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By Lars Schall On behalf of Matterhorn Asset Management, independent German financial journalist Lars Schall talked with U.S. financial investment advisor Catherine Austin Fitts. Inter

By Wikipedia The Parable of the talents or minas, (also known as the Parable of Talents or The Parable of the Pounds), is one of

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By Du Juan China’s investment in renewable energy during the 12th Five-Year Plan (2011-15) will reach 1.8 trillion yuan ($294 billion) in addition to 2.3

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By Catherine Austin Fitts The Buddha said, “Those who are awake live in a state of constant amazement.” If you have been following the science

By Aaron Dykes and Melissa Melton We’re no molecular biologists over here, but have you ever seen the sci-fi flick Gattaca? In that 1997 film,

By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com Money manager Catherine Austin Fitts says, “You are seeing a tug of war between the new system that’s coming up and

Photo Credit:Joshua Roberts/Bloomberg News By Catherine Austin Fitts Ben and the FOMC spoke today confirming that they will continue monthly quantitative easing at the $85

By Rob Wile Billionaire Saudi Prince Alwaleed has sounded the alarm about the threat shale oil and gas development poses to the petro-kingdom’s barely diversified

Photo Credit: Declan McCullagh/CNET By Seth Rosenblatt The computer-security community is in mourning following news that superstar hacker Barnaby Jack died on Thursday. The San

By Catherine Austin Fitts The Chinese are doing an audit of their debt? How scary is that? Not as scary as an audit of US

Photo Credit: AFP By BBC China has ordered a nationwide audit of all government debt, underlining fears that the recent slowdown in its economy may

[CAF Note: How do we think they are handling the markets?] By Sebastian Anthony Researchers at Harvard University have created the first noninvasive brain-to-brain interface

By Susan Young Scientists have created a false memory in mice by manipulating neurons that bear the memory of a place. The work further demonstrates

Photo Credit: Bill Pugliano/Getty Images [CAF Note: The official creation of the cover story for the hit on pension funds has begun.] By Mary Williams

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By Catherine Austin Fitts Ready to start building the blueprints for the open source tools that can create a more diversified, healthier civilization? Are you

By Catherine Austin Fitts I drive the full length of North America at least once a year. From Tennessee, I drive West to San Francisco

Send Musicians To Prison Do you believe music can heal and restore? Do you believe music communicates what words alone cannot? Do you believe music

Photo Credit: Getty Images; Illustration by 731 [CAF Note: Combine this with crowd funding, and you will have quite a financial cocktail!] By Peter Coy

By Bob Ivry JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM), Morgan Stanley (MS) and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS) are among lenders whose commodity-trading is in jeopardy

By Wikipedia Solar Impulse is a Swiss long-range solar powered aircraft project developed at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. The project eventually hopes to

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By Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk Something peculiar has been going on in the treasury market during the latest round of quantitative easing (QE). If we study

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This is a clip from an interview Catherine Austin Fitts did called “The Looting of America”. Catherine, the daughter of a physician, has been watching

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By CNBC In Dubai, city of opulence and excess, the obese are worth their (over) weight in gold. In an effort to fight increasing obesity

By Pew Research Publics around the world believe the global balance of power is shifting. China’s economic power is on the rise, and many think

[CAF Note: I just finished reading Planet Earth by Rosalie Bertell. Rather than review it, I am linking to Dr. Farrell’s review from 2011] By

By Michael A. Fletcher Detroit filed the largest municipal bankruptcy in the nation’s history Thursday afternoon, capping a long and spectacular decline that left the

By Jenna Johnson Under pressure from the White House, Senate leaders are quickly moving forward with a plan to change how the government sets federal

[CAF: Pay Attention. This is a market shifting event. There will be another shift coming this fall when the SEC promulgates rules that permit solicitation

[CAF Note: Is JP Morgan shipping back $500 million to fund the $393 million in the Presidents DOJ budget for the gun campaign as well

By Garakami Scientists are eager to bring the universe a little closer to home with the soon-to-be world’s largest optical Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT). The

By Grant Williams A few weeks ago, I put a chart with which I am acutely familiar up on my Bloomberg. It is a chart

By Lidia Kelly and Douglas Busvine G20 summits do not always set the pulse racing, but this week’s gathering of finance ministers and central bankers

By Dr. Joseph P. Farrell Yesterday I blogged about that nice bright shiny new NSA facility being built (for all to photograph from their spy

By Loveday Morris and Ahmed Ramadan After more than two years of relentless conflict, Syria’s government is desperately trying to avert a secondary crisis: a

[CAF: Clifford Carnicom continues to provide leadership and invaluable information to help us understand the impact of global spraying programs. Here is his latest –

Photo Credit: The Nation By Robert J. Samuelson The International Monetary Fund’s latest global economic forecast makes for unhappy reading. You may remember that, some

Photo Credit: AFP By The Economist Compared with other modes of transport, train technology might seem to be progressing as slowly as a suburban commuter

By Inhabitat It’s no surprise that the country that has kicked butt at the Solar Decathlon competition (to produce energy positive solar houses) year after

Published Jul 06, 2012 EXECUTIVE ORDER – – – – – – – ASSIGNMENT OF NATIONAL SECURITY AND EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS COMMUNICATIONS FUNCTIONS By the authority

Photo Credit: Northrop Grumman By Tobin Harshaw It’s not going to overshadow Chuck Yeager or the Wright Brothers, but when a drone aircraft’s tailhook snatched

By RT The Obama administration will not be allowed to terminate a lawsuit by asserting that a civil argument would risk exposing national secrets, a

(Click on the image to enlarge.) By Mark Koba Manufacturing jobs in the U.S. appear to be coming back—if ever so slightly. Several American firms,

Photo Credit:AP/Susan Walsh By FoxNews.com Interest rates on federally subsidized Stafford student loans doubled overnight, soaring from 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent after Congress failed

By Jon Rappoport This article is a compilation of a number of pieces I’ve written about Ed Snowden and the NSA. It doesn’t replace them,

By George Ure OK, bear with me here: The largest story of the week, when the history books are written, could be that the latest

Photo Credit: Carolyn Kaster/AP By Dr. Joseph P. Farrell Over the past two days, I’ve been blogging about the emergence of GMOs as a political