2006 October Archive at The Catherine Austin Fitts Blog

Archive for October, 2006

Top Picks ~ Week of October 30, 2006

October 30, 2006 at 10:10 am

Global Cash Glut Fuels Investment Frenzy, Pushing Up Rates
By John Fraher & Simon Kennedy - Bloomberg (Oct 30, 2006)

Hawai Court Restrains Health Dept. TB Skin-Testing: Student Wins Religious Freedom and School Access
Press Release - Tetrahedron Press (Oct 5, 2006)

We’re All Prisoners, Now
By Mark Nestmann, Preserving Your Privacy and More (Oct 26, 2006)

Morales’ Gas Nationalization Complete
By Dan Keane - AP Press (Oct 29, 2006)

Civic-Minded Millenials Prepared to Reward or Punish Companies Based on Commitment to Social Causes
Press Release from Cone, Inc. (Oct 24, 2006)

Bush Moves Toward Martial Law - 2007 Defense Authorization Act Guts Posse Comitatus
By Frank Morales - WW4Report.com (Nov 3, 2006)

Former World Bank Chief Economist Predicts Global Crash
By Paul Joseph Watson & Alex Jones - PrisonPlanet.com (Oct 30, 2006)

Hickory Valley, Tennessee — The Song

Daily Musings,

October 29, 2006 at 10:10 pm

Good friend Dave Webb bought the farm next to me in Hickory Valley. He and his beautiful wife just came for a visit. While he was there, he wrote a song about Hickory Valley. It made my day! I have Dave’s permission to put it up on our website. Our webmaster says it sounds like a cross between Lou Reed, the Grateful Dead and Ray Davis.

Hickory Valley, Tennessee
by David Webb
http://www.solari.com/music/pretty_baby.mp3
Copyright@David Webb 2006

Here are the words:

Well this place has got something - it resonates with me.
In the heart of mother nature — Hickory Valley, Tennessee.

Hey, pretty baby, what you got going on?
Well, I got something for you
C’mon over here in my heart is a song.
It’s a beautiful day in the sunshine,
Beautiful people like you around.
Hickory trees swaying in the gentle breeze,
Just before another little gentle rain,
Well the rain comes down
‘Till the sun comes out again.

Well this place has got something — it resonates with me.
In the heart of mother nature — Hickory Valley, Tennessee.
In the heart of mother nature — Hickory Valley, Tennessee.
Hickory Valley, Tennessee,
Hickory Valley, Tennessee.

Top Picks ~ Week of October 23, 2006

Daily Musings,

October 25, 2006 at 8:10 pm

How to Avoid Debt Slavery
From Life After the Oil Crash

America and the Dollar Illusion
By Gabor Steingart - Der Spiegel (Oct 25, 2006)

Is There a Relationship?
Caterpillar Boycott / Cat Charged with War Crimes in Lawsuit in US Federal Court
Caterpillar Routs Stocks / By Tim Pardis - AP Business Writer (Oct 20, 2006)

Will Defeat in Iraq Herald a Repeat of Post-Economic Ills?
By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard - Telegraph.co.uk (oct 25, 2006)

Treasury’s Paulson Plays With The Plunge Protectors
By John Crudele - New York Post (Oct 26, 2006)

FDA Moves Towards Cloned Meat, Milk
By Lorraine Heller - FoodNavigatorUSA.com (Oct 23, 2006)

Welcome to Co-op Power
A consumer-owned energy cooperative

Proposing Plan C: Report on the Third US Conference on Peak Oil and Community Solutions
By Megan Quinn - Outreach Director, Community Solution

GAO Chief Warns Economic Disaster Looms
By Matt Crenson - AP National WriterÂ (Oct 28, 2006)

Top Picks ~ Week of October 16, 2006

Daily Musings,

October 15, 2006 at 9:10 am

Costello Seeks Orderly $US Withdrawal
By John Garnault - The Sydney Morning Herald (Oct 18, 2006)

Great Lakes for sale! Michigan’s Odawa Indians Lead Anti-Nestle Fight
By Brian McKenna - The Free Press (Apr 22, 2006)

Free Hugs Campaign Video
An inspiring story! - You Tube (Music by sick puppies)

Algae Could be Fuel of the Future
By Mark Shaffer - The Arizona Repubic (Oct 14, 2006)

Help the Jersey Girls get the Truth
Petition: Public Right to Know - Declassification & Release of Documents - 9/11 (Catherine signature is #867)

Bush Buys Land in Northern Paraguay
Latin American News Agency (Oct 13, 2006)

EU Plans Tough Laws on Energy Efficiency
By George Parker - Financial Times (Oct 16, 2006)

Drowning in Debt Click link to PDF File
A Study by The Center for American Progress

NOLA Lost: 72 Hours in America’s Other Ground Zero
By Charles Shaw - Scoop Independent News (Oct 16, 2006)

81% of Americans Believe the Government is Lying About 9/11
By Angus Reid - Angus Reid Consultants (Oct 14, 2006)

Ex-NYSE Chief Richard Grasso Ordered to Return Part of $188M
CNNMoney.com (Oct 19, 2006)
Photo is of Grasso hugging Columbian Armed Forces Commander in 1999

Wal-Mart to Buy China Retail Chain
AP Business News (Oct 17, 2006)

Building a Movement of the Unemployed
By Chuck Turner - The Black Commentator (Oct 12, 2006 Issue)

Howard Switzer to Richard Ciziks

Daily Musings,

October 12, 2006 at 7:10 pm

My ally and candidate for Governor of Tennessee Howard Switzer just wrote a letter to Richard Ciziks, the evangelical Christian encouraging Christians to extend pro-life thinking to the full ecology (See the latest Top Picks for an article about Ciziks.)

A great Howard quote from his letter:

Snowflakes, no two are alike and alone they are not powerful at all but light as a feather, they melt at a touch, but enough of them together can shut down New York City.

For more on how to build serious political alignments, see Howard’s full letter and more
at his site:
http://www.h4gov.com/DearRichardCiziks.php