On Income Inequality
“An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.” ~ Plutarch
By Catherine Austin Fitts
As Congressional members increasingly focus on this year’s mid-te…
By Catherine
Back From the Secret Space Program Conference 2014
By David Warner Mathisen
The 2014 Secret Space Program and Breakaway Civilizations conference has come to a close, but the ideas and conversations that it has sparked are just getting started.
…
U.S. Imposes Record Fine on BNP in Sanctions Warning to Banks
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***CAF Note: Sanctions are what inspire people to build alternative platforms. Some of the smartest financial people in the world have just been given a year …
Fear and Loathing in Silicon Valley, Part VI: They Hate You if You’re Clever
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By Nines
I am still in the belly of the beast, but at least it’s at my safety zone in the Berkeley hills instead of down where freeway exhaust settles on every surface, coats yer lungs, pisse…
Subscriber’s Luncheon With Catherine
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All scheduled luncheons will be posted here with link to more details on scheduled luncheon.
Questions conta…
2014 Is On Track To Become The Second Biggest Year For M&A In History
By Rob Wile
M&A activity has hit $750 billion through June, a level we haven’t seen in years, thanks to cash-flush corporations, steadily improving growth, and rising CEO confidence, according to G…
F**k Y**, Facebook
Photo Credit: AFP/Leon Neal
***CAF Note: Now you know why the Solari Report and Catherine Austin Fitts do not have a Facebook page.***
By RT
Facebook conducted a psychological experiment on its us…
Fear & Loathing in Silicon Valley, Part V: All on Maybe Three Hours’ Sleep
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By Nines
All of us.
My temporary boyfriend had to relinquish the wheel this morning, but we all look to be passably lucid anyway. Of course, Catherine is the very por…
‘The World is in a State of Financial War’ – Russian Presidential Advisor
By The Voice of Russia
Vedomosti reports that Sergey Glaziev, the economic mastermind behind the Eurasian Union, sent an official report to Kremlin, stating the necessity of a radical revamp of Rus…
Fear & Loathing in Silicon Valley, Part IV: Interlude
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By Nines
That was one looong day and I have to be to bed about three hours ago, but it turns out the men are fighting over me again and we’ve all been up hashing it out…
Fear & Loathing in Silicon Valley, Part III: Paint it Black
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By Nines
The marching band turned out to be a very neutral sort of beeping sound, and so did the army of gymnasts. Really inoffensive wake-up calls around these parts. Luc…
Fear & Loathing in Silicon Valley, Part II – UPDATE
By Nines
Much later that same day. OMG! The meeting started at two, and they served pizza and tequila out of gallon jugs. Very shortly we were all so sloshed we forgot our code words and had to…
Ears to the Ground – June Edition
By Justin Boldenow,
As we’ve set out here in Nashville to explore the diverse musical amalgam that forms the Middle Tennessee music scene, one of our directives was to find a bad case of the blues….
Fear & Loathing in Silicon Valley, Part II – Report from the Motor Court
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By Nines
All right, you cusses, I’m up. This motel has pretentions to hoteltude and always has, but I think the nazis have ruined that for everyone. You are not allowed…
I Have A Request
“There is always something to do. There are hungry people to feed, naked people to clothe, sick people to comfort and make well. And while I don’t expect you to save the world I do think it’s not aski…
Fear & Loathing in Silicon Valley, Part I: Dear Solarian Hordes
**CAF Note: I asked one of my very favorite bloggers, Nines of “the nines” to blog as correspondent for The Solari Report this weekend from the Secret Space Program & the Breakaway Civilization …
Beware the New ‘Breakthrough’ Transgenic Mosquitoes
By Institute of Science in Society
A team led by Andrea Crisanti at Imperial College London in the UK was widely reported to have made a breakthrough or even a ‘quantum leap’ in creating transgen…
Hillary Clinton: I’m Not ‘Truly Well Off’ Compared to Wealthiest Americans
**CAF Note: Did the Clintons just make a deal with Jeb Bush to engineer him into the White House in 2016? Why has Hillary Clinton decided to commit political suicide? Could Rove be right about brain…
The Bay Area is Solari Circling
By Catherine Austin Fitts
A marvelous group of Solari Report subscribers shared lunch yesterday under the tents in a large field in Marin County. Many had joined us for lunch last year and have bee…
Iraq Oil Infrastructure
(Map Source: http://www.lib.utexas.edu)
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“Anthem” – Leonard Cohen
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25 Ways to Lower Your Grocery Bill
By Carrie Kirby
After housing and transportation costs, food consumes more of the average household’s budget than anything else. I’ve already looked at ways to cut housing and transportation. Now l…
Promoting Women, Part V
“There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.” ~ Leonard Cohen
By Catherine Austin Fitts
One of the logical uses of the “promoting women” meme would be to engineer a Democratic wo…
Argentina President Defies US Court Order on Repayment of Debts
(Photo Credit: Reuters)
By Fox News
Argentina’s president has said that she would refuse to comply with a U.S. judge’s order to pay $1.5 billion to winners of a decade-long legal battle over defaul…
Central Banks Shift Into Shares as Low Rates Hit Revenues
By Ralph Atkins
Central banks around the world, including China’s, have shifted decisively into investing in equities as low interest rates have hit their revenues, according to a global study of 4…
U.S.–China Strategic and Economic Dialogue
By Wikipedia
The U.S.–China Strategic and Economic Dialogue is a high-level dialogue for the United States and China to discuss a wide range of bilateral, regional and global political, strategic…
Catherine Austin Fitts w/ Dark Journalist
Interview
YouTube | June 15 2014
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“At the End of the Day” – Amon Tobin
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All Our Patent Are Belong To You
By Elon Musk
Yesterday, there was a wall of Tesla patents in the lobby of our Palo Alto headquarters. That is no longer the case. They have been removed, in the spirit of the open source movement, …
The Expensive Illusion of Health Care
By Catherine Austin Fitts
You want to pay attention to the fuss over the waiting times at a VA Hospital. This is what happens when a benefit is promised, but Congress does not appropriate the resou…
Global Private Wealth Rises to $152tn
By BBC News
The amount of private wealth held by households globally surged more than 14% to $152 trillion (£90tn) last year, boosted mainly by rising stock markets.
Asia-Pacific, excluding Japan, …
FDA May Destroy American Artisan Cheese Industry
By Greg McNeal
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued an executive decree banning the centuries old practice of aging cheese on wooden boards. One bureaucrat within the FDA, without surv…
The True VA Scandal is Shared Across the Federal Government
By The Washington Post Editorial Board
At the Department of Veterans Affairs, the federal government’s largest employer (the Army ranks second), only 56.9 percent of employees believe they can disc…
Washington Reels as House’s Eric Cantor Loses to Pro Free Market Economics Professor
(Photo Credit: Steve Helber / Associated Press)
By Lisa Mascaro, Michael A. Memoli, Mark Z. Barabak
In a shocking political defeat guaranteed to upend Republican Party politics, House Majority Lead…
WTO on World Map/NATO Missing Money
Image credit: SmartKnowledgeU
By Robert Giebels, Natalie Righton
NATO might be wasting a lot of money, or maybe they are short of cash. Frankly, we have no idea’, says Saskia Stuiveling, president…
Straight Money Analysis
By Catherine Austin Fitts
Once upon a time I worked on Wall Street in a world full of highly energetic, very smart people who loved what they did and believed that hard work and creativity could figu…
Book Review: The Divide by Matt Taibbi
“The hunt is on and brother you’re the prey”
~ Curtis Mayfield, “New World Order”
By Catherine Austin Fitts
Matt Taibbi’s The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap is a beautif…
US Stock Exchanges Face Lawsuit Over High-Frequency Trading
By Jill Treanor
The American lawyer who orchestrated a successful class action suit against the tobacco industry 20 years ago has turned his sights on the stock exchanges caught up in the controversy…
“It Don’t Matter” – Donavon Frankenreiter
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June Solari Toon!
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Speak Life Into Our Situation
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Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.
~Proverbs 18:21
By Catherine Austin Fitts
When did our deepest des…
Pope Fires Entire Board of Vatican Financial Watchdog
By Philip Pullella
Pope Francis sacked the five-man board of the Vatican’s financial watchdog on Thursday – all Italians – in the latest move to break with an old guard associated with a murky past…
Too Small to Have Internet? Tiny German Village Builds Own Broadband Service
(Photo Credit:AFP Photo / Thomas Coex)
By RT
Inhabitants of a small village in Germany have taken the digital law into their own hands. They laid their own fiber optic cables setting up their own b…
NASA’s ‘Flying Saucer’ Readies for First Test Flight
By NASA
NASA’s flying saucer-shaped test vehicle is ready to take to the skies from the U.S. Navy’s Pacific Missile Range Facility in Kauai, Hawaii, for its first engineering shakeout flight.
The …
Americans Are Getting Less And Less Of Their Money From Their Jobs
By Sam Ro
Going to work and collecting paychecks isn’t the only way to make money in America.
“Since 1980, direct labor income has become a smaller share of personal income, while income from tran…
Wither the US Dollar?
“For now we see through a glass, darkly…”
~ Corinthians 13:12
By Catherine Austin Fitts
I don’t remember a week in which I have had more conversations about the value and the future of the U…
Scientists Achieve Quantum Teleportation Breakthrough That Could Prove Einstein Wrong
By James Vincent
Scientists in the Netherlands have achieved a breakthrough in quantum teleportation that could quash Albert Einstein’s objection to the notion of quantum entanglement, which he f…
Climate Rules Threaten to Rewrite U.S. Energy Map
By Mark Chediak and Jim Polson
Coal-dependent power companies from American Electric Power Co. (AEP) to Duke Energy Corp. (DUK) face billions of dollars in added costs, while renewable-energy backers…
Turkey Cuts Off Euphrates Flow
By Suhaib Anjarini
The Turkish government recently cut off the flow of the Euphrates River, threatening primarily Syria but also Iraq with a major water crisis. Al-Akhbar found out that the water lev…
Google Privacy Law ‘Means Total Rethink of Basic Freedoms’
By Tom Harper and Jonathan Owen
Hundreds of millions of people across Europe will be forced to change completely the way they use the internet, according to one of Google’s key advisers.
The era o…
Unstoppable $100 Trillion Bond Market Renders Models Useless
(Photo Credit: Scott Eells/Bloomberg)
By Susanne Walker and Liz Capo McCormick
If the insatiable demand for bonds has upended the models you use to value them, you’re not alone.
Just last month…
Asian Business: A World to Conquer
(Photo Credit: Jon Berkeley)
By The Economist
Business power follows economic power. In the 1920s British firms owned 40% of the global stock of foreign direct investment. By 1967 America was top d…
“Live 1956, Tupelo’s Own” – Elvis Presley
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Elvis Presley on Wikipedia
May “Ears to the Ground” – Memphis Edition
By Justin Boldenow, Producer of The Solari Report
“An attempt to persuade people or warn people about something they might be missing out on.” – Peter Guralnick on his writing.
In March Cather…
Review: Glenn Greenwald’s No Place to Hide
“This is no dream, this is really happening!” ~ Rosemary Woodhouse in Rosemary’s Baby
By Catherine Austin Fitts
For those of us who have regularly followed Glen Greenwald’s reporting of Edward Sno…
Mary Meeker’s 2014 Presentation On The State Of The Web
By Alyson Shontell and Jay Yarow
Every year, former analyst and venture capitalist Mary Meeker releases an in-depth look at the state of the web. The Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers partner al…
Arming the USDA
By Michael Olson
The United States Department of Agriculture has issued a public Request for Proposal for the purchase of .40 caliber submachine guns with high-capacity magazines and gender-specific …
Who Will Control the Green Economy?
By ETC Group
The world’s largest companies are converging around biomass in anticipation of a post-petrochemical future.
That doesn’t mean they’re simply grabbing land and natural resources; th…
Little Children and Already Acting Mean
By Sumathi Reddy
Children still in kindergarten or even younger form cliques and intentionally exclude others, say psychologists and educators who are increasingly noticing the behavior and taking …
Mythgard 1.0
***CAF Note: I have a lot of respect for people who take out a blank sheet of paper and write down how they would organize an economic system here on planet Earth. This one came in over the transom fr…
Digital Colonialization
We don’t want to become a digital colony of global internet giants,” ~ French Economy Minister Arnaud Montebourg
By Catherine Austin Fitts
The reverberations are everywhere. In the courthouse,…
Air Force Prepares to Dismantle HAARP Ahead of Summer Shutdown
By Dermot Cole
The U.S. Air Force gave official notice to Congress Wednesday that it intends to dismantle the $300 million High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program in Gakona this summer.
The s…
China Urges Banks to Remove IBM Servers Over Espionage Concerns – Report
By RT
China is calling on banks to stop using IBM servers and replace them with local-made machines amid fears that the nation’s financial security might be compromised via the US-based company’s…
Young People Open to Alternative Banking
By Tom Braithwaite
A Google or Walmart bank would be attractive to a large slice of young consumers, according to a survey that also shows almost four in 10 people aged between 18-34 would switch to …
Transcript of “1st Quarter Equity Overview” is Now Available!
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Also find it in the blog post; at the Subscriber Resource Page…
Ukip Wins European Elections With Ease to Set Off Political Earthquake
By Patrick Wintour and Nicholas Watt
Nigel Farage has unleashed his much-promised political earthquake across British politics as Ukip stormed to victory in the European elections, performing powerf…
Solar Freakin Roadways
***CAF Note: When Mark Dansie likes a project that I have donated to, I sit up and take notice. Dansie is one of my “go to” guys on new technology.***
By Mike Dansie
I like the vision of solar…
Market Monitor: Q1 2014 : Smartphone Brands Market Share By U.S. Carriers
***CAF Note: The transition to smart phones continues…***
By Neil Shah
According to latest research from Counterpoint’s Market Monitor quarterly tracker program, USA smartphone market reached …
“Spoonful” – Howlin’ Wolf
“When I heard Howlin’ Wolf, I said, ‘This is for me. This is where the soul of man never dies'” ~ Sam Phillips
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Proof Positive: Fed Governors Do Not Shop for Groceries
By Catherine Austin Fitts
Well, the proof is in. The Fed governors see no risk to inflation in their stimulus policies. This is proof that the governors do not shop for their own groceries.
April�…
“Road to Inclusion” Report Challenges Previously-Held Notions of the Unbanked and Underbanked
By MasterCard
In the lead up to the World Economic Forum on East Asia 2014, MasterCard today unveiled “Road to Inclusion”, a new report that profiles the financially excluded and underserved in t…
Interest Rates Remain Low
By Joe Weisenthal
There have been news reports the past few days about how former Chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank Ben Bernanke has been going around giving speeches in private to hedge fu…
Book Review: The Curtain by Patrick Ord
“All I want is your data.” ~ Henry Maddox
By Catherine Austin Fitts
One of the smartest researchers I know recommended I read The Curtain, a novel by Patrick Ord. It is the story of marketing …
FDA To Ban Organic Farming?
By Michael Foust
Farming methods that have been used in America and throughout the world for centuries are in danger of essentially being banned under proposed regulations by the U.S. Food and Drug…
The Policy Pendulum Swings for a New Round of Profits
By Catherine Austin Fitts
WHO engineered the skyrocketing incarceration rate in the United States? You can learn a lot about WHO did it in my on line book Dillon, Read & Co. Inc & the Aristocracy o…
Where Have You Gone, George Bailey?
By Lee Habeeb and Mike Leven
He is America’s most iconic banker. Okay. He isn’t a real banker, but we all know and love him; he’s George Bailey from the quintessential Christmas movie It’s …
Ready to Turn Over Evolution to Robots? — Transhumanists Are Planning On It
By Foster and Kimberly Gamble
Imagine a “point in time” when computers, in the form of robots, are deemed so much smarter than natural born humans that we are called to turn over the world to t…
“How Do You Get That Lonely” – Blaine Larsen
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Subscriber Lunch in Marin County, California – June 22, 2014
If you are a Solari Report subscriber, you are cordially invited to join Catherine Austin Fitts for lunch in Marin County, CA on June 22, 2014. You may purchase tickets to this event by logging in …
It Would Have Been More Helpful to Avoid the Crisis
By Catherine Austin Fitts
The American people are so smart. I am laughing my head off reading today’s WSJ. The “Letters to the Editor” are filled with letters from readers outraged by Timothy Gei…
Catherine’s Latest Crowdfunding
By Catherine Austin Fitts
The opportunities to reinvent, restore, and replenish the American economy are endless.
The first opportunity is to let up on the police state and centralized make-work …
Live Chat: How America Became the United States of Secrets
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By The Guardian
For the past year, the Guardian has reported on how the NSA turned its eye on ordinary American citizens after 9/11, creating a massive surveillance dragnet to collect and monitor…
Putin Says Ukraine Must Pay Cash for Gas in June
(Photo Credit: AP Photo/Mikhail Klimentyev)
By Vladimir Isachenkov
Russia has ratcheted up pressure on Ukraine, with President Vladimir Putin saying in a letter released Thursday that it only will …
For the Love of Learning: Beyond Main Core, Common Core and the Databeast
“I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.” ~Eartha Kitt
By Catherine Austin Fitts
On Coast to Coast AM the other night I was asked what I thought of the Common Core Curriculum…
Why I Will Not Use U.S. Government Data for Three More Years
By Dr. Tony Lima
For quite a few years my lovely wife has refused to believe any economic data from the U.S. government. Until recently, I have been a staunch defender of the statisticians and econo…
Understanding the Small Business Credit Crunch
By Stacy Mitchell
Even as their big competitors are awash in capital, many locally owned businesses are struggling to secure the financing they need to grow. A new ILSR analysis has found that, sinc…
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. Cro…
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 fi…
Winners And Losers In The Digital Age
By Six Pixels of Seperation
This is probably one of the most eye-opening perspectives on the digital age that you will see.
We have new business models, brands that explode with popularity, platfo…
The Average Stock Is In A Bear Market
By Sam Ro
There are no perfect stock market indexes that’ll give you a complete picture of the state of the market.
Most market-watchers prefer the S&P 500 over the Dow Jones Industrial Average. B…
China Wants to Build High-Speed Railway to US Through Siberia and Bering Strait
(Photo Credit: Reuters/Stringer)
By RT
The idea of traveling between the United States and China without flying might seem ridiculous to virtually everyone, but if Beijing gets its way that’s exa…
“Only The Lonely” – Roy Orbison
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1st Quarter 2014 Equity Overview
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I’ve Seen People Turn Garbage Into Some Cool Stuff. But THIS…. This Is Absolute Brilliance.
By The Mind Unleashed
Gregory Kloehn goes dumpster diving, but not for the reason that most people would think. He isn’t homeless. In fact, he is an artist from Oakland that is trying to help the…
Connect the Dots
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By Catherine Austin Fitts
The news today is mapping out a picture. In the first quarter of 2014, the US economy contracted. And yet the OECD says that the global econom…
Two Economic Trends that Janet Yellen Says are ‘Very Disturbing’
By Annalyn Kurtz
There are two economic trends that Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen told Congress this week she finds “very disturbing.” Unfortunately, the Fed has very little power to fix either …
Teen Slang Bodes Well for the Future of Food
By Sarah TheHealthyHomeEconomist
My teenage son introduced me to a new slang term recently.
He mentioned that a friend said that he needed to try out for a certain soccer club team because he woul…
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