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By Brad Stone Are you optimistic that we can slow down climate change? Anybody who says we’re close to the solution isn’t looking at the

By Wikipedia The global surveillance disclosure refers to an ongoing series of news reports in the international media that revealed operational details about the U.S.

Photo Credit: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory By John Roach The day when planes, trucks and cars are commonly revved up on pond scum may be

By Catherine Austin Fitts After the Fed announcement yesterday that it will begin to taper its QE by $10 billion a month in January, precious

By Dave Michaels The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission unanimously proposed boosting by 10 times the amount of money companies can raise under a simplified

By Catherine Austin Fitts South Korea just announced that they are starting a physical gold exchange; this follows on the heals of Singapore, Moscow and

By Binyamin Appelbaum The Federal Reserve said on Wednesday that it would reduce its monthly bond-buying campaign to $75 billion in January, beginning a retreat

**Note: We are republishing each of the 22 challenges from Catherine’s fiscal cliff article – one a week. Helps to digest them bit by bit!**

***CAF Note: In the world of modified limited hangouts, the Pentagon waste story is the equivalent of the Caddyshack Gopher. You can’t kill it, although

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