Money & Markets – Week of 7.15.12
Highway Bill Saves GE $2.5 Billion In Pension Contributions
Pensions and Investments 20 July 2012
General Electric Co., Stamford, Conn., will reduce its pension contributions by a total of $2.5 billio…
Precious Metals – Week of 7.15.12
Gold: A Review Of Possible Effects Of The Proposed Regulatory Risk Changes On Its Price
Seeking Alpha 12 July 2012
Gold price is subject to numerous factors which at the end could all be summed up t…
Housing & Mortgage Markets – Week of 7.15.12
Plan To Raze Detroit Empty Homes In Final Stages
CNBC News 17 July 2012
As the next step in an April deal between financially strapped Detroit and the state of Michigan, Governor Rick Snyder. . . .
C…
Geopolitical – Week of 7.15.12
Iran ausschalten – Hillary Clinton & James Baker
YouTube 15 July 2012
FBI raids City Hall In New Jersey’s capital
New York Post 19 July 2012
FBI agents raided City Hall in New Jersey’s capital on Th…
Science & Technology – Week of 7.15.12
Astonishing Pictures Of The Young Gorillas Who Worked Together To Dismantle The Poachers’ Trap That Killed Their Friends
Daily Mail 19 July 2012
Just days after a poacher’s snare had killed one of the…
Food & Health – Week of 7.15.12
Heat Leaves Ranchers A Stark Option: Sell
New York Times 15 July 2012
As a relentless drought bakes prairie soil to dust and dries up streams across the country, ranchers struggling to feed their catt…
Life – Week of 7.15.12
Protect Yourself From ID Theft On Vacation
Kiplinger 9 July 2012
I’m going on vacation next week. What should I do to protect myself from identity theft while I’m gone? . . .
You Can’t Rollerskat…
Wildcards – Week of 7.15.12
Project Camelot : Norman Bergun : Ringmakers Of Saturn Interview
YouTube 29 June 2012
Seeds of Freedom
The story of seed has become one of loss, control, dependence and debt. It’s been written by those who want to make vast profit from our food system, no matter what the true cost. It’s time to c…
“Frightening Factoid”
Wal-Mart now sells to the citizens of the United States more than one-fifth of their food, which is more than the combined sales of its three largest competitors.
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UFOs Over The UK
(CAF Note: Is the LIBOR scandal sufficiently frustrating that the UK Defense establishment thought we needed some light reading for the weekend?)
By Ed Krayewski
The United Kingdom’s Ministry of…
Precious Metals Market Report – 7.12.12
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Lloyds Could Face £1.5bn Claim Over Libor
Lloyds Banking Group could have to pay out more than £1bn over claims it was involved in the manipulation of Libor, according to City analysts.
By Harry Wilson, Banking Correspondent
Lloyds Bank…
Mandelman Matters, with Catherine Austin Fitts: LBO AMERICA
“Catherine Austin Fitts has perspective on the housing and mortgage meltdown like no other. Under President George Herbert Walker Bush, she was Assistant Secretary of Housing and Federal Housing Com…
The Post-Employee Economy
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By Conor Sen
Robots have come to destroy our way of life, just as we saw in Terminator 2: Judgment Day, though not as we expected. They’re taking our jobs,…
Oil: The Next Revolution
Published by Harvard University
Whatever the future, the analysis reported in this paper reveals some important points:
• Oil is not in short supply. From a purely physical point of view, ther…
Money & Markets – Week of 7.8.12
Regulators Charge Futures Brokerage Firm and Chief With Fraud
DealBook (12 July 12)
Corn Deterioration Heralds ‘Huge Yield Downgrade’
agrimoney.com (10 July 12)
German Prosecutors Launch Probe Into …
Precious Metals – Week of 7.8.12
The Message From Gold And Treasuries: “This Time Is Different”
Zero Hedge (11 July 12)
Geopolitical – Week of 7.8.12
Obama’s Scramble for Africa Secret Wars, Secret Bases, and the Pentagon’s “New Spice Route” in Africa
Truth-Out (13 July 12)
Two More US Carriers, Dozens of Mini-subs Rushed to Hormuz
Debka Files (…
Housing & Mortgage Markets – Week of 7.8.12
U.S. Mortgage Rates Decline, With 30-Year at a Record-Low 3.56%
Bloomberg (12 July 12)
Big Apple Bites Into Tiny Apartments
crain’s new york (9 July 12)
Carroll County NH High Sheriff Chris Conley …
Science & Technology – Week of 7.8.12
Is Your TV Watching You? Latest Models Raise Concerns
Technolog
Digital Advertising Agencies Are Built For The Internet Age
Los Angeles Times (8 July12)
Discovery: Earth’s Oldest Crater Is Largest …
Life – Week of 7.8.12
Revealing Antarctic Mysteries
rense.com (22 June 12)
Report From Iron Mountain: On The Possibility and Desirability of Peace
The Daily Press (1967)
About Tiny House Talk and Alex Pino
Tiny House Tal…
Food & Health – Week of 7.8.12
Enough is Enough
Age of Autism (10 July 12)
Shopping for Truth at Trader Joe’s
facebook (July 2012)
Is Monsanto About to Gain Immunity From Federal Law?
rsn (7 July 12)
Citizens to Monsanto: ‘Get o…
Wildcards – Week of 7.8.12
Strange Lights Prompt 9-1-1 Calls
Petoskey News.com (12 July 12)
Stanley Sporkin: We Globalized the Jobs While Issuing More Debt
U.S. Federal Judge Stanley Sporkin talk about the JOBS Act
Judge Stanley Sporkin
Stanley Sporkin (born February 7, 1932) is a former judge of the United States District Court for the District of Col…
Healthcare Spending Around the World, Country by Country
How do healthcare costs compare around the world? Photograph: Alamy
By Simon Rogers
The US spends more than any other country in the world on healthcare – but how does it really compare? Every count…
U.S. to Open Regional U.S. Patent Offices: Dallas, Denver, Detroit & Silicon Valley
By Sarah Horowitz
For the First Time, USPTO Will Expand Operations Outside Washington, DC, to Dallas, Denver, and Silicon Valley, in Addition to Detroit, Which Opens July 13
“Intellectual proper…
Andy Griffith, 6/1/1926 – 7/3/2012
Andy Griffith, who made homespun Southern wisdom his trademark as the wise sheriff in “The Andy Griffith Show” and the rumpled defense lawyer in “Matlock,” died Tuesday. He was 86.
Continue reading t…
The Rotten Heart of Finance
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Source: The Economics
A scandal over key interest rates is about to go global.
THE most memorable incidents in earth-changing events are sometimes the mos…
Solving Mortgage Fraud With Fraud
[ CAF Note: We created a mortgage bubble by fraudulent means. When the bubble burst, we solved the banks problem with fraudulent means at taxpayers expense. Now the question is if and how will we …
NAFTA on Steroids
Farmers from Miyagi prefecture raise their fists along with other farmers from across Japan during a rally against Japan participating in rule-making negotiations for the U.S.-led Trans-Pacific Partne…
Dale Dougherty on the Maker Movement
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Denmark Financing at Negative Interest Rates
By John Acher and Ole Mikkelsen
* Central bank cuts main policy rate by 25 bps to 0.20 pct
* Cuts CD rate by 25 bps to negative 0.20 pct
* Keeps current account rate unchanged at 0.0 pct
* Lifts cu…
What is the Higgs Boson?
By Soren Dreier
Scientists at Cern, the Geneva-based European laboratory for particle physics, are revealing their latest findings in their search for the Higgs boson.
Video
the guardian…
Collaborative Consumption
A social and economic system driven by network technologies that enable the sharing and exchange of all kinds of assets from spaces to skills to cars in ways and on a scale never possible before
Abou…
The American Revolution: Happy 4th of July!
But what do we mean by the American Revolution? Do we mean the American war? The Revolution was effected before the war commenced. The Revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people…..
Right to Know Label GMO Foods
Stand Up For Your Right To Know
The California Right to Know Genetically Engineered Food Act of 2012
We All Have a Right to Know What’s in Our Food
Consumers have a right to know what’s …
Higgs Boson Fever Fills Cern With 24-hour Particle People
The home of the Large Hadron Collider is hot with excitement about what two teams of physicists will report this week
By Ian Sample
The teams have been searching for the Higgs boson using the giant…
Landing Looms for Mars Probe
By Robert Lee Hotz
The biggest and best-equipped robotic rover ever launched to another planet is hurtling toward a rendezvous with Mars, in a $2.5 billion mission that tests the engineering limits…
Glencore Whac-a-mole
Anyone notice a pattern?
By Ben Deighton
A Belgian court convicted a subsidiary of commodities trader Glencore (GLEN.L) and others on Wednesday of bribing a European Union official in retur…
Obama Has a Good Day, But Liberty Has a Bad One
By Peggy Noonan
It is a big victory for the White House.
ObamaCare, including the insurance mandate, was upheld. What would have been a political disaster for President Obama has been averted. He …
Is This The Next Bubble?
By Chuck Gibson
Buried underneath last week’s news about the Supreme Court’s ruling on “Obamacare”, the House of Representatives passed a transportation bill that included an extension of the…
DOJ: Eliminating Marijuana Competition In California
[CAF Note: When John Gotti, Jr. was asked by the press whether or not the Gotti crime family was trafficking in narcotics, he denied the allegation saying “who can compete with the government?” My r…
Money & Markets – Week of 7.1.12
Vatican posts $19 million Deficit, Worst in Years
abc9 Eyewitness News (5 July 12)
Finland Contests Seniority Clause in Spain’s Bank Bailout
Bloomberg (5 July 12)
Farmers: High Grain Prices Are a …
Housing & Mortgage Markets – Week of 7.1.12
San Bernardino County: Controversial Mortgage Fix Considered
The Press-Enterprise (18 June 12)
Geopolitical – Week of 7.1.12
The Business of War: SOFEX
YouTube | 05 July 2012
Check Out The Massive Chinese-Built Ghost Town In The Middle Of Angola
Business INsider (3 July 12)
Monsignor Convicted of Child Endangerment i…
Science & Technology – Week of 7.1.12
A Closer Look at The Higgs Boson
PHYS.org (4 July 12)
Your Home Wi-Fi Network Can Be Hacked in Minutes
Security News Daily (12 Jan 11)
Life – Week of 7.1.12
The Pedigree Problem: Are Law School Ties Choking the Profession?
ABA Journal (1 July 12)
Florida Beach Lifeguard Saves Drowning Man, Gets Fired
The New Civil Rights Movement (5 July 12)
The ‘Busy…
Food & Health – Week of 7.1.12
Weather Damage to Slash State’s Apple Crop by 90%
Detroit Free Press (29 June 12)
Meet the Corporate Front Groups Fighting to Make Sure You Can’t Know What’s in Your Food
AlterNet (31 May 12)
WTO R…
Wildcards – Week of 7.1.12
Disclosure on CBS TV?: “Preponderance of UFO Evidence”
Video
CBS News.com
Hubble Ultra Deep Field 3D
Source: Flixxy.com
What happens when you point the Hubble Space Telescope to a seemingly blank patch of sky? A view that takes you to the edge of the universe!
Continue reading the article . ….
Obama’s Health-Care Overhaul Upheld by U.S. Supreme Court
[CAF Note: I don’t love Obamacare!]
By Greg Stohr
The U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the core of President Barack Obama’s health-care overhaul in an opinion that held two surprises: Chief Justice J…
Federal Court Affirms Significant New Powers for EPA
[CAF Note: I’m a skeptic. Get ready for this to be seriously misused]
A federal court decision on Tuesday upholding the Environmental Protection Agency’s landmark rulings to control greenhouse ga…
Regulators to Classify Gold as Zero-Risk Asset?
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By John Butler
In what might be the most underreported financial story of the year, US banking regulators recently circulated a memorandum for comment,…
Transcript of Best Books for the 21st Century, Part 1 Available to Subscribers
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Lorre Explains the Slow Burn
[CAF Note: I agree!]
By Chuck Lorre
I believe that Newton’s first law of motion is the reason we will emerge from our current economic woes. That law states that an object at rest tends to stay at…
Medical Terrorism’s on the Prowl
[Note from CAF: Here it comes again. A new effort to push pandemics and vaccines. If ever there is a sign of real weakness in the global economy, medical terrorism is it. For more on swine flu, che…
Subscriber Lunch in Cincinnati
If you are a Solari Report subscriber, you are cordially invited to meet and have lunch with Catherine at one of the many places she will be traveling to.
This will provide an opportunity for you t…
Radical Openness
Photo: James Duncan Davidson
Source: TED
In pictures, quotes and more.
As the world becomes interconnected, the ways we relate and learn about one another (and the rules about what we share…
Iceland De-zombifies-While Americans Fork Over $14 billion a Year for JPMorgan Salaries
By Dave Gonigam
Hooray for Iceland. The nation has effectively purged an entire class of zombies.
Late on Friday, the Icelandic government repaid $483.7 million in loans to the International Moneta…
Pentagon Lists 110 Potential Drone Bases in U.S.
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By Steven Aftergood
The Department of Defense has identified 110 sites in the United States that could serve as bases for military unmanned aerial systems …
Commentary Independence Day Special So, where is the collateral?
By Chris Sanders
Sanders Research Associates
“The evil that men do lives after them;
The good is oft interred with their bones”
– Mark Antony in William Shakespeare,
in Julius Caesar, Act 3, Scene 2…
Quote du Jour
“Why are you guys so anti-dictators? Imagine if America was a dictatorship. You could let 1 percent of the people have all the nation’s wealth. You could help your rich friends get richer by cutti…
The World at War, $20 at a Time
by Catherine Austin Fitts
In April, I dropped into the Verizon Store in Corte Madera, California. I was headed to Portugal. My iPhone did not work globally. On my last few trips to Europe, Verizon ha…
Rappoport on the Election
The people of the United States are, as usual, being whipsawed between two ridiculous alternatives. Every four years, this happens by design. Stir up the hatreds and the rancor, make it appear tha…
Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership
From Wikipedia
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), also known as the Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership Agreement, is a multilateral free trade agreement that aims to further liberalize…
Don’t Worry, Be Happy!
“A sad soul can kill you quicker than a germ”.
~John Steinbeck
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Quote du Jour
“I see things getting faster, stupider and weaker all the time.”
~ Solari Report Subscriber
Million Dollar Blocks
[CAF Note: Like Curtis Mayfield sang, “It’s like one way in and no way out.”]
By Spatial Information Design Labs
The United States currently has more than 2 million people locked up in jails and p…
All Watched Over By Machines Of Loving Grace
By Adam Curtis
All Watched Over By Machines Of Loving Grace is a series about how humans have been colonised by the machines they have built — “Although we don’t realise it, the way we see ev…
Consumer Credit Impaired By Under-45 Job, Debt Woes
By Jed Graham
Nearly four years after a borrowing binge gave way to financial crisis, have households slashed enough debt to take on new credit and start spending again?
Continue reading the artic…
Money & Markets – Week of 6.24.12
Chile Is Latest Country To Launch Renminbi Swaps And Settlement
Zero Hedge (26 June 12)
Massive Cyber Attack In Progress In the USA, Europe, Latin America
infowars.com (27 June 12)
Fiscal Cliff: 1 M…
Geopolitical – Week of 6.24.12
Saudis Forces Mass on Jordanian, Iraqi Borders. Turkey, Syria Reinforce Strength
debka.com (29 June 12)
US Supreme Court Upholds Affordable Healthcare Act
Jesse’s Café Américain (28 June 12)
Nativ…
Science & Technology – Week of 6.24.12
Is Your Browser Exposing Private Data?
sitepoint (27 June 12)
Seasonal Drought Outlook Discussion
Climate Prediction Center
Brace for the Apocalypse! Surviving the Worst in an Inland Lifeboat
Wired …
Life – Week of 6.24.12
What People Really Do When They’re ‘Working From Home’
Bloomberg Businessweek (25 June 12)
Banker Saves a Dozen Ducklings From a Ledge
YouTube
(27 April 12)
Rising Sea Level a Threat in East, Study…
Food & Health – Week of 6.24.12
Autism Brain Samples Damaged in Freezer Malfunction
USA Today (11 June 12)
Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead – Official Trailer
YouTube
(25 April 12)
Wildcards – Week of 6.24.12
The Israelites
YouTube
(11 June 12)
The Photography of Christian Hansen
Christian Hansen Biograpy
Transcript of the 6.14.12 Precious Metals Market Report Available to Subscribers
A transcript of the June 14, 2012 Precious Metals Market Report with special guest Chuck Gibson is available to Subscribers!
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GMO Myths and Truths
Genetically modified (GM) crops are promoted on the basis of a range of far-reaching claims from the GM crop industry and its supporters. They say that GM crops:
Are an extension of natural bree…
Family Net Worth Plummets Nearly 40%
By Charles Riley
The average American family’s net worth dropped almost 40% between 2007 and 2010, according to a triennial study released Monday by the Federal Reserve.
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U.S. and Switzerland Reach Deal on Sharing of Financial Account Data
By David Jolly
Paris — Washington gained another victory on Thursday in its push to extend surveillance over Americans’ financial dealings when Switzerland joined the list of countries that hav…
Centralization Has Failed
By Charles Hugh Smith of two minds.com
The Master Narrative Nobody Dares Admit
All centralized systems, open and shadow alike, act as heavy taxes on the society and economy. This is why they canno…
Bank Investors Dismiss Moody’s Cuts as Years Too Late
By Dakin Campbell and Michael J. Moore
Moody’s Investors Service suffered a downgrade of its own as markets responded to the company’s rating cuts yesterday of 15 of the world’s largest bank…
Lesta Frank’s New Classes in San Antonio
Workshop- Saturday June 23 and Sunday, June 24, 2012
Hours: Each day-10:00-4:00
Place: Lesta’s Studio, 135 Evans Ave.,San Antonio., 78209
Fee: One day $50, both days $85 plus supply fee $10 a day
L…
Catherine with Jon Rappoport – Best Books for the 21st Century, Part 1
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The Evolution of the Computing Value Chain
By Horace Dediu
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Asia’s Millionaire Count Passes North America’s
Source: CNBC
The United States is still No. 1 when it comes to the number of millionaires in a single country, but global wealth is continuing its movement eastward.
Continue reading the article ….
Disney: Protecting IP or Compromising Personal Rights?
By a Solari Report Subscriber
[CAF Note: Yikes! Has this happened to you? If you are a subscriber, post your story on the blog or, if not, let us know at communicate@wordpressdevurl.com. Let us know …
Japan PM Noda Orders Nuclear Reactors Back Online
Source: BBC News
Japan has announced that it will restart two nuclear reactors – the first to go back online since all the country’s plants were closed following last year’s Fukushima crisis.
Rea…
First Day of Summer – The Summer Solstice
Summer begins in the Northern Hemisphere on June 20, 2012, at 7:09 P.M. (EDT). Here’s more about the first day of summer—the summer solstice—plus, facts, folklore, and some sensational summer …
Treaty Negotiated In Secret
By George Washington
Democracy Now, Breaking the Pledge Video
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Controversial Trade Pact Text Leaked(PDF)
PublicCitizen (13 June 12)
Trans-Paci…
Encroachment Upon Basic Freedoms
By Frank Morales
Back in 1992 the Pentagon’s Joint Chiefs of Staff held a “Strategy Essay Competition.”
The winner was a National War College student paper entitled, “The Origins of the American…
Remote Controlled Mosquito-Sized Flying Spy Drone
Is this a mosquito…NO! This is an “INSECT SPY DRONE” already in production.
Insect Spy Drone
Wake Up Call (Facebook)
By Alexander Higgins
Wright – Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio — Two miles fro…
Japan to Pass Bill to Insure Iran Oil Imports
By Osamu Tsukimori
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s lower house is set to pass a bill on Friday to provide government guarantees on insurance for Iranian crude cargoes, making it the first of Iran’s…