Gold Vs Dow Annual Performance
By Chuck Gibson
As they say, pictures are worth a thousand words
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Alex Jones, Guns, Piers Morgan and My Penis – Part One: Alex Jones Versus Downton Abbey
By Greg Palast
Alex Jones is right. Deport Piers Morgan. NOW. Send him back. In chains.
But not because Piers doesn’t believe in the Second Amendment to the US Constitution. (I mean, really, who…
SWIFT: Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication
[Note from CAF: As currency wars intensify, expect more attention paid to clearance and settlement systems, particularly SWIFT.]
The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT…
The GM Lobby and Its ‘Seven Sins Against Science’
By Peter Melchett
Powerful forces in Western society have been promoting genetic engineering (now usually genetic modification – GM) in agricultural crops since the mid-1990s. They have included many…
Stealth Hoodie Hides Wearer From Drones
By Jesse Emspak
Surveillance cameras are ubiquitous, especially in the U.K.. and in the United States, Congress has already approved the use of drones for domestic surveillance. Then there’s the …
Fun – “Carry On”
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Solari Special Report: Coming Clean Beyond the Fiscal Cliff
by Catherine Austin Fitts
Ultimately, the fiscal cliff is the tip of the iceberg of our economic and cultural woes. Our problems are deeper. The more of us who are prepared to look honestly at our …
Air Pollution in Asia: Real-time Air Quality Index Visual Map
We’ve posted recently about the swelling pollution crisis in China, this map can show you the scope of the problem.
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The Drums of War
By The Economist
WATCH Chinese television these days and you might conclude that the outbreak of war with Japan over what it calls the Senkaku and China the Diaoyu islands is only a matter of time….
2012 Annual Wrap Up – Transcript Updated!
We have just posted an updated version of the transcript for the 2012 Annual Wrap Up. You can find it in the Transcript Announcement. Also find it in the blog post; at the Subscriber Resource Page, …
New Belgium Brewing Becomes a 100% Employee-Owned Company
[Staff Note: I’m a big fan of America’s budding Microbrew industry. It’s based around small, local companies who strive to provide the best product they can. Many of them, like New Belgium, go above…
Poland Joins Growing List of Nations Banning GMOs
Well….now it’s Poland. This nation has joined the growing list of countries, particularly in Europe, that are displaying some rationality and caution with respect to Duponzanto and Mon(ster)santo …
Will SEC’s New Rules on Marketing be a Boon for Start-Ups or a Risk for Investors?
By Dina ElBoghdady
The ads may start coming in the next few months through e-mail, on billboards, even via a passing reference on Facebook — companies looking to give you a chance to invest on th…
Tit for Tat?
Did Congress just pay NY $51 billion to pass a gun control law?
New York Passes Nation’s Toughest Gun-Control Law
House Approves Post-Sandy Relief Bill
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New York Has Gun Deal, With…
Bundesbank to Pull Gold From New York and Paris in Watershed Moment
By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
The move marks an extraodinary breakdown in trust between leading central banks and has set off ferment among gold enthusiasts, with some comparing it with France’s wit…
The Beijing-Shanghai High-Speed Rail
Beijing-Shanghai high-speed rail. Beijing departure station
The train speed is 350 km/hr (218.75 mph)
The crew to board the Beijing-Shanghai high-speed train.
The crew staff …
No-Book Library? BiblioTech is Coming
By Joanna Stern
A book-less library.
It sounds like an oxymoron, but come the fall of 2013, San Antonio’s Bexar County is going to be home to the BiblioTech, the country’s first book-less public l…
March of the Machines
By 60 Minutes
One of the hallmarks of the 21st century is that we are all having more and more interactions with machines and fewer with human beings. If you’ve lost your white collar job to downsi…
Guns Protect Honest People-Catherine Austin Fitts
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What Government Fears Most: Blacks and Whites United With Guns
By Jon Rappoport
In 1969, William Kunstler, the famous radical-left lawyer, gave a speech in Oakland, California, to the black community. In his concluding remarks, he reminded the audience that the …
Dispelling Wetiko by Paul Levy
By Catherine Austin Fitts
Paul Levy’s new book, Dispelling Wetiko: Breaking the Curse of Evil, is now available. I wrote the forward. This is an intense and powerful exploration of the nature of ev…
Goodbye Piers!
By Catherine Austin Fitts
I took an online course on driver safety tonight. Here are two quotes from the material:
“Most people do not realize that nationally there are over 42,000 people killed eac…
Visionary Internet Activist Aaron Swartz Found Dead; Was This Brilliant Internet Revolutionary ‘Taken Out?’
Adding to the list of mysterious deaths that have happened over the last few days, internet visionary and brilliant internet activist Aaron Swartz was found dead yesterday. Swartz, only 26 years old…
France Determined to ‘Eradicate’ Terrorism in Mali, Official Says
By CNN staff
As a new round of French military strikes targeted Islamist rebels in Mali on Sunday, both sides of the fight said they were determined to win.
French fighter jets bombed rebel training…
Seen on the Internet
1st Comment:
Jon Corzine goes to jail or it’s all bull***t.
Oh, and Angelo Mozilla needs to go to jail, too.
2nd Comment:
I find it simply amazing that there hasn’t been a mass murder of these crim…
No Ma’am.
Senator Dianne Feinstein,
I will not register my weapons should this bill be passed, as I do not believe it is the government’s right to know what I own. Nor do I think it prudent to tell you what I…
Frau Koma’s Second Coming: Mass Murder, Autism and the Cult of Weaponized Genetics
In September, 2011, Manitoba judge Robert Heinrichs ruled that a sixteen year old accused of murder would remain in youth court where he faces a maximum sentence of four years rather than the possib…
Sinéad O’Connor: 4th and Vine
The music for this weekend is “4th and Vine” by Sinéad O’Connor.
Check it out on Nowness.com.
Mexican Drug Cartels Celebrate Gun Control
By Jon Rappoport
The best way to depict what’s going on in America is through a letter from the head of the Sinaloa Drug Cartel, to President Obama.
In case people are ready to assume this letter …
China Warns Citizens To ‘Prepare For The Worst’ As It Sends Fighters To East China Sea
By Robert Johnson
After repeatedly flying surveillance aircraft into disputed airspace with Japan, and Tokyo scrambling F-15s in response, China’s now sending fighters of its own on “routine flight…
Every Person on Earth Has the Natural Born Right to Defend Themself From Harm.
By Tim Schmidt, Publisher – Concealed Carry Report
Every person on earth has the natural born right to defend themself from harm.
This is where I believe so many people get off topic. Many folks
arg…
NRA Rips Biden Task Force for ‘Attack’ on 2nd Amendment, as Details of Plan Emerge
By Fox News
The National Rifle Association emerged from a meeting Thursday with Vice President Biden and accused his gun violence task force of leading an “attack” on the Second Amendment — just h…
CalSTRS Pension Fund Divests From Some Gun, Ammo Makers
By Jim Christie
The second largest U.S. pension fund decided on Wednesday to sell off its investments in the manufacturer of the rifle used in last month’s mass shooting at an elementary school in Ne…
Biden: Obama Could Make Executive Order on Gun Control
By Jillian Rayfield
Joe Biden said today that the president is prepared to take unilateral action in order to implement stricter gun control measures. “The president is going go act,” he said. …
Mosaic Crowdfunds 4 Solar Campaigns in 24 Hours
By Eric Markowitz
Just one day after Inc. covered the formal launch of Mosaic, a clean enery crowdfunding platform based in Oakland that connects investors with solar energy projects, the start-up …
How to Find a Good Local Bank
By Catherine Austin Fitts
[Published in 2005, this checklist was designed to help people shift from large banks whose incentives are out of alignment with people and living systems to community ban…
McDonald’s to Become ‘Macca’s’ in Australia
By News 9 Finance
The world-first change – a temporary measure – comes after a branding survey commissioned by the fast food chain found that 55 percent of Australians called the company by its sho…
Bank of America Pays Billions in Mortgage Settlements
By Karen Weise for Businessweek
The mortgage settlements just keep coming. On Monday morning, Bank of America said it reached an agreement to resolve virtually all existing and future claims that it …
John Brennan, Obama’s Drone Warrior
By Peter Bergen
President Barack Obama has nominated his top counterterrorism adviser, John Brennan, to be the next director of the CIA.
If there is an emerging Obama doctrine to deal with the thr…
Bioinitiative 2012
These are invaluable sets of abstracts (data-based to be searchable) covering the RFR scientific literature, as well as collections of scientific abstracts on free radical damage (from both RFR and …
Introducing Holly Bedrosian
By Catherine Austin Fitts
Ben Lizardi of Lizardi Communications designed our wonderful new poster for 2013, using an original art work from Holly Bedrosian. We thought you might like to learn more…
Killing With Impunity
By Catherine Austin Fitts
The ability to kill with impunity is the power that runs the planet today. Assassination is an ancient craft.
Killing successfully for political purposes in the modern sta…
Surprise, Surprise: The Banks Win
By Gretchen Morgenson
IF you were hoping that things might be different in 2013 — you know, that bankers would be held responsible for bad behavior or that the government might actually assist trou…
Global Trends 2030: Alternative Worlds
Before launching work on the current volume, the NIC commissioned an academic study of the four previous Global Trends studies, beginning with the first edition
in 1996-97. The reviewers examined th…
Swiss Bank Pleads Guilty in US Court to Helping Tax Evasion and Closes Definitely
[Note from CAF: I don’t know the specifics of what Wegelin did or did not do. I assume the US gave them two options. Confess to criminal charge or be individually hounded until not just the bank but…
Top Ten “Killers” in the U.S.
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NY Times: Trashing the Constitution for Fun and Profit
By Jon Rappoport
It doesn’t surprise me that the NY Times has decided the Constitution is merely a reference document now. The paper’s loyal readership, what’s left of it, lives huddled on the …
HUD Unveils Massive Integration Plan
By Housing Affairs Letter
HUD intends to submit a new rule proposal in April targeting massive desegregation of each of the nation’s more than 74,000 census tracts. The plan, modeled on HUD’s Westche…
Liked the Fiscal Cliff? You’ll Love These Coming Attractions
By Market Watch
So, the fiscal cliff brawl is finished. Washington is breathing easy, right?
Wrong. Three more budget-related battles are looming just over the horizon, meaning lawmakers and the Whi…
Proposed Exchange Merger Brings Renewed Calls to Consolidate SEC and CFTC
By Dina ElBoghdady
The proposed merger of a leading commodities exchange and the world’s most famous stock market raises a burning question for Washington: Does it make sense to have two U.S. reg…
Global MetroMonitor
By: Emilia Istrate and Carey Anne Nadeau
This interactive feature provides economic growth data (real GDP per capita and employment change) for the largest 300 metropolitan economies worldwide for th…
Private Prison Company Used in Drug Raids at Public High School
By Beau Hodai
In Arizona an unsettling trend appears to be underway: the use of private prison employees in law enforcement operations.
The state has graced national headlines in recent years as t…
Cash Feast Update in Sac, Placer & Yolo County
[CAF Note: Is hedge fund and institutional investor activity the reason for the improved housing prices? Note this story from the Sacramento area]
Here are the latest stats for cash purchases in Sa…
How Small Business (and Jobs) Got Done-In
By Barry C. Lynn
Where the independent pharmacist counted pills, we see a CVS employee. Where family livestock farms dotted the landscape, we see immense operations run by Smithfield and Tyson. Where…
‘Tsunami Bomb’ Tested Off New Zealand Coast
By Jonathan Pearlman
The tests were carried out in waters around New Caledonia and Auckland during the Second World War and showed that the weapon was feasible and a series of 10 large offshore bla…
Eight Corporate Subsidies in the Fiscal Cliff Bill, From Goldman Sachs to Disney to NASCAR
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By Matt Stoller
Throughout the months of November and December, a steady stream of corporate CEOs flowed in and out of the White House to discuss the impending fiscal cliff. Many o…
Introducing Miki de Goodaboom
By Catherine Austin Fitts
Ben Lizardi of Lizardi Communications designed our wonderful new poster for 2014, using an original art work from Miki de Goodaboom. We thought you might like to learn mor…
Mortgage Rates For the Year at Lowest Rate Since 1947
By V. Dion Haynes
Mortgage rates, which took some dramatic dips in 2012, were among the lowest on record this year, according to data released by Freddie Mac on Thursday.
The 30-year fixed-rate aver…
House Approves Senate’s Fiscal Cliff Deal
By Dana Bash, Dana Ford, and Josh Levs
The House of Representatives voted Tuesday night to approve a Senate bill to avert a feared fiscal cliff.
The measure that sought to maintain tax cuts for most…
Congress Passes Fiscal Cliff Act
By Paul Bonner and Alistair M. Nevius
Pulling back from the “fiscal cliff” at the 13th hour, Congress on Tuesday preserved most of the George W. Bush-era tax cuts and extended many other lapsed t…
Sandy Hook: More Television Brainwashing Using Guests as Fodder
By Jon Rappoport
Somebody has to write about these things. Since I’ve worked as a reporter for 30 years, I know enough about how the game is rigged.
I’m talking about the big mass tragedies. San…
Sandy Hook: Aleister Crowley, Interview Freak-Show, Police Audio
By Jon Rappoport
I’ve been listening to a stream of police dept. audio during the initial response to the Sandy Hook shooting.
At roughly 2:38, a police voice says: “Party in custody.”
Then a…
Gandhi on Bearing Arms
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Of Benghazi and the Liberty
By Barry Chamish
A Texas writer, Robert Morrow, sent me the following:
There is an extremely important book that came out in 2003 and was published by Vision. It is “Operation Cyanide-Why the Bomb…
Harvests and Farmland: Unyielding
The Economist magazine highlights research that suggests farmland yields have peaked.
[CAF Note: On the contrary, demonizing the likes of Monsanto is a very good idea.]
By The Economist
SOME of th…
Point Blank: Guns and Violence in America by Gary Kleck
By Catherine Austin Fitts
As the specter of federal gun control legislation in 2013 rises, the debate is being defined
by primarily fiction, rather than fact. For those interested in shifting th…
Settlement Expected on Past Abuses in Home Loans
By Jessica Silver-Greenberg
Banking regulators are close to a $10 billion settlement with 14 banks that would end the government’s efforts to hold lenders responsible for foreclosure abuses like …
Tax-Status Threat Fuels Worst Losses Since Whitney: Muni Credit
The $3.7 trillion municipal market is poised for its steepest monthly decline since 2010 as investors spooked by threats to the debt’s tax-exempt status withdrew the most money in almost two years.
…
Source: Fiscal Cliff Talks See Major Setback
By Dana Bash
A Democratic source familiar with the talks tells CNN they have hit a “major setback” because Republicans are now insisting that any fiscal cliff deal include “chained CPI,” whic…
Settlement Expected on Past Abuses in Home Loans
By Jessica Silver-Greenberg
Banking regulators are close to a $10 billion settlement with 14 banks that would end the government’s efforts to hold lenders responsible for foreclosure abuses like fa…
Best Space Photos of the Year 2012
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By Adam Mann
This year has seen some amazing space photos, including gloriously shining dust in the Orion nebula, Saturn wreathed in rings and accompanied …
Dealers Tighten Treasuries Grip as New Fed QE3 Suppresses
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By Cordell Eddings
The world’s biggest bond dealers are growing more reluctant to give up their record holdings of Treasuries, providing support for a ra…
See Where Residents in your State are Moving To, From
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By Mike Maciag
Relatively few Americans moved this year, and those who did find new homes didn’t travel far.
The Census Bureau estimated this week about…
A Quote from Gandhi
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The Goldberg Variations
About the Goldberg Variations
About Andras Schiff
Chilling Economic Report Strikes Fear Into CEO’s
Over an early-morning coffee with the chief executive of a FTSE 100 business last week, talk turned to the outlook for 2013. Where I had expected some guarded optimism, instead I heard a chilling an…
Point Blank: Guns and Violence in America
As the specter of federal gun control legislation in 2013 rises, the debate is being defined primarily by fiction, rather than fact. For those interested in shifting the debate to fact, including s…
Happy Christmas from Holland
Dear people, speakers, team members and supporters of Globalbem.
I want to wish you all on behalf of Globalbem a happy Christmas and a wonderful 2013 and lets hope we are all going to be a witness …
Missing You, Georgie…
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What a Coincidence!
By Catherine Austin Fitts
Now let’s get this straight. On December 11th, the Department of Justice announces that HSBC is paying a $1.92 billion settlement for money laundering. However, no officers …
Discovery of Higgs Boson Rated Year’s Top Scientific Achievement by Science
By Robert Booth
From landing the Curiosity rover on Mars after a 350m-mile journey, to the discovery of the world’s most wanted sub-atomic particle, the top 10 scientific achievements of 2012 have …
Surprisingly Powerful Close-Up Portraits of Seeds
By Caroline Stanley
You wouldn’t think that images of seeds would be very compelling, but thanks to Sarajevo-born, Washington DC-based photographer Svjetlana Tepavcevic’s incredibly detailed, …
Obama Proposes Social Security Cuts
By Patrick Martin
The cuts in Social Security and other critical social programs proposed Tuesday by the Obama White House as part of negotiations with House Speaker John Boehner over the so-called…
December Gold Futures Chart
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IntercontinentalExchange to buy NYSE for $8.2B
The New York Stock Exchange (NYX) is being sold to a rival exchange for about $8 billion, ending more than two centuries of independence for the iconic Big Board.
The buyer, IntercontinentalExchang…
A Plea From the Scariest Kid on the Block
By Kassiane Sibley
Yet another mass killing. Yet another tragedy. It is terrible. It is horrible. It is wrong.
People are scared.
People are looking for a group to be scared of.
Ladies, gentlemen,…
Developers Selling ‘Dragonfly’ Robotic Drone for About $100
By Eric Pfeiffer, Yahoo! News
The Air Force has spent more than $1 million to help develop a small and versatile robot dragonfly. But in a move to raise funds for the Dragonfly, the developers are …
Dear Mr President:
Obama: Biden to Lead Effort Against Gun Violence
Source : Posted by CNN Wire Staff
President Barack Obama said Wednesday that Vice President Joe Biden will lead an administration effort to develop r…
Agenda Driven News
By Paul Craig Roberts
I have known for a long time that US news is agenda-driven. Tonight (December 18) I was made aware of the extent to which agenda-driven US news drives the news of the rest of …
Sandy Hook, Dark Knight Rises, Aurora, Skull&Bones
by Jon Rappoport
The confirmed discovery that at 1hr:58 of the Dark Knight Rises, Commissioner Gordon is pointing to the words “Sandy Hook” on a map of the Gotham area has caused a storm of inter…
The Corbett Report – 3D Printing
Ever dream of a future free from the shackles of mindless mass-produced consumerism? A future of complete freedom, instantaneous manufacturing, and self-designed made-to-order one-of-a-kind goods? Wit…
Maps of the 2012 US Presidential Election Results
Here is a map of US counties, again colored red and blue to indicate Republican and Democratic majorities respectively:
Now the effects we saw at the state level are even more pronounced: the red a…
Two Movies, Two Mass Murders
By Jon Rappoport
The Dark Knight Rises and The Hunger Games.
We’ll get to them in a minute.
This article is in the interest of full disclosure. The easy way out is to accept the basic facts given…
Kaufman: Best of 2012
Source: Kauffman Foundation
The Kauffman Index of Entrepreneurial Activity once again tops the list of downloaded reports. The leading indicator of new business creation in the United States reve…
A Dialogue on Gun Control
E-mail sent by a Solari Report subscriber to their list, including Catherine:
Shooting little children in their school is just too much.
We can no longer allow the NRA and some people to dictate our…
Lesta Frank: Peace in 2012
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Ella Fitzgerald: Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
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