Life – Week of 11.20.11
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Penn State Appoints Former FBI Director Freeh to Lead Investigation
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Speaker: Private Landowners in West Hold Key to Saving Wildlife
Missoulian (17 Nov 11)
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The Solari Report 2011-11-17
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By Catherine Austin Fitts
Thrive is a documentary invitation to a website and a conversation about what it will take for us to thrive. It is:
A formidable intellectual achievement. It builds the…
By Rhiannon Hoyle
Total central-bank gold purchases in the third quarter more than doubled from the second quarter and were almost seven times higher than a year earlier as countries continued to div…
General Assembly holds mock trial and journalist Chris Hedges reads indictment accusing Goldman Sachs of financial crimes against humanity.
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Artist:Giotto di Bondone (1267-1337)
“Are you all so fulfilled in participating in on-going creating, you can afford to waste time pondering the end.”
— Jesus as translated by Aramaic scholar Ne…
By William Thomas
If you did not enjoy “traditional” chemtrails raining down on you, you are not going to like the new version, which the United States Air Force promises will feature aerial dump…
By Steven Levy
“What I’m about to show you,” Jeff Bezos says, “is the culmination of the many things we’ve been doing for 15 years.”
The CEO of Amazon.com, in regulation blue oxford sh…
By Laura Sanders
Instead of the indiscriminate destruction of the atom bomb or napalm, the signature weapon of future wars may be precise, unprecedented control over the human brain. As global conf…
Say what you will about Americans, and one can say many things, this is a country of deeply democratic sensibilities. The idea that we are, or are supposed to be, a democratic society is at the very c…
Legg Mason’s Bill Miller Exits: Last Mutual Fund Rock Star?
Yahoo Finance (17 Nov 11)
Fed Now Largest Owner of U.S. Gov’t Debt—Surpassing China
CNSNews.com (16 Nov 11)
This 28-Year-Old’s Startup…
WSJ.com
(13 Nov 11)
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(29 Sep 10)
Two Title Officers Indicted, Accused of Falsifying Documents
Las Vegas Review-Journal (17 Nov 11)
Elizabeth Warren Makes Jon Stewart Feel Better On “Daily Show” (VIDEO)
Huffington Post (16 Nov 11)
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What’s New on The Fusion Front?
MSN (10 Nov 11)
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Concerns are rising that the Federal Housing Administration could run out money if the economy doesn’t recover soon, raising the risk the agency would seek a taxpayer bailout…
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By Jon Rappoport
Mark Madden, a Pennsylvania radio host, wrote a piece about Jerry Sandusky, the accused Penn State pedophile, back in April, while a grand jury was deciding whether to indict Sandus…
By Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
In a beleaguered economy, the country needs entrepreneurs – the nation’s job creators. Fortunately, a recent poll shows that the so-called millennial generatio…
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By Catherine Austin Fitts
Something special happened this week. I finished paying off Nissan Motors.
In 2000, I leased or purchased three Nissan Pathfinders for Solari, Inc. As…
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By Stacy Mitchell
Under a measure that passed the House last Thursday, you may soon be able to invest in a portfolio of your favorite independent businesses. The bill, which won bipartisan suppor…
France President Nicolas Sarkozy and President Obama
By Yann Le Guernigou
“I cannot bear Netanyahu, he’s a liar,” Sarkozy told Obama, unaware that the microphones in their meeting room had been swi…
By Associated Press
The wealth gap between younger and older Americans has stretched to the widest on record, worsened by a prolonged economic downturn that has wiped out job opportunities for youn…
Listen to Catherine speaking with Bonnie Faulkner on the KPFA radio show “Guns & Butter.”
Title: “Unpacking Mr. Global, Part One” with Catherine Austin Fitts. Derivatives exposure of Bank …
By Nieman Watchdog
Longtime journalist and commentator Bill Moyers was the keynote speaker on October 20 at the 40th anniversary celebration of Public Citizen, the “countervailing force to corporate…
By Malcolm Gladwell
One of the great puzzles of the industrial revolution is why it began in England. Why not France, or Germany? Many reasons have been offered. Britain had plentiful supplies of c…
By Chuck Gibson
Just in time for “Bank Transfer Day“, my mortgage refinance completed Friday and I ran (not walked) as fast as I could away from the old one. While I am not tethered to any larg…
By Sarah A. Low and Stephen Vogel
This study uses nationally representative data on marketing of local foods to assess the relative scale of local food marketing channels. This research documents t…
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(22 Sep 09)
“If we can recognize that change and uncertainty are basic principles, we can greet the future and the transformation we are undergoing with the understanding that we do not know enough to be pessimi…
By Intelligent Speculator at Seeking Alpha
I recently spent an entire evening talking to a good friend of mine about annuities. Why? Because his father was considering buying one, as he has just re…
Bye-Bye Bernanke? The Case for the Gold Standard
Yahoo Finance (10 Nov 11)
How Wall Street Went Wrong
The Wichita Eagle (4 Nov 11)
How Walmart Is Changing China
The Atlantic (Dec 2011)
California a…
The Pareto Distribution: Europe at the Tipping Point?
of two minds.com (Nov 2011)
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(6 Oct 11)
Remains of US Soldiers Dumped in Landfill, Air Force Admits
Reader Supported News (10 Nov 11)
How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the OWS Protests
Rolling Stone (10 Nov 11…
Dear Autism
Adventures in Autism (5 Nov 11)
Shock finding: More Than 75 percent of all ‘Honey’ Sold in Grocery Stores Contains no Honey at all, by Definition
Natural News (8 Nov 11)
Drought-Damaged …
Alaska Braces For “Epic” Storm; Evacuations Begin
Reuters (8 Nov 11)
YouTube
(21 Feb 11)
Watch YU55 Fly By the Moon
Slooh Space Camera
Bill Gates Spends $1m on Laser Defence System – to Repel Mosquitoes
Mail Online (4 Nov 11)
Asteroid Yu55 on Course For Close Encounter With Earth
Guardi…
The Missing Chapter – A Personal View of Russia–Twenty Years After
Novelist Amitav Ghosh
On Point with Tom Ashbrook (13 Oct 11)
Mike Bloomberg’s Marie Antoinette Moment
Rolling Stone (3 Nov 11)
By Daniel Wagner and Bernard Condon
He set out to create a mini-Goldman Sachs. In the end, he built a mini-Lehman Brothers.
Former New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine’s resignation Friday from the securi…
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Democracy Now (3 Nov 11)
By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
The American phoenix is slowly rising again. Within five years or so, the US will be well on its way to self-sufficiency in fuel and energy. Manufacturing will have close…
Is the economy doing better now in the United States? How is your pocketbook doing? Are we out of danger from a GREAT Depression? Hear what is really going on behind the mainstream headlines in the …
The New York Times (1 Nov 11)
The investigation into hundreds of millions of dollars in missing money at MF Global has widened, as the CME Group confirmed on Tuesday that the brokerage firm failed to…
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By The Wall Street Journal
As the e-reader and tablet wars heat up, Amazon.com Inc. is launching a digital-book lending library that will be available only to owners of its Kindle and Kindle Fire d…
By David Hambling
Against all the odds, Andrea Rossi’s E-Cat cold fusion power plant passed its biggest test yesterday, producing an average of 470 kilowatts for more than five hours. (A technical …
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“We all know what has to be done; what we don’t know is how to get re-elected once we done it.”
Jean-Claude Juncker, prime minister of Luxembourg, commenting on the sovereign debt situation.
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By Sandrine Rastello
The International Monetary Fund may create a six-month credit line for countries facing shocks, officials from Group of 20 governments and IMF said, as the European debt crisis…
By Marc Heller – Waterton Daily Times (30 Oct 11)
WASHINGTON — For three New York lawmakers, serving on the Agriculture Committee is a badge of honor. But on the committee’s main order of busines…
By Mike Colpitts – Housing Predictor (31 Oct 11)
Responding to homeowner complaints, Nevada has become the first state in the nation to make illegally repossessing a home a felony, and may send banke…
UK Telegraph (30 Oct 11)
A laser powerful enough to tear apart the fabric of space could be built in Britain as part major new scientific project that aims to answer some of the most fundamental qu…
Here is the WORST idea yet – allowing the NWO to destroy the U.S. Constitution by making it look like a neetsy keen grassroots movement.
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The 99% Declaration
WHEREAS THE FIRST AMENDMEN…
By Melanie Pelayo
The announcement of cost of living adjustments by the federal government a week ago not only heralded the first increase to Social Security benefits in 2 years, but it also increa…
Catherine with Max Keiser – (28 Oct 11)
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Mega-bank Goldman Sachs (assets $933bn), has declared war on one of the smallest banks in New Yo…
(Reuters) – MERS, the electronic mortgage registry used by the banking industry, was sued by Delaware on Thursday and accused of deceptive practices that led to unlawful shortcuts in dealing with the …
‘He Has a Right to Speak,’ Said The Cop to The Banker
Daily KOS (2 Nov 11)
Investors Place Big Bets on Buy Here Pay Here Used-car Dealers
Los Angeles times (1 Nov 11)
Credit Unions Gear Up for Bank …
Woman Facing Criminal Charges for Posing as Ex on Facebook
Fox News (3 Nov 11)
A Perversely Perfect War
The Daily Reckoning (3 Nov 11)
From The Beginning, it Was Clear Kristallnacht Was Different
JT…
Goldline Execs Charged With Fraud
ABC News (1 Nov 11)
Exposed: CDC Deliberately Manipulated, Covered up Scientific Data Showing Link Between Vaccines Containing Mercury and Autism
Natural News.com (2 Nov 11)
Hay Shortage Compounds Woe in Drought-Stricke…
GE Breakthrough Aims to Cut Solar Costs in Half
SolarDaily (28 Oct 11)
Americans Work Too Much for Their Own Good: de Graaf and Batker
Bloomberg (3 Nov 11)
The Shadow Superpower
Foreign Policy (28 Oct 11)
Degas Bronze Ballerina Fails to Sell in NYC
Associated Press (2 …
When your country has a body of laws that could fill an entire football stadium, you can always find half a dozen things to indict somebody on.
~ Simon Black
By Laura Bledsoe (24 Oct 11)
When an over-zealous regulator shows up at a farm dinner demanding that food be destroyed as hungry guests await, who do you call? Here’s Laura’s account written as a l…
The products we use everyday are complex combinations of specialized knowledge.
Harvard and MIT released a report, “The Atlas of Economic Complexity,” visually mapping the vast knowledge contained …
The Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) directed FDA to collect fees on businesses that have to be re-inspected because of some noncompliance. This new requirement could unfairly penalize small busin…
By Chuck Gibson
Good news was announced for retirees this week as the first time since 2009 Social Security benefits will be increased starting next year.
The cost-of-living adjustment, or COLA, wil…
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The Vatican called on Monday for the establishment of a “global public authority” and a “central world bank” to rule over financial institutions that have become outdated and often inef…
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By Phil Howard
In the last 40 years, the commercial seed industry has transformed dramatically. It has shifted from a competitive sector of agribusiness, composed primarily of small, family-owned fir…
[Note from CAF: Given that the FDIC just picked up the BofA/Merrill derivatives position, you would think BofA would be a bit more sensitive to the branding of the federal credit!]
By Joe Weisenthal
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How the 50% Greek Haircut is Actually Just 28%
Zerohedge (26 Oct 11)
Pop Goes the Chinese Bubble
Zerohedge (26 Oct 11)
Bundestag Passes EFSF As Levered Insurance Policy Motion
Zero Hedge (26 Oct 11)…
China Takes a Loss to Get Ahead in the Business of Fresh Water
New York Times (26 Oct 11)
Paul Wants to Phase Out Federal Student Loans
The Associated Press (23 Oct 11)
Obama to Promote New Steps to…
The Invisible Slow-Kill Enterprise of Organized Stalking Assaults
Organized Stalking Abuse (17 March 11)
By Kareem Fahim and Rick Gladstone
MISURATA, Libya — Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, the former Libyan strongman who fled into hiding after an armed uprising toppled his regime two months ago, met a vio…
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By Susanna Kim
While many law school graduates are all too aware of their accumulating pile of debt, few may realize it can prevent them from practicing law and kill any hopes of paying down their …
By Tyler Durden
A key reason why a preponderance of the population is fascinated with the student loan market is that as USA Today reported in a landmark piece last year, it is now bigger than ever…
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[Mill Valley, CA] October 5, 2011 – In response to the changing financial environment and the growing need for families to build and preserve their wealth, Catherine Austin Fitts is ret…
By Jonathan Benson
If you buy or sell secondhand goods and live in the state of Louisiana, you can no longer use legal tender to complete such transactions. Ackel & Associates LLC (A&A), a professi…
The Mises Institute dug up this cartoon from 1912 showing what would happen if the Federal Reserve Act was adopted in 1913; this is exactly what has happened.
The picture above was taken from a pro…
By Catherine Austin Fitts
I just got a message from a reader for the third time today. It proposes that we support Warren Buffet’s proposals to amend the US Constitution.
I responded, “So you want t…
On October 17, 2011, the Supreme Court granted a certiorari petition to review a decision issued by a divided panel of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in Kiobel v. Shell Petroleum N.V.1 The …
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SYNOPSIS:
America is the greatest nation in human history. Our respect for individual liberty, free markets, and limited constitutional government produced the strongest, most prosperous country in th…
Hypocrisy has its own elegant symmetry.
~ Julie Metz
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The U.S. plans on being an active partner as efforts intensify to get Europe get back on its feet financially, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner told CNBC Friday.
With global leader…
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(19 Oct 11)
Student Loans Outstanding Will Exceed $1 trillion This Year
USA Today (19 Oct 11)
Beltway Earnings Make U.S. Capital Richer Than Silicon Valley
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Faulty Foreclosure May Mean Massachusetts Buyer Isn’t Owner
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Homesteading Quantified: How Much Land You Need To Go Off The Grid
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Linking People to Fruit,…
US Troops to Leave Iraq by End of Year
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At about 20 minutes in, Catherine Austin Fitts joins us. With a Wharton MBA and heavy experience at Dillon, Read on Wall St., she predicted the burst…