By Catherine

From Wikipedia

The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), also known as the Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership Agreement, is a multilateral free trade agreement that aims to further liberalize…

[CAF Note: Like Curtis Mayfield sang, “It’s like one way in and no way out.”]

By Spatial Information Design Labs

The United States currently has more than 2 million people locked up in jails and p…

By Adam Curtis

All Watched Over By Machines Of Loving Grace is a series about how humans have been colonised by the machines they have built — “Although we don’t realise it, the way we see ev…

By Jed Graham

Nearly four years after a borrowing binge gave way to financial crisis, have households slashed enough debt to take on new credit and start spending again?

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Genetically modified (GM) crops are promoted on the basis of a range of far-reaching claims from the GM crop industry and its supporters. They say that GM crops:

Are an extension of natural bree…

By Charles Riley

The average American family’s net worth dropped almost 40% between 2007 and 2010, according to a triennial study released Monday by the Federal Reserve.

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By David Jolly

Paris — Washington gained another victory on Thursday in its push to extend surveillance over Americans’ financial dealings when Switzerland joined the list of countries that hav…

By Charles Hugh Smith of two minds.com

The Master Narrative Nobody Dares Admit

All centralized systems, open and shadow alike, act as heavy taxes on the society and economy. This is why they canno…

By Dakin Campbell and Michael J. Moore

Moody’s Investors Service suffered a downgrade of its own as markets responded to the company’s rating cuts yesterday of 15 of the world’s largest bank…

Workshop- Saturday June 23 and Sunday, June 24, 2012
Hours: Each day-10:00-4:00
Place: Lesta’s Studio, 135 Evans Ave.,San Antonio., 78209
Fee: One day $50, both days $85 plus supply fee $10 a day
L…

By Horace Dediu

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Source: CNBC

The United States is still No. 1 when it comes to the number of millionaires in a single country, but global wealth is continuing its movement eastward.

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By a Solari Report Subscriber

[CAF Note: Yikes! Has this happened to you? If you are a subscriber, post your story on the blog or, if not, let us know at communicate@wordpressdevurl.com. Let us know …

Source: BBC News

Japan has announced that it will restart two nuclear reactors – the first to go back online since all the country’s plants were closed following last year’s Fukushima crisis.

Rea…

Summer begins in the Northern Hemisphere on June 20, 2012, at 7:09 P.M. (EDT). Here’s more about the first day of summer—the summer solstice—plus, facts, folklore, and some sensational summer …

By George Washington

Democracy Now, Breaking the Pledge Video

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By Frank Morales

Back in 1992 the Pentagon’s Joint Chiefs of Staff held a “Strategy Essay Competition.”

The winner was a National War College student paper entitled, “The Origins of the American…

Is this a mosquito…NO! This is an “INSECT SPY DRONE” already in production.
Insect Spy Drone
Wake Up Call (Facebook)

By Alexander Higgins

Wright – Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio — Two miles fro…

By Osamu Tsukimori

TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s lower house is set to pass a bill on Friday to provide government guarantees on insurance for Iranian crude cargoes, making it the first of Iran’s…

By Chris Oliver

Hong Kong Exchanges & Clearing HK:388 -4.45% HKXCF +2.56% , operator of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, said Friday it has entered into a framework agreement to buy the London Metal …

By Ron Bennett

For all the small business owners out there struggling to make it, here is simple calculation of the hidden tax paid due to inflation:

How much is the tax due to 4% inflation on a $1 …

By Karen Weise

It’s been just two weeks since President Obama signed the JOBS Act into law, loosening requirements for companies looking to raise capital. The rules aren’t even written yet, an…

By Anais Starr

My great good friend and doctor healer, Dr. Jim MacKimmie passed away on Monday evening, June 11. After the initial stab of a shock, jangling of heart strings, sleeping on it overnight…

Could this be the golden age of estate planning? Some financial advisers believe it is — at least until the end of the year. That’s when key income tax breaks for transferring wealth are scheduled…

BISMARCK, N.D. — Since Californians shrank their property taxes more than three decades ago by passing Proposition 13, people around the nation have echoed their dismay over such levies, putting f…

Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing, which counts the Chinese government among it shareholders, is understood to have tabled a £1.3bn offer for the City’s last “open cry” market, and a d…

The first privately funded mission to the Moon will launch in 2015, pioneered by a legendary roboticist and his team of students. Pittsburgh’s Astrobotic Technology, a company founded by David Gump …

30,000 secret surveillance orders approved each year
Nate Anderson (5 June 12)

If the government spies on you but brings no charges, you’ll never know.

A federal judge estimates that his fellow fede…

Source: Shadowstats

This article replaces the earlier “Primer” on the Consumer Price Index
 

Consumer Price Index Has Been Reconfigured Since Early-1980s?So As to Understate Inflation versus C…

Source: Economist

Our interactive overview of government debt across the planet.

The clock is ticking. Every second, it seems, someone in the world takes on more debt. The idea of a debt clock for…

The Trap: What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom is a BBC documentary series by English filmmaker Adam Curtis, well known for other documentaries including The Century of the Self and The Power of Nigh…

Delivered June 10, 1963

“President Anderson, members of the faculty, board of trustees, distinguished guests, my old colleague, Senator Bob Byrd, who has earned his degree through many years of a…

By Humble Student of the Markets

I wrote before that the likely negative surprise was going to come from China and not Europe (see Focus on China, not Europe). Yes, I am worried about China, but my c…

“There are three kinds of people in the world: those who are asleep, those who are stirring, and those who are awake.

“If you try to wake up the sleeping person he will just mumble and go back to sle…

By Paula Vasan,  aiCIO

Alongside senators, prime ministers, and banking kingpins, one (perhaps) unusual attendee is currently at this year’s Bilderberg meetings: Texas Teacher Retirement System (TRS…

Source:News.com.au

The Financial Times (FT) reported yesterday that Lord Jacob Rothschild’s listed investment trust, RIT Capital Partners, agreed to take a 37 per cent stake in Rockefeller Financia…

By Lee Ferran, Alexander Marquardt and Colleen Curry

Flame, also known as sKyWIper, is a veritable “toolkit” of cyber spying programs that is capable of remotely taking screenshots while the comput…

By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard

The German scheme — known as the European Redemption Pact — offers a form of “Eurobonds Lite” that can be squared with the German constitution and breaks the political …

By Elisheva Wiriaatmadja

The 2012 Bilderberg Group meeting will take place from May 31st to June 3rd at the Westfields Marriott Washington Dulles hotel in Chantilly, Virginia.

(RT.com) Every time …

By The CNN Wire Staff

The United States joins Germany, Spain, Italy, France, Britain, Canada, Australia in expelling Syrian diplomats  Tuesday in a coordinated move …

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Source: Associated Press

America’s newest veterans are filing for disability benefits at a historic rate, claiming to be the most medically and mentally troubled generation of former troops the nat…

By Matt Stoller

“There was a kind of inflection point during the five-year period between 1997 and 2003 — the late Clinton and/or early Bush administration — when all the rules just went away…

[Note from CAF: Special thanks to Leila Dregger and the team of journalists at Tamera who documented our discussions.]

The Second InternatIonal Water Symposium in Tamera, Portugal • April 27Th �…

By A Solari Subscriber

City of Las Cruces is cutting off utilities for the non payment of speed camera tickets.
[http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/37/3774.asp] In Phx 75k people refused to pay speed c…

By Wil Schroter, Fundable

When the JOBS Act was signed in April, the startup community gave itself a collective high five. Crowdfunding would enable startups to reach out to the whole world to get …

From Jim Sinclair from Harry Schulz [and said to be from Bob Chapman]

On May 14, Russia’s Prime Minister Medvedev delivered a speech at an international law conference in St. Petersburg, Russia, …

Source: Zillow

With U.S. home values falling by nearly 25% since peak in 2007, many homeowners are now underwater in their mortgages, meaning they owe more than their home is worth. Search our in…

By Peter Dale Scott

Preface

I delivered the following remarks at an anti-NATO conference held in Moscow on May 15, 2012. I was the only North American speaker at an all-day conference, having been…

By Jiji

The government is considering legislation that will allow it to effectively reinsure tankers carrying crude oil from Iran to Japan, sources said.

The legislation, if enacted, will allow Ja…

While I was in Portugal, one of my Portuguese friends took me by his brother’s home for an early dinner. We watched the sunset across the Atlantic Ocean. It was truly beautiful.

It turns out his brot…

By testosteronepit
Wolf Richter

The plight of natural gas driller Chesapeake Energy could almost make you feel sorry for the board of directors and CEO Aubrey McClendon. He lost his chairmanship af…

Source: The Daily Galaxy via University of Maryland

New Study May Provide the Proof

Is the Earth a giant living organism as the Gaia hypothesis predicts? A new discovery made at the University of …

On Assignment: A Guide to Reporting in Dangerous Situations

In the early months of 2002, Wall Street Journalreporter Daniel Pearl was abducted and executed by his captors while pursuing a story abo…

Source: Bank for International Settlements, IMF, World Bank, UN Population Division

The circle below shows the gross external, or foreign, debt of some of the main players in the eurozone as well as …

By Om Malik

We are on the cusp of a big economic shift. I believe that the industrial era is coming to an end and Kickstarter just might be the most visible representation of that. When I look at K…

Nick Hanauer

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By Common Dreams staff

Today, the Cornucopia Institute released a report titled The Organic Watergate revealing widespread corruption in the USDA’s organic food monitoring panel — the National Org…

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Source: Yahoo Finance

May 21, 2012

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By Tyler Durden

China is now on its way to becoming the biggest source of gold demand, surpassing India, but more importantly as of hours ago, in a truly historic move, “Okayama Metal & Machine…

By Bob Van Voris

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. sued a group of banks including JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) , Citigroup Inc. (C) , Bank of America Securities and Deutsche Bank AG (DBK) in two…

By Chris Puplava

The decline in bullish optimism towards stocks is usually associated with more severe declines than what we typically see and is likely a result of the chronic market volatility. For…

By Danielle Douglas

John Marshall Bank in Reston has de-registered its shares with the Securities and Exchange Commission, taking advantage of a provision in the JOBS Act permitting small banks to…

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Solari & The Money Changer
Silver and Gold Payment Calculator App
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Solution: iPhone Apps That Give Us New Ideas

The creator of the Solari Silver and Gold Payment Calculator ap…

By Andrew Dalton

Venture capitalist and Paypal co-founder Peter Thiel is inching closer towards realizing his dream of creating a government-free floating island utopia for tech startups off the co…

“About 32 leading men of the community,” according to the original minute book, assembled December 24, 1883, in Malvern Hall for the purpose of “starting a National Bank of Malvern.”

The Willits Fa…

Andrew Bartholomew, son of Lydia Willits Bartholomew grew up in Chester County, Pennsylvania. He received his undergraduate degree from Lynchburg College, in Economics, in 2005, followed by a M.A. i…

By Olivia Oran and Alistair Barr

New York/San Francisco (Reuters) – Facebook Inc priced its initial public offering at the top of its target range to raise more than $16 billion, as strong demand, …

Source: NYR Natural News

An Italian court has ruled there is a link between the MMR vaccine and autism.

In what may be a ground-breaking decision, the Italian Court of Rimini has ruled that causa…

By Jon Rappoport

The day of the Smoking Gun has arrived.

The discovery of a page, on the FDA’s own website, proves the FDA is fully aware that:

the drugs it certifies as safe have been killing …

[CAF Note: Reposting this for the second time given ongoing events in Greece and the Eurozone]

You are an opponent of the project for single currency. Why?

The effects of a single currency go far be…

Source: Reuters

Washington (Reuters) – The U.S. Justice Department has opened an inquiry into JPMorgan’s multibillion-dollar trading loss, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday, citing a pers…

By Paul Brodsky and Lee Quaintance of QBAMCO

Two weeks ago, before Jamie Dimon’s thoughtful diversion, Charlie Munger of Berkshire Hathaway instructed viewers of CNBC that “civilized people don…

By Joseph Trento

The United States deliberately allowed Japan access to the United States’ most secret nuclear weapons facilities while it transferred tens of billions of dollars worth of Americ…

By Teri Buhl

Fallout from JP Morgan trading losses, which led to rater Fitch downgrading their debt yesterday, aren’t the only financial worries the banking behemoth is facing. Nestled in that s…

Source: Yahoo

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Editing by Alissa de Carbonnel and Mark Heinrich

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Of all the signals and symbols that shape Russian foreign policy, this one seemed particularly blunt: Vladimir Putin, in one of …

Source: Seeking Alpha

“The most valuable commodity I know of is information.” (Gordon Gecko in “Wall Street” by Oliver Stone)

The Periodic Table of Commodity Returns

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Email sent to Catherine May 8, 2012 from a subscriber:

Catherine,

Franklin Sanders had CC’d me your email address in regards to any soil questions you might have. My name is Brian G. Bankston (but y…

Source: Pragmatic Capitalism

One of the more controversial ideas I wrote about last year was the decoupling of Europe and the USA

The equity market went vertical this morning on the back of the US…

By Sanat Vallikappen

That’s what some of the world’s largest wealth-management firms are saying ahead of Washington’s implementation of the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act , known as Fatca…

By Catherine Austin Fitts

[Excerpt from our Annual Wrap Up in January 2012]

This year was my first opportunity to meet a lot of Solari Report subscribers in person. I was astonished as I le…

The Federal Reserve Board on Wednesday announced its approval of the application by Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Limited, China Investment Corporation, and Central Huijin Investment Ltd., a…

Tamera, Portugal, May 7th, 2012: – Tamera Water Retention Landscape has been named a 2012 Finalist in the Buckminster Fuller Challenge, the prestigious annual design science competition named “Soc…

Volkswagen People’s car project.

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By Tsuyoshi Inajima

Japan has none of its 50 reactors operating as of today after its sole operating nuclear unit was halted for planned maintenance last week.
Hokkaido Electric Power Co. shut the …

By John Rubino

Today’s world can be summarized in two sentences:

Unless continuously fed with new credit, the global financial system will implode. And when confronted with this possibility, go…

“When we took over berkshire, berkshire was selling at $15 a share and gold was selling at $20 an ounce. And gold is now $1600 and berkshire is $120,000. but you take take a broader example. if yo…

The future of media on mobile devices isn’t with applications but with the Web.

By Jason Pontin

By the time Apple released the iPad in April of 2010, just four months after Steve Jobs first announ…

This is not the end folks, this is only the beginning of a change that is sweeping across the World – these are stunning defeats of the status quo by people who are finally as mad as Hell – and th…

By Eleanor Laise

EDITOR’S NOTE: This article was originally published in the April 2012 issue of Kiplinger’s Retirement Report.

Traditional pension plans are supposed to offer a predictable plot …

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