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

Coming Clean is a process of transforming from the inside out. It is never over, there is always more opportunity, no matter what is going on around you.

If you have not exhausted the ideas at Sola…

“The contemplation of things as they are without error or confusion, without substitution or imposture, is in itself a nobler thing than a whole harvest of invention.”
– Francis Bacon

Play is the highest form of research.
       ~ Albert Einstein

Credit: Leeks by Peggy Turchett

The rain this Spring has just kept coming. Everything in Hickory Valley is green and lush. My leek stalks are now the height of early corn. It is a good thing I love…

The Fitts-White Clinic in Jackson, Tennessee

I have had a number of recent requests about my family background.  I thought I would provide a collection of information which will help you understan…

Years ago, my dear friend Shoreh was sitting in her elegant Beverly Hills home when a beautiful, white bunny rabbit appeared at her door.  Immediately welcomed, the rabbit moved in with Shoreh and …

There are a number of forces causing small business income and equity to decline that are not related to fundamental economic productivity.

Many of these forces revolve around overt and covert econom…

Kua Tapapahia Nga Korero

~ M?ori Saying

Translation:
The time for talk has been laid down upon the earth . . . The time for talk is over.

Wikipedia on M?ori

“Nothing is less real than realism. Details are confusing. It is only by selection, by elimination, by emphasis that we get at the real meaning of things.”

~ Georgia O’Keefe

Ever have trouble pronouncing names? Here are two websites that can help:

Pronounce Names: The Dictionary of Name Pronounciation

How to Say That Name

We have had a Spring ripe with rain and sunshine here in Hickory Valley, Tennessee. My strawberry beds are bursting with fresh strawberries every morning. I do believe there is nothing more delicious….

In its fourth year of operation, using the SPIN Farming method, the Somerton Tanks Farm produced over $68,000 in gross sales growing high value vegetables on a half-acre—in Philadelphia, the fifth…

There is a wave coming towards all of us. Be prepared.

The political pressure on enforcement bureaucracies is growing. People are mad. They want their government officials to crack down on corrupti…

Susan Johann’s website

I am reading Parzival with a friend from British Columbia and it has me thinking about the search for the Holy Grail.

I just wrote a note to a subscriber:

“One way to organize your finances is to as…

A Dragon’s Blood Tree from Socotra Island

“A thing of beauty is a joy for ever:
Its loveliness increases; it will never
Pass into nothingness; but still will keep
A bower quiet for us, and a sleep
…

While most investors are worried about the sorry state of the global markets, Soros finds the economic gloom-and-doom “exhilarating,” and reckons a full-blown depression is inevitable. “I have to admi…

“We, the People of these United States of America, hereby call for revolutionary changes in our health care system that encourage health and prosperity instead of disease and corporate profit.”

. …

Today is Solari’s birthday.

We started operations on March 22, 1998. I was sitting in a beautiful mansion in Washington staring at a blank piece of paper as most everyone I knew told me my life was o…

Tom Fox Photography

A Challenge From a Tennessee Hillbilly to Help GATA
By Chris Powell – GATA (3 Mar 09)

“Thanks to some of you, GATA has met the two $300 matching contribution challenges we were given during the Phoe…

“It’s with great sadness that we pass along the news that Acres U.S.A. founder/executive editor Charles Walters passed away on January 14, 2009…”
. . . view the rest of the Acres, USA article

Paul Harvey at Wikipedia
Paul Harvey Tribute – ABC
Broadcasting Pioneer Paul Harvey Dies at Age 90 – Yahoo.com

Simple elixir called a ‘miracle liquid’
Los Angeles Times – By Marla Dickerson (23 Feb 2009)

Sales of “Atlas Shrugged” Soar in the Face of Economic Crisis

Washington, D.C., February 23, 2009—Sales of Ayn Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged” have almost tripled over the first seven weeks of …

In 1997, a strategic planning group at the CIA made a visit to my company in Washington. They brought with them a woman whose job and title were classified. I was not allowed to know them.  She com…

I just heard a recording of an outstanding speech by John Taylor Gatto called “A Short, Angry History of Modern Schooling.” Check out his website. If you feel like you are only one person, check out…

My favorite man came over this afternoon with a pink rose and a card. The cover read: ” Please, please, please, please be my Valentine!” I opened it and the inside said: “What? You will? How cool is…

Mark Lundeen each week sends me his comparison of the Dow Jones Industrial Average decline since October 2007 relative to declines after September 1929. Given the dependency of large cap stocks on ear…

by Chris Powell of the Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee

National Geographic’s January issue has what has been the usual “global” sort of article about gold mining, written by Brook Larmer, accompan…

Biggest Full Moon of the Year: Take 2
NASA (08 Jan 2009)

This Saturday night, Jan. 10th, a perigee Moon is coming — the biggest full Moon of 2009. Johannes Kepler explained the phenomenon 400 year…

The Arabs used to say, When a stranger appears at your door, feed him for three days before asking who he is, where he’s from, where he’s headed. That way, he’ll have strength enough to answer. Or, by…

One of the things that makes a town wonderful is a great local newspaper. Hohenwald, Tennessee (of financial permaculture fame) has the Lewis County Herald, which is the finest local newspaper I hav…

The housing and derivatives bubble sure was good for retired Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan and wife NBC News Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent Andrea Mitchell. They just turned up in the University …

Forty years ago, America’s cultural icons expressed the frustratation of the American people with the failure of then-President Lyndon Johnson to end this country’s undeclared war in Vietnam by bold…

Vermont Royster’s Christmas message of 1949 has been republished by the Wall Street Journal every Christmas since. As I can not think of a more beautiful way to celebrate the birth and life of Christ…

This photograph shows me being sworn in as Assistant Secretary of Housing by Jack Kemp in 1989. My dear friend, Georgie LaRue, is holding the Bible.

Today, I am sitting with Georgie in Pennyslvania…

At the end of the day, when the horizon is turning red and the zenith is cobalt-blue, step outside and look southwest. You’ll see Venus and Jupiter beaming side-by-side through the twilight. Glitter…

A young man named John received a parrot as an early Christmas gift. The parrot had a bad attitude and an even worse vocabulary. Every word out of the bird’s mouth was rude, obnoxious and laced with…

Before I left for Estonia, GATA Treasurer Chris Powell sent a message out on the GATA wire, Meet GATA Board Member Austin Fitts in Estonia, inviting members of the global GATA network to have lunch wi…

After watching a fantastic movement performance by a troupe of Von Krahl students, giving my speech on the global financial system and listening to Paul Jay’s presentation on the state of media in the…

This is a question that the producers and artists of the Von Krahl Theatre in Estonia have asked.

They lived through the meltdown of the Russian empire. That is how Estonia achieved independence in A…

After flying through Amsterdam, I arrived in Tallinn this evening. The temperature is -7 and the air is dry, crisp and clear.  I am staying at St. Olav Hotel in the Old Town near the Von Krahl Theatr…

Catherine speaks at the Von Krahl Theatre in Tallinn, Estonia on 23 November.

The global financial system is an enigma to many of us. On one hand we appreciate that we can bank in a small bank in o…

This update on Crosby Mint Farm just in:

Peppermint Jim Crosby here,

I just found you folks (on the Internet) and wanted to personally thank you from my heart for your support. We are working ever…

This just in from the network (author unknown) about the marvelous Dr. Riki Ott…

Every so often an idea comes along that rings with such clarity and purpose that it ignites the imaginations of mill…

Catherine’s speech on local bartering at the IRTA conference is now available on Google Video:

You have heard me say or write before “in the destruction of the old, let there be the creation of the…

I just saw an excellent presentation by James Turk, founder of GoldMoney.com. He had just returned from Europe and was commenting on the severe economic downturn there. He presented this interesting s…

While acknowledging the turmoil in global financial markets — and in many individuals’ personal investments — it would be a mistake to lose sight of the blessings in our lives. Good health, the sup…

Charles Thomas Fitts, M.D., 76, entered into eternal rest on Tuesday, November 4, 2008.

He was born in Jackson, TN, on July 4, 1932. He was the son of the late William Thomas Fitts, M.D. and Isobel B…

I do my best to always vote. I particularly feel that local elections are important and each of us can make a big difference if we support strong local leadership.

This year I was eager to vote, de…

I can’t think of any issue more important to the health and well-being of a community than the health of its water. Here is a quick piece from a member of the Solari network to help you think about yo…

“The Bank is trying to kill me, but I will kill it.”
— President Andrew Jackson

President Andrew Jackson of Tennessee was the 7th President of the United States. Jackson’s efforts to shut down the …

Did you realize that many of the stocks and bonds you and your community invest in are highly dependent on government contracts and purchases? Check out Government Executive Magazine for the latest ra…

This came in from the Solari network today. It turns out that the common folk do indeed understand mortgage backed securities!

Forrest Gump Explains Mortgage Backed Securities:

“Mortgage backed Se…

The Money Game and the New World
by Jon Rappoport

The people on this planet who run the money game at high levels have managed to put themselves into a hole. In retrospect, it was inevitable it would…

Thank you to the audience member of Bill Bowsher’s show on SciZone in Cincinnati who wanted to know if the bailout was an example of a conscious parallelism:

conscious parallelism n.
An undiscussed …

Jonathan S. Landay, McClatchy Newspapers:

“The Senate Intelligence Committee is examining allegations by two former U.S. military linguists that the super-secret National Security Agency routinely ea…

During the Clinton Administration, four trillion dollars disappeared through the back door. Rather, than get it back, the Bush Administration has decided to simply hand out more through the same banks…

The bumper sticker brainstorm continues with more than 300 posts. Today’s favorite is:

NO BANKER LEFT BEHIND

Thanks, Lizanne!

Harry:

Thank you for the opportunity to be on your e-mail list. I appreciate your generosity and hard work.

I am writing to ask you to unsubscribe me from your list. I value your research reports. H…

I love Lesta Frank’s watercolors. You can learn more about Lesta and how to purchase watercolors, prints and cards at her website and blog. She has kindly granted me permission to share some of them w…

By Carolyn Betts, Esq.

WHAT CONGRESS IS GOOD FOR THESE DAYS

Not much, it seems, given that we have what essentially amounts to a single-party system (i.e., the corporatist party).  However, the Bus…

A great man died today—he left us with a family, movies, businesses and gifts that will bring joy for centuries to come. Let’s take a minute to give thanks for his life and say a prayer for him and …

One of our network members is keen on producing a bumper sticker to express our opposition to bailouts and the institutions engineering them. We could use your help in coming up with a pithy slogan fo…

I went down to Burton’s Sugar Farm in Northern Mississippi outside of Memphis this weekend. This is my third visit to the Sugar Farm and each time I come away thinking that was the finest catfish and …

A network member requests that we offer up a place to post limericks and songs to lift our spirits in a dire hour. Here is her contribution:

Ode to Big Bankers & Politicians

Enjoy yourself, you …

Alastair Thompson: Politics and Pilgrimage
Scoop Independent News (20 Sep 2008)

For more on Scoop’s Campaign >>>

For more on Alastair’s recent Pilgrimage >>>

Proposed $700 Billion Bailout Is Too Little, Too Late to End the Debt Crisis; Too Much, Too Soon for the U.S. Bond Market
By Martin D. Weiss & Michael D. Larson (24 Sep 2008)
Submitted to U.S. Con…

Note from Catherine:

I think biodynamic farming is an area with a great past, present and future. So when a network member told me that Spikenard Farm was looking for someone to help them with fundr…

From our friend Alastair Thompson (Scoop Independent News co-editor)

In the month of May this year my wife Wendy and I went on a pilgrimage across Northern Spain, walking 810kms from the village of …

(Continuation of previous blog post: Scoop’s Ad Campaign for US Electronic Election Integrity)

In January 2002, I sent an e-mail to the Solari network list posing 20 questions designed to illuminate …

Did you ever notice that there is an inverse relationship between the health of people and the environment and the Harvard endowment’s profits?

Return of 8% for Harvard Endowment
By Geraldine Fabrika…