[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 serve as bases for military unmanned aerial systems (UAS), or

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 work globally. On my last few trips to Europe, Verizon

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 liberalize the economies of the Asia-Pacific region; specifically, Article 1.1.3

[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 more than 2 million people locked up in jails and

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 built — “Although we don’t realise it, the way we

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 that GM crops: Are an extension of natural breeding and

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 Federal Reserve. [click on the image for a larger version

By David Jolly Paris — Washington gained another victory on Thursday in its push to extend surveillance over Americans’ financial dealings when Switzerland joined the list of countries that have agreed to cooperate in an

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 the society and economy. This is why they cannot compete

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 of 15 of the world’s largest banks by bidding up

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 $85 plus supply fee $10 a day Lunch: Bring your

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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 continuing its movement eastward. Continue reading the article . .

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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 were closed following last year’s Fukushima crisis. Reactors at the

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, folklore, and some sensational summer photos! Continue reading the article

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 paper entitled, “The Origins of the American Military Coup of

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 crude cargoes, making it the first of Iran’s big Asian

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 into a framework agreement to buy the London Metal Exchange

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 to inflation: How much is the tax due to 4%

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. The rules aren’t even written yet, and already one new

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 a shock, jangling of heart strings, sleeping on it overnight,

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 when key income tax breaks for transferring wealth are scheduled

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 dismay over such levies, putting forth plans to even them,

  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 last “open cry” market, and a decision is expected to

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. A federal judge estimates that his fellow federal judges issue

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 Inflation versus Common Experience   CPI no longer measures the

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 more debt. The idea of a debt clock for an