Happy Cinco de Mayo!
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Food for the Soul: Upcoming Art Exhibitions 2025
Gustave Caillebotte. Paris Street, Rainy Day, 1877. Oil on canvas. The Art Institute of Chicago, Charles H. and Mary F.S. Worcester Collection, 1964.336. Photo: Art Resource, NY. Courtesy of The J. P…
Food for the Soul: Academy Awards Season 2024/25 – Best Actress Contenders
By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout
On March 2, the film industry will be celebrating new movies by bestowing Best Picture, Director, and Actor awards, along with a dozen other accolades to mo…
Food for the Soul: Matisse’s Windows
Henri Matisse. Interior with Violin, 1918. Oil on canvas. Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen. Photo: Wikimedia Commons
By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout
“Windows have always intereste…
Food for the Soul: The Year in Art
Araki Jippo. Birds and Flowers of the Four Seasons, 1917. Color on silk scrolls. Photo: Wikimedia Commons
By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout
Throughout the year we celebrate various holidays…
Food for the Soul: Adoration of the Shepherds
Domenico Ghirlandaio. The Adoration of the Shepherds, 1483-1485. Oil on panel. Basilica Santa Trinita, Florence. Photo: Wikimedia Commons
By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout
In Christian iconog…
Food for the Soul: The Art of Reinvention – Tamara de Lempicka
Tamara de Lempicka (1894-1980). Portrait of Mrs. Rufus Bush, 1929. Oil on canvas, 48 1/16 x 26 in. (122 x 66 cm). Private collection, courtesy of Artis—Naples, The Baker Museum © 2024 Tamara de Le…
Food for the Soul: Academy Awards Season 2024/25
By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout
And they’re off…. Hundreds of movies are now in competition for numerous awards from critics associations, film industry guilds, academies, industry org…
Food for the Soul: New Cultural Destination: Warsaw’s Museum of Modern Art
Warsaw Museum of Modern Art, 2024. (Palace of Culture and Science is in the back.) Photo: Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw
By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout
A couple of weeks ago, the city of War…
Movie of the Week: November 11, 2024: The A-Team
“Your family are the people who won’t turn you in.”~ Andrew Vachss
The 2010 action-comedy movie The A-Team, based on the 1980s television series of the same name, was Solari’s…
Pushback of the Week: November 11, 2024: Maine Rep. Traci Gere and Linnhaven Mobile Home Center Residents and Investors
“[Mobile home] communities are being bought en masse by private equity firms…. More worrisome is the fact that many new owners are buying [trailer] parks for the land and clearing them for re…
Hero of the Week: November 4, 2024: The “West Virginia Boys”
“The West Virginia boys have moved the mountains. All of the roads were just gone, until now. It’s nothing short of miraculous.”~ Chimney Rock resident
The swift, practical, and heroic a…
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Movie of the Week: November 4, 2024: [S]election Code
“What if our leaders aren’t actually being elected by us, but instead…selected?”~ [S]election Code website
The 2022 documentary [S]election Code tells the story of Tina Peters, who as …
Action of the Week: November 4, 2024: Get Ready for “Fall Back”
“The light/dark cycle is key in circadian entrainment. The acute alterations in timing due to transitions to and from [Daylight Saving Time] contribute to misalignment between the circadian bio…
Movie of the Week: October 28, 2024: bOObs: The War on Women’s Breasts
“I’ve always told my patients: avoid the mammography merry-go-round.”~ Dr. Toni Bark
The American public health and medical establishments recommend that women get screening mammography ever…
Hero of the Week: October 28, 2024: Neighbors Helping Neighbors
“This is one of those times where—the idea of neighbors helping neighbors, it should go from West Coast to East Coast and come together to be able to help the people impacted.”~ Art delaCru…
Action of the Week: October 28, 2024: Cash Is King
“Merchants who managed to open their doors were sometimes demanding that customers use cash only because of an inability to process credit or debit card transactions.”~ News report about Hurr…
Food for the Soul: A Collection Fit for a King – Dulwich Picture Gallery
Jacob van Ruisdael. Landscape with Windmills near Haarlem, mid-1650s. Oil on canvas. Dulwich Picture Gallery, UK. Photo: Dulwich Picture Gallery
By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout
At the origi…
Action of the Week: October 21, 2024: Trick-or-Treat Cash and Constitution
We are challenging Solari Report subscribers and others to hand out cash (for example, dollar bills) and pocket Constitutions to trick-or-treaters this year instead of poisoning kids with candy!
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Hero of the Week: October 21, 2024: Florida Governor Ron DeSantis
“Jurisdiction matters.”~ Catherine Austin Fitts
In the aftermath of Hurricane Milton, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis noted that President Ronald Reagan once said, “the nine most terrifying word…
Food for the Soul: Józef Chełmoński – Bard of Eastern Lands
Józef Chełmoński. Storks, 1900. Oil on canvas. National Museum in Warsaw. Photo: National Museum in Warsaw
By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout
Jozef Chełmoński (1874-1914; his last name is…
Food for the Soul: Poets and Lovers – Vincent van Gogh Exhibition in London
Vincent van Gogh. Starry Night over the Rhône, 1888. Oil on canvas. Musée d’Orsay, Paris. Gift of M. et Mme Robert Kahn-Sriber, in memory of M. et Mme Fernand Moch, 1975. Photo: © Musée d’Ors…
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, perhaps during a lazy weekend by the water. Lolling about on a…
Food for the Soul: “Expressionists: Kandinsky, Münter and the Blue Rider” Exhibition
Franz Marc. Cows, Red, Green, Yellow, 1911. Oil on canvas. Lenbachhaus, Munich. Photo: Tate Modern
By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout
When we think of German Expressionism, the images that mos…
Food for the Soul: “Sargent and Fashion” Exhibition
John Singer Sargent. Lady Agnew of Lochnaw, 1892. Oil on canvas. National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh. Photo: Wikimedia Commons
By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout
After John Singer Sargen…
Symposium/Conference August 11, 2024 – Reykjavík Iceland
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Wildlife Show – March/April 2024
Book Review: Plunder: Private Equity’s Plan to Pillage America by Brendan Ballou
“We must break the money trust or the money trust will break us.”~ Louis Brandeis
By Catherine Austin Fitts
Brendan Ballou’s Plunder: Private Equity’s Plan to Pillage America comes …
Book Review: These Are the Plunderers: How Private Equity Runs—and Wrecks—America by Gretchen Morgenson and Joshua Rosner
“The Pennsylvania [Public School Employees Retirement System] pension’s decision to keep investing with Apollo mirrored similar actions taken by public funds across the country. They throw th…
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 in London …
USA: Happy 4th of July!
“The American, by nature, is optimistic. He is experimental, an inventor, and a builder who builds best when called upon to build greatly.” ~ John F. Kennedy
No matter where you are on Earth, we …
Book Review: Paper Soldiers: How the Weaponization of the Dollar Changed the World Order by Saleha Mohsin
“I’m gullible. I think people mean what they say.” ~ Colin Trevorrow
By Catherine Austin Fitts
I typically don’t review books that I do not recommend reading. Paper Soldiers: How the Weapon…
Happy Father’s Day
“A good father is one of the most unsung, unpraised, unnoticed, and yet one of the most valuable assets in our society.” ~ Billy Graham
Related reading:
Father’s Day (United States) on Wikipedi…
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The Stump Grubber – January/February 2024
Food for the Soul: The Barnes Foundation – Transitions
Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Reading (La Lecture), c. 1891. Oil on canvas. The Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia. Photo: Wikimedia Commons
“Appreciation of works of art requires organized effort and sys…
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The Value Club – November/December 2023
Food for the Soul: A Year of the Dragon
Ai Weiwei. Dragon. Circle of Animal/ Zodiac Heads (detail), 2012. Bronze. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles. Photo: © Nina Heyn, 2024
By Nina Heyn
In Asia, being born in a Year of …
Food for the Soul: Dune: Part Two
By Nina Heyn
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 i…
Food for the Soul: Fashioning San Francisco
Junya Watanabe (Japanese, 1961) (Designer) Comme des Garçons (Japanese, 1973) (House of). Jacket, Look 44 from Fall 2015 Collection. Polyester knit (jersey). Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Gift…
Happy Presidents’ Day
President’s Day honors and celebrates the life and achievements of George Washington, the first President of the United States (1789-1797) and ‘The Father of his Country’. The day is, in practice…
Happy Valentine’s Day!
Valentine’s Day, also called Saint Valentine’s Day or the Feast of Saint Valentine, is celebrated annually on February 14. Originating as a Western Christian feast day honoring one or two early s…
Food for the Soul: Pink
John Singer Sargent. Carnation, Lily, Lily Rose, 1885-1886. Oil on canvas. Tate Britain, London. Photo: Wikimedia Commons
By Nina Heyn
For its Color of the Year 2024, Pantone elected the color …
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In Absentia – September/October 2023
Why are we haunted by certain things we hear or read? I’m thinking of stories that are so spooky or unusual they hang around in your mind for a long tim…
Food for the Soul: European Art Exhibitions in 2024
Caspar David Friedrich. Moonrise Over the Sea, 1822. Oil on canvas. Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin. Photo: Jörg P. Anders; courtesy National Museum Berlin
By Nina Heyn
January being a good month…
Fox Hunting on Boxing Day
No better way to celebrate the day after Christmas! If I could be in Pennsylvania I would be seeing the hounds off!
Christmas with J.S.Bach
German: The Frauenkirche in Dresden. The dome of the after reconstruction shows paintings. The paintings were created by Christoph Wetzel.
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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 kids to ‘remember to p…
December 14, 2023: Freedom and Property in Times of Great Reset – Paris
The Real Estate Chamber of Greater Paris presents:
Lecture by Catherine Austin Fitts: 3:30 – 4:30 p.m.
Topic: The lecture will take stock of issues related to property and freedom in times …
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Billion Electron Volts – August 2023
Bev in high-energy physics stands for “billion electron volts.” In 1969, the director of the National Accelerator Laboratory, located in Batavia, Illinois…
Book Review: Atlas of AI by Kate Crawford
“This is an expanded view of artificial intelligence as an extractive industry.” ~ Kate Crawford
“The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.” ~ Audre Lorde
Kate Crawford wo…
November 23, 2023 – Thanksgiving USA
Setting aside time to give thanks for one’s blessings, along with holding feasts to celebrate a harvest, are both practices that long predate the European settlement of North America.
The firs…
Tell Senators to Cosponsor the PRIME Act
Support Local Meat Processing HR 2814 / S.907
The PRIME Act has a better chance of passing into law as part of the Farm Bill rather than as stand-alone legislation. Giving the bill momentum wa…
Food for the Soul: A Taste of Klimt in Vienna
Gustav Klimt. The Kiss, 1907. Oil and gold leaf on canvas. The Belvedere, Vienna. Photo: Wikimedia Commons
By Nina Heyn
Artworks by Gustav Klimt (1862-1918), the most popular representative of…
U.S. Citizens: Call or Write Your Congressman – Here Is What You Ask For
By Meryl Nass
The International Pandemic Preparedness Act, which was inserted in the 2023 NDAA and passed last December, pages 950-967, was probably not read by most members of Congress, who m…
November 11, 2023 Veterans Day
Veterans Day continues to be observed on November 11, regardless of what day of the week on which it falls. The restoration of the observance of Veterans Day to November 11 not only preserves the…
CHD – Stories from the Bus
Polly and her team tour locations, gather stories from people who were harmed (injured or survivors of loved ones who died) by vaccines will have a platform to share their stories and sign their …
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Food for the Soul: Vermeer’s The Art of Painting in Vienna
Johannes Vermeer. The Art of Painting, c. 1666-1668. Oil on canvas. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna. Photo: Wikimedia Commons
By Nina Heyn
We conclude “The Year of Vermeer” at Food for the…
November 7, 2023 Election Day (United States)
Election Day in the United States is the annual day for general elections of federal public officials. It is statutorily set by the U.S. government as “the Tuesday next after the first Monday in …
November 5, 2023 Daylight Saving Time Ends
Daylight Saving Time was first implemented in the US with the Standard Time Act of 1918, a wartime measure for seven months during World War I in the interest of adding more daylight hours to con…
Come Join Catherine Austin Fitts at CHD Rise + Resist in Savannah, Georgia – November 3, 2023
Solari Report Subscribers Attending the Children’s Health Defense Conference:
Join Catherine for an informal lunchtime get-together on Friday – November 3, 2023 in Savannah, Georgia. Catherine…
Happy Halloween!
Halloween is a holiday celebrated each year on October 31.
This day marked the end of summer and the harvest and the beginning of the dark, cold winter, a time of year that was often associate…
Come join Catherine Austin Fitts in Kansas City, Missouri – October 21, 2023
Bartle Hall Convention Center (viewed from Broadway Boulevard), Kansas City, Missouri, Wikipedia
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Columbus Day – October 9, 2023
Desembarco de Colón de Dióscoro Puebla, Wikipedia
The first recorded celebration of Columbus Day in the United States took place on October 12, 1792. Organized by the Society of St. Tammany, als…
Food for the Soul: London – Vermeer’s Music Lessons
Johannes Vermeer. The Music Lesson / A Woman at a Virginal with a Gentleman, c. 1662-1664. Oil on canvas. Royal Collection, His Majesty King Charles III, Buckingham Palace, London
By Nina Heyn
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Brag the Rest of Your Life – June/July 2023
Once upon a time, back in the 1970s in southern California a new form of fun came to be: combining three sports, one after another, to see who coul…
Food for the Soul: The Rossettis – an Exhibition at Tate Britain
Rossetti, Monna Vanna, N03054
By Nina Heyn
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 cas…
Nina’s Euro Blog: Wandering around Prague
By Nina Heyn
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 on the ones outside. In other words, there is …
Food for the Soul: Oppenheimer
By Nina Heyn
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 mov…
Food for the Soul: From Barbie to Oppenheimer and Back Again
By Nina Heyn
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 who would n…
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Puzzle Mindset – May 2023
This newsletter will be something like a puzzle. That’s because I don’t know the answer, or maybe even what the question is, or the challenge. There are pieces t…
Big Year for Raw Milk in State Houses
Graphic: Real Milk Legal Map
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By Pete Kennedy, Esq.
Over the past decade or so, a growing number …
Action Alert – Tell Congressmen to Cosponsor the PRIME Act (Farm Bill)
Support Local Meat Processing
Tell Your Representative and Senators to Cosponsor the PRIME Act
The PRIME Act [House Resolution 2814 (H.R. 2814) and Senate Bill 907 (S.907)], badly…
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 may want to keep in mind that next summer, big-budg…
USA: Happy 4th of July!
“The American, by nature, is optimistic. He is experimental, an inventor, and a builder who builds best when called upon to build greatly.” ~ John F. Kennedy
No matter where you are on Earth,…
Food for the Soul: Animal Hunt at Art Institute of Chicago
Edward Kemeys. Lion at the front of Art Institute of Chicago, 1893. Bronze. Photo: Nina Heyn
By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout
Comprehensive and large-scope art museums tend to be those creat…
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Holo-Symbiosis – March/April 2023
I admit that until just the other day I never heard of the following words: oneiromancy, arithmancy, chiromancy, ceromancy, ololygmancy, tyromancy, or tasseo…
Nina’s Blog 2023: Stones of Florence
Commesso mosaic from the workshop of Scarpelli Mosaici, Florence. Photo: Nina Heyn
June 10, 2023
By Nina Heyn,
Like all of Italy, except a bit more so, Florence is all about stone. Green and…
Financial Rebellion – A Brief History of the Financial Coup d’Etat – Parts I & II
We are living in a global coup. We encourage Solari Report subscribers and supporters to watch A Brief History of the Financial Coup d’état, Part I & II which aired live on CHD-TV on May 1…
Available for Purchase: 3rd Quarter 2022 Wrap Up: Building Wealth (Subscribers)
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“Lord, lead us from the unreal to the real.”~ Ancient Sans…
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Second Position – January 2023
Not too long ago I ran into a neighbor outside who told me she had just completed a pilot for a television show. I had heard about this pilot several months ago…
Book Review: The Great New Orleans Gun Grab
“Every year, people in the United States use guns to defend themselves against criminals an estimated 2,500,000 times – more than 6,500 people a day, or once every 13 seconds. Of these in…
3rd Quarter 2022 Wrap Up: Building Wealth PDF Now Available!
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Food for the Soul: Women Alone – Vermeer at the Rijksmuseum
Johannes Vermeer. The Milkmaid, 1658-1659. Oil on canvas. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Purchased with the support of the Vereniging Rembrandt. Photo: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
By Nina Heyn — Your…
Food for the Soul: Pearls
Johannes Vermeer. Woman with a Pearl Necklace, c. 1663-1664. Oil on canvas. Gemäldegalerie State Museum, Berlin. Photo: Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons
By Nina Heyn — Your Culture Scout
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Food for the Soul: Peeking into the Artist’s Mind — An Interview with Henryk Waniek
Henryk Waniek. Beginning of Paradise/Początek Raju, 2020. Oil on canvas and panel. Private collection. Photo: Courtesy Henryk Waniek
By Nina Heyn — Your Culture Scout
Even though most of …
Food for the Soul: Global Trade Part V – Europe
Murano glass, Venice, 2022. Photo: Nina Heyn
By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout
Even before Roman soldiers started building and then marching on the roads of the empire, expanding the imperial…
USA: Happy President’s Day
President’s Day honors and celebrates the life and achievements of George Washington, the first President of the United States (1789-1797) and ‘The Father of his Country’. The day is, in practice…
Happy Valentine’s Day!
Valentine’s Day occurs every February 14. Across the United States and in other places around the world, candy, flowers and gifts are exchanged between loved ones, all in the name of St. Valent…
Groundhog Day – February 2, 2023
The American tradition of Groundhog Day sees the nation’s most well-known groundhog take a stance on the season ahead. If he sees his shadow, he predicts six more weeks of winter. If he doesn…
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 Academy Awards. Here we present the remain…
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 the streamers, so it’s worth tak…
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Happy New Year 2023 Year of the Rabbit
Lunar New Year is one of the most important celebrations of the year among East and Southeast Asian cultures, including Chinese, Vietnamese and Korean communities, among others. The New Year cele…