Quote du Jour
“I wouldn’t. It’s more important to get things done than to be remembered for having done them.”
~Julian Assange, when asked how he would like to be remembered
Precious Metals – Week of 07.21.13
WWII Shipwreck Gives Up 61 Tons From Atlantic Seabed
Bloomberg | 22 July 2013
Odyssey Marine Exploration Inc. (OMEX), a deep-sea salvage company…
Playing in Commodity Markets, Investment Banks Are …
Housing & Mortgage Markets – Week of 07.21.13
HUD’s New ‘Fair Housing’ Rule Establishes Diversity Data for Every Neighborhood in U.S.
CNS News | 22 July 2013
To ensure that “every American is able to choose to live in a community…
A Shifting o…
Geopolitical – Week of 07.21.13
Homeland Security’s Future Home: A Former Mental Hospital
Bloomberg Businessweek | 25 July 2013
Chris Mills frequently gives tours of St. Elizabeths Hospital…
Police Set to Get New Dispersal Powers…
Science & Technology – Week of 07.21.13
Tracking Gunfire With a Smartphone
Institute for Software Integrated Systems | 05 June 2013
You are walking down the street with a friend. A shot is fired…
How Pretty Pictures Are Conquering Online…
Why the Federal Reserve Will Taper in September
By Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk
Something peculiar has been going on in the treasury market during the latest round of quantitative easing (QE). If we study the chart provided below we find that treasury…
Food & Health – Week of 07.21.13
98 Million Americans Were Given Polio Vaccine Contaminated With Cancer-Causing Virus, Admits CDC
Natural News | 25 July 2013
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)…
Brazil Develo…
Life – Week of 07.21.13
Spike Lee Wants YOU To Fund His Next Movie
Yahoo! Finance | 24 July 2013
There’s a new Spike Lee joint…
Dolphins Use Signature Whistles to Call Each Other by ‘Name’
Los Angeles Times | 22 July 2013…
Wildcards – Week of 07.21.13
Darpa “Terminator” Robots, Space Probes, and More Speculation
Giza Death Star | 22 July 2013
Well if you’ve been following my blogs and thoughts the past few weeks…
Viktor Schauberger – Comprehend and Copy Nature
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Catherine in 2010 on US Healthcare Policy
This is a clip from an interview Catherine Austin Fitts did called “The Looting of America”. Catherine, the daughter of a physician, has been watching the change in government regulations regarding …
Ella Fitzgerald – “Mack the Knife”
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Equity Overview with Chuck Gibson: Why Dividends Matter – July 18
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Quote du Jour – Charlotte Du Cann
“Because we are holding out for an earth we know we belong to, by virtue of being alive in this form. Because somewhere in the place where there are no words, just a feeling, we are holding open a …
Quote du Jour
“Because we are holding out for an earth we know we belong to, by virtue of being alive in this form. Because somewhere in the place where there are no words, just a feeling, we are holding open a …
Does Edward Snowden Have Stock Options?
Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corporation (BAH)
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An Alternative to Obamacare?
By CNBC
In Dubai, city of opulence and excess, the obese are worth their (over) weight in gold. In an effort to fight increasing obesity rates, the tiny Emirate has once again outdone the world in …
America’s Global Image Remains More Positive than China’s
By Pew Research
Publics around the world believe the global balance of power is shifting. China’s economic power is on the rise, and many think it will eventually supplant the United States as th…
Rosalie Bertell and Planet Earth as a Weapon
[CAF Note: I just finished reading Planet Earth by Rosalie Bertell. Rather than review it, I am linking to Dr. Farrell’s review from 2011]
By Dr. Joseph P. Farrell
In my search to find information r…
Detroit Files Largest Municipal Bankruptcy in U.S. History
By Michael A. Fletcher
Detroit filed the largest municipal bankruptcy in the nation’s history Thursday afternoon, capping a long and spectacular decline that left the nation’s automaking capita…
Senators Reach Deal on Student Loan Interest Rates, Prepare For Vote
By Jenna Johnson
Under pressure from the White House, Senate leaders are quickly moving forward with a plan to change how the government sets federal student loan interest rates, tying them to mark…
Crowdfunding Equity: The Market Begins
[CAF: Pay Attention. This is a market shifting event. There will be another shift coming this fall when the SEC promulgates rules that permit solicitation to non-accredited investors.]
By Ryan Tate…
JPMorgan in Talks to Settle Energy Manipulation Case for $500 Million
[CAF Note: Is JP Morgan shipping back $500 million to fund the $393 million in the Presidents DOJ budget for the gun campaign as well as $93 million for cybersecurity funded from the profits on mana…
New Giant Telescope Will Outshine Hubble by 15,600%
By Garakami
Scientists are eager to bring the universe a little closer to home with the soon-to-be world’s largest optical Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT). The telescope was recently approved to be …
What If?
By Grant Williams
A few weeks ago, I put a chart with which I am acutely familiar up on my Bloomberg. It is a chart I have studied every single day for over a decade, so by now I know pretty much e…
G20 to Seek Reassurance from U.S. Fed and China
By Lidia Kelly and Douglas Busvine
G20 summits do not always set the pulse racing, but this week’s gathering of finance ministers and central bankers in Moscow has a better chance than most of grab…
All That Electronic “Data Mining”: Part Two: The Beast, Or, The Ultimate In Insider Trading And Blackmail Capability
By Dr. Joseph P. Farrell
Yesterday I blogged about that nice bright shiny new NSA facility being built (for all to photograph from their spy satellites) in Utah. As we saw in yesterday’s blog, a …
Quote du Jour – Rasheedat Fetuga
“It’s time to acknowledge that we don’t understand each other and we need to seek understanding as opposed to elect to be afraid.”
~ Rasheedat Fetuga, in response to the Zimmerman trial verdict
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Quote du Jour
“It’s time to acknowledge that we don’t understand each other and we need to seek understanding as opposed to elect to be afraid.”
~Rasheedat Fetuga, in response to the Zimmerman trial verdict
…
Plunging Currency Adds to Syria’s Gloom
By Loveday Morris and Ahmed Ramadan
After more than two years of relentless conflict, Syria’s government is desperately trying to avert a secondary crisis: a sharp decline in the Syrian currency,…
Morgellons : A Working Hypothesis Neural, Thyroid, Liver, Oxygen, Protein and Iron Disruption
[CAF: Clifford Carnicom continues to provide leadership and invaluable information to help us understand the impact of global spraying programs. Here is his latest – a work in progress.]
By Cliffor…
Transcript of “2nd Quarter Wrap Up” is Now Available!
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The IMF’s Dreary Report Card
Photo Credit: The Nation
By Robert J. Samuelson
The International Monetary Fund’s latest global economic forecast makes for unhappy reading. You may remember that, some years back, it was fashion…
Money & Markets – Week of 07.14.13
Big Banks, Flooded in Profits, Fear Flurry of New Safeguards
Dealbook | 18 July 2013
The nation’s six largest banks reported $23 billion in profits in the second quarter…
G20 Backs Fundamental Re…
Reinventing the Train: Ideas Coming Down the Track
Photo Credit: AFP
By The Economist
Compared with other modes of transport, train technology might seem to be progressing as slowly as a suburban commuter service rattling its way from one station t…
Geopolitical – Week of 07.14.13
Obama Ponders Canceling Moscow Talks With Putin
Associated Press | 19 July 2013
The White House is considering canceling a fall summit between President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Put…
Science & Technology – Week of 07.14.13
Tiny New Moon Discovered around Neptune
Scientific American | 17 July 2013
The Hubble Space Telescope has revealed a small, never-before-seen moon…
NASA, Industry Test Additively Manufactured Rocke…
Food & Health – Week of 07.14.13
BC Centre For Disease Control Report Points to Damaging Health Effects From Wireless Devices
Citizens for Safe Technology | 18 July 2013
Based upon recent findings, the BC CDC recommends that males ke…
Life – Week of 07.14.13
The 100 Best Sci-Fi Movies of All Time
Popular Science
Cinema exists to project our dreams…
Daily Habits of the Wealthy
Yahoo! Finance | 16 July 2013
If you think becoming rich is about luck, thin…
Tom Waits – “Talking at the Same Time”
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Precious Metals Market Report with James Turk and Franklin Sanders – July 11
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German Village Produces 321% More Energy Than It Needs!
By Inhabitat
It’s no surprise that the country that has kicked butt at the Solar Decathlon competition (to produce energy positive solar houses) year after year is the home to such a productive ene…
Executive Order — Assignment of National Security and Emergency Preparedness Communications Functions
Published Jul 06, 2012
EXECUTIVE ORDER
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ASSIGNMENT OF NATIONAL SECURITY AND
EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS COMMUNICATIONS FUNCTIONS
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constit…
Drone Lands Itself at Sea, New Era in Warfare
Photo Credit: Northrop Grumman
By Tobin Harshaw
It’s not going to overshadow Chuck Yeager or the Wright Brothers, but when a drone aircraft’s tailhook snatched a wire stretched across the deck of t…
Judge Throws Out ‘State Secrets’ Claim, Allowing Lawsuit Against NSA to Continue
By RT
The Obama administration will not be allowed to terminate a lawsuit by asserting that a civil argument would risk exposing national secrets, a federal judge ruled Monday in what has already b…
Top US States for New Manufacturing Jobs
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By Mark Koba
Manufacturing jobs in the U.S. appear to be coming back—if ever so slightly.
Several American firms, including Caterpillar, GE and Ford, have announ…
Quote du Jour – Rumi
“Where there is ruin, there is hope for treasure.”
~ Rumi
Quote du Jour
“Where there is ruin, there is hope for treasure.”
~Rumi
Student Loan Rates Double After Congress Fails on Fix
Photo Credit:AP/Susan Walsh
By FoxNews.com
Interest rates on federally subsidized Stafford student loans doubled overnight, soaring from 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent after Congress failed to reach a …
Bohemian Grove Starts Saturday, July 13th!
“The Bohemian club! Did you say Bohemian club? That’s where all those rich Republicans go up and stand naked against redwood trees right? I’ve never been to the Bohemian club but you oughta go. It’d b…
Matrix: Who is Edward Snowden?
By Jon Rappoport
This article is a compilation of a number of pieces I’ve written about Ed Snowden and the NSA. It doesn’t replace them, but it hits the high points…
Let’s begin here: If y…
A New Solar Minimum?
By George Ure
OK, bear with me here: The largest story of the week, when the history books are written, could be that the latest solar weather predictions from NOAA seem to make it clear that the …
Dr. Farrell on the Empire Bringing Capital Homeward
Photo Credit: Carolyn Kaster/AP
By Dr. Joseph P. Farrell
Over the past two days, I’ve been blogging about the emergence of GMOs as a political issue, and how Russia’s warnings that it could tri…
Money & Markets – Week of 07.07.13
Deflation Pulling More Than Inflation
Kitco | 01 July 2013
Deflation and inflation pressures have both been pulling at the markets…
SEC Lifts Ban on Advertising for Certain Private Securities
Jou…
Precious Metals – Week of 07.07.13
The Golden Backwardation Rabbit Hole Gets Deeper: Subzero GOFO Slide Accelerates
Zero Hedge | 09 July 2013
Yesterday we described the historic inversion in the Gold Forward Offered Rate…
Housing & Mortgage Markets – Week of 07.07.13
How the Mortgage Interest Deduction Could Change
Yahoo! Finance | 09 July 2013
Congressional action on the U.S. tax code could dramatically alter one of its sacred cows…
A Reversal of Mortgage Rate…
Geopolitical – Week of 07.07.13
Homeland Security Secretary Napolitano Resigning
Yahoo! Finance | 12 July 2013
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, who led the burgeoning Department of Homeland Security…
U.S. Posts Wides…
Science & Technology – Week of 07.07.13
Top Solar Power States Per Capita (Updated) vs Top Solar Policy Leaders
Clean Technica | 25 June 2013
Last year, I put together rankings of the top solar power countries per capita…
Researchers Dev…
Food & Health – Week of 07.07.13
Artificial Sweeteners Could Lead to Obesity, Diabetes
CBS News | 10 July 2013
Many people feel that using artificial sweeteners instead of sugar is the healthier choice…
IRS Provides Details About …
Oregon Legislature Unanimously Passes Tuition Free Higher Education
By Chris Lazare
Oregon has come up with a plan to help provide higher education for free at their 7 state universities. Advocates of the legislation are calling it the “pay it forward” model. S…
Life – Week of 07.07.13
World’s 15 Most Inventive Cities
Forbes | 07 July 2013
Tiny, biodegradable implants known as Bioneedles…
Some Rich People Are Building a Giant Clock Inside a Mountain
Vice | June 2013
Deep within a…
Saxon Angle:ERISA-fication of the IRA
By Plansponsor
Are new distribution regulations around the corner?
Policymakers within the federal government sent yet another strong signal that they are reassessing the role of individual retireme…
U.S. Postal Service Logging All Mail for Law Enforcement
Photo Credit: Brendan Bannon/The New York Times
By Ron Nixon
Leslie James Pickering noticed something odd in his mail last September: a handwritten card, apparently delivered by mistake, with instr…
The Zombies – “Summertime”
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2nd Quarter Wrap Up 2013
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The Solari Report 2013-07-04
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Solari Stories – Scandals, Control Files, and Blackmail
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18th Round of Trans-Pacific Partnership Negotiations Set for Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia
Photo Credit: Gobierno de Chile
The 18th round of TPP negotiations will take place in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia July 15-24, 2013. Stakeholder events will take place on Saturday, July 20th at the Suter…
Via Campesina and the Fight for Seeds
Photo Credit: Tineke D’haese for Via Campesina
Published on June 15, 2013
By Salena Tramel
The U.S. Court of Appeals ruled in favor of Monsanto and its patented seeds last Monday by throwing out a…
A 4th of July Message from a Senior German Banker
By Folker Hellmeyer, Translation Lars Schall
Since 1997 – 2004, the U.S. was changed from an income-driven economy into an economy, whose economic performance is determined by political control of …
BofA Reportedly Sending Property Reviews to India
By Appraisal Institute
Bank of America reportedly opened a unit in India to review valuation reports in an effort to boost its share of the U.S. mortgage market at a lower cost, Bloomberg reported …
Independence Day: Happy 4th of July!
Wishing everyone in the United States and those of you celebrating with us, a happy July 4th weekend!
– Catherine and the Solari Team
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Board Meeting Minutes
In the spirit of Independence Day, I am publishing the minutes of the board meeting of the Arlington Institute on April 10th, 2000. I have repeatedly stated that I would do so if my description of thi…
Quote du Jour – Einstein
“The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.”
~ Albert Einstein
Quote du Jour
“The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.”
~Albert Einstein
The Masters of Deception
By Paul Levy
A few days before my interview on Why Shamanism Now? Internet Radio Show, I received an email from the well-known anthropologist, author and shamanic practitioner Hank Wesselman. He me…
Vatican Bank Director and Deputy Resign Amid Scandal
By BBC News
The director and deputy director of the Vatican bank have resigned following the arrest of a senior Italian cleric over corruption and fraud allegations.
Paolo Cipriani and Massimo Tul…
Money & Markets – Week of 06.30.13
The Madoff Of Munis
Forbes | 05 June 2013
As her renown in the elite world of quarter horse breeding grew…
Global R&D Incentives Compared
Journal of Accountancy | June 2013
The American Taxpayer Re…
Precious Metals – Week of 06.30.13
Tocqueville Gold Strategy Investor Letter Second Quarter 2013
Tocqueville | 01 July 2013
In light of the dramatic developments of the past six months…
In Gold We Trust 2013 – Long Term Gold Price…
Housing & Mortgage Markets – Week of 06.30.13
House of 3 Tents: Affordable Cabin Home in California
YouTube | 24 June 2013
When Glen and Gerry bought property in Northern California…
Geopolitical – Week of 06.30.13
Effort to Oust Attorney General Eric Holder Gains Momentum
The New American | 02 July 2013
Last month, more than 75 Republicans in the House of Representatives…
Keith Alexander: NSA’S Prince of Dar…
Science & Technology – Week of 06.30.13
Cortex – Exoskeleton Protecting the Internal Skeleton
Jake Evil Design | 2013
After many centuries of splints and cumbersome plaster casts…
NASA’s NEXT Ion Thruster Runs Five and a Half Years Nons…
Life – Week of 06.30.13
Spike Jonze Presents: Lil Buck and Yo-Yo Ma
YouTube | 11 April 2011
An amazing collaboration between Yo-Yo Ma and a young dancer in LA, Lil Buck…
Wildcards – Week of 06.30.13
50th Anniversary of Eisenhower Military Industrial Complex Warning – The UFO Connection
Exopolitics.org | 17 January 2011
Today is the 50th anniversary of Eisenhower’s warning about the dangers posed…
Moscow Exchange Launches First Precious Metals Trading
Photo Credit: AFP Photo/Alexander Nemenov
By RT
The stock exchange is going to start trading gold and silver by the end of this year, and platinum and palladium in 2014. Trading physical metals is …
U.S. Housing Markets with Dr. Zinnia Mukherjee – June 27
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Solari Stories – The $400,000,000 Story pt. 2
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The Anti-Empire Report
CAF Note: This article has an excellent insight into the NSA and economic warfare.
By William Blum
Despite these concerns the US has continued to expand ECHELON surveillance in Europe, partly becaus…
U.S. Needs More Time on Overseas Swaps, Democratic Senators Say
By Silla Brush and Cheyenne Hopkins
U.S. regulators will inject risk into the derivatives market if they don’t take more time to coordinate Dodd-Frank Act rules with their overseas counterparts, si…
Quote du Jour – Hafiz
“Even after all this time the sun never says to the earth, “You owe me.” Look at what happens with a love like that – it lights the entire sky.”
– Hafiz
Quote du Jour
“Even after all this time the sun never says to the earth, “You owe me.” Look at what happens with a love like that – it lights the entire sky.”
– Hafiz
U.S. Tops Confidence Survey on Foreign Investment, Displaces China
Photo Credit: Reuters/Gary Hershorn
[CAF Note: Force rules]
By Daniel Bases and Manuela Badawy
After a 12-year hiatus, the United States reclaimed first place among top executives in a survey on f…
Quote du Jour – Buddha
“Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.”
– Buddha
Quote du Jour
“Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.”
– Buddha
Transcript of “Internet Freedom: Your Rights in a Digital World with Rainey Reitman” is Now Available!
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The Recent Surge in Yields: How Does It Compare with the Past?
By Doug Short
The bond market selloff after the FOMC meeting and Chairman Bernanke’s surprising specifics about exiting QE was quite stunning. However, his hawkish position was supported by today’s…
Bank of America’s Foreclosure Frenzy
By Jonathan Weil
In one corner, we have five former Bank of America Corp. employees who told a federal court they were instructed to mislead customers on the verge of losing their homes and stall t…
Money & Markets – Week of 06.23.13
Warning of New Financial Crisis as Bond Yields Spike
Investment Week | 24 June 2013
The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) has warned spiking bond yields across the world threaten trillion of do…
Precious Metals – Week of 06.23.13
Gold Rush 2013 Style Has Dubai Scrambling
The National | 28 June 2013
There is not enough space on airlines flying in to Dubai to meet the rapidly rising demand for physical gold…
Gold Drops Below …