
NASA’s ‘Flying Saucer’ Readies for First Test Flight
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 …

Americans Are Getting Less And Less Of Their Money From Their Jobs
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…

Wither the US Dollar?
“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…

Scientists Achieve Quantum Teleportation Breakthrough That Could Prove Einstein Wrong
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…

Climate Rules Threaten to Rewrite U.S. Energy Map
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…

Turkey Cuts Off Euphrates Flow
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…

Google Privacy Law ‘Means Total Rethink of Basic Freedoms’
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…

Unstoppable $100 Trillion Bond Market Renders Models Useless
(Photo Credit: Scott Eells/Bloomberg)
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…

Asian Business: A World to Conquer
(Photo Credit: Jon Berkeley)
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…

May “Ears to the Ground” – Memphis Edition
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…

Review: Glenn Greenwald’s No Place to Hide
“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…

Mary Meeker’s 2014 Presentation On The State Of The Web
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…

Arming the USDA
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 …

Who Will Control the Green Economy?
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…

Little Children and Already Acting Mean
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 …

Mythgard 1.0
***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…

Digital Colonialization
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,…

Air Force Prepares to Dismantle HAARP Ahead of Summer Shutdown
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…

China Urges Banks to Remove IBM Servers Over Espionage Concerns – Report
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…

Young People Open to Alternative Banking
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 …

Ukip Wins European Elections With Ease to Set Off Political Earthquake
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…

Solar Freakin Roadways
***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…

Market Monitor: Q1 2014 : Smartphone Brands Market Share By U.S. Carriers
***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 …


Proof Positive: Fed Governors Do Not Shop for Groceries
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…

“Road to Inclusion” Report Challenges Previously-Held Notions of the Unbanked and Underbanked
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…

Interest Rates Remain Low
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…

FDA To Ban Organic Farming?
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…

The Policy Pendulum Swings for a New Round of Profits
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…

Where Have You Gone, George Bailey?
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 …

Ready to Turn Over Evolution to Robots? — Transhumanists Are Planning On It
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…

It Would Have Been More Helpful to Avoid the Crisis
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…

Catherine’s Latest Crowdfunding
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 …

Live Chat: How America Became the United States of Secrets
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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…

CPI: Wow
By Karl Denninger
No problem trying to eat things that won’t give you die-a-beetyou, right? Possible exception? Chicken. Hope you like it (a lot) — but don’t count eggs, as they’re up 9.3% over t…

Putin Says Ukraine Must Pay Cash for Gas in June
(Photo Credit: AP Photo/Mikhail Klimentyev)
By Vladimir Isachenkov
Russia has ratcheted up pressure on Ukraine, with President Vladimir Putin saying in a letter released Thursday that it only will …

Putin Says Ukraine Must Pay Cash for Gas in June
(Photo Credit: AP Photo/Mikhail Klimentyev)
By Vladimir Isachenkov
Russia has ratcheted up pressure on Ukraine, with President Vladimir Putin saying in a letter released Thursday that it only will …

For the Love of Learning: Beyond Main Core, Common Core and the Databeast
“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…

Why I Will Not Use U.S. Government Data for Three More Years
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…

Understanding the Small Business Credit Crunch
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…

Winners And Losers In The Digital Age
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…

The Average Stock Is In A Bear Market
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…

China Wants to Build High-Speed Railway to US Through Siberia and Bering Strait
(Photo Credit: Reuters/Stringer)
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…

I’ve Seen People Turn Garbage Into Some Cool Stuff. But THIS…. This Is Absolute Brilliance.
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…

Connect the Dots
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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…

Two Economic Trends that Janet Yellen Says are ‘Very Disturbing’
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 …

Teen Slang Bodes Well for the Future of Food
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…

Freddie Mac Starts Trailer Loans
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…

Good Leadership
“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…

How Russia Inc. Moves Billions Offshore — and a Handful of Tax Havens May Hold Key to Sanctions
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…

U.S. Businesses are Being Destroyed Faster Than They’re Being Created
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 …

Charts on Employment
(Chart Credit: The King Report)

Supreme Court Upholds Prayer at Government Meetings
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 …

Dolan on Secrecy
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…

Quantum Meta-Physics
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…

Seen on the Internet
**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 …

Microsoft Research Special Projects group tipped to take on Google X
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…

Putin Says Geneva Agreement No Longer Viable After Ukrainian Military Action
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…

Health Care & the Economy
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…

Promoting Women, Part IV
By Catherine Austin Fitts
I received a survey from the ACLU recently. They wanted to know if I was concerned about my rights.
Wow, I thought. Wouldn’t it be great if the ACLU really wanted…

IMF Approves $17bn Aid Deal for Ukraine
(Photo Credit: AFP)
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…

Glyphosate is a Disaster for Human Health
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…

The US Homeownership Rate Has Fallen To A 19-Year Low
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 …

Ron Paul Redux: Warns Against Arming Land Management Officials In 1997
**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 …

Giant Chinese 3D Printer Builds 10 Houses in Just 1 Day
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…

Catherine’s Latest Petition Sign
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…

Promoting Women, Part III
“Men are from Earth, women are from Earth. Deal with it.” ~ George Carlin
By Catherine Austin Fitts
In 1991, after leaving the Bush I Administration, I founded the Hamilton Securities Gr…

Mission to Mars is Necessary for ‘Survival of Human Race’
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…

The Escalating Game Of Chicken Between China And Japan
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…

Let’s Talk About “Sell in May and Go Away”
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…

U.S. Aims to Defuse Tension Over Control of Internet
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…

China Prepares Investments in Crimea
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…

Top Banks in the World
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…

Free the Seed: OSSI Nurtures Growing Plants Without Patent Barriers
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 …

Musings on the News
“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 …

The Unexplained with Howard Hughes: Edition 154 – Catherine Austin Fitts
Ever wondered how the world and its economy really works? Catherine Austin Fitts will expain…
The Unexplained Edition 154
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April “Ears to the Ground”
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…

Americans Sold on Real Estate as Best Long-Term Investment
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…

Princeton Concludes What Kind of Government America Really Has, and It’s Not a Democracy
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…

Putin: Russia May Invade Ukraine to Protect Locals
(Photo Credit: Alexei Druzhinin / Associated Press)
By Sergei L. Loiko
Russia may invade southeast Ukraine to protect the local population, President Vladimir Putin said Thursday.
Speaking live at…

Democrats Need to Replace Andrew Cuomo
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 …

Agrihoods: Emerging Self-Sustainable Communities
(Photo Credit: Farmer D Organics website)
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…

Russia Rejects GMOs, Will Grow Organic Food Instead
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 …

Catherine Austin Fitts : Crowdfunding, Sourcing Equity Capital For Projects
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Announcing Jon Rappoport’s Participation in Secret Space Program!
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…

Prosecutors — and Karma — Sting Chris Christie, Andrew Cuomo
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…

Michael Tellinger – Ubuntu Party Elections 2014
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Catherine Austin Fitts – Hour 1 – Secret Space Program & The Black Budget
By Red Ice Creations
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…

Social Security, Treasury Target Taxpayers for Their Parents’ Decades-old Debts
(Photo Credit: Evelyn Hockstein/ The Washington Post)
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…

Yelp’s Deal With Yahoo Has Small Businesses Crying Foul
(Photo Credit : M. Scott Brauer/The Wall Street Journal.)
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…

Major Encryption Security Bug ‘Heartbleed’ Impacts Two-Thirds of the Web
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…

Phase III- Annihilation in the Precious Metals Markets…”Are You Serious ?”
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…

Promoting Women Part II
(Click here to read Part 1!)
By Catherine Austin Fitts
In the 1970’s I had the honor of being promoted from the only female bartender to bar manager at a lovely French restaurant near the …

White House Lies to EU about US Gas Supply
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…

Facebook and Google’s Race to Zero
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…

Eric Holder Wants to Chip You
***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…

Special Report: Robots
By The Economist
Immigrants From the Future
The Build-Up: Good and Ready
Military Uses: Up in the Air
Business Service Robots: The Invisible Unarmed
Labour Markets: A Mighty Contest
Domestic S…

Yelp Reviews Brew a Fight Over Free Speech vs. Fairness
(Photo Credit: Matt McLoone/The Wall Street Journal)
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…

The Fight is Never About What the Fight is About
***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…

Another Retail 3.0 Twist
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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