Author: Mark Gilmore

[CAF Note: One must ponder whether the Justices were really free to decide or are subject to control file fears.]

By The New York Times

The Supreme Court severely damaged the rule of law in its deci…

Alaska House Passes 2nd Amendment Preservation Act, 31-5

Today, February 25th, Alaska’s Second Amendment Preservation Act, HB69, has passed the State House and will now move on to the Senate for co…

[CAF Note: Last week Jin Zengmin was the Solari Hero, for challenging a local politician to swim in the polluted rivers in China. This week another activist, Chen Yugian, spoke out online against t…

By Skylar Bergl

Venture capital was a who-you-know business, until AngelList made a mass introduction. Like online dating, its transparent network connects startups with accredited investors, and n…

By John Hooper

By any standards, and whatever happens, Beppe Grillo and the Five Star Movement (M5S) have emerged from Italy’s general election as big winners.

Because of the way the electoral sys…

By William Selway & Michael C. Bender

Federal budget cuts will probably push the U.S. back into recession by damaging states’ economies recovering from the worst fiscal crisis since the Great Dep…

[CAF Note: This article persuaded me to significantly increase my Vitamin D intake starting over the holidays. The results have been both positive and dramatic. Hmmm…..]

By Jeff Bowles

I have neve…

Related Reading

Solari Quote Du Jour

By Jack Healy

After enduring last summer’s destructive drought, farmers, ranchers and officials across the parched Western states had hoped that plentiful winter snows would replenish the ground …

By Dave Smith

Mark Zuckerberg, Sergey Brin and Yuri Milner have teamed up to create the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences Foundation, which now offers the most lucrative annual prize in the history…

Incarceration in the United States is one of the main forms of punishment, rehabilitation, or both for the commission of felony and other offenses. The United States has the highest documented incar…

Related Reading:

Sting on Wikipedia

Official Website

Introduction from Catherine Austin Fitts:

I wanted our readers to have this case study that embodies a robust selection of the criminal and civil violations visited upon homebuyers and homeowners in…

By Cha Cha

As a high school or college graduate, you’re really excited to leave your parents behind and move out into your own place. You find a decent apartment at a reasonable price, and you prep…

By Catherine O’Driscoll

A team at Purdue University School of Veterinary Medicine conducted several studies 1,2 to determine if vaccines can cause changes in the immune system of dogs that might le…

By Age of Autism

Three controversial television films suppressed as part of the continued persecution of Andrew Wakefield are now available to watch on YouTube. The drama ‘Hear the Silence’ sta…

Fiscal Cliff Video
MP4

This Solari Story, “The Fiscal Cliff and Gun Control”, is the first of many brief and insightful videos that Catherine will be releasing throughout the year. Che…

By Bernie Becker

The House Ways and Means Committee formally announced 11 separate working groups they hope will push the ball forward on tax reform.

The working groups will not be charged with craf…

By The Economist

WHEN THE ECONOMIST INTELLIGENCE UNIT, a sister organisation of this newspaper, published the first bound edition of “Tax Havens and Their Uses” in 1975, a queue several blocks …

By English.News.cn

China will proactively introduce a set of new taxation policies designed to preserve the environment, including a tax on carbon dioxide emissions, according to a senior official wi…

By Julia Werdigier

Novartis, one of Switzerland’s biggest drug makers, said Tuesday it scrapped a planned $78 million payment to its departing chairman because of pressure from shareholders and l…

By Sam Byford

3D printers are getting smaller and cheaper all the time, but they’re still not exactly mainstream. The 3Doodler is an attempt to change that — it’s a small pen-style device that it…

By Rebecca Christie & Ben Moshinsky

The European Union failed to seal a deal on Basel bank rules after disagreeing on bonuses, capital requirements for big lenders and disclosure of profit and tax …

A provider of “realistic” shooting targets to the Department of Homeland Security and other federal agencies has created a line of “non-traditional threat” targets that include pregnant wome…

“One person can make a difference and every person should try.” ~ John F. Kennedy

About Presidents’ Day

[Note from CAF: This is both a phenomenon and verb that is very useful to have available on the tip of your tongue these days!]

From Wikipedia

Gaslighting is a form of psychological abuse in which…

By Suzan Mazur

“We know the abiotic world is very good at making amino acids. Abiotically produced amino acids are literally raining down on our heads, in meteors. It is difficult to imagine a pr…

[click on the image for a larger version]

By Halia Pavliva

The Moscow Exchange’s $498 million debut on Russian markets will probably fail in enticing companies to list exclusively on the bourse, …

The Inventioneers are a group of young entrepreneurs inventing tomorrow’s solutions today! Their “why not’ philosophy has led to four provisional patents and one utility patent (pending). Thei…

[click on the image for a larger version]

By By Sara Gates

While China’s air pollution has reached hazardous levels in some major cities, chemical pollutants in the air are hardly the only proble…

By Gretchen Morgenson

MANY people became rightfully upset about bailouts given to big banks during the mortgage crisis. But it turns out that they are still going on, if more quietly, through the bac…

Related Reading:

Ben Carson on Wikipedia

By Philip Pullella

Pope Benedict’s decision to live in the Vatican after he resigns will provide him with security and privacy. It will also offer legal protection from any attempt to prosecute him…