This is not the end folks, this is only the beginning of a change that is sweeping across the World – these are stunning defeats

By Eleanor Laise EDITOR’S NOTE: This article was originally published in the April 2012 issue of Kiplinger’s Retirement Report. Traditional pension plans are supposed to

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Source: The Economist Like most sins, tax breaks are easier to condemn than to resist. Politicians regularly decry the inefficiency and complexity that tax breaks

British Atlantic Fleet on patrol in the late 1920s From Wikipedia The Invergordon Mutiny was an industrial action by around 1,000 sailors in the British

With this goal in mind, Mexico has established the following priorities: Economic stabilization and structural reforms as foundations for growth and employment.       [CAF Translation:

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  By Stephanie Baum A company has developed a robot to help autistic children learn social reference skills and is raising $1.25 million to produce

By Katharina Bart An indictment of Zuercher Kantonalbank by U.S. officials in an ongoing tax probe would not mean the state-backed bank’s demise, Chief Executive

By Martin Hutchinson It now looks as though Nicolas Sarkozy’s days are numbered. In the balance lies the fate of the Eurozone itself. It appears

TWO FUTURES? Privacy, piracy, security, sovereignty—the divisions on these issues reflect an even deeper split between those who want tight control and those who want

(30 April 12) Snix and Fizzy is on Facebook. [Note from CAF: One of my favorite cross platform developers created Snix and Fizzy. It is

Joel Salatin talks to Lew about Big Agra authoritarianism, and how to emancipate yourself. Joel Salatin’s Polyface Farm website Continue reading the article . .

By Catherine Austin Fitts While I was in Portugal, I received the following e-mail from my assistant in Hickory Valley: “The local energy authority stopped

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By Fred Meier Ford announced today that it would offer a lump-sum payment to its 90,000 salaried retirees as well as U.S. salaried former employees

By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan Three targeted Americans: A career government intelligence official, a filmmaker and a hacker. None of these U.S. citizens was

Sepp Holzer is coming to the US! May 3-13 2012 Advanced Permaculture Training in Flathead Lake, MT ‘Place of Gathering’ Sepp Holzer and Michael Pilarski

By F. William Engdahl The prospect of an unparalleled Eurasian economic boom lasting into the next Century and beyond is at hand. The first steps

By Foster and Kimberly Gamble When unpacking [John] Robbins arguments we notice: He has not corrected a single fact from THRIVE; He confirms the sociopathic

Source: Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund Falls Church, Virginia, April 11, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — On March 30 federal district judge Mark W. Bennett issued an

Second International Water Symposium Tamera, Portugal- April 27 – 29, 2012 [Note from Catherine: I am attending this week] We have convened this symposium to

[CAF Note: Well, I guess these guys think precious metals is in a long-term primary trend! Or, perhaps, precious metals is good air cover?] By

Source: The Economist The first industrial revolution began in Britain in the late 18th century, with the mechanisation of the textile industry. Tasks previously done

By Associated Press, New York — Revenue from Internet advertising in the U.S. hit a record $31 billion last year, according to a study released

[click on the image for a larger version] Contributor Madison Ruppert A phenomenal series of Venn diagrams at the end of this article shows in

By Pete Kotz It was the early 1990s, and the 750 men and women at Georgetown Steel were pumping out wire rods at peak performance.

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By Marc Ross US exports to China in 2011 total $103.9 billion?30 states now count China as one of their top three export markets Washington,

By Ernest A. Canning Would legalization disrupt the economics of the Prison Industrial Complex and its pool of slave laborers? This is the second of

By Ken Tysiac Americans’ infatuation with technology such as cellphones, cable TV, and satellite radio isn’t helping them fatten their bank accounts, according to a

By Lori Montgomery The painful trade-offs of tax reform came into sharper focus Tuesday as lawmakers for the first time began considering specific tax breaks

Posted by Michael Laprarie An unbelievable story, the source of which appeared to be a single Spanish-language news broadcast, made the blogosphere rounds yesterday: Iceland

What a wonderful brunch we had this weekend in San Jose! Australian Tony Brigstock and his beautiful family played host. Tony is a former PGA

The list below shows the largest banks in the world based on market capitalization as of January 20, 2012. Industrial & Commercial Bank of China

From Wikipedia This is a list of countries by gun ownership rate (number of privately owned small firearms divided by number of residents). [click on

< By Catherine Austin Fitts Want to learn more about your state and local government? If they issue official statements in connection with issuance of

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By Emily The American Academy of Environmental Medicine (AAEM) today issued a position paper on “Electromagnetic and Radiofrequency Fields Effect on Human Health”, including wireless

By Staff Writers Petah Tikva, Israel Gilat Satellite Networks has announced completion of a dedicated project for satellite-based web connectivity to support Russia’s national presidential

By Catherine Austin Fitts I was walking through a mall in Corte Madre on Friday afternoon looking for store to arrange for a new phone

By Chris Kahn, AP Energy Writer New York (AP) – A 10-month slide in natural gas prices took a breather after the government said U.S.

This film tells the story of a South Los Angeles edible garden planted in a surprising spot. Ron Finley, its planter, constructed the garden the

Is Karl Rove secretly supporting Mitt Romney? (photo: AP) By Jim Rutenberg and Jeff Zeleny,The New York Times American Crossroads, the biggest of the Republican

By Rob Kirby On April 5, 2012, JPMorganChase commodity executive Blythe Masters appeared on CNBC, and she was questioned whether the bank is manipulating metals

From pain rays to guns that can turn people into zombies, these weapons are no longer the stuff of fiction. By Tecca Forget the light

By Will Allen and Ronnie Cummins The world’s most hated corporation is at it again, this time in Vermont. Despite overwhelming public support and support

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By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard It has been an unsettling experience for late-comers who joined the gold rush near all-time highs of $1,923 an ounce last September.

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By Steven Rosenfeld Wisconsin’s recall-facing Republican Gov. Scott Walker and his legislative allies received a stunning rebuke from a federal court on Friday that ruled

By Linda Minor Part One of this saga served as an introduction to Pug Winokur, how he rose from the son of a Jewish pawnbroker

Former AIG CEO Maurice R. “Hank” Greenberg By Arthur D. Postal The Federal Reserve Bank of New York Monday asked a federal court in Manhattan

By Shawn Pogatchnik Debt-mired Ireland is facing a revolt over its new property tax. The government said less than half of the country’s 1.6 million

By Gordon Cox The latest play by John Patrick Shanley has a new title, “Storefront Church,” and a cast that includes Giancarlo Esposito, Tonya Pinkins

“It was as though in those last minutes he was summing up the lessons that this long course in human wickedness had taught us — the

By Hiroko Tabuchi TOKYO — The damage to one of three stricken reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi plant could be worse than previously thought, a

The collapse of Enron occurred in October 2001, one month after the towers fell on 9/11. It’s been more than ten years now, and we

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By Michael P. Farris, Esq. I am not content to sit on the sidelines while the government gradually usurps the very essence of parental rights.

By Attorney Michael T. Dunn On March 27, 2012, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to approve the version of the Jumpstart Our Business Startups

By Philip Klein Justices on the U.S. Supreme Court this morning considered what to do with the rest of President Obama’s national health care law

By Walking Times As incomes fall and retail prices rise, Greeks have found an ingenious way to pay three times less than they usually would

By Phil Mattingly and Silla Brush Jon S. Corzine, MF Global Holding Ltd. (MFGLQ)’s chief executive officer, gave “direct instructions” to transfer $200 million from

By Sami K. Martin , Christian Post Contributor Scientists and Harry Potter fans are one step closer to having an invisibility cloak. For those not

By RT.com Madrid’s high-class escorts have found a way to regulate the Spanish banking sector. The ladies want to have their say in the economy

By Joe Pompeo Herbert “Pug” Winokur, the former Enron board member and finance committee chairman when the company was destroyed by an accounting-fraud scandal in

By Jesse j. Holland Sharp questioning by the Supreme Court’s conservative justices has cast serious doubt on the survival of the individual insurance requirement at

By Bob Ivry The White House submitted a budget plan to Congress this year that would have provided the FHA as much as $688 million

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By C. Powell Dear Friend of GATA and Gold: In an essay headlined “Fake Bars — The Facts,” Bron Suchecki of the Perth Mint today

By Gary Victor Dubin Gary Victor Dubin is a dynamite Honolulu foreclosure defense attorney with over 40 wins by the DUBIN LAW FIRM in Hawaii

Photo by J. Scott Applewhite, AP By Richard Wolf Health coverage for more than 30 million people. The power of Congress to regulate interstate commerce.

By Ruby Lian and Fayen Wong – Reuters The Hong Kong Mercantile Exchange plans to launch yuan-settled gold and copper futures by July, its president

Guatemalan President Otto Perez Molina By Catherine E. Shoichet On the campaign trail, Otto Perez Molina vowed to rule his country with an iron fist.

From Wikipedia The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (“SWIFT”) operates a worldwide financial messaging network which exchanges messages between banks and other financial institutions.

By Janet Lorin U.S. student-loan debt reached the $1 trillion mark, as young borrowers struggle to keep up with soaring tuition costs, according to the

By Joseph T. Salerno Under cover of its multiplicity of fabricated wars on drugs, terror, tax evasion, and organized crime, the US government has long

By Arshad Mohammed and Andrew Quinn The United States exempted Japan and 10 EU nations from financial sanctions because they have significantly cut purchases of

By James Bamford The spring air in the small, sand-dusted town has a soft haze to it, and clumps of green-gray sagebrush rustle in the

Dennett’s IGA supermarket in Mullumbimby is FOR SALE Could the people of Mullumbimby own their own supermarket…? Continue reading the article . . . Related reading:

< By John Callaham The massive fund raising journey that is the Double Fine “point-and-click” adventure game project on the Kickstarter web site has come

By Kaveh L Afrasiabi Tehran’s threats to block the Strait of Hormuz in response to sanctions are not mere words, warned Iran’s senior spokesman on

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Executive order issued Friday entitled “National Defense Resources Preparedness” Click image to read [Note from CAF: Yes, it is simply an update of existing Executive Orders. However,

By Pete Kennedy, Esq. In a brazen power grab threatening the livelihood of hundreds of small farmers, the Michigan Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is

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Secret Deals, Foreclosure Settlements,Stress Tests, and Vampire Squid Whistle-Blowers By L. Randall Wray No Hollywood scriptwriter could plot a more implausible story. Here is the

Complaint:     National Foreclosure Settlement Complaint (PDF)     Individual Bank Agreements:     Ally/GMAC Settlement (PDF) Bank of America Settlement (PDF) Citi Settlement

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[CAF Note: Goldman’s head of derivatives for Europe just happens to resign in the middle of the Greek CDS debacle and writes a big NY

By Joe Weisenthal Sectoral Excess returns [click on the image for a larger version Continue reading the article . . .

By Jeff Horwitz JPMorgan Chase & Co. took procedural shortcuts and used faulty account records in suing tens of thousands of delinquent credit card borrowers