Financial Permaculture Institute

Economic and political elites meeting this week at the Swiss resort of Davos will be asked to urgently find ways to reform a capitalist system that has been described as “outdated and crumbling.”

“We have a general morality gap, we are over-leveraged, we have neglected to invest in the future, we have undermined social [...]

By Simon Black

With over 150 million registered users, the file sharing site MegaUpload.com is one of the most popular on the Internet. At least, it was.

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The site has now been seized by the US government and its homepage converted to an [...]

By Secrecy News
From the Federation of Scientists Project on Government Secrecy

The Joint Chiefs of Staff have produced updated doctrine on intelligence support to military operations.  The new doctrine (pdf) reflects changes in intelligence organizations, roles and missions.

Among other things, the new publication introduces the term “biometric-enabled [...]

Posted by The New Yorker

The Canadian singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen has a poem in the magazine this week, “Going Home,” that he also set to music on his upcoming album, “Old Ideas.” The ten tracks on the album are the first original recordings from Cohen since 2004.

Listen to “Going [...]

Six million people are under correctional supervision in the U.S.—more than were in Stalin’s gulags. Photograph by Steve Liss.

By Adam Gopnik

A prison is a trap for catching time. Good reporting appears often about the inner life of the American prison, but the catch is that American prison life is mostly undramatic—the [...]

By Yves Smith

Obama’s latest housing market chicanery should come as no surprise. As we discuss below, he will use the State of the Union address to announce a mortgage “settlement” by Federal regulators, and at least some state attorneys general. It’s yet another gambit designed to generate a campaign talking point while making [...]

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A transcript of Catherine’s January 5, 2012 Year End 2011 Wrap-up is now available to Solari Report Subscribers!

From the transcript:

This is the first Solari Report of 2012. It’s the year we’ve all been waiting for. Tonight is our annual wrap-up. That’s the time I like to look back over the last [...]

By Catherine Austin Fitts

I’ve had a wonderful time in Montana.

The Solari team got lots accomplished. We’ve enjoyed some beautiful snow storms, so the snowboarders and skiers are happy! Best of all Solari Report subscribers from Idaho and Western Montana gathered for a fascinating discussion at Bonelli’s Bistro in Kalispell [...]

By: Chris Powell, Secretary/Treasurer, GATA

Remarks by Chris Powell
Secretary/Treasurer, Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee Inc.
Vancouver Resource Investment Conference
Vancouver Convention Center West
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada?
Sunday, January 21, 2012

Many people ask why, if there really is a gold price suppression scheme — a scheme of currency [...]

By Catherine Austin Fitts

I am looking forward to being back in Tennessee at Franklin Sanders’ homestead for this week’s precious metals reports. There is certainly a lot to talk about. I will start with Money & Markets. I have a lot more to tell you about what I learned during the last few [...]

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“The Holiday Season is here, and we’re reflecting on our many blessings, including the friendship and support that we’ve enjoyed from you throughout the year.”

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By Catherine Austin Fitts

This Saturday I traveled by train from Zurich through Salzburg to Vienna.

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After checking into my hotel, I wandered through the Christmas market next to the Wien Museum on the Karlsplatz

On Sunday, I joined a Solari Report subscriber who lives here for [...]

“The Lord’s prayer contains 70 words, the Ten Commandments 297, the American Declaration of Independence 1,300 and the Common Market Directive on the export of duck eggs 26,911.”

~ Michael Nield from The Police State Road Map (PDF)
(March 2005 Edition)

William J. Clinton (left) and Jon S. Corzine

By  Neil W. McCabe

A former MF Global employee accused former president William J. Clinton of collecting $50,000 per month through his Teneo advisory firm in the months before the brokerage careened towards its Halloween filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

Teneo was hired by MF Global’s former [...]

By Steve Karnowski Associated Press

MINNEAPOLIS—The shock waves from the collapse of commodities trading firm MF Global Inc. are hitting hard across rural America, where farmers, ranchers and agricultural business owners are nervously waiting to learn how much money they’ve lost.

Many of the farmers who traded with MF Global, which is being investigated [...]

Hernando de Soto is a Peruvian economist who made enough money in Europe to retire before he was 40. Instead he began studying what makes some countries rich and keeps others poor. His advocacy for formal property rights to lift citizens of developing countries from poverty made him an assassination target for Shining [...]

By David Brooks

Why are nations like Germany and the U.S. rich? It’s not primarily because they possess natural resources — many nations have those. It’s primarily because of habits, values and social capital.

It’s because many people in these countries, as Arthur Brooks of the American Enterprise Institute has noted, believe in a simple [...]

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By Christopher Ketcham

We are now exposed to electromagnetic radio frequencies 24 hours a day. Welcome to the largest human experiment ever.

Consider this story: It’s January 1990, during the pioneer build-out of mobile phone service. A cell tower goes up 800 feet from the house of Alison [...]

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