“Our human compassion binds us the one to the other – not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.” ~ Nelson Mandela

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Entrepreneur Adam Lee and his brother couldn’t get a bank loan. Then they learned that Georgia state officials had taken steps that might make it easier for their star…

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It’s a leak Barbara Walters doesn’t want you to know about.

The ABC News doyenne pushed hard to have NSA leaker Edward Snowden at the …

“One’s own employees ought to be one’s own best customers. Paying high wages is behind the prosperity of this country.”
~ Henry Ford

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The debate continues regardin…

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The public images of low-paying employers such as Wal-Mart and McDonald’s take a hit during the holidays, when Americans are seized by a spirit of charity. Stephen…

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November was not a strong month for precious metals. The current trends in the market have me concerned.

In last month’s Precious Metals Market Report, Franklin and I dis…

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There is no doubt about it. The stocks of pro-centralization team leaders were high flyers this year. Here is a chart of Lockheed Martin, Google and Facebook compared to th…

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Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos revealed an experimental drone-based delivery service on Sunday, in an ambitious move by the online retailer to capitalize on a te…

By Simon Kennedy

Not long ago, before the financial crisis and the global recession it triggered, economists referred to Americans as the consumers of last resort. When the U.S. grew at a healthy pac…

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China’s move to end a 14-month ban on initial public offerings and allow the sale of preferred shares led to a rally in financial stocks as investors bet the measures will boost f…

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Federal laws and regulations en…

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A simple idea underpins science: “trust, but verify”. Results should always be subject to challenge from experiment. That simple but powerful idea has generated a vast body of …

By Charles Seife

SA Forum is an invited essay from experts on topical issues in science and technology.

If there’s a gene for hubris, the 23andMe crew has certainly got it. Last Friday the U.S. …

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The announcement by a Chinese military spokesman on November 23rd sounded bureaucratic: any aircraft flying through the newly designated Air Defence Identification Zone (ADIZ) in t…

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“I have three treasures which I hold and keep. The first is mercy, for from mercy comes courage. The second is frugality, from which comes generosity …

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“One s****y deal.” “S****y deal.” “S****y.” The date was April 27, 2010, and Senator Carl Levin (D-Mich.) was pissed as h…

By Catherine Austin Fitts

With the North American markets moving even higher, I was reminded by a colleague of the expression TINA, as in “There Are No Alternatives” to equity.

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The Institute for Responsible Technology (IRT) released a report today proposing a link between genetically modified (GM) foods and gluten-related disorders. In today’s report, a team o…

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By Catherine Austin Fitts

The budget and the federal regu…

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Time to push back Buddha’s birth date a century or so? Archaeologists may have uncovered evidence of the oldest Buddhist shrine yet disco…

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China is all but ready to launch its own moon mission, but will not do so without hearing from the agency that is currently conducting its own lunar labor.

According to Space…

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A while back Greece had a problem. The problem was that it wanted to borrow more money, but didn’t want to increase its debt. (Because the European Union would frown on it having more …

By James Huang

You will be riveted by this video, not even three minutes long, showing JFK’s Secret Service protection being waved away from his car, and the perplexed reaction of at least one Sp…

By Art Swift

As the 50th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination approaches, a clear majority of Americans (61%) still believe others besides Lee Harvey Oswald were involved. But t…

“I found out something I never knew. I found out that my world was not the real world.”

~ Robert Kennedy , speaking about the assassination of his brother, John F. Kennedy

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A rain garden is a planted depression or a hole that allows rainwater runoff from impervious urban areas, like roofs, driveways, walkways, parking lots, and compacted lawn areas, the o…

“This country was built by giants. They died, and midgets moved in. Tiny people were walking around inside this republic like a nine-year-old boy wearing his father’s suit. When the tiny people got …

“Without debate without criticism, no administration and no country can succeed. And no republic can survive.” ~ John F. Kennedy

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The complete failure of the military-…

By Catherine Austin Fitts

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has just released their study on options to reduce the federal budget deficit. They have presented 103 options that would increase re…

By Scott Moritz & Freeman Klopott

New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli and Trillium Asset Management LLC filed shareholder proposals asking AT&T Inc. (T) to report government requests for custo…

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Security guards (at least the good ones) are paid to be paranoid. Computer-security researchers are the same. Many had long suspected that governments us…

**CAF Note: Hey, if Mr. Global announced he wanted to get people into a fiat currency without deposit insurance because he wanted to shift to a digital global currency, everyone would be outraged, n…

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What is the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP)?

The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is a secretive, multi-national trade agreement that threatens to extend restrictive intellectual p…

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By Catherine Austin Fitts

There are trillions of dollars …

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“We fumbled the rollout on this health-care law,” could be President Obama’s understatement of the century. In the month-or-so since Obamacare was unleashed 106,185 people enrolled …

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Work is to begin on the largest tidal turbine energy project in Europe after the Scottish government approved it.

MeyGen is to install the tidal array in stages in the Pentland Firth, …

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JP Morgan Chase’s social media team offered folks a chance to tweet in questions to #AskJPM. The results were not what they expected. In fact, the response was so sincere, t…

**CAF Note: These changes could have a dramatic impact on the market for crowd funding and micro cap equities. If the IPO market continues to be strong, watch for significant growth in start ups and…

By Alex Dunham

As if Spaniards had not already been dissuaded by the potential €60 million fines they face for illegally generating their own solar power, they now have to look forward to a knock…

By Wikileaks

Today, 13 November 2013, WikiLeaks released the secret negotiated draft text for the entire TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership) Intellectual Property Rights Chapter. The TPP is the largest…

By Tyler Durden

It would appear that the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) website – required when purchasing a gun or explosive – is capable of handling large volumes of use…

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The Libor scandal was a series of fraudulent actions connected to the Libor (London Interbank Offered Rate) and also the resulting investigation and reaction. The Libor is an average i…

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Canada’s British Columbia province has completed its sale of yuan-denominated bonds in Hong Kong, the provincial government said on Tuesday.

The deal is the first issue by a foreign g…

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Challenge #4 On and Off Budget

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Much of the talk in recent years about how the U.S. Postal Service could stem has been about the things it might stop doing — most notably, delivering…

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What is a central banker’s main job? Ask the man on the street and the chances are he will say something like “keeping a lid on inflation”. In pop…

From Brothers: The Hidden History of The Kennedy Years

Brothers is an epic story told from a uniquely personal perspective. Based on David Talbot’s best-selling book about Jack and Bobby Kennedy,…

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