I have said all along that reading or watching anything to do with Presidential politics is not an effective use of time.
Senator Mike Gravel’s performance during the recent Democratic Candidate Debate has me eating crow. Gravel said something important and useful. And YouTube has once again proved the benefits of waiting for all the yah-yah to be filtered out so that we can enjoy the pearls, without the swine. Check it out:
Senator Mike Gravel at SC Debates, 4/26/07
Watch it on YouTube
John Kerry: Building 7 Was Deliberately Demolished
By Paul Joseph Watson & Aaron Dykes - Prison Planet (Apr 23, 2007)
BBC Reported Building 7 Had Collapsed 20 Minutes Before it Fell
By Paul Joseph Watson & Aaron Dykes - Prison Planet (Feb 27, 2007)
Worldwatch: Why Do You eat Local Food?
Worldwatch Newsletter (Apr 23, 2007)
Russia to Get More Aggressive Investing Oil Revenue
By Neil Buckley - Financial Times, London (Apr 14, 2007)
Chinese Central Banker Urges Diversifying Into Gold, Oil, Metals
By Wang Min & Zheng Jin - Wall Street Journal (Apr 25, 2007)
Scoop Media is the outstanding New Zealand news website which is such an excellent source of US and global news and where I publish my column “Mapping the Real Deal.” Scoop has a new look — check it out! ~ Catherine
Homeland Insecurity
By Paul Levy - awakeninthedream.com (Apr 2007)
Department of Homeland and Security Wants Master Key for DNS
By Monika Emert - heise online (Mar 30, 2007)
Invest in Weather — UBS Launches Global Warming Index
By Paul J. Davies - Financial Times, London (Apr 24, 2007)
Microwaved Water — See What it Does to Plants
A Science Fair project from 2006
A Probiotic Gem Cultured with a Probiotic Jewel
Keifer Grains
Worldwatch: Why Do You Eat Local Food?
Worldwatch Institute (Apr 23, 2007)
Cobell Judge Orders Historical Accounting Trial
At indianz.com (Apr 23, 2007)
Retailers are Wasteful, and We Must Change
By Galen Weston, Jr. - Globe & Mail Update (Apr 23, 2007)
Wal-Mart’s Midlife Crisis
By Anthony Bianco - BusinessWeek (Apr 30, 2007)
Piece of Mind
A multi-part series at commongroundcommonsense.org (Apr 23, 2007)
This Time Gold Will Blow Through $715
By James Turk - goldmoney.com (Apr 23, 2007)
Morgan Joins Dubai Exchange Just Before it Trads Gold Options
From Reuters (Apr 23, 2007)
US Census: One in Five Lives on Less than $7 per Day
By William Shanley - civillibertarian blog (Apr 16, 2007)
One Gun Too Few
By Dr. Edwin Vieira, Jr - NewsWithViews.com (Apr 20, 2007)
A Doctor Speaks About Chemtrails
By Victoria Hardy - The American Chronicle (Mar 3, 2007)
DHA Demand for DNS Master Key Alarms Nations
By Deep Harm - Daily Kos (Mar 31, 2007)
Are Mobile Phones Wiping Out Our Bees?
By Geoffrey Lean & Harriet Shawcross - The Independent (Apr 15, 2007)
Most Americans Now Feed at the Government Trough, Study Concludes
By Mark Trumbull - Christian Science Monitor (Apr 16, 2007)
Fears Grow that Britain Has Lost Control of its Remaining Gold
By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard - The Telegraph, London (Apr 17,2007)
Are We Talking about Philanthropy Yet? No, We are Not
Posted By pbc - Gift Hub-Blogging Philanathropy (Jan 8, 2007)
Mortgage Crisis Threat to System Dawning on Congressmen?
By Paul Gallagher - Executive Intelligence Review (Apr 20, 2007)
World Bank Pledges ‘Expeditious’ Ruling on Wolfowitz (Update7)
By James G. Neuger & Christopher Swann - Bloomberg.com (Apr 13, 2007)
When is a Corporation Like a Freed Slave?
By Barry Yeoman - Mother Jones (Nov-Dec 2006)
Dollar Perched Precariously on a Precipice
By Peter Schiff - Euro Pacific Capital, Inc. (Apr 14, 2007)
Imagine the Worst
By Kurt Vonnegut - MotherJones (Oct 1, 1983)
Catherine Austin Fitts Shares Her Vision for Healthy Economic Development
World Talk Radio - (Nov 21, 2006)
Or link to them at solari.com - Scroll down the page
Barrick Sells NovaGold Stake After Takeover Bid Fails
By Lynn Thomasson - Bloomberg News (Apr 20, 2007)
GE Subprime Unit to Slash Half of Staff
From Reuters (Apr 19, 2007)
Getting Liberals & Progressives to Think Small
By Sam Smith - Undernews (Apr 17, 2007)
A Woman Wrongly Convicted and a US Attorney Who Kept His Job
By Adam Cohen - New York Times (Apr 16, 2007)
Killer Sent Photographs and Video to Broadcaster Between Shootings
By Andrew Gumbel - The Independent (Apr 19, 2007)
The New York Times also reported that prescription drugs used to treat psychological disorders were found among his effects. Almost every perpetrator of a mass shooting in the United States in recent years had either been on prescription drugs or had stopped taking them shortly before erupting in violence.For those interested in the technology use to create assassins of the kind used in situations like VA Tech:Secret, Don’t Tell by Carla Emory
Le Femme Nikita TV Show — Third and Forth Season
The Franklin Cover Up by John De Camp
Manchurian Candidate Movie Remake with Denzel WashingtonFor the best work on drugs and school shootings, see Kelly O’Meara’sarticles on the subject, starting with Guns and Doses as well as Jon Rappoport’s posts at www.nomorefakenews.com
USPO to End 215 Years of Support of a Free Press
From Sam Smith - Undernews (Apr 18, 2007)
Governor Signs Bill Defying US ID Law
AP Story - Billings Gazette (Apr 18, 2007)
The Dow is Crashing
By Mike Maloney - Financial Sense University (Apr 16, 2007)
The Psychology of Hate as a Weapon of Mass Hypnosis
By Jon Rappoport - nomorefakenenews.com (Apr 20, 2007)
Sustainable Route ~ Documenting the continuing exploration of the ’sustainable movement.
EatWild - The #1 Site for Grass-Fed Food & Facts
China’s Foreign Reserves Rise Past $1.2 trillion
By Joe McDonald - AP (Apr 12, 2007)
Chemtrail Sunscreen Taught in US Schools
By William Thomas
Cold Weekend Not Peachy for Southeast Crops
By Katrina A. Goggins - AP (Apr 10, 2007)
Leave Hedge Funds Alone, Fed Chief Says
By Martin Crutsinger - AP (Apr 11, 2007)
Whether your goal is to transform our world, end corruption or protect your assets from the Tapeworm, the time has come to consider taking physical delivery of our stock certificates. It appears that Wall Street is selling a lot more securities than really exist. We need to start asking and answering the question, what happens if the game of musical chairs stops?
I have reported on similar types of fraud in the mortgage markets. Jim Puplava’s broadcast on March 31 on Financial Sense Newshour covers Naked Short Selling with Patrick Byrne, the CEO of Overstock.com. Byrne has done an outstanding job of documenting these practices in the stock market. I have previously posted a link to his internet presentation as well as an article on his efforts to have these practices outlawed in Utah.
Financial Sense Newshour — March 31 Broadcast
http://www.netcastdaily.com/fsnewshour.htm
One of the advantages of taking physical delivery of your stock certificates is that you have a chance of actually getting your annual stock proxy, including getting it in time to understand the issues being voted on, to vote and to attend the annual meeting. If we all invested in small cap stocks, took physical delivery and then took the time to understand what our company was doing and to participate and support excellent management in a positive manner — this would be a much better world. Think of it as another of hundreds of steps that we are taking as we navigate to a financially intimate world.
Late last year I had the opportunity to speak in Salt Spring Island. I returned to Salt Spring last month for a visit and Tangachee Goebl, the talented owner of Dancing Light Cottage had saved an article for me “Socially Responsible Micro Loans Possible with Kiva” by Jim Standen. It read as follows:
“This letter is written as a follow-up to my January 3 Driftwood View Point piece entitled Investment Choices and Quality of Life.
In that article I suggested that there could be signficant value to local resident investors directing their investments toward the local Salt Spring community. The article was inspired by the visit to Salt Spring last fall by Catherine Austin Fitts and her creation of the concept of the Solari Circles.
Today I would like to describe a new and innovative internet-based business solution I have recently discovered. In my belief it is a good example of a very efficient and socially beneficial loan mechanism.
The organization is called “Kiva” (Swahili word meaning “agreement” or “unity”) and can be located on the Internet at www.kiva.org. The purpose of the organization is to provide support for the loaning of very small loans ($25 US and up) from individuals in the first world to less fortunate individuals throughout the world.”
Intrigued despite my fears of getting anyone deeper in debt, peer-to-peer lending is a huge improvement on lending by large financial institutions. Since the way to learn about something is to try it, I signed up and find myself in a loan syndicate of seven Americans (including a baby) and 2 teams, a couple and a dad and child, from the Netherlands financing Francisco Betancourt, an entreprenuer in Equador:
My loan commitment did not include any money for Kiva. They asked for a donation on top, which I gave. I thought it was a very transparent and lovely way to handle funding for their overhead.
I am looking forward to learning more. If you would like to as well, here is the home page:
Kiva
http://www.kiva.org
In the last week, five of the most talented and lively members of the Solari Action Network have strongly recommended a new DVD called “Money as Debt.” It is an animated feature by artist and videographer Paul Grignon that describes our “magically perverse debt-money system in terms that are easy to understand.”
I watched it tonight and it is terrific. I have added it to our recommended reading on switching to local banks:
Going Local With Your Bank
Get a copy, watch it, lend it to your friends, and invite the people you REALLY TRUST to your house to watch it and then talk about starting a Solari Circle to take action together:
Money as Debt
http://www.moneyasdebt.net
* A box of 10 “Money as Debt” DVDs sells for $135cad, postage paid. Repeat orders get 12 for the same price. Purchase affords unlimited screening rights. The effort is to encourage free (or by donation) public showings.
Fort Knox: Bretton Bacteria Outbreak
By Hirus Dhnow - The Applachian Sentinel (Apr 1, 2007)
“The Secret”: Creating a Culture of Cheerfulness as Rome Burns
By Carolyn Baker - Speaking Truth to Power (Mar 30, 2007)
Venezuela to Introduce Local Currencies
By Gregory Wilpert - venezuelanalysis.com (Mar 30, 2007)
DARPA’s iXO Artifical Intelligence Control Grid: ‘The Official Version’
A 20 min Google video by IIB Films (Mar 25, 2007)
–> NASA Takes Google on Journey Into Space (Google Press Center)
–> NASA Takes Google on Journey Into Space NASA Press Release (Sept. 28, 2005)
Beckett’s Ghost Rules in Tehran
By Chris Sanders - Sanders Research (Mar 30, 2007)
Cities Set Limits on Serving Food to Homeless People
By Emily Bazar - USA Today (Mar 31, 2007)
It’s Time for Citizen Controlled Banks
By Jonathan M. Feldman - counterpunch (Mar 28, 2007)
Majority of Americans Think Global Warming as Serious as Terrorism
The Sietch Blog - Written by The Naib (Mar 25, 2007)
The Latest Tyranny: Tagging Terrorist Chickens
By Justin Sanders - The Moneychanger (Mar 31, 2007)
FarmHands in Montana has a new Map - Guide to Flathead Farms & Fresh Food (contact thebrants@centurytel.net for more info)
John Crudele: Treasury Clams up on PPT
By John Crudele - NY Post (Apr 3, 2007)
National Institute on Money in State Politics
Eagle Eye ~ Provider of Federal Procurement & Grant Business Intelligence
Ecuador’s President Denounces Adoption of US Dollar
By Matthew Walter & Theresa Bradley - Bloomberg.com (Apr 2, 2007)
Who is Fattening at the Government Trough?
Tennessee Farmers & Freeholders website
Retirement Community Navigates the Falling Dollar
By Catherine Austin Fitts - Scoop (Apr 4, 2007)
The War on Consciousness
By Paul Levy - awakeinthedream.com
Fannie Mae has Probably Bought and Repackaged This One Already
By Brendan Montague - London Times Online (Mar 25, 2007)
Republic or empire: A National Intelligence Estimate on the United States
By Chalmers A. Johnson - Harpers Online (Mar 2007)
HOPE - Healing of Persons Exceptional
Sucker-punch Spam with Award-winning Protection
From NewImprovedArt.com
Former Fed Analyst Questions M1 Currency Componenet Spike Prior to 9/11
By Ed Haas - muckrakerreport.com (Mar 22, 2007)
James Turk: More Trouble for the Dollar
From James Turk - goldmoney.com (Apr 1, 2007)
Derivatives Soon May Overwhelm Trading Even in Treasury Bonds
By Chris Powell - GATA Daily Dispatches (Apr 1, 2007)
China Figures How to Unload US Bonds Without Selling Them
From AFX News via Forbes.com
Combining Demand-Side Technologies, California Produces a Green Jail
By Penelope Grenoble O’Malley - Distributed Energy (Mar-Apr 2007)
Dirt Exposure ‘Boosts Happiness’
BBC News (Apr 1, 2007
Doing Well, Doing Good Need to sign-in as a Member to access
By Victoria Murphy Barret - Forbes.com (Apr 23, 2007)
Decline of bees, UK and worldwide: See article about half-way down the page: ‘Behavorial Changes Under Exposure to Electromagnetic Fields’:
Two beehives were unexposed and two beehives were exposed to a DECT phone. 25 bees were selected from each beehive and released 800 meters away.
Unexposed beehives: 16 and 17 bees returned after respectively 28 and 32 minutes.
DECT-exposed ones: 6 bees returned after 38 minutes to one hive. The other hive remained deserted. In the exposed beehives, there were 21% fewer cells constructed in the hive frames after 9 days.
Goldman Sachs is Biggest Creditor of Bankrupt New Century
By Robert Lindsay - The Times, London (Apr 4, 2007)
Blanchard Research Note: Not Much More Gold Likely to Come Out of Europe
By Chris Powell - GATA (Apr 5, 2007)
NovaGold Beats Barrack - Toronto (CP) - (Apr 5, 2007)
Also see: Solari Update - Why is NovaGold’s Success Important to you? (Aug 22, 2006)
Questions Linger About Bushes and BCCI
By Lucy Komisar - InterPress Service (Apr 4, 2007)
Jay Hughes on Preserving Dynastic Wealth in a Democracy
The Gift Hub - Blogging Philanthropy
