
J.S. Bach: Toccata & Fugue in D Minor
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Toccata & Fugue in d minor (BACH, J.S.)
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Run for the Roses: Kentucky Derby 2016
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The Kentucky Derby is a horse race held annually in Louisville, Kentucky, United States, on the first Saturday in May, capping the two-week-long Kentucky Derby Festival. The race is a …

Steve McDonald – "My Heart Belongs to Scotland"
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Vaughan Williams The Lark Ascending – Richard Tognetti & The Australian Chamber Orchestra
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Book Review: The Essential Saker: From the Trenches of the Emerging Multipolar World
“To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue…

Book Review: Beyond Reason
“If you are thirsty, the river comes to you, if you are not, the river does not exist.” ~Sat Prem
By Catherine Austin Fitts
Things have a way of jumping to the top of the pile just when you need t…

"Easter Oratorio, BWV 249" – Johann Sebastian Bach
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Grandpa Tell Me Bout The Good Old Days
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Easter Celebration
I arise today, through
The strength of heaven
The light of the sun,
The radiance of the moon,
The splendor of fire,
The speed of lightning
The swiftness of wind,
The depth of the sea,
The fi…

Celebrating Easter & Passover
Image From Wikipedia
“He is not here: for he is risen”
~Matthew 28:6
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Book Review: Hidden Finance, Rogue Networks, and Secret Sorcery by Dr. Joseph P. Farrell
By Catherine Austin Fitts
Dr. Farrell’s new book is now available for pre-order, available in June.
Here is the description:
Hidden Finance, Rogue Networks, and Secret Sorcery: The Fascist Intern…
Book Review: The Devil’s Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA and the Rise of America’s Secret Government
“The important thing to know about an assassination or an attempted assassination is not who fired the shot, but who paid for the bullet.”
~ Eric Ambler
By Catherine Austin Fitts
Power in Amer…

You Must Believe In Spring – Tony Bennett and Bill Evans
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Bill Evans on Wikipedia

Book Review: The South China Sea
“Europe is a landscape; East Asia a seascape. Therein lies a crucial difference between the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.”
~ Robert D. Kaplan
By Catherine Austin Fitts
We hear it and read …

Book Review: Dare to be Your Own Boss
“Where your talents and the needs of the world cross, there lies your vocation.” ~ Aristotle
by Catherine Austin Fitts
If I read all the books that I receive, it would be more than a full time…

Book Review: Addiction by Design
“It was not uncommon, in my interviews with casino slot floor managers, to hear of machine gamblers so absorbed in play that they were oblivious to rising flood waters at their feet or smoke and f…

Happy Valentine’s Day! Chris Botti & Sting ~ My Funny Valentine ~
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Happy Chinese New Year!
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Happy Chinese New Year!
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Samuel Barber: Adagio for Strings
Recorded at Berlin Philharmonie, February 2, 2013.
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Martin Luther King Day
“Well, I don’t know what will happen now. We’ve got some difficult days ahead. But it doesn’t matter with me now. Because I’ve been to the mountaintop. And I don’t mind. Like anybody, I would like t…

Happy New Year 2016
“You know all those things you’ve always wanted to do? You should go do them.”
~ E.J. Lamprey
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What Are You Doing New Year's Eve? – Seth MacFarlane
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What Are You Doing New Year’s Eve? – Seth MacFarlane
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In Hoc Anno Domini
Vermont Royster’s Christmas message has been republished by The Wall Street Journal every Christmas since its first publication in 1949. As I can not think of a more beautiful way to celebrate the b…

Book Review: The Half Has Never Been Told
“If we can face it, God can fix it.”
~ Bishop Alfred Owens
By Catherine Austin Fitts
In The Half Has Never Been Told, historian Edward Baptist attempts to unpack the nuts and bolts economics of Am…

Happy Thanksgiving
A young man named John received a parrot as an early Christmas gift. The parrot had a bad attitude and an even worse vocabulary. Every word out of the bird’s mouth was rude, obnoxious and laced with…

Give The Gift of the “Solari Report”
This Christmas season we invite all Solari Report subscribers to give someone special a free, one-month gift subscription to the Solari Report.
This subscription will include:
2015 Annual Wra…

Autumn Leaves – Miles Davis
Autumn Leaves – Miles Davis
YouTube | August 19 2009
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Space Oddity
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The Stone of Scone
“Every man dies. Not every man really lives.” ~William Wallace
By Catherine Austin Fitts
I finally got to see the Stone of Scone or the Stone of Destiny as it is sometimes called. The Stone was re…

A Day in Edinburgh
“For we fight not for glory, nor riches, nor honors, but for freedom alone, which no good man gives up except with his life.”
~ Translation on the wall of the National Museum of Scotland from the De…

Karine Polwart – My Heart’s in the Highlands (Robert Burns)
YouTube | Feb 2012
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Norah Jones – Sunrise (live in Amsterdam )
Norah Jones – Sunrise (live in Amsterdam )
YouTube | July 2017
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Beyer Clock and Watch Museum
“Great moments in science: Einstein discovers that time is actually money.” ~Gary Larson
By Catherine Austin Fitts
I was in Zurich for a week to visit with a series of Swiss money managers. These …

Why I Love Opera
“An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in my imagination, it becomes my life, and it stays part of my life long after I’ve left the opera ho…

Levenslied – Fantasy
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Falstaff Highlights – San Francisco Opera (2013)
CAF Note: Next week I am seeing Falstaff at the Zurich Opera – a very special occasion!
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“Prayer of St. Francis” sung by the Philippine Madrigal Singers
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Pistis Sophia
“And now, let all Matter rejoice; let all aspire to the Light, that the power of the soul which is in you may live.” ~ Pistis Sophia I:32
By Catherine Austin Fitts
From Thursday, September 17 to S…

An Anniversary Prayer – September 11, 2015
Catherine’s Anniversary Prayer — September 11, 2015
By Catherine Austin Fitts
Lord, we gather in prayer on the fourteenth anniversary of 9-11;
We thank you for the many blessings you have given us…

Book Review: The Globalization of War
“The lies and fabrications which sustain the war agenda must be uncovered.”
~ Michel Chossudovsky
By Catherine Austin Fitts
Ultimately, all control and enforcement comes back to physical force…

Happy Labor Day!
On Work
By Kahlil Gibran
You work that you may keep pace with the earth and the soul of the earth.
For to be idle is to become a stranger unto the seasons,
and to step out of life’s procession, that…

“That’s How It Still Oughta Be” – Trent Tomlinson
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Book Review: The Paris Architect
By Catherine Austin Fitts
In The Paris Architect by Charles Belfoure, Lucien Bernard is an architect struggling to make his way in Nazi-occupied Paris. A wealthy industrialist offers him a large su…

Book Review: The Modern Mercenary
“The unraveling of the state’s monopoly of force has begun, not over centuries but over decades. The market for force’s trajectory is uncertain; it could develop into a mediated market, which is saf…

“False Flags” – Massive Attack
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Book Review: The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up
“She resurrects dying and dead spaces and brings them back to life with her love, with her integrity, with her hard work, with her focus, with every part of her being. That’s what she does – a…

“Get Back” – The Beatles
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“Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I’ll Go Mine)” – Bob Dylan
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Book Review: The Third Way by Dr. Joseph P. Farrell
“The Bank, its property and assets and all deposits and other funds entrusted to it shall be immune in time of peace and in time of war from any measure such as expropriation, requisition, seizu…

Book Review: Clinton Cash
“The richer the Clinton’s get, the more they resemble the Snopes’s, the rather low-rent people from a Faulkner novel. But one of the great strengths of the Clintons all along, particularly exemplifi…

“America The Beautiful” – Ray Charles
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Book Review: Rework
By Catherine Austin Fitts
Rework explains how to run a business by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson, co-founders of 37signals and creators of the project management software Basecamp. The a…

Book Review: Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
“Before the prospect of an intelligence explosion, we humans are like small children playing with a bomb. Such is the mismatch between the power of our plaything and the immaturity of our conduct….

Book Review: Sovereign Wealth Funds
By Catherine Austin Fitts
Global sovereign wealth funds – state-owned investment funds investing in real and financial assets – have now surpassed over $6 trillion of assets under management. Ori…

“Tour Eiffel” – Kronos Quartet With Bryce Dessner
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Greetings From Sydney
“Don’t worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia.”
~ Charles M. Schulz
I returned from the Australian Outback (see my commentary Stories of Uluru) to Sydney …

A Word from Our Sponsor
“il nous faut de l’audace, et encore de l’audace, et toujours de l’audace” ~ George Danton
By Catherine Austin Fitts.
In 1998, the leading Washington newspaper pulled a story on the targeting of m…

“Metamorphosis 4” – Philip Glass
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Joni Mitchell: Shadows and Light
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Book Review: Treasury’s War: the Unleashing of a New Era of Financial Warfare
“The financial wars are coming” ~ Juan C. Zarate
By Catherine Austin Fitts
I am in the process of learning more about financial sanctions to gain a better understanding of the current dance betw…

Why I Love L.L. Bean
“Outside of your gun, nothing is so important to your outfit as your foot-wear. You cannot expect success hunting deer or moose if your feet are not properly dressed.” ~ Leon Leonwood Bean
By Catheri…

Book Review: Debt: The First 5000 Years by David Graeber
by Catherine Austin Fitts
A very smart subscriber persuaded me to get this fascinating book in 2011 when it was first published. It has been sitting in the piles that have grown to several hundr…


“Autumn In New York” – Jonathan Kreisberg Group
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March 20 – First Day of Spring/The Total Solar Eclipse
About the Eclipse
On Friday 20th March 2015, A total solar eclipse will occur across the far northern regions of Europe and the Artic. The eclipse’s longest duration of totality will be 2 minutes…

Book Review: The Educator and the Oligarch
“The power of human imagination and desire for autonomy will always survive, and when the time is ripe, the mighty will fall.” ~ Anthony Cody
By Catherine Austin Fitts
Ever since a radio show …

“The Times They Are A Changin’ ” – Bob Dylan
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Tax Time Covert Ops
[Rather than post stories on the latest events in Ferguson, I thought I would republish this post that we originally published on March 19, 2009]
By Catherine Austin Fitts
I just got back from tow…

Remember Daylight Savings Time!
Daylight savings time begins on Sunday March 8, at 2:00 AM.
Remember to set your clocks!
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“Bring Him Home” – Collabro
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“Something in the Water” – Carrie Underwood
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Book Review: What Chinese Want
“China’s economy and people are evolving rapidly, but the underlying cultural blueprint has remained more or less constant for thousands of years.” ~ Tom Doctoroff
By Catherine Austin Fitts
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We Apologize!
By Catherine Austin Fitts
One of our servers went down on Sunday with a resulting scramble of databases. Thank you so much for your patience and prayers. Now that we are back on line we continue …

Happy Chinese New Year!
Welcome to the Year of the Goat!
Wikipedia: Chinese New Year

“Home Sweet Home” – The Farm
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“Watermelon Man” – Herbie Hancock
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Book Review: Flashpoints: The Emerging Crisis in Europe
“As the global powers diverge and Europe is caught in the middle, the lack of hard power will matter more and more. Being rich and weak is a dangerous combination. Europe therefore lives in a worl…

Book Review: Character First
“A man’s character is his fate.” ~ Hercalitus
By Catherine Austin Fitts
Concerned about the impact that cultural debasement is having on me and those around me, I thought I would take a look …

“Giant Steps” – Joey Alexander
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“Auld Lang Syne” by Daniel Dye and the Miller Road Band
Auld Lang Syne” recorded live November 2014 in a cold Madden Road Music Hall in Mutual, OH
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In Hoc Anno Domini
Vermont Royster’s Christmas message has been republished by The Wall Street Journal every Christmas since its first publication in 1949. As I can not think of a more beautiful way to celebrate the b…

Book Review: The Accidental Super Power
“Everything has to do with geography”
~ Judy Martz
By Catherine Austin Fitts
Geography contributes mightily to destiny. Yet, appreciation for geography is generally absent from the American ed…

A Winter’s Night Live From Durham Cathedral – Sting
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Book Review: Three Felonies A Day
“When the law becomes a trap for the unwary, it becomes an engine of oppression rather than a statement of the moral and ethical requirements of a society’s citizens.” ~ Harvey Silverglate
By…


Happy Thanksgiving!
“How wonderful it would be if we could help our children and grandchildren to learn thanksgiving at an early age. Thanksgiving opens the doors. It changes a child’s personality. A child is resentful…

Book Review: Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America
“I don’t believe stories are one-sided, or easily made simple.” ~ Annie Jacobsen
By Catherine Austin Fitts
I listened to Annie Jacobsen’s reading of her book Operation Paperclip on the drive…

“Girl From The North Country” – Bob Dylan & Johnny Cash
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Happy Halloween!
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Book Review: This Does Not Change Everything
By Catherine Austin Fitts
To say that Naomi Klein’s new book This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. Climate Change is disappointing is an understatement.
Klein’s best seller Shock Doctrine wa…

Meditations at the Crossroads
Barbara Kinsey Willits Fitts and Dr. William Thomas Fitts, Jr.
(then Captain, US Army Medical Corp, circa 1941-2.)
Honor thy Father and thy Mother
— The Fourth Commandment
By Catherine Austin Fi…

“It Is What It Is” – John Trudell
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“World Looking In” – Morcheeba
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Book Review: The Toxic States of America
[CAF Note: Good news! Matt Socha will be joining us for “How do I Live a Free and Inspired Life?” in November
By Catherine Austin Fitts
I received a strong recommendation from Dr. Joseph Fa…

“Slow Moves” – José González
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Book Review: Unaccountable
By Catherine Austin Fitts
When central banks and governments print and borrow money without limit, and use that money to engineer wild discrepancies in cost of capital, a very perverse culture and …