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German Foreign Minister Steinmeir: Germany Must Take Up The Mantle of Being A World Power

by Dr. Joseph Farrell

Where have we heard this before?

German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeir re…

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“And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.” ~Isaiah 59:14

By Catherine Austin Fit…

By Trey Garrison

New emails contradict earlier claims Cuomo adviser recused himself

Emails have come to light from 2007 and 2008 that show an influential mortgage industry lobbyist played a big ro…

By AP

Americans’ confidence in the Supreme Court, the executive branch, and Congress has been declining over the last decade and each are at or near record lows in 2014, according to an analysis …

[CAF Note: In last week’s discussion on the Solari Report, Franklin Sanders and I addressed this issue. A convention opening up the US Constitution will be hijacked by Mr. Global and the net resul…

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by Justin McCarthy

Americans continue to name the government (18%) as the most important U.S. problem, a distinction it has had for the past four months. Ame…

The Global Breakthrough Energy Movement (GlobalBEM) is a non-profit volunteer-powered organization dedicated to educating & activating the public about breakthrough energy technologies which are cl…

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by Catherine Austin Fitts

I try to stay in a higher mind. However, if one more financial or geopolitical guru tells me that the U.S. dollar is about to colla…

“Sometimes the hardest thing to do is to do nothing.”” ~ David Tepper

By Catherine Austin Fitts

Our trader has been reluctant to proceed with authorized investments in our simulated portfolio….

by Catherine Austin Fitts

Apple Watch is going to fizzle. That is because even Apple can not persuade consumers to pay to physically wear a monitoring device on their person. So the race to make t…

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by Hedgeclippers

An analysis by Competitive Advantage Research, which examined the campaign spending of 570 hedge fund managers and senior executives over th…

“The point to remember is that what the government gives it must first take away.” ~ John S. Coleman

by Catherine Austin Fitts

There is pressure in the air. It’s called tax time.

U.S. Corporate…

A detail from the front of the United States Federal Reserve Board building is shown in Washington October 28, 2014.

by Gary Cameron

(Reuters) – The regulatory power of the Federal Reserve Bank of …

Gallup tracks daily the percentage of Americans who approve or disapprove of the job Barack Obama is doing as president. Daily results are based on telephone interviews with approximately 1,500 nati…

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“So much money is now in circulation that you can tackle whole countries with it.” ~ Rainer Voss

By Catherine Austin Fitts

Sometimes it pays, like Switzer…

S&P Homebuilder ETF (XHB) vs. the S&P

“Our economy isn’t going to recover until the housing market finds its footing” ~ Mark Zandi

By Catherine Austin Fitts

I can not help but notic…

by Wikipedia

The Government Pension Fund Global (Norwegian: Statens pensjonsfond Utland, SPU) is a fund into which the surplus wealth produced by Norwegian petroleum income is deposited. The fund c…

by Richard Dobbs, Susan Lund, Jonathan Woetzel, and Mina Mutafchieva

Seven years after the bursting of a global credit bubble resulted in the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, debt…

CAF Note: Scoop’s contribution to free press globally is a modern day David and Goliath story.  Great reporting requires great publishers and enlightened owners to back them up – and Scoop has been…

”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…

““Know what you own, and know why you own it.”” ~Peter Lynch

By Catherine Austin Fitts

Chewing this week on potential investments…

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Hello Barbie is the latest incarnation of the doll – and will record what your kid says

[CAF Note: Time to start buying dolls at Etsy! Or teaching children how to make their own. Do you really want …

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…

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…

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.

In fact, sev…

Ranking of every country in 2015 according to the Reporters Without Borders index.

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Samsung is warning customers about discussing personal information in front of their smart television set.

The warning applies to TV viewers who control their Samsung Smart TV using its voice activ…

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…

“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…

by Barbara Loe Fisher

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 …

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By Catherine Austin Fitts

The market valuation of Apple passed $700 billion this week. Let’s put that in perspective. That is almost twice as large as Exx…

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“I hate bullies. I hate them. I’m not good enough with words to describe how much I hate them.” ~ Andrew Vachss

By Catherine Austin Fitts

I once fell in love with a man because he reminded me of B…

Domestic and global statistics from the Department of Energy published December 2014…

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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…

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…