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The “March Against Monsanto” in 52 countries, an unapproved strain of its genetically modified wheat growing profusely in …

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The Illinois Ag Dept. illegally seized privately owned bees from renowned naturalist, Terrence Ingram, withou…

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This is the official book launch of Paul Levy’s new book Dispelling Wetiko: Breaking the Curse of Evil, recorded at Powell’s City of Books on February 22, 2013.

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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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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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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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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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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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…

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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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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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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 …

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By Truthdig

MR: No, no. Neil MacBride, just so you know, he’s the attorney, U.S. attorney for the eastern district of Virginia. … He’s the head U.S. attorney gu…

By Marielle Segarra

As companies wait for the Securities and Exchange Commission to finalize the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act rules, they may be eager to pounce on equity-based crowdfunding….

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I’ve been getting into Solar lately – the fall in prices has been absolutely shocking over the last 2-4 years. We are seeing price drops closer to 20% per year after severa…

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Investigators from the agency that regulates power markets have found a unit of JPMorgan Chase & Co manipulated trading in the California and Michiga…

By Michael Boldin

On Thursday, Kansas Governor Sam Brownback received a letter from Federal Attorney General Eric Holder threatening action against the state should it enforce SB102 which Brownback…

By Louise Yamada

The technical observations suggesting risk for Gold spot price (GOLDS-1,462.09) over the past two months’ reports followed through with a severe decline in Gold through 1,539 sup…

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There is an important vote coming up concerning proposed changes to EU seed law. This is a vote in the EU Commission, by written procedure, on Monday 6 May 2013.

If the legi…

By Robert W. Wood

Bitcoin is virtual currency much in the news these days. It’s peer-to-peer so there’s no central bank or government. But if you think that means the IRS won’t get a piece, t…

[CAF Note: Is the planetary debt-for-equity we described in the 2nd Quarter Equity Review underway?]

By Sarah Jones

Central banks, guardians of the world’s $11 trillion in foreign-exchange reser…

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Last Five Years

Reviewing this comparison of the US equity markets to the performance of the largest gold and silver ETFs shows you why precious metals investors have be…

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By Araceli Cruz

If you haven’t noticed, there’s currently a mass exodus from Facebook taking place. In the past three months there’s been a drop among users in the …

By Hoisington Investment Management Company

“The Federal Reserve is printing money”. No statement could be less truthful. The Federal Reserve (Fed) is not, and has not been, “printing money�…

By David Gumpert

Now that a Wisconsin judge has rejected raw milk farmer Vernon Hershberger’s religious freedom arguments to justify having a witness testify on his behalf, his trial looks likely t…

By James Surowiecki

When we all finished filing our tax returns last week, there was a little something missing: two trillion dollars. That’s how much money Americans may have made in the past ye…

By Staff Writers Washington (AFP)

The US army is working to limit its dependence on GPS by developing the next generation of navigation technology, including a tiny autonomous chip, the director of…

By Riverbend

April 9, 2013 marks ten years since the fall of Baghdad. Ten years since the invasion. Since the lives of millions of Iraqis changed forever. It’s difficult to believe. It feels like o…

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[CAF Note: Kudos to the EFF and all those who have stopped a really bad idea dead in its tracks for now]

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Privacy advocates can breathe a sigh of relief as …

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In a move that’s expected to stir up staunch resistance from public pension managers, some Capitol Hill lawmakers have proposed new pension transparency regulations for local and st…

By John Rubino

Last weekend the disturbingly-brilliant Catherine Austin Fitts, publisher of the Solari Report, passed through town, giving us a chance to finally meet face-to-face. In the following…

By Jim Farber

Richie Havens, a seminal member of the New York folk scene of the ’60s, died Monday morning from a sudden heart attack.

He was 72.

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[CAF Note: Geez – why allow our taxes to pay for the police state, when consumers can fund directly?]

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By Grant Williams

I am a seller of gold.

Just not yet — and certainly not anywhere close to this price.

One day, long into the future, it will be time to sell gold — or, more likely, to excha…

By Catherine Austin Fitts

I stopped in Moscow, Idaho this weekend on my way to Portland Oregon. Moscow is the home of the University of Idaho, in an area known as the Palouse.

I was visiting wit…

[CAF Note: Ever notice how bad things happen to people who stand up to Monsanto?]

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Scores of heavily-armed police swarmed a Boston suburb today as the net tightened around an ‘armed and dangerous’ suspect…

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By Elizabeth Landau

In the midst of chaos here on Earth, scientists are finding hope for life on other planets.

Scientists announced Thursday the discovery of three planets that are some of the be…

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The U.S. House of Representatives has overwhelmingly approved a controversial data-sharing bill that would authorize e-mail and Internet providers to s…

By James Gallagher

A kidney “grown” in the laboratory has been transplanted into animals where it started to produce urine, US scientists say.

Similar techniques to make simple body parts have al…

By James Gallagher

The case relates to a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union in 2009, and centres on whether companies should be able to patent genes.

US authorities have been awar…

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Gold plunged the most in 33 years amid record-high trading as an unexpected slowdown in China’s economic expansio…

By Jordan Graham, John Zaremba

Two huge explosions rocked the Boston Marathon finish line at Copley Square just before 3 p.m. today, apparently causing numerous casualties, some possible with traum…

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The first time I ever tasted a real tomato, I was in Cusco, Peru. I had picked them up at a Farmer’s Market, bought them from an old lady with wizened wrinkles and sun-browned skin. S…

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Cypriot politicians have reacted with fury to news that the crisis-hit country will be forced to find an extra €6bn (£5bn) to co…

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