Coming Clean: The Geopolitics of Water with Terje Tvedt - May 23

-Roar Hagen, Graham Chapman & Terje Tvedt,  Water, Geopolitics and Collective Power in the New World Order

By Catherine Austin Fitts

This week on The Solari Report I will be speaking to Terje Tvedt. I could not be more delighted that Tvedt has agreed to join us.

The power and importance of water to the question of how we  govern our resources – whether in a community or globally – and how we achieve cooperation and peace, as Tvedt says, “can hardly be exaggerated.” Tvedt should know – he has spent a lifetime studying the social and political dynamics of water.

Terje Tvedt is presently professor at the Department of Geography, University of Bergen, and Professor in Global History, University of Oslo, Norway, as well as a professor in political science and development studies. He is the author of a wide range of books about water and water bodies, has written/co-directed documentary films and been the leader of a number of national and international research networks and research projects on these topics. His newest book, A Journey in the Future of Water, is expected this year.

In Let’s Go to the Movies, I will review Even the Rain, a Spanish film directed by Icíar Bollaín about a director and producer who travel to Bolivia to make a film about Christopher Columbus and instead are swept away by the 2000 Cochabamba protests. The protests reversed the privatization of the local water company with foreign investors and produced the Cochabamba Declaration.  The experience of Cochabamba is a counterpoint to privatization supporters who believe that optimizing water investment and allocation requires corporate ownership and management. These strategic issues are critical to the efforts to centralize seed and agriculture that we discuss on The Solari Report.

Even the Rain.

I will start with Money & Markets and Ask Catherine, including the extraordinary shifts we are experiencing in G-7 policies re-engineering capital flows.  We will record our interview with Tvedt on Wednesday – so post your questions on the blog for the interview by Tuesday pm.

Talk to you Thursday!

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The Water Channel
Terje Tvedt’s Website
Terje Tvedt’s Books

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The History of Water                                                                                                                       
The Future of Water

Make Way for the Killers & the Great Tax Haven Round Up

By Catherine Austin Fitts

There are no scandals in Washington. There is simply a turnover. We are preparing for an escalation of the global financial war. The old team are simply being told to step aside. Make way for the killers.

When G-7 concluded their emerging meeting in London last weekend, they announced that they were going to target tax havens. What does this mean? After months of G-7 central banks buying mortgage bonds and equities, the hunt for capital is on.  Off course, we knew the tax havens were in the crosshairs all ready – only intelligence agencies can dump out the kind of leaks we have been seeing over the last month leading up to the G-7 meeting.

However, the seriousness of the capital moves underway were underscored by the swiftness with which a “scandal” was trumped up and ready to go at the IRS with headlines on Monday morning, the leadership was out on Wednesday, and a new acting from OMB in at the IRS on Thursday.  Wonder who the new Commissioner will be? That is being sorted out now. It will be someone masterful at legal warfare – “lawfare.”

A serious attack on the offshore havens, sufficient to direct $20-30 trillion in the direction that the G-7 wish it to go will also require the right kind of leadership at DOJ. Yes, Holder is certainly willing to play ball – he has done a perfectly adequate job supplying guns to the Mexican drug cartels and beating up on the Swiss.  However, someone with international experience who is a lot meaner and trusted in certain Congressional quarters is preferred. After all, asserting jurisdiction over $32 trillion is one amazing squabble.

Remember, whatever equity markets get that capital will have their P/E’s head up, which means they can go buy up everyone whose stock is trading in the markets that don’t get the capital. Backed by the capital accessed through the financial coup d’etat, think of the acquisition binge that is coming.

And of course, there will be more taxes to keep government operations and corporate profits rolling. And the central banks will get some relief. The ballooning of their balance sheets has become more than uncomfortable.

So expect the drums to pound on about AP Reporters and various trumped up malfeasance until Holder is out. Holder has targeted others in this way for Mr. Global. Now it is his turn to head into the dog house.

We could see the seriousness of the new capital drive – both in what rolled out this week in Washington and the speed at which it rolled out. There is far more underway than just the targeting of tax havens.

 Time Magazine published a trial balloon saying that the federal government will require mandatory retirement accounts.  If true, this is surely good for billions more into the securities markets over the next decade (More Here). I would say trillions, but the middle class and small businesses that will fund it are already going to be squeezed trying to fund Obamacare.

Then the House passed a bill requiring the SEC to promulgate the regulations for the JOBs Act by October 31st.  Mark my word, crowdfunding envisioned by the JOBs Act will be designed to kickstart a new bull in the US equity markets, just like first time homebuyers kickstart the housing market. No doubt, lots of entreprenuers funded with crowdfunding may pay off their student loans and buy their first home as well (More Here).

Then Google announced we could all e-mail money from your Google wallet by simply clicking the dollar sign in our gmail. (More Here) Imagine what this functionality could do for crowdfunding portals. Add entrainment technology, and the estimate of $3 billion in crowdfunding flows in the first year (More Here) will be way too conservative.

If a serious attack on the tax havens is in the works, the moves of capital will be unprecedented.  The question of global uninsured deposits could be an ongoing drama – perhaps explaining the enormous shifts of precious metals out of the ETFs and the improvement in the real estate markets. Someone is looking to get out of insecure bank deposits and into tangibles. However, imagine what could happen if numerous jurisdictions are forced to sell their precious metals the way that Cyprus was. We are now in a world where all asset classes can take turns in the dog house – and they can do so at lightening speed with little warning.

The G-7 is extending and tightening up their jurisdiction. They are planning very significant shifts. This is BIG.

Let’s see what unfolds this coming week. As I did last week, I will focus on these events in Money & Markets on Thursday’s Solari Report.

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Hungary Destroys All Monsanto GMO Corn Fields

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 to Hungary deputy state secretary of the Ministry of Rural Development Lajos Bognar. Unlike many European Union countries, Hungary is a nation where genetically modified (GM) seeds are banned. In a similar stance against GM ingredients, Peru has also passed a 10 year ban on GM foods.

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Dark Journalist: Catherine Austin Fitts - Dancing With The Breakaway Civilization

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Join Dark Journalist for a penetrating interview with financial and political expert Catherine Austin Fitts. Listen to interesting topics like the financial coup, black budget, corporate media manipulation and the ‘Breakaway Civilization.’

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Gmail to Allow Money to be Sent as An Attachment

By Will Shanklin

Gmail lets you send all kinds of files as attachments. And Google Wallet lets you pay for just about anything. Why not combine the two? That could have been the thinking by someone at Google, as the search giant is set to launch a payment system that’s the love child of Gmail and Google Wallet.

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Coming Clean: My Water is Wonderful with Dan Hillard - May 16

By Catherine Austin Fitts

One of the advantages of serving as Assistant Secretary of Housing – Federal Housing Commissioner was that I got to meet hundreds of exceptional experts in the world of housing and real estate. After leaving that position, I chose the one I considered the smartest and most experienced about both real estate and value creation throughout an entire community. I asked her what was the single most important variable that contributed to the success of a place. Without a second’s hesitation, she looked me straight in the eye and said one word – “water.”

Having clean water is essential for life and health. I live in a farming community and have the benefit of my own well and a whole house filter. As I travel, I experience a wide variation in the availability and quality of water. I see the impact that excellence in water quality has on people’s health and economic vitality.

Bottom line: if you want a happy home and vibrant health, you need to make sure your water is excellent.

This week on the Solari Report I will be speaking to Dan Hillard, Director of Marketing since 2002 at LifeSource Water Systems about how to ensure that your household water is of the highest quality.  Based in Pasadena, California, LifeSource is a family business that has been developing water systems for residential, commercial, and industrial application since 1984.

In Let’s Go to the Movies, I will review Water – The Great Mystery, a 2008 documentary that explores the unique properties of water and explores recent theories and research seeking to improve our understanding and appreciation of water.

Watch the trailer here.

I will start with Money & Markets and Ask Catherine, so post your question at the blog.

Talk to you Thursday!

Solari Stories - Moving the Money

Rodriguez at the Ryman

By Kristen Linton

The lights dimmed, the band entered, Rodriguez took the stage. He hadn’t said a word or strummed a note, but the crowd was already standing. Audience members competing for his attention shouted, “We love you, Rodriguez” “We love you more!” The moment he opened his mouth to sing “Climb Up On My Music”, the congregation was stilled, they took their seats, and paid close attention. Rodriguez had something to say, and we needed to listen.

I didn’t know anything about Sixto Rodriguez until a few months ago when I saw the Academy Award winning documentary,Searching for Sugar Man. I don’t think many people at the Ryman Auditorium on Monday night knew much about Sixto Rodriquez until that film illuminated his talent either. So there we were, just a couple hundred of Sixto’s newest fans, hanging out at one of the most famous music venues in the United States, experiencing this once hidden legend in action.

Rodriguez’s journey to fame really is the stuff of legends, and if you are into that kind of thing, you should watch the film and get to know Rodriguez’s story. You won’t be disappointed to have spent the time.

But if you want to experience the result of his incredible journey, you must go see him live. It’s a concert experience like none I have had before. There are no strobe lights, no smoke machines, no backup dancers, no gimmicks—just a man, his guitar, and his stories.

Be warned: his voice is not a pretty one. It’s filled with grit and pain, and truth. And while not every note is sung in tune, it is refreshing just to hear a real human voice, unproduced and exposed. It’s the only way to sing the stories that he sings. It’s raw and it’s real.

Rodriguez shared his stories for 80 minutes and 25 songs. As the encore came to a close he put his fist in the air and said, “Thank you. Power to the people.” Once again, the congregation was stilled. I scanned the audience who were all in agreement, fists in the air confirming, “Power to the people.”

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Sixto Rodriguez Wikipedia Page
The Official Rodriguez Website
The Ryman Auditorium

Overhaul of E.U. Seed Regulations Triggers Protests

By Tania Rabesandratana

The European Commission is reforming the European Union’s plant and animal health legislation in a bid to enhance food safety across the bloc. But critics say that the measures, proposed on Monday, threaten seed diversity and favor large agrochemical businesses.

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