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Tony Rooke refused to pay a TV license fee because the BBC intentionally misrepresented facts about the 9/11 attacks, he alleged. It is widely known that the BBC reported the col…

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On Friday I visited one of the great museums of the world – The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. The Rijksmuseum is listed …

[CAF Note: Nothing is more valuable then direct intelligence from the ground. Here is feedback on the European refugee migration from a wonderful subscriber in Zagreb, the capital of Croatia, who has …

[CAF Note: This was published in December 2012. I am republishing today, in October 2015, as the debate in the US is sadly short of facts, not to mention an understanding or analysis of covert o…

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At last I can stop saying “the US markets are significantly overdue for a 10-25% correction.”

The correction is here. The S&P 500 is down 9.3% for the year and down 1…

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Given the volume of Chinese exports to Europe and Japan (and how much the Euro and Yen have fallen against the dollar) it is quite remarkabl…

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~ Warren Buffett, Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting, 1987

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I am always surprised when investors in Berkshire Hathaway d…

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“Government science exists because it is a fine weapon to use, in order to force an agenda of control over the population. We aren’t talking about knowledge here. Knowledge is…

“Outer space and cyberspace have become new commanding heights in the strategic competition among all parties.”
~ China’s Military Strategy, May 2015

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“Stock market corrections, although painful at the time, are actually a very healthy part of the whole mechanism, because there are always speculative excesses that develop, particularly during the …

“I’ve gone to look for America” ~ Simon & Garfunkel

By Catherine Austin Fitts

I am headed out tomorrow for a five day drive to California, much of it along the old U.S. Route 66.

I am curi…

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“People are always asking me where is the outlook good, but that’s the wrong question, The right question is: Where is the outlook most miserable? ” ~ John Templeton

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Speaking as a former Assistant Secretary of Housing, an important traditional formula for Democratic Administrations to win Presidential elections is to juice the mortga…

“The miracle of compounding returns is overwhelmed by the tyranny of compounding costs.” ~ John C. Bogle

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Last week we decided to hold off and wait in making any investments into the…

“Go for a business that any idiot can run – because sooner or later, any idiot is probably going to run it.” ~ Peter Lynch

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This week in Team Awesome we will begin analyzing th…

“You can’t run the economy on BMWs alone. If the average person is in a pickle, how do you have a healthy economy?” ~Jeremy Grantham

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Well, we shifted our simulation to a …

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“Sometimes the hardest thing to do is to do nothing.”” ~ David Tepper

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Our trader has been reluctant to proceed with authorized investments in our simulated portfolio….

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““Know what you own, and know why you own it.”” ~Peter Lynch

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“Investing should be more like watching paint dry or watching grass grow. If you want excitement, take $800 and go to Las Vegas.”  ~Paul Samuelson

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For the past year, the Guardian has reported on how the NSA turned its eye on ordinary American citizens after 9/11, creating a massive surveillance dragnet to collect and monitor…

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

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Lightweight and highly efficient all-in-one design pedal assist that fits on practically any bicycle.

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I was astounded to listen to the subject weekly Solari Report last night by Catherine Austin Fitts of Solari.com,  where she was talking to the philosopher Jon Rappaport abou…

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Santa Barbara Central Library

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I was speaking with Dennis Bernstein of Flashpoints about our show, Community Business, which we do each Wednesday night. We were talking about Solari Audio seminar, “The REAL Economic Hit Men” I me…