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Yesterday I blogged about that nice bright shiny new NSA facility being built (for all to photograph from their spy satellites) in Utah. As we saw in yesterday’s blog, a …

By Loveday Morris and Ahmed Ramadan

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[CAF: Clifford Carnicom continues to provide leadership and invaluable information to help us understand the impact of global spraying programs. Here is his latest – a work in progress.]

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By Robert J. Samuelson

The International Monetary Fund’s latest global economic forecast makes for unhappy reading. You may remember that, some years back, it was fashion…

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By The Economist

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It’s no surprise that the country that has kicked butt at the Solar Decathlon competition (to produce energy positive solar houses) year after year is the home to such a productive ene…

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EXECUTIVE ORDER

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ASSIGNMENT OF NATIONAL SECURITY AND
EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS COMMUNICATIONS FUNCTIONS

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constit…

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It’s not going to overshadow Chuck Yeager or the Wright Brothers, but when a drone aircraft’s tailhook snatched a wire stretched across the deck of t…

By RT

The Obama administration will not be allowed to terminate a lawsuit by asserting that a civil argument would risk exposing national secrets, a federal judge ruled Monday in what has already b…

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Manufacturing jobs in the U.S. appear to be coming back—if ever so slightly.

Several American firms, including Caterpillar, GE and Ford, have announ…

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By FoxNews.com

Interest rates on federally subsidized Stafford student loans doubled overnight, soaring from 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent after Congress failed to reach a …

By Jon Rappoport

This article is a compilation of a number of pieces I’ve written about Ed Snowden and the NSA. It doesn’t replace them, but it hits the high points…

Let’s begin here: If y…

By George Ure

OK, bear with me here: The largest story of the week, when the history books are written, could be that the latest solar weather predictions from NOAA seem to make it clear that the …

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By Dr. Joseph P. Farrell

Over the past two days, I’ve been blogging about the emergence of GMOs as a political issue, and how Russia’s warnings that it could tri…

By Chris Lazare

Oregon has come up with a plan to help provide higher education for free at their 7 state universities. Advocates of the legislation are calling it the “pay it forward” model. S…

By Plansponsor

Are new distribution regulations around the corner?

Policymakers within the federal government sent yet another strong signal that they are reassessing the role of individual retireme…

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By Ron Nixon

Leslie James Pickering noticed something odd in his mail last September: a handwritten card, apparently delivered by mistake, with instr…

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The U.S. Court of Appeals ruled in favor of Monsanto and its patented seeds last Monday by throwing out a…

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Since 1997 – 2004, the U.S. was changed from an income-driven economy into an economy, whose economic performance is determined by political control of …

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Bank of America reportedly opened a unit in India to review valuation reports in an effort to boost its share of the U.S. mortgage market at a lower cost, Bloomberg reported …

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A few days before my interview on Why Shamanism Now? Internet Radio Show, I received an email from the well-known anthropologist, author and shamanic practitioner Hank Wesselman. He me…

By BBC News

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By William Blum

Despite these concerns the US has continued to expand ECHELON surveillance in Europe, partly becaus…

By Silla Brush and Cheyenne Hopkins

U.S. regulators will inject risk into the derivatives market if they don’t take more time to coordinate Dodd-Frank Act rules with their overseas counterparts, si…

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[CAF Note: Force rules]

By Daniel Bases and Manuela Badawy

After a 12-year hiatus, the United States reclaimed first place among top executives in a survey on f…

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By Doug Short

The bond market selloff after the FOMC meeting and Chairman Bernanke’s surprising specifics about exiting QE was quite stunning. However, his hawkish position was supported by today’s…

By Jonathan Weil

In one corner, we have five former Bank of America Corp. employees who told a federal court they were instructed to mislead customers on the verge of losing their homes and stall t…

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By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard

The Shibor overnight lending rate in Shanghai spiked violently to 29pc, with wild moves in seven-day and one-month money. The central bank refused to int…

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The Don Coxe Call

A weekly review of the Global Capital Markets.

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[CAF Note: A Solari subscriber reported yesterday that they suddenly could not access their e-mail until they signed an agreement that AT&T can scan their e-mail.]

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[CAF Note: Looks like the Ango-American alliance is moving closer to doing bail-ins!]

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All Natalie Gunshannon wanted was to be paid a fair wage for her work, she said.

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Today’s article is from the “too scary to think about” file. One problem with this particular genre is that it leads most people into shutdown or mindless diversion mode jus…

By John P. Hussman, Ph.D.

The central issue in the current financial markets, in my estimation, is distortion. Because monetary distortion dominates the financial markets here (helped by fiscal dis…

[CAF Note: Some interesting comments on the relationship between intelligence and enforcement agencies and media disinformation]

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The U.S. surveillance state as outlined and explained by Edward Snowden is not worth the price. Its size, scope and intrusiveness, its ability to target and monitor …

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It appears that President Obama is bidding adieu to CFTC Chairman Gary Gensler, purportedly for being ‘too aggressive’ with the Banks over their antics in the markets, with special …

The Washington Post and The Guardian have revealed a US government mass Internet surveillance program code-named “PRISM”. They report that the NSA and the FBI have been tapping directly into the ser…

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Standard & Poor’s on Monday removed the near-term threat of another credit rating downgrade for the United States by revising its outlook to stable from negative, c…

[CAF Note: The CPAs are getting ready for crowdfunding!]

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