By Anthony Gucciardi

Hungary has taken a bold stand against biotech and genetic modification by destroying 1000 acres of maize found to have been grown with genetically modified seeds, according t…

By Judy Dempsey

Berlin — Siemens, the largest engineering conglomerate in Europe, announced Sunday that following the German government’s decision to phase out nuclear power by 2022, it would s…

By Yves Smith

Many readers no doubt know that the so-called $8.5 billion Bank of America mortgage settlement, which was between the Charlotte bank and the Bank of New York as trustee for 530 reside…

By Associated Press

Sallie Mae spent $530,000 lobbying the federal government in the second quarter on issues including the implementation of last year’s overhaul of financial regulations.

The amo…

By Tyler Durden

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This video is gives a brief description of Catherine Austin Fitts. Her family background, her beliefs, and her views on the national and global economic crisis that are facing the people of the plan…

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By Linda Stern

U.S. retirement programs could look different if a grand deficit-cutting bargain is struck in upcoming negotiations.

On Thursday, the powerful Senate Finance Committee will explore …

Project Gutenberg’s founder, Michael Hart, passed away this week. Please read our brief obituary. Funeral services are being arranged, probably for Monday September 12 in Champaign, Illinois. Those …

By Lyneka Little

Tyler Perry is the highest-paid man in entertainment, according to Forbes magazine. The actor, director and producer known for his crossdressing role as a gun-toting granny named M…

By Ellen Brandt, Ph.D.

Think you’re too sophisticated to be terrorized by anonymous thugs? Just wait until they start leaving baby animal carcasses on your doorstep.

After years of incessant, se…

Hi Catherine,

I just finished listening to the Flashpoints program (8/31) and your Community Business segment. Here are some ideas that occurred to me while I was listening to your presentation; I be…

By Thom Weidlich

Bank of America Corp. (BAC), JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) and other banks may pay more to resolve claims over their alleged roles in the collapse of a $2.3 trillion mortgage- backed …

Finance minister announces a fresh property tax as PM uses annual speech as rallying call

Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos heralded fresh austerity measures over the weekend, chiefly a new prop…

By Andrew Zajac

Replacing tax deductions with credits for retirement savings would benefit low- and middle- income Americans, federal economic policy expert William Gale told a retirement security …

By Klaus Buchner and Horst Eger

This follow-up of 60 participants over one and a half years shows a significant effect on the adrenergic system after the installation of a new cell phone base stati…

By Anthony Cuthbertson

It is estimated that by the year 2050, eighty percent of the world’s population will be living in cities. Unfortunately, modern-day cities are often crime-ridden, chaotic, a…

By Michael Ricciardi

In the first such analysis ever conducted, Swiss economic researchers have conducted a global network analysis of the most powerful transnational corporations (TNCs). Their res…

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THRIVE is an unconventional documentary that lifts the veil on what’s REALLY going on in our world by following the money upstream — uncovering the global consolidation …

This week all Solari Report Subscribers will have access to private content at the Solari Report Blog.

If you are a Solari Report Subscriber, look for an e-mail providing all the details of how to lo…

By Tami Luhby

The federal agency overseeing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac filed lawsuits Friday against 17 financial institutions, in an attempt to recover billions of dollars in losses from risky mor…

By Steven Greenhouse

The United States Postal Service has long lived on the financial edge, but it has never been as close to the precipice as it is today: the agency is so low on cash that it will…

By Louise Story and Matthew Saltmarsh

As leaders in Europe try to contain a deepening financial crisis, they are also increasingly talking about making fundamental changes to the way their 17-natio…

By Yves Smith

Even though it turns out that Eskimos (Inuit) don’t have as a rich vocabulary of words for snow as urban legend would have you believe, the Welsh do have a plethora of expressions for…

Watch this valedictorian speak out about the education she received. This is a fantastic speech.

The first mistake is people assume that people with degrees are educated. It’s so far from the truth…

From a Reader:

D. Landreth Seeds is America’s oldest seed company. It was founded in 1784 in Pennsylvania, and carries over 900 heirloom, non-GMO seed varieties. Many of the plants and vegetable vari…

By Daniel Indiviglio

Here’s a chart based on New York Federal Reserve data for household debt. The red line shows the cumulative growth in student loans since 1999. The blue line shows the growth of …

By Andrew Hacker and Claudia Dreifus

Borrowing looms large in American life from homes to cars. But the explosion of student debt in the last decade is a pernicious trend that the colleges themselves…

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By Patrick M. Byrne:

For six years Overstock.com has waged a war to expose Wall Street mischief. We did not go looking for a fight, but our company was attacked, and we learned we were not alone: t…

A free-ranging conversation between Jon Rappoport and Catherine Austin
July 2,2011

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Wikipedia,

John Trudell Podcast
Mothers World Market

By Zeke Faux and Jody Shenn

Standard & Poor’s is giving a higher rating to securities backed by subprime home loans, the same type of investments that led to the worst financial crisis since the …

By Steve Delahoyde

It’s been too long since we’ve had an “architecture in hard times” folk hero. There was John Morefield, the unemployed architect who would shell out building and design a…

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Wikileaks Releases Entire 65 Gigabyte Uncensored Cablegate Archive (With Or Without Bank Of America Disclosure)
Zero Hedge (1 Sept 11)

By Catherine Austin Fitts

These two articles illuminate a major food risk that the major food processors and fast food purveyors have kept under wraps for years. But what is quite frightening is h…

A transcript of Catherine’s August 18, 2011 interview of Adam Trombly on Entrainment, Subliminal Programming, and Financial Manipulation is now available to Solari Report Subscribers.

Subscribers c…

Released by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

The Federal Reserve Board on Thursday announced a formal enforcement action against the Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. and Goldman Sachs …

By Paul Kiel

This post has been updated to reflect Bank of America’s response.
The state of Nevada dramatically expanded its lawsuit against Bank of America today, turning the narrow case it filed la…

By Catherine Austin Fitts (in the first person) and Carolyn Betts

The Administration is now proposing the transfer of significant defaulted mortgages and foreclosed properties held by Fannie Mae, F…

By Democracy Now!

As former Vice President Dick Cheney publishes his long-awaited memoir, we speak to Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, former chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell.

Democracy …

Nothing inspires me more than talented young entrepreneurs creating new businesses. AND I am always on the hunt for fresh, organic lotions, cleaners and other products to strengthen our health.

…

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By Deena Stryker

An Italian radio program’s story about Iceland’s on-going revolution is a stunning example of how little our media tells us about the rest of the world.  We may remember that at…

By Roger Arnold

New York (RealMoney) — The largest transfer of wealth from the public to private sector is about to begin. The federal government will be bulk-selling the massive portfolio of forecl…

By Miles Weiss

BlackRock Inc. (BLK), the world’s largest money manager, is seeking regulatory clearance for its iShares exchange-traded funds to follow proprietary indexes rather than those devel…

By Catherine Austin Fitts

Here we go again. Another “official reality” of the financial coup’ d’etat. This one is about AIG. The last one I reviewed was about Goldman Sachs.

We just keep paying mi…

By Catherine Austin Fitts

I am a suspicious person.

When the dollar started to soar and gold tank on Tuesday shortly before an earthquake hit the East Coast delivering cracks into the Washington Mon…

By Catherine Austin Fitts

Gold is a metal.

If everyone takes all their money out of operating enterprises and puts it in gold and pays people to watch their gold or dig up the earth to get more gold…

By Yahoo! Finance

Energy company Halliburton (NYSE: HAL) plans to hire 11,000 workers in North America in 2011, a top executive told Cramer Wednesday.?

Jim Brown, president of Western Hemisphere, …

By a Solari Report Subscriber

There’s even more fraud than you guys discussed.  I am an attorney in Ohio doing foreclosure defense work (mostly pro bono) and have handled foreclosures by all of the …

By Nomi Prins

The Goldman Sachs CEO didn’t get a big-time criminal-defense lawyer because he’s worried about an SEC wrist slap—there’s a real possibility of doing time, says former Goldman …

By  Aridzonan_13

Introduction:

After being laid off from a large SW utility’s solar testing facility(LSWU), another former employee of the same utility and I joined a company that was specializing …

By the Kansas City Federal Reserve Bank

Since 1978 the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City has hosted an annual economic policy symposium.

The event is designed as a forum for central bankers, pol…

By Brandon Smith

The year was 2002, and while the majority of Americans were completely obsessed with the so called “War On Terror” and other devices of distraction, something much more real an…

Bernie Sanders on The Ten Worst Corporate Tax Avoiders: It’s Time for Them to Pay up and Share the Sacrifice

The following is a news release from the office of Sen. Bernie Sanders (Vermont-I)

Whil…

As gold has soared close to $1,900 an ounce on market turmoil in recent weeks, the SPDR Gold Shares exchange traded fund GLD, has passed the SPDR S&P 500 SPY to become the largest ETF measured by …

By Christie Allen

Wildpoldsried produces 321 percent more energy than it needs and is generating $5.7 million in annual revenue — a remarkable accomplishment for a modest farming community that h…

By Courtney Comstock

Is the Goldman Sachs CEO facing a new lawsuit?

The market seems to think so. Goldman Sachs just tanked in minutes before the close after news that Lloyd Blankfein hired a …

By Abhishek Takle,Wayne Cole and Mark Bendeich

The chief of Standard & Poor’s will step down next month, to be replaced by a senior Citibank executive, in a move announced a few weeks after the…

By Adrianne Jeffries

The popular Bitcoin transaction processor that disappeared from the internet about 10 days ago, taking at least tens of thousands of Bitcoins in user deposits with it, has be…

On the last Solari Report, Adam Trombly and I discussed the Quontron Resonance System which we both use. A number of subscribers have asked for a link to make sure they understand the system we were…

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Question for Catherine:

As a foreigner (Canadian), I am nearly as concerned about the state of American politics as those at home. I hope you can find a moment to give me your opinion of Elizabeth …

By Stephen Ohlemacher

Washington (AP) — Laid-off workers and aging baby boomers are flooding Social Security’s disability program with benefit claims, pushing the financially strapped system towa…

Narrated By Ed Asner and Architect Richard Gage

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Note:
The SEC has not quantified the number of active cases in which substantial files were destroyed [by the col…

By Pete Danko

One would be excused for suspecting that Aidan Dwyer, said to be 13, is in fact a small, very young-looking, 37-year-old college-educated con-man of the highest order. Such is not the…

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Samaritan Ministries International is a worldwide health care ministry that provides a non-insurance, non-government way for members from all parts of the Body of Christ to join in bearing one anoth…

By Louise Story

The Justice Department is investigating whether the nation’s largest credit ratings agency, Standard & Poor’s, improperly rated dozens of mortgage securities in the years leadin…

By Paul Panckhurst

Morgan Stanley cut its forecast for global growth this year, citing an “insufficient” policy response to Europe’s sovereign debt crisis, weakened confidence and the prospec…

By Daniel Cancel and Nathan Crooks

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez ordered the central bank to repatriate $11 billion of gold reserves held in developed nations’ institutions such as the Bank of…

By Cam Hui

I reviewed many of the world’s stock market charts this weekend and what I found were numerous Dark Crosses where the 50-day moving averaged and crossed under the 200 day-day moving averag…

By Greg Keller and Juergen Baetz

Paris (AP) — France and Germany called on Tuesday for a “new economic government” for Europe, with mandatory balanced budgets enshrined in the constitutions of all…

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Announcing the Silver Gold Calculator from Solari and The Moneychanger now available at the iTunes store!

It’s been a while in coming, but it’s available now. Solari and The Moneychanger’s Silver an…

By David G. Savage and Noam N. Levey, Washington Bureau

Reporting from Washington — A federal appeals court struck down a pillar of President Obama’s national healthcare law, ruling Congress does…

Submitted by Brian Rogers of Fator Securities

Markets are trading sharply lower this morning after yesterday’s late afternoon rally on the change in language in the Fed statement that will keep sho…

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Perry Vieth, Co-Founder of Ceres Partners, stands in front of corn crops in Granger, Indiana on June 22, 2011.

By Seth Lubove

Perry Vieth baled hay on a neighbor’s farm in Wisconsin for two summe…

By Margaret Chadbourn

The Obama administration is looking for new ideas to shrink a glut of foreclosed properties held by mortgage finance giants Fannie Mae (OTC BB:FNMA.OB – News) and Freddie Mac…

By Erica Orden and Jack Nicas

Marilyn Monroe Sculpture, Skirt Billowing, Has Windy City Breathing Heavily

CHICAGO—Marilyn Monroe was always larger than life. But here in the Windy City, the bomb…

By Julianne Escobedo Shepherd

Jackie O believed LBJ conspired to have her husband assassinated, according to tapes she made in 1964 with the historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr., which will be revealed…

An experimental, arrowhead-shaped aircraft that could reach blistering speeds of 13,000 mph above the Pacific Ocean is set to blast off Wednesday from Vandenberg Air Force Base, northwest of Santa B…

[Note from CAF: This post was originally published here in February of 2009.
In light of recent events, I am republishing.]

By Catherine Austin Fitts

In the fall of 2001 I attended a private…

By Nils Pratley

The US finished its last round of quantitative easing just five weeks ago. But the cries for more will grow deafening if the economic data gets any worse

It’s at this point that in…

By Danny Mayer

One of the major players in the global financial crisis is now in charge of all financial transactions in an entire state. Could this spread?

On July 1, JP Morgan Chase became the C…

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The Group of Seven central bankers pose for a group photo in front of the U.S. Treasury in Washington

By Toru Fujioka

Group of Seven nations sought to head off a collapse in investor confidence aft…

By Dan Freed

New York (TheStreet) — The fragile housing market may attract the attention of the Congressional committee charged with finding ways to cut the growing U.S. deficit.

The Joint Select…

By Tyler Durden

While the impact on Treasurys as a result of the downgrade may be limited (after all the other side of the Atlantic is about as ugly as the US, so where could $8 trillion in marketabl…

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman asked a state judge to reject a proposed $8.5 billion settlement agreement over soured loans between Bank of America and a group of investors, claiming in…

By John Detrixhe

Standard & Poor’s downgraded the U.S.’s AAA credit rating for the first time, slamming the nation’s political process and criticizing lawmakers for failing to cut spending …

“We have lowered our long-term sovereign credit rating on the United States of America to ‘AA+’ from ‘AAA’ and affirmed the ‘A-1+’ short-term rating.

* “We have also removed both the short- and lon…

By David Lawder

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Mortgage finance giant Fannie Mae said it would ask for an additional $5.1 billion from taxpayers as a weaker housing market causes continued losses on loans ma…

By: David Thomas
Chief Executive Officer
Equitas Capital Advisors LLC

The U.S. Congress sets a federal budget every year in the trillions of dollars. Few people know how much money that is so we crea…

By Catherine Austin Fitts

Yesterday, Rawesome Foods in Venice, California was raided by a Los Angeles swat team. Several people were arrested.

There are numerous unanswered questions about why.

Nea…

Note from Catherine: Check out “The Whistleblower” opening this weekend, a story based on the efforts of a few brave people to stop sex slave trafficking involving a US/UN contractor. The story is an …