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By Reuters

Investigators from the agency that regulates power markets have found a unit of JPMorgan Chase & Co manipulated trading in the California and Michiga…

By Michael Boldin

On Thursday, Kansas Governor Sam Brownback received a letter from Federal Attorney General Eric Holder threatening action against the state should it enforce SB102 which Brownback…

By Louise Yamada

The technical observations suggesting risk for Gold spot price (GOLDS-1,462.09) over the past two months’ reports followed through with a severe decline in Gold through 1,539 sup…

By Bifurcated Carrots

There is an important vote coming up concerning proposed changes to EU seed law. This is a vote in the EU Commission, by written procedure, on Monday 6 May 2013.

If the legi…

By Robert W. Wood

Bitcoin is virtual currency much in the news these days. It’s peer-to-peer so there’s no central bank or government. But if you think that means the IRS won’t get a piece, t…

[CAF Note: Is the planetary debt-for-equity we described in the 2nd Quarter Equity Review underway?]

By Sarah Jones

Central banks, guardians of the world’s $11 trillion in foreign-exchange reser…

Transcript of Jon Rappoport and Catherine discuss Hamilton Securities is now available to Subscribers!

Subscribers: Click to download/view the Transcript.

Also find it in the blog post; at the S…

By Catherine Austin Fitts

Last Five Years

Reviewing this comparison of the US equity markets to the performance of the largest gold and silver ETFs shows you why precious metals investors have be…

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By Araceli Cruz

If you haven’t noticed, there’s currently a mass exodus from Facebook taking place. In the past three months there’s been a drop among users in the …

By Hoisington Investment Management Company

“The Federal Reserve is printing money”. No statement could be less truthful. The Federal Reserve (Fed) is not, and has not been, “printing money�…

By David Gumpert

Now that a Wisconsin judge has rejected raw milk farmer Vernon Hershberger’s religious freedom arguments to justify having a witness testify on his behalf, his trial looks likely t…

By James Surowiecki

When we all finished filing our tax returns last week, there was a little something missing: two trillion dollars. That’s how much money Americans may have made in the past ye…

By Staff Writers Washington (AFP)

The US army is working to limit its dependence on GPS by developing the next generation of navigation technology, including a tiny autonomous chip, the director of…

By Riverbend

April 9, 2013 marks ten years since the fall of Baghdad. Ten years since the invasion. Since the lives of millions of Iraqis changed forever. It’s difficult to believe. It feels like o…

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[CAF Note: Kudos to the EFF and all those who have stopped a really bad idea dead in its tracks for now]

By RT

Privacy advocates can breathe a sigh of relief as …

By Liz Farmer

In a move that’s expected to stir up staunch resistance from public pension managers, some Capitol Hill lawmakers have proposed new pension transparency regulations for local and st…

By John Rubino

Last weekend the disturbingly-brilliant Catherine Austin Fitts, publisher of the Solari Report, passed through town, giving us a chance to finally meet face-to-face. In the following…

By Jim Farber

Richie Havens, a seminal member of the New York folk scene of the ’60s, died Monday morning from a sudden heart attack.

He was 72.

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[CAF Note: Geez – why allow our taxes to pay for the police state, when consumers can fund directly?]

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By Grant Williams

I am a seller of gold.

Just not yet — and certainly not anywhere close to this price.

One day, long into the future, it will be time to sell gold — or, more likely, to excha…

By Catherine Austin Fitts

I stopped in Moscow, Idaho this weekend on my way to Portland Oregon. Moscow is the home of the University of Idaho, in an area known as the Palouse.

I was visiting wit…

[CAF Note: Ever notice how bad things happen to people who stand up to Monsanto?]

By Alexandra Berzon

As details emerge about the Texas fertilizer plant that was the site of Wednesday’s fatal ex…

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By James Nye, Louise Boyle, Simon Tomlinson and Jill Reilly

Scores of heavily-armed police swarmed a Boston suburb today as the net tightened around an ‘armed and dangerous’ suspect…

Painting By Patricia Coslor

She has a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree from Stephens College in Columbia, MO and also studied at Parson’s School of Design in New York, NY, The Art Student’s League …

By Elizabeth Landau

In the midst of chaos here on Earth, scientists are finding hope for life on other planets.

Scientists announced Thursday the discovery of three planets that are some of the be…

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by Declan McCullagh

The U.S. House of Representatives has overwhelmingly approved a controversial data-sharing bill that would authorize e-mail and Internet providers to s…

By James Gallagher

A kidney “grown” in the laboratory has been transplanted into animals where it started to produce urine, US scientists say.

Similar techniques to make simple body parts have al…

By James Gallagher

The case relates to a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union in 2009, and centres on whether companies should be able to patent genes.

US authorities have been awar…

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By Glenys Sim, Phoebe Sedgman & Debarati Roy

Gold plunged the most in 33 years amid record-high trading as an unexpected slowdown in China’s economic expansio…

By Jordan Graham, John Zaremba

Two huge explosions rocked the Boston Marathon finish line at Copley Square just before 3 p.m. today, apparently causing numerous casualties, some possible with traum…

By KristenM

The first time I ever tasted a real tomato, I was in Cusco, Peru. I had picked them up at a Farmer’s Market, bought them from an old lady with wizened wrinkles and sun-browned skin. S…

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By Heather Stewart and Helena Smith

Cypriot politicians have reacted with fury to news that the crisis-hit country will be forced to find an extra €6bn (£5bn) to co…

On my last trip to California I kept running into a group of people promoting specific solutions to the problems that face us, including government owned banks, B corporations, impact investing and …

A State of Amusement

by Valerie Strauss

Increasingly teachers are speaking out against school reforms that they believe are demeaning their profession, and some are simply quitting because they have had enough.

Here i…

By Katherine Burton, Zeke Faux and Jody Shenn

Investors including hedge funds are buying the preferred stock of government-controlled mortgage firms Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in a long-shot bet th…

By ActualidadRT

Fraude colateral. ¿Cómo funciona? ¿Quién está por detrás? En este caso Daniel Estulin habla con Catherine Austin Fitts, ex alta funcionaria de la Administración de Bush padre…

By Larry Bell

Do those of us who are determined to defend our constitutional rights to own and bear arms really have anything to worry about? Well no, at least not according to those who have aggre…

These companies all supported Monsanto’s anti GMO labeling act efforts.
 
 

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By Simon McCormack

Someone in Vatican City had better get to confession.

Torrent Freak has unearthed the download history from an IP address in the Pope’s place of re…

By: Kylie MacLellan

Crowdfunding websites helped companies and individuals worldwide raise $2.7 billion from members of the public in 2012, an 81 percent increase on the previous year, data showed …

By Spencer Ackerman

The video above is what the Navy’s top officers view as the future of their dominance on the surface of the world’s waterways. A laser cannon, its magazine limited only by t…

[CAF Note: Notice the double standard in the treatment of an artists or author copyright and Monsanto’s seed patents? Ain’t no accident! And please don’t ask me to use Google Circles or Google analy…

[Note from CAF: The Economist is laying the philosophic basis for eminent domain actions on scale. Given the recent leads about the TransPacific negotiations and the President’s proposal for private…

By Bernie Becker

President Obama’s budget, to be released next week, will limit how much wealthy individuals – like Mitt Romney – can keep in IRAs and other retirement accounts

The proposal …

[CAF Note: In the following editorial from Forbes, Steve Forbes describes the dangers of various forms of confiscation. While we have covered these issues for many years on this blog and on The Sola…