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MF Global Bonds Class Action
View IBEW Local 90 Pension Fund v Corzine (PDF) complaint for violation of the Federal Securities Laws filed November 18, 2011 at the United Sates District Court Southern District of New York
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Banker Heaven: Centralizing European Debt into Eurobond Market
By Barani Krishnan
U.S. stocks skidded on Monday, extending losses from across Europe as fears over out-of-control government debt on both sides of the Atlantic hit financial markets.
Commodities …
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Pentagon Successfully Tests Advanced Hypersonic Weapon
By Yahoo News
The Pentagon on Thursday held a successful test flight of a flying bomb that travels faster than the speed of sound and will give military planners the ability to strike targets anywh…
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Cell Phone Radiation
Lecture By Dr. Franz Adlkofer
On Nov. 3, Dr. Franz Adlkofer, former executive director of the VERUM Foundation for Behavior and Environment, spoke to a Harvard Law School audience as part of the le…
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Goldman Sachs Advisor Named Prime Minister of Italy
Mario Monti Prime Minister of Italy
Mario Monti (Italian pronunciation:Â [?ma?rjo ?monti]; born 19 March 1943) is an Italian economist and academic who has been Prime Minister of Italy, as well as …
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NY Court: State-Funded Loans To Private Firms Ok
By Celeste Katz
Our Ken Lovett reports:
In a 5-2 decision, a bitterly split Court of Appeals, said the state’s awarding of tax-payer funded state economic development loans and grants to private…
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Central Bank Gold Purchases Soar
By Rhiannon Hoyle
Total central-bank gold purchases in the third quarter more than doubled from the second quarter and were almost seven times higher than a year earlier as countries continued to div…
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Occupy Wall Street Declares Goldman Sachs Guilty
General Assembly holds mock trial and journalist Chris Hedges reads indictment accusing Goldman Sachs of financial crimes against humanity.
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NANO Chemtrails
By William ThomasÂ
If you did not enjoy “traditional” chemtrails raining down on you, you are not going to like the new version, which the United States Air Force promises will feature aerial dump…
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Jeff Bezos Owns the Web in More Ways Than You Think
By Steven Levy
“What I’m about to show you,†Jeff Bezos says, “is the culmination of the many things we’ve been doing for 15 years.â€
The CEO of Amazon.com, in regulation blue oxford sh…
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Future Wars May be Fought by Synapses
By Laura Sanders
Instead of the indiscriminate destruction of the atom bomb or napalm, the signature weapon of future wars may be precise, unprecedented control over the human brain. As global conf…
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Concern Rises for Federal Housing Administration
By Wall Street Journal
Concerns are rising that the Federal Housing Administration could run out money if the economy doesn’t recover soon, raising the risk the agency would seek a taxpayer bailout…
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Is This A Pedophile Sex Ring?
By Jon Rappoport
Mark Madden, a Pennsylvania radio host, wrote a piece about Jerry Sandusky, the accused Penn State pedophile, back in April, while a grand jury was deciding whether to indict Sandus…
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18- to 34-Year-Olds Want to Start Companies When Economy Rebounds
By Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
In a beleaguered economy, the country needs entrepreneurs – the nation’s job creators. Fortunately, a recent poll shows that the so-called millennial generatio…
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Thank You Nissan Motors
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By Catherine Austin Fitts
Something special happened this week. I finished paying off Nissan Motors.
In 2000, I leased or purchased three Nissan Pathfinders for Solari, Inc. As…
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Crowdfunding Bill Would Allow People to Invest in Local Businesses
By Stacy Mitchell
Under a measure that passed the House last Thursday, you may soon be able to invest in a portfolio of your favorite independent businesses. The bill, which won bipartisan suppor…
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Sarkozy Tells Obama Netanyahu is a “Liar”
France President Nicolas Sarkozy and President Obama
By Yann Le Guernigou
“I cannot bear Netanyahu, he’s a liar,” Sarkozy told Obama, unaware that the microphones in their meeting room had been swi…
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US Wealth Gap Between Young and Old is Widest Ever
By Associated Press
The wealth gap between younger and older Americans has stretched to the widest on record, worsened by a prolonged economic downturn that has wiped out job opportunities for youn…
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Money Launderers Not Too Different From Tony Soprano
By Nieman Watchdog
Longtime journalist and commentator Bill Moyers was the keynote speaker on October 20 at the 40th anniversary celebration of Public Citizen, the “countervailing force to corporate…
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The Real Genius of Steve Jobs
By Malcolm Gladwell
One of the great puzzles of the industrial revolution is why it began in England. Why not France, or Germany? Many reasons have been offered. Britain had plentiful supplies of c…
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Bye, Bye BAC
By Chuck Gibson
Just in time for “Bank Transfer Day“, my mortgage refinance completed Friday and I ran (not walked) as fast as I could away from the old one. While I am not tethered to any larg…
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Marketing of Local Foods Grossed $4.8 billion in 2008
By Sarah A. Low and Stephen Vogel
This study uses nationally representative data on marketing of local foods to assess the relative scale of local food marketing channels. This research documents t…
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Annuity vs. Dividend Portfolio
By Intelligent Speculator at Seeking Alpha
I recently spent an entire evening talking to a good friend of mine about annuities. Why? Because his father was considering buying one, as he has just re…
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Corzine Hires Criminal Defense Attorney
By Daniel Wagner and Bernard Condon
He set out to create a mini-Goldman Sachs. In the end, he built a mini-Lehman Brothers.
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Wall Street v. Greece: G20 Opens as Greek PM Pushes For Referendum on EU Bailout Plan
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Evans-Pritchard is Bullish on USA
By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
The American phoenix is slowly rising again. Within five years or so, the US will be well on its way to self-sufficiency in fuel and energy. Manufacturing will have close…
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CME Investigating MF Global
The New York Times (1 Nov 11)
The investigation into hundreds of millions of dollars in missing money at MF Global has widened, as the CME Group confirmed on Tuesday that the brokerage firm failed to…
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Amazon Launches Lending Library For Kindle Owners
By The Wall Street Journal
As the e-reader and tablet wars heat up, Amazon.com Inc. is launching a digital-book lending library that will be available only to owners of its Kindle and Kindle Fire d…
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Success for Andrea Rossi’s E-Cat Cold Fusion System, But Mysteries Remain
By David Hambling
Against all the odds, Andrea Rossi’s E-Cat cold fusion power plant passed its biggest test yesterday, producing an average of 470 kilowatts for more than five hours. (A technical …
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Market Share of The World’s Largest Investment Managers by Country
By Pensions & Investments
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IMF May Create 6-Month Credit Line for Countries Facing Shocks
By Sandrine Rastello
The International Monetary Fund may create a six-month credit line for countries facing shocks, officials from Group of 20 governments and IMF said, as the European debt crisis…
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Farm Bill Goes Behind Closed Doors
By Marc Heller – Waterton Daily Times (30 Oct 11)
WASHINGTON — For three New York lawmakers, serving on the Agriculture Committee is a badge of honor. But on the committee’s main order of busines…
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Nevada Makes Illegal Foreclosures Felony
By Mike Colpitts – Housing Predictor (31 Oct 11)
Responding to homeowner complaints, Nevada has become the first state in the nation to make illegally repossessing a home a felony, and may send banke…
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World’s Most Powerful Laser to Tear Apart the Vacuum of Space
UK Telegraph (30 Oct 11)
A laser powerful enough to tear apart the fabric of space could be built in Britain as part major new scientific project that aims to answer some of the most fundamental qu…
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99 Percent Bulls**t
Here is the WORST idea yet – allowing the NWO to destroy the U.S. Constitution by making it look like a neetsy keen grassroots movement.
~ Catherine
The 99% Declaration
WHEREAS THE FIRST AMENDMEN…
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Perspectives Blog 10-31-11
By Melanie Pelayo
The announcement of cost of living adjustments by the federal government a week ago not only heralded the first increase to Social Security benefits in 2 years, but it also increa…
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Mortgage Fraud & Housing Market
Catherine with Max Keiser – (28 Oct 11)
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Goldman Attacks Occupy Wall Street’s Non-Profit Bank
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YouTubeMega-bank Goldman Sachs (assets $933bn), has declared war on one of the smallest banks in New Yo…
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MERS Subpoenaed by New York, Sued by Delaware
(Reuters) – MERS, the electronic mortgage registry used by the banking industry, was sued by Delaware on Thursday and accused of deceptive practices that led to unlawful shortcuts in dealing with the …
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Farm-to-Fork Dinner Fiasco
By Laura Bledsoe (24 Oct 11)
When an over-zealous regulator shows up at a farm dinner demanding that food be destroyed as hungry guests await, who do you call? Here’s Laura’s account written as a l…
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Stunning Charts of Manufacturing Complexity
The products we use everyday are complex combinations of specialized knowledge.
Harvard and MIT released a report, “The Atlas of Economic Complexity,” visually mapping the vast knowledge contained …
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Urge FDA to Waive Fees for Small Businesses
The Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) directed FDA to collect fees on businesses that have to be re-inspected because of some noncompliance. This new requirement could unfairly penalize small busin…
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COLA Increase on Social Security
By Chuck Gibson
Good news was announced for retirees this week as the first time since 2009 Social Security benefits will be increased starting next year.
The cost-of-living adjustment, or COLA, wil…
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Holy Roman Empire – Part II
By: Reuters
The Vatican called on Monday for the establishment of a “global public authority” and a “central world bank” to rule over financial institutions that have become outdated and often inef…
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Visualizing Consolidation in the Global Seed Industry – 1996-2008
By Phil Howard
In the last 40 years, the commercial seed industry has transformed dramatically. It has shifted from a competitive sector of agribusiness, composed primarily of small, family-owned fir…
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B of A: US Debt Downgrade Coming
[Note from CAF: Given that the FDIC just picked up the BofA/Merrill derivatives position, you would think BofA would be a bit more sensitive to the branding of the federal credit!]
By Joe Weisenthal
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Qaddafi Is Killed as Libyan Forces Take Surt
By Kareem Fahim and Rick Gladstone
MISURATA, Libya — Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, the former Libyan strongman who fled into hiding after an armed uprising toppled his regime two months ago, met a vio…
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Ohio Grad Student Denied Law License Due to Unpaid Student Loan
By Susanna Kim
While many law school graduates are all too aware of their accumulating pile of debt, few may realize it can prevent them from practicing law and kill any hopes of paying down their …
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The Fraud At The Heart Of Student Lending Exposed
By Tyler Durden
A key reason why a preponderance of the population is fascinated with the student loan market is that as USA Today reported in a landmark piece last year, it is now bigger than ever…
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Louisiana Prohibits Residents From Using Cash When Buying, Selling Secondhand Goods
By Jonathan Benson
If you buy or sell secondhand goods and live in the state of Louisiana, you can no longer use legal tender to complete such transactions. Ackel & Associates LLC (A&A), a professi…
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Cartoon on the Proposed Federal Reserve – 1912
The Mises Institute dug up this cartoon from 1912 showing what would happen if the Federal Reserve Act was adopted in 1913; this is exactly what has happened.
The picture above was taken from a pro…
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Say No to Fiddling with the Constitution
By Catherine Austin Fitts
I just got a message from a reader for the third time today. It proposes that we support Warren Buffet’s proposals to amend the US Constitution.
I responded, “So you want t…
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Kiobel v. Shell Petroleum N.V. – Supreme Court Will Decide Whether Corporations May Be Sued Under the Alien Tort Statute
On October 17, 2011, the Supreme Court granted a certiorari petition to review a decision issued by a divided panel of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in Kiobel v. Shell Petroleum N.V.1Â Â The …
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Transcript of Catherine’s Interview of Adam Trombly Available to Subscribers
A transcript of Catherine’s September 22, 2011 interview of Adam Trombly on Zero Point Energy is now available to Solari Report Subscribers!
Subscribers: Click to download/view the Transcript.
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Ron Paul – Plan To Restore America
SYNOPSIS:
America is the greatest nation in human history. Our respect for individual liberty, free markets, and limited constitutional government produced the strongest, most prosperous country in th… -
Lead Attorney on the RAWESOME
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Update: More on Rawsome Foods Bust
Visions Green (5 Aug 11)Un…
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US to Support European Bailouts
By: Jeff Cox
The U.S. plans on being an active partner as efforts intensify to get Europe get back on its feet financially, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner told CNBC Friday.
With global leader…
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Obama and Congress Agree: Send More Jobs Abroad
By Deirdre Walsh
Congress voted Wednesday on a bipartisan basis to pass free-trade bills with Colombia, Panama and South Korea.
President Barack Obama, who dined Thursday at a Korean restaurant wi…
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Funding Wall St. Protest
Kaltura Video
By Matthew DeLuca
They’re protesting big banks and corporations, so which start-ups are Occupy Wall Street looking to for collecting donations and financing a new media endeavor?
Th…
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FDA Approves Genetically Modified Fish
By SN Staff
In a controversial and potentially groundbreaking decision, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has submitted a document supporting the commercial production of a genetically engineer…
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Harrisburg Pennsylvania Files for Chapter 9 Municipal Bankruptcy
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…
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Retirement Heist
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 — …
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Slovakia Rejects Bailout Fund Expansion in Initial Vote
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…
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Stetzerizers Discount for Solari Report Subscribers
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…
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Back to the Land, Reluctantly
By Susan Gregory Thomas
Susan Gregory Thomas is the author of “In Spite of Everything: A Memoir.â€
’I’M not interested in being hip or a hippie. Nor does my happiness particularly hinge on ar…
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On Outing CIA Agents
By Catherine Austin Fitts
I have had several people try to persuade me that it is ok to identify CIA agents by name in the interests of shedding light on 9/11.
I do not agree.
I confess I don’t kno…
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Parks and Demonstration
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…
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The Decline of The Dollar
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.Continue reading the article . . .
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Finland Funds Lifetime Care After Swine Flu Vaccine
Via: AFP
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…
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Thank You, Steve Jobs!
“”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…
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Pinellas County Commission Votes to Stop Putting Fluoride in Water Supply
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…
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Big Banks Face $13.5 Billion in FHA Claim Costs, FBR Says
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…
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Michigan Republicans: Let’s Privatize Public School Teaching
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…
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Declaration of the Occupation of New York City
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 …
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Declared Natural Disasters thru Sep. 2011
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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Dick Cheney’s Fluffernutter
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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Occupy Wall Street
Where: Liberty Square (How to get there)
Help & Directions: +1 (877) 881-3020
General Inquiries: general@occupywallst.org
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Meltdown
The Secret History of the Global Financial Collapse
By Al Jazerra
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Perspectives Blog 10-03-2011
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 …
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Perfect Storm Brewing
By Chuck Gibson
I prefer not to spend time on short term market volatility because, well … I view short term movement as noise but the past few week’s action needs some explanation.
Like what oc…
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Justice Department Probing Chinese Accounting
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…
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California Government Map
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. …
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Bank Of America Holds Patent On ‘Changing Your Emotions’ During Customer Service Call
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…
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$4 Trillion + Missing Money: What’s the Action?
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…
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Ygrene Energy Fund consortium
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…
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A Great Time in Hammonton, NJ
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 …
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Past and Future President Putin
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’…
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WI Judge Patrick J – Am I Making Myself Clear
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…
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A Brief Introduction to Intention-Host Device Research
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…
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Under Our Skin
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.
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Pennies From Many
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…
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Gold Slumps as CME Ups Margin Requirements
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…
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Shutdown Looms – Spotlight on Senate
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 …
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Rebalancing Before the Third Quarter Calculations
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…
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Lloyd’s Sues Saudi Arabia for Funding 9-11 Attacks
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…
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Speed-of-light Experiments Give Game Changing Result at Cern
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…
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Ray Anderson – Entrepreneur
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…
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August Housing Starts
By John Williams at Shadowstats:
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