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Jeff Leen, the Washington Post’s assistant managing editor for investigations, begins his renewed attack on the late Gary Webb’s Contra-cocaine reporting with a falsehood.

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Today, Thursday 16 October 2014, WikiLeaks released a second updated version of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Intellectual Property Rights Chapter. The TPP is the world’s largest…

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China and Russia are considering building a high-speed rail line thousands of kilometres from Moscow to Beijing that would cut the journey time from six days on the Trans-Siberia…

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~ Proverbs 4:23

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The mainstream news media’s reaction to the new movie, “Kill the Messenger,” has been tepid, perhaps not surprising given that the MSM comes across as the film’s most unsymp…

By Dave Smith

We are hugely dependent on our internet speeds for everything — on a desktop or mobile device, for business or pleasure, we need fast internet to do just about everything these days…

By Michelle Conlin

Many thousands of Americans who lost their homes in the housing bust, but have since begun to rebuild their finances, are suddenly facing a new foreclosure nightmare: debt collecto…

“So why do 62 percent of parents think it’s [common core] a bad idea? For one, they can count. But their kids can’t.” ~ Joy Pullmann

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I have been talking with students…

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Yves here. It really is remarkable to see the degree to which the Administration tries to, and succeeds in, convincing the public that our efforts to remake the Middle East are anything…

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What is a human being? It is the ultimate question, to which institutional science offers surprising answers. The materialistic paradigm, which has dominated institutional s…

By Catherine Austin Fitts

Truly, one of the most beautiful farms I know just went on the auction block. If you are looking for a farm in Tennessee, here is a special opportunity for you.

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Smartdust is a system of many tiny microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) such as sensors, robots, or other devices, that can detect, for example, light, temperature, vibration, magnetism…

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The other week I requested that our blog team watch that oldie but goodie, Wag the Dog.

I was inspired to do so by a discussion we were having about ISIS. I was wondering…

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If you have not yet discovered Dr. Rauni-Leena Luukanen-Kilde, you want to do so. She was a Finnish physician who served as a provincial medical officer in Rovaniemi, Laplan…

By Alexa O’Brien

I had an opportunity to attend a presentation by retired NSA technical director, William Binney, which provided context for some of the published documents released by former NSA c…

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Deep in the bowels of the Stata Center on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s campus is an energy war room.

A row of flat-screen monitors lines on…

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Prospective students in the United States who can’t afford to pay for college or don’t want to rack up tens of thousands in stu…

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You need to take note of what is happening to the US dollar. It is strong and could get much stronger. The BBC today discuses the possibility of an even stronger dollar h…

[CAF Note: This article was originally published on May 29, 1999. To celebrate the new movie, Kill the Messenger,  about Gary Webb’s efforts to publish the Dark Alliance story this month, I am republ…

By Dave Majumdar

F-22 Raptor stealth fighters were needed in case the Syrians used their sophisticated air defenses. But Raptors don’t come cheap.

Fears of a potent Syrian air defense system drove t…

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What if the entire UN General Assembly got into a time machine and h…

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Probably most people would agree that the people paid by the U.S. government to regulate Wall Street have had their difficulties. Most people …

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An increasing feature of modern life is the miscellany of cellphones, laptops, tablets and other media devices that connect us to information and each other. Excessive media-…

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Irish teenagers Ciara Judge, Émer Hickey and Sophie Healy-Thow, all 16, have won the Google Science Fair 2014. Their project, Combating the Global Food Crisis, aims to provide a…

By Catherine Austin Fitts

In the Spring a wonderful subscriber in Albuquerque asked if I could stop for a lunch on my trip to and from California.

It was not possible for the Spring trip, so I rou…

By Natalie Kitroeff

Attorney General Eric Holder will announce his resignation at the White House later today, Bloomberg reports. Holder plans to stay in the position until a successor is named, and …

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The magazines and airwaves are full of news about car sharing.

Do the math – the numbers show you why the push is on to change the fundamental economics of automobiles.

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The Rockefeller Brothers Fund is joining a coalition of philanthropists pledging to rid themselves of more than $50bn (£31bn) in fossil fuel assets.

The announcement was made on Monday,…

“If you’ve been in a poker game for a while, and you still don’t know who the patsy is, you’re the patsy.” ~ Old Saying

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Tonight we are going to review the process of analyzing one company for potential investment. As our example, we will use a Danish pharmaceutica…

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I just got done listening to the three of you talking about the pink elephant event and, once again, I’m mowed down by it. This mowed down thing: It’s not like a roadrunner cartoon. …

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Who won and who lost in Scotland’s independence referendum?

WINNERS: The 55.3 percent of Scottish voters who wanted to stay in the United Kingdom.

LOSERS: The 44.7 percent who disa…

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A reward of $30m has been offered for conclusive evidence on who shot down Flight MH17 – but the identity of the person or organisation behind th…

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Faced with the “unprecedented Ebola, which spreads exponentially epidemic in West Africa,” President Obama announced that “at the request of the…

By Kyle Caldwell

Buy low, sell high. It is a simple formula for investment success, but with so many ways to measure a market, and with conflicting results, following it can be difficult.

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The latest Gallup poll is in and it is not good news for incumbents running in the mid-term elections. One in four Americans, 23%, are satisfi…

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The Federal Reserve maintained a commitment to keep interest rates near zero for a “considerable time” after asset purchases are completed, saying the economy is…

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To what extent, if at all, do you feel that your generation will have had a better or worse life than your parents’ generation? That’s the question a new Ipsos Mori …

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Russia will create a multi-billion dollar anti-crisis fund in 2015 of money destined for the Pension Fund and some left over in this year’s bud…

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What are the likely long-term returns from various asset classes, based on the most probable economic outlook and the past record of valuations and returns? These are the essential ques…

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On September 9, 2014, the Division of Swap Dealer and Intermediary Oversight of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) issued an exemptive letter (the JOBS Act Exemptive Let…

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The crises that dominate today’s news — Ukraine, Islamic State, Libya, Ebola, Gaza, cyber-attacks — are symptoms of the most profound revolution in world affairs in almost fo…

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GOOD FOR YOU!

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Cable companies are famous for high prices and poor service. Several rank as the most hated companies in America. Now, they’re attacking the Internet–their one competitor and our only refuge–wit…

By Anna Roth

The internet’s all in a tizzy the past few days thanks to a Wednesday ruling by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco, which said that review site Yelp could manipulate its…

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Titan, one of Saturn’s moons, is the only other body in the solar system besides Earth with liquid oceans on its surface (Jupiter’s moon Europa has twice as much water as Earth, bu…

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We, the Heads of State and Government of the member countries of the North Atlantic Alliance, have gathered…

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The Federal Reserve Board, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency finalized a rule on Wednesd…

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You need to stop, take a deep breath and appreciate the profound nature of the evolution in which you and I are participating.

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IMF chief Christine Lagarde has been put under formal investigation by French magistrates for alleged negligence in a political fraud affair da…

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The statistic shows the most popular categories in the Apple App Store ranked share of active apps. In June 2014, education apps were the second-most popular category, with a share of 1…

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The US telecoms industry called on the Federal Communications Commission on Friday to block two cities’ plans to expand high-speed internet services to their residents.

USTeleco…

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The World Federation of Exchanges Ltd. published its first-half Statistics Market Highlights report. The main trends for this first six months of the years:

The …

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Exxon Mobil (XOM) Corp.’s dream of drilling in the Russian Arctic may risk running aground on the politics of Ukraine.

The company plans to start drill…

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Goldman Sachs has now settled with the Federal Housing Finance Agency. It appears that Goldman did not want to generate more new revenues for federal agencies that Congres…

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This e-mail was forwarded recently by Dr. Joseph Farrell:

Dear Dr. Farrell:

I get lost sometimes when financial matters are discussed. In particular, the concept of separa…

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In this first of a series of London interviews that Lars Schall conducted for Matterhorn Asset Management this summer, Lars met up with Ambrose Evans-Pritchard to discuss geo-po…

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The bancor was a supranational currency that John Maynard Keynes and E. F. Schumacher conceptualised in the years 1940-42 and which the United Kingdom proposed to introduce after the S…

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President Francois Hollande is weighing his options after dissolving the government on Monday over open feuding in the Cabinet about how much cutting — or spending — will revive the …

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U.S.-registered investment companies* managed $17.1 trillion in assets at year-end 2013 (Figure 1.1), $2.3 trillion more than at year-end 2012. Major U.S. stock in…

“Finance has a fascination for many bright young people with limited means. They would like to be both intelligent and enterprising in the placement of their savings, even though investment income…

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China could have a new homegrown operating system by October to take on imported rivals such as Microsoft Corp, Google Inc and Apple Inc, Xinhua news agency said on Sunday.

Computer …

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Government leaders are expected to agree in November that the world’s top banks must issue special bonds to increase the amount of capital which can be tapped in a crisis instead of ca…

It’s amazing what a rigged game of Monopoly can reveal. In this entertaining but sobering talk, social psychologist Paul Piff shares his research into how people behave when they feel wealthy. (Hint…

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Two years ago, Eunice Boston called me. She said, “Buy a Nutribullet now!” I said, “What’s a Nutribullet?” She said, “Just do it. You’ll understand after you…

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Mark Gorton is a prominent financier and a respected entrepreneur. He founded the music sharing site Limewire, and he runs Tower Research, a famed high-frequency trading firm. Gor…

By Ruth Simon

Women account for less than 8% of chief executives at venture-backed firms, occupy just 17% of board seats at Fortune 500 companies and own a mere 30% of all companies.

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Tensions are building in an enormous market that nearly brought Wall Street to its knees in 2008.

Financial regulators are pushing for an ar…

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Financial distress, or difficulty meeting debt obligations, is a daily part of life for many Americans, and for some, the lenders have co…

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This is a book about JPMorgan Chase. It is, therefore, a book about greed, corruption, arrogance and power. And it is also a book about Bernie Madoff. F…

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Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto on Monday signed a package of laws that will serve as a rule book for comprehensive energy reform designed t…