Money & Markets – Week of 06.02.13
Advising Clients Regarding Erroneous Tax Return Positions: Part I
AICPA | 01 June 2013
Tax practitioners occasionally uncover or otherwise become aware of errors…
Beware of Sideways Markets
Institu…
Precious Metals – Week of 06.02.13
France Prohibits Sending Currency, “Coins And Precious Metals” By Mail
Zero Hedge | 07 June 2013
Today’s AM fix was USD 1,410.00, EUR 1,065.12 and GBP 905.53 per ounce…
Only One Thing Matters…
Housing & Mortgage Markets – Week of 06.02.13
Hedge Fund Panic on Rental Homes
Tradewind Vegas | 05 June 2013
We don’t usually post twice a week but there is a big splash in the pond…
Behind the Rise in House Prices, Wall Street Buyers
Dealb…
Geopolitical – Week of 06.02.13
Saudi Arabia’s Quiet Transition
AL Monitor | 05 June 2012
In the last year, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has transitioned its top security posts…
NSA Collecting Phone Records of Millions of Verizo…
Science & Technology – Week of 06.02.13
Wikipedia Wars: The Most Controversial Pages Revealed
Fox News | 03 June 2013
A behind-the-scenes look at the so-called edit wars…
Makerbot May Or May Not Be Getting Acquired, And It May Or May Not…
Food & Health – Week of 06.02.13
Plant Maps
Interactive plant, tree and gardening maps and data…
Hacking Tomatoes at the World’s Greenest Greenhouse
IEEE Spectrum | 05 June 2013
A Dutch experimental growing facility tests the br…
Life – Week of 06.02.13
Re-Imagining School
TED | February 2006
All over the world, there’s a growing consensus that our education systems are broken…
Click for Career Enhancement
The New York Times | 10 March 2013
Anyone…
Monsanto Gives Up The Fight For Genetically Modified Plants In Europe
Photo Credit: REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz
By Wolf Richter, Testosterone Pit
The “March Against Monsanto” in 52 countries, an unapproved strain of its genetically modified wheat growing profusely in …
Illinois Illegally Seizes Bees Resistant to Monsanto’s Roundup; Kills Remaining Queens
Photo Credit: Patty French/Central Ohio Beekeepers Association
By Global Research News
The Illinois Ag Dept. illegally seized privately owned bees from renowned naturalist, Terrence Ingram, withou…
Jussi Björling – “Nessun Dorma”
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Paul Levy at Powells
This is the official book launch of Paul Levy’s new book Dispelling Wetiko: Breaking the Curse of Evil, recorded at Powell’s City of Books on February 22, 2013.
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The Matrix is a Covert Operation with Jon Rappoport – May 30
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Solari Stories – The Red Button
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Skype With Care – Microsoft is Reading Everything You Write
By The H Security
Anyone who uses Skype has consented to the company reading everything they write. The H’s associates in Germany at heise Security have now discovered that the Microsoft subsidiary…
Subscriber Lunch in Nicasio, California – June 1
If you are a Solari Report subscriber, you are cordially invited to meet and lunch with Catherine.
This will provide an opportunity for you to meet Catherine in person and to get together with othe…
SEC to Vote June 5 on Floating Share for Riskier Money Funds
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By Dave Michaels & Carter Dougherty
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission will vote next week on a proposal that would require a floating-share valu…
Major Victory as Jury Rules in Favor of Private Food Rights
By KristenM
I am doing my happy dance. Vernon Hershberger, the Amish dairy farmer recently on trial in Wisconsin for providing raw milk to his community, was acquitted last week by a jury on three …
Book Review: Water & Salt
By Catherine Austin Fitts
A naturopath who I respect greatly told me about a therapy of drinking “sole” – a salt water made with Himalayan Salt Crystals. It is described in Water & Salt: The Es…
Review: Water & Salt
By Catherine Austin Fitts
A naturopath who I respect greatly told me about a therapy of drinking “sole” – a salt water made with Himalayan Salt Crystals. It is described in Water & Salt: The Es…
Book Review: Covert Wars and Breakaway Civilizations
“There is a crack, a crack in everything
That’s how the light gets in”
~Leonard Cohen
By Catherine Austin Fitts
When it comes to understanding the governance of planet earth, my favorite expres…
Review: Covert Wars and Breakaway Civilizations
“There is a crack, a crack in everything
That’s how the light gets in”
~Leonard Cohen
By Catherine Austin Fitts
When it comes to understanding the governance of planet earth, my favorite expres…
Presenting The Full Impact Of Stock Buybacks On S&P 500 “Earnings”
By Tyler Durden
There has been much speculation in the recent past over what the bottom-line impact of surging stock buyback activity has been on the overall S&P earnings: after all, by removing sh…
Macro Analytics – Gordon Long w/ Catherine Austin Fitts & Ty Andros
Catherine Austin Fitts is a former Wall Street insider and Assistant Secretary in the Bush I administration. Her background gave her a clear grasp of the covert economy which exists today. Through n…
Dark Journalist: Catherine Austin Fitts – Dancing With The Breakaway Civilization Part II
Inteview
YouTube | May 27 2013
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Join Dark Journalist for part 2 of a penetrating interview with financial and political expert Catherine Austin Fitts. Listen to interesting topi…
And How Will the Fed Defend the Bond Market?
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Watch out Watford: Here Comes the Secretive Bilderberg Group
By James Cusick
For three days beginning on 6 June, a five-star hotel in Chandler’s Cross that normally hosts the England football team before Wembley matches, will turn over its 227 luxury roo…
Protesters Around the World March Against Monsanto
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By AP
Protesters rallied in dozens of cities Saturday as part of a global protest against seed giant Monsanto and the genetically modified food it produces, organizer…
Money & Markets – Week of 05.26.13
The Real Reason Millennials Don’t Buy Cars and Homes
Yahoo! Finance | 31 May 2013
They’re narcissistic. Apathetic. Pampered. And addicted to their four-inch screens…
Gundlach: Gibson, Gas and G…
Precious Metals – Week of 05.26.13
New BoE Chief Carney Will Devalue Sterling, Pimco Warns
The Telegraph | 29 May 2013
Growth in Britain is going to remain “challenged” for the next three to five years…
Monetary Rapture: The Inc…
Housing & Mortgage Markets – Week of 05.26.13
Carrington Stops Buying U.S. Rentals as Blackstone Adding
Bloomberg | 29 May 2013
Hedge fund manager Bruce Rose was among the first investors to coax institutional money into the mom and pop business….
Geopolitical – Week of 05.26.13
Switzerland Proposes Allowing Banks to Resolve U.S. Tax Evasion Cases
Journal of Accountancy | 29 May 2013
The government of Switzerland would allow its banks to disclose data about account holders to…
Science & Technology – Week of 05.26.13
Cold Fusion is Back With ‘Anomalous Heat’ Claim
The Register | 22 May 2013
Italian entrepreneur Andrea Rossi has surfaced again to restate his claim…
Food & Health – Week of 05.26.13
Q&A: World’s Oldest Performing Female Bodybuilder
Time | 30 May 2013
National Senior Health and Fitness Day was celebrated Thursday by aging gym rats everywhere…
Portland Rejects Fluoridation—A…
Life – Week of 05.26.13
Top 10 States Most at Risk Of Disaster
Kiplinger | May 2013
Disasters can happen at any time and anywhere…
Wildcards – Week of 05.26.13
Report: State Agencies Have $4.9 Billion In Ending Fund Balances
YouTube | 26 May 2009
Video uploaded in 2009: State agencies have $4.9 billion in combined ending fund balances…
Memorial Day – Honoring Those Whom We Have Lost
Dulce Et Decorum Est
by Wilfred Owen
Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,
Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,
Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs
And toward…
The Decemberists – “Calamity Song”
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Coming Clean: The Geopolitics of Water with Terje Tvedt – May 23
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Solari Stories – Losers Make the Pie Bigger
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Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead 2nd Anniversay Celebration
By Reboot With Joe
It has been the most amazing two years for Joe and Team Reboot and we genuinely thank you for being part of the movement that the film inspired.
As our way of saying thank you f…
Swiss Bank Sees U.S. Fine as Part of Deferred Prosecution Deal
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By Carolyn Bandel
Zuercher Kantonalbank, the biggest Swiss cantonal bank, expects to pay a fine to U.S. authorities as part of a deferred prosecution agreemen…
Transcript of “Coming Clean: My Water is Wonderful with Dan Hillard” is Now Available!
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Oldie but a Goodie – Battle at Kruger
By Wikipedia
Battle at Kruger is an eight-minute amateur wildlife video that depicts an unfolding confrontation between a herd of Cape buffalo, a small pride of lions, and one or two crocodiles. Th…
Robobee Officially Takes Flight: Robotic Pollinators to Replace Dying Bees
By Heather Callaghan
No, this is not a tabloid – it’s real. According to the latest video, which has now been posted below, robotic insects have made their first controlled flight. According to the…
Make Way for the Killers & the Great Tax Haven Round Up
By Catherine Austin Fitts
There are no scandals in Washington. There is simply a turnover. We are preparing for an escalation of the global financial war. The old team are simply being told to step…
Money & Markets – Week of 05.19.13
FDIC to Reserve Oil, Gas & Mineral Rights
Smith & Associates Title Service Inc. | 02 April 2013
The FDIC announced last week that it will implement a program to reserve oil, gas and mineral rights…
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Precious Metals – Week of 05.19.13
Deep Sea Mining ‘Gold Rush’ Moves Closer
BBC News | 17 May 2013
The prospect of a deep sea “gold rush” opening a controversial new frontier for mining on the ocean floor has moved a step closer…
Re…
Dark Journalist: Catherine Austin Fitts – Dancing With The Breakaway Civilization
Interview
YouTube | May 19 2013
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Geopolitical – Week of 05.19.13
So It’s Come To This: Seven High School Students Arrested For Throwing… Water Balloons
Tech Dirt | 22 May 2013
The weather’s (mostly) hot. School’s almost out. And what better way to celebrate summe…
Science & Technology – Week of 05.19.13
Xbox One Raises the Burden of Privacy Safeguards: 5 Questions for Microsoft
Time Tech | 22 May 2013
Some things you take for granted, like the fact that in Star Trek…
NASA is Funding a 3D Food Prin…
Food & Health – Week of 05.19.13
Psychiatry Goes Insane: Every Human Emotion Now Classified as a Mental Disorder in New Psychiatric Manual DSM-5
Natural News | 13 December 2012
The industry of modern psychiatry has officially gone in…
Life – Week of 05.19.13
‘Death By a Thousand Cuts’: Coal Boom Could Destroy Great Barrier Reef
Spiegel | 21 May 2013
Australia’s Great Barrier Reef is rapidly losing its coral…
The Geneticals Episode 1
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Wildcards – Week of 05.19.13
Bill Drafted In Secret Would Block Release Of Some Newtown Massacre Records
Cryptogon | 22 May 2013
The staffs of the state’s top prosecutor and the governor’s office have been working in secret…..
Gmail to Allow Money to be Sent as An Attachment
By Will Shanklin
Gmail lets you send all kinds of files as attachments. And Google Wallet lets you pay for just about anything. Why not combine the two? That could have been the thinking by someone…
Paloma Faith – “Upside Down”
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Solari Stories – Moving the Money
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Rodriguez at the Ryman
By Kristen Linton
The lights dimmed, the band entered, Rodriguez took the stage. He hadn’t said a word or strummed a note, but the crowd was already standing. Audience members competing for his…
Overhaul of E.U. Seed Regulations Triggers Protests
By Tania Rabesandratana
The European Commission is reforming the European Union’s plant and animal health legislation in a bid to enhance food safety across the bloc. But critics say that the measu…
Save Europe: Split the Euro
By Brigitte Granville, Hans-Olaf Henkel & Stefan Kawalec
On the eve of the American Civil War, Abraham Lincoln famously said that “a house divided cannot stand.” Today, the European Union — co…
House Passes JOBS Act Deadline
By The Committee on Financial Services
The House of Representatives today passed two bipartisan Financial Services Committee bills, including one that sets a deadline for the Securities and Exchang…
Coming Clean: My Water is Wonderful with Dan Hillard – May 16
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US Equity Market P/Es
By GuruFocus
Prof. Robert Shiller of Yale University invented the Schiller P/E to measure the market’s valuation. The Schiller P/E is a more reasonable market valuation indicator than the P/E ratio…
BREAKING: Department of Homeland Security Has Seized Funds Associated with Dwolla Account of Bitcoin Dealer Mt. Gox
By Robert Wenzel
This is Update 2 on news that the Department of Homeland Security has served a court order to the money exchange service Dwolla, in regard to its dealings with Mt. Gox.
Earlier tod…
On the Importance of Food Freedom
“After all, most civilized and semi-civilized countries known to history had a large class of slaves or serfs completely subordinate to their owners. There is nothing in human nature that makes th…
Mandatory Savings Accounts Are Coming Your Way
By Dan Kadlec
The retirement savings crisis in America has brought us to this point: It’s a near certainty that mandatory savings accounts are in the future of anyone with a full- or part-time jo…
Transcript of “Precious Metals Market Report with Franklin Sanders and Stewart Thomson” is Now Available!
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DOJ to IRS: Out with the Old, In with the New
[CAF Note: With G-7 Deciding this weekend to target tax havens, the US wants a new team in at the IRS who can use their civil and criminal investigative powers to extend taxing and capital controls …
Meet the 2013 Bay Area Makers
[CAF Note: I’m excited. I am headed to my first maker faire this Saturday. Check it out!]
Explore makers and projects coming to Maker Faire Bay Area 2013. You can choose to browse by topic below or…
Raspberry Pi: Are You Ready to Carry Your Website in Your Pocket?
By Wikipedia
The Raspberry Pi is a credit-card-sized single-board computer developed in the UK by the Raspberry Pi Foundation with the intention of promoting the teaching of basic computer science …
Get to Know Mira Nair
by Kristen Linton
I had the opportunity to spend some time in TriBeCa at the Film Festival a few weeks ago. My sister is a filmmaker and she needed a companion to help her do some research for he…
Biometric Database of All Adult Americans Hidden in Immigration Reform
By David Kravets
The immigration reform measure the Senate began debating yesterday would create a national biometric database of virtually every adult in the U.S., in what privacy groups fear coul…
May 13, 2013 – Financial Perspectives
By Chuck Gibson
Since the calendar just turned its page to May I thought it good to visit that long standing Wall St. axiom regarding “Sell in May and go away (and live to see another day)”. Fo…
Tax Havens of the Wealthy and Powerful
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Public Comments on SEC Regulatory Initiatives Under the JOBS Act
By U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
The Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act includes provisions that require the SEC to undertake various initiatives, including rulemaking and studies touchi…
Shadow Banking System
By Wikipedia
The shadow banking system is the collection of non-bank financial intermediaries that provide services similar to traditional commercial banks. It is sometimes said to include entities…
Sen. Elizabeth Warren Wants Student Loans to Get Fed Discount Rate
[CAF Note: The big banks can borrow at 0.75%, but students have to pay 6%+. Why is that? It is called reverse Robin Hood. Debase and drain the young people, give to the rich.]
By Jim Puzzanghera
S…
New Report: No Austerity for EU Military Spending
By ROAR Collective
A new report by the Transnational Institute — ‘Guns, Debt and Corruption: Military Spending and the EU Crisis’ — looks at the ways in which excessive militarization direc…
Catherine Austin Fitts on Precious Metals, Digital Currencies and Globalised Central Planning
By GoldMoney
Andy Duncan has the pleasure of interviewing Catherine Austin Fitts, known for her much-read Solari report. With a wealth of experience on Wall Street and time in Washington politics, …
Money & Markets – Week of 05.12.13
Lower Energy and Food Costs Fuel Big Drop in Wholesale Prices
Los Angeles Times | 15 May 2013
Big drops in the cost of food and energy pushed wholesale prices down 0.7% in April…
U.S. Oil Productio…
Precious Metals – Week of 05.12.13
CFTC Launches Broad Investigation of Energy and Metals Derivatives
Gold Antitrust Action Committee | 14 May 2013
A top US financial regulator has launched a broad inquiry into the legitimacy of more t…
Housing & Mortgage Markets – Week of 05.12.13
Jumbo Loans, All Cash Investors, and Slow Population Growth: The Gentrification of Southern California.
Dr. Housing Bubble | 15 May 2013
Only in Southern California will you have someone moan about ma…
Geopolitical – Week of 05.12.13
Elizabeth Warren Confronts Eric Holder, Ben Bernanke And Mary Jo White On Too-Big-To-Jail
Zero Hedge | 16 May 2013
Elizabeth Warren is one of the few Senators out there pushing to understand why the f…
Science & Technology – Week of 05.12.13
Feds Demand 3D Printed Gun Blueprints Removed From Internet
SFGate | 09 May 2013
The State Department has ordered ultra-libertarian group Defense Distributed…
Explaining Big Data
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Food & Health – Week of 05.12.13
Celeb Bono Partners with Monsanto, G8, to Biowreck Africa
Green Med Info | 01 June 2012
At the G8 Summit held two weeks ago at Camp David…
Why Are Birthrates Falling Around the World? Blame Televis…
Life – Week of 05.12.13
Dove Real Beauty Sketches
YouTube | 14 April 2013
And don’t forget: YOU are more beautiful than you think!
Defense Against the Psychopath (Full Length)
YouTube | 10 January 2013
Defense Against the…
Wildcards – Week of 05.12.13
Judge Orders Conspiracy Re-Education For Lauryn Hill
YouTube | 08 May 2013
Grammy award-winning singer Lauryn Hill has been ordered by a judge…
WHO in Boston: Bombing Story Mysteries
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Inside the MIT Media Lab
By Clive Cookson
I start to walk across a street in a city of the near future. An autonomous electric car is gliding silently towards me, driving itself to pick up a group of passengers. The vehicl…
Goldman Sachs Employees Concerned Bloomberg News Reporters are Using Terminals to Snoop
By Mark DeCambre
Talk about a nanny state.
Irked Goldman Sachs brass recently confronted Bloomberg LP over concerns reporters at the business news service have been using the company’s ubiquitou…
Rascal Flatts – “Changed”
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John Trudell and Bad Dog
By Catherine Austin Fitts
I will be attending a “Special Hemp History Week Concert” by artist and ally John Trudell and Bad Dog at the David Brower Center in Berkeley, California on Saturday, June …
Precious Metals Market Report with Franklin Sanders and Stewart Thomson – May 9
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Trans-Pacific Partnership
(TPP): 17th Round of TPP Negotiations Set for Lima, Peru — May 15-24, 2013
We appreciate your interest in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations. The 17th round of TPP negotiations will …
Buying Local
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Solari Stories – The Blue Light
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Economic Calendars
Dear Subscribers:
We have been on the lookout for the best economic calendars on the web. Here are some that we have found useful:
Bloomberg Economic Calendar
The Wall Street Journal Economic C…
Introducing the Solari Coin!
by Catherine Austin Fitts
We have created our first Solari Coin – a one ounce silver round designed for Solari by Ben Lizardi of Lizardi Communication and minted for us by the Northwest Territoria…