(Photo Credit: Matt McLoone/The Wall Street Journal) By Angus Loten A closely watched Internet free-speech case is headed to the Virginia Supreme Court this month,

***CAF Note: So, what was the real reason? Was Firefox not giving the access to the intelligence agencies that they enjoy with Facebook and Google?

By Cryptogon I, for one, find grocery lists so odious that I need a wi-fi enabled barcode scanner with voice recognition to make sure my

By Catherine Austin Fitts I am praying in response to the story below – 22 vets a day committing suicide in America. This is way

By Kevin G. Hall From state legislatures to Congress to tea party rallies, a vocal backlash is rising against what are perceived as too-generous retirement

By Tyler Durden While the flare up of Cold War 2.0 may seem like last week’s news, overnight something very notable happened that so far

***CAF Note: This puts us in a very dangerous place. The message is clear. The 2014 elections were not going to go well for Mr.

By James Vincent Researchers testing a real-life human-to-dolphin translator have reported the first successful use of their technology in the wild, with a bottlenose dolphin

By Desmond Butler, Jack Gillum and Alberto Arce The U.S. government masterminded the creation of a “Cuban Twitter” – a communications network designed to undermine

By Martin Armstrong Does the USA have totally invisible planes? Why are they being leaked now? There has been development of secret planes at Area

(Photo Credit: General Dynamics Photo/US Navy) By Drake Bennett When the U.S. Navy christens the first of its newest class of destroyers this month, it

Pravda.Ru would like to bring to your attention “The Unknown Putin” – a documentary by well-known Russian journalist Andrei Karaulov. Continue Part 2 Related Reading:

By McClellan Financial Publications The folks who watch international bond yields have been giving a lot of attention lately to the fact that the spread

(Photo Credit: Jay Mallin/ZUMA) ***CAF Note: The information age is now permitting us to look across our balance sheets and notice the multiple personality disorder

By Wikipedia Machine to machine (M2M) refers to technologies that allow both wireless and wired systems to communicate with other devices of the same type.

By Washington’s Blog Spy Agencies Are Spying On All Of Us, Taking Screenshots of Our Webchats, Creating Vulnerabilities On Our Computers and the Internet, and

By Catherine Austin Fitts Long time business colleague, ally & friend Rodney Jordon is running for city council in Norfolk, Virginia. If you are in

By Open Source Ecology OSE workshops are intended to provide you with immersion, hands-on training in practical skills – so you can Build Yourself –

(Click image to view larger) By Joe Weisenthal In recent years, as income and wealth inequality have grown as matters of concern, the term “1%”

By Javier E. David The Federal Reserve will continue to bolster the U.S. economy, Fed Chair Janet Yellen said on Monday, given the halting pace

(Photo Credit: AFP) By AFP It is one of the world’s longest railways, an approximately 11,000-kilometre “modern-day silk road” that traverses Russia and Kazakhstan to

[**CAF Note: This letter comes from a great Montana ally who understands the importance and power of soil. For those of you who have not

By Catherine Crump and Matthew Harwood Estimates vary, but by 2020 there could be over 30 billion devices connected to the Internet. Once dumb, they

Photo Credit: AFP By Harry Wilson London will become the first centre outside Asia in which investors will be able to clear and settle Chinese

By Catherine Austin Fitts One of the most amazing things to watch these days is the building of a FOR PROFIT surveillance state. Aaron Russo

By Reaction Real Shelter for Real People According to the UN, 45 million people around the world have been displaced from their homes due to

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By Alison Smale and Michael D. Shear The United States and its closest allies on Monday cast Russia out of the Group of 8 industrialized

By Catherine Austin Fitts I first noticed Etsy when the Mayor of Rockville, Illinois invited the artisan commerce website to help rebuild their local economy.

(Photo Credit: Reuters/Muhammad Hamed) By Allyn Fisher-Ilan Israeli diplomats launched an unprecedented strike on Sunday, forcing the complete closure of embassies around the world as

By James Vincent Night vision technology has been around for a while, but it’s only really used by professionals (or professional creeps) due to its

By Catherine Austin Fitts How many people have told me they would love to have a screening for a given documentary in their home town.

By Tyler Durden Earlier today we reported that according to weekly Fed data, a record amount – some $105 billion – in Treasurys had been

By Andrea Wong The dollar gained versus all its major counterparts after Federal Reserve policy makers indicated they’ll probably raise interest rates by the middle

By The Economist As the regime of Viktor Yanukovych collapsed in Ukraine, protesters against it could be found outside One Hyde Park, a luxury development

By Catherine Austin Fitts The current proposal to phase out Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac has the potential for ever greater back door shenanigans. Lot’s

By Sebastian Anthony In a rather intriguing twist, it appears that NASA is now mandated by law to fly a robotic mission to Jupiter’s watery

The U.S. Department of the Treasury released its General Explanations of the Administration’s FY2015 Revenue Proposals, known as the “Greenbook,” which explains the Administration’s revenue

By Kim Zetter You already know that laptops, desktop computers, tablets and mobile phones are all at risk of being hacked. But did you know

**Note: We are republishing each of the 22 challenges from Catherine’s fiscal cliff article – one a week. Helps to digest them bit by bit!**

By BBC News President Vladimir Putin and the leaders of Crimea have signed a bill to absorb the peninsula into Russia. Mr Putin told parliament

**CAF Note: If the US and Russia target the finances and assets of individual officials, then the only people who will be able to hold

By Alastair Thompson Japanese peace builder and Buddhist philosopher Daisaku Ikeda has a unique perspective on the path humanity needs to follow to achieve Global

By Bloomberg Markets are reacting in real time to Russia’s military incursion into the Crimea section of Ukraine. Continue Reading

By Tyler Durden We are sure it is just coincidence – and awkward combination of luck and suspicious timing – but Vedomosti reports that Viktor