By Tyler Durden

In addition to the phenomenon of “foreclosure stuffing” described here extensively before, one of the main reasons for the artificial drop in housing supply has been the ongoing gover…

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By The Province

A rare, 600-year-old Chinese coin has been found on the Kenyan island of Manda.

The coin proves that trade existed between China and eastern Afric…

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Francis (born Jorge Mario Bergoglio; 17 December 1936) is the 266th and current pope of the Catholic Church.

A native of Buenos Aires, Argentina, he was ordained as a priest in 1969. …

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Bank of Japan (8301) governor nominee Haruhiko Kuroda said that the central bank will consider buying derivatives if he’s confirmed as governor and signaled a readiness for a quick e…

Checkpoints (some would say illegal checkpoints) have been popping up quite frequently in the USA. As you see in this video, you DO NOT have to comply with their question’s or demands. Don’t forget,…

By Matthew Campbell

An inquiry into whether former government officials were complicit in the payment of huge damages to a tycoon could lead to a second French head of the International Monetary Fu…

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By Roman Gaus

On an early June morning in 2010, I stood outside the Aquaponics research facility at the University of Applied Sciences, perched on a green hilltop i…

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With continued volatility in the gold and silver markets, today King World News is pleased to share a piece of legendary technical analyst Louise Yamada’s “Technical Perspect…

By TEDx

The science delusion is the belief that science already understands the nature of reality, in principle. The fundamental questions are answered, leaving only the details to be filled in. Th…

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SENATOR WARREN: … if you’re caught with an ounce of cocaine, the chances are good you’re going to go to jail. If it happens repeatedly you may go to jail for the rest of your life. But evidently, if…

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Your digital footprint could be getting a whole lot bigger: Pentagon scientists are searching for a way to transcribe every real-world conversation that happens into computer-readable files.
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By Liz Farmer

Public pension managers are gearing up for another battle against what they say would be costly — and unnecessary — accounting disclosure requirements being floated on Capitol Hill ev…

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By R. U. Sirius

In 1989, when the internet was predominantly ASCII-based and HyperCard had yet to give birth (or at least act as a midwife) to the world wide web, R.U. Sirius launched Mondo 2000. �…

By Cecilia Jamasmie

The UK government decided Wednesday to get a foot on the door to Afghanistan’s $1 trillion of untapped mineral wealth, by providing a three-year, $15 million (£10m) plan to b…

By Edith M. Lederer and Hyung-Jin Kim

North Korea vowed on Thursday to launch a pre-emptive nuclear strike against the United States, amplifying its threatening rhetoric as U.N. diplomats voted on …

By Patti Domm

Despite objections, the U.S. is heading down the road to export natural gas, and that could ultimately help shake up world energy markets.

The boom in U.S. natural gas, thanks to new…

WHEN BENEDICT XVI became the first pope in almost 600 years to resign earlier this month, most of the initial speculation had to do with obscure succession rules, and whether the next pope would be …

Excellent short speech by a former secret service agent about the realities of gun control.

“We live in a society of wolves. You do not fight back by creating more sheep!”

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This link is a list of GeoEngineering Watch’s list of important GeoEngineering Patents to pay attention to.

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[Note from CAF: In all things there are lessons. I sat for many hours in Judge Oberdorfer’s court room as part of civil litigation of the lawless kind.

I have seen more than a few judges compromis…

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Jack is a fifteen year old freshman in high school. He developed a paper sensor that could detect pancreatic, ovarian and lung cancer in five minutes for as little as 3 cents. He conducted his resea…

By BBC News

China’s ruling Communist Party has unveiled the next generation of leaders who will take charge of the country.

The seven men will sit at the top of the Politburo Standing Committee, C…

By Gretchen Morgenson

Two weeks ago, I wrote a column about a secret agreement struck in July 2012 by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and Bank of America. The existence of the confidential deal …

By Renee Sharp and J. Paul Pestano

Water Treatment plants along the east coast are struggling to recover from superstorm Sandy, whose torrential rains washed tens of millions of gallons of raw or par…

By Raphael Minder

Swiss citizens voted Sunday to impose some of the world’s most severe restrictions on executive compensation, ignoring a warning from the business lobby that such curbs would un…

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By Catherine Austin Fitts

I love really fine coffee. I also love it hot. Keeping it hot is a challenge given all the long road trips I take. I have been known to spend way too …

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, commonly referred to as the ACA or Obamacare, will go into full effect in 2014. This decree mandates that all Americans must purchase and mainta…

By John Hathaway

The investment case for gold, in our opinion, rests squarely on the prospect for U.S. sovereign credit, and by extension, the value of the U.S. dollar. The prospect, in short, ap…

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By Witta Priester

What kind of clouds are these? Although their cause is presently unknown, such unusual atmospheric structures, as menacing as they might seem, do not appear to be harbingers of me…

By S. Derek Turner

AT&T has a sneaky plan.

It wants to exploit a loophole in the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)’s rules to kill what remains of the public telecommunications network —…

By Dan Cossins

Researchers have electronically linked the brains of pairs of rats, enabling the animals to communicate directly via implanted microelectrode arrays to solve simple behavioral proble…

By April Rabkin

Beijing’s Forbidden City was the Chinese empire’s seat of power for 500 years. It was built out of rammed earth and wood in the early 1400s, and its majesty has been largely preserv…

By Catherine Austin Fitts

A governance transition by the largest organization in the world is always important. In a world in which we are encouraged to forgo the sacred or to forget that our freedom…

[CAF Note: One must ponder whether the Justices were really free to decide or are subject to control file fears.]

By The New York Times

The Supreme Court severely damaged the rule of law in its deci…

Alaska House Passes 2nd Amendment Preservation Act, 31-5

Today, February 25th, Alaska’s Second Amendment Preservation Act, HB69, has passed the State House and will now move on to the Senate for co…

[CAF Note: Last week Jin Zengmin was the Solari Hero, for challenging a local politician to swim in the polluted rivers in China. This week another activist, Chen Yugian, spoke out online against t…

By Skylar Bergl

Venture capital was a who-you-know business, until AngelList made a mass introduction. Like online dating, its transparent network connects startups with accredited investors, and n…

By John Hooper

By any standards, and whatever happens, Beppe Grillo and the Five Star Movement (M5S) have emerged from Italy’s general election as big winners.

Because of the way the electoral sys…

By William Selway & Michael C. Bender

Federal budget cuts will probably push the U.S. back into recession by damaging states’ economies recovering from the worst fiscal crisis since the Great Dep…

[CAF Note: This article persuaded me to significantly increase my Vitamin D intake starting over the holidays. The results have been both positive and dramatic. Hmmm…..]

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After enduring last summer’s destructive drought, farmers, ranchers and officials across the parched Western states had hoped that plentiful winter snows would replenish the ground …

By Dave Smith

Mark Zuckerberg, Sergey Brin and Yuri Milner have teamed up to create the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences Foundation, which now offers the most lucrative annual prize in the history…

Incarceration in the United States is one of the main forms of punishment, rehabilitation, or both for the commission of felony and other offenses. The United States has the highest documented incar…

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Introduction from Catherine Austin Fitts:

I wanted our readers to have this case study that embodies a robust selection of the criminal and civil violations visited upon homebuyers and homeowners in…

By Cha Cha

As a high school or college graduate, you’re really excited to leave your parents behind and move out into your own place. You find a decent apartment at a reasonable price, and you prep…

By Catherine O’Driscoll

A team at Purdue University School of Veterinary Medicine conducted several studies 1,2 to determine if vaccines can cause changes in the immune system of dogs that might le…

By Age of Autism

Three controversial television films suppressed as part of the continued persecution of Andrew Wakefield are now available to watch on YouTube. The drama ‘Hear the Silence’ sta…

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This Solari Story, “The Fiscal Cliff and Gun Control”, is the first of many brief and insightful videos that Catherine will be releasing throughout the year. Che…

By Bernie Becker

The House Ways and Means Committee formally announced 11 separate working groups they hope will push the ball forward on tax reform.

The working groups will not be charged with craf…

By The Economist

WHEN THE ECONOMIST INTELLIGENCE UNIT, a sister organisation of this newspaper, published the first bound edition of “Tax Havens and Their Uses” in 1975, a queue several blocks …

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China will proactively introduce a set of new taxation policies designed to preserve the environment, including a tax on carbon dioxide emissions, according to a senior official wi…