Part 1 – YouTube

Interview playlist (Parts 1-13)

Secret Deals, Foreclosure Settlements,Stress Tests, and Vampire Squid Whistle-Blowers

By L. Randall Wray

No Hollywood scriptwriter could plot a more implausible story. Here is the plotline sequenc…

Complaint:
 
 
National Foreclosure Settlement Complaint (PDF)
 
 
Individual Bank Agreements:
 
 
Ally/GMAC Settlement (PDF)

Bank of America Settlement (PDF)

Citi Sett…

[CAF Note: Goldman’s head of derivatives for Europe just happens to resign in the middle of the Greek CDS debacle and writes a big NY Times piece attacking Goldman on culture? What a coincidence! A …

By Joe Weisenthal

Sectoral Excess returns

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By Jeff Horwitz

JPMorgan Chase & Co. took procedural shortcuts and used faulty account records in suing tens of thousands of delinquent credit card borrowers for at least two years, current and for…

Lesley Stahl profiles British musical savant Derek Paravicini, whose computer-like memory for music is matched by his creative abilities to play it in any style.

By Nina Mehta

New York — Robert Rubin, who as U.S. Treasury secretary in the 1990s promoted a stronger dollar, said he has too much of his personal investments in the currency.

A “disproportionat…

Apple Inc. (AAPL) stock for last 5 years

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[CAF Note: Beware a digital currency in a closed system like Apple. Trojan horse possibilities here.  Time to head…

Quantico Us Marine Corps Base, Virginia

By Staff Writers

A sensation of unbearable, sudden heat seems to come out of nowhere — this wave, a strong electromagnetic beam, is the latest non-lethal we…

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By: Jeff_Clark

Jeff Clark, Casey Research writes: On February 29, gold dropped 4.8% and silver 6.2% (based on London fix prices). That’s quite the fall for one day. We’ve seen prices that have ris…

JULIAN ASSANGE RT EXCLUSIVE – FULL INTERVIEW (PART 1 of 2)

He famously warns that social media and in particularly Facebook, Google, Yahoo are among the greatest spy machines ever invented. Once ag…

By Kim Hart

In the wake of the Internet blackout that led to the dramatic death of two controversial online piracy bills, a new warning has entered the Hill vernacular: “Don’t get SOPA’d.”
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By Katey Culver

Hello friends and family,

As many of you know I have been involved in 2 lawsuits against the State of TN with the Green Party of TN.  Our first lawsuit took 3 years and ended in a W…

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Space Weather Alerts and Warnings Timeline
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By Jenna Blumenfeld

Lately it seems like non-GMO supporters simply can’t catch a break.

In the wake of an unsuccessful lawsuit between the Organic Seed Growers and Monsanto Co., and news that B…

By Heidi Przybyla

Representative Dennis Kucinich’s exit from Congress is among many setbacks defining his 42-year political career, dating to the 1978 attempt to recall him as the “boy mayor”…

By Steven Aftergood

U.S. special operations forces are engaged in “more than 100 countries worldwide,” said Adm. William H. McRaven, commander of U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM), in tes…

March 3, 2012, in Henryville, Ind.
Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images.

By Daniel Politi and Abby Ohlheiser

Angel Babcock, the 15-month-old found alive in an Indiana field, died on Sunday, bringing t…

By Joe Weisenthal

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By Gretchen Morgenson

Stop your bellyaching.
That was the message delivered last Thursday to Americans who today make almost nothing on the savings in their bank accounts.

It came from Sarah Bloom…

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By Brian K. Sullivan and Lynn Doan

Dozens of unusually strong tornadoes cut a path across five states in the U.S. Midwest and South, smashing houses and damaging schools. A least 15 people were ki…

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Morgan Stanley said it will have to post another USD 6.52 billion in collateral to counterparties and clearinghouses if Moody’s follows through on a warning that it might cut the Wa…

By Brock Vergakis

A super-powerful gun that shoots rounds more than 160 kilometres away — at several times the speed of sound — is being developed for Navy warships.

Hi Catherine

I’m a home owner in California. My wife and I are trying to refinance our house. Since the housing market has collapse right after we have purchased our home, the value has gone down…

In the heart of Seattle, a public park is planned like no other: an urban food forest that is free for the plucking!

By Michael Ricciardi

Due to its mild temperatures and routinely wet climate, Seat…

[CAF Note: Your data is in the clouds. NO PRIVACY! Good luck with this…]

By David Pogue

You’re probably paying something like $60 a month for high-speed Internet. I’m paying $5 a month, and …

By Ken Murray

Years ago, Charlie, a highly respected orthopedist and a mentor of mine, found a lump in his stomach. It was diagnosed as pancreatic cancer by one of the best surgeons in the country,…

By Jeremy Pelzer

Cheyenne — State representatives on Friday advanced legislation to launch a study into what Wyoming should do in the event of a complete economic or political collapse in the Uni…

By Tyler Durden

“…they [ECB] can exempt themselves from a “collective action clause” then they can exempt themselves from any clause, in any sovereign indenture, for any European country. The fact …

By Peter Delevett

Maybe they should start calling it Software Valley.
Venture capitalists, who provide much of the funding that keeps startups growing, poured twice as much money into software comp…

By Dr. Mercola

Agent Orange, produced by both Monsanto and Dow Chemicals, was used to defoliate jungles during the Vietnam War.

During that time, millions of gallons of the toxic chemical mixture we…

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“When 100 million shares are borrowed on a single day and then returned on a single day, the evidence that this is a concerted action is hard…

By Staff Writers

A new technique inspired by elegant pop-up books and origami will soon allow clones of robotic insects to be mass-produced by the sheet. Devised by engineers at Harvard, the ingeni…

By Jenny Anderson

More than three months after a 14-year-old girl was kicked in the head and severely injured by fellow students at the Brearley School’s Halloween event, the school has concluded…

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Move would sever regime’s financial lifeline

By Gulf News

Brussels: A financial clearinghouse used by virtually every country and major corporation in the world agreed on F…

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The world’s first test tube hamburger will be served up this October after scientists perfected the art of growing beef in the lab.

By Nick Collins

By generating strips of meat from stem…

That always could be a pretty good way of liquidating the national debt — repudiate the bonds as forgeries.

– Chris Powell
Potenza, Italy — Italian police said toay they had seized about $6 trilli…

By: David Dayen

The Administration’s FY 2013 budget predicts a large shortfall for the Federal Housing Administration, which has predictably suffered during the housing crisis. But the FHA’s Acti…

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Gary McKinnon (born 10 February 1966) is a Scottish systems administrator and hacker who has been accused of what one U.S. prosecutor claims is the “biggest military computer hack …