An Overview of Homeowner’s Insurance
By Matt R. Hale, Attorney-at-Law
There is no question that homeowner’s insurance rates are rising across the country, leading some to wonder if they really need it. The purpose of this article i…
Food for the Soul: The Art of Gold and the Gold in Art
By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout Unique, beautifully designed and crafted, and visually arresting, gold objects are always stars of any museum display, regardless of the…
Food for the Soul – Streaming on Vacation 2024
By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout As the end of hot summer days approaches, it is the perfect time to binge a little on some shows,…
Food for the Soul: “Expressionists: Kandinsky, Münter and the Blue Rider” Exhibition
By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout When we think of German Expressionism, the images that most readily come to mind are often the black and white…
Food for the Soul: “Sargent and Fashion” Exhibition
By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout After John Singer Sargent died in 1925, his formal paintings of English and American socialites went out of fashion. Throughout…
Food for the Soul: London Exhibition “Now You See Us: Women Artists in Britain 1520-1920”
Ethel Walker. Decoration The Excursion of Nausicaa, 1920. Oil on canvas. Private collection. Photo: Courtesy of Tate
By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout
This summer, the Tate Gallery…
Food for the Soul: London Exhibition “Now You See Us: Women Artists in Britain 1520-1920”
By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout This summer, the Tate Gallery in London is presenting an exhibition entitled “Now You See Us: Women Artists in Britain…
Looking at Rivers
“Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know…
Food for the Soul: “Impressionists 1874” – How It All Began
By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout No matter how much or how little we know about fine art, we can all spot the difference between paintings…
Nina’s Blog: Italian Spring with Art – Part 2
By Nina Heyn- Your Culture Scout The Venice Biennale is an international art show that alternates between architecture and fine art every other year. 2024 is the…
Nina’s Blog: Italian Spring with Art-Part 1
Florence’s Uffizi Galleries—which contain the most famous Renaissance art on the planet—are, unfortunately, best avoided this spring. The size of the crowds is staggering, including huge field-trip…
Food for the Soul: Stories of Women at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout Philadelphia’s main art museum was established in 1876 as part of the centennial celebration of the Declaration of Independence. Since…
Food for the Soul: A Year of the Dragon
By Nina Heyn- Your Culture Scout In Asia, being born in a Year of the Dragon means to arrive in an auspicious year; dragons, in Chinese astrology,…
Food for the Soul: Dune: Part Two
Canadian director Denis Villeneuve has always made interesting films. After his intriguing sci-fi tale Arrival, he was brave and talented enough to make Blade Runner 2049, which…
Food for the Soul: Fashioning San Francisco
The theme of the rarefied world of New York socialites in the 1970s is being explored in the second season of the ongoing TV series Feud. This…
Food for the Soul: Pink
For its Color of the Year 2024, Pantone elected the color named “peach fuzz”—a pink color moderated by some orange or yellow to achieve a shade that…
Food for the Soul: European Art Exhibitions in 2024
January being a good month to look forward to events in the coming year, here is a list of selected art exhibitions in Europe. If you are…
Food for the Soul: Mystery Shows for Winter Nights
Long dark evenings are perfect for cozying up with a hot mug in front of a screen, so in winter I went on the lookout for some…
What We Are Up Against by Dr. Toby Rogers
CAF Note: This is a must-read for anyone managing personal and financial assets and any financial planner or asset manager helping them.
By Dr. Toby Rogers
Western allopathic…
Unmasking Farmington: FTX, Fluent Finance and the Coming Digital Dollar
by Mark Goodwin and Whitney Webb:
CAF Note: Highly recommend Whitney Webb’s new blockbuster on the effort to build a digital control system.
One of the oddest and most…
Food for the Soul: Napoleon’s Loot
Ridley Scott, the man who over half a century has given us Gladiator, Alien, Blade Runner, and The Martian, has not stopped making big movies. His latest…
De-Brief from Halloween Cash is King:
[CAF Note: A wonderful Solari Circle leader played King Cash for Halloween. She gave out 160 dollar bills to the trick-or-treators. Quite a response!]
– I told all…
The “Wave Genome” in NEXUS Magazine
Ulrike’s article about the Wave Genome has been published in the October/November issue of NEXUS Magazine. The same paper was previously published in German a year ago.
We…
Food for the Soul: A Taste of Klimt in Vienna
Artworks by Gustav Klimt (1862-1918), the most popular representative of Viennese Art Nouveau, grace collections all over the world. After a protracted restitution battle, one of the…
Food for the Soul: Vermeer’s The Art of Painting in Vienna
We conclude “The Year of Vermeer” at Food for the Soul with a visit to The Art of Painting , which can be found at the Kunsthistorisches…
Nina’s Blog: London Exhibitions, Fall 2023
Daily life in London is a bit harder than before Brexit. Stores run out of eggs and fresh bread by lunchtime, metro trains sometimes shorten their runs…
Food for the Soul: London – Vermeer’s Music Lessons
It so happens that all four Vermeers that can be found in collections in London are about making music. The most elaborate of them is actually called…
Food for the Soul: The Rossettis – an Exhibition at Tate Britain
There are so many artworks in London museums that you can always find a substantial exhibition taking place, no matter when you visit. Such is the case…
Nina’s Euro Blog: Wandering around Prague
I went to Prague to look at paintings in museums, but I found out that the best art there is not necessarily on the walls inside but…
Food for the Soul: Oppenheimer
Within one month of its global release, the movie Oppenheimer has grossed $700M in cumulative worldwide box office, making it more successful than Interstellar, the 2014 space…
Food for the Soul: From Barbie to Oppenheimer and Back Again
It used to be called counter-programming. Studios would, for example, plan to release a comedy skewed to female audiences on a Super Bowl weekend, reasoning that women…
Food for the Soul: Hollywood’s Impossible Mission and Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One
By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout If you, like me, are heading to movie theaters to cool off and to check out the latest blockbusters, you…
Nina’s Blog: Rome – Art Discoveries for Wandering Tourists
Rome is so full of Art with capital “A,” from frescoes at the Vatican to sculptures at the Capitoline museums, that it is easy to miss some…
Summer 2023 Travels: Experiencing the U.S. Through a Solari Prism
By a Solari team member
My husband and I recently drove through eight northeastern U.S. states to take a bona fide vacation—our first recreational trip since 2019. Traveling…
Food for the Soul: Animal Hunt at Art Institute of Chicago
By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout Comprehensive and large-scope art museums tend to be those created in centuries past, such as the Louvre in the 18th…
Food for the Soul: The Diplomat
I do not know about you, but I prefer spy and political shows to typical crime shows because they are a little more mentally challenging. A case…
Nina’s Blog 2023: Stones of Florence
Like all of Italy, except a bit more so, Florence is all about stone. Green and white marble bricks cover the cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore…
Nina’s Euro Blog 2023: Chasing Art in Paris
Paris is not very user-friendly this spring because ongoing strikes are affecting daily life to a great degree. I was planning to see Vermeer’s The Astronomer—a painting…
Food for the Soul: Lessons from Vermeer
By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout The new and wonderful loan exhibition of Vermeer at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam is an occasion to reflect on how…
Food for the Soul: “Rembrandt & His Contemporaries” Exhibition in Amsterdam
By Nina Heyn — Your Culture Scout While many art fans might not be able to get tickets to the sold-out Vermeer show at the Rijksmuseum, there…
Food for the Soul: Women Alone – Vermeer at the Rijksmuseum
By Nina Heyn — Your Culture Scout The sold-out, long-touted, once-in-a-lifetime Vermeer exhibition at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam is in full swing—crowds of lucky ticket-holders are thronging…
Food for the Soul: Pearls
By Nina Heyn — Your Culture Scout Probably one of the most celebrated paintings that features pearls is one where these jewels are the least visible. It…
Food for the Soul: Peeking into the Artist’s Mind — An Interview with Henryk Waniek
By Nina Heyn — Your Culture Scout Even though most of the artists I admire are from the 20th century—from David Hockney to Leonora Carrington, and from…
Painting Together
By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout Unless you are writing a script for a TV show, writing is a decidedly solitary occupation (you can hardly write…
National Security Exemptions and SEC Rule 10b-5
Table of Contents I. Introduction II. What Is SEC Rule 10b-5? III. The Elements of a Rule 10b-5 Claim a. Is the Government a “Person” Falling Under…
The History and Organization of the Federal Reserve: The What and Why of the United States’ Most Powerful Banking Organization
““Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce.”-James A. Garfield, 20th President of the United States Table…
FASAB Statement 56: Understanding New Government Financial Accounting Loopholes
Table of Contents I. IntroductionII. History of the Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board (FASAB)III. FASAB and Standard 56A. What Does Standard 56 Do?B. Reporting Entities Within…
Food for the Soul: Global Trade Part V – Europe
By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout Even before Roman soldiers started building and then marching on the roads of the empire, expanding the imperial trade across…
Food for the Soul: Oscar Contenders 2023 — Part 2
By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout A few weeks ago, we highlighted a few early and interesting contenders for the Best Picture crown at the upcoming…
Food for the Soul: I Spy … for America
By Nina Heyn — Your Culture Scout A few weeks ago, we introduced some new international espionage shows. Two new American spy shows recently got dropped at…
Food for the Soul: A Year of Vermeer
By Nina Heyn — Your Culture Scout We celebrated the year 2019 as “The Year of da Vinci,” reporting all year long from the groundbreaking exhibition at…
Food for the Soul: Beautiful Banknotes
Józef Mehoffer. Allegory of Saving (1933). Stained glass window, KOMK Bank, Kraków. Photo: Zygmunt Put/Wikimedia Commons By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout “All these pieces of…
Food for the Soul – The Lust for Travel
James Tissot. Ball on Shipboard (1874). Tate Britain. Photo: Wikimedia Commons “The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.” ~…
Food for the Soul: Law, Justice, and Art
Wu Youru. Regaining the Provincial Capital of Ruizhou (1886). Private collection. Photo: Wikimedia Commons By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout The conventional wisdom that “law” and…
Feast for the Eyes
By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout No one has ever rendered fruits more juicy or seafood more fresh than 17th-century painters in the Low Countries. Starting…
Food for the Soul Oscar Contenders: Awards Season 2022–2023
By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout This year, there are hardly any choices of theatrical films to qualify for Best Picture nominations. Current leading contenders in…
Food for the Soul — I Spy…
By Nina Heyn — Your Culture Scout For a cerebrally inclined viewer, spy shows have advantages over regular crime series. There is less gore (all those chopped-up…
Food for the Soul – Rediscovering Artists
By Nina Heyn — Your Culture Scout HILMA (2022; dir. Lasse Hallström) Hilma af Klint (1862–1944) was a Swedish abstractionist painter who was largely ignored and certainly…
Food for the Soul – Documentaries: How Artists Think
By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout Full-length documentaries require what our consumption of entertainment media totally lacks these days—lots of time and patience. We watch short…
Food for the Soul: Streaming … European Daily Life
By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout Colder autumn evenings are a perfect excuse for sitting in front of a smaller screen. There are hundreds of choices,…
Food for the Soul: Charles I – The Royal Connoisseur of Art
“Ars longa, vita brevis.” ~ Hippocrates, Aphorismi By Nina Heyn — Your Culture Scout As the world witnesses a historic change in Great Britain, which welcomes Charles…
Happy and Unhappy Families
“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.“~ Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, 1898 By Nina Heyn — Your Culture Scout Most…
Food for the Soul: Cozy Entertainement
By Nina Heyn — Your Culture Scout During WWII, Hollywood turned away from hard-hitting dramas toward lighter fare—mysteries, comedies, and musicals—resulting in such classics as The Philadelphia…
Food for the Soul: Global Trade in Art, Part 4: The Americas
By Nina Heyn — Your Culture Scout “The discovery of America, and that of a passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope, are…
Food for the Soul: Guo Pei Exhibition — San Francisco
By Nina Heyn — Your Culture Scout Art museums sometimes showcase outstanding fashion designs, often presenting historical collections of artists who long ago earned their place in…
Food for the Soul: Global Trade in Art Part 3- Middle East
By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout Even if Venice itself is not in the Middle East, until the early 1500s the Venetian empire, built on trade…
Food for the Soul: Women Art Exhibitions—Venice and Paris
By Nina Heyn — Your Culture Scout In recent years, exhibitions of women’s art have gained so much popularity that almost every week there is a local…
Food for the Soul: Faces of Tuscany
By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout In Florentine museums and churches, there is an endless parade of Madonnas and altar compositions of the Holy Family, which…
Nina’s Euro Blog
Polish Palaces and Art in Naples This post is inspired by the location of a very romantic wedding I recently attended in the center of Poland. Both…
Food for the Soul: Women Who Gave Us van Gogh – Women & Art Series 16
By Nina Heyn — Your Culture Scout Paris at the end of the 19th century was packed with sophisticated men who loved art. They were making it,…
Food for the Soul: Lviv National Gallery of Art
By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout The world is watching bad—and then worse—news coming out of Ukraine every day. Millions of people, even those who last…
Food for the Soul: Comets – Looking Skyward for Inspiration
The Comet of 1680 over Rotterdam. Lieve Verschuier (1680). Rotterdam Historic Museum. Photo: Wikimedia Commons Public Domain “As above, so below.” ~ Hermes Trismegistus (6th century AD)…
Food for the Soul: Gideon’s River Test
Gideon. Sketch for a fresco. Franz Anton Maulbertsch (1796). Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest. Photo: Wikimediart.org By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout There is a longstanding…
Food for the Soul: How Do You Show Freedom?
By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout “For we fight not for glory, nor riches, nor honors, but for freedom alone, which no good man gives up…
Food for the Soul: Global Trade Part 2 – Out of Africa
By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout For 15th-century Europeans, sub-Saharan Africa was to a great extent terra incognita until Portuguese explorers started venturing further and further…
Food for the Soul: Global Trade in Art – Part 1
By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout There are bigger world problems than this, but you may have noticed that your favorite sheets are not in stock…
PDF Now Available for Corey Lynn’s Global Landscape on Vaccine ID Passports
By Corey Lynn
Globalists are using vaccine ID passports as part of a coordinated push to implement digital identities and a global social credit system that would control…
Notice of Liability
[Note from CAF: Stopping this approval will only delay this approval unless we stop the control grid. Once the control grid is successfully implemented this and thousands…
Food for the Soul: Oscar movie season
By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout The Oscar season in Hollywood is like the Baltic sea after a storm, when crumbs of precious amber are churned…
Food for the Soul: Art and Cautionary Tales
By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout Art serves many social purposes, such as creating a magic ritual, preserving memories, announcing praise or condemnation, revising history, and…
Food for the Soul: Good Versus Evil in Art
The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.” ~ Joseph Conrad, Under Western Eyes (1911) By…
Food for the Soul: The Neglected Art of Pastels – Rosalba Carriera – Women & Art Series 15
By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout There are some languages, like German, Polish, and Latin, that have many grammatical cases (so-called declensions) and three genders. You…
Protest in Art
Poster for the Suffragette movement. Mary Lowndes (1909). Published by Brighton and Hove Women’s Franchise. Artists’ Suffrage League. Photo: Public Domain Wikimedia Commons By Nina Heyn –…
Food for the Soul: Isabella Stewart Gardner – Women & Art Series 14
By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout March 18, 1990 was the St. Patrick’s Day holiday in Boston. The streets were full of revelers, and the police…
Food for the Soul: Academy Museum of Motion Pictures
Aerial shot of the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures. ©Academy Museum Foundation By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout It took years of false starts, changes of…
Food for the Soul: Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney – Women & Art Series 13
Robert Henri. Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, 1916. Oil on canvas. Whitney Museum of American Art. Photo: Wikimedia Commons By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout In a press…
Food for the Soul: Dune
By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout Frank Herbert’s novel Dune was published in 1965, and ever since, entire generations of people all over the world have…
Food for the Soul: “The Morozov Collection: Icons of Modern Art” exhibition in Paris
Valentin Serov. Portrait of the Collector of Modern Russian and French Paintings, Ivan Abramovich Morozov (1910). The State Tretiakov National Gallery, Moscow. © Tretiakov National Gallery, Moscow…
Food for the Soul – Georgia O’Keeffe: Women & Art Series 12
Georgia O’Keeffe. Pelvis with the distance, 1943. Oil on canvas. Indianapolis Museum of Art, Newfields, IN. © Indianapolis Museum of Art/Gift of Anne Marmon Greenleaf in memory…
Food for the Soul: A Postcard from Paris
Damian Hirst. The Triumph of Death Blossom (2018). Private collection© Damien Hirst and Science Ltd. All rights reserved, DACS 2021. Photographed by Prudence Cuming Associates. Photo: Courtesy…
Food for the Soul – Discreet Charm of Kitchen Gardens
Gardeners (Les Jardiniers). Gustave Caillebotte. 1875-1877. Private collection. Photo: Wikimedia Commons Public Domain. By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout Until about the end of WWII, if…
Food for the Soul – Discreet Charm of Kitchen Gardens
Gardeners (Les Jardiniers). Gustave Caillebotte. 1875-1877. Private collection. Photo: Wikimedia Commons Public Domain.
By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout
Until about the end of WWII, if you li…
Food for the Soul: Artists and the Moneychangers
Christ Driving Moneylenders from the Temple. Church of St. Aignan (1899). Chartres, France. Photo: Reinhardhauke Wikimedia Commons By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout If you need…
Food for the Soul: Cerca Trova in Florence
Florence cathedral. Photo: Nina Heyn By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout In 1504, when Leonardo da Vinci was mostly done with living in Florence, he accepted…
Food for the Soul: Magdalena Abakanowicz – Women & Art Series 11
Magdalena Abakanowicz. Abakan Orange, 1971. Sisal. Jankilevitsch Collection. Photo: Marcin Koniak/Desa Unicum, Courtesy of National Museum Poznań By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout “Art does not…
Food for the Soul: Kraków, the City of Art
Rembrandt. Landscape with the Good Samaritan (1638). The Princes Czartoryski Collection, National Museum, Kraków. Photo: Wikimedia Commons By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout Europe has many…
Food for the Soul: Rosa Bonheur – Women & Art Series 10
Edouard Louis Dubufe. Portrait of Rosa Bonheur (the bull was painted by Bonheur), 1857. Oil on canvas. Versailles Palace. Photo: Wikimedia Commons By Nina Heyn – Your…
Food for the Soul – New York Big Five – MoMA
Marc Chagall. I and the Village (1911). MoMA. Photo: Wikimedia Commons By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York,…
Food for the Soul: New York Big Five – The Frick
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres – Portrait de Comtesse D’Haussonville (1845). The Frick Collection, New York. Photo: ©The Frick Collection, Wikimedia Commons By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout So…
#CashEveryDay
By the Solari Team
As the saying goes, “money makes the world go around,” but today’s battle of digital currencies, inflation, and paper currency has humanity at a…
Food for the Soul: Barbara Hepworth – Women Artists Series 9
Barbara Hepworth. Sphere with Inner Form, 1963. Bronze. Barbara Hepworth Museum, St. Ives, UK. Photo: image (c)2003 Graham Rogers at Wikipedia Commons By Nina Heyn – Your…
Food for the Soul – Julie Mehretu – Women & Art Series 8
Julie Mehretu. Stadia II (2004). Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburg; gift of Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn and Nicolas Rohatyn and A.W. Mellon Acquisition Endowment Fund 2004.50. Photo: Courtesy…
Special Solari Report: USDA Hitting Food Supply Chain with Cattle Surveillance and a Level-4 Animal Disease Laboratory
By Corey Lynn of Corey’s Digs
Remember the days when you thought chipping a cute little kitten you rescued from an animal shelter was super convenient, in case…
Food for the Soul: Gustave Caillebotte – The Unappreciated Impressionist
Gustave Caillebotte. Paris Street, the Rainy Day (Rue de Paris, Temps du Pluie ), 1877. Oil on canvas. Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL. Photo: Wikimedia Commons…
Food for the Soul: California Reopenings. Back to Museums Part 2
Serge Attukwei Clottey. The Wishing Well. 2021 installation at James O. Jessie Desert Highland Unity Center in Palm Springs. Photo: Nina Heyn. By Nina Heyn – Your…
Titus Blockbuster: Has the Federal Reserve Kept 2 Sets of Books for the Last 50 Years?
By BestEvidence,
A new take on the closing of the gold window (at least new to video), and just in time for the 50th anniversary of that fated…
Food for the Soul: Calder-Picasso. Back to Museums Part 1
In the center: Alexander Calder. Untitled (mobile-1956) and Untitled (painting-1967). Calder Foundation New York. Photo: Installation view of “Calder-Picasso” at the de Young Museum, photography by Gary…
U.S.-China Tug of War in Myanmar and Thailand
From a Solari Report Subscriber
Southeast Asia has been quietly trying to rebuild its economies after the damage caused by the Covid crisis last year. But now it…
That’s It, I’m Done with Rallies
“The freedom of assembly and association are not cultural, or specific to a particular place and time. They are born from our common human heritage. It is…
Food for the Soul – Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun – Women Artists Series 7
Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun. Self-Portrait, 1791. Oil on canvas. National Trust, Ickworth House, UK. Photo: Wikimedia Commons By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout When we think…
John Magufuli: Death of an African Freedom Fighter
“Some workers may have been put on the payroll of imperialists.”
~ John Magufuli
By Celia Farber
In the Western world, African leaders are invisible, until that is, they…
Food for the Soul: Olga Boznańska – Women Artists Series 6
Olga Boznańska. Self-Portrait, 1908. Pastel, gouache on cardboard. National Museum, Warsaw. Photo: Wikimedia Commons By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout Even casual museumgoers are familiar with…
Food for the Soul: Awards Season – Documentaries
Photo credit: jovaughn-stephens/Unsplash photo By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout It’s a sign of the times that documentaries now seem to be more interesting than features…
Food for the Soul: New Movies…Not in Cinemas…
By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout The 2021 Academy Awards have been moved two months later than usual to April 25, extending the entire awards season…
Coming Clean: Building a Wonderful World
By Catherine Austin Fitts and the Solari team, originally published on July 4, 2004
(View the PDF)
“I arise today, through the strength of Heaven;light of Sun, brilliance of…
Food for the Soul: Coin Art
By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout Even though practically every major ruler in world history has issued some coinage, just a handful of currencies have gone…
Food for the Soul: Hilma af Klint, the first abstractionist. Women Artists Series 5
Hilma af Klint. Self-Portrait, date of painting unknown. Oil on canvas. Hilma af Klint Foundation. Photo: Wikimedia Commons By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout The fact…
Food for the Soul Audio: Sagas on Screen
Nina Heyn is Your Culture Scout – the author of the Food for the Soul column and the creator of the Food for the Soul audio.
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Food for the Soul: The Magi at the National Gallery
The Adoration of the Kings. Jan Gossaert (1510-15). Photo © The National Gallery, London. By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout One of the most artistically alluring…
Food for the Soul- Women at Work, Part V – Princesses and Servants
Book of the City of Ladies. Christine de Pizan (c. 1405). Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris. Photo: Wikimedia Commons By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout We…
Coronavirus: The Infection Numbers are Rising – What Does This Mean?
By Daphne von Boch
What does this mean?
“It is easier to fool people than to convince them they have been fooled.” ~ Mark Twain
Riding on the streetcar,…
No—Your Social Media Is Not Private
By Matthew R Hale, Attorney at Law
Representing people in civil and criminal matters has taught me a few things about the nature of our social media, wearable…
Food for the Soul: Women at Work- IV – The Toil
Jewish Woman with Oranges. Alexander Gierymski (1881). National Museum Warsaw. Photo: Wikimedia Commons By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout There is nothing attractive about toil—this mind-numbing…
DC. . . Meet the Producers
by Najat Madry
No, I’m not talking about the cast members of the Broadway musical. Hillary Clinton had the nerve to called them deplorable. Tucker Carlson recently referenced…
Food for the Soul: Women at Work Part III – Out in the World
Land Girls Hoeing. Manly Edward MacDonald (1918-19). Canada War Museum. Photo: Wikimedia Commons By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout Women have not always been stuck at…
Food for the Soul: Women at Work Series II – At Home
A Young Woman Sewing. Nicolaes Maes (1655). Harold Samuel Collection, © City of London Corporation, London. Photo: Wikimedia Commons
By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout
This is the…
Coronavirus: War on the Citizens
By Daphnévon Boch, MD.
A slightly modified version of this article appeared in German in Der Europäer, Perseus Verlag, Basel, June 2020, p. 16-22.
We have experienced a situation…
Food for the Soul: Women at Work Part II – At Home
Part A Young Woman Sewing. Nicolaes Maes (1655). Harold Samuel Collection, © City of London Corporation, London. Photo: Wikimedia Commons By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout…
Food for the Soul – Women at Work Part I – Masterpieces
Birth of the Virgin. Domenico Ghirlandaio (1479-85). Santa Maria Novella, Florence. Photo: Wikimedia Commons Public Domain By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout The majority of figures…
Food for the Soul: Introduction to Visions of Freedom
“Beyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase. This is as true of humans in the finite space of a planetary ecosystem…
Food for the Soul: Good and Bad Government
Effects of Good Government in the City. Ambrogio Lorenzetti (1339). Palazzo Pubblico, Siena, Italy. Photo: Wikimedia Commons Public Domain By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout The…
Fool for the Soul: Tenet
What we did with Inception for the heist genre is what Tenet attempts to bring to the spy movie genre – director Christopher Nolan By Nina Heyn…
Food for the Soul Audio: Lost Art Stories
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Die injizierte Täuschung: Es ist kein Vakzin! – The Injection Fraud – It’s Not a Vaccine (German)
“Was ist ein Name? Was uns Rose heißt, wie es auch hieße, würde lieblich duften.” ~ William Shakespeare
von Catherine Austin Fitts
Übersetzung von Ulrike Granögger
Ich bin keine Wissensch…
Food For the Soul: Artists Gardens
Strange Garden (Dziwny Ogród). Józef Mehoffer (1903). National Museum, Warsaw. Photo: Public Domain Wikimedia Commons. By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout There are very few advantages…
Unmasking the Great Mask Debate
By: Najat Madry
Many people feel a sense of disbelief with 2020. The Covid pandemic and lockdown feel like a blind-sided sucker punch to the gut…
The Legal and Administrative Framework for the Force Separation of Families During Pandemic
By a Solari Report Subscriber,
The Legal and Administrative Framework for the Force Separation of Families During Pandemic
Non-Congregate Sheltering:
At the beginning of the COVID-19 Plan…
La fraude à l’injection : pourquoi ceci n’est pas un vaccin – The Injection Fraud – It’s Not a Vaccine (French)
Par Catherine Austin Fitts
Traduction par Vanessa Biard-Schaeffer
Je ne suis pas une scientifique. Je ne suis pas médecin. Je ne suis pas un ingénieur dans les biotechnologies…
Food for the Soul: Lost Masterpieces. Part 3: Recovered
Boxer of the Quirinale. C. 330-50 BC. Palazzo Massimo alla Terme. Rome. Photo credit: Nina Heyn. In the history of art, any recovery of a lost masterpiece…
Food for the Soul: Lost Masterpieces. Part 2: Missing
The Storm on the Sea of Galilee. Rembrandt van Rijn (1633). Stolen in 1990 from Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Boston. Photo: Public Domain Wikimedia Commons. By Nina…
Maintaining the Mantle of Innocence by Matthew R. Hale
From humble beginnings, Matthew R. Hale decided early that he wanted to be a trial lawyer to represent people. Since 2004 he has dedicated his practice…
Food for the Soul: Lost Masterpieces. Part 1: Destroyed
The Stonebreakers. Gustave Courbet (1849). Dresden Gemäldegallerie. Destroyed in 1945 during an air raid. Photo: Public Domain Wikimedia Commons By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout Art…
Food for the Soul: Loving Beethoven
Gustav Klimt. Beethoven Frieze (detail). Vienna. Photo: Public Domain Wikimedia Commons By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout Ludwig van Beethoven’s birth date is unknown but his…
Saving Teddy
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By Najat Madry
Monuments are funny things. Living our day-to-day lives, we go past them and give a casual glance or maybe don’t even notice them at…
Food for the Soul – Police… in other countries, other shows
By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout A lot of us are still stuck at home, often unable to travel or work. To alleviate boredom, many media…
Food for the Soul – Dog Stories
Martiros Saryan. By the Well. Hot day, 1909. Martiros Saryan Museum, Yerevan, Armenia. Photo: Wikimedia Commons Public Domain “Man’s best friend” has been a friend of artists…
We’re Not Gonna Take It…
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By a Friend,
On June 13th, Children’s Health Defense and other notable organizations held a peaceful protest in New York’s state capital, Albany. The New York S…
The Injection Fraud – It’s Not a Vaccine
“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” ~ William Shakespeare
By Catherine Austin Fitts
I am not a…
Let’s Go to the Movies: Week of May 26, 2020 – Princes of the Yen
Central Banks are some of the most secretive and misunderstood institutions in the world. What powers do they wield? Who’s interests do they serve? How do…
Food for the Soul – Cat Stories
Couturier Cat. Tsuguharu Foujita. 1927. Photo: Public Domain Wikiart.org Before there were videos of funny cats on the Internet, for about 4000 years there were simply fun…
Food for the Soul: Docs you can share with youngsters
By Nina Heyn- Your Culture Scout Stuck at home together with the rest of the world we should, theoretically, have lots of free time. It turns out…
We have a voice – write to your State/Local officials
Dear Solari Family,
Please keep up the pressure and write to your State/Local officials. They need to know that the information they are getting is tainted and they…
Food for the Soul Audio: It’s Not Easy Being a Woman in Art
Nina Heyn is Your Culture Scout – the author of the Food for the Soul column and the creator of the Food for the Soul podcast.
Please click…
Local Food’s Congressman Has Primary Challenge
Photo by Gage Skidmore
[CAF Note: I am a supporter of Congressman Massie. I believe his efforts are critical to the future of our country and the…
Food for the Soul: Artemisia Gentileschi – Women Artists Series 4
Artemisia Gentileschi. Self-Portrait as the Allegory of Painting (La Pittura), (about 1638-1639). Oil on canvas. Royal Collection Trust / © Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2019. Photo:…
Food for the Soul: Artemisia Gentileschi – Women Artists Series 4
“…with me Your Illustrious Lordship will not lose and you will find the spirit of Caesar in the soul of a woman.”
Artemisia Gentileschi in a letter to…
Food for the Soul: 500 years of Raphael in Rome
Raphael. Portrait of Baldassare Castiglione. (1513) The Louvre. Courtesy of Scuderie del Quirinale, Rome April 6, 2020 markes a 500 year anniversary of passing of one the…
Food for the Soul: at home
Food for the Soul will now be adding a dedicated mini-site to bring you all the culture stories in one place By Nina Heyn – Your Culture…
Special Solari Report: Vaccinations: From Childhood Diseases to the Flu?
Standard vaccinations recommended by the Standing Committee on Vaccination in Germany (STIKO): against rotavirus in the 6th week of life and in the 2nd and 3rd month…
Food for the Soul: Michelangelo – Mind of the Master
Sweat and toil of the master who never wanted you to see it By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout Michelangelo Buonarotti. Head of a Child with…
Food for the Soul: Michelangelo – Mind of the Master
Sweat and toil of the master who never wanted you to see it
By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout
Michelangelo Buonarotti. Head of a Child with a…
Food for the Soul: Adventures of the Ghent Altar
The Ghent Altar or An Adoration of the Mystic Lamb. Inside panels. Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons, Public domain. The most stolen artwork ever has been restored to…
Food for the Soul: Streaming Late at Night
Streaming gems you possibly missed Winter usually does not offer many exciting movies other than the awards heavyweights (where your choices are between equally soul-dampening entries of…
Food for the Soul: Parasite and Farewell
“In today’s capitalistic society there are ranks and castes that are invisible to the eye. We keep them disguised and out of sight and superficially look down…
Food for the Soul – da Vinci’s Horse
Leonardo da Vinci. Ca.1491. Study for the Sforza monument. Image source: Wikimedia Commons, public domain By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout It was a classic moment…
Food for the Soul: Podcasting about da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci – the Louvre Exhibit with Nina Heyn and Ulrike Granögger. By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout To conclude our series on da Vinci…
Cybersecurity Etiquette
Catherine Fitts mentioned Cybersecurity etiquette during Money & Market comments on December 12, 2019
We agree, above all, our staff must to be impeccable.
1) No Windows…
Food for the Soul: 12 Movie Gifts in a Pear Tree
By Nina Heyn- Your Culture Scout For holidays, we bring our 12 Christmas Movie Gifts – as diverse as a partridge in a pear tree and maids…
Food for the Soul: Bombshell
“Lawyer: Ready to go to war?” Gretchen Carlson: Oh, yeah” – lines from the movie Bombshell By Nina Heyn- Your Culture Scout Charlize Theron is not only…
Food for the Soul: Museum Gardens
“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need”. Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) By Nina Heyn, Your Culture Scout A typical museum…
Food for the Soul: da Vinci, Paris – Part 3
A good painter has two things to represent: the man and the intention of his soul. The former is easy, the latter hard.” — Leonardo da Vinci…
Vaccinations: From Childhood Diseases to the Flu?
By Daphné von Boch
Standard vaccinations according to the recommendations of the Continuous Vaccination Commission in Germany (STIKO): Vaccination against rotavirus in the 6th week of life and…
Dehumanization of Children
Dear Catherine,
I was struck by one of your recent conversations with Dr. Farrell about the War on Children, and thought you might find the attached photos of…
Food Resilience Action for Family and Community: Storage Methods and Tools
Beginning food storage can risk a “re-do” so for early adopters, let’s develop some strategy, if not before, then after that garden bed is prepared. Review methods…
Food Resilience Action for Family and Community: Storage Strategy
“We encourage members worldwide to prepare for adversity in life by having a basic supply of food and water and some money in savings. We ask that…
5G National Day of Action July 27, 2019
TAKE ACTION
Hundreds of thousands of new “small cell” antennas means a massive increase in involuntary exposure to wireless radiation. The science is clear. The risk to your…
Food Resilience Action for Family and Community: Organizations
Taking stock of local food resilience organizations, we can include non profits, small business, companies, associations, municipal, state and federal agencies and even hobby groups. A recent…
Food Resilience Action for Family and Community: Farmers and Markets
If the US has a Grand Master of family farming and marketing strategy, it’s likely Joel Salatin” ~ Catherine Austin Fitts
As you take stock of the food…
Food Resilience Action for Family and Community: Gardening
“Start supporting your local farmers, start a garden, whatever you have to do to figure out how to get a local food supply, start now!” ~ Catherine…
Infrastructure Week: Here’s Your Rhetoric vs. Reality Primer
It’s Infrastructure Week Again. Here’s Your Rhetoric vs. Reality Primer
“If you’re following the news about Infrastructure Week, you’re going to come across a lot of claims—and…
5G National Day of Action May 15, 2019
“May 15th is right around the corner, and we’re counting on our friends across the country who are concerned about the deployment of small cell antennas in…
How to find the Jon Rappoport Website
My blog has been taken down!
(To read about Jon’s mega-collection, The Matrix Revealed, click here
by Jon Rappoport
This past Saturday, between 2 and 3 PM Eastern Time, WordPress…
Letter from a Subscriber: A Family Teenager Plans a Transgender Transition
Dear Sofia:
I am writing this email in the hopes that you will do research on this issue as your research skills are considerable and bring it to…
Let’s Go to the Movies: May 2, 2019 – The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley
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The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley, a new documentary that describes the rise and…
Subscriber Recommendation: Stop EMF Radiation with Environmental Assessment
[CAF Note: This was such an inspiring report, that I asked permission to publish it. It just goes to show you what you can accomplish when you…
2nd Quarter 2018 – Rambus: Blockbuster Chartology
By Catherine Austin Fitts
My “go to” website for technical analysis of precious metals, the US dollar & the US stock market is Rambus Chartology, where Rambus (that’s…
Food For The Soul: Portraits and Selfies
“Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion. It is…
Food For The Soul: Museums in San Francisco
“I believe that art can create the power and energy of happiness,” artist Hung Yi. By Nina Heyn, Your Culture Scout As you probably know, apart from…
Food for the Soul: Sky Ladder, da Vinci, and Collecting Modern Art
“Even the most art-averse cynic will recognize the blood, sweat and tears that went in to creating this strange and beautiful experience.” ~ Jordan Hoffman, reviewing Sky…
Going Local
By Gary L. Heckman
Over the years, I have listened to and read with interest the Solari Report and the wide variety of topics discussed and recommendations made…
Going Local
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by Gary L Heckman
Background
Over the years, I have listened to and read with interest the Solar Report and the w…
Food for the Soul: Da Vinci and Salt
“A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not.” Leonardo Da Vinci By Nina Heyn, Your Culture Scout What does Leonardo da Vinci have to…
Food for the Soul: Valerian or Why Hollywood is Hard to Beat
“My stress comes from the people who try to not let me do what I want to do. That’s probably why it happens that I’ve worked a…
Real Deal: CSC DynCorp & the Economics of Lawlessness
Wednesday, 16 April 2003, 12:04 am
Column: Catherine…
Real Deal: CSC DynCorp & the Economics of Lawlessness
MAPPING THE REAL DEAL
CSC DynCorp & the Economics of Lawlessness
UnAnswered Questions Re: US Sole Source…
Food for the Soul: 13 Minutes & Dunkirk
Check it out! By Nina Heyn, Your Culture Scout Today, a couple of very different movies about Second World War and how actions of individual, anonymous people…
Food for the Soul: Generation Wealth Exhibition
“When the financial crash happened in 2008, I realized that the stories that I have been telling since the early 90’s about consumerism and about materialism and…
Food for the Soul: “Jack Strong”
Food for the Soul Series Check it out: Jack Strong: Movie to Rent “Sovereignty is a word that is used often but it has really no specific…
Food for the Soul: The Luncheon of the Boating Party
Food for the Soul Series Check it out: The Luncheon of the Boating Party by Pierre-Auguste Renoir By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout “To my mind,…
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…
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…
Special Solari Report: Crowdfunding Bill
“Entrepreneur Access to Capital Act,” HR 2930
By Carolyn A. Betts
House Passes Crowdfunding Bill
On November 3, 2011, the House of Representatives passed the Entrepreneur Access to Capital Act…
Thrive: What on the Earth Will It Take?
By Catherine Austin Fitts
Thrive is a documentary invitation to a website and a conversation about what it will take for us to thrive. It is:
A formidable intellectual…
Where is the Money? Let’s Get it Back!
About the Author
Catherine Austin Fitts is president of Solari, Inc. Ms. Fitts served as Assistant Secretary of Housing during the first Bush Administration, lead financial…
Catherine Writes: “How Does Your Money Work?”
Catherine has written a new article — “How Does Your Money Work?” published in Common Ground magazine, Western Canada’s “biggest and best-loved monthly magazine dedicated to health,…
Anatomy Of A SWAT From A Lawyer’s Perspective
Anatomy Of A SWAT From A Lawyer’s
Perspective
Carolyn A. Betts, Esq. [1]
Mohandas
Karamachand Gandhi, one of the most influential figures in
modern social and political activism, considered these
t…
Where Would Jesus Bank?
“And Jesus went into the temple and began to cast
out them that sold and bought in the temple, and
overthrew the tables of the money changers”
~ Mark 11:15
Jesus…
Enemy Of The State – The Catherine Fitts Story (2)
Editors Note: This is part two of an account of the extraordinary story of Maverick US Banker Catherine Austin Fitts, and new occasional contributor…
The Ultimate New Business Cold Call: NYSE Exchange Chief Pitches Colombian Rebel Forces
By Catherine Austin Fitts
When I was on Wall Street, we used to think the investment bankers who made new business visits—“cold calls”—in Alaska were pretty adventuresome. We…