Housing & Mortgage Markets – Week of 02.09.14
Welcome Relief for Homeowners, Then the Tax Bill
CNBC | 05 February 2014
Come tax time, JPMorgan Chase will be able to write off the $1.5 billion in debt relief it must give homeowners…
Welcome Relief for Homeowners, Then the Tax Bill
CNBC | 05 February 2014
Come tax time, JPMorgan Chase will be able to write off the $1.5 billion in debt relief it must give homeowners…
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Did 5 Banksters and 1 Journalist All Fake Their Deaths?
Before It’s News | 08 February 2014
We outsiders can only speculate about how 5 prominent banksters and a journalist were wiped off…
German H…
V2V: What are Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communications and How Do They Work?
Extreme Tech | 06 February 2014
Vehicle-to-vehicle communications moved one step closer to reality…
Why Traffic To These Google…
Chick-fil-A to Stop Using Chickens Raised on Antibiotics
Infowars | 13 February 2014
In yet another victory for food rights activists…
Fukushima’s Legacy: Understanding the Difference Between Nucle…
Camera Falls Off Plane, Lands in a Pig Pen, and Records the Whole Thing
Death and Taxes Magazine | 12 February 2014
We realize that the web is crowded with an overwhelming number of “amazing” vira…
The Second Machine Age
Tech Crunch | 06 February 2014
Andrew Keen talks to Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson about their new book “The Second Machine Age”…
Deceptions 2 “Lest We Forget” by Ch…
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Date: Wednesday, February 5, 2014 at 10:57 PM
To:”Mayor@SyrGov.net”
Subject: Letter to Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner
Dear Mayor Miner:
I am writing to request that…
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“Collapse is when the pet poop hits your oscillating fan too fast for duck and cover. Slow burn is constantly mapping routes around those pet poop spots in the yard!” ~ A Solari Report Subscriber
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By PRWeb
Cell-Phone-Detective.com has announced the launch of its Cell Spy Stealth mobile spyware app that allows…
By Anthony Wood
A new satellite designed to take detailed, near real-time measurements of rain and snowfall on a global scale whilst mapping the interior of storm systems is set to launch. The Glob…
By Catherine Austin Fitts
The recent Snowden revelations have reminded us yet again how deeply invasive the US software system is:
“The National Security Agency has implanted software in nearly 10…
**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
While benefits and contracts to…
By Catherine Austin Fitts
I have long been a fan of Jim Marrs. He is a serious journalist. He never gives up looking for the truth. He just keeps connecting dots. He writes beautifully. So I was in…
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Innovative offerings in the payment acquisition space are flourishing from banks and new entrants…
Nearly 1 Billion Smartphones Were Shipped Last Year
Business …
Gold and Silver Derivatives in Chart Form: What Market Makers Have Controlling Interests?
Mish’s Global Economic Trend Analysis | 02 February 2014
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Timeline of redevelopment dispute involving Christie and Hoboken Mayor Zimmer
NJ.com | 22 January 2014
July 2010: The Rockefeller Group announces it is putting the finishes touches on plans for what w…
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Graphene-Based Nano-Antennas May Enable Cooperating Smart Dust Swarms
Gizmag | 03 February 2014
Smart dust. Utility fog. Programmable matter. Grey and blue goo…
The Robots That Saved Pittsburgh
Pol…
Missouri AG Challenges California Egg Law
The Sacramento Bee | 04 May 2013
Missouri’s attorney general has asked a federal court to strike down a California law regulating the living conditions of chi…
Time for a Ceasefire
The Economist | 01 February 2014
Technology and fresh ideas are replacing classroom drill—and helping pupils to learn…
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Groundhog Day is a day celebrated on February 2. According to folklore, if it is cloudy when a groundhog emerges from its burrow on this day, then spri…
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By Laura Litvan and Kathleen Hunter
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said he opposes legislation to speed approval of trade deals, rejecting a top goal of U.S. exporters a day after President Bara…
By Chris Puplava
Emerging markets have been hemorrhaging this year and are now grabbing media attention. However, as the charts show, the decline in these markets and currencies has been taking pla…
By James Gallagher
Stem cell researchers are heralding a “major scientific discovery”, with the potential to start a new age of personalised medicine.
Scientists in Japan showed stem cells can now…
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By Catherine Austin Fitts
President Obama has the challenging task of trying to persuade us that the US government should have a hand in softening the blow of income inequality.
While the Presiden…
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Peter “Pete” Seeger was an American folk singer. A fixture on nationwide radio in the 1940s, he also had a string of hit records during the early 1950s as a member of the Weavers, most…
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A subscriber sent me a picture of chicken coops for sale at a Costco in Silicon Valley, in the suburbs south of San Francisco, saying he never thought he would see such a …
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Hugo…updates us on his new role at Xiaomi, running their product portfolio and operations in all markets outside Mainland China. He shares his views on the tech sector in China …
By Chuck Gibson
At the start of every year I like to take the time and sketch out a game plan for the year. Part of that includes identifying major areas of risk and creating a mental game plan on…
**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!**
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The use of the federal budget t…
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USA Watchdog | 27 January 2014
Investment advisor Catherine Austin Fitts knows the economy is bad, but not all bad…
Yellen to be sworn in as first woman Fed…
India to Review Gold Restrictions by End-March
Reuters | 27 January 2014
India will review its tight curbs on gold imports by the end of March, the finance ministry said on Monday…
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The Transnational Institute is proud to launch its third annual ‘State of Power’ report as the World Economic Forum meets in Davos. This anthology exposes and ana…
Uzbek Terror Suspect Challenges U.S. Surveillance Program
Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty | 30 January 2014
An Uzbek man living in Colorado has become the first defendant to challenge the constitution…
More “Fringe” Science Again: Quantum Entanglement and “Psychic Teleportation”
Giza Death Star | 30 January 2014
I swear, scheduling this next two weeks’ blogs for me has been one of the more…
Hemp Growing Going Legit After Decades-Long Ban
Yahoo! Finance | 27 January 2014
The federal government is ready to let farmers grow cannabis — at least the kind that can’t get people high…
Genet…
Archaeologists Unearth What May Be Oldest Roman Temple
NPR | 29 January 2014
Archaeologists excavating a site in central Rome say they’ve uncovered what may be oldest known temple from Roman antiquity…
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Terraforming (literally, “Earth-shaping”) of a planet, moon, or other body is the theoretical process of deliberately modifying its atmosphere, te…
By Alfred McCoy
For more than six months, Edward Snowden’s revelations about the National Security Agency (NSA) have been pouring out from the Washington Post, the New York Times, the Guardian, Ger…
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By Gloria Goodale
As California faces the worst drought in its 163-year history with no hint of relief in sight, some scientists are calling the event a red flag for the future of the nation.
Gov. J…
By Tenth Amendment Center
The state-level effort to turn off water and electricity to the National Security Agency (NSA) got a major boost today as legislators in Tennessee introduced a bill to ban t…
By Sarah N. Lynch
Chinese units of the global “Big Four” accounting firms should be suspended from auditing U.S.-listed companies for six months, a judge in the United States ruled, in an escalatio…
By Catherine Austin Fitts
The latest round of bank profit announcements is worth contemplating, as is the chart above which shows the stock history of several large financial institutions (Deutsche…
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By Katie Peek
The U.S. is still the only country that’s sent people to the moon, but more nations are steadily joining us in space. South Korea sent up its first satellite last year. In the fall,…
By The Economist
About 540m years ago something amazing happened on planet Earth: life forms began to multiply, leading to what is known as the “Cambrian explosion”. Until then sponges and othe…
“Well, I don’t know what will happen now. We’ve got some difficult days ahead. But it doesn’t matter with me now. Because I’ve been to the mountaintop. And I don’t mind. Like anybody, I would like t…
Stronger Tank Cars Needed to Ship Oil by Rail: Agencies
Bloomberg | 23 January 2014
Crude oil hauled by rail needs to be shipped in stronger tank cars and on safer routes…
Internet Firms and Taxes:…
That Was The Weak That Worked: Part 3
Mauldin Economics | 20 January 2014
What a year this has been for gold…
No Plans to Roll Back Gold Import Curbs – Chidambaram
Reuters | 23 January 2014
India i…
After Seven Lean Years, Part 2: US Commercial Real Estate: The Present Position and Future Prospects
Of Two Minds | 20 January 2014
The fundamentals of demographics, stagnant household income and an o…
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By Eva Golinger
3-1-14 – . During 2013, Venezuela experienced one of the most difficult times in its history with the death of President Hug…
Whistleblower: Google Chrome Can Listen To Your Conversations
Infowars | 23 January 2014
Programmer goes public four months after company failed to fix exploit…
ObamaCare – The Lies Continue
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A Radiation Detector In Your Smartphone
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A smartphone camera can make you a walking gamma ray detector…
2013 Invention Awards: Cardboard Bike
Popular Science | 07 May 2013
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No Label? No Problem! TellSpec to Boost Clean Food Revolution
The Healthy Home Economist | 19 January 2014
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Schumpeter: Measuring management
The Economist | 18 January 2014
Management is one of the most successful industries of the past century…
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Shocking Documentary – How You Are Being Mind Controlled And Don’t Know It
YouTube | 02 May 2013
North Korea is only one of a few places that the banksters have not infiltrated…
Fox News Asks If 4 …
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Mobile marketing company Jana just published a new survey of 1,000+ mobile users in Asia, Africa and South America. What they found was pretty interesting. Mobile users t…
By Catherine Austin Fitts
If you follow market commentators, one of the themes you are hearing a great deal about is the question of what, exactly, is going to cause the stock market in the develop…
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Today, 15 January 2014, WikiLeaks released the secret draft text for the entire TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership) Environment Chapter and the corresponding Chairs’ Report. The TPP transn…
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By Brian Swint
The U.S. will be able to provide for all its own energy needs by 2035 as output of shale oil and gas accelerates and demand growth slows, BP Plc said.
The country, which became the wo…
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I am always on the look out for gems.
There is a new one in West Texas, in a small town named Ballinger. It is an “old timey” theatre called the old Texas Theatre.
For…
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The U.S. stock, bond and commod…
By Zack Miller
With all the negativity and skepticism swirling around the SEC’s recent proposition to liberalize the laws of equity crowdfunding, it’s time for some contrarian content that shed…
By Robert S. Dotson, M.D.
Avoid contact with the existing health care system as far as possible. Yes, emergencies arise that require the help of physicians, but by and large one can learn to care for…
Bank of America CFO: M&A is Ramping Up
The Wall Street Journal | 15 January 2014
Bank of America’s chief financial officer thinks M&A activity is finally revving up…
Obama’s Unemployment ‘New No…
China Seen by Bloomberg Industries Boosting Bank Gold Reserves
Bloomberg | 10 January 2014
China may have vaulted ahead of Italy and France last year to become the third-largest holder of gold, accord…
China Confirms New Hypersonic Glide Vehicle Test-Flight
RT | 15 January 2014
China confirmed conducting a test flight of a new hypersonic missile delivery vehicle capable of delivering nuclear warhead…
Harvard Research Team has Breakthrough on Battery Storage
OilPrice.com | 13 January 2014
As the world slowly transitions away from energy based on burning hydrocarbons…
Anti-NSA Blackphone: Encrypt…
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Iran Says ‘Tall, White’ Space Aliens Control America
Forbes | 13 January 2014
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President Obama met Thursday with senior lawmakers on opposing sides of a debate about whether to end the Nat…
By Alister Doyle
Everyone in Norway became a theoretical millionaire on Wednesday in a milestone for the world’s biggest sovereign wealth fund that has ballooned thanks to high oil and gas prices.
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Markets go up and down. I really dont worry about it very much. ~ US Secretary of the Treasury Nicholas Brady, 1988 (Personally very wealthy)
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Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
All the king’s horses and all the king’s men
Couldn’t put Humpty together again
~English Nursery Rhyme
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“Dude, I don’t need to play these stupid games. I know what you’re trying to do.” With that, Major Matthew Robert Bockholt hung up on me.
More than a month before, I had called US S…