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America cannot expect a bunch of disenfranchised park-dwellers to come up with a solution to its economic woes — they have a political ruling class to do that.

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In 1910, some of the Nation’s most powerful bankers met secretly off the
coast of Georgia to draft a proposal for a private central banking system.

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The Finnish government and major insurance companies announced Wednesday they will pay for lifetime medical care for children diagnosed with narcolepsy after receiving the swine flu vaccin…

“”No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, be…

By David DeCamp

Clearwater — Pinellas County will stop adding fluoride to its drinking water, ending a cavity-fighting effort that riled critics of Big Brother government despite decades of advoc…

By Hugh Son

Bank of America Corp. (BAC), JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) and Wells Fargo & Co. (WFC) are among mortgage servicers that may face $13.5 billion in costs if the Federal Housing Admi…

A state senator breaks new ground in the right-wing plan to gut public education.

By Andy Kroll

In Michigan, a state perennially crippled by budget deficits, public school districts across the sta…

By NYC General Assembly

This document was accepted by the NYC General Assembly on September 29, 2011, with slight adjustments in wording on October 1, 2011:

As we gather together in solidarity to …

Out of America’s 3,141 counties, almost 90% have declared at least 1 natural disaster so far this year and there’s still three months to go…

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By Catherine Austin Fitts

Sinclair Lewis once said “When fascism comes to American it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.” Dick Cheney’s new autobiography goes light on the religion, an…

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By Melanie Pelayo

Although Halloween is still a few weeks away, there were plenty of scary moments during the third quarter. Over the last few months, investors have seemingly been pummeled with bad …

By Andrea Shalal-Esa and Sarah N. Lynch

The Justice Department is investigating accounting irregularities at Chinese companies listed on U.S. stock exchanges, said an official with the Securities a…

Welcome to the interactive display of California’s organizational structure, a research database designed to expose systemic inefficiency and help you visualize the scale of the state’s convolutions. …

By The Daily Bail

Systems and methods for inducing a change in a human physiological characteristic.

Read the Patent Application HERE

We wonder, do they also have patents on the following:

Ke…

By Catherine Austin Fitts

Someone called last night to talk about “the missing money” – or $4 trillion plus missing from the United States government. They were keen to figure out what the solution…

By a Reader

Dear Catherine,

I read on Sunday in the Business Section E of the Press Democrat  two articles (only one could I find online and it is not word for word in the printed version) about�…

By Catherine Austin Fitts

I spoke at the Eagle Theater in Hammonton, New Jersey last Saturday evening.

If you are looking for a wonderful community on the East Coast, Hammonton should be on your …

By Srdja Trifkovic

Last Saturday, at United Russia’s congress, the ruling duumvirate of President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin finally ended the uncertainty of some months’…

By David E. Gumpert-blogmaster

Those raw milk proponents advocating “teach, teach, teach” may want to enroll Wisconsin Judge Patrick J. Fiedler in their first class–in the kindergarten section.

I…

By William A. Tiller, Ph.D. and Walter E. Dibble, Jr., Ph.D.

Introductory Experimental Background

For the past 35 to 40 years, in parallel with my traditional science research and teaching at Stanfo…

A wonderful documentary – Under Our Skin exposes the hidden epidemic of Lyme disease and reveals how a politicized health care system fails to address one of the most serious illnesses of our time.

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By Amy Cortese

As Congress considers President Obama’s job package, one measure seems to have rare bipartisan support: a proposal to loosen some of the outdated securities regulations that hamper…

By Garry White

The gold price plunged $60 at the open after CME Group said it would increase its margin requirements from the close of business on Monday to cover itself as increased volatility mak…

By Rosalind S. Helderman and Paul Kane

With time running out, Congress returns Monday to try to pass a short-term funding measure to avert a government shutdown and avoid yet another market-rattling …

Note from CAF: If you are wondering why it is so important to bring gold and silver back down before the third quarter numbers are finalized, here are the statistics for numerous categories when silve…

By Investor’s Business Daily

Justice: A new 9/11 lawsuit portrays the Saudi government as having more control over al-Qaida charities before the attacks than it (or the US) has admitted. Let’s hear…

By Catherine Austin Fitts

Bill Diefenderfer was Dick Darman’s Deputy at the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) when I served as Assistant Secretary of Housing – Federal Housing C…

By Jason Palmer

Puzzling results from Cern, home of the LHC, have confounded physicists – because it appears subatomic particles have exceeded the speed of light.

Neutrinos sent through the ground…

Ray Anderson was founder and chairman of Interface Inc., one of the world’s largest manufacturers of modular carpet for commercial and residential applications and a leading producer of commercial b…

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By Anthony Gucciardi

Hungary has taken a bold stand against biotech and genetic modification by destroying 1000 acres of maize found to have been grown with genetically modified seeds, according t…

By Judy Dempsey

Berlin — Siemens, the largest engineering conglomerate in Europe, announced Sunday that following the German government’s decision to phase out nuclear power by 2022, it would s…

By Yves Smith

Many readers no doubt know that the so-called $8.5 billion Bank of America mortgage settlement, which was between the Charlotte bank and the Bank of New York as trustee for 530 reside…

By Associated Press

Sallie Mae spent $530,000 lobbying the federal government in the second quarter on issues including the implementation of last year’s overhaul of financial regulations.

The amo…

By Tyler Durden

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This video is gives a brief description of Catherine Austin Fitts. Her family background, her beliefs, and her views on the national and global economic crisis that are facing the people of the plan…

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By Linda Stern

U.S. retirement programs could look different if a grand deficit-cutting bargain is struck in upcoming negotiations.

On Thursday, the powerful Senate Finance Committee will explore …

Project Gutenberg’s founder, Michael Hart, passed away this week. Please read our brief obituary. Funeral services are being arranged, probably for Monday September 12 in Champaign, Illinois. Those …

By Lyneka Little

Tyler Perry is the highest-paid man in entertainment, according to Forbes magazine. The actor, director and producer known for his crossdressing role as a gun-toting granny named M…

By Ellen Brandt, Ph.D.

Think you’re too sophisticated to be terrorized by anonymous thugs? Just wait until they start leaving baby animal carcasses on your doorstep.

After years of incessant, se…

Hi Catherine,

I just finished listening to the Flashpoints program (8/31) and your Community Business segment. Here are some ideas that occurred to me while I was listening to your presentation; I be…

By Thom Weidlich

Bank of America Corp. (BAC), JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) and other banks may pay more to resolve claims over their alleged roles in the collapse of a $2.3 trillion mortgage- backed …

Finance minister announces a fresh property tax as PM uses annual speech as rallying call

Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos heralded fresh austerity measures over the weekend, chiefly a new prop…

By Andrew Zajac

Replacing tax deductions with credits for retirement savings would benefit low- and middle- income Americans, federal economic policy expert William Gale told a retirement security …

By Klaus Buchner and Horst Eger

This follow-up of 60 participants over one and a half years shows a significant effect on the adrenergic system after the installation of a new cell phone base stati…

By Anthony Cuthbertson

It is estimated that by the year 2050, eighty percent of the world’s population will be living in cities. Unfortunately, modern-day cities are often crime-ridden, chaotic, a…

By Michael Ricciardi

In the first such analysis ever conducted, Swiss economic researchers have conducted a global network analysis of the most powerful transnational corporations (TNCs). Their res…