
Announcing Refiner’s Fire
Music matters… at least great music does. Founded by Chris McMurtry and Mike and Janet Linton, REFINERSFIRE is committed to the idea that great music is one of the highest achievements of civiliza…

WHO in the World is Spraying?
(Michael Murphy’s last film won Solari Movie of the Year)
By Truth Media Productions
We must find out who is behind the current ongoing destructive geoengineering schemes being conducted around th…


Snowden Leak Reveals Intel’s “Black Budget”
Photo Credit: Wired
By Barton Gellman and Greg Miller
U.S. spy agencies have built an intelligence-gathering colossus since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, but remain unable to provide critical info…

We’re Making Coming Clean the Interview with Eunice Boston Available to All Solari Readers!
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Catherine Austin Fitts : Economy and Culture, Imagining the Reinvention of Everything
**CAF Note: In anticipation of the upcoming October conference in Boulder Colorado, GlobalBEM has put last years speeches up on Youtube. Here is my speech in Holland in November 2012.**

San Bernardino, California, Gets Bankruptcy Protection
**CAF NOTE: This is a major step in the financial coup d’etat abrogating retirement liabilities managed by state and local pension fund. For a story regarding Calpers involvement in engineering the …

Google and the NSA: Who’s Holding the ‘S**t-Bag’ Now?
Photo Credit: latimesblogs.latimes.com
By Julian Assange
It has been revealed today, thanks to Edward Snowden, that Google and other US tech companies received millions of dollars from the NSA for …

Jimmy Carter at the “I Have a Dream” Anniversary
(Click image to watch video)
By Sean Sullivan
Former president Jimmy Carter told a crowd gathered on the National Mall to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington that Martin Lut…

No News, Just More Coincidences
Photo Credit: The Guardian
By Catherine Austin Fitts
Quelle Surprise!
Cyprus is needed to stage fighter planes for a war in Syria. And what do we think this has to do with the recent economic hit …

Study: To The Human Brain, Me Is We
By David DiSalvo
A new study from University of Virginia researchers supports a finding that’s been gaining science-fueled momentum in recent years: the human brain is wired to connect with other…

Zombie Attack at Solari!
By The Solari Team
Zombies attacked The Solari Report last Thursday. Though rather than attacking our physical brains for a meaty delicacy, they attacked our intellectual minds.
Last thursday, 20 …

US Ready to Launch Syria Strike, Says Chuck Hagel
By BBC News
American forces are “ready” to launch strikes on Syria if President Barack Obama chooses to order an attack, US Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel says.
“We have moved assets in place to be…

Crowdfunding: Income or Gift? IRS Taxes and SEC Regulations Could Hurt Startups And Innovation On Kickstarter And Indiegogo
By Nat Rudarakanchana
Say you’re raising money on Kickstarter for an independent film project: Are the proceeds a sort of communal gift-giving or simply a clever source of standard taxable income…

A Big “No” on Collapse
From a Reader:
Q: Ms Fitts,
I’ve reviewed your videos, history and website.
One thing I struggle with:
While you parallel many of our* views about the failing state of the US, you own and promot…

American Made Movie
American manufacturing employment has been on the decline for decades, unleashing a devastating effect on our local and national economies. But it’s the stories of communities and the families tha…

Larry Summers and the Secret “End-Game” Memo
By Greg Palast
When a little birdie dropped the End Game memo through my window, its content was so explosive, so sick and plain evil, I just couldn’t believe it.
The Memo confirmed every conspira…

Bill in Congress Could Mandate Smart Meters Nationwide, Take Away Consumer Right to Opt Out in CA and Other States
By Miriam Raftery
Two members of Congress (Jerry McNerney, D- Stockton, CA and Matt Cartwright, D- PA) have introduced the Smart Grid Advancement Act of 2013 (HR 2685) that would require the Secretar…

Jackson C. Frank – “Just Like Anything”
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Former NSA Chief Was Worried About “Enemy Of The State” Reputation
By Zeke J Miller
In the past week, details on two of the most closely guarded and controversial federal surveillance programs have been brought into the light of day and has turned the public perce…

U.S. Slave Labor Policies
By Catherine Austin Fitts
After WWII, a significant number of Nazi leaders – particularly scientists and intelligence
operatives – were recruited to the United States and integrated into U.S. unive…

Obama Pushes for Warrantless Access to Phone Data… Again
Photo Credit: Flickr Creative Commons/Midge Frazel
By Common Dreams
Amid ongoing controversy over NSA warrantless spying programs, another legal battle exposes the Obama administration’s willingnes…

The Worst Idea Going
By Catherine Austin Fitts
This is an idea promoted for a long time by the NWO to ensure control. Everyone is dependent on the state for basic needs.
If you simply stop stealing from people and commu…

In the Fullness of Time
“You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.”
~Khalil Gibran
By Catherine Austin Fitts
The peach trees wer…

Coping: Wujo or “Big Data”
**CAF Note: IMO, a typical day in the life of having to be a AT&T customer.**
By George Ure
Here’s an interesting story to get the kinks out from between the ears this morning:
Dear Mr Ur…

Kiplinger Calls for Mandatory 401ks
**[CAF Note: I have the greatest respect for Mr. Kiplinger. However, how do we implement a new retirement scheme when existing schemes have been significantly abused by the leadership? IMO a new schem…

The House I Live In
[CAF Note: David Simon, creator of outstanding series The Wire , described the War on Drugs as “a holocaust in slow motion. The House I Live In is a good overview of the War on Drugs. However, it do…

MakerBot’s Digitizer Will Go on Sale Next Week, Promises 3D Scanning to the Masses
By Sean Buckley
With UPS’ incoming 3D printing service and the growing availability of consumer-ready kits, printing objects is easier than ever, assuming you actually have something ready to print…

US Cloud Companies to US: Tyranny is Bad for Business
By Catherine Austin Fitts
Get ready for Congress to start rolling back the surveillance powers of the exploding intelligence community. As Kiplinger points in their latest newsletter, US cloud comp…

Snowden Leak Journalist: Britain Will Regret Detaining Partner at Airport
By Henry Austin
Glenn Greenwald, the journalist who first published the contents of classified documents provided by ex-NSA contractor Edward Snowden, said Monday that Britain will regret detaining…

US Health Care Political Power Factoid
According to the Center for Responsive Politics, the pharmaceutical and health-care-product industries, combined with organizations representing doctors, hospitals, nursing homes, health services an…

Last Summer Song – “Acoustic Alchemy”
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The Boom-Bust Economy
By Catherine Austin Fitts
My theme on Money & Markets this week on the Solari Report was “The Boom Bust Economy.”
Globally, some people, areas and industries are enjoying an economic boom. Some …

Dog
By Lawrence Ferlinghetti
The dog trots freely in the street
and sees reality
and the things he sees
are bigger than himself
and the things he sees
are his reality
Drunks in doorways
Moons on trees
…

A Tennessee Clothing Factory Keeps Up the Old Ways
By Cathy Horyn
Not long ago, I got an e-mail from a man thanking me for mentioning his label, Pointer Brand, in an article in 2006. This was no thank-you note. I read on: “With a lot of hard work a…

Stocks and Bonds Trade Off
[CAF Note: We’ve all been waiting for the summer correction. Has it started? Too soon to tell. However, it is interesting to note that bonds are trading down with equities. This is telling us someth…

Real Solutions
By Catherine Austin Fitts
You are probably walking around the world wondering why industry after industry and government agency after government agency are behaving like they are not under adult supe…

Every Important Person In Bitcoin Just Got Subpoenaed By New York’s Financial Regulator
By Kashmir Hill
Things are getting serious for Bitcoin this month: a federal judge declared it real money, Bloomberg gave it an experimental ticker (XBT), and New York’s financial regulator annou…

Event Survey
As a Solari Report subscriber and friend, we want to thank you for your participation in recent months – whether attending one of our recent luncheons or the San Mateo conference (whether in person …

Alfredo Moser: Bottle Light Inventor Proud to be Poor
By Gibby Zobel
Alfredo Moser’s invention is lighting up the world. In 2002, the Brazilian mechanic had a light-bulb moment and came up with a way of illuminating his house during the day without el…

Ubiquitous Encryption – The Promise Of Kim Dotcom’s MEGA
By Alastair Thompson
While the following story is about Kim Dotcom and his new encrypted data delivery network MEGA.co.nz, it addresses a great deal more than piracy and copyright law enforcement. Th…

Musk Unveils Plans for $10 Billion Hyperloop
By CNBC
Air cushioning: That’s the high-concept technology behind the high-speed transit concept that billionaire Elon Musk calls the Hyperloop.
Musk – who already plays leading roles in the Space…

The Prison Switch Hit
By Catherine Austin Fitts
In the 1990’s, the US intentionally grew the US prison population to a mind boggling per capita leadership globally. This effort had several goals. One was to disenfranchi…

The Economist: Liberty’s Lost Decade
[CAF Note: This is an important signal. Now that the financial coup is complete, the trail is cold and the money across, we are proceeding to rebuild the overt side of the economy. Now that new econ…

The Most and Least Trusted Occupations
Photo Credit: Pew Research Center
By Althea Chang
Lawyers and business executives are among the least trusted occupations in America, and members of the military, teachers and scientists are highly…

Fleetwood Mac – “Landslide”
Related Reading:
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Fleetwood Mac on Wikipedia

Five Whopping Big Lies About State and Local Pensions
CAF Note: The leaders of the financial coup are now waging war on state and local pension funds. They want to lower the boom on retirees, direct the flow of these assets and related fees and make priv…

Solari Toon!
(Click on image to view larger)
[CAF Note: I am a True Fan, which means I am one of the donors who support of Marcin’s work. It costs as little as $10 a month for 24 months. When paypal shifts mone…

A Health-Insurance Criminal Pleads His Case
By James L. Payne
If mandatory health insurance goes through, it will turn me into a criminal. I don’t have health insurance. I don’t want it. And I will refuse to buy it even though I can affor…

Fukushima Leak: Japan Government ‘To Take Measures’
Photo Credit: American Free Press
By BBC News
On Wednesday, a government official said up to 300 tonnes of highly radioactive water may be flowing into the sea every day.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe…

We Aren’t the World
Photo Credit: Mark McGinnis
By Ethan Watters
In the summer of 1995, a young graduate student in anthropology at UCLA named Joe Henrich traveled to Peru to carry out some fieldwork among the Machigu…

My Latest Kiva Loan
Flamboyan I group successfully completed their first cycle with a loan from Kiva and is running smoothly. With that loan in the first cycle, their businesses began to flourish. For this second cycle…

Revisiting Sam and Dave
CAF Note: We were discussing the Pope’s current dilemma with the Vatican bank – to launder or not launder? The Solari team and I decided to revisit the fundamental economics of conceding the high …

Ruling Against Sun Capital Could Have Wider Private Equity Impact
By Gregory Roth
In a court case that could add a new risk factor to some private equity deals, the First Circuit Court of Appeals last month ruled in favor of the New England Teamsters and Trucking I…

JPMorgan Faces Criminal and Civil Probes Over Mortgages
By David Henry and Peter Rudegeair
JPMorgan Chase & Co, the biggest U.S. bank by assets, said on Wednesday it is being investigated by criminal and civil divisions of the U.S. Department of Justic…

Crowdfunding
By Wikipedia
Crowdfunding (alternately crowd financing, equity crowdfunding, crowd-sourced fundraising) is the collective effort of individuals who network and pool their money, usually via the Int…

This Chart Of The Economy And Stocks Makes Almost No Sense
Photo Credit: Bloomberg, Business Insider
By Sam Ro
The S&P 500 closed at an all-time high on Friday.
Meanwhile, estimates for U.S. GDP growth in 2013 have been falling for two and a half years.
…

Obama to Back Mortgage Finance Reform to Speed Housing Recovery
Photo Credit: Reuters/Jonathan Ernst
[CAF Note: Now that large corporate entities have accumulated large portfolios of residential real estate, the US will make changes that makes corporate cost of …

Warfare Has Many Faces
By Catherine Austin Fitts
Once upon a times we used to drop armies on each others lands to kill each other. We still do so – although as Afghanistan and Iraq have proved – that can be terribly expe…

Amazon Founder Jeff Bezos to Buy the Washington Post
By Jennifer Saba
The Washington Post Co has agreed to sell its newspaper assets, including its flagship daily, to Amazon Inc founder Jeff Bezos for $250 million.
The move comes as newspapers face …

HSBC Demands Diplomats Cancel Bank Accounts
Photo Credit: AFP Photo / Fabrice Coffrini
By RT
HSBC has requested embassies and consulates around the world to close their accounts and transfer their funds to other banks within 60 days.
The US…

Edward Snowden’s Not the Story. The Fate of the Internet is.
By John Naughton
As an antidote, here are some of the things we should be thinking about as a result of what we have learned so far.
The first is that the days of the internet as a truly global n…

CAPACITY: Downtown Los Angeles
By Gensler LA
The intent of this Gensler Los Angeles led academic studio was to survey, understand and visualize the dynamic set of infrastructure constraints impacting and contributing to Downtown…

IRS: The Financial Cleaner Commeth
[CAF Note: This is big. Koskinen is the guy who gets sent in to clean up and manage serious liabilities. In covert operations, a “cleaner” is a person who destroys or removes any incriminating evide…


“Debt Equals War and Equity Equals Peace”
By Lars Schall
On behalf of Matterhorn Asset Management, independent German financial journalist Lars Schall talked with U.S. financial investment advisor Catherine Austin Fitts. Inter alia, they dis…

Parable of the Talents or Minas
By Wikipedia
The Parable of the talents or minas, (also known as the Parable of Talents or The Parable of the Pounds), is one of the well known parables of Jesus….
The parable in Matthew 25:14-3…

Apple, Google Among Top U.S. Companies Parking Cash Offshore To Reduce Taxes, Study Says
By Connie Guglielmo
Apple may get the brunt of the attention for its use of offshore havens to offset the taxes it pays in the U.S., but it’s hardly alone.
Six of the biggest names in technology…

Spending Surge for Renewables
By Du Juan
China’s investment in renewable energy during the 12th Five-Year Plan (2011-15) will reach 1.8 trillion yuan ($294 billion) in addition to 2.3 trillion yuan being spent on energy-saving …

Yes We Scan
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Out of Control Control
By Catherine Austin Fitts
The Buddha said, “Those who are awake live in a state of constant amazement.” If you have been following the science and technology news posted on our blog this week, you …

DARPA to Genetically Engineer Humans by Adding a 47th Chromosome
By Aaron Dykes and Melissa Melton
We’re no molecular biologists over here, but have you ever seen the sci-fi flick Gattaca?
In that 1997 film, society is structured around eugenics as people are…

Old System Dying, New System Being Born – Catherine Austin Fitts
By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com
Money manager Catherine Austin Fitts says, “You are seeing a tug of war between the new system that’s coming up and the old system that’s struggling and dyi…

Ben: Another $85 Billion to Fuel the Slow Burn
Photo Credit:Joshua Roberts/Bloomberg News
By Catherine Austin Fitts
Ben and the FOMC spoke today confirming that they will continue monthly quantitative easing at the $85 billion level. There is n…

15 Charts That Should Terrify Saudi Arabia
By Rob Wile
Billionaire Saudi Prince Alwaleed has sounded the alarm about the threat shale oil and gas development poses to the petro-kingdom’s barely diversified economy.
It’s taken a while for …

ATM Hacker Barnaby Jack Dies
Photo Credit: Declan McCullagh/CNET
By Seth Rosenblatt
The computer-security community is in mourning following news that superstar hacker Barnaby Jack died on Thursday. The San Francisco resident …

Building to a Summer(s) Correction?
By Catherine Austin Fitts
The Chinese are doing an audit of their debt? How scary is that?
Not as scary as an audit of US debt – after all Secretary O’Neill got fired by Bush-Cheney for daring t…

China Orders Audit of Government Debt
Photo Credit: AFP
By BBC
China has ordered a nationwide audit of all government debt, underlining fears that the recent slowdown in its economy may impact the financial sector.
Local governments i…

Harvard Creates Brain-to-Brain Interface, Allows Humans to Control Other Animals With Thoughts Alone
[CAF Note: How do we think they are handling the markets?]
By Sebastian Anthony
Researchers at Harvard University have created the first noninvasive brain-to-brain interface (BBI) between a human…

Scientists Make Mice “Remember” Things That Didn’t Happen
By Susan Young
Scientists have created a false memory in mice by manipulating neurons that bear the memory of a place. The work further demonstrates just how unreliable memory can be. It also lays …

Detroit Gap Reveals Industry Dispute on Pension Math
Photo Credit: Bill Pugliano/Getty Images
[CAF Note: The official creation of the cover story for the hit on pension funds has begun.]
By Mary Williams Walsh
Until mid-June, there was one ray of ho…

Norah Jones – “Nightingale”
Related Reading:
Norah Jones’ Official Website
Norah Jones on Wikipedia

This Saturday – Here Comes Permafacture!
By Catherine Austin Fitts
Ready to start building the blueprints for the open source tools that can create a more diversified, healthier civilization? Are you ready to build your very own tractor? …

Food Documentaries: Let’s Go to the Movies with Catherine Austin Fitts
Accessing and creating your own food sources can be fun. Often it involves collaborating with friends and neighbors. What if you were to organize a regular potluck dinner and show documentaries that…

The Birth of a New American Music: Dakota Wind
By Catherine Austin Fitts
I drive the full length of North America at least once a year.
From Tennessee, I drive West to San Francisco and back once or twice a year. Sometimes I go the Northern ro…

Solari’s Latest Donation
Send Musicians To Prison
Do you believe music can heal and restore?
Do you believe music communicates what words alone cannot?
Do you believe music can impart worth, and provoke a soul to change…

The Rise of the Intangible Economy: U.S. GDP Counts R&D, Artistic Creation
Photo Credit: Getty Images; Illustration by 731
[CAF Note: Combine this with crowd funding, and you will have quite a financial cocktail!]
By Peter Coy
On July 31, the U.S. Bureau of Economic Anal…

Wall Street Commodity Trading in Jeopardy Amid Fed Review
By Bob Ivry
JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM), Morgan Stanley (MS) and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS) are among lenders whose commodity-trading is in jeopardy as the Federal Reserve reconsiders letting ban…

Solar Impulse Flies From San Francisco To New York
By Wikipedia
Solar Impulse is a Swiss long-range solar powered aircraft project developed at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. The project eventually hopes to achieve the first circu…

Sir Ken Robinson: The Most Popular TED Speech Ever
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Why the Federal Reserve Will Taper in September
By Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk
Something peculiar has been going on in the treasury market during the latest round of quantitative easing (QE). If we study the chart provided below we find that treasury…

Viktor Schauberger – Comprehend and Copy Nature
Related Reading:
Viktor Schauberger on Wikipedia

Catherine in 2010 on US Healthcare Policy
This is a clip from an interview Catherine Austin Fitts did called “The Looting of America”. Catherine, the daughter of a physician, has been watching the change in government regulations regarding …

Ella Fitzgerald – “Mack the Knife”
Related Reading:
Ella Fitzgerald’s Official Website
Ella Fitzgerald on Wikipedia

Does Edward Snowden Have Stock Options?
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An Alternative to Obamacare?
By CNBC
In Dubai, city of opulence and excess, the obese are worth their (over) weight in gold. In an effort to fight increasing obesity rates, the tiny Emirate has once again outdone the world in …

America’s Global Image Remains More Positive than China’s
By Pew Research
Publics around the world believe the global balance of power is shifting. China’s economic power is on the rise, and many think it will eventually supplant the United States as th…

Rosalie Bertell and Planet Earth as a Weapon
[CAF Note: I just finished reading Planet Earth by Rosalie Bertell. Rather than review it, I am linking to Dr. Farrell’s review from 2011]
By Dr. Joseph P. Farrell
In my search to find information r…

Detroit Files Largest Municipal Bankruptcy in U.S. History
By Michael A. Fletcher
Detroit filed the largest municipal bankruptcy in the nation’s history Thursday afternoon, capping a long and spectacular decline that left the nation’s automaking capita…

Senators Reach Deal on Student Loan Interest Rates, Prepare For Vote
By Jenna Johnson
Under pressure from the White House, Senate leaders are quickly moving forward with a plan to change how the government sets federal student loan interest rates, tying them to mark…