By Catherine Austin Fitts In 1987, I rented a magical apartment in a brownstone on Manhattan’s West Side next to Central Park. Full of fireplaces,

By Sarah Mervosh Thousands are expected to attend next week’s memorial service for Navy SEAL sniper Chris Kyle, who died Saturday when a veteran he

By Barbara Pruitt The newest installment of the Kauffman Sketchbook video series tells the great American success story of an immigrant entrepreneur who starts with

By Max Raskin & Jasmine Zhao The number of foreigners who have purchased green cards by investing in the U.S. has exploded in the last

By Charles Mead and Matt Robinson Fifteen months after Harold “Terry” McGraw III sparked a $4.6 billion stock gain at McGraw-Hill Cos. (MHP) with a

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By Vincent Ryan Like the entrepreneurs on Kickstarter trying to raise money to sell hot-chocolate cubes, cut an album, or manufacture a wireless dive-log device

By Damien Gayle UK spy agencies want to install ‘black box’ surveillance devices across the country’s communications networks to monitor internet use, it emerged today.

By Eric Engleman International proposals to control the Internet will continue after a United Nations conference in Dubai and the U.S. should be ready to

[CAF Note: Bill Cosby used to have a comedy routine about medics. Referring to a military landing, he quipped that their life expectancy from the

By Margaret Collins JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) is giving its wealthiest clients the chance to invest in the single-family rental market after other investments

By David E Sanger A secret legal review on the use of America’s growing arsenal of cyberweapons has concluded that President Obama has the broad

On Wikipedia The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) is a proposed law in the United States which would allow for the sharing of

By Jeff Eisenhauer Harbin is one of the most genuinely unique places in China. Though it’s known for its annual ice festival, the city has

By Ovetta Wiggins A proposal by the Prince George’s County Board of Education to copyright work created by staff and students for school could mean

By CBS News The U.S. government is expected to file civil charges against Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services, alleging that it fraudulently gave high ratings

by Jon Rappoport By liberals, I simply mean those people who accept big government as a given, regardless of their political affiliation. And yes, at

By Melanie Pelayo On Jan. 1, 2013, Congress averted the so-called fiscal cliff by approving new legislation titled the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012

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By Mike Adams Under Obamacare, American families are forced to buy conventional health insurance that primarily benefits the pharmaceutical industry. By 2016 — just three

By RT A functioning prototype of revolutionary airship is undergoing tests south of Los Angeles. A US company is developing a series of gigantic heavy-payload

By Adam Mann One of the largest storms ever seen on Saturn may have been a victim of its own success, choking when it ate

By Kate Brumback A student opened fire at his middle school Thursday afternoon, wounding a 14-year-old in the neck before an armed officer working at

By RT Switzerland will now assist international tax authorities in disclosing information on bank accounts held by foreigners who avoid taxation at home. Joint efforts

By Joshua Zumbrun & Jeff Kearns Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke signaled he isn’t close to easing up on $85 billion in monthly bond

By Ethan Bronner Law school applications are headed for a 30-year low, reflecting increased concern over soaring tuition, crushing student debt and diminishing prospects of

By Bloomberg Rankings and Nikhil Hutheesing Bernie Rooney, owner of Oak Barrel Winecraft in Berkeley, Calif., says you can make a bottle of wine for

Report: Three People Shot At Phoenix Office Complex A shooting has been reported at an office complex in Phoenix, Ariz., according to ABC 15. Three

[Note from CAF: While I admire Congressman Giffords, what she is saying flies in the face of overwhelming documentation of the facts. Gun ownership saves

[Note from CAF: From a subscriber today – someone who is very, very smart] “Just watched him do an interview on Today. The guy is

By Leslie Patton Abercrombie & Fitch sells sex. Harley-Davidson (HOG) sells rebellion. Chipotle sells idealism. The burrito chain has long pushed sustainable food in its

Awarded Solari Best Film of the Year, 2012, Genetic Roulette has an opportunity to receive the AwareGuide Top Transformational Film, 2012! IRT is offering a

By Pete Brook In the past 40 years, the number of people living in the city of Detroit has halved. This has lead many to

“I took part in victimising innocent, good people. It was institutionalised bullying and scapegoating, and I couldn’t see it because everything about the regime was

By BBC Google has puts its first detailed maps online of North Korea, a country that has so far been mostly blank on the search

By Jef Feeley Wal-Mart Stores Inc.’s (WMT) Mexican unit used a current state governor there to facilitate $156,000 in bribes meant to help open stores,

For the better part of a decade, I have been a cast member of CBC’s Dragon’s Den and ABC’s Shark Tank. Today, both of these

Five years after the start of the Great Recession, the toll is terrifyingly clear: Millions of middle-class jobs have been lost in developed countries the

Art Liscano knows he’s an endangered species in the job market: He’s a meter reader in Fresno, Calif. For 26 years, he’s driven from house

Since 2009 all cash buyers have purchased roughly one third of all Southern California home sales. This is a significant number and unlike the early

Scientists believe they have shown exposure to certain chemicals in the womb can cause changes that are passed through generations. There is no firm evidence

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What just a few months ago was dismissed as a pipe dream or wishful thinking has today become a reality that will no doubt take

Catherine Austin Fitts, Author, Publisher, Investment Advisor Wednesday, January 23, 6pm EST: Mitchell’s guest today is Catherine Austin Fitts, the publisher of the Solari Report.

By Sabrina Siddiqui Progressive senators working to dramatically alter Senate rules were defeated on Thursday, with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and his counterpart,

By Christian Stork The suicide last Friday of information activist, computer hacker and technical wunderkind Aaron Swartz has focused attention on Carmen Ortiz, the U.S.

By John O’Donnell and Robin Emmott Germany, France and nine other euro zone countries will get the go-ahead on Tuesday to start work on a

Triumph of the Cyborg Composer David Cope’s software creates beautiful, original music. Why are people so angry about that? Computer-Generated Music, is it Art?

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By Greg Palast Alex Jones is right. Deport Piers Morgan. NOW. Send him back. In chains. But not because Piers doesn’t believe in the Second

[Note from CAF: As currency wars intensify, expect more attention paid to clearance and settlement systems, particularly SWIFT.] The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication

By Peter Melchett Powerful forces in Western society have been promoting genetic engineering (now usually genetic modification – GM) in agricultural crops since the mid-1990s.

By Jesse Emspak Surveillance cameras are ubiquitous, especially in the U.K.. and in the United States, Congress has already approved the use of drones for

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By The Economist WATCH Chinese television these days and you might conclude that the outbreak of war with Japan over what it calls the Senkaku

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[Staff Note: I’m a big fan of America’s budding Microbrew industry. It’s based around small, local companies who strive to provide the best product they