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By Leewanta Vi tackar Catherine Austin Fitts för att ha emottagit följande artikel till att publicera på denna blogg. Mrs Fitts har tidigare verkat som VD och styrelsemedlem i investmentbanken Dillon, Read & Co, som kommissionär i  United States Department of Housing and Urban Development under den första George HW Bush administrationen, och har även haft [...]

Flathead Lake, MT I left Hickory Valley on August 21st. I drove into Memphis first, to pack my cooler full of fresh organic salads and fruits. I have learned not to search for fresh food on the road. I was headed to Montana, where I lived for most of 2005,  wrote Dillon, Read & Co. Inc. [...]

Despite a judge’s ruling putting key provisions of Arizona’s new immigration law on hold,most U.S. voters still favor passage of such a law in their own state. They also think it’s better to have states enforce immigration law rather than to rely on the federal government. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey, taken after the [...]

If people let the government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny. - Thomas Jefferson

“I don’t want to see this country ever go across the bridge… I know the capacity that is there to make tyranny total in America, and we must see to it that this agency [NSA] and all agencies that possess this technology operate within the law and under proper supervision, so that we never cross [...]

By Lars Schall Hardly another serious plague to society is associated with more hypocrisy and erroneous assumptions than the drug business. So Lars Schall talked with Catherine Austin Fitts, who explains the real deal: “It’s a very old business. It goes back to the question of how you control the most territory with the fewest players [...]

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By Marian Burros The 250 farmers, bakers, millers, scientists and just plain eaters, all of them fanatics about the kind of bread that is so good it doesn’t need butter or jam, gathered here last month for the fourth annual Kneading Conference. They spent two days at the fairgrounds talking about locally grown, mostly organic grains [...]

By Pallavi Gogoi Raghavan Mayur, president at TechnoMetrica Market Intelligence, follows unemployment data closely. So, when his survey for May revealed that 28% of the 1,000-odd households surveyed reported that at least one member was looking for a full-time job, he was flummoxed. “Our numbers are always very accurate, so I was surprised at the discrepancy with [...]

From Naked Capitalism Normally, I don’t report on anecdotes from my immediate circle, but a set of conversations in less than a 24 hour period suggests that even those comparatively unaffected by the crisis are bracing themselves for the possibility of sudden, large-scale, adverse changes. And that sort of gnawing worry seems to be growing in [...]

‘I thought I’d hit the jackpot.’” James Baldwin, responding to a television interviewer who asked him to describe the challenges he faced starting his career as a black, impoverished homosexual. Related reading: American Lives: James Baldwin, ‘Lifting The Veil’ npr (19 Aug 10) James Baldwin Wikipedia

If you’re in a financial pinch, you might be able to tap your 401k for a bailout — but it could really cost you. You’re not alone in wondering if you should tap your retirement savings. With an uncertain economy and average consumers debt building up, many people are thinking about the money in their 401k [...]

Jackson Hole Debate on Recession Risk Shows Challenge for Central Bankers Bloomberg (29 Aug 10) Chairman Of Joint Chiefs Of Staff Says National Debt Is Biggest Threat To National Security Zero Hedge (28 Aug 10) The US Government Matches Every Dollar In Tax Revenue With A Dollar In New Debt Zero Hedge (27 Aug 10) This is Why There Are [...]

GATA Figures Heavily in Financial Times Report on Gold GATA (28 Aug 10) GLD Managing Director Jason Toussaint Does Not Own ANY GLD Shares… The Golden Truth (27 Aug 10) Artisan Precious Metal Coins Lasqueti Mint

Gates Foundation Ties With Monsanto Under Fire From Activists The Seattle Times (28 Aug 10) Hospital Withholds Food, Water From Christian Pastor WorldNetDaily (26 Aug 10) The Marijuana Conspiracy: The Reason Hemp is Illegal Activist Post (17 July 10) David Kirby on “The Looming Threat of Industrial Pig, Dairy and Poultry Farms on Humans and the Environment Democracy Now [...]

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The Federal Reserve asked a U.S. appeals court to delay implementing a ruling that would force the central bank to disclose details of its emergency lending programs to banks during the financial crisis. Wednesday’s emergency request for a 90-day delay came after the U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals on August 20 denied a motion by [...]

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 on Thursday, September 2, 2010. Click here to view all charts as a pdf file. See previous Money & Markets Charts blog posts here. Currency charts are from StockCharts.com. Gold vs Oil Gold [...]