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

When: Saturday, August 11 , 10:00- 4:00 and Sunday, August 13, 11:00-5:00
Sign up for one or both days.
Where: Lesta’s studio, 135 Evans Ave, San Antonio, TX

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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…

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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From Wikip…

(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…