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By Jonathon Weisman

Senate leaders are closing in on a path for dealing with the “fiscal cliff” facing the country in January, opting to try to use a postelection session of Congress to reach a…

By Richard Rubin

U.S. households are facing an average tax increase of $3,446 in 2013 if Congress doesn’t avert the so- called fiscal cliff, the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center said in a study releas…

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The United States fiscal cliff refers to a large predicted reduction in the budget deficit and a corresponding projected slowdown of the economy if specific…

By John Naughton

Almost without noticing it, our world crossed a significant threshold last week. Jerry Brown, the governor of California, signed into law a bill that will allow driverless cars on …

By Dr. Joseph Farrell

The latest brain child to cross the desks of the Victor Frankensteins running the world’s science laboratories is this little story about engineering goats to produce human …

A Special Thanks to Simon Black for this find.

Social unrest may reflect a variety of factors such as poverty, unemployment, and social injustice. Despite the many possible contributing factors, the …

See Puscifer

Guns and Butter – September 26, 2012 at 1:00pmClick to listen (or download)

“Dillon Read and The Aristocracy of Stock Profits”, live with Catherine Austin Fitts. KPFA fundraiser – a 6-month s…

Creating and disseminating media to help regenerate the Earth.

These videos are documents from two design courses taught by Bill Mollison at the Fossil Rim Wildlife Center in Glen Rose Texas in 199…

By Kim Komando

According to one research firm, mobile smartphone payments will grow by a factor of four and account for $1.3 trillion of all retail transactions by the year 2017.

That’s a lot of ele…

From BBC Technology:

A humanoid robot designed to work safely alongside people on factory production lines has been unveiled in the US.

Priced at $22,000 (£13,500), Baxter will go on sale in Octo…

Japan Follows U.S. and Europe in Stimulus Moves; Other Actions Expected

By Tom Lauricella

Massive injections of stimulus into financial markets by the world’s largest central banks are creating a …

By Catherine Austin Fitts

Being away from my church home is one of the challenges of living on the road. I am having a wonderful time in Silicon Valley and will be speaking in Berkeley and Menlo P…

What would we do without Microsoft PowerPoint? How would we communicate with each other?

PowerPoint was developed by engineers as a tool to help them communicate with the marketing department—and…

In the early Christian era, many Celtic Christians embarked on a kind of pilgrimage called a peregrinatio. Unlike the pilgrimages to the Holy Land undertaken by Christians in the Middle Ages, a per…

[Note from Solari team member: Major ruckus in Maker-land. Makerbot Industries got new VC funding and created a new printer. It may or may not be “open”. Those that contributed design updates to pri…

By Jesse’s Café Américain
A “Cup and Handle” is a bullish continuation pattern in an uptrend. 
The greatest factor working against this current gold chart as a cup and handle is that it appears dur…

By Michael Keller

The days of getting lost in the art museum or mall might be drawing to a close. So, too, might the universal experience of forgetting where you parked your car and stomping around…

By Kim Dixon

Technology giants Microsoft Corp and Hewlett-Packard Co used offshore units to shield billions of dollars from U.S. taxes by taking advantage of loopholes and stretching the limits of …

[Note from CAF: Looks like the cocktail of currency debasement and shifting incomes abroad, high sugar and chemicals in the food, chemtrails and GMOs will succeed in lowering the demands on social s…

With QE3, we are essentially being bought out with our own money…and unemployment is being used to facilitate this process in a very clever manner. Monetary inflation is currently being offset by …

By Brent Rose

The guys at Re-Char, a small startup that makes carbon-negative products, were faced with a problem. They wanted to ship products to Kenya, but the options available were wasteful, co…

By Henry Fountain

Andemariam Beyene sat by the hospital window, the low Arctic sun on his face, and talked about the time he thought he would die.

Two and a half years ago doctors in Iceland, wher…

On the Sept 20 Solari Report, Catherine Austin Fitts discusses QE3 and what it means to you!

By Catherine Austin Fitts

I used to have a deputy who said that the FHA mortgage insurance funds were whe…

In the foothills of the highest mountain in Europe, in a valley with glacier-fed springs, surrounded by ancient megaliths and natural power spots, there lies a school where the future of humanity …

By Will Ferguson

The hottest new material in town is light, strong and conducts electricity. What’s more, it’s been around a long, long time.

Nanocrystalline cellulose (NCC), which is produced by pr…

In an unprecedented and controversial move, the Federal Reserve today announced the initiation of an open-ended round of Quantitative Easing (QE3) and extended the period for which it will keep rate…

By Steven Levy

Had Narrative Science — a company that trains computers to write news stories—created this piece, it probably would not mention that the company’s Chicago headquarters lie only…

By Pam Martens

Adding to those seemingly insurmountable headwinds, Sheikh Ahmed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Managing Director of ADIA, would not be able to give first hand testimony to the tribunal as to …

By Harriet Torry

Germany’s Federal Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe is set to rule Wednesday at 8 a.m. GMT on whether the European Stability Mechanism — the euro zone’s permanent bailout fun…

[CAF Note: Note that the expenses of stealing these assets are on budget for the federal government and households. However, when it comes to their trillions of value, that is off budget – one of th…

By Ian Austen

Calling Iran “the most significant threat to global peace and security in the world today,” Canada’s foreign affairs minister, John Baird, abruptly announced Friday that his gov…

[CAF Note Below]

By Kevin Flaherty

The link on this update mentions Decree #123-2011, which is just 15 pages long, but will have you wondering, “Is this real?”

I’m asking everyone out there…

Steve Hanke and Nicholas Krus, “World Hyperinflations”. Cato Working Paper no. 8, August 15, 2012. Forthcoming in: Randall Parker and Robert Whaples (eds.) (2013) The Handbook of Major Events in Eco…

By: Charles Benbrook
Center for Sustaining Agriculture and Natural Resources Washington State University

In a comprehensive paper published in the September 4, 2012 issue of the Annals of Internal Me…

By Paul Schwennesen

A 1981 Dodge Ram Van (faded brown with those funky round portholes in the back) leaves the town of Winkelman at 45 miles an hour pulling 2,500 pounds in an unregistered trailer. A…

By Jeffrey Heller

Israeli officials played down a report in an Israeli newspaper on Monday that accused Washington of secretly negotiating with Tehran to keep the United States out of a future Isra…

By Nelson D. Schwartz

Even as Greece desperately tries to avoid defaulting on its debt, American companies are preparing for what was once unthinkable: that Greece could soon be forced to leave the e…

Here are some great tunes reminding us how to build skills and resilience: See the Maker Movement

— Catherine

Whether you live in California, in North America or around the globe, this is a critical issue. If states can achieve labeling of GMO, we improve the chances of making this a global standard.  La…

Percent Change at Seasonally Adjusted Annual Rate
M1
M2

3 Months from Apr 2012 TO Jul 2012
11.3|
6.5|

6 Months from Jan 2012 TO Jul 2012
8.5|
5.6|

12 Months from Jul 2011 TO…

[Note from CAF: Not to mention the money disappearing through the black budget, $4 trillion missing from federal accounts and on and on….]

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Throughout the Transformations & Renewals weekend this October, we will enjoy fresh, healthy food and a wonderful selection of wines grown and prepared in Middle Tennessee.

On our first di…

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Pharaoh acknowledged that Joseph’s proposal to store grain during the abundant period was very wise. So before Joseph was even 30 years old, Pharaoh released him from prison and pu…

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This seminal documentary provides compelling evidence to help explain the deteriorating health of Americans, especially among children, and offers a recipe for protecting …

By Dean Baker

“Free trade” is a sacred mantra in Washington. If anything is labeled as being “free trade”, then everyone in the Washington establishment is required to bow down and support it. Otherw…

By Michael Ramos

In 2010, many sectors of the U.S. economy began to improve from the Great Recession—however, small businesses lagged behind, largely as a result of having trouble raising th…

By Josh Cothran, Georgia Institute of Technology

[CAF Note: Ever notice that the more private insurers and the government get involved, the worse and more expensive things get?]

In 1960, almost 100%…