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Perry Vieth, Co-Founder of Ceres Partners, stands in front of corn crops in Granger, Indiana on June 22, 2011.
By Seth Lubove
Perry Vieth baled hay on a neighbor’s farm in Wisconsin for two summe…
By Margaret Chadbourn
The Obama administration is looking for new ideas to shrink a glut of foreclosed properties held by mortgage finance giants Fannie Mae (OTC BB:FNMA.OB – News) and Freddie Mac…
By Erica Orden and Jack Nicas
Marilyn Monroe Sculpture, Skirt Billowing, Has Windy City Breathing Heavily
CHICAGO—Marilyn Monroe was always larger than life. But here in the Windy City, the bomb…
By Julianne Escobedo Shepherd
Jackie O believed LBJ conspired to have her husband assassinated, according to tapes she made in 1964 with the historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr., which will be revealed…
An experimental, arrowhead-shaped aircraft that could reach blistering speeds of 13,000 mph above the Pacific Ocean is set to blast off Wednesday from Vandenberg Air Force Base, northwest of Santa B…
Remember Rhett Butler’s famous line in Gone With the Wind, when Scarlet asks him how he has managed to do so well during the Civil War. He says,
“Mah deah, there is much more money to be made in th…
[Note from CAF: This post was originally published here in February of 2009.
In light of recent events, I am republishing.]
By Catherine Austin Fitts
In the fall of 2001 I attended a private…
By Nils Pratley
The US finished its last round of quantitative easing just five weeks ago. But the cries for more will grow deafening if the economic data gets any worse
It’s at this point that in…
By Danny Mayer
One of the major players in the global financial crisis is now in charge of all financial transactions in an entire state. Could this spread?
On July 1, JP Morgan Chase became the C…
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The Group of Seven central bankers pose for a group photo in front of the U.S. Treasury in Washington
By Toru Fujioka
Group of Seven nations sought to head off a collapse in investor confidence aft…
By Dan Freed
New York (TheStreet) — The fragile housing market may attract the attention of the Congressional committee charged with finding ways to cut the growing U.S. deficit.
The Joint Select…
By Tyler Durden
While the impact on Treasurys as a result of the downgrade may be limited (after all the other side of the Atlantic is about as ugly as the US, so where could $8 trillion in marketabl…
Lawyers in C. Falls Cost RI $1M So Far
WPRI.com (10 Aug 11)
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Swiss Franc Falls as SNB Sees Possible Euro Peg
Bloomberg (11 Aug 11)
It’s The Economy, Dummkopf!
Vanity Fair (Sep…
What The Debt Downgrades Mean For Your Mortgage
Yahoo Finance (9 Aug 11)
Help Us, Protect Your Privacy Online
Sonic.net (1 Aug 11)
Republicans Hold Off Dems in Recalls, Win Enough Seats to Keep Majority in Senate
Wisconsin State Journal (10 Aug 11)
Kiss Stands by Lockhee…
Bioshelter Market Garden
New Society Publishers
The Citizen Scientists
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Tent Cities – is This The Future of The American Dream?
off-grid (2 Aug 11)
Georgia St. for Game 7 of the 2011 Stanley Cup Final (Photo)
Gigapixel.com (15 June 11)
Sun Emits Violent Solar Flare, Earth Under Threat if Aimed Directly [VIDEO]
International Business Times (10 Aug 11)
Lightning Strike Zaps EC2 Ireland
ZDNet (8 Aug 11)
Nasa Warns Solar Flares From ‘…
New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman asked a state judge to reject a proposed $8.5 billion settlement agreement over soured loans between Bank of America and a group of investors, claiming in…
By John Detrixhe
Standard & Poor’s downgraded the U.S.’s AAA credit rating for the first time, slamming the nation’s political process and criticizing lawmakers for failing to cut spending …
“We have lowered our long-term sovereign credit rating on the United States of America to ‘AA+’ from ‘AAA’ and affirmed the ‘A-1+’ short-term rating.
* “We have also removed both the short- and lon…
By David Lawder
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Mortgage finance giant Fannie Mae said it would ask for an additional $5.1 billion from taxpayers as a weaker housing market causes continued losses on loans ma…
By: David Thomas
Chief Executive Officer
Equitas Capital Advisors LLC
The U.S. Congress sets a federal budget every year in the trillions of dollars. Few people know how much money that is so we crea…
By Catherine Austin Fitts
Yesterday, Rawesome Foods in Venice, California was raided by a Los Angeles swat team. Several people were arrested.
There are numerous unanswered questions about why.
Nea…
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The Oiling of Amer…
Note from Catherine: Check out “The Whistleblower” opening this weekend, a story based on the efforts of a few brave people to stop sex slave trafficking involving a US/UN contractor. The story is an …
By David Woolley
“If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animating contest of freedom, – go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and l…
“The imagination of the individual has no limits. It has no borders.”
~Jon Rappoport
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By Sam Smith
Not since the Civil War has there been such a major assault on accepted principles of the Union as defined by a majority of its citizens over many years. This is not just a fight over …
By Bruce Levine
Traditionally, young people have energized democratic movements. So it is a major coup for the ruling elite to have created societal institutions that have subdued young Americans and…
By Catherine Austin Fitts
I left San Francisco on Saturday, July 23 and drove to Laguana Beach. The next day I drove to Tucson, Arizona. After two days in Tucson, I headed east and north to Santa F…
“We are living now, not in the delicious intoxication induced by the early success of science, but in a rather grisly morning after, when it has become apparent that what triumphant science has do…
By Julie Hirschfeld Davis and Mike Dorning
Congressional leaders, leaving no extra time before a default threatened for tomorrow, are racing to push through a compromise sealed with President Bara…
About the Author
Catherine Austin Fitts is president of Solari, Inc. Ms. Fitts served as Assistant Secretary of Housing during the first Bush Administration, lead financial advisor to the U.S. De…
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The mission of Sunfield Education Association is to provide programs in education an…
By Jenna Wortham
When Lisa Marion’s roommates moved out of her apartment in Toronto in February, she scrambled to find replacements. But instead of finding one or two, she found 30.
Ms. Marion, …
By Brad Plumer and Aaron Blake
As lawmakers struggle to resolve the debt crisis, a growing number of observers wonder whether President Obama has one last trump card at his disposal: ignoring the d…
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Original (5 Nov 2008)
Obama has proposed restoring the PAYGO policy that prohibits increases in federal spending without a way to compensate for the lost revenue.
So what can a n…
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack joined Administration officials today to announce initiatives aimed at modernizing the nation’s electric grid, including USDA’s goal to invest $250 million in sma…
Dow Falls 512 in Steepest Decline Since ’08 Crisis
Yahoo Finance (4 Aug 11)
BNY Mellon to Slap Fees on Some Big Deposits Amid Global Race to Cash
The Wall Street Journal (4 Aug 11)
GM Profit Nearly …
No US Rating Agency to Ever Downgrade UST’s Below AAA with Negative Outlook
TF Metals Report (3 Aug 11)
Bulldoze: The New Way to Foreclose
Time.com (1 Aug 11)
French Court Orders Investigation of Lagarde
The Wall Street Journal (4 Aug 11)
Home Visits And Other ‘Secrets Of The FBI’
NPR (2 Aug 11)
Dispatch: Russian Privatization and Modernization
Stratfor (…
Breaking News: Multi-agency Armed Raid Hits Rawesome Foods, Healthy Family Farms For Selling Raw Milk and Cheese
Natural News.com (3 Aug 11)
Rawsome Foods Raided AGAIN by SWAT
Food Renegade (3 Aug 11…
Enjoy Park Greenery, City Says, But Not as Salad
The New York Times (29 July 11)
Random Reflections About This Blog/Site
of two minds.com (30 July 11)
NASA Study Shatters Climate Alarmists’ Assumptions
National Review Online (30 July 11)
NASA Satellite Crashes Back to Earth
National Geographic News (24 Feb 09)
Broadband Access: Exploring Interne…
In the second installment of our 2-part interview with investment advisor Catherine Austin Fitts, we hear her advice for both the young and young at heart in navigating today’s job market.
Cath…
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Special Solari Report: The Student Loan Scam
(11 July 11)
“Opportunities multiply as they are seized.”
~ Sun Tzu
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By Ross Kerber
A senior Federal Reserve official is prescribing sweeping medicine to stabilize the $2.5 trillion money market mutual fund industry, which would be rattled by potential downgrades of…
By Ryan Grim
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Washington – Debt ceiling negotiators think they’ve hit on a solution to addres…
By Senator Bernie Sanders
The first top-to-bottom audit of the Federal Reserve uncovered eye-popping new details about how the U.S. provided a whopping $16 trillion in secret loans to bail out Amer…
By Sam Smith
Percentage of total U.S. debt, according to Business Insider:
• Hong Kong: $121.9 billion (0.9 percent)
• Caribbean banking centers: $148.3 (1 percent)
• Taiwan:…
“It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published, or to rely on the judgment of trusted physicians or authoritative medical guidelines. I take no pleasure …
U.S. Contingency Plan Gives Bondholders Priority
Bloomberg (28 July 11)
Brazil Starts Taxing U.S. Dollar Shorts
GATA (28 July 11)
Eric Sprott Sells Another 1 Million PSLV Shares At A Huge Premium To NAV
Kid Dynamite’s World (23 July 11)
U.S. House Bids to Salvage Boehner Debt Bill
Bloomberg (29 July 11)
Evil Corporate Tax Holiday Gains Bipartisan Support
RollingStone (27 July 11)
Obama’s Ambush on Entitlements
Counterpunch (26 July…
Poison Alert: Long-Term, Universal Flu Shot on Horizon
sott.net (26 July 11)
Bad Food? Tax It, and Subsidize Vegetables
The New York Times (23 July11)
Bayer Settles $750 Mill For Longtime GM Rice Da…
YouTube
(19 Feb 07)
Monopole Motor Magnetic Fields
Welcome to John Bedini
Fully Digital Penetration
Slate Magazine (21 July 11)
By Joe Weisenthal
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Investment advisor Catherine Austin Fitts on Financial Survival Radio, a fascinating 2-part interview.
In this installment of our discussion, Catherine explores whether we are going through an e…
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The Solari Report – 7 Jul 21
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By Catherine Austin Fitts
This Thursday evening on the The Solari Report I interview Scott Tip…
Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi and House Speaker John Boehner.
By: Reuters
Ratings agency Moody’s on Monday suggested the United States should eliminate its statutory limit on government debt to reduc…
Update: As Previously Announced, Treasury to Employ Final Extraordinary Measure to Extend U.S. Borrowing Authority Until August 2
Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury released the following sta…
“I’ve found that you don’t need to wear a necktie if you can hit.”
~Ted Williams
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Paul Levy’s Wetiko: The Greatest Epidemic Sickness Known to Humanity
From the Foreword by Catherine Austin Fitts:
“My search to understand evil and its transformation is what attracted me to P…
Israelis No. 2 Foreign Buyers of US Real Estate
Globes (21 July 11)
Investors Tackle Fracking And Water Scarcity Risks
Forbes (29 Jun 11)
Time to Sell? Wall Street Journal Finds Cause For Higher Gold
Gold Newswire (21 July 11)
To Nullify Lead, Add a Bunch of Fish Bones
The New York Times (21 July 11)
Save Your Supplements – Write the FDA Now – Here’s Why & How
National Health Federation (19 July 11)
Safeway, Kroger Suspen…
River Monsters – Jeremy Wade Images
Coast to Coast AM (16 July 11)
Terrafugia Flying Car Cleared for Landing in US
Fox News (18 July 11)
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Documentary about how the military and the wireless industry influenced the cell phone radiation standards. Featured in this documentary are interviews with Dr. Michael Repacholi, who prior to becomin…
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Bohemian Grove From Wikipedia
Bohemian Grove is a 2,700-acre (1,100 ha) campground located at 20601 Bohemian Avenue, in Monte Rio, California, belonging to a private San Francisco-based men’s art …
By Catherine Austin Fitts
Questions about cancer seem to percolating these days. I have gotten several questions about what a person should do if they are informed they have cancer. Here is my list o…
“The earth is not dying. It is being killed, and the people killing it have names and addresses.”
~ Utah Phillips
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Crowdfunding from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
Crowd funding (sometimes called crowd financing, crowd sourced capital, or street performer protocol) describes the collective cooperation, atten…
By Gloria Vogel
Could radio frequency-producing antennas that are essential for the wireless world be the next asbestos for the insurance industry? They could, writes Gloria Vogel, managing directo…
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By Catherine Austin Fitts
Get ready!
This week on the Solari Report, it’s the Precio…
“Chance favors the prepared”
~ From a Steven Seagal movie
By Corbett B. Daly
President Obama on Tuesday said he cannot guarantee that retirees will receive their Social Security checks August 3 if Democrats and Republicans in Washington do not reach an agre…
By Carolyn A. Betts and Catherine Austin Fitts
In response to our Special Solari Report on the two largest US precious metals exchange-traded funds “GLD & SLV: Disclosure in the Precious Metals P…
A Review of The Student Loan Scam: The Most Oppressive Debt in U.S. History – and How We Can Fight Back by Alan Michael Collinge
By Carolyn Betts and Catherine Austin Fitts
The Preface begins:
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By Linda Brown/King 5 News
Auburn, Wash. – Buying his own home was a big accomplishment for constructio…
By David Icke
I am always being asked the question: ‘What can we do?’ Well, this weekend I am launching something with fantastic potential that we can do together without even necessarily movin…
“A hundred wagon loads of thoughts will not pay a single ounce of debt.“
– Italian saying
By Motoko Rich
Despite a competitive economy in which success increasingly depends on obtaining a college degree, one in four students in this country does not even finish high school in the usual …
By Catherine Austin Fitts
One of my goals for the decade is to read all of Joseph Farrell’s books. Most of them are stacked up in my den.
My interest in Farrell’s work began with his writings on t…
Shoplifting: Is It Good for the Economy?
CNBC (12 July 11)
Moody’s Downgrades Ireland From Baa3 To Junk
Zero Hedge (12 July 11)
Economy Faces a Jolt as Benefit Checks Run Out
CNBC (11 July 11)
Ec…
Silver Dealer Inventory Continues to Spiral to New Lows at the Comex – Pax Goldmana
Jesse’s Café Américain (13 July 11)
20% Drop in Housing to Cause Recession in 2012, Says Gary Shilling
Yahoo Finance (13 July 11)
Roots of Crisis Buried Deep After Inquiry: Peter J. Wallison
Bloomberg (14 April 11)
Map Of U.S. States …
Nanotechnology: Tracking Food From Farm to Fork…And You right Along With It
The PPJ Gazette (12 July 11)
Monsanto Official Beaten by Farmers in India over Failed GMO Bt Cotton Seeds
Salem-News.com…
Major Grocer Getting Rid of Self-checkout Lanes
MSNBC.com (July 10 11)
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