By Tim Jones and Elizabeth Campbell

Pickup trucks lined a stretch of gravel road where 150 farmers mingled between 7-foot tall cornstalks and shimmering soybeans to see which of their wealthy breth…

Secret Space Program Slideshow:

You can access the slideshow from Catherine’s Secret Space Program presentation here (Part 1) (Part 2)

Missing Money Video

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Stand By Me | Playing For Change | Song Around The World from Concord Music Group on Vimeo.

Note from CAF:…

[CAF Note: If you want to understand the US education system, read and listen to John Taylor Gatto. If you want to support a REALLY worthy cause and support one of the people who has done a tremendo…

Here is a complete list of contenders

By Catherine Austin Fitts

Your vote counts.

Marianne Williamson asked her Facebook followers who they thought would win the election. The two most knowledge…

For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.
(1 Corinthians 14:33)

By Dr. Michael Linton

One of the discussion topics of the 2012 Transformations and…

By Franklin Sanders: The Moneychanger

Y’all, we had one more great time at the Transformations Gathering this weekend. We had folks from so many different backgrounds & standpoints I was afraid the…

By Joe Weisenthal and Rob Wile

One of the speakers at this week’s Big Picture Conference was David Rosenberg, the famously bearish chief economist of Canadian wealth management firm Gluskin-Sheff.

R…

[CAF Note: Just goes to show you how the housing market can improve when the Fed writes a $2 trillion forward purchase at 1,000% above market price through 2015!]

The U.S. housing market has shown …

See Major Lazer

The information is based on the new report “GMO Myths and Truths” by EarthOpenSource.org.

You can find more information here.

[CAF Note: If you want to understand the US education system, read and listen to John Taylor Gatto. If you want to support a REALLY worthy cause and support one of the people who has done a tremendo…

[CAF Note: Now that fiscal year, 2013 is underway, the focus is shifting to the changes underway to reengineer the federal finances. I will be writing a lot about how you can “jump the curve” on the…

By Bernice Napach

While government prosecutors pursue lawsuits against JPMorgan (JPM) and Wells Fargo (WFC) for “misconduct” in the mortgage market and Wall Street firms complain about new regulation…

By Bill Morris

Detroit’s comeback is not only inevitable, it’s already underway. Popular Mechanics envisions the bright future of the great American city.

The year is 2025. Detroit, the poster chi…

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By Neil Gershenfeld

A new digital revolution is coming, this time in fabrication. It draws on the same insights that led to the earlier digitizations of communication and computation, but now what …

By Chris Calabrese

On Monday an extraordinary letter went out from a who’s who of major corporations claiming a mandate to track all of us on the internet. In tone and substance, it is an amazin…

By Jonathon Weisman

Senate leaders are closing in on a path for dealing with the “fiscal cliff” facing the country in January, opting to try to use a postelection session of Congress to reach a…

By Richard Rubin

U.S. households are facing an average tax increase of $3,446 in 2013 if Congress doesn’t avert the so- called fiscal cliff, the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center said in a study releas…

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The United States fiscal cliff refers to a large predicted reduction in the budget deficit and a corresponding projected slowdown of the economy if specific…

By John Naughton

Almost without noticing it, our world crossed a significant threshold last week. Jerry Brown, the governor of California, signed into law a bill that will allow driverless cars on …

By Dr. Joseph Farrell

The latest brain child to cross the desks of the Victor Frankensteins running the world’s science laboratories is this little story about engineering goats to produce human …

A Special Thanks to Simon Black for this find.

Social unrest may reflect a variety of factors such as poverty, unemployment, and social injustice. Despite the many possible contributing factors, the …

See Puscifer

Guns and Butter – September 26, 2012 at 1:00pmClick to listen (or download)

“Dillon Read and The Aristocracy of Stock Profits”, live with Catherine Austin Fitts. KPFA fundraiser – a 6-month s…

Creating and disseminating media to help regenerate the Earth.

These videos are documents from two design courses taught by Bill Mollison at the Fossil Rim Wildlife Center in Glen Rose Texas in 199…

By Kim Komando

According to one research firm, mobile smartphone payments will grow by a factor of four and account for $1.3 trillion of all retail transactions by the year 2017.

That’s a lot of ele…

From BBC Technology:

A humanoid robot designed to work safely alongside people on factory production lines has been unveiled in the US.

Priced at $22,000 (£13,500), Baxter will go on sale in Octo…

Japan Follows U.S. and Europe in Stimulus Moves; Other Actions Expected

By Tom Lauricella

Massive injections of stimulus into financial markets by the world’s largest central banks are creating a …

By Catherine Austin Fitts

Being away from my church home is one of the challenges of living on the road. I am having a wonderful time in Silicon Valley and will be speaking in Berkeley and Menlo P…

What would we do without Microsoft PowerPoint? How would we communicate with each other?

PowerPoint was developed by engineers as a tool to help them communicate with the marketing department—and…

In the early Christian era, many Celtic Christians embarked on a kind of pilgrimage called a peregrinatio. Unlike the pilgrimages to the Holy Land undertaken by Christians in the Middle Ages, a per…

[Note from Solari team member: Major ruckus in Maker-land. Makerbot Industries got new VC funding and created a new printer. It may or may not be “open”. Those that contributed design updates to pri…

By Jesse’s Café Américain
A “Cup and Handle” is a bullish continuation pattern in an uptrend. 
The greatest factor working against this current gold chart as a cup and handle is that it appears dur…

By Michael Keller

The days of getting lost in the art museum or mall might be drawing to a close. So, too, might the universal experience of forgetting where you parked your car and stomping around…

By Kim Dixon

Technology giants Microsoft Corp and Hewlett-Packard Co used offshore units to shield billions of dollars from U.S. taxes by taking advantage of loopholes and stretching the limits of …

[Note from CAF: Looks like the cocktail of currency debasement and shifting incomes abroad, high sugar and chemicals in the food, chemtrails and GMOs will succeed in lowering the demands on social s…

With QE3, we are essentially being bought out with our own money…and unemployment is being used to facilitate this process in a very clever manner. Monetary inflation is currently being offset by …

By Brent Rose

The guys at Re-Char, a small startup that makes carbon-negative products, were faced with a problem. They wanted to ship products to Kenya, but the options available were wasteful, co…

By Henry Fountain

Andemariam Beyene sat by the hospital window, the low Arctic sun on his face, and talked about the time he thought he would die.

Two and a half years ago doctors in Iceland, wher…

On the Sept 20 Solari Report, Catherine Austin Fitts discusses QE3 and what it means to you!

By Catherine Austin Fitts

I used to have a deputy who said that the FHA mortgage insurance funds were whe…

In the foothills of the highest mountain in Europe, in a valley with glacier-fed springs, surrounded by ancient megaliths and natural power spots, there lies a school where the future of humanity …

By Will Ferguson

The hottest new material in town is light, strong and conducts electricity. What’s more, it’s been around a long, long time.

Nanocrystalline cellulose (NCC), which is produced by pr…

In an unprecedented and controversial move, the Federal Reserve today announced the initiation of an open-ended round of Quantitative Easing (QE3) and extended the period for which it will keep rate…

By Steven Levy

Had Narrative Science — a company that trains computers to write news stories—created this piece, it probably would not mention that the company’s Chicago headquarters lie only…

By Pam Martens

Adding to those seemingly insurmountable headwinds, Sheikh Ahmed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Managing Director of ADIA, would not be able to give first hand testimony to the tribunal as to …

By Harriet Torry

Germany’s Federal Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe is set to rule Wednesday at 8 a.m. GMT on whether the European Stability Mechanism — the euro zone’s permanent bailout fun…

[CAF Note: Note that the expenses of stealing these assets are on budget for the federal government and households. However, when it comes to their trillions of value, that is off budget – one of th…

By Ian Austen

Calling Iran “the most significant threat to global peace and security in the world today,” Canada’s foreign affairs minister, John Baird, abruptly announced Friday that his gov…

[CAF Note Below]

By Kevin Flaherty

The link on this update mentions Decree #123-2011, which is just 15 pages long, but will have you wondering, “Is this real?”

I’m asking everyone out there…

Steve Hanke and Nicholas Krus, “World Hyperinflations”. Cato Working Paper no. 8, August 15, 2012. Forthcoming in: Randall Parker and Robert Whaples (eds.) (2013) The Handbook of Major Events in Eco…

By: Charles Benbrook
Center for Sustaining Agriculture and Natural Resources Washington State University

In a comprehensive paper published in the September 4, 2012 issue of the Annals of Internal Me…

By Paul Schwennesen

A 1981 Dodge Ram Van (faded brown with those funky round portholes in the back) leaves the town of Winkelman at 45 miles an hour pulling 2,500 pounds in an unregistered trailer. A…

By Jeffrey Heller

Israeli officials played down a report in an Israeli newspaper on Monday that accused Washington of secretly negotiating with Tehran to keep the United States out of a future Isra…

By Nelson D. Schwartz

Even as Greece desperately tries to avoid defaulting on its debt, American companies are preparing for what was once unthinkable: that Greece could soon be forced to leave the e…

Here are some great tunes reminding us how to build skills and resilience: See the Maker Movement

— Catherine

Whether you live in California, in North America or around the globe, this is a critical issue. If states can achieve labeling of GMO, we improve the chances of making this a global standard.  La…

Percent Change at Seasonally Adjusted Annual Rate
M1
M2

3 Months from Apr 2012 TO Jul 2012
11.3|
6.5|

6 Months from Jan 2012 TO Jul 2012
8.5|
5.6|

12 Months from Jul 2011 TO…

[Note from CAF: Not to mention the money disappearing through the black budget, $4 trillion missing from federal accounts and on and on….]

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Throughout the Transformations & Renewals weekend this October, we will enjoy fresh, healthy food and a wonderful selection of wines grown and prepared in Middle Tennessee.

On our first di…

By Wikipedia

Pharaoh acknowledged that Joseph’s proposal to store grain during the abundant period was very wise. So before Joseph was even 30 years old, Pharaoh released him from prison and pu…

Source: YouTube

This seminal documentary provides compelling evidence to help explain the deteriorating health of Americans, especially among children, and offers a recipe for protecting …

By Dean Baker

“Free trade” is a sacred mantra in Washington. If anything is labeled as being “free trade”, then everyone in the Washington establishment is required to bow down and support it. Otherw…

By Michael Ramos

In 2010, many sectors of the U.S. economy began to improve from the Great Recession—however, small businesses lagged behind, largely as a result of having trouble raising th…

By Josh Cothran, Georgia Institute of Technology

[CAF Note: Ever notice that the more private insurers and the government get involved, the worse and more expensive things get?]

In 1960, almost 100%…

By Janet Raloff

Nanoscale pollutants can enter crop roots, triggering a host of changes to plants’ growth and health, two studies find. These tiny particles can stunt plant growth, boost the plan…

By Jim Stogdill

What would happen if we turned off, opted out, and completely disconnected ourselves from the technology that runs our lives? For Jim Stogdill, tuning out brought greater productivi…

By Nicholas Tomasi

The ongoing food fight between massive biotech companies and grassroots activists has continued on the west coast, with a monumental vote on the mandatory labeling of genetically m…

By John Markoff

At the Philips Electronics factory on the coast of China, hundreds of workers use their hands and specialized tools to assemble electric shavers. That is the old way.

Robot arms li…

They’re coming to get you Barbara ~ Night of the Living Dead
By Justin Boldenow, Solari Report production assistant

There seems to be an unstoppable force that is spreading, growing, and changing p…

By Andrew Blankstein

“Top Gun” director Tony Scott fatally jumped off the Vincent Thomas Bridge in San Pedro on Sunday afternoon, according to Los Angeles police sources.

His body was pulled o…

More Data Here.

Related Reading:

Monsanto 2011 Proxy Statement PDF

Monsanto Co. Major Stock Holders

[Note from CAF: You think there is a drought? Think again. The push to force GMO seed, consolidate farmland and control global agriculture is underway. It threatens our lives and those of future g…

By Bryan Behrenshausen

I first encountered 3-D printing in Cory Doctorow’s Makers, a science fiction novel set in the wake of economic armageddon. In Doctorow’s imagined near-future world, hulking …

[CAF  Note: Since a great deal global debt was fraudulently induced, the idea of a sovereign government carrying out an audit of the legitimacy of outstanding debt is a good one. This is a fearl…

From I, Cringely

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak this week warned of the perils of depending too much on cloud storage and the general press reacted like this was: A) news, and; B) evidence of some in…

By Paul Davenport The Associated Press

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer on Wednesday ordered state agencies to deny driver’s licenses and other public benefits to young illegal immigrants who obtain work auth…

By Mark V

The world’s first commercial space launch pad, the Virgin Galactic Gateway Spaceport, was recently opened in the southern part of New Mexico, attracting around 800 guests at the opening…

By Lesta Frank

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

Related Readings:

Sunflowers

Transcendent

Poinsettias

On the 130th anniversary of the founding of Banco Sabadell we wanted to pay homage to our city by means of the campaign “Som Sabadell” (We are Sabadell) . This is the flashmob that we arranged as a fi…

Julian Assange’s Wikileaks website published leaked diplomatic cables

Source: BBC News UK

Ecuador has granted asylum to Wikileaks founder Julian Assange two months after he took refuge in its London…

From Kelly D. McMillan Director of Operations McMillan Group International, LLC

McMillan Fiberglass Stocks, McMillan Firearms Manufacturing, McMillan Group International have been collectively bank…

From the Erste Group Research

The foundation for new all-time-highs is in place. As far as sentiment is concerned, we definitely see no euphoria with respect to gold. Skepticism, fear, and panic a…

In a landscape as dramatic as its stories, Alaska Native people face staggering suicide rates, yet remain determined to heal & thrive!

Historically Alaska Native peoples lived solely from the lan…

From Stratfor

Like nearly all of the peoples of North and South America, most Americans are not originally from the territory that became the United States. They are a diverse collection of peoples p…

By Chuck Gibson

Congratulations – You just bought a new home.

Only you didn’t get the house – just the debt.

In July 1971, the population of the US was 207.6 million and Treasury funded deb…

“In a digital world, data about money is worth more than money.”

– Nicholas Negroponte

By Pam Warhurst

What should a community do with its unused land? Plant food, of course. With energy and humor, Pam Warhurst tells at the TEDSalon the story of how she and a growing team of volunt…

By Florian Gathmann and Philipp Wittrock

Chancellor Angela Merkel wants Europe to move toward an ever closer union in a bid to solve the euro crisis. But she is already pushing at the limits of wha…

From the CNN Political Unit

Mitt Romney on Saturday announced U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin as his running mate for the White House — a bold and risky move that energized both conservatives and…