Author: Mark Gilmore
Food & Health – Week of 11.20.11
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(1 June 11)
The Source of Food Is None of Your Business, Says WTO.
Gaia Health (20 Nov 11)
Child-labor and Agriculture: Proposed Rules Restrict Youths’ Access to Agricultural Jobs
Midwest…
Life – Week of 11.20.11
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Wildcards – Week of 11.20.11
Penn State Appoints Former FBI Director Freeh to Lead Investigation
Law.com (22 Nov 11)
Speaker: Private Landowners in West Hold Key to Saving Wildlife
Missoulian (17 Nov 11)
Dr. William Tiller – Scientific Support for the Power of Intention
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Thrive: What on the Earth Will It Take?
By Catherine Austin Fitts
Thrive is a documentary invitation to a website and a conversation about what it will take for us to thrive. It is:
A formidable intellectual achievement. It builds the…
Central Bank Gold Purchases Soar
By Rhiannon Hoyle
Total central-bank gold purchases in the third quarter more than doubled from the second quarter and were almost seven times higher than a year earlier as countries continued to div…
Occupy Wall Street Declares Goldman Sachs Guilty
General Assembly holds mock trial and journalist Chris Hedges reads indictment accusing Goldman Sachs of financial crimes against humanity.
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Artist:Giotto di Bondone (1267-1337)
“Are you all so fulfilled in participating in on-going creating, you can afford to waste time pondering the end.”
— Jesus as translated by Aramaic scholar Ne…
NANO Chemtrails
By William ThomasÂ
If you did not enjoy “traditional” chemtrails raining down on you, you are not going to like the new version, which the United States Air Force promises will feature aerial dump…
Jeff Bezos Owns the Web in More Ways Than You Think
By Steven Levy
“What I’m about to show you,” Jeff Bezos says, “is the culmination of the many things we’ve been doing for 15 years.”
The CEO of Amazon.com, in regulation blue oxford sh…
Future Wars May be Fought by Synapses
By Laura Sanders
Instead of the indiscriminate destruction of the atom bomb or napalm, the signature weapon of future wars may be precise, unprecedented control over the human brain. As global conf…
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Say what you will about Americans, and one can say many things, this is a country of deeply democratic sensibilities. The idea that we are, or are supposed to be, a democratic society is at the very c…
Money & Markets – Week of 11.13.11
Legg Mason’s Bill Miller Exits: Last Mutual Fund Rock Star?
Yahoo Finance (17 Nov 11)
Fed Now Largest Owner of U.S. Gov’t Debt—Surpassing China
CNSNews.com (16 Nov 11)
This 28-Year-Old’s Startup…
Food & Health – Week of 11.13.11
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Geopolitical – Week of 11.13.11
Two Title Officers Indicted, Accused of Falsifying Documents
Las Vegas Review-Journal (17 Nov 11)
Elizabeth Warren Makes Jon Stewart Feel Better On “Daily Show” (VIDEO)
Huffington Post (16 Nov 11)
C…
Science & Technology – Week of 11.13.11
What’s New on The Fusion Front?
MSN (10 Nov 11)
Concern Rises for Federal Housing Administration
By Wall Street Journal
Concerns are rising that the Federal Housing Administration could run out money if the economy doesn’t recover soon, raising the risk the agency would seek a taxpayer bailout…
Precious Metals Market Report – 11.10.11
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Is This A Pedophile Sex Ring?
By Jon Rappoport
Mark Madden, a Pennsylvania radio host, wrote a piece about Jerry Sandusky, the accused Penn State pedophile, back in April, while a grand jury was deciding whether to indict Sandus…
18- to 34-Year-Olds Want to Start Companies When Economy Rebounds
By Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
In a beleaguered economy, the country needs entrepreneurs – the nation’s job creators. Fortunately, a recent poll shows that the so-called millennial generatio…
Thank You Nissan Motors
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By Catherine Austin Fitts
Something special happened this week. I finished paying off Nissan Motors.
In 2000, I leased or purchased three Nissan Pathfinders for Solari, Inc. As…
Transcript of Catherine’s 11.03.11 Interview of John Patrick Shanley Available to Subscribers
A transcript of Catherine’s November 3, 2011 interview of Playwright John Patrick Shanley is now available to Solari Report Subscribers!
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Crowdfunding Bill Would Allow People to Invest in Local Businesses
By Stacy Mitchell
Under a measure that passed the House last Thursday, you may soon be able to invest in a portfolio of your favorite independent businesses. The bill, which won bipartisan suppor…
Sarkozy Tells Obama Netanyahu is a “Liar”
France President Nicolas Sarkozy and President Obama
By Yann Le Guernigou
“I cannot bear Netanyahu, he’s a liar,” Sarkozy told Obama, unaware that the microphones in their meeting room had been swi…
US Wealth Gap Between Young and Old is Widest Ever
By Associated Press
The wealth gap between younger and older Americans has stretched to the widest on record, worsened by a prolonged economic downturn that has wiped out job opportunities for youn…
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Listen to Catherine speaking with Bonnie Faulkner on the KPFA radio show “Guns & Butter.”
Title: “Unpacking Mr. Global, Part One” with Catherine Austin Fitts. Derivatives exposure of Bank …
Money Launderers Not Too Different From Tony Soprano
By Nieman Watchdog
Longtime journalist and commentator Bill Moyers was the keynote speaker on October 20 at the 40th anniversary celebration of Public Citizen, the “countervailing force to corporate…
The Real Genius of Steve Jobs
By Malcolm Gladwell
One of the great puzzles of the industrial revolution is why it began in England. Why not France, or Germany? Many reasons have been offered. Britain had plentiful supplies of c…
Bye, Bye BAC
By Chuck Gibson
Just in time for “Bank Transfer Day“, my mortgage refinance completed Friday and I ran (not walked) as fast as I could away from the old one. While I am not tethered to any larg…
Marketing of Local Foods Grossed $4.8 billion in 2008
By Sarah A. Low and Stephen Vogel
This study uses nationally representative data on marketing of local foods to assess the relative scale of local food marketing channels. This research documents t…
Sam Cooke – A Change Is Gonna Come
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“If we can recognize that change and uncertainty are basic principles, we can greet the future and the transformation we are undergoing with the understanding that we do not know enough to be pessimi…
Annuity vs. Dividend Portfolio
By Intelligent Speculator at Seeking Alpha
I recently spent an entire evening talking to a good friend of mine about annuities. Why? Because his father was considering buying one, as he has just re…
Money & Markets – Week of 11.6.11
Bye-Bye Bernanke? The Case for the Gold Standard
Yahoo Finance (10 Nov 11)
How Wall Street Went Wrong
The Wichita Eagle (4 Nov 11)
How Walmart Is Changing China
The Atlantic (Dec 2011)
California a…
Housing & Mortgage Markets – Week of 11.6.11
The Pareto Distribution: Europe at the Tipping Point?Â
of two minds.com (Nov 2011)
Geopolitical – Week of 11.6.11
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(6 Oct 11)
Remains of US Soldiers Dumped in Landfill, Air Force Admits
Reader Supported News (10 Nov 11)
How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the OWS Protests
Rolling Stone (10 Nov 11…
Food & Health – Week of 11.6.11
Dear Autism
Adventures in Autism (5 Nov 11)
Shock finding: More Than 75 percent of all ‘Honey’ Sold in Grocery Stores Contains no Honey at all, by Definition
Natural News (8 Nov 11)
Drought-Damaged …
Life – Week of 11.6.11
Alaska Braces For “Epic” Storm; Evacuations Begin
Reuters (8 Nov 11)
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(21 Feb 11)
Science & Technology – Week of 11.6.11
Watch YU55 Fly By the Moon
Slooh Space Camera
Bill Gates Spends $1m on Laser Defence System – to Repel Mosquitoes
Mail Online (4 Nov 11)
Asteroid Yu55 on Course For Close Encounter With Earth
Guardi…
Wildcards – Week of 11.6.11
The Missing Chapter – A Personal View of Russia–Twenty Years After
Novelist Amitav Ghosh
On Point with Tom Ashbrook (13 Oct 11)
Mike Bloomberg’s Marie Antoinette Moment
Rolling Stone (3 Nov 11)
Corzine Hires Criminal Defense Attorney
By Daniel Wagner and Bernard Condon
He set out to create a mini-Goldman Sachs. In the end, he built a mini-Lehman Brothers.
Former New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine’s resignation Friday from the securi…
Wall Street v. Greece: G20 Opens as Greek PM Pushes For Referendum on EU Bailout Plan
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Evans-Pritchard is Bullish on USA
By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
The American phoenix is slowly rising again. Within five years or so, the US will be well on its way to self-sufficiency in fuel and energy. Manufacturing will have close…
Catherine on The Power Hour
Is the economy doing better now in the United States? How is your pocketbook doing? Are we out of danger from a GREAT Depression? Hear what is really going on behind the mainstream headlines in the …
CME Investigating MF Global
The New York Times (1 Nov 11)
The investigation into hundreds of millions of dollars in missing money at MF Global has widened, as the CME Group confirmed on Tuesday that the brokerage firm failed to…
John Patrick Shanley – The Playwright on Not Playing Ball
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Amazon Launches Lending Library For Kindle Owners
By The Wall Street Journal
As the e-reader and tablet wars heat up, Amazon.com Inc. is launching a digital-book lending library that will be available only to owners of its Kindle and Kindle Fire d…
Success for Andrea Rossi’s E-Cat Cold Fusion System, But Mysteries Remain
By David Hambling
Against all the odds, Andrea Rossi’s E-Cat cold fusion power plant passed its biggest test yesterday, producing an average of 470 kilowatts for more than five hours. (A technical …
Market Share of The World’s Largest Investment Managers by Country
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“We all know what has to be done; what we don’t know is how to get re-elected once we done it.”
Jean-Claude Juncker, prime minister of Luxembourg, commenting on the sovereign debt situation.
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IMF May Create 6-Month Credit Line for Countries Facing Shocks
By Sandrine Rastello
The International Monetary Fund may create a six-month credit line for countries facing shocks, officials from Group of 20 governments and IMF said, as the European debt crisis…
Farm Bill Goes Behind Closed Doors
By Marc Heller – Waterton Daily Times (30 Oct 11)
WASHINGTON — For three New York lawmakers, serving on the Agriculture Committee is a badge of honor. But on the committee’s main order of busines…
Nevada Makes Illegal Foreclosures Felony
By Mike Colpitts – Housing Predictor (31 Oct 11)
Responding to homeowner complaints, Nevada has become the first state in the nation to make illegally repossessing a home a felony, and may send banke…
World’s Most Powerful Laser to Tear Apart the Vacuum of Space
UK Telegraph (30 Oct 11)
A laser powerful enough to tear apart the fabric of space could be built in Britain as part major new scientific project that aims to answer some of the most fundamental qu…
99 Percent Bulls**t
Here is the WORST idea yet – allowing the NWO to destroy the U.S. Constitution by making it look like a neetsy keen grassroots movement.
~ Catherine
The 99% Declaration
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Perspectives Blog 10-31-11
By Melanie Pelayo
The announcement of cost of living adjustments by the federal government a week ago not only heralded the first increase to Social Security benefits in 2 years, but it also increa…
Mortgage Fraud & Housing Market
Catherine with Max Keiser – (28 Oct 11)
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Goldman Attacks Occupy Wall Street’s Non-Profit Bank
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Mega-bank Goldman Sachs (assets $933bn), has declared war on one of the smallest banks in New Yo…
MERS Subpoenaed by New York, Sued by Delaware
(Reuters) – MERS, the electronic mortgage registry used by the banking industry, was sued by Delaware on Thursday and accused of deceptive practices that led to unlawful shortcuts in dealing with the …
Money & Markets – Week of 10.30.11
‘He Has a Right to Speak,’ Said The Cop to The Banker
Daily KOS (2 Nov 11)
Investors Place Big Bets on Buy Here Pay Here Used-car Dealers
Los Angeles times (1 Nov 11)
Credit Unions Gear Up for Bank …
Geopolitical – Week of 10.30.11
Woman Facing Criminal Charges for Posing as Ex on Facebook
Fox News (3 Nov 11)
A Perversely Perfect War
The Daily Reckoning (3 Nov 11)
From The Beginning, it Was Clear Kristallnacht Was Different
JT…
Precious Metals – Week of 10.30.11
Goldline Execs Charged With Fraud
ABC News (1 Nov 11)
Food & Health – Week of 10.30.11
Exposed: CDC Deliberately Manipulated, Covered up Scientific Data Showing Link Between Vaccines Containing Mercury and Autism
Natural News.com (2 Nov 11)
Hay Shortage Compounds Woe in Drought-Stricke…
Science & Technology – Week of 10.30.11
GE Breakthrough Aims to Cut Solar Costs in Half
SolarDaily (28 Oct 11)
Wildcards – Week of 10.30.11
Americans Work Too Much for Their Own Good: de Graaf and Batker
Bloomberg (3 Nov 11)
The Shadow Superpower
Foreign Policy (28 Oct 11)
Degas Bronze Ballerina Fails to Sell in NYC
Associated Press (2 …
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When your country has a body of laws that could fill an entire football stadium, you can always find half a dozen things to indict somebody on.
~ Simon Black
Farm-to-Fork Dinner Fiasco
By Laura Bledsoe (24 Oct 11)
When an over-zealous regulator shows up at a farm dinner demanding that food be destroyed as hungry guests await, who do you call? Here’s Laura’s account written as a l…
Stunning Charts of Manufacturing Complexity
The products we use everyday are complex combinations of specialized knowledge.
Harvard and MIT released a report, “The Atlas of Economic Complexity,” visually mapping the vast knowledge contained …
Urge FDA to Waive Fees for Small Businesses
The Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) directed FDA to collect fees on businesses that have to be re-inspected because of some noncompliance. This new requirement could unfairly penalize small busin…
COLA Increase on Social Security
By Chuck Gibson
Good news was announced for retirees this week as the first time since 2009 Social Security benefits will be increased starting next year.
The cost-of-living adjustment, or COLA, wil…
Holy Roman Empire – Part II
By: Reuters
The Vatican called on Monday for the establishment of a “global public authority” and a “central world bank” to rule over financial institutions that have become outdated and often inef…
Transcript of the Oct 13, 2011 Precious Metals Market Report Available to Subscribers
A transcript of Catherine’s 3rd Quarter 2011 Wrap-up, the October 6, 2011 Solari Report, is now available to Solari Report Subscribers!
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Transcript of Catherine’s 3rd Quarter Wrap-up Available to Subscribers
A transcript of Catherine’s 3rd Quarter 2011 Wrap-up, the October 6, 2011 Solari Report, is now available to Solari Report Subscribers!
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Visualizing Consolidation in the Global Seed Industry – 1996-2008
By Phil Howard
In the last 40 years, the commercial seed industry has transformed dramatically. It has shifted from a competitive sector of agribusiness, composed primarily of small, family-owned fir…
B of A: US Debt Downgrade Coming
[Note from CAF: Given that the FDIC just picked up the BofA/Merrill derivatives position, you would think BofA would be a bit more sensitive to the branding of the federal credit!]
By Joe Weisenthal
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Money & Markets – Week of 10.23.11
How the 50% Greek Haircut is Actually Just 28%
Zerohedge (26 Oct 11)
Pop Goes the Chinese Bubble
Zerohedge (26 Oct 11)
Bundestag Passes EFSF As Levered Insurance Policy Motion
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Geopolitical – Week of 10.23.11
China Takes a Loss to Get Ahead in the Business of Fresh Water
New York Times (26 Oct 11)
Paul Wants to Phase Out Federal Student Loans
The Associated Press (23 Oct 11)
Obama to Promote New Steps to…
Wildcards – Week of 10.23.11
The Invisible Slow-Kill Enterprise of Organized Stalking Assaults
Organized Stalking Abuse (17 March 11)
Qaddafi Is Killed as Libyan Forces Take Surt
By Kareem Fahim and Rick Gladstone
MISURATA, Libya — Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, the former Libyan strongman who fled into hiding after an armed uprising toppled his regime two months ago, met a vio…
Jamie Johnson – Engaging America in a Real Conversation
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Ohio Grad Student Denied Law License Due to Unpaid Student Loan
By Susanna Kim
While many law school graduates are all too aware of their accumulating pile of debt, few may realize it can prevent them from practicing law and kill any hopes of paying down their …
The Fraud At The Heart Of Student Lending Exposed
By Tyler Durden
A key reason why a preponderance of the population is fascinated with the student loan market is that as USA Today reported in a landmark piece last year, it is now bigger than ever…
Catherine in Mill Valley – October 27, 2011
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[Mill Valley, CA] October 5, 2011 – In response to the changing financial environment and the growing need for families to build and preserve their wealth, Catherine Austin Fitts is ret…
Louisiana Prohibits Residents From Using Cash When Buying, Selling Secondhand Goods
By Jonathan Benson
If you buy or sell secondhand goods and live in the state of Louisiana, you can no longer use legal tender to complete such transactions. Ackel & Associates LLC (A&A), a professi…
Cartoon on the Proposed Federal Reserve – 1912
The Mises Institute dug up this cartoon from 1912 showing what would happen if the Federal Reserve Act was adopted in 1913; this is exactly what has happened.
The picture above was taken from a pro…
Say No to Fiddling with the Constitution
By Catherine Austin Fitts
I just got a message from a reader for the third time today. It proposes that we support Warren Buffet’s proposals to amend the US Constitution.
I responded, “So you want t…
Kiobel v. Shell Petroleum N.V. – Supreme Court Will Decide Whether Corporations May Be Sued Under the Alien Tort Statute
On October 17, 2011, the Supreme Court granted a certiorari petition to review a decision issued by a divided panel of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in Kiobel v. Shell Petroleum N.V.1Â Â The …
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Transcript of Catherine’s Interview of Adam Trombly Available to Subscribers
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Ron Paul – Plan To Restore America
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America is the greatest nation in human history. Our respect for individual liberty, free markets, and limited constitutional government produced the strongest, most prosperous country in th…
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Hypocrisy has its own elegant symmetry.
~ Julie Metz
Lead Attorney on the RAWESOME
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US to Support European Bailouts
By: Jeff Cox
The U.S. plans on being an active partner as efforts intensify to get Europe get back on its feet financially, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner told CNBC Friday.
With global leader…
Money & Markets – Week of 10.16.11
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(19 Oct 11)
Student Loans Outstanding Will Exceed $1 trillion This Year
USA Today (19 Oct 11)
Beltway Earnings Make U.S. Capital Richer Than Silicon Valley
Bloomberg (19 Oct 11)
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Housing & Mortgage Markets – Week of 10.16.11
Faulty Foreclosure May Mean Massachusetts Buyer Isn’t Owner
Bloomberg (21 Jan 11)
Food & Health – Week of 10.16.11
Radio: Food Rights Hour w/Pete
Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund (15 Oct 11)
Homesteading Quantified: How Much Land You Need To Go Off The Grid
Huffington Post (23 Aug 11)
Linking People to Fruit,…
Geopolitical – Week of 10.16.11
US Troops to Leave Iraq by End of Year
Yahoo Finance (21 Oct 11)
In Bid to Cut Costs at Some Texas Prisons, Lunch Will Not Be Served on Weekends
NYTimes.com (20 Oct 11)
Debt Plan Is Delayed in Europ…
Life – Week of 10.16.11
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(17 Oct 11)
Ground-shaking Booms Puzzle Louisville Neighborhood
NHNE Pulse (19 Oct 11)
Suzan Mazur: Betsey Johnson, 2nd Skin & Darpa $$$
Scoop News (16 Oct 11)
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Wildcards – Week of 10.16.11
Focusing as a Force for Peace: The Revolutionary Pause
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