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Release Date: April 13, 2011
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The Federal Reserve Board on Wednesday announced formal enforcement actions requiring 10 banking organizations to address a pattern of misconduct…
A meditation by
Alla Renee Bozarth
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Pack nothing.
Bring only your determination to serve
and your willingness
to be free.
Do not wait for the bread to rise
Take nourishment for the…
By Tom Foremski
It’s taken a decade but Silicon Valley companies have climbed out of dotcom dotbomb recession and reported their most profitable year in history.
The San Jose Mercury News report…
By Rady Ananda
Urges USDA to rescind approval of genetically engineered alfalfa: “In layman’s terms, it should be treated as an emergency.”
A plant pathologist experienced in protecting agai…
“Making Money is Art and Working is Art.
And Good Business is the Best Art”
~ Andy Warhol
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Pop Goes The Easel
Gold Coast News (10 Nov 07)
By Chris Lefkow
The White House unveiled a plan on Friday designed to boost confidence and business in cyberspace through the creation of a single, secure online credential.
“By making online tran…
Study Suggests Feds Could Recoup Billions in Unpaid Taxes by Withholding Passports
FoxNews (12 Apr 11)
Amaranth Kill Shot: Collateral Damage in a 78-Trillon Dollar Derivatives Book Compliments of J.P…
BP’s Secret Deepwater Blowout
Greg Palast (19 Apr 11)
Jury Convicts Exec in $3B Mortgage Fraud Case
Yahoo News (19 April 11)
US Gave $6m to Syrian Opposition
The Australian (19 April 11)
Secret M…
Chemicals Were Injected Into Wells, Report Says
CNBC (17 April 11)
The War on PDD-NOS, Pervasive Denial Disorder-Not Otherwise Specified
Age of Autism (18 April 11)
Apples: Even Better For You Than …
Largest Earthquakes by State
USGS
Hold it, Whippersnappers. Study Finds Older Employees More Productive
The Globe And Mail (18 April 11)
Dubai on Empty
Vanity Fair (April 2011)
Severe Storms Kill a…
As Gas Prices Rise, Businesses Explore Opportunities of Electric Vehicles
The Globe And Mail (19 April 11)
NASA Releases Sky-mapping Archive
USA Today (15 April 11)
UC Computer Scientists Release Vi…
By Charles Hugh Smith
The Con of the Decade, which I described last July, is being set up nicely.
I described The Con of the Decade last July (2010). The Con makes me a heretic in the cult religio…
If I were managing a pension fund, I wouldn’t get within a 50 mile radius of anyone from Goldman Sachs, or their spouses, or their kids, or their dogs.
~ Remaining Nameless (for obvious reasons)
Rel…
By Leo Kolivakis
If you missed CNN’s In The Arena on Thursday evening, then you missed the fireworks. Eliot Spitzer challenged investment banker Goldman Sachs: “Sue me. You lied to the public. You sh…
By Mary Childs
The cost to protect debt issued by Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS) jumped to a one-month high after the chairman of the Senate panel that investigated the financial crisis said the ban…
By James Herron
The world of investment bank research is more often defined by consensus rather than confrontation.
Radically conflicting opinions over the outlook for a particular company or comm…
The Official Atlas Shrugged Movie Trailer.
Atlas Shrugged Part 1 opens in theaters April 15th, 2011.
On Thursday, President Barack Obama signed into law the Comprehensive 1099 Taxpayer Protection and Repayment of Exchange Subsidy Overpayments Act of 2011 (HR 4; 1099 Act), which repeals both the exp…
How a Dozen Multinational Corporations Spent a Billion Dollars on Lobbying and Campaign Contributions and Avoided Paying Taxes
Twelve large American corporations have been identified by news report…
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The Solari Report – 14 April 11
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Precious Metals: Top Ten Dates in American History View the PDF
By Catherine Austin Fitts
I am headed…
View this week’s chart comparisons of gold against fiat currencies, oil and the Dow. Stay tuned for our next Money & Markets segment of The Solari Report tonight, Thursday, April 14, 2011.
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By Izabella Kaminska
International regulator conspiracy? Unfortunate coincidence for the ETF industry? Or are regulators finally on to something via the power of group think?
We ask because hot on…
By Gary Taubes
On May 26, 2009, Robert Lustig gave a lecture called “Sugar: The Bitter Truth,” which was posted on YouTube the following July. Since then, it has been viewed well over 800,000 t…
H.R.1489
Latest Title: To repeal certain provisions of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act and revive the separation between commercial banking and the securities business, in the manner provided in the Ban…
By Jackie Calmes
Washington — President Barack Obama will call this week for a broad plan to raise revenues and cut deficits, as the battle over fiscal issues moves past this weekend’s budget deal…
By Sarah Lacy
Thiel’s solution to opening the minds of those who can’t easily go to Harvard? Poke a small but solid hole in this Ivy League bubble by convincing some of the most talented kids t…
By Justin McCurry
Japan is to raise the nuclear alert level at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant to a maximum seven, putting the emergency on a par with the 1986 Chernobyl disaster.
Nuclear safety…
The Student Loan Scam: The Most Oppressive Debt in U.S. History – and How We Can Fight Back [Hardcover]
Amazon.com
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By Yoichi Shimatsu
Confused and often conflicting reports out of Fukushima 1 nuclear plant cannot be solely the result of tsunami-caused breakdowns, bungling or miscommunication. Inexplicable delays …
COMMENT: The Supreme Court’s decision in Connick v. Thompson virtually gives license to prosecutors to lie, fabricate or withhold evidence, since they apparently can’t be held accountable for kn…
By Theresa McCabe
New York (TheStreet) — Participation in the U.S. Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly known as the Food Stamp Program, reached an all-time high in January.
T…
By Gudjon Helgason
REYKJAVIK, Iceland — Voters in Iceland rejected a government-backed deal to repay Britain and the Netherlands for their citizens’ $5 billion worth of deposits in a failed online…
By Catherine Austin Fitts
The dogwood tree at the Hickory Valley office is in full blossom.
Every few days we cut a branch and arrange it in the room I use to review books and DVDs. I just wande…
Illustration by Jennifer Daniel
By Jesse Drucker
For the well-off, this could be the best tax day since the early 1930s: Top tax rates on ordinary income, dividends, estates, and gifts will remain …
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By Jeff Zeleny
Washington — President Obama opened the week by calling on Democrats to embrace his re-election campaign. He closed it by praising Republicans for forging a compromise to cut spend…
[Note from CAF: I first published this on the blog on December 5, 2008. Given the current conversion of the many changes upon us, I am republishing today.]
By Catherine Austin Fitts
In 199…
Identity Fraud Continues to Rise
Guardian.co.uk (14 April 11)
Abolition of Cheques to be Reconsidered
Guardian.co.uk (14 April 11)
A Rouble Re-run
Financial Times (15 April 11)
Will Silver Surge Following The Nationalization Of Bolivia’s Silver Mines By Embattled President Evo Morales?
Zero Hedge (14 April 11)
US Senate Urges UN to Revoke Goldstone Report
Ynetnews (15 April 11)
The “Deep State” Behind U.S. Democracy
Voltaire Network (6 April 11)
Summer Drought Looms Following ‘Driest March For 60 years’
Guardian.co.uk (14 April 11)
A Generation of Autism, Coming of Age
The New York Times (13 April 11)
Pretty Food is Dangerous
Newsvandal (11…
World’s Oldest Man Dies at 114
Guardian.co.uk (15 April 11)
The Lost Generation
Metropolis (6 March 11)
Congress, in a First, Removes an Animal From the Endangered Species List
The New York Times (1…
Could This be The Biggest Find Since The Dead Sea Scrolls? Seventy Metal Books Found in Cave in Jordan Could Change Our View of Biblical History
Mail Online (30 March 11)
Glasses Free 3D on iPad 2
Ge…
By William J. Broad
For the clearest picture of what is happening at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, talk to scientists thousands of miles away.
Thanks to the unfamiliar but sophi…
By Gregory White
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One Lie Hides the Truth.
One Hundred Lies Become the Truth.
Your World Will Never Look the Same.
THRIVE is an unconventional documentary that lifts the veil on what’s REALLY going on in our world…
San Francisco Bay Area Map
I am leaving next week to drive to Montana to meet with the Solari team there and then on to San Francisco where I will be working from Pleasanton for the next two months….
Entire country loses internet for five hours after woman, 75, slices through cable while scavenging for copper.
By Tom Parfitt in Moscow
An elderly Georgian woman was scavenging for copper to sell…
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Winter Patri…
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The Solari Report – 7 April 11
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by Catherine Austin Fitts
This Thursday night on The Solari Report is …
View this week’s chart comparisons of gold against fiat currencies, oil and the Dow. Stay tuned for our next Money & Markets segment of The Solari Report tonight, Thursday, April 7, 2011.
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YouTube
(28 March 11)
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Operations of a joint stock market linking Chile, Colombia and Peru are scheduled to begin May 30. The group, known as the Integrated Latin American Market, or Mila, said Tuesday that the decision w…
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By Flavia Krause-Jackson and Caroline Alexander
Libyan dictator Muammar Qaddafi can tap gold reserves worth $7 billion, equivalent to a 10th of the size of his country’s economy, as he fights a civ…
By Tyler Durden
Earlier today GM announced disappointing sales numbers, with March car sales rising only 9.6% compared to expectations of 20%. Indeed, this number tends to be quite volatile: ultima…
By Jonathan Spicer
The names and e-mails of customers of Citigroup Inc and other large U.S. companies, as well as College Board students, were exposed in a massive and growing data breach after a c…
By Scott Pelley
As more and more Americans face mortgage foreclosure, banks’ crucial ownership documents for the properties are often unclear and are sometimes even bogus, a condition that’s causing …
The Fat And The Furious: The top 1 percent may have the best houses, educations, and lifestyles, says the author, but “their fate is bound up with how the other 99 percent live.”
By Joseph E. S…
By Christina Boyle
Some workers at Japan’s stricken nuclear plant fear they may die within weeks or months after being exposed to potentially lethal doses of radiation.
The mother of one of the so…
It’s a documentary which analyzes the Thursday 26th April 1986 that became a momentous date in modern history, when one of the reactors at the Chernobyl nuclear power station in northern Ukraine, …
The American Spectator celebrated April Fools Day by announcing that after the GOP threatened to cancel their funding, NPR replaced Bill Moyer’s show with Ann Coulter.
Related reading:
House Votes…
By Joe Weisenthal
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GE to Build Nation’s Largest Solar Power Plant
Yahoo Finance (7 April 11)
Why the Middle-Aged Are Missing Out on New Jobs
Yahoo Finance (1 April 11)
Another Day, Another Record High For Gold
Zero Hedge (7 April 11)
Feds Move to Keep Liberty Dollar’s $7 million Metal Inventory
GATA (4 April 11)
Utah Doubles Down on Gold Laws Amid Inflation Fears,…
Florida’s ‘Shadow’ Real-estate Inventory Ranks No. 1 in U.S.
MiamiHerald.com (5 April 11)
Banks Win Again: Weak Mortgage Settlement Proposal Undermined by Phony Consent Decrees
Naked Capitalism…
No Accord in Budget Talks as Policy Fights Hamper Deal
The New York Times (7 April 11)
Government Shutdown: Potential Furloughs For 800k Federal Workers, Disruption of D.C. Services
The Washington Po…
Antibiotic Superbugs CRKP & MRSA: Who’s at Risk?
Yahoo Health (7 April 11)
Screening the Day’s Catch for Radiation
The New York Times (5 April 11)
EPA to Raise Limits For Radiation Exposure While…
Japan’s Disaster: A Spiritual Perspective
Huffington Post (30 March 11)
Solar Power May Already Rival Coal, Prompting Installation Surge
Bloomberg (6 April 11)
Coping: With the Horrible Earthquake Trend
Urban Survival (4 April 11)
Ozone Layer Faces Record Loss Over Arct…
Solari has produced a new free podcast—The Solari Report Digest #22.
Listen to Solari Report Digest #22
The Solari Report Digest is a podcast featuring highlights from the live one-hour Sola…
By Abigail Jackson
Fountain House is one of the world’s leading mental health organizations, providing employment, educational and housing opportunities to people living with serious mental illne…
By Bob Ivry and Craig Torres
A Supreme Court order that forces unprecedented disclosures from the Federal Reserve ended a two- year legal battle that helped shape the public’s perceptions of the …
By Hans David Tampubolon
Three Citibank debt collectors [in Indonesia] allegedly killed Irzen Octa, 50, secretary general of the National Unity Party (PPB), on Tuesday after he protested an increas…
Before you know what kindness really is
you must lose things,
feel the future dissolve in a moment
like salt in a weakened broth.
What you held in your hand,
what you counted and carefully saved,
al…
By Joe Weisenthal
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USA Today (30 March 11)
By Sam Smith
Not every change in national policy and events is announced with a new conference or presidential speech.
A case in point is the rapid rise of apparent mental instability in the Repub…
A Wisconsin judge on Thursday did what thousands of pro-union protesters and boycotting Democratic lawmakers couldn’t, forcing Republican Gov. Scott Walker to halt plans to implement a law that woul…
By Cecil Rhodes
Rhodes originally wrote this on June 2, 1877, in Oxford. Later, that year in Kimberley, he made some additions and changes. What follows is that amended statement. The spelling and …
I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
– Thomas Jefferson
April Fools’ Day is celebrated in different countries around the world on the April 1 of every year. Sometimes referred to as All Fools’ Day, April 1 is not a national holiday, but is widely recognize…
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By Kelsey Volkmann
The Public Patent Foundation, on behalf of 60 family farmers, seed businesses and organic agricultural organizations, sue…
The Federal Reserve announced Wednesday that it was declining an offer from American International Group (NYSE: aig) to buy the mortgage-related assets it holds in its Maiden Lane II portfolio.
Ins…
By Joe Weisenthal
By now you know that the surge in silver prices has left gold in the dust.
One reason: it’s just cheaper to buy silver coins.
From Deutsche Bank:
According to a recent article …
View this week’s chart comparisons of gold against fiat currencies, oil and the Dow. Stay tuned for our next Money & Markets segment of The Solari Report, Thursday, April 7, 2011.
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By Dawn Kopecki
JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon said some municipalities will need to renegotiate debt and a hundred may not “make it.”
“I wou…
A transcript of Catherine’s March 24, interview of Dr. Gwen Scott on Aerosol Spraying-Mitigating the Harm to Your Health is now available to Solari Report Subscribers. It was a powerful interview with…
The Federal Reserve forgot that it is the central bank for the people of the United States States and not a private academy where decisions of great importance may be withheld from public scrutiny. Th…
A Geiger counter in Itate village, some 40 kilometers northwest of the Fukushima Daiichi plant showing radiation levels of 7.66 micro Sievert per hour. People living here would receive the yearly max…
Today, when foreign journalists stumble into MITI (the Ministry of International Trade and Industry) and demand to know what will be done about Japan’s trade surpluses, they sometimes get this stran…
By Neil M. Barofsky
Two and a half years ago, Congress passed the legislation that bailed out the country’s banks. The government has declared its mission accomplished, calling the program remark…
Dirty Electricity tells the story of Dr. Samuel Milham, the scientist who first alerted the world about the frightening link between occupational exposure to electromagnetic fields, electromagnetic …
By Alan Fram
House Republicans plan to introduce eight bills on Tuesday that would each take a small step toward pushing taxpayer-backed mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac out of business, …
By Barbara Demick
The first pitch of Japan’s baseball season has been pushed back so people don’t waste gasoline driving to games. When the season does start, most night games will be switched to day…
By B. Blake Levitt and Chellis Glendinning
Culture Change note: As if you weren’t getting enough radiation: now comes really bad news in the form of smart grids. GE — the designer of Fukushima n…
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