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The recent international banking incident between the US government and Swiss banking authorities in which Treasury demanded private account information about holdings of US citizens in Swiss bank a…
by John Rubino
Facts have a different feel when they’re personal. And speaking personally, evidence that Americans are seriously spooked is starting to pile up. In the past few months:
• I che…
By: Paul Sutherland
NASA will tomorrow launch a spectacular mission to bomb the Moon. Their LCROSS mission will blast off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, carrying a missile that will blast a hole in …
We are bearish on the renminbi. On the other hand, we are also bearish on the US dollar, euro, pound, Swiss franc, and Zimbabwean dollar. We hate them all, with appropriate analytical nuances. Show us…
Last week, the firm predicted that President Barack Obama’s government could issue $3.25tn of debt before September, almost four times last year’s sum. Goldman, a prime broker of US government bonds…
Amidst global economic recession and financial-market fragility, net private capital inflows to developing countries fell to 707 billion US dollars in 2008, a sharp drop from a peak of 1.2 trillion in…
The discussion and debate about the $134.5 billion bonds seized by the Italian government continues. We thought we would put all the links in one post.
Discrepancies in America’s Accounts Hide a …
I asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there and he said he had stolen a pair of shoes. I told him if he had stolen a railroad he would be a United States Senator.
Mary Harris “Mother”…
Thomas Geissler of TG Gold-Super-Markt
By Richard Evans and Harry Wallop
Holidaymakers passing through Britain’s airports could soon have the chance to buy a block of gold from a vending machine, r…
The heart is the master and the head is the servant. That is always the case, except when it isn’t the case we are in deep, deep trouble.
– William Gibson
By Scott Rasmussen
Republicans by nearly three-to-one say global warming is caused by planetary trends, while Democrats believe human activity is to blame by the same margin. Voters not affiliated w…
Goldman Sachs: Great American Bubble Machine
Zero Hedge (24 June 09)
House Committee Approves Bill Restricting 401(k) Advice to Indie Advisers
Investment News (26 June 09)
The Bloodless Coup of the…
Gold Prepares For The Big One
KITCO (25 June 09)
Silver/Gold Ratio Reversion 2
Zealllc.com (19 June 09)
S&P Downgrades Prime Jumbo Mortgage Securities
Market Watch (23 June 09)
The Age-Based Discrimination Continues
Bank Free Investing (23 June 09)
Congress Considers Referendum on Puerto Rico’s Political Status
Truthout (23 June 09)
9/11 FEMA Videographer at Ground Zero Goes Public
Voltairenet.org (22 June 09)
Thailand’s Train Services Cease …
Google Slammed as China And U.S. Quarrel Over Internet
Reuters.uk (26 June 09)
GPS Satellite Glitches Fuel Concern on Next Generation
The Wall Street Journal (17 June 09)
9 Dead, More Remain In Hospital After Metro Trains Collide
WUSA 9.com (23 June 09)
‘Wealth Creation’ And The New Salish
Half Past Human (June 2009)
How the Food Makers Captured Our Brains
The New York Times (22 June 09)
Dairy-Cow Kill to Double Milk Price After Slump (Update1)
Bloomberg.com (22 June 09)
Map 2-1 United States Annual Average W…
There’s only ONE shot that’s in perfect harmony with the field… One shot that’s his authentic shot, and that shot is gonna choose him… There’s a perfect shot out there tryin’ to find each and ever…
by Rick Rozoff
Since the beginning of the year the United States and NATO have repeatedly indicated in both word and deed their intention to lay claim to and extend their military presence in what …
Fault Lines – California: Failed State – 11 June 09 – Part 1
Fault Lines – California: Failed State – 11 June 09 – Part 2
View Shock Doctrine California, Parts I & II
“In my experience as a reporter, disease/epidemic news is the easiest way to provoke fear in the population. People just line up and swallow all the nonsense. They stop thinking. They obey. Even when …
By Barry Eichengreen & Kevin H. O’Rourke
Voxeu.org
“This is an update of the authors’ 6 April 2009 column comparing today’s global crisis to the Great Depression. World industrial production, tra…
View this week’s chart comparisons of gold against fiat currencies, oil and the Dow for the Money & Markets segment of The Solari Report tonight, Thursday, June 18, 2009.
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I was speaking with an energetic healer this week and mentioned that …
“In a digital age, data about money is worth more than money.”
~ Nicholas Negroponte
LINKS TO FINANCIAL DATA IN CALIFORNIA
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
Grants and Contracts
http://www.eagleeyeinc.com/USMa…
Obama Initiative Seeks Fix To Finance Regulations
Yahoo Finance (17 Jun 09)
Obama Bank Revamp May Stall as Competing Issues Mount
Bloomberg.com (15 Jun 09)
FACTBOX – Obama Plan to Tighten Financial …
Background Information
A new food safety bill is on the fast track in Congress-HR 2749, the Food Safety Enhancement Act of 2009. The bill needs to be stopped.
HR 2749 gives FDA tremendous power w…
Photo By: Joel Black
Dr. Sam Chachoua is a talented physician who had to leave the United States for reasons of safety and to protect his vaccines and knowledge. Here is a video from the late 1990’…
Photo: PA
By Andrew Alderson
For the first time since the Second World War vegetables are being grown in the Palace’s grounds alongside ornamental plants.
The move comes amid a surge in demand fro…
Mafia Blamed For $134bn Fake Treasury Bills
Financial Times (18 June 09)
The Retreat of the Shadow Lenders, Why Deflation and not Inflation is the Order of the Day
Global Research.ca (18 June 09)
Ch…
By: Hub Pages
[Catherine’s Note: I originally published this piece in 2007. Because of the California and other state and local fiscal challenges, I thought I would republish]
In the early 19th cen…
Recently, I have been getting questions about how I first learned about my home Hickory Valley, Tennessee.
In 1978, after graduating from business school, I decided to ride a bicycle across the cou…
Brass Check TV
Obama Administration Pushes IMF Gold Sales Through House by Tieing it to Security Bill
MineWeb (19 June 09)
Germans Flock to Gold Bars Vending Machine at Frankfurt Airport
Times on Line (17 June 09)
…
U.S. Foreclosure Filings Top 300,000 as Bank Seizures Loom
Bloomberg.com (14 June 09)
Judge Upholds Three-word Foreclosure Strategy
ABC.7 (29 May 09)
Glenn Beck: The Letter
Glenn Beck.com (19 June 09)
De-Dollarization: Dismantling America’s Financial-Military Empire
Global Research.ca (13 June 09)
Secret Papers ‘Show How Shell Targeted Nigeria …
Flotsam & Jetsam: End of an Affair
Undernews (17 June 09)
Sky ‘Rains Tadpoles’ Over Japan
Telegraph.co.uk (10 June 09)
Brazil Invests 7.6 billion USD in Family Farming
MercoPress (18 June 09)
Submit Comments to USDA Against GE Trees
Global Justice Ecology.org (June 2009)
Catastrophic Fall in 2009 Global Food Product…
The Bush Doctrine, Economic Warfare and Your Investment Portfolio
By Rob Kirby
In a military sense, we are all familiar with and can visibly recognize the physical manifestations of the implementa…
By: Jean-LeonGerome
For a long time, I have believed that community prayer can play an important role in transforming communities. That said, I don’t know much about community prayer and would lov…
Chicago’s 49th Ward
The participatory budgeting networks are abuzz with excitement about the participatory budgeting effort being introduced in the 49th Ward of Chicago.
The Watson Institute for In…
By: Kurt Nimmo
Washington, D.C. – Congressman Ron Paul’s Federal Reserve Transparency Act, HR 1207, has reached and surpassed the level of 218 cosponsors in the House of Representatives, which means…
Doctors Warn: Avoid Genetically Modified Food
By Jeffrey M. Smith
On May 19th, the American Academy of Environmental Medicine (AAEM) called on “Physicians to educate their patients, the medical comm…
View this week’s chart comparisons of gold against fiat currencies, oil and the Dow for the Money & Markets segment of The Solari Report tonight, Thursday, June 11, 2009.
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This is the second week of the month. That means I am headed over to …
By: Valuation Review
A new announcement from Fannie Mae calls for all appraisal data to be submitted electronically beginning March 2010. Uh oh, there goes the paper trial!
Lenders Can Deliver Electr…
Chicago’s 49th Ward
See Financial Ecosystems, Parts III
One of the reasons to map your financial ecosystems, is because it is best to understand existing resources and what has been happening to th…
Chicago’s 49th Ward
I thought I would create a space where readers could post links or other information on governmental resources related to Chicago’s 49th Ward. Here are links related to park hold…
Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go: lest thou learn his ways, and get a snare to thy soul.
– Proverbs 22: 24-25
In Hohenwald, Tennessee
What you will learn:
Tour different forest ecoregions in Tennessee; Learn about:
Principles of bioregion repair to restore water and soil sheds for productivity (water sto…
By: MercoPress
In 2008, the world total military expenditure was an estimated 1.464 trillion US dollars, accounting for an increase of 4% in real terms compared to 2007, and an increase of 45% since…
Vatican Study Endorses GMOs for Food Security
Analysis: The academy aimed less to conduct an objective appraisal than to mobilize public support
By John L. Allen, Jr
In what seemed largely a forego…
Palmer pigweed in a Southern cotton field.
By Clea Caulcutt
The gospel of high-tech genetically modified (GM) crops is not sounding quite so sweet in the land of the converted. A new pest, the ev…
ATA Truck Tonnage Index Fell Another 2.2 Percent in April
American Trucking Association (26 May 09)
Association of American Railroads – Weekly Traffic Report
“Lower electricity demand and higher co…
Chrysler Asset Deal Stayed by U.S. Supreme Court
Bloomberg.com (8 Jun 09)
U.S. Says TARP Issue Out of Court’s Reach
Scotusblog.com (8 Jun 09)
Reference: Fiat Board of Directors / Wikipedia on Fiat…
By Dena Aubin and John Parry – Analysis
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Is Campbell’s Soup a better bet than U.S. government debt?
No, we’re not talking about stocking a bunker for survival. This is talk ab…
Photo By: Merrick Davies
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[I get fascinating feedback. Here is an example. Worth thinking about the IntercontinentalExchange (ICE) and whether the oil price manipulations were part of an intentional hit. Cui Bono? Who benefits…
Photo: Douglas Jackson of E-Gold
By Kim Zetter
Jackson, 51, is the maverick founder of E-Gold, the first-of-its-kind digital currency that was once used by millions of people in more than a hundred…
Photo by: Media Gallery
The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments on April 28, 2009, on the question of whether state officials are barred by the National Bank Act and regulations of the Office of the…
My good friend Jason Eaton wants a new logo for his website Social Thread. So he is having a design competition. It is an interesting way to get a new logo!
Mark Lundeen has just published week 86 in his “Bear Market Race to the Bottom Series.”
View the series to date at Gold Speculator—weeks 69 through 86.
by Dennis Cauchon
Benefits, such as Social Security, food stamps, unemployment insurance and health care, accounted for 16.2% of personal income in the first quarter of 2009, the Bureau of Economic A…
Photo By: Wall Street Geek
By Marcy Gordon and Greg Risling
Angelo Mozilo, the man who rode the housing boom to build Countrywide Financial Corp. into a California colossus of high-risk mortgage le…
By David Weidner
The reality of shareholder enfranchisement is harsh and depressing, a testament to the intractability of the system and the apathy of participants. In America’s corporate proxy conte…
Alas, the official statistics grow ever more suspect. Here are some comments on the real unemployment numbers.
May Employment Report Not Believable
Temp Work Helps Mask Joblessness Among Americans
…
US Treasury Names Asset Managers and Launches Legacy Securities Program: is one-half of the Public Private Investment Program (PPIP) meant to help US financial institutions cleanse their balance shee…
The Real Price of Gold
National Geographic.com (May 2009)
FBI Arrests Bernard, Kevin, Sarah & Rachelle
Liberty Dollar (June 2009)
Four Defendants Indicted in Unlawful Coin Operation
Charlotte.fbi.g…
U.S. Regulator Sounds Alarm About Reverse Mortgages
Reuters (08 June 09)
U.N. Imposes Tough New Sanctions On N. Korea
CBS 11tv.com (12 June 09)
New Arms Treaty Must Exclude Weapons in Space – Russian General
Mlitary News (10 June 09)
It’s Time For a Second American Revo…
Low Cost Gas Engine Innovation Doubles Fuel Economy
Gas2.org (26 June 08)
The Dark Side of Dubai
The Independent (07 April 09)
The Light of Darkness
Awaken in The Dream.com (By: Paul Levy)
Vancouver, Canada Chosen as The Most Liveable City in The World
MercoPress (09 June…
Coca Cola Zero Banned in Venezuela
Scoop.co.nz (12 June 09)
The Sun, Not AGW, Is The Thing
Oblate Spheroid (08 June 09)
Chemtrails – Barium
Identification Further Confirmed
Rense.com (02 Dec 00)
…
Youtube
As discussed in last night’s Solari Report, the top story of the week is the abrogation of the social contract in America. Bernake alluded to it in his testimony this week, saying:
“The fun…
By Peter Zeihan
The global recession is the biggest development in the global system in the year to date. In the United States, it has become almost dogma that the recession is the worst since the …
Artist: Antoine Ausustine Preault
“What you don’t see with your eyes, don’t invent with your mouth.”
— Jewish Proverb
Below are the top 20 financial institutions by market capitalization in 1999 and then in 2009.
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If you want to get an in-depth overview of the many problems facing the American food system, here is a good overview.
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Food – Where does it really come f…
View this week’s chart comparisons of gold against fiat currencies, oil and the Dow for the Money & Markets segment of The Solari Report tonight, Thursday, June 4, 2009.
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By Shawn Dady
Tennessee Representative Frank Nicely has been quietly working on a cow-share bill for the state of Tennessee. This is a very good thing. He crafted the bill working with the The West…
By: Kirby Anaylytics Newsletter
QUITO, May 30 (Reuters) – Ecuador’s government-run central bank has ordered private banks to repatriate $1.2 billion in overseas deposits and investments to help jump-start the economy, leftist Pres…
[CAF Note: But are they buying real gold or paper gold?]
By Andrew Frye
Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co., the third-largest U.S. life insurer by 2008 sales, has bought gold for the first tim…
Credit: John Tenniel
by Greg Palast
They may be crying about General Motors’ bankruptcy today. But dumping 40,000 of the last 60,000 union jobs into a mass grave won’t spoil Jamie Dimon’s day.
Bu…
Towards a World War of Interest Rates Aimed at Capturing Global Savings
LEAP/E2020 (16 Jan 09)
Bernanke Warns on Deficits as Interest Rates Rise
USA Today (03 June 09)
Latvian Debt Crisis Shakes E…
At Least Canada Admits it When The gold is Missing
GATA (02 June 09)
Showdown Time?
Silver Seek.com (02 June 09)
Raise The Caution Flags For Gold, Silver: Got Gold Report
Stockhouse (01 June 09)
T…
Foreclosure Starts Hit One Million Mark
Investment Watch (02 June 09)
Top Ten Things to Know if You’re Interested in a Reverse Mortgage
Home & Communities
Reverse Mortgages: Get the Facts Before Ca…
Nord Stream Participants Ready to Readjust Route – Putin
RIA Novosti (06 June 09)
Investigative Author, Daniel Estulin Exposes Bilderberg Group Plans
PRWeb (23 May 09)
Judge Tosses Warrantless Wiret…
Now You See it: Best Visual Illusions of 2009
New Scientist.com (2009)
JoNova
joannenova.com (May 2009)
Top 100 Sites Specializing In EMF Issues – pdf
Next Up.org (15 May 09)
Black Tide
Truthout (04 June 09)
Victims Include Those Who Flocked to Brazil for Business, and a Royal
Wall Street Journal (02 June 09)
Bomb Threat on Air France Flight
Momento24.com (27 May 09)
V…
Humans, Hogs May Eat Their Way to Flu Resistance
Meat & Poultry (05 May 09)
House Calls for Closer Watch on Food Supply
Democratic Underground.com (28 May 09)
CBO Will Play Key Role In Efforts To O…
By Michael McNutt
Although Gov. Brad Henry vetoed similar legislation 10 days earlier, House members Monday again approved a resolution claiming Oklahoma’s sovereignty. Unlike House Joint Resolutio…
Illustration by: Matt Mahurin
By Elana Schor
Can these contractors guide the bailout with the public interest in mind while simultaneously courting bailout-related business for themselves? It’s t…
A local pastor and his wife claim they were interrogated by a San Diego County official, who then threatened them with escalating fines if they continued to hold Bible studies in their home…
The co…
Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death
Song of Solomon 8:6
Now that a variety of factions have harvested the planet for trillions of dollars in the latest round of financial pump and dumps, the questions remains how to launder the money into real assets quick…
By Andrew Lehman
It was clear to me that in preparation for going public, Google was actually seeding its searches with inefficiencies in order to encourage profits. Regarding commercial searches, i…
By Barbara Bradley Hagerty
Ninety percent of Americans say they pray — for their health, or their love life or their final exams. But does prayer do any good?
For decades, scientists have tried to …
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