By NASA

NASA’s flying saucer-shaped test vehicle is ready to take to the skies from the U.S. Navy’s Pacific Missile Range Facility in Kauai, Hawaii, for its first engineering shakeout flight.

The …

By Sam Ro

Going to work and collecting paychecks isn’t the only way to make money in America.

“Since 1980, direct labor income has become a smaller share of personal income, while income from tran…

“For now we see through a glass, darkly…”
~ Corinthians 13:12

By Catherine Austin Fitts

I don’t remember a week in which I have had more conversations about the value and the future of the U…

By James Vincent

Scientists in the Netherlands have achieved a breakthrough in quantum teleportation that could quash Albert Einstein’s objection to the notion of quantum entanglement, which he f…

By Mark Chediak and Jim Polson

Coal-dependent power companies from American Electric Power Co. (AEP) to Duke Energy Corp. (DUK) face billions of dollars in added costs, while renewable-energy backers…

By Suhaib Anjarini

The Turkish government recently cut off the flow of the Euphrates River, threatening primarily Syria but also Iraq with a major water crisis. Al-Akhbar found out that the water lev…

By Tom Harper and Jonathan Owen

Hundreds of millions of people across Europe will be forced to change completely the way they use the internet, according to one of Google’s key advisers.

The era o…

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By Susanne Walker and Liz Capo McCormick

If the insatiable demand for bonds has upended the models you use to value them, you’re not alone.

Just last month…

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By The Economist

Business power follows economic power. In the 1920s British firms owned 40% of the global stock of foreign direct investment. By 1967 America was top d…

By Justin Boldenow, Producer of The Solari Report

“An attempt to persuade people or warn people about something they might be missing out on.” – Peter Guralnick on his writing.

In March Cather…

“This is no dream, this is really happening!” ~ Rosemary Woodhouse in Rosemary’s Baby

By Catherine Austin Fitts

For those of us who have regularly followed Glen Greenwald’s reporting of Edward Sno…

By Alyson Shontell and Jay Yarow

Every year, former analyst and venture capitalist Mary Meeker releases an in-depth look at the state of the web. The Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers partner al…

By Michael Olson

The United States Department of Agriculture has issued a public Request for Proposal for the purchase of .40 caliber submachine guns with high-capacity magazines and gender-specific …

By ETC Group

The world’s largest companies are converging around biomass in anticipation of a post-petrochemical future.
That doesn’t mean they’re simply grabbing land and natural resources; th…

By Sumathi Reddy

Children still in kindergarten or even younger form cliques and intentionally exclude others, say psychologists and educators who are increasingly noticing the behavior and taking …

***CAF Note: I have a lot of respect for people who take out a blank sheet of paper and write down how they would organize an economic system here on planet Earth. This one came in over the transom fr…

We don’t want to become a digital colony of global internet giants,” ~ French Economy Minister Arnaud Montebourg

By Catherine Austin Fitts

The reverberations are everywhere. In the courthouse,…

By Dermot Cole

The U.S. Air Force gave official notice to Congress Wednesday that it intends to dismantle the $300 million High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program in Gakona this summer.

The s…

By RT

China is calling on banks to stop using IBM servers and replace them with local-made machines amid fears that the nation’s financial security might be compromised via the US-based company’s…

By Tom Braithwaite

A Google or Walmart bank would be attractive to a large slice of young consumers, according to a survey that also shows almost four in 10 people aged between 18-34 would switch to …

By Patrick Wintour and Nicholas Watt

Nigel Farage has unleashed his much-promised political earthquake across British politics as Ukip stormed to victory in the European elections, performing powerf…

***CAF Note: When Mark Dansie likes a project that I have donated to, I sit up and take notice. Dansie is one of my “go to” guys on new technology.***

By Mike Dansie

I like the vision of solar…

***CAF Note: The transition to smart phones continues…***

By Neil Shah

According to latest research from Counterpoint’s Market Monitor quarterly tracker program, USA smartphone market reached …

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By Catherine Austin Fitts

Well, the proof is in. The Fed governors see no risk to inflation in their stimulus policies. This is proof that the governors do not shop for their own groceries.

April�…

By MasterCard

In the lead up to the World Economic Forum on East Asia 2014, MasterCard today unveiled “Road to Inclusion”, a new report that profiles the financially excluded and underserved in t…

By Joe Weisenthal

There have been news reports the past few days about how former Chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank Ben Bernanke has been going around giving speeches in private to hedge fu…

By Michael Foust

Farming methods that have been used in America and throughout the world for centuries are in danger of essentially being banned under proposed regulations by the U.S. Food and Drug…

By Catherine Austin Fitts

WHO engineered the skyrocketing incarceration rate in the United States? You can learn a lot about WHO did it in my on line book Dillon, Read & Co. Inc & the Aristocracy o…

By Lee Habeeb and Mike Leven

He is America’s most iconic banker. Okay. He isn’t a real banker, but we all know and love him; he’s George Bailey from the quintessential Christmas movie It’s …

By Foster and Kimberly Gamble

Imagine a “point in time” when computers, in the form of robots, are deemed so much smarter than natural born humans that we are called to turn over the world to t…

By Catherine Austin Fitts

The American people are so smart. I am laughing my head off reading today’s WSJ. The “Letters to the Editor” are filled with letters from readers outraged by Timothy Gei…

By Catherine Austin Fitts

The opportunities to reinvent, restore, and replenish the American economy are endless.

The first opportunity is to let up on the police state and centralized make-work …

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By The Guardian

For the past year, the Guardian has reported on how the NSA turned its eye on ordinary American citizens after 9/11, creating a massive surveillance dragnet to collect and monitor…

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By Vladimir Isachenkov

Russia has ratcheted up pressure on Ukraine, with President Vladimir Putin saying in a letter released Thursday that it only will …

“I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.” ~Eartha Kitt

By Catherine Austin Fitts

On Coast to Coast AM the other night I was asked what I thought of the Common Core Curriculum…

By Dr. Tony Lima

For quite a few years my lovely wife has refused to believe any economic data from the U.S. government. Until recently, I have been a staunch defender of the statisticians and econo…

By Stacy Mitchell

Even as their big competitors are awash in capital, many locally owned businesses are struggling to secure the financing they need to grow. A new ILSR analysis has found that, sinc…

By Six Pixels of Seperation

This is probably one of the most eye-opening perspectives on the digital age that you will see.

We have new business models, brands that explode with popularity, platfo…

By Sam Ro

There are no perfect stock market indexes that’ll give you a complete picture of the state of the market.

Most market-watchers prefer the S&P 500 over the Dow Jones Industrial Average. B…

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By RT

The idea of traveling between the United States and China without flying might seem ridiculous to virtually everyone, but if Beijing gets its way that’s exa…

By The Mind Unleashed

Gregory Kloehn goes dumpster diving, but not for the reason that most people would think. He isn’t homeless. In fact, he is an artist from Oakland that is trying to help the…

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By Catherine Austin Fitts

The news today is mapping out a picture. In the first quarter of 2014, the US economy contracted. And yet the OECD says that the global econom…

By Annalyn Kurtz

There are two economic trends that Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen told Congress this week she finds “very disturbing.” Unfortunately, the Fed has very little power to fix either …

By Sarah TheHealthyHomeEconomist

My teenage son introduced me to a new slang term recently.

He mentioned that a friend said that he needed to try out for a certain soccer club team because he woul…

By Sarah Mulholland

Want to buy a trailer park? Freddie Mac wants to give you a loan.

The unit of the government-owned mortgage giant that funds apartment buildings is set to begin financing manufac…

“If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.” —Maya Angelou

By Catherine Austin Fitts

Our hero this week on the Solari Report is Mayor Adam Sanchez of Desert…

By Jesse Drucker, Alan Katz and Andy Hoffman

Two years ago, a Dutch law firm prepared a pitch in Moscow to Russian businesses: come to the Netherlands and we can help you avoid taxes and keep your as…

By Christopher Ingraham

The American economy is less entrepreneurial now than at any point in the last three decades. That’s the conclusion of a new study out from the Brookings Institution, which …

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By Richard Wolf

The Supreme Court on Monday narrowly upheld the centuries-old tradition of offering prayers to open government meetings, even if the prayers are overwhelmingly Christian and citizens …

By Richard Dolan

The very label [conspiracy] serves as an automatic dismissal, as though no one ever acts in secret. Let us bring some perspective and common sense to this issue.

The United States c…

By Paul Levy

I wonder if I am becoming addicted; I can’t get enough of quantum physics, which has captured – and simultaneously liberated – my imagination beyond belief. My appetite for what it i…

**CAF Note: I am always amazed when someone complains to me that “no one warned us” as, of course, I spent a great deal of time and millions of dollars in an attempt to warn as many people as …

By Mary Jo Foley

There’s a new Special Projects Group in Microsoft Research (MSR) that is tasked with working on “disruptive technologies that could benefit the company and society.”

That unit sound…

By Alec Luhn

A spokesman for Vladimir Putin said the Geneva agreement to defuse the situation in eastern Ukraine was no longer viable after Kiev launched a military operation against the rebel-held c…

By Catherine Austin Fitts

If we watch the pronouncements on the US economy in the first quarter, it is easy to discern that the GNP probably contracted. The claim is that GNP growth “slowed” to…

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By Agencies

The International Monetary Fund has approved a $17bn aid deal for Ukraine, even as Kiev fights to prevent pro-Moscow separatists from hiving off another chunk of the…

By Dr. Mae Wan Ho

New research shows that the low levels of glyphosate found in human urine can promote the growth of human breast cancer cells, confirming the carcinogenic potential of the herbicide…

By Sam Ro

The comeback of the U.S. housing market has been one of the most bullish economic stories in the world since the financial crisis. Sales, construction starts, and prices have all trended …

**CAF Note: While Paul was speaking, I was managing an onslaught of Sheriff of Nottingham enforcers trying to make money by engaging in falsification of evidence to protect mortgage corruption that …

By RT

A private company located in eastern China has printed ten full-size houses using a huge 3D printer in the space of a day. The process utilizes quick-drying cement, but the creators are being…

By Carrie Tyler

My brother Timothy Tyler was just 25 years old when he was sentenced to die in prison for a nonviolent drug offense. He’s watched murderers and rapists leave prison while he has no…

By Rob Lyons

A manned mission to Mars is necessary for our ‘species to survive’, says Nasa chief Charles Bolden as he plots a three-step plan to land humans on the red planet by 2030.

To achi…

By Sam Ro

Tensions are relatively high between China and Japan, respectively the world’s second- and third-largest economies.

Just yesterday, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe made a ritual offer…

By JC Parets

And just like that, we’re almost done with the month of April. So you know what that means? The ‘Sell in May and Go Away’ chatter now begins. Does it work? Does it not work? Should…

By Loretta Chao, Gautham Nagesh and Frances Robinson

The U.S. has agreed to give up supervision of the Internet policy-making body that controls domain names, hoping to satisfy countries that want mo…

By Stratrisks

Vladimir Chizhov, Russia’s ambassador to the European Union, said Russia is partnering with China in two major Crimean projects: the “Power of Siberia” gas pipeline and a 25 met…

By Accuity

These bank rankings are compiled from balance sheet information included on Bankers Almanac available at 25 February 2014. The information available at this date is used to compile the ful…

By Nancy Owano

Members of the Open Source Seed Initiative this week held a rally and seed giveaway event. The group is concerned over restricting access to seeds through patents. They are stirring …

“For the human psyche is one of the great forces of nature, and what is most frightening about this space/time technology is that it exposes us to this force within us as nothing else ever has. We …

Ever wondered how the world and its economy really works? Catherine Austin Fitts will expain…

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By Justin Boldenow, Producer of The Solari Report

Three and a half miles north of the Cannery Ballroom and three miles north of the Marathon Music Works building is a small venue that flies a littl…

By Rebecca Riffkin

Americans today are more likely to think real estate is the best option for long-term investments than in the past, ranking it ahead of gold and stocks.

These results are from G…

By Tom Mckay

A new scientific study from Princeton researchers Martin Gilens and Benjamin I. Page has finally put some science behind the recently popular argument that the United States isn’t a demo…

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By Sergei L. Loiko

Russia may invade southeast Ukraine to protect the local population, President Vladimir Putin said Thursday.

Speaking live at…

By Harold Meyerson

New York’s Democrats are a liberal lot. Ever since two young state legislators, Al Smith and Robert Wagner, authored the pioneering bills that outlawed a host of labor abuses in …

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By Dale Carson

Something I have always dreamed about has become a reality. It is called an agrihood, a residential neighborhood with a farm at the center�…

By RT

Russia will not import GMO products, the country’s Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said, adding that the nation has enough space and resources to produce organic food.

Moscow has no reason …

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Our good friend Jon Rappoport has recently been added to Secret Space Program’s speaker list!

From Jon’s description of his presentation for the Secret Space Program:

“How can the breakaway civ…

By Alexander Burns and Maggie Haberman

Half a decade ago, Chris Christie and Andrew Cuomo were a pair of untouchable lawmen who could do no wrong.

Their every subpoena became a splashy tabloid hea…

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Catherine Austin Fitts is the Founder and President of Solari. She served as Managing Director and Member of the Board of Directors of the Wall Street investment bank, Dillon, Re…

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By Marc Fisher

A few weeks ago, with no notice, the U.S. government intercepted Mary Grice’s tax refunds from both the IRS and the state of M…

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By Angus Loten

A recent deal by Yelp Inc. to provide business listings for Internet searches on Yahoo Inc. is getting bad reviews from some…

By RT

Tens of millions of servers were exposed to a security vulnerability called “Heartbleed” in OpenSSL, software used to encrypt much of the internet. While an emergency patch has been relea…

By Rambus

We’re going to do something a little different for the Weekend Report this week. I would like to give the spotlight to Sir Plunger for his most excellent work on the Phase 3 for the PM st…

By William Engdahl

The White House and State Department have engaged in brazen lying to EU governments regarding the ability of the US to supply more than enough natural gas to replace Russian gas de…

By Alicia Levine

Facebook plans to shell out $19B for WhatsApp, the instant messaging service on-pace to grow to 1 billion users in places like India, Brazil, and Mexico. Google is launching balloons…

***CAF Note: For a description of Eric Holder’s efforts during the 1990’s to drop swat teams into African-American communities to round up teenagers to fill up privately owned prisons which got co…

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By Angus Loten

A closely watched Internet free-speech case is headed to the Virginia Supreme Court this month, with many businesses that live an…

***CAF Note: So, what was the real reason? Was Firefox not giving the access to the intelligence agencies that they enjoy with Facebook and Google? There is a game afoot here, and it has nothing to do…

By Cryptogon

I, for one, find grocery lists so odious that I need a wi-fi enabled barcode scanner with voice recognition to make sure my whims are catered to immediately.

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