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    • Coming Clean: Crowdfunding

    In recent years there have been methods developed to decentralize investing. We take a close look at crowdfunding, the legal issues and dangers involved, and how to approach it as an entrepreneur. Crowdfunding is an important step forward in supporting both small and large efforts for the individual and groups alike.

    This Solari Special Report includes legal pathways to help navigate these new developments.

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    Coming Clean: Beyond the Fiscal Cliff

    As we look over the fiscal cliff into our financial abyss, now is a good time to “Come Clean” about the real state of our lives, our communities, and our economy, starting with the U.S. federal finances that flow deeply and intimately throughout every aspect of our lives.

    This Solari Special Report includes (22) challenges we must address to put our federal fiscal house in order.

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    Money & Markets - Week of 04.26.15

    The Richest People in Every State
    Yahoo Finance | 29 April 2015
    Only 10 of the 50 are…

    All Eyes on BOJ (Bank of Japan) Statement Amid Deflation Fears
    Prime Pair | 29 April 2015
    To devalue the…

    Federal Reserve: Monetary Policy Press Release
    Federal Reserve | 29 April 2015
    0 to 1/4 percent target range for…

    HSBC Advises Clients Against Fossil Fuel Investment
    Time | 29 April 2015
    “Keep it in the”…

    Prince Charles on Brink of Ending All Fossil Fuel Investments
    The Guardian| 28 April 2015
    Several times greater than…

    David Simon: ‘My Country Is a Horror Show’
    Alternet | 28 April 2015
    On one block in Baltimore that is part of…

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    Geopolitics - Week of 04.26.15

    Meet the Candidate: Bernie Sanders
    WSJ | 30 April 2015
    “Billionaires do not flock to my”…

    Give ‘Em Hell, Bernie
    Rollingstone | 29 April 2015
    A completely honest…

    Powerful Video Interview Of Crips and Bloods Disputing Claims Of The Baltimore Police
    Daily Kos | 28 April 2015
    Only seen on the streets helping…

    Watch The Citizens Of Baltimore Stand Up To The Mob
    The Daily Sheeple | 28 April 2015
    Doing something with…

    Social Media Analysis Suggests Links Between Baltimore and Ferguson Violence
    Fox News| 28 April 2015
    Language that seemed to anticipate…

    Breaking: Baltimore Mayor Key Player in Obama’s Federal Takeover of Local Police
    Prison Planet | 28 April 2015
    Gave rioters “space to”…

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    Science & Technology - Week of 04.26.15

    Elon Musk Debuts the Tesla Powerwall


    YouTube | 01 May 2015
    “The Missing”…

    Geoengineering-Fast Track to Total Disaster & Total Collapse-Dane Wigingto
    USA Watchdog | 29 April 2015
    Enough data to know it is…

    ‘4-D Printing’ Objects that Morph Based on Stimuli Like Water and Heat
    Kurzweilai | 29 April 2015
    Autonomous valve…

    US Air Force Jet Missing
    Independent | 29 April 2015
    ‘Disappeared’ over English Channel lands…

    Audi has Successfully Made Diesel Fuel from Carbon Dioxide and Water
    Science Alert | 27 April 2015
    ‘blue crude’ is created using a…

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    Food & Health - Week of 04.26.15


    We Can’t Let John Deere Destroy the Very Idea of Ownership
    Wired | 21 April 2015
    Access to diagnostic…

    Feds Pay for Drug Fraud: 92 Percent of Foster Care, Poor Kids Prescribed Antipsychotics Get Them for Unaccepted Uses
    Huffington Post | 30 April 2015
    92 percent of all kids on Medicaid…

    Latin American Organizations Campaign to Ban Monsanto
    Telesur TV| 29 April 2015
    30,000 doctors and health specialists… asked for…

    Chipotle Won’t Serve Genetically Modified Foods
    Time | 27 April 2015
    Genetically modified crops…

    New Trade Deal With U.S. Will Open the Door to Inferior Food Pumped with Growth Hormones and Pesticides Warns Jamie Oliver
    Daily Mail | 06 March 2015
    chef fear it will expose…

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    Life - Week of 04.26.15

    Inside Baltimore’s Closed-Door MLB Game
    WSJ | 29 April 2015
    Played with an attendance of…

    China’s Top Universities Shine In Global Ranking
    Forbes | 28 April 2015
    Peking University led…

    Nepal earthquake: Death toll rises above 3,000
    BBC | 27 April 2015
    Hundreds of thousands sheltering out…

    E60 “SHEAR WILL”


    Vimeo | 20 October 2012
    “A heart as”…

    Tufts University Announces It Will ‘Proactively and Openly’ Recruit Illegal Immigrants
    Campus Reform | 14 April 2015
    One of 22 other states offering…

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    Wildcards - Week of 04.26.15

    Humans Need Not Apply


    YouTube | 13 August 2014
    When a robot replaces…

    Pentagon Can’t Account for $1 Billion In Afghan Reconstruction Aid
    McClatchyDC | 23 April 2015
    What happened to 6 in 10 dollars of $2.26 billion…

    Music of the Spheres
    Kickstarter | 07 April 2015
    First piece of music recorded onto…

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    Money & Markets - Week of 04.19.15

    40 Days: Treasury Says Debt Has Been Frozen at $18,112,975,000,000
    cnsnnews | 24 April 2015
    Extraordinary measures to continue…

    Largest Bank In America Joins War On Cash
    Zerohedge | 23 April 2015
    Avoid negative deposit…

    IMF is a Founding Member of China’s AIIB: So What is Going On?
    Giza Death Star | 23 April 2015
    Whether the AIIB is on its way to…

    Buttered Coffee Could Make You Invincible. And This Man Very Rich
    Bloomberg | 21 April 2015
    Your hormones are made of saturated…

    Home Trader Dubbed Hound of Hounslow is Bailed After He ‘Made £26 Million and Helped to Trigger £500 billion Stock Market Crash from his Parents’ Suburban Semi’
    Daily Mail | 21 April 2015
    Triggered a Wall Street ‘flash crash’ five…

    The Bankster War on Cash; JP Morgan Chase Begins to Prohibit the Storage of Cash in Its Safety Deposit Boxes
    Economic Policy Journal | 21 April 2015
    Restricting the use of cash in selected…

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    Geopolitical - Week of 04.19.15

    Land Grab in Ukraine is Monsanto’s backdoor to the EU
    Oriental Review | 06 April 2015
    Increase in the acreage of ??GMO cropland in…

    What does Putin Want? A Major Analysis by Rostislav Ishchenko
    The Saker | 22 April 2015
    Chance of suffering the same fate as the Ukraine…

    Czech President: Russian Attack on Baltics Would be Suicidal
    Yahoo News | 21 April 2015
    Latvia and Estonia, like eastern Ukraine, have…

    Michele Leonhart, Head of D.E.A., to Retire Over Handling of Sex Scandal
    New York Times | 21 April 2015
    Outdated federal approach to…

    Obama’s Lawyers: Let’s Extend the 9/11 Wars Forever
    The Daily Beast | 20 April 2015
    No longer believe that Congress can…

    U.S. Defense Industry Outperforms S&P by 100 Percent
    The Fiscal Times | 20 April 2015
    Military expenditure for the ‘rest…

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    Science & Technology - Week of 04.19.15

    Tesla Wants to Power Your Home With a Battery
    CNN Money | 22 April 2015
    Those batteries start at…

    White House Backs Cyber Legislation in Congress Despite Some Reservations
    Sputnik News | 22 April 2015
    Liability protections should incentivize good…

    Electronic Waste Worth £34bn Piling Up in ‘Toxic Mine’, Warns UN Report
    Independent | 19 April 2015
    Causing kidney and liver damage and impaired…

    China Adds Solar Power the Size of France in First Quarter
    Bloomberg | 19 April 2015
    1.1 gigawatts of photovoltaic power…

    Bell Faces $750-million Lawsuit Over Tracking of Customer’s Cellphone Internet Usage
    The Globe and Mail | 17 April 2015
    To include landline use and TV…

    NASA Successfully Tests Engine that Uses No Fuel, Violates the Laws of Physics
    Examiner | 01 August 2014
    Not attributable to any…

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    Food & Health - Week of 04.19.15

    The GMO Scrapbook: Rappoport on the Maui Case and Mon(ster)Santo
    Giza Death Star | 24 April 2015
    Oligarchy-driven “scientific” memes such as…

    Ending GMOs Now
    Institute of Science in Society | 21 April 2015
    Draw of non-GMO is more profit: no…

    Why I Keep Writing About Monsanto vs. Maui
    Jon Rappoport | 16 April 2015
    Monsanto, backed up by the…

    The Drought Fighter
    Craftsmanship | 15 January 2015
    Biological life…is eating them up…

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    National Security: Looking Ahead with Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson

    Catherine, The Solari Report on May 2, 2015 at 8:05 pm

    Military

    “If you like Iraq and Afghanistan, you’ll love Iran.”
    ~ General Anthony Zinni

    By Catherine Austin Fitts

    This week on the Solari Report I will be speaking with returning guest, Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson who is currently a visiting professor at the College of William & Mary.

    Col. Wilkerson served for 31 years in the US Army, a career that was highlighted by his service as Special Assistant to General Colin Powell as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (1989-93) and Chief of Staff to Powell as d as Secretary of State. After volunteering for the US Army, he served as a helicopter pilot in the Vietnam War.

    We’ll be discussing the implications of the Iran deal and its implications for Europe (good), Israel (not so good), and the US (let’s see). As Colonel Wilkerson points out, this agreement offers a far better alternative to war.

    We’ll also be discussing the pivot to Asia, a move which has yet to be felt in the Far East. How might the Trans-Pacific Partnership and the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank affect this turn?

    Colonel Wilkerson feels strongly that the US should not be seen as just a military power: “A huge challenge is that we will have (9) billion people by mid-century. We’re not going meet these challenges individually and we’re not going to meet them with bombs, bullets and bayonets.”

    In our Money & Markets segment this week I’ll discuss the latest in financial and geopolitical news.

    In Let’s Go to the Movies, I will review Tracks, a film adaptation of Robyn Davidson’s memoir chronicling her nine-month journey with camels across the Australian desert. Davidson’s journey years ago inspired me to ride a bicycle across the United States. I will spending May and early June in Australia and New Zealand and will be visiting Uluru for the first time.

    Please join me on the Solari Report this week! Not a subscriber? Learn more here…

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    "Stand by Me" - Ben E. King

    Catherine, Daily Musings on May 1, 2015 at 5:05 pm

    Ben E. King (September 28, 1938 – April 30, 2015)

    Related Reading:

    Ben E King: R&B legend dies at 76
    Ben E. King on Wikipedia
    Ben E. King’s Official Website

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    The Big Picture with Whitley Strieber

    Catherine, The Solari Report on May 1, 2015 at 9:05 am

    The Universe

    “One ought never to turn one’s back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything.”

    ~Winston Churchill

    By Catherine Austin Fitts

    I sent best-selling author Whitley Strieber a copy of our annual wrap up and challenged him to tell us what we should add to our analysis. Whitley joins me this week on the Solari Report  to discuss a number of fascinating topics which he believes are critical to understanding our world and times:

    • Pacific ocean warming patterns and the possibility of a protracted drought on the US’ West Coast
    • A decline in air circulation over the northern hemisphere caused by a slowing Gulf Stream
    • Atmospheric flares and increased volcanic activity
    • Retaining and growing wealth amidst sweeping earth changes
    • The Large Hadron Collider and the possibility of parallel universes

    Solari readers that do not have a subscription and wish to listen to a segment of the interview can listen in at Whitley Strieber’s Unknown Country in his show Dreamland here.

    Please join me on the Solari Report this week! Not a subscriber? Learn more here…

    Note: Because this is the last week of the month, there will not be a Money & Markets segment included in this report.

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    Solari Report Subscription "Special Offer " 1st Quarter Wrap Up: Planet Debt Book - Ends May 29, 2015

    Catherine, News & Commentary on May 1, 2015 at 6:05 am

    When you sign up for a 1-year non-refundable subscription you will receive “1st Quarter 2015 Wrap-Up: Planet Debt“.

    Includes: Planet Debt, 12 Things You Need to Know about Global Debt, 1st Quarter News Stories & Trends, Financial Markets Round Up.

    Want a taste? Click here to view the first chapter of ” 1st Quarter Wrap Up: Planet Debt Book

    What Subscribers Get:

    • Access to the complete Solari Report audio archive (currently over 125 reports)
    • Solari Report transcripts and Wrap Up web presentations
    • Special reports and alerts throughout the year
    • The streaming version of Catherine Austin Fitts’ DVD Investment Strategies for Changing Times
    • The complete collection of (17) Solari Audio Seminars
    • Send your questions to Ask Catherine weekly

     

    This offer ends May 29, 2015.

    If you are an existing subscriber and want to extend your subscription or upgrade to a yearly to take advantage of this offer, please contact customer service at:

    Toll Free: 866.311.2543
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    Please allow 2-3 weeks for delivery of report.

    Purchase One-year subscription:

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    Catherine in Sydney, June 2nd: Planet Debt

    Catherine, Events, News & Commentary on April 29, 2015 at 10:04 am

    Catherine will join entrepreneur Jason Bawden-Smith at Enlightened Events in  Sydney, Australia on Tuesday June 2nd from 6 pm to 9 pm.

    Click here to learn more and purchase tickets!

    Refreshments will be served.

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    Catherine in Auckland, May 23rd: The Global Rebalancing

    Catherine, Events, News & Commentary on April 29, 2015 at 9:04 am

    Catherine will be speaking at the University of Auckland Business School, Auckland, New Zealand on Saturday May 23rd from 4 pm to 6 pm. Ticket proceeds go to the Ficino Education Foundation.

    Read more here! (PDF)

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    Latest Fed FOMC Statement "Translation"

    Catherine, News & Commentary on April 28, 2015 at 2:04 pm

    Fed Building

    View the complete Fed FOMC meeting statement from April 29, 2015

    Fed comments are HIGHLIGHTED. Catherine Austin Fitts’ translation follows:

    “Information received since the Federal Open Market Committee met in March suggests that economic growth slowed during the winter months, in part reflecting transitory factors.”

    Minus inventory build-up, the US economy is deflating. Per the Congressional Joint Committee, if the “recovery” had matched the historical average, GDP would be 10% greater.

    (more…)

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