By ABC News/AP

An earthquake of magnitude 7.3 struck Saturday morning off Japan’s east coast, the U.S. Geological Survey said. Japan’s emergency agencies declared a tsunami warning for the region t…

By RT

Crowdfunding is coming to Wall Street! Will a new SEC rule democratize the capital markets?

Or is Joe Six-pack about to be “muppetized” by a new brand of sell-side-marionets?

We dig into th…

**CAF Note: Here is a trial ballon from a respected source on one of the options to reengineer Social Security. This is one to take seriously.**

By Alicia H. Munnell

The brief’s key findings are:
…

By The Economist

On June 16th something very peculiar happened in Germany’s electricity market. The wholesale price of electricity fell to minus €100 per megawatt hour (MWh). That is, generatin…

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By Sarah N. Lynch

Entrepreneurs and start-up companies looking for investors will be able to solicit over the Internet from the general public under a new propos…

By Franklin Sanders

Friends, Volume 2 of At Home In Dogwood Mudhole (Best Thing We Ever Did) is now available for preorder at www.dogwoodmudhole.com. It went to the printer today and we estimate it…

By Catherine Austin Fitts

One of my greatest prayers for America is that men and women have an honest conversation about how we have been played against each other and then black folks and white fo…

**CAF Note: The cost of the US government borrowing money to generate corporate earnings is now reaching parity globally**

By Daniel Kruger & Anchalee Worrachate

America’s borrowing costs are on t…

By AlJazeera

Highly radioactive water overflowed barriers into Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station after its operator Tepco underestimated how much rain would fall and failed to pump it…

**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!**

Challenge #1 Disclosure

By Catherine Austin Fitts

We do …

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By Dave Michaels

Small businesses raising money by selling shares over the Internet wouldn’t have to verify that their backers comply with individual …

By Andrew Pollack

Legislators on the island of Kauai in Hawaii have approved a bill that would restrict the use of pesticides by companies developing genetically modified crops there.

The 6-to-1 …

Dear Senator Warren:

I write as a supporter of your campaign for Senator.

It is remarkable how unpopular financial accountability truly is. The House Republicans are trying to stop a few things. Gro…

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By Yahoo! Finance

JPMorgan Chase & Co has reached a tentative $4 billion deal with the U.S. Federal Housing Finance Agency to settle claims that the bank misled government-sponsored mortgage agencies…

“Altogether, a Bloomberg survey in August found that the six biggest banks had spent $103 billion on legal costs since 2008.”

Holman, W. Jenkins, Jr, WSJ Editorial Page, October 18, 2013

By David Ray Griffin

There have been several good films and videos about 9/11. But the new film by award-winning film-maker Massimo Mazzucco is in a class by itself.

For those of us who have been …

By Dave Michels

Small businesses raising money by selling shares over the Internet wouldn’t have to verify that their backers comply with individual investment limits under a U.S. regulatory propos…

By Catherine Austin Fitts

The announcement of a bipartisan deal to open the government and keep the debt issuance humming along is a reprieve from the dark dawning on millions of Americans that the…

By Press Trust of India

In a major boost for India and other countries seeking details on suspected black money stashed in Swiss banks, Switzerland has agreed to automatic exchange of information a…

By Going Organic Magazine

Going Organic Magazine is a unique publication dedicated to creating better health and lifestyles for readers. Our goal is to provide information and inspiration to help p…

By John Rushton

Nighttime falls, I study on.
I find another hero. It’s time to sleep.
Sleep lasts but half the night.
Burdens pile up,
The tax man calls in 5 days,
Men of all kinds fight for con…

By Scott Adams

If you’re already as successful as you want to be, both personally and professionally, congratulations! Here’s the not-so-good news: All you are likely to get from this article is a …

By Schumpeter

Start-ups have always been at the heart of America’s economic success. Companies that are five years old or younger account for all of the country’s net job creation. They also ac…

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By Mark Dansie

I saved this for the Breakthrough Energy Movement Conference being held in boulder latter this week. I wanted to point out the steps needed to hopefully be able to resource some of t…

By The Solari Team

There are so many irreconcilable issues in the federal budget, and there are many pieces and aspects to understanding the fiscal cliff policy. If you’d like to take a deeper look…

Here is a collection of links that Catherine makes note of in her GlobalBEM speech on October 11, 2013 from 11 – 12 MT.

Special Reports:

A Special Solari Report: Crowdfunding & the Legal Pathw…

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By Catherine Austin Fitts

Janet Yellen has been announced as the new Federal Reserve Chairman. That’s good news. She was the best candidate on the Presi…

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By Jackie Calmes

President Obama will nominate Janet L. Yellen as chairwoman of the Federal Reserve on Wednesday, White House officials said Tuesday…

By Catherine Austin Fitts

The Globe and Mail’s story yesterday A.M. that Tesla’s new Model S is now the # 1 selling car in Norway is a reminder that we are in a period of accelerating shifts of tec…

Despite U.S. opposition, a pipeline from Iran to Pakistan is inevitable. Pakistan needs natural gas to fuel its power plants and has no good options. The Obama administration is threatening to put in …

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By Ben Popper

With more than 500,000 rooms available to rent on any given night, Airbnb now ranks among the largest hospitality companies in the world. But the homes and apa…

By Catherine Austin Fitts

Here is the proof – I was at Open Source Ecology’s design sprint on September 28th for the building of the Utility Frame for OSE’s Microhouse. Project manager Chris Reinha…

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**CAF Note: Reported gold inventories show significant drops in the US and European positions**

By Jesse’s Café Américain

Here is one take on the gold inventory conundrum that I posted about las…

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CAF Note: I am posting links referred to in my speech on October 5th at the Casey Research Summit in Tucson.

Sir James Goldsmith’s Globalization Warning

Dillon Read & the Aristocracy of Stock Pr…

By Kurzweil Accelerating Intelligence

Researchers from three universities are proposing to add a dimension to 3D printing by developing “4D” materials that can exhibit behavior that changes ove…

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By Andrea Peterson

Just one major telecommunications company refused to participate in a legally dubious NSA surveillance program in 2001. A few years later, its CEO was i…

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By Katrina Bishop

The Vatican bank published its annual accounts for the first time on Tuesday in an attempt to boost transparency and distance itself from a st…

By Kashmir Hill

Ladar Levison, 32, has spent ten years building encrypted email service Lavabit, attracting over 410,000 users. When NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden was revealed to be one of those…

Bigger, Boulder, Better

Hello everyone, thank you for taking the time to read this.

We want to put up the best conference on Breaktrough Energy ever.

Due to popular demand and much enthusiasm we …

By Catherine Austin Fitts

Pay attention to the explosion of on-line education. There is a lot of excellent curriculum and teaching that is becoming available – much of it designed to support the ex…

By Mr. H

Now-a-days, Apple is famous in the markets because its new iPhone 5S has a Fingerprint Sensor (Touch ID) as a security feature—everyone is getting amazed with that feature and eager to u…

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By Catherine Austin Fitts

The latest headlines announce that “J.P. Morgan Chase is in talks to pay up to $11 billion to settle mortgage-backed securities probes.”

Of one thi…

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By Rob Wile

A German-French research team has created a solar cell that can convert 44.7% of the sunlight it receives into energy.

That’s a new world record (th…

By Kevin Drum

Last Wednesday, the Fed announced that it would not be tapering its bond buying program. This news was released at precisely 2 p.m. in Washington “as measured by the national atomic clo…

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By Daniel Trotta

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff used her position as the opening speaker at the U.N. General Assembly to accuse the United States of viol…

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Take Back Your Power takes us on a journey of revelation and discovery, as we question the benefits and risks of “smart” meters and grid technology… and corporate practices to tap private inform…

By Catherine Austin Fitts

BlackBerry held out for a long time. However, successfully catering to business and investment professionals meant their data flow was much too valuable. There was no way …

By Dave Michaels

Startup companies that celebrated the passage of a U.S. law allowing them to solicit investors more openly say regulators may undercut that move by requiring detailed disclosures of …

By Chris Floyd

A former colleague of mine died recently, although I didn’t know he had been my colleague until I read his obituary in the New York Times last month — six months after his obscure a…

By Jon Fingas

When Belgian prosecutors suggested that Belgacom was the target of foreign espionage, many blamed the NSA — it has a history of snooping on other countries, after all. Those accusation…

By Ian Salisbury

Jeremy Grantham’s got a track record that’s impossible to ignore—he called the Internet bubble, then the housing bubble. While moves like those have earned the famed forecaster t…

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By Debbie Siegelbaum

Members of a Washington DC Swat team who the BBC has learned were ordered not to respond to Monday’s Navy Yard shootings have yet to be contacted by the author…

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**CAF Note: Just when you think that you can not be shocked by the state of lawlessness in the United States, just when you think you have seen it all, someth…

By Catherine Austin Fitts

The Fed’s decision not to taper quantitative easing this week has equity and commodities markets up and interest rates falling. On one hand, that’s good news for many inve…

By Umberto Pascali

The President of Brazil, Dilma Rousseff announces publicly the creation of a world internet system INDEPENDENT from US and Britain ( the “US-centric internet”).

Not many un…

By Louis Lavelle

Getting a Wharton MBA involves taking off from work for two years, moving to Philadelphia, and spending about $200,000 on tuition and expenses. Now, with the addition of three new co…

By Catherine Austin Fitts

I copied these results from a Yahoo Finance poll that I took yesterday. It is an interesting comment on two important aspects of life in our current situation. I am think…

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By RT

Privacy concerns, fear of addiction, loss of interest – these are the reasons listed by those who have decided to delete their Facebook profiles, in…

By Tracey Turner

As the list of new technologies used in the agriculture industry continues to grow, the use of unmanned aircraft systems (drones) has the potential to be among the most wide-rangin…

By The Short Side of Long

AAII survey readings came in at 46% bulls and 25% bears. Bullish readings rose by a huge 10% while bearish readings fell by 7%. The AAII bull ratio has once again risen ne…

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By Catherine Austin Fitts

Everyday we are presented with two diverging economies in North America.

Bailouts and quantitative easing have extinguished the outstanding fraudulent securities that fin…

By Catherine Austin Fitts

It’s a miracle!

Glen Greenwald publishes article after article dishing out the dirt on the largest corporations and one of the most powerful intelligence agencies in the…

** CAF NOTE: The legal precedent that DOJ is attempting here is simply lawless. As a practical matter, it forces all news sources to link to official propaganda and corporate media.**

By David Carr…

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** CAF NOTE: Obamacare was created as a framework to begin to cut both private and public health care obligations. We are now watching a significant number of peop…

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad told Charlie Rose on Sunday that he is preparing for a U.S. strike, and that Syria and some of their allies would retaliate if one occurs. I spoke with Rose, host of…

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US and British intelligence agencies have successfully cracked much of the online encryption relied upon by hun…

By Robert E.G. Beens, CEO Ixquick.com and StartPage.com

The Washington Post and The Guardian have revealed a US government mass Internet surveillance program code-named “PRISM”. They report that th…

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**CAF NOTE: Wow. Now we are backing off from audited financial statements as required by law as of 1995 to postponing an audit of the budget. What in the …

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By Bill Curry

Tax records will be shared around the world by 2015 as part of a G20 pledge to crack down on individual tax cheats and global corporations with compli…

By Peggy Noonan

There is something going on here, a new distance between Washington and America that the Syria debate has forced into focus. The Syria debate isn’t, really, a struggle between liber…

By Glenn Greenwald and Ewen MacAskill

The National Security Agency has obtained direct access to the systems of Google, Facebook, Apple and other US internet giants, according to a top secret docum…

By Catherine Austin Fitts

Last night I had the opportunity to watch Jose Escamilla’s fascinating movies on the moon, drawing from significant footage from the NASA archives.

I recommend these to you…

By Howard E. Berkenblit

In 2007 the Securities and Exchange Commission said that companies no longer needed to send printed proxy materials to investors, but could mail a postcard with the web addres…

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By Joel Salatin

Why do we need more farmers? What is the driving force behind U.S. Department of Agriculture policy?

In an infuriating epiphany I have yet to metaboliz…

By Catherine Austin Fitts

Take a moment to review some of the decision points coming up this month.  We are watching a scramble for market share and cash flows.

Commodities still down. Emerging m…

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By Douglas Busvine

The Group of 20 cut its teeth in the global financial crisis of 2009, achieving unprecedented cooperation between developed and emerging nation…

By Catherine Austin Fitts

I am getting this question. I think it is the wrong question.

I was born in 1950. I can not remember a time when there was not some covert operation blowing things up fin…

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By Lars Schall

LS: How many people lost their lives over the years related to the Kennedy assassination?

MB: A well-researched new book by Richard Belzer (“Hit List”) lists 1.400 persons with …