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BPA Javier Vega, Jr. Memorial Fund
Border Patrol Agent Javier Vega, Jr. was fishing with relatives when two men attempted to rob them, opening fire on Vega and his family. Vega was shot and killed, l…
Robin Williams 1951-2014
By Wikipedia
Robin McLaurin Williams (July 21, 1951 – August 11, 2014) was an American actor, stand-up comedian, film producer, and screenwriter.
Rising to fame with his role as the alien Mork i…
Morphic Resonance & the Invasive Push for Invisible Control
“Walk in wisdom toward them that are without, redeeming the time.” ~ Colossians 4:5
By Catherine Austin Fitts
In the early 1990’s I started to load data on mortgages and federal credit and spend…
Putin, Sanctions and What is Next? – Analyst Mikhail Khazin
By Augmented Ether
An interesting summary of what has transpired; The ambitions,hope and policy failures. Mikhail gives us the gist of the matter and what needs to change in order for Putin (and Ru…
This Coffee Shop Was Built to Repel WiFi and Cell Reception
(Photo Credit: faradaycafe/Instagram)
By Daniel Bean
You might get annoyed when you sit down in a cafe and find that there’s no free WiFi.
Well, this Canadian coffee shop was definitely not for …
Semantic Web
***CAF Note: The push is on to organize the web to serve centralizing machines***
By Wikipedia
The Semantic Web is a collaborative movement led by international standards body the World Wide Web C…
Q&A with Sharyl Attkisson
Sharyl Attkisson talked about her career, the state of the media, and her future plans. Ms.Attkisson left CBS News in March 2014 after more than 20 years at the network.
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It’s Official: The Housing Pump and Dump is Over
By Catherine Austin Fitts
It is worth noting the wave of mortgage related settlements occurring this month. The most sensitive has yet to be finalized – Goldman Sachs. Expect that soon.
Looks li…
The Practice of Power
By Peggy Noonan
All this reflects a political culture of brute and mindless disdain, the kind of culture that makes divisions worse…..They do this because they do not understand that they have an a…
Something’s Up
By Catherine Austin Fitts
I said in our 2nd Quarter Wrap Up that the slow burn was fraying and challenges lay ahead. Looks like I am far from the only person worried about taking risk in this envir…
Poll Finds Widespread Economic Anxiety
***CAF Note: Just goes to show Abraham Lincoln was right: “You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the ti…
McKinsey on African Investment Opportunities
By Acha Leke, Susan Lund, James Manyika, and Sree Ramaswamy
The White House has invited some 50 African heads of state to Washington, DC, this week, presenting a historic opportunity to deepen US t…
Data Bubbles
“The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance – it is the illusion of knowledge.”
~ Daniel Bursting
By Catherine Austin Fitts
I was re-reading a chapter called “Information Overload” in Jam…
Department of Agriculture Cracks Down on Seed Libraries
By Naomi Creason
It was a letter officials with the Cumberland County Library System were surprised to receive.
The system had spent some time working in partnership with the Cumberland County Commi…
In Historic First, German Army General Appointed USAREUR Chief of Staff
By Jad Sleiman
For the first time since U.S. troops arrived in Europe during World War II, a German general will serve as chief of staff of U.S. Army Europe.
Brig. Gen. Markus Laubenthal is expect…
“Didn’t Think I Was Doing Anything Wrong:” Mom Arrested For Allowing 7-Year-Old Son to Go to Park Alone
By CNN Wire Service
A mom faces a charge of child neglect after she allowed her son to go to a park alone. She says he’s old enough but Port St. Lucie Police disagree. Now she’s fighting back.
…
Financial Flypaper
By Catherine Austin Fitts
Unbelievable. Low interest rates continue to support MORE growing dependency on debt. Check out some of the latest reports:
Total NYSE margin debt is spiking
Corporate d…
Europe’s Bond Yields Lowest Since 15th Century Genoa on Deflation, Russia Risk
By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
Bond yields have fallen to the lowest level in modern history in Germany, France and the eurozone’s core states, signalling a high risk of deflation and mounting concerns…
The Accounting Question
“What is relevant is what solves the problem. If we had thought through real relevancies, we would be on Sirius by now.” ~Sir Peter Medawar
By Catherine Austin Fitts
The news informs us this morni…
The American People are Smarter Than You Think
On January 31, 1992, NBC conducted a telephone survey asking American citizens who they thought killed President John F. Kennedy. NBC received 30,000 calls in 3 hours….51% said the CIA did it.
~ …
After Split Vote, S.E.C. Approves Rules on Money Market Funds
(Photo Credit: Michael Appleton for The New York Times)
By William Alden
Regulators on Wednesday imposed new restrictions on a vast market that played a significant role in the 2008 financial crisi…
Richard Dolan on Underground and Underocean Operations
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By Catherine Austin Fitts
One of the points made to me at last mo…
The Slow Burn is Fraying
By Catherine Austin Fitts
Here is the bottom line from our “2nd Quarter 2014 Wrap-Up”.
Slower US and global growth in the first half of 2014 means the slow burn is fraying. This means that the re…
Guns and Butter – “The Post World War II System of Hidden Finance” with Dr. Joseph Farrell
“The Post World War II System of Hidden Finance” with Dr. Joseph Farrell
The National Security Finance Intelligence Military Industrial Complex
“Guns & Butter” investigates the relationships among c…
Catherine’s Latest Kiva Loan
Andrey has been growing vegetables on his own plot in Vodyanoye for five years. He has nine large, heated greenhouses where he grows tomatoes and cucumbers.
Andrey studied at the Zaporozhye Nationa…
Zack Taylor Interview – Security On the Border Between USA and Mexico
Video courtesy of Little Bonanza Productions. For more information, please contact: lisa@littlebonanzaproductions.com.
NAFBPO’s mission is “to contribute to the security and stability of the United…
Income Inequality
“But sooner or later baby, here’s a ditty
Say you’re gonna have to get right down to the real nitty gritty”
– “The Nitty Gritty,” by Lincoln Chase
By Cath…
Having Fun at a Soccer Game: The BRICSA Agenda Emerges
By Dr. Joseph Farrell
Now, while the world cup soccer finals were going on – which Germany eventually won – the nations of the BRICSA bloc were busy talking to each other, and one of them, Mr. Pu…
The SSP Archive
The archive of the Secret Space Conference and Breakaway Civilization conference is now available on line for $35!
http://www.stream.secretspaceprogram.org/
Wall Street Cut From Guest List for Jackson Hole Fed Meeting
(Photo Credit: Price Chambers/Bloomberg)
By Simon Kennedy
Wall Street (SPX) doesn’t lead to Jackson Hole this year.
As the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City prepares to host next month’s ann…
Bohemian Grove Underway, July 10-27th!
“The Bohemian club! Did you say Bohemian club? That’s where all those rich Republicans go up and stand naked against redwood trees right? I’ve never been to the Bohemian club but you oughta go. It’d b…
Edward Snowden: ‘If I End Up in Chains in Guantánamo I Can Live With That’
Edward Snowden, the NSA whistleblower, talks exclusively to Alan Rusbridger, editor-in-chief of the Guardian, and reporter Ewen MacAskill in Moscow. The 31-year-old former intelligence analyst discu…
Edward Snowden: ‘If I End Up in Chains in Guantánamo I Can Live With That’
Edward Snowden, the NSA whistleblower, talks exclusively to Alan Rusbridger, editor-in-chief of the Guardian, and reporter Ewen MacAskill in Moscow. The 31-year-old former intelligence analyst discu…
Gaza: Israel’s $4 Billion Gas Grab
By Nafeez Ahmed
Never mind the ‘war on terror’ rhetoric, writes Nafeez Ahmed. The purpose of Israel’s escalating assault on Gaza is to control the Territory’s 1.4 trillion cubic feet of gas – and s…
Tree Crops: A Permanent Agriculture by J. Russell Smith
***CAF Note: This is a classic. Worth checking out!***
By J. Russell Smith
I stood on the Great Wall of China near the borders of Mongolia. Below me in the valley, standing up square and high, was a…
Israel Launches Ground Invasion of Gaza
By William Booth, Sudarsan Raghavan and Ruth Eglash
Israeli forces backed by artillery barrages and airstrikes launched a major ground offensive into Gaza late Thursday, marking a dramatic escalation…
SEC To Finalize Money Market Rules
(Photo Credit: Reuters/Mike Stone)
***CAF Note: There are lots of reasons to wonder about the trajectory of the US equity markets, which are at all time highs. First, historical patterns say that ga…
Hacking Online Polls and Other Ways British Spies Seek to Control the Internet
By Glenn Greenwald
The secretive British spy agency GCHQ has developed covert tools to seed the internet with false information, including the ability to manipulate the results of online polls, artif…
Hear That Long Snake Moan
***CAF Note: This is an oldie but goodie from one of my favorite writers about the cultural roots of rock and roll***
By Michael Ventura
The Voodoo ceremonies of Haiti are danced around a centerpost…
Obama Administration Says the World’s Servers Are Ours
(Photo Credit: Red Agenda)
By David Kravets
Global governments, the tech sector, and scholars are closely following a legal flap in which the US Justice Department claims that Microsoft must hand o…
A Dying Business: Liquidating Your Customer
I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live. ~Deuteronomy 30…
Sperm-Mediated Inheritance of Acquired Characters
By Institute of Science in Society
The first hint that fathers can pass on acquired characters was the discovery that the experience of young boys could affect not just their health in later life, bu…
Coming Clean: Beyond the Fiscal Cliff
As we look over the fiscal cliff into our financial abyss, now is a good time to “Come Clean” about the real state of our lives, our communities, and our economy, starting with the U.S. federal fi…
$BKX – Banks – Topping or Popping?
By Chuck Gibson
The significance of the banking sector in the stock market cannot be understated for several reasons.First, the banking sector offers important clues regarding the overall health of …
Asteroid Mining Bill Introduced In Congress To Protect Private Property Rights
By MarkWhittington
“Rep. Bill Posey (R-FL) announced on Thursday that he was introducing a bill along with Rep, Derek Kilmer (D-WA) called the American Space Technology for Exploring Resource Opportu…
Big Banks Want Power to Declare Cyber War
By Washington’s Blog
Bloomberg reports:
Wall Street’s biggest trade group has proposed a government-industry cyber war council to stave off terrorist attacks that could trigger financial panic…
Fed, Confident in Economy, Details End of Bond-Buying Program
By Binyamin Appelbaum
The Federal Reserve intends to end its bond-buying program in October provided the economy continues to grow, according to an account published Wednesday of the central bank’s…
On the Road Again
On the road again –
Like a band of gypsies we go down the highway
We’re the best of friends
Insisting that the world keep turning our way
~ Willie Nelson
By Catherine Austin Fitts
I left San Franc…
Fear and Loathing in Silicon Valley, Part VII: Dear Solarian Darlings
You are not it; it actually is you. —Ch’an Master Tung-shan
By Nines
Now that I meatspace love you, everything’s changed. You might not know this, but in satori the world looks different….
Catherine’s Latest Kickstarter: If. I Love You by Maria Allred
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An experimental fiction film that investigates the…
Promoting Women, Part VI
(Photo Credit: Red Visual Group)
“Men should help women become more powerful and women should help men become more powerful.” ~ Catherine Austin Fitts
By Catherine Austin Fitts
One of the great in…
Stephen Gaskin Passes at Age 79
By Jessica Bliss
Stephen Gaskin…a proud “freethinker” and iconic founder of The Farm — died Tuesday morning at his home. He was 79.
More than four decades ago, Mr. Gaskin — an ex-combat mari…
“Scholar” Reinvents Grammer to Lend Totalitarian Air to Declaration of Independence
***CAF Note: The airwaves are full of intellectual trash. First from Facebook executives, now from academia to help try and ruin our July 4th. Our freedoms come to us by divine authority. Daniel Web…
Independence Day: Happy 4th of July!
Wishing everyone in the United States and those of you celebrating with us, a happy July 4th weekend!
– Catherine and the Solari Team
Related Reading:
Independence Day on Wikipedia
Aral Balkan – Free Is A Lie | The Next Web
By The Next Web
It’s time for a design revolution in open technology. Companies like Google and Facebook that dominate the Internet promise us free services in exchange for the right to watch and s…
On Income Inequality
“An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.” ~ Plutarch
By Catherine Austin Fitts
As Congressional members increasingly focus on this year’s mid-te…
Back From the Secret Space Program Conference 2014
By David Warner Mathisen
The 2014 Secret Space Program and Breakaway Civilizations conference has come to a close, but the ideas and conversations that it has sparked are just getting started.
…
U.S. Imposes Record Fine on BNP in Sanctions Warning to Banks
(Photo Credit: Reuters/Charles Platiau)
***CAF Note: Sanctions are what inspire people to build alternative platforms. Some of the smartest financial people in the world have just been given a year …
Fear and Loathing in Silicon Valley, Part VI: They Hate You if You’re Clever
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By Nines
I am still in the belly of the beast, but at least it’s at my safety zone in the Berkeley hills instead of down where freeway exhaust settles on every surface, coats yer lungs, pisse…
2014 Is On Track To Become The Second Biggest Year For M&A In History
By Rob Wile
M&A activity has hit $750 billion through June, a level we haven’t seen in years, thanks to cash-flush corporations, steadily improving growth, and rising CEO confidence, according to G…
F**k Y**, Facebook
Photo Credit: AFP/Leon Neal
***CAF Note: Now you know why the Solari Report and Catherine Austin Fitts do not have a Facebook page.***
By RT
Facebook conducted a psychological experiment on its us…
Fear & Loathing in Silicon Valley, Part V: All on Maybe Three Hours’ Sleep
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By Nines
All of us.
My temporary boyfriend had to relinquish the wheel this morning, but we all look to be passably lucid anyway. Of course, Catherine is the very por…
TAN – Pass the Sunscreen, Please
By Chuck Gibson
As a part of the momentum stock selloff that occurred in May, solar stocks were severely punished, most losing 30% or more. The long term prospect for alternative energy, especially s…
‘The World is in a State of Financial War’ – Russian Presidential Advisor
By The Voice of Russia
Vedomosti reports that Sergey Glaziev, the economic mastermind behind the Eurasian Union, sent an official report to Kremlin, stating the necessity of a radical revamp of Rus…
Fear & Loathing in Silicon Valley, Part IV: Interlude
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By Nines
That was one looong day and I have to be to bed about three hours ago, but it turns out the men are fighting over me again and we’ve all been up hashing it out…
Fear & Loathing in Silicon Valley, Part III: Paint it Black
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By Nines
The marching band turned out to be a very neutral sort of beeping sound, and so did the army of gymnasts. Really inoffensive wake-up calls around these parts. Luc…
Fear & Loathing in Silicon Valley, Part II – UPDATE
By Nines
Much later that same day. OMG! The meeting started at two, and they served pizza and tequila out of gallon jugs. Very shortly we were all so sloshed we forgot our code words and had to…
Ears to the Ground – June Edition
By Justin Boldenow,
As we’ve set out here in Nashville to explore the diverse musical amalgam that forms the Middle Tennessee music scene, one of our directives was to find a bad case of the blues….
Fear & Loathing in Silicon Valley, Part II – Report from the Motor Court
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By Nines
All right, you cusses, I’m up. This motel has pretentions to hoteltude and always has, but I think the nazis have ruined that for everyone. You are not allowed…
I Have A Request
“There is always something to do. There are hungry people to feed, naked people to clothe, sick people to comfort and make well. And while I don’t expect you to save the world I do think it’s not aski…
Fear & Loathing in Silicon Valley, Part I: Dear Solarian Hordes
**CAF Note: I asked one of my very favorite bloggers, Nines of “the nines” to blog as correspondent for The Solari Report this weekend from the Secret Space Program & the Breakaway Civilization …
Beware the New ‘Breakthrough’ Transgenic Mosquitoes
By Institute of Science in Society
A team led by Andrea Crisanti at Imperial College London in the UK was widely reported to have made a breakthrough or even a ‘quantum leap’ in creating transgen…
SP500 – The Mona Lisa
By Chuck Gibson
This is the final in a series of 3 posts I have done on pattern targets and I have saved the best for last. The chart below is a 10 year look back at the SP500 (the proxy most use for…
Hillary Clinton: I’m Not ‘Truly Well Off’ Compared to Wealthiest Americans
**CAF Note: Did the Clintons just make a deal with Jeb Bush to engineer him into the White House in 2016? Why has Hillary Clinton decided to commit political suicide? Could Rove be right about brain…
The Bay Area is Solari Circling
By Catherine Austin Fitts
A marvelous group of Solari Report subscribers shared lunch yesterday under the tents in a large field in Marin County. Many had joined us for lunch last year and have bee…
Iraq Oil Infrastructure
(Map Source: http://www.lib.utexas.edu)
Related Reading:
Iraq on Wikipedia
Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant on Wikipedia
25 Ways to Lower Your Grocery Bill
By Carrie Kirby
After housing and transportation costs, food consumes more of the average household’s budget than anything else. I’ve already looked at ways to cut housing and transportation. Now l…
Promoting Women, Part V
“There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.” ~ Leonard Cohen
By Catherine Austin Fitts
One of the logical uses of the “promoting women” meme would be to engineer a Democratic wo…
Argentina President Defies US Court Order on Repayment of Debts
(Photo Credit: Reuters)
By Fox News
Argentina’s president has said that she would refuse to comply with a U.S. judge’s order to pay $1.5 billion to winners of a decade-long legal battle over defaul…
Oil – Double Bottom … Again
By Chuck Gibson
Last week I presented the concept of forecasting future price targets based upon patterns which develop within price movement. To illustrate, I used a long term chart of the Nasdaq w…
Central Banks Shift Into Shares as Low Rates Hit Revenues
By Ralph Atkins
Central banks around the world, including China’s, have shifted decisively into investing in equities as low interest rates have hit their revenues, according to a global study of 4…
U.S.–China Strategic and Economic Dialogue
By Wikipedia
The U.S.–China Strategic and Economic Dialogue is a high-level dialogue for the United States and China to discuss a wide range of bilateral, regional and global political, strategic…
All Our Patent Are Belong To You
By Elon Musk
Yesterday, there was a wall of Tesla patents in the lobby of our Palo Alto headquarters. That is no longer the case. They have been removed, in the spirit of the open source movement, …
The Expensive Illusion of Health Care
By Catherine Austin Fitts
You want to pay attention to the fuss over the waiting times at a VA Hospital. This is what happens when a benefit is promised, but Congress does not appropriate the resou…
Global Private Wealth Rises to $152tn
By BBC News
The amount of private wealth held by households globally surged more than 14% to $152 trillion (£90tn) last year, boosted mainly by rising stock markets.
Asia-Pacific, excluding Japan, …
FDA May Destroy American Artisan Cheese Industry
By Greg McNeal
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued an executive decree banning the centuries old practice of aging cheese on wooden boards. One bureaucrat within the FDA, without surv…
The True VA Scandal is Shared Across the Federal Government
By The Washington Post Editorial Board
At the Department of Veterans Affairs, the federal government’s largest employer (the Army ranks second), only 56.9 percent of employees believe they can disc…
Washington Reels as House’s Eric Cantor Loses to Pro Free Market Economics Professor
(Photo Credit: Steve Helber / Associated Press)
By Lisa Mascaro, Michael A. Memoli, Mark Z. Barabak
In a shocking political defeat guaranteed to upend Republican Party politics, House Majority Lead…
WTO on World Map/NATO Missing Money
Image credit: SmartKnowledgeU
By Robert Giebels, Natalie Righton
NATO might be wasting a lot of money, or maybe they are short of cash. Frankly, we have no idea’, says Saskia Stuiveling, president…
Straight Money Analysis
By Catherine Austin Fitts
Once upon a time I worked on Wall Street in a world full of highly energetic, very smart people who loved what they did and believed that hard work and creativity could figu…
Book Review: The Divide by Matt Taibbi
“The hunt is on and brother you’re the prey”
~ Curtis Mayfield, “New World Order”
By Catherine Austin Fitts
Matt Taibbi’s The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap is a beautif…
The Nasdaq – 3 Years Later
By Chuck Gibson
Many wonder why market technicians spend so much time analyzing the charts. The main reason is a skilled analyst can find opportunities, warnings and most importantly expectations of …
US Stock Exchanges Face Lawsuit Over High-Frequency Trading
By Jill Treanor
The American lawyer who orchestrated a successful class action suit against the tobacco industry 20 years ago has turned his sights on the stock exchanges caught up in the controversy…
Speak Life Into Our Situation
(Photo Credit: Miles Pfefferle)
Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.
~Proverbs 18:21
By Catherine Austin Fitts
When did our deepest des…
Pope Fires Entire Board of Vatican Financial Watchdog
By Philip Pullella
Pope Francis sacked the five-man board of the Vatican’s financial watchdog on Thursday – all Italians – in the latest move to break with an old guard associated with a murky past…
Too Small to Have Internet? Tiny German Village Builds Own Broadband Service
(Photo Credit:AFP Photo / Thomas Coex)
By RT
Inhabitants of a small village in Germany have taken the digital law into their own hands. They laid their own fiber optic cables setting up their own b…
