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Loren Williams: “The Original RNA World Model is Dead”

By Suzan Mazur

“We know the abiotic world is very good at making amino acids. Abiotically produced amino acids are literally raining down on our heads, in meteors. It is difficult to imagine a pr…

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Moscow Bourse IPOs at $500MM

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By Halia Pavliva

The Moscow Exchange’s $498 million debut on Russian markets will probably fail in enticing companies to list exclusively on the bourse, …

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The Inventioneers & SMARTwheel

The Inventioneers are a group of young entrepreneurs inventing tomorrow’s solutions today! Their “why not’ philosophy has led to four provisional patents and one utility patent (pending). Thei…

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Chinese Environmental Official Offered Reward To Swim In Polluted Ruian River

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By By Sara Gates

While China’s air pollution has reached hazardous levels in some major cities, chemical pollutants in the air are hardly the only proble…

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Don’t Blink, or You’ll Miss Another Bailout

By Gretchen Morgenson

MANY people became rightfully upset about bailouts given to big banks during the mortgage crisis. But it turns out that they are still going on, if more quietly, through the bac…

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Dr. Benjamin Carson’s Amazing Speech at the National Prayer Breakfast with Obama Present

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Pope Will Have Security, Immunity by Remaining in the Vatican

By Philip Pullella

Pope Benedict’s decision to live in the Vatican after he resigns will provide him with security and privacy. It will also offer legal protection from any attempt to prosecute him…

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Quote du Jour – Shakespeare

“A speaker is but a prater; a rhyme is but a ballad. A
good leg will fall; a straight back will stoop; a
black beard will turn white; a curled pate will grow
bald; a fair face will wither;…

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Quote du Jour

“A speaker is but a prater; a rhyme is but a ballad. A
good leg will fall; a straight back will stoop; a
black beard will turn white; a curled pate will grow
bald; a fair face will wither;…

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Money & Markets – Week of 02.17.2013

Cost of Dropping Citizenship Keeps U.S. Earners From Exit
Bloomberg l 22 February 2013
Tax attorney Seth Entin has fielded about a dozen calls since…

Bank of England Closes in on China Currency Dea…

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Precious Metals – Week of 02.17.2013

Intermediate Gold Chart Revisited – Range Trade in the Currency War
Jesse’s Cafe American | 20 February 2013
I think that gold is caught in a range trade since its big run…

“Gold Gives You Extr…

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Housing & Mortgage Markets – Week of 02.17.2013

E-Mails Imply JPMorgan Knew Some Mortgage Deals Were Bad
Deal Book l 6 February 2013
When an outside analysis uncovered serious flaws with…

Critics of $8.5 Billion Pact Challenge BofA Mortgage Modi…

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Geopolitical – Week of 02.17.2013

Papal Resignation Linked to Inquiry Into ‘Vatican Gay Officials’, Says Paper
The Guardian | 21 February 2013
A potentially explosive report has linked the resignation of Pope…

Supreme Court Appears…

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Science & Technology – Week of 02.17.2013

The Most Mind-Blowing 3-D Printed Objects Of 2012
Pop Sci l 31 December 2012

Fusion Power Could Happen Sooner Than You Think
Pop Sci l 18 February 2013
n a presentation that seems ripped from the A…

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Food & Health – Week of 02.17.2013

Iodine for Health
Lew Rockwell
There is growing evidence that Americans would have better health…

iDoctor: Could A Smartphone Be the Future of Medicine?
NBC News

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Life – Week of 02.17.2013

Snow, Hail and Rain Falls in Phoenix Area; Snow Falls Around Arizona
AZ Central | 20 February 2013
The Arizona Department of Public Safety said evening traffic was…

SEE IT: Columbia Professor Str…

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Wildcards – Week of 02.17.2013

Yes, The Khan Academy is the Future of Education (video)
Singularity Hub | 13 February 2013
I’m just going to come out and say it: the Khan Academy is…

Crowdfunding Star Wars – Kickstart Campai…

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Jimmy Cliff – “I Can See Clearly Now”

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The Perfect Pope

By Catherine Austin Fitts

The other day, I imagined members of the Knights of Malta and Opus Dei (the money guys) gathering in a quiet sanctuary to discuss the current financial meltdown in the Cat…

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Precious Metals Market Report with Franklin Sanders – February 14

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G20 Set to Dilute Big Powers’ Demands on Currencies

By Jan Strupczewski and Lesley Wroughton

G20 officials will disregard key parts of a currency statement issued this week by the Group of Seven powers, according to a communiqué drafted for financ…

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Feliz Día del Amor y la Amistad

“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.” ~ C.S. Lewis

By Kristen Linton

Valentin…

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Widely Used Nanoparticles Enter Soybean Plants From Farm Soil

By Seed Daily

Two of the most widely used nanoparticles (NPs) accumulate in soybeans – second only to corn as a key food crop in the United States – in ways previously shown to have the potential t…

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Quote Du Jour – Schumpeter

“If leadership has a secret sauce, it may well be humility. A humble boss understands that there are things he doesn’t know. He listens: not only to the other bigwigs in Davos, but also to the kind of…

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Quote Du Jour

“If leadership has a secret sauce, it may well be humility. A humble boss understands that there are things he doesn’t know. He listens: not only to the other bigwigs in Davos, but also to the kind of…

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The Richest 1 Percent Have Captured 121 Percent Of Income Gains During The Recovery

By Pat Garofalo

Last year, economist Emmanuel Saez estimated that the richest 1 percent of the U.S. captured a whopping 93 percent of the income gains in 2010, as the U.S. was emerging from the Gre…

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EU and US Free-Trade Talks Launched

By BBC News

European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso made the announcement following President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address.

A deal would bring down trading barriers between …

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Happy Chinese New Year!

We would like to wish everyone a happy Chinese New Year, as we welcome in the Year of the Snake!

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The State of the Union 2013

President Obama delivers his State of the Union address to the nation tonight. What’s he going to say? You’ll have to tune in to WhiteHouse.gov to watch the enhanced livestream at 9 p.m. EST and find …

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Bloomberg New Energy Finance

Check out Bloomberg’s finance website dedicated to new energy sources and sustainable solutions!

Bloomberg New Energy Finance

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Economist Debates: Fracking

The debate, between both the main participants and many of those who have left comments, is running on two tracks. One argument has developed about the nitty-gritty of shale-gas extraction. What the i…

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The Nordic Countries: The Next Supermodel

By The Economist

SMALLISH countries are often in the vanguard when it comes to reforming government. In the 1980s Britain was out in the lead, thanks to Thatcherism and privatisation. Tiny Singapor…

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China Joins U.S., Japan in Condemning North Korea Nuclear Test

By David Chance and Jack Kim

The reclusive North said the test was an act of self-defense against “U.S. hostility” and threatened further, stronger steps if necessary.

It said the test had “greate…

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Links for Money, Magic, & Conciousness

We had a great discussion this am at the Money, Magic & Consciousness panel moderated by Kimberly Carter Gamble at the Consciousness Life Expo this morning in Los Angeles.

There were many partici…

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Pope Benedict XVI to Resign for Health Reasons on Feb. 28

By Chiara Vasarri & Flavia Krause-Jackson

Pope Benedict XVI, saying he no longer has the strength to lead the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics, will resign from the papacy at the end of the month, t…

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Scrap-Metal Plan Proves Radioactive

By John R. Emshwiller

The Department of Energy is proposing to allow the sale of tons of scrap metal from government nuclear sites—an attempt to reduce waste that critics say could lead to radiatio…

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FDA Approves First GMO Flu Vaccine Containing Reprogrammed Insect Virus

By Jonathan Benson

A new vaccine for influenza has hit the market, and it is the first ever to contain genetically-modified (GM) proteins derived from insect cells. According to reports, the U.S. F…

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Money & Markets – 02.10.2013

Activism Shows Rise of Whatever-It-Takes Central Bankers
Bloomberg | 14 February 2013
As the world’s advanced economies grow at half the speed of the pre-crisis years amid persistently high unemplo…

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Precious Metals – 02.10.2013

Big Powers to Offer Easing Gold Sanctions at Iran Nuclear Talks
Reuters | 15 February 2013
Major powers plan to offer to ease sanctions barring trade in gold…

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Housing & Mortgage Markets – Week of 02.10.2012

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Geopolitical – Week of 02.10.2012

Two Naperville, Illinois Women Arrested Defending Homes From Smart Meter Installation

Youtube | 25 January 2013

China Bans Television Ads for Bling
CNN | 08 February 2013
China has banned adverti…

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Science & Technology – Week of 02.10.2012

Asteroid 2012 DA14: 5 Surprising Facts About Friday’s Earth Flyby
Fox News | 14 February 2013
While there is no chance that asteroid 2012 DA14 will hit Earth this Friday, the asteroid’s flyby is hist…

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Food & Health – Week of 02.10.2012

Study the use of nanoparticles in food
CNN | 14 February 2013
Some foods sold in supermarkets across America contain tiny, engineered particles called nanomaterials…

GMO Labeling Signed Into Law …

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Life – Week of 02.10.2012

Wyman Meinzer’s West Texas
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Top Cellist Has His Bow Snapped by US Airport Security
Slipped Disk | 11 February 2013
Alban Gerhardt was having his instrument exa…

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Wildcards – Week of 02.10.2012

Lord James of Blackheath – 15 Trillion dollars and 750 thousand metric tonnes of gold 16th Feb 2012

billyboy212012 | 19 February 2012

David James, Baron James of Blackheath
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Suejin Jo

By Catherine Austin Fitts

In 1987, I rented a magical apartment in a brownstone on Manhattan’s West Side next to Central Park. Full of fireplaces, wood paneling and tall ceilings, my picture window…

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Gorillaz ft Little Dragon – “Empire Ants” (live on Letterman)

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Details Announced for Navy SEAL’s Memorial Service at Cowboys Stadium

By Sarah Mervosh

Thousands are expected to attend next week’s memorial service for Navy SEAL sniper Chris Kyle, who died Saturday when a veteran he was trying to help allegedly turned a gun on hi…

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Coming Clean: Detox Power with Dr. Laura Thompson

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1. Interview Catherine and nutritionist Dr. Laura Thompson, founder of the Southern California Institute of Nutrition, discuss how to detoxify in this …

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Entrepreneurship in the Land of Opportunity

By Barbara Pruitt

The newest installment of the Kauffman Sketchbook video series tells the great American success story of an immigrant entrepreneur who starts with very little yet achieves great t…

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Buying U.S. Green Card More Popular Than Ever: Chart of the Day

By Max Raskin & Jasmine Zhao

The number of foreigners who have purchased green cards by investing in the U.S. has exploded in the last decade.

The CHART OF THE DAY shows approved applications for …

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McGraw-Hill’s S&P Imperils $4.6 Billion Gain: Corporate Finance

By Charles Mead and Matt Robinson

Fifteen months after Harold “Terry” McGraw III sparked a $4.6 billion stock gain at McGraw-Hill Cos. (MHP) with a plan to focus the business on its Standard & …

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Oliver Stone’s Untold History of the United States: Season Premiere

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Can Mature Firms Benefit from Crowdfunding?

By Vincent Ryan

Like the entrepreneurs on Kickstarter trying to raise money to sell hot-chocolate cubes, cut an album, or manufacture a wireless dive-log device for scuba divers, later-stage private …

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UK Government Plans to Track ALL Web Use: MI5 to Install ‘Black Box’ Spy Devices to Monitor British Internet Traffic

By Damien Gayle

UK spy agencies want to install ‘black box’ surveillance devices across the country’s communications networks to monitor internet use, it emerged today.

A report by an influential …

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Internet Under Assault by Censoring UN, Regulator Says

By Eric Engleman

International proposals to control the Internet will continue after a United Nations conference in Dubai and the U.S. should be ready to fight such efforts, lawmakers and a regulator…

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Young, Charismatic, Supports Gun Ownership…

[CAF Note: Bill Cosby used to have a comedy routine about medics. Referring to a military landing, he quipped that their life expectancy from the time they hit the water to the time they almost got t…

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JPMorgan Joins Rental Rush For Wealthy Clients: Mortgages

By Margaret Collins

JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) is giving its wealthiest clients the chance to invest in the single-family rental market after other investments linked to the U.S. housing recovery j…

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Broad Powers Seen for Obama in Cyberstrikes

By David E Sanger

A secret legal review on the use of America’s growing arsenal of cyberweapons has concluded that President Obama has the broad power to order a pre-emptive strike if the United …

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Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act

On Wikipedia

The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) is a proposed law in the United States which would allow for the sharing of Internet traffic information between the U.S. govern…

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Harbin’s Robot Restaurant

By Jeff Eisenhauer

Harbin is one of the most genuinely unique places in China. Though it’s known for its annual ice festival, the city has many other marvels like a huge tiger park and a train that…

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Prince George’s Considers Copyright Policy That Takes Ownership of Students’ Work

By Ovetta Wiggins

A proposal by the Prince George’s County Board of Education to copyright work created by staff and students for school could mean that a picture drawn by a first-grader, a lesso…

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Standard & Poor’s Decries Government Suit

By CBS News

The U.S. government is expected to file civil charges against Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services, alleging that it fraudulently gave high ratings to mortgage debt that later plunged in va…

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The Club of Liberals, Transhumanism, Depopulation

by Jon Rappoport

By liberals, I simply mean those people who accept big government as a given, regardless of their political affiliation.

And yes, at certain key levels, they are a club. They come f…

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Financial Perspectives for Feb 4, 2013

By Melanie Pelayo

On Jan. 1, 2013, Congress averted the so-called fiscal cliff by approving new legislation titled the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 (ATRA-2012). President Obama signed the bi…

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Money & Markets – Week of 02.03.2013

Yale Suing Former Students Shows Crisis in Loans to Poor
Bloomberg | 05 February 2013
Needy U.S. borrowers are defaulting on almost $1 billion in federal student loans…

Royal Bank of Scotland to …

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Precious Metals – Week of 02.03.2013

Will Deep-sea Mining Yield an Underwater Gold Rush?
National Geographic | 01 February 2013
Some environmentalists say the lure of precious minerals threatens ocean life and local cultures.

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Housing & Mortgage Markets – Week of 02.03.2013

Housing Segregation: The Great Migration and Beyond
Pro Publica | 20 December 2012
Between 1910 and 1960, the Great Migration saw 6 million African Americans move from…

Assistant Attorney General…

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Geopolitical – Week of 02.03.2013

New Scandalous Emails Put JP Morgan In Hot Water
Yahoo! Finance | 07 February 2013
No matter how many times corporate apparatchiks tell employees not to say…

City in Virginia Becomes First to Pas…

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Science & Technology – Week of 02.03.2013

You’ll Soon Be Able To Roll Up Your Home Stereo Like a Newspaper

Gizmodo | 06 February 2013
Looking to expand its expertise outside imaging products, Fujifilm researchers…

FCC Proposes Land of…

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Food & Health – Week of 02.03.2013

JAMA Study: Kids With Fewer Vaccines Have Fewer Doctor and Emergency Room Visits
Health & Impact News Daily | 21 January 2013
JAMA Pediatrics published a new study today looking at vaccination rates….

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Life – Week of 02.03.2013

The Squaddie and the Squirrel: Soft-Hearted Soldier who Nursed Dying Baby Creature Back to Health by Feeding it Every Four Hours
The Daily Mail Online | 29 September 2012
A kind-hearted soldier res…

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Country Radio – “Listen to the Children”

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Obamacare to Soon Cost the Average American Family $20,000 a Year, Announces IRS

By Mike Adams

Under Obamacare, American families are forced to buy conventional health insurance that primarily benefits the pharmaceutical industry. By 2016 — just three years from now — the che…

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Super-Zeppelin: Revolutionary Airship May Become Cargo-Carrying Champion

By RT

A functioning prototype of revolutionary airship is undergoing tests south of Los Angeles. A US company is developing a series of gigantic heavy-payload dirigibles with an innovative ballast …

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Incredible Images Show Huge Saturn Storm Destroy Itself by Eating Its Own Tail

By Adam Mann

One of the largest storms ever seen on Saturn may have been a victim of its own success, choking when it ate its own tail.

The “Great Springtime Storm” was a colossal maelstrom th…

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Armed Guard Disarmed Teen in Atlanta School Shooting, Says Police Chief

By Kate Brumback

A student opened fire at his middle school Thursday afternoon, wounding a 14-year-old in the neck before an armed officer working at the school was able to get the gun away, police s…

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Swiss Tax Haven is Over

By RT

Switzerland will now assist international tax authorities in disclosing information on bank accounts held by foreigners who avoid taxation at home.

Joint efforts by the EU, the US and number…

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The Case Against Transgenic Seeds

by Liz Marshall

The essence of a seed is life. Through it, generation after generation of wisdom is carried to the present moment for release into the future. The seed is part of an unfolding proces…

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Bernanke Dissatisfied With Growth Will Press on With Pace of QE

By Joshua Zumbrun & Jeff Kearns

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke signaled he isn’t close to easing up on $85 billion in monthly bond purchases to spur a stalled economy and bring down 7.8 p…

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Law Schools’ Applications Fall as Costs Rise and Jobs Are Cut

By Ethan Bronner

Law school applications are headed for a 30-year low, reflecting increased concern over soaring tuition, crushing student debt and diminishing prospects of lucrative employment upo…

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The Real Cost of Making Your Own Wine

By Bloomberg Rankings and Nikhil Hutheesing

Bernie Rooney, owner of Oak Barrel Winecraft in Berkeley, Calif., says you can make a bottle of wine for about $5 or less once you have the equipment. Th…

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Two More Shootings

Report: Three People Shot At Phoenix Office Complex

A shooting has been reported at an office complex in Phoenix, Ariz., according to ABC 15.

Three people were shot and another two were hurt, acco…

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Giffords Says Too Many Children Dying, Urges Gun Action

[Note from CAF: While I admire Congressman Giffords, what she is saying flies in the face of overwhelming documentation of the facts. Gun ownership saves many more lives than those lost from acciden…

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On Al Gore

[Note from CAF: From a subscriber today – someone who is very, very smart]

“Just watched him do an interview on Today. The guy is a complete nut job. He was talking about some of the most dangerous …

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Transcript of “Coming Clean: The Ins and Outs of Vaccine Exemption with Alan Phillips” Now Available!

Transcript of Coming Clean: The Ins and Outs of Vaccine Exemption with Alan Phillips is now available to Subscribers!

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Chipotle Adds Organic Hoodies to Burritos to Boost Sales

By Leslie Patton

Abercrombie & Fitch sells sex. Harley-Davidson (HOG) sells rebellion. Chipotle sells idealism.

The burrito chain has long pushed sustainable food in its 1,400 restaurants. Now Chi…

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“Free Screening: Watch Genetic Roulette Vote!”

Awarded Solari Best Film of the Year, 2012, Genetic Roulette has an opportunity to receive the AwareGuide Top Transformational Film, 2012! IRT is offering a free screening of GRM so you can watch and …

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Captivating Photos of Detroit Delve Deep to Reveal a Beautiful, Struggling City

By Pete Brook

In the past 40 years, the number of people living in the city of Detroit has halved. This has lead many to write it off — in many ways, wrongly — as a decrepit ghost town. Unbroke…

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The Man Who Made Friends With Mao

“I took part in victimising innocent, good people. It was institutionalised bullying and scapegoating, and I couldn’t see it because everything about the regime was good for me and I felt I was par…

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Money & Markets – Week of 01.27.13

Amazon’s Future Is Not in Selling Stuff — And That’s a Good Thing
Wired | 31 January 2013
During Amazon’s wonkish earnings call this week, Chief Financial Officer…

Jobless Claims in U.S. …

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Precious Metals – Week of 01.27.13

CITI: There Is Really Only One Thing Driving Gold Prices Right Now, And It’s Going To Drive Them Lower
Business Insider | 26 October 2012
Citi Chief Commodities Economist Daniel Ahn and his team are …

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Quote du Jour – George and Meredith Friedman

“Whoever controls space, therefore, will control the world’s oceans. Whoever controls the oceans will control the patterns of global commerce. Whoever controls the patterns of global commerce will be …

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Quote du Jour

Whoever controls space, therefore, will control the world’s oceans. Whoever controls the oceans will control the patterns of global commerce. Whoever controls the patterns of global commerce will be…

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Geopolitical – Week of 01.27.13

2 Reported Dead in Blast Near U.S. Embassy in Turkey
The New York Times | 01 February 2013
Turkey’s Interior Minister Muammer Guler says a suicide bomber…

Doctors Kill 2,450% More Americans Than …

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Science & Technology – Week of 01.27.13

Is Your Television Watching YOU? Smart TVs Can Spy on Their Owners
Alex Jones | 01 February 2013
It sounds like some wild conspiracy theory or like something out of…

Google Faces Legal Action Ove…

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Food & Health – Week of 01.27.13

Behind the Scenes: Undercover Shareholder Pushes for Transparency at Monsanto
RT | 01 February 2013
Safe food activists protested a shareholder meeting at Monsanto’s HQ, calling for…

Hazardous …

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Google Expands North Korea Map Coverage

By BBC

Google has puts its first detailed maps online of North Korea, a country that has so far been mostly blank on the search giant’s popular Maps website.

The data was compiled on Google’s Map …

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Life – Week of 01.27.13

150 Skulls From Human Sacrifice Discovered in Mexico, Stunning Experts
RT | 01 February 2013
The skulls of around 150 human sacrifice victims have been unearthed in…

High School To Collect Studen…

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Wal-Mart Accused of Using Mexican Governor to Push Bribes

By Jef Feeley

Wal-Mart Stores Inc.’s (WMT) Mexican unit used a current state governor there to facilitate $156,000 in bribes meant to help open stores, an ex-lawyer for the retailer told company …