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By Catherine Austin Fitts Money makes the world go round. For the trillions of annual dollars transacting through illegal activities, financial fraud or simply transferred

(Photo Credit: Reuters/Konstantin Chernichkin) By Interfax The government of Ukraine has the idea of privatization of the energy sector in the country, Ukrainian Prime Minister

By Charles Hugh Smith All those focusing on the West’s lack of leverage are forgetting that the Empire retains multiple way of striking back. Many

(Photo Credit: Reuters/Jonathan Ernst) By Anna Yukhananov and Lidia Kelly Russian officials are pushing for the International Monetary Fund to move ahead with planned reforms

By Pam Martens Last evening, the U.S. Senate Banking Committee made the unexpected announcement that it was postponing the confirmation hearing of Stanley Fischer to

By Sustainable Pulse The number of scientists and experts condemning a journal editor’s retraction of a study that found serious health effects in rats that

By David Sirota The term “native advertising” may be new, but the principles of deception and camouflage that define it are not. The Federal Trade

By Philip Pearlman Over the last week, thefts have been reported at three different bitcoin sites, one of which was the first exchange and at

**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 Catherine Austin Fitts A subscriber from “down under” sent a series of interesting links on blog posts published last year on Australia’s plans to

(Photo Credit: AFP Photo / Etienne Franchi) By RT Twenty-six of the most powerful American corporations – such as Boeing, General Electric, and Verizon –

By David Barboza Last June, an affiliate of the Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba made an offer to its hundreds of millions of users: Give us

By Kickstarter On March 3, 2014, Kickstarter passed $1 BILLION in pledges. That’s $1,000,000,000 pledged by 5.7 million people to creative projects. More than half

By Nicolette Hahn Niman LATE on Saturday, Feb. 8, news broke of the recall of 8.7 million pounds of beef that had come through a

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By Catherine Austin Fitts On Sunday morning, March 1 at 6:05am, the temperature in Hickory Valley TN was 64F. By 9pm, it was 34F and

By Jon Rappoport To learn why Richard Nixon was really blown out of the White House, you could begin with the infamous Nazi chemical/pharmaceutical cartel,

(Photo Credit: AP) By Alan Cullison, Paul Sonne, and Gregory L. White The American and Russian presidents spoke on the phone for 90 minutes on

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By Karl Denninger There are many who have expressed the opinion over the years that the United States should go down some sort of “revolutionary”

(Photo Credit: Tomohiro Ohsumi/Bloomberg) By Alan Ohnsman Tesla Motors Inc. (TSLA)’s plan to build what co-founder Elon Musk bills as the world’s largest battery factory

(Photo Credit: Reuters / Aladin Abdel Naby) By RT Marine innovation engineering department at Rolls-Royce has presented a draft design of an ocean-going robo-vessel that

By Cynthia Koehler and Audrey Finci “Can Anybody Save California?” That was the headline of a Politico story earlier this month about our state’s water

By Mike Masnick A few weeks ago, Glenn Greenwald, while working with NBC News, revealed some details of a GCHQ presentation concerning how the surveillance

**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!**

(Photo Credit: Reuters / Tomohiro Ohsumi) By RT In its first draft energy policy since 2011, Japan says nuclear energy is still among its vital

“Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God.” ~A Course in Miracles By Catherine Austin Fitts I tense up

By Jon Rappoport A few days ago, I reported on a recent study of Roundup, the Monsanto herbicide, and how Roundup is involved in causing

(Click image to view larger) By Martin Parry The world’s biggest economies vowed Sunday to boost global growth by more than $2 trillion over five

By BBC News Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel has unveiled plans to shrink the US Army to its smallest size since before World War Two. Outlining

By SkyVision Solutions Northeast Utilities (NU) operates New England’s largest utility system serving more than 3.6 million electric and natural gas customers in Connecticut, Massachusetts,

**CAF Note: The spinners of limited modified hangouts are out in force. This is the best of the best, useful for giving an overall framework

by Paul Levy For the last few months, all I’ve wanted to do is to read about quantum physics. I’ve been studying quantum physics off

By The Telegraph One hundred tonnes of highly contaminated water has leaked out of a tank at the Fukushima nuclear plant, the worst incident since

(Photo Credit: Eric Millette For Forbes) By Steven Bertoni PayPal is in the center of two battles: one for control of every transaction on the

By Thomas Black Kansas City Southern (KSU), the U.S. railroad that gets almost half its revenue from Mexico, fell the most in the Standard &

By Todd Shields The U.S. plans to rewrite rules that would prevent Internet service providers from slowing Web traffic from companies such as Netflix Inc.

By Megan McArdle Industry sources tell the Washington Examiner’s Susan Ferrechio that the Barack Obama administration is thinking of extending the Affordable Care Act’s “risk

By Catherine Austin Fitts As the “Internet of Things” develops we are seeing a very dynamic relationship occur in retail shopping. Online stores want a

By Catherine Austin Fitts Whoever who has spent the last year making sure that a US-EU trade agreement never happens is certainly bucking for a

**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!**

**CAF Note: Are computers replacing FX trades because they are more efficient? Or because they are more obedient at implementing illegal schemes?** By Ambereen Choudhury

“There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.” ~ Buddha By Catherine

**Note from CAF: The following was written in dialogue between two members of my network in Montana. The author is positive, very intelligent, thorough, highly

Photo Credit: REUTERS/Joshua Lott By Karen Pierog and Tom Hals The city of Detroit’s effort to declare some of its general obligation bonds as unsecured

By Catherine Austin Fitts R. J. Cutler’s documentary, The World According to Dick Cheney, is worth watching. Along with Ferguson’s No End in Sight this

By The Economist Nigerian pineapple for breakfast, Peruvian quinoa for lunch and Japanese sushi for dinner. Two centuries ago, when David Ricardo advocated specialisation and

By Lee Stanish, Stephen Osborn Can microorganisms help protect our groundwater from contamination by hydraulic fracturing? There is growing concern over the safety of hydraulic

Matt Damon, a lifelong friend of Howard Zinn and his family, read excerpts from a speech Howard Zinn gave in 1970 as part of a

By Matt Taibi Call it the loophole that destroyed the world. It’s 1999, the tail end of the Clinton years. While the rest of America

By Pension Dialog As anticipation mounts that Detroit will file a plan to adjust its debt with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court next week and with

By David Sirota When historians one day sit down to solve the Great American Pension Heist, they will likely focus much of their attention on

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By Catherine Austin Fitts The Church of England has now announced that they are pulling their endowment investments from companies that do not “play ball”