The Future of Food
By Vandana Shiva
Part 1
Selected Documentaries by Bertram Verhaag
Scientists Under Attack
Directed by Bertram Verhaag
“Billed as “a political thriller on GMOs and freedom of speech”, this film by the German film-maker Bertram Verhaag tells the stories of two…
Money & Markets Charts ~ 6.02.11
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Goldman Gets Subpoena from NY District Attorney
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“Bankers sometimes look on politicians as people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, order more tunnel.”
~ Sir John Quinton, former chairman of Barclay’s Bank
Bertram Verhaag, Director of “Scientists Under Attack”
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U.S. Wealthy Exit Swiss Bank Accounts
By Martin de Sa’Pinto and Joe Giannone
Zurich – Wealthy U.S. individuals have already pulled most of their money from Swiss private banks and could exit altogether as a global clampdown on tax evas…
Housing Double Dip Confirmed
By Joe Weisenthal
“Confirmed” is the word used in the latest announcement from Case-Shiller, which showed a surprise 3.61% year-over-year decline in home prices.
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Food Stamp Usage Hits Fresh Record
By Tyler Durden
That average monthly benefit of $133.24 for 44.199 million people will help with the purchase of one third of a very edible iPad. Food stamp participation chart presented without furt…
Why the Germans and French Prefer to Rent
By Tony Paterson and John Lichfield
Englishmen may see themselves as king of their own castles, but the fact that Europe largely did away with its monarchies many years ago does not necessarily expla…
Goldman Sachs Offered Libya the Chance to Be Big Shareholder
By Alan Purkiss
Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS) offered Libya the opportunity to become one of its biggest shareholders two years ago, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing unidentified people fam…
Financial Geoengineering Anyone?
By Tony Arnold
There are a lot of investment options out there — but have you ever considered weather? The Chicago Mercantile Exchange has, and starting today, you can invest in rain futures. But ar…
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Life can only be understood backwards,
but it must be lived forwards.
~Soren Kierkegaard
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Goldman Is Now A Bigger Credit Risk Than Citigroup
By Joe Weisenthal and Gregory White
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Central Bank Gold Bullion War Reallocations
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Money & Markets – Week of 5.29.11
Chinese Economic Slowdown May Lead to 75% Plunge in Commodities, S&P Says
Bloomberg (2 June 11)
The ENTIRE Global Economy In One Gigantic Chart
Business Insider (1 June 11)
Precious Metals – Week of 5.29.11
Gold Holds up After Dollar Drops on Soft U.S. Jobs
Reuters (3 June 11)
Gold Daily and Silver Weekly Charts – Silver Advances While Gold Is Capped
Jesse’s Café Américain (31 May 11)
Utah Law Makes …
Housing & Mortgage Markets – Week of 5.29.11
Fannie and Freddie’s Regulator Opposes Making Mortgage Giants Subject to FOIA
Pro Publica (31 May 11)
Survey Says?¡?! Owning a House is “Dumb”
Reasons Magazine (25 May 11)
Geopolitical – Week of 5.29.11
Embedding YouTube Videos May Soon Be a Felony
Infowars.com (2 June 11)
For a Whistle-Blower, No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
New York Times (1 June 11)
Debt Ceiling: Moody’s Just Threatened To Slash Th…
Food & Health – Week of 5.29.11
E.Coli Crisis Intensifies
The Wall Street Journal (3 June 11)
German Cucumber E.coli Outbreak ‘May Last Months’
BBC News (2 June 11)
Scientists Probe Why E. Coli Strain Is So Virulent
NPR (2 June 11…
Science & Technology – Week of 5.29.11
Quantum Mechanics Rule ‘Bent’ in Classic Experiment
BBC News (3 June 11)
Brazil: £10bn Amazonian Dam Approved
The Independent (2 June 11)
Shale Gas ‘Fracking’ Halted After Possible Quake Link
T…
Happy Memorial Day – May 30, 2011
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House Members in The Know Score ‘Abnormal’ Stock Profits, Study Says
By Valerie Richardson
It’s no secret that members of Congress qualify as political insiders, but a new report strongly suggests that they also may be insiders when it comes to trading stocks.
An…
IRS vs. Small Businesses Over Software Data
By Laura Saunders
The Internal Revenue Service, moving aggressively to collect more taxes from small businesses, is telling companies being audited to turn over exact copies of the electronic recor…
Global Pension Fund Flows Could Swamp Emerging Market
By Natsuko Waki;
Cash-rich global pension funds are starting to increase their miniscule emerging market allocations, raising the prospect of a rapid acceleration in flows that could swamp the rela…
Transcript of Col. Lawrence Wilkerson’s Interview Available to Solari Report Subscribers
A transcript of Catherine’s May 5, 2011 interview of Col. Lawrence Wilkerson on National Security is now available to Solari Report Subscribers.
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A Short History of The United States
By Sam Smith
A chart showing the mentions of the Constitution by year as estimated by Google.com.
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There’s a Secret Patriot Act, Senator Says
By Spencer Ackerman
You think you understand how the Patriot Act allows the government to spy on its citizens. Sen. Ron Wyden says it’s worse than you know.
Congress is set to reauthorize three …
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“The consciousness of being at war, and therefore in danger, makes the handing over of all power to a small caste seem the natural unavoidable condition of survival.”
~ George Orwell
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Money & Markets Charts ~ 5.26.11
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Mornings at Blackwater
For years, every morning, I drank from Blackwater Pond.
It was flavored with oak leaves and also, no doubt,
the feet of ducks.
And always it assuaged me from the dry bowl of the very far past.
Wha…
Edwards to Face Criminal Charges
By Katharine Q. Seelye
The Justice Department plans to move ahead with criminal charges against John Edwards, the former senator and presidential candidate, contending that he misused campaign fund…
The Last Nail – Floor Speech May 25 2011
By Congressman Ron Paul
Have You Seen The Spike In US CDS?
By Joe Weisenthal
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Verizon Escapes ‘Billion-dollar Mistake’ as Court Spurns Appeal
By Greg Stohr
The U.S. Supreme Court refused to revive a suit that claimed Verizon Communications Inc. owed as much as $1.7 billion in additional retirement benefits because of an error made by a l…
Fight Against The Takeover of Benton Harbor
By Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg
For the residents of Benton Harbor, Michigan the question is will America have prosperity and democracy, or live in poverty under the heel of open corporate power. Th…
Fukushima Update: A Very Bad Situation
By C. Martenson
Well, it now turns out that many of my worst fears about Fukushima have been confirmed with the news that TEPCO has finally admitted that Reactor #1 has experienced a meltdown event t…
The Secret Sharer
Is Thomas Drake an enemy of the state?
By Jane Mayer
On June 13th, a fifty-four-year-old former government employee named Thomas Drake is scheduled to appear in a courtroom in Baltimore, where he wi…
Goldman Awaits Subpoenas on Mortgage Operations
Move Would Follow Senate Subcommittee’s Report
By Liz Rappaport and Jean Eaglesh
Goldman Sachs Group Inc. executives expect to receive subpoenas soon from U.S. prosecutors seeking more information…
Federal Court in Texas Deals a Potentially Serious Blow to MERS
By Yves Smith
Texas is not exactly a consumer-friendly state, so the Federal court ruling in the Eastern District of Texas against MERS has the potential to have broad ramifications (note a Federal…
Money & Markets – Week of 5.22.11
Second Biggest Weekly Drop Ever In Treasurys Held In The Fed’s Custodial Account As Foreigners Dump
Zero Hedge (26 May 11)
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Chevron Chiefs Face Sharehol…
Precious Metals – Week of 5.22.11
Gold, Silver Coins to be Legal Currency in Utah
CNBC (22 May 11)
Shanghai Gold Exchange Planning to Start ETFs, Chairman Wang Zhe Says
Bloomberg (21 May 11)
Geopolitical – Week of 5.22.11
Obama, in Europe, Signs Patriot Act Extension
MSNBC (27 May 11)
Tension Marks Clinton’s Visit to Pakistan
The New York Times (27 May 11)
Citi Seeks to Keep $1 billion Lehman Collateral
Reuters (27…
Food & Health – Week of 5.22.11
Lawsuit Seeks to Invalidate Monsanto’s GMO Patents
Global Research.ca (2 April 11)
With Resources Scarce, Food Banks Are Joplin’s Lifeline
The Huffington Post (25 May 11)
PLU Codes Do Not Indicate…
Life – Week of 5.22.11
Super Typhoon Churns Through Pacific, Threatens Okinawa
CNN (26 May 11)
Powerful Storms Pound Several Central US States
ajc.com (26 May 11)
A Directory of Rare Wonders
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Science & Technology – Week of 5.22.11
Man Invents Machine To Convert Plastic Into Oil
Flixxy.com (13 April 09)
Iceland Volcano Shuts Island’s Airspace
Bloomberg (22 May 11)
The AT&T Employee Who Got Mad
Forbidden Knowledge TV (28 Ja…
Will the NY Attorney General Bring Doomsday Charges Against Wall Street?
If So, How Long Will He Survive ?
By Michael Collins
Gretchen Morgenson of the New York Times just published one of the few feel good stories in months following the 2008 financial crisis. She des…
Earthwork (2011)
By Chris Ordal
[arve url=”http://player.vimeo.com/video/22357807?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0″ width=”300″ height=”225″ frameborder=”0″>EARTHWORK (2011) official HD trailer from Chris Ordal on…
Oil Card Geopolitics
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‘Vive l’Europe!’ Declares Christine Lagarde on IMF Question
By Sebastian Moffett
The normally easy-to-understand Christine Lagarde walked a diplomatic tightrope Thursday over the choice of a new IMF head.
European and Asian governments are engaged in a pol…
Herbert on Silver: We’re Not Close To A Bubble
By Stacey Herbert
There are some that since 2001 have doubted the bull market in precious metals. In these past six weeks, however, everyone from former silver bulls to those who sell freeze drie…
Money & Markets Charts ~ 5.19.11
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Confidential Federal Audits Accuse Five Biggest Mortgage Firms Of Defrauding Taxpayers
By Shahien Nasiripour
A set of confidential federal audits accuse the nation’s five largest mortgage companies of defrauding taxpayers in their handling of foreclosures on homes purchased with go…
Ron Paul: Statement Introducing Unpasteurized Milk Bill, HR 1830
Mr. Speaker, I rise to introduce legislation that allows the shipment and distribution of unpasteurized milk and milk products for human consumption across state lines. This legislation removes an u…
No Respite From Housing Recession
By Stan Humphries
Home values fell three percent in the first quarter of this year, marking a pace of decline not seen since 2008 when the housing recession was at its worst. Home values fell one…
Six More Private Prisons, Zero Accountability
By Jack Greiner
The Cincinnati Enquirer reports that Ohio’s proposed budget for the coming year includes a plan to sell an additional six prisons to private operators. If that saves money or ra…
Congress Proposes Bill to Allow Worldwide War … Including INSIDE the U.S.
By Washington’s Blog
Americans who have been paying attention are outraged that Bush lied us into Iraq by making up false claims about weapons of mass destruction and pretending that Saddam Hussein…
What Percent Of Corporate Profits Come From Overseas?
By Joe Weisenthal
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Quote du Jour
“If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread, then they can sure make something out of you.”
– Muhammad Ali, speaking to a group of school children
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NY Attorney General Seeks Mortgage Records
By Michael Gormley
New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is seeking records from three major Wall Street banks as part of a broad investigation into the mortgage crisis that fueled the recess…
The Biggest Myth About QE2 Gets Busted
By Joe Weisenthal
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Morgan Man Takes Over at IMF
John Lipsky is an American economist. He is currently the acting Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund. Previously the First Deputy Managing Director, he assumed his current position …
This Commodity Selloff Tracks Slower Chinese Growth
By Joe Weisenthal
Commodities have been getting clubbed of late, but it’s not clear yet whether this is a “dip” or the start of something big.
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Voila! The IMF Disperses $2.24 billion to Ireland
The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) today completed the first and second reviews of Ireland’s performance under an economic program supported by a three-year, SDR 19.5 bil…
Secret Weather Weapons Can Kill Millions, Warns Top Russian Politician
By Paul Joseph Watson
A top Duma political leader caused shock waves in a recent television interview when he warned that Russia could deploy an arsenal of new technology to “destroy any part of th…
IMF to Sell Gold to Raise Bail For Strauss-Kahn
By Ben Dover
After an emergency meeting of its Board of Governors on Sunday afternoon, the International Monetary Fund announced that it would sell gold to raise bail for its managing director, Dom…
Kiva: My Latest Loan
Dugersuren Tsagaantsooj is 30 years old and lives with his wife and two sons in a house in Hovd province, Mongolia. His older son goes to a local secondary school, while the younger one is in kinderg…
The Refineries And Nuclear Power Plants Threatened If The Morganza Spillway Is [Opened|Shut]
By Tyler Durden
As we reported previously, Obama has found himself on the verge of another environmental scandal now that he has no choice but to redirect the Mississippi river via the Morganza spi…
Japan Reactor-Core Damage Is Worse Than Expected
By Joe Carroll and Michio Nakayama
Tokyo Electric Power Co. said one of the reactor cores at its stricken Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant is more seriously damaged than previously thought, setting…
Corporate Stock Buybacks Rise
By Joe Weisenthal
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Assange: Facebook is a Spying Machine
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Money & Markets – Week of 5.15.11
Norway Stops Aid Payments To Greece
Zero Hedge (20 May 11)
All the President’s Money: Where The Obamas Invested in 2010
CBS MoneyWatch (17 May 11)
Update:Charles Schwab Posts April Asset Outflows
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Precious Metals – Week of 5.15.11
Bullion Banks Sharply Reduce Silver Shorts
GATA (18 May 11)
Endure Your Way to Gold $2000
Financial Sense (17 May 11
J.P. Morgan Seeks Gold in Afghanistan, as China Has Head Start
Advisorone (13 May…
Housing & Mortgage Markets – Week of 5.15.11
Audit Reveals Housing Authority Misused Stimulus Funds
The Hill (17 May 11)
A Trail of Stalled or Abandoned HUD Projects
The Washington Post (14 May 11)
Geopolitical – Week of 5.15.11
Top Lawmakers Agree to Patriot Act Extension
Associated Press (19 May 11)
President Obama Will Call For Billions in Aid to Arab Nations
Azcentral.com (19 May 11)
Breaking: Jerome Corsi’s Birther Boo…
Life – Week of 5.15.11
The Top 10 Most Diverse Cities in America
CNBC (May 2011)
Farmers Across America Ditch Tractors For Oxen in Bid to Beat Rising Fuel Prices
Mail Online (9 May 11)
Science & Technology – Week of 5.15.11
Google Cautions Against Anti-privacy Measures
GMA News Online (19 May 11)
Atmosphere Above Japan Heated Rapidly Before M9 Earthquake
Technology Review (18 May 11)
Dropbox Caught With Its Finger in T…
Ah, the Equestrian Life!
I was trying to find pictures of the stable in Malvern, Pennsylvania where I used to ride to prove to the wonderful folks at National Bank of Malvern that I have a history in the neighborhood. I c…
New Research: Cell Phones Harming the Honeybees
By David Derbyshire
Phone signals confuses bees and cause them to begin flying erratically before suddenly dying
Signals from mobile phones could be partly to blame for the mysterious deaths of ho…
Ideas Wanted for 100-Year Starship Project by DARPA, NASA
The next 50 years of spaceflight will carry many challenges and surprises for explorers hoping to extend their reach into the cosmos. But it will also likely hold untapped riches for space science an…
How A Bank Makes Money
By Joe Weisenthal
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Precious Metals Market Report
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What goes up, can come down.
When it comes…
Money & Markets Charts ~ 5.12.11
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Senate Action Argues for Goldman Criminal Indictment
By Rolling Stone Magazine
A Senate committee has laid out the evidence. Now the Justice Department should bring criminal charges
They weren’t murderers or anything; they had merely stolen more money…
Ireland to Tax Pension Funds
By Joe Brennan and Dara Doyle
Ireland’s government will impose a temporary levy on domestic private pension savings to fund a jobs plan aimed at cutting unemployment and aiding the economic recov…
An All-Time Record For American Exports
By Joe Weisenthal
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“Every 30 Minutes” an Indian Farmer Commits Suicide
“Every 30 Minutes”: Crushed by Debt and Neoliberal Reforms, Indian Farmers Commit Suicide at Staggering Rate
“There Goes Skype”
By Nadia Damouni and Bill Rigby
Microsoft Corp plans to buy Internet phone service Skype for $8.5 billion in its biggest-ever acquisition, placing a rich bet on mobile and the Internet to try to be…
AIG Share Slide to Lowest Point Since March ’10
Shares in American International Group Inc. tumbled on Monday, deepening a slide that’s brought the insurer’s shares to the lowest point in eight months and stoked concerns over whether the U.S. gov…
Student Loan Debt That Never Stops Rising
By Joe Weisenthal
The big news of the day: Yet again, students are graduating college with a record amount of debt.
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Hong Kong Plans New Gold-Futures Platform
Trading set to kick off in May as Hong Kong burnishes status
By Chris Oliver
Hong Kong is on track to kick off a new gold-futures trading platform with settlement in the physical metal next month,…
Quote du Jour
“The contemplation of things as they are without error or confusion, without substitution or imposture, is in itself a nobler thing than a whole harvest of invention.”
— Francis Bacon
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Fannie Mae Seeks $8.5 billion More in Federal Aid
By Daniel Wagner
Fannie Mae asked the government Friday for an additional $8.5 billion in aid after declining home prices caused more defaults on loans guaranteed by the mortgage giant.
The compan…