“In a world where more than half of the population – that is, more than 3 billion people – live along river courses shared by two states or more, and where many of the big world players – such as the USA, China, India, Germany, France, Brasil, Turkey and Canada – are either upstream or downstream states in large international rivers… water as a geopolitical factor can hardly be exaggerated.”
-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.
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!
Related Reading:
The Water Channel
Terje Tvedt’s Website
Terje Tvedt’s Books
Related Documentaries:
“If you gave me several million years, there would be nothing that did not grow in beauty if it were surrounded by water.” -Jan Erik Vold
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.
I will start with Money & Markets and Ask Catherine, so post your question at the blog.
Talk to you Thursday!
Transcript of Precious Metals Market Report with Franklin Sanders and Stewart Thomson is now available to Subscribers!
From the transcript:
Catherine Austin Fitts: Well, I’m in San Francisco and you’re in Tennessee, which is why I didn’t get a great dinner tonight. Anyway, so I want to just remind you that the last precious metals market report, you and I were talking about how remarkable it was that Goldman had predicted that we were going to get a big drop and had invited all their clients to sell or to short and then the next day, nothing happened, and of course that was Thursday before the Friday and Monday where we had the big drop.
Franklin Sanders: Right. Exactly.
Catherine Austin Fitts: So anyway, bring us up to date. What’s happened since we last talked?
By Catherine Austin Fitts
This week on the Solari Report, Franklin will be in Tennessee and I will be in the San Francisco Bay Area. We will have plenty to discuss!
Franklin will update us on what has happened in the markets since we spoke last, including the remarkable drop in prices in the last half of April and the divergence between the physical and paper markets. We will also answer your questions. Don’t forget to post them at the blog.
We will be joined by Canadian Stewart Thomson of Graceland Updates. I have been a subscriber of Stewart’s for many years. He has some of the finest coverage of “bankster tactics” with excellent advice on how to manage your assets in the face of unprecedented volatility.
One of the things we will focus on is where the bottom may be for gold and silver prices, how to manage your holdings accordingly, and where the opportunities may be.
In Money & Markets this week I will discuss signs that central bankers are trying to engineer a “planetary debt-for-equity swap”, including reports that central banks are now buying equities in significant amounts.
In Let’s Go to the Movies, I will review The Champagne Safari, a documentary which tells the story of the Bedaux Canadian Subarctic Expedition, which was an attempt by millionaire Charles Bedaux to cross the British Columbia wilderness during the Great Depression in 1934, while making a movie and quite a lot of fuss!
Talk to you Thursday!
Transcript of Getting to Success with Kimberly and Foster Gamble is now available to Subscribers!
From the transcript:
Catherine Austin Fitts: It’s my pleasure now to introduce Foster and Kimberly Gamble, who need absolutely no introduction on the Solari Report. Foster has joined us before and you’ve seen both Foster and Kimberly on the blog many times. They are the writers, producers, directors, inventors of the Thrive documentary. We’ve covered the Thrive documentary in Let’s Go to the Movies before, and we have it back up on the blog again for this report. If you haven’t seen it, it’s one of those documentaries that’s an absolute must see. I wanted Kimberly and Foster to come on today because they have a tool kit on their website, which is a great resource, and I encourage you to check it out. It’s Thrivemovment.com called the “solutions hub”. And, in addition to getting an update on how the documentary is doing, I wanted to really dive in and have Foster and Kimberly explain the solution tub – give you an example of how it’s been used to great success. And, then talk about how we all might use it in our lives and communities. I think it’s a toolkit and a process that can make an enormous difference in this world. And, so it’s my pleasure to welcome Foster and Kimberly. Let’s jump into the solutions hub. Tell us how you came to develop the solutions hub – how did it come to be?
What is a thriving world? To me it is a world based on integrity, individual freedom, and voluntary cooperation. It’s a world where not just some, but everyone gets to live the fullest life possible.” -Foster Gamble
By Catherine Austin Fitts
This week on the Solari Report, I am joined by Kimberly Carter Gamble and her husband Foster Gamble, the creators of the documentary Thrive. We will discuss how to organize effective groups of people to bring about powerful and positive changes. This is something with which Kimberly and Foster have lots of experience. Check out their Solutions Toolkit, a remarkable process that emerged from their successful campaign to prevent the brown moth spraying plans in California.
My hope is after listening to Kimberly and Foster and understanding how to use their Solutions Hub, your confidence and ability in organizing and participating in effective actions will grow.
In Money & Markets this week I will be discussing the ongoing struggle to centralize control, including the connections between the gold smack down, the Boston bombing, CISPA and bitcoin.
You can’t talk to Foster and Kimberly without addressing a very important film. We reviewed it in 2012 when it premiered, but it is must-see documentary so we will highlight it again. So this week in Let’s Go to the Movies, we will discuss Foster and Kimberly’s film Thrive. It is a film that addresses and offers solutions to the question, “What on earth will it take for everyone on Earth to not only survive, but thrive?” The film is now available in 24 languages and has been seen by many millions. Foster and Kimberly will update us on what the response to the film has taught them about the practical pathways to a thriving world.
Watch the entire movie here
Do post your questions for us on the blog!/a/a
Map of HUD Defaulted Mortgages in South Central Los Angeles, California
(Map courtesy The Hamilton Securities Group)
“If you’re going through hell, keep going!” – Winston Churchill
By Catherine Austin Fitts
This week on the Solari Report, I join Jon Rappoport to discuss the story of Hamilton Securities Group.
I founded Hamilton Securities in 1990. The firm was initially very successful – known for innovation in the application of new technology to financial transactions. However, our helping the Federal Housing Administration realize 100+% improvement in defaulted mortgage recoveries was unpopular with private investors and developers accustomed to special treatment. Hamilton’s efforts stood in the way of the “financial coup d’etat” – of engineering a mortgage bubble using federal mortgage fraud, of “disappearing” billions from federal accounts, and of a new wave of gentrification which would include the development of private prison companies financed with federal contracts.
In 1996 I had dinner with a politically connected HUD developer. He told me that a decision had been made to move Hamilton and me out of position. He said, “Well, we tried to have you fired through the White House but that did not work. So now the big boys have gotten together and decided you are going to prison.” Having organized Hamilton to withstand such dirty tricks, I replied that the effort, if begun, would fail. I was too clean. He replied, “You don’t get it. The fix is in. There is nothing you can do.”
He was wrong. There was a great deal that I could do – and did. After 18 audits and investigations only turned up evidence of a great performance on behalf of taxpayers and communities, and numerous efforts to falsify evidence to support bogus allegations failed, Hamilton was successful in civil litigation against the U.S. government.
The process proved to me beyond a shadow of a doubt that we have no economic problems. Our problems are spiritual and political.
As the developed world contemplates trillions in unfunded liabilities and a growing mountain of debt, Jon and I invite you to explore what the story of Hamilton Securities says about the possibilities of rebuilding our power, our culture, and our wealth as we clean up the mess created by pumps and dumps and bubbles and bailouts.
It’s Jon’s show this week -so no Money & Markets or Let’s Go to the Movies. Do post your questions for us on the blog!
Related Reading:
Hamilton Securities Litigation.
Jon has created a new special collection which includes a wealth of his material on imagination and personal power. He is calling it Exit the Matrix.
For more information on Jon Rappoport, No More Fake News.
Transcript of Equity Overview with Chuck Gibson: Yields and Volatility of Stocks vs. Bonds is now available to Subscribers!
From the transcript:
Catherine Austin Fitts: And now we turn to the “Second Quarter Equity Market Review.” In a moment I’m going to bring in Chuck Gibson, who is someone who needs no introduction on the Solari Report. Chuck is the managing member of Financial Perspectives in Pleasanton, California in the San Francisco Bay Area. He’s also managing member and my partner at Sea Lane Advisory. If you’re not familiar with Chuck’s work, check out our Equity Market Library. There’s great analysis on equity markets from previous quarters.
Chuck has outdone himself on his presentation for this Solari Report. There are big questions facing us in the economy, in the worlds and in the market, and they play out as you watch the equity markets. We’re going to be talking about them today. Chuck has made some fantastic charts. You’ll be following them on Instant Teleseminar. If for any reason you can’t, they’ll be up on the blog.
Transcript of Precious Metals Market Report with Franklin Sanders and Larry Pratt is now available to Subscribers!
From the transcript:
Franklin You had a very elegant way of explaining how I stay out of bar fights.
Catherine Yes?
Franklin You know how to stay out of bar fights, right? Leave the bar before the fight starts.
Catherine Oh!
Franklin And that’s exactly what you’re talking about, is get out of the bar when you see that the fight might break out, and – because it’s too late after they do it. And these surprise parties – governments are notorious for throwing these surprise parties over a weekend when you can’t get to your bank, you can’t take any protective action at all. So I think you’ve got to take your action now while there’s not a fight going on in the bar; otherwise, you just won’t be able to do it. You’ll just be one of the unnumbered victims in the net. So I think you’re right.
“Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.” ~ Teddy Roosevelt
By Catherine Austin Fitts
For decades, the G-7 economies have been the beneficiary of a long-term bull market in bonds. That has made it inexpensive for sovereign governments to borrow and spend, fueling economies throughout Europe, North America and the developed world. As government and corporate bond issuance has risen, institutional and household savings have poured into the bond and fixed income markets, seeking and finding safety. As interest rates have fallen, bonds prices have held values or risen.
The signs that this bull market in bonds is coming to an end are growing. As debt levels increase and developed economies slow down, credit quality has suffered. Regulators are preparing to shrink the financial sector with resolutions that dispense with “too big too fail policies. And the possibility that interest rates could rise are growing. Certainly, it is hard to imagine that they have further to fall.
Will significant investment leave the fixed income market? And where is that investment going to go?
This Thursday, I will be speaking with Chuck Gibson, managing member of Financial Perspectives and my partner at Sea Lane Advisory, LLC, in the San Francisco Bay Area, for our 2nd Quarter Equity Overview. Chuck will walk us through the relative yields and stability in the bond and equities markets. He has prepared outstanding charts to help you see the changes underway. This presentation builds on the “1st Quarter Equity Overview” – if you have not read it, check it out on the transcript on the subscriber resource page.
I will start with Money & Markets. including a review of the events in the precious metals markets over the last week. Do post your questions for Ask Catherine and for Chuck on the blog!
In Let’s Go to the Movies, I will discuss an interview by Charlie Rose of Jeremy Grantham, co-founder and chief investment strategist of Grantham Mayo Van Otterloo. Grantham explains the difficulties facing investors when we do not govern our resources and economy in a fundamentally sound way. His comments give perspective and support to the long-term trends Chuck and I will be discussing in this Equity Overview.
This will be a good one. You don’t want to miss it!
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