On the Importance of Food Freedom
“After all, most civilized and semi-civilized countries known to history had a large class of slaves or serfs completely subordinate to their owners. There is nothing in human nature that makes th…
Mandatory Savings Accounts Are Coming Your Way
By Dan Kadlec
The retirement savings crisis in America has brought us to this point: It’s a near certainty that mandatory savings accounts are in the future of anyone with a full- or part-time jo…
Transcript of “Precious Metals Market Report with Franklin Sanders and Stewart Thomson” is Now Available!
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DOJ to IRS: Out with the Old, In with the New
[CAF Note: With G-7 Deciding this weekend to target tax havens, the US wants a new team in at the IRS who can use their civil and criminal investigative powers to extend taxing and capital controls …
Meet the 2013 Bay Area Makers
[CAF Note: I’m excited. I am headed to my first maker faire this Saturday. Check it out!]
Explore makers and projects coming to Maker Faire Bay Area 2013. You can choose to browse by topic below or…
Raspberry Pi: Are You Ready to Carry Your Website in Your Pocket?
By Wikipedia
The Raspberry Pi is a credit-card-sized single-board computer developed in the UK by the Raspberry Pi Foundation with the intention of promoting the teaching of basic computer science …
Get to Know Mira Nair
by Kristen Linton
I had the opportunity to spend some time in TriBeCa at the Film Festival a few weeks ago. My sister is a filmmaker and she needed a companion to help her do some research for he…
Biometric Database of All Adult Americans Hidden in Immigration Reform
By David Kravets
The immigration reform measure the Senate began debating yesterday would create a national biometric database of virtually every adult in the U.S., in what privacy groups fear coul…
May 13, 2013 – Financial Perspectives
By Chuck Gibson
Since the calendar just turned its page to May I thought it good to visit that long standing Wall St. axiom regarding “Sell in May and go away (and live to see another day)”. Fo…
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Shadow Banking System
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Sen. Elizabeth Warren Wants Student Loans to Get Fed Discount Rate
[CAF Note: The big banks can borrow at 0.75%, but students have to pay 6%+. Why is that? It is called reverse Robin Hood. Debase and drain the young people, give to the rich.]
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New Report: No Austerity for EU Military Spending
By ROAR Collective
A new report by the Transnational Institute — ‘Guns, Debt and Corruption: Military Spending and the EU Crisis’ — looks at the ways in which excessive militarization direc…
Catherine Austin Fitts on Precious Metals, Digital Currencies and Globalised Central Planning
By GoldMoney
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Money & Markets – Week of 05.12.13
Lower Energy and Food Costs Fuel Big Drop in Wholesale Prices
Los Angeles Times | 15 May 2013
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U.S. Oil Productio…
Precious Metals – Week of 05.12.13
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Gold Antitrust Action Committee | 14 May 2013
A top US financial regulator has launched a broad inquiry into the legitimacy of more t…
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Jumbo Loans, All Cash Investors, and Slow Population Growth: The Gentrification of Southern California.
Dr. Housing Bubble | 15 May 2013
Only in Southern California will you have someone moan about ma…
Geopolitical – Week of 05.12.13
Elizabeth Warren Confronts Eric Holder, Ben Bernanke And Mary Jo White On Too-Big-To-Jail
Zero Hedge | 16 May 2013
Elizabeth Warren is one of the few Senators out there pushing to understand why the f…
Science & Technology – Week of 05.12.13
Feds Demand 3D Printed Gun Blueprints Removed From Internet
SFGate | 09 May 2013
The State Department has ordered ultra-libertarian group Defense Distributed…
Explaining Big Data
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Celeb Bono Partners with Monsanto, G8, to Biowreck Africa
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Why Are Birthrates Falling Around the World? Blame Televis…
Life – Week of 05.12.13
Dove Real Beauty Sketches
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And don’t forget: YOU are more beautiful than you think!
Defense Against the Psychopath (Full Length)
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Wildcards – Week of 05.12.13
Judge Orders Conspiracy Re-Education For Lauryn Hill
YouTube | 08 May 2013
Grammy award-winning singer Lauryn Hill has been ordered by a judge…
WHO in Boston: Bombing Story Mysteries
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Inside the MIT Media Lab
By Clive Cookson
I start to walk across a street in a city of the near future. An autonomous electric car is gliding silently towards me, driving itself to pick up a group of passengers. The vehicl…
Goldman Sachs Employees Concerned Bloomberg News Reporters are Using Terminals to Snoop
By Mark DeCambre
Talk about a nanny state.
Irked Goldman Sachs brass recently confronted Bloomberg LP over concerns reporters at the business news service have been using the company’s ubiquitou…
Rascal Flatts – “Changed”
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John Trudell and Bad Dog
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I will be attending a “Special Hemp History Week Concert” by artist and ally John Trudell and Bad Dog at the David Brower Center in Berkeley, California on Saturday, June …
Precious Metals Market Report with Franklin Sanders and Stewart Thomson – May 9
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Trans-Pacific Partnership
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Introducing the Solari Coin!
by Catherine Austin Fitts
We have created our first Solari Coin – a one ounce silver round designed for Solari by Ben Lizardi of Lizardi Communication and minted for us by the Northwest Territoria…
G7 Finance Ministers to Discuss Banking Reforms
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Finance ministers from the G7 group of industrialised nations are set to begin a two-day meeting on Friday.
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Number of U.S. Companies that Reach $100-Million in Annual Revenues Remarkably Stable Over Past 20 Years, According to Kauffman Paper
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The pace at which the United States produces $100-million companies has been stable over the last 20 years despite changes in the economy. However, according to a new Kauffma…
California, New York and DC Look to Ban 3D-Printed Guns
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A handgun made almost entirely using a consumer-grade 3D printer fired a bullet over the weekend for the first time in the history of the infant technology. If some lawmakers have their way, …
McDonald’s Goes Belly Up in Bolivia
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McDonald’s leaves Bolivia healthier forever!
After 14 years of presence in the country, and despite all the existing campaigns and having a network, the chain was forced to clos…
Bitcoin Startups Begin to Attract Real Cash
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Transcript of “Getting to Success with Kimberly and Foster Gamble” is Now Available!
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Obama To Ohio State Grads: Reject Voices That Warn About Government Tyranny
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Addressing 2013 graduates at the Ohio State University in Columbus today, Obama’s speech writers took the opportunity to remind outgoing grads that the government is definitely not …
Half of Senior Executives Aware of Irregularities
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In its annual Fraud Survey, it reveals that of the 3,000 board members, managers and their teams across 36 countries who were questioned, 42% of board directors and senior managers …
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Julian Assange on the “Lawfare Thing”
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Money & Markets – Week of 05.05.13
Currencies – Wild Volatility In More Than The Yen
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Economists: Fed Will Taper Bond Pur…
Precious Metals – Week of 05.05.13
Barrick Agrees to Amend Dominican Republic Mine Contract
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Chinese Gold Imports Soar To Monthly Record On In…
Housing & Mortgage Markets – Week of 05.05.13
Florida HB 87, Homeowners, and the Foreclosure Inferno
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Geopolitical – Week of 05.05.13
Air Force Strips 17 Officers Of Authority To Control And Launch Nuclear Missiles
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The Air Force stripped an unprecedented 17 officers of their authority to control…
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Science & Technology – Week of 05.05.13
Dear Telecom Unions: Time to Fight for the Public Switched Network Infrastructure & Technology (PSNIT) — The State-based Utility Wires
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Food & Health – Week of 05.05.13
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Crews Finish Installing World Trade Center Spire
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Construction workers bolted the last pieces of a 408-foot spire into place atop One World Trade Center on Friday…
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Former Sen. Mike Gravel and a Panel of Experts says White House Suppressing Evidence of ETs
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Solar is About to Change Our World
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I’ve been getting into Solar lately – the fall in prices has been absolutely shocking over the last 2-4 years. We are seeing price drops closer to 20% per year after severa…
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Getting to Success with Kimberly and Foster Gamble – May 2
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FERC Finds JPMorgan Manipulated Power Trading: Report
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Billboards for Real Men and Women
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[CAF Note: Says what needs to be said to the deeply insulting Foundation for a Better Life.]
Eric Holder Threatens Kansas in Letter on Gun Control Nullification Law
By Michael Boldin
On Thursday, Kansas Governor Sam Brownback received a letter from Federal Attorney General Eric Holder threatening action against the state should it enforce SB102 which Brownback…
Louise Yamada on the Gold Market
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The technical observations suggesting risk for Gold spot price (GOLDS-1,462.09) over the past two months’ reports followed through with a severe decline in Gold through 1,539 sup…
Important EU Seed Law Vote: 6 May
By Bifurcated Carrots
There is an important vote coming up concerning proposed changes to EU seed law. This is a vote in the EU Commission, by written procedure, on Monday 6 May 2013.
If the legi…
IRS Takes A Bite Out Of Bitcoin
By Robert W. Wood
Bitcoin is virtual currency much in the news these days. It’s peer-to-peer so there’s no central bank or government. But if you think that means the IRS won’t get a piece, t…
Central Banks Load Up on Equities
[CAF Note: Is the planetary debt-for-equity we described in the 2nd Quarter Equity Review underway?]
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Central banks, guardians of the world’s $11 trillion in foreign-exchange reser…
Transcript of “Jon Rappoport and Catherine discuss Hamilton Securities” is Now Available!
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US Equities vs. Gold and Silver
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Farewell Facebook, and Good Riddance
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If you haven’t noticed, there’s currently a mass exodus from Facebook taking place. In the past three months there’s been a drop among users in the …
Quarterly Review and Outlook – First Quarter 2013
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Vernon Hershberger & Your Food Freedom
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Now that a Wisconsin judge has rejected raw milk farmer Vernon Hershberger’s religious freedom arguments to justify having a witness testify on his behalf, his trial looks likely t…
The Underground Recovery
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Money & Markets – Week of 4.28.13
Caribbean Bank Accounts are Next IRS Target
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Precious Metals – Week of 4.28.13
Hong Kong Gold Retailers Overwhelmed by Mainland Shoppers
Gata | 02 May 2013
Hong Kong retailers report they were swamped over the three-day May Day holiday by tens of thousands…
Gold Bull Run Seen…
Housing & Mortgage Markets – Week of 4.28.13
Case-Shiller: Home Prices in 20 Cities Rise at Fastest Rate Since 2006
The Christian Science Monitor | 30 April 2013
The good news for the housing market just keeps on coming…
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Geopolitical – Week of 4.28.13
Q&A: The FBI’s Role in ‘Manufacturing’ Terrorism
Yahoo! Finance | 02 May 2013
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‘Killer Robots Should Not Have Pow…
Science & Technology – Week of 4.28.13
Blind Mothers-To-Be Find Solution in 3D Printing
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Food & Health – Week of 4.28.13
Whole Foods CEO: If Syria Has GMO-Regulations So Should the U.S.
Yahoo Finance! | 02 May 2013
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Life – Week of 4.28.13
Low Income Homes From Recycled Goods PBS Special Part 1 of 3
PBS | 01 August 2007
What an unbelievably unique take on housing and architecture!
Happy Birthday Willie Nelson: Rare Photos from the 70s…
Wildcards – Week of 4.28.13
Bombing Suspects’ Family Members Speak Out
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Sibel Edmonds: CIA Ran Tsarnaev Brothers
YouTube | 26 April 2013
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US Army Seeks New Technology to Replace GPS
By Staff Writers Washington (AFP)
The US army is working to limit its dependence on GPS by developing the next generation of navigation technology, including a tiny autonomous chip, the director of…
Riverbend Returns After Five Years
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Collective Soul – “The World I Know”
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Jon Rappoport and Catherine discuss Hamilton Securities – April 25
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‘Dead for now:’ CISPA Halted in the Senate
Photo Credit: Reuters/Gary Cameron
[CAF Note: Kudos to the EFF and all those who have stopped a really bad idea dead in its tracks for now]
By RT
Privacy advocates can breathe a sigh of relief as …
Feds Eye State, Local Pension Transparency Reform
By Liz Farmer
In a move that’s expected to stir up staunch resistance from public pension managers, some Capitol Hill lawmakers have proposed new pension transparency regulations for local and st…
Catherine Austin Fitts: Another Gold Smackdown Coming?
By John Rubino
Last weekend the disturbingly-brilliant Catherine Austin Fitts, publisher of the Solari Report, passed through town, giving us a chance to finally meet face-to-face. In the following…
In Celebration: Richie Havens, Legendary Guitarist and Folk Singer
By Jim Farber
Richie Havens, a seminal member of the New York folk scene of the ’60s, died Monday morning from a sudden heart attack.
He was 72.
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Crowd Sourced Surveillance
[CAF Note: Geez – why allow our taxes to pay for the police state, when consumers can fund directly?]
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Bulls Hit
By Grant Williams
I am a seller of gold.
Just not yet — and certainly not anywhere close to this price.
One day, long into the future, it will be time to sell gold — or, more likely, to excha…
Fresh Food and Song Blossom on the Palouse
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I stopped in Moscow, Idaho this weekend on my way to Portland Oregon. Moscow is the home of the University of Idaho, in an area known as the Palouse.
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Money & Markets – Week of 4.21.13
AR-15s Flying Off Shelves Amid Gun Control Fears
Yahoo! Finance | 25 April 2013
At the GunRunners Gun Show outside Atlanta, the line stretches out the door and around the corner…
Jon Corzine Sued b…
Precious Metals – Week of 4.21.13
U.S. Mint’s Sales of Gold Coins Soar After Futures Slump
Bloomberg | 18 April 2013
The U.S. Mint in April has sold 153,000 ounces of American Eagle gold coins…
How the Gold Market Was Crashed
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Geopolitical – Week of 4.21.13
Ron Paul Fans Furious Over Rand Paul’s Drone Flip-flop
Information Clearing House | 24 April 2013
Ron Paul’s vibrant fan base is in open rebellion today over Rand Paul’s perceived reversal…
The Ris…
Science & Technology – Week of 4.21.13
Infographic: If Google Fiber Went Worldwide
Forbes | 26 April 2013
Google is bringing its super-fast broadband network Fiber to…
The Rise of Big Data
Foreign Affairs | May 2013
Everyone knows that …