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Reuters 26 July 2012

By Barbara Lewis

Manipulating international commodity benchmarks such as Brent crude oil would be a criminal offence, punishable by jail, under a set of reforms the EU Commissi…

THE GREATER GOOD looks behind the fear, hype and politics that have polarized the vaccine debate in America today. The film re-frames the emotionally charged issue and offers, for the first time, …

Dear Catherine,

You have been very much in my thoughts and prayer as I anticipate writing to celebrate your birthday.

I am deeply aware that this is your first birthday since Georgie’s death. This…

“I beg young people to travel. If you don’t have a passport, get one. Take a summer, get a backpack and go to Delhi, go to Saigon, go to Bangkok, go to Kenya. Have your mind blown. Eat interesti…

[Note from Catherine Austin Fitts: I disagree with the conclusion of this new documentary. IMO, Bill Colby was most certainly assassinated. Whatever, the truth of his death, this new documentary …

       ~originally published in 2006~
By Catherine Austin Fitts
I resisted learning real history for many years. Instead I satisfied my curiosity about the past with the socially acceptable versio…

By Stephen Church

Stockton, one of a growing number of California cities in financial collapse, said it asked bondholders and other lenders owed more than $300 million to take less than full repaym…

Travelers Today 20 July 2012

By John Bolton, July 18th

Gun-control advocates and the Obama administration are rushing to complete negotiations in New York on a proposed international agreement call…

By a Reader

Even though he may not be a very good lawyer.  I assumed (incorrectly, it appears) from news accounts that Dann was corrupt and that the case against him had a modicum of legitimacy.  T…

By Tim O’Reilly

When we hear the term “cyberwarfare” we think of government-backed hackers stealing data, or releasing viruses or other software exploits to disrupt another country’s capabiliti…

Source: tax justice network

Revealed: global super-rich has at least $21 trillion hidden in secret tax havens.

At least $21 trillion of unreported private wealth was owned by wealthy individuals v…

Former U.S. President Bill Clinton is meeting with Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras to discuss foreign investment in Greece.

Clinton is in Greece to promote the “Hellenic Initiative,” an initia…

By Joseph P. Farrell

Both alchemy and transhumanism aim for the transformation of mankind. There, perhaps, all resemblance ends (though, as my co-author Scott D. de Hart and I point out in the fort…

[Note from Catherine Austin Fitts: Keep an eye out for fire sale leasing and transfer of valuable state assets to insiders at below market prices on the pretext of budget woes. Some smart folks in Cal…

Nazih is a 55-year-old married man and father of four children. He has more than 35 years of unique experience in agriculture with a deep knowledge in the growing of various products and plant root…

By Michael Hoven

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), an office of the US Department of Defense, will soon be producing jet fuel made from algae at a price comparable to that of p…

The Largest Stand Ever Against Chemtrails

August 17th – 19th , 2012Live Conference in LA & Global WebcastEbell Theatre743 S Lucerne BlvdLos Angeles, CA 90010323-931-1277

15 Experts in Chemt…

By Rob Kirby

GATA was born in the late 1990’s – primarily on the back of fundamental research by Frank Veneroso regarding Central Bank Gold Leasing. Veneroso’s intellectual curiosity was arouse…

The Seattle Times 17 July 2012

By Jim Suhr and Steve Karnowski
The Associated Press

The nation’s widest drought in decades is spreading, with more than half of the continental United States in some…

Our favorite substitute for the euro while we ride out the storm in the Eurozone is the Singapore dollar. While commodity currencies might be prime beneficiaries of the increased trigger friendline…

Ingo Swan

“It’s unkind to point out the Obvious
To those who don’t want to see it.
But it’s worse to point out the Invisible
To those convinced it doesn’t exist.”

“What, When, and Who are important…

Watch “A Day Made of Glass” and take a look at Corning’s vision for the future with specialty glass at the heart of it.

[ CAF Note: I have asked Fleurette to allow me to publish her letters to me for subscribers.Fleurette is a dear friend, subscribe and force of nature from Vancouver, British Columbia.]

Dear Catheri…

By Dr. Mercola

When I first read that genetically modified humans have already been born, I could hardly believe it. However, further research into this story featured in the UK’s Daily Mail1 prove…

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By Peter Morici

No issue is more misunderstood, or been more purposefully confused by the Romney and Obama campaigns, than outsourcing.
Outsourcing is merely the importing side of international tra…

By Staff Writers

The European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company (EADS) is considering launching its own bank to better manage its accounts, the new chief of subsidiary Airbus said in an intervie…

By John Melloy

A report from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York suggests that the bulk of equity returns for more than a decade are due to actions by the US central bank.

Theoretically, the S&P …

By Barry Ritholtz

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By Graham Ruddick

Speaking at the Farnborough Airshow, Sir Richard said Virgin Galactic wants to “revolutionise the way we get to space” and that he and his children will be the first passenger…

The story of seed has become one of loss, control, dependence and debt. It’s been written by those who want to make vast profit from our food system, no matter what the true cost.  It’s time to c…

Wal-Mart now sells to the citizens of the United States more than one-fifth of their food, which is more than the combined sales of its three largest competitors.

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(CAF Note: Is the LIBOR scandal sufficiently frustrating that the UK Defense establishment thought we needed some light reading for the weekend?)

By Ed Krayewski

The United Kingdom’s Ministry of…

Lloyds Banking Group could have to pay out more than £1bn over claims it was involved in the manipulation of Libor, according to City analysts.

By Harry Wilson, Banking Correspondent

Lloyds Bank…

“Catherine Austin Fitts has perspective on the housing and mortgage meltdown like no other. Under President George Herbert Walker Bush, she was Assistant Secretary of Housing and Federal Housing Com…

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By Conor Sen

Robots have come to destroy our way of life, just as we saw in Terminator 2: Judgment Day, though not as we expected. They’re taking our jobs,…

Published by Harvard University

Whatever the future, the analysis reported in this paper reveals some important points: 

• Oil is not in short supply. From a purely physical point of view, ther…

U.S. Federal Judge Stanley Sporkin talk about the JOBS Act

Judge Stanley Sporkin

Stanley Sporkin (born February 7, 1932) is a former judge of the United States District Court for the District of Col…

How do healthcare costs compare around the world? Photograph: Alamy

By Simon Rogers

The US spends more than any other country in the world on healthcare – but how does it really compare? Every count…

By Sarah Horowitz

For the First Time, USPTO Will Expand Operations Outside Washington, DC, to Dallas, Denver, and Silicon Valley, in Addition to Detroit, Which Opens July 13

“Intellectual proper…

Andy Griffith, who made homespun Southern wisdom his trademark as the wise sheriff in “The Andy Griffith Show” and the rumpled defense lawyer in “Matlock,” died Tuesday. He was 86.

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Source: The Economics

A scandal over key interest rates is about to go global.

THE most memorable incidents in earth-changing events are sometimes the mos…

[ CAF Note: We created a mortgage bubble by fraudulent means. When the bubble burst, we solved the banks problem with fraudulent means at taxpayers expense. Now the question is if and how will we …

Farmers from Miyagi prefecture raise their fists along with other farmers from across Japan during a rally against Japan participating in rule-making negotiations for the U.S.-led Trans-Pacific Partne…

By John Acher and Ole Mikkelsen

* Central bank cuts main policy rate by 25 bps to 0.20 pct
* Cuts CD rate by 25 bps to negative 0.20 pct
* Keeps current account rate unchanged at 0.0 pct
* Lifts cu…

By Soren Dreier

Scientists at Cern, the Geneva-based European laboratory for particle physics, are revealing their latest findings in their search for the Higgs boson.

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the guardian…

A social and economic system driven by network technologies that enable the sharing and exchange of all kinds of assets from spaces to skills to cars in ways and on a scale never possible before
Abou…

Stand Up For Your Right To Know

The California Right to Know Genetically Engineered Food Act of 2012

We All Have a Right to Know What’s in Our Food

Consumers have a right to know what’s …

The home of the Large Hadron Collider is hot with excitement about what two teams of physicists will report this week

By Ian Sample

The teams have been searching for the Higgs boson using the giant…

By Robert Lee Hotz

The biggest and best-equipped robotic rover ever launched to another planet is hurtling toward a rendezvous with Mars, in a $2.5 billion mission that tests the engineering limits…

Anyone notice a pattern?

By Ben Deighton

A Belgian court convicted a subsidiary of commodities trader Glencore (GLEN.L) and others on Wednesday of bribing a European Union official in retur…

By Peggy Noonan

It is a big victory for the White House.

ObamaCare, including the insurance mandate, was upheld. What would have been a political disaster for President Obama has been averted. He …

[CAF Note: When John Gotti, Jr. was asked by the press whether or not the Gotti crime family was trafficking in narcotics, he denied the allegation saying “who can compete with the government?” My r…