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By Hiroko Tabuchi

TOKYO — The damage to one of three stricken reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi plant could be worse than previously thought, a recent internal investigation has shown, raising ne…

The collapse of Enron occurred in October 2001, one month after the towers fell on 9/11. It’s been more than ten years now, and we still don’t know where the Enron money went. But all those years ag…

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By Michael P. Farris, Esq.

I am not content to sit on the sidelines while the government gradually usurps the very essence of parental rights. I hope you share my determination. We need to stand with…

By Attorney Michael T. Dunn

On March 27, 2012, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to approve the version of the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act (the “JOBS Act”) that was passed by the Se…

By Philip Klein

Justices on the U.S. Supreme Court this morning considered what to do with the rest of President Obama’s national health care law if its individual health insurance mandate is struc…

By Walking Times

As incomes fall and retail prices rise, Greeks have found an ingenious way to pay three times less than they usually would for potatoes.

Since the farmers sell the potatoes for a …

By Phil Mattingly and Silla Brush

Jon S. Corzine, MF Global Holding Ltd. (MFGLQ)’s chief executive officer, gave “direct instructions” to transfer $200 million from a customer fund account t…

By Sami K. Martin , Christian Post Contributor

Scientists and Harry Potter fans are one step closer to having an invisibility cloak. For those not familiar with Harry Potter, an invisibility cloak …

By RT.com

Madrid’s high-class escorts have found a way to regulate the Spanish banking sector. The ladies want to have their say in the economy by withholding sexual pleasures from bank employees…

By Joe Pompeo

Herbert “Pug” Winokur, the former Enron board member and finance committee chairman when the company was destroyed by an accounting-fraud scandal in 2001, has stepped down from the b…

By Jesse j. Holland

Sharp questioning by the Supreme Court’s conservative justices has cast serious doubt on the survival of the individual insurance requirement at the heart of President Barack Ob…

By Bob Ivry

The White House submitted a budget plan to Congress this year that would have provided the FHA as much as $688 million from the U.S. Treasury , the first bailout in the agency’s 78- y…

By Ed Keller

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By C. Powell

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

In an essay headlined “Fake Bars — The Facts,” Bron Suchecki of the Perth Mint today explains why tungsten-filled and other counterfeit gold bars like t…

By Gary Victor Dubin

Gary Victor Dubin is a dynamite Honolulu foreclosure defense attorney with over 40 wins by the DUBIN LAW FIRM in Hawaii foreclosure courts for his clients just in the last year…

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By Richard Wolf

Health coverage for more than 30 million people. The power of Congress to regulate interstate commerce. President Obama’s re-election. The reputati…

By Ruby Lian and Fayen Wong – Reuters

The Hong Kong Mercantile Exchange plans to launch yuan-settled gold and copper futures by July, its president said on Friday, as it looks to tap growing intere…

Guatemalan President Otto Perez Molina

By Catherine E. Shoichet

On the campaign trail, Otto Perez Molina vowed to rule his country with an iron fist.

The retired general said he would send troops …

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The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (“SWIFT”) operates a worldwide financial messaging network which exchanges messages between banks and other financia…

By Janet Lorin

U.S. student-loan debt reached the $1 trillion mark, as young borrowers struggle to keep up with soaring tuition costs, according to the initial findings of a government study.

The …

By Joseph T. Salerno

Under cover of its multiplicity of fabricated wars on drugs, terror, tax evasion, and organized crime, the US government has long been waging a hidden war on cash. One symptom …

By Arshad Mohammed and Andrew Quinn

The United States exempted Japan and 10 EU nations from financial sanctions because they have significantly cut purchases of Iranian oil, but left Iran’s top cus…

By James Bamford

The spring air in the small, sand-dusted town has a soft haze to it, and clumps of green-gray sagebrush rustle in the breeze. Bluffdale sits in a bowl-shaped valley in the shadow o…

Dennett’s IGA supermarket in Mullumbimby is FOR SALE

Could the people of Mullumbimby own their own supermarket…?

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< By John Callaham The massive fund raising journey that is the Double Fine "point-and-click" adventure game project on the Kickstarter web site has come to an end. As of the project's deadline...

By Kaveh L Afrasiabi

Tehran’s threats to block the Strait of Hormuz in response to sanctions are not mere words, warned Iran’s senior spokesman on sanctions. As long as the West ignores interna…

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Executive order issued Friday entitled “National Defense Resources Preparedness”

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[Note from CAF: Yes, it is simply an update of existing Executive Orders. However, why now? La…

By Pete Kennedy, Esq.

In a brazen power grab threatening the livelihood of hundreds of small farmers, the Michigan Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is using the state Invasive Species Act to e…

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Secret Deals, Foreclosure Settlements,Stress Tests, and Vampire Squid Whistle-Blowers

By L. Randall Wray

No Hollywood scriptwriter could plot a more implausible story. Here is the plotline sequenc…

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National Foreclosure Settlement Complaint (PDF)
 
 
Individual Bank Agreements:
 
 
Ally/GMAC Settlement (PDF)

Bank of America Settlement (PDF)

Citi Sett…

[CAF Note: Goldman’s head of derivatives for Europe just happens to resign in the middle of the Greek CDS debacle and writes a big NY Times piece attacking Goldman on culture? What a coincidence! A …

By Joe Weisenthal

Sectoral Excess returns

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By Jeff Horwitz

JPMorgan Chase & Co. took procedural shortcuts and used faulty account records in suing tens of thousands of delinquent credit card borrowers for at least two years, current and for…

Lesley Stahl profiles British musical savant Derek Paravicini, whose computer-like memory for music is matched by his creative abilities to play it in any style.

By Nina Mehta

New York — Robert Rubin, who as U.S. Treasury secretary in the 1990s promoted a stronger dollar, said he has too much of his personal investments in the currency.

A “disproportionat…

Apple Inc. (AAPL) stock for last 5 years

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[CAF Note: Beware a digital currency in a closed system like Apple. Trojan horse possibilities here.  Time to head…

Quantico Us Marine Corps Base, Virginia

By Staff Writers

A sensation of unbearable, sudden heat seems to come out of nowhere — this wave, a strong electromagnetic beam, is the latest non-lethal we…

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Jeff Clark, Casey Research writes: On February 29, gold dropped 4.8% and silver 6.2% (based on London fix prices). That’s quite the fall for one day. We’ve seen prices that have ris…

JULIAN ASSANGE RT EXCLUSIVE – FULL INTERVIEW (PART 1 of 2)

He famously warns that social media and in particularly Facebook, Google, Yahoo are among the greatest spy machines ever invented. Once ag…

By Kim Hart

In the wake of the Internet blackout that led to the dramatic death of two controversial online piracy bills, a new warning has entered the Hill vernacular: “Don’t get SOPA’d.”
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By Katey Culver

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As many of you know I have been involved in 2 lawsuits against the State of TN with the Green Party of TN.  Our first lawsuit took 3 years and ended in a W…

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By Jenna Blumenfeld

Lately it seems like non-GMO supporters simply can’t catch a break.

In the wake of an unsuccessful lawsuit between the Organic Seed Growers and Monsanto Co., and news that B…

By Heidi Przybyla

Representative Dennis Kucinich’s exit from Congress is among many setbacks defining his 42-year political career, dating to the 1978 attempt to recall him as the “boy mayor”…

By Steven Aftergood

U.S. special operations forces are engaged in “more than 100 countries worldwide,” said Adm. William H. McRaven, commander of U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM), in tes…

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By Daniel Politi and Abby Ohlheiser

Angel Babcock, the 15-month-old found alive in an Indiana field, died on Sunday, bringing t…