From “Planting Seeds” in The Guardian in January:

“Bill and Melinda Gates hate controversy, but the world’s top philanthropists do seem to be moving ever deeper into political lobbying. They’ve jus…

Weakness Unmatched in 35 Years
Investor’s Insight (16 Feb 2009)

Catherine,

I’ve been visiting Solari for about a year, and I want to thank you for the information you provide.

I want to relate an experience I had with Bank of America lately. I’ve banked there fo…

There is a war going on but it is not one we are reading about in the news.

As tax revenues decline, the federal government can operate with deficits. By law, states and counties must balance their…

Nassim Taleb, author of The Black Swan, talks straight about bailouts and makes sound suggestions about solutions. For example, how can you fix anything if you leave in charge the people who created t…

Here is a great idea – using wiki technology to bring transparency to government spending, starting with the stimulus package.

The Stimulus Wiki

OK, anyone want to wikify the bailout?

View this slide show from a network member:
Understanding and Navigating the Economic Crisis update
Lots of suggestions to help you take action.

The Associated Press breakdown of approximately $700 billion of the $789 billion economic stimulus bill agreed to by the Senate and House:

Aid To Poor And Unemployed

$40 billion to provide extende…

Aaron Russo was a fearless, talented, capable man. He loved life and people. He could not fathom why millions of Americans were adapting to fascism. I got to know Aaron while he was filming “America: …

From Sam Smith
The Progressive Review – 11 Feb 2009

Washington Monthly – The National Coordinator for Health Information Technology isn’t “new”; it was created by George W. Bush five years ago. More …

I grew up next to a University campus. My parents loved to learn. Our home was filled with books and people from diverse backgrounds.

One of my mother’s best friends had narrowly escaped the German…

I froze my credit recently.

Forty-seven states and the District of Columbia have enacted laws requiring the credit bureaus to enable consumers to protect their credit files with a security freeze.
…

In assessing the advisability of a national health database, it is valuable to understand that a national health database will be:

one of many databases containing data about you that will feed p…

Here is the fact sheet and the new website for the Administration’s Financial Stability Plan.

Lord Acton once said, “The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought soo…

“The net supply of Treasurys in 2009 and 2010 combined seems likely to total more than $3 trillion and could climb as high as $4 trillion. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates the 2009 Fe…

When I served as Assistant Secretary of Housing at the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) in the first Bush Administration, I discovered that the government was paying billions of dol…

Financial Permaculture on Vimeo.

Watch the video from the first-ever Financial Permaculture Summit in Hohenwald, Tennessee.

Here is a copy of House Resolution 6 being discussed by the New Hampshire Legislature. It certainly sets some limitations on the Presidency and the Congress …

Continue reading on Jesse’s Café Am…

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (popularly referred to as the President’s economic stimulus plan) as engrossed in the House of Representatives (as HR 1), Section 9202 “Investment …

Here is an excellent idea from one of our finest Congressional Representatives: Ohio Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur.

View the Mortgage Squatting video on YouTube

Rob Kirby of Kirby Analytics is the Sherlock Holmes on the tail of the derivatives cabal. Here is the product of his latest sleuthing.

According to the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College, in The Funding Status of Locally Administered Pension Plans by Alicia H. Munnell, Jean-Pierre Aubry, and Kelly Haverstick, US state a…

According to a NY Times article, the following industries have experienced significant sales growth in the last 12 months (privately owned companies only):

View a complete list in the NY Times arti…

Well, we have swapped real assets for paper. Now we cannot even get the paper:

SEC Approves Eliminating Paper Certificates for Withdrawals-by-Transfer

Leaving your current place of employment? Here are frequently asked questions about IRA rollovers from employee sponsored plans.

Read the complete article …

by James Turk
Read the full article on gata.org

An important document buried in the Federal Reserve’s archives has been discovered by writer and researcher Elaine Supkis. This document is posted on…

Larry Summers, engineer of the housing bubble and gold price suppression, is returning to power on Monday. Ditto, the folks who lost $3.3 trillion at the Pentagon.

Now Paul Volcker, former Fed Chai…

CNN is running the documentary ‘I.O.U.S.A.’ this weekend. We thought you might find our commentary from this summer regarding ‘I.O.U.S.A.’ of interest.

Citigroup Inc. said Robert Rubin has retired from the bank. According to a spokesman, “Rubin did not anticipate the ‘extreme circumstances’ that the financial system now faces.”

Robert Rubin Quits …

In fiscal 1999, the Department of Defense was “missing” $2.3 trillion dollars. To put that amount of money in perspective, it is approximately 3X what President-elect Obama is .

In fiscal 2000, the…

There appears to be a chorus of people with very good resumes predicting that the dollar is about to fall. While the economic fundamentals for the U.S. dollar are dreadful, they have been so for qui…

Obama Picks Leon Panetta to Head CIA
Yahoo News (05 Jan 2009)

Leon Panetta on Wikipedia
wikipedia.org

Central Intelligence Agency on Wikipedia
wikipedia.org

The following snapshot from MarketWatch reveals that 2008 was, indeed, a difficult year for many investors.

by James Bowen, National Chairperson of the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/848045.html

In the late 19th century, changes in Ottoman law created a new cla…