Paulson’s Swindle Revealed
From William Greider’s recent article:
“Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson agreed to invest $125 billion in the nine largest banks, including $10 billion for Goldman Sachs, his old firm. But, if you loo…
Paulson's Swindle Revealed
From William Greider’s recent article:
“Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson agreed to invest $125 billion in the nine largest banks, including $10 billion for Goldman Sachs, his old firm. But, if you loo…
Geopolitical – Week of 11.02.08
U.S. Government Finally Exacts Revenge on Iran/Contra Whistleblower Cele Castillo
Life – Week of 11.02.08
The GM Genocide: Thousands of Indian Farmers are Committing Suicide After Using Genetically Modified Crops
Mail Online (03 Nov 2008)
Live Architecture: Grow Your Own Home
amazing.com (28 Aug 2008)
H…
Quote du Jour
The most fundamental, essential element, without which any community would fail, boils down to interpersonal skills. The glue that holds any group together is the ability to put aside your own persona…
Money & Markets – Week of 10.26.08
Bailout Funds Being Spent in Ways Congress Never Foresaw
McClatchy (30 Oct 2008)
Bernanke Says the U.S. Needs to Maintain a Role in Mortgage Securities
Wall Street Journal (1 Nov 2008)
GMAC Aims to …
Money & Markets – Week of 10.26.08
Bailout Funds Being Spent in Ways Congress Never Foresaw
McClatchy (30 Oct 2008)
Bernanke Says the U.S. Needs to Maintain a Role in Mortgage Securities
Wall Street Journal (1 Nov 2008)
GMAC Aims to …
Geo-Political – Week of 10.26.08
States in Trouble Due to Economic Downturn
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (24 Oct 2008)
State Revenues Plummet – July-September Revenue Numbers Are Worst in Years
Center on Budget and Policy …
Precious Metals – Week of 10.26.08
Mints Struggle to Meet Metals Demand
GATA (27 Oct 2008)
Gold Sales Pick Up Phenomenally in India
GATA (26 Oct 2008)
Life – Week of 10.26.08
Judge Rules Ohio Homeless Voters May List Park Benches as Addresses
Columbus Dispatch (28 Oct 2008)
Gun Sales Thriving in Uncertain Times
MSNBC (27 Oct 2008)
Financial Permaculture Chautaqua?
Tonight, Liora Adler, Andy Langford and Albert Bates gave a presentation on Transition Towns. Andy reviewed his estimates of what happens to the local economy each year in Lewis County as all the youn…
Financial Permaculture Reaches Oceania!
Here’s a live wire coming through the global information grapevine –
Last night I blogged here about Eric Wagoner’s incredible LocallyGrown.net, a stunningly simple software solution to the cha…
Biochar
The ethanol team at the Financial Permaculture conference is amazing. I was in their session last night led by Pat Therrien who manages to combine encylopedia-like knowledge with a sense of humor. S…
Catherine on the 2008 Election
This Tuesday evening, November 4, Catherine Austin Fitts will be on Coast to Coast AM Radio with host, George Noory, to discuss the 2008 Presidential election. The show starts at 9PM Pacific Time. G…
Financial Ecosystems
View Catherine’s slide show on Financial Ecosystems here.
Also review Catherine’s handout: Starting and Financing a Business Checklist (1).
Here is the Ethanol Project Development Checklist, as well…
Financial Permaculture – Natural Homebuilding
Great News! Howard Switzer and Katey Culver are going to present the history of natural homebuilding on Saturday evening during the open space presentations. Howard and Katey have a thriving business …
Financial Permaculture – Meet The Green Incubation Team
The challenges we face today are global in scope, but the solutions remain concrete. Our opportunity is to address them in sustainable, profitable ways. Companies can be conceived, launched, and sust…
Financial Permaculture Goes Viral
An offering from Gifthub.org…
Financial Permaculture in Hohenwald – Final Schedule
Click to access the final schedule (page 1, page 2) for the event: Financial Permaculture: The Greening of A Rural American Community, October 24-28, 2008 in Hohenwald, Tennessee.
Click HERE to view …
Financial Permaculture: Finance Team Simulations
The Finance Team is doing two simulations on Saturday, October 25. Here are two of the handouts for the first simulation that Catherine will be leading:
Financial Team Simulation: What Does a Local I…
Financial Permaculture – Local Venture Capital Structures
Recently we published a review of independent media capital structures.
This analysis looked at shareholder structures that divided investors between voting and non-voting shares or otherwise organiz…
Financial Permaculture – Got a Comment?
If you have a comment about Financial Permaculture or the Financial Permaculture workshop in Hohenwald, Tennessee October 24-28, 2008, and are not sure where to put it, please place it as a comment to…
Principles of Financial Permaculture
Principles of Financial Permaculture
By Jennifer Dauksha-English
View or download this document as a PDF
Financial Permaculture has been a part of the overall concept of Permaculture as it has cropp…
The Health of Our Water
I can’t think of any issue more important to the health and well-being of a community than the health of its water. Here is a quick piece from a member of the Solari network to help you think about yo…
Franklin Sanders’ Weekly Market Commentary
This commentary has been re-printed with Franklin Sanders’ permission:
Well, well, here’s a surprise: another week you’ll never see again in your life — oddly enough, something like the week before….
Franklin Sanders' Weekly Market Commentary
This commentary has been re-printed with Franklin Sanders’ permission:
Well, well, here’s a surprise: another week you’ll never see again in your life — oddly enough, something like the week before….
Money & Markets – Week of 10.19.08
Aggregate Monetary Base Now Going at 341%
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (23 Oct 2008)
GM Suspends Payments Into 401K Plans
Reuters (23 Oct 2008)
Russian Default Risk Tops Iceland as Crisis Dee…
Money & Markets – Week of 10.19.08
Aggregate Monetary Base Now Going at 341%
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (23 Oct 2008)
GM Suspends Payments Into 401K Plans
Reuters (23 Oct 2008)
Russian Default Risk Tops Iceland as Crisis Dee…
Jon Rappoport: Now Versus Forever
The following has been re-printed with Jon Rappoport’s permission:
NOW VERSUS FOREVER
The space of the NEW WORLD is here. To move into it, a person needs to have some idea of FOREVER. It isn’t jus…
Precious Metals – Week of 10.19.08
Will the IMF & Co. Let Gold Crash?
MineWeb (23 Oct 2008)
Central Bank Warns of Risks in Illegal Gold Futures Speculation
China View (23 Oct 2008)
Embry Warns of Failure of December Gold Contract
GAT…
Mortgage Markets – Week of 10.19.08
Building Flawed American Dreams
NY Times (18 Oct 2008)
Life – Week of 10.19.08
Organic Farming Could Feed Africa
The Independent (22 Oct 2008)
Your Privacy is an Illusion: UK Attacks Civil Liberties
arstechnica.com (18 Oct 2008)
Govindappa Venkataswamy
wikipedia.org
Black Fa…
Financial Permaculture – Meet the Food Coop Leaders
The leaders of the food coop team at Financial Permaculture are pretty incredible. Check out Eric Wagoner from Athens, Georgia and Robert Waldrop from Oklahoma. Bob organized and leads the Oklahoma Fo…
Blogging Financial Permaculture
From Phil Cubeta at Gifthub.org:
The Prospects of Financial Permaculture
Greg Landau at Gaia Emerging responds…
We Welcome Your Help…
Overview of Legal Structures for Small Businesses Financial Permaculture Conference
We wrote up a list of enterprise legal forms for the recommended reading list for the entrepreneurs in Hohenwald. T…
A Solari Report – Can Our Own Communities Serve as Financial Safe Havens in Troubled Times?
By Catherine Austin Fitts and Carolyn Betts, Esq.
Download a PDF version of this article
The fall in global stock market prices over the last year has had a significant impact on most Americans’…
Andrew Jackson and the Central Bank
“The Bank is trying to kill me, but I will kill it.”
— President Andrew Jackson
President Andrew Jackson of Tennessee was the 7th President of the United States. Jackson’s efforts to shut down the …
Defense Contractors & Your Investments
Did you realize that many of the stocks and bonds you and your community invest in are highly dependent on government contracts and purchases? Check out Government Executive Magazine for the latest ra…
Defense Contractors & Your Investments
Did you realize that many of the stocks and bonds you and your community invest in are highly dependent on government contracts and purchases? Check out Government Executive Magazine for the latest ra…
In from the Solari Network
This came in from the Solari network today. It turns out that the common folk do indeed understand mortgage backed securities!
Forrest Gump Explains Mortgage Backed Securities:
“Mortgage backed Se…
Factors Driving the Stock Market Down
There are numerous factors driving the stock market down. Here are a few important ones:
1. Debt overhang: We have issued far more debt than we can pay back. This is being used, among other things,…
John Rappoport on The Money Game
The Money Game and the New World
by Jon Rappoport
The people on this planet who run the money game at high levels have managed to put themselves into a hole. In retrospect, it was inevitable it would…
Conscious Parallelism?
Thank you to the audience member of Bill Bowsher’s show on SciZone in Cincinnati who wanted to know if the bailout was an example of a conscious parallelism:
conscious parallelism n.
An undiscussed …
Did the U.S. Government Snoop on Americans’ Phone Calls?
Jonathan S. Landay, McClatchy Newspapers:
“The Senate Intelligence Committee is examining allegations by two former U.S. military linguists that the super-secret National Security Agency routinely e…
Did the U.S. Government Snoop on Americans' Phone Calls?
Jonathan S. Landay, McClatchy Newspapers:
“The Senate Intelligence Committee is examining allegations by two former U.S. military linguists that the super-secret National Security Agency routinely ea…
Catherine on Coast to Coast Radio
This Thursday evening, October 16, Catherine Austin Fitts will be on Coast to Coast AM Radio to discuss sustainable businesses, money cycling, local investments, and other ways we can join together to…
Who’s Zooming Whom?
During the Clinton Administration, four trillion dollars disappeared through the back door. Rather, than get it back, the Bush Administration has decided to simply hand out more through the same banks…
Who's Zooming Whom?
During the Clinton Administration, four trillion dollars disappeared through the back door. Rather, than get it back, the Bush Administration has decided to simply hand out more through the same banks…
Bailout Bumper Stickers
The bumper sticker brainstorm continues with more than 300 posts. Today’s favorite is:
NO BANKER LEFT BEHIND
Thanks, Lizanne!
Money & Markets – Week of 10.12.08
Fannie, Freddie to Buy $40 Billion a Month of Troubled Assets
Bloomberg (11 Oct 2008)
Fears of Lehman’s CDS Derivatives Haunt Markets
GATA / The Telegraph (17 Oct 2008)
Daily Bank Borrowing from Fed…
Money & Markets – Week of 10.12.08
Fannie, Freddie to Buy $40 Billion a Month of Troubled Assets
Bloomberg (11 Oct 2008)
Fears of Lehman’s CDS Derivatives Haunt Markets
GATA / The Telegraph (17 Oct 2008)
Daily Bank Borrowing from Fed…
Precious Metals – Week of 10.12.08
CFTC ‘Looking Into’ Gold Market as Well as Silver
GATA (13 Oct 2008)
GoldMoney’s James Turk Reports on Getting Real Metal
GATA (10 Oct 2008)
Geopolitical – Week of 10.12.08
Secret U.S. Mission Hauls Uranium from Iraq
MSNBC (5 July 2008)
Toxic Pellets Found in Russian Rights Lawyer’s Car
NY Times (16 Oct 2008)
Mind Control by Cell Phone
Scientific American (7 May 2008…
Life – Week of 10.12.08
Best and Worst Bang for the Buck Cities
Yahoo Finance (15 Oct 2008)
Mortgage Markets – Week of 10.12.08
Fannie to Buy $40 Billion in Junk Mortgages Each Month
GATA (11 Oct 2008)
American Planners Recognize 30 Great Neighborhoods, Streets, and Public Spaces
planning.org (8 Oct 2008)
Preview Catherine’…
The Silent Financial Coup d’état
An Interview with Catherine Austin Fitts by Jorge Nascimento Rodrigues, editor of Janelanaweb.com.
QUESTION: Which are the roots of the ongoing financial crisis? A group of Wall Street’ criminals, o…
AIG Spa Trip Fuels Fury on Capitol Hill
This piece about lavish spending by AIG executives after the $85 billion federal bailout is worth reading. It points out the impossibility of reviving a real economy under the leadership of people who…
Quote du Jour
“I am genuinely proud that when I was chairman of the Association of Mining Analysts we held two gold seminars at which the much-reviled Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee spoke. What they said about th…
Scoop Election Integrity Campaign – How To Help
About the Scoop US Electronic Election Integrity Campaign 2008
What is it?
A Pro-Bono (Free) advertising campaign to support the US Election Protection movement and its many diverse groups and partic…
Quote du Jour
“We want to put down the foundations of a capitalism of the entrepreneur and not of the speculator. We want transparency. We want moralization. We want the creation of value. We want people to have co…
An E-Mail to a Member of the Research Team at Goldman Sachs
Harry:
Thank you for the opportunity to be on your e-mail list. I appreciate your generosity and hard work.
I am writing to ask you to unsubscribe me from your list. I value your research reports. H…
Money & Markets – Week of 10.5.08
Britain to Sue Iceland Over Frozen Funds
GATA / The Telegraph (9 Oct 2008)
Tight Money Markets Show More Action Needed
MarketWatch (9 Oct 2008)
Hedge Fund Finds Itself on Defense
NY Times (7 Oct 200…
Money & Markets – Week of 10.5.08
Britain to Sue Iceland Over Frozen Funds
GATA / The Telegraph (9 Oct 2008)
Tight Money Markets Show More Action Needed
MarketWatch (9 Oct 2008)
Hedge Fund Finds Itself on Defense
NY Times (7 Oct 200…
Geopolitical – Week of 10.5.08
Races to Watch IX: Wall Street’s Favorite Candidates
OpenSecrets.org (9 Oct 2008)
Did US Government Snoop on Americans’ Phone Calls?
Truthout.org (9 Oct 2008)
Secret Bush Admin Plan to Suspend US …
Precious Metals – Week of 10.5.08
GATA Currency-to-Metal Converter Added to 24hGold
GATA (9 Oct 2008)
Central Banks All But Stop Lending Gold
Financial Times (7 Oct 2008)
GATA: CNBC Airs Prediction of Default in Paper Gold
GATA and …
Mortgage Markets – Week of 10.5.08
Illinois Sheriff Scolds Banks for Evictions of ‘Innocent’ Renters
CNN (9 Oct 2008)
Mortgage Crisis Is Foreseen in Housing Owned by Private Equity Firms
NY Times (5 Oct 2008)
Food & Health – Week of 10.5.08
Doctor’s Files Impounded
Food & Health – Week of 10.5.08
Doctor’s Files Impounded
Life – Week of 10.5.08
Pictures of Hurricane Ike
Juan Diego Florez Sings Granada — High-Quality Video/Sound YouTube
Quotes du Jour
“We are now in the golden age of thieves. And where I come from we put thieves in jail, we don’t bail them out.”
– Congressman Pete Visclosky, Democrat, Indiana
“I believe that banking institut…
Our Next Brainstorm: Let’s Bail OUT OF Wall Street
OUR NEXT BRAINSTORM: WHAT ACTIONS CAN WE TAKE TO BAIL OUT OF WALL STREET?
The time has come to purge these people from our lives. How do we do it? Since our readers had such great ideas on the bumper…
Our Next Brainstorm: Let's Bail OUT OF Wall Street
OUR NEXT BRAINSTORM: WHAT ACTIONS CAN WE TAKE TO BAIL OUT OF WALL STREET?
The time has come to purge these people from our lives. How do we do it? Since our readers had such great ideas on the bumper…
Ten Reasons NOT To Bail Out Wall Street
by Catherine Austin Fitts and Carolyn Betts, Esq.
(1) Crime that pays is crime that stays.
There is reason to believe that Wall Street and those they represent are holding loans without collateral, …
Introducing Lesta Frank
I love Lesta Frank’s watercolors. You can learn more about Lesta and how to purchase watercolors, prints and cards at her website and blog. She has kindly granted me permission to share some of them w…
Goldman Sachs Goes Net Long Gold on TOCOM
By Adrian Douglas
In the September 29 session on the Tokyo Commodity Exchange (TOCOM) Goldman Sachs COVERED 13 short contracts and bought 495 long contracts to bring their long position to 2,525 cont…
Avalon Acres – Financial Permaculture
Another reason to come to Financial Permaculture is to hook up with one of the fastest growing CSAs in Tennessee, Avalon Acres Farm in Hohenwald, Tennessee.
–
Visit Avalon Acres website >>>
A Solari Report – How to Influence Your Congressperson
By Carolyn Betts, Esq.
WHAT CONGRESS IS GOOD FOR THESE DAYS
Not much, it seems, given that we have what essentially amounts to a single-party system (i.e., the corporatist party). However, the Bus…
Treasury Conference Call
Please seed and spread around!
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2008/09/mussolini-style-corporatism-in-action.html
This is an audio recording of the conference call with the US Treasury Department, gi…
Paul Newman: 1925 – 2008
A great man died today—he left us with a family, movies, businesses and gifts that will bring joy for centuries to come. Let’s take a minute to give thanks for his life and say a prayer for him and …
Wall Street to Main Street: Who Needs You?
Fed Pumps Further $630 Billion Into Financial System
By Scott Laman & Craig Torres – Bloomberg.com (29 Sep 2008)
Adjusted Monetary Base – 25 Sep 2008
St. Louis Federal Reserve
Financial Sense Ne…
Main Street to Wall Street: Drop Dead
U.S. House Rejects $700 Billion Financial-Rescue Plan
By Allison Vekshin & Laura Litvan – Bloomberg.com (29 Sep 2008)
Bumper Sticker Brainstorm
One of our network members is keen on producing a bumper sticker to express our opposition to bailouts and the institutions engineering them. We could use your help in coming up with a pithy slogan fo…
Rumi and Bates
Sit down and be quiet.
You are drunk, and this is the
edge of the roof.
~ Rumi
This wonderful quote from Rumi was brought to our attention by the amazing Albert Bates. Albert is one of the reasons why…
Money & Markets – Week of 9.29.08
Hidden in the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008
Daily Paul (2 October 2008)
Franklin Sanders: Somebody’s ‘painting the tape’ with gold and silver
GATA & The MoneyChanger (2 Oct 2008)
…
Money & Markets – Week of 9.29.08
Hidden in the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008
Daily Paul (2 October 2008)
Franklin Sanders: Somebody’s ‘painting the tape’ with gold and silver
GATA & The MoneyChanger (2 Oct 2008)
…
Sorghum Festival, October 4th
I went down to Burton’s Sugar Farm in Northern Mississippi outside of Memphis this weekend. This is my third visit to the Sugar Farm and each time I come away thinking that was the finest catfish and …
Mortgage Markets – Week of 9.29.08
Sub-Prime as a Black Catastrophe
By Melvin L. Oliver & Thomas M. Shapiro – American Prospect (22 Sep 2008)
Produce The Note “How-To”
The Consumer Network Warning – Video Collection
Geopolitical – Week of 9.29.08
Main Core, PROMIS and the Shadow Government (Pt.1)
ManageableAnts Blog (2 Oct 2008)
Precious Metals – Week of 9.29.08
‘Unseen’ and ‘Unprecedented’ Demand For Bullion By Rich
By Javier Blas – Financial Times, London (30 Sep 2008)
SNB Completes Planned Gold Sales, No More Due
By Emma Thomasson – Forbes.com (29 Sep 200…
Life – Week of 9.29.08
Alaska 101 for presidential candidates
Indian Country Today (2 Oct 2008)
U.S. spacecraft poised to fly past Mercury next week
Reuters (2 Oct 2008)
Do We Live in a Giant Cosmic Bubble?
Live Science (…
Food & Health – Week of 9.29.08
What is Permaculture?
How to Boil a Frog—A Short Interview with Albert Bates
Food & Health – Week of 9.29.08
What is Permaculture?
How to Boil a Frog—A Short Interview with Albert Bates
Ode To Big Bankers
A network member requests that we offer up a place to post limericks and songs to lift our spirits in a dire hour. Here is her contribution:
Ode to Big Bankers & Politicians
Enjoy yourself, you …
Radio New Zealand Interviews Alastair Thompson
Alastair Thompson: Politics and Pilgrimage
Scoop Independent News (20 Sep 2008)
For more on Scoop’s Campaign >>>
For more on Alastair’s recent Pilgrimage >>>
Final Bailout White Paper
Proposed $700 Billion Bailout Is Too Little, Too Late to End the Debt Crisis; Too Much, Too Soon for the U.S. Bond Market
By Martin D. Weiss & Michael D. Larson (24 Sep 2008)
Submitted to U.S. Con…
A Comment on the Bailout Bill
By Carolyn Betts, Esq.
I agree with every point in Bernie Sanders’ proposal but have a suggestion.
I worked with lead counsel to the RTC (the government entity that served as receiver for defunct sa…
Total U.S. Debt
John:
You asked, what is the size of the total consolidated national debt?
The President of the Dallas Fed says $99.2 trillion. I would add $20-50 trillion for bailouts and collateral, securities an…
Money & Markets – Week of 9.22.08
China Asks Local Lenders Not To Lend to U.S. Banks: Report
By V. Phani Kumar – MarketWatch (24 Sep 2008)
China Stops Its Banks From Lending to U.S. Banks
By Jane Cai and Adam Chen – South China Morni…