Social Isolation in America: Changes in Core Discussion Networks Over Two Decades
By McPherson, Smith-Lovin & Brashears – American Sociological Review (2006, Vol 71 June:353-375)

Army Warns Rumsfeld …

Feds Lower Boom on Alternative Money
By Barbara Hagenbaugh – USA Today (Sept 15, 2006)

Massive Surge in Disappearance of Arctic Sea Ice Sparks Global Warning
By Michael McCarthy & David Usborne – The…

“Orion” Project: Spaceship for Moon and Mars
By Traci Watson – USA Today (Aug 31, 2006)

Your Money or Your Life
Simple Living Network & The New Road Map Foundation

Chart: Money Stock Rate of Change…

In today from Matt Savinar at Life After the Oil Crash:

About a month ago I sent you a message regarding the absolutely fantastic
Chicago Tribune special on Peak Oil entitled:

Oil Safari
The author …

The Real Dow Jones Industrial Average
By An Anonymous Analyst – iTulip.com (at Jul 7, 2006)

Congressional Election Nullified — Nobody Noticed
By Michael Collins – Scoop Independent Media (Aug 25, 20…

Wonderful allies Mary Beth Brangan and James Heddle at the Ecological Options Network have launched a new tv video blog at http://eon.blip.tv/. Check it out. Their DVD on cell towers are one of my mos…

I asked my new friend Claude who lives here in New Zealand where I am visiting what the word Koha means. Being a beautiful writer, he sent me the following. With his permission, I share it with you.

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Federal Appeals Court: Driving With Money is a Crime
Source: US v $124,700 (US Court of Appeals, 8th Cir (Aug 19, 2006)

Wi-Fi Cloud Covers Rural Oregon
Associated Press (Oct 16, 2005)

Major Arms Soa…

I spent the first day in New Zealand roaming Wellington to get set up for my time here. Special thanks to Alastair Thompson of Scoop Media for taking a whole day out of his busy schedule to teach me t…

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 …

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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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…

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 …

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…

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…

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…

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…

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 …

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 …

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…

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…

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…

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…

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 …

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

“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…

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…