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ByMark Gilmore

“I’m a lunatic farmer, that’s my new catch phrase. I have a Ph.D. That stands for Post Hole Digger. Today we only need to buy toilet paper and Kleenex, everything else we make here. The only reason …

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  2. Hi Catherine,

    Your weekly news analysis is a priceless substitute for the rest of the journalism industry. Would you consider doing a future Solari report on “How To Stay Out of Trouble”, while publishing information that may be challenging to one or more global constituencies? For example:

    * diversify income and information sources
    * is there less pushback on a semi-closed publication (like Solari) vs. an entirely open publication?
    * any book recommendations on the history of satire and other techniques of introducing topics without naming names?
    * your career could be several movies, do “Junior Catherines” need to walk similar paths to gain the necessary survival skills?
    * how to deal with those who “encourage” occasional distribution of indeterminate info, riding on legitimacy of other coverage

    As time goes by, the number of groups that could possibly become offended by something seems to increase. Just as “old money” can look down on “new money”, does “old governance” look down on “new governance”? E.g. resource-rich startups can be uninformed by unspoken conventions that stabilize older, if flawed, institutions. How can one safely publish to audiences with an ever-expanding diversity of belief and confusion?

    This is a sensitive topic, but important in the “teach to fish” sense. Anything you could safely share would be appreciated. It would be a positive outcome if Solari and your example could inspire the birth of apprentice suns. Especially in comparison to China, where http://aeon.co/magazine/technology/will-china-use-big-data-as-a-tool-of-the-state/ says:

    ‘public intellectuals’ who have been systematically eliminated over the past three years. With potential rallying points such as opinion leaders or alternative ideologies crushed, the government can view the seething mass of public grievances as a potential source of information, not a direct challenge.

    Rich

    1. Thanks, Joan. That is a great find. I will post on the blog.

      Morgenson keeps getting closer to the truth. I agree with the government, however. If the trust ever came out it would
      put the US financial markets at serious risk. Let’s hope Morgenson keeps digging.

  5. Hi Catherine ! I listened to the interview with Nafeez…really great..

    You seemed to know everything he was talking about, all the people he mentioned…always blows my mind, how much you know.

    1. Ann:

      That was why I was so impressed with his story – it aligned with what I had seen/experienced. Here was the disclosure I sent him before the interview.

      To: Dr. Nafeez Ahmed

      From: Catherine Austin Fitts

      Date: January 31, 2015

      You can find my detailed resume at our website here:

      Fitts Resume
      http://solari.com/about-us/resume/

      I worked as an intern at Goldman Sachs in the summer of 1977, including working for several weeks in the mergers department then run by Stephen Friedman and was still a small department. So I met him, but as a young intern, did not work for or with him directly.

      I came close to working for that department at Goldman after graduating from Wharton MBA, but instead accepted an offer at Dillon Read instead. I did recommend a classmate Gary Gensler for an interview with Steve’s department. Gary did go to Goldman- mergers and many years later after becoming a partner, he went to work for Rubin at Treasury and later as head of the CFTC.

      I would occasionally run into Friedman in New York as I went up the ladder at Dillon Read. I did not know him, but I liked him – he struck me as a sensible and competent person.

      My years at Dillon Read are described in my online book:

      Dillon Read & the Aristocracy of Stock Profits
      http://duwnalke.com

      I left Dillon to work in the first Bush Administration at HUD and then left to start Hamilton Securities Group in Washington. Hamilton was hired by competitive contract to serve as lead financial advisor to the FHA at HUD where I had worked.

      Hamilton developed a very successful program to auction off defaulted mortgages, which ultimately impinged on private sector profits and mortgage fraud at FHA.

      Hamilton was targeted in a very long and dirty process that involved 12 tracks of litigation, 18 audits and investigations and a very significant smear campaign. The process began in 1995 and was finally settled in early 2006. Documentation is here:

      Dillon Read & the Aristocracy of Stock Profits – Links on Hamilton Securities Litigation
      http://dunwalke.com/gideon

      Hamilton was forced to cease operating in 1998 and our place based databases (“Community Wizard”) bringing transparency to federal spending and credit – particularly mortgage financing – at local and county levels were seized by the courts. It took us six years to get them back and when we did the most valuable pieces were stolen for good

      I believe that if Community Wizard had not been suppressed, the mortgage bubble could never have happened.

      CACI, at the time the leading provider of GIS software to the US government had a contract with DOJ to manage our files and databases.

      Mapping the Real Deal: CACI Who?
      http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0405/S00014.htm

      During the 1997/1998 period we were approached by SAIC – my guess is that they were planning on making an offer to buy Hamilton. I ducked on giving the opportunity after visiting with them. There was something very creepy about their interest, although I could never put a finger on it. They were a leader in GIS applications for the federal government.

      After I shut down the company, I was approached by the Arlington Institute as described here:

      What’s Up with the Black Budget
      http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0209/S00126.htm

      That also turned out to be quite a creepy experience that has continued down into the present.

      http://solari.com/blog/arlington-institute/

      During the 1998-99 period I was approached by someone I did not know well who said that the CIA was going to launch a search engine named Google and I should be wary of it. I did know them well enough to trust them. However, I remember when Google first launched, I though, OK, this is it. Over the first few years there were various aspects to Google that gave me a creepy feeling that all of Hamilton Securities intellectual capital had been picked over by the Google team – as if there was a direct connection between what the intelligence and enforcement agencies had stolen from us and what was being used to bring Google up.

      During the litigation, I began a process to try to bring transparency to what was happening:

      Financial Coup d’Etat
      http://solari.com/blog/financial-coup-d%E2%80%99etat/

      I was particularly focused on $4 trillion that was disappearing from the federal government:

      The Missing Money
      http://solari.com/archive/missing_money/

      See Fitts Video: Secret Space Program
      http://solari.com/blog/the-secret-space-program-for-solari-suscribers/ (Will need complimentary Solari Report subscription – let me know and I will arrange)

      The missing money led me to try to bring transparency to 911 – 911 was highly successful in stopping the transparency efforts to ensure financial integrity in the federal accounts:

      An Open Letter to Condoleezza Rice
      http://www.whereisthemoney.org/hotseat/condoleezzarice.htm

      I first learned of you and your work through 9-11 – very impressive.

      The events of 911 and the bailouts at one point had me looking at Steve’s involvement with the NY Fed and Marshall McClellan

      Stephen Friedman
      http://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=422858&privcapId=21651

      When we finally won our most important track of litigation, I sent a letter to John D. Hawke at Treasury and cc:ed Friedman over at the White House. I have always believed that the cc to Friedman raised more than a few eyebrows, as Steve liked to remain invisible.

      Letter to John D. Hawke (note cc to Stephen Friedman)
      http://solari.com/blog/letter-to-john-d-hawke-jr/

      Much of my focus was on the activities of Lockheed, AT&T and DynCorp, with an occasional look at IBM:

      The Databeast
      http://solari.com/archive/databeast

      Real Deal: CSC DynCorp & the Economics of Lawlessness
      http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0304/S00158.htm

      I settled the litigation in 2006, started an investment advisory company and then starting publishing the Solari Report in 2009.

      The bailouts inspired me to publish more about the mortgage fraud, including Goldman Sach’s role in it:

      Goldman Whac-a-Mole
      http://solari.com/blog/goldman-whac-a-mole/

      Puffing Goldman (with more good links that relate)
      http://solari.com/blog/puffing-goldman/

      I also got to know one person who was an early investor in Facebook and saw how early money was brought into something that was clearly being organized and set up just the way you describe.

      Bottom line – your description of the relationships between social media and the national security state fit with my experience. I would like to understand the historical and existing relationships and would like to see serious investigative reporting of the quality you are doing bring transparency to this topic.

  6. The Brian Williams story has by turns been strange, hilarious and aggravating.
    Is this an example of a limited hang out or just garden variety distraction techniques?

    on a lighter note, here is a take on “Brian’s Downfall”
    http://youtu.be/2Fu6uBHl0hE

    1. Cosby is crucified, NBC (subsidiary of Comcast) cancels their contract with Cosby
      Williams is attacked, takes a six month suspension from NBC Nightly News, saving NBC (Comcast) $5 million on their annual $10 million contract
      Comcast has its deal with Time Warner before DOJ – one of their NBC subsidiary publishes Kill the Messinger about the targeting of Gary Webb – that brings up issues that could compromise Attorney General Eric Holder
      Eric Holder resigns, is replaced with a new Attorney General
      There is a story here. Not sure yet what it is.
      One thing I know – having a large contract with NBC looks like a risky proposition. Makes you wonder about the quality of Comcast’s earnings.

      2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Simon

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Simon

        Robert David “Bob” Simon (May 29, 1941 – February 11, 2015) was an American television correspondent for CBS News. During his career, he covered crises, war, and unrest in 67 countries.[2] Simon reported the withdrawal of American troops from Vietnam, the Yom Kippur War in 1973, and the student protests in China’s Tiananmen Square in 1989. During the Persian Gulf War in 1991, he and four of his TV crew were captured and imprisoned by Iraq for 40 days, about which experience he wrote a book, Forty Days.
        He became a regular correspondent for CBS’s 60 Minutes in 1996 and, in 1999, for 60 Minutes II. At the time of his death in an auto accident, he served as 60 Minutes senior foreign correspondent. Simon is described as having been “a giant of broadcast journalism” by CBS News President David Rhodes,[3] and is recognized as one of the few journalists who have covered most of the major overseas conflicts since 1969. For his extensive reporting over a 47-year career, he earned more than 40 major awards, including the Overseas Press Club awards and 27 Emmy Awards for journalism.[4]
        On February 11, 2015, Simon was involved in a car accident while riding in a livery cab in Manhattan. He was transported to St. Luke’s–Roosevelt Hospital, where he later died.[5]

        (Before It’s News)

        Pictured as follows: Ned Colt w/NBC (Top Left) – Bob Simon w/CBS (Bottom Left) – David Carr w/NY Times (Bottom Right) – Bob Hager w/NBC (Top Right). Photo courtesy of: J. Schuyler Montague

        via shariaunveiled by IWB

        Ned Colt of (NBC) dropped dead of a stroke yesterday.. he was “supposedly” kidnapped during the Iraq war for several days, then freed?

        Bob Simon of (CBS) died in a car crash yesterday.. he was “supposedly” kidnapped held captive for 40 days in an Iraq jail

        David Carr (NY Times) just died suddenly after interviewing Edward Snowden, and had just come out against Brian Williams from NBC while on CBS… calling Williams out for lying about being shot down in the Iraq war.

        Bob Hager the NBC aviation expert now has a head on crash. hmm. And of course Brian Williams is off the air for lying about the Iraq war. FOUR journalists dead within 24 hours, here in the United States (not in a war zone). Did they know something that ‘we’ do not know? Is their a current campaign to silence the truth?

        Good connection of the dots here. I wonder what they all had in common other than being government moutpiece big wigs. Maybe it’s just a sad time for journalism, maybe it’s something more. Afterall, we are on the cusp of being at war in iraq yet again..

        Ned Colt, former NBC foreign correspondent, dead at 58
        Ned Colt, who worked at the United Nations reporting on the Syrian refugee crisis, suffered a stroke and died in Boston, NBC said. Colt served as a reporter at NBC in various roles from 1982 to 2009.
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        NBC News Ned Colt worked most recently at the United Nations reporting on the Syrian refugee crisis.
        Former NBC foreign correspondent Ned Colt, who covered the 2003 Iraq War and was kidnapped for three days near Fallujah, suffered a stroke and died in Boston, NBC reported Thursday.
        He was 58.
        Colt worked at the United Nations reporting on the Syrian refugee crisis, along with a stint at with the International Rescue Committee, after leaving NBC in 2009.
        “His reporting from the field and work with the press helped raise awareness of the impact of the war in Syria and other crises on the lives of ordinary people,” IRC said in a tribute on its website. “IRC colleagues remember him with warmth and recall his dedication to bringing underreported humanitarian needs into the spotlight.”
        Colt, a Connecticut College graduate, began his career at NBC as a reporter in 1982, working at affiliates in Boston, Raleigh, N.C., Jacksonville, Fla., and Duluth, Minn., the company said.

        http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ned-colt-nbc-foreign-correspondent-dead-58-article-1.2113860

        David Carr (journalist)
        From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
        David Carr

        Carr at the 2013 PuSh International Performing Arts Festival
        Born David Michael Carr
        September 8, 1956
        Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.
        Died February 12, 2015 (aged 58)
        New York, New York, U.S.
        Occupation Writer, columnist, author
        Years active 1980s-2015
        Employer The New York Times
        Spouse(s) Jill Rooney Carr
        Children 3
        David Michael Carr (September 8, 1956[1] – February 12, 2015) was an American writer, columnist, and author. He wrote the Media Equation column and covered culture for The New York Times.[2]
        Contents
        • 1 Early life
        • 2 Career
        • 3 Personal life
        • 4 Works and publications
        o 4.1 Notable appearances
        • 5 References
        • 6 External links
        Early life
        Carr was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota to Joan Laura Carr (née O’Neill), a local community leader, and John Lawrence Carr.[1][3] He had three brothers and three sisters.[3]
        Carr grew up in the suburb of Minnetonka. He attended the University of Minnesota where he majored in psychology and journalism.[4]
        Career
        In the early 1980s, Carr got his first job at the alternative weekly Twin Cities Reader.[5] Carr was a former editor of the Twin Cities Reader and the Washington City Paper, and later wrote extensively about the media for The Atlantic Monthly and New York.[6]
        Carr joined The New York Times in 2002, where he was as a cultural reporter and wrote The New York Times Carpetbagger blog.[7] He was known for his plainspoken style that was often blunt, while being “searingly honest about himself.”[8] Carr remained at the Times until his death.[6][9]
        In his 2008 memoir, The Night of the Gun, he detailed his past experiences with cocaine addiction and included interviews with people from his past, tackling his memoir as if he were reporting on himself.[10] The memoir was excerpted in The New York Times Magazine.[11]
        Carr was credited for launching Lena Dunham’s career and was described by Gawker’s John Koblin as the “Daddy of Girls”.[12]
        He was featured prominently in the 2011 documentary Page One: Inside the New York Times. As part of the documentary, Carr was shown interviewing staff from Vice, who Carr called out for their lack of journalistic knowledge.[13] The article about Vice was noteworthy for its clear conflict between new online journalism and traditional journalism.[14]
        In 2014, he was named the Lack Professor of Media Studies at Boston University, a part-time position where he taught a class on contemporary and entrepreneurial journalism called “Press Play: Making and distributing content in the present future.[15][16]
        Personal life
        Carr divorced his first wife, Kimberly, in 1986.[17] In 1988, he had twin daughters, Erin and Meagan, with a former girlfriend named Anna.[11] The couple lost custody of the children, who went into foster care until Carr went through rehab and gained custody of the girls.[11]
        Carr married his second wife, Jill L. Rooney, in 1994;[18] the couple had one child, a daughter, Maddie.[19] He described himself as a church-going Roman Catholic.[20] He resided in Montclair, New Jersey, with his wife and three daughters.[19]
        Carr had previously battled Hodgkin’s lymphoma, and reported developing his hoarse speaking voice during his coverage of the aftermath of the September 11 attacks.[20]
        Carr died on February 12, 2015, after collapsing in the The New York Times newsroom.[2][21][22] According to the office of the chief medical examiner of New York City, Carr died of complications from metastatic lung cancer (metastatic small cell neuroendocrine carcinoma).[23] The autopsy showed heart disease was a contributing cause of death.[23]
        Works and publications
        • Carr, David. The Night of the Gun: A Reporter Investigates the Darkest Story of His Life, His Own, New York: Simon & Schuster, 2008; ISBN 978-1-416-54152-3
        Notable appearances
        • September 17, 2008: Carr discussing The Night of the Gun, Olssen’s Books & Records, Washington, D.C., “Book TV,” C-SPAN 2; accessed February 16, 2015.
        • January 14, 2013: IAmA columnist and reporter on media and culture for the New York Times, David Carr IAmA, reddit.com; accessed February 16, 2015.
        • May 17, 2014: David Carr Commemcement Address to the Class of 2014, UC Berkeley, Graduate School of Journalism (includes transcript); accessed February 16, 2015.
        References

        Robert Hager
        From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
        Robert Hager is an analyst and a former correspondent for the US television network NBC News. Hager started his journalism career in radio before moving to network news. He began his work at NBC in June 1969, covering the Vietnam War. He worked as a regular correspondent for NBC Nightly News for 35 years, before retiring from daily reporting in November 2004.
        Contents
        • 1 Biography
        o 1.1 Early life
        o 1.2 Career
        • 2 Personal life
        • 3 Awards
        • 4 References
        Biography
        Early life
        Hager was raised in Woodstock, Vermont, United States.[1] He was first drawn to journalism after being bedridden due to an ear infection during the summer after fifth grade. With nothing to do, he listened “all day long” to the radio, and “developed a love for news and sports.”[2]
        Career
        After graduating from Dartmouth College in 1960, Hager began his career by reporting for radio stations in Lexington, NC and Raleigh, NC.[1] He moved on to local television soon after, reporting for WBTV in Charlotte, North Carolina and NBC-owned WRC-TV in Washington, DC, before landing a job at NBC News.[2]
        Hager started out his career as a foreign correspondent in June 1969, reporting on the Vietnam war.[2] He was soon assigned to NBC’s Berlin bureau, where he continued to cover other foreign trouble spots, including the overthrow of the Iranian Shah in 1979 and the 1989 invasion of Panama by U.S. troops. Hager also covered four Olympic games for NBC, reporting from Germany during the Black September terrorist attacks of the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich.[1] In 1984, he was arrested while reporting from the Democratic National Convention in San Francisco.[2]
        During the latter part of his career, Hager’s focus shifted from foreign affairs to a wide range of domestic issues. Hager persuaded NBC to relocate him to the Washington DC bureau, but because all of the traditional political beats had already been filled, he decided to mold himself as a “consumer reporter.”[2] Hager had a unique sense of urgency in his reporting style which helped him carve out a niche in the areas of weather and transportation, aviation in particular. He reported on many major airline accidents, including TWA Flight 800 and Pan Am Flight 103. He also covered many of the major hurricanes that hit the United States during his 35 year tenure.[1] During his years at the DC bureau, Hager became one of the most visible reporters on television.[2]
        Although he retired from daily reporting on November 5, 2004,[2] Hager continued to file occasional reports for NBC News. He returned to the air to help cover the 2006 coal mine disaster in West Virginia.[3] Because of his expertise in aviation accidents, Hager came back again to NBC Nightly News to report on the August 27, 2006 crash of Comair Flight 5191 and the October 12, 2006 plane crash that killed Yankees pitcher Corey Lidle. He also made an appearance on August 2, 2007 for the Minneapolis Bridge collapse.[citation needed] In March of 2014 he again returned to NBC to report on the loss of Malaysia Airlines flight 370. Hager returned to the air again in July of 2014 (on MSNBC) to provide his expertise and commentary on the shoot down of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, in which 298 people died.
        On October 14th, 2012, Hager covered the Redbull Stratos high altitude skydive, broadcast on the Discovery channel and streamed live online.
        Personal life
        Hager and his wife, Honore, have three daughters and 8 grandchildren, (youngest to oldest) Derek DeAngelo, Patrick Henegan, Brady DeAngelo, Johnny Nossiff, Lilly Dukich, Peter Nossiff, Bobby Dukich, and Aaron Nossiff. He currently resides in Woodstock, VT.[1] One of his daughters, Christina Hager, is a general assignment reporter at Boston’s WBZ-TV. His other daughter, Jennifer Hager is vice president at Kate Spade New York, and his other daughter, Gabrielle Hager was a lawyer at General Electric and is now a senior lawyer at Nossiff Law Firm LLP.[2]
        Awards
        In 1990, Hager was inducted into the Silver Circle honor society, which was established by the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences to honor journalists who have dedicated 25 years of service to broadcast news.[4] In 2000, the United Nations Environment Programme elected Hager to its Global 500 Roll of Honour in recognition of “his outstanding contributions to the protection of the environment.” He was selected for his reporting on major climatic events, including “ozone depletion and global warming”, as well as his coverage of the scandals that rocked the United States Environmental Protection Agency in the early 1980s.[5]
        References
        1.
        • “Robert Hager”. NBCOlympics.com. Retrieved 2006-11-13.
        • • Tompkins, Al (2004-11-08). “NBC Reporter Reflects on 35 Years in TV”. Poynter Online. Retrieved 2006-11-13.
        • • Williams, Brian (2006-01-03). “First Tuesday”. The Daily Nightly. Retrieved 2006-11-13.
        • • “Gold/Silver Circle”. NATAS National Capital Chesapeake Bay Chapter. Retrieved 2006-11-14.
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        Longtime TV journalist involved in Vt. car accident
        Posted: Feb 12, 2015 4:52 PM CST Updated: Feb 16, 2015 4:00 PM CST
        By WCAX News
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        File photo

        PERU, Vt. – Longtime television journalist Robert Hager was involved in a car accident Thursday afternoon.

        Police say he and his wife, Honore, were traveling on Route 11 in Peru, Vermont, when another car crossed the center line and hit them head on.

        Robert was not injured; his wife was hospitalized with possible back and neck injuries.

        The Woodstock native was a correspondent for NBC Nightly News for 35 years.

        Related Story:

        Super Senior: Bob Hager

        Brian Douglas Williams (born May 5, 1959) is an American journalist best known for his ten years as anchor and managing editor of NBC Nightly News, the evening news program of the NBC television network. Six months after Williams joined the program in December 2004,[2] NBC News was awarded the Peabody Award for its coverage of the Hurricane Katrina story, with the award committee stating that Williams and the NBC staff displayed the “highest levels of journalistic excellence” in their reporting.[3] In February 2015 Williams was suspended for six months from the Nightly News for “misrepresent[ing] events which occurred while he was covering the Iraq War in 2003.”[4]
        Contents
        • 1 Early life
        • 2 Early broadcast career
        • 3 Nightly News
        • 4 Controversies
        o 4.1 Misstatements regarding Iraq war experiences
        • 4.1.1 Helicopter and RPG Story
        • 4.1.2 SEAL Team Six
        o 4.2 Hurricane Katrina reporting questioned
        o 4.3 Berlin Wall
        • 5 Rock Center with Brian Williams
        • 6 Other programs
        • 7 Personal life
        • 8 Television
        • 9 Career timeline
        • 10 References
        • 11 Further reading
        • 12 External links
        Early life
        Born in Elmira, New York, Williams was reared in a well-to-do Irish Catholic home.[5] He is the son of Dorothy May (née Pampel) and Gordon Lewis Williams, who was an executive vice president of the National Retail Merchants Association, in New York.[6][7] He is the youngest of four siblings.[8] He lived in Elmira for ten years before moving to Middletown, New Jersey, when he was in junior high school.[9]
        Williams graduated from Mater Dei High School, a Roman Catholic high school in the New Monmouth section of Middletown.[10] While in high school, he was a volunteer firefighter for three years at the Middletown Township Fire Department. His first job was as a busboy at Perkins Pancake House.[11]
        After high school Williams attended Brookdale Community College, after which he transferred to The Catholic University of America, and then The George Washington University.[12] He did not graduate, and instead interned with the administration of President Jimmy Carter. He later called leaving college one of his “great regrets”.[13]
        Early broadcast career
        Williams first worked in broadcasting in 1981 at KOAM-TV in Pittsburg, Kansas. The following year he covered news in the Washington, D.C. area at TV station WTTG, then worked in Philadelphia for WCAU, then a CBS affiliate.[14] Beginning in 1987 he broadcast in New York City at WCBS. Williams joined NBC News in 1993, where he anchored the national Weekend Nightly News and was chief White House correspondent before serving as anchor and managing editor of The News with Brian Williams, broadcast on MSNBC and CNBC.[15]
        Nightly News
        Williams became anchor of NBC Nightly News on December 2, 2004, and his first year in that post was marked by coverage of two disasters: the Asian tsunami and Hurricane Katrina. His and NBC’s Katrina coverage was widely praised, and Williams in particular was applauded “for venting his anger and frustration over the government’s failure to act quickly to help the victims.”[16] NBC News was awarded a Peabody Award for its coverage, the Peabody committee concluding that “Williams, and the entire staff of NBC Nightly News exemplified the highest levels of journalistic excellence in reporting on Hurricane Katrina”[3] NBC Nightly News also earned the George Polk Award[17] and the duPont-Columbia University Award for its Katrina coverage.[18] Vanity Fair qualified Williams’ work regarding Katrina as “Murrow-worthy” and reported that during the hurricane he became “a nation’s anchor.” The New York Times characterized Williams’ reporting of the hurricane as “a defining moment.”[19]
        In 2009, Williams was awarded the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism by Arizona State University.[20] At the announcement of the award, Cronkite said he was one of Williams’s “ardent admirers” and described him as a “fastidious newsman” who brought credit to the television news reporting profession.[20]
        Since he began anchoring the Nightly News, Williams has received 12 News & Documentary Emmy Awards. For “outstanding” work as anchor and managing editor of the Nightly News, he received one Emmy in 2006 (for Nightly News coverage of the 2005 Hurricane Katrina),[21] two in 2007,[22] one in 2009,[23] two in 2010,[24] one in 2011,[25] one in 2013,[26] and one in 2014.[27] He also received a 2012 Emmy for his interview program ‘’Rock Center’’,[28] a 2013 Emmy for being one of the executive producers and editors of a documentary on the JFK Presidential Library & Museum,[26] and also shared a 2014 Emmy awarded for an NBC News Special on the Boston Marathon bombings.[27]
        Based on the Nielsen ratings, from late 2008 Williams’ news broadcast consistently had more viewers than its two main rivals, ABC’s World News Tonight and CBS Evening News.[29] In fact, from late 2008 to late 2014, NBC Nightly News beat the other two network programs in the Nielsen ratings all but one week.[29]
        On 10 February 2015, Williams’ name was removed from the “Nightly News” opening title credits, according to numerous sources, including the Baltimore Sun, Ad Week, the Daily Mail[30]. The Baltimore Sun wrote: “The newscast itself was rebranded last week by removing his name from the title.[31] “The Daily Mail wrote: “Suddenly Nightly News with Brian Williams is simply Nightly News.”[32]
        Williams’ salary is $10 million a year.[33]
        Controversies
        This section lends undue weight to certain ideas relative to the article as a whole. Please help to discuss and resolve the dispute before removing this message. (February 2015)
        Misstatements regarding Iraq war experiences
        Helicopter and RPG Story
        On February 4, 2015 Williams recanted a story he told on the Nightly News January 30 broadcast, about being aboard a military Chinook helicopter during the 2003 Invasion of Iraq that was hit by a rocket-propelled grenade (RPG), and forced to land.[34] Soon after it aired, Williams’ story was criticized by Lance Reynolds, a flight engineer who was on board one of the three helicopters that had been attacked.[35] Reynolds and other crew members said they were forced to make an emergency landing, and that Williams’ Chinook arrived a half hour to an hour later.[34][36]
        In his 2003 reporting of the incident, Williams had said a helicopter in front of his was hit by the RPG and forced down.[34] Notably, in a 2007 retelling of the incident, Williams said, “… I looked down the tube of an RPG that had been fired at us, and it hit the chopper in front of us.”[37][37] The Washington Post reported that Williams’ craft was at least a half hour behind the helicopter hit by the RPG, according to its crewmembers, so he could not have looked down the RPG tube.[37]
        In a 2013 interview, Williams also recounted the incident, stating that his helicopter was “hit and crippled by enemy fire.”[38]
        On February 4, Williams apologized and said he had “made a mistake in recalling the events of 12 years ago.”[39] NBC News President Deborah Turness announced on February 6 that there would be an internal probe into Williams’ Iraq reporting.[40] The next day Williams announced he would temporarily step aside from anchoring the Nightly News broadcast.[41] On February 10, 2015, Turness announced Williams’ suspension from Nightly News for six months without pay. NBCUniversal CEO Steve Burke joined the statement, calling Williams’ actions “inexcusable” and the suspension “severe and appropriate.”[4]
        SEAL Team Six
        CNN reported that Williams said he flew into Baghdad with SEAL Team Six and about “war memorabilia the anchor claims to have received as gifts, including a Navy SEAL’s knife and a piece of the helicopter from the raid that killed Osama bin Laden.” Special Operations Command spokesman Ken McGraw told CNN that “We do not embed journalists with any elements of that unit … bottom line — no.” [42] Another Seal officer told CNN that Williams’ claim of receiving memorabilia from the Seals, “. . . doesn’t pass any sniff test.” [43]
        Hurricane Katrina reporting questioned
        Williams’ comments made in a 2006 interview concerning Hurricane Katrina have received critical scrutiny.[44][45] According to a CNN news report, Williams referred inconsistently to a suicide that took place inside the New Orleans Superdome at the time of Katrina.[46] It reported that in a 2005 television documentary Williams indicated he was not a witness to the suicide, stating, “We heard the story of a man killing himself, falling from the upper deck.”[47] In a 2014 interview Williams said, “We watched, all of us watched, as one man committed suicide.”[48]
        Williams stayed at the Ritz-Carlton on Canal Street.[40] In a 2006 interview he said that he looked out from his 8th floor hotel window and saw a dead body floating past the hotel.[40] The hotel general manager at the time, Myra DeGersdorff, said in 2015 that neither she nor her staff had seen dead bodies floating past the Ritz.[49]
        Williams also said in 2014 that the Ritz had been “overrun with gangs.”[50] Dr. Joseph Pulvirenti, one of the physicians staffing a makeshift medical clinic inside the Ritz, wrote in a 2005 eyewitness account that looters had broken into the hotel “on a number of occasions. Some of them were let in by friends or relatives of the hotel employees. These people and the employees were led out of the hotel by shotgun.”[51] DeGersdorff said in 2015 that at any given time there were five or six police officers patrolling the hotel. She said that “on more than one occasion,” looters had tried to get inside the hotel. At one point, “maybe one or two” looters did “breach a door” but were “immediately” chased out.[49]
        Berlin Wall
        While speaking at a forum at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in 2008, Brian Williams said that he was “at the Brandenburg Gate the night the wall came down.” While Williams did cover the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, reports show that he did not arrive until the day after the wall fell.[52]
        Rock Center with Brian Williams
        Main article: Rock Center with Brian Williams
        On Tuesday, October 4, 2011, it was announced that Williams would be the host of Rock Center with Brian Williams, a newsmagazine program premiering on Monday, October 31, 2011, at 10:00 pm Eastern, replacing the cancelled drama series The Playboy Club.[53] Named after the nickname of Rockefeller Center, the New York City landmark where NBC Radio City Studios are located, the program would become the first new NBC News program to launch in primetime in nearly two decades.[54]
        NBC cancelled Rock Center on May 10, 2013, after low ratings and having trouble finding a permanent time slot for the program. The last show aired on June 21, 2013.[55] Williams reportedly felt “insulted” by the program’s cancellation.[56]
        Other programs
        Williams frequently appears on The Daily Show as a celebrity guest interviewed by Jon Stewart. He appeared on the Weekend Update segment of Saturday Night Live on the season 32 premiere hosted by Dane Cook before hosting a season 33 episode on November 3, 2007, the last episode to air before the show went on a three-month hiatus due to the 2007-08 Writers’ Guild strike. With this episode, Williams is now the first and (so far) only network news anchor to host SNL.[57]
        On February 22, 2010, while providing coverage of the Winter Olympics, Williams did a skit with Brian Williams, the Canadian sportscaster of CTV’s on the CTV Olympic set.[58][59] Some in the media dubbed this the new “Battle of the Brians,” as NBC’s Williams compared his own modest set to CTV’s expensive Olympic studio.[60]
        Williams regularly appears on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, where he slow jams the news of the previous week as Fallon sings and reiterates what Williams says, with The Roots providing the musical backing. A mash-up video created by Fallon, where he appears to rap to hip-hop instrumentals, became viral within a few hours.[61] He has also made numerous appearances on Late Show with David Letterman despite it being on CBS, a competing network. During an appearance on July 26, 2011, Williams demonstrated a skilled vocal impersonation of TV personality Regis Philbin. Williams has also appeared on Late Night with Conan O’Brien where he took part in numerous skits and interviews.
        “ … And then I pull off my mask, and I’m a lizard person, too. Blackout. End of episode. ”
        —Williams on 30 Rock, proposing a new NBC show to Jack Donaghy[62]
        Williams also frequently made guest appearances on NBC’s television comedy 30 Rock as a caricatured version of himself. In the episode “The Ones”, he’s seen at home receiving proposition calls meant for Tracy Jordan. In “Audition Day”, he auditions to be a new TGS cast member. He also is seen once on the show taunting Tina Fey’s character Liz Lemon. In April 2012, on the West Coast installment of the 30 Rock season 6 live show, Williams portrayed a news anchor covering the Apollo 13 story.
        Williams appeared on Sesame Street in a 2007 episode, announcing the word of the day, squid, in a special broadcast. Williams appeared on Sesame Street again in a 2008 episode reporting for Sesame Street Nightly News about the Mine-itis outbreak where he becomes a victim of it. He also was the host of the 2009 Annual Sesame Workshop Benefit Gala.
        In May 2012, Williams spoke at the George Washington University commencement on the National Mall.
        He was the commencement speaker for Elon University’s graduating class of 2013 of which his son Douglas was a member.
        Personal life
        Williams married his wife, Jane Gillan Williams (née Stoddard), at the First Presbyterian Church of New Canaan, Connecticut on June 7, 1986.[63] He currently lives in New Canaan, Connecticut with his wife.[64] His daughter Allison is an actress who stars in HBO’s Girls. He received an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Bates College in 2005.[65]
        Television
        Year Title Role First episode Notes
        2009-12 30 Rock
        Himself The Ones As Himself
        2013 Family Guy
        Himself “Space Cadet”
        voice only
        2013 The Soup
        Himself Himself As Himself
        Career timeline
        This section is in a list format that may be better presented using prose. You can help by converting this section to prose, if appropriate. Editing help is available. (February 2015)
        • 1981: KOAM-TV
        • 1982–86: WTTG-TV correspondent
        • 1985: Panorama Host
        • 1985–87: WCAU-TV New Jersey correspondent
        • 1987–93: WCBS-TV Anchor of weekday noon and weekend night newscasts; reporter
        • 1993–present: NBC News
        • 1993–94, 1996–2004: correspondent
        • 1993–99: NBC Nightly News weekend anchor
        • 1994–96: White House correspondent
        • 1996–04: MSNBC The News with Brian Williams anchor
        • 2004–2015: NBC Nightly News anchor
        • 2011–13: Rock Center with Brian Williams host
        • 2015: six-month suspension from NBC Nightly News for misrepresenting Iraq war experience

        1. I’m sure everyone one has already heard this news story: A Train crashed into an SUV in NY, killing 6 people.

          I’m sure you’ve heard the story, but have you looked into it?

          V E R Y Interesting.

          …. Just a few different articles and pieces of research below… I’ve highlighted some of the most interesting pieces.

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          ps: Contrary to urban (Hollywood) myth: Cars usually do not explode in accidents, and they rarely explode so hugely that an entire train car is engulfed in flames hot enough to melt windows.

          pps: both the train operator and the conductor survived…..

          Wife of banker killed in train crash was told he was ‘fine’ and could be picked up in the morning after heartbreaking hospital mixup

          JP Morgan employee Aditya Tomar, 41, was one of six victim who died in the Tuesday crash in Valhalla, New York
          When wife rushed to hospital to see if he survived the accident, she claims she was told he was ‘fine’ and just undergoing X-rays
          She learned the next day that Tomar had in fact perished

          When the family of Aditya Tomar learned that his regular commuter train from New York City had been involved in a fiery train crash on Tuesday, they rushed to the hospital hoping and praying that he was one of the survivors.
          Unfortunately, the 41-year-old JP Morgan employee was one of the six commuters who perished in the crash,….
          …At 5:45pm he told her, “I’m on the train and I’ll be home soon,'”‘ she said.
          But then – around 6:20pm – communication went quiet and his wife started to worry when he didn’t get home by his usual time of 7pm. Reshma texted her husband asking ‘Where are you?’ but got no answer.
          ‘She thought maybe he had to stay at work late. But at 11 o’clock he still wasn’t home and she started to get worried,’ Dee said.
          It was around that time that Reshma started calling the train stations and hospitals and learned that a major accident had happened in Valhalla, involving a Mercedes-Bez SUV that was stalled on the tracks and was struck by a Metro-North train, sparking a ‘mass-casualty’ incident.
          Reshma and her brother rushed to Westchester County Medical Center to see if Tomar was among the injured, where they received some good – but ultimately false – news.
          ‘Somebody there, the security, said, “He’s fine, he’s undergoing X-rays,”‘ Dee said.
          That person also told Reshma to go home and come back in the morning, but her brother remained suspicious that all was well.
          ‘Something didn’t add up in my son’s mind, so he dropped his sister home and went back on his own,’ Dee said. ‘He was there all night trying to figure out if (Tomar) was actually in the hospital.’
          The next morning, they realized that everyone at the hospital had been accounted for except Tomar, and Reshma submitted her husband’s medical records to the Medical Examiner. Later that night they finally got confirmation that he was among the deceased.

          Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2941793/Hospital-mix-means-…

          JP Morgan Chase executive Aditya Tomar killed in New York train crash

          Aditya Tomar, 41, a JPMorgan Chase & Co. vice president for technology, supporting the bank’s asset-management team, was among the six people killed in the February 3 horrific commuter Metro-North Railroad train accident in New York’s Westchester County….

          http://www.americanbazaaronline.com/2015/02/06/jp-morgan-chase-exec…

          NTSB: EMERGENCY BRAKE APPLIED IN DEADLY N.Y. RAIL CRASH
          By Ray Sanchez, CNN
          Updated 1514 GMT (2314 HKT) February 6, 2015

          New York (CNN)Friends remember Ellen Brody, a mother of three, as someone who wasn’t careless or put others at risk.
          But the Mercedes-Benz SUV she was driving Tuesday evening suddenly moved into the path of Metro-North train, triggering the deadliest crash in the history of the New York commuter railroad, a safety official said.
          The engineer saw the SUV and applied the emergency brake as the train traveled at 58 mph, just under the speed limit of 60, National Transportation Safety Board member Robert Sumwalt said Thursday.
          It was 6:26 p.m.
          The train sounded its horn appropriately. The flashing lights and gates at the crossing functioned properly, officials said.
          The eight-car train stopped 950 feet after the brake was applied, Sumwalt said. That’s about the distance that the SUV was dragged. Brody and five train passengers were killed.
          A witness who was driving a car behind the SUV told the NTSB that the vehicle stopped at the crossing Tuesday night. The SUV driver came out of her vehicle after her rear window was struck by a gate.
          The warning lights activated 39 seconds before the collision, the NTSB said. The gates came down a few seconds later — leaving the SUV in the train’s path about half a minute.

          Caption:VALHALLA, NY – FEBRUARY 3: First responders work at the scene of a train accident on February 3, 2015 in Valhalla, New York. (Photo by Andrew Delaney/Getty Images)
          The witness told investigators that he saw flashing lights that signaled the approaching train. He said he backed up slightly and gestured at Brody to back up away from the gate.
          She returned to the vehicle and, in what seemed like “enough time to put on a seat belt,”suddenly moved the SUV forward into the train’s path, Sumwalt said.
          “What we have here is … a mosaic,” Sumwalt said. “We’re going to take different pieces of information … assemble it and see what that picture looks like.”
          The goal, he said, is to construct “a timeline so we know exactly what happened and when.”
          Steven Harrod, a railroad expert and former professor at University of Dayton in Ohio, said oncoming trains rarely can stop in time for vehicles on tracks.
          “It is a physical reality,” he said. “The train’s ‘failure to stop’ is not a surprise or a cause of the accident… This accident was unfortunate bad luck … It is a constant battle against vehicles on road crossings.”
          The SUV driver and other motorists had been diverted to the area of the rail crossing after another unrelated accident on a nearby parkway, according to the NTSB.
          More than a dozen other people were injured in the crash.
          It’s not known why the SUV stopped on the tracks in Valhalla, about 30 miles north of New York City, the NTSB said. Sumwalt said he believed Brody had owned the SUV a short period of time….

          …Brody’s actions behind the wheel moments before the crash are a focus of the investigation, officials said.
          “There are two big questions here: Why was the car on the train tracks?” Sumwalt asked. “Andwhat caused this accident to be fatal for occupants of the train?”
          Sumwalt said the NTSB is also examining the train’s exits, the “crashworthiness” of the rail cars, and the intensity of the fire — which may have been fueled by the SUV’s gas tank.
          Some 400 feet of the electrified third rail perforated the first rail car and part of the second in 80-foot sections “breaking apart section by section, just basically piling up” in the cars, according to the NTSB.
          Brody was killed in the collision along with train passengers Walter Liedtke, European paintings curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art; Eric Vandercar, a senior managing director for Mesirow Financial; Robert Dirks, a scientist with D. E. Shaw Research; and Joseph Nadol and Aditya Tomar of J.P. Morgan.

          http://edition.cnn.com/2015/02/05/us/new-york-train-collision/

          Eric Vandercar, Morgan Stanley Veteran, Dies in Crash

          (Bloomberg) — Eric Vandercar, who managed municipal funding during a 27-year career at Morgan Stanley before joining Mesirow Financial one year ago, was among the six people killed when a Metro-North Railroad train collided with a vehicle in Westchester County, New York. He was 53.
          ….Vandercar joined Mesirow’s New York office in March as a senior managing director in institutional sales and trading and head of municipal funding, according to an e-mailed statement from Deborah Krieps, a managing director at the Chicago-based firm.

          At Morgan Stanley, he was a municipal bond arbitrage trader and a municipal and treasury portfolio strategist before becoming manager of municipal funding and liquidity in 1989, according to his LinkedIn.com page.
          At both firms, Vandercar’s specialties included tender-option bond programs, which issue short-term securities, use the proceeds to buy longer-maturity local-government obligations, and profit from the difference in interest rates.

          http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-02-04/mesirow-s-eric-va…

          (Bloomberg) — Robert Dirks, a scientist at D.E. Shaw Research whose work was intended for thedevelopment of new drugs, was killed in the commuter train crash in Valhalla, New York, on Feb. 3. He was 36.
          His death in the Metro-North Railroad accident was confirmed by his father, Michael Dirks, who said his son lived in Chappaqua, New York.
          “Robert was a brilliant scientist who made tremendous contributions to our own research, and to the broader scientific community,” New York-based D.E. Shaw Research said today in an e-mailed statement.

          Dirks, who joined the company in 2006, was “involved in the development of novel computational chemistry methods,” according to its website. D.E. Shaw Research creates computer models of organic molecules for use in drug development.

          http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-02-05/robert-dirks-chem…

          About D. E. Shaw Research

          D. E. Shaw Research (“DESRES”) is engaged in scientific research in the field of computational biochemistry, including

          The design of novel algorithms and machine architectures for high-speed molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of proteins and other biological macromolecules. In particular, we have designed and constructed a specialized supercomputer called Anton, which executes such simulations orders of magnitude faster than was previously possible, along with a number of software tools and techniques that facilitate their execution and analysis.

          The use of long MD simulations to study the structural changes underlying biological phenomena that occur on time scales far in excess of those previously accessible to computational study, with the ultimate aim of significantly advancing the process of drug development. We have been investigating, for example, the mechanisms of certain cellular receptors, transport proteins, and enzymes relevant to the understanding and potential treatment of cancer, diabetes, and other diseases.

          http://www.deshawresearch.com/index.html

          A global investment and technology
          development firm

          The D. E. Shaw group is a global investment and technology development firm with more than 1,000 employees, approximately $34 billion in investment capital as of October 1, 2014, and offices in North America, Europe, and Asia. Since our founding in 1988, our firm has earned an international reputation for successful investing based on innovation, careful risk management, and the quality and depth of our staff. We have a significant presence in the world’s capital markets, investing in a wide range of companies and financial instruments in both developed and developing economies.

          http://www.deshaw.com/WhoWeAre.shtml

          D. E. Shaw Research (DESRES) is a privately held biochemistry research company based in New York City. Under the scientific direction of David E. Shaw, the group’s chief scientist, D. E. Shaw Research develops technologies for molecular dynamics simulations (including Anton,[1] [2] a massively parallel special-purpose supercomputer, and Desmond,[3] a software package for use on conventional computers and computer clusters) and applies such simulations to basic scientific research in structural biology and biochemistry, and to the process of computer-aided drug design.

          http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._E._Shaw_Research

          http://sc06.supercomputing.org/schedule/pdf/pap259.pdf

          Three Victims of Metro-North Crash: All Men, Each Bringing His Best

          ….Joseph Nadol, 42, of Ossining, traveled regularly to places like Italy, Spain and Singapore with his wife and three boys, ages 10, 9 and 7, said his wife, Jen Nadol.
          He skied with his family every weekend. Just last week, he traveled to Arizona to see his beloved New England Patriots win the Super Bowl.
          “He was really adventurous, active,” Ms. Nadol said. “He did wring out every bit of the minutes. He grabbed life and did live it very fully in the amount of time he had.”
          Mr. Nadol was the managing director and the head of J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.’s aerospace and defense equity research.
          Known as an astute analyst, he held the No. 1 spot in the aerospace and defense sector of Institutional Investor’s All-American Research Team rankings for the past six years, the publication said.

  7. Derek:

    I weigh in on all of this pretty regularly: http://solari.com/blog/this-changes-everything/

    I am about to read a new book on someone who has gone through the evidence. This is one of the wicked problems – I have not been able to sort out who to trust and it looks to me like a full time job for quite some job to figure it out. I will keep trying, but can not afford to dedicate 100’s of hours to it this year. So would welcome all input and advice from you and all the subscribers on an ongoing basis as to what sources you trust.

    Did you ask Dane why your blogs were deleted? It could have been the moderator as well as cointelpro? But I would certainly let him know that it is happening.

    1. Catherine,

      Your book review is EXCELLENT, and provides exactly the kind of holistic framing of this issue that we need in order to understand the problem and create appropriate solutions. There are so many variables and interests at play here. I appreciate your conclusion: “Bring transparency to our governance system and watch breakthrough solutions start to emerge on hundreds of important issues – climate change among them.”

      If I have more difficulty at GeoengineeringWatch I’ll bring it to Dane’s attention. It could be an overzealous moderator or some other issue that we can resolve.

      If I find some trustworthy sources I’ll share them with you. In the meantime, I hope you find some good info that will be helpful to us in your latest book reading.

      Derek

  8. Hi Catherine,

    I’ve been following Dane Wigington of GeoEngineeringWatch.org, who tends to do a good job covering the issue of the high altitude aerosol spraying programs, aka “chemtrails.” For example his team led a pamphletting action at a recent Alzheimer’s Association fundraiser in Northern California after the association officially de-listed aluminum exposure as a factor they are concerned about. (Dane offered $500 to pay for a booth and was denied, and was threatened with arrest while handing flyers out.) It appears that more recently Dane spends much of the time decrying “global warming” and our collective doom that will assuredly result. There is a lot of censorship at his blog, with my posts deleted 2 out of 3 times. For example last weekend this was deleted:

    “All I know is that I want the spraying to stop. Raining down nanoparticle heavy metals upon us is insane, global warming or not. I am suspect of any climate numbers put out by the establishment. To push through this agenda at the UN level a lot of these temperature numbers were falsified. Wasn’t that what “Climate Gate” was about when the emails were leaked? Or Gore’s faked hockey stick graph that suppressed the medieval warming period? In my opinion the sun is driving most of this.”

    Can you please weigh on on this? IS the planet warming? IS it due to manmade CO2? Who’s numbers can we trust when so much of the fear of global warming is being used to support greater centralization of control, e.g., a planet wide carbon tax program that the elites will benefit so much from?

  9. Hi Catherine,

    Could you consider doing a report on TPP and TTIP, which are formalizing a series of supranational governance principles at the border of 2.0 and 3.0? E.g. could a 3-person arbitration panel become a “Supreme Court” for 800 million people in the US and EU, with no public input? Glynn Moody has been covering this topic for a while and could be a potential Solari guest. In the US, passage is dependent on Fast Track.

    Financial regulation: http://www.computerworlduk.com/blogs/open-enterprise/ttip-update-xlix-3595732/
    Tribunal for dispute resolution: http://www.computerworlduk.com/blogs/open-enterprise/ttip-update-l-3596807/
    More coverage: http://www.computerworlduk.com/blogs/open-enterprise/ttip-updates–the-glyn-moody-blogs-3569438/

    Rich

    1. Rich:

      Good idea. I will add a Solari Report on the trade deals to the 2015 schedule. Thanks for the suggestion!

      Catherine

  11. A comment on Dr. Farrell’s website, http://www.gizadeathstar.com, was made in response to the latest comments by the Russians that they had a new nuclear deterrent. The person suggested that if you wanted to know the latest technology, you should go to Tom Bearden’s website, http://www.cheniere.org. I did as suggested and I have to say that I was pretty much blown out of the water. Dr. Bearden talks about everything from his own research into free energy but also the French suppression of Antoine Priore’s medical healing machine, electrodynamics, facts about Gulf War disease…. need I go on? I deeply regret my lack of physics education but it doesn’t take a phD to get the gist about how much we are kept in the darkness of “secret science”.

    I can’t remember if Tom Bearden was mentioned at the Secret Space Program, but it is clear that he could easily have been a major component.

    Jane

    1. Jane:

      Yes, very informative site. Carol Rosin arranged for Tom to come in to the conference by speaker phone during one of the panels. So he was there in voice!

      Catherine

    2. Thanks, Catherine. I remember Carol Rosin talking to someone over the speaker phone but I guess I forgot that it was Bearden. Without the face, it was tough to catch exactly who it was.

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