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By Anna Yukhananov and Lidia Kelly

Russian officials are pushing for the International Monetary Fund to move ahead with planned reforms without the United Sta…

By Pam Martens

Last evening, the U.S. Senate Banking Committee made the unexpected announcement that it was postponing the confirmation hearing of Stanley Fischer to serve as Vice Chairman of the F…

By Sustainable Pulse

The number of scientists and experts condemning a journal editor’s retraction of a study that found serious health effects in rats that ate a Monsanto genetically modified (GM)…

By David Sirota

The term “native advertising” may be new, but the principles of deception and camouflage that define it are not.

The Federal Trade Commission used to call this kind of thing “d…

Stakes rise for Coinbase as hackers attack bitcoin

By Philip Pearlman

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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By Catherine Austin Fitts

The remarkable and miraculous s…

By Catherine Austin Fitts

A subscriber from “down under” sent a series of interesting links on blog posts published last year on Australia’s plans to be prepared for “bail-ins.” My thanks…

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By RT

Twenty-six of the most powerful American corporations – such as Boeing, General Electric, and Verizon – paid no federal income tax from 2008 to…

By David Barboza

Last June, an affiliate of the Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba made an offer to its hundreds of millions of users: Give us your cash, and we will pay more than Chinese banks will.

…

By Kickstarter

On March 3, 2014, Kickstarter passed $1 BILLION in pledges.

That’s $1,000,000,000 pledged by 5.7 million people to creative projects.

More than half was pledged in the last 12 m…

By Nicolette Hahn Niman

LATE on Saturday, Feb. 8, news broke of the recall of 8.7 million pounds of beef that had come through a Northern California slaughterhouse. Social media buzzed with tweets …

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By Catherine Austin Fitts

On Sunday morning, March 1 at 6:05am, the temperature in Hickory Valley TN was 64F. By 9pm, it was 34F and is expected to drop to 15F. My e-mail subscribers are reporting…

By Jon Rappoport

To learn why Richard Nixon was really blown out of the White House, you could begin with the infamous Nazi chemical/pharmaceutical cartel, IG Farben. The cartel that pushed Hitler ov…

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By Alan Cullison, Paul Sonne, and Gregory L. White

The American and Russian presidents spoke on the phone for 90 minutes on Saturday after Russia’s parliament voted unanimously t…

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By Karl Denninger

There are many who have expressed the opinion over the years that the United States should go down some sort of “revolutionary” road. The topic has come up repeatedly in various ar…

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By Alan Ohnsman

Tesla Motors Inc. (TSLA)’s plan to build what co-founder Elon Musk bills as the world’s largest battery factory could shake up the powe…

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By RT

Marine innovation engineering department at Rolls-Royce has presented a draft design of an ocean-going robo-vessel that could enter service within …

By Cynthia Koehler and Audrey Finci

“Can Anybody Save California?” That was the headline of a Politico story earlier this month about our state’s water crisis. Predictions of apocalypse are not unc…

By Mike Masnick

A few weeks ago, Glenn Greenwald, while working with NBC News, revealed some details of a GCHQ presentation concerning how the surveillance organization had a “dirty tricks” group kno…

**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!**

By Catherine Austin Fitts

Who is really in charge? And wh…

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By RT

In its first draft energy policy since 2011, Japan says nuclear energy is still among its vital sources of electricity. This comes after three years …

“Nothing real can be threatened.
Nothing unreal exists.
Herein lies the peace of God.”
~A Course in Miracles

By Catherine Austin Fitts

I tense up when I get the calls. I can usually hear it after …

By Jon Rappoport

A few days ago, I reported on a recent study of Roundup, the Monsanto herbicide, and how Roundup is involved in causing gluten intolerance and celiac disease.

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By Martin Parry

The world’s biggest economies vowed Sunday to boost global growth by more than $2 trillion over five years, shifting their focus away from austerity as…

By BBC News

Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel has unveiled plans to shrink the US Army to its smallest size since before World War Two.

Outlining his budget plan, the Pentagon chief proposed trimming …

By SkyVision Solutions

Northeast Utilities (NU) operates New England’s largest utility system serving more than 3.6 million electric and natural gas customers in Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New…

**CAF Note: The spinners of limited modified hangouts are out in force. This is the best of the best, useful for giving an overall framework of numerous constituencies within the Washington beltway …

by Paul Levy

For the last few months, all I’ve wanted to do is to read about quantum physics. I’ve been studying quantum physics off and on for decades, but have never gone as far down the rabb…

By The Telegraph

One hundred tonnes of highly contaminated water has leaked out of a tank at the Fukushima nuclear plant, the worst incident since last August, when a series of radioactive water le…

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By Steven Bertoni

PayPal is in the center of two battles: one for control of every transaction on the planet, the other for control of its own destiny.

Th…

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 & Poor’s 500 Index after the lower house of Mexico’s…

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. (NFLX) and Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN)

Tom Whe…

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 corridors,” the federa…

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 bigger share of the consumer market. Cons…

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 really big bonus this year.

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By Catherine Austin Fitts

The political process has devol…

**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 and Julia Verlaine

A widen…

“There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.”
~ Buddha

By Catherine Austin Fitts

Ray Dalio’s was quoted in Business Week this week:…

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By Karen Pierog and Tom Hals

The city of Detroit’s effort to declare some of its general obligation bonds as unsecured debt will be challenged in bankruptcy court …

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 is very good footage documenting Dick Che…

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 free trade, the notion t…

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 fracturing, or “fra…

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 debate on civil disobedience.

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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 obsesses over Monica Lewinsky, Columbine and Mark McGwire’s biceps…

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 the ongoing confusion of public pensions, bond holders, a…

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 a scandal that has been unfolding in corruption-plagued R…

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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” on climate change. I am not sure what …

‘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 banner on our blog, the Solari Report is participating in The Day We…

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By Catherine Austin Fitts

The dependence of the U.S. econ…

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 of the world’s largest freight rail ya…

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By Jeremy Scahill and Glenn Greenwald

The National Security Agency is using complex analysis of electronic surveillance, rather than human intelligenc…

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 and rare earth metals.

Initial proposals are due …