Samsung is warning customers about discussing personal information in front of their smart television set.

The warning applies to TV viewers who control their Samsung Smart TV using its voice activ…

by Huw Jones

(Reuters) – The EU turns to stock and bond markets this week with reform proposals intended to help companies raise the cash needed for growth-boosting investments, hoping to emulate t…

“If we want to reduce poverty and misery, if we want to give to every deserving individual what is needed for a safe existence of an intelligent being, we want to provide more machinery, more powe…

by Barbara Loe Fisher

There have been hundreds of media stories published in the U.S. and around the world since Jan. 14, 2015, the day after it was first reported that visitors to Disneyland got …

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By Catherine Austin Fitts

The market valuation of Apple passed $700 billion this week. Let’s put that in perspective. That is almost twice as large as Exx…

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“I hate bullies. I hate them. I’m not good enough with words to describe how much I hate them.”
~ Andrew Vachss
By Catherine Austin Fitts

I once fell in love with a man because he reminded me of Burk…

Domestic and global statistics from the Department of Energy published December 2014…

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by Jenny Hopkinson

Forget legalizing pot: Two of the most powerful Republicans in the Senate believe there’s a much stronger chance to legalize growing hemp in the U.S., opening up an entirely ne…

by Jamie Condliffe

A slew of 30,000 leaked Swiss HSBC bank account details—what the Guardian calls the “biggest banking leak in history”—lays bare the practices of the organization and its cust…

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March 23, 2015

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“If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change” ~ Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

By Catherine Austin Fitts

The long Treasury bond is correcting back to the 200 day moving average…

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by Josh Harkinson

It’s Friday afternoon in San Francisco and, to be honest, I’m sick of being in the office. So I’ve slipped out and headed o…

‘Military spending continues to fall in the West but rises everywhere else, says SIPRI’, SIPRI Press Release, 14 April 2014.

‘Trends in world military expenditure, 2013’, SIPRI Fact Sheet, April 2014…

Inside the secret network behind mass surveillance, endless war, and Skynet—

by Nafeez Ahmed

INSURGE INTELLIGENCE, a new crowd-funded investigative journalism project, breaks the exclusive stor…

‘Once Isis got near oil fields, the US sent drones to strike targets’

by Tom Bawden

Conspiracy theorists have long insisted that modern wars revolve around oil. Now research suggests hydrocarbons …

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by Ahmed Bilal

One of the major reasons that solar panels are facing such hurdles to replace conventional electricity sources is because they a…

[CAF Note: Obama Administration is dropping the proposal to tax 529 plans. 
 
I told you the week it was announced that it was DOA. You did not even need the Congress to DOA it. The idea of taxing…

“The American people need health care, not health insurance.”
~ Catherine Austin Fitts

by Catherine Austin Fitts

Personal health care choices have become a risky gauntlet in America. Increasin…

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“What we need to do is always lean into the future; when the world changes around you and when it changes against you – what used to be a tail wind is now a head wind – you have to learn into that a…

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by David Goldman

Tech blogger Robert Cringely wrote last week that IBM would lay off 26% of its staff, or nearly 112,000 employees, in a massive restructuring. The cuts will be …

by John Leyden

Linux supremo Linus Torvalds has jokingly admitted US spooks approached him to put a backdoor in his open-source operating system.

During a question-and-answer ?session ?at ?the Li…

by Glenn Greenwald

One of the many pressing stories that remains to be told from the Snowden archive is how western intelligence agencies are attempting to manipulate and control online discourse w…

by Jena McGregor

Last Thursday, a technology blogger for Forbes magazine reported that IBM was planning to cut 26 percent of its total workforce — or some 112,000 jobs — in a “bloodbath” of lay…

by Glenn Greenwald

One of the many pressing stories that remains to be told from the Snowden archive is how western intelligence agencies are attempting to manipulate and control online discourse wit…

by Bloomberg

Billionaire venture capitalist Jim Breyer is heading to the Swiss Alps this year with an upbeat message. “This is a magical time,” says Breyer, founder and CEO of Breyer Capital and a p…

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by Jeff Black and Simon Kennedy

Mario Draghi led the Central Bank into a new era, pledging to buy government bonds in an asset-purchase program worth at le…

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by Joseph P. Farrell

As you can tell, this week we’ve been primarily focused on geopolitics and financial news (as distinct from last week’s focus on some technological issues and their implication…

“To feel the love of people whom we love is a fire that feeds our life.”
~ Pablo Neruda

By Catherine Austin Fitts

I spoke to a colleague last week. We had not spoken for a year or more. Each t…

By Catherine Austin Fitts

They have a name for men who round up innocent children and send them to prisons where they make uniforms for the military at great expense to the taxpayer. I am not going t…

by Cedit Suisse

The debate on what would happen if Scotland or Catalonia became independent opens up some very interesting arguments. On one side we have politicians and corporations advocating the…

Global wealth is increasingly concentrated in the hands of a small wealthy elite. These wealthy individuals have generated and sustained their vast riches through their interests and activities in …

By Robert O’Harrow Jr., Sari Horwitz and Steven Rich

Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. on Friday barred local and state police from using federal law to seize cash, cars and other property withou…

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By Mike Whitney

January 15, 2015 “ICH” – “Counterpunch” – Is America in the throes of a class war?

Look at the chart and decide for yourself. It’s all…

The 2015 State of the Union Address will be given by the 44th President Barack Obama on Tuesday, January 20, 2015, in the chamber of the United States House of Representatives. Speaker of the House Jo…

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By Simon Kennedy

The road to normal is proving to be bumpy.

Stunning monetary-policy shifts in Switzerland and India sent markets on wild rides, highlighting…

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by Elena Holodny

On Wednesday Russia’s announced that it will shift all its natural gas flows to Europe via Turkey, instead of Ukraine, reports Bloomberg N…

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by Jim Clifton

The U.S. now ranks not first, not second, not third, but 12th among developed nations in terms of business startup activity. Countries such …

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By Catherine Austin Fitts

There is nothing more impressive than grace under fire.

Over the last two years, Bill Gross, former head of PIMCO, has had one o…

by Rick Falkvinge

Activists from the Pirate Party’s youth wing have wiretapped high-level political surveillance hawks at Sweden’s top security conference. They set up an open wi-fi access poin…

According to the Allianz Risk Barometer 2015 cybercrime continues to rise rapidly in the ranking of disruptive scenarios. In Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States cyber risks are now am…

“Investing should be more like watching paint dry or watching grass grow. If you want excitement, take $800 and go to Las Vegas.”  ~Paul Samuelson

By Catherine Austin Fitts

Every other Monday nig…

By Sustainable Pulse

Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed the Russian Federation Code of Administrative Offences into law, including a new article establishing liability for the violation of…