By James Vincent

Night vision technology has been around for a while, but it’s only really used by professionals (or professional creeps) due to its prohibitive size.

But what if night vision was so…

By Catherine Austin Fitts

How many people have told me they would love to have a screening for a given documentary in their home town. Well now there is a website that would help you do that.

Welc…

By Tyler Durden

Earlier today we reported that according to weekly Fed data, a record amount – some $105 billion – in Treasurys had been sold or simply reallocated (which for political reasons is the…

By Andrea Wong

The dollar gained versus all its major counterparts after Federal Reserve policy makers indicated they’ll probably raise interest rates by the middle of next year with the U.S. eco…

By The Economist

As the regime of Viktor Yanukovych collapsed in Ukraine, protesters against it could be found outside One Hyde Park, a luxury development in west London. Their target was Rinat Akhme…

By Catherine Austin Fitts

The current proposal to phase out Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac has the potential for ever greater back door shenanigans. Lot’s of money that can go out through the back do…

By Sebastian Anthony

In a rather intriguing twist, it appears that NASA is now mandated by law to fly a robotic mission to Jupiter’s watery moon Europa. Europa is an incredibly exciting science t…

The U.S. Department of the Treasury released its General Explanations of the Administration’s FY2015 Revenue Proposals, known as the “Greenbook,” which explains the Administration’s revenue proposals …

By Kim Zetter

You already know that laptops, desktop computers, tablets and mobile phones are all at risk of being hacked. But did you know that intruders might use the built-in camera to take surrep…

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By Catherine Austin Fitts

Ultimately, we must each decide…

By BBC News

President Vladimir Putin and the leaders of Crimea have signed a bill to absorb the peninsula into Russia.

Mr Putin told parliament that Crimea, which was taken over by pro-Russian for…

**CAF Note: If the US and Russia target the finances and assets of individual officials, then the only people who will be able to hold government office are people with no laundered or illegal offshor…

By Alastair Thompson

Japanese peace builder and Buddhist philosopher Daisaku Ikeda has a unique perspective on the path humanity needs to follow to achieve Global Peace. Ikeda is President of Soka …

By Bloomberg

Markets are reacting in real time to Russia’s military incursion into the Crimea section of Ukraine.

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By Tyler Durden

We are sure it is just coincidence – and awkward combination of luck and suspicious timing – but Vedomosti reports that Viktor Zubkov, the Chairman of Russia’s massive energy monopo…

By Steven Perlberg

Global markets are still jumpy about the situation between Russia and Ukraine. But as one market analyst notes, there’s a reason Europe has more to fear than the U.S.

Wells Farg…

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By Matt Apuzzo

Four years after President Obama promised to crack down on mortgage fraud, his administration has quietly made the crime its lowest prior…

By John Glover

The amount of debt globally has soared more than 40 percent to $100 trillion since the first signs of the financial crisis as governments borrowed to pull their economies out of reces…

**CAF Note: the following article identifies the core problem involving transhumanism and trans-ecology – they have the potential to destroy the food supply.**

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The report on the Bank of England is jus…

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By Catherine Austin Fitts

Last night I had a life changing moment.

Thanks to Michael Salla’s new book, Kennedy’s Last Stand, I learned two things that I did not know. First, that President Eisenho…

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**CAF Note: Edward Snowden is describing an economic warfare machinery. If the machine turned off, the slow burn would be difficult, if not impossible, to maintain, and we might have to return to a le…

By Jesse’s Café Américain

This is a story based on a report out of the Ukraine. Obviously I do not know yet if it is accurate. The information coming out of the Ukraine and Crimea should be sifted …

**Note: We are republishing each of the 22 challenges from Catherine’s fiscal cliff article – one a week. Helps to digest them bit by bit!**

By Catherine Austin Fitts

Financial systems operate on tr…

**CAF Note: Yes, we just keep peeling the onion, and keep finding there is more to peel!**

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I am taking time off to write to one of my favorite people simply because y…

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By Catherine Austin Fitts

Money makes the world go round. For the trillions of annual dollars transacting through illegal activities, financial fraud or simply transferred illegally or engaged in t…

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By Interfax

The government of Ukraine has the idea of privatization of the energy sector in the country, Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk ha…

By Charles Hugh Smith

All those focusing on the West’s lack of leverage are forgetting that the Empire retains multiple way of striking back.

Many observers have focused on the relative paucity of t…

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By Anna Yukhananov and Lidia Kelly

Russian officials are pushing for the International Monetary Fund to move ahead with planned reforms without the United Sta…

By Pam Martens

Last evening, the U.S. Senate Banking Committee made the unexpected announcement that it was postponing the confirmation hearing of Stanley Fischer to serve as Vice Chairman of the F…

By Sustainable Pulse

The number of scientists and experts condemning a journal editor’s retraction of a study that found serious health effects in rats that ate a Monsanto genetically modified (GM)…

By David Sirota

The term “native advertising” may be new, but the principles of deception and camouflage that define it are not.

The Federal Trade Commission used to call this kind of thing “d…

Stakes rise for Coinbase as hackers attack bitcoin

By Philip Pearlman

Over the last week, thefts have been reported at three different bitcoin sites, one of which was the first exchange and at one…

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By Catherine Austin Fitts

The remarkable and miraculous s…

By Catherine Austin Fitts

A subscriber from “down under” sent a series of interesting links on blog posts published last year on Australia’s plans to be prepared for “bail-ins.” My thanks…

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By RT

Twenty-six of the most powerful American corporations – such as Boeing, General Electric, and Verizon – paid no federal income tax from 2008 to…

By David Barboza

Last June, an affiliate of the Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba made an offer to its hundreds of millions of users: Give us your cash, and we will pay more than Chinese banks will.

…

By Kickstarter

On March 3, 2014, Kickstarter passed $1 BILLION in pledges.

That’s $1,000,000,000 pledged by 5.7 million people to creative projects.

More than half was pledged in the last 12 m…

By Nicolette Hahn Niman

LATE on Saturday, Feb. 8, news broke of the recall of 8.7 million pounds of beef that had come through a Northern California slaughterhouse. Social media buzzed with tweets …

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By Catherine Austin Fitts

On Sunday morning, March 1 at 6:05am, the temperature in Hickory Valley TN was 64F. By 9pm, it was 34F and is expected to drop to 15F. My e-mail subscribers are reporting…

By Jon Rappoport

To learn why Richard Nixon was really blown out of the White House, you could begin with the infamous Nazi chemical/pharmaceutical cartel, IG Farben. The cartel that pushed Hitler ov…

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By Alan Cullison, Paul Sonne, and Gregory L. White

The American and Russian presidents spoke on the phone for 90 minutes on Saturday after Russia’s parliament voted unanimously t…

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There are many who have expressed the opinion over the years that the United States should go down some sort of “revolutionary” road. The topic has come up repeatedly in various ar…

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By Alan Ohnsman

Tesla Motors Inc. (TSLA)’s plan to build what co-founder Elon Musk bills as the world’s largest battery factory could shake up the powe…

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By RT

Marine innovation engineering department at Rolls-Royce has presented a draft design of an ocean-going robo-vessel that could enter service within …

By Cynthia Koehler and Audrey Finci

“Can Anybody Save California?” That was the headline of a Politico story earlier this month about our state’s water crisis. Predictions of apocalypse are not unc…

By Mike Masnick

A few weeks ago, Glenn Greenwald, while working with NBC News, revealed some details of a GCHQ presentation concerning how the surveillance organization had a “dirty tricks” group kno…

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By Catherine Austin Fitts

Who is really in charge? And wh…

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By RT

In its first draft energy policy since 2011, Japan says nuclear energy is still among its vital sources of electricity. This comes after three years …

“Nothing real can be threatened.
Nothing unreal exists.
Herein lies the peace of God.”
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By Catherine Austin Fitts

I tense up when I get the calls. I can usually hear it after …

By Jon Rappoport

A few days ago, I reported on a recent study of Roundup, the Monsanto herbicide, and how Roundup is involved in causing gluten intolerance and celiac disease.

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By Martin Parry

The world’s biggest economies vowed Sunday to boost global growth by more than $2 trillion over five years, shifting their focus away from austerity as…

By BBC News

Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel has unveiled plans to shrink the US Army to its smallest size since before World War Two.

Outlining his budget plan, the Pentagon chief proposed trimming …

By SkyVision Solutions

Northeast Utilities (NU) operates New England’s largest utility system serving more than 3.6 million electric and natural gas customers in Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New…

**CAF Note: The spinners of limited modified hangouts are out in force. This is the best of the best, useful for giving an overall framework of numerous constituencies within the Washington beltway …

by Paul Levy

For the last few months, all I’ve wanted to do is to read about quantum physics. I’ve been studying quantum physics off and on for decades, but have never gone as far down the rabb…

By The Telegraph

One hundred tonnes of highly contaminated water has leaked out of a tank at the Fukushima nuclear plant, the worst incident since last August, when a series of radioactive water le…

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By Steven Bertoni

PayPal is in the center of two battles: one for control of every transaction on the planet, the other for control of its own destiny.

Th…

By Thomas Black

Kansas City Southern (KSU), the U.S. railroad that gets almost half its revenue from Mexico, fell the most in the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index after the lower house of Mexico’s…

By Todd Shields

The U.S. plans to rewrite rules that would prevent Internet service providers from slowing Web traffic from companies such as Netflix Inc. (NFLX) and Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN)

Tom Whe…

By Megan McArdle

Industry sources tell the Washington Examiner’s Susan Ferrechio that the Barack Obama administration is thinking of extending the Affordable Care Act’s “risk corridors,” the federa…

By Catherine Austin Fitts

As the “Internet of Things” develops we are seeing a very dynamic relationship occur in retail shopping. Online stores want a bigger share of the consumer market. Cons…

By Catherine Austin Fitts

Whoever who has spent the last year making sure that a US-EU trade agreement never happens is certainly bucking for a really big bonus this year.

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An…

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By Catherine Austin Fitts

The political process has devol…

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By Ambereen Choudhury and Julia Verlaine

A widen…

“There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.”
~ Buddha

By Catherine Austin Fitts

Ray Dalio’s was quoted in Business Week this week:…

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By Karen Pierog and Tom Hals

The city of Detroit’s effort to declare some of its general obligation bonds as unsecured debt will be challenged in bankruptcy court …

By Catherine Austin Fitts

R. J. Cutler’s documentary, The World According to Dick Cheney, is worth watching. Along with Ferguson’s No End in Sight this is very good footage documenting Dick Che…

By The Economist

Nigerian pineapple for breakfast, Peruvian quinoa for lunch and Japanese sushi for dinner. Two centuries ago, when David Ricardo advocated specialisation and free trade, the notion t…

By Lee Stanish, Stephen Osborn

Can microorganisms help protect our groundwater from contamination by hydraulic fracturing?

There is growing concern over the safety of hydraulic fracturing, or “fra…

Matt Damon, a lifelong friend of Howard Zinn and his family, read excerpts from a speech Howard Zinn gave in 1970 as part of a debate on civil disobedience.

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By Matt Taibi

Call it the loophole that destroyed the world. It’s 1999, the tail end of the Clinton years. While the rest of America obsesses over Monica Lewinsky, Columbine and Mark McGwire’s biceps…

By Pension Dialog

As anticipation mounts that Detroit will file a plan to adjust its debt with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court next week and with the ongoing confusion of public pensions, bond holders, a…

By David Sirota

When historians one day sit down to solve the Great American Pension Heist, they will likely focus much of their attention on a scandal that has been unfolding in corruption-plagued R…

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By Catherine Austin Fitts

The Church of England has now announced that they are pulling their endowment investments from companies that do not “play ball” on climate change. I am not sure what …

‘Cos its true what they say
It’s better the devil you know”
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By Catherine Austin Fitts

As you can see from the banner on our blog, the Solari Report is participating in The Day We…

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By Catherine Austin Fitts

The dependence of the U.S. econ…

By Joann Muller, Zack O’Malley Greenburg and Christopher Helman

On an overcast Tuesday morning in dusty North Platte, Nebr., Tony Orr stands at the center of the world’s largest freight rail ya…

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By Jeremy Scahill and Glenn Greenwald

The National Security Agency is using complex analysis of electronic surveillance, rather than human intelligenc…

By Adrianne Jeffries

NASA is now working with private companies to take the first steps in exploring the moon for valuable resources like helium 3 and rare earth metals.

Initial proposals are due …