By Ian Austen

Calling Iran “the most significant threat to global peace and security in the world today,” Canada’s foreign affairs minister, John Baird, abruptly announced Friday that his gov…

[CAF Note Below]

By Kevin Flaherty

The link on this update mentions Decree #123-2011, which is just 15 pages long, but will have you wondering, “Is this real?”

I’m asking everyone out there…

Steve Hanke and Nicholas Krus, “World Hyperinflations”. Cato Working Paper no. 8, August 15, 2012. Forthcoming in: Randall Parker and Robert Whaples (eds.) (2013) The Handbook of Major Events in Eco…

By: Charles Benbrook
Center for Sustaining Agriculture and Natural Resources Washington State University

In a comprehensive paper published in the September 4, 2012 issue of the Annals of Internal Me…

By Paul Schwennesen

A 1981 Dodge Ram Van (faded brown with those funky round portholes in the back) leaves the town of Winkelman at 45 miles an hour pulling 2,500 pounds in an unregistered trailer. A…

By Jeffrey Heller

Israeli officials played down a report in an Israeli newspaper on Monday that accused Washington of secretly negotiating with Tehran to keep the United States out of a future Isra…

By Nelson D. Schwartz

Even as Greece desperately tries to avoid defaulting on its debt, American companies are preparing for what was once unthinkable: that Greece could soon be forced to leave the e…

Here are some great tunes reminding us how to build skills and resilience: See the Maker Movement

— Catherine

Whether you live in California, in North America or around the globe, this is a critical issue. If states can achieve labeling of GMO, we improve the chances of making this a global standard.  La…

Percent Change at Seasonally Adjusted Annual Rate
M1
M2

3 Months from Apr 2012 TO Jul 2012
11.3|
6.5|

6 Months from Jan 2012 TO Jul 2012
8.5|
5.6|

12 Months from Jul 2011 TO…

[Note from CAF: Not to mention the money disappearing through the black budget, $4 trillion missing from federal accounts and on and on….]

Related Viewing:

Throughout the Transformations & Renewals weekend this October, we will enjoy fresh, healthy food and a wonderful selection of wines grown and prepared in Middle Tennessee.

On our first di…

By Wikipedia

Pharaoh acknowledged that Joseph’s proposal to store grain during the abundant period was very wise. So before Joseph was even 30 years old, Pharaoh released him from prison and pu…

Source: YouTube

This seminal documentary provides compelling evidence to help explain the deteriorating health of Americans, especially among children, and offers a recipe for protecting …

By Dean Baker

“Free trade” is a sacred mantra in Washington. If anything is labeled as being “free trade”, then everyone in the Washington establishment is required to bow down and support it. Otherw…

By Michael Ramos

In 2010, many sectors of the U.S. economy began to improve from the Great Recession—however, small businesses lagged behind, largely as a result of having trouble raising th…

By Josh Cothran, Georgia Institute of Technology

[CAF Note: Ever notice that the more private insurers and the government get involved, the worse and more expensive things get?]

In 1960, almost 100%…

By Janet Raloff

Nanoscale pollutants can enter crop roots, triggering a host of changes to plants’ growth and health, two studies find. These tiny particles can stunt plant growth, boost the plan…

By Jim Stogdill

What would happen if we turned off, opted out, and completely disconnected ourselves from the technology that runs our lives? For Jim Stogdill, tuning out brought greater productivi…

By Nicholas Tomasi

The ongoing food fight between massive biotech companies and grassroots activists has continued on the west coast, with a monumental vote on the mandatory labeling of genetically m…

By John Markoff

At the Philips Electronics factory on the coast of China, hundreds of workers use their hands and specialized tools to assemble electric shavers. That is the old way.

Robot arms li…

They’re coming to get you Barbara ~ Night of the Living Dead
By Justin Boldenow, Solari Report production assistant

There seems to be an unstoppable force that is spreading, growing, and changing p…

By Andrew Blankstein

“Top Gun” director Tony Scott fatally jumped off the Vincent Thomas Bridge in San Pedro on Sunday afternoon, according to Los Angeles police sources.

His body was pulled o…

More Data Here.

Related Reading:

Monsanto 2011 Proxy Statement PDF

Monsanto Co. Major Stock Holders

[Note from CAF: You think there is a drought? Think again. The push to force GMO seed, consolidate farmland and control global agriculture is underway. It threatens our lives and those of future g…

By Bryan Behrenshausen

I first encountered 3-D printing in Cory Doctorow’s Makers, a science fiction novel set in the wake of economic armageddon. In Doctorow’s imagined near-future world, hulking …

[CAF  Note: Since a great deal global debt was fraudulently induced, the idea of a sovereign government carrying out an audit of the legitimacy of outstanding debt is a good one. This is a fearl…

From I, Cringely

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak this week warned of the perils of depending too much on cloud storage and the general press reacted like this was: A) news, and; B) evidence of some in…

By Paul Davenport The Associated Press

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer on Wednesday ordered state agencies to deny driver’s licenses and other public benefits to young illegal immigrants who obtain work auth…

By Mark V

The world’s first commercial space launch pad, the Virgin Galactic Gateway Spaceport, was recently opened in the southern part of New Mexico, attracting around 800 guests at the opening…

By Lesta Frank

Our thanks to artist and friend, Lesta Frank, for this lovely print.

Related Readings:

Sunflowers

Transcendent

Poinsettias

On the 130th anniversary of the founding of Banco Sabadell we wanted to pay homage to our city by means of the campaign “Som Sabadell” (We are Sabadell) . This is the flashmob that we arranged as a fi…

Julian Assange’s Wikileaks website published leaked diplomatic cables

Source: BBC News UK

Ecuador has granted asylum to Wikileaks founder Julian Assange two months after he took refuge in its London…

From Kelly D. McMillan Director of Operations McMillan Group International, LLC

McMillan Fiberglass Stocks, McMillan Firearms Manufacturing, McMillan Group International have been collectively bank…

From the Erste Group Research

The foundation for new all-time-highs is in place. As far as sentiment is concerned, we definitely see no euphoria with respect to gold. Skepticism, fear, and panic a…

In a landscape as dramatic as its stories, Alaska Native people face staggering suicide rates, yet remain determined to heal & thrive!

Historically Alaska Native peoples lived solely from the lan…

From Stratfor

Like nearly all of the peoples of North and South America, most Americans are not originally from the territory that became the United States. They are a diverse collection of peoples p…

By Chuck Gibson

Congratulations – You just bought a new home.

Only you didn’t get the house – just the debt.

In July 1971, the population of the US was 207.6 million and Treasury funded deb…

“In a digital world, data about money is worth more than money.”

– Nicholas Negroponte

By Pam Warhurst

What should a community do with its unused land? Plant food, of course. With energy and humor, Pam Warhurst tells at the TEDSalon the story of how she and a growing team of volunt…

By Florian Gathmann and Philipp Wittrock

Chancellor Angela Merkel wants Europe to move toward an ever closer union in a bid to solve the euro crisis. But she is already pushing at the limits of wha…

From the CNN Political Unit

Mitt Romney on Saturday announced U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin as his running mate for the White House — a bold and risky move that energized both conservatives and…

Here are the particulars of the Presidential appointments being removed from Senate approval.

Presidential Appointment Efficiency and Streamlining Act of 2011

Bill Summary & Status

From a Solari Report Subscriber

The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) program is the most expensive weapons program in US Defense Department history, costing almost 1.5 trillion dollars for around 25…

[CAF Note: Actually, if you estimate for the full financial coup d’etat following the GATT adoption of the Uruguay Round and the creation of the WTO combined with the “strong dollar policy,” the numbe…

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

The rim of Gale Crater can be seen in the distance beyond the pebbly ground. The topography of the rim is very mountainous due to erosion. The ground seen in the middle sho…

Source: qrc.depaul.edu

Think back a few years.  How much did a gallon of gasoline cost then? A loaf of bread? A 10 inch sausage pizza?  A movie ticket? Almost undoubtedly these items  now cost m…

By The Thinking Moms’ Revolution

They say high-pitched screams, fevers and swelling at the injection site are all common, harmless, insignificant side-effects of responsible, preventative medical c…

By Mat Honan

Meet Mat Honan. He just had his digital life dissolved by hackers.

In the space of one hour, my entire digital life was destroyed. First my Google account was taken over, then deleted…

By Catherine Austin Fitts

One of the most important things we can each do is to support excellent leaders.

I have made a campaign contribution to Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur’s (D-Ohio) campaign thi…

By The CNN Wire Staff

The July heat wave that wilted crops, shriveled rivers and fueled wildfires officially went into the books Wednesday as the hottest single month on record for the continental …

[Note from CAF: What are the private contractors who manage information and payments systems for the SEC and NYSE? It is not clear to me that any agreement between the two will solve the leakage, espe…

By Kevin J. O’Brien

Ocado, an online grocery store in England, prides itself on its delivery of refrigerated foods: When the company says the goods will arrive at a certain temperature, they mean i…