This interactive map shows Dagong’s credit rating for each country.

Dagong Global Credit Rating is a credit rating agency based in China. It is one of the few notable non-US based credit rating age…

From Press TV

Two commanding officers in US Navy’s 6th Fleet based in Italy were stripped of their commands on Monday pending investigations into “allegations of misconduct,” US-based journal…

Economic Policy Institute – Between 2007 and 2010, while median family wealth fell by 39 percent, the wealth of the Walton family members rose from $73 billion to $89 billion…In 2007, it was repor…

By Associated Press

South Korea’s President Lee Myung-bak, left, China’s Premier Wen Jiabao, and Japan’s Prime Minister Yoshihiko – Source: PressTV

South Korea, China and Japan will soon start talk…

By Fares Akram, Jodi Rudoren and Alan Cowell

The top leader of Hamas dared Israel on Monday to launch a ground invasion of Gaza and dismissed diplomatic efforts to broker a cease-fire in the six-da…

By The Economist

THE euro crisis has eased since Mario Draghi, president of the European Central Bank (ECB), pledged in July 2012 to do “whatever it takes” to save the single currency. Sovereig…

By The Economist

In rich, debt-laden economies the policymaking horizon is short-term: a recovery is the priority. Very long-range forecasts from the OECD, a think-tank, may seem an exercise in irre…

By Nicole Perlroth

If David H. Petraeus couldn’t keep his affair from prying eyes as director of the Central Intelligence Agency, then how is the average American to keep a secret?

In the past, a …

By I, Cringely

Earlier this year I wrote a series of columns about crowdfunding and the JOBS Act, which was signed into law last April with several goals, one of which was to help startups raise mone…

By Kenneth R. Harney

With the House and Senate back on Capitol Hill for the lame-duck session, preliminary negotiations aimed at keeping the country from careening off the “fiscal cliff” have begun i…

YouTube | 06 November 2006

The European Day of Action and Solidarity is designed as a sign to leaders to abandon the programmes of tax rises and spending cuts that are being implemented since the financial crisis began.

Rela…

Special thanks to MIT Alumni Eclipse Tour leader, Midge Bell, for this amazing photo!

From Wikipedia

A total solar eclipse took place on 13–14 November 2012 (UTC). Because it crossed the Inte…

YouTube | 16 November 2012

The Thrive Movement

By MarketWatch

China unveiled the makeup of its top Communist Party leadership body Thursday, elevating Vice President Xi Jinping, as expected, though some analysts worried about whether the new team…

By Ron Paul

This may well be the last time I speak on the House Floor. At the end of the year I’ll leave Congress after 23 years in office over a 36 year period. My goals in 1976 were the same as…

Beware the companies below: they are battling your right to know what’s in your food by donating large sums of money to fight Prop 37 (the California Right to Know Act, a.k.a. Label GMO).

In additi…

[Note from CAF: Hmmm. Suppress energy technology. Then blame human for carbon emissions and tax them. What is wrong with this picture? Are you ready for a property tax on everything? This is a VERY ba…

By Ian Simpson of Reuters

Citizens from more than 40 states have filed petitions with the White House seeking to secede from the union, and by Wednesday, seven states had gathered enough signatures t…

By Steve Goldstein

The Federal Housing Administration is expected to report later this week that it could exhaust its reserves because of rising mortgage delinquencies, The Wall Street Journal report…

By Jon Rappoport

The verdict is in. You would be a fool to accept the vote-count in the California Prop 37 election. I’ll show you why.

Apparently, the CA secretary of state’s office has been ge…

By Reuven Cohen

In something that looks straight out of the CBS show “Person of Interest“, the science website Phsy.org is reporting on a potentially important breakthrough from researchers at …

[CAF Note: The turnover at the top of the military-intelligence complex is noticeable and has nothing to do with extra-marital affairs.]

FBI Probe Uncovering Petraeus Affair Followed Complaints
The …

By Ambrose Evans Pritchard

So there is a magic wand after all. A revolutionary paper by the International Monetary Fund claims that one could eliminate the net public debt of the US at a stroke, an…

YouTube | 26 September 2010

For more Cities of Foam, check out their website.

With over 18 speakers, two conference rooms and a 3 day program, this event is designed to focus on the full scope of Breakthrough Energy Technologies. Our speaker lineup for the conference this Nov…

By Jon Rappoprt

Hold your horses.

On election night, not long after the polls closed in California, the announcement came out: Prop 37 was losing. A little while later, it was all over. 37 had gone …

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[Note from CAF: I got this question from a subscriber this evening, so I asked Paul Ferguson t…

By Susan Stallings

According to the Naval Enlisted Reserve Association, scores of military absentee ballots cast in the 2012 Election will not be counted. U.S. Military personnel and their families a…

YouTube | 14 October 2012

My name is Daniel ROA. I am a canadian singer-songwriter from Winnipeg, Manitoba. I released my second album almost a year ago (French quirky pop/rock music) on which I pen…

[CAF Note: This is not good. If there is one thing worth fighting to the death, it is a carbon tax…]

By Mathew Carr

Barack Obama may consider introducing a tax on carbon emissions to help cut the …

By Joseph P. Farrell

India may – and in my opinion probably will – join a growing list of nations banning Duponzanto’s and Mon(ster)santo’s hideous GMO foods. And let’s be honest, their pro…

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The seasonally-adjusted SGS Alternate Unemployment Rate reflects current unemployment reporting methodology adjusted for SGS-estimated long-term …

In April of 1997 United States Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen said: “Others are engaging even in an eco-type of terrorism whereby they can alter the climate, set off earthquakes, volcanoes re…

By Becky Newbold

A gathering in October in Westpoint found people from across the United States exploring local economies and issues important to life: faith, people, health and money.

Organized b…

By Jeffrey M. Smith

First of all, let’s celebrate with San Juan County, Washington, for passing its GMO-Free County initiative. Growing GMOs in the San Juan Islands will shortly be illegal. Thanks …

[CAF Note: Climate Change or HAARP Change? My 2 cents is that Bloomberg has been told to fall in line. Given the death rate of leaders in strategic positions these days, the pressure is on]

By Michae…

By Evan Ackerman

What happens if you give a thousand Motorola Zoom tablet PCs to Ethiopian kids who have never even seen a printed word? Within five months, they’ll start teaching themselves Englis…

By Alison George

You were told you had brain cancer and your response was to hack open your medical records and publish them online. Why?
When I was diagnosed I was a bit unsatisfied with what took…

From Mercury News

I’m a molecular geneticist who helped commercialize the world’s first genetically engineered whole food. I wholeheartedly support providing Californians with information about wheth…

By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard

Germany withdrew two thirds of its vast holdings of gold from Bank of England vaults shortly after the launch of the euro more than a decade ago, according to a confident…

From Reuters

The Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA) recommended on Monday that the U.S. bond market stay closed on Tuesday Oct. 30 due to Hurricane Sandy.

The market is sc…

By Andrew Hessel, Marc Goodman and Steven Kotler

This is how the future arrived. It began innocuously, in the early 2000s, when businesses started to realize that highly skilled jobs formerly perfo…

By Jonathon Weil

There is something very weird about the civil complaint the Justice Department filed this week against Bank of America Corp. (BAC) for allegedly defrauding Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac…

From Dr. Joseph Farrell

Yesterday I began a short multi-series blog that I am entitling Gold, Germany, and Geopolitics, because, as I indicated yesterday, so many of you are following this story, a…

[Note from CAF: This is a description of a panel coming up at Stanford Law School. It shows that when a decision is made to innovate that the powers that be (in this case Google) have the ability to…

[CAF Note: Bill Eitner of Computers for Everyone in East Palo Alto sent this note to his colleague Court Skinner. This is a great example of a not for profit that adds tremendous value to a communit…

YouTube | 21 October 2012

By Roy Greenslade

I know it’s fashionable for publishers to cut back on staffing so I wonder what they think of this initiative: drone journalism.

The film above shows ho…

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By Reuters

An Italian court on Friday convicted former Prime Minister here

America: The Food Stamp Nation
America has over 44 million people on Food Stamps. The food stamps program’s real name is Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).

The Food Stamp program is “h…

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By Duncan Gardham, Bruno Waterfield and Emily Gosden

Belgian police have imposed a news blackout after Nicholas Mockford, 60, was shot as he left an Italian restaurant in Neder-over-Heembeek, a sub…