By Catherine Austin Fitts

I am leaving Los Angeles for Ojai today.

A blue jay has been appearing in the back yard. My friend Nina says she has never seen one in her garden before. She says the blu…

“I have a feeling that my boat, has struck, down there in the depths, against a great thing. . .
–nothing happens?
Or has everything happened, and are we standing now, quietly, in the new life?…

By Pastor/Minister William Wilmore, Jr.

My sisters and brothers… the title of this sermon is borrowed from the rich colloquial legacy of the African American experience. It’s one of those hidd…

Catherine will be speaking in The Rogue Valley, in Ashland, and Medford, Oregon, on Thursday, January 26, and Friday, January 27, 2012.

The theme for the weekend will be “Getting Beyond Fear to Rea…

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The Canadian singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen has a poem in the magazine this week, “Going Home,” that he also set to music on his upcoming album, “Old Ideas.” The ten…

Street Art By El Mac – A Collection

By Vitaly Friedman

Street culture and graffiti are well-known for being provocative, appealing, bold and uncompromising. Originally used by gangs to mark their …

CAF Note: Here I am in 1988 in East Hampton in a Ferrari I used to lease when I worked on Wall Street.

Announcing the Silver Gold Calculator Android application from Solari and The Moneychanger .

We’ve taken the popular Apple application and made it into an application available to Android device user…

Carol of the Bells (for 12 cellos) – Steven Sharp Nelson

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By Catherine Austin Fitts

This year, our clients and team members are receiving watercolors painted by Lesta Frank fo…

Wonderful Christmas Time

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“The Holiday Season is here, and we’re reflecting on our many blessings, including the friendship and support that we’ve enjoyed from you throughout the year.”

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By Catherine Austin Fitts

This Saturday I traveled by train from Zurich through Salzburg to Vienna.

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After checking into my hotel, I wandered through the Christmas market next to the W…

Nothing in life is worthwhile unless you take risks. Nothing.   Nelson Mandela said, “There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you’re capable…

By Norman Rockwell

Thanksgiving is a time for tradition and sharing. Even if they live far away, family members gather for a reunion at the house of an older relative. All give thanks together for t…

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“With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope.”
      – Martin Luther King 

By Catherine Austin Fitts

I am doing background research for a Solari Rep…

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One of my favorite books is Laurence Gonzales’ Deep Survival .

Laurence has joined me on The Solari Report — I highly recommend this interview to subscribers – Deep Surv…

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The mission of Sunfield Education Association is to provide programs in education an…

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CAF Note: One of the best public sources on government contracting and subsidies by state is now private. Too bad. Here is the announcement.

Eagle Eye Publishers, Inc.

For over 26 years, Eagle Eye P…

Cameron Diaz’s ‘Bad Teacher’ No. 2 at the Weekend Box Office

The animated “Cars 2,” with the voices of Owen Wilson and Larry the Cable Guy, took the weekend box office’s No. 1 spot with $68 million…

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The Tarzan yell is the distinctive, ululating yell of the character Tarzan, as portrayed by actor Johnny Weissmuller in the films based on the character created by Edgar Rice Burroug…

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For years, every morning, I drank from Blackwater Pond.
It was flavored with oak leaves and also, no doubt,
the feet of ducks.

And always it assuaged me from the dry bowl of the very far past.

Wha…

I was trying to find pictures of the stable in Malvern, Pennsylvania where I used to ride to prove to the wonderful folks at National Bank of Malvern that I have a history in the neighborhood. I c…

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by Catherine Austin Fitts

I am headed to Pennsylvania for a wonderful Easter weekend with my cousins from the National Bank of Malvern.

The big event is the Plumste…

A meditation by
Alla Renee Bozarth
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Pack nothing.
Bring only your determination to serve
and your willingness
to be free.

Do not wait for the bread to rise
Take nourishment for the…

By Catherine Austin Fitts

The dogwood tree at the Hickory Valley office is in full blossom.

Every few days we cut a branch and arrange it in the room I use to review books and DVDs.  I just wande…

[Note from CAF: I first published this on the blog on December 5, 2008. Given the current conversion of the many changes upon us, I am republishing today.]

By Catherine Austin Fitts

In 199…

San Francisco Bay Area Map

I am leaving next week to drive to Montana to meet with the Solari team there and then on to San Francisco where I will be working from Pleasanton for the next two months….

Before you know what kindness really is
you must lose things,
feel the future dissolve in a moment
like salt in a weakened broth.
What you held in your hand,
what you counted and carefully saved,
al…

By Cecil Rhodes

Rhodes originally wrote this on June 2, 1877, in Oxford. Later, that year in Kimberley, he made some additions and changes. What follows is that amended statement. The spelling and …

April Fools’ Day is celebrated in different countries around the world on the April 1 of every year. Sometimes referred to as All Fools’ Day, April 1 is not a national holiday, but is widely recognize…

By Stephen Spender

I think continually of those who were truly great.
Who, from the womb, remembered the soul’s history
Through corridors of light where the hours are suns
Endless and singing. Whose …

A living history is a history that turns the pupil from student to player. To rise from the level of pupil to player requires looking into our collective shadow, letting go of official myths and seein…

Dear Catherine,

My name is John Henry Hall Jr. and I have been listening to you for a few months now. I first heard about you through Alex Jones. I have a 7 year old daughter who has juvenile di…

This Sunday, I joined Christ Our Hope Church in West Point, Tennessee. The Church is Reformed Episcopal. Reverend Franklin Sanders is the minister.

Christ Our Hope is one of the most beautiful chur…

Three things make earth unquiet
And four she cannot brook
The godly Agur counted them
And put them in a book —
Those Four Tremendous Curses
With which mankind is cursed;
But a Servant when He Reign…

Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.

~  Isaiah 43:19

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We’ve lived here for almost 21 years. During that time we’ve seen freezing temps capable of making ice two nights in a row. This week has seen hard freeze temps. We’ve had ice in …

“A man must first of all understand certain things. He has thousands of false ideas and false conceptions, chiefly about himself, and he must get rid of some of them before beginning to acquire anyt…

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Our thanks to artist and friend, Lesta Frank, for this lovely print.

From Wikipedia: In Nahuatl, the language of the Aztecs, the plant is called Cuitlaxochitl (from cuitlatl=residue, and xochitl=fl…

View images of the life of Georgie LaRue

Georgie LaRue Resolution.

The Eleanor Gordon Scholarship Fund
(27 Jan 1987)

Here is Georgie and me celebrating my birthday at the Rainbow Room in New York in 1988. I will be celebrating today with her in Philadelphia. She has promised me a REALLY BIG HUG!

“A Partridge in a Pear Tree,” is a wonderful symbol for holiday giving. But this year, we’d like to suggest a new symbol—namely, “A White Dove in a Pear-Apple-Peach-Orange-Cherry-Plum-Tomato-Zuc…

Thanksgiving Day, presently celebrated on the fourth Thursday in November, has been an annual tradition in the United States since 1863. It did not become a federal holiday until 1941.

The first Th…

One of the many benefits of a career in New York was having season box tickets to the Metropolitan Opera. I used to see the opera and then walk home past Tower Records where I would load up on opera…

–Yes, in those wanderings deeply did I feel
How we mislead each other; above all,
How books mislead us, seeking their reward
From judgments of the wealthy Few, who see
By artificial lights; how the…

Autumn Equinox, September 23
• On or around September 23rd
• Sun over equator
• After Autumn Equinox, South pole begins tipping towards the sun ( North pole gets less sunlight)

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“Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries …

Clarence Dillon and Paul Nitze

Driving through New Jersey, Nitze [asked] Dillon if he thought the market decline an omen of hard times ahead . . . Dillon thought for a few minutes and replied, “I …

By Elbert Hubbard

In all this Cuban business there is one man stands out on the horizon of my memory like Mars at perihelion. When war broke out between Spain & the United States, it was very n…

If people let the government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny.

– Thomas Jeffer…

“I don’t want to see this country ever go across the bridge… I know the capacity that is there to make tyranny total in America, and we must see to it that this agency [NSA] and all agencies that po…

I was walking through the card section at Wal-Mart last night and noticed that they have a new section of cards. Typical sections are “Sympathy,” “Thank You,” and “Get Well.” The new one is called “Re…

I was going through old pictures looking for one of my childhood home in West Philadelphia and came upon this photo from the 1989 campaign. I figured you would get a kick out of this one!

“They have a new gimmick every year. They’re going to take one of their boys, black boys, and put him in the cabinet so he can walk around Washington with a cigar. Fire on one end and fool on the ot…

Unforgiveness is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.

~Unknown

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By Heidi Jon Schmidt

CHINCOTEAGUE, Moonstone, Bayou La Batre, Blue Point, Wellfleet, Malpeque … this was what I knew of the sea as a child: the list of oysters on the menu board at Grand Central T…

Cheetah by Follower of Giovannino de’Grassi

Anonymous Lombard (Workshop of Giovannino de’Grassi), Two studies of a cheetah, 1410 (detail).

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Video About The Exhibition

I flew to London on Wednesday, flying from Memphis to Dallas. The airports were busy. The all night flight from Dallas to London was packed.

I came into the City of London from Heathrow Airport wit…

From Alabama Governor Bob Riley

WHEREAS, Alabama is suffering from an unprecedented disaster caused by the explosion and sinking of the BP Deepwater Horizon and its aftermath, a disaster that threate…

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“There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.”

~ Warren Buffet

“All safe deposit boxes in banks or financial institutions have been sealed…and may only be opened in the presence of an agent of the IRS.”

~ President F.D. Roosevelt, 1933

Another favorite from ally Lesta Frank…

“I send the energy of love and gratitude to the water and all the living creatures in the Gulf of Mexico and its surroundings.To the whales, dolphins, pelicans, fish, shellfish, planktons, corals, alg…

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In 2006, after settling a significant piece of litigation, I decided that I would build my new home base in Hickory Valley, Tennessee, the small farming community where I have lived since 2000 next …

One of my favorites from ally Lesta Frank…