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Like most sins, tax breaks are easier to condemn than to resist. Politicians regularly decry the inefficiency and complexity that tax breaks introduce to the overall tax system,…

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The Invergordon Mutiny was an industrial action by around 1,000 sailors in the British Atlantic Fleet, that took place on 15–16 S…

With this goal in mind, Mexico has established the following priorities:

Economic stabilization and structural reforms as foundations for growth and employment.

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“Not success.  Not growth.  Not happiness. The cradle of your love of life is death.”

-Stephen Jenkinson  

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By Stephanie Baum

A company has developed a robot to help autistic children learn social reference skills and is raising $1.25 million to produce more in a beta production run.

The Popchilla…

By Katharina Bart

An indictment of Zuercher Kantonalbank by U.S. officials in an ongoing tax probe would not mean the state-backed bank’s demise, Chief Executive Martin Scholl said in an interview …

By Martin Hutchinson

It now looks as though Nicolas Sarkozy’s days are numbered. In the balance lies the fate of the Eurozone itself.

It appears Socialist Francois Hollande will win the French el…

TWO FUTURES? Privacy, piracy, security, sovereignty—the divisions on these issues reflect an even deeper split between those who want tight control and those who want unfettered freedom.

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Joel Salatin talks to Lew about Big Agra authoritarianism, and how to emancipate yourself.

Joel Salatin’s Polyface Farm website

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By Catherine Austin Fitts

While I was in Portugal, I received the following e-mail from my assistant in Hickory Valley:
“The local energy authority stopped by regarding Smart meter, said that he wa…

By Matthew Philips

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By Fred Meier

Ford announced today that it would offer a lump-sum payment to its 90,000 salaried retirees as well as U.S. salaried former employees due pensions to get them to voluntarily give up a…

By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan

Three targeted Americans: A career government intelligence official, a filmmaker and a hacker. None of these U.S. citizens was charged with a crime, but they have…

Sepp Holzer is coming to the US!

May 3-13 2012
Advanced Permaculture Training in Flathead Lake, MT

‘Place of Gathering’

Sepp Holzer and Michael Pilarski are teaching these courses
Flathead Lake, …

By F. William Engdahl

The prospect of an unparalleled Eurasian economic boom lasting into the next Century and beyond is at hand. The first steps binding the vast economic space are being construct…

By Foster and Kimberly Gamble

When unpacking [John] Robbins arguments we notice:

He has not corrected a single fact from THRIVE;

He confirms the sociopathic and greedy destructiveness of a few …

Source: Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund

Falls Church, Virginia, April 11, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — On March 30 federal district judge Mark W. Bennett issued an order dismissing a lawsuit challen…

Second International Water Symposium
Tamera, Portugal- April 27 – 29, 2012

[Note from Catherine: I am attending this week]

We have convened this symposium to introduce a concept of how desertific…

[CAF Note: Well, I guess these guys think precious metals is in a long-term primary trend! Or, perhaps, precious metals is good air cover?]

By Beth Jinks

Google Inc. (GOOG) (GOOG) Chief Executive …

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The first industrial revolution began in Britain in the late 18th century, with the mechanisation of the textile industry. Tasks previously done laboriously by hand in hundred…

By Associated Press,

New York — Revenue from Internet advertising in the U.S. hit a record $31 billion last year, according to a study released Wednesday.

That’s up 22 percent from $26 billion…

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A phenomenal series of Venn diagrams at the end of this article shows in painstaking detail just how corrupted our political sy…

By Pete Kotz

It was the early 1990s, and the 750 men and women at Georgetown Steel were pumping out wire rods at peak performance. They had an abiding trust in management’s ability to run a smart com…

By Simone Foxman

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By Marc Ross

US exports to China in 2011 total $103.9 billion?30 states now count China as one of their top three export markets

Washington, DC, March 28, 2012 – Today the US-China Business Counci…

By Ernest A. Canning

Would legalization disrupt the economics of the Prison Industrial Complex and its pool of slave laborers?

This is the second of our three-part series advancing the hypothesis th…

By Ken Tysiac

Americans’ infatuation with technology such as cellphones, cable TV, and satellite radio isn’t helping them fatten their bank accounts, according to a survey conducted for the AIC…

By Lori Montgomery

The painful trade-offs of tax reform came into sharper focus Tuesday as lawmakers for the first time began considering specific tax breaks to reduce or otherwise change, startin…

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An unbelievable story, the source of which appeared to be a single Spanish-language news broadcast, made the blogosphere rounds yesterday: Iceland is forgiving nearly all o…

What a wonderful brunch we had this weekend in San Jose!

Australian Tony Brigstock and his beautiful family played host. Tony is a former PGA tour golfer who is now teaching and happens to be an in…

The list below shows the largest banks in the world based on market capitalization as of January 20, 2012. Industrial & Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) is the largest bank in the world by market c…

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Want to learn more about your state and local government? If they issue official statements in connection with issuance of their notes and bonds, these documents can …

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The American Academy of Environmental Medicine (AAEM) today issued a position paper on “Electromagnetic and Radiofrequency Fields Effect on Human Health”, including wireless technologi…

By Staff Writers Petah Tikva, Israel

Gilat Satellite Networks has announced completion of a dedicated project for satellite-based web connectivity to support Russia’s national presidential election…

By Catherine Austin Fitts

I was walking through a mall in Corte Madre on Friday afternoon looking for store to arrange for a new phone (at last, I ditched the iPhone!).

I had seen signs for a farm…

By Chris Kahn, AP Energy Writer

New York (AP) – A 10-month slide in natural gas prices took a breather after the government said U.S. supplies didn’t grow as much as expected last week.

The future…

This film tells the story of a South Los Angeles edible garden planted in a surprising spot. Ron Finley, its planter, constructed the garden the way he wishes his neighborhood could be.

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Is Karl Rove secretly supporting Mitt Romney? (photo: AP)

By Jim Rutenberg and Jeff Zeleny,The New York Times

American Crossroads, the biggest of the Republican “super PACs,” is planning to begin it…

By Rob Kirby

On April 5, 2012, JPMorganChase commodity executive Blythe Masters appeared on CNBC, and she was questioned whether the bank is manipulating metals markets?

Watch the interview here
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From pain rays to guns that can turn people into zombies, these weapons are no longer the stuff of fiction.

By Tecca

Forget the light saber; the flashy sword is but a part of the fictional Star Wars…

By Will Allen and Ronnie Cummins

The world’s most hated corporation is at it again, this time in Vermont.

Despite overwhelming public support and support from a clear majority of Vermont’s Agricul…

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National Debt from 1940 to Present

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By Steven Rosenfeld

Wisconsin’s recall-facing Republican Gov. Scott Walker and his legislative allies received a stunning rebuke from a federal court on Friday that ruled the state’s Act 10 that stri…

By Linda Minor

Part One of this saga served as an introduction to Pug Winokur, how he rose from the son of a Jewish pawnbroker to be mentored by Harvard’s “whiz kids,” a generation after they thems…

Former AIG CEO Maurice R. “Hank” Greenberg

By Arthur D. Postal

The Federal Reserve Bank of New York Monday asked a federal court in Manhattan to promptly dismiss a lawsuit alleging that the federal …

By Shawn Pogatchnik

Debt-mired Ireland is facing a revolt over its new property tax.

The government said less than half of the country’s 1.6 million households paid the charge by Saturday’s deadli…

By Gordon Cox

The latest play by John Patrick Shanley has a new title, “Storefront Church,” and a cast that includes Giancarlo Esposito, Tonya Pinkins and Zach Grenier.

Bowing at Off Broadway’s At…

“It was as though in those last minutes he was summing up the lessons that this long course in human wickedness had taught us — the lesson of the fearsome, word-and-thought-defying banality of e…

By Hiroko Tabuchi

TOKYO — The damage to one of three stricken reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi plant could be worse than previously thought, a recent internal investigation has shown, raising ne…

The collapse of Enron occurred in October 2001, one month after the towers fell on 9/11. It’s been more than ten years now, and we still don’t know where the Enron money went. But all those years ag…

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By Michael P. Farris, Esq.

I am not content to sit on the sidelines while the government gradually usurps the very essence of parental rights. I hope you share my determination. We need to stand with…

By Attorney Michael T. Dunn

On March 27, 2012, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to approve the version of the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act (the “JOBS Act”) that was passed by the Se…

By Philip Klein

Justices on the U.S. Supreme Court this morning considered what to do with the rest of President Obama’s national health care law if its individual health insurance mandate is struc…

By Walking Times

As incomes fall and retail prices rise, Greeks have found an ingenious way to pay three times less than they usually would for potatoes.

Since the farmers sell the potatoes for a …

By Phil Mattingly and Silla Brush

Jon S. Corzine, MF Global Holding Ltd. (MFGLQ)’s chief executive officer, gave “direct instructions” to transfer $200 million from a customer fund account t…

By Sami K. Martin , Christian Post Contributor

Scientists and Harry Potter fans are one step closer to having an invisibility cloak. For those not familiar with Harry Potter, an invisibility cloak …

By RT.com

Madrid’s high-class escorts have found a way to regulate the Spanish banking sector. The ladies want to have their say in the economy by withholding sexual pleasures from bank employees…

By Joe Pompeo

Herbert “Pug” Winokur, the former Enron board member and finance committee chairman when the company was destroyed by an accounting-fraud scandal in 2001, has stepped down from the b…

By Jesse j. Holland

Sharp questioning by the Supreme Court’s conservative justices has cast serious doubt on the survival of the individual insurance requirement at the heart of President Barack Ob…

By Bob Ivry

The White House submitted a budget plan to Congress this year that would have provided the FHA as much as $688 million from the U.S. Treasury , the first bailout in the agency’s 78- y…

By Ed Keller

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Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

In an essay headlined “Fake Bars — The Facts,” Bron Suchecki of the Perth Mint today explains why tungsten-filled and other counterfeit gold bars like t…

By Gary Victor Dubin

Gary Victor Dubin is a dynamite Honolulu foreclosure defense attorney with over 40 wins by the DUBIN LAW FIRM in Hawaii foreclosure courts for his clients just in the last year…

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By Richard Wolf

Health coverage for more than 30 million people. The power of Congress to regulate interstate commerce. President Obama’s re-election. The reputati…

By Ruby Lian and Fayen Wong – Reuters

The Hong Kong Mercantile Exchange plans to launch yuan-settled gold and copper futures by July, its president said on Friday, as it looks to tap growing intere…

Guatemalan President Otto Perez Molina

By Catherine E. Shoichet

On the campaign trail, Otto Perez Molina vowed to rule his country with an iron fist.

The retired general said he would send troops …

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The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (“SWIFT”) operates a worldwide financial messaging network which exchanges messages between banks and other financia…

By Janet Lorin

U.S. student-loan debt reached the $1 trillion mark, as young borrowers struggle to keep up with soaring tuition costs, according to the initial findings of a government study.

The …

By Joseph T. Salerno

Under cover of its multiplicity of fabricated wars on drugs, terror, tax evasion, and organized crime, the US government has long been waging a hidden war on cash. One symptom …

By Arshad Mohammed and Andrew Quinn

The United States exempted Japan and 10 EU nations from financial sanctions because they have significantly cut purchases of Iranian oil, but left Iran’s top cus…

By James Bamford

The spring air in the small, sand-dusted town has a soft haze to it, and clumps of green-gray sagebrush rustle in the breeze. Bluffdale sits in a bowl-shaped valley in the shadow o…

Dennett’s IGA supermarket in Mullumbimby is FOR SALE

Could the people of Mullumbimby own their own supermarket…?

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Tehran’s threats to block the Strait of Hormuz in response to sanctions are not mere words, warned Iran’s senior spokesman on sanctions. As long as the West ignores interna…

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Executive order issued Friday entitled “National Defense Resources Preparedness”

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[Note from CAF: Yes, it is simply an update of existing Executive Orders. However, why now? La…

By Pete Kennedy, Esq.

In a brazen power grab threatening the livelihood of hundreds of small farmers, the Michigan Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is using the state Invasive Species Act to e…

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Secret Deals, Foreclosure Settlements,Stress Tests, and Vampire Squid Whistle-Blowers

By L. Randall Wray

No Hollywood scriptwriter could plot a more implausible story. Here is the plotline sequenc…

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National Foreclosure Settlement Complaint (PDF)
 
 
Individual Bank Agreements:
 
 
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Citi Sett…

[CAF Note: Goldman’s head of derivatives for Europe just happens to resign in the middle of the Greek CDS debacle and writes a big NY Times piece attacking Goldman on culture? What a coincidence! A …

By Joe Weisenthal

Sectoral Excess returns

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By Jeff Horwitz

JPMorgan Chase & Co. took procedural shortcuts and used faulty account records in suing tens of thousands of delinquent credit card borrowers for at least two years, current and for…

Lesley Stahl profiles British musical savant Derek Paravicini, whose computer-like memory for music is matched by his creative abilities to play it in any style.