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By Wikileaks

Today, Thursday 16 October 2014, WikiLeaks released a second updated version of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Intellectual Property Rights Chapter. The TPP is the world’s largest…

By John Hutchinson

China and Russia are considering building a high-speed rail line thousands of kilometres from Moscow to Beijing that would cut the journey time from six days on the Trans-Siberia…

“There is too little economic risk-taking, and too much financial risk-taking.” ~ Christine Lagarde

By Catherine Austin Fitts

The financial news is full of fear (like all other news these days…

“Guard your heart, for out of it flows the wellspring of life.”
~ Proverbs 4:23

By Catherine Austin Fitts

According to the latest Gallup poll 76% of Americans are dissatisfied with how things are …

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S&P 500 vs. Oil vs. 20+ Year Treas. Bond

By Robert Parry

The mainstream news media’s reaction to the new movie, “Kill the Messenger,” has been tepid, perhaps not surprising given that the MSM comes across as the film’s most unsymp…

By Dave Smith

We are hugely dependent on our internet speeds for everything — on a desktop or mobile device, for business or pleasure, we need fast internet to do just about everything these days…

By Michelle Conlin

Many thousands of Americans who lost their homes in the housing bust, but have since begun to rebuild their finances, are suddenly facing a new foreclosure nightmare: debt collecto…

“So why do 62 percent of parents think it’s [common core] a bad idea? For one, they can count. But their kids can’t.” ~ Joy Pullmann

By Catherine Austin Fitts

I have been talking with students…

By Yves Smith

Yves here. It really is remarkable to see the degree to which the Administration tries to, and succeeds in, convincing the public that our efforts to remake the Middle East are anything…

By Thunderbolts Project

What is a human being? It is the ultimate question, to which institutional science offers surprising answers. The materialistic paradigm, which has dominated institutional s…

By Catherine Austin Fitts

Truly, one of the most beautiful farms I know just went on the auction block. If you are looking for a farm in Tennessee, here is a special opportunity for you.

Continue …

By Wikipedia

Smartdust is a system of many tiny microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) such as sensors, robots, or other devices, that can detect, for example, light, temperature, vibration, magnetism…

By Catherine Austin Fitts

The other week I requested that our blog team watch that oldie but goodie, Wag the Dog.

I was inspired to do so by a discussion we were having about ISIS. I was wondering…

“I believe in the brotherhood of man, all men, but I don’t believe in brotherhood with anybody who doesn’t want brotherhood with me. I believe in treating people right, but I’m not going to waste my t…

By Catherine Austin Fitts

If you have not yet discovered Dr. Rauni-Leena Luukanen-Kilde, you want to do so. She was a Finnish physician who served as a provincial medical officer in Rovaniemi, Laplan…

By Alexa O’Brien

I had an opportunity to attend a presentation by retired NSA technical director, William Binney, which provided context for some of the published documents released by former NSA c…

By Michael Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Dwoskin

Deep in the bowels of the Stata Center on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s campus is an energy war room.

A row of flat-screen monitors lines on…

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By Joaquim Moreira Salles

Prospective students in the United States who can’t afford to pay for college or don’t want to rack up tens of thousands in stu…

By Catherine Austin Fitts

You need to take note of what is happening to the US dollar. It is strong and could get much stronger. The BBC today discuses the possibility of an even stronger dollar h…

[CAF Note: This article was originally published on May 29, 1999. To celebrate the new movie, Kill the Messenger,  about Gary Webb’s efforts to publish the Dark Alliance story this month, I am republ…

By Dave Majumdar

F-22 Raptor stealth fighters were needed in case the Syrians used their sophisticated air defenses. But Raptors don’t come cheap.

Fears of a potent Syrian air defense system drove t…

“The world is aflood with dark psychic fluid – everything’s stained with it.” ~ Michael Ventura

By Catherine Austin Fitts

What if the entire UN General Assembly got into a time machine and h…

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By Michael Lewis

Probably most people would agree that the people paid by the U.S. government to regulate Wall Street have had their difficulties. Most people …

By Catharine Paddock PhD

An increasing feature of modern life is the miscellany of cellphones, laptops, tablets and other media devices that connect us to information and each other. Excessive media-…

By Beverley Mitchell

Irish teenagers Ciara Judge, Émer Hickey and Sophie Healy-Thow, all 16, have won the Google Science Fair 2014. Their project, Combating the Global Food Crisis, aims to provide a…

By Catherine Austin Fitts

In the Spring a wonderful subscriber in Albuquerque asked if I could stop for a lunch on my trip to and from California.

It was not possible for the Spring trip, so I rou…

By Natalie Kitroeff

Attorney General Eric Holder will announce his resignation at the White House later today, Bloomberg reports. Holder plans to stay in the position until a successor is named, and …

By Catherine Austin Fitts

The magazines and airwaves are full of news about car sharing.

Do the math – the numbers show you why the push is on to change the fundamental economics of automobiles.

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By BBC News

The Rockefeller Brothers Fund is joining a coalition of philanthropists pledging to rid themselves of more than $50bn (£31bn) in fossil fuel assets.

The announcement was made on Monday,…

“If you’ve been in a poker game for a while, and you still don’t know who the patsy is, you’re the patsy.” ~ Old Saying

By Catherine Austin Fitts

Last week, Attorney General Eric Holder …

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By Catherine Austin Fitts

Tonight we are going to review the process of analyzing one company for potential investment. As our example, we will use a Danish pharmaceutica…

[CAF Note: Health Freedom News – page for page – is one of the most valuable health sources I get. I have found invaluable insight and health tips there. Here is an article from the latest edition.]

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By CB Parrish

I just got done listening to the three of you talking about the pink elephant event and, once again, I’m mowed down by it. This mowed down thing: It’s not like a roadrunner cartoon. …

By Robert Barr

Who won and who lost in Scotland’s independence referendum?

WINNERS: The 55.3 percent of Scottish voters who wanted to stay in the United Kingdom.

LOSERS: The 44.7 percent who disa…

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By Justin Huggler, Berlin

A reward of $30m has been offered for conclusive evidence on who shot down Flight MH17 – but the identity of the person or organisation behind th…

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By Manlio Dinucci

Faced with the “unprecedented Ebola, which spreads exponentially epidemic in West Africa,” President Obama announced that “at the request of the…

By Kyle Caldwell

Buy low, sell high. It is a simple formula for investment success, but with so many ways to measure a market, and with conflicting results, following it can be difficult.

To help,…

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By Catherine Austin Fitts

The latest Gallup poll is in and it is not good news for incumbents running in the mid-term elections. One in four Americans, 23%, are satisfi…

By Jeff Kearns and Steve Matthews

The Federal Reserve maintained a commitment to keep interest rates near zero for a “considerable time” after asset purchases are completed, saying the economy is…

By Ami Sedghi and George Arnett

To what extent, if at all, do you feel that your generation will have had a better or worse life than your parents’ generation? That’s the question a new Ipsos Mori …

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By CBC News

Russia will create a multi-billion dollar anti-crisis fund in 2015 of money destined for the Pension Fund and some left over in this year’s bud…