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By Catherine Austin Fitts

I sometimes get requests for advice on how to approach medical problems. I am not the person to ask. Each person is unique and effective diagnosis and treatment can be highl…

By Catherine Austin Fitts

My use of the word turtle as a verb began in 1998 during a period of extraordinary stress.

Almost all of my 1,001 best friends and colleagues decided to go with the flow …

***CAF Note: Hagel is competent. This is not good news.***

By Roger Runningen and Phil Mattingly

U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel is stepping down from his post after 21 months in office amid te…

[CAF Note: I suspect the recent meltdown by Bill Gross related more to his fears of managing the world’s largest bond fund in a world of diminishing dealer and institutional liquidity than personnel i…

[CAF Note: the integration of software and digital technology into hardware and infrastructure is upon us. This is an important development.]

By Wikipedia

Mechatronics is a design process that inclu…

By Max Ehrenfreund

President Obama unveiled Thursday a major executive action on immigration policy, offering temporary legal status to millions of illegal immigrants, along with an indefinite reprie…

“Now all of political economy from prehistory on to 1932 has been intent upon one thing only—how to take the wealth from the producer, how to take the food from the person who cultivated it and ha…

By Catherine Austin Fitts

The S&P is up 11% year to date. Alibaba is up 18% from it’s IPO in September. Lockheed Martin, the prime contractor for the national security state, is up 25% year to da…

“We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed… A few people cried… Most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture the Bhagavad Gita; Vishnu is trying t…

by Sarah TheHealthyHomeEconomist

The stories became far too frequent to ignore. Emails from folks with allergic or digestive issues to wheat in the United States experienced no symptoms whatsoever wh…

“The tallest building in the world is now in Dubai, the biggest factory in the world is in China, the largest oil refinery is in India, the largest investment fund in the world is in Abu Dhabi, the …

“As much as these currency moves may contribute to global rebalancing on paper, I would just caution from a market perspective not to underestimate … the speed and size of currency moves,” ~ Moh…

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By Ralph Ellis

Imagination became reality Wednesday when a mechanical space traveler called the Philae probe plunked down on its target, a comet with a much less romantic name — 67P — some 310 mill…

By Don Reisinger and Roger Cheng

President Obama urged the US government to adopt tighter regulations on broadband service in an effort to preserve “a free and open Internet.”

In a statement relea…

By Morningstar

One of the world’s biggest stock markets, Shanghai, will open up to foreign investors next week with the start of a highly anticipated trading link with Hong Kong that gives global mon…

[CAF Notes: I am working on a presentation on how to achieve a college education on the most economic basis and without student loans. Send and post best articles and ideas! Thanks]

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By Ken Auletta

In the spring of 2000, Reed Hastings, the C.E.O. of Netflix, hired a private plane and flew from San Jose to Dallas for a summit meeting with Blockbuster, the video-rental giant that…

“In vast laboratories in the Ministry of Peace, and in experimental stations, teams of experts are indefatigably at work searching for new and deadlier gases; or for soluble poisons capable of being…

“Simpler Products for a Simpler Life.” ~Lehman’s Motto

By Catherine Austin Fitts

The holidays are approaching so it is not surprising that this morning’s mail is spilling over with catal…

By RT

A town in northern Portugal has made Chinese obligatory for 8- and 9-year old school children, in order to boost the kids’ abilities for future competition in the thriving Chinese market.

Sa…

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