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By Heather Stewart and Helena Smith

Cypriot politicians have reacted with fury to news that the crisis-hit country will be forced to find an extra €6bn (£5bn) to co…

On my last trip to California I kept running into a group of people promoting specific solutions to the problems that face us, including government owned banks, B corporations, impact investing and …

A State of Amusement

by Valerie Strauss

Increasingly teachers are speaking out against school reforms that they believe are demeaning their profession, and some are simply quitting because they have had enough.

Here i…

By Katherine Burton, Zeke Faux and Jody Shenn

Investors including hedge funds are buying the preferred stock of government-controlled mortgage firms Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in a long-shot bet th…

By ActualidadRT

Fraude colateral. ¿Cómo funciona? ¿Quién está por detrás? En este caso Daniel Estulin habla con Catherine Austin Fitts, ex alta funcionaria de la Administración de Bush padre…

By Larry Bell

Do those of us who are determined to defend our constitutional rights to own and bear arms really have anything to worry about? Well no, at least not according to those who have aggre…

These companies all supported Monsanto’s anti GMO labeling act efforts.
 
 

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By Simon McCormack

Someone in Vatican City had better get to confession.

Torrent Freak has unearthed the download history from an IP address in the Pope’s place of re…

By: Kylie MacLellan

Crowdfunding websites helped companies and individuals worldwide raise $2.7 billion from members of the public in 2012, an 81 percent increase on the previous year, data showed …

By Spencer Ackerman

The video above is what the Navy’s top officers view as the future of their dominance on the surface of the world’s waterways. A laser cannon, its magazine limited only by t…

[CAF Note: Notice the double standard in the treatment of an artists or author copyright and Monsanto’s seed patents? Ain’t no accident! And please don’t ask me to use Google Circles or Google analy…

[Note from CAF: The Economist is laying the philosophic basis for eminent domain actions on scale. Given the recent leads about the TransPacific negotiations and the President’s proposal for private…

By Bernie Becker

President Obama’s budget, to be released next week, will limit how much wealthy individuals – like Mitt Romney – can keep in IRAs and other retirement accounts

The proposal …

[CAF Note: In the following editorial from Forbes, Steve Forbes describes the dangers of various forms of confiscation. While we have covered these issues for many years on this blog and on The Sola…

By Alex Newmann

After almost four years of negotiations, the Canadian government and the European Union are reportedly close to finalizing a controversial integration deal known as the “Comprehen…

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Cyprus and the EU reached a new late-night bailout deal last night that will reduce the chance that Cyprus’s financial system and economy will completely implode.

The 10 billion e…

By Tax Justice Network

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By Margaret Collins & Devin Banerjee

Private-equity firms, the exclusive money managers overseeing $3 trillion worldwide for the wealthiest investors, are discovering a new type of client: ordinary…

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By Ken Tysiac

U.S. public companies can use social media to make company announcements as long as they inform investors of the channels they will use to di…

By Natasha Lennard

Slipped into the Agricultural Appropriations Bill, which passed through Congress last week, was a small provision that’s a big deal for Monsanto and its opponents. The provisi…

By Eric Toensmeier

To save the planet we may need to turn it into an edible paradise… help me write the book that explains how and why.

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By IRS

The new Form 8938 filing requirement does not replace or otherwise affect a taxpayer’s obligation to file Form TD F 90-22.1 (Report of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts). Individuals mus…

By Yves Smith

One of the big lessons of the fraught negotiations over bailing out (or more accurately, in) Cyprus’s banks is that deregulating institutions with an implicit or explicit state guaran…

[CAF Note: Now that we have turned over $27 trillion in bailouts to private investors and $4 trillion is “missing”
from the US government, we are now going to transfer control of the infrastructure …

By Glenn Greenwald

The use of drones by domestic US law enforcement agencies is growing rapidly, both in terms of numbers and types of usage. As a result, civil liberties and privacy groups led by …

By The Economist

On April 5th 2012 the pitched political battles in Washington, DC, briefly paused as Barack Obama signed a law endorsed by both Republicans and Democrats. The Jump Start Our Busine…

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Glenn Greenwald…”Brown – who has been imprisoned since September on a 17-count indictment that could result in many years in prison – is a serious journalist who has spent the…

By Weill Cornell Medical College

Humans don’t “own” their own genes, the cellular chemicals that define who they are and what diseases they might be at risk for. Through more than 40,000 patents on …

By The Economist

In 1999 Trudy Dai used to spend all night sending e-mails from her friend Jack Ma’s apartment, trying to answer queries from American customers without letting on that she was …

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By Mike Cohen & Ilya Arkhipov

The biggest emerging markets are uniting to tackle under-development and currency volatility with plans to set up institutions that encroa…

By Jeffery Sparshott

The U.S. is applying money-laundering rules to “virtual currencies,” amid growing concern that new forms of cash bought on the Internet are being used to fund illicit activitie…

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By This American Life

The number of Americans receiving federal disability payments has nearly doubled over the last 15 years. There are towns and counties aroun…

By William Alden

The lack of women on corporate boards has been a hot topic in financial circles recently, especially after a debate in Europe last year over imposing quotas.

Now, Wall Street is off…

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By Annika Breidthardt and Robin Emmott and Michele Kambas

The euro zone agreed on Saturday to hand Cyprus a bailout worth 10 billion euros ($13 billion), but …

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By Cliff Kuang

Like YouTube, Facebook, or blogging platforms, it’s almost hard to believe there was an Internet without Kickstarter, which may be the greatest testament to its success. In 2009, t…

By Urs Geiser

A rightwing group has submitted more than 106,000 signatures to the federal authorities, seeking a vote on stopping the sale of gold reserves held by the Swiss National Bank (SNB). It…

By Tom Simonite

In 2012 the startup Pinterest became a peer of more established social sites by offering things that they didn’t—an attractive design, a focus on images rather than text, and a …

By Wikipedia

The 2013 BRICS summit will be the fifth annual BRICS summit, an international relations conference attended by the head of states or heads of government of the five member states Brazi…

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By Tara Siegel Bernard

Until recently, the tax man rarely held you accountable for how much you profited — or lost — when you sold stocks or mutual funds.

Instea…

By Catherine Austin Fitts

Google has launched Glass. You can check it out here: Link

Better yet, to understand what it is like to facilitate 24-hour surveillance and data collection, watch The Tru…

[CAF Note: How has centralizing the mortgage market worked so far? Great, how about some more?
Anyone considered free markets? Like the kind of markets where the borrowers don’t like crime because wit…

by Catherine Austin Fitts

This weekend I read Forbes’ new special edition on billionaires.

In his introduction, “They succeed by meeting your needs,” Steve Forbes writes: “The overwhelming major…

[CAF Note: The following is a complete lie. Shadowstats estimates the current annual inflation rate at 9+%.
That fits with what I am observing. The theory that price rises are modest, excepting foo…

By Bruce Japsen

As Medicare whacks away at what doctors are paid and health insurers move away from paying fees for service to bundled payments, more physicians who own their own practices will sta…

By Mark Drajem

President Barack Obama is preparing to tell all federal agencies for the first time that they should consider the impact on global warming before approving major projects, from pipel…

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By Nicholas Shaxson

Up until the 18th century, Knightsbridge, which borders genteel Kensington, was a lawless zone roamed by predatory monks and assorted cutthroats. It d…

By Merco Press

The pope, addressing cardinals in the Sistine Chapel where he was elected pontiff on Wednesday, said the Church should be more focused on the Gospels of Jesus Christ.

“We can walk…

by Catherine Austin Fitts

The first Global Breakthrough Energy Conference was held in Holland in November 2012. Created by
a group of primarily Dutch entrepreneurs and organizers (More Info)
they h…

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Step Two: Juice all fruits and vegetables and combine in one container.

Step Three: Share and enjoy!

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By Tyler Durden

In addition to the phenomenon of “foreclosure stuffing” described here extensively before, one of the main reasons for the artificial drop in housing supply has been the ongoing gover…

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By The Province

A rare, 600-year-old Chinese coin has been found on the Kenyan island of Manda.

The coin proves that trade existed between China and eastern Afric…

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Francis (born Jorge Mario Bergoglio; 17 December 1936) is the 266th and current pope of the Catholic Church.

A native of Buenos Aires, Argentina, he was ordained as a priest in 1969. …

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Bank of Japan (8301) governor nominee Haruhiko Kuroda said that the central bank will consider buying derivatives if he’s confirmed as governor and signaled a readiness for a quick e…

Checkpoints (some would say illegal checkpoints) have been popping up quite frequently in the USA. As you see in this video, you DO NOT have to comply with their question’s or demands. Don’t forget,…

By Matthew Campbell

An inquiry into whether former government officials were complicit in the payment of huge damages to a tycoon could lead to a second French head of the International Monetary Fu…

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By Roman Gaus

On an early June morning in 2010, I stood outside the Aquaponics research facility at the University of Applied Sciences, perched on a green hilltop i…

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With continued volatility in the gold and silver markets, today King World News is pleased to share a piece of legendary technical analyst Louise Yamada’s “Technical Perspect…

By TEDx

The science delusion is the belief that science already understands the nature of reality, in principle. The fundamental questions are answered, leaving only the details to be filled in. Th…

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Your digital footprint could be getting a whole lot bigger: Pentagon scientists are searching for a way to transcribe every real-world conversation that happens into computer-readable files.
…

By Liz Farmer

Public pension managers are gearing up for another battle against what they say would be costly — and unnecessary — accounting disclosure requirements being floated on Capitol Hill ev…

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By R. U. Sirius

In 1989, when the internet was predominantly ASCII-based and HyperCard had yet to give birth (or at least act as a midwife) to the world wide web, R.U. Sirius launched Mondo 2000. �…

By Cecilia Jamasmie

The UK government decided Wednesday to get a foot on the door to Afghanistan’s $1 trillion of untapped mineral wealth, by providing a three-year, $15 million (£10m) plan to b…

By Edith M. Lederer and Hyung-Jin Kim

North Korea vowed on Thursday to launch a pre-emptive nuclear strike against the United States, amplifying its threatening rhetoric as U.N. diplomats voted on …

By Patti Domm

Despite objections, the U.S. is heading down the road to export natural gas, and that could ultimately help shake up world energy markets.

The boom in U.S. natural gas, thanks to new…

WHEN BENEDICT XVI became the first pope in almost 600 years to resign earlier this month, most of the initial speculation had to do with obscure succession rules, and whether the next pope would be …

Excellent short speech by a former secret service agent about the realities of gun control.

“We live in a society of wolves. You do not fight back by creating more sheep!”

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China’s ruling Communist Party has unveiled the next generation of leaders who will take charge of the country.

The seven men will sit at the top of the Politburo Standing Committee, C…

By Gretchen Morgenson

Two weeks ago, I wrote a column about a secret agreement struck in July 2012 by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and Bank of America. The existence of the confidential deal …

By Renee Sharp and J. Paul Pestano

Water Treatment plants along the east coast are struggling to recover from superstorm Sandy, whose torrential rains washed tens of millions of gallons of raw or par…

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Swiss citizens voted Sunday to impose some of the world’s most severe restrictions on executive compensation, ignoring a warning from the business lobby that such curbs would un…

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I love really fine coffee. I also love it hot. Keeping it hot is a challenge given all the long road trips I take. I have been known to spend way too …

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, commonly referred to as the ACA or Obamacare, will go into full effect in 2014. This decree mandates that all Americans must purchase and mainta…

By John Hathaway

The investment case for gold, in our opinion, rests squarely on the prospect for U.S. sovereign credit, and by extension, the value of the U.S. dollar. The prospect, in short, ap…

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By S. Derek Turner

AT&T has a sneaky plan.

It wants to exploit a loophole in the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)’s rules to kill what remains of the public telecommunications network —…

By Dan Cossins

Researchers have electronically linked the brains of pairs of rats, enabling the animals to communicate directly via implanted microelectrode arrays to solve simple behavioral proble…