
Switzerland Signs OECD Multilateral Convention
By Press Trust of India
In a major boost for India and other countries seeking details on suspected black money stashed in Swiss banks, Switzerland has agreed to automatic exchange of information a…

Dr. Farrell’s New Books Available
By Catherine Austin Fitts
Dr. Joseph Farrell’s new books are now available. I have started them. Don’t wait for me. Like all of Dr. Farrell’s books, these are must haves for anyone interested in …

Crowdfunding: Growing Fresh Food Entrepreneurs
By Catherine Austin Fitts
One of the most important opportunities in America today is the creation of new enterprises to provide fresh, local food.
The national debate over healthcare has made cle…

Welcome to Going Organic Magazine
By Going Organic Magazine
Going Organic Magazine is a unique publication dedicated to creating better health and lifestyles for readers. Our goal is to provide information and inspiration to help p…

Poem From a Solari Subscriber!
By John Rushton
Nighttime falls, I study on.
I find another hero. It’s time to sleep.
Sleep lasts but half the night.
Burdens pile up,
The tax man calls in 5 days,
Men of all kinds fight for con…

Scott Adams’ Secret of Success: Failure
By Scott Adams
If you’re already as successful as you want to be, both personally and professionally, congratulations! Here’s the not-so-good news: All you are likely to get from this article is a …

Not Open for Business
By Schumpeter
Start-ups have always been at the heart of America’s economic success. Companies that are five years old or younger account for all of the country’s net job creation. They also ac…

Money & Markets – Week of 10.13.13
No, JPM Isn’t Banning International Wire Transfers, No Limits On Withdrawals Either
Forbes | 17 October 2013
Is JPMorgan Chase trying to control customers’ money by preventing wire transfers and lim…

Precious Metals – Week of 10.13.13
Mysterious Gold Seller Is Back With Periodic High Volume Slams, Fails To Break Market
Zero Hedge | 15 October 2013
Unlike on the two prior occasions when the “mysterious” (coughBIScough) gold seller…..

Geopolitical – Week of 10.13.13
Michigan Walmart Worker Says He was Fired for Helping Assaulted Woman
Fox News.com | 17 October 2013
A Michigan man says he was fired from his job at Walmart after he tried to help a woman being assau…

Science & Technology – Week of 10.13.13
Decentralized Power To The People’: UK Energy Minister
Revolution Green | 18 October 2013
This would be a fitting headline at last weeks Global Breakthrough Energy Movement Conference…
GridEx
NE…

Food & Health – Week of 10.13.13
8 Amazing Maps of Food in America
Wired
WIRED partnered with Food Network and crunched 49,733 recipes and 906,539 comments…
Why Your Supermarket Only Sells 5 Kinds of Apples
Mother Jones | April 20…

Wild Cards – Week of 10.13.13
Nick Begich : Technology to Control the Weather
YouTube | 17 September 2013
Dr. Nick Begich, will discuss his research on HAARP and its implications for controlling the weather…

The Mountain Goats – “Amy aka Spent Gladiator 1”
Related Reading:
The Mountain Goats on Wikipedia
The Mountain Goats’ Official Website

A Beginners Guide to 3D Printing
Photo Credit: Subhashish Panigrahi
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Overunity & Free Energy: Where To Now Part 3
By Mark Dansie
I saved this for the Breakthrough Energy Movement Conference being held in boulder latter this week. I wanted to point out the steps needed to hopefully be able to resource some of t…

Federal Budget
By The Solari Team
There are so many irreconcilable issues in the federal budget, and there are many pieces and aspects to understanding the fiscal cliff policy. If you’d like to take a deeper look…

GlobalBEM References
Here is a collection of links that Catherine makes note of in her GlobalBEM speech on October 11, 2013 from 11 – 12 MT.
Special Reports:
A Special Solari Report: Crowdfunding & the Legal Pathw…

A Special Solari Report: Crowdfunding & the Legal Pathways to Raising Capital – Now Available to Public!
By Catherine Austin Fitts
Complex legal and regulatory requirements govern access to raising private equity capital in the United States.
This means an entrepreneur looking to finance a start up or…

“The Lady in Number 6”
By Nick Reed Entertainment
Alice Herz-Sommer is 109 years old. As well as being the second oldest person living in London, England – she is more significantly the world’s oldest survivor of Hit…


Good News at the Fed
Photo Credit: Wikipedia/AgnosticPreachersKid
By Catherine Austin Fitts
Janet Yellen has been announced as the new Federal Reserve Chairman. That’s good news. She was the best candidate on the Presi…

Obama to Pick Yellen as Leader of Fed, Officials Say
Photo Credit: The New York Times/Mary F. Calvert
By Jackie Calmes
President Obama will nominate Janet L. Yellen as chairwoman of the Federal Reserve on Wednesday, White House officials said Tuesday…

Tesla Goes to #1 in Norway
By Catherine Austin Fitts
The Globe and Mail’s story yesterday A.M. that Tesla’s new Model S is now the # 1 selling car in Norway is a reminder that we are in a period of accelerating shifts of tec…

From The Kiplinger Letter, Oct. 4, 2013
Despite U.S. opposition, a pipeline from Iran to Pakistan is inevitable. Pakistan needs natural gas to fuel its power plants and has no good options. The Obama administration is threatening to put in …

European Youth Unemployment Rate Holds Steady
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Money & Markets – Week of 10.06.13
Goldman “Whistleblower” Sues NY Fed For Wrongful Termination
Zero Hedge | 10 October 2013
After seven months of investigating Goldman Sachs’ legal and compliance divisions…
IMF Calls For a Tax on H…

East Village to East End: Airbnb’s Chief Mapmaker Charts the World’s Neighborhoods
Photo Credit: The Verge
By Ben Popper
With more than 500,000 rooms available to rent on any given night, Airbnb now ranks among the largest hospitality companies in the world. But the homes and apa…

Open Source Ecology’s Microhouse
By Catherine Austin Fitts
Here is the proof – I was at Open Source Ecology’s design sprint on September 28th for the building of the Utility Frame for OSE’s Microhouse. Project manager Chris Reinha…

Precious Metals – Week of 10.06.13
Gold Plummets After Rocky Trading Day
Forbes | 11 October 2013
Gold continued its rocky year on Friday…

The Worlds 10 Largest Companies by Market Cap
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Geopolitical – Week of 10.04.13
Debt Cap Raise Until Nov. 22 Gains Support to Bar Default
Bloomberg | 10 October 2013
The White House endorsed a short debt-limit increase with no policy conditions attached…
Wendell Berry on His H…

Quote du Jour – Robert Orben
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“Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian.”
– Robert Orben

Quote du Jour
“Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian.”
– Robert Orben

Science & Technology – Week of 10.06.13
Lockheed Martin, Concord Blue to Deploy Waste Gasification
BioMass Magazine | 10 October 2013
Lockheed Martin and Concord Blue USA Inc. have teamed up to deploy a waste gasification technology…
Nuc…

Food & Health – Week of 10.06.13
Robot Surgery Damaging Patients Rises With Marketing
Bloomberg | 08 October 2013
Porter Adventist Hospital in Denver announced last year that Warren Kortz…
South Dakota Blizzard Kills 75,000 Cattle…

Life – Week of 10.06.13
One-Man Militia Cleaning Up National Mall For Vets With Park Service Furloughed
CBS News | 09 October 2013
You probably haven’t heard of the Memorial Militia…
Billionaire Couple Donates $10 Milli…

Currency Wars and the Ghost of Bear Stearns – The Mass Exodus of Gold Bullion
**CAF Note: Reported gold inventories show significant drops in the US and European positions**
By Jesse’s Café Américain
Here is one take on the gold inventory conundrum that I posted about las…

Bob Dylan – “Times They Are A Changin’ “
Related Reading:
Bob Dylan on Wikipedia
Bob Dylan’s Official Website

3rd Quarter Wrap-up
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The Solari Report 2013-10-03
Au…

Catherine’s Speech – Links
CAF Note: I am posting links referred to in my speech on October 5th at the Casey Research Summit in Tucson.
Sir James Goldsmith’s Globalization Warning
Dillon Read & the Aristocracy of Stock Pr…

’4D Printing’ Adaptive Materials
By Kurzweil Accelerating Intelligence
Researchers from three universities are proposing to add a dimension to 3D printing by developing “4D” materials that can exhibit behavior that changes ove…

Subscriber Lunch in San Francisco, CA – October 29, 2013
If you are a Solari Report subscriber, you are cordially invited to meet and lunch with Catherine.
This will provide an opportunity for you to meet Catherine in person and to get together with oth…

U.S. Debt and Debt Ceiling
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Photo Credit: Whitehouse.gov
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IMF head warns US debt crisis threatens world economy

Book Review: The Master Switch
By Catherine Austin Fitts
In this well done history of the information industry, Tim Wu shows again and again how what begins as a robust, entrepreneurial process gets converted to a centralized …

A CEO Who Resisted NSA Spying is Out of Prison. And he Feels ‘Vindicated’ by Snowden Leaks.
Photo Credit: NSA/Reuters
By Andrea Peterson
Just one major telecommunications company refused to participate in a legally dubious NSA surveillance program in 2001. A few years later, its CEO was i…

Vatican Bank Opens its Books in Transparency Drive
Photo Credit: Reuters/Stringer/Files
By Katrina Bishop
The Vatican bank published its annual accounts for the first time on Tuesday in an attempt to boost transparency and distance itself from a st…

Money & Markets – Week of 09.29.13
Twitter Files for IPO, Shows $317M in Revenue
Wired | 03 October 2013
Twitter has filed to go public, saying it will sell shares under the name TWTR…
Russia Sinks $1.5 Billion Into U.S. Tech Firms
…

Lavabit’s Ladar Levison: ‘If You Knew What I Know About Email, You Might Not Use It’
By Kashmir Hill
Ladar Levison, 32, has spent ten years building encrypted email service Lavabit, attracting over 410,000 users. When NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden was revealed to be one of those…

Geopolitical – Week of 09.29.13
France Makes it Illegal to Close Your Company
Armstrong Economics | 04 October 2013
Only in France is something so Socialistic-Draconian even possible…
Wild Car Chase Ends With Suspect Shot to Deat…

Science & Technology – Week of 09.29.13
Bitcoin Forum Hacked in Aftermath of Silk Road Takedown
Naked Security | 04 October 2013
The popular Bitcoin discussion forum, Bitcointalk.org…
IBM’s Watson Gets Its First Piece Of Business In Heal…

Food & Health – Week of 09.29.13
New California Law Aims to Cultivate Urban Agriculture
Los Angeles Times | 02 October 2013
Sandwiched between rows of homes in the fog-kissed Mission Terrace neighborhood…
New Blood Testing Technol…

Life – Week of 09.29.13
Peru Makes Book Writing Into a Spectator Sport and Invites Desperate Writers Into Combat
PRI | 30 September 2013
On a chilly Monday night in Lima, a bar called La Noche is packed…

Wild Cards – Week of 09.29.13
Panicked MSM Begins Killing Off Comment Sections
YouTube | 27 September 2013
Desperate to cling onto their ability to dictate reality, the crumbling mainstream media is beginning to kill off article …

Norah Jones – Forever Young
Related Reading:
Norah Jones on Wikipedia
Norah Jones’ Official Website

Transcript of “Crowdfunding, What it Means to You” is Now Available!
Transcript of “Crowdfunding pt. 1 and pt. 2″ are now available to Subscribers!
Subscribers: Click to download/view the “Crowdfudning pt. 1: The Big Picture” transcript.
Subscribers: Click to …

GlobalBEM Indiegogo Campaign
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A Jon Rappoport Report – Century of the Brain
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Open Source Education
By Catherine Austin Fitts
Pay attention to the explosion of on-line education. There is a lot of excellent curriculum and teaching that is becoming available – much of it designed to support the ex…

Apple Admits, iPhone 5s Fingerprint Database To Be Shared With NSA
By Mr. H
Now-a-days, Apple is famous in the markets because its new iPhone 5S has a Fingerprint Sensor (Touch ID) as a security feature—everyone is getting amazed with that feature and eager to u…

JP Morgan & the Sheriff of Nottingham
Photo Credit: Reuters
By Catherine Austin Fitts
The latest headlines announce that “J.P. Morgan Chase is in talks to pay up to $11 billion to settle mortgage-backed securities probes.”
Of one thi…

Scientists Break The World Record For The Most Efficient Solar Cell
Photo Credit: Fraunhofer Institute
By Rob Wile
A German-French research team has created a solar cell that can convert 44.7% of the sunlight it receives into energy.
That’s a new world record (th…

Somebody Stole 7 Milliseconds From the Federal Reserve
By Kevin Drum
Last Wednesday, the Fed announced that it would not be tapering its bond buying program. This news was released at precisely 2 p.m. in Washington “as measured by the national atomic clo…

At U.N., Brazil’s Rousseff Blasts U.S. Spying as Breach of Law
Photo Credit: Reuters/Shannon Stapleton
By Daniel Trotta
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff used her position as the opening speaker at the U.N. General Assembly to accuse the United States of viol…

Quote du Jour – Peter F. Drucker
“How knowledge behaves as an economic resource, we do not yet fully understand … We need an economic theory that puts knowledge into the center of the wealth-producing process.”
– Peter F. Drucke…

Quote du Jour
“How knowledge behaves as an economic resource, we do not yet fully understand … We need an economic theory that puts knowledge into the center of the wealth-producing process.”
Peter F. Drucker
…

Dark Journalist: Richard Dolan: UFOs & The Breakaway Civilization
Join Dark Journalist and historian Richard Dolan as they examine the UFO coverup and its far reaching implications of a breakaway civilization.
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Take Back Your Power
Take Back Your Power takes us on a journey of revelation and discovery, as we question the benefits and risks of “smart” meters and grid technology… and corporate practices to tap private inform…

Thank You, BlackBerry Ltd!
By Catherine Austin Fitts
BlackBerry held out for a long time. However, successfully catering to business and investment professionals meant their data flow was much too valuable. There was no way …

U.S. Startups Freed to Solicit Funds Fight SEC Over Disclosures
By Dave Michaels
Startup companies that celebrated the passage of a U.S. law allowing them to solicit investors more openly say regulators may undercut that move by requiring detailed disclosures of …

Requiem for a Whistleblower
By Chris Floyd
A former colleague of mine died recently, although I didn’t know he had been my colleague until I read his obituary in the New York Times last month — six months after his obscure a…

Snowden Leak Suggests UK Was Spying on Belgian Telecom
By Jon Fingas
When Belgian prosecutors suggested that Belgacom was the target of foreign espionage, many blamed the NSA — it has a history of snooping on other countries, after all. Those accusation…

Our Chat With Jeremy Grantham
By Ian Salisbury
Jeremy Grantham’s got a track record that’s impossible to ignore—he called the Internet bubble, then the housing bubble. While moves like those have earned the famed forecaster t…

Navy Yard Shooting: Swat Team Awaits Answers
Photo Credit: AP
By Debbie Siegelbaum
Members of a Washington DC Swat team who the BBC has learned were ordered not to respond to Monday’s Navy Yard shootings have yet to be contacted by the author…

Money & Markets – Week of 09.22.13
Fund to Let Investors Bet on Price of Bitcoins
Telegraph | 25 September 2013
The upstart stock exchange SecondMarket has made a name for itself allowing investors to buy shares of hot private companie…

Precious Metals – Week of 09.22.13
Finland Latest to Join Gold Repatriation Movement
Wealth Cycle | 23 September 2013
Finland recently became the latest nation to initiate action to pull its physical gold reserves back within its natio…

Housing & Mortgage Markets – Week of 08.22.13
Black Homeownership Dying Where Obama Revitalized
Bloomberg | 03 September 2013
Helene Pearson’s belief in homeownership was shattered in Roseland…

Geopolitical – Week of 09.22.13
China’s Maritime Disputes
Council on Foreign Relations | 27 September 2013
The East and South China Seas are the scene of escalating territorial disputes between China and its neighbors, including J…

Science & Technology – Week of 09.22.13
India’s Incoming Solar Power Plant Will Be Bigger Than the US’s Ten Biggest Combined
Motherboard | 24 September 2013
The impact on jobs and other assumptions that don’t hold up anymore…
19-Year-Old…

Food & Health – Week of 09.22.13
Cancer Officially Number One Cause of Childhood Death in U.S.
Banoosh | 25 September 2013
The number one reason blamed for childhood deaths in America used to be accidents; now it’s cancer…
First…

Life – Week of 09.22.13
Duped By The Beast of War
Awaken in the Dream
As if living in a never-ending “war-time,” the war drums are once again fast approaching…
Genetic Testing Will Drive New Luxury Advertising Market
…

Wild Cards – Week of 09.22.13
Conn. Panel Orders Release of Newtown 911 Tapes
Huffington Post | 25 September 2013
The state’s Freedom of Information Commission on Wednesday ordered the release of the 911 tapes from last year’s sho…

Don Williams – “Lord, I Hope This Day is Good”
Related Reading:
Don Williams on Wikipedia
Don Williams’ Official Website

Crowdfunding, What It Means To You
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Halliburton Pleads Guilty to Criminal Charge in Gulf Oil Spill Case
Photo Credit: AP Photo/Gerald Herbert
**CAF Note: Just when you think that you can not be shocked by the state of lawlessness in the United States, just when you think you have seen it all, someth…

Transcript of “Precious Metals Market Report with Franklin Sanders” is Now Available!
Transcript of “Precious Metals Market Report with Franklin Sanders” is now available to Subscribers!
Subscribers: Click to download/view the Transcript.
Also find it in the blog post; at the S…

The Federal Reserve
By Catherine Austin Fitts
The Fed’s decision not to taper quantitative easing this week has equity and commodities markets up and interest rates falling. On one hand, that’s good news for many inve…

The BRICS “Independent Internet” Cable. In Defiance of the “US-Centric Internet”
By Umberto Pascali
The President of Brazil, Dilma Rousseff announces publicly the creation of a world internet system INDEPENDENT from US and Britain ( the “US-centric internet”).
Not many un…

Wharton Puts First-Year MBA Courses Online for Free
By Louis Lavelle
Getting a Wharton MBA involves taking off from work for two years, moving to Philadelphia, and spending about $200,000 on tuition and expenses. Now, with the addition of three new co…

It Pays To Be Useful
By Catherine Austin Fitts
I copied these results from a Yahoo Finance poll that I took yesterday. It is an interesting comment on two important aspects of life in our current situation. I am think…

Facebook Sees ‘Digital Suicides’ as Users Fear Privacy Breaches and Addiction
Photo Credit:Reuters / Valentin Flauraud
By RT
Privacy concerns, fear of addiction, loss of interest – these are the reasons listed by those who have decided to delete their Facebook profiles, in…

First-Time View of Unmanned Aircraft System for Agricultural Use During Field Demos
By Tracey Turner
As the list of new technologies used in the agriculture industry continues to grow, the use of unmanned aircraft systems (drones) has the potential to be among the most wide-rangin…

Weekend Sentiment Summary (September Week 2)
By The Short Side of Long
AAII survey readings came in at 46% bulls and 25% bears. Bullish readings rose by a huge 10% while bearish readings fell by 7%. The AAII bull ratio has once again risen ne…

A Special Solari Report: Crowdfunding & the Legal Pathways to Raising Capital
By Catherine Austin Fitts
Complex legal and regulatory requirements govern access to raising private equity capital in the United States.
This means an entrepreneur looking to finance a start up o…

Book Review: Anita Moojani’s Dying To Be Me: My Journey from Cancer, to Near Death, to True Healing
By Catherine Austin Fitts
Anita Moojani’s story of her near death experience and miraculous remission and healing from terminal cancer opens an intimate window into the transition between life …

Book Review: Anita Moorjani’s Dying To Be Me: My Journey from Cancer, to Near Death, to True Healing
By Catherine Austin Fitts
Anita Moojani’s story of her near death experience and miraculous remission and healing from terminal cancer opens an intimate window into the transition between life …

Naval Sea Systems Command
By Wikipedia
The Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) is the largest of the United States Navy’s five “systems commands,” or materiel (not to be confused with “material”) organizations. NAVSEA consis…

Money & Markets – Week of 09.15.13
U.S. SEC Approves Long-Awaited Municipal Adviser Rule
Reuters | 18 September 2013
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission unanimously approved on Wednesday a long-awaited rule…
How to Rate a Lo…

Geopolitical – Week of 09.15.13
Linus Torvalds Admits He’s Been Asked To Insert Backdoor Into Linux
Slashdot | 19 September 2013
At the Linuxcon conference in New Orleans today, Linus Torvalds joined fellow kernel developers…
Mat…

Science & Technology – Week of 09.15.13
Sun Mysteriously Goes All Quiet Just When Its Activity Should Be Highest
Wired | 16 September 2013
Almost every measure of solar activity flatlined over the weekend…
The Truth IS Out There: British…