By Los Angeles Times New job figures released Friday might have been more meager than most economists had expected, but at least one set of

By Robert Gehrke Rep. Bill Wright, as he puts it, “grew up in the dirt,” raising dairy cattle since he was a boy. But now

By Court Skinner I’m just getting started in a new, at least to me, software for keeping track of money. The software is the open

From a Subscriber: Hi Catherine, I trust you are well. I’m still enjoying and very much impressed by your weekly Solari Reports, guests, and the

By KT Arasu U.S. grain prices should stay unrelentingly high this year, according to a Reuters poll, the latest sign that the era of cheap

What happens when you point the Hubble Space Telescope to a seemingly blank patch of sky? A view that takes you to the edge of

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Tuesday, senior S&L regulator William K. Black slammed the FCIC for failing to call out fraud. As told the Real News: • The Commission was

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By C. Powell Dear Friend of GATA and Gold: The Federal Reserve can keep secret most of the gold documents at issue in GATA’s freedom-of-information

By Paul Ferguson A junior mining company I’ve followed for years recently announced that they were raising money.  The initial response from some investors was

Straight Talk By Adam This week’s Straight Talk contributor is Catherine Austin Fitts: investment advisor and entrepreneur. She is the founder of Solari, where she offers subscribers

There is complexity because the artist, the writer, doesn’t know why he or she is doing the work. That complexity results from a lack of

By Jason Fell On the heels of President Barack Obama’s big State of the Union address last week, during which he talked up the vital

By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard Political risk has returned with a vengeance. The first food revolutions of our Malthusian era have exposed the weak grip of authoritarian

Iceland’s special prosecutor into the banking crisis has confirmed that raids have taken place today and that arrests have been made. The Central Bank of

President’s Speech Offers Hope for Some Relief; Exceptions for Rental Income Reporting Remain Vague For small businesses that were dreading the thought of having to

Here’s your list of 60+ of the recent animal die-offs.  I didn’t include the honeybees, earthworms, or most insect life, as they’re a subject all

The European Food Safety Authority has launched a public consultation on its draft guidance document for engineered nanomaterial (ENM) applications in food and feed. The

Let’s spread the word: Wetiko By Paul Levy In the first part of this series, we contemplated the idea of a psycho-spiritual disease of the

By Sam Smith One of the greatest myths draped over this land is that the so-called wing nuts mainly come from the far right and

By Ronnie Cummins The policy set for GE alfalfa will most likely guide policies for other GE crops as well. True coexistence is a must.”

By Joe Weisenthal Today the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission releases its full report on the crisis. [click on the image for a larger version] Continue

By Catherine Austin Fitts An authorized someone from Allendale Michigan kept logging in to my Facebook space. Then I started having challenges with unauthorized posts

By Teri Buhl Lawsuit alleges the bank took extreme measures to defraud investors, and now JPMorgan may be on the hook Former Bear Stearns mortgage

By Casey Chan The world is ending! Okay, maybe not. But doesn’t it seem like every day animals are dying in masses? So, it must

From Ed Abbey’s “Desert Solitaire” Benedicto: May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into

By Gretchen Morgenson Since the government took over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, taxpayers have spent more than $160 million defending the mortgage finance companies

Genetically-modified crops could help prevent a future global hunger crisis, the Government’s chief scientific adviser said. By The Telegraph Professor Sir John Beddington said there

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By Lyndsey Layton In response to a new federal food safety law and growing consumer interest, vast amounts of new data are being generated about

“I AM” – Official Trailer In theaters: February 8th, 2011 Synopsis: I AM, a prismatic and probing exploration of our world, what’s wrong with it,

By Adam Ostrow Here’s a bit of a surprise to end the week: Keith Olbermann, host of MSNBC’s Countdown, ended tonight’s show by announcing he’s

By Sam Smith National Journal – President Obama today will name General Electric CEO Jeff Immelt chairman of the new Council on Jobs and Competitiveness,

By Janna Irons Last year, 20-year-old Kyle Thiermann took a surf trip to Southern Chile, where he planned to spend a few weeks sampling the

By Dr. Mercola Commonwealth Club 11-18-10. Panel II – Martin Blank, PhD. Continue reading the article . . .

By Sam Smith Several years after the passage of the Federal Boating Act of 1958, the Second Coast Guard District in St. Louis sent a

By Daily Mail Reporter The sun over Greenland has risen two days early, baffling scientists and sparking fears that Arctic icecaps are melting faster than

Monsanto garnered 38% of the vote to win the 2010 Corporate Hall of Shame. From using aggressive legal tactics to intimidate and bankrupt local farmers

The documentary film, Vanishing of the Bees, narrated by Ellen Page, takes a piercing investigative look at the economic, political and ecological implications of the

by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn It is vain to affirm that which the heart does not confirm. In contrast, a work of art bears within itself its

By Gregory White Since quantitative easing 2 really kicked off in early September, one major commodity has lagged the broader market. Surprise, it’s gold. And

I am convinced more than ever that over a long-period, the real safety and growth of our capital lies in honest entrepreneurship – not in

By Shadowstats Here we show year-to-year growth as a measure of the changing money supply. Note: A downward slope in this growth curve does not

From tourist trips to the edge of the atmosphere to satellite companies propelling products into the ether, the galactic gold rush is on. And now

By Gregory White While the presumption may be that southern members of the eurozone are lazy, the evidence suggests otherwise, according to Societe Generale. This

By Michael J. Green Q1: What is the significance of this summit? A1: On January 19, Presidents Barack Obama and Hu Jintao will hold their

By Paul Ferguson The following chart shows some long-term trends in the gold mining industry.  The grade of gold discoveries is declining while the cost

History has shown that giant countries on the way down are very dangerous because they are desperate. But this year the U.S. has stabilized and

Timed for tax season, the U.S. Department of the Treasury launched a pilot today to offer taxpayers a safe, convenient and low-cost financial account for

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By Catherine Austin Fitts Are we headed toward another Great Depression? Investment advisor Catherine Austin Fitts gives Financial Survival Radio a brutally honest answer to

By Catherine Austin Fitts Solari.com investment adviser Catherine Austin Fitts tells Financial Survival Radio why the “Crash JP Morgan” (which she recommends and supports) by

Investment advisor Catherine Austin Fitts says America has a bad case of the tapeworms: A tapeworm media and a tapeworm economy. A tapeworm, she explains, is a

By John Pilger My favorite secret document – leaked by WikiLeaks, of course – is from the Ministry of Defense in London. It describes journalists

WikiLeaks brings truth to the world by publishing fact-based stories without fear or favour. Our organisation exists because of the work of many volunteers who

Where would we be without seeds? Between a rock and hungry place, that’s where!  Despite their importance, seeds don’t get the attention or respect they