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…

Step One: Rinse and prepare your fruits and vegetables for juicing.

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…

By Wikipedia

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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By Bloomberg

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…

By Economic Crisis

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…

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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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By RT

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.
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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…