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By The H Security

Anyone who uses Skype has consented to the company reading everything they write. The H’s associates in Germany at heise Security have now discovered that the Microsoft subsidiary…

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By Dave Michaels & Carter Dougherty

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission will vote next week on a proposal that would require a floating-share valu…

By KristenM

I am doing my happy dance. Vernon Hershberger, the Amish dairy farmer recently on trial in Wisconsin for providing raw milk to his community, was acquitted last week by a jury on three …

By Catherine Austin Fitts

A naturopath who I respect greatly told me about a therapy of drinking “sole” – a salt water made with Himalayan Salt Crystals. It is described in Water & Salt: The Es…

By Tyler Durden

There has been much speculation in the recent past over what the bottom-line impact of surging stock buyback activity has been on the overall S&P earnings: after all, by removing sh…

Catherine Austin Fitts is a former Wall Street insider and Assistant Secretary in the Bush I administration. Her background gave her a clear grasp of the covert economy which exists today. Through n…

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By James Cusick

For three days beginning on 6 June, a five-star hotel in Chandler’s Cross  that normally hosts the England football team before Wembley matches, will turn over its 227 luxury roo…

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By AP

Protesters rallied in dozens of cities Saturday as part of a global protest against seed giant Monsanto and the genetically modified food it produces, organizer…

Losers Make the Pie Bigger

By Reboot With Joe

It has been the most amazing two years for Joe and Team Reboot and we genuinely thank you for being part of the movement that the film inspired.

As our way of saying thank you f…

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By Carolyn Bandel

Zuercher Kantonalbank, the biggest Swiss cantonal bank, expects to pay a fine to U.S. authorities as part of a deferred prosecution agreemen…

By Wikipedia

Battle at Kruger is an eight-minute amateur wildlife video that depicts an unfolding confrontation between a herd of Cape buffalo, a small pride of lions, and one or two crocodiles. Th…

By Heather Callaghan

No, this is not a tabloid – it’s real. According to the latest video, which has now been posted below, robotic insects have made their first controlled flight. According to the…

By Catherine Austin Fitts

There are no scandals in Washington. There is simply a turnover. We are preparing for an escalation of the global financial war. The old team are simply being told to step…

By Will Shanklin

Gmail lets you send all kinds of files as attachments. And Google Wallet lets you pay for just about anything. Why not combine the two? That could have been the thinking by someone…

Moving the Money Video

By Tania Rabesandratana

The European Commission is reforming the European Union’s plant and animal health legislation in a bid to enhance food safety across the bloc. But critics say that the measu…

By Brigitte Granville, Hans-Olaf Henkel & Stefan Kawalec

On the eve of the American Civil War, Abraham Lincoln famously said that “a house divided cannot stand.” Today, the European Union — co…

By The Committee on Financial Services

The House of Representatives today passed two bipartisan Financial Services Committee bills, including one that sets a deadline for the Securities and Exchang…

By GuruFocus

Prof. Robert Shiller of Yale University invented the Schiller P/E to measure the market’s valuation. The Schiller P/E is a more reasonable market valuation indicator than the P/E ratio…

By Robert Wenzel

This is Update 2 on news that the Department of Homeland Security has served a court order to the money exchange service Dwolla, in regard to its dealings with Mt. Gox.

Earlier tod…

“After all, most civilized and semi-civilized countries known to history had a large class of slaves or serfs completely subordinate to their owners. There is nothing in human nature that makes th…

By Dan Kadlec

The retirement savings crisis in America has brought us to this point: It’s a near certainty that mandatory savings accounts are in the future of anyone with a full- or part-time jo…

[CAF Note: With G-7 Deciding this weekend to target tax havens, the US wants a new team in at the IRS who can use their civil and criminal investigative powers to extend taxing and capital controls …

[CAF Note: I’m excited. I am headed to my first maker faire this Saturday. Check it out!]

Explore makers and projects coming to Maker Faire Bay Area 2013. You can choose to browse by topic below or…

By Wikipedia

The Raspberry Pi is a credit-card-sized single-board computer developed in the UK by the Raspberry Pi Foundation with the intention of promoting the teaching of basic computer science …

By David Kravets

The immigration reform measure the Senate began debating yesterday would create a national biometric database of virtually every adult in the U.S., in what privacy groups fear coul…

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By U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

The Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act includes provisions that require the SEC to undertake various initiatives, including rulemaking and studies touchi…

[CAF Note: The big banks can borrow at 0.75%, but students have to pay 6%+. Why is that? It is called reverse Robin Hood. Debase and drain the young people, give to the rich.]

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By ROAR Collective

A new report by the Transnational Institute — ‘Guns, Debt and Corruption: Military Spending and the EU Crisis’ — looks at the ways in which excessive militarization direc…

By GoldMoney

Andy Duncan has the pleasure of interviewing Catherine Austin Fitts, known for her much-read Solari report. With a wealth of experience on Wall Street and time in Washington politics, …

By Clive Cookson

I start to walk across a street in a city of the near future. An autonomous electric car is gliding silently towards me, driving itself to pick up a group of passengers. The vehicl…

By Mark DeCambre

Talk about a nanny state.

Irked Goldman Sachs brass recently confronted Bloomberg LP over concerns reporters at the business news service have been using the company’s ubiquitou…

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By Catherine Austin Fitts

I will be attending a “Special Hemp History Week Concert” by artist and ally John Trudell and Bad Dog at the David Brower Center in Berkeley, California on Saturday, June …

(TPP): 17th Round of TPP Negotiations Set for Lima, Peru — May 15-24, 2013

We appreciate your interest in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations. The 17th round of TPP negotiations will …

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The Blue Light Video

By BBC News

Finance ministers from the G7 group of industrialised nations are set to begin a two-day meeting on Friday.

Banking reforms will be top of the agenda at the meeting, which is being hel…

By Kauffman Foundation

The pace at which the United States produces $100-million companies has been stable over the last 20 years despite changes in the economy. However, according to a new Kauffma…

By RT

A handgun made almost entirely using a consumer-grade 3D printer fired a bullet over the weekend for the first time in the history of the infant technology. If some lawmakers have their way, …

By True Activist

McDonald’s leaves Bolivia healthier forever!

After 14 years of presence in the country, and despite all the existing campaigns and having a network, the chain was forced to clos…

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By Sarah E. Needleman and Spencer E. Ante

Bitcoin startups are beginning to raise sizable investment capital even as industry leaders warn that hackers are abusin…

By InfoWars

Addressing 2013 graduates at the Ohio State University in Columbus today, Obama’s speech writers took the opportunity to remind outgoing grads that the government is definitely not �…

By Julia Irvine

In its annual Fraud Survey, it reveals that of the 3,000 board members, managers and their teams across 36 countries who were questioned, 42% of board directors and senior managers …