Infrastructure Week: Here’s Your Rhetoric vs. Reality Primer
It’s Infrastructure Week Again. Here’s Your Rhetoric vs. Reality Primer
“If you’re following the news about Infrastructure Week, you’re going to come across a lot of claims—and big dollar amount…
5G National Day of Action May 15, 2019
“May 15th is right around the corner, and we’re counting on our friends across the country who are concerned about the deployment of small cell antennas in close proximity to homes and apartments …
How to find the Jon Rappoport Website
My blog has been taken down!
(To read about Jon’s mega-collection, The Matrix Revealed, click here
by Jon Rappoport
This past Saturday, between 2 and 3 PM Eastern Time, WordPress suddenly too…
Let’s Go to the Movies: May 16, 2019 – Fiat Empire
Fiat Empire, which explores some of the challenges of living with a fiat currency that serves as the global reserve currency.
This documentary with RON PAUL, G. EDWARD GRIFFIN, EDWIN VIEIRA an…
Hero of the Week: May 16, 2019 – Robert Kennedy, Jr.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. photo by Gage Skidmore
From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository
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A Group of Anonymous Parents Is Suing NYC’s…
Moonlight Sonata Op.27 No.2 (Movements 1,2,3) of Beethoven, by Jonah Ho (age 7)
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Food for the Soul – The Inventor
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.” – Upton Sinclair
By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout
Living in the past, for instance…
Hero of the Week: May 9, 2019 – Agriculture Commissioner – Andy Gipson
Mississippi Commissioner of Agriculture and Commerce Andy Gipson told ABC-16 news that the state will be one of just two (along with Missouri) to utilize ‘Truth in Labeling’ standards, enabling cu…
USA Watchdog – Interview with Catherine Austin Fitts
Join Greg Hunter as he goes One-on-One with Catherine Austin Fitts, Publisher of “The Solari Report.”
The interview will post late May or the First of June.
USA Watchdog
Coast to Coast – May 21, 2019 – Interview with Catherine Austin Fitts
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Let’s Go to the Movies: May 9, 2019 – Gaslight
Our movie is the classic Gaslight Gaslighting is “a form of psychological manipulation that seeks to sow seeds of doubt in a targeted individual or in members of a targeted group, making them questi…
Crowder – Wildfire (Official Music Video)
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Crowder Official Site
Leonardo da Vinci: Books and Exhibitions
Solari Hero of the Year
Leonardo da Vinci is the Solari Hero of the Year for 2019. On May 2, 2019, we celebrate the 500th anniversary of his passing.
From Wikipedia:
Leonardo di ser Piero da…
Food for the Soul: 500th Anniversary
“How many emperors and how many princes have lived and died and no record of them remains, and they only sought to gain dominions and riches in order that their fame might be ever-lasting.” Le…
Letter from a Subscriber: A Family Teenager Plans a Transgender Transition
Dear Sofia:
I am writing this email in the hopes that you will do research on this issue as your research skills are considerable and bring it to a wider audience. I am very familiar with the work…
Missing Money – A Personal History: 1989-2019 – It’s Finished!
C. Austin Fitts, Assistant Housing Secretary, conferring with assistants during a break in her testimony
before a Senate subcommittee, 1989. (The New York Times/Andrea Mohin)
“The first step in…
Let’s Go to the Movies: May 2, 2019 – The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley
From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository
Photo by Max Morse for
The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley, a new documentary that describes the rise and fall of Theranos, the b…
Hero of the Week: May 3, 2019 – Andrew Tallon
Notre-Dame according to Tallon’s laser scans Credit: Andrew Tallon / Vasser
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Professor Who Scanned All of Notre Dame Died Months Before Fire
A…
The Power Hour Interview – April 26, 2019
April 26, 2019
Time: 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Interview Schedule
Categories: Economic Forecasting, Economy & Business
The Power Hour
Q Cult: Symptom of the Wider Desire
Catherine Austin Fitts: That brings me back to Q because here [in FASAB 56] we have the most outrageous abrogation of the Constitution in the history of the country – I’ve been relatively grac…
Yiruma – Maybe
From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository
“Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul.” ~ Plato
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Yiruma on Wikipedia
Yiruma Biography
Food for the Soul – The Joy of Color
“If you pay attention, nothing in nature stays the same for a single moment: You can’t be bored of nature, can you? Well, sometimes I’ll steal something from Van Gogh. I mean I do. Good artists …
Let’s Go to the Movies: April 25, 2019 – Defamation
Defamation, a fascinating documentary by a charming young Israeli documentary filmmaker who decided to go on a global hunt for anti-Semitism. With the U.S. State Department now appointing a speci…
Nat King Cole -Love is a Many Splendored Thing
Nov. 1946 – Nat King Cole, Paramount Theater, New York, N.Y.
From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository
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Food for the Soul: All the Rembrandts
“There’s a drawing by Rembrandt, I think it’s the greatest drawing ever done. It’s in the British Museum and it’s of a family teaching a child to walk, so it’s a universal thing, everybody has exper…
Hero of the Week: April 18, 2019 – Robert Kennedy, Jr.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. photo by Gage Skidmore
From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository
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A Group of Anonymous Parents Is Suing NYC’s…
Food for the Soul: Tears for Notre Dame
No man is an island,
Entire of itself.
Each is a piece of the continent,
A part of the main.
If a clod be washed away by the sea,
Europe is the less.
As well as if a promontory…
Let’s Go to the Movies: April 18, 2019 – Green Book
A wonderful movie—based on a true story—about music, friendship, and the power of community. Well written and brilliantly acted, Green Book celebrates our humanity and American road tripping! …
Arvo Pärt – The Deer’s Cry
Estonian composer Arvo Pärt in Christchurch Cathedral, Dublin.
From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository
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The Deer’s Cry (Pärt) on Wi…
Hero of the Week: April 11, 2019 – Alan Collinge
In 2009, Collinge published The Student Loan Scam: The Most Oppressive Debt in U.S. History and How We Can Fight Back (Beacon Press).
The Student Loan Scam takes an unflinching look at thi…
June 24, 2019 – New York at Carnegie Hall – Free Tickets – No tickets remaining (Solari Report Subscribers)
Carnegie Hall
From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository
Monday, June 24, 2019 8:00 PM – Weill Recital Hall
We have no tickets remaining.
Program
MICHAEL LINTON – Franchetti S…
Bank for International Settlements: CNY Risk to the Dollar
“Looking forward, IMF projections imply that the dollar zone will return to the sizeable deficits that were last seen in the mid-1980s. On this view, the dollar zone current account def…
Great Opportunity to Make a Big Difference – Scared To Debt: America’s Student Loan Scam
“Learning what is happening to the young people of America is part of facing the intimacy of the evil with which we are all struggling — as neighbors, family and friends continue to believe…
Hero of the Week: April 4, 2019 – Nina Heyn
Nina is the founder of Torus International, a marketing strategy solutions consultancy that specializes in entertainment marketing and film acquisition, particularly in international markets. Her …
Let’s Go to the Movies: April 11, 2019 – Farmers Footprint | Regeneration: The Beginning
This film series explores scientific findings from Zach Bush, MD and soil health expert Dr. Allen Williams of Soil Health Consultants, LLC, who identify the root cause of the current chronic disea…
Sting – Let Your Soul Be Your Pilot
From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository
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Sting Biography
Food for the Soul: da Vinci Part 2 – Milan
“Leonardo is the perfect symbol both of the Renaissance and the modern man: complete, versatile, creative and future oriented”- Dr. Claudio Salsi, Director of Conservation of the Sforza Castle, Mi…
Coast to Coast April 3, 2019
Topic: Economy Update
Coast to Coast
A Day In Leeuwarden – Hang in Stavoren 2019
By Catherine Austin Fitts
On the third day of the Hang in Stavoren – 2019, we visited Leeuwarden, the capital of Friesland.
The first stop was a surprise. We visited the organ at Grote Ker…
Let’s Go to the Movies: April 5, 2019 – When The Dutch Ruled The World
As we discuss privatization, the use of FASAB 56 to facilitate secret government and corporate finances, and the changing roles of corporations, it is worth revisiting the history of the Dutch Ea…
Bizet – L’Arlésienne Suite No. 1 & Suite No. 2 / Nathalie Stutzmann
Stockholm Concert Hall
From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository
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Let’s Go to the Movies: March 28, 2019 – Friday Night Lights
CLIP DESCRIPTION: Coach Gaines (Billy Bob Thornton) redefines perfection; he urges his team to “put each other in your hearts” before they take the field.
FILM DESCRIPTION: H.G. Bissinger’s best…
Goodbye Stranger
From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository
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Leonard Cohen on Wikipedia
Hero of the Week: March 21, 2019 – Jo van Gogh-Bonger
Johanna Bonger in April 1899 studio photo by Woodbury & Page. Photo: National Library of the Netherlands via Wikimedia Commons
Johanna Gezina “Jo” van Gogh-Bonger was a Dutch editor and translator…
Let’s Go to the Movies: March 21, 2019 – The Bleeding Edge
The Bleeding Edge—a new documentary that underscores the importance of taking care when using medical devices.
What you don’t know can hurt you. From the Academy Award® nominated filmmakers Kirb…
Remo Giazotto – Adagio In G Minor For Strings And Organ
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Hero of the Week: March 14, 2019 – Peggy Noonan
Peggy Noonan speaking in Phoenix, Arizona.
by Gage Skidmore, Wikimedia Commons
Margaret Ellen “Peggy” Noonan is an American author, weekly columnist for The Wall Street Journal, and contribut…
Let’s Go to the Movies: March 14, 2019 – ReMastered: The Two Killings of Sam Cooke
Sam Cooke billboard – From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository
ReMastered: The Two Killings of Sam Cooke – an excellent new documentary about the life and death of legendary composer…
Johnny Cash The Man Comes Around
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Johnny Cash Website
Food for the Soul: The Wandering Earth
“What’s the use of a fine house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?”
— Henry David Thoreau
By Nina Heyn- Your Culture Scout
The movie The Wandering Earth has already…
Hero of the Week: March 7, 2019 – Dr. Laura Thompson and Marie McDonnell
“The world needs strong women. Women who will lift and build others, who will love and be loved. Women who live bravely, both tender and fierce. Women of indomitable will.” ~ Amy Tenney
Marie M…
Let’s Go to the Movies: March 7, 2019 – Tidying Up with Marie Kondo
In Lets Go to the Movies, I will review the new series Tidying Up with Marie Kondo, the Japanese tidying guru whose goal is to “spark joy” in your home.
Tidy guru Marie Kondo comes to the rescue by…
In Honor of Dr. Laura Thompson
“If I could give one tip for people – it’s not an exercise or nutrition regimen. It’s to walk your talk and believe in yourself, because at the end of the day, the dumbbell and diet don’t get you…
Catherine Austin Fitts & Greg Hunter on USA Watchdog
Published on March 2, 2019
Join Greg Hunter as he goes One-on-One with Catherine Austin Fitts, Publisher of “The Solari Report.”
Allergic to Numismatic Coins
Nothing real can be threatened.
Nothing unreal exists.
~ A Course in Miracles
[CAF Note: I published this comment in September 2017. I am republishing as confusion persists on the desirability o…
Bach on Piano for Blind Elephant
Lam Duan is the name of an old blind elephant, her name means “Tree with Yellow Flowers”. Lam Duan has been blind most of her life. Lamduan lives at Elephants World, Thailand.
Related rea…
Food for the Soul: De Young Part 2 – Monet
“Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.” Claude Monet
By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout
San Francisco…
Let’s Go to the Movies: February 28, 2019 – Mont Saint-Michel from a drone
From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository – The center of the commune (the mount itself) of Le Mont-Saint-Michel seen from the new bridge.
For Let’s Go to the Movies, enjoy the view of …
Update on DOD Jedi Contract
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Richie Havens – Freedom at Woodstock 1969
From Wikimedia Creative Commons
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Woodstock
Caveat Emptor: Why Investors Need to Do Due Diligence on U.S. Treasury and Related Securities
Now added to the 2018 Annual Wrap Up Web Presentation:
Caveat Emptor: Why Investors Need to Do Due Diligence on U.S. Treasury and Related Securities
By Catherine Austin Fitts and Carolyn A. Bett…
Food for the Soul: De Young Museum Part 1 – Gauguin
“There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite.” Paul Gauguin
By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout
By all accounts Pau…
Hero of the Week: February 21, 2019 – The Missing Money A Team
“Why is no one doing anything?” ~ What you say if you want Catherine Austin Fitts to rhetorically chop your head off
Please meet the brave and brilliant men and women who have made extraordinar…
Let’s Go to the Movies: February 21, 2019 – The Emergence of the Breakaway Civilization | Walter Bosley
I recommend Walter Bosley’s presentation on these topics at the Secret Space Program 2015 conference.
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This Bitter Earth by Dinah Washington
Photographer James Kriegsmann, New York.
[Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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Happy Valentine’s Day!
“The rose is red, the violet’s blue,
The honey’s sweet, and so are you.
Thou art my love and I am thine;
I drew thee to my Valentine:
The lot was cast and then I drew,
And Fortune said it shou’d …
Hero of the Week: February 14, 2019 – The Saker
Although our topics are not always joyous, what a pleasure it is to map out our world with the Saker and debate the most important geopoitical questions of the day. His brilliant insights abound, wrap…
Let’s Go to the Movies: February 14, 2019 – Colette
In Let’s Go to the Movies! I review the new film Colette a marvelous movie about the French author. It’s a reminder that politicians who say politically correct things, such as “there is no on…
“These Days” with Nico, Jackson Browne Intro
Album Cover
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Nico on Wikipedia
Coast to Coast February 06, 2019
Topic: State of the Union Speech
Coast to Coast
Book Review: A Room of One’s Own
"One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well."
~ Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own
By Catherine Austin Fitts
A Room of One's Own is an essay by …
Hero of the Week: February 7, 2019 – David Talbot
Our hero this week is David Talbot.
David Talbot is an American journalist, author and media executive. He is the founder, former CEO and editor-in-chief of an web magazine, Salon. Talbot found…
Let’s Go to the Movies: February 7, 2019 – The Men Who Killed Kennedy
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This week in Let’s Go to the Movies we recommend The A&E Series: Who Killed Kennedy?
I recommend the nine segments of the A&E (History Channel) ser…
Book Review: The New Rules of War
“The reappearance of private armies is a harbinger of a wider trend in international relations: the emergence of neomedievalism….The erosion of the taboo against mercenarism heralds a shift in…
Viva Vivaldi!” – Cecilia Bartoli & “Il Giardino Armonico”
From Wikimedia Commons
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Book Review: Vice of Kings: How Socialism, Occultism, and the Sexual Revolution Engineered a Culture of Abuse
Vice of Kings: How Socialism, Occultism, and the Sexual Revolution Engineered a Culture of Abuse
“Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the trut…
Dr. Joseph Farrell & Catherine – The Real Culture War Explained
A member of our Solari team was adamant. We needed to make the transcript for our discussion of culture wars from News, Trends & Stories, Part II, of the 2018 Annual Wrap Up available in a separate do…
Book Review: The Fifth Risk by Michael Lewis
The Fifth Risk by Michael Lewis
“If there are dangerous fools in this book, there are also heroes, unsung, of course. They are the linchpins of the system—those public servants whose knowledg…
Food for the Soul – Binge on History
“Those who fail to learn from history are condemned to repeat it.” Winston Churchill, paraphrasing George Santayana
By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout
Long winter nights are just perfec…
Hero of the Week: January 31, 2019
Dr. Raphael Mechoulam, an Israeli organic chemist and professor of Medicinal Chemistry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel. Mechoulam is best known for his work (together with Y. Gaoni) in…
Let’s Go to the Movies: January 31, 2019 – The Scientist
This week in Let’s Go to the Movies we recommend “The Scientist” a documentary that traces the story of Dr. Raphael Mechoulam from his early days as a child of the Holocaust in Bulgaria, through h…
Odetta – This Little Light Of Mine
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I’m For Love by Hank Williams, Jr.
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Food for the Soul: The Year of da Vinci
“Ars longa, vita brevis. Art is long, life is short”- Hippocrates
“Life, if well spent, is long” – Leonardo da Vinci
By Nina Heyn -Your Culture Scout
Imagine a designer whose te…
Bilderberg, the Movie
“He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.” ~Aristotle
By Catherine Austin Fitts
I got a chance to watch Daniel Estulin’s new documentary on the Bilderberg meetings. He addres…
Catherine Austin Fitts – Federal Government Running Secret Open Bailout
Published on January 13, 2019
Join Greg Hunter as he goes One-on-One with Catherine Austin Fitts, Publisher of “The Solari Report.”
$21 trillion in “missing money” at the DOD a…
An Intelligent Conversation about the Environment
“If you’re yelling you’re the one who’s lost control of the conversation.” ~Taylor Swift
[Originally published on September 11, 2018]
By Catherine Austin Fitts
For many years I worked…
Jean Sibelius – Symphony No. 5 in E flat major, Op. 82
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Food For the Soul: Oscar Treasures in Black and White
“It shouldn’t work. It shouldn’t be magic. You shouldn’t weep happy and then sad and then happy again. But you do. And I do. And we all do.” ― Ray Bradbury, The Cat’s Pajamas
By Nina …
Anoushka Shankar and Patricia Kopatchinskaja – Raga Piloo
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Kenji Ota
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♫ Happy New Year! – Auld Lang Syne ♫
John Masey Wright and John Rogers’ illustration of the poem, c. 1841
From Wikimedia Commons
Auld Lang Syne
Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
and never brought to mind?
Should auld…
Sting: A Winter’s Night… Live from Durham Cathedral
Durham Cathedral from Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository
Nave in 2010
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Robert Sadin – …
Book Review: Plague by Kent Heckenlively and Dr. Judy A. Mikovits
By Catherine Austin Fitts
Fake news is scary. Fake food is really scary. Nothing, however, is scarier than fake science.
In 2009, Dr. Judy Mikovits reported her discovery of a retrovir…
What Would Solon Have Done?
For the book If I Were King (Advice for Donald Trump), Harry Blazer, Editor
The premise – You have been elected king of USA by a super majority popular vote and have the support of the masses and …
Christmas in Vienna 2016
Complete concert, produced and broadcast by the ORF Cast:
Angela Denoke on Wikipedia
Vesselina Kasarova on Wikipedia
Noah Stewart on Wikipedia
Günther Haumer on Wikipedia
Vienna…
Audio: Esoteric Aspects of the Social Question by Rudolf Steiner
CAF Note: Ann Watson has recorded this exploration by Rudolf Steiner of his esoteric perspective on ways of organizing society based on how humans relate to the spiritual world. Enjoy!
Tennessee Christmas – Babbie Mason and Guy Penrod
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Tennessee on Wikipedia
Subscriber Recommendation: Stop EMF Radiation with Environmental Assessment
[CAF Note: This was such an inspiring report, that I asked permission to publish it. It just goes to show you what you can accomplish when you take action!Thank you again to our subscriber for sharing…
Food For the Soul: At The Movies … At Other Countries
“If someone has to commit a crime in order to survive, society must take a look at itself and ask who the guilty ones really are.” Dr. Chen Zuo Bing, director of Kangfu Medical Center at Beijing U…