Housing & Mortgage Markets – Week of 4.24.11
Beyond ForeclosureGate – It Gets Uglier
The Economic Populist (20 Apr 11)
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Precious Metals – Week of 4.24.11
More Silver Than You Imagined – 321Gold (25 Apr 11)
Life – Week of 4.24.11
Rolling Stone Readers Pick the Top 10 R&B/Soul Singers of All Time
Rolling Stone
YouTube
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Easter Celebration
I arise today, through
The strength of heaven
The light of the sun,
The radiance of the moon,
The splendor of fire,
The speed of lightning
The swiftness of wind,
The depth of the sea,
The fi…
See You at the Plumsted Farm Races – April 24, 2011
Photo courtesy of Martha Fuller
by Catherine Austin Fitts
I am headed to Pennsylvania for a wonderful Easter weekend with my cousins from the National Bank of Malvern.
The big event is the Plumste…
Beware the Smart Grid with B. Blake Levitt
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Money & Markets Charts ~ 4.21.11
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 21, 2011.
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State and Local Pension Plans and Fiscal Distress: A Legal Overview
By Jennifer Staman, Legislative Attorney
Congressional Research Service (31 Mar 11)
This report first provides a broad overview of state and local government finances and how these governments incorp…
Federal Reserve Enforces Against 10 Banks for Deficient Mortgage Servicing and Foreclosures
Release Date: April 13, 2011
For immediate release
The Federal Reserve Board on Wednesday announced formal enforcement actions requiring 10 banking organizations to address a pattern of misconduct…
Passover Remembered
A meditation by
Alla Renee Bozarth
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Pack nothing.
Bring only your determination to serve
and your willingness
to be free.
Do not wait for the bread to rise
Take nourishment for the…
Silicon Valley Has an Up Year
By Tom Foremski
It’s taken a decade but Silicon Valley companies have climbed out of dotcom dotbomb recession and reported their most profitable year in history.
The San Jose Mercury News report…
Scientists Warn of Link Between Dangerous New Pathogen and Monsanto’s Roundup
By Rady Ananda
Urges USDA to rescind approval of genetically engineered alfalfa: “In layman’s terms, it should be treated as an emergency.”
A plant pathologist experienced in protecting agai…
Quote du Jour
“Making Money is Art and Working is Art.
And Good Business is the Best Art”
~ Andy Warhol
Related reading . . .
Andy Warhol
Wikipedia
Pop Goes The Easel
Gold Coast News (10 Nov 07)
White House Unveils Cyber ID Proposal
By Chris Lefkow
The White House unveiled a plan on Friday designed to boost confidence and business in cyberspace through the creation of a single, secure online credential.
“By making online tran…
Money & Markets – Week of 4.17.11
Study Suggests Feds Could Recoup Billions in Unpaid Taxes by Withholding Passports
FoxNews (12 Apr 11)
Amaranth Kill Shot: Collateral Damage in a 78-Trillon Dollar Derivatives Book Compliments of J.P…
Geopolitical – Week of 4.17.11
BP’s Secret Deepwater Blowout
Greg Palast (19 Apr 11)
Jury Convicts Exec in $3B Mortgage Fraud Case
Yahoo News (19 April 11)
US Gave $6m to Syrian Opposition
The Australian (19 April 11)
Secret M…
Food & Health – Week of 4.17.11
Chemicals Were Injected Into Wells, Report Says
CNBC (17 April 11)
The War on PDD-NOS, Pervasive Denial Disorder-Not Otherwise Specified
Age of Autism (18 April 11)
Apples: Even Better For You Than …
Life – Week of 4.17.11
Largest Earthquakes by State
USGS
Hold it, Whippersnappers. Study Finds Older Employees More Productive
The Globe And Mail (18 April 11)
Dubai on Empty
Vanity Fair (April 2011)
Severe Storms Kill a…
Science & Technology – Week of 4.17.11
As Gas Prices Rise, Businesses Explore Opportunities of Electric Vehicles
The Globe And Mail (19 April 11)
NASA Releases Sky-mapping Archive
USA Today (15 April 11)
UC Computer Scientists Release Vi…
Here’s the Setup for the Con of the Decade
By Charles Hugh Smith
The Con of the Decade, which I described last July, is being set up nicely.
I described The Con of the Decade last July (2010). The Con makes me a heretic in the cult religio…
On Shunning Goldman
If I were managing a pension fund, I wouldn’t get within a 50 mile radius of anyone from Goldman Sachs, or their spouses, or their kids, or their dogs.
~ Remaining Nameless (for obvious reasons)
Rel…
Did Goldman Sachs Lie?
By Leo Kolivakis
If you missed CNN’s In The Arena on Thursday evening, then you missed the fireworks. Eliot Spitzer challenged investment banker Goldman Sachs: “Sue me. You lied to the public. You sh…
Goldman Sachs Credit-Default Swaps Jump as Levin Claims Bank Duped Clients
By Mary Childs
The cost to protect debt issued by Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS) jumped to a one-month high after the chairman of the Senate panel that investigated the financial crisis said the ban…
Goldman P***s Off the “Oil Card” Riggers
By James Herron
The world of investment bank research is more often defined by consensus rather than confrontation.
Radically conflicting opinions over the outlook for a particular company or comm…
Atlas Shrugged Trailer
The Official Atlas Shrugged Movie Trailer.
Atlas Shrugged Part 1 opens in theaters April 15th, 2011.
President Signs Repeal of Expanded 1099 Requirements
On Thursday, President Barack Obama signed into law the Comprehensive 1099 Taxpayer Protection and Repayment of Exchange Subsidy Overpayments Act of 2011 (HR 4; 1099 Act), which repeals both the exp…
The Artful Dodgers: Billions for Lobbying = Freedom from Taxes
How a Dozen Multinational Corporations Spent a Billion Dollars on Lobbying and Campaign Contributions and Avoided Paying Taxes
Twelve large American corporations have been identified by news report…
Precious Metals Market Report
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I am headed…
Money & Markets Charts ~ 4.14.11
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Now IMF Is Warning About ETFs
By Izabella Kaminska
International regulator conspiracy? Unfortunate coincidence for the ETF industry? Or are regulators finally on to something via the power of group think?
We ask because hot on…
Is Sugar Toxic?
By Gary Taubes
On May 26, 2009, Robert Lustig gave a lecture called “Sugar: The Bitter Truth,” which was posted on YouTube the following July. Since then, it has been viewed well over 800,000 t…
Restoring Glass-Steagall
H.R.1489
Latest Title: To repeal certain provisions of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act and revive the separation between commercial banking and the securities business, in the manner provided in the Ban…
Obama to Call For Broad Plan to Reduce Debt
By Jackie Calmes
Washington — President Barack Obama will call this week for a broad plan to raise revenues and cut deficits, as the battle over fiscal issues moves past this weekend’s budget deal…
Peter Thiel’s Higher Education
By Sarah Lacy
Thiel’s solution to opening the minds of those who can’t easily go to Harvard? Poke a small but solid hole in this Ivy League bubble by convincing some of the most talented kids t…
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]
Amazon.com
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Student Loan Scheme
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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…
What is Gang Stalking?
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COINTELPRO
Wikipedia
The Hidden Evil
The Introvert Speaks
The Professional Paranoid [Paperback]
Anatomy Of A SWAT From A Lawyer’s Perspective
Winter Patri…
1st Quarter 2011: Looking Back
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Money & Markets Charts ~ 4.07.11
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Videos of the Japanese Tsunami
YouTube
(28 March 11)
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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.
Related reading:
House Votes…
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…
New Solari Report Podcast!
Solari has produced a new free podcast—The Solari Report Digest #22.
Listen to Solari Report Digest #22
The Solari Report Digest is a podcast featuring highlights from the live one-hour Sola…
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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Wal-Mart CEO Bill Simon Expects Inflation
USA Today (30 March 11)
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…