Unemployment Rate Drops to 8.3%; Payrolls Jump
Bloomberg (3 Feb 12)
Fed Fund Futures Point to Hike in Summer 2014
MarketWatch (3 Feb 12)
As Russian Gas Supply Dwindles, European Union Braces For Another Potential Crisis
The Washington Post (3 Feb 12)
The Walking Debt
Top Colleges Online
EURUSD Tumbles On Rumor Of Papademos Resignation, Eurogroup Meeting Delay
Zero Hedge (3 Feb 12)
Cameron Fleeing America To Escape Collapse?
Infowars.com (2 Feb 12)
States Seek Currencies Made of Silver and Gold
GATA (3 Feb 12)
UN Offers Second Link to US-UK Gold Swap Treaty
GATA (1 Feb 12)
Washington State Considers Gold and Silver as Legal Tender
Founders Revolution (1 Feb 12)
Venezuela Welcomes Home Final Shipment of Repatriated Gold
GATA (31 Jan 12)
Kazakhstan Adds to Its Gold Reserves. Very Nice!
Sovereign Man (30 Jan 12)
BofA, JPM Chase Sued by New York Over MERS
Bloomberg (3 Feb 12)
Freddie Mac’s Big Bet Against Homeowners
The Washington Post (30 Jan 12)
STOCK Act Passes Senate by Vote of 96-3
Politico (2 Feb 12)
Bill Introduced To Challenge Authority Of NDAA
Infowars.com (2 Feb 12)
Lawyers Use Ancient Code in Assange’s Last Stand
smh.com.au (2 Feb 12)
Feds’ Secret No-fly List More Than Doubles in a Year
MSNBC.com (2 Feb 12)
Minor Senate Bill Transformed Into Broad Reform Package
The Washington Post (2 Feb 12)
Google Changes Its Privacy Policy: Another Reminder to Use Offshore Email
Sovereign Man (2 Feb 12)
Bournemouth Resident Mystified by ‘Blue Sphere Shower’
BBC News (27 Jan 12)
Yahoo Dumps US Chamber Of Commerce Over Its Extremist Position On PROTECT IP
Techdirt (13 Oct 11)
How Google’s New Privacy Policy Could Affect You
Scientific American (27 Jan 12)
Groundhog Day 2012: Punxsutawney Phil Sees Shadow, 6 More Weeks of Winter
The Washington Post (2 Feb 12)
Read This Moving And Very Funny Letter From An Ex-Slave To His Former Master
Business Insider (31 Jan 12)
“The Patient Exhibits Extreme Curiosity”
Slate (2 Feb 12)
Man With Defibrillator Wants to Know What His Heart is Saying
Mercury News (30 Jan 12)
Judge who Ruled Against Raw Milk in Wisconsin Quits to Work for Monsanto Law Firm
Health Impact News (31 Jan 12)
539: Low-Carb Diabetes Blogger Steve Cooksey And ‘Primal Tightwad’ E-Book Author Carolyn Rush
The Livin Low-Carb Show (30 Jan 12)
Bob Olson Talks With Anita Moorjani About Her Near-death Experience – Part 1
YouTube
(19 Dec 11)
Treasure Hunter Says he Found $3B WWII Wreck
Yahoo News (2 Feb 12)
Don Cornelius Host of ‘Soul Train’ Dies of Apparent Suicide
Fox News (1 Feb 12)
Apocalyptic Sounds from Around the Globe!!! 2011 – 2012
YouTube
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The Archive
Vernacular Music Research (20 May 10)
The Man Who Bought North Dakota
Bloomberg Businessweek (19 Jan 12)
Currency Risk Drives Automakers to U.S., Mexico
The Wall Street Journal (23 Jan 12)
America Overcomes the Debt Crisis as Britain Sinks Deeper Into the Swamp
The Telegraph (24 Jan 12)
Paulson May Take Cue From Hedge Fund Rival
Bloomberg (9 Jan 12)
YouTube
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Starbucks to Add Alcohol at More Cafes
Bloomberg (23 Jan 12)
Volcker Confirms Central Bank Need to Suppress Gold to Stabilize Exchange Rates at ‘Critical Point’
GATA (26 Jan 12)
India Mum on Possible Use of Gold to Pay for Iranian Oil
GATA (26 Jan 12)
Sanctions Dodge: India to Pay Gold for Iran Oil, China May Follow
RT (24 Jan 12)
Gary North: Auditing the Fed’s Gold
GATA (20 Jan 12)
FHFA Report: Mortgage Principal Reductions Would Cost $100 billion
The Hill (23 Jan 12)
Who Is Sheldon Adelson, the Gingrich Super PAC’s Billionaire Backer?
The Atlantic (25 Jan 12)
Russia Gives WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange a TV Platform
The Christian Science Monitor (25 Jan 12)
New Leak Case Relies on 1982 Law on Intelligence Identities
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Domestic Use of Drones is Well Underway
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Italy On the Verge of a Full Revolt
The Dollar Vigilante (25 Jan 12)
Paying Lip Service To Saving The Eurozone
Zero Hedge (24 Jan 12)
Google Will Now Access and Use all Your Personal Data and Browsing History
NetTechBlog (25 Jan 12)
One Policy, One Google Experience
Google (2012)
Google and Online Privacy-All Together Now
The Economist (25 Jan 12)
Who Would Pay $5,000 to Use Google? (You)
Smartmoney (25 Jan 12)
Hackers-for-Hire Are Easy to Find
The Wall street Journal (23 Jan 12)
Discover Series ‘Bering Sea Gold’ Aims for Pay Dirt
The Seattle Times (22 Jan 12)
Inside A $1.5 Million Cave House
Yahoo Real Estate (13 Jan 12)
Subculture of Americans Prepares for Civilization’s Collapse
Reuters (21 Jan 12)
YouTube
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YouTube
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Smart Meter Opt-Out Programs Spread Across North America
tdworld.com (25 Jan 12)
Occupy Your Food in 2012
Primal Body-Primal Mind (2012)
Federal Study of Morgellons Yields No Answers
CBS News (25 Jan 12)
Carrots in The Car Park. Radishes on The Roundabout. The Deliciously Eccentric Story of The Town Growing ALL Its Own Vegetables
Mail Online (10 Dec 11)
YouTube
(23 Jan 12)
Cash-strapped Ireland Tests Limits of Austerity
Yahoo News (19 Jan 12)
Plan B – How to Loot Nations and Their Banks Legally
Golem XIV (15 Dec 11)
Why Don’t People Move To Opportunity?
The Slate (18 Jan 12)
Egan Jones Downgrades Germany From AA To AA-
Zero Hedge (18 Jan 12)
Decentralization Is The Only Plausible Economic Solution Left
Alt-Market.com (17 Jan 12)
Do College Grads Earn Less Now Than 40 Years Ago?
The New York Times (12 Jan 12)
Mass Inflation Ahead – Save Your Nickels!
LewRockwell.com (18 Jan 12)
More Traders Notice Gold’s Regularly Counterintuitive Behavior
Gold Seek (16 Jan 12)
Steve St. Angelo: Silver Coin Production in U.S., Canada Exceeds Mine Output
GATA (14 Jan 12)
MERS, The Law, and The State
nakedcapitalism (16 Jan 12)
Canada Looks at Alternatives to Nixed US Pipeline
Yahoo News (19 Jan 12)
Thanks to Citizens United, Multinational Mega Lobbyist Firm Salivates Over $4 Billion in Campaign Cash
AlterNet (19 Jan 12)
Top U.S. General in Israel to Discuss Iran’s Nuclear Program
USA Today (19 Jan 12)
Taiwan Election Steers Careful Course (EWT, FXI, FXP, EEM, VWO)
ETF Daily News (18 Jan 12)
House Passes Symbolic Measure Against Debt Hike
USA Today (18 Jan 12)
HAARP And How Fukushima Radiation Beamed Down To Australia
rense.com (18 Jan 12)
Momentous Breakthroughs Announced During Anniversary E-Cat Interview
Pure Energy Systems (15 Jan 12)
Waterwise: Fellows Friday with Sonaar Luthra
TED (13 Jan 12)
Breaking: Fluoride Linked to #1 Cause of Death in New Research
Natural Society (17 Jan 12)
YouTube
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Mythbusting 101: Organic Farming > Conventional Agriculture
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By Lynnley Browning
The United States indicted Wegelin, the oldest Swiss private bank, on charges that it enabled wealthy Americans to evade taxes on at least $1.2 billion hidden in offshore bank accounts, the U.S. Justice Department said on Thursday.
The announcement, by federal prosecutors in Manhattan, represents the first time an overseas bank has been indicted by the United States for enabling tax fraud by U.S. taxpayers.
Continue reading the article . . .
Related reading:
Swiss Bank Wegelin Charged With Helping U.S. Tax Evasion
Bloomberg Businessweek (3 Feb 12)
Solari Report Blog Commentaries
Wegelin Clients Pulled $4 bln, Prompting Sale-paper
(31 Jan 12)
Where Can We Look For Hope?
(12 Jan 12)

By The Telegraph
United States Defense Secretary Leon Panetta believes there is a growing possibility Israel will attack Iran as early as April to stop Tehran from building a nuclear bomb, according to reports.
The Washington Post first reported that Panetta was concerned about the increased likelihood Israel would launch an attack over the next few months. CNN said it confirmed the report, citing a senior Obama administration official, who declined to be identified.
Continue reading the article . . .
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(4 Jan 12)

(photo: Advocacy for Animals – Britannica)
By Will Potter, Jurist
A recent undercover investigation into one of the nation’s largest egg producers, Sparboe Farms, documented hens mangled in cage wire, many with open wounds, and chicks having their beaks burned off by workers. This is just one of many investigations by animal welfare advocates that have exposed standard industry practices, created national dialogue about factory farming and in some cases prompted criminal charges. Newly released FBI documents show that the government is less concerned about these abuses and more concerned about the economic loss caused to businesses. The FBI has also been keeping files on factory farm investigators, and recommends prosecuting them as terrorists

“The government is run by special interests clawing away at a shrinking pie and things are becoming quite vicious.”
~ Ron Paul
Related reading:
Ron Paul
Wikipedia
Ron Paul 2012
Wakeupstupid (2 May 2011)
By Catherine Austin Fitts
At Solari, we watch our vendor and financial accounts like a hawk. We find it is the only way to stop a contagion of mistakes, frauds and scams that just keep growing throughout the economy.
Today, one of our team members was finding and reversing a series of fraudulent credit card charges over the last three days. Each was $25. These are the kinds of charges that the fraudsters hope are too small to be noticed. We notice because we find letting these slip is a prelude to more, larger charges.
We made a command decision to cancel the card and arrange for a new card. Dealing with this, then accounting for and distributing the new cards and changing existing subscriptions will take 5 to 10 staff hours.
Then, an hour later, we discovered that the corporate motel where I am staying in California has decided to charge $25 per day for incidentals. They are proposing to charge $25 per day for weeks on a cumulative basis. This balance is now growing towards over $500. They are also charging for the incidentals daily. A movie is $16.98 plus tax. One long distance call was $30. Then when I leave, they say they will credit back $500 plus.
Since I did not agree to provide short term financing to the company, I will have the phone, TV, Internet and room service turned off for my room, then see about the deposit. The Solari bookkeeper spent an hour running this down today. I will spend more time tomorrow. Figure 2 staff hours and then more if I need to go further to get this changed.
The last two times I stayed in this area, I tried to find non-corporate residential solutions, they did not work. So this time I went through Priceline and landed in this corporate chain. I should know better than to trust a large corporate provider.
Since I was doing The Solari Report tonight from the motel and it appears that a long distance call for 90 minutes was going to be quite expensive, I decided to get a phone card at Rite Aid on the way home. I always have three phones for The Solari Report – so a phone plus two backups. That was lucky, because the phone card did not work and I was not prepared to forego an ounce of gold to use the hotel phone without it.
I bought a 350 minutes card for $20. I called the bridge line tonight and was informed after the initial number connected that I had 290 minutes remaining. That means the connect fee was 60 minutes for the first call. Then it turns out the access number for the bridge line will not work with the phone card. So the phone card was worthless for this purpose. Count .75 staff hour wasted to stop at Rite Aid, buy the Prepaid Long Distance Rite Aid Phone Card, account for the purchasing of the card and to get the card working. I am sure I will use it again — if the connect fees don’t wipe out all the minutes just by making a small number of calls to people who are not available.
Solari has a GREAT team. We swarm through these issues each day with a great attitude and making things happen despite the waste of our time and resources. We pinch pennies and watch pennies, so that the skims and scams are minimized. Nevertheless, sometimes I have to shake my head and wonder how in the world our culture manages to get anything done.
Welcome to a world at war, $20 and $25 dollars at a time.

By Catherine Austin Fitts
If I were to list the ten people whose brilliance and force of intellect had made the most powerful contribution to my health, wealth and well being, Jon Rappoport would most certainly be on that list.
For many years, while family, friends and colleagues tried to persuade me that all things wrong with the world were the result of accidental dynamics, Jon Rappoport’s investigative research broke through the lies and fog and documented the nuts and bolts of the systems that are centralizing power.
His insight, his research, his meticulous writings created a force field that provided a powerful intellectual covering. With Jon Rappoport around, the walls of the matrix could never close in on me.
For many years, Jon had detailed interviews anonymously with insiders – from the upper echelons of the establishment – such as medicine, public relations, the church. He would dig out from these interviews the nuts and bolts of how control is engineered in the day-to-day operations and rules of one cartel after another.
In hundreds of pages of interviews, not once did I spot a detail that was out of place with my personal experience with Washington, Wall Street, or the operations of the intelligence agencies and secret societies. In years of reading these interviews, I never found a flaw. The insights were powerful and Jon’s sense of humor and beautiful writing always made for a delicious experience.
To my knowledge, no one has done more to unpack the day-to-day control mechanisms that make up the matrix, particularly those that are ingrained at a cultural level where we have been trained to suppress ourselves.
Understanding these nuts and bolts is an invaluable step to seeing how our time, energy and assets are being drained. The next step, of course, is to reverse the drain, the primary focus of Jon’s later work and writings.
I had the opportunity to visit with Jon in California last year. I pleaded with him to put all of his interviews on a CD and make them available again. He has now done so, including packaging the interviews with outstanding audio seminars and a variety of other invaluable material. (click here). Please consider this a core resource of your definitive library on the “real deal.”
As part of the launch of this new collection, Jon is joining me on the Solari Report to talk about the most important insights that emerged from these interviews. Jon is a brilliant and profoundly humorous speaker, so you do not want to miss this one.
We will start with Money & Markets and Ask Catherine. Post your questions in the comments section for this blog post.
No Let’s Go to the Movies this week as I expect Jon and I to speak for extra time. For a taste of Jon’s power, here is a video interview we did when I visited him in California last year.
A free-ranging conversation between Jon Rappoport and Catherine Austin
July 2,2011
Talk to you Thursday!

The “lead left” bank leads the IPO underwriting process — its name in the upper-left-hand corner of the actual prospectus — and typically receives higher fees than the other banks in the syndicate. Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley had reportedly battled over that status for Facebook’s IPO. Previous reports suggested that Morgan Stanley won out because Facebook was displeased with Goldman’s botched, $1.5 billion private placement in the company shares last January, in which the bank ran afoul of SEC rules and was forced to close the offering off to U.S. investors.
Facebook will file its IPO prospectus with the Securities and Exchange Comission, which will scrutinize the company’s financial statements. Potential public market investors will also get a chance look at Facebook’s books for the first time.
PROSPECTUS (Subject to Completion)
Dated February 1, 2012

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!”
~ Upton Sinclair
Related reading:
Upton Sinclair
Wikipedia
Upton Sinclair, Politician
TIME (9 Aug 10)
By Jeffrey M. Jones
In 10 states plus the District of Columbia, a majority of residents approved of the job Barack Obama was doing as president last year, according to aggregated data from 2011. His greatest support came from District of Columbia, Maryland, and Hawaii residents, while Utah and Idaho residents gave him his lowest levels of support — below 30%.
By Yahoo Finance
The European Union on Wednesday blocked the Deutsche Boerse’s planned merger with NYSE Euronext, a $10 billion deal that would have created the world’s largest financial exchange operator.
Brief video about the merger reducing competion so EU did not approve it. Maybe this helps German companies? Keeps some of the global consolidation at bay?
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