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

by JLMC. Browse more data visualizations.

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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.

Video
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…

Source: Flixxy.com

What happens when you point the Hubble Space Telescope to a seemingly blank patch of sky? A view that takes you to the edge of the universe!  

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[CAF Note: I don’t love Obamacare!]

By Greg Stohr

The U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the core of President Barack Obama’s health-care overhaul in an opinion that held two surprises: Chief Justice J…

[CAF Note: I’m a skeptic. Get ready for this to be seriously misused]

A federal court decision on Tuesday upholding the Environmental Protection Agency’s landmark rulings to control greenhouse ga…

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By John Butler

In what might be the most underreported financial story of the year, US banking regulators recently circulated a memorandum for comment,…

[Note from CAF: Here it comes again. A new effort to push pandemics and vaccines. If ever there is a sign of real weakness in the global economy, medical terrorism is it. For more on swine flu, che…

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Source: TED

In pictures, quotes and more.

As the world becomes interconnected, the ways we relate and learn about one another (and the rules about what we share…

By Dave Gonigam

Hooray for Iceland. The nation has effectively purged an entire class of zombies.

Late on Friday, the Icelandic government repaid $483.7 million in loans to the International Moneta…

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By Steven Aftergood

The Department of Defense has identified 110 sites in the United States that could serve as bases for military unmanned aerial systems …

by Catherine Austin Fitts

In April, I dropped into the Verizon Store in Corte Madera, California. I was headed to Portugal. My iPhone did not work globally. On my last few trips to Europe, Verizon ha…

From Wikipedia

The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), also known as the Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership Agreement, is a multilateral free trade agreement that aims to further liberalize…

[CAF Note: Like Curtis Mayfield sang, “It’s like one way in and no way out.”]

By Spatial Information Design Labs

The United States currently has more than 2 million people locked up in jails and p…

By Adam Curtis

All Watched Over By Machines Of Loving Grace is a series about how humans have been colonised by the machines they have built — “Although we don’t realise it, the way we see ev…

By Jed Graham

Nearly four years after a borrowing binge gave way to financial crisis, have households slashed enough debt to take on new credit and start spending again?

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Genetically modified (GM) crops are promoted on the basis of a range of far-reaching claims from the GM crop industry and its supporters. They say that GM crops:

Are an extension of natural bree…

By Charles Riley

The average American family’s net worth dropped almost 40% between 2007 and 2010, according to a triennial study released Monday by the Federal Reserve.

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By David Jolly

Paris — Washington gained another victory on Thursday in its push to extend surveillance over Americans’ financial dealings when Switzerland joined the list of countries that hav…

By Charles Hugh Smith of two minds.com

The Master Narrative Nobody Dares Admit

All centralized systems, open and shadow alike, act as heavy taxes on the society and economy. This is why they canno…

By Dakin Campbell and Michael J. Moore

Moody’s Investors Service suffered a downgrade of its own as markets responded to the company’s rating cuts yesterday of 15 of the world’s largest bank…

Workshop- Saturday June 23 and Sunday, June 24, 2012
Hours: Each day-10:00-4:00
Place: Lesta’s Studio, 135 Evans Ave.,San Antonio., 78209
Fee: One day $50, both days $85 plus supply fee $10 a day
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