**CAF Note: This is about privatizing the police state. Fascism 3.0** By Ellen Nakashima President Obama met Thursday with senior lawmakers on opposing sides of

By Alister Doyle Everyone in Norway became a theoretical millionaire on Wednesday in a milestone for the world’s biggest sovereign wealth fund that has ballooned

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. All the king’s horses and all the king’s men Couldn’t put Humpty together

By Nick Turse “Dude, I don’t need to play these stupid games. I know what you’re trying to do.” With that, Major Matthew Robert Bockholt

“Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.” ~ Elon Musk By Catherine Austin Fitts In the year-end

By Lina Khan Imagine cows fed and milked entirely by robots. Or tomatoes that send an e-mail when they need more water. Or a farm

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By Tyler Durden Some may have forgotten, or not be aware, that the Federal Reserve system has its own police force. Well, it does: “The

By David B. Collum Every December, I write a Year in Review or, as my wife calls it, my Urine Review. It has found a

By Tyler Durden It was in October 2012 when we explained how Iran evades the Western blockade (ostensibly with the implicit nod of none other

By RT Security researcher Jacob Appelbaum dropped a bombshell of sorts earlier this week when he accused American tech companies of placing government-friendly backdoors in

By Kevin Bullis Clean energy technology made progress in 2013, but low-carbon energy isn’t growing fast enough to meet goals for limiting climate change. That

By My Budget 360 Money is only as useful as to what it can purchase. The Fed has created a system where debt is now

By: Claudio Guarnieri and Morgan Marquis-Boire 2013 will be remembered as the year that the Internet lost its innocence for nearly everyone as light was

By Institute of Science in Society Single nucleotide mutations form the majority of genetic polymorphisms (single nucleotide polymorphisms, SNPs) in populations. When found in gene

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On Space Programs: Another economic surrogate that has been proposed is a series of giant “space research” programs. These have already demonstrated their utility in

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**CAF Note: GAIA is the Grand Award Winner in the Aerospace category for Popular Science’s Best of What’s New 2013** By Wikipedia Gaia is an

By Matt Krantz Investors’ appetite for IPOs is reaching levels not seen since the rip-roaring stock market during the dot-com boom in 2000. Thanks to

By The Economist In 2012 American museums received 850m visitors, says the American Alliance of Museums. That is more than all the big-league sporting events

Dearest Friends and Allies: We are celebrating from December 24 – January 1. Our office will be closed. We will post the next Jon Rappoport

“Today, we are putting all our ‘Duck Dynasty’ products back in our stores, and, we apologize for offending you. We respect all individuals’ right to

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By Catherine Austin Fitts Engineer Onat Ekinci joined me on the Solari Report this year for an excellent briefing on 3D Printing. Onat is briefing

By Brad Stone Are you optimistic that we can slow down climate change? Anybody who says we’re close to the solution isn’t looking at the

By Wikipedia The global surveillance disclosure refers to an ongoing series of news reports in the international media that revealed operational details about the U.S.

Photo Credit: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory By John Roach The day when planes, trucks and cars are commonly revved up on pond scum may be

By Catherine Austin Fitts After the Fed announcement yesterday that it will begin to taper its QE by $10 billion a month in January, precious

By Dave Michaels The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission unanimously proposed boosting by 10 times the amount of money companies can raise under a simplified

By Catherine Austin Fitts South Korea just announced that they are starting a physical gold exchange; this follows on the heals of Singapore, Moscow and

By Binyamin Appelbaum The Federal Reserve said on Wednesday that it would reduce its monthly bond-buying campaign to $75 billion in January, beginning a retreat

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By Catherine Austin Fitts Subscribers have been asking for a recording of my speech to the Appraisal Institute in San Francisco this fall. I will

By MakerBot MakerBot has opened 3D print services in three MakerBot retail stores in New York, Boston and Greenwich, Conn. Customers can simply walk into

***CAF Note: Looks like the shadow government will own and control BIG BROTHER directly through the telecoms without interference from an agency subject to FOIA

By English.News.Cn China’s lunar probe Chang’e-3, with the country’s first moon rover onboard, successfully landed on the moon on Saturday night, marking the first time