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By Christian Stork

The suicide last Friday of information activist, computer hacker and technical wunderkind Aaron Swartz has focused attention on Carmen Ortiz, the U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts…

By John O’Donnell and Robin Emmott

Germany, France and nine other euro zone countries will get the go-ahead on Tuesday to start work on a financial transactions tax, a measure likely to unsettle bank…

Triumph of the Cyborg Composer
David Cope’s software creates beautiful, original music. Why are people so angry about that?

Computer-Generated Music, is it Art?

By Chuck Gibson

As they say, pictures are worth a thousand words

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By Greg Palast

Alex Jones is right. Deport Piers Morgan. NOW. Send him back. In chains.

But not because Piers doesn’t believe in the Second Amendment to the US Constitution. (I mean, really, who…

[Note from CAF: As currency wars intensify, expect more attention paid to clearance and settlement systems, particularly SWIFT.]

The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT…

By Peter Melchett

Powerful forces in Western society have been promoting genetic engineering (now usually genetic modification – GM) in agricultural crops since the mid-1990s. They have included many…

By Jesse Emspak

Surveillance cameras are ubiquitous, especially in the U.K.. and in the United States, Congress has already approved the use of drones for domestic surveillance. Then there’s the …

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Fun on Wikipedia

We’ve posted recently about the swelling pollution crisis in China, this map can show you the scope of the problem.

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By The Economist

WATCH Chinese television these days and you might conclude that the outbreak of war with Japan over what it calls the Senkaku and China the Diaoyu islands is only a matter of time….

We have just posted an updated version of the transcript for the 2012 Annual Wrap Up. You can find it in the Transcript Announcement. Also find it in the blog post; at the Subscriber Resource Page, …

[Staff Note: I’m a big fan of America’s budding Microbrew industry. It’s based around small, local companies who strive to provide the best product they can. Many of them, like New Belgium, go above…

Well….now it’s Poland. This nation has joined the growing list of countries, particularly in Europe, that are displaying some rationality and caution with respect to Duponzanto and Mon(ster)santo …

By Dina ElBoghdady

The ads may start coming in the next few months through e-mail, on billboards, even via a passing reference on Facebook — companies looking to give you a chance to invest on th…

Did Congress just pay NY $51 billion to pass a gun control law?

New York Passes Nation’s Toughest Gun-Control Law

House Approves Post-Sandy Relief Bill

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New York Has Gun Deal, With…

By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard

The move marks an extraodinary breakdown in trust between leading central banks and has set off ferment among gold enthusiasts, with some comparing it with France’s wit…

Beijing-Shanghai high-speed rail. Beijing departure station

The train speed is 350 km/hr (218.75 mph)

The crew to board the Beijing-Shanghai high-speed train.

The crew staff …

By Joanna Stern

A book-less library.

It sounds like an oxymoron, but come the fall of 2013, San Antonio’s Bexar County is going to be home to the BiblioTech, the country’s first book-less public l…

By 60 Minutes

One of the hallmarks of the 21st century is that we are all having more and more interactions with machines and fewer with human beings. If you’ve lost your white collar job to downsi…

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By Jon Rappoport

In 1969, William Kunstler, the famous radical-left lawyer, gave a speech in Oakland, California, to the black community. In his concluding remarks, he reminded the audience that the …

By Catherine Austin Fitts

Paul Levy’s new book, Dispelling Wetiko: Breaking the Curse of Evil, is now available. I wrote the forward. This is an intense and powerful exploration of the nature of ev…

By Catherine Austin Fitts

I took an online course on driver safety tonight. Here are two quotes from the material:

“Most people do not realize that nationally there are over 42,000 people killed eac…

Adding to the list of mysterious deaths that have happened over the last few days, internet visionary and brilliant internet activist Aaron Swartz was found dead yesterday. Swartz, only 26 years old…

By CNN staff

As a new round of French military strikes targeted Islamist rebels in Mali on Sunday, both sides of the fight said they were determined to win.

French fighter jets bombed rebel training…

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Jon Corzine goes to jail or it’s all bull***t.
Oh, and Angelo Mozilla needs to go to jail, too.

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I find it simply amazing that there hasn’t been a mass murder of these crim…

In September, 2011, Manitoba judge Robert Heinrichs ruled that a sixteen year old accused of murder would remain in youth court where he faces a maximum sentence of four years rather than the possib…

The music for this weekend is “4th and Vine” by Sinéad O’Connor.

Check it out on Nowness.com.

By Jon Rappoport

The best way to depict what’s going on in America is through a letter from the head of the Sinaloa Drug Cartel, to President Obama.

In case people are ready to assume this letter …

By Robert Johnson

After repeatedly flying surveillance aircraft into disputed airspace with Japan, and Tokyo scrambling F-15s in response, China’s now sending fighters of its own on “routine flight…

By Tim Schmidt, Publisher – Concealed Carry Report

Every person on earth has the natural born right to defend themself from harm.

This is where I believe so many people get off topic. Many folks
arg…

By Fox News

The National Rifle Association emerged from a meeting Thursday with Vice President Biden and accused his gun violence task force of leading an “attack” on the Second Amendment — just h…

By Jim Christie

The second largest U.S. pension fund decided on Wednesday to sell off its investments in the manufacturer of the rifle used in last month’s mass shooting at an elementary school in Ne…

By Jillian Rayfield

Joe Biden said today that the president is prepared to take unilateral action in order to implement stricter gun control measures. “The president is going go act,” he said. …

By Eric Markowitz

Just one day after Inc. covered the formal launch of Mosaic, a clean enery crowdfunding platform based in Oakland that connects investors with solar energy projects, the start-up …

By Catherine Austin Fitts

[Published in 2005, this checklist was designed to help people shift from large banks whose incentives are out of alignment with people and living systems to community ban…

By News 9 Finance

The world-first change – a temporary measure – comes after a branding survey commissioned by the fast food chain found that 55 percent of Australians called the company by its sho…

By Karen Weise for Businessweek

The mortgage settlements just keep coming. On Monday morning, Bank of America said it reached an agreement to resolve virtually all existing and future claims that it …

By Peter Bergen

President Barack Obama has nominated his top counterterrorism adviser, John Brennan, to be the next director of the CIA.

If there is an emerging Obama doctrine to deal with the thr…

These are invaluable sets of abstracts (data-based to be searchable) covering the RFR scientific literature, as well as collections of scientific abstracts on free radical damage (from both RFR and …

By Catherine Austin Fitts

Ben Lizardi of Lizardi Communications  designed our wonderful new poster for 2013, using an original art work from Holly Bedrosian. We thought you might like to learn more…

By Catherine Austin Fitts

The ability to kill with impunity is the power that runs the planet today. Assassination is an ancient craft.
Killing successfully for political purposes in the modern sta…

By Gretchen Morgenson

IF you were hoping that things might be different in 2013 — you know, that bankers would be held responsible for bad behavior or that the government might actually assist trou…

Before launching work on the current volume, the NIC commissioned an academic study of the four previous Global Trends studies, beginning with the first edition
in 1996-97. The reviewers examined th…

[Note from CAF: I don’t know the specifics of what Wegelin did or did not do. I assume the US gave them two options. Confess to criminal charge or be individually hounded until not just the bank but…