
My Family
The Fitts-White Clinic in Jackson, Tennessee
I have had a number of recent requests about my family background. I thought I would provide a collection of information which will help you understan…

Marijuana: The Biggest Cash Crop
Marijuana Production in the United States (2006)
Drugscience.org
Based on a comparison with average production values of other crops from 2003 to 2005 marijuana is the top cash crop in 12 states,…

Are You Ready for Wolfram?
Wolfram|Alpha (also written WolframAlpha or Wolfram Alpha) is an answer-engine developed by Wolfram Research. It is an online service that answers factual queries directly by computing the answer f…

Goldman to Pay $60 Million in Subprime Settlement with Mass AG
May 11 (Bloomberg) — Goldman Sachs Group Inc. agreed to pay about $60 million to settle a Massachusetts investigation into the packaging of mortgage securities at the root of the collapse of the U….

Island of California
The Island of California refers to a long-held European misconception,dating from the 16th century, that California was not part of mainland North America but rather a large island separated from …

Solari Prayer Call
Hast thou given the horse strength? hast thou clothed his neck with thunder? Canst thou make him afraid as a grasshopper? the glory of his nostrils is terrible. He paweth in the valley, and rejoicet…

Into the Dance
He deals the cards as a meditation
And those he plays never suspect
He doesn’t play for the money he wins
He doesn’t play for the respect
He deals the cards to find the answer
The sacred geometry of c…



Hubble Repairs Complete
By Associated Press
Andrew Feustel, left, and John Grunsfeld work to upgrade the Hubble Space Telescope during a spacewalk, Monday, May 18, 2009.
The Atlantis astronauts plan to release the space t…

Money & Markets – Week of 5.17.09
Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan, Goldman Said to Apply to Repay TARP
Bloomberg.com (19 May 09)
A View From The Hill
Journal of Accountancy
Former Head of Pension Agency Refuses to Testify (Update4)
Bloomb…

Rachel Maddow Interviews Eliot Spitzer
Rachel Maddow Interviews Eliot Spitzer Part One
Rachel Maddow Interviews Eliot Spitzer Part Two

Precious Metals -Week of 5.17.09
German Firm Plans Gold ATMs to Meet Growing Demand
Yahoo Finance (19 May 09)
China Gold Reserves May Back Yuan Internationalization-Report
The Wall Street Journal (17 May 09)
$4bn Swiss Gold ETF: P…

Mortgage Markets – Week of 5.17.09
Officials Weigh Having One Mortgage Regulator
The Wall Street Journal (20 May 09)

An End to the War on Weed?
Each year, Americans spend a whopping $39 billion on domestically grown marijuana, and another $7-10 billion on weed smuggled in from Canada. In short, untaxed and unregulated marijuana is America…

Geopolitical – Week of 5.17.09
Obama Youth Corps Smashes Through Congress
Porcupine Rim (24 March 09)
Suspected Terror Plot Foiled
Fox Business (21 May 09)
How MI5 Blackmails British Muslims
The Independent (21 May 09)
U.S. May…

Technology – Week of 5.17.09
Craigslist Faces Prostitution Controversy in NY
Reuters (20 May 09)
Researchers Create DVDs With Massive Storage
Reuters (20 May 09)
Google Challenged by New Rival With All The Answers – WolframAlph…

Food & Health – Week of 5.17.09
Michael Pollan: “Don’t Buy Any Food You’ve Ever Seen Advertised”
AlterNet (15 May 09)
Growing Power
Here On Earth (10 Oct 08)
Turnips And Tatsoil: A Farm Comes To Flatbush
CityLimits (18 May 09)
Po…

Life – Week of 5.17.09
Irish School Victims Angry That Abusers Not Named
Yahoo News (21 May 09)
Catholic Church Shamed by Irish Abuse Report
Yahoo News (20 May 09)
What Rails And Roads Tell us About Class & Power
prorev.c…

Camelot’s Kitchen
Years ago, my dear friend Shoreh was sitting in her elegant Beverly Hills home when a beautiful, white bunny rabbit appeared at her door. Immediately welcomed, the rabbit moved in with Shoreh and …

Mapping Real Small Business Risk
There are a number of forces causing small business income and equity to decline that are not related to fundamental economic productivity.
Many of these forces revolve around overt and covert econom…

Angelo Left Hanging Out to Dry?
Now that all the money is safely offshore, and the Countrywide mortgage operations are tucked into Bank of America, will Countrywide’s founder Angelo Mozilo be used as one of the whipping boys to te…

Foreclosures
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The Bailout and the New Planet
By Jon Rappoport
I’ve been talking to a few people lately who are knowledgeable about the bailout at ground level. There are still many mysteries and half-baked plans in the works, but whatever sh…

Money & Markets ~ Charts 5.14.09
View this week’s chart comparisons of gold against fiat currencies, oil and the Dow for the Money & Markets segment of The Solari Report tonight, Thursday, May 14, 2009.
Click here to view all …

Precious Metals Rising
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The Solari Report – 14 May 2009
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This is the second week of the month. That means I am headed over to W…

Dubai Goes Green
This past February, the Dubai Chamber of Commerce authorized the development of a “free zone” dubbed Food City. GCLA, a green landscape architect firm, proposed a master plan for the city sector…


Something So Terrible, No One Dare Know
(Artwork: Mark Clifford)
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama declared Monday he would try to block the court-ordered release of photos showing U.S. troops abusing prisoners, abruptly reversin…


Land of the Free, Home of the Brave
The state of Montana approved what commentators are dubbing a “revolutionary” new law earlier this month. The “Montana Firearms Freedom Act” is set to trigger a legal showdown between the fe…

GATA Goes to London
Last week a three-man team from the Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee (GATA) presented to an audience of more than 70 people including portfolio managers, brokers, journalists, and gold mining execut…

Quote Du Jour
“An empire remains powerful so long as its subjects rejoice in it.”
~ Titus Livius

Capital Controls by Another Name
Is the attack on “tax havens” an attack on corporate
abuses or an attack on privacy, freedom and capital
controls by another name? Is our model to force control
of capital and then send it to inside…

Money & Markets – Week of 5.10.09
Carlyle Groups Settles in “Pay to Play” Scandal Probe
abcNews (14 May 09)
The Mystery of ‘Frannie’s’ Great Divide
The Wall Street Journal (14 May 09)
Yuan May Account for 50% of Hong Kong-China Tra…

Precious Metals -Week of 5.10.09
DMCC Vault May Store Region’s Gold Reserves
Business 24-7 (13 May 09)
A Presidential Bombshell
Silver Seek.com (11 May 09)
Successful GATA Meeting In London Provides Promotional Boost To Wits Gold
…

Mortgage Markets – Week of 5.10.09
Home Prices in U.S. Drop Most on Record in Quarter (Update3)
Bloomberg.com (14 May 09)
Fannie Mae to Tap $19 Billion in Treasury Capital (Update2)
Bloomberg.com (08 May 09)
Lies a New Tool in For…

Geopolitical – Week of 5.10.09
Police Want Thumbprint At Traffic Stop
Working 4You (13 May 09)
Tomgram: Pepe Escobar, Pipelineistan Goes Af-Pak
TomDispatch.com (12 May 09)
Obama Considers Detaining Terror Suspects Indefinitely
Th…

Technology – Week of 5.10.09
EU Hands Down Record Antitrust Fine to Intel
Reuters (13 May 09)

Food & Health – Week of 5.10.09
Swine Flu May Be Human Error; WHO Investigates Claim (Update1)
Bloomberg.com (14 May 09)
War On Food
Open Salon (03 May 09)
One Result of The Recession: Less Trash Generated in U.S.
Pantagraph.com …

Life – Week of 5.10.09
God’s Cricket Chorus
Song Peddle
Unemployment Grows More Painful
The New York Times (08 May 09)
80% Say Life Experiences Teach More Than College
Rasmussen Reports (07 May 09)
Amish Struggle to Av…


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Kua Tapapahia Nga Korero
~ M?ori Saying
Translation:
The time for talk has been laid down upon the earth . . . The time for talk is over.
Wikipedia on M?ori

Las Vegas Crapshoot
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US Dollar Turns Down
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Who's Behind the Financial Meltdown?
A Center for Public Integrity Project
“The top subprime lenders whose loans are largely blamed for triggering the global economic meltdown were owned or backed by giant banks now collecting billion…


The Real Annual Pentagon Budget – $1 Trillion
Winslow Wheeler, Counterpunch – “For decades, the media have taken their descriptions of the size of the defense budget straight from the Pentagon’s annual press release – without even rudimentary d…

Solari Prayer Call
Vincent van Gogh ~ Almond Blossoms in Spring
I said to the almond tree,
“Sister, speak to me of God,”
And the almond tree blossomed.
~ Haiku given to St. Francis

Derivatives 101: Engineering The Slow Burn
Listen to the MP3 audio file
The Solari Report – 07 May 2009
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In our last two Solari Reports we listened to two astute commentators …

Will Oklahoma Pull the Trigger?
Although Governor Brad Henry vetoed similar legislation 10 days earlier, House members Monday again approved a resolution claiming Oklahoma’s sovereignty.
Unlike House Joint Resolution 1003, House …

Central Banks & The Rise of Narco Dollars
Inspired by events in Afghanistan and rumblings about Iran, I described the correlation between the creation of the Federal Reserve and the creation of an illegal narcotics industry in the United Stat…

NASA's Themis Mission
[Artist’s concept of Earth’s magnetic field. Credit: NASA]
Sun Often “Tears Out A Wall” In Earth’s Solar Storm Shield
Earth’s magnetic field, which shields our planet from particles streaming outwa…

The Risks of Arson
This week is the U.S. Fire Administration’s Arson Awareness Week.
As a former Assistant Secretary of Housing, I want to assure you that the patterns of fires related to areas of significant mortgag…

New York Fed Chairman's Ties to Goldman Raise Questions
New York Fed Chairman’s Ties to Goldman Raise Questions
Wall Street Journal (4 May 09)
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York shaped Washington’s response to the financial crisis late last year, which b…

Money & Markets ~ Charts 5.07.09
View this week’s chart comparisons of gold against fiat currencies, oil and the Dow for the Money & Markets segment of The Solari Report tonight, Thursday, May 7, 2009.
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Questions, Questions
Was the public disclosure of the bank stress tests delayed so Goldman Sachs could raise capital? Is national policy managed to serve one private investment group’s convenience? As the disclosure and…

Financial Data One-Way Street
As the US government disclosure continues to diminish and the government continues to refuse to find money missing from its coffers or explain why it has refused to produce audited financial stateme…

It is Lawful to Decline an Unlawful Order
Oath Keepers is a non-partisan association of currently serving military, reserves, National Guard, peace officers, and veterans…Below is [their] declaration of orders [they} will NOT obey:
Oath Ke…

Who Owns Capitol Hill?
“The banks—hard to believe in a time when we’re facing a banking crisis that many of the banks created—are still the most powerful lobby on Capitol Hill. And they frankly own the place.”
…

A Short History of the Gold Cartel
By James Turk, Editor
Freemarket Gold & Money Report (3 May 09)
“This week Bill Murphy and Chris Powell, co-founders of the Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee Inc. (www.gata.org), will be in Lond…

Nazi International
Project Camelot Interviews Joseph Farrell

Money & Markets – Week of 5.04.09
Consumer Credit Plunges
Zero Hedge (07 May 09)
California Cash Flow Crisis Update
Zero Hedge (07 May 09)
Treasuries Tumble as Bond Sale Draws Higher-Than-Forecast Yield
Bloomberg.com (07 May 09)
…

Chrysler Bankruptcy
The banks were secured and get 28 cents on the dollars back. The people who make real things, including the 38,500 employees who will lose their jobs, will not have that benefit.
Chrysler LLC’s T…

Precious Metals -Week of 5.04.09
Decade of Gold Sales Has Cost Europe’s Central Banks $40bn
Financial Times (07 May 09)
U.K.’s Royal Mint Uses 75% More Gold as Investor Demand Expands
Bloomberg.com (07 May 09)
Gold Prices May G…

Double Standard
Key Cog in South, Silverton Bank Fails
Wall Street Journal (2 May 09)
Excerpt: Federal regulators were “not sympathetic” to the argument that a Silverton failure had to be averted, Mr. Moeling said. …

Mortgage Markets – Week of 5.04.09
U.S. House Passes H.R. 1728, the Mortgage Reform and Anti-Predatory Lending Act of 2009
Appraisers.org (07 May 09)
More Than One in Five Homeowners Underwater: Zillow
Yahoo Finance (06 May 09)
Fredd…

Geopolitical – Week of 5.04.09
Russia, NATO in Battle of Wills Over Georgia
Reuters UK (08 May 09)
NY Fed Chairman Stephen Friedman Resigns
Zero Hedge (07 May 09)
Democratic Centrists Press Pelosi to Shelve Climate Bill
Truthout …

Quote du Jour
“We have 5 percent of the world’s population and 25 percent of the people in prison. Either we’re the most evil people on earth, or we’re doing something wrong . . . I saw more drug use at Georgetow…

Technology – Week of 5.04.09
Hackers Break Into Virginia Health Professions Database, Demand Ransom
The Washington Post (04 May 09)
An Invention That Could Change The Internet For Ever
The Independent (03 May 09)
EU Urges Inter…

Food & Health – Week of 5.04.09
Natural Products Association Issues Disinfo Announcement over Dietary Supplements and Swine Flu (opinion)
Natural News (06 May 09)
Drug Company Money is Top Factor in Publication of Vaccine Studies…

Life – Week of 5.04.09
Economic Casualties Pile Into Tent Cities
USA Today (04 May 09)
Ammo Hard to Find as Gun Owners Stock Up
CNN.com/us (04 May 09)

Jack Kemp: 1935 – 2009
By Matt Apuzzo And Carolyn Thompson, Associated Press Writers Sun May 3, 1:45 pm ET
WASHINGTON – Jack Kemp, the former pro quarterback who turned fame on the gridiron into a career in national po…

Brady
Blast From the Past
ForexHound (27 Apr 09)
Excerpt: Nicholas Brady, former Secretary of the Treasury during the Reagan and Bush I administrations, gave a speech (below) at a dinner in his honor celeb…

Paper vs. Real Things
From RunToGold.com

Spring Tree
“Nothing is less real than realism. Details are confusing. It is only by selection, by elimination, by emphasis that we get at the real meaning of things.”
~ Georgia O’Keefe

Putting Swine Flu in Perspective
YouTube Video
Novavax (NVAX) Up 25% on Flu
Swine Flu Propaganda – 1976
A YouTube Video
Novavax (NVAX) Up 25% on Flu
Catherine Austin Fitts Blog


Change Bankers Had Hoped For
Now that the 5th Summit of the Americas is over, we would like to point out that there is no interest in renegotiating or reopening NAFTA.
No need to renegotiate NAFTA to improve it: USTR
Reuters….

Money & Markets ~ Charts 4.30.09
View this week’s chart comparisons of gold against fiat currencies, oil and the Dow for the Money & Markets segment of The Solari Report next Thursday, May 7, 2009.
Click here to view all chart…

Manipulating Food Stamp Jobs Funded with U.S. Taxes
Food stamp programs in the US (including by state government in Florida and Tennessee) have been outsourced to a JP Morgan operation in India.
abcNews (29 Apr 2009)
If you want to read the story of…

Our Financial Incentives
Significant intervention in the banking system and economy with the ‘strong dollar policy’ and various forms of government credit and subsidies has paid some of us extraordinary amounts of money to …

What's In a Name?
Ever have trouble pronouncing names? Here are two websites that can help:
Pronounce Names: The Dictionary of Name Pronounciation
How to Say That Name

AIG – Down to Zero
It would appear that AIG is selling everything but it’s black budget operations, which the government will then essentially own. Sounds a bit circular to us but that is how document management on very…

The Importance of the Navy
Friedman argues America’s power on the world stage will actually increase in the 21st Century for three major reason:
The immense size of the U.S. economy: The current crisis is painful and America’…

Novavax (NVAX) Up 25% on Flu
Novavax Annual Proxy
Novavax Lead Investors
The Unknown Knowns
Albert Bates
PRUDEN: A Pandemic of Panic — Are We Dead Yet?
Washington Times (28 Apr 09)
The Swine Flu Pandemic—Fact or Fictio…

The World's Best Places to Live in 2009
In Mercer Consultings annual Quality of Living Survey, Europe once again dominates the list of 215 countries around the world. The top three cities are, by rank, Vienna, Zurich (last years winner), …

"Goldman Sachs-NJ Gets 747 Fly-by"
Click here for “official story”
Wall Street Journal (28 Apr 09)

Turk on Gold
“The outlook for gold remains bullish. Central bank ‘printing presses’ are running at full steam trying to keep up with those governments around the world that are spending more money than they have o…

Forget Gold; 1 oz Opium = $10,000
read article

Lots of Tax Hikes Coming in 2011
By Joan Pryde, Senior Tax Editor, the Kiplinger letters
“But there may be a silver lining, at least for big corporations: Congress will consider lowering the 35% top corporate tax rate by several per…

Strawberries for Breakfast
We have had a Spring ripe with rain and sunshine here in Hickory Valley, Tennessee. My strawberry beds are bursting with fresh strawberries every morning. I do believe there is nothing more delicious….

Quarterly Report to Congress from SIGTARP
Quarterly Report to Congress from SIGTARP: Office of the Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) is now available.

America's Top 10 Urban Farms
More than a decade ago, Mary Seton Corboy and her partner, Tom Sereduk, transformed a toxic industrial site into a thriving 1-acre urban farm.
read article . . .

Quote du jour
Mental health is the ongoing process of dedication to reality at all costs.
– M. Scott Peck

Money & Markets – Week of 4.26.09
Support For Free Market Economy Up Seven Points Since December
Rasmussen Reports (27 Apr 09)
Talks Tip Chrysler Toward Bankruptcy
Washington Post (30 Apr 09)
Bronte Capital With a Major Scoop on All…

Precious Metals – Week of 4.26.09
GATA’s Credibility Soars On China Gold Buying News
Goldseek.com (26 April 09)

Mortgage Markets – Week of 4.26.09
Obama Expands Housing Help to Include Second Mortgages
Truthout (28 Apr 09)
Here It Comes” (Prime Delinquencies)
Market-Ticker (22 April 09)

Geopolitical – Week of 4.26.09
America’s Most Dangerous Cities
Forbes.com (24 Apr 09)
How Rome Got it Wrong
Common Ground (May 2009)
Generic Congressional Ballot
Rasmussen Reports (28 Apr 09)
53% Say Next President Likely To Be …

Technology – Week of 4.26.09
Nepal Firm to Expand Mobile Coverage to Everest
Reuters (26 April 09)