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 Ohnsman

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Marine innovation engineering department at Rolls-Royce has presented a draft design of an ocean-going robo-vessel that could enter service within …

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“Can Anybody Save California?” That was the headline of a Politico story earlier this month about our state’s water crisis. Predictions of apocalypse are not unc…

By Mike Masnick

A few weeks ago, Glenn Greenwald, while working with NBC News, revealed some details of a GCHQ presentation concerning how the surveillance organization had a “dirty tricks” group kno…

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By Catherine Austin Fitts

Who is really in charge? And wh…

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In its first draft energy policy since 2011, Japan says nuclear energy is still among its vital sources of electricity. This comes after three years …

“Nothing real can be threatened.
Nothing unreal exists.
Herein lies the peace of God.”
~A Course in Miracles

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I tense up when I get the calls. I can usually hear it after …

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A few days ago, I reported on a recent study of Roundup, the Monsanto herbicide, and how Roundup is involved in causing gluten intolerance and celiac disease.

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By Martin Parry

The world’s biggest economies vowed Sunday to boost global growth by more than $2 trillion over five years, shifting their focus away from austerity as…

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Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel has unveiled plans to shrink the US Army to its smallest size since before World War Two.

Outlining his budget plan, the Pentagon chief proposed trimming …

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Northeast Utilities (NU) operates New England’s largest utility system serving more than 3.6 million electric and natural gas customers in Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New…

**CAF Note: The spinners of limited modified hangouts are out in force. This is the best of the best, useful for giving an overall framework of numerous constituencies within the Washington beltway …

by Paul Levy

For the last few months, all I’ve wanted to do is to read about quantum physics. I’ve been studying quantum physics off and on for decades, but have never gone as far down the rabb…

By The Telegraph

One hundred tonnes of highly contaminated water has leaked out of a tank at the Fukushima nuclear plant, the worst incident since last August, when a series of radioactive water le…

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PayPal is in the center of two battles: one for control of every transaction on the planet, the other for control of its own destiny.

Th…

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Kansas City Southern (KSU), the U.S. railroad that gets almost half its revenue from Mexico, fell the most in the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index after the lower house of Mexico’s…

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The U.S. plans to rewrite rules that would prevent Internet service providers from slowing Web traffic from companies such as Netflix Inc. (NFLX) and Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN)

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Industry sources tell the Washington Examiner’s Susan Ferrechio that the Barack Obama administration is thinking of extending the Affordable Care Act’s “risk corridors,” the federa…

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As the “Internet of Things” develops we are seeing a very dynamic relationship occur in retail shopping. Online stores want a bigger share of the consumer market. Cons…

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Whoever who has spent the last year making sure that a US-EU trade agreement never happens is certainly bucking for a really big bonus this year.

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By Catherine Austin Fitts

Ray Dalio’s was quoted in Business Week this week:…

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By Karen Pierog and Tom Hals

The city of Detroit’s effort to declare some of its general obligation bonds as unsecured debt will be challenged in bankruptcy court …

By Catherine Austin Fitts

R. J. Cutler’s documentary, The World According to Dick Cheney, is worth watching. Along with Ferguson’s No End in Sight this is very good footage documenting Dick Che…

By The Economist

Nigerian pineapple for breakfast, Peruvian quinoa for lunch and Japanese sushi for dinner. Two centuries ago, when David Ricardo advocated specialisation and free trade, the notion t…

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Can microorganisms help protect our groundwater from contamination by hydraulic fracturing?

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Matt Damon, a lifelong friend of Howard Zinn and his family, read excerpts from a speech Howard Zinn gave in 1970 as part of a debate on civil disobedience.

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By Matt Taibi

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By Pension Dialog

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By David Sirota

When historians one day sit down to solve the Great American Pension Heist, they will likely focus much of their attention on a scandal that has been unfolding in corruption-plagued R…

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By Catherine Austin Fitts

The Church of England has now announced that they are pulling their endowment investments from companies that do not “play ball” on climate change. I am not sure what …

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It’s better the devil you know”
~ Kylie Minogue

By Catherine Austin Fitts

As you can see from the banner on our blog, the Solari Report is participating in The Day We…

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The dependence of the U.S. econ…

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On an overcast Tuesday morning in dusty North Platte, Nebr., Tony Orr stands at the center of the world’s largest freight rail ya…

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By Jeremy Scahill and Glenn Greenwald

The National Security Agency is using complex analysis of electronic surveillance, rather than human intelligenc…

By Adrianne Jeffries

NASA is now working with private companies to take the first steps in exploring the moon for valuable resources like helium 3 and rare earth metals.

Initial proposals are due …

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From: Catherine Austin Fitts
Date: Wednesday, February 5, 2014 at 10:57 PM
To:”Mayor@SyrGov.net”
Subject: Letter to Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner

Dear Mayor Miner:

I am writing to request that…

***CAF Note: Now you know why I leave my cell phone in the car when I get home!***

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Cell-Phone-Detective.com has announced the launch of its Cell Spy Stealth mobile spyware app that allows…

By Anthony Wood

A new satellite designed to take detailed, near real-time measurements of rain and snowfall on a global scale whilst mapping the interior of storm systems is set to launch. The Glob…

By Catherine Austin Fitts

The recent Snowden revelations have reminded us yet again how deeply invasive the US software system is:

“The National Security Agency has implanted software in nearly 10…

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By Catherine Austin Fitts

While benefits and contracts to…