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Did Iceland Forgive the Majority of its Citizens’ Mortgage Debt?
Posted by Michael Laprarie
An unbelievable story, the source of which appeared to be a single Spanish-language news broadcast, made the blogosphere rounds yesterday: Iceland is forgiving nearly all o…
Subscribers Brunch in San Jose
What a wonderful brunch we had this weekend in San Jose!
Australian Tony Brigstock and his beautiful family played host. Tony is a former PGA tour golfer who is now teaching and happens to be an in…
Largest Publicly Traded Banks in the World and US
The list below shows the largest banks in the world based on market capitalization as of January 20, 2012. Industrial & Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) is the largest bank in the world by market c…
Number of Guns Per Capita by Country
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This is a list of countries by gun ownership rate (number of privately owned small firearms divided by number of residents).
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Transcript of Catherine’s Interview of Joe Mysak on the 4.05.12 Solari Report Available to Subscribers
A transcript of Catherine’s April 5, 2012 interview with Joe Mysak on the Solari Report is available to Subscribers!
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Municipal Bond Disclosure: Great Source for Taxpayers and Voters Too!
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By Catherine Austin Fitts
Want to learn more about your state and local government? If they issue official statements in connection with issuance of their notes and bonds, these documents can …
Julian Assange’s The World Tomorrow: Official Trailer
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CN World News (14 April 12)
Health Impact of Electromagnetic and Radiofrequency Fields
By Emily
The American Academy of Environmental Medicine (AAEM) today issued a position paper on “Electromagnetic and Radiofrequency Fields Effect on Human Health”, including wireless technologi…
Russia’s National Presidential Elections Broadcasted Online by Gilat’s Network
By Staff Writers Petah Tikva, Israel
Gilat Satellite Networks has announced completion of a dedicated project for satellite-based web connectivity to support Russia’s national presidential election…
Money & Markets – Week of 4.15.12
Spain Marches Toward a Depression
Counterpunch (13 April 12)
Special Report: Tax Time Pushes Some Americans to Take a Hike
Reuters (16 April 12)
“Formula For Fraud” How To Become A Billionaire
Infor…
Precious Metals – Week of 4.15.12
NY Bureau Chief For The Economist Says Gold is a Better Currency
GATA (17 April 12)
GATA Tells the Past Well Enough, But We’re Not in Charge of the Future
GATA (16 April 12)
Housing & Mortgage Markets – Week of 4.15.12
The ‘Doomsday Shelter’ Being Built Below Kansas Prairie Where Millionaires will be able to sit out the Apocalypse in Style
MailOnline (10 April 12)
Geopolitical – Week of 4.15.12
Commentary: The Real GSA Scandal
The Washington Post (15 April 12)
Life – Week of 4.15.12
Author John Robbins, Other Progressives Denounce ‘Thrive’
SantaCruz.com (10 April 12)
Food & Health – Week of 4.15.12
Blamed for Bee Collapse, Monsanto Buys Leading Bee Research Firm
Natural Society (19 April 12)
Drafted into The Autism Wars
Age of Autism (7 April 12)
In the SF Bay Area: Ani’s Mediterranean Cuisine
By Catherine Austin Fitts
I was walking through a mall in Corte Madre on Friday afternoon looking for store to arrange for a new phone (at last, I ditched the iPhone!).
I had seen signs for a farm…
Solari Special Report: Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act of 2012
By Carolyn A. Betts, Esq. with Catherine Austin Fitts
The following table compares the crowdfunding provisions enacted in Title 3 of the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act (“JOBS Act”) (as wel…
Natural Gas Prices at 10-year Low
By Chris Kahn, AP Energy Writer
New York (AP) – A 10-month slide in natural gas prices took a breather after the government said U.S. supplies didn’t grow as much as expected last week.
The future…
Ron Finley: Food Forest
This film tells the story of a South Los Angeles edible garden planted in a surprising spot. Ron Finley, its planter, constructed the garden the way he wishes his neighborhood could be.
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Quote du Jour
“It comes to him: growth is betrayal. There is no other route. There is no arriving somewhere without leaving somewhere.”
– John Updike
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John Updike
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Precious Metals Market Report – 4.12.12
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Karl Rove Poised to Drop Money Bomb on Obama Campaign
Is Karl Rove secretly supporting Mitt Romney? (photo: AP)
By Jim Rutenberg and Jeff Zeleny,The New York Times
American Crossroads, the biggest of the Republican “super PACs,” is planning to begin it…
Blythe Masters Lays an Egg
By Rob Kirby
On April 5, 2012, JPMorganChase commodity executive Blythe Masters appeared on CNBC, and she was questioned whether the bank is manipulating metals markets?
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5 Real-life Weapons Straight Out of a Sci-fi Movie
From pain rays to guns that can turn people into zombies, these weapons are no longer the stuff of fiction.
By Tecca
Forget the light saber; the flashy sword is but a part of the fictional Star Wars…
Quote du Jour
“Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.”
– H. G. Wells (1920)
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H. G. Wells
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Monsanto Threatens to Sue Vermont if Legislators Pass a Bill Requiring GMO Food to Be Labeled
By Will Allen and Ronnie Cummins
The world’s most hated corporation is at it again, this time in Vermont.
Despite overwhelming public support and support from a clear majority of Vermont’s Agricul…
Louie Schwartzberg – Graditude
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Gold Crash on Fed Tightening and Euro Salvation Looks Premature
By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
It has been an unsettling experience for late-comers who joined the gold rush near all-time highs of $1,923 an ounce last September. The slide has become deeply threateni…
Transcript of the 3.29.12 Solari Report “Let’s Go to the Movies” Available to Subscribers
A transcript of the March 29, 2012 Special Solari Report “Let’s Go to the Movies” with Jon Rappoport is now available to Solari Report Subscribers!
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Money & Markets – Week of 4.8.12
Apple Is About To Be Worth More Than All The Companies In Spain, Portugal And Greece COMBINED
Business Insider (11 April 12)
Iran Escalates Again, Cuts Off Oil Shipments To Spain
Zero Hedge (10 April…
Precious Metals – Week of 4.8.12
China Investing in Foreign Mines and Buying Gold Directly
GATA (9 April 12)
Exposure of Gold Market Manipulation is Producing Results
GATA (8 April 12)
India’s Gold Jewelers Call Off Strike, Expecti…
Housing & Mortgage Markets – Week of 4.8.12
C++ Programming Pioneer Hacks Off-grid, DIY, Smart Home
Geopolitical – Week of 4.8.12
North Korea Rocket Breaks up in Flight
CNN (13 April 12)
Russia Is Massing Troops On Iran’s Northern Border And Waiting For A Western Attack
Business Insider (9 April 12)
Joe Biden’s Boy Beau Says…
Science & Technology – Week of 4.8.12
Just Press “Print”
The Economist (31 March 12)
Looking Back on the Limits of Growth
Smithsonian.com (April 2012)
Life – Week of 4.8.12
Top Five Regrets of The Dying
guardian.co.uk (1 Feb 12)
Frans de Waal: Moral Behavior in Animals
Food & Health – Week of 4.8.12
Is Sugar Toxic?
CBS News (1 April 12)
Wildcards – Week of 4.8.12
Nazi Engineers, Secret U.S. Military Bases, and Elevators To The Subterranean and Submarine Depths (Part 1)
The Intel Hub (10 April 12)
Celebrating Easter & Passover
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“He is not here: for he is risen”
~Matthew 28:6
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Passover
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Quote du Jour
“If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.”
– Nikola Tesla
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Joe Mysak: Insight on the Municipal Market
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You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet
National Debt from 1940 to Present
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Federal Court Rules Scott Walker’s Anti-Union Crusade Unconstitutional
By Steven Rosenfeld
Wisconsin’s recall-facing Republican Gov. Scott Walker and his legislative allies received a stunning rebuke from a federal court on Friday that ruled the state’s Act 10 that stri…
Linda Minor’s Follow the Yellow Brick Road, Part II
By Linda Minor
Part One of this saga served as an introduction to Pug Winokur, how he rose from the son of a Jewish pawnbroker to be mentored by Harvard’s “whiz kids,” a generation after they thems…
Federal Reserve Fires Back at Greenberg, Starr over Loan to AIG
Former AIG CEO Maurice R. “Hank” Greenberg
By Arthur D. Postal
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York Monday asked a federal court in Manhattan to promptly dismiss a lawsuit alleging that the federal …
Ireland Faces Popular Revolt Over New Property Tax
By Shawn Pogatchnik
Debt-mired Ireland is facing a revolt over its new property tax.
The government said less than half of the country’s 1.6 million households paid the charge by Saturday’s deadli…
Shanley Goes to ‘Church’
By Gordon Cox
The latest play by John Patrick Shanley has a new title, “Storefront Church,” and a cast that includes Giancarlo Esposito, Tonya Pinkins and Zach Grenier.
Bowing at Off Broadway’s At…
A Horrible Story That Explains Why You Should Avoid Roswell, Georgia
“It was as though in those last minutes he was summing up the lessons that this long course in human wickedness had taught us — the lesson of the fearsome, word-and-thought-defying banality of e…
Japan Nuclear Plant May Be Worse Off Than Thought
By Hiroko Tabuchi
TOKYO — The damage to one of three stricken reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi plant could be worse than previously thought, a recent internal investigation has shown, raising ne…
Quote du Jour
“Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.”
– George Washington
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Linda Minor’s Follow the Yellow Brick Road, Part I
The collapse of Enron occurred in October 2001, one month after the towers fell on 9/11. It’s been more than ten years now, and we still don’t know where the Enron money went. But all those years ag…
Money & Markets – Week of 4.1.12
Egan Jones Downgrades USA From AA+ To AA, Outlook Negative
Zero Hedge (5 April 12)
Precious Metals – Week of 4.1.12
637.5 Milion Ounces of Paper Silver Dumped in 1 Hour After Fed Minutes Released
SilverDoctors (4 April 12)
Gold, Not Stocks, Wins Over Most Americans
CNBC (28 March 12)
Housing & Mortgage Markets – Week of 4.1.12
Americans Brace For Next Foreclosure Wave
Reuters (4 April 12)
Investors Are Looking to Buy Homes by the Thousands
The New York Times (2 April 12)
Pimco’s Gross Says Fed to Shift Operation Twist t…
Geopolitical – Week of 4.1.12
Syntagma Square Suicide Note Ends With Call To Young Greek People To “Hang The Traitors”
Zero Hedge (4 April 12)
Man Whose WMD Lies Led to 100,000 Deaths Confesses All
The Independent (1 April 12)
T…
Life – Week of 4.1.12
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Food & Health – Week of 4.1.12
Jane Fonda: Life’s Third Act
Giant Earthworm
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By Cary Huang
The Flowers Appear on the Earth…
Forest Wander
Newborn Seized in Hospital by Police, Social Worker
By Michael P. Farris, Esq.
I am not content to sit on the sidelines while the government gradually usurps the very essence of parental rights. I hope you share my determination. We need to stand with…
Transcript of the 3.22.12 Solari Report “Creating Liquidity in Your Neighborhood & Networks” Available to Subscribers
A transcript of the March 22, 2012 Solari Report on Creating Liquidity in Your Neighborhood & Networks with Thomas H. Greco, Jr. is now available to Solari Report Subscribers!
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Special Solari Report – Catherine with Jon Rappoport, “Let’s Go to the Movies”
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The Solari Report 2012-03-29
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New JOBS Act Offers Substantial Regulatory Relief for Venture and Emerging Growth Companies
By Attorney Michael T. Dunn
On March 27, 2012, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to approve the version of the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act (the “JOBS Act”) that was passed by the Se…
SCOTUS Mulls Striking Down All of Obamacare
By Philip Klein
Justices on the U.S. Supreme Court this morning considered what to do with the rest of President Obama’s national health care law if its individual health insurance mandate is struc…
The “Potato Revolution”: Greeks Start Buying Potatoes Straight From Farmers
By Walking Times
As incomes fall and retail prices rise, Greeks have found an ingenious way to pay three times less than they usually would for potatoes.
Since the farmers sell the potatoes for a …
Allegation: MF’s Corzine Ordered Funds Moved to JP Morgan
By Phil Mattingly and Silla Brush
Jon S. Corzine, MF Global Holding Ltd. (MFGLQ)’s chief executive officer, gave “direct instructions” to transfer $200 million from a customer fund account t…
Invisibility Cloak May Be Available in 2 Years
By Sami K. Martin , Christian Post Contributor
Scientists and Harry Potter fans are one step closer to having an invisibility cloak. For those not familiar with Harry Potter, an invisibility cloak …
Banking Services Withdrawn: Madrid Escorts Declare Sex War
By RT.com
Madrid’s high-class escorts have found a way to regulate the Spanish banking sector. The ladies want to have their say in the economy by withholding sexual pleasures from bank employees…
Subscriber’s Luncheon With Catherine
March 17, 2012 – The Tohono Chul Tea Room – Tucson, AZ:
March 24, 2012 – Chez Zee American Bistro – Austin, Texas:
By Catherine Austin Fitts
We are having nourishing times at The Solari Report!
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Former Enron Board Member, Herbert Winokur Steps Down
By Joe Pompeo
Herbert “Pug” Winokur, the former Enron board member and finance committee chairman when the company was destroyed by an accounting-fraud scandal in 2001, has stepped down from the b…
Conservative Justices Question Insurance Mandate
By Jesse j. Holland
Sharp questioning by the Supreme Court’s conservative justices has cast serious doubt on the survival of the individual insurance requirement at the heart of President Barack Ob…
Banks Kickback Bailout $ to FHA
By Bob Ivry
The White House submitted a budget plan to Congress this year that would have provided the FHA as much as $688 million from the U.S. Treasury , the first bailout in the agency’s 78- y…
Catherine Austin Fitts – Immense Possibilities
By Ed Keller
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Bron Suchecki: Fake Bars — The Facts
By C. Powell
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
In an essay headlined “Fake Bars — The Facts,” Bron Suchecki of the Perth Mint today explains why tungsten-filled and other counterfeit gold bars like t…
Securitized Distrust (or how the $ is flowing out the back door of FHA, Fannie, Freddie…)
By Gary Victor Dubin
Gary Victor Dubin is a dynamite Honolulu foreclosure defense attorney with over 40 wins by the DUBIN LAW FIRM in Hawaii foreclosure courts for his clients just in the last year…
Health Care Law Reaches High Court
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By Richard Wolf
Health coverage for more than 30 million people. The power of Congress to regulate interstate commerce. President Obama’s re-election. The reputati…
Hong Kong Exchange to Launch Yuan-settled Gold, Copper Futures
By Ruby Lian and Fayen Wong – Reuters
The Hong Kong Mercantile Exchange plans to launch yuan-settled gold and copper futures by July, its president said on Friday, as it looks to tap growing intere…
Money & Markets – Week of 3.25.12
Charlesbank Capital Partners Acquires The Princeton Review Higher Education Readiness Division
Marketwire (27 March 12)
U.S. Airlines Seek Action on EU Carbon Tax
The Wall Street Journal (27 March 12…
Precious Metals – Week of 3.25.12
Zero Hedge: Can Gold-plated Tungsten be Rehypothecated Too?
GATA (24 March 12)
James Turk: Chinese Gold Imports Will Keep Increasing
GATA (23 March 12)
Housing & Mortgage Markets – Week of 3.25.12
The U.S. Prison-Cell Economy (IYR, XHB, XLF, ITB, LEN, KBH, DHI, TOL)
ETF Daily News (26 March 12)
The Mortgage-to-Lease Alternative to Foreclosure
CounterPunch (26 March 12)
Foreclosures Expected t…
Geopolitical – Week of 3.25.12
High Court Throws Out Human Gene Patents
Yahoo News (26 March 12)
Economic Hitmen
Science & Technology – Week of 3.25.12
400 Chernobyls: Solar Flares, Electromagnetic Pulses and Nuclear Armageddon
Truthout (24 March 12)
Life – Week of 3.25.12
The Best SA Articles Of All Time, As Chosen By Their Authors
Seeking Alpha (26 March 12)
Dick Cheney Heart Transplant Surgery: Former Vice President Able To Stand, Doing Well
Huffington Post (26 Marc…
Food & Health – Week of 3.25.12
CDC: U.S. Kids With Autism up 78% in Past Decade
CNN (29 March 12)
‘Pink Slime’ on The Way Out in Montana School Cafeterias
Bozeman Daily Chronicle (21 March 12)
Wildcards – Week of 3.25.12
Pope’s Visit to Mexico Refocuses Attention on Narco-Church Relations
The 2012 Scenario (22 March 12)
Overwhelming Demand: Ruger Suspends All New Firearms Orders: “Incoming Order Rate Exceeds Our …
Guatemalan President Leads Drug Legalization Debate
Guatemalan President Otto Perez Molina
By Catherine E. Shoichet
On the campaign trail, Otto Perez Molina vowed to rule his country with an iron fist.
The retired general said he would send troops …
Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication
From Wikipedia
The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (“SWIFT”) operates a worldwide financial messaging network which exchanges messages between banks and other financia…
Student-Loan Debt Reaches Record $1 Trillion, Report Says
By Janet Lorin
U.S. student-loan debt reached the $1 trillion mark, as young borrowers struggle to keep up with soaring tuition costs, according to the initial findings of a government study.
The …
Laundered Money
By Joseph T. Salerno
Under cover of its multiplicity of fabricated wars on drugs, terror, tax evasion, and organized crime, the US government has long been waging a hidden war on cash. One symptom …
Creating Liquidity in Your Neighborhood & Networks with Thomas H. Greco, Jr.
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The Solari Report 2012-03-22
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Transcript of the 3.15.12 Comfort Calls Solari Report Available to Subscribers
A transcript of the March 15, 2012 Solari Report on “The Comfort Calls Story: Organizing the Legal Structure For Your Start Up” is now available to Solari Report Subscribers!
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U.S. Exempts 11 States From Iran Sanctions; China, India Exposed
By Arshad Mohammed and Andrew Quinn
The United States exempted Japan and 10 EU nations from financial sanctions because they have significantly cut purchases of Iranian oil, but left Iran’s top cus…
The NSA Is Building the Country’s Biggest Spy Center (Watch What You Say)
By James Bamford
The spring air in the small, sand-dusted town has a soft haze to it, and clumps of green-gray sagebrush rustle in the breeze. Bluffdale sits in a bowl-shaped valley in the shadow o…
Town in Australia “Kickstarts” Grocery Story
Dennett’s IGA supermarket in Mullumbimby is FOR SALE
Could the people of Mullumbimby own their own supermarket…?
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Double Fine Kickstarter Ends With Over $3.3 million
< By John Callaham The massive fund raising journey that is the Double Fine "point-and-click" adventure game project on the Kickstarter web site has come to an end. As of the project's deadline...
SWIFT Reaction: Iran ‘Will Retaliate’, Closing Hormuz Strait
By Kaveh L Afrasiabi
Tehran’s threats to block the Strait of Hormuz in response to sanctions are not mere words, warned Iran’s senior spokesman on sanctions. As long as the West ignores interna…
America’s Freakishly Inefficient Healthcare System
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Map of Where GMO Crops Grown Worldwide
By Paddy Allen
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President Obama Issues Executive Order Friday
Executive order issued Friday entitled “National Defense Resources Preparedness”
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[Note from CAF: Yes, it is simply an update of existing Executive Orders. However, why now? La…
Michigan DNR Going Hog Wild
By Pete Kennedy, Esq.
In a brazen power grab threatening the livelihood of hundreds of small farmers, the Michigan Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is using the state Invasive Species Act to e…