Finance minister announces a fresh property tax as PM uses annual speech as rallying call

Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos heralded fresh austerity measures over the weekend, chiefly a new prop…

By Andrew Zajac

Replacing tax deductions with credits for retirement savings would benefit low- and middle- income Americans, federal economic policy expert William Gale told a retirement security …

By Klaus Buchner and Horst Eger

This follow-up of 60 participants over one and a half years shows a significant effect on the adrenergic system after the installation of a new cell phone base stati…

By Anthony Cuthbertson

It is estimated that by the year 2050, eighty percent of the world’s population will be living in cities. Unfortunately, modern-day cities are often crime-ridden, chaotic, a…

By Michael Ricciardi

In the first such analysis ever conducted, Swiss economic researchers have conducted a global network analysis of the most powerful transnational corporations (TNCs). Their res…

YouTube
(7 Sep 11)

SYNOPSIS
THRIVE is an unconventional documentary that lifts the veil on what’s REALLY going on in our world by following the money upstream — uncovering the global consolidation …

This week all Solari Report Subscribers will have access to private content at the Solari Report Blog.

If you are a Solari Report Subscriber, look for an e-mail providing all the details of how to lo…

By Tami Luhby

The federal agency overseeing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac filed lawsuits Friday against 17 financial institutions, in an attempt to recover billions of dollars in losses from risky mor…

By Steven Greenhouse

The United States Postal Service has long lived on the financial edge, but it has never been as close to the precipice as it is today: the agency is so low on cash that it will…

By Louise Story and Matthew Saltmarsh

As leaders in Europe try to contain a deepening financial crisis, they are also increasingly talking about making fundamental changes to the way their 17-natio…

By Yves Smith

Even though it turns out that Eskimos (Inuit) don’t have as a rich vocabulary of words for snow as urban legend would have you believe, the Welsh do have a plethora of expressions for…

Watch this valedictorian speak out about the education she received. This is a fantastic speech.

The first mistake is people assume that people with degrees are educated. It’s so far from the truth…

From a Reader:

D. Landreth Seeds is America’s oldest seed company. It was founded in 1784 in Pennsylvania, and carries over 900 heirloom, non-GMO seed varieties. Many of the plants and vegetable vari…

By Daniel Indiviglio

Here’s a chart based on New York Federal Reserve data for household debt. The red line shows the cumulative growth in student loans since 1999. The blue line shows the growth of …

By Andrew Hacker and Claudia Dreifus

Borrowing looms large in American life from homes to cars. But the explosion of student debt in the last decade is a pernicious trend that the colleges themselves…

YouTube
(31 July 11

Continue reading the article . . .

By Patrick M. Byrne:

For six years Overstock.com has waged a war to expose Wall Street mischief. We did not go looking for a fight, but our company was attacked, and we learned we were not alone: t…

A free-ranging conversation between Jon Rappoport and Catherine Austin
July 2,2011

Continue reading the article . . .

Related reading:

John Trudell
Wikipedia,

John Trudell Podcast
Mothers World Market

By Zeke Faux and Jody Shenn

Standard & Poor’s is giving a higher rating to securities backed by subprime home loans, the same type of investments that led to the worst financial crisis since the …

By Steve Delahoyde

It’s been too long since we’ve had an “architecture in hard times” folk hero. There was John Morefield, the unemployed architect who would shell out building and design a…

Continue reading . . . . .

Related reading:

Wikileaks Releases Entire 65 Gigabyte Uncensored Cablegate Archive (With Or Without Bank Of America Disclosure)
Zero Hedge (1 Sept 11)

By Catherine Austin Fitts

These two articles illuminate a major food risk that the major food processors and fast food purveyors have kept under wraps for years. But what is quite frightening is h…

A transcript of Catherine’s August 18, 2011 interview of Adam Trombly on Entrainment, Subliminal Programming, and Financial Manipulation is now available to Solari Report Subscribers.

Subscribers c…

Released by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

The Federal Reserve Board on Thursday announced a formal enforcement action against the Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. and Goldman Sachs …

By Paul Kiel

This post has been updated to reflect Bank of America’s response.
The state of Nevada dramatically expanded its lawsuit against Bank of America today, turning the narrow case it filed la…

By Catherine Austin Fitts (in the first person) and Carolyn Betts

The Administration is now proposing the transfer of significant defaulted mortgages and foreclosed properties held by Fannie Mae, F…

By Democracy Now!

As former Vice President Dick Cheney publishes his long-awaited memoir, we speak to Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, former chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell.

Democracy …

Nothing inspires me more than talented young entrepreneurs creating new businesses. AND I am always on the hunt for fresh, organic lotions, cleaners and other products to strengthen our health.

…

Continue reading the article . . .

By Deena Stryker

An Italian radio program’s story about Iceland’s on-going revolution is a stunning example of how little our media tells us about the rest of the world.  We may remember that at…

By Roger Arnold

New York (RealMoney) — The largest transfer of wealth from the public to private sector is about to begin. The federal government will be bulk-selling the massive portfolio of forecl…

By Miles Weiss

BlackRock Inc. (BLK), the world’s largest money manager, is seeking regulatory clearance for its iShares exchange-traded funds to follow proprietary indexes rather than those devel…

By Catherine Austin Fitts

Here we go again. Another “official reality” of the financial coup’ d’etat. This one is about AIG. The last one I reviewed was about Goldman Sachs.

We just keep paying mi…

By Catherine Austin Fitts

I am a suspicious person.

When the dollar started to soar and gold tank on Tuesday shortly before an earthquake hit the East Coast delivering cracks into the Washington Mon…

By Catherine Austin Fitts

Gold is a metal.

If everyone takes all their money out of operating enterprises and puts it in gold and pays people to watch their gold or dig up the earth to get more gold…

By Yahoo! Finance

Energy company Halliburton (NYSE: HAL) plans to hire 11,000 workers in North America in 2011, a top executive told Cramer Wednesday.?

Jim Brown, president of Western Hemisphere, …

By a Solari Report Subscriber

There’s even more fraud than you guys discussed.  I am an attorney in Ohio doing foreclosure defense work (mostly pro bono) and have handled foreclosures by all of the …

By Nomi Prins

The Goldman Sachs CEO didn’t get a big-time criminal-defense lawyer because he’s worried about an SEC wrist slap—there’s a real possibility of doing time, says former Goldman …

By  Aridzonan_13

Introduction:

After being laid off from a large SW utility’s solar testing facility(LSWU), another former employee of the same utility and I joined a company that was specializing …

By the Kansas City Federal Reserve Bank

Since 1978 the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City has hosted an annual economic policy symposium.

The event is designed as a forum for central bankers, pol…

By Brandon Smith

The year was 2002, and while the majority of Americans were completely obsessed with the so called “War On Terror” and other devices of distraction, something much more real an…

Bernie Sanders on The Ten Worst Corporate Tax Avoiders: It’s Time for Them to Pay up and Share the Sacrifice

The following is a news release from the office of Sen. Bernie Sanders (Vermont-I)

Whil…

As gold has soared close to $1,900 an ounce on market turmoil in recent weeks, the SPDR Gold Shares exchange traded fund GLD, has passed the SPDR S&P 500 SPY to become the largest ETF measured by …

By Christie Allen

Wildpoldsried produces 321 percent more energy than it needs and is generating $5.7 million in annual revenue — a remarkable accomplishment for a modest farming community that h…

By Courtney Comstock

Is the Goldman Sachs CEO facing a new lawsuit?

The market seems to think so. Goldman Sachs just tanked in minutes before the close after news that Lloyd Blankfein hired a …

By Abhishek Takle,Wayne Cole and Mark Bendeich

The chief of Standard & Poor’s will step down next month, to be replaced by a senior Citibank executive, in a move announced a few weeks after the…

By Adrianne Jeffries

The popular Bitcoin transaction processor that disappeared from the internet about 10 days ago, taking at least tens of thousands of Bitcoins in user deposits with it, has be…

On the last Solari Report, Adam Trombly and I discussed the Quontron Resonance System which we both use. A number of subscribers have asked for a link to make sure they understand the system we were…

Click to view Interactive Graphic by David Yanofsky

Continue reading. . . . .

Question for Catherine:

As a foreigner (Canadian), I am nearly as concerned about the state of American politics as those at home. I hope you can find a moment to give me your opinion of Elizabeth …

By Stephen Ohlemacher

Washington (AP) — Laid-off workers and aging baby boomers are flooding Social Security’s disability program with benefit claims, pushing the financially strapped system towa…

Narrated By Ed Asner and Architect Richard Gage

Continue reading the article . . .

Note:
The SEC has not quantified the number of active cases in which substantial files were destroyed [by the col…

By Pete Danko

One would be excused for suspecting that Aidan Dwyer, said to be 13, is in fact a small, very young-looking, 37-year-old college-educated con-man of the highest order. Such is not the…

projectcamelotlive on livestream.com. Broadcast Live Free

The Daily Show – Indecision 2012 – Corn Polled Edition – Ron Paul & the Top Tier
Get More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,The Daily Show on Facebook

Continue readi…

[click on the image for a larger version]

Source: Shadow Government Statistics

Samaritan Ministries International is a worldwide health care ministry that provides a non-insurance, non-government way for members from all parts of the Body of Christ to join in bearing one anoth…

By Louise Story

The Justice Department is investigating whether the nation’s largest credit ratings agency, Standard & Poor’s, improperly rated dozens of mortgage securities in the years leadin…

By Paul Panckhurst

Morgan Stanley cut its forecast for global growth this year, citing an “insufficient” policy response to Europe’s sovereign debt crisis, weakened confidence and the prospec…