By Edith Honan

Pennsylvania’s capital, Harrisburg, filed for a rare Chapter 9 municipal bankruptcy on Wednesday after it was unable to resolve its debt crisis with creditors and faced a possible ta…

How Firms Trimmed Pensions

As companies have been moving away from traditional pension plans, they have been shifting employees to new retirement plans, such as 401(k)s, that transfer the cost — …

Slovak Prime Minister Iveta Radicova after the Slovak Parliament voted down plans to give the eurozone rescue fund more powers. Photo: Reuters

Supporters of the Eurozone measure, which is seen as c…

In response to Dr. Milham’s recommendations of Stetzer products, one of their distributors Stetzerizer-US.com has offered a 7% discount for Solari Report subscribers.

Stetzer Electric was found…

By Susan Gregory Thomas

Susan Gregory Thomas is the author of “In Spite of Everything: A Memoir.”

’I’M not interested in being hip or a hippie. Nor does my happiness particularly hinge on ar…

The Daily Show with Jon Stewart

America cannot expect a bunch of disenfranchised park-dwellers to come up with a solution to its economic woes — they have a political ruling class to do that.

Co…

In 1910, some of the Nation’s most powerful bankers met secretly off the
coast of Georgia to draft a proposal for a private central banking system.

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The Finnish government and major insurance companies announced Wednesday they will pay for lifetime medical care for children diagnosed with narcolepsy after receiving the swine flu vaccin…

“”No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, be…

By David DeCamp

Clearwater — Pinellas County will stop adding fluoride to its drinking water, ending a cavity-fighting effort that riled critics of Big Brother government despite decades of advoc…

By Hugh Son

Bank of America Corp. (BAC), JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) and Wells Fargo & Co. (WFC) are among mortgage servicers that may face $13.5 billion in costs if the Federal Housing Admi…

A state senator breaks new ground in the right-wing plan to gut public education.

By Andy Kroll

In Michigan, a state perennially crippled by budget deficits, public school districts across the sta…

By NYC General Assembly

This document was accepted by the NYC General Assembly on September 29, 2011, with slight adjustments in wording on October 1, 2011:

As we gather together in solidarity to …

Out of America’s 3,141 counties, almost 90% have declared at least 1 natural disaster so far this year and there’s still three months to go…

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By Catherine Austin Fitts

Sinclair Lewis once said “When fascism comes to American it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.” Dick Cheney’s new autobiography goes light on the religion, an…

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The Secret History of the Global Financial Collapse

By Al Jazerra

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Meltdown Part 1: “The Men Who Crashed…

By Melanie Pelayo

Although Halloween is still a few weeks away, there were plenty of scary moments during the third quarter. Over the last few months, investors have seemingly been pummeled with bad …

By Andrea Shalal-Esa and Sarah N. Lynch

The Justice Department is investigating accounting irregularities at Chinese companies listed on U.S. stock exchanges, said an official with the Securities a…

Welcome to the interactive display of California’s organizational structure, a research database designed to expose systemic inefficiency and help you visualize the scale of the state’s convolutions. …

By The Daily Bail

Systems and methods for inducing a change in a human physiological characteristic.

Read the Patent Application HERE

We wonder, do they also have patents on the following:

Ke…

By Catherine Austin Fitts

Someone called last night to talk about “the missing money” – or $4 trillion plus missing from the United States government. They were keen to figure out what the solution…

By a Reader

Dear Catherine,

I read on Sunday in the Business Section E of the Press Democrat  two articles (only one could I find online and it is not word for word in the printed version) about�…

By Catherine Austin Fitts

I spoke at the Eagle Theater in Hammonton, New Jersey last Saturday evening.

If you are looking for a wonderful community on the East Coast, Hammonton should be on your …

By Srdja Trifkovic

Last Saturday, at United Russia’s congress, the ruling duumvirate of President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin finally ended the uncertainty of some months’…

By David E. Gumpert-blogmaster

Those raw milk proponents advocating “teach, teach, teach” may want to enroll Wisconsin Judge Patrick J. Fiedler in their first class–in the kindergarten section.

I…

By William A. Tiller, Ph.D. and Walter E. Dibble, Jr., Ph.D.

Introductory Experimental Background

For the past 35 to 40 years, in parallel with my traditional science research and teaching at Stanfo…

A wonderful documentary – Under Our Skin exposes the hidden epidemic of Lyme disease and reveals how a politicized health care system fails to address one of the most serious illnesses of our time.

…

By Amy Cortese

As Congress considers President Obama’s job package, one measure seems to have rare bipartisan support: a proposal to loosen some of the outdated securities regulations that hamper…

By Garry White

The gold price plunged $60 at the open after CME Group said it would increase its margin requirements from the close of business on Monday to cover itself as increased volatility mak…

By Rosalind S. Helderman and Paul Kane

With time running out, Congress returns Monday to try to pass a short-term funding measure to avert a government shutdown and avoid yet another market-rattling …

Note from CAF: If you are wondering why it is so important to bring gold and silver back down before the third quarter numbers are finalized, here are the statistics for numerous categories when silve…

By Investor’s Business Daily

Justice: A new 9/11 lawsuit portrays the Saudi government as having more control over al-Qaida charities before the attacks than it (or the US) has admitted. Let’s hear…

By Jason Palmer

Puzzling results from Cern, home of the LHC, have confounded physicists – because it appears subatomic particles have exceeded the speed of light.

Neutrinos sent through the ground…

Ray Anderson was founder and chairman of Interface Inc., one of the world’s largest manufacturers of modular carpet for commercial and residential applications and a leading producer of commercial b…

By John Williams at Shadowstats:

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By Anthony Gucciardi

Hungary has taken a bold stand against biotech and genetic modification by destroying 1000 acres of maize found to have been grown with genetically modified seeds, according t…

By Judy Dempsey

Berlin — Siemens, the largest engineering conglomerate in Europe, announced Sunday that following the German government’s decision to phase out nuclear power by 2022, it would s…

By Yves Smith

Many readers no doubt know that the so-called $8.5 billion Bank of America mortgage settlement, which was between the Charlotte bank and the Bank of New York as trustee for 530 reside…

By Associated Press

Sallie Mae spent $530,000 lobbying the federal government in the second quarter on issues including the implementation of last year’s overhaul of financial regulations.

The amo…

By Tyler Durden

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This video is gives a brief description of Catherine Austin Fitts. Her family background, her beliefs, and her views on the national and global economic crisis that are facing the people of the plan…

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By Linda Stern

U.S. retirement programs could look different if a grand deficit-cutting bargain is struck in upcoming negotiations.

On Thursday, the powerful Senate Finance Committee will explore …

Project Gutenberg’s founder, Michael Hart, passed away this week. Please read our brief obituary. Funeral services are being arranged, probably for Monday September 12 in Champaign, Illinois. Those …

By Lyneka Little

Tyler Perry is the highest-paid man in entertainment, according to Forbes magazine. The actor, director and producer known for his crossdressing role as a gun-toting granny named M…

By Ellen Brandt, Ph.D.

Think you’re too sophisticated to be terrorized by anonymous thugs? Just wait until they start leaving baby animal carcasses on your doorstep.

After years of incessant, se…

Hi Catherine,

I just finished listening to the Flashpoints program (8/31) and your Community Business segment. Here are some ideas that occurred to me while I was listening to your presentation; I be…

By Thom Weidlich

Bank of America Corp. (BAC), JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) and other banks may pay more to resolve claims over their alleged roles in the collapse of a $2.3 trillion mortgage- backed …

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…

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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…

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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

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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…

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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.

…

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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…