Video: Catherine Austin Fitts Breaks Down Gov. Hostile Takeover of Pensions on The Alex Jones Show

Alex also welcomes back to the show Catherine Austin Fitts, president of Solari, Inc., the publisher of The Solari Report, and managing member of Solari Investment Advisory Services, LLC. She also served as Assistant Secretary of Housing/Federal Housing Commissioner at HUD in the first Bush Administration, and was the president and founder of The Hamilton Securities Group, Inc., a broker-dealer/investment bank and software developer. Catherine publishes the column “Mapping the Real Deal” in Scoop Media in New Zealand and serves on the board of the Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee.

Video: Did Wall Street bail out Greece? – Russia Today

(February 16, 2010) – The European Union has asked Greece to explain reports that it engaged in derivatives trades with US investment banks that may have allowed it to mask the size of its debt and deficit from EU authorities.Goldman Sachs made up an exchange rate that allowed the Greeks to look as though they were only engaging in a currency swap when, in effect, they were getting more than a billion more than they should have from the trades in credit.

Video: Robert Kiyosaki – Silver best hedge against inflation

(NewsMax) – Kiyosaki gives the thumbs up for Silver as the best Investment for the Future.

MSM: Commercial Real Estate Near Disaster – Fund Manager

(CNBC) – Commercial real estate is somewhere between an orderly massacre and a disaster, William Mack, founder and chairman of Area Property Partners, a real estate investment fund, told CNBC.

Video: Marc Faber Dollar decline and inflation

(Bloomberg) – October 13, 2009 – Marc Faber, publisher of the Gloom, Boom & Doom Report, talks with Bloomberg’s Bernard Lo about Faber’s investment strategy

Chinese sovereign wealth fund dumping dollars for strategic investments like gold

Several reports are coming out of China that there is pressure on state-controlled organisations – notably the country’s main sovereign wealth fund, China Investment Corporation (CIC) to rapidly build investment in non-Chinese enterprises.

China Encourages Citizens to Buy Gold and Silver

“On a final note, we welcome the advent of accessible gold and silver investment vehicles in China, and we too, do see a bright future for that market.”

No Wonder the Poker Game is Ending: The Wealthiest Have Taken All of the Chips

(WashingtonsBlog) – A new report by University of California, Berkeley economics professor Emmanuel Saez concludes that income inequality in the United States is at an all-time high, surpassing even levels seen during the Great Depression.

American apocalypse – 5 likeliest scenarios to topple the US

Which is your favorite apocalyptic scenario? If you really had to choose would it be the intergalactic stand-off? Zombie plague?

MSM: Global warming alarmism enriches Gore, bankrupts the rest of us

(BaltimoreSun) – Let us begin today with full disclosure: For those who don’t know my position on global warming alarmism and its insidious uses, it is that this phenomenon is the greatest hoax in modern times and is being used to achieve things – bad things – quite apart from its ostensible goal of “saving the planet.”

‘Exposing’ Slave Practices of Rothschild Deflects Real Crime Share

Acting ‘greatly surprised’, British investment bank Rothschild ‘regrets that the firm is linked in any way to the inhumane institution of slavery.’ Supposedly big news to them, the ancient Rothschild establishment quickly mutters sounds of indignation after the report appeared in the new world order’s main media outlet, the Financial Times.

China’s shopping spree

As Beijing exploits the mayhem in the global economy to pick up a growing list of natural resources bargains, should the West worry it is selling the family silver? Sarah Arnott reports