Japan – Nuclear Alert Level to 7
By Justin McCurry
Japan is to raise the nuclear alert level at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant to a maximum seven, putting the emergency on a par with the 1986 Chernobyl disaster.
Nuclear safety…
The Student Loan Scam
The Student Loan Scam: The Most Oppressive Debt in U.S. History – and How We Can Fight Back [Hardcover]
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Unanswered Questions About Fukushima
By Yoichi Shimatsu
Confused and often conflicting reports out of Fukushima 1 nuclear plant cannot be solely the result of tsunami-caused breakdowns, bungling or miscommunication. Inexplicable delays …
Supreme Court Rules Prosecutors Can Lie And Fabricate Evidence
COMMENT: The Supreme Court’s decision in Connick v. Thompson virtually gives license to prosecutors to lie, fabricate or withhold evidence, since they apparently can’t be held accountable for kn…
Food Stamp Participation Hits All-Time High
By Theresa McCabe
New York (TheStreet) — Participation in the U.S. Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly known as the Food Stamp Program, reached an all-time high in January.
T…
Iceland Rejects Debt Deal to Repay UK, Dutch
By Gudjon Helgason
REYKJAVIK, Iceland — Voters in Iceland rejected a government-backed deal to repay Britain and the Netherlands for their citizens’ $5 billion worth of deposits in a failed online…
Dogwood Meditations
By Catherine Austin Fitts
The dogwood tree at the Hickory Valley office is in full blossom.
Every few days we cut a branch and arrange it in the room I use to review books and DVDs. I just wande…
How to Pay No Taxes
Illustration by Jennifer Daniel
By Jesse Drucker
For the well-off, this could be the best tax day since the early 1930s: Top tax rates on ordinary income, dividends, estates, and gifts will remain …
St. Louis Adjusted Monetary Base
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President Adopts a Measured Course to Recapture the Middle
By Jeff Zeleny
Washington — President Obama opened the week by calling on Democrats to embrace his re-election campaign. He closed it by praising Republicans for forging a compromise to cut spend…
Let Not the Sun Go Down on Your Anger
[Note from CAF: I first published this on the blog on December 5, 2008. Given the current conversion of the many changes upon us, I am republishing today.]
By Catherine Austin Fitts
In 199…
Money & Markets – Week of 4.10.11
Identity Fraud Continues to Rise
Guardian.co.uk (14 April 11)
Abolition of Cheques to be Reconsidered
Guardian.co.uk (14 April 11)
Precious Metals – Week of 4.10.11
A Rouble Re-run
Financial Times (15 April 11)
Will Silver Surge Following The Nationalization Of Bolivia’s Silver Mines By Embattled President Evo Morales?
Zero Hedge (14 April 11)
Geopolitical – Week of 4.10.11
US Senate Urges UN to Revoke Goldstone Report
Ynetnews (15 April 11)
The “Deep State” Behind U.S. Democracy
Voltaire Network (6 April 11)
Food & Health – Week of 4.10.11
Summer Drought Looms Following ‘Driest March For 60 years’
Guardian.co.uk (14 April 11)
A Generation of Autism, Coming of Age
The New York Times (13 April 11)
Pretty Food is Dangerous
Newsvandal (11…
Life – Week of 4.10.11
World’s Oldest Man Dies at 114
Guardian.co.uk (15 April 11)
The Lost Generation
Metropolis (6 March 11)
Congress, in a First, Removes an Animal From the Endangered Species List
The New York Times (1…
Science & Technology – Week of 4.10.11
Could This be The Biggest Find Since The Dead Sea Scrolls? Seventy Metal Books Found in Cave in Jordan Could Change Our View of Biblical History
Mail Online (30 March 11)
Glasses Free 3D on iPad 2
Ge…
From Afar, a Vivid Picture of Japan Crisis
By William J. Broad
For the clearest picture of what is happening at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, talk to scientists thousands of miles away.
Thanks to the unfamiliar but sophi…
Here’s What Bonds Did The Last Time The Government Shut Down
By Gregory White
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Get Ready to Thrive! Coming 11.11.11
One Lie Hides the Truth.
One Hundred Lies Become the Truth.
Your World Will Never Look the Same.
THRIVE is an unconventional documentary that lifts the veil on what’s REALLY going on in our world…
California, Here I Come!
San Francisco Bay Area Map
I am leaving next week to drive to Montana to meet with the Solari team there and then on to San Francisco where I will be working from Pleasanton for the next two months….
Georgian Woman Cuts Off Web Access to Whole of Armenia
Entire country loses internet for five hours after woman, 75, slices through cable while scavenging for copper.
By Tom Parfitt in Moscow
An elderly Georgian woman was scavenging for copper to sell…
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1st Quarter 2011: Looking Back
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The Solari Report – 7 April 11
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Money & Markets Charts ~ 4.07.11
View this week’s chart comparisons of gold against fiat currencies, oil and the Dow. Stay tuned for our next Money & Markets segment of The Solari Report tonight, Thursday, April 7, 2011.
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Videos of the Japanese Tsunami
YouTube
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Chile, Colombia, Peru Launch Integrate Stock Markets Beginning May 30
Operations of a joint stock market linking Chile, Colombia and Peru are scheduled to begin May 30. The group, known as the Integrated Latin American Market, or Mila, said Tuesday that the decision w…
Gold Holdings – Still Small
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Libya Can Tap $7 Billion in Gold Reserves for War
By Flavia Krause-Jackson and Caroline Alexander
Libyan dictator Muammar Qaddafi can tap gold reserves worth $7 billion, equivalent to a 10th of the size of his country’s economy, as he fights a civ…
Even with a Tsunami Hammering the Competition, GM is Eating Inventory
By Tyler Durden
Earlier today GM announced disappointing sales numbers, with March car sales rising only 9.6% compared to expectations of 20%. Indeed, this number tends to be quite volatile: ultima…
More Customers Exposed as Big Data Breach Grows
By Jonathan Spicer
The names and e-mails of customers of Citigroup Inc and other large U.S. companies, as well as College Board students, were exposed in a massive and growing data breach after a c…
The Next Housing Shock
By Scott Pelley
As more and more Americans face mortgage foreclosure, banks’ crucial ownership documents for the properties are often unclear and are sometimes even bogus, a condition that’s causing …
Of The 1%, By The 1%, For The 1%
The Fat And The Furious: The top 1 percent may have the best houses, educations, and lifestyles, says the author, but “their fate is bound up with how the other 99 percent live.”
By Joseph E. S…
Members of Japan’s ‘Fukushima 50’ Have Come to Terms With The Fact They May Die From Radiation
By Christina Boyle
Some workers at Japan’s stricken nuclear plant fear they may die within weeks or months after being exposed to potentially lethal doses of radiation.
The mother of one of the so…
The Battle of Chernobyl
It’s a documentary which analyzes the Thursday 26th April 1986 that became a momentous date in modern history, when one of the reactors at the Chernobyl nuclear power station in northern Ukraine, …
April Fools Day!
The American Spectator celebrated April Fools Day by announcing that after the GOP threatened to cancel their funding, NPR replaced Bill Moyer’s show with Ann Coulter.
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Jobs Picture Still Dismal
By Joe Weisenthal
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Money & Markets – Week of 4.3.11
GE to Build Nation’s Largest Solar Power Plant
Yahoo Finance (7 April 11)
Why the Middle-Aged Are Missing Out on New Jobs
Yahoo Finance (1 April 11)
Precious Metals – Week of 4.3.11
Another Day, Another Record High For Gold
Zero Hedge (7 April 11)
Feds Move to Keep Liberty Dollar’s $7 million Metal Inventory
GATA (4 April 11)
Utah Doubles Down on Gold Laws Amid Inflation Fears,…
Housing & Mortgage Markets – Week of 4.3.11
Florida’s ‘Shadow’ Real-estate Inventory Ranks No. 1 in U.S.
MiamiHerald.com (5 April 11)
Banks Win Again: Weak Mortgage Settlement Proposal Undermined by Phony Consent Decrees
Naked Capitalism…
Geopolitical – Week of 4.3.11
No Accord in Budget Talks as Policy Fights Hamper Deal
The New York Times (7 April 11)
Government Shutdown: Potential Furloughs For 800k Federal Workers, Disruption of D.C. Services
The Washington Po…
Food & Health – Week of 4.3.11
Antibiotic Superbugs CRKP & MRSA: Who’s at Risk?
Yahoo Health (7 April 11)
Screening the Day’s Catch for Radiation
The New York Times (5 April 11)
EPA to Raise Limits For Radiation Exposure While…
Life – Week of 4.3.11
Japan’s Disaster: A Spiritual Perspective
Huffington Post (30 March 11)
Science & Technology – Week of 4.3.11
Solar Power May Already Rival Coal, Prompting Installation Surge
Bloomberg (6 April 11)
Coping: With the Horrible Earthquake Trend
Urban Survival (4 April 11)
Ozone Layer Faces Record Loss Over Arct…
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Farm to Table: High Point Farm and Fountain House
By Abigail Jackson
Fountain House is one of the world’s leading mental health organizations, providing employment, educational and housing opportunities to people living with serious mental illne…
Fed Discloses Secrets on Supreme Court Orders
By Bob Ivry and Craig Torres
A Supreme Court order that forces unprecedented disclosures from the Federal Reserve ended a two- year legal battle that helped shape the public’s perceptions of the …
Citibank Debt Collectors Alleged to Kill Customer Who Objected to Credit Card Practices
By Hans David Tampubolon
Three Citibank debt collectors [in Indonesia] allegedly killed Irzen Octa, 50, secretary general of the National Unity Party (PPB), on Tuesday after he protested an increas…
Kindness
Before you know what kindness really is
you must lose things,
feel the future dissolve in a moment
like salt in a weakened broth.
What you held in your hand,
what you counted and carefully saved,
al…
Corn Futures Up, Up and Away
By Joe Weisenthal
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Why Republicans Are Acting so Crazy
By Sam Smith
Not every change in national policy and events is announced with a new conference or presidential speech.
A case in point is the rapid rise of apparent mental instability in the Repub…
Wisconsin Judge Declares Union Law Not In Effect
A Wisconsin judge on Thursday did what thousands of pro-union protesters and boycotting Democratic lawmakers couldn’t, forcing Republican Gov. Scott Walker to halt plans to implement a law that woul…
Confession of Faith
By Cecil Rhodes
Rhodes originally wrote this on June 2, 1877, in Oxford. Later, that year in Kimberley, he made some additions and changes. What follows is that amended statement. The spelling and …
Quote du Jour
I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
– Thomas Jefferson
Happy April Fools’ Day
April Fools’ Day is celebrated in different countries around the world on the April 1 of every year. Sometimes referred to as All Fools’ Day, April 1 is not a national holiday, but is widely recognize…
Farmers, Seed Sellers Sue Monsanto
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By Kelsey Volkmann
The Public Patent Foundation, on behalf of 60 family farmers, seed businesses and organic agricultural organizations, sue…
Federal Reserve Rejects AIG Offer to Buy Mortgage Assets
The Federal Reserve announced Wednesday that it was declining an offer from American International Group (NYSE: aig) to buy the mortgage-related assets it holds in its Maiden Lane II portfolio.
Ins…
Silver Coin Sales Continue Rising
By Joe Weisenthal
By now you know that the surge in silver prices has left gold in the dust.
One reason: it’s just cheaper to buy silver coins.
From Deutsche Bank:
According to a recent article …
Money & Markets Charts ~ 03.30.11
View this week’s chart comparisons of gold against fiat currencies, oil and the Dow. Stay tuned for our next Money & Markets segment of The Solari Report, Thursday, April 7, 2011.
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JPMorgan CEO says Whitney was Right: A Hundred Municipalities Won’t ‘Make It’
By Dawn Kopecki
JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon said some municipalities will need to renegotiate debt and a hundred may not “make it.”
“I wou…
Transcript of Dr. Gwen Scott’s Solari Report Interview Available to Solari Report Subscribers
A transcript of Catherine’s March 24, interview of Dr. Gwen Scott on Aerosol Spraying-Mitigating the Harm to Your Health is now available to Solari Report Subscribers. It was a powerful interview with…
Quote du Jour
The Federal Reserve forgot that it is the central bank for the people of the United States States and not a private academy where decisions of great importance may be withheld from public scrutiny. Th…
How Dangerous Is Japan’s Creeping Nuclear Disaster?
A Geiger counter in Itate village, some 40 kilometers northwest of the Fukushima Daiichi plant showing radiation levels of 7.66 micro Sievert per hour. People living here would receive the yearly max…
Quote du Jour
Today, when foreign journalists stumble into MITI (the Ministry of International Trade and Industry) and demand to know what will be done about Japan’s trade surpluses, they sometimes get this stran…
Where the Bailout Went Wrong
By Neil M. Barofsky
Two and a half years ago, Congress passed the legislation that bailed out the country’s banks. The government has declared its mission accomplished, calling the program remark…
Dirty Electricity
Dirty Electricity tells the story of Dr. Samuel Milham, the scientist who first alerted the world about the frightening link between occupational exposure to electromagnetic fields, electromagnetic …
GOP Shifts Strategy on Housing Market Overhaul
By Alan Fram
House Republicans plan to introduce eight bills on Tuesday that would each take a small step toward pushing taxpayer-backed mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac out of business, …
Japan Copes With 21st-century Dark Age
By Barbara Demick
The first pitch of Japan’s baseball season has been pushed back so people don’t waste gasoline driving to games. When the season does start, most night games will be switched to day…
The Problems With Smart Grids: Dumb and Dangerous
By B. Blake Levitt and Chellis Glendinning
Culture Change note: As if you weren’t getting enough radiation: now comes really bad news in the form of smart grids. GE — the designer of Fukushima n…
Did the Fed Create the Commodity Boom?
By Joe Weisenthal
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The Federal Reserve forgot that it is the central bank for the people of the United States States and not a private academy where decisions of great importance may be withheld from public scrutiny. Th…
Farmers Sue USDA Over Monsanto Alfalfa – Again
By Mike Ludwig
A coalition of farmers and environmental groups filed a lawsuit against the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) on March 18 to challenge the agency’s recent decision to fully deregul…
Nuclear Situation ‘Grave’ Japan PM Warns
Naoto Kan says the situation at disaster-hit power plant is unpredictable as officials fear breach at one reactor.
Japan’s prime minister has warned the situation at the country’s quake-hit nuclear…
Burma(Myanmar) Earthquake Hits Golden Triangle
By Laurent Belsie
The earthquake that struck Burma Thursday night hit one of its more remote regions, once known as the world’s premier producer of opium and its derivative, heroin.
The extent of …
Money & Markets – Week of 3.27.11
Tepco Downfall to Shatter ‘Myth’ of Safe Toshiba, Hitachi Nuclear Reactors
Bloomberg (31 March 11)
‘Lehman Shock’ Is Kid Stuff Next to Fukushima: William Pesek
Bloomberg Businessweek (31 Marc…
Precious Metals – Week of 3.27.11
Gold’s Hyperbolic Trajectory
Free Gold Money Report (28 March 11)
Housing & Mortgage Markets – Week of 3.27.11
Report Critical of Pay Practices at Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac
Reuters (1 April 11)
LPS: Foreclosure Backlog Stands at 30x Foreclosure Sales Volume
DSNews (28 March 11)
Geopolitical – Week of 3.27.11
Amid Tweeted Frustration, Japan May Take Control of TEPCO
Time (1 April 11)
Ivory Coast Rebels Seize State TV, Control Gbagbo Palace
Bloomberg (1 April 11)
Anxiety Roils Libyan Capital Amid Top-Leve…
Food & Health – Week of 3.27.11
Asking Kidney Patients to Forgo a Free Lifeline
The New York Times (31 March 11)
Radiation in Mass. Rainwater Likely From Japan
Yahoo News (27 March 11)
Urban Homesteaders Find Ideal Ground in Altad…
Life – Week of 3.27.11
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Tweeting Cobra Found at Home in Bronx Zoo
The Wall Street Journal (1 April 11)
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Science & Technology – Week of 3.27.11
Highway Deaths Fall to Lowest Level Since 1949
SFGate (1 April 11)
Google Making App That Would Identify People’s Faces
CNN (31 March 11)
It’s Tracking Your Every Move and You May Not Even Know
Th…
Japanese Radiation Levels Surge in Water at Fukushima
By Yuji Okada, Naoko Fujimura and Kaipin Yee
March 27 (Bloomberg) — Radiation in water at Japan’s stricken nuclear plant reached potentially lethal levels even as engineers made progress in resto…
Dr. Gwen Scott: Aerosol Spraying-Mitigating the Harm to Your Health
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The Solari Report – 24 Mar 11
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Money & Markets Charts ~ 03.24.11
View this week’s chart comparisons of gold against fiat currencies, oil and the Dow. Stay tuned for our next Money & Markets segment of The Solari Report tonight, Thursday, March 24, 2011.
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Transcript of Dr. Laura Thompson’s Interview Now Available to Solari Report Subscribers
A transcript of Catherine’s March 17 Solari Report interview of Dr. Laura Thompson of the Southern California Institute of Nutrition and discussion of steps to take to mitigate the impact of radiation…
Catherine on Mortgage Market Bubbles, “Piratization” and & Other Frauds
We have had requests for a history of our warnings on the housing and mortgage markets and related privatization of government assets and outsourcing of government funds. Here are some of the most p…
Pimco Purchases Toyota Motor Credit, Sees ‘Select’ Opportunities in Japan
By Shannon D. Harrington and Betty Liu
Pacific Investment Management Co., manager of the world’s biggest bond fund, invested in the finance arm of Toyota Motor Corp. (7203) after the earthquake i…
Iraq to Sign $6.25 Billion in Contracts for 50 Power Plants
By Kadhim Ajrash and Nayla Razzouk
Iraq plans next week to sign power- plant contracts valued at $6.25 billion with Caterpillar Inc. (CAT) and other companies, in its biggest effort to boost electric…
President of Iceland: Good Idea to Let the Banks Fail
Nov. 26 (Bloomberg) — Iceland’s President Olafur R. Grimsson talks about the country’s progress since receiving a $4.6 billion International Monetary Fund-led loan. He speaks with Mark Barton on Bloo…
Currency Market Rigging on A Vaster Scale Than Ever
By Peter Garnham and Lindsay Whipp
The billions of dollars in yen sold by the world’s most powerful central banks have sent a strong message to speculative investors. Those daring to bet that the J…
When Gadhafi Falls, Does Libya’s Gold Get Leased at 1% per Year? Or Does It Go Straight to Morgan Chase (Exchange Stabilization Fund)?
By Jack Farchy and Roula Khalaf
The international community has hit Mommar Gadhafi with a raft of sanctions and asset freezes aimed at cutting off his funding. But the embattled Libyan leader is si…
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Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967)
We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed… A few people cried… Most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture the Bhag…
Who Owns All That Municipal Debt?
By Joe Weisenthal
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More Perjury From JP Morgan
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The Crime Behind Hope And Change
By Sam Smith
By the standards of the US Constitution as well as American and international law, Barack Obama is a criminal – as are many of his recent predecessors.
The fact that most Americans …
Japan Prays For Success of Fukushima 50 in Fight to Save Nuclear Plant
A fearless band of scientists and workers trying to stop a meltdown have inspired the entire country.
By Robin McKie
Exhausted engineers attached a power cable to the outside of Japan’s tsunami-cr…