburg College, in Economics, in 2005,

By Olivia Oran and Alistair Barr New York/San Francisco (Reuters) – Facebook Inc priced its initial public offering at the top of its target range

Source: NYR Natural News An Italian court has ruled there is a link between the MMR vaccine and autism. In what may be a ground-breaking

By Jon Rappoport The day of the Smoking Gun has arrived. The discovery of a page, on the FDA’s own website, proves the FDA is

[CAF Note: Reposting this for the second time given ongoing events in Greece and the Eurozone] You are an opponent of the project for single

Source: Reuters Washington (Reuters) – The U.S. Justice Department has opened an inquiry into JPMorgan’s multibillion-dollar trading loss, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday,

By Paul Brodsky and Lee Quaintance of QBAMCO Two weeks ago, before Jamie Dimon’s thoughtful diversion, Charlie Munger of Berkshire Hathaway instructed viewers of CNBC

By Joseph Trento The United States deliberately allowed Japan access to the United States’ most secret nuclear weapons facilities while it transferred tens of billions of

By Teri Buhl Fallout from JP Morgan trading losses, which led to rater Fitch downgrading their debt yesterday, aren’t the only financial worries the banking

Source: Yahoo [click on the image for a larger version] Continue reading the article . . . Related reading: JPMorgan Said to Weigh Bonus Clawbacks

By Cam Hui Last week, I wrote to expect a short-term rally, which was a tactical trading call (see The “Merde” rally?) but I wasn’t

Editing by Alissa de Carbonnel and Mark Heinrich MOSCOW (Reuters) – Of all the signals and symbols that shape Russian foreign policy, this one seemed

Source: Seeking Alpha “The most valuable commodity I know of is information.” (Gordon Gecko in “Wall Street” by Oliver Stone) The Periodic Table of Commodity

Email sent to Catherine May 8, 2012 from a subscriber: Catherine, Franklin Sanders had CC’d me your email address in regards to any soil questions

Source: Pragmatic Capitalism One of the more controversial ideas I wrote about last year was the decoupling of Europe and the USA The equity market

By Sanat Vallikappen That’s what some of the world’s largest wealth-management firms are saying ahead of Washington’s implementation of the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act

By Catherine Austin Fitts [Excerpt from our Annual Wrap Up in January 2012] This year was my first opportunity to meet a lot of Solari

The Federal Reserve Board on Wednesday announced its approval of the application by Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Limited, China Investment Corporation, and Central

Tamera, Portugal, May 7th, 2012: – Tamera Water Retention Landscape has been named a 2012 Finalist in the Buckminster Fuller Challenge, the prestigious annual design

Volkswagen People’s car project. YouTube Related reading: Is VW’s Next People’s Car a Hover Car? Fox News (4 May 12)

By Tsuyoshi Inajima Japan has none of its 50 reactors operating as of today after its sole operating nuclear unit was halted for planned maintenance

By John Rubino Today’s world can be summarized in two sentences: Unless continuously fed with new credit, the global financial system will implode. And when

“When we took over berkshire, berkshire was selling at $15 a share and gold was selling at $20 an ounce. And gold is now $1600

The future of media on mobile devices isn’t with applications but with the Web. By Jason Pontin By the time Apple released the iPad in