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Catherine on KPFA Radio
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Title: “Unpacking Mr. Global, Part One” with Catherine Austin Fitts. Derivatives exposure of Bank …
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…
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…
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…
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…
Sam Cooke – A Change Is Gonna Come
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“If we can recognize that change and uncertainty are basic principles, we can greet the future and the transformation we are undergoing with the understanding that we do not know enough to be pessimi…
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…
Money & Markets – Week of 11.6.11
Bye-Bye Bernanke? The Case for the Gold Standard
Yahoo Finance (10 Nov 11)
How Wall Street Went Wrong
The Wichita Eagle (4 Nov 11)
How Walmart Is Changing China
The Atlantic (Dec 2011)
California a…
Housing & Mortgage Markets – Week of 11.6.11
The Pareto Distribution: Europe at the Tipping Point?
of two minds.com (Nov 2011)
Geopolitical – Week of 11.6.11
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Remains of US Soldiers Dumped in Landfill, Air Force Admits
Reader Supported News (10 Nov 11)
How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the OWS Protests
Rolling Stone (10 Nov 11…
Food & Health – Week of 11.6.11
Dear Autism
Adventures in Autism (5 Nov 11)
Shock finding: More Than 75 percent of all ‘Honey’ Sold in Grocery Stores Contains no Honey at all, by Definition
Natural News (8 Nov 11)
Drought-Damaged …
Life – Week of 11.6.11
Alaska Braces For “Epic” Storm; Evacuations Begin
Reuters (8 Nov 11)
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Science & Technology – Week of 11.6.11
Watch YU55 Fly By the Moon
Slooh Space Camera
Bill Gates Spends $1m on Laser Defence System – to Repel Mosquitoes
Mail Online (4 Nov 11)
Asteroid Yu55 on Course For Close Encounter With Earth
Guardi…
Wildcards – Week of 11.6.11
The Missing Chapter – A Personal View of Russia–Twenty Years After
Novelist Amitav Ghosh
On Point with Tom Ashbrook (13 Oct 11)
Mike Bloomberg’s Marie Antoinette Moment
Rolling Stone (3 Nov 11)
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.
Former New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine’s resignation Friday from the securi…
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…
Catherine on The Power Hour
Is the economy doing better now in the United States? How is your pocketbook doing? Are we out of danger from a GREAT Depression? Hear what is really going on behind the mainstream headlines in the …
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…
John Patrick Shanley – The Playwright on Not Playing Ball
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The Solari Report 2011-11-03
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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…
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 …
Market Share of The World’s Largest Investment Managers by Country
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“We all know what has to be done; what we don’t know is how to get re-elected once we done it.”
Jean-Claude Juncker, prime minister of Luxembourg, commenting on the sovereign debt situation.
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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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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Mega-bank Goldman Sachs (assets $933bn), has declared war on one of the smallest banks in New Yo…
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 …
Money & Markets – Week of 10.30.11
‘He Has a Right to Speak,’ Said The Cop to The Banker
Daily KOS (2 Nov 11)
Investors Place Big Bets on Buy Here Pay Here Used-car Dealers
Los Angeles times (1 Nov 11)
Credit Unions Gear Up for Bank …
Geopolitical – Week of 10.30.11
Woman Facing Criminal Charges for Posing as Ex on Facebook
Fox News (3 Nov 11)
A Perversely Perfect War
The Daily Reckoning (3 Nov 11)
From The Beginning, it Was Clear Kristallnacht Was Different
JT…
Precious Metals – Week of 10.30.11
Goldline Execs Charged With Fraud
ABC News (1 Nov 11)
Food & Health – Week of 10.30.11
Exposed: CDC Deliberately Manipulated, Covered up Scientific Data Showing Link Between Vaccines Containing Mercury and Autism
Natural News.com (2 Nov 11)
Hay Shortage Compounds Woe in Drought-Stricke…
Science & Technology – Week of 10.30.11
GE Breakthrough Aims to Cut Solar Costs in Half
SolarDaily (28 Oct 11)
Wildcards – Week of 10.30.11
Americans Work Too Much for Their Own Good: de Graaf and Batker
Bloomberg (3 Nov 11)
The Shadow Superpower
Foreign Policy (28 Oct 11)
Degas Bronze Ballerina Fails to Sell in NYC
Associated Press (2 …
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When your country has a body of laws that could fill an entire football stadium, you can always find half a dozen things to indict somebody on.
~ Simon Black
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…
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 …
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…
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…
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…
Transcript of the Oct 13, 2011 Precious Metals Market Report Available to Subscribers
A transcript of Catherine’s 3rd Quarter 2011 Wrap-up, the October 6, 2011 Solari Report, is now available to Solari Report Subscribers!
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Transcript of Catherine’s 3rd Quarter Wrap-up Available to Subscribers
A transcript of Catherine’s 3rd Quarter 2011 Wrap-up, the October 6, 2011 Solari Report, is now available to Solari Report Subscribers!
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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…
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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Money & Markets – Week of 10.23.11
How the 50% Greek Haircut is Actually Just 28%
Zerohedge (26 Oct 11)
Pop Goes the Chinese Bubble
Zerohedge (26 Oct 11)
Bundestag Passes EFSF As Levered Insurance Policy Motion
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Geopolitical – Week of 10.23.11
China Takes a Loss to Get Ahead in the Business of Fresh Water
New York Times (26 Oct 11)
Paul Wants to Phase Out Federal Student Loans
The Associated Press (23 Oct 11)
Obama to Promote New Steps to…
Wildcards – Week of 10.23.11
The Invisible Slow-Kill Enterprise of Organized Stalking Assaults
Organized Stalking Abuse (17 March 11)
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…
Jamie Johnson – Engaging America in a Real Conversation
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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 …
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…
Catherine in Mill Valley – October 27, 2011
PRESS RELEASE
[Mill Valley, CA] October 5, 2011 – In response to the changing financial environment and the growing need for families to build and preserve their wealth, Catherine Austin Fitts is ret…
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…
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…
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…
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.1 The …
Subscribers Can Now Listen to Individual Chapters!
Subscribers can now listen to Solari Report Chapters individually. Under Subscriber Content and Resources, Audio Chapters, you will now see a new icon shown circled in red in the image below.
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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!
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Ron Paul – Plan To Restore America
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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…
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Hypocrisy has its own elegant symmetry.
~ Julie Metz
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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…
Money & Markets – Week of 10.16.11
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Student Loans Outstanding Will Exceed $1 trillion This Year
USA Today (19 Oct 11)
Beltway Earnings Make U.S. Capital Richer Than Silicon Valley
Bloomberg (19 Oct 11)
Kauffman…
Housing & Mortgage Markets – Week of 10.16.11
Faulty Foreclosure May Mean Massachusetts Buyer Isn’t Owner
Bloomberg (21 Jan 11)
Food & Health – Week of 10.16.11
Radio: Food Rights Hour w/Pete
Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund (15 Oct 11)
Homesteading Quantified: How Much Land You Need To Go Off The Grid
Huffington Post (23 Aug 11)
Linking People to Fruit,…
Geopolitical – Week of 10.16.11
US Troops to Leave Iraq by End of Year
Yahoo Finance (21 Oct 11)
In Bid to Cut Costs at Some Texas Prisons, Lunch Will Not Be Served on Weekends
NYTimes.com (20 Oct 11)
Debt Plan Is Delayed in Europ…
Life – Week of 10.16.11
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Ground-shaking Booms Puzzle Louisville Neighborhood
NHNE Pulse (19 Oct 11)
Suzan Mazur: Betsey Johnson, 2nd Skin & Darpa $$$
Scoop News (16 Oct 11)
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Wildcards – Week of 10.16.11
Focusing as a Force for Peace: The Revolutionary Pause
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Catherine Offers Interesting Insights on Wall St. Mess & Much More
By Peter B. Collins
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Precious Metals Market Report – 10.13.11
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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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The problem goes far beyond gold price suppression. Indeed, since central bank intervention in the currency, bond, equities, and commodity markets has exploded over the last few years, we don’t really…
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…
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…
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…
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 — …
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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People who complain about progressives are like the man from Virginia who went to college on the GI Bill and bought his first house with a VA loan. When a hurricane struck he got federal disaster aid….
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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“Don’t asked yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive. Then do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive”
~ Rev. Howard Thurman
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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.”
’I’M not interested in being hip or a hippie. Nor does my happiness particularly hinge on ar…
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…
Money & Markets – Week of 10.9.11
California’s 20-Year Revenue Bonds for Prisons Sell for 5.34%
Bloomberg (14 Oct 11)
Foreigners Dump $74 Billion In Treasurys In 6 Consecutive Weeks: Biggest Sequential Outflow In History
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Precious Metals – Week of 10.9.11
Chris Powell: Gold price Suppression Purposes and Proofs
GATA (10 Oct 11)
The Chinese Mean To Control The Global Gold Market
Forbes (27 Sep 11)
Housing & Mortgage Markets – Week of 10.9.11
Strategic Mortgage Delinquencies as High as 27%
Bloomberg (3 Oct 11)
Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac Cast Wider Net in Mortgage Repurchases, PHH Says
Yahoo Finance (11 Oct 11)
Food & Health – Week of 10.9.11
‘No Food Rights’ Judge Quits to Work for Monsanto Law Firm
Food Freedom (11 Oct 11)
Gardasil HPV Vaccines Found Contaminated With Recombinant DNA That Persists in Human Blood
Natural News (15 S…
Geopolitical – Week of 10.9.11
The Federal Reserve Plans To Monitor Facebook, Twitter, Google News
Fast Company (11 Oct 11)
Georgia Considers Replacing Firefighters With Free Prison Laborers
Truthout (13 Oct 11)
U.S. Challenged t…
Life – Week of 10.9.11
Utah Girl Scout Raises Thousands of Dollars for Community Garden
The Salt Lake Tribune (26 Sep 11)
Millions Stroll in New York’s ‘Park in The Sky’
BBC (7 Oct 11)
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Science & Technology – Week of 10.9.11
Pre-earthquake Ionosphere Disturbance Could Lead to Early Warning System
Yahoo News (10 Oct 11)
Clone on the Range
Texas Observer (14 Sep 11)
Interview- Michael Whalen on the Future of Media
Institu…
Wildcard – Week of 10.911
$100K Steel Bridge Dismantled, Stolen From Rural Area
WTAE.com (7 Oct 11)
EP Heidner: Collateral Damage
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Transcript of Catherine’s Interview of Peter Ireland Available to Subscribers
A transcript of Catherine’s September 15, 2011 interview of Peter Ireland on Start-up Financing for the Rest of Us is now available to Solari Report Subscribers!
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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…