(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

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**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

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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”

‘Cos its true what they say It’s better the devil you know” ~ Kylie Minogue By Catherine Austin Fitts As you can see from the

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By Joann Muller, Zack O’Malley Greenburg and Christopher Helman On an overcast Tuesday morning in dusty North Platte, Nebr., Tony Orr stands at the center

Credit: Kirsty Wigglesworth/Associated Press. By Jeremy Scahill and Glenn Greenwald The National Security Agency is using complex analysis of electronic surveillance, rather than human intelligence,

By Adrianne Jeffries NASA is now working with private companies to take the first steps in exploring the moon for valuable resources like helium 3

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From: Catherine Austin Fitts Date: Wednesday, February 5, 2014 at 10:57 PM To:”Mayor@SyrGov.net” Subject: Letter to Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner Dear Mayor Miner: I am writing to request

***CAF Note: Now you know why I leave my cell phone in the car when I get home!*** By PRWeb Cell-Phone-Detective.com has announced the launch

By Anthony Wood A new satellite designed to take detailed, near real-time measurements of rain and snowfall on a global scale whilst mapping the interior

By Catherine Austin Fitts The recent Snowden revelations have reminded us yet again how deeply invasive the US software system is: “The National Security Agency

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By Laura Litvan and Kathleen Hunter Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said he opposes legislation to speed approval of trade deals, rejecting a top goal

By Chris Puplava Emerging markets have been hemorrhaging this year and are now grabbing media attention. However, as the charts show, the decline in these

By James Gallagher Stem cell researchers are heralding a “major scientific discovery”, with the potential to start a new age of personalised medicine. Scientists in

**CAF Note: I asked one of our subscribers if I could republish his comment on GMOs and Nano-Technology engineering of the food supply. This guy

By Catherine Austin Fitts President Obama has the challenging task of trying to persuade us that the US government should have a hand in softening

By Wikipedia Peter “Pete” Seeger was an American folk singer. A fixture on nationwide radio in the 1940s, he also had a string of hit

By Catherine Austin Fitts A subscriber sent me a picture of chicken coops for sale at a Costco in Silicon Valley, in the suburbs south

By LeWeb Founders Hugo…updates us on his new role at Xiaomi, running their product portfolio and operations in all markets outside Mainland China. He shares

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By The Transnational Institute The Transnational Institute is proud to launch its third annual ‘State of Power’ report as the World Economic Forum meets in

Photo Credit: Daein Ballard/Wikipedia By Wikipedia Terraforming (literally, “Earth-shaping”) of a planet, moon, or other body is the theoretical process of deliberately modifying its atmosphere,

By Alfred McCoy For more than six months, Edward Snowden’s revelations about the National Security Agency (NSA) have been pouring out from the Washington Post,