(Photo Credit: Reuters) By Fox News Argentina’s president has said that she would refuse to comply with a U.S. judge’s order to pay $1.5 billion

By Ralph Atkins Central banks around the world, including China’s, have shifted decisively into investing in equities as low interest rates have hit their revenues,

By Wikipedia The U.S.–China Strategic and Economic Dialogue is a high-level dialogue for the United States and China to discuss a wide range of bilateral,

By Elon Musk Yesterday, there was a wall of Tesla patents in the lobby of our Palo Alto headquarters. That is no longer the case.

By Catherine Austin Fitts You want to pay attention to the fuss over the waiting times at a VA Hospital. This is what happens when

By BBC News The amount of private wealth held by households globally surged more than 14% to $152 trillion (£90tn) last year, boosted mainly by

By Greg McNeal The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued an executive decree banning the centuries old practice of aging cheese on wooden boards.

By The Washington Post Editorial Board At the Department of Veterans Affairs, the federal government’s largest employer (the Army ranks second), only 56.9 percent of

(Photo Credit: Steve Helber / Associated Press) By Lisa Mascaro, Michael A. Memoli, Mark Z. Barabak In a shocking political defeat guaranteed to upend Republican

Image credit: SmartKnowledgeU By Robert Giebels, Natalie Righton NATO might be wasting a lot of money, or maybe they are short of cash. Frankly, we

By Catherine Austin Fitts Once upon a time I worked on Wall Street in a world full of highly energetic, very smart people who loved

By Jill Treanor The American lawyer who orchestrated a successful class action suit against the tobacco industry 20 years ago has turned his sights on

(Photo Credit: Miles Pfefferle) Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof. ~Proverbs

By Philip Pullella Pope Francis sacked the five-man board of the Vatican’s financial watchdog on Thursday – all Italians – in the latest move to

(Photo Credit:AFP Photo / Thomas Coex) By RT Inhabitants of a small village in Germany have taken the digital law into their own hands. They

By NASA NASA’s flying saucer-shaped test vehicle is ready to take to the skies from the U.S. Navy’s Pacific Missile Range Facility in Kauai, Hawaii,

By Sam Ro Going to work and collecting paychecks isn’t the only way to make money in America. “Since 1980, direct labor income has become

“For now we see through a glass, darkly…” ~ Corinthians 13:12 By Catherine Austin Fitts I don’t remember a week in which I have had

By James Vincent Scientists in the Netherlands have achieved a breakthrough in quantum teleportation that could quash Albert Einstein’s objection to the notion of quantum

By Mark Chediak and Jim Polson Coal-dependent power companies from American Electric Power Co. (AEP) to Duke Energy Corp. (DUK) face billions of dollars in

By Suhaib Anjarini The Turkish government recently cut off the flow of the Euphrates River, threatening primarily Syria but also Iraq with a major water

By Tom Harper and Jonathan Owen Hundreds of millions of people across Europe will be forced to change completely the way they use the internet,

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(Photo Credit: Jon Berkeley) By The Economist Business power follows economic power. In the 1920s British firms owned 40% of the global stock of foreign

By Justin Boldenow, Producer of The Solari Report “An attempt to persuade people or warn people about something they might be missing out on.” –

“This is no dream, this is really happening!” ~ Rosemary Woodhouse in Rosemary’s Baby By Catherine Austin Fitts For those of us who have regularly

By Alyson Shontell and Jay Yarow Every year, former analyst and venture capitalist Mary Meeker releases an in-depth look at the state of the web.

By Michael Olson The United States Department of Agriculture has issued a public Request for Proposal for the purchase of .40 caliber submachine guns with

By ETC Group The world’s largest companies are converging around biomass in anticipation of a post-petrochemical future. That doesn’t mean they’re simply grabbing land and

By Sumathi Reddy Children still in kindergarten or even younger form cliques and intentionally exclude others, say psychologists and educators who are increasingly noticing the

***CAF Note: I have a lot of respect for people who take out a blank sheet of paper and write down how they would organize

We don’t want to become a digital colony of global internet giants,” ~ French Economy Minister Arnaud Montebourg By Catherine Austin Fitts The reverberations are

By Dermot Cole The U.S. Air Force gave official notice to Congress Wednesday that it intends to dismantle the $300 million High Frequency Active Auroral

By RT China is calling on banks to stop using IBM servers and replace them with local-made machines amid fears that the nation’s financial security

By Tom Braithwaite A Google or Walmart bank would be attractive to a large slice of young consumers, according to a survey that also shows

By Patrick Wintour and Nicholas Watt Nigel Farage has unleashed his much-promised political earthquake across British politics as Ukip stormed to victory in the European

***CAF Note: When Mark Dansie likes a project that I have donated to, I sit up and take notice. Dansie is one of my “go

***CAF Note: The transition to smart phones continues…*** By Neil Shah According to latest research from Counterpoint’s Market Monitor quarterly tracker program, USA smartphone market

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By Catherine Austin Fitts Well, the proof is in. The Fed governors see no risk to inflation in their stimulus policies. This is proof that