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The Real Skinner on GnuCash
By Court Skinner
I’m just getting started in a new, at least to me, software for keeping track of money. The software is the open source, GnuCash, which is available for download here http://www.gn…
A “Mini Katrina” in Northern New Mexico
From a Subscriber:
Hi Catherine,
I trust you are well. I’m still enjoying and very much impressed by your weekly Solari Reports, guests, and the Solari blog. Your perception, level head and lack of …
Imagining a New World
Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.
~ Isaiah 43:19
In From the Network: Frozen in Phoenix
By “Aridzonan_13”
We’ve lived here for almost 21 years. During that time we’ve seen freezing temps capable of making ice two nights in a row. This week has seen hard freeze temps. We’ve had ice in …
Money & Markets – Week of 2.6.11
Germans in Talks to Buy Big Board
The Wall Street Journal (10 Feb 11)
UK Accelerates Bank Levy to Raise Extra £800m This Year
Business Report (9 Feb 11)
Precious Metals – Week of 2.6.11
Here Comes Executive Order 6102 For The QE Generation: Dutch Central Bank Orders Pension Fund To Sell Its Gold
Zero Hedge (10 Feb 11)
The Rarest Earth
SilverSeek.com (9 Feb 11)
Silver Class-action S…
Geopolitical – Week of 2.6.11
Mubarak Steps Down, Ceding Power to Military
Truthout (11 Feb 11)
State Nullification: Requisite To Freedom
Infowars.com (11 Feb 11)
Kyl to Retire, Won’t Seek Another Term
Politico (10 Feb 11)
Afte…
Food & Health – Week of 2.6.11
David Meets GMO-liath: Get Your Sling Shots Ready
Organic Valley (7 Feb 11)
New York’s Bed Bug Problem Spreading to London
Reuters (9 Feb 11)
Outrageous! FDA Shuts Down Production of Non-drug Cancer…
Life – Week of 2.6.11
Debunking Education Myths: America’s Never Been Number One in Math
Good Education (10 Feb 11)
Oklahoma Sees Record Cold: -31
MSNBC.com (10 Feb 11)
Love Me, Love My Dog, Say Britons
Reuters (11 Feb 1…
An Era of Cheap Food May be Drawing to a Close
By KT Arasu
U.S. grain prices should stay unrelentingly high this year, according to a Reuters poll, the latest sign that the era of cheap food has come to an end.
U.S. corn, soybeans and wheat pr…
Our Inheritance: A World of Galaxies
What happens when you point the Hubble Space Telescope to a seemingly blank patch of sky? A view that takes you to the edge of the universe!
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Unemployment Continues
By Joe Weisenthal
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Black Slams Financial Commission
Tuesday, senior S&L regulator William K. Black slammed the FCIC for failing to call out fraud. As told the Real News:
• The Commission was unwilling to use the “F” word (“fraud”)
• “They’ve d…
If You Think Wheat Prices Have Gotten Expensive…
By Joe Weisenthal
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Chris Martenson: The Crash Course
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The Solari Report – 3 Feb 11
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By Catherine Austin Fitts
This Thursday evening on The Solari Report, I …
Scientists Under Attack
Genetic Engineering in The Magnetic Field of Money
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Money & Markets Charts ~ 2.03.11
View this week’s chart comparisons of gold against fiat currencies, oil and the Dow. Stay tuned for our next Money & Markets segment of The Solari Report tonight, Thursday, February 3, 2011.
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Fed Can Keep Most Gold Secrets But Must Yield One, Judge Rules
By C. Powell
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
The Federal Reserve can keep secret most of the gold documents at issue in GATA’s freedom-of-information lawsuit against it, a federal judge ruled today….
The Solari Report Digest ~ New Podcast Available!
Solari has produced a new free podcast—The Solari Report Digest #20.
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The Solari Report Digest is a podcast featuring highlights from the live one-hour Sola…
Doing It Right
By Paul Ferguson
A junior mining company I’ve followed for years recently announced that they were raising money. The initial response from some investors was to cry “Dilution!”. Virtually all mi…
Excerpt: Catherine on the Financial Coup D’Etat
Straight Talk
By Adam
This week’s Straight Talk contributor is Catherine Austin Fitts: investment advisor and entrepreneur. She is the founder of Solari, where she offers subscribers guidance fo…
Complexity And Art
There is complexity because the artist, the writer, doesn’t know why he or she is doing the work. That complexity results from a lack of clarity.
There is complexity because the creator of the work…
Private Sector Gear Up Small-Business Initiative
By Jason Fell
On the heels of President Barack Obama’s big State of the Union address last week, during which he talked up the vital role of entrepreneurs in the recovery of the U.S. economy, the Whi…
Egypt and Tunisia Usher in The New Era of Global Food Revolutions
By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
Political risk has returned with a vengeance. The first food revolutions of our Malthusian era have exposed the weak grip of authoritarian regimes in poor countries that …
More Icelandic Bankers Arrested
Iceland’s special prosecutor into the banking crisis has confirmed that raids have taken place today and that arrests have been made. The Central Bank of Iceland is among the institutions under i…
Hope for 1099 Rule Revision
President’s Speech Offers Hope for Some Relief; Exceptions for Rental Income Reporting Remain Vague
For small businesses that were dreading the thought of having to produce a Form 1099 for every pa…
Updated List Of Animal Die-Offs
Here’s your list of 60+ of the recent animal die-offs. I didn’t include the honeybees, earthworms, or most insect life, as they’re a subject all by themselves. I also skipped most frog die-offs. …
Nanoparticles – More Terrifying Than GMO?
The European Food Safety Authority has launched a public consultation on its draft guidance document for engineered nanomaterial (ENM) applications in food and feed.
The guidance document, prepared…
Money & Markets – Week of 1.30.11
Kinder Morgan Gearing Up For $2.3 billion IPO
Reuters (4 Feb 11)
J.P. Morgan Chase Knew of Madoff Fraud Scheme, Suit Alleges
The Washington Post (4 Feb 11)
IMF Raises Spectre of Civil Wars as Glob…
Precious Metals – Week of 1.30.11
US Mint Sells Absolute Record 6.4 Million Ounces Of Silver In January, 50% More Than Previous Highest Month
Zero Hedge (2 Feb 11)
China Central Bank Advisor Urges Increase In Official Gold And Silver…
Geopolitical – Week of 1.30.11
Egyptian Government Figures Join Protesters
The New York Times (4 Feb 11)
Algeria to Lift Emergency Powers
Aljazeera (3 Feb 11)
Small Farms And The Farm Subsidies Scandal
The Huffington Post (3 Feb …
Food & Health – Week of 1.30.11
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Sustainable Family Outside LA — Keeping it Extra Real!
Next World TV
“Making More With Microbes” Soil Training Program
Soil Doctor (2011)
YouTube
Total War: Agri-business Style
Brassche…
Life – Week of 1.30.11
Gabrielle Giffords’s Husband Mark Kelly Will Command Final Shuttle Flight
Politico (3 Feb 11)
Snowy Spectacle Leaves Residents of Gloucestershire, England Baffled
Sott.net (9 Dec 10)
12 Things That …
Science & Technology – Week of 1.30.11
Parrots Tend to be “Left Handed,” Study Finds
Reuters (3 Feb 11)
Tracing Families’ Escape From Poverty
MIT News (10 Jan 11)
The Greatest Epidemic Sickness Known to Humanity – Part 3
Let’s spread the word: Wetiko
By Paul Levy
In the first part of this series, we contemplated the idea of a psycho-spiritual disease of the soul that has been wreaking havoc throughout human history …
America’s Most Dangerous Extremists:The Muddled, Myopic, Miasmic Middle
By Sam Smith
One of the greatest myths draped over this land is that the so-called wing nuts mainly come from the far right and left. And that there is, however, a wise and moderate establishment t…
The Organic Elite Surrenders to Monsanto: What Now?
By Ronnie Cummins
The policy set for GE alfalfa will most likely guide policies for other GE crops as well. True coexistence is a must.” – Whole Foods Market, Jan. 21, 2011
In the wake of a 12-…
The Housing Bubble was Global
By Joe Weisenthal
Today the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission releases its full report on the crisis.
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So Long Facebook!
By Catherine Austin Fitts
An authorized someone from Allendale Michigan kept logging in to my Facebook space. Then I started having challenges with unauthorized posts and photo tags. Finally some m…
On the Truth
“A man must first of all understand certain things. He has thousands of false ideas and false conceptions, chiefly about himself, and he must get rid of some of them before beginning to acquire anyt…
E-mails Suggest Bear Stearns Cheated Clients Out of Billions
By Teri Buhl
Lawsuit alleges the bank took extreme measures to defraud investors, and now JPMorgan may be on the hook
Former Bear Stearns mortgage executives who now run mortgage divisions of Gold…
All the Mass Deaths of Animals Plotted on a Map
By Casey Chan
The world is ending! Okay, maybe not. But doesn’t it seem like every day animals are dying in masses? So, it must mean something!
I think the West Coast is safe. The South, um, prett…
Desert Solitaire
From Ed Abbey’s “Desert Solitaire”
Benedicto:
May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds. May yo…
Quote du Jour
“There are some people that if they don’t know, you can’t tell them.”
~ Louis Armstrong
Fannie & Freddie Stick Fraudster Legal Bills to the Taxpayers
By Gretchen Morgenson
Since the government took over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, taxpayers have spent more than $160 million defending the mortgage finance companies and their former top executives…
Here It Comes – The Big Lie – We Need GMO To Feed The World
Genetically-modified crops could help prevent a future global hunger crisis, the Government’s chief scientific adviser said.
By The Telegraph
Professor Sir John Beddington said there was no one ”s…
V for Victory
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Food Facism: The Traceability Rule Cometh
By Lyndsey Layton
In response to a new federal food safety law and growing consumer interest, vast amounts of new data are being generated about the complicated path that food takes from field to s…
I AM
“I AM” – Official Trailer
In theaters: February 8th, 2011
Synopsis:
I AM, a prismatic and probing exploration of our world, what’s wrong with it, and what we can do to make it better, represents T…
Quote du Jour
We have now sunk to a depth at which the restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
~ George Orwell
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George Orwell
Wikipedia
Biography of George Orwell
Korr…
Keith Olbermann Leaves “Countdown” & MSNBC
By Adam Ostrow
Here’s a bit of a surprise to end the week: Keith Olbermann, host of MSNBC’s Countdown, ended tonight’s show by announcing he’s leaving, effective immediately.
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GE Seizes Control of Internet & White House in Same Week
By Sam Smith
National Journal – President Obama today will name General Electric CEO Jeff Immelt chairman of the new Council on Jobs and Competitiveness, the White House announced. . .
Immelt, GE’…
Buy Local, Surf Global – 2
By Janna Irons
Last year, 20-year-old Kyle Thiermann took a surf trip to Southern Chile, where he planned to spend a few weeks sampling the pointbreak perfection of Constitucion. But soon he realiz…
Cell Phones Can Double Brain Tumor Risk
By Dr. Mercola
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Money & Markets – Week of 1.23.11
LinkedIn Plans to Raise up to $175 million in IPO
Reuters (28 Jan 11)
Social Security Posting $600B Deficit Over 10 Years
Yahoo News (27 Jan 11)
M2 Surges By Biggest Weekly Amount Since 2008 As It…
Precious Metals – Week of 1.23.11
Gold Futures Trader’s Withdrawal Spooks Market
GATA (28 Jan 11)
Bank of Russia Says It’s Buying Only Domestic Gold
GATA (24 Jan 11)
Russia To Increase Gold Holdings By 13% In 2011, Will Buy 100 Tonn…
Housing & Mortgage Markets – Week of 1.23.11
Foreclosure Activity up Across Most US Metro Areas
Yahoo Finance (27 Jan 11)
Geopolitical – Week of 1.23.11
New Irish Govt Can’t Renege on Bailout Deal-ECB
Reuters (27 Jan 11)
From Bullets to Megabytes
The New York Times (26 Jan 11)
US Senate To Reintroduce Internet “Kill Switch” Bill
Fedup Montrealer (27…
Food & Health – Week of 1.23.11
Leaked EPA Document Says Bayer’s
Clothianidin Kills Honey Bees
EarthFiles (2 Nov 10)
Winter Weekend Organic Beekeeping Class
The Commons Brooklyn (5 Feb 11)
Something Fishy at Traders Joe’s?
Sustai…
Life – Week of 1.23.11
Pitcher Spurns $12 Million, to Keep Self-Respect
The New York Times (26 Jan 11)
State To Hold Earthquake Preparedness Events, Drills
KOMU.com (24 Jan 11)
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Science & Technology – Week of 1.23.11
World Business Leaders Told Flying Saucers Are Real & Extraterrestrials Exist
Exo News (25 Jan 11)
Is The World’s Largest Super-volcano Set to Erupt For The First Time in 600,000 Years, Wiping Out Tw…
Quote du Jour
“I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.”
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Building Little Republics in a Collapsing Empire
By Sam Smith
Several years after the passage of the Federal Boating Act of 1958, the Second Coast Guard District in St. Louis sent a team of unarmed men, and a van with outboard patrol boat in tow, t…
The Sun Rises Two Days Early in Greenland
By Daily Mail Reporter
The sun over Greenland has risen two days early, baffling scientists and sparking fears that Arctic icecaps are melting faster than previously thought.
Experts say the sun s…
Monsanto Wins the 2010 Corporate Hall of Shame!
Monsanto garnered 38% of the vote to win the 2010 Corporate Hall of Shame. From using aggressive legal tactics to intimidate and bankrupt local farmers to its reckless promotion of genetically modif…
Vanishing of the Bees
The documentary film, Vanishing of the Bees, narrated by Ellen Page, takes a piercing investigative look at the economic, political and ecological implications of the worldwide disappearance of the ho…
Beauty Will Save the World
by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
It is vain to affirm that which the heart does not confirm. In contrast, a work of art bears within itself its own confirmation: concepts which are manufactured out of who…
Guess Which Major Commodity Has Performed The Worst Since QE
By Gregory White
Since quantitative easing 2 really kicked off in early September, one major commodity has lagged the broader market.
Surprise, it’s gold.
And now, with all the talk of inflation st…
Taking America’s Pulse with Scott Rasmussen
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The Solari Report – 20 Jan 11
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Money & Markets Charts ~ 1.20.11
View this week’s chart comparisons of gold against fiat currencies, oil and the Dow. Stay tuned for our next Money & Markets segment of The Solari Report tonight, Thursday, January 20, 2011.
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What Great Investors Understand
I am convinced more than ever that over a long-period, the real safety and growth of our capital lies in honest entrepreneurship – not in gold, silver, or government bonds.
~ Tony Deden, Sage Capit…
Money Supply Growth
By Shadowstats
Here we show year-to-year growth as a measure of the changing money supply.
Note: A downward slope in this growth curve does not necessarily mean that the money supply is dropping. O…
Money & Markets Charts ~ 2.17.11
View this week’s chart comparisons of gold against fiat currencies, oil and the Dow. Stay tuned for our next Money & Markets segment of The Solari Report next Thursday, February 3, 2011.
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Space, The Financial Frontier
From tourist trips to the edge of the atmosphere to satellite companies propelling products into the ether, the galactic gold rush is on. And now private firms are making millions from Nasa, says Je…
Southern Europeans Are Not Lazy!
By Gregory White
While the presumption may be that southern members of the eurozone are lazy, the evidence suggests otherwise, according to Societe Generale.
This chart shows the gaps in labor utili…
Quote du Jour
“The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the de…
The Hu-Obama Summit
By Michael J. Green
Q1: What is the significance of this summit?
A1: On January 19, Presidents Barack Obama and Hu Jintao will hold their eighth bilateral meeting, but only their second state visi…
Gold Grades and Discovery Costs
By Paul Ferguson
The following chart shows some long-term trends in the gold mining industry. The grade of gold discoveries is declining while the cost of discovering gold is increasing:
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Faber on the US Dollar
History has shown that giant countries on the way down are very dangerous because they are desperate. But this year the U.S. has stabilized and is going to grow modestly.
One more thing: Janet Yell…
Quote du Jour
“I invest in anything that Bernanke can’t destroy, including gold, canned beans, bottled water and flashlight batteries.”
~ David Stockman, Former US Budget Director
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David …
Treasury Press Release: Debit & Credit Card Tax Refunds
Timed for tax season, the U.S. Department of the Treasury launched a pilot today to offer taxpayers a safe, convenient and low-cost financial account for the electronic delivery of their federal tax…
Ghettophysics
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Excerpt: Are We Headed Toward Another Great Depression?
By Catherine Austin Fitts
Are we headed toward another Great Depression? Investment advisor Catherine Austin Fitts gives Financial Survival Radio a brutally honest answer to that question.
Continu…
Excerpt: On Crashing Morgan
By Catherine Austin Fitts
Solari.com investment adviser Catherine Austin Fitts tells Financial Survival Radio why the “Crash JP Morgan” (which she recommends and supports) by purchasing physical silv…
Excerpt: Tapeworm Economy
Investment advisor Catherine Austin Fitts says America has a bad case of the tapeworms: A tapeworm media and a tapeworm economy.
A tapeworm, she explains, is a parasite that attaches itself to th…
Money & Markets – Week of 1.16.11
Google Shares Rise as Investors Look Past Shuffle
Reuters (21 Jan 11)
Google Shake-Up Is Effort to Revive Start-Up Spark
The New York Times (20 Jan 11)
SEC Adopts Disclosure, Review Rules for Asse…
Precious Metals – Week of 1.16.11
Gold and Silver ETF Holdings Continue To Decline
Gold and Silver Blog (19 Jan 11)
US Mint Reports January Silver Sales Hit 26 Year High
Zero Hedge (18 Jan 11)
John Hathaway: Debasement, Spending Spr…
John Pilger’s Investigation Into the War on WikiLeaks and His Interview With Julian Assange
By John Pilger
My favorite secret document – leaked by WikiLeaks, of course – is from the Ministry of Defense in London. It describes journalists who serve the public without fear or favor as “subv…
Housing & Mortgage Markets – Week of 1.16.11
2010 Weakest Year For Home Sales Since 1997
Yahoo Finance (20 Jan 11)
Utah’s “Quiet Title Law” Bypasses MERS, Awards Homes Free and Clear; One Homeowner Had $417,000 Debt Erased
MISH’S Global Economi…
Geopolitical – Week of 1.16.11
GE’s Immelt to Fill Exiting Volcker’s Role on Panel
The New York Times (21 Jan 11)
A Path Is Sought for States to Escape Their Debt Burdens
The New York Times (21 Jan 11)
G.O.P. Bloc Presses Lea…
Food & Health – Week of 1.16.11
Wal-Mart Shifts Strategy to Promote Healthy Foods
The New York Times (20 Jan 11)
Scientists Fight Bugs With Poo
Reuters (19 Jan 11)
Statin Benefits Questioned in Low-risk Patients
Reuters (19 Jan 11…
Science & Technology – Week of 1.16.11
Rothschild To Buy
Weather Central Stake
Institutional Investor | 02 February 2011
New Reactor Harnesses Sun’s Energy Like Plants
FoxNews.com (20 Jan 11)
Mother Pterosaurs Laid Soft Eggs, New Fossi…
Life – Week of 1.16.11
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Gabrielle Giffords to be Released From Hospital Friday
Politico (19 Jan 11)
Brisbane Floods: Before And After
ABC News (17 Jan 11)
Volunteers Help City Try to Heal, One Bell a…
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WikiLeaks brings truth to the world by publishing fact-based stories without fear or favour.
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Kitchen Gardeners: On Seeds
Where would we be without seeds? Between a rock and hungry place, that’s where! Despite their importance, seeds don’t get the attention or respect they deserve. This month, we shine our bright ed…
Chinese Yuan
The yuan is, in the Chinese language, the base unit of a number of modern Chinese currencies. The distinction between yuan and renminbi is analogous to that between the pound and sterling; the pound…
Detroit in Ruins
The ruined Spanish-Gothic interior of the United Artists Theater in Detroit. The cinema was built in 1928 by C Howard Crane, and finally closed in 1974
Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre’s extraordinar…
Precious Metals: The Outlook for 2011
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The Solari Report – 13 Jan 11
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by Catherine Austin Fitts
This Thursday night is our first precious me…