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“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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The Solari Report – 12 May 2011
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by Catherine Austin Fitts
What goes up, can come down.
When it comes…
Money & Markets Charts ~ 5.12.11
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, May 12, 2011.
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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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Precious Metals: Top 10 Dates in American History Available to Solari Report Subscribers
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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…
Transcript of Blake Levitt’s Smart Grid Interview Available to Solari Report Subscribers
A transcript of Catherine’s April 21, 2011 interview of Blake Levitt on Smart Grids is now available to Solari Report Subscribers.
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Neighborhood Courts
San Francisco’s one-of-a-kind program puts nonviolent criminals to work for clean records.
By Caroline Cournoyer
In San Francisco, people accused of low-level, nonviolent crimes were sent to cri…
Quote du Jour
When you estimate the cost of trying to control everyone and everything, you realize that an out of control world could be pretty economic.
~ Catherine Austin Fitts
2010 Washington Technology Top 100 Government Contractors
Top contractors dominate the market with billions in government business.
The Top 100 government contractors pulled in nearly $130 billion in prime contracts last year. We rank these companies bas…
Disaster Capitalism USA: Foreclose on The Old, Finance The New!
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke called for more lending to people and small businesses in lower-income neighborhoods, saying they’ve been disproportionately hurt by the recession.
Many of the…
Money & Markets – Week of 5.8.11
Fuel Prices Squeeze Shoppers
The Wall Street Journal (13 May 11)
Gas Prices Could Drop 20 Cents by Memorial Day, Experts Say
CSMonitor.com (12 May 11)
Investors Favor Cash Over Commodities in Dim …
Precious Metals – Week of 5.8.11
G-10 Minutes From 1997 Show Central Bankers Conspiring About Gold
GATA (18 Feb 11)
Forbes Predicts U.S. Gold Standard Within 5 Years
Human Events (11 May 11)
Gold Mania in The Yukon
The New York Tim…
Housing & Mortgage Markets – Week of 5.8.11
Borrowing Trouble – Sergio Cortez
Slate (9 May 11)
Borrowing Trouble – Gregory and Paula Sherman
The New York Times (1 April 11)
Banks Float $5 Billion Deal to End Foreclosure Probe
The Wall Street …
Geopolitical – Week of 5.8.11
Court: No Right to Resist Illegal Cop Entry Into Home
NWI Times (13 May 11)
Texas TSA Nullification Passes House, Moves on to Senate
The PJ Tatler (13 May 11)
Lawmakers Look to Limit Taxes on Digita…
Food & Health – Week of 5.8.1
Latest Bedbug Worry: MRSA
Chicago Sun-Times (12 May 11)
Local Honey For a Runny Nose
The New York Times (9 May 11)
Bedbugs With ‘Superbug’ Germ Found
USA Today (11 May 11)
Food Rebels, Guerrilla Ga…
Life – Week of 5.8.11
Floodwaters to Stay High in Memphis After Mississippi River Crests
Recordnet.com (11 May 11)
Sales of Home Safes Surge, Driven by the Recession and Recent Disasters
The New York Times (4 May 11)
The…
Science & Technology – Week of 5.8.11
New “Doomsday Scenario” Map From The Corps Explained
WAFB.com (12 May 11)
It’s Time to Break Up AT&T, Verizon, Comcast, Time Warner and the Rest of the Telecoms
AlterNet (11 May 11)
NASA Sets Shutt…
Greece Considers Exit from Euro Zone
By Christian Reiermann
The debt crisis in Greece has taken on a dramatic new twist. Sources with information about the government’s actions have informed SPIEGEL ONLINE that Athens is considering w…
Col. Lawrence Wilkerson on National Security
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The Solari Report – 5 May 11
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Remember $100 Oil?
By Joe Weisenthal
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Report Urges U.S. Open Door to China Investment Flood
By Doug Palmer
Tens of billions of dollars of Chinese investment could flood into the United States in the next decade, creating a multitude of American jobs if officials do not succumb to a politi…
Money & Markets Charts ~ 5.05.11
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, May 5, 2011.
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The Philadelphia Orchestra’s Bankruptcy Filing
By Ivan Katz
The decision by the Philadelphia Orchestra Association to file for reorganization under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code may well turn out to be one of the most bone-headed business j…
Crowdfunding: Raising Money From Strangers
By Rhodri Marsden
Need help producing your new album or financing a film? Just ask someone you’ve never met to stump up the cash. ‘Crowdfunding’ is taking the web by storm, says Rhodri Marsden
Jan…
S&P 500 vs. Bullish Sentiment 2009-11
By Joe Weisenthal
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Catherine on Gold and Silver, January 2011
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Quote du Jour
How can we know the dancer from the dance?
– William Butler Yeats
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Army Corps Breaks Southeast Missouri Levee
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers exploded a large section of a Mississippi River levee Monday in a desperate attempt to protect an Illinois town from rising floodwaters.
The corps said the break in…
Yikes! Jurisdiction for Domestic Arrests to be Transferred to DOD?
By Kevin Johnson
In the Justice Department’s ornate Great Hall, a space traditionally reserved for its most important functions, Attorney General Eric Holder stepped before staffers last week to ma…
Baltimore and Baltimore Empowerment Zone
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I thought I would post an old report made in 1996 from our Community Wizard databases. Rich place based data that facilitated re-engineering government investment by place were on …
The Chinese Navy
The People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN or PLA Navy) is the naval branch of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA), the military of the People’s Republic of China. Until the early 1990s, the navy performe…
House Bill Would Remake Federal Aviation Administration
After 18 consecutive short-term extensions dating back to 2007, last week the U.S. House of Representatives passed the first reauthorization of the Federal Aviation Administration since 2003. The FAA …
Feds Sting Amish Farmer Selling Raw Milk Locally
Washington Times (28 Apr 11) – A yearlong sting operation, including aliases, a 5 a.m. surprise inspection and surreptitious purchases from an Amish farm in Pennsylvania, culminated in the federal gov…
Referendum to Abolish North Dakota Property Taxes
Measure to Abolish North Dakota Property Taxes on Ballot
Inforum (29 Apr 11)
BISMARCK — A proposed constitutional amendment to abolish property taxes in North Dakota has been approved for the ballo…
Money & Markets – Week of 5.1.11
15 Web Sites for Finding Deals Online
Kiplinger (April 2011)
Paying up: Baghdad Makes KRG Payment
Upstream Online (5 May 11)
Religious Groups Question Goldman on Pay
Yahoo News (5 May 11)
Char…
Precious Metals – Week of 5.1.11
Silver Has Biggest Weekly Drop Since 1980
MarketWatch (6 May 11)
Inflationary Guerilla Tactics Resume As Comex, Nymex Hike Margins On Gold, Silver, Cracks, Spreads And Other Products
Zero Hedge (20 J…
Housing & Mortgage Markets – Week of 5.1.11
Deutsche Bank Hit With U.S. Mortgage Fraud Suit
Market Watch (3 May 11)
Geopolitical – Week of 5.1.11
The Y Article
Foreign Policy (13 April 11)
Attorney General Holder Confirms Sony Data Breach Probe
Reuters (4 May 11)
Sony Says “Anonymous” Set Stage For Data Theft
Reuters (4 May 11)
Tax Breaks Fo…
Food & Health – Week of 5.1.11
From Chernobyl to Japan: Treating Radiation Sickness with Rock Dust
Zerorads
Radioactive Water Pumped Into Mississippi River
WJTV (4 May 11)
Life – Week of 5.1.11
Flood Warning – New Event for Orleans County
Interactive NWS – Alert Information (5 May 11)
All Hail the PUBLIC Library
On The Commons
14 Signs That The Collapse of Our Modern World Has Already Beg…
Science & Technology – Week of 5.1.11
Google, Facebook Consider Separate Skype Deals, Reuter Reports
Bloomberg (5 May 11)
Sony Apologises For Online Data Breach
Financial Times (1 May 11)
Sony Details Restoration Plans for PlayStation N…
Wisdom from Clear Thinkers on the Way Ahead
Catherine Austin Fitts understanding of the global financial system and the inner workings of the Wall Street-Washington axis are unparalleled. As the former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Housing/Federa…
Tornadoes and Storms Rip Through South, At Least 284 Dead
(Reuters) 28 Apr 2011 – Tornadoes and violent storms ripped through seven southern states, killing at least 284 people in the country’s deadliest series of twisters in nearly four decades.
The cluste…
Fed Signals Intent to Phase Out Bond-buying Program
Wall Street Journal (27 Apr 11) – The Federal Reserve used its first-ever news conference to signal it will phase out a controversial bond-buying program—and to reassure a skeptical public that the …
Let’s Make a Deal!
Obama to Nominate Panetta to Succeed Gates
American Forces Press Service (27 Apr 11)
WASHINGTON, April 27, 2011 – President Barack Obama intends to nominate CIA Director Leon E. Panetta as the next…
The Real Trend That Should Have Investors Worried
Clusterstock (28 Apr 2011)
Storms Knock Out TVA Nuclear Units, Power Lines
HOUSTON, April 27 (Reuters) – Severe storms and tornadoes moving through the U.S. Southeast dealt a severe blow to the Tennessee Valley Authority on Wednesday, causing three nuclear reactors in Alabam…
New Solari Report Podcast!
Solari has produced a new free podcast—The Solari Report Digest #23.
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Apple Patent Reveals Extensive Stalking Plans
The spying iPhone is no accident. A recent Apple patent application reveals that the location-tracking dossiers accumulated in iPhones are to be used in apps from Apple and any number of other compa…
Factor E Farm Project
Video about a project that is developing do-it-yourself versions of 50 essential machines for civilization, many of which are food and agriculture-oriented:
Factor E Farm Blog
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Jon Rappoport: An Artificial World
NoMoreFakeNews.com (20 Apr 2011)
Futurists are inclined to predict a world in which AI (artificial intelligence) will take over a major portion of what is now human activity. In a matter of decades,…
Money & Markets Charts ~ 4.28.11
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, May 5, 2011.
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And The Housing Double Dip Just Got Worse
Clusterstock (26 Apr 2011)
State Dept. Proposes “Biographical Questionnaire” For Passport Applicants
The U.S. Department of State is proposing a new Biographical Questionnaire for passport applicants. The proposed new Form DS-5513 asks for all addresses since birth; lifetime employment history includ…
Orwellian Method of the Year 2010: Optogenetics
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The Dollar’s Omnious New Record
Clusterstock (25 Apr 11)
The American War Machine
I just finished Peter Dale Scott’s new book on the American military-industrial-intelligence establishment and its historical dependency on the global drug trade. This is essential reading for anyone …
Dead Missing Jailed BP Whistleblowers
Dead / Jailed /Missing Scientists & Individuals Affiliated With The BP Oil Disaster
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Quote du Jour
“Focusing the mind’s eye is for determining impending perils. Events have natural courses, people have successes and failures: it is imperative to examine movements signalling impending perils.”
– T…
Money & Markets – Week of 4.24.11
Most States Seen Raising Jobless Tax on Businesses
New York Times (27 Apr 11)
Fed Forecasts Show Transitory Inflation and Lower Growth in 2011
Bloomberg (27 Apr 11)
Most Americans Say U.S. in Rece…
Geopolitical – Week of 4.24.11
U.S. Reacts Cooly to Palestinian Reconciliation
Reuters (27 Apr 11)
Reducing Influence Peddling in Government Contracting
Truthout (27 Apr 11)
FCC to Review AT&T Merger as Supreme Court Reviews …
Dr. Helen Caldicott on Nuclear Fallout
Press Conference at Concordia University, Montreal Canada
YouTube (18 Apr 11)
Helen Caldicott – Wikipedia
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Silver’s Jaw-Dropping Rise in Context
Clusterstock – (22 Apr 11)
Quote du Jour
“Until the lion has his historian, the hunter will always be a hero.”
~ African proverb