
REAL High WASP Chutzpah
Well the fool (or morals tutor as he prefers) over at gifthub.org has done it again. For some reason, he thinks philanthropy is supposed to be REAL. It is one thing to out the criminal enterprise of h…

Letter to the USDA and Congress
RE: Federal Mandate for “Pasteurization” of Almonds
To:
Secretary Mike Johanns
United States Department of Agriculture
1400 Independence Ave SW
Whitten Building Suite 200A
Washington, D.C. 20250
gse…

Top Picks ~ Week of August 20, 2007
Highly Recommended ~ How the White House Drowned New Orleans
By Greg Palast (23 Aug 2007)
Now Russia’s Banks May Be in Trouble
By Catherine Belton – Financial Times, London (23 Aug 2007)
Russian G…

Top Picks ~ Week of August 13, 2007
In Withdrawal Line, Countrywide Customer Muses About Buying Gold
By Alexandria Sage – Reuters (17 Aug 2007)
Fed Lectures Financial Houses: Borrow Quick at Our Discount Window
By James Politi & Eoin C…

A Small Point on an Important Point
We face real challenges in maintaining liquidity in the mortgage market by “dropping” money out of central banking “helicopters.” It is one thing to keep the price of an asset inflated. It is another …

From the Joe Mysak Transcript
Catherine: I’ve dealt with state and local government in many different – you know, just as a citizen or dealing in business or – and it’s amazing. Everywhere you go, you get somebody that yo…

Sub-Prime Mortgage Woes Are No Accident
By Catherine Austin Fitts
In 1995, a senior Clinton Administration official shared with me the Administration’s targets for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac mortgage volumes in low- and moderate-income com…

Top Picks ~ Week of August 6, 2007
Will Paulson Ever Consent to Answer the Right Questions?
By John Crudele – NY Post (9 Aug 2007)
Outsourcing Intelligence: How Bush Gets His National Intelligence From Private Companies
By R.J. Hill…

John J. Renton — The Nature of Earth
I have been developing a methodology for Solari to determine the total economic return (impact on both investor and living ecosystem) of a mining operation. I have been inching along as my understand…

What do I care if people have education and jobs?
To paraphrase Utah Phillips, the sub-prime mortgage market is not crashing. Rather, the families and communities induced to borrow and invest are being killed. And the people killing them have names a…

Deeper Intelligence, Deeper Power
Thanks to wonderful allies Nan Garrett (Georgia Green Party) and Katey Culver and Howard Switzer (Green Party of Tennessee) I had the opportunity to speak to the Green Party national convention in…

Family Wealth & the Greater Good
I highly value recommendations from Phil Cubeta at gifthub.org. He recently recommended Family Wealth: Keeping It in the Family – How Family Members and Their Advisers Preserve Human, Intellectual, an…

Fiction is Fact, Fact is Fiction
I have a habit of trolling through discounted DVD bins at truck stops and out of the way local video stores. Such bins are great sources of aging B grade movies that illuminate real politics and cover…

Top Picks ~ Week of July 30, 2007
California 2007 Drought Photos
US Housing is Among ‘Biggest Bubbles,’ Rogers Says
By Chen Shiyin & Pimm Fox – Bloomberg.com (3 Aug 2007)
New York Green Fest 2007
Activists Share Sustainability Skil…

Top Picks ~ Week of July 23, 2007
Organic Industry Structure – A Chart
By Phil Howard – Michigan State University (Jul 2007)
New Zealanders Decry Ban on Political Satire
AngusReid Global Monitor (Jul 19, 2007)
Crunch Time: Market An…

Top Picks ~ Week of July 16, 2007
Organics for Everyone
By Anna Cynar – Utne.com (Jul 19, 2007)
New Road to Serfdom
By Michael Hudson – On iTulip (Jun 2006)
Ron Paul Owns the Whiplash Point on the Political Spectrum
By Michael J. Mi…

Top Picks ~ Week of July 9, 2007
BIS Warns of Great Depression Dangers From Credit Spree
By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard – Telegraph.co.uk (Jun 25, 2007)
Libby a Long-Time Mossad Agent
By Wayne Madsen – OpEdNews.com (Jul 5, 2007)
Gore V…

Top Picks ~ Week of July 2, 2007
Credit Crunch Will Shred Investment Portfolios to Ribbons
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard – GATA / telegraph.co.uk (Jul 4, 2007)
New Drug Deletes Bad Memories
Bill Christensen – Technovelgy.com (Jul 2, 200…

Documentaries
Several people have asked me for names of documentaries I enjoyed/found useful recently. Here are some of my favorites (in no particular order) from the last two years.

Top Picks ~ Week of June 25, 2007
Will BAE Scandal of Century Bring Down Dick Cheney?
By Jeffrey Steinberg – Executive Intelligence Review (Jun 29, 2007 Issue)
Putin’s Arctic Invasion: Russia Lays Claim to the North Pole And All Its …

Top Picks ~ Week of June 18, 2007
Vivoleum, Solves Global Warming and Peak Oil
The Yes Men – (Jun 14, 2007)
Regional Economic Measurement Division Interactive Map
Bureau of Economic Analysis
New Age Town in US Embraces Dollar Altern…

Scoop’s New Scoop: American Coup
Scoop Media is my top source for news on current U.S. government and political events. Yes, the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal have far more writers and more resources. Yes, the London pap…

Top Picks ~ Week of June 11, 2007
Bush Shafts Enron Victims
By Robert L. Borosage – TomPaine.commonsense (Jun 14, 2007)
Swiss Sales Dash Hopes of Gold Recovery
By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard – Telegraph.co.uk (Jun 14, 2007)
20 Things Yo…

Diogenes Does It Again
Our favorite Fool at one of our favorite blogs, Gift Hub: Blogging Philanthrophy has done it again. Check out “Why Laundering Drug Money through Philanthropy is Good for America.” It takes a Master Fo…

Trust Me, Anti-Trust = Pro-Trust
The Federal Trade Commission is opposing Whole Food’s acquisition of Wild Oats on anti-trust grounds? I don’t think so.
I am sitting here in the middle of the country trying to figure out how I can g…

Spying is a Fast Growing Private Industry
Thanks to Progressive Review for bringing the following to our attention. If you are looking to understand what is holding up the stock market, here is an item for your consideration:
70% OF CLASSIFI…

In From Secrecy News
The following in today from Secrecy News: a Federation of American Scientists Project on Government Secrecy – as described in a recent posting, provides insight into one of the flows of government mon…

Get Ready, Get Ready, Get Ready!
I am in the middle of Ray Kurzweil’s The Singularity is Near I am not sure what I think of it yet. The gist of it is clear — change will continue to accelerate. Today a quick video called Shift Happe…

The Yes Men
I just had one of my most favorite activists tell me that he never heard of the Yes Men. Goodness! This is one team and DVD that you do not want to miss.

Gold and Silver: Do They Have a Role to Play in Community Currencies?
Tom Greco made a comment on why he believes that there is no role for gold and silver in community currencies. Franklin Sanders and I jump in on Tom’s Blog to make a comment . In the process I visited…

Material Omissions, Part II
The other night, someone sent me a link in an e-mail entitled “Greg Palast discredits 911 Truth.” Clicking on the link, I found myself at 911blogger.org watching an INN Report interview of Greg Pala…

Top Picks ~ Week of June 4, 2007
Judge Halts Award of Iraq Contract
By Alec Klein & Steve Fainaru – Washington Post (Jun 4, 207)
Gold Joins the Mainstream
By James Grant – Forbes Magazine (Jun 18, 2007
Gold Thrives Despite Three M…

The Disappearing Honey Bees: Cui Bono?
This week James Altucher published a column, Profit From the Plight of the Honeybees, on how to profit in the stock market from the disappearing honeybees. I have posted several stories on the disappe…

Material Omissions, Part I
Several years ago, I went to California to do a speaking tour and to raise money to help me through the most difficult part of eleven years of litigation resulting from my efforts to prevent corruptio…

Top Picks ~ Week of May 28, 2007
US Buy-out Groups in Record $82bn Bids [Sign in to read Full Article]
By Francesco Guerrera – Financial Times.com (May 28, 2007)
Feds Lost $1.3Trillion in 2006
Foundation for Economic Education (M…

Top Picks ~ Week of May 21, 2007
The Era of China
Sprott Asset Management (Apr 2007)
Welcome to Speed Trap Exchange
List of Top Ten Speed Traps in the US
Goldman Puts New Meaning into the Word ‘Private’
Financial Times – London (Ma…

From Sam Smith’s “Great American Repair Manual, 1997”
In the early 19th century, the little British Channel island of Guernsey faced a problem. Its sea walls were crumbling. its roads were too narrow, and it was already heavily in debt. There was little …

Top Picks ~ Week of May 14, 2007
Cox Confirms Possibility of Sea Change in SEC Regulation of Foreign BDs, Exchanges
By Rachel McTague – Bureau of National Affairs (May 14, 2007)
Profit As We Know It Could Be Lost With New Accounting…

Top Picks ~ Week of May 7, 2007
Doug Casey: GATA is Right
By Doug Casey – Casey Research (May 2007)
The Last Confessions of E. Howard Hunt
By Erik Hedegaard – Rolling Stone
Carlyle Group to Acquire philosophy, Inc.
Press Release …

Top Picks ~ Week of April 30, 2007
9/11 and the Evidence
By Paul Craig Roberts – Information Clearing House (Mar 27, 2007)
The Growth Consensus Unravels
By Jonathan Rowe – dollars&sense (Jul-Aug 1999)
Australia Suffers Worst Drought …

Gravel Has Me Eating Crow
I have said all along that reading or watching anything to do with Presidential politics is not an effective use of time.
Senator Mike Gravel’s performance during the recent Democratic Candidate Deba…

Top Picks ~ Week of April 23, 2007
John Kerry: Building 7 Was Deliberately Demolished
By Paul Joseph Watson & Aaron Dykes – Prison Planet (Apr 23, 2007)
BBC Reported Building 7 Had Collapsed 20 Minutes Before it Fell
By Paul Joseph Wa…

Top Picks ~ Week of April 16, 2007
DHA Demand for DNS Master Key Alarms Nations
By Deep Harm – Daily Kos (Mar 31, 2007)
Are Mobile Phones Wiping Out Our Bees?
By Geoffrey Lean & Harriet Shawcross – The Independent (Apr 15, 2007)
Most…

Top Picks ~ Week of April 9, 2007
Sustainable Route ~ Documenting the continuing exploration of the ‘sustainable movement.
EatWild – The #1 Site for Grass-Fed Food & Facts
China’s Foreign Reserves Rise Past $1.2 trillion
By Joe McDo…

Naked Short Selling
Whether your goal is to transform our world, end corruption or protect your assets from the Tapeworm, the time has come to consider taking physical delivery of our stock certificates. It appears that …

The Syndicate Backing Francisco Betancourt
Late last year I had the opportunity to speak in Salt Spring Island. I returned to Salt Spring last month for a visit and Tangachee Goebl, the talented owner of Dancing Light Cottage had saved an arti…

It’s a Hit! — Money as Debt
In the last week, five of the most talented and lively members of the Solari Action Network have strongly recommended a new DVD called “Money as Debt.” It is an animated feature by artist and videogra…

A Continuing Care Community Navigates the Falling Dollar
By Catherine Austin Fitts
CAF Note: I recently wrote a letter to the CEO of a continuing care retirement community. I realized subsequently that the letter described a situation that many retirees—a…

Top Picks ~ Week of April 1, 2007
Fort Knox: Bretton Bacteria Outbreak
By Hirus Dhnow – The Applachian Sentinel (Apr 1, 2007)
“The Secret”: Creating a Culture of Cheerfulness as Rome Burns
By Carolyn Baker – Speaking Truth to Power (…

Top Picks ~ Week of March 19, 2007
Blanchard Research Note: Gold Rose Last Week Despite Heavy ECB Sales
By Neal R. Ryan – Blanchard & Co. (Mar 20, 2007)
Arabs Again Test Whether Their Dollars are any Good in US
By Lina Saigol & Stepha…

Top Picks ~ Week of March 12, 2007
Happy Anniversary! The Salt March Began on March 12
Salt Satyagraha – from Wikipedia
China Will Keep Buying US Treasuries, Wu Says (Update3)
By Christina Soon – Bloomberg.com (Mar 11, 2007)
Hoping t…

Top Picks ~ Week of March 5, 2007
How Can US Dollar Survive Profligacy Like This?
From US Rep Ron Paul (Mar 5, 2007)
Critic of Russian Governmenrt Shot in Adelphi
By Dennis Carter – gazette.net (Mar 5, 2007)
If Pigs Had Wings: The A…

Top Picks ~ Week of February 19, 2007
“Vulture Fund” Companies Buy up Debt of Poor Countries at Cheap Prices
From Democracy Now! – Greg Palast (Feb 16, 2007)
Putin’s Speech at the 43rd Munich Conference on Security Policy
By President Vl…

Top Picks ~ Week of February 12, 2007
Coalition of Immokalee Workers
Online Headquarters
What is the Real Cost of Corn Ethanol? – Extracts
By Ronald R. Cooke – Sanders Research (Feb 12, 2007)
Libby & Destruction of CIA Counter-Prolifera…

Top Picks ~ Week of February 5, 2007
3D Bar Graph of the Number of Financial Transactions Worldwide
FCC Fudges its Broadband Report — But Finally Gets One Thing Right!
By David S. Isenberg – isen.blog (Feb 5, 2007)
Dark Cloud Over Goo…

The Long Tail
One of the smartest technologists I know sent me an e-mail the other day. He said, “If I send you a book, will you read it?” I said yes, and I am glad I did. The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business …

Top Picks ~ Week of January 29, 2007
Existing Home Sales Plummet in 2006
By Martin Crutsinger – AP (Jan 25, 2007)
Even Central Banks Can’t Figure Out Market Risks Now
By Gillian Tett – Financial Times, London (Jan 28, 2007)
Bill Moyers…

The Moneychanger — Latest Offer
Franklin Sanders’ newsletter, The Moneychanger, has a direct mail promotion going for one or two year subscriptions to the newsletter, his e-mail nudges and a new compendium of his interviews on healt…

Be Encouraged
What a great week for encouraging listening.
This weekend, I drove into Memphis to see The Good Shepherd. I listened each way to great ally Caroline Casey do her winter solstice solo, interview Graha…

Top Picks ~ Week of January 22, 2007
‘Horror movie’ trial begins of pig farmer accused of killing 26 prostitutes
Independent | 22 January 2007
WOW! Sustainable Agriculture – Miguel Altieri
Ph.D. Entomology – Univ of Florida
GM: New St…

Sam Smith, How Do I Love Thee? Let Me Count The Ways!
Sam Smith rates as one of the finest critical thinkers of our day. He just keeps hitting that ball out of the park. If you read the New York Times, I have a hard time taking you seriously. If you read…

Top Picks ~ Week of January 15, 2007
Revolution Arising from the Earth, Part I
By William Kotke – Speaking Truth to Power (Jan 15, 2007)
Children of Men: Everything Your Denial Keeps You From Seeing
By Carolyn Baker – Speaking Truth to …

Book Review: Ignotas Nulla Curatio Morbid – Political Ponerology by Andrzej M. Lobaczewski
Ignotas nulla curatio morbid – do not attempt to cure what you do not understand – is the opening theme in this study of evil. Political Ponerology is “a science on the nature of evil adjusted for pol…

Top Picks ~ Week of January 8, 2007
WOW! The Universe Gives Up Its Deepest Secret
By Steve Connor – The Independent (Jan 8, 2007)
Retrieving the Democrats’ Reason for Being
By Sam Smith – The Progressive Review (Jan 8, 2007)
Chavez …

Top Picks ~ Week of January 1, 2007
H A P P Y * N E W * Y E A R !
Baghdad Burning
Riverbend Blog (Dec 31, 2006)
NetGuard Service Extended to Business Customers
Scoop Independent News (Dec 29, 2006)
Lawyer Ends up Dead After Taki…

Top Picks ~ Week of December 25, 2006
Project Censored – The News That Didn’t Make the News
From Project Censored – (Dec 2006)
North Korea Selling Gold; May Have Up To 2,000 Tonnes
From Yomiuri Shimbum, Tokoyo (Dec 26, 2006)
Value of Eu…

A Prayer for Gary Webb
By Catherine Austin Fitts:
Gary, we gather in our hearts to say farewell
and to tell you how grateful we are for your presence in our lives.
Your courage and your talent helped us to face America’s…

Top Picks ~ Week of December 18, 2006
US Mint Moves to Limit Exportation & Melting of Coins
US Mint Press Release (Dec 14, 2006)
Boston Air Traffic Controller Says 9/11 An Inside Job
By Paul Joseph Watson – prison planet.com (Dec 14, 200…

Letter to Investor’s Business Daily
Investor’s Business Daily
Letters To The Editor
12655 Beatrice St.
Los Angeles, CA
Ladies and Gentlemen:
Congratulations on your op-ed piece, “If U.S. Wins War On Terror, Why Not War On D…

Top Picks ~ Week of December 11, 2006
Gold is Cheap, Yamada, Banks Assert as Sales Pared (Update4)
By Pham-Duy Nguyen – Bloomberg (Dec 11, 2006)
US Dollar Facing Imminent Collapse?
By Jerone R. Corsi – WorldNetDaily.com (Dec 10, 2006)
O…

Questions to Inform Investment Strategy
By Catherine Austin Fitts
December 10, 2004
After a discussion this afternoon with loved ones, I thought I would write up questions that would be useful for a discussion with investment advisers and…

Top Picks – 1995
Jim Norman: Possible Motive for the Vince Foster Murder
FBI Cover Up | 07 December 1995
How did Hillary Clinton and the Israeli Mossad…

Top Picks ~ Week of December 4, 2006
China Seeks Direct Talks with OPEC
By Jim Krane – AP (Dec 4, 2006)
Revealed: The Real Rate of Inflation
By Edmund Conway – The Telegraph, London (Dec 4, 2006)
Bank of New York to Buy Mellon for $16….

Geopolitical – 12.01.2004
Verdict Favors World Trade Center Leaseholder
CNN | 06 December 2004
Airplanes at two separate times was…

Top Picks ~ Week of November 27, 2006
Parks Not for Sale: Stop Commercial Bioprospecting in our National Parks!
A site dedicated to informing the public about this
The Amsterdam Declaration on Global Change
From the “Challenges of a Chan…

Top Picks ~ Week of November 20, 2006
Derivates Market Grows by 25%
By Gillian Tett – Australian-FT Business (Nov 20, 2006)
Congressman: American Concentration Camps “On the Books”
By Steve Watson – infowars.net (Nov 13, 2006)
Gartman F…

Geopolitical
Fitzgerald, A. Ernest: Memorandum for the record, December 9, 1968
JEC | 18 November 1969

Money & Markets – Week of 11.16.00
Michael P. Mortara, 51, a Developer of Mortgage-Backed Securities
NY Times | 16 November 2000
Death, Mr. Mortara…Goldman… GS Ventures…mortgage-backed securities… packages…

Top Picks ~ Week of November 13, 2006
Paul McCartney’s ‘Ecce Cor Meum’ Live in Concert
NPR – Listen Online Tuesday 11.14.06 – 7:30pmET
White Dog’s Owner Ready to Move On
By Dianna Marder – Philadelphia Daily News (Nov 9, 2006)
Scholars…

Money & Markets – Week of 11.14.04
Wall St. Hurt Teamster Funds
CNN | 15 November 2004
Union pension funds performed

Top Picks ~ Week of November 6, 2006
US History Uncensored: What Your High School Textbook Didn’t Tell You
By Carolyn L. Baker – With a forward by Catherine Austin Fitts
Bush’s Chernobyl Economy; Hard Times are on the Way
By Mike W…

Top Picks ~ Week of October 30, 2006
Global Cash Glut Fuels Investment Frenzy, Pushing Up Rates
By John Fraher & Simon Kennedy – Bloomberg (Oct 30, 2006)
Hawai Court Restrains Health Dept. TB Skin-Testing: Student Wins Religious Freedom…

Hickory Valley, Tennessee — The Song
Good friend Dave Webb bought the farm next to me in Hickory Valley. He and his beautiful wife just came for a visit. While he was there, he wrote a song about Hickory Valley. It made my day! I have Da…

Pistis Sophia Workshop: Links on Global Spraying
“And Jesus answered Mary, saying ‘Ask what you wish, and I will reveal it to you openly and without analogy…” ~ Pistis Sophia
Thank you to Ulrike Granögger for this wonderful workshop and…

Top Picks ~ Week of October 23, 2006
How to Avoid Debt Slavery
From Life After the Oil Crash
America and the Dollar Illusion
By Gabor Steingart – Der Spiegel (Oct 25, 2006)
Is There a Relationship?
Caterpillar Boycott / Cat Charged wit…

Top Picks ~ Week of October 16, 2006
Costello Seeks Orderly $US Withdrawal
By John Garnault – The Sydney Morning Herald (Oct 18, 2006)
Great Lakes for sale! Michigan’s Odawa Indians Lead Anti-Nestle Fight
By Brian McKenna – The Free Pres…

Real Deal Dim Sum — Is the Popsicle Index Important?
By Catherine Austin Fitts
The Popsicle Index is the % of people in a place who believe that a child can leave their home, go to the nearest place to buy a popsicle (ice cream) and come home alone saf…

Popsicle Culture: A Backcasting as a Report to Shareholders
A thriving residential and business community in downtown Washington, DC has created a new model of what community really means. Solari Village resident Catherine Austin Fitts describes the scene and …

Popsicle Culture
A thriving residential and business community in downtown Washington, DC has created a new model of what community really means. Solari Village resident Catherine Austin Fitts describes the scene and…

Howard Switzer to Richard Ciziks
My ally and candidate for Governor of Tennessee Howard Switzer just wrote a letter to Richard Ciziks, the evangelical Christian encouraging Christians to extend pro-life thinking to the full ecology (…

Top Picks ~ Week of October 9, 2006
An Interview with Green Evangelical Leader Richard Cizik
By Amanda Griscom Little – Cizik Matters (Oct 5, 2006)
The Real Story of Money (Parts I & II) Subscribers Only
By Glen Howe – Le Metropolecafe…

Top Picks ~ Week of October 1, 2006
Legislation to Reopen Hearings Into Cointelpro
Press Release: US Rep. Cynthia McKinney (Sept 24, 2006)
The Trillion Dollar Question: China is Grappling with How to Deploy its Foreign Exchange Riches
…

Unanswered Questions About Andrew Cuomo
By Catherine Austin Fitts
“HUD is Being Run as a Criminal Enterprise”
In 2000, three and a half years after Andrew Cuomo became Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (…

Top Picks ~ Week of September 25, 2006
Social Isolation in America: Changes in Core Discussion Networks Over Two Decades
By McPherson, Smith-Lovin & Brashears – American Sociological Review (2006, Vol 71 June:353-375)
Army Warns Rumsfeld …

Testimony of Anne Williamson
Testimony of Anne Williamson
Before the
Committee on Banking and Financial Services
of the
United States House of Representatives
September 21, 1999
Before I begin my testimony, I want to take a…

Top Picks ~ Week of September 18, 2006
Feds Lower Boom on Alternative Money
By Barbara Hagenbaugh – USA Today (Sept 15, 2006)
Massive Surge in Disappearance of Arctic Sea Ice Sparks Global Warning
By Michael McCarthy & David Usborne – The…

Francis Parvin Willits
Francis Parvin Willits, recognized as one of the most progressive and successful representatives of the agricultural interest of Concordville, Delaware county, Pennsylvania, is a member of a family th…

Memo on Community Databanks
Memo
To: A National Reporter
From: Catherine Austin Fitts
Date: Fall 1998
Re: Community Databanks, The Popsicle Index and How the $ Works In Your C…

Science & Technology – Week of 09.07.1977
The CIA Tells Meyerson University Participated in Secret Research (PDF)
The Daily Pennsylvanian | 09 September 1977
Behavior control research MK…

Top Picks ~ Week of September 4, 2006
“Orion” Project: Spaceship for Moon and Mars
By Traci Watson – USA Today (Aug 31, 2006)
Your Money or Your Life
Simple Living Network & The New Road Map Foundation
Chart: Money Stock Rate of Change…