From the Wilderness — In Good Hands
I would like to express my confidence in the new Editor of From The Wilderness, Carolyn Baker. FTW Publisher Mike Ruppert has decided to leave the United States. He has turned over the FTW editorship …
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Top Picks ~ Week of August 14, 2006
The UK Terror Plot: What’s Really Going On?
Poster on Craig Murray Blog – Ambassador to Uzbekistan (Aug 14, 2006)
With this comment by Richard Moore:
Mr. Craig Murray is the former British Ambassado…
Important Message from GATA
9:41p ET Monday, August 14, 2006
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
The Reuters story appended here about NovaGold’s
resistance to Barrick Gold’s low-ball acquisition
offer seems to be the most compreh…
Sad to Say
Associated Press reports that Representative Cynthia McKinney has lost her primary run-off election in Georgia. What is amazing is how much money and dirty tricks it looks like it took to get this res…
Top Picks ~ Week of August 7, 2006
AOL Proudly Releases Massive Amounts of Private Data
By Michael Arrington – TechCrunch.com (Aug 6, 2006)
Buffett Timing Off in Dollar Strategy
By George Stein & Josh P. Hamilton – Int’l Hearld Tribun…
Embracing Sustainable Economics in the Real World
Well, I have had this conversation about four times over the last month and that means there is a cultural issue that welcomes illumination and discussion.
More and more people are finding that the b…
In From Flashpoints
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An open letter to the KPFT Houston community
From: the Flashpoints team
RE: The cancellation of Flashpoints during the expanding US-Israeli war against Lebanon and Ga…
Way to Go, FTW!
From the Wilderness has announced today that they have removed the link to Goldline from their website.
Buyer Beware — Know Your Coin Dealer
I have been e-mailing with a subscriber of From the Wilderness (FTW) who bought Swiss 20 Francs from Goldline, a firm linked to by the FTW website. Based on the figures he provided, it appears he has …
Top Picks ~ Week of July 24, 2006
Whole Foods Pledges Greater Support of Small Farms
Reuters – (June 30, 2006)
Fungi Perfecti
A family-owned company “specializing in gourmet and medicinal mushrooms for the health of the planet and it…
Too Good Not to Pass On…
In from one of the most insightful (and charming) members of our network, Kimberly Carter:
“….I am delving deeper into the source and mindset of the Tapeworm and deepening my connection with angels…
Escaping the Matrix
I just finished reading Escaping the Matrix: how We the People can change the world by Richard Moore.
It has a good overview of how we got to where we are, excellent material on the import and feasib…
Shaolin Kung Fu
One of my lifetime top ten DVD’s is Shaolin Wheel of Life.
I just saw Myths and Logic of Shaolin based on a Solari Action
Network member recommendation. I enjoyed it.
The Shaolin practice is a remin…
Lebanon: Death & Dollar Up
Amazing how much better the dollar is doing since the attack on Lebanon started.
I spoke today with an investor who has a portfolio positioned to Navigate a Falling Dollar. He has watched the dollar …
Top Picks ~ Week of July 17, 2006
Second High-Ranking Afro-American Official in Bush Administration Dies Under Suspicious Circumstances
Wayne Madsen Report (July 15/16, 2006)
See also the articles on the two recent Enron deaths from …
Top Picks ~ Week of July 10, 2006
EVOLUTION & TRANSFORMATION
100 Mile Diet
Local Eating for Global Change
The Stop Shopping Monitor
Catherine’s Latest Interview on Flashpoints Posted at Reverend Billy’s Blog
BUSH & CLINTON ADMINISTRA…
A Must See
If you want to understand why it is essential that we reassert control of financial flows, including taxes and government securities issuance, see the documentary The Future of Food directed by Debora…
Top Picks ~ Week of July 3, 2006
More Massive Data Thefts
Wayne Madsen Report – Scroll down to 7/03/2006 post
Members of Corporate Media & PR Spin Machine
Wayne Madsen Report – Scroll down to 7/02-03/2006 post
Gold Shines After UAE…
Questing: A Guide to Creating Community Treasure Hunts
One of the great financial opportunities in America is reengineering the flows of money in places — and finding ways of creating liquidity between places without going through centralized financial i…
US Agricultural Subsidies: Who’s Who In Your Area?
Looks like the debate over agricultural subsidies is rising as the squeeze on the federal budget continues:
$1.3 billion crop subsidies shelled out to nonfarmers, by Dan Morgan, Gilbert M. Gaul, Sarah…
Citizens Enforcing the Law re: Federal Taxes
The following is an adaptation of a note I sent to a Solari Action Network member today.
Dear Sam:
I thought I would send some thoughts regarding your questions about a possible tax protest.
There …
A Remarkable Young Talent
For those of you who love Gospel and welcome a delightful musical infusion of vitality and life, check out DeWayne Woods singing “God Is” on “Donald Lawrence presents The Tri-City Singers FINALE – Act…
Top Picks ~ Week of June 26, 2006
More signs of housing bubble pop
By Mark Kiesel, Pimco Bonds
Referred by Larry Chin, Associate Editor of Online Journal
Former Chairman of Ex-Im Bank Missing at Sea
By Elizabeth Williamson & Eri…
The Life and Death Risk of Rising Interest Rates
My #1 source of financial news is Bill Murphy’s Le Metropole Cafe. It is subscription only. You can sign up for a free trial to try it. Just understanding the charts in Adrian Douglas’ piece this morn…
Geopolitical – Week of 06.27.05
Haliburton’s Questioned and Unsupported Costs in Iraq Exceed $1.4 Billion
DPC | 27 June 2005
Report prepared for: Rep. Henry A Waxman and Sen. Byron L.Dorgan…
Chosing an Investment Advisor
The Solari Investment Strategy
Several years ago, one of our clients asked us to help him to develop criteria for choosing an investment advisor for his Trust. We think the resulting document doe…
Verses: Ficino School Song
When a Knight Won His Spurs
When a knight won his spurs in the stories of old,
He was gentle and brave, he was gallant and bold;
With a shield on his arm and a lance in his hand,
For God and for val…
Letter To Congressman Van Hilleary (R-Tenn)
May 22, 2002
Congressman Van Hilleary (R-Tenn.)
114 Cannon House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
Van Hilleary for Governor
P.O. Box 680127
Franklin, TN 37068-0127
Re: Failure of Federal Agenc…
The Dow Jones in Gold Dollars
My week was topped off by a message from Franklin Sanders of The Moneychangers, another great way maker. He points out that “From an August ’99 top at G$925.42 (44.77 troy ounces) the Dow (Jones…
A True Thing
There are times when the walls start to close in on me. When that happens, I reach out for a true thing. Something that pushes the walls back out and that makes a way in my spirit.
This week I read t…
The Great “Incompetency” Heist
I never cease to be amazed at the extent to which successful policies are portrayed as failed policies, and the transfer of public resources to private parties are spun as the result of government and…
Right as Rain – New York’s Local Solutions Conference
I was back on the road last week — driving from Tennessee to New York to speak at Local Solutions to the Energy Dilemma, a wonderful conference hosted by: Peak Oil NYC, Local Energy Solutions, and Fi…
“Ethnic Cleansing” Connected to CIA Drug Dealing in Los Angeles
“Ethnic Cleansing” Connected to CIA Drug Dealing in Los Angeles
by Catherine Austin Fitts – May, 1999
I was ten years old when the combined action of HUD mortgage fraud and heroin trafficking destroy…
CACI Who? Some Thoughts on Who Prevents Transparency, Misplaces $3.3 Trillion and Profits from Prison Abuse in Iraq
[CAF Note: I originally published this on Scoop Media on May 3, 2004. Now that Presidential candidate Donald Trump has introduced a former Vice President of CACI as one of his key foreign policy advis…
The American Tapeworm
[This article was originally published in April 2003]
By Catherine Austin Fitts
A Tapeworm’s Triumph
The other day, a natural healing practitioner explained the strategy used by a tapew…
The American Tapeworm
[This article was originally published in April 2003]
By Catherine Austin Fitts
A Tapeworm’s Triumph
The other day, a natural healing practitioner explained the strategy used by a tapeworm to pros…
News of the Week: April 24, 2006
Commentary on the IMF & World Bank
For this week’s News of the Week
First read the White House Press Statement:
Statement on International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank Spring Meetings, April…
Solari & the Rise of the Rule of Law
[CAF Note Originally published September 2002; with subsequent edits]
“How knowledge behaves as an economic resource, we do not yet fully understand … We need an economic theory that puts know…
Musings on Saturday
I watched the movie Capote last night. In the movie, Truman Capote is describing his emotional connection to one of the convicted murderers in the non-fiction story, “In Cold Blood.” He says, “It is l…
American Theocracy
I just finished reading American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century, by Kevin Phillips. I like Phillips. I liked his last book — America…
Wildcards -04.96
The Lonely Crusade of Linda Ives
WSJ | 18 April 1996
The great Arkansas railway mystery
Salon | 18 August 1999
A Comment on the American Economy
The traditional American economy is now clearly into the dump phase of a managed “pump and dump” cycle that began in the mid-1990s with the “strong dollar policy.”
The housing bubble engineered by th…
Science & Technology – Week of 04.01.1998
The Mind Has No Firewall: Timothy L Thomas
Parameters | April 1998
From Parameters, Spring 1998, pp. 84-92.
Letter to the NY Times on the Prison Industry
SOLARILetters to the Editor
New York Times
letters@nytimes.com
Tim Egan’s Article on Prisons, March 7, 1999
Ladies and Gentlemen:
Thank you for Tim Egan’s article on prisons. It was an excellen…
Geopolitical – Week of 02.03.1984
545 People are Responsible for the Mess, But They Unite in a Common Con
Orlando Sentinel | 03 February 1984
Create problems and then campaign against…
C. Douglas Dillon Dies at 93; Was in Kennedy Cabinet
Sec. C. Douglas Dillon
Irving Resnikoff as ‘Charles J. Fox’
Oil on canvas
1964
By Eric Pace
Correction Appended
C. Douglas Dillon, a versatile Wall Street financier who was named secretary of the …
Kay Griggs: Colonel’s Wife Tell-All Interview
Originally published in December 2005
Kay Griggs speaks freely about the unimagined corruption and extent of the oppressive systems of deception within the leadership nexus of military intelligence…
Catherine at GATA in 2005
YouTube | 25 November 2012
Anatomy Of A SWAT From A Lawyer’s Perspective
Anatomy Of A SWAT From A Lawyer’s
Perspective
Carolyn A. Betts, Esq. [1]
Mohandas
Karamachand Gandhi, one of the most influential figures in
modern social and political activism, considered these
t…
Will the Real Economic Hit Men Please Stand Up?
By Catherine Austin Fitts
A “limited hangout” is a partial confession, a mea culpa, if you will, that leaves the essence of a crime or covert reality hidden. Because it includes some small part of the…
INTERVIEW CENTRAL: Catherine Austin Fitts, Part 2
By Jeff Neal, Optionetics.com | Fri November 26, 2004 9:45AM PT
Catherine Austin Fitts possesses an extensive array of experience with identifying and managing the various forces of economic warfare …
INTERVIEW CENTRAL: Catherine Austin Fitts, Part 1
By Jeff Neal, Optionetics.com | Fri November 19, 2004 8:30AM PT
Catherine Austin Fitts is the founder of the Solari company, which provides a unique commentary on the global financial and political e…
Day Of The Dead: The Haunting Of The White House
Tuesday, 2 November 2004, 3:50 pm
Opinion: www.UnansweredQuestions.org
Distribution via the Unanswered Questions Wire
http://www.unansweredquestions.org/ .
Day of the Dead: The Haunting of the White…
Meditations at the Crossroads
Barbara Kinsey Willits Fitts and Dr. William Thomas Fitts, Jr.
(then Captain, US Army Medical Corp, circa 1941-2.)
Honor thy Father and thy Mother
— The Fourth Commandment
By Catherine Austin Fi…
Where Would Jesus Bank?
“And Jesus went into the temple and began to cast
out them that sold and bought in the temple, and
overthrew the tables of the money changers”
~ Mark 11:15
Jesus and the Bankers
I think…
Letter to John D. Hawke, Jr.
June 4, 2004
John D. Hawke, Jr.
Comptroller of the Currency
250 E. Street, SW
Washington, DC 20219
Dear. Mr. Hawke:
An essential step in protecting the integrity of the regulatory process is suppor…
The Real Deal: A Prayer For The Power Of Pennies
Thursday, 11 March 2004, 1:46 pm
Column: Catherine Austin Fitts
A PRAYER FOR THE POWER OF PENNIES
A Request for Prayers During Litigation, March & April 2004
by Catherine Austin Fitts
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Statement in Support of Open Testimony by 911 Commission
Former Bush I Official Proffers Insight on White House Stonewalling
President George W. Bush’s recent campaign advertising indicates that he is proud of his record on 9-11. If this is the case, Mr. B…
Angels Watching Over Us: Meditations at Christmastime
“Culture is the integration of the divine in every day life.”- John Edward Hurley
Meditation I — Willie Louise
I first rode down Highway 18 South in 1978 when I was twenty-seven, riding my bicyc…
US News & World Report Doth Protest Too Much
Friday, 19 December 2003, 12:42 am
Column: Catherine Austin Fitts
Mapping The Real Deal with Catherine Austin Fitts
US News & World Report Doth Protest Too Much
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
US NEWS & WORLD…
Letter to the Editor, US News & World Report
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
US NEWS & WORLD REPORT, December 2003
Ladies & Gentlemen:
Sam Smith of Progressive Review once said that corruption in Washington was a culture, not a conspiracy. US News…
Geopolitics November 2003 (Back Dated)
The Black Budget Report: An Investigation into the CIA’s Black Budget and the Second Manhattan Project
Michael Salla | 11 November 2003
Fitts Fights Back
After Seven Years of Winning Defensive Battles, a Former HUD Official Puts the Government on the Defensive Over Fraud, Slush Funds and Stolen Money
by Michael C. Ruppert
(In accordance with T…
Real Deal Dim Sum — Is the Popsicle Index Important?
By Catherine Austin Fitts
The Popsicle Index is the % of people in a place who believe that a child can leave their home, go to the nearest place to buy a popsicle (ice cream) and come home alone saf…
What’s Up with the Black Budget?
[This article was originally published in September 2003)
“What is relevant is what solves the problem. If we had thought through real relevancies, we would be on Sirius by now.” – Sir Peter Medewa…
Let’s Play 20 Questions on “Where is the Money?”
Tuesday, 12 August 2003, 11:06 am
Article: Catherine Austin Fitts
Mapping The Real Deal with Catherine Austin Fitts
Let’s Play 20 Questions on “Where is the Money?”
“When the government pays your exp…
A Backcasting about a Solari Venture Fund
[CAF Note: The following presentation is a “back casting.” It is a fictionalized story set in the future that envisions the success of one of a Solari Venture Fund – Fillmore Solari in San Franc…
20 Questions On “Where Is The Money?”
“When the government pays your expenses, then your gross is your net.”
— Philadelphia Mafia Leader
Think about it:
1. Rigging g…
Ed Wilson’s Revenge
The Biggest CIA Scandal in History Has Its Feet in the Starting Blocks in a Houston Court House
by Michael C. Ruppert
[The following article appeared in the January, 2000 issue of From The Wilder…
The American Tapeworm
[This article was originally published in April 2003]
By Catherine Austin Fitts
A Tapeworm’s Triumph
The other day, a natural healing practitioner explained the strategy used by a tapeworm…
The Community Wizard of Sebastopol
How knowledge behaves as an economic resource, we do not yet fully understand…We need an economic theory that puts knowledge into the center of the wealth-producing process.
…
The Real Deal: Felix Rohatyn’s Financial Holocaust
Tuesday, 21 January 2003, 12:00 am
Column: Catherine Austin Fitts
Catherine Austin Fitts The Real Deal
Felix Rohatyn’s Financial Holocaust
A Response to the NY Times Bob Herbert’s ” An Appeal to Unc…
RJR Takeover Wars
The European Union Sues RJR Tobacco for Two Decades of Global Money Laundering for Colombian Drug Lords, Russian Mafia, Italian Mafia, Saddam Hussein’s Family & New York Real Estate Investors.
…
The Real Deal: ABC Distracts As Pockets Are Picked
Wednesday, 9 October 2002, 11:07 am
Column: Catherine Austin Fitts
THE REAL DEAL:
JOHN STOSSEL & ABC —
Distracting You With Pocketbooks
While Your Pockets Are Picked
By Rick Ensminger and Catherin…
Mildred Mitchell & the Power of Praise
By Catherine Austin Fitts
I stood in a visitation receiving line for four hours tonight in front of Mildred Mitchell’s open casket with my cousins and her children and their spouses. Tomorrow the fun…
The Real Deal: Austin Fitts For President, Or Not
Monday, 30 September 2002, 10:55 am
Column: Catherine Austin Fitts
The Real Deal with Catherine Austin Fitts
A Response to a Reader Request That I Run for President of the United States
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The Real Deal: Crying In The Kitchen With Jane
Friday, 16 August 2002, 11:55 am
Column: Catherine Austin Fitts
Crying In The Kitchen With Jane
The Real Deal with Catherine Austin Fitts
Appeared in From the Wilderness, October 1999
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The Real Deal: Hitting On HUD
Monday, 12 August 2002, 11:32 am
Column: Catherine Austin Fitts
Mortgage Market Unanswered Questions – Hitting On HUD
Questions For Investors and Financial Analysts
to Ask the
United States Departme…
Economics 101
Economics 101 – A Curriculum
by Catherine Austin Fitts
My house is full of those yellow books that have titles like “Law for Dummies”, “NASCAR for Dummies”, and “Investment Clubs for Dumm…
Enron Let’s Play 20 Questions
Enron-gate: Let’s Play 20 Questions (2002)
[CAF & BEN: Do you want a brief introductory or conclusion paragraph here, or do you want the sarcasm to speak for itself? Also, one is missing its “answ…
The Real Deal on 9:11: Rewarding Failure
BY CATHERINE AUSTIN FITTS
On September 11, America experienced a national security failure. Despite America’s annual investment of approximately $350 billion in what is supposed to be the world’s f…
Letter To Congressman Van Hilleary (R-Tenn)
May 22, 2002
Congressman Van Hilleary (R-Tenn.)
114 Cannon House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
Van Hilleary for Governor
P.O. Box 680127
Franklin, TN 37068-0127
Re: Failure of Federal Agenc…
Solari & the Rise of the Rule of Law
“How knowledge behaves as an economic resource, we do not yet fully understand … We need an economic theory that puts knowledge into the center of the wealth-producing process.”
— Peter F. …
Letter to Congressman Isakson re: Missing Money
A Letter to Congressman Isakson (R-GA), April 2002
Sent through Congressman Isakson’s website:
Senator Isakson’s Contact info
In response to his comments on Congresswoman McKinney in today’s Washin…
Letter to Editor of the Boston Globe Re: Harvard
Letter to the Editor of the Boston Globe, April 2002
Letters to the Editor
The Boston Globe
P.O. Box 2378
Boston, Massachusetts 02107-2378
By E-mail
Re: “Winokur to Leave Harvard Board”
by …
Enron: The Anatomy of a Cover Up
Enron: The Anatomy of a Cover-Up
Republished from Scoop Media, The Real Deal,Tuesday, 12 March 2002
Column: Catherine Austin FittsWith Catherine Austin Fitts
Flashpoints News Radio, KPFA, Berkeley,…
Greg Palast – Secrets from IMF and World Bank in Latin America
Transcript of Interview of Greg Palast,
Journalist for BBC and Observer, London,
by Alex Jones
Alex Jones Radio Show, Monday (PM), March 4, 2002
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AJ: …
The Hijackers Of Harvard: A Name And Address
Sunday, 10 February 2002, 2:46 pm
Column: Catherine Austin Fitts
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THE HIJACKERS OF HARVARD: A NAME AND ADDRESS
The earth is not dying. It is being killed, and the people killing it have na…
Enemy Of The State – The Catherine Fitts Story (2)
Editors Note: This is part two of an account of the extraordinary story of Maverick US Banker Catherine Austin Fitts, and new occasional contributor to Scoop. See also… Enemy Of The State – T…
Enemy Of The State – The Catherine Fitts Story (1)
BUSHWHACKED
HUD Fraud, Spooks and the Slumlords of Harvard
by Uri Dowbenko
First Published In The Conspiracy Digest
Catherine Austin Fitts is still trying to figure out what happened.
Her company,…
Catherine Austin Fitts: Hold the Line
[CAF Note: Originally published on February 4, 2002 – Scoop]
by Catherine Austin Fitts,
In the movie THE PATRIOT, farmer-turned-soldier Benjamin Martin, played by Mel Gibson, develops the battle p…
Letter to Investor’s Business Daily
Investor’s Business Daily
Letters To The Editor
12655 Beatrice St.
Los Angeles, CA
Ladies and Gentlemen:
Congratulations on your op-ed piece, “If U.S. Wins War On Terror, Why Not War On Drugs, Too?”…
‘AntiTrust’: Redefining the Killer App
ALT.MEDIA
by Uri Dowbenko
‘AntiTrust’: Redefining the Killer App
Are innovative software companies really a target for corporate predators?
Real world evidence shows that the sto…
Links for Discussion of Jeffrey Sach’s Lancet Presentation and Proposal for the WHO
As through this world I’ve wandered, I’ve seen lots of funny men;Some will rob you with a gun, and some with a fountain pen.– Woody Guthrie
A Story:
In 1989 Kemp gave a speech in Harlem a…
The Myth of the Rule of Law Or How the Money Works: The Destruction of the Hamilton Securities Group
Catherine relates her experiences and lessons learned at the Halmilton Securities Group.
Myth of the Rule of Law
Related Reading:
Dillon Read & the Aristocracy of Stock Profits
Testimony of Anne Williamson
Testimony of Anne Williamson Before the Committee on Banking and Financial Services of the United States House of Representatives
September 21, 1999
Before I begin my testimony, I want to take a mome…
What Can A Woman Do to Help the Popsicle Index Rise?
By Catherine Austin Fitts
I am thinking tonight about the things that each one of us can do in our everyday lives that will make a small but concrete difference in transforming us to a civilization…
The Ultimate New Business Cold Call: NYSE Exchange Chief Pitches Colombian Rebel Forces
By Catherine Austin Fitts
When I was on Wall Street, we used to think the investment bankers who made new business visits—“cold calls”—in Alaska were pretty adventuresome. We called these tri…
HUD Ethnic Cleansing & the Dark Alliance Allegations
EXCLUSIVE
Former Bush Assistant Secretary for HUD Reveals “Ethnic Cleansing”
Connected to CIA Drug Dealing in Los Angeles
Government Spends Millions in Campaign to Silence Former Wall Street Bank…
