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If you follow market commentators, one of the themes you are hearing a great deal about is the question of what, exactly, is going to cause the stock market in the develop…

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Today, 15 January 2014, WikiLeaks released the secret draft text for the entire TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership) Environment Chapter and the corresponding Chairs’ Report. The TPP transn…

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The country, which became the wo…

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I am always on the look out for gems.

There is a new one in West Texas, in a small town named Ballinger.  It is an “old timey” theatre called the old Texas Theatre.

For…

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By Catherine Austin Fitts

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With all the negativity and skepticism swirling around the SEC’s recent proposition to liberalize the laws of equity crowdfunding, it’s time for some contrarian content that shed…

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Avoid contact with the existing health care system as far as possible. Yes, emergencies arise that require the help of physicians, but by and large one can learn to care for…

**CAF Note: This is about privatizing the police state. Fascism 3.0**

By Ellen Nakashima

President Obama met Thursday with senior lawmakers on opposing sides of a debate about whether to end the Nat…

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Everyone in Norway became a theoretical millionaire on Wednesday in a milestone for the world’s biggest sovereign wealth fund that has ballooned thanks to high oil and gas prices.
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Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
All the king’s horses and all the king’s men
Couldn’t put Humpty together again
~English Nursery Rhyme

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“Dude, I don’t need to play these stupid games. I know what you’re trying to do.” With that, Major Matthew Robert Bockholt hung up on me.

More than a month before, I had called US S…

“Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.” ~ Elon Musk

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In the year-end wrap up published for subscribers last week, I de…

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Imagine cows fed and milked entirely by robots. Or tomatoes that send an e-mail when they need more water. Or a farm where all the decisions about where to plant seeds, spray fertilize…

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By Catherine Austin Fitts

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By Tyler Durden

Some may have forgotten, or not be aware, that the Federal Reserve system has its own police force. Well, it does: “The U.S. Federal Reserve Police is the law enforcement arm of th…

By David B. Collum

Every December, I write a Year in Review or, as my wife calls it, my Urine Review. It has found a home at Chris Martenson’s website PeakProsperity.com with a secondary posting …

By Tyler Durden

It was in October 2012 when we explained how Iran evades the Western blockade (ostensibly with the implicit nod of none other than the US), and when we first defined the concept of Pe…

By RT

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By Kevin Bullis

Clean energy technology made progress in 2013, but low-carbon energy isn’t growing fast enough to meet goals for limiting climate change. That would require switching energy sourc…

By My Budget 360

Money is only as useful as to what it can purchase. The Fed has created a system where debt is now equal to money. This is why big purchases like cars, housing, and even going to…

By: Claudio Guarnieri and Morgan Marquis-Boire

2013 will be remembered as the year that the Internet lost its innocence for nearly everyone as light was shed on the widespread use of dragnet survei…

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Single nucleotide mutations form the majority of genetic polymorphisms (single nucleotide polymorphisms, SNPs) in populations. When found in gene protein coding r…

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