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By Janet Raloff

Nanoscale pollutants can enter crop roots, triggering a host of changes to plants’ growth and health, two studies find. These tiny particles can stunt plant growth, boost the plan…

By Jim Stogdill

What would happen if we turned off, opted out, and completely disconnected ourselves from the technology that runs our lives? For Jim Stogdill, tuning out brought greater productivi…

By Nicholas Tomasi

The ongoing food fight between massive biotech companies and grassroots activists has continued on the west coast, with a monumental vote on the mandatory labeling of genetically m…

By John Markoff

At the Philips Electronics factory on the coast of China, hundreds of workers use their hands and specialized tools to assemble electric shavers. That is the old way.

Robot arms li…

They’re coming to get you Barbara ~ Night of the Living Dead
By Justin Boldenow, Solari Report production assistant

There seems to be an unstoppable force that is spreading, growing, and changing p…

By Andrew Blankstein

“Top Gun” director Tony Scott fatally jumped off the Vincent Thomas Bridge in San Pedro on Sunday afternoon, according to Los Angeles police sources.

His body was pulled o…

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[Note from CAF: You think there is a drought? Think again. The push to force GMO seed, consolidate farmland and control global agriculture is underway. It threatens our lives and those of future g…

By Bryan Behrenshausen

I first encountered 3-D printing in Cory Doctorow’s Makers, a science fiction novel set in the wake of economic armageddon. In Doctorow’s imagined near-future world, hulking …

[CAF  Note: Since a great deal global debt was fraudulently induced, the idea of a sovereign government carrying out an audit of the legitimacy of outstanding debt is a good one. This is a fearl…

From I, Cringely

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak this week warned of the perils of depending too much on cloud storage and the general press reacted like this was: A) news, and; B) evidence of some in…

By Paul Davenport The Associated Press

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer on Wednesday ordered state agencies to deny driver’s licenses and other public benefits to young illegal immigrants who obtain work auth…

By Mark V

The world’s first commercial space launch pad, the Virgin Galactic Gateway Spaceport, was recently opened in the southern part of New Mexico, attracting around 800 guests at the opening…

By Lesta Frank

Our thanks to artist and friend, Lesta Frank, for this lovely print.

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On the 130th anniversary of the founding of Banco Sabadell we wanted to pay homage to our city by means of the campaign “Som Sabadell” (We are Sabadell) . This is the flashmob that we arranged as a fi…

Julian Assange’s Wikileaks website published leaked diplomatic cables

Source: BBC News UK

Ecuador has granted asylum to Wikileaks founder Julian Assange two months after he took refuge in its London…

From Kelly D. McMillan Director of Operations McMillan Group International, LLC

McMillan Fiberglass Stocks, McMillan Firearms Manufacturing, McMillan Group International have been collectively bank…

From the Erste Group Research

The foundation for new all-time-highs is in place. As far as sentiment is concerned, we definitely see no euphoria with respect to gold. Skepticism, fear, and panic a…

In a landscape as dramatic as its stories, Alaska Native people face staggering suicide rates, yet remain determined to heal & thrive!

Historically Alaska Native peoples lived solely from the lan…

From Stratfor

Like nearly all of the peoples of North and South America, most Americans are not originally from the territory that became the United States. They are a diverse collection of peoples p…

By Chuck Gibson

Congratulations – You just bought a new home.

Only you didn’t get the house – just the debt.

In July 1971, the population of the US was 207.6 million and Treasury funded deb…

“In a digital world, data about money is worth more than money.”

– Nicholas Negroponte

By Pam Warhurst

What should a community do with its unused land? Plant food, of course. With energy and humor, Pam Warhurst tells at the TEDSalon the story of how she and a growing team of volunt…

By Florian Gathmann and Philipp Wittrock

Chancellor Angela Merkel wants Europe to move toward an ever closer union in a bid to solve the euro crisis. But she is already pushing at the limits of wha…

From the CNN Political Unit

Mitt Romney on Saturday announced U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin as his running mate for the White House — a bold and risky move that energized both conservatives and…

Here are the particulars of the Presidential appointments being removed from Senate approval.

Presidential Appointment Efficiency and Streamlining Act of 2011

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From a Solari Report Subscriber

The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) program is the most expensive weapons program in US Defense Department history, costing almost 1.5 trillion dollars for around 25…

[CAF Note: Actually, if you estimate for the full financial coup d’etat following the GATT adoption of the Uruguay Round and the creation of the WTO combined with the “strong dollar policy,” the numbe…

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

The rim of Gale Crater can be seen in the distance beyond the pebbly ground. The topography of the rim is very mountainous due to erosion. The ground seen in the middle sho…

Source: qrc.depaul.edu

Think back a few years.  How much did a gallon of gasoline cost then? A loaf of bread? A 10 inch sausage pizza?  A movie ticket? Almost undoubtedly these items  now cost m…

By The Thinking Moms’ Revolution

They say high-pitched screams, fevers and swelling at the injection site are all common, harmless, insignificant side-effects of responsible, preventative medical c…

By Mat Honan

Meet Mat Honan. He just had his digital life dissolved by hackers.

In the space of one hour, my entire digital life was destroyed. First my Google account was taken over, then deleted…

By Catherine Austin Fitts

One of the most important things we can each do is to support excellent leaders.

I have made a campaign contribution to Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur’s (D-Ohio) campaign thi…

By The CNN Wire Staff

The July heat wave that wilted crops, shriveled rivers and fueled wildfires officially went into the books Wednesday as the hottest single month on record for the continental …

[Note from CAF: What are the private contractors who manage information and payments systems for the SEC and NYSE? It is not clear to me that any agreement between the two will solve the leakage, espe…

By Kevin J. O’Brien

Ocado, an online grocery store in England, prides itself on its delivery of refrigerated foods: When the company says the goods will arrive at a certain temperature, they mean i…

By Scott Gold

Curiosity, the largest and most advanced spacecraft ever sent to another planet, stuck its extraordinary landing Sunday night in triumphant and flawless fashion, and is poised to begi…

By Phyllis D. James of Synthetic Thinking

James Eagen Holmes’ interest in synthetic thinking, more commonly known as artificial intelligence, was handed down to him by his father, Robert Milton Holme…

By an American Traveler

So my family and I recently traveled to Germany and Switzerland during the last five weeks. It gave me a really different perspective, as I expected, but not in the directio…

By Lesta Frank

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[CAF Note: I originally published this is April 2003. I am republishing as we explore ideas to rebuild income and employment.]

“Arise, shine: for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is ris…

By Josh Lederman

Washington – The Internal Revenue Service may have delivered more than $5 billion in refund checks to identity thieves who filed fraudulent tax returns for 2011, Treasury Departmen…

By Willie Jones

How secure do you feel about the wireless router you use at home? Maybe more than you should. Researchers at AppSec Consulting Inc., in San Jose, Calif., reported new vulnerabilitie…

By Carl Herman

For five weeks I journalistically hammered that California’s Comprehensive Annual Financial Report (CAFR) reveals $600 billion in surplus taxpayer assets, and the various local gov…

By Catherine Austin Fitts

A “control file” is a private record that contains secret information or pictures that are the basis of threatening and blackmailing a person. Perhaps the most famous histor…

Among the 21 categories of items shipped by rail, none have a tighter correlation to GDP than waste.

According to a 2010 piece on Bloomberg, economists Michael McDonough and Carl Riccadonna note th…