Ray Dalio on the Economy
“There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.”
~ Buddha
By Catherine Austin Fitts
Ray Dalio’s was quoted in Business Week this week:…
Predatory Violence at a State University
**Note from CAF: The following was written in dialogue between two members of my network in Montana. The author is positive, very intelligent, thorough, highly educated, grounded. This is a highly r…
Detroit Bankruptcy Bond Fight a Watershed for Municipal Market
Photo Credit: REUTERS/Joshua Lott
By Karen Pierog and Tom Hals
The city of Detroit’s effort to declare some of its general obligation bonds as unsecured debt will be challenged in bankruptcy court …
Did Dick Cheney Double Dip?
By Catherine Austin Fitts
R. J. Cutler’s documentary, The World According to Dick Cheney, is worth watching. Along with Ferguson’s No End in Sight this is very good footage documenting Dick Che…
Financial Perspectives – Feb 17, 2014
By Chuck Gibson
Part 2 in this series, this week I wanted to dig into price reversal patterns that typically appear during market tops.
Rising Wedges
The rising wedge is a bearish reversal patter…
Unbundling the Nation State
By The Economist
Nigerian pineapple for breakfast, Peruvian quinoa for lunch and Japanese sushi for dinner. Two centuries ago, when David Ricardo advocated specialisation and free trade, the notion t…
Experiment, Catherine’s Latest Crowdfunding Donation
By Lee Stanish, Stephen Osborn
Can microorganisms help protect our groundwater from contamination by hydraulic fracturing?
There is growing concern over the safety of hydraulic fracturing, or “fra…
Matt Damon from Howard Zinn’s speech: The Problem is Civil Obedience
Matt Damon, a lifelong friend of Howard Zinn and his family, read excerpts from a speech Howard Zinn gave in 1970 as part of a debate on civil disobedience.
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The Vampire Squid Strikes Again: The Mega Banks’ Most Devious Scam Yet
By Matt Taibi
Call it the loophole that destroyed the world. It’s 1999, the tail end of the Clinton years. While the rest of America obsesses over Monica Lewinsky, Columbine and Mark McGwire’s biceps…
Pension Trusts and Municipal Bankruptcy
By Pension Dialog
As anticipation mounts that Detroit will file a plan to adjust its debt with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court next week and with the ongoing confusion of public pensions, bond holders, a…
How a $100,000 Check Exposes the Politics of Pension Theft
By David Sirota
When historians one day sit down to solve the Great American Pension Heist, they will likely focus much of their attention on a scandal that has been unfolding in corruption-plagued R…
Average US Per Capita Income And Average Federal Employee Salary – 2012
Chart Source: Zero Hedge
The UnAnswered Questions of Weird Weather
By Catherine Austin Fitts
The Church of England has now announced that they are pulling their endowment investments from companies that do not “play ball” on climate change. I am not sure what …
The Era We Fight Back
‘Cos its true what they say
It’s better the devil you know”
~ Kylie Minogue
By Catherine Austin Fitts
As you can see from the banner on our blog, the Solari Report is participating in The Day We…
Coming Clean: Beyond the Fiscal Cliff – War & Organized Crime: 17th of 22 Challenges
**Note: We are republishing each of the 22 challenges from Catherine’s fiscal cliff article – one a week. Helps to digest them bit by bit!**
By Catherine Austin Fitts
The dependence of the U.S. econ…
All Aboard: Why America’s Second Rail Boom Has Plenty Of Room To Run
By Joann Muller, Zack O’Malley Greenburg and Christopher Helman
On an overcast Tuesday morning in dusty North Platte, Nebr., Tony Orr stands at the center of the world’s largest freight rail ya…
Financial Perspectives – Feb 10, 2014
By Chuck Gibson
The stock market dropped 5.2% over the past two weeks, the first such correction in almost 4 months. It appears as if the bears have awakened from their winter slumber. The questio…
The NSA’s Secret Role in the U.S. Assassination Program
Credit: Kirsty Wigglesworth/Associated Press.
By Jeremy Scahill and Glenn Greenwald
The National Security Agency is using complex analysis of electronic surveillance, rather than human intelligenc…
NASA is Now Accepting Applications From Companies that Want to Mine the Moon
By Adrianne Jeffries
NASA is now working with private companies to take the first steps in exploring the moon for valuable resources like helium 3 and rare earth metals.
Initial proposals are due …
Percent Job Losses in Post World War II Recessions
Chart credit: Business Insider
Letter to the Mayor of Syracuse
From: Catherine Austin Fitts
Date: Wednesday, February 5, 2014 at 10:57 PM
To:”Mayor@SyrGov.net”
Subject: Letter to Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner
Dear Mayor Miner:
I am writing to request that…
Press Release for Cell Spy Stealth
***CAF Note: Now you know why I leave my cell phone in the car when I get home!***
By PRWeb
Cell-Phone-Detective.com has announced the launch of its Cell Spy Stealth mobile spyware app that allows…
GPM Satellite to Usher in a New Era of Weather Observation
By Anthony Wood
A new satellite designed to take detailed, near real-time measurements of rain and snowfall on a global scale whilst mapping the interior of storm systems is set to launch. The Glob…
Changing Faces at Microsoft
By Catherine Austin Fitts
The recent Snowden revelations have reminded us yet again how deeply invasive the US software system is:
“The National Security Agency has implanted software in nearly 10…
Coming Clean: Beyond the Fiscal Cliff – Corporate Taxes: 16th of 22 Challenges
**Note: We are republishing each of the 22 challenges from Catherine’s fiscal cliff article – one a week. Helps to digest them bit by bit!**
By Catherine Austin Fitts
While benefits and contracts to…
Harsh Justice: Comparing Prisons Around the World
Infographic credit: Criminaljusticedegreehub.com
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Texas Oil Production, January 1981 to November 2013
Chart Credit: Carpe Diem Blog
Reid Says He Opposes Renewing Fast-Track Trade Authority
By Laura Litvan and Kathleen Hunter
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said he opposes legislation to speed approval of trade deals, rejecting a top goal of U.S. exporters a day after President Bara…
Emerging Markets – Emerging Crisis or Media Hysteria?
By Chris Puplava
Emerging markets have been hemorrhaging this year and are now grabbing media attention. However, as the charts show, the decline in these markets and currencies has been taking pla…
Stem Cell ‘Major Discovery’ Claimed
By James Gallagher
Stem cell researchers are heralding a “major scientific discovery”, with the potential to start a new age of personalised medicine.
Scientists in Japan showed stem cells can now…
GMOs & Nano-Technology
**CAF Note: I asked one of our subscribers if I could republish his comment on GMOs and Nano-Technology engineering of the food supply. This guy is essentially so knowledgeable about food and so in…
Suggestions for President Obama
By Catherine Austin Fitts
President Obama has the challenging task of trying to persuade us that the US government should have a hand in softening the blow of income inequality.
While the Presiden…
Pete Seeger (May 3, 1919 – January 27, 2014)
By Wikipedia
Peter “Pete” Seeger was an American folk singer. A fixture on nationwide radio in the 1940s, he also had a string of hit records during the early 1950s as a member of the Weavers, most…
Suburban Chicken Coops
By Catherine Austin Fitts
A subscriber sent me a picture of chicken coops for sale at a Costco in Silicon Valley, in the suburbs south of San Francisco, saying he never thought he would see such a …
Hugo Barra on Chinese Internet Growth
By LeWeb Founders
Hugo…updates us on his new role at Xiaomi, running their product portfolio and operations in all markets outside Mainland China. He shares his views on the tech sector in China …
Financial Perspectives – Jan. 27, 2014
By Chuck Gibson
At the start of every year I like to take the time and sketch out a game plan for the year. Part of that includes identifying major areas of risk and creating a mental game plan on…
Coming Clean: Beyond the Fiscal Cliff – Small Business: 15th of 22 Challenges
**Note: We are republishing each of the 22 challenges from Catherine’s fiscal cliff article – one a week. Helps to digest them bit by bit!**
By Catherine Austin Fitts
The use of the federal budget t…
State of Power 2014
By The Transnational Institute
The Transnational Institute is proud to launch its third annual ‘State of Power’ report as the World Economic Forum meets in Davos. This anthology exposes and ana…
Terraforming
Photo Credit: Daein Ballard/Wikipedia
By Wikipedia
Terraforming (literally, “Earth-shaping”) of a planet, moon, or other body is the theoretical process of deliberately modifying its atmosphere, te…
Tomgram: Alfred McCoy, It’s About Blackmail, Not National Security
By Alfred McCoy
For more than six months, Edward Snowden’s revelations about the National Security Agency (NSA) have been pouring out from the Washington Post, the New York Times, the Guardian, Ger…
Historic California Drought Called a Red Flag for Future of US
By Gloria Goodale
As California faces the worst drought in its 163-year history with no hint of relief in sight, some scientists are calling the event a red flag for the future of the nation.
Gov. J…
Tennessee Bill Takes on NSA Encryption-Breaking Facility at Oak Ridge
By Tenth Amendment Center
The state-level effort to turn off water and electricity to the National Security Agency (NSA) got a major boost today as legislators in Tennessee introduced a bill to ban t…
SEC Judge Bars “Big Four” China Units for Six Months Over Audits
By Sarah N. Lynch
Chinese units of the global “Big Four” accounting firms should be suspended from auditing U.S.-listed companies for six months, a judge in the United States ruled, in an escalatio…
Whither Bank Profits?
By Catherine Austin Fitts
The latest round of bank profit announcements is worth contemplating, as is the chart above which shows the stock history of several large financial institutions (Deutsche…
Coming Clean: Beyond the Fiscal Cliff – Military: 14th of 22 Challenges
**Note: We are republishing each of the 22 challenges from Catherine’s fiscal cliff article – one a week. Helps to digest them bit by bit!**
By Catherine Austin Fitts
Federal finances depend on the …
Infographic: A Catalog Of Interplanetary Firsts
By Katie Peek
The U.S. is still the only country that’s sent people to the moon, but more nations are steadily joining us in space. South Korea sent up its first satellite last year. In the fall,…
Tech Startups: A Cambrian Moment
By The Economist
About 540m years ago something amazing happened on planet Earth: life forms began to multiply, leading to what is known as the “Cambrian explosion”. Until then sponges and othe…
Did the NSA Kill Hugo Chavez?
(Rough Translation, original article can be found here)
By Eva Golinger
3-1-14 – . During 2013, Venezuela experienced one of the most difficult times in its history with the death of President Hug…
World Economic Forum 2014 Risk Report
By World Economic Forum
First launched in 2005 by the World Economic Forum, the Global Risks report is widely recognized as one of the world’s leading publications on global risks. The report ide…
Virtual Currency vs the Stock Market
By Catherine Austin Fitts
Mobile marketing company Jana just published a new survey of 1,000+ mobile users in Asia, Africa and South America. What they found was pretty interesting. Mobile users t…
The Big Shift
By Catherine Austin Fitts
If you follow market commentators, one of the themes you are hearing a great deal about is the question of what, exactly, is going to cause the stock market in the develop…
Secret Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) – Environment Consolidated Text
By Wikileaks
Today, 15 January 2014, WikiLeaks released the secret draft text for the entire TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership) Environment Chapter and the corresponding Chairs’ Report. The TPP transn…
Key Provision of Net-Neutrality Law Struck Down by Court
Photo Credit: Reuters / Toru Hanai
By RT
Should internet service providers be allowed to restrict access to websites and block certain content from customers depending on how much they pay to be c…
U.S. Will Be Energy Self-Sufficient by 2035 on Shale, BP Says
By Brian Swint
The U.S. will be able to provide for all its own energy needs by 2035 as output of shale oil and gas accelerates and demand growth slows, BP Plc said.
The country, which became the wo…
Privatisation: The $9 trillion sale
By The Economist
Imagine you were heavily in debt, owned a large portfolio of equities and under-used property and were having trouble cutting your spending—much like most Western governments. Wo…
Welcome to the Texas Theatre!
By Catherine Austin Fitts
I am always on the look out for gems.
There is a new one in West Texas, in a small town named Ballinger. It is an “old timey” theatre called the old Texas Theatre.
For…
Coming Clean: Beyond the Fiscal Cliff – Managed Markets: 13th of 22 Challenges
**Note: We are republishing each of the 22 challenges from Catherine’s fiscal cliff article – one a week. Helps to digest them bit by bit!**
By Catherine Austin Fitts
The U.S. stock, bond and commod…
Crowdbuilding: The Real Story Behind Crowdfunding That No One’s Telling
By Zack Miller
With all the negativity and skepticism swirling around the SEC’s recent proposition to liberalize the laws of equity crowdfunding, it’s time for some contrarian content that shed…
Reflections on a Medical Career
By Robert S. Dotson, M.D.
Avoid contact with the existing health care system as far as possible. Yes, emergencies arise that require the help of physicians, but by and large one can learn to care for…
Obama, Lawmakers Discuss Whether to End NSA Collection of Americans’ Phone Records
**CAF Note: This is about privatizing the police state. Fascism 3.0**
By Ellen Nakashima
President Obama met Thursday with senior lawmakers on opposing sides of a debate about whether to end the Nat…
In Norway, Everyone is Now a Millionaire, Thanks to Oil
By Alister Doyle
Everyone in Norway became a theoretical millionaire on Wednesday in a milestone for the world’s biggest sovereign wealth fund that has ballooned thanks to high oil and gas prices.
…
American Humpty Dumpty
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
All the king’s horses and all the king’s men
Couldn’t put Humpty together again
~English Nursery Rhyme
By Catherine Austin Fitts
Canad…
The Startling Size of US Special Forces
By Nick Turse
“Dude, I don’t need to play these stupid games. I know what you’re trying to do.” With that, Major Matthew Robert Bockholt hung up on me.
More than a month before, I had called US S…
Failure is an Option
“Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.” ~ Elon Musk
By Catherine Austin Fitts
In the year-end wrap up published for subscribers last week, I de…
Book Review: Realizing Tomorrow: The Path to Private Spaceflight
“The stars up here are unbelievable. It looks like someone has spread diamond dust over a black velvet blanket.” ~ Anousheh Ansari, the first female spaceflight participant, blogging from the Interna…
Monsanto’s Scary New Scheme: Why Does It Really Want All This Data?
By Lina Khan
Imagine cows fed and milked entirely by robots. Or tomatoes that send an e-mail when they need more water. Or a farm where all the decisions about where to plant seeds, spray fertilize…
Coming Clean: Beyond the Fiscal Cliff – Federal Enforcement: 12th of 22 Challenges
**Note: We are republishing each of the 22 challenges from Catherine’s fiscal cliff article – one a week. Helps to digest them bit by bit!**
By Catherine Austin Fitts
Federal enforcement is focused …
The Fed Is Hiring: Lots Of Cops
By Tyler Durden
Some may have forgotten, or not be aware, that the Federal Reserve system has its own police force. Well, it does: “The U.S. Federal Reserve Police is the law enforcement arm of th…
2013 Year in Review: Austerity is Not a Policy
By David B. Collum
Every December, I write a Year in Review or, as my wife calls it, my Urine Review. It has found a home at Chris Martenson’s website PeakProsperity.com with a secondary posting …
Petrodollar vs Petrogold
By Tyler Durden
It was in October 2012 when we explained how Iran evades the Western blockade (ostensibly with the implicit nod of none other than the US), and when we first defined the concept of Pe…
Sorry for Letting Them Snoop? Dell Apologizes for ‘Inconvenience’ Caused by NSA Backdoor
By RT
Security researcher Jacob Appelbaum dropped a bombshell of sorts earlier this week when he accused American tech companies of placing government-friendly backdoors in their devices. Now Texas…
2013: The Best Energy Stories of the Year
By Kevin Bullis
Clean energy technology made progress in 2013, but low-carbon energy isn’t growing fast enough to meet goals for limiting climate change. That would require switching energy sourc…
Comparing The Inflated Cost of Living Today From 1938 to 2013: How The US Dollar Has Lost Incredible Purchasing Power Since 1938.
By My Budget 360
Money is only as useful as to what it can purchase. The Fed has created a system where debt is now equal to money. This is why big purchases like cars, housing, and even going to…
30C3: To Protect And Infect – The Militarization of the Internet
By: Claudio Guarnieri and Morgan Marquis-Boire
2013 will be remembered as the year that the Internet lost its innocence for nearly everyone as light was shed on the widespread use of dragnet survei…
New Hazards in GMOs from Synonymous Mutations
By Institute of Science in Society
Single nucleotide mutations form the majority of genetic polymorphisms (single nucleotide polymorphisms, SNPs) in populations. When found in gene protein coding r…
Musk vs Bezos vs the Big Boys in Space
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Coming Clean: Beyond the Fiscal Cliff – Economic Health: 11th of 22 Challenges
**Note: We are republishing each of the 22 challenges from Catherine’s fiscal cliff article – one a week. Helps to digest them bit by bit!**
By Catherine Austin Fitts
The vast majority of the people…
Gaia (Spacecraft)
**CAF Note: GAIA is the Grand Award Winner in the Aerospace category for Popular Science’s Best of What’s New 2013**
By Wikipedia
Gaia is an unmanned space observatory of the European Space Ag…
IPO Investors Score Best Year Since Tech Boom
By Matt Krantz
Investors’ appetite for IPOs is reaching levels not seen since the rip-roaring stock market during the dot-com boom in 2000.
Thanks to a white-hot stock market in 2013, companies ar…
Museums: Temples of Delight
By The Economist
In 2012 American museums received 850m visitors, says the American Alliance of Museums. That is more than all the big-league sporting events and theme parks combined. In England ov…
We are Celebrating Christmas!
Dearest Friends and Allies:
We are celebrating from December 24 – January 1. Our office will be closed.
We will post the next Jon Rappoport special on December 26th and the blog post for the Annua…
On Free Speech
“Today, we are putting all our ‘Duck Dynasty’ products back in our stores, and, we apologize for offending you. We respect all individuals’ right to express their beliefs. We certainly did not…
Coming Clean: Beyond the Fiscal Cliff – Building Empire: 10th of 22 Challenges
**Note: We are republishing each of the 22 challenges from Catherine’s fiscal cliff article – one a week. Helps to digest them bit by bit!**
By Catherine Austin Fitts
Global “Empire Building” an…
Industrial Robotics: An Introduction
By Catherine Austin Fitts
Engineer Onat Ekinci joined me on the Solari Report this year for an excellent briefing on 3D Printing.
Onat is briefing me on Industrial Robotics and has given permissi…
Gates on the Need for Company Creation
By Brad Stone
Are you optimistic that we can slow down climate change?
Anybody who says we’re close to the solution isn’t looking at the whole systems requirement. There’s 20 companies that I …
2013 Global Surveillance Disclosure
By Wikipedia
The global surveillance disclosure refers to an ongoing series of news reports in the international media that revealed operational details about the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA…
Algae Converted to Crude Oil in Less Than an Hour, Energy Department Says
Photo Credit: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
By John Roach
The day when planes, trucks and cars are commonly revved up on pond scum may be on the near horizon thanks to a technological advan…
Fed Delivers Bah Humbug to Gold
By Catherine Austin Fitts
After the Fed announcement yesterday that it will begin to taper its QE by $10 billion a month in January, precious metals prices fell, with gold breaching the 1200 price …
SEC Plans Higher Limit for Small Stock Deals Under JOBS Act
By Dave Michaels
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission unanimously proposed boosting by 10 times the amount of money companies can raise under a simplified public offering, the agency’s lates…
Evolving the New Digital Currency
By Catherine Austin Fitts
South Korea just announced that they are starting a physical gold exchange; this follows on the heals of Singapore, Moscow and Thailand doing the same, not to mention vari…
Fed Scales Back Stimulus Campaign
By Binyamin Appelbaum
The Federal Reserve said on Wednesday that it would reduce its monthly bond-buying campaign to $75 billion in January, beginning a retreat from its stimulus campaign, because …
Coming Clean: Beyond the Fiscal Cliff – Monetary Policy: 9th of 22 Challenges
**Note: We are republishing each of the 22 challenges from Catherine’s fiscal cliff article – one a week. Helps to digest them bit by bit!**
By Catherine Austin Fitts
The federal government has dele…
Modified Limited Hangout Watch: Pentagon “Waste”
***CAF Note: In the world of modified limited hangouts, the Pentagon waste story is the equivalent of the Caddyshack Gopher. You can’t kill it, although it makes no sense, and it just won’t go away….
Velocity of M2 Money Stock
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What’s Next? Primary Trends in the Global Financial Market and the Impact on Bay Area Real Estate
By Catherine Austin Fitts
Subscribers have been asking for a recording of my speech to the Appraisal Institute in San Francisco this fall. I will be incorporating the material into the Annual Wrap Up…
MakerBot Opens 3D Print Service in Retail Stores
By MakerBot
MakerBot has opened 3D print services in three MakerBot retail stores in New York, Boston and Greenwich, Conn. Customers can simply walk into one of the MakerBot retail stores with a .S…
White House Team Recommends Ending Bulk NSA Surveillance
***CAF Note: Looks like the shadow government will own and control BIG BROTHER directly through the telecoms without interference from an agency subject to FOIA laws and Congressionally approved bud…
China Focus: China’s Lunar Probe Soft-Lands On Moon
By English.News.Cn
China’s lunar probe Chang’e-3, with the country’s first moon rover onboard, successfully landed on the moon on Saturday night, marking the first time that China has sent a spacec…
