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…

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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
L…

By Horace Dediu

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Source: CNBC

The United States is still No. 1 when it comes to the number of millionaires in a single country, but global wealth is continuing its movement eastward.

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[CAF Note: Yikes! Has this happened to you? If you are a subscriber, post your story on the blog or, if not, let us know at communicate@wordpressdevurl.com. Let us know …

Source: BBC News

Japan has announced that it will restart two nuclear reactors – the first to go back online since all the country’s plants were closed following last year’s Fukushima crisis.

Rea…

Summer begins in the Northern Hemisphere on June 20, 2012, at 7:09 P.M. (EDT). Here’s more about the first day of summer—the summer solstice—plus, facts, folklore, and some sensational summer …

By George Washington

Democracy Now, Breaking the Pledge Video

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Back in 1992 the Pentagon’s Joint Chiefs of Staff held a “Strategy Essay Competition.”

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Wright – Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio — Two miles fro…

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TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s lower house is set to pass a bill on Friday to provide government guarantees on insurance for Iranian crude cargoes, making it the first of Iran’s…

By Chris Oliver

Hong Kong Exchanges & Clearing HK:388 -4.45% HKXCF +2.56% , operator of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, said Friday it has entered into a framework agreement to buy the London Metal …

By Ron Bennett

For all the small business owners out there struggling to make it, here is simple calculation of the hidden tax paid due to inflation:

How much is the tax due to 4% inflation on a $1 …

By Karen Weise

It’s been just two weeks since President Obama signed the JOBS Act into law, loosening requirements for companies looking to raise capital. The rules aren’t even written yet, an…

By Anais Starr

My great good friend and doctor healer, Dr. Jim MacKimmie passed away on Monday evening, June 11. After the initial stab of a shock, jangling of heart strings, sleeping on it overnight…

Could this be the golden age of estate planning? Some financial advisers believe it is — at least until the end of the year. That’s when key income tax breaks for transferring wealth are scheduled…

BISMARCK, N.D. — Since Californians shrank their property taxes more than three decades ago by passing Proposition 13, people around the nation have echoed their dismay over such levies, putting f…

Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing, which counts the Chinese government among it shareholders, is understood to have tabled a £1.3bn offer for the City’s last “open cry” market, and a d…

The first privately funded mission to the Moon will launch in 2015, pioneered by a legendary roboticist and his team of students. Pittsburgh’s Astrobotic Technology, a company founded by David Gump …