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Search for:SearchFood for the Soul: The Art of Gold and the Gold in ArtSeptember 12, 2024Looking at RiversJune 17, 2024Food for the Soul: The Barnes Foundation – TransitionsApril 26, 2024Food fo…

Art Exhibitions

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Search for:SearchFood for the Soul: “Expressionists: Kandinsky, Münter and the Blue Rider” ExhibitionAugust 17, 2024Food for the Soul: “Sargent and Fashion” ExhibitionAugust 1…

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Nina’s Euro Blog 2023: Chasing Art in Paris

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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 that was not included in the loan exhibition at the Rijksmuseum—which is often described as a “companion” to The Geographer, featuring the same model and a similar scientific…

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Part 1 – How Did We Get Here? Catherine and CJ lay the groundwork for understanding “how we got here.” Is The Going Direct Reset disguised as a “pandemic” a totalitarian coup that has gripped the planet for the past two and a half years?

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Part 2 – The Financial Coup We dive into the history of the multi-decade long financial coup and confront ourselves with lots of important questions:What does it mean for us when 21 trillion US dollars disappear? Why do we urgently need to care about what is happening?

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Part 3 – The Propaganda A lucid analysis of the propaganda tactics so successfully applied during the pandemic and beyond. We dive into the world of propaganda and ask some important questions:How was it possible to establish the “new reality”? How could such a majority of the population be deceived? Or was it not deceit but coercion?

We Need To Talk About Mr Global

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In this four-part series of tête-à-têtes between financial expert and former Assistant Secretary of Housing Catherine Austin Fitts and political satirist and author C.J. Hopkins, we are taken on a deep dive into the history of the financial coup that has been going on for several decades. We are learning more about the background and…

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Part 4 – The Future Where is Mr Global taking us, why is Mr Global so scared of us, where is this going? In this final part Catherine Austin Fitts and C.J. Hopkins discuss the end game from Mr Global, complete control. Through the digital control grid, a sovereign human being is transformed into a natural resource. It’s more than totalitarianism, Mr Global represents a group of people who view themselves a different species. Will humanity stop participating creating the train tracks that will enslave us? It’s still a choice we have and the situation is far from hopeless.

The Financial Coup & Missing Money: Quotes

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[CAF Note: Bravo! One of our subscribers has been digging into the money missing from the US government. This is exactly the kind of citizen research we need to make progress on enforcing the Constitution.  Here are some quotes he assembled for us. Thank You!] By a Solari Report Subscriber A few extra links to…

Education

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Listen to the MP3 audio file To be a teacher and educator one must work with what is taking place in the depths of human […]

Missing Money Video Page

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World Economy

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Listen to the MP3 audio file “For you must imagine the economic process, considered even as a world-economy, as a thing of perpetual movement.”~ Rudolf […]

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Food for the Soul: “Rembrandt & His Contemporaries” Exhibition in Amsterdam

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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 is another exhibition of exquisite Dutch Baroque art in Amsterdam that is ongoing at the same time at the nearby museum called Hermitage Amsterdam. The star of this…

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Food for the Soul: Women Alone – Vermeer at the Rijksmuseum

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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 through a few small rooms. But perhaps this is the right space to exhibit these intimate, delicate pictures that hung forgotten for 200 years until they became the…

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Food for the Soul: Pearls

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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 is the painting called Woman with a Pearl Necklace, and it was painted around 1663 by Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675). Over two years, he painted five pictures that featured…

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Food for the Soul: Peeking into the Artist’s Mind — An Interview with Henryk Waniek

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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 Gerhard Richter to Francis Bacon—I’m usually not able to post about them here because images of their art are still under copyright. It is, therefore, a rare treat…

Why a Sovereign State Bank Is Good for Tennessee

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By Richard A. Werner Table of Contents I. Executive Summary II. Introduction: The Purposes of the Memo III. The Present State of Banking and the Role of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises in the U.S. Economy and in Tennessee The importance of small businesses The importance of community banks for small businesses Negative developments in the…

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Painting Together

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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 a novel “together”). Painting is a bit more conducive to communal activity and many artist communities sprung up throughout the 19th century. Once some artists discovered a particularly…

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National Security Exemptions and SEC Rule 10b-5

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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 Scope of 10b-5? b. Material Misrepresentations c. Scienter or Intent d. Reliance IV. How Does 10b-5 Apply to Reporting and Accounting Exemptions? a. Government Securities Exemptions b….

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The History and Organization of the Federal Reserve: The What and Why of the United States’ Most Powerful Banking Organization

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““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 of Contents I. IntroductionII. History and Creation of the Federal ReserveIII. Structure of the Federal Reserve System    A. The Fed’s Chain of CommandIV. Federal Open Market CommitteeV. Federal Reserve…

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Classification for Investors 101

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February 24, 2019   Table of Contents I. Introduction    A. Why Does Classification Matter to the Average Investor?    A.1. Private Entity Reporting Exemptions    A.2. Government Accounting Exemptions    A.3. Government Investment in Varied IndustriesII. How Does Classification Work? The Quick and Dirty Summary.    A. What Is Executive Order 13526?    B. Classification Authorities    C. Classification Standards, Categories, and Levels    C.1. Brief Summary of Derivative Classification    D….

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FASAB Statement 56: Understanding New Government Financial Accounting Loopholes

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  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 the Scope of Standard 56C. Changes to Disclosure Standards Under Standard 56D. Modifications to Avoid Disclosure of Classified InformationE. Reporting on Consolidation EntitiesF. Interpretations Modifying Reporting Standards in…

Legal Series – US Monetary and Fiscal Operations

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“If the provisions of the Constitution can be set aside by an Act of Congress, where is the course of usurpation to end? The present assault upon capital is but the beginning. It will be but the stepping-stone to others, larger and more sweeping, till our political contests will become a war of the poor…

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Food for the Soul: Global Trade Part V – Europe

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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 all the outposts, there were well-worn trading paths that led to Rome. Etruscans, who preceded the Romans on the Italian peninsula, had been trading extensively with northern lands….

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Food for the Soul: Oscar Contenders 2023 — Part 2

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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 Academy Awards. Here we present the remaining candidates following the announcement of the nominations on Jan. 24. EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE This movie is an outlier in…

Organizations with Legal Immunity

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Organization for American States (formerly the Pan American Union)Founded: 1890 (the charter was officially created on April 30, 1948)Headquarters: Washington D.C.IOIA Status: EO 9698 on […]

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Food for the Soul: Beautiful Banknotes

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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 paper are issued with as much solemnity and authority as if they were of pure gold or silver…and indeed everybody takes them readily, for wheresoever a person may…

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Food for the Soul: Law, Justice, and Art

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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 “justice” are not the same thing can be illustrated by works of art from any historical period. The painting above represents a battle between the Chinese Imperial army…

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Feast for the Eyes

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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 with late-Renaissance artists such as Pieter Aertsen and continuing for a century and half afterwards in the works of Dutch painters from Frans Snyders to Vermeer,  this decorative tradition…

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Food for the Soul Oscar Contenders: Awards Season 2022–2023

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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 this year’s Oscar race are All Quiet on the Western Front, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever as well as Top Gun: Maverick. The last one, already predicted to win,…

2022 Holiday Greetings

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“Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee. For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the Lord shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee” ~ Isaiah 60:1-2 Dear Friends, Clients, and Subscribers: At Christmas,…

Raw Milk Nation

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by: Pete Kennedy Esq. Raw (unpasteurized) dairy products, except for cheese aged 60 days, are the only foods prohibited for human consumption in interstate commerce. The […]

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Food for the Soul – Rediscovering Artists

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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 misunderstood by her contemporaries—family, art critics, friends, the public. It took decades after her death in 1944 for her paintings to be rediscovered in an attic by her…

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Listen to the MP3 audio file “One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, […]

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Food for the Soul – Documentaries: How Artists Think

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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 videos on social media and episodes of TV shows, or we check out news videos on our phones. A long, slow art documentary requires an investment of both…

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Food for the Soul:  Streaming … European Daily Life

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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, from huge fantasy series like House of the Dragon (viewership for each episode numbers in the millions) to popular sci-fi or crime shows on major streaming services. Here…

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Food for the Soul: Charles I – The Royal Connoisseur of Art

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“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 III as the new king (the coronation ceremony has been scheduled for May 6, 2023), it is perhaps worth remembering the first English monarch of this name—Charles I…

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Happy and Unhappy Families

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“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 really good artists would not paint a family—theirs or somebody else’s—just as a record of people’s faces. They would use the theme to say something important about their…

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Food for the Soul: Cozy Entertainement

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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 Story, The Maltese Falcon, Meet Me in St. Louis, and His Girl Friday. Perhaps the pandemic offers a similar explanation for the current revival of a genre that…

Trends We Track

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ECONOMY & FINANCIAL MARKETS I. The Going Direct Global Reset A. Central Banks Extend the Dollar System; Build a Global CBDC System Bank for International Settlements (BIS) & Global Innovation Hubs Fed and Dollar; Partnership with BIS; Boston Fed Partnership with MIT on central bank digital currency (CBDC) ECB and Euro Sovereign Immunity for Central…