By Becky Newbold

A gathering in October in Westpoint found people from across the United States exploring local economies and issues important to life: faith, people, health and money.

Organized b…

By Jeffrey M. Smith

First of all, let’s celebrate with San Juan County, Washington, for passing its GMO-Free County initiative. Growing GMOs in the San Juan Islands will shortly be illegal. Thanks …

[CAF Note: I had someone tell me the other day that there were no serious warnings regarding the extent of the fraud in the US housing bubble. That is simply not true.. Chris Sanders published this …

[CAF Note: Climate Change or HAARP Change? My 2 cents is that Bloomberg has been told to fall in line. Given the death rate of leaders in strategic positions these days, the pressure is on]

By Michae…

By Evan Ackerman

What happens if you give a thousand Motorola Zoom tablet PCs to Ethiopian kids who have never even seen a printed word? Within five months, they’ll start teaching themselves Englis…

By Alison George

You were told you had brain cancer and your response was to hack open your medical records and publish them online. Why?
When I was diagnosed I was a bit unsatisfied with what took…

From Mercury News

I’m a molecular geneticist who helped commercialize the world’s first genetically engineered whole food. I wholeheartedly support providing Californians with information about wheth…

By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard

Germany withdrew two thirds of its vast holdings of gold from Bank of England vaults shortly after the launch of the euro more than a decade ago, according to a confident…

From Reuters

The Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA) recommended on Monday that the U.S. bond market stay closed on Tuesday Oct. 30 due to Hurricane Sandy.

The market is sc…

By Andrew Hessel, Marc Goodman and Steven Kotler

This is how the future arrived. It began innocuously, in the early 2000s, when businesses started to realize that highly skilled jobs formerly perfo…

By Jonathon Weil

There is something very weird about the civil complaint the Justice Department filed this week against Bank of America Corp. (BAC) for allegedly defrauding Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac…

From Dr. Joseph Farrell

Yesterday I began a short multi-series blog that I am entitling Gold, Germany, and Geopolitics, because, as I indicated yesterday, so many of you are following this story, a…

[Note from CAF: This is a description of a panel coming up at Stanford Law School. It shows that when a decision is made to innovate that the powers that be (in this case Google) have the ability to…

[CAF Note: Bill Eitner of Computers for Everyone in East Palo Alto sent this note to his colleague Court Skinner. This is a great example of a not for profit that adds tremendous value to a communit…

YouTube | 21 October 2012

By Roy Greenslade

I know it’s fashionable for publishers to cut back on staffing so I wonder what they think of this initiative: drone journalism.

The film above shows ho…

Leonard Cohen
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By Reuters

An Italian court on Friday convicted former Prime Minister here

America: The Food Stamp Nation
America has over 44 million people on Food Stamps. The food stamps program’s real name is Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).

The Food Stamp program is “h…

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If you subscribe to The Solari Report now, you have access to the full archive of Solari Reports including audio files and resources as well as bl…

By Duncan Gardham, Bruno Waterfield and Emily Gosden

Belgian police have imposed a news blackout after Nicholas Mockford, 60, was shot as he left an Italian restaurant in Neder-over-Heembeek, a sub…

Madeleine Albright Says 500,000 Dead Iraqi Children Was “Worth It” Wins Medal of Freedom

YouTube | 2 May 2012

by Catherine Austin Fitts

I watched the debate hosted by Larry King of the independent candidates this evening.

I have been reviewing the candidates platforms by linking to all their websites fro…

[CAF Note: If you want to understand the difference in these two studies, just take a look at the investments in the Stanford Endowment portfolio, the syndicate that uses their services and the govern…

View Presidential Debate Poster Here

By Caroline Stanley

Have you ever wondered where your data lives? We’re not speaking metaphorically. We mean the exact, physical location that houses the network of servers and fiber-optic cables…

Beginning in November, businesses will start to receive forms for the U.S. Economic Census. The Economic Census is taken every five years and its purpose is to develop a comprehensive portrait of Am…

By Tim Jones and Elizabeth Campbell

Pickup trucks lined a stretch of gravel road where 150 farmers mingled between 7-foot tall cornstalks and shimmering soybeans to see which of their wealthy breth…

Secret Space Program Slideshow:

You can access the slideshow from Catherine’s Secret Space Program presentation here (Part 1) (Part 2)

Missing Money Video

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Stand By Me | Playing For Change | Song Around The World from Concord Music Group on Vimeo.

Note from CAF:…

[CAF Note: If you want to understand the US education system, read and listen to John Taylor Gatto. If you want to support a REALLY worthy cause and support one of the people who has done a tremendo…

Here is a complete list of contenders

By Catherine Austin Fitts

Your vote counts.

Marianne Williamson asked her Facebook followers who they thought would win the election. The two most knowledge…

For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.
(1 Corinthians 14:33)

By Dr. Michael Linton

One of the discussion topics of the 2012 Transformations and…

By Franklin Sanders: The Moneychanger

Y’all, we had one more great time at the Transformations Gathering this weekend. We had folks from so many different backgrounds & standpoints I was afraid the…

By Joe Weisenthal and Rob Wile

One of the speakers at this week’s Big Picture Conference was David Rosenberg, the famously bearish chief economist of Canadian wealth management firm Gluskin-Sheff.

R…

[CAF Note: Just goes to show you how the housing market can improve when the Fed writes a $2 trillion forward purchase at 1,000% above market price through 2015!]

The U.S. housing market has shown …

See Major Lazer

The information is based on the new report “GMO Myths and Truths” by EarthOpenSource.org.

You can find more information here.

[CAF Note: If you want to understand the US education system, read and listen to John Taylor Gatto. If you want to support a REALLY worthy cause and support one of the people who has done a tremendo…

[CAF Note: Now that fiscal year, 2013 is underway, the focus is shifting to the changes underway to reengineer the federal finances. I will be writing a lot about how you can “jump the curve” on the…

By Bernice Napach

While government prosecutors pursue lawsuits against JPMorgan (JPM) and Wells Fargo (WFC) for “misconduct” in the mortgage market and Wall Street firms complain about new regulation…

By Bill Morris

Detroit’s comeback is not only inevitable, it’s already underway. Popular Mechanics envisions the bright future of the great American city.

The year is 2025. Detroit, the poster chi…

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By Neil Gershenfeld

A new digital revolution is coming, this time in fabrication. It draws on the same insights that led to the earlier digitizations of communication and computation, but now what …

By Chris Calabrese

On Monday an extraordinary letter went out from a who’s who of major corporations claiming a mandate to track all of us on the internet. In tone and substance, it is an amazin…

By Jonathon Weisman

Senate leaders are closing in on a path for dealing with the “fiscal cliff” facing the country in January, opting to try to use a postelection session of Congress to reach a…

By Richard Rubin

U.S. households are facing an average tax increase of $3,446 in 2013 if Congress doesn’t avert the so- called fiscal cliff, the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center said in a study releas…

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The United States fiscal cliff refers to a large predicted reduction in the budget deficit and a corresponding projected slowdown of the economy if specific…

By John Naughton

Almost without noticing it, our world crossed a significant threshold last week. Jerry Brown, the governor of California, signed into law a bill that will allow driverless cars on …

By Dr. Joseph Farrell

The latest brain child to cross the desks of the Victor Frankensteins running the world’s science laboratories is this little story about engineering goats to produce human …

A Special Thanks to Simon Black for this find.

Social unrest may reflect a variety of factors such as poverty, unemployment, and social injustice. Despite the many possible contributing factors, the …