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Photo Credit: Kacper Pempel/Reuters By James Ball, Julian Borger and Glenn Greenwald US and British intelligence agencies have successfully cracked much of the online encryption

By Robert E.G. Beens, CEO Ixquick.com and StartPage.com The Washington Post and The Guardian have revealed a US government mass Internet surveillance program code-named “PRISM”.

Photo Credit: Gannett Government Media Corp **CAF NOTE: Wow. Now we are backing off from audited financial statements as required by law as of 1995

Photo Credit: Ivan Sekretarev/AP By Bill Curry Tax records will be shared around the world by 2015 as part of a G20 pledge to crack

By Peggy Noonan There is something going on here, a new distance between Washington and America that the Syria debate has forced into focus. The

By Glenn Greenwald and Ewen MacAskill The National Security Agency has obtained direct access to the systems of Google, Facebook, Apple and other US internet

By Catherine Austin Fitts Last night I had the opportunity to watch Jose Escamilla’s fascinating movies on the moon, drawing from significant footage from the

By Howard E. Berkenblit In 2007 the Securities and Exchange Commission said that companies no longer needed to send printed proxy materials to investors, but

Photo Credit: USDAgov/Flickr By Joel Salatin Why do we need more farmers? What is the driving force behind U.S. Department of Agriculture policy? In an

By Catherine Austin Fitts Take a moment to review some of the decision points coming up this month.  We are watching a scramble for market