Catherine Speaks in the Rogue Valley, Oregon!
Catherine will be speaking in The Rogue Valley, in Ashland, and Medford, Oregon, on Thursday, January 26, and Friday, January 27, 2012.
The theme for the weekend will be “Getting Beyond Fear to Rea…
All The World’s Gold
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Davos Elites to Seek Reforms of ‘Outdated’ Capitalism
Economic and political elites meeting this week at the Swiss resort of Davos will be asked to urgently find ways to reform a capitalist system that has been described as “outdated and crumbling.”
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All the Money on the Planet vs. MegaUpload
By Simon Black
With over 150 million registered users, the file sharing site MegaUpload.com is one of the most popular on the Internet. At least, it was.
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Intelligence Support to Military Operations
By Secrecy News
From the Federation of Scientists Project on Government Secrecy
The Joint Chiefs of Staff have produced updated doctrine on intelligence support to military operations. The new do…
Leonard Cohen’s “Going Home”
Posted by The New Yorker
The Canadian singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen has a poem in the magazine this week, “Going Home,” that he also set to music on his upcoming album, “Old Ideas.” The ten…
The Caging of America
Six million people are under correctional supervision in the U.S.—more than were in Stalin’s gulags. Photograph by Steve Liss.
By Adam Gopnik
A prison is a trap for catching time. Good reportin…
Mystery Fish
Illustrations by Tom Garrett
Source: December 2011 Consumer Reports Magazine.
Americans spent $80.2 billion on seafood last year, $5 billion more than in 2009, but they aren’t always buying what th…
Obama to Use Pension Funds of Ordinary Americans to Pay for Bank Mortgage “Settlement”
By Yves Smith
Obama’s latest housing market chicanery should come as no surprise. As we discuss below, he will use the State of the Union address to announce a mortgage “settlement” by Federa…
Good Times in Montana
By Catherine Austin Fitts
I’ve had a wonderful time in Montana.
The Solari team got lots accomplished. We’ve enjoyed some beautiful snow storms, so the snowboarders and skiers are happy! Best of…
Gold-market Rigging Has Many Whistleblowers; They’re Just Always Ignored
By: Chris Powell, Secretary/Treasurer, GATA
Remarks by Chris Powell
Secretary/Treasurer, Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee Inc.
Vancouver Resource Investment Conference
Vancouver Convention Center W…
Scientists Reconstruct Brains’ Visions Into Digital Video In Historic Experiment
By Jesus Diaz
UC Berkeley scientists have developed a system to capture visual activity in human brains and reconstruct it as digital video clips.
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Entrepreneur Catherine Austin Fitts on Understanding Global Finance
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First Kenguru Electric Vehicle Rolls Off the Line in Pflugerville
The Kenguru electric vehicle designed to be driven in a wheelchair
The first Kenguru—the small, yellow electric vehicle designed to be driven in a wheelchair—was unveiled Thursday in Pflugerville…
Megaupload Attempting to Get Back Online
Left to right: Bram Van der Kolk, Mathias Ortmann, Fin Batato and Kim Dotcom in court today.
By Kirsty Johnston
Website Megaupload.com, which was shut down by authorities over allegations that it …
Response to Catherine’s Letter RE PIPA
Dear Ms. Fitts,
Thank you for taking the time to contact my office regarding S.968, the ‘Preventing Real Online Threats to Economics Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act of 2011,’ or PRO…
Big Media Strikes Back: SOPA and PIPA
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(18 Jan 12)
Tribute To Graffiti
Street Art By El Mac – A Collection
By Vitaly Friedman
Street culture and graffiti are well-known for being provocative, appealing, bold and uncompromising. Originally used by gangs to mark their …
GM Becomes World’s Top Selling Automaker in 2011
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General Motors Co reclaimed its title as the world’s top selling automaker for the first time since 2007, after sales of more than 9 millio…
Democratic Allies Battle For New Ohio House Seat
U.S. Rep. Marcy Kaptur, D-Toledo, and U.S. Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Cleveland
By Bill Rice
Rep. Dennis Kucinich is most in his element when he’s fighting against social injustice.
Wherever he sees a…
SOPA Getting a Face-Lift: How Evil Will It Be?
By David Kravets
The House version of the Stop Online Piracy Act, the proposed anti-piracy legislation that drew a planned and widespread internet revolt Wednesday, is likely to undergo a radical ov…
Tell Congress To Undo The NDAA, Ban Indefinite Military Detention Of Americans
President Obama just signed the National Defense Authorization Act into law despite startling provisions that will allow the military to indefinitely detain American citizens. It’s a travesty, def…
Former Wall Street Investment Banker to Visit Valley
Catherine Austin Fitts will speak during several stops.
Source: Mail Tribune
Project Rogue Valley will host financial expert Catherine Austin Fitts Jan. 26 and 27. Fitts, a former senior partner a…
Report on Sheriff Mack – PayPal Froze Funds
Note from Catherine: We have been informed that Paypal has frozen Sheriff Richard Mack’s accounts. We are asking for prayers for all concerned. Here is the report:
PayPal froze funds ($40,000+) don…
US Pressured Spain to Implement Online Piracy Law, Leaked Files Shows
US ambassador Alan Solomont wrote: ‘[Spain] has unfortunately failed to finish the job for political reasons, to the detriment of the reputation and economy of Spain’ Photograph: Juan Medina/Reuters
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Supporting The Blackout
By Catherine Austin Fitts
As you can see from the posters at the top of our blog, we are supporting the blackout promoted by Wikipedia against SOPA and PIPA.
I have contacted Senator Bob Corker an…
Wikipedia to Join Wednesday’s SOPA/PIPA Blackout
Photo by Kirsty Wigglesworth – WPA Pool/Getty Images
Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, announced on Twitter Monday that the popular site would go dark in protest of SOPA and PIPA, two controversial …
The Very Real Danger of Genetically Modified Foods
New research shows that when we eat we’re consuming more than just vitamins and protein. Our bodies are absorbing information, or microRNA.
By Ari LeVaux
Update 1/12: Thanks to science and biology…
The Local Food Movement Takes Root
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Why I’m Suing Barack Obama
By Chris Hedges
Attorneys Carl J. Mayer and Bruce I. Afran filed a complaint Friday in the Southern U.S. District Court in New York City on my behalf as a plaintiff against Barack Obama and Secreta…
S&P Expects Greece to Default Soon
By Emelia Sithole-Matarise and Anirban Nag
Greece will default shortly on its debt obligations, a senior Standard & Poor’s official told Bloomberg Television on Monday.
“Greece will default very …
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Where Can We Look For Hope?
Source: Wegelin & CO. Investment Commentary No. 280
1. History tells stories
It may be in the nature of the way we deal with crises, and are ultimately able to overcome them, that we need to …
M.I.T. Game-Changer: Free Online Education For All
M.I.T.’s Simmons Hall
By James Marshall Crotty
For Wall Street Occupiers or other decriers of the “social injustice” of college tuition, here’s a curveball bound to scramble your worldview: a to…
Top Tech Trends 2011
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Saving the Post Office: The Models of Kiwibank and Japan Post
By Ellen Brown
Neither rain nor sleet nor snow may have stopped the Pony Express, but the nation’s oldest and second largest employer is now under attack. Claiming the Postal Service is bankrup…
George Friedman on Stratfor’s Security Breach
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Ron Paul’s Plan to Restore America Challenges Secret Trillion Dollar Black Budget
By Michael E. Salla, Ph.D.
Ron’s Paul’s strong second place finish in New Hampshire’s Presidential Primary greatly raises his prospects in the Republican Presidential race, and will lead to m…
The Post Empire Survival Guide
By Sam Smith
Since 1989, we have occasionally published a guide to getting through the crummy era that we are still in. In 2003, we intially noted that the First American Republic was over. Last year…
2011 Stock Market Returns By Country
Source: Thomson Reuters
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Catherine’s Photo Album: Oldies but Goodies
CAF Note: Here I am in 1988 in East Hampton in a Ferrari I used to lease when I worked on Wall Street.
Thrive Named #1 Top Transformational Film of the Year
As we start 2012 with all of the promise that it brings for transformation, let’s take a look back at some of the amazing films or 2011 that brought us to this point. The results of the voting ar…
FDA: Novartis Recall May Also Affect Painkillers
By The Associated Press
The Food and Drug Administration is warning patients about a potential mix-up between powerful prescription pain drugs and common over-the-counter medications made at a Novart…
Swiss National Bank President Resigns
By Corinne Gretler
Stocks in Switzerland (SMI) dropped as the Swiss National Bank President Philipp Hildebrand resigned after a currency purchase by his wife last year became controversial.
Novart…
The Empire Strikes Back: US Moves Toward Legal Action Against Swiss Bank
Wegelin & Co one of last pure Swiss private banks
Negotiations at critical stage in Wegelin case
Investigations shake Swiss banking secrecy tradition
By Lynnley Browning
U.S. author…
Democracy and Debt
Aristotle’s Politics Book V and VI
By Michael Hudson
Book V of Aristotle’s Politics describes the eternal transition of oligarchies making themselves into hereditary aristocracies – which end…
Interactive Comparison Of GDP: America vs The World
By Tyler Durden
Curious how the US, on a state by state basis, stacks up against the rest of the world, in terms of economic (and population) prowess? The following interactive graphic from the Econo…
A Punch to the Mouth: Food Price Volatility Hits the World
By Gregor Macdonald
2011 was an abysmal year for the global insurance industry, which had to cover yet another enormous increase in damages from natural disasters. Unknown to most casual observers…
The Company That Ruled The Waves
As state-backed firms once again become forces in global business, we ask what they can learn from the greatest of them all.
By The Economist
A POPULAR parlour game among historians is debating wh…
‘If You Don’t Take a Job as a Prostitute, We Can Stop Your Benefits’
By Clare Chapman
A 25-year-old waitress who turned down a job providing “sexual services” at a brothel in Berlin faces possible cuts to her unemployment benefit under laws introduced this year.
P…
A History of the Exchange Stabilization Fund
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Hmmm…..Obama’s Motion Denied, He Must Prove His Qualifications
The Georgia Election Code (the “Code”) mandates that “[e]very candidate for federal and state office who is certified by the state executive committee of a political party or who files a notice of can…
Fed Minutes Show Plans to Alter Monetary Policy Communications
By jturbin
The latest Fed minutes, a recap of the December 2011 Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting, revealed that the U.S. central bank is making several noteworthy changes to the manner …
Economic Cycle Research Institute Leading Index
By Doug Short
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Panetta to Offer Strategy for Cutting Military Budget
Reductions are expected in the program for the F-35 fighter jet.
By Elisabeth Bumiller and Thom Shanker
Washington — Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta is set this week to reveal his strategy that …
World’s Biggest Economies Face $7.6T Debt
A man walks on a container at a shipping terminal in Tokyo on Dec. 21, 2011.
Photographer: Tomohiro Ohsumi/Bloomberg
By Keith Jenkins and Anchalee Worrachate
Governments of the world’s leading eco…
Catherine Austin Fitts on Wall Street’s Corruption, the Austrian School and Who’s ‘Really’ in Charge
By Staff Report
The Daily Bell is pleased to publish an interview with financial advisor Catherine Austin Fitts.
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The Austrian School, and Who’s “Really”…
Montana High Court Says ‘Citizens United’ Does Not Apply In Big Sky State
By Steven Rosenfeld
Montana’s Supreme Court has issued a stunning rebuke to the U.S. Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision in 2010 that infamously decreed corporations had constitutional r…
Here’s How Every Asset Class Performed In 2011
By Scott Barber
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$6.3 Trillion Wiped Off Global Markets in 2011
By Robin Wigglesworth in London
Almost $6.3 trillion was erased from global stock markets this year as the euro zone financial crisis reverberated across the world in the latter half of 2011, calli…
Dissent from the Majority Report of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission
By Peter J. Wallison
Peter Wallison has published his Dissent from the Majority Report of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission. It’s a must read for those of us interested in the financial crisi…
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2011 Year in Review: Signs of an American Spring and a Fourth Turning
By David B. Collum
Precious metals were in a Utopian bull market for almost a decade. The early bulls lounged poolside, taking the occasional dip and enjoying returns in the high teens. It was a leis…
“The Great Culling”
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Attributes of Kali Yuga
A discourse by Markandeya in the Mahabharata identifies some of the attributes of Kali Yuga:
In relation to rulers
Rulers will become unreasonable: they will levy taxes unfairly.
Rulers will …
Workshop Invitation – November 8 and 9, 2014 – Palo Alto, CA
“How do I Live a Free and Inspired Life,
and Help Others do the Same,
Despite the Big Breakaway Civilization
Pink Elephant in the Room?”
Saturday, November 8, 2014, 8:30 am – 6:30 pm
at t…
Clouded Title: The Gross Illegality of MERS
By Barry Ritholtz
“What’s happened is that, almost overnight, we’ve switched from democracy in real-property recording to oligarchy in real-property recording. There was no court case behind t…
The History of Superinsulated Houses in North America
By Martin Holladay, GBA Advisor
Several GBA readers have requested a copy of a presentation I gave at the recent annual meeting of the British Columbia Building Envelope Council in Vancouver. The p…
China Begins Using New Global Positioning Satellite “Big Dipper”
By Reuters
Beijing (Reuters) – China took a further step on Tuesday toward ending its dependence on U.S. satellites to provide navigation and positioning services with the start of trial operations…
The Myth of Japan’s ‘Lost Decades’
By Eamonn Fingleton
Tokyo, Japan — In this slot a few days ago I posed some historical questions that, judging by the email I have been receiving, have perplexed a lot of readers.
Let me now f…
The Watchdogs That Didn’t Bark
By Scot Paltrow
Four years after the banking system nearly collapsed from reckless mortgage lending, federal prosecutors have stayed on the sidelines, even as judges around the country are pointing…
James Koutoulas Explains Why JP Morgan’s Involvement In MF Global Is Suspicious
By Lisa Du
James Koutoulas, one of the founders of the Commodity Customer Coalition—which represents the interests of over 8,000 MF Global customers, was just on CNBC to talk about the recent blitz…
Judge: Iran, Taliban, al Qaeda liable for 9/11
People walk over the Brooklyn Bridge from Manhattan to Brooklyn after the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center Sept. 11, 2001.
By The Associated Press
(AP) New York – A federal judge has si…
Silver Gold Calculator for Android Available! Are You Ready for “JUST DO IT” Currency?
Announcing the Silver Gold Calculator Android application from Solari and The Moneychanger .
We’ve taken the popular Apple application and made it into an application available to Android device user…
The Piano Guys
Carol of the Bells (for 12 cellos) – Steven Sharp Nelson
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Response to Charles Eisenstein’s Critique of THRIVE
By Foster Gamble
Charles Eisenstein, the author of Sacred Economics, has written an article,”Synchronicity, Myth and the New World Order”, and a critique of THRIVE: What on Earth Will It Take? , …
Marcin Jakubowski: Open-sourced Blueprints For Civilization
By TED and The Huffington Post
Watch Open Source Ecology Founder Marcin Jakubowski discuss the prospects for an open source, do it yourself civilization. Then read Isaiah Saxon’s follow-up blog post …
The Truth About Wealth
Illustration by M.K. Perker
By Robert Frank
Who says the rich always get richer?
Despite heated rhetoric emanating from politicians and pundits, the top 1% is hardly a fixed group that enjoys consi…
Nevada Attorney General Sues Lender Processing Services for Fraud
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Catherine Cortez Masto, Attorney General
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The Book of Jobs
By Joseph E. Stiglitz
It has now been almost five years since the bursting of the housing bubble, and four years since the onset of the recession. There are 6.6 million fewer jobs in the United Sta…
CME in Talks to Enter China Derivatives Market
By Reuters
CME Group Inc., operator of the world’s leading energy, grains and precious metals markets, is in talks with China’s securities regulator to enter the mainland’s financial derivati…
Old Answers to the New Atheism: An Interview with Peter Hitchens
By Peter Hitchens
TT: What is the major failure of Christian education in the modern West?
PH: Its lack of poetry. The abandonment of the great poetic text of the King James Bible (and of the Boo…
Anonymous Donors Pay Off Kmart Layaway Accounts
By Margery A. Beck
Maha, Neb. (AP) — The young father stood in line at the Kmart layaway counter, wearing dirty clothes and worn-out boots. With him were three small children.
He asked to pay so…
Carlson School of Management Flash Mob, Deck the Halls
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Lesta Frank Watercolors
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By Catherine Austin Fitts
This year, our clients and team members are receiving watercolors painted by Lesta Frank fo…
The Biggest Company You’ve Never Heard of…
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By Nina Bernstein
The men showed up in a small town in Australia’s outback early last year, offering top dollar for all available lodgings. Within days, their company, Serco, was flying i…
Kauffman’s Hottest Research and Video Topics in 2011
By Barbara Pruitt
Kauffman’s most popular content this year discovered a “jobs leak,” illustrated entrepreneurs’ contributions and recommended policy reforms for growth.
(Kansas City, Mo.), Dec. 1…
Paul McCartney – Wonderful Christmas Time
Wonderful Christmas Time
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IRS Releases Guidance on Foreign Financial Asset Reporting
By IRS
Washington—The Internal Revenue Service in coming days will release a new information reporting form that taxpayers will use starting this coming tax filing season to report specified fo…
Payroll Tax Cut and Spending Bill Stall in Senate, Raising Threat of Shutdown
By Rosalind S. Helderman
Negotiations over how to extend a payroll tax holiday for 160 million Americans and avoid a government shutdown this weekend ground to a halt Wednesday after a standoff in…
Census Data: Half of U.S. Poor or Low Income
The St. Columbanus Church food pantry in Chicago feeds 500 households a week, but some weeks it struggles to keep up with demand. (CBS)
By CBS
Washington – Squeezed by rising living costs, a record …
Regulators Know Where MF Global Funds Went
Corzine is sworn in to testify about MF Global’s bankruptcy before a US senate committee in Washington, December 8, 2011.
By Christopher Doering
Regulators now have a more complete picture of mon…
SOPA: Washington Vs. The Web
By Ryan Grim
Washington — A month ago, Google lobbyist Katherine Oyama absorbed one of the more unusual congressional tongue-lashings in years when she appeared before a hearing of the House Judi…
Cities, States Pushed on Financial Projections
By Michael Corkery
Cities and states would be required to release projections of cash flows and pension costs five years into the future under a proposed financial-reporting rule due to be released…
HSBC Sues MF Global Over $850,000 of Gold
HSBC Holdings plc is a public limited company incorporated in England in 1990, and headquartered in London since 1993.
By Linda Sandler and Tiffany Kary
An HSBC Holdings Plc (HSBA) unit sued the MF…
Crony Capitalism
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Victorian Mill Town Growing ALL its Own Vegetables
By Vincent Graff
Admittedly, it sounds like the most foolhardy of criminal capers, and one of the cheekiest, too.
Outside the police station in the small Victorian mill town of Todmorden, West Yor…
Bernanke’s Obfuscation Continues
The Fed’s $29 Trillion Bail-out of Wall Street
By L. Randall Wray
Table 1- Cumulative facility totals, in billions
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Cameron Negotiates U.K.’s Isolation in EU
U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron
By Gonzalo Vina and Rebecca Christie
Prime Minister David Cameron said Britain refused to sacrifice sovereignty to save the euro, remaining outside an agreement by …
