[CAF Note: We originally published this article in January 2013. I wrote it over the Christmas holidays in 2012 because it was obvious that, despite enormous noise throughout the media, most people had not looked

Here are some great tunes reminding us how to build skills and resilience: See the Maker Movement — Catherine

Whether you live in California, in North America or around the globe, this is a critical issue. If states can achieve labeling of GMO, we improve the chances of making this a global standard.  Labeling

Percent Change at Seasonally Adjusted Annual Rate M1 M2 3 Months from Apr 2012 TO Jul 2012 11.3| 6.5| 6 Months from Jan 2012 TO Jul 2012 8.5| 5.6| 12 Months from Jul 2011 TO

[Note from CAF: Not to mention the money disappearing through the black budget, $4 trillion missing from federal accounts and on and on….] Related Viewing:

Throughout the Transformations & Renewals weekend this October, we will enjoy fresh, healthy food and a wonderful selection of wines grown and prepared in Middle Tennessee. On our first dinner on Friday night, October 12th,

By Wikipedia Pharaoh acknowledged that Joseph’s proposal to store grain during the abundant period was very wise. So before Joseph was even 30 years old, Pharaoh released him from prison and put him in charge

Source: YouTube This seminal documentary provides compelling evidence to help explain the deteriorating health of Americans, especially among children, and offers a recipe for protecting ourselves and our future. Buy the DVD: Genetic Roulette – Seeds

By Dean Baker “Free trade” is a sacred mantra in Washington. If anything is labeled as being “free trade”, then everyone in the Washington establishment is required to bow down and support it. Otherwise, they

By Michael Ramos In 2010, many sectors of the U.S. economy began to improve from the Great Recession—however, small businesses lagged behind, largely as a result of having trouble raising the capital they needed in

By Josh Cothran, Georgia Institute of Technology [CAF Note: Ever notice that the more private insurers and the government get involved, the worse and more expensive things get?] In 1960, almost 100% of the spending

By Chuck Gibson A report from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York suggests that the bulk of equity returns for more than a decade are due to actions by the US central bank. The

By Janet Raloff Nanoscale pollutants can enter crop roots, triggering a host of changes to plants’ growth and health, two studies find. These tiny particles can stunt plant growth, boost the plants’ absorption of pollutants,

By Jim Stogdill What would happen if we turned off, opted out, and completely disconnected ourselves from the technology that runs our lives? For Jim Stogdill, tuning out brought greater productivity, less stress, and improved

By Nicholas Tomasi The ongoing food fight between massive biotech companies and grassroots activists has continued on the west coast, with a monumental vote on the mandatory labeling of genetically modified foods looming in California

By John Markoff At the Philips Electronics factory on the coast of China, hundreds of workers use their hands and specialized tools to assemble electric shavers. That is the old way. Robot arms like those

They’re coming to get you Barbara ~ Night of the Living Dead By Justin Boldenow, Solari Report production assistant There seems to be an unstoppable force that is spreading, growing, and changing people. The brain

By Andrew Blankstein “Top Gun” director Tony Scott fatally jumped off the Vincent Thomas Bridge in San Pedro on Sunday afternoon, according to Los Angeles police sources. His body was pulled out of the water

More Data Here. Related Reading: Monsanto 2011 Proxy Statement PDF Monsanto Co. Major Stock Holders

[Note from CAF: You think there is a drought? Think again. The push to force GMO seed, consolidate farmland and control global agriculture is underway. It threatens our lives and those of future generations.]

By Bryan Behrenshausen I first encountered 3-D printing in Cory Doctorow’s Makers, a science fiction novel set in the wake of economic armageddon. In Doctorow’s imagined near-future world, hulking industrial bulwarks are doomed. Malls are

[CAF  Note: Since a great deal global debt was fraudulently induced, the idea of a sovereign government carrying out an audit of the legitimacy of outstanding debt is a good one. This is a fearless

From I, Cringely Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak this week warned of the perils of depending too much on cloud storage and the general press reacted like this was: A) news, and; B) evidence of some

By Paul Davenport The Associated Press Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer on Wednesday ordered state agencies to deny driver’s licenses and other public benefits to young illegal immigrants who obtain work authorizations under a new Obama

By Mark V The world’s first commercial space launch pad, the Virgin Galactic Gateway Spaceport, was recently opened in the southern part of New Mexico, attracting around 800 guests at the opening ceremony. Designed by

By Lesta Frank Our thanks to artist and friend, Lesta Frank, for this lovely print. Related Readings: Sunflowers Transcendent Poinsettias

On the 130th anniversary of the founding of Banco Sabadell we wanted to pay homage to our city by means of the campaign “Som Sabadell” (We are Sabadell) . This is the flashmob that we

Julian Assange’s Wikileaks website published leaked diplomatic cables Source: BBC News UK Ecuador has granted asylum to Wikileaks founder Julian Assange two months after he took refuge in its London embassy while fighting extradition from

From Kelly D. McMillan Director of Operations McMillan Group International, LLC McMillan Fiberglass Stocks, McMillan Firearms Manufacturing, McMillan Group International have been collectively banking with Bank of America for 12 years Today Mr. Ray Fox,

From the Erste Group Research The foundation for new all-time-highs is in place. As far as sentiment is concerned, we definitely see no euphoria with respect to gold. Skepticism, fear, and panic are never the

In a landscape as dramatic as its stories, Alaska Native people face staggering suicide rates, yet remain determined to heal & thrive! Historically Alaska Native peoples lived solely from the lands and waters of the

From Stratfor Like nearly all of the peoples of North and South America, most Americans are not originally from the territory that became the United States. They are a diverse collection of peoples primarily from

By Chuck Gibson Congratulations – You just bought a new home. Only you didn’t get the house – just the debt. In July 1971, the population of the US was 207.6 million and Treasury funded

“In a digital world, data about money is worth more than money.” – Nicholas Negroponte

By Pam Warhurst What should a community do with its unused land? Plant food, of course. With energy and humor, Pam Warhurst tells at the TEDSalon the story of how she and a growing team

By Florian Gathmann and Philipp Wittrock Chancellor Angela Merkel wants Europe to move toward an ever closer union in a bid to solve the euro crisis. But she is already pushing at the limits of

From the CNN Political Unit Mitt Romney on Saturday announced U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin as his running mate for the White House — a bold and risky move that energized both conservatives and

Here are the particulars of the Presidential appointments being removed from Senate approval. Presidential Appointment Efficiency and Streamlining Act of 2011 Bill Summary & Status  

From a Solari Report Subscriber The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) program is the most expensive weapons program in US Defense Department history, costing almost 1.5 trillion dollars for around 2500 aircraft. The details I

[CAF Note: Actually, if you estimate for the full financial coup d’etat following the GATT adoption of the Uruguay Round and the creation of the WTO combined with the “strong dollar policy,” the number of

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech The rim of Gale Crater can be seen in the distance beyond the pebbly ground. The topography of the rim is very mountainous due to erosion. The ground seen in the middle shows

Source: qrc.depaul.edu Think back a few years.  How much did a gallon of gasoline cost then? A loaf of bread? A 10 inch sausage pizza?  A movie ticket? Almost undoubtedly these items  now cost more

By The Thinking Moms’ Revolution They say high-pitched screams, fevers and swelling at the injection site are all common, harmless, insignificant side-effects of responsible, preventative medical care. Don’t listen. They say kids get sick all

By Mat Honan Meet Mat Honan. He just had his digital life dissolved by hackers. In the space of one hour, my entire digital life was destroyed. First my Google account was taken over, then

By Catherine Austin Fitts One of the most important things we can each do is to support excellent leaders. I have made a campaign contribution to Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur’s (D-Ohio) campaign this election season and

By The CNN Wire Staff The July heat wave that wilted crops, shriveled rivers and fueled wildfires officially went into the books Wednesday as the hottest single month on record for the continental United States.

[Note from CAF: What are the private contractors who manage information and payments systems for the SEC and NYSE? It is not clear to me that any agreement between the two will solve the leakage,

By Kevin J. O’Brien Ocado, an online grocery store in England, prides itself on its delivery of refrigerated foods: When the company says the goods will arrive at a certain temperature, they mean it. The

By Scott Gold Curiosity, the largest and most advanced spacecraft ever sent to another planet, stuck its extraordinary landing Sunday night in triumphant and flawless fashion, and is poised to begin its pioneering, two-year hunt

By Phyllis D. James of Synthetic Thinking James Eagen Holmes’ interest in synthetic thinking, more commonly known as artificial intelligence, was handed down to him by his father, Robert Milton Holmes, Jr., who worked for

By an American Traveler So my family and I recently traveled to Germany and Switzerland during the last five weeks. It gave me a really different perspective, as I expected, but not in the direction

By Lesta Frank When: Saturday, August 11 , 10:00- 4:00 and Sunday, August 13, 11:00-5:00 Sign up for one or both days. Where: Lesta’s studio, 135 Evans Ave, San Antonio, TX Bring: 1. Your own

YouTube July 26, 2012 Related reading: youvebeentrumped.com

[CAF Note: I originally published this is April 2003. I am republishing as we explore ideas to rebuild income and employment.] “Arise, shine: for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is

By Josh Lederman Washington – The Internal Revenue Service may have delivered more than $5 billion in refund checks to identity thieves who filed fraudulent tax returns for 2011, Treasury Department investigators said Thursday. They

By Willie Jones How secure do you feel about the wireless router you use at home? Maybe more than you should. Researchers at AppSec Consulting Inc., in San Jose, Calif., reported new vulnerabilities at the

By Carl Herman For five weeks I journalistically hammered that California’s Comprehensive Annual Financial Report (CAFR) reveals $600 billion in surplus taxpayer assets, and the various local government agencies’ CAFRs are data-sampled to total $8

By Catherine Austin Fitts A “control file” is a private record that contains secret information or pictures that are the basis of threatening and blackmailing a person. Perhaps the most famous historical example of control

Among the 21 categories of items shipped by rail, none have a tighter correlation to GDP than waste. According to a 2010 piece on Bloomberg, economists Michael McDonough and Carl Riccadonna note that waste has

Reuters 26 July 2012 By Barbara Lewis Manipulating international commodity benchmarks such as Brent crude oil would be a criminal offence, punishable by jail, under a set of reforms the EU Commission has proposed in

THE GREATER GOOD looks behind the fear, hype and politics that have polarized the vaccine debate in America today. The film re-frames the emotionally charged issue and offers, for the first time, the opportunity for

Dear Catherine, You have been very much in my thoughts and prayer as I anticipate writing to celebrate your birthday. I am deeply aware that this is your first birthday since Georgie’s death. This time

“I beg young people to travel. If you don’t have a passport, get one. Take a summer, get a backpack and go to Delhi, go to Saigon, go to Bangkok, go to Kenya. Have your

[Note from Catherine Austin Fitts: I disagree with the conclusion of this new documentary. IMO, Bill Colby was most certainly assassinated. Whatever, the truth of his death, this new documentary on his life provides some

       ~originally published in 2006~ By Catherine Austin Fitts I resisted learning real history for many years. Instead I satisfied my curiosity about the past with the socially acceptable version of history that

By Stephen Church Stockton, one of a growing number of California cities in financial collapse, said it asked bondholders and other lenders owed more than $300 million to take less than full repayment as part

Travelers Today 20 July 2012 By John Bolton, July 18th Gun-control advocates and the Obama administration are rushing to complete negotiations in New York on a proposed international agreement called the United Nations Arms Trade

By a Reader Even though he may not be a very good lawyer.  I assumed (incorrectly, it appears) from news accounts that Dann was corrupt and that the case against him had a modicum of

By Tim O’Reilly When we hear the term “cyberwarfare” we think of government-backed hackers stealing data, or releasing viruses or other software exploits to disrupt another country’s capabilities, communications, or operations. We imagine terrorists or

Source: tax justice network Revealed: global super-rich has at least $21 trillion hidden in secret tax havens. At least $21 trillion of unreported private wealth was owned by wealthy individuals via tax havens at the

By Joseph P. Farrell Both alchemy and transhumanism aim for the transformation of mankind. There, perhaps, all resemblance ends (though, as my co-author Scott D. de Hart and I point out in the forthcoming Transhumanism

Nazih is a 55-year-old married man and father of four children. He has more than 35 years of unique experience in agriculture with a deep knowledge in the growing of various products and plant rooting.

The Largest Stand Ever Against Chemtrails August 17th – 19th , 2012Live Conference in LA & Global WebcastEbell Theatre743 S Lucerne BlvdLos Angeles, CA 90010323-931-1277 15 Experts in Chemtrails and Metaphysics Permier of “Why in

By Rob Kirby GATA was born in the late 1990’s – primarily on the back of fundamental research by Frank Veneroso regarding Central Bank Gold Leasing. Veneroso’s intellectual curiosity was aroused after being fed detailed

The Seattle Times 17 July 2012 By Jim Suhr and Steve Karnowski The Associated Press The nation’s widest drought in decades is spreading, with more than half of the continental United States in some stage

Our favorite substitute for the euro while we ride out the storm in the Eurozone is the Singapore dollar. While commodity currencies might be prime beneficiaries of the increased trigger friendliness at major central banks,

Ingo Swan “It’s unkind to point out the Obvious To those who don’t want to see it. But it’s worse to point out the Invisible To those convinced it doesn’t exist.” “What, When, and Who

[ CAF Note: I have asked Fleurette to allow me to publish her letters to me for subscribers.Fleurette is a dear friend, subscribe and force of nature from Vancouver, British Columbia.] Dear Catherine, As you

By Dr. Mercola When I first read that genetically modified humans have already been born, I could hardly believe it. However, further research into this story featured in the UK’s Daily Mail1 proved it to

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By Peter Morici No issue is more misunderstood, or been more purposefully confused by the Romney and Obama campaigns, than outsourcing. Outsourcing is merely the importing side of international trade — purchasing abroad goods and

By Staff Writers The European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company (EADS) is considering launching its own bank to better manage its accounts, the new chief of subsidiary Airbus said in an interview. Continue reading the

By Graham Ruddick Speaking at the Farnborough Airshow, Sir Richard said Virgin Galactic wants to “revolutionise the way we get to space” and that he and his children will be the first passengers when the

The story of seed has become one of loss, control, dependence and debt. It’s been written by those who want to make vast profit from our food system, no matter what the true cost.  It’s

Wal-Mart now sells to the citizens of the United States more than one-fifth of their food, which is more than the combined sales of its three largest competitors. Related reading: Walmart From Wikipedia GMO From

(CAF Note: Is the LIBOR scandal sufficiently frustrating that the UK Defense establishment thought we needed some light reading for the weekend?) By Ed Krayewski The United Kingdom’s Ministry of Defense released 6,700 pages worth

“Catherine Austin Fitts has perspective on the housing and mortgage meltdown like no other. Under President George Herbert Walker Bush, she was Assistant Secretary of Housing and Federal Housing Commissioner at HUD, where she basically

[click on the image for a larger version] By Conor Sen Robots have come to destroy our way of life, just as we saw in Terminator 2: Judgment Day, though not as we expected. They’re

Published by Harvard University Whatever the future, the analysis reported in this paper reveals some important points:  • Oil is not in short supply. From a purely physical point of view, there are huge volumes

U.S. Federal Judge Stanley Sporkin talk about the JOBS Act Judge Stanley Sporkin Stanley Sporkin (born February 7, 1932) is a former judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. He

By Sarah Horowitz For the First Time, USPTO Will Expand Operations Outside Washington, DC, to Dallas, Denver, and Silicon Valley, in Addition to Detroit, Which Opens July 13 “Intellectual property protection and innovation are engines

Andy Griffith, who made homespun Southern wisdom his trademark as the wise sheriff in “The Andy Griffith Show” and the rumpled defense lawyer in “Matlock,” died Tuesday. He was 86. Continue reading the article .