Federal Financial Ingorance

“The net worth of U.S. households and nonprofits rose 4.5% in the first quarter to $70.349 trillion, according to the Federal Reserve. It is a significant milestone as it shows, on average, American…

By Barton Gellman and Laura Poitras

The National Security Agency and the FBI are tapping directly into the central servers of nine leading U.S. Internet companies, extracting audio and video chats,…

By Matt Clinch

Tight security restrictions at Thursday’s Google (GOOG) shareholder meeting led even the company’s much-hyped Google Glass technology to be banned, infuriating a consumer watchdog gr…

By Brian Pretti CFA

To suggest gold is a controversial asset is not bold. For those watching long term, you know gold rose over 300% in the last decade before it even gained mainstream attention, l…

By Ashlee Vance and Brad Stone

In October, a foreign national named Mike Fikri purchased a one-way plane ticket from Cairo to Miami, where he rented a condo. Over the previous few weeks, he’d made …

By Veracode

On April 22, 2011 Sony announced their network had been breached, but released limited details regarding the attack vector. This announcement was a precursor to a series of new attacks …

By The Top Information Post

I always believed that the China internet model was an experiment which the Americans were part of in the hopes of learning how to implement the same draconian practices…

By Leo Kelion

Researchers say they have found a way to detect and recognise human gestures based on how they affect wi-fi signals.

They suggest it could let users control home appliances with a wa…

HTTPS Everywhere is a Firefox and Chrome extension that encrypts your communications with many major websites, making your browsing more secure. Encrypt the web: Install HTTPS Everywhere today.

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By Amy Davidson

Among the stranger aspects of the court martial of Bradley Manning, the Army private who is accused of giving hundreds of thousands of classified files to WikiLeaks, is the prosecut…

By Scott Wilson and Colum Lynch

President Obama announced Wednesday that national security adviser Thomas E. Donilon is resigning his post and will be replaced by U.N. Ambassador Susan E. Rice, a c…

By Cyrus Farivar

On Tuesday evening, Iowa City is scheduled to hold the first reading (PDF) of what is likely the first municipal bill anywhere in the country to simultaneously ban the local use of…

[CAF Note: This is a summary of one of my favorite books, Political Ponerology. A wonderful subscriber reminded me today “Start anywhere, but read this first.”]

By Silvia Cattori

After reading the…

FROM: Getting to Real Solutions – A Dialogue with Bonnie Faulkner

Catherine Austin Fitts: So let me tell you another one of my bugaboos: B corporations.

Bonnie Faulkner: Okay what’s a B corporation…

By Jess Bravin

A divided Supreme Court held Monday that police can take DNA samples from people under arrest in the hope of tying them to unrelated crimes, in a ruling that touched both on fast-cha…

By GaiamTV

There is no doubt that the economies of the world have become increasingly turbulent over the past few years. It appears that these financial markets have become managed systems for geop…

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By Clea Benson

A bipartisan group of U.S. senators is putting the final touches on a plan to liquidate Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (FMCC) and replace them with …

Federal regulators have proposed a group of firms that aren’t banks to be deemed potential threats to the financial system that need stricter government oversight.

The regulators didn’t name the fir…

By Russ Baker

A huge story can set off alarm bells everywhere, but somehow, with ever increasing frequency, we note the silence of the mainstream media. Having avoided doing its job, it then protec…

By BBC

Turkey’s main share index closed 10.47% down following investor concerns over the escalation of anti-government protests over the weekend.

The Borsa Istanbul 100 index tumbled as investors …

Bloomberg Best (and Worst) showcases data that have been analyzed, organized and visualized by the Bloomberg Rankings team. These rankings seek to enlighten and entertain readers on topical issues of …

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By Wolf Richter, Testosterone Pit

The “March Against Monsanto” in 52 countries, an unapproved strain of its genetically modified wheat growing profusely in …

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By Global Research News

The Illinois Ag Dept. illegally seized privately owned bees from renowned naturalist, Terrence Ingram, withou…

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This is the official book launch of Paul Levy’s new book Dispelling Wetiko: Breaking the Curse of Evil, recorded at Powell’s City of Books on February 22, 2013.

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By The H Security

Anyone who uses Skype has consented to the company reading everything they write. The H’s associates in Germany at heise Security have now discovered that the Microsoft subsidiary…

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By Dave Michaels & Carter Dougherty

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission will vote next week on a proposal that would require a floating-share valu…

By KristenM

I am doing my happy dance. Vernon Hershberger, the Amish dairy farmer recently on trial in Wisconsin for providing raw milk to his community, was acquitted last week by a jury on three …

By Catherine Austin Fitts

A naturopath who I respect greatly told me about a therapy of drinking “sole” – a salt water made with Himalayan Salt Crystals. It is described in Water & Salt: The Es…

By Tyler Durden

There has been much speculation in the recent past over what the bottom-line impact of surging stock buyback activity has been on the overall S&P earnings: after all, by removing sh…

Catherine Austin Fitts is a former Wall Street insider and Assistant Secretary in the Bush I administration. Her background gave her a clear grasp of the covert economy which exists today. Through n…

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By James Cusick

For three days beginning on 6 June, a five-star hotel in Chandler’s Cross  that normally hosts the England football team before Wembley matches, will turn over its 227 luxury roo…

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By AP

Protesters rallied in dozens of cities Saturday as part of a global protest against seed giant Monsanto and the genetically modified food it produces, organizer…

Losers Make the Pie Bigger

By Reboot With Joe

It has been the most amazing two years for Joe and Team Reboot and we genuinely thank you for being part of the movement that the film inspired.

As our way of saying thank you f…

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By Carolyn Bandel

Zuercher Kantonalbank, the biggest Swiss cantonal bank, expects to pay a fine to U.S. authorities as part of a deferred prosecution agreemen…

By Wikipedia

Battle at Kruger is an eight-minute amateur wildlife video that depicts an unfolding confrontation between a herd of Cape buffalo, a small pride of lions, and one or two crocodiles. Th…

By Heather Callaghan

No, this is not a tabloid – it’s real. According to the latest video, which has now been posted below, robotic insects have made their first controlled flight. According to the…

By Catherine Austin Fitts

There are no scandals in Washington. There is simply a turnover. We are preparing for an escalation of the global financial war. The old team are simply being told to step…

By Will Shanklin

Gmail lets you send all kinds of files as attachments. And Google Wallet lets you pay for just about anything. Why not combine the two? That could have been the thinking by someone…

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By Tania Rabesandratana

The European Commission is reforming the European Union’s plant and animal health legislation in a bid to enhance food safety across the bloc. But critics say that the measu…

By Brigitte Granville, Hans-Olaf Henkel & Stefan Kawalec

On the eve of the American Civil War, Abraham Lincoln famously said that “a house divided cannot stand.” Today, the European Union — co…

By The Committee on Financial Services

The House of Representatives today passed two bipartisan Financial Services Committee bills, including one that sets a deadline for the Securities and Exchang…

By GuruFocus

Prof. Robert Shiller of Yale University invented the Schiller P/E to measure the market’s valuation. The Schiller P/E is a more reasonable market valuation indicator than the P/E ratio…

By Robert Wenzel

This is Update 2 on news that the Department of Homeland Security has served a court order to the money exchange service Dwolla, in regard to its dealings with Mt. Gox.

Earlier tod…

“After all, most civilized and semi-civilized countries known to history had a large class of slaves or serfs completely subordinate to their owners. There is nothing in human nature that makes th…

By Dan Kadlec

The retirement savings crisis in America has brought us to this point: It’s a near certainty that mandatory savings accounts are in the future of anyone with a full- or part-time jo…

[CAF Note: With G-7 Deciding this weekend to target tax havens, the US wants a new team in at the IRS who can use their civil and criminal investigative powers to extend taxing and capital controls …

[CAF Note: I’m excited. I am headed to my first maker faire this Saturday. Check it out!]

Explore makers and projects coming to Maker Faire Bay Area 2013. You can choose to browse by topic below or…

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The Raspberry Pi is a credit-card-sized single-board computer developed in the UK by the Raspberry Pi Foundation with the intention of promoting the teaching of basic computer science …

By David Kravets

The immigration reform measure the Senate began debating yesterday would create a national biometric database of virtually every adult in the U.S., in what privacy groups fear coul…