Archive for July, 2009

Life vs. Death

What we are watching price out through the political process is life vs. death. More specifically, the financial value of the life and death of various groups and ages of people vs. the life and death of large banks and corporations.

In a market economy, if a person’s skills become outdated, the theory is that they will be encouraged by their need to generate income to learn new skills or change.

If a large bank or corporation can no longer generate revenues to cover its operations, likewise the theory says that it will change. Management will invent new products and services, cut expenses, renegotiate with creditors through bankruptcy or shut down.

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CDC Asks for Public Comment

In July, the Secretary of Health and Human Services announced that the federal government expects to initiate a voluntary fall vaccination program against the 2009 H1N1 flu virus. The CDC will help state and local health organizations develop the vaccination program and are working to decide what should be the scope of the program for vaccinating Americans against the novel H1N1 pandemic influenza virus.

Continue Reading Make Your Voice Heard on a Decision Facing Americans About The H1N1 Vaccine!

For Immediate Release: Solari, Inc. Launches the Solari Report Digest Podcast

[HICKORY VALLEY, TN - July 15, 2009] - Solari, Inc., publisher of The Solari Report, an investment briefing focused on family and entrepreneurial wealth, launches the Solari Report Digest with Catherine Austin Fitts. This podcast features highlights from the Solari Report briefings.

Solari Inc., publishers of the Solari Report and the Positioning Your Assets for Growth in Uncertain Times Audio Seminar, launches the Solari Report Digest with Catherine Austin Fitts. The Solari Report Digest is a podcast featuring highlights from the live one-hour Solari Report briefings. In the rapidly changing political and economic landscape the Solari Report Digest provides up to date analysis of money and markets, insightful commentary on current events, as well as interviews with leaders in the world of business, politics, health, finance, and more.

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Money & Markets ~ Charts 7.30.09

View this week’s chart comparisons of gold against fiat currencies, oil and the Dow. Stay tuned for our next Money & Markets segment of The Solari Report, Thursday, August 6, 2009.

Click here to view all charts as a pdf file.

Previous Money & Markets Charts blog posts: Jul 2009 (1) (2) (3) / Jun 2009 (1) (2) (3) / May 2009 (1) (2) (3) (4) / Apr 2009 (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) / Mar 2009 (1) (2).

Currency charts are from Kitco.com, all others are from StockCharts.com.

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Health Care Gaps

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By Howard Berkes

It was a Third World scene with an American setting. Hundreds of tired and desperate people crowded around an aid worker with a bullhorn, straining to hear the instructions and worried they might be left out.

Some had arrived at the Wise County Fairgrounds in Wise, Virginia, two days before. They slept in cars, tents and the beds of pickup trucks, hoping to be among the first in line when the gate opened Friday before dawn. They drove in from 16 states, anxious to relieve pain, diagnose aches and see and hear better.

“I came here because of health care - being able to get things that we can’t afford to have ordinarily,” explained 52-year-old Otis Reece of Gate City, Va., as he waited in a wheelchair beside his red F-150 pickup. “Being on a fixed income, this is a fantastic situation to have things done we ordinarily would put off.”

Continue Reading Rural Medical Camp Tackles Health Care Gaps

Please visit this site for information on volunteering or donations: Remote Area Medical

(Photo: Becky Lettenberger/NPR)

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The Commercial Real Estate Bust

From MyBudget360.com

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Tom Darilek: We The People


Recognize these words? Want your kids to have a fun way to learn the preamble to our Constitution? Click the image to play Texas songwriter and singer Tom Darilek putting the words to a tune.

“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”

Solari network hero Court Skinner swears his grandson is now singing opening words to our Constitution.

The Peoples’ Currency


The Moneychanger

By Franklin Sanders

Facing a collapsing national economy, we must revive local economies. To do that we need a local money that will stay local. Various community currencies have been tried, but in the end they are only unworkable toys that won’t last. Anyway, if they did catch fire, the government would outlaw them and prosecute the issuers. As long as they remain only left-wing play-pretties, the government doesn’t care.

Doesn’t have anything to do with you? I’m afraid that in 6 to 18 months, you will understand all too well what this subject has to do with you, and that’s why I’m trying to convince you, now, to learn how to do business with gold and silver coin.

Continue Reading The War Against Specie Money & How We Can Win it at Face Value

Action Alert: Senate Voting on NAIS Funding

From the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund
(29 Jul 09)

“Call your Senators TODAY to urge that NAIS funding be cut. The Senate is expected to consider the Senate Agriculture Appropriations bill as soon as Wednesday evening. Unfortunately, the bill has over $14 million allocated for NAIS.

Additional talking points:

  • NAIS does not address the prevention or treatment of disease. It is only an after-the-fact tracking program, and USDA has not shown that NAIS will improve on existing tracking methods.
  • NAIS does nothing to improve food safety because the tracking ends when the animal dies, while the vast majority of foodborne illnesses are due to contamination at the slaughterhouse or during processing.
  • NAIS will cost animal owners and taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars, while benefiting only large agribusiness and technology companies.Remember to call both your Senators!”

Two ways to contact them:
1. Go to www.Senate.gov and enter your State in the box in the upper right-hand corner
2. Call the Capitol Switchboard at 202-224-3121 and ask to be connected to your Senators’ offices”