By Alison Smale and Michael D. Shear

The United States and its closest allies on Monday cast Russia out of the Group of 8 industrialized democracies, their most exclusive club, to punish President Vl…

By Catherine Austin Fitts

I first noticed Etsy when the Mayor of Rockville, Illinois invited the artisan commerce website to help rebuild their local economy.

After trolling around Etsy for a whi…

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Israeli diplomats launched an unprecedented strike on Sunday, forcing the complete closure of embassies around the world as they escalate…

By James Vincent

Night vision technology has been around for a while, but it’s only really used by professionals (or professional creeps) due to its prohibitive size.

But what if night vision was so…

By Catherine Austin Fitts

How many people have told me they would love to have a screening for a given documentary in their home town. Well now there is a website that would help you do that.

Welc…

By Tyler Durden

Earlier today we reported that according to weekly Fed data, a record amount – some $105 billion – in Treasurys had been sold or simply reallocated (which for political reasons is the…

By Andrea Wong

The dollar gained versus all its major counterparts after Federal Reserve policy makers indicated they’ll probably raise interest rates by the middle of next year with the U.S. eco…

By The Economist

As the regime of Viktor Yanukovych collapsed in Ukraine, protesters against it could be found outside One Hyde Park, a luxury development in west London. Their target was Rinat Akhme…

By Catherine Austin Fitts

The current proposal to phase out Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac has the potential for ever greater back door shenanigans. Lot’s of money that can go out through the back do…

By Sebastian Anthony

In a rather intriguing twist, it appears that NASA is now mandated by law to fly a robotic mission to Jupiter’s watery moon Europa. Europa is an incredibly exciting science t…

The U.S. Department of the Treasury released its General Explanations of the Administration’s FY2015 Revenue Proposals, known as the “Greenbook,” which explains the Administration’s revenue proposals …

By Kim Zetter

You already know that laptops, desktop computers, tablets and mobile phones are all at risk of being hacked. But did you know that intruders might use the built-in camera to take surrep…

**Note: We are republishing each of the 22 challenges from Catherine’s fiscal cliff article – one a week. Helps to digest them bit by bit!**

By Catherine Austin Fitts

Ultimately, we must each decide…

By BBC News

President Vladimir Putin and the leaders of Crimea have signed a bill to absorb the peninsula into Russia.

Mr Putin told parliament that Crimea, which was taken over by pro-Russian for…

**CAF Note: If the US and Russia target the finances and assets of individual officials, then the only people who will be able to hold government office are people with no laundered or illegal offshor…

By Alastair Thompson

Japanese peace builder and Buddhist philosopher Daisaku Ikeda has a unique perspective on the path humanity needs to follow to achieve Global Peace. Ikeda is President of Soka …

By Bloomberg

Markets are reacting in real time to Russia’s military incursion into the Crimea section of Ukraine.

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By Tyler Durden

We are sure it is just coincidence – and awkward combination of luck and suspicious timing – but Vedomosti reports that Viktor Zubkov, the Chairman of Russia’s massive energy monopo…

By Steven Perlberg

Global markets are still jumpy about the situation between Russia and Ukraine. But as one market analyst notes, there’s a reason Europe has more to fear than the U.S.

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By Matt Apuzzo

Four years after President Obama promised to crack down on mortgage fraud, his administration has quietly made the crime its lowest prior…

By John Glover

The amount of debt globally has soared more than 40 percent to $100 trillion since the first signs of the financial crisis as governments borrowed to pull their economies out of reces…

**CAF Note: the following article identifies the core problem involving transhumanism and trans-ecology – they have the potential to destroy the food supply.**

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By Catherine Austin Fitts

Last night I had a life changing moment.

Thanks to Michael Salla’s new book, Kennedy’s Last Stand, I learned two things that I did not know. First, that President Eisenho…

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**CAF Note: Edward Snowden is describing an economic warfare machinery. If the machine turned off, the slow burn would be difficult, if not impossible, to maintain, and we might have to return to a le…

By Jesse’s Café Américain

This is a story based on a report out of the Ukraine. Obviously I do not know yet if it is accurate. The information coming out of the Ukraine and Crimea should be sifted …

**Note: We are republishing each of the 22 challenges from Catherine’s fiscal cliff article – one a week. Helps to digest them bit by bit!**

By Catherine Austin Fitts

Financial systems operate on tr…

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By Catherine Austin Fitts

Money makes the world go round. For the trillions of annual dollars transacting through illegal activities, financial fraud or simply transferred illegally or engaged in t…

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By Interfax

The government of Ukraine has the idea of privatization of the energy sector in the country, Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk ha…

By Charles Hugh Smith

All those focusing on the West’s lack of leverage are forgetting that the Empire retains multiple way of striking back.

Many observers have focused on the relative paucity of t…

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By Anna Yukhananov and Lidia Kelly

Russian officials are pushing for the International Monetary Fund to move ahead with planned reforms without the United Sta…

By Pam Martens

Last evening, the U.S. Senate Banking Committee made the unexpected announcement that it was postponing the confirmation hearing of Stanley Fischer to serve as Vice Chairman of the F…

By Sustainable Pulse

The number of scientists and experts condemning a journal editor’s retraction of a study that found serious health effects in rats that ate a Monsanto genetically modified (GM)…

By David Sirota

The term “native advertising” may be new, but the principles of deception and camouflage that define it are not.

The Federal Trade Commission used to call this kind of thing “d…

Stakes rise for Coinbase as hackers attack bitcoin

By Philip Pearlman

Over the last week, thefts have been reported at three different bitcoin sites, one of which was the first exchange and at one…

**Note: We are republishing each of the 22 challenges from Catherine’s fiscal cliff article – one a week. Helps to digest them bit by bit!**

By Catherine Austin Fitts

The remarkable and miraculous s…

By Catherine Austin Fitts

A subscriber from “down under” sent a series of interesting links on blog posts published last year on Australia’s plans to be prepared for “bail-ins.” My thanks…

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By RT

Twenty-six of the most powerful American corporations – such as Boeing, General Electric, and Verizon – paid no federal income tax from 2008 to…

By David Barboza

Last June, an affiliate of the Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba made an offer to its hundreds of millions of users: Give us your cash, and we will pay more than Chinese banks will.

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By Kickstarter

On March 3, 2014, Kickstarter passed $1 BILLION in pledges.

That’s $1,000,000,000 pledged by 5.7 million people to creative projects.

More than half was pledged in the last 12 m…

By Nicolette Hahn Niman

LATE on Saturday, Feb. 8, news broke of the recall of 8.7 million pounds of beef that had come through a Northern California slaughterhouse. Social media buzzed with tweets …

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By Catherine Austin Fitts

On Sunday morning, March 1 at 6:05am, the temperature in Hickory Valley TN was 64F. By 9pm, it was 34F and is expected to drop to 15F. My e-mail subscribers are repor…

By Jon Rappoport

To learn why Richard Nixon was really blown out of the White House, you could begin with the infamous Nazi chemical/pharmaceutical cartel, IG Farben. The cartel that pushed Hitler ov…

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By Alan Cullison, Paul Sonne, and Gregory L. White

The American and Russian presidents spoke on the phone for 90 minutes on Saturday after Russia’s parliament voted unanimously t…

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