“We know that after the introduction of the euro a significant part of the Italian population suffered impoverishment.” ~ Silvio Berlusconi (shortly before the effort

YouTube (6 Jan 12) Most folks haven’t grokked what Honda’s got going in the wings with their ASIMO program, but the answer is simple:  ASIMO

‘With President Obama’s campaign centering on the slogan “Forward” we wonder how many people would like to go backward?‘ ~ George Ure

“The fact is, California has been living beyond its means. The United States of America and its federal government has been living beyond its means.

“Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.” ~ Picasso Related reading: Pablo Picasso From Wikipedia

This gold backed stuff is laughable. Let me know when the Russians or Chinese have control of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, and then we

“Mighty little force is needed to control a man whose mind has been hoodwinked; contrariwise, no amount of force can control a free man, a

“It comes to him: growth is betrayal. There is no other route. There is no arriving somewhere without leaving somewhere.” – John Updike Related reading:

“Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.” – H. G. Wells (1920) Related reading: H. G. Wells From Wikipedia

“If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.” – Nikola Tesla Related reading: Nikola Tesla

“Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.” – George Washington Related

“It’s a little late in the game to worry about anticorruption measures because what in the world is the alternative going to be? If you

“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” – Richard Buckminster

My wonderful friend Nina takes pictures of beautiful birds as she travels. This one has a quote from St. Francis that I love: “Preach the

“Be watchful — the grace of God appears suddenly. It comes without warning to an open heart.” – Rumi Related reading: Rumi From Wikipedia Mowlana,

“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re

I doubt that the world will come to an end since it has survived far greater and unspeakable calamities. Yet, it is no consolation that

“A human being is a part of the whole, called by us, “Universe,” a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts

“Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win.” ~ Vince Lombardi Related reading: Vince Lombardi Wikipedia 3 Golden

“What day is it,?” asked Pooh. “It’s today,” squeaked Piglet. “My favorite day,” said Pooh.”

“You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture.  Just get people to stop reading them.” ~ Ray Bradbury Related reading: Ray Bradbury Wikipedia Ray

“The government is run by special interests clawing away at a shrinking pie and things are becoming quite vicious.” ~ Ron Paul Related reading: Ron

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!” ~ Upton Sinclair Related reading: Upton

‘Portrait of Michelangelo’, 1535 Florence, Casa Buonarroti “The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss

Paradise is here, it’s time to stop your crying. The future is this moment and not some place out there. ~ Tina Turner, Paradise is

In the midst of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer. ~ Albert Camus

“I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.” ~ Henry David Thoreau, American

The most important aspect of investing seems the one principle almost nobody knows, including investment “professionals” and financial planners. It’s simple: ALWAYS ALIGN YOUR INVESTMENTS

Governments gambled on a return to growth solving all the problems. That bet has failed. ~ Satyajit Das Related reading: Profile: Satyajit Das smh.com Books

When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche Related reading: Friedrich Nietzsche Wikipedia Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes Quote Collection

There’s no need to worry, the times dictate a plan Mother Earth’s given birth to a brand new man Sister I know you’re misunderstood But

“Nothing astonishes men so much as much as common sense and plain dealing”  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Related reading: Ralph Waldo Emerson Wikipedia Quotes Of

“The Natural Law will prevail regardless of man-made laws, tribunals, and governments.” — Traditional Circle of Elders, NAVAJO-HOPI Joint Use Area Hopi Mythology Wikipedia

“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

“He who attempts to act and do things for others or for the world without deepening his own self-understanding, freedom, integrity and capacity to love

“Real change comes not when you change the President, real change comes when we change how we do things.” –  Catherine Austin Fitts, from

“Whatever makes us passive is toxic, and whatever makes us active is tonic” ~ Caroline W. Casey

Artist:Giotto di Bondone (1267-1337) “Are you all so fulfilled in participating in on-going creating, you can afford to waste time pondering the end.” — Jesus

Say what you will about Americans, and one can say many things, this is a country of deeply democratic sensibilities. The idea that we are,

“If we can recognize that change and uncertainty are basic principles, we can greet the future and the transformation we are undergoing with the understanding that

“We all know what has to be done; what we don’t know is how to get re-elected once we done it.” Jean-Claude Juncker, prime minister

When your country has a body of laws that could fill an entire football stadium, you can always find half a dozen things to indict

Hypocrisy has its own elegant symmetry. ~ Julie Metz

The problem goes far beyond gold price suppression. Indeed, since central bank intervention in the currency, bond, equities, and commodity markets has exploded over the

People who complain about progressives are like the man from Virginia who went to college on the GI Bill and bought his first house with

“Don’t asked yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive. Then do that. Because what the world needs is people who

“We have lost control….These big global companies, in relation to specific activities, are more powerful than the governments they’re dealing with. ~ Richard Harding, former

If we are to move toward sustainable development, the industrialized countries will have to accept special responsibility–not only because of their past ecological sins, but

We’ve got too many people in this country employed trying to prevent other people from being bad and not enough people employed helping other people to

“Just can’t live that negative way…make way for the positive day!” ~ Bob Marley Related reading: Bob Marley Wikipedia The Official Site of Bob Marley

“If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and

There is a tendency in our planning to confuse the unfamiliar with the improbable. The contingency we have not considered seriously looks strange; what looks

” I’m assuming there will be no apocalypse. And that’s almost always, if not quite always, a good assumption.” ~ Jack Bogle Related reading: John

One of the problems with living around powerful myths is that you can start to feel personally responsible when they don’t work out. If you don’t

“Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Almost everything, all

“… the whole of economics can be reduced to a single lesson, and the lesson can be reduced to a single sentence. The art of

“Call on God, but row away from the rocks.” ~ Hunter Thompson Related reading: Hunter Thompson Wikipedia            

We either make ourselves miserable or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same. ~ Carlos Castaneda Related reading: Carlos (César Salvador

“It’s not a debt crisis…it’s a plan.” ~ Catherine Austin Fitts

“Sometimes I sense what seems to be the shifting of some tectonic plate beneath our own feet and a slight shiver runs down my back

There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart’s controls. ~ Aeschylus Related reading: Aeschylus Wikipedia

Which leads into the ‘thought’ I’d like to share. That is, to keep in mind that we are in EndGame, and that the ShockDoctrine is

If you violated the conformity of the ancient church you might have found yourself branded a heretic or an apostate. Today, if you violate the

Remember Rhett Butler’s famous line in Gone With the Wind, when Scarlet asks him how he has managed to do so well during the Civil

“The imagination of the individual has no limits. It has no borders.” ~Jon Rappoport Related reading: Jon Rappoport Wikipedia Jon Rappoport’s Blog

“We are living now, not in the delicious intoxication induced by the early success of science, but in a rather grisly morning after, when it

“Opportunities multiply as they are seized.” ~ Sun Tzu Related reading: Sun Tzu Wikipedia Solari Report Blog Commentaries: The Art of War (19 Aug 10)

“It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published, or to rely on the judgment of trusted physicians

“I’ve found that you don’t need to wear a necktie if you can hit.” ~Ted Williams Related reading: Ted Williams Wikipedia Biography on Ted Williams

“The earth is not dying. It is being killed, and the people killing it have names and addresses.” ~ Utah Phillips Related reading: Utah Phillips

“Chance favors the prepared” ~  From a Steven Seagal movie

“A hundred wagon loads of thoughts will not pay a single ounce of debt.“ – Italian saying

So long as it is digital and centrally controlled, Mr. Global could not care less whether the new currency system is called dollar, peso, franc,

When desire, imagination and freedom meet, the ignited spark is unstoppable. ~Jon Rappoport Related reading: Jon Rappoport Wikipedia Jon Rappoport’s Blog Solari Report subscribers can

One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency. ~ Arnold H. Glasow Related reading: Who

“You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.” ~ Ayn Rand Related reading: Ayn Rand Wikipedia A Brief Biography of

The President has 14 ways to fix [the economy] and none of them involve giving another trillion dollars to investment banks. ~ Phil from Phil’s

Innovation without conscious moral intention is amoral. ~ Rafe Furst

“You should be scared. I am scared. You can’t not be scared. You can’t look at what happened in the run-up to 2008 and see

“Bankers sometimes look on politicians as people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, order more tunnel.” ~ Sir John Quinton,

Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards. ~Soren Kierkegaard Related reading: Søren Kierkegaard Wikipedia

“The consciousness of being at war, and therefore in danger, makes the handing over of all power to a small caste seem the natural unavoidable

“If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread, then they can sure make something out of you.” – Muhammad Ali, speaking to a group

“The contemplation of things as they are without error or confusion, without substitution or imposture, is in itself a nobler thing than a whole harvest of invention.”

When you estimate the cost of trying to control everyone and everything, you realize that an out of control world could be pretty economic. ~

How can we know the dancer from the dance? – William Butler Yeats Related reading: William Butler Yeats Wikipedia

“Focusing the mind’s eye is for determining impending perils. Events have natural courses, people have successes and failures: it is imperative to examine movements signalling

“Until the lion has his historian, the hunter will always be a hero.” ~ African proverb

“Making Money is Art and Working is Art. And Good Business is the Best Art” ~ Andy Warhol Related reading . . . Andy Warhol

I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care

Today, when foreign journalists stumble into MITI (the Ministry of International Trade and Industry) and demand to know what will be done about Japan’s trade

The Federal Reserve forgot that it is the central bank for the people of the United States States and not a private academy where decisions

Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967) We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed… A few people cried… Most people were silent. I

Now that there are no jobs, we all have to do real work. ~ Serbian Carpenter on the economic collapse in Serbia

“Any future defense secretary who advises the president to again send a big American land army into Asia or into the Middle East or Africa

“It is the long-term investor, he who most promotes the public interest, who will in practice come in for the most criticism… For it is