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By Anna Yukhananov and Lidia Kelly
Russian officials are pushing for the International Monetary Fund to move ahead with planned reforms without the United Sta…
By Pam Martens
Last evening, the U.S. Senate Banking Committee made the unexpected announcement that it was postponing the confirmation hearing of Stanley Fischer to serve as Vice Chairman of the F…
By Sustainable Pulse
The number of scientists and experts condemning a journal editor’s retraction of a study that found serious health effects in rats that ate a Monsanto genetically modified (GM)…
By David Sirota
The term “native advertising” may be new, but the principles of deception and camouflage that define it are not.
The Federal Trade Commission used to call this kind of thing “d…
Stakes rise for Coinbase as hackers attack bitcoin
By Philip Pearlman
Over the last week, thefts have been reported at three different bitcoin sites, one of which was the first exchange and at one…
**Note: We are republishing each of the 22 challenges from Catherine’s fiscal cliff article – one a week. Helps to digest them bit by bit!**
By Catherine Austin Fitts
The remarkable and miraculous s…
By Catherine Austin Fitts
A subscriber from “down under” sent a series of interesting links on blog posts published last year on Australia’s plans to be prepared for “bail-ins.” My thanks…
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By RT
Twenty-six of the most powerful American corporations – such as Boeing, General Electric, and Verizon – paid no federal income tax from 2008 to…
By David Barboza
Last June, an affiliate of the Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba made an offer to its hundreds of millions of users: Give us your cash, and we will pay more than Chinese banks will.
…
By Kickstarter
On March 3, 2014, Kickstarter passed $1 BILLION in pledges.
That’s $1,000,000,000 pledged by 5.7 million people to creative projects.
More than half was pledged in the last 12 m…
By Nicolette Hahn Niman
LATE on Saturday, Feb. 8, news broke of the recall of 8.7 million pounds of beef that had come through a Northern California slaughterhouse. Social media buzzed with tweets …
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By Catherine Austin Fitts
On Sunday morning, March 1 at 6:05am, the temperature in Hickory Valley TN was 64F. By 9pm, it was 34F and is expected to drop to 15F. My e-mail subscribers are reporting…
“That may seem easy to do when one looks through an always-clean, rear-view mirror. Unfortunately, however, it’s the windshield through which investors must peer, and that glass is invariably fogged…
“That may seem easy to do when one looks through an always-clean, rear-view mirror. Unfortunately, however, it’s the windshield through which investors must peer, and that glass is invariably fogged…
Consolidation of Ukrainian Stock Market Brings New Opportunities to Investors
Kyiv Post | 06 March 2014
The merger of Ukraine’s two main stock trading platforms…
Retail Sales Drop was Enormous-Ka…
Barclays, Deutsche Bank Accused of Gold Fix Manipulation
Bloomberg | 04 March 2014
Barclays Plc (BARC), Deutsche Bank AG (DBK) and three other banks were accused in a lawsuit of manipulating the Londo…
Russia Sinks Ship to Block Ukrainian Navy Entry to Black Sea
The Sydney Morning Herald | 07 March 2014
An anti-submarine ship may have been the first casualty of the Russian incursion into Crimea…
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By Jon Rappoport
To learn why Richard Nixon was really blown out of the White House, you could begin with the infamous Nazi chemical/pharmaceutical cartel, IG Farben. The cartel that pushed Hitler ov…
China to Test Cutting-Edge Anti-Smog Drone
RT | 06 March 2014
Government agencies in China are set to test a new aerial drone to tackle their overwhelming air pollution…
Atlantic Oil Drilling Using…
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By Alan Cullison, Paul Sonne, and Gregory L. White
The American and Russian presidents spoke on the phone for 90 minutes on Saturday after Russia’s parliament voted unanimously t…
Meet the New Farm Bill
Sustainable Food Center | 26 February 2014
In the US, the Farm Bill is the primary agricultural and food policy tool of the federal government…
Surge in Babies Born Without …
Snowiest Cities of Winter 2013-2014
The Weather Channel | 07 March 2014
Erie is America’s snowiest city with a population of 100,000 or greater this winter through March 3…
Shilling Discovery Could…
News March 2014
YouTube | 01 March 2014
Geoengineering And The Collapse Of Earth 2014
YouTube | 05 February 2014
This is one of those videos that is a shock to the system…
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By Karl Denninger
There are many who have expressed the opinion over the years that the United States should go down some sort of “revolutionary” road. The topic has come up repeatedly in various ar…
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By Alan Ohnsman
Tesla Motors Inc. (TSLA)’s plan to build what co-founder Elon Musk bills as the world’s largest battery factory could shake up the powe…
By Catherine Austin Fitts
What a remarkable thing it is to hear the voice of someone who is both sensible and understands the world around her. In 1985 Doris Lessing gave five lectures under the au…
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By RT
Marine innovation engineering department at Rolls-Royce has presented a draft design of an ocean-going robo-vessel that could enter service within …
By Cynthia Koehler and Audrey Finci
“Can Anybody Save California?” That was the headline of a Politico story earlier this month about our state’s water crisis. Predictions of apocalypse are not unc…
By Mike Masnick
A few weeks ago, Glenn Greenwald, while working with NBC News, revealed some details of a GCHQ presentation concerning how the surveillance organization had a “dirty tricks” group kno…
An Updated Transcript of “1st Quarter Equity Report with Chuck Gibson” is now available to Subscribers!
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An Updated Transcript of “1st Quarter Equity Report” is now available to Subscribers!
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**Note: We are republishing each of the 22 challenges from Catherine’s fiscal cliff article – one a week. Helps to digest them bit by bit!**
By Catherine Austin Fitts
Who is really in charge? And wh…
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By RT
In its first draft energy policy since 2011, Japan says nuclear energy is still among its vital sources of electricity. This comes after three years …
“Nothing real can be threatened.
Nothing unreal exists.
Herein lies the peace of God.”
~A Course in Miracles
By Catherine Austin Fitts
I tense up when I get the calls. I can usually hear it after …
By Jon Rappoport
A few days ago, I reported on a recent study of Roundup, the Monsanto herbicide, and how Roundup is involved in causing gluten intolerance and celiac disease.
http://jonrappoport.wo…
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By Martin Parry
The world’s biggest economies vowed Sunday to boost global growth by more than $2 trillion over five years, shifting their focus away from austerity as…
By BBC News
Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel has unveiled plans to shrink the US Army to its smallest size since before World War Two.
Outlining his budget plan, the Pentagon chief proposed trimming …
Mt. Gox Files for Bankruptcy, Hit with Lawsuit
Reuters | 28 February 2014
Mt. Gox, once the world’s biggest bitcoin exchange…
Natural Gas Inventories Are Headed Toward Zero
Financial Sense | 27 Feb…
Gold Fix Study Shows Signs of Decade of Bank Manipulation
Bloomberg | 28 February 2014
The London gold fix, the benchmark used by miners…
Here Is The FT’s Gold Price Manipulation Article That Was R…
By SkyVision Solutions
Northeast Utilities (NU) operates New England’s largest utility system serving more than 3.6 million electric and natural gas customers in Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New…
Ukraine Accuses Russia of ‘Military Invasion’ as Gunmen Seize Airports
Fox News | 28 February 2014
Armed forces were blocking the two main airports in the strategic peninsula…
Peter M. Flanigan, Ba…
**CAF Note: The spinners of limited modified hangouts are out in force. This is the best of the best, useful for giving an overall framework of numerous constituencies within the Washington beltway …
North American Scientists Track Incoming Fukushima Plume
BBC News | 25 February 2014
The likely scale of the radioactive plume of water from Fukushima due to hit the west coast of North America should…
Short- and Long-Term Effects of a Novel on Connectivity in the Brain
Brain Connectivity
We sought to determine whether reading a novel causes measurable changes in resting-state connectivity…
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Why Best Buy Recycles
YouTube | 21 May 2013
One-Percent Jokes and Plutocrats in Drag: What I Saw When I Crashed a Wall Street Secret Society
New York | 17 February 2014
Recently, our nation’s fina…
Project Camelot: Ole Dammegard : Assassinations & False Flags
YouTube | 10 February 2014
Ole has written a masterful book on the death of the Prime Minister of Sweden…
Do You Want to Know What’s R…
By Justin Boldenow, Producer of The Solari Report
The Solari Model works to improve lives and communities through various means and methods. It strives to increase the wealth of each venue of a per…
By Catherine Austin Fitts
Follow the money and it keeps taking you back to the issues of who and what controls and uses our airspace.
Follow the money and you follow trillion of dollars harvested …
By Catherine Austin Fitts
Follow the money and it keeps taking you back to the issues of who and what controls and uses our airspace.
Follow the money and you follow trillion of dollars harvested…
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by Paul Levy
For the last few months, all I’ve wanted to do is to read about quantum physics. I’ve been studying quantum physics off and on for decades, but have never gone as far down the rabb…
By The Telegraph
One hundred tonnes of highly contaminated water has leaked out of a tank at the Fukushima nuclear plant, the worst incident since last August, when a series of radioactive water le…
“I learned that good judgment comes from experience and that experience grows out of mistakes.”
~ Omar Bradley, U.S. Army general
“I learned that good judgment comes from experience and that experience grows out of mistakes.”
~ Omar Bradley, U.S. Army general
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By Steven Bertoni
PayPal is in the center of two battles: one for control of every transaction on the planet, the other for control of its own destiny.
Th…
By Thomas Black
Kansas City Southern (KSU), the U.S. railroad that gets almost half its revenue from Mexico, fell the most in the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index after the lower house of Mexico’s…
By Todd Shields
The U.S. plans to rewrite rules that would prevent Internet service providers from slowing Web traffic from companies such as Netflix Inc. (NFLX) and Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN)
Tom Whe…
By Megan McArdle
Industry sources tell the Washington Examiner’s Susan Ferrechio that the Barack Obama administration is thinking of extending the Affordable Care Act’s “risk corridors,” the federa…
By Catherine Austin Fitts
As the “Internet of Things” develops we are seeing a very dynamic relationship occur in retail shopping. Online stores want a bigger share of the consumer market. Cons…
By Catherine Austin Fitts
Whoever who has spent the last year making sure that a US-EU trade agreement never happens is certainly bucking for a really big bonus this year.
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An…
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**Note: We are republishing each of the 22 challenges from Catherine’s fiscal cliff article – one a week. Helps to digest them bit by bit!**
By Catherine Austin Fitts
The political process has devol…
**CAF Note: Are computers replacing FX trades because they are more efficient? Or because they are more obedient at implementing illegal schemes?**
By Ambereen Choudhury and Julia Verlaine
A widen…
“There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.”
~ Buddha
By Catherine Austin Fitts
Ray Dalio’s was quoted in Business Week this week:…
**Note from CAF: The following was written in dialogue between two members of my network in Montana. The author is positive, very intelligent, thorough, highly educated, grounded. This is a highly r…
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By Karen Pierog and Tom Hals
The city of Detroit’s effort to declare some of its general obligation bonds as unsecured debt will be challenged in bankruptcy court …
By Catherine Austin Fitts
R. J. Cutler’s documentary, The World According to Dick Cheney, is worth watching. Along with Ferguson’s No End in Sight this is very good footage documenting Dick Che…
By Chuck Gibson
Part 2 in this series, this week I wanted to dig into price reversal patterns that typically appear during market tops.
Rising Wedges
The rising wedge is a bearish reversal patter…
“The Pig In The Python Is About To Be Expelled”: A Walk Thru Of China’s Hard Landing, And The Upcoming Global Harder Reset
Zero Hedge | 21 February 2014
By now everyone knows that the Chinese credit …
By The Economist
Nigerian pineapple for breakfast, Peruvian quinoa for lunch and Japanese sushi for dinner. Two centuries ago, when David Ricardo advocated specialisation and free trade, the notion t…
By Lee Stanish, Stephen Osborn
Can microorganisms help protect our groundwater from contamination by hydraulic fracturing?
There is growing concern over the safety of hydraulic fracturing, or “fra…
The Retail Real Estate Implosion: The Robotics Cometh!
SafeHaven | 17 February 2014
The US just released US Retail Sales details warn of an alarming problem…
Scientists Warn of Environmental Threat in Chemical Arms Disposal
Space War | 20 February 2014
An international operation to destroy Syria’s chemical weapons stockpile…
Documenting Darkness: How a …
Fusion Breakthrough Reported…And a Look Back
Giza Death Star | 19 February 2014
This one was sent to me by many of you, and it is one of those stories that requires being mentioned…
World’s Lar…
Another One For The GMO-Transhumanist Scrapbook: DNA Transference From GMOs To Humans!?
Giza Death Star | 21 February 2014
Now this one, folks, I really don’t know what to make of…
Is It the Glut…
77 Reasons You’re Awful at Managing Money
The Huffington Post | 20 February 2014
People usually get better at things over time…
Ruins of the Rust Belt: Haunting Photos of Abandoned Buildings by Sep…
Jeff Rense & Dane Wigington – Snow Burns, Won’t Melt!
YouTube | 07 February 2014
Clip from February 03, 2014 – guest Dane Wigington on the Jeff Rense Program…
How to Ruin an Economy; Some Simple …
By Wikipedia
Washington’s Birthday is a United States federal holiday celebrated on the third Monday of February in honor of George Washington, the first President of the United States, and is also…
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Saint Valentine’s Day, also known as Valentine’s Day or the Feast of Saint Valentine, is observed on February 14 each year. It is celebrated in many countries around the world, althoug…
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Matt Damon, a lifelong friend of Howard Zinn and his family, read excerpts from a speech Howard Zinn gave in 1970 as part of a debate on civil disobedience.
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By Matt Taibi
Call it the loophole that destroyed the world. It’s 1999, the tail end of the Clinton years. While the rest of America obsesses over Monica Lewinsky, Columbine and Mark McGwire’s biceps…
By Pension Dialog
As anticipation mounts that Detroit will file a plan to adjust its debt with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court next week and with the ongoing confusion of public pensions, bond holders, a…
By David Sirota
When historians one day sit down to solve the Great American Pension Heist, they will likely focus much of their attention on a scandal that has been unfolding in corruption-plagued R…
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By Catherine Austin Fitts
The Church of England has now announced that they are pulling their endowment investments from companies that do not “play ball” on climate change. I am not sure what …
“I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happ…
“I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happ…
‘Cos its true what they say
It’s better the devil you know”
~ Kylie Minogue
By Catherine Austin Fitts
As you can see from the banner on our blog, the Solari Report is participating in The Day We…
**Note: We are republishing each of the 22 challenges from Catherine’s fiscal cliff article – one a week. Helps to digest them bit by bit!**
By Catherine Austin Fitts
The dependence of the U.S. econ…
By Joann Muller, Zack O’Malley Greenburg and Christopher Helman
On an overcast Tuesday morning in dusty North Platte, Nebr., Tony Orr stands at the center of the world’s largest freight rail ya…
By Chuck Gibson
The stock market dropped 5.2% over the past two weeks, the first such correction in almost 4 months. It appears as if the bears have awakened from their winter slumber. The questio…
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The National Security Agency is using complex analysis of electronic surveillance, rather than human intelligenc…
By Adrianne Jeffries
NASA is now working with private companies to take the first steps in exploring the moon for valuable resources like helium 3 and rare earth metals.
Initial proposals are due …
JPMorgan Global Program Trading Exec, Dead at 37
Housing Wire | 12 February 2014
Ryan Henry Crane, 37, executive director in JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s (JPM) global program trading, died Feb. 10…
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Which Gold Miners Hold The Most Supply?
Visual Capitalist | 29 January 2014
Major and mid-tier gold miners hold 54.3% of global reserves and resources worldwide…
China’s 500-Tonne Gold Gap Fuels Ta…