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Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot is an absurdist play in which two characters, Vladimir and Estragon, wait endlessly and in vain for the arrival of someone named Godot. …
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There are parts of the earth where plant life simply doesn’t grow well, if at all. But that isn’t deterring NASA from attempting to grow veggies on the moon.
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A judge urged Detroit and its creditors to keep negotiating Thursday in a 150-page opinion that mimics his decision earlier this week that the city is…
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Entrepreneur Adam Lee and his brother couldn’t get a bank loan. Then they learned that Georgia state officials had taken steps that might make it easier for their star…
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The ABC News doyenne pushed hard to have NSA leaker Edward Snowden at the …
“One’s own employees ought to be one’s own best customers. Paying high wages is behind the prosperity of this country.”
~ Henry Ford
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The debate continues regardin…
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The public images of low-paying employers such as Wal-Mart and McDonald’s take a hit during the holidays, when Americans are seized by a spirit of charity. Stephen…
By Catherine Austin Fitts
November was not a strong month for precious metals. The current trends in the market have me concerned.
In last month’s Precious Metals Market Report, Franklin and I dis…
By Catherine Austin Fitts
There is no doubt about it. The stocks of pro-centralization team leaders were high flyers this year. Here is a chart of Lockheed Martin, Google and Facebook compared to th…
By Alex Fitzpatrick and Courtney Subramanian
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos revealed an experimental drone-based delivery service on Sunday, in an ambitious move by the online retailer to capitalize on a te…
By Simon Kennedy
Not long ago, before the financial crisis and the global recession it triggered, economists referred to Americans as the consumers of last resort. When the U.S. grew at a healthy pac…
By Bloomberg News
China’s move to end a 14-month ban on initial public offerings and allow the sale of preferred shares led to a rally in financial stocks as investors bet the measures will boost f…
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Federal laws and regulations en…
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Chris Reinhart is now leading the MicroHouse program for Open Source Ecology (OSE) full time. OSE has exciting plans for workshops in 2014. If you and yours would like to …
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SA Forum is an invited essay from experts on topical issues in science and technology.
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The announcement by a Chinese military spokesman on November 23rd sounded bureaucratic: any aircraft flying through the newly designated Air Defence Identification Zone (ADIZ) in t…
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By Catherine Austin Fitts
With the North American markets moving even higher, I was reminded by a colleague of the expression TINA, as in “There Are No Alternatives” to equity.
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The Institute for Responsible Technology (IRT) released a report today proposing a link between genetically modified (GM) foods and gluten-related disorders. In today’s report, a team o…
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The budget and the federal regu…
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By Russell Westerholm
China is all but ready to launch its own moon mission, but will not do so without hearing from the agency that is currently conducting its own lunar labor.
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By Matt Levine
A while back Greece had a problem. The problem was that it wanted to borrow more money, but didn’t want to increase its debt. (Because the European Union would frown on it having more …
By James Huang
You will be riveted by this video, not even three minutes long, showing JFK’s Secret Service protection being waved away from his car, and the perplexed reaction of at least one Sp…
By Art Swift
As the 50th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination approaches, a clear majority of Americans (61%) still believe others besides Lee Harvey Oswald were involved. But t…
“I found out something I never knew. I found out that my world was not the real world.”
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A rain garden is a planted depression or a hole that allows rainwater runoff from impervious urban areas, like roofs, driveways, walkways, parking lots, and compacted lawn areas, the o…
“This country was built by giants. They died, and midgets moved in. Tiny people were walking around inside this republic like a nine-year-old boy wearing his father’s suit. When the tiny people got …
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The complete failure of the military-…
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The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has just released their study on options to reduce the federal budget deficit. They have presented 103 options that would increase re…
By Scott Moritz & Freeman Klopott
New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli and Trillium Asset Management LLC filed shareholder proposals asking AT&T Inc. (T) to report government requests for custo…
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The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is a secretive, multi-national trade agreement that threatens to extend restrictive intellectual p…
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“We fumbled the rollout on this health-care law,” could be President Obama’s understatement of the century. In the month-or-so since Obamacare was unleashed 106,185 people enrolled …
By BBC News
Work is to begin on the largest tidal turbine energy project in Europe after the Scottish government approved it.
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By Alex Dunham
As if Spaniards had not already been dissuaded by the potential €60 million fines they face for illegally generating their own solar power, they now have to look forward to a knock…
By Wikileaks
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It would appear that the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) website – required when purchasing a gun or explosive – is capable of handling large volumes of use…
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Canada’s British Columbia province has completed its sale of yuan-denominated bonds in Hong Kong, the provincial government said on Tuesday.
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Challenge #4 On and Off Budget
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Net neutrality is a dead man walking. The execution date isn’t set, but it could be days, or months (at best). And since net neutrality is the principle f…
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Challenge #3 Operations
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Challenge #2 Legality
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