“Beat the Bush” Housing
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Lord Rothschild Warns Investors: “Geopolitical Situation Most Dangerous Since WWII”
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The new London gold fix and China
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Does China have 30,000 Tonnes of Gold Stashed Away?
Lawrieongold | 02 March 2015
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Immigration Gumballs Short Version
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High Finance: ISIS Generates up to $1Bn Annually from Trafficking Afghan Heroin
RT | 06 March 2015
Branching out i…
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One Year Later, We’re No Closer To Finding MtGox’s Missing Millions
Slashdot | 05 March 2015
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Flow Hive: Honey on Tap Directly From Your Beehive
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$4,817,652 raised of…
Alaska Farmer Turns Icy Patch Of Tundra Into A Breadbasket
NPR | 26 February 2015
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Dying to be me! Anita Moorjani at TEDxBayArea
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She realized that “heaven”…
Rewriting the Final Sentence
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The Dead Bankers Scrapbook: Murder-Suicides, Freezing on a Mountain, BNP-Paribas, Central Banks Losing Control?
Giza Death Star | 04 March 2015
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“Something in the Water” – Carrie Underwood
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“Follow the Money” – Financial Transparency with William Bergman
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Norway’s Sovereign Wealth
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Debt and (not much) Deleveraging
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Seven years after the bursting of a global credit bubble resulted in the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, debt…
Book Review: What Chinese Want
“China’s economy and people are evolving rapidly, but the underlying cultural blueprint has remained more or less constant for thousands of years.” ~ Tom Doctoroff
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“There is no limit to how low rates can go and how large foreign currency reserves can grow…The message is that if it’s not enough, we will do even more…Either we can expand our balance shee…
We Apologize!
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Financial Transparency
”As in Athens, state accounting in Rome was haphazard, and fraud was common. In his Philippics (44-43 BCE), Cicero complained of bad accounts in his attacks on Mark Antony, known for his debts and…
Money & Markets – Week of 02.22.15
Oil Set for Biggest Monthly Gain Since 2009
BD Live| 27 February 2015
Norwegian energy firm Statoil has shut…
Greece Runs Out of Funding Options Despite Euro Zone Reprieve
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Housing & Mortgage Markets – Week of 02.22.15
Too Many Houses, Not Enough Jobs
Dollar Collapse | 23 February 2015
Likely is the US joining the race…
Existing Home Sales Plunge (and Don’t Blame The Weather)
ZeroHedge | 23 February 2015
Recovery…
Geopolitics – Week of 02.22.15
Russian Opposition Leader Nemtsov Shot Dead
FT | 28 February 2015
President had taken…
The Trans-Pacific Partnership Clause Everyone Should Oppose
Washington Post | 25 February 2015
Worse, it would…
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Silicon Valley Panic: China Demands NSA-Like Access and Control
Sputnik News| 27 February 2015
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NASA’s Dawn Eyes Two Mysterious White Dots on Its Approach to Ceres
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What Nobody Told Me about Small Farming: I can’t Make a Living
Salon | 09 February 2015
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Things that Make You Go “HMMM…”: Space Bilderbergers
Giza Death Star | 17 February 2015
Probably is – the beginning…
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“Home Sweet Home” – The Farm
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Wi-fi “Spy” Barbie Records Children’s Conversations
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After the Housing Crisis, a Cash Flood and Silence
By Gretchen Morgenson
On Aug. 17, 2012, the federal government began expropriating all the earnings of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the mortgage finance giants that succumbed to the 2008 crisis.
N…
Italian Courts Rule Vaccines Cause Autism
by Mary Holland J.D.
On September 23, 2014, an Italian court in Milan award compensation to a boy for vaccine-induced autism. (See the Italian document here.) A childhood vaccine against six childh…
A Important Warning: Stop Any Call for a Constitutional Convention
The Montana House Judiciary Committee recently passed a resolution calling for an Article V Convention (HJR 4), and your action is urgently needed to stop this bill on the House Floor.
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2015 World Press Freedom Index
Ranking of every country in 2015 according to the Reporters Without Borders index.
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Not in Front of The Telly: Warning Over ‘Listening’ TV
Samsung is warning customers about discussing personal information in front of their smart television set.
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EU Eyes Markets as Savior for Flagging Economy
by Huw Jones
(Reuters) – The EU turns to stock and bond markets this week with reform proposals intended to help companies raise the cash needed for growth-boosting investments, hoping to emulate t…
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Money & Markets – Week of 02.15.15
China Pivots Everywhere
RT | 20 February 2015
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Germany Rejects Greek Loan Request
BBC | 19 February 2015
Friday’s vote…
Track The Massive Congestion At The Port Of Long Beac…
Precious Metals – Week of 02.15.15
Silver & Gold Dealers To Be Shut Down? Update On Operation Chokepoint – Mike Maloney
Financial Survival Network | 17 February 2015
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Where Is Germany’s Gold?
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Geopolitics – Week of 02.15.15
Ron Paul: “Good News” That Secession Is Happening
Buzz Feed | 19 February 2015
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General Wesley Clark: “ISIS Got Started Through Funding From Our Friends & Al…
Science & Technology – Week of 02.15.15
Open Data Day: February 21st
Open Data Day | February 2015
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Portland Now Generating Hydropower In Its Water Pipes
Oregon Public Broadcasting | 20 Fe…
Food & Health – Week of 02.15.15
Processed Fructose Is the Number One Driver of Obesity and Diabetes
Mercola| 18 February 2015
Nearly one in five US deaths…
Meridian Goes Upscale with Addiction Treatment Center
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Do Atoms Understand Language?
Jon Rappoport | 19 February 2015
The difference between…
Underground Insider: Newsletter Content
Infowars | 19 February 2015
Various…
‘Parks and Recreation’ Pro…
Wildcards – Week of 02.15.15
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Giza Death Star | 19 February 2015
Looked at that way, the story is…
Linda Minor: Ruth and Michael Paine JFK Conf…
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The CIA, NSA & Google with Nafeez Ahmed
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The Solari Report 2015-02-12
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Invitation to Our Subscribers: What’s Up with Oil and Gas Prices?
“If we want to reduce poverty and misery, if we want to give to every deserving individual what is needed for a safe existence of an intelligent being, we want to provide more machinery, more powe…
Measles in Disneyland: Third MMR Shot and Vaccine Exemption Ban
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There have been hundreds of media stories published in the U.S. and around the world since Jan. 14, 2015, the day after it was first reported that visitors to Disneyland got …
An Apple Tops Planet Equity
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The market valuation of Apple passed $700 billion this week. Let’s put that in perspective. That is almost twice as large as Exx…
European Military Deployments: 1988 vs. 2014
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Central Banks Monetizing Sovereign Debt
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Renewable Energy Data Book
Domestic and global statistics from the Department of Energy published December 2014…
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Mitch McConnell, Rand Paul Push Legalizing Hemp Growth
by Jenny Hopkinson
Forget legalizing pot: Two of the most powerful Republicans in the Senate believe there’s a much stronger chance to legalize growing hemp in the U.S., opening up an entirely ne…
30,000 Swiss HSBC Bank Accounts Leaked
by Jamie Condliffe
A slew of 30,000 leaked Swiss HSBC bank account details—what the Guardian calls the “biggest banking leak in history”—lays bare the practices of the organization and its cust…
Money & Markets – Week of 02.08.15
Regional Grocer Wegmans Unseats Amazon to Claim Top Corporate Reputation Ranking
PR News Wire | 04 February 2015
Public strongly believes reputation…
ICE Delays Opening of S’pore Futures Exchang…
Precious Metals – Week of 02.08.15
Gold in a Negative Interest Rate World
Dollar Collapse | 12 February 2015
The answer is…
SET Likely to Go Solo on Spot Gold
Bangkok Post | 12 February 2015
Thailand’s gold imports were…
Geopolitics – Week of 02.08.15
Superior Court (Alameda County) Rules in Favor of ABAG and One Bay Area
Agenda 21 News | 12 February 2015
COGs…are extra-Constitutional…
Russia has Lost its Ability to Detect Incoming Nuclear Mis…
Science & Technology – Week of 02.08.15
Driverless Car Beats Racing Driver for First Time
Telegraph | 17 October 2013
skilled race car drivers are…
Volvo Supercapacitors Body Panels
YouTube | 17 October 2013
Part that can store…
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Food & Health – Week of 02.08.15
McDonald’s Now including Free Vaccines Alongside Happy Meals
Natural News | 13 February 2015
Even pro-vaccine doctors strongly recommend spacing out…
Ghanaian Government Sued over “Illegal” GM …
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Tennesseed Camp For Start-ups: Take Your Business to the Next Level
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Medvedev TO USA: Time to Talk about Aliens, or We Will…
Giza Death Star | 13 February 2015
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‘Anonymous’ Hackers To Expose Child Sex Abusers
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Warning Children about Spychips with Dr. Katherine Albrecht
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The Solari Report 2015-02-05
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City Wifi: Fast, Cheap, and No You Can’t Have It
Check out the first minute of this explainer from Vox:
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It’s Friday afternoon in San Francisco and, to be honest, I’m sick of being in the office. So I’ve slipped out and headed o…
Book Review: Flashpoints: The Emerging Crisis in Europe
“As the global powers diverge and Europe is caught in the middle, the lack of hard power will matter more and more. Being rich and weak is a dangerous combination. Europe therefore lives in a worl…
Book Review: Character First
“A man’s character is his fate.” ~ Hercalitus
By Catherine Austin Fitts
Concerned about the impact that cultural debasement is having on me and those around me, I thought I would take a look …
Money & Markets – Week of 02.01.15
Fidelity Move Creates $100 Billion Gap for Banks
Bloomberg| 06 February 2015
Banks will be forced…
Vatican Bank May be too Corrupt for Pope Francis to Save: Posner
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Precious Metals – 02.01.15
Gold Imports by India Said to Surge This Year as Curbs Scrapped
Bloomberg | 04 February 2015
Government eased…
Geopolitical – Week of 02.01.15
Troika Trojan Horse: Will Syriza Capitulate in Greece?
RT | 06 February 2015
Legions across Europe are…
Shunned Greece Agrees to Boost Economic Cooperation with Russia
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Science & Technology – Week of 02.01.15
Alibaba Deploys Drones to Deliver Tea in China
Yahoo Finance | 04 February 2015
Airspace in China is…
DNA: The Next Frontier in Forensics
FT | 30 January 2015
First…in forensic history…
Has th…
Life – Week of 02.01.15
Here’s the Budget of a 31-year-old Who Wants to Retire Before 60
Yahoo Finance | 02 February 2015
People don’t take into account…
Planetary Collective Presents: Overview – A Short Film Documenting…
Wildcards – Week of 02.01.15
Explosive Saudi 9/11 Evidence Still Ignored by Media
Who What Why | 06 February 2015
FBI had quietly investigated…
Westminster Child Abuse Scandal: KGB and CIA kept Secret Dossiers on Britain’s VIP…
“Giant Steps” – Joey Alexander
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The State of Europe with John Laughland
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The Solari Report 2015-01-22
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Recent Trends in Military Expenditure
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Why Google Made the NSA
Inside the secret network behind mass surveillance, endless war, and Skynet—
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INSURGE INTELLIGENCE, a new crowd-funded investigative journalism project, breaks the exclusive stor…
Intervention inCivil Wars ‘Far More Likely in Oil-rich Nations’
‘Once Isis got near oil fields, the US sent drones to strike targets’
by Tom Bawden
Conspiracy theorists have long insisted that modern wars revolve around oil. Now research suggests hydrocarbons …
New Graphene ‘Wonder Material’ Breakthrough Enables Doubling of Solar Panel Efficiency
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by Ahmed Bilal
One of the major reasons that solar panels are facing such hurdles to replace conventional electricity sources is because they a…
America’s Aristocracy is Calcifying
[CAF Note: Obama Administration is dropping the proposal to tax 529 plans.
I told you the week it was announced that it was DOA. You did not even need the Congress to DOA it. The idea of taxing…
Musings on Health, Health Care and Health Insurance
“The American people need health care, not health insurance.”
~ Catherine Austin Fitts
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Personal health care choices have become a risky gauntlet in America. Increasin…
Change is Accelerating in 2015 – Catherine Austin Fitts
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IBM Announcement Coming Wed; Wall Street will be Snowed In
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by David Goldman
Tech blogger Robert Cringely wrote last week that IBM would lay off 26% of its staff, or nearly 112,000 employees, in a massive restructuring. The cuts will be …
Lawless Leaders Changing the World 2015
by Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com
Financial expert Catherine Austin Fitts says the world is changing through crime by our leaders. Fitts contends, “We are dealing with a lawlessness that is ha…
Whose Claim to Fame (and fortune) is an NSA Backdoor?
by John Leyden
Linux supremo Linus Torvalds has jokingly admitted US spooks approached him to put a backdoor in his open-source operating system.
During a question-and-answer ?session ?at ?the Li…
How Covert Agents Infiltrate the Internet to Manipulate, Deceive, and Destroy Reputations
by Glenn Greenwald
One of the many pressing stories that remains to be told from the Snowden archive is how western intelligence agencies are attempting to manipulate and control online discourse w…
The Biggest Mass Layoffs of The Past Two Decades
by Jena McGregor
Last Thursday, a technology blogger for Forbes magazine reported that IBM was planning to cut 26 percent of its total workforce — or some 112,000 jobs — in a “bloodbath” of lay…
Coming Clean: Crowdfunding Links
In recent years there have been methods developed to decentralize investing. We take a close look at crowdfunding, the legal issues and dangers involved, and how to approach it as an entrepreneur. Cro…
Money & Markets – Week of 01.25.15
Chevron Pulls the Plug on Poland Shale Gas Exploration
Sputnik News | 31 January 2015
To reduce capital spending by…
Financial Coup d’Etat
Solari | 08 August 2011
The magnitude of…
Using Women…
Precious Metals – Week of 01.25.15
The Visual Story Of The Biggest Fraud In Gold Mining History
Zero Hedge | 23 January 2015
Major banks and media were…
Geopolitical – Week of 01.25.15
Panic in Kiev?
Club Orlov | 25 January 2015
Near the front report…
Recovered History: How the Feds Went after Billie Holiday
Undernews | 25 January 2015
The Bureau believed…
Science & Technology – Week of 01.25.15
Smartphones will begin Categorizing Users’ Mental Health; Gun Seizures will Follow
Natural News | 23 January 2015
Assess factors like when patients…
Food & Health – Week of 01.25.15
Doctors’ Pay Will Be Linked to Quality in Historic U.S. Overhaul of Medical Billing
Bloomberg | 26 January 2015
Eventually more than doubling…
California Releases Draft Plan for Unlimited Future Pe…
Wildcards – Week of 01.25.15
Disney Chemtrail Predictive Programming 1959 – ‘The Future of Weather Control’
YouTube | 22 January 2015
HAARP like methods…
LOOK UP Chemtrails Geo Engineering Weather MOD
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“Mess Around” – Ray Charles
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2015: Free & Inspired with Jon Rappoport
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Glen Greenwald on Internet Ops
by Glenn Greenwald
One of the many pressing stories that remains to be told from the Snowden archive is how western intelligence agencies are attempting to manipulate and control online discourse wit…
The Global Innovation Index
by Bloomberg
Billionaire venture capitalist Jim Breyer is heading to the Swiss Alps this year with an upbeat message. “This is a magical time,” says Breyer, founder and CEO of Breyer Capital and a p…
Draghi Commits to Trillion-Euro QE Plan in Deflation Fight
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by Jeff Black and Simon Kennedy
Mario Draghi led the Central Bank into a new era, pledging to buy government bonds in an asset-purchase program worth at le…
Who Owns the West?
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Russia Battening Down the Hatches: Duma Condsiders Anti-ngo Legistration, Mastercard Teams with Russia Central Bank, Russia De-couples from Dollar
by Joseph P. Farrell
As you can tell, this week we’ve been primarily focused on geopolitics and financial news (as distinct from last week’s focus on some technological issues and their implication…
Losing Someone You Loved
“To feel the love of people whom we love is a fire that feeds our life.”
~ Pablo Neruda
By Catherine Austin Fitts
I spoke to a colleague last week. We had not spoken for a year or more. Each t…
Hissing on Holder
By Catherine Austin Fitts
They have a name for men who round up innocent children and send them to prisons where they make uniforms for the military at great expense to the taxpayer. I am not going t…
The Success of Small Countries
by Cedit Suisse
The debate on what would happen if Scotland or Catalonia became independent opens up some very interesting arguments. On one side we have politicians and corporations advocating the…