The Corbett Report – Interview With Catherine Austin Fitts

darlene — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 14:00:38 +0000

The Breakaway Civilization:

Catherine Austin Fitts of Solari.com joins us to discuss the problem facing us in the wake of the financial coup d’etat — the breakaway civilization who believes themselves to be history’s actors — and the solution, what she calls Rethinking Diversification [...]

Transcript of Catherine’s 2.16.2012 Interview of Jo Kline Cebuhar Available to Subscribers

Anais — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 13:04:56 +0000

A transcript of Catherine’s February 16, 2012 interview of Jo Kline Cebuhar is now available to Solari Report Subscribers!

From the transcript:

Catherine: I’d like to introduce our very, very special guest tonight: Jo Kline Cebuhar. Jo is the author of a wonderful book on health care proxies and living wills. I’ve linked [...]

Evidence of Market Manipulation in The Financial Crisis

darlene — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 12:30:54 +0000

* The Solari Gold Star signifies a “must read” article.

“When 100 million shares are borrowed on a single day and then returned on a single day, the evidence that this is a concerted action is hard to refute. The likelihood of such an event happening by coincidence is one in [...]

Harvard Creates Mass Produced Robotic Insects

darlene — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 01:29:11 +0000

By Staff Writers

A new technique inspired by elegant pop-up books and origami will soon allow clones of robotic insects to be mass-produced by the sheet. Devised by engineers at Harvard, the ingenious layering and folding process enables the rapid fabrication of not just microrobots, but a broad range of electromechanical devices.

Girl Severely Injured at NY Private School

darlene — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 00:06:43 +0000

By Jenny Anderson

More than three months after a 14-year-old girl was kicked in the head and severely injured by fellow students at the Brearley School’s Halloween event, the school has concluded that the episode was the result of “adolescent exuberance,” the school’s leaders told parents in a letter sent Monday evening.

Quote du Jour

darlene — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 17:14:08 +0000

I doubt that the world will come to an end since it has survived far greater and unspeakable calamities. Yet, it is no consolation that what may indeed be coming to an end is the way of living and thinking to which we have become accustomed. In other words, the financial and economic world [...]

Global Clearinghouse Ready to Shut Out Iranian Banks

darlene — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 17:04:56 +0000

Image Credit: Bloomberg

Move would sever regime’s financial lifeline

By Gulf News

Brussels: A financial clearinghouse used by virtually every country and major corporation in the world agreed on Friday to shut out Iran from its respected network, an unprecedented escalation of global economic pressure to halt Iran’s suspected drive for nuclear weapons.

Continue [...]

Test Tube Hamburgers to be Served This Year

darlene — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 16:43:24 +0000

Photo: PA

The world’s first test tube hamburger will be served up this October after scientists perfected the art of growing beef in the lab.

By Nick Collins

By generating strips of meat from stem cells researchers believe they can create a product that is identical to a real burger.
The process of [...]

Italian Police Seize $6 trillion of “Fake” U.S. T-bonds

darlene — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 15:52:33 +0000

That always could be a pretty good way of liquidating the national debt — repudiate the bonds as forgeries.

- Chris Powell

Potenza, Italy — Italian police said toay they had seized about $6 trillion of fake U.S. Treasury bonds in Switzerland, and issued arrest warrants for eight people accused of international fraud and [...]

FHA Pronounces Budget Problems Gone, Thanks to Foreclosure Fraud Settlement

darlene — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 15:24:37 +0000

By: David Dayen

The Administration’s FY 2013 budget predicts a large shortfall for the Federal Housing Administration, which has predictably suffered during the housing crisis. But the FHA’s Acting Director (what a surprise, an acting director at a key regulatory agency) says that shortfall has been
wiped away by the foreclosure [...]

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