Science & Technology – Week of 08.11.13
The West Virginia Town Where Wireless Signals are Illegal
Yahoo! Travel | 15 August 2013
Shhh! The scientists are listening to space!
The Patent Wars Begin Over Graphene, A Material That’s About To C…
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Food & Health – Week of 08.11.13
Where in the World There Are No McDonald’s
Bloomberg | 18 July 2013
As of the end of March, McDonald’s had 34,565 restaurants…Investment Trouble Ahead for GMOs Giants?
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Life – Week of 08.11.13
Richie Parker: Drive
YouTube | 22 July 2013
Tom Rinaldi reports on the life of Richie Parker…Take Action
C40 Cities
Every one of us can make a difference…Norway PM Jens Stoltenberg Works as S…
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The Most and Least Trusted Occupations
Photo Credit: Pew Research Center
By Althea Chang
Lawyers and business executives are among the least trusted occupations in America, and members of the military, teachers and scientists are highly…
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Fleetwood Mac – “Landslide”
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Fleetwood Mac’s Official Website
Fleetwood Mac on Wikipedia
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Five Whopping Big Lies About State and Local Pensions
CAF Note: The leaders of the financial coup are now waging war on state and local pension funds. They want to lower the boom on retirees, direct the flow of these assets and related fees and make priv…
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Open Source Ecology with Marcin Jakubowski
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Solari Toon!
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[CAF Note: I am a True Fan, which means I am one of the donors who support of Marcin’s work. It costs as little as $10 a month for 24 months. When paypal shifts mone…
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A Health-Insurance Criminal Pleads His Case
By James L. Payne
If mandatory health insurance goes through, it will turn me into a criminal. I don’t have health insurance. I don’t want it. And I will refuse to buy it even though I can affor…
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Fukushima Leak: Japan Government ‘To Take Measures’
Photo Credit: American Free Press
By BBC News
On Wednesday, a government official said up to 300 tonnes of highly radioactive water may be flowing into the sea every day.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe…
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We Aren’t the World
Photo Credit: Mark McGinnis
By Ethan Watters
In the summer of 1995, a young graduate student in anthropology at UCLA named Joe Henrich traveled to Peru to carry out some fieldwork among the Machigu…
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My Latest Kiva Loan
Flamboyan I group successfully completed their first cycle with a loan from Kiva and is running smoothly. With that loan in the first cycle, their businesses began to flourish. For this second cycle…
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Revisiting Sam and Dave
CAF Note: We were discussing the Pope’s current dilemma with the Vatican bank – to launder or not launder? The Solari team and I decided to revisit the fundamental economics of conceding the high …
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Ruling Against Sun Capital Could Have Wider Private Equity Impact
By Gregory Roth
In a court case that could add a new risk factor to some private equity deals, the First Circuit Court of Appeals last month ruled in favor of the New England Teamsters and Trucking I…
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JPMorgan Faces Criminal and Civil Probes Over Mortgages
By David Henry and Peter Rudegeair
JPMorgan Chase & Co, the biggest U.S. bank by assets, said on Wednesday it is being investigated by criminal and civil divisions of the U.S. Department of Justic…
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Transcript of “The Breakaway Civilization, Part Two with Dr. Joseph Farrell” is Now Available!
Transcript of “The Breakaway Civilization, Part Two with Dr. Joseph Farrell” is now available to Subscribers!
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C. Austin Fitts: Well it’s my pleasure to introduce, agai…
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Crowdfunding
By Wikipedia
Crowdfunding (alternately crowd financing, equity crowdfunding, crowd-sourced fundraising) is the collective effort of individuals who network and pool their money, usually via the Int…
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This Chart Of The Economy And Stocks Makes Almost No Sense
Photo Credit: Bloomberg, Business Insider
By Sam Ro
The S&P 500 closed at an all-time high on Friday.
Meanwhile, estimates for U.S. GDP growth in 2013 have been falling for two and a half years.
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Transcript of “The Surveillance State – What Does It All Mean?” with Jon Rappoport is Now Available!
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Obama to Back Mortgage Finance Reform to Speed Housing Recovery
Photo Credit: Reuters/Jonathan Ernst
[CAF Note: Now that large corporate entities have accumulated large portfolios of residential real estate, the US will make changes that makes corporate cost of …
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Warfare Has Many Faces
By Catherine Austin Fitts
Once upon a times we used to drop armies on each others lands to kill each other. We still do so – although as Afghanistan and Iraq have proved – that can be terribly expe…
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Amazon Founder Jeff Bezos to Buy the Washington Post
By Jennifer Saba
The Washington Post Co has agreed to sell its newspaper assets, including its flagship daily, to Amazon Inc founder Jeff Bezos for $250 million.
The move comes as newspapers face …
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Money & Markets – Week of 08.04.13
Pope Francis Tightens Vatican Bank Controls
BBC News | 08 August 2013
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HSBC Demands Diplomats Cancel Bank Accounts
Photo Credit: AFP Photo / Fabrice Coffrini
By RT
HSBC has requested embassies and consulates around the world to close their accounts and transfer their funds to other banks within 60 days.
The US…
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Housing & Mortgage Markets – Week of 08.04.13
Home Prices Climb in 87% of U.S. Cities Amid Recovery
Bloomberg | 08 August 2013
Prices for single-family homes climbed in 87 percent of U.S. cities…Pimco, BlackRock Seek to Bar California Mortgag…
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Geopolitical – Week of 08.04.13
Snowden’s E-mail Provider is Closing, Cannot Legally Say Why
The Washington Post | 08 August 2013
The e-mail service used by National Security Agency (NSA) leaker Edward Snowden is suspending operat… -
Science & Technology – Week of 08.04.13
3D Printed Rifle 2.0 Successfully Fires 14 Shots
Infowars | 08 August 2013
Maker vows to share blueprints while authorities continue with crackdown…Giant Crab Robot to Scan Sea Floor
Scientific A…
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Food & Health – Week of 08.04.13
This Little Piggy was Fed GMOs
Institute for Responsible Technology | 01 August 2013
Dr. Judy Carman, associate professor in Health and the Environment…Stunning Ag-gag Bill News
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Life – Week of 08.04.13
Rembert Explains America: Detroit vs. Everybody
Grantland | 06 August 2013
An interesting exchange takes place when you tell people you’re headed to Detroit…Crumbling American Dreams
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Wildcards – Week of 08.04.13
Krugman Calls for Space Aliens to Fix U.S. Economy
YouTube | 15 August 2011
Krugman calls for space aliens to fix U S economy…2011: Vorticular Madness Of The Dark Magicians; Hidden in Plain Sigh…
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Edward Snowden’s Not the Story. The Fate of the Internet is.
By John Naughton
As an antidote, here are some of the things we should be thinking about as a result of what we have learned so far.
The first is that the days of the internet as a truly global n…
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CAPACITY: Downtown Los Angeles
By Gensler LA
The intent of this Gensler Los Angeles led academic studio was to survey, understand and visualize the dynamic set of infrastructure constraints impacting and contributing to Downtown…
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IRS: The Financial Cleaner Commeth
[CAF Note: This is big. Koskinen is the guy who gets sent in to clean up and manage serious liabilities. In covert operations, a “cleaner” is a person who destroys or removes any incriminating evide…
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Righteous Brothers – “Unchained Melody”
Related Reading:
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The Righteous Brothers on Wikipedia
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The Breakaway Civilization, Part Two with Dr. Joseph Farrell
By Catherine Austin Fitts
Are you concerned that the world is not making sense? Have no fear, things are about to snap into focus!
One of the most fascinating Solari Reports interviews in ou…
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“Debt Equals War and Equity Equals Peace”
By Lars Schall
On behalf of Matterhorn Asset Management, independent German financial journalist Lars Schall talked with U.S. financial investment advisor Catherine Austin Fitts. Inter alia, they dis…
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Parable of the Talents or Minas
By Wikipedia
The Parable of the talents or minas, (also known as the Parable of Talents or The Parable of the Pounds), is one of the well known parables of Jesus….
The parable in Matthew 25:14-3…
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Apple, Google Among Top U.S. Companies Parking Cash Offshore To Reduce Taxes, Study Says
By Connie Guglielmo
Apple may get the brunt of the attention for its use of offshore havens to offset the taxes it pays in the U.S., but it’s hardly alone.
Six of the biggest names in technology…
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Spending Surge for Renewables
By Du Juan
China’s investment in renewable energy during the 12th Five-Year Plan (2011-15) will reach 1.8 trillion yuan ($294 billion) in addition to 2.3 trillion yuan being spent on energy-saving …
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Yes We Scan
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Out of Control Control
By Catherine Austin Fitts
The Buddha said, “Those who are awake live in a state of constant amazement.” If you have been following the science and technology news posted on our blog this week, you …
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DARPA to Genetically Engineer Humans by Adding a 47th Chromosome
By Aaron Dykes and Melissa Melton
We’re no molecular biologists over here, but have you ever seen the sci-fi flick Gattaca?
In that 1997 film, society is structured around eugenics as people are…
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Old System Dying, New System Being Born – Catherine Austin Fitts
By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com
Money manager Catherine Austin Fitts says, “You are seeing a tug of war between the new system that’s coming up and the old system that’s struggling and dyi…
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Ben: Another $85 Billion to Fuel the Slow Burn
Photo Credit:Joshua Roberts/Bloomberg News
By Catherine Austin Fitts
Ben and the FOMC spoke today confirming that they will continue monthly quantitative easing at the $85 billion level. There is n…
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15 Charts That Should Terrify Saudi Arabia
By Rob Wile
Billionaire Saudi Prince Alwaleed has sounded the alarm about the threat shale oil and gas development poses to the petro-kingdom’s barely diversified economy.
It’s taken a while for …
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ATM Hacker Barnaby Jack Dies
Photo Credit: Declan McCullagh/CNET
By Seth Rosenblatt
The computer-security community is in mourning following news that superstar hacker Barnaby Jack died on Thursday. The San Francisco resident …
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Quote du Jour – Edward R. Murrow
“Anyone who isn’t confused really doesn’t understand the situation.”
– Edward R. Murrow
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Quote du Jour
“Anyone who isn’t confused really doesn’t understand the situation.”
– Edward R. Murrow
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Building to a Summer(s) Correction?
By Catherine Austin Fitts
The Chinese are doing an audit of their debt? How scary is that?
Not as scary as an audit of US debt – after all Secretary O’Neill got fired by Bush-Cheney for daring t…
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China Orders Audit of Government Debt
Photo Credit: AFP
By BBC
China has ordered a nationwide audit of all government debt, underlining fears that the recent slowdown in its economy may impact the financial sector.
Local governments i…
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Harvard Creates Brain-to-Brain Interface, Allows Humans to Control Other Animals With Thoughts Alone
[CAF Note: How do we think they are handling the markets?]
By Sebastian Anthony
Researchers at Harvard University have created the first noninvasive brain-to-brain interface (BBI) between a human…
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Scientists Make Mice “Remember” Things That Didn’t Happen
By Susan Young
Scientists have created a false memory in mice by manipulating neurons that bear the memory of a place. The work further demonstrates just how unreliable memory can be. It also lays …
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Money & Markets – Week of 07.28.13
Green Light for City-owned San Francisco Bank
The Huffington Post | 31 July 2013
When the Occupiers took an interest in moving San Francisco’s money into a city-owned bank in 2011…Nashville ETF De…
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Precious Metals – Week of 07.28.13
How Bank of England ‘Helped Nazis Sell Gold Stolen From Czechs’
The Guardian | 30 July 2013
Official account of what many believe was British central bank’s most shameful episode…A Shuffle of Alum…
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Housing & Mortgage Markets – Week of 07.28.13
Audit the National Land Record
Landtegrity
Integrity in our land registry…Richmond Threatens Eminent Domain To Address Foreclosure Crisis
CBS News | 30 July 2013
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Detroit Gap Reveals Industry Dispute on Pension Math
Photo Credit: Bill Pugliano/Getty Images
[CAF Note: The official creation of the cover story for the hit on pension funds has begun.]
By Mary Williams Walsh
Until mid-June, there was one ray of ho…
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Geopolitical – Week of 07.28.13
Brazil Refused to Back New IMF Aid for Greece, Says Billions at Risk
Reuters | 31 July 2013
Brazil’s executive director at the IMF refused to back the Fund’s move this week…Obama’s Master Class…
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Science & Technology – Week of 07.28.13
World’s First Test-Tube Burger to be Served in London This Week
Daily News | 29 July 2013
The artificial burger costs $380,000-plus to make…Giant 3D Printer Builds Homes in 20 Hours
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Food & Health – Week of 07.28.13
Top 10 Medical Innovations: 2013
Cleveland Clinic
Which are the up-and-coming technologies and which will have the biggest impact on health care in 2013?The FDA Doesn’t Want Chickens To Explore The …
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Life – Week of 07.28.13
Peter M. Flanigan, Banker and Nixon Aide, Dies at 90
The New York Times | 31 July 2013
Peter M. Flanigan, a Wall Street investment banker who became one of President Richard M. Nixon’s most trusted,… -
Transcript of “Precious Metals Market Report with James Turk and Franklin Sanders” is Now Available!
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Wildcards – Week of 07.28.13
9/11 False Flag Conspiracy – Finally Solved
YouTube | 27 December 2012
9/11 False Flag Conspiracy – Finally Solved (Names, Connections, Motives)The Phoenix Lights – The Documentary
YouTube | 11 S…
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Norah Jones – “Nightingale”
Related Reading:
Norah Jones’ Official Website
Norah Jones on Wikipedia
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“The Surveillance State – What Does It All Mean?” with Jon Rappoport
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The Solari Report 2013-07-18
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This Saturday – Here Comes Permafacture!
By Catherine Austin Fitts
Ready to start building the blueprints for the open source tools that can create a more diversified, healthier civilization? Are you ready to build your very own tractor? …
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Food Documentaries: Let’s Go to the Movies with Catherine Austin Fitts
Accessing and creating your own food sources can be fun. Often it involves collaborating with friends and neighbors. What if you were to organize a regular potluck dinner and show documentaries that w…
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The Birth of a New American Music: Dakota Wind
By Catherine Austin Fitts
I drive the full length of North America at least once a year.
From Tennessee, I drive West to San Francisco and back once or twice a year. Sometimes I go the Northern ro…
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Book Review: Cypherpunks: Freedom and the Future of the Internet
“The universe believes in encryption. It is easier to encrypt information than to decrypt it.” ~Julian Assange
By …
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Solari’s Latest Donation
Send Musicians To Prison
Do you believe music can heal and restore?
Do you believe music communicates what words alone cannot?
Do you believe music can impart worth, and provoke a soul to change…
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The Rise of the Intangible Economy: U.S. GDP Counts R&D, Artistic Creation
Photo Credit: Getty Images; Illustration by 731
[CAF Note: Combine this with crowd funding, and you will have quite a financial cocktail!]
By Peter Coy
On July 31, the U.S. Bureau of Economic Anal…
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Wall Street Commodity Trading in Jeopardy Amid Fed Review
By Bob Ivry
JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM), Morgan Stanley (MS) and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS) are among lenders whose commodity-trading is in jeopardy as the Federal Reserve reconsiders letting ban…
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Solar Impulse Flies From San Francisco To New York
By Wikipedia
Solar Impulse is a Swiss long-range solar powered aircraft project developed at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. The project eventually hopes to achieve the first circu…
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Sir Ken Robinson: The Most Popular TED Speech Ever
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Money & Markets – Week of 07.21.13
Russia Sees Risks Emerging as Foreigners Amass State Debt
Bloomberg | 26 July 2013
Russia’s financial industry faces risks from surging demand for domestic ruble bonds…Detroit Bankruptcy a “Ga…
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Quote du Jour – Julian Assange
“I wouldn’t. It’s more important to get things done than to be remembered for having done them.”
~ Julian Assange, when asked how he would like to be remembered
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Quote du Jour
“I wouldn’t. It’s more important to get things done than to be remembered for having done them.”
~Julian Assange, when asked how he would like to be remembered
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Precious Metals – Week of 07.21.13
WWII Shipwreck Gives Up 61 Tons From Atlantic Seabed
Bloomberg | 22 July 2013
Odyssey Marine Exploration Inc. (OMEX), a deep-sea salvage company…Playing in Commodity Markets, Investment Banks Are …
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Housing & Mortgage Markets – Week of 07.21.13
HUD’s New ‘Fair Housing’ Rule Establishes Diversity Data for Every Neighborhood in U.S.
CNS News | 22 July 2013
To ensure that “every American is able to choose to live in a community…A Shifting o…
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Geopolitical – Week of 07.21.13
Homeland Security’s Future Home: A Former Mental Hospital
Bloomberg Businessweek | 25 July 2013
Chris Mills frequently gives tours of St. Elizabeths Hospital…Police Set to Get New Dispersal Powers…
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Science & Technology – Week of 07.21.13
Tracking Gunfire With a Smartphone
Institute for Software Integrated Systems | 05 June 2013
You are walking down the street with a friend. A shot is fired…How Pretty Pictures Are Conquering Online…
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Why the Federal Reserve Will Taper in September
By Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk
Something peculiar has been going on in the treasury market during the latest round of quantitative easing (QE). If we study the chart provided below we find that treasury…
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Food & Health – Week of 07.21.13
98 Million Americans Were Given Polio Vaccine Contaminated With Cancer-Causing Virus, Admits CDC
Natural News | 25 July 2013
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)…Brazil Develo…
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Life – Week of 07.21.13
Spike Lee Wants YOU To Fund His Next Movie
Yahoo! Finance | 24 July 2013
There’s a new Spike Lee joint…Dolphins Use Signature Whistles to Call Each Other by ‘Name’
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Wildcards – Week of 07.21.13
Darpa “Terminator” Robots, Space Probes, and More Speculation
Giza Death Star | 22 July 2013
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Viktor Schauberger – Comprehend and Copy Nature
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Catherine in 2010 on US Healthcare Policy
This is a clip from an interview Catherine Austin Fitts did called “The Looting of America”. Catherine, the daughter of a physician, has been watching the change in government regulations regarding …
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Ella Fitzgerald – “Mack the Knife”
Related Reading:
Ella Fitzgerald’s Official Website
Ella Fitzgerald on Wikipedia
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Equity Overview with Chuck Gibson: Why Dividends Matter – July 18
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Quote du Jour – Charlotte Du Cann
“Because we are holding out for an earth we know we belong to, by virtue of being alive in this form. Because somewhere in the place where there are no words, just a feeling, we are holding open a …
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Quote du Jour
“Because we are holding out for an earth we know we belong to, by virtue of being alive in this form. Because somewhere in the place where there are no words, just a feeling, we are holding open a …
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Does Edward Snowden Have Stock Options?
Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corporation (BAH)
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An Alternative to Obamacare?
By CNBC
In Dubai, city of opulence and excess, the obese are worth their (over) weight in gold. In an effort to fight increasing obesity rates, the tiny Emirate has once again outdone the world in …
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America’s Global Image Remains More Positive than China’s
By Pew Research
Publics around the world believe the global balance of power is shifting. China’s economic power is on the rise, and many think it will eventually supplant the United States as th…
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Rosalie Bertell and Planet Earth as a Weapon
[CAF Note: I just finished reading Planet Earth by Rosalie Bertell. Rather than review it, I am linking to Dr. Farrell’s review from 2011]
By Dr. Joseph P. Farrell
In my search to find information r…
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Detroit Files Largest Municipal Bankruptcy in U.S. History
By Michael A. Fletcher
Detroit filed the largest municipal bankruptcy in the nation’s history Thursday afternoon, capping a long and spectacular decline that left the nation’s automaking capita…
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Senators Reach Deal on Student Loan Interest Rates, Prepare For Vote
By Jenna Johnson
Under pressure from the White House, Senate leaders are quickly moving forward with a plan to change how the government sets federal student loan interest rates, tying them to mark…
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Crowdfunding Equity: The Market Begins
[CAF: Pay Attention. This is a market shifting event. There will be another shift coming this fall when the SEC promulgates rules that permit solicitation to non-accredited investors.]
By Ryan Tate…
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JPMorgan in Talks to Settle Energy Manipulation Case for $500 Million
[CAF Note: Is JP Morgan shipping back $500 million to fund the $393 million in the Presidents DOJ budget for the gun campaign as well as $93 million for cybersecurity funded from the profits on mana…
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New Giant Telescope Will Outshine Hubble by 15,600%
By Garakami
Scientists are eager to bring the universe a little closer to home with the soon-to-be world’s largest optical Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT). The telescope was recently approved to be …
