
My Latest Rant and Prayer
By Catherine Austin Fitts
I am praying in response to the story below – 22 vets a day committing suicide in America.
This is way beyond what we have the power and money to do. However, my God is…

Why Employee Pensions Aren’t Bankrupting States
By Kevin G. Hall
From state legislatures to Congress to tea party rallies, a vocal backlash is rising against what are perceived as too-generous retirement benefits for state and local government wor…

Monetary Blockade Of Russia Begins: JPMorgan Blocks Russian Money Transfer “Under Pretext” Of Sanctions
By Tyler Durden
While the flare up of Cold War 2.0 may seem like last week’s news, overnight something very notable happened that so far virtually nobody appears to have paid attention to. According …

Supreme Court Strikes Down Overall Political Donation Cap
***CAF Note: This puts us in a very dangerous place. The message is clear. The 2014 elections were not going to go well for Mr. Global. Even rigged voting machines were going to be insufficient to h…

Scientists Working on Human-to-Dolphin Translator Report First Successful Interaction
By James Vincent
Researchers testing a real-life human-to-dolphin translator have reported the first successful use of their technology in the wild, with a bottlenose dolphin pointing out a piece o…

US Secretly Built ‘Cuban Twitter’ to Stir Unrest
By Desmond Butler, Jack Gillum and Alberto Arce
The U.S. government masterminded the creation of a “Cuban Twitter” – a communications network designed to undermine the communist government in Cuba, …

Fully Invisible Aircraft
By Martin Armstrong
Does the USA have totally invisible planes? Why are they being leaked now? There has been development of secret planes at Area 51 for decades. Some crashes have even been decla…

The Navy’s Newest Destroyer Is a Drone
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By Drake Bennett
When the U.S. Navy christens the first of its newest class of destroyers this month, it will launch the first ship with a brain of it…

The Unknown Putin.
Pravda.Ru would like to bring to your attention “The Unknown Putin” – a documentary by well-known Russian journalist Andrei Karaulov.
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Bund Spread’s Message for the Stock Market
By McClellan Financial Publications
The folks who watch international bond yields have been giving a lot of attention lately to the fact that the spread between the 10-year U.S Treasury Note and th…

Hobby Lobby’s Hypocrisy: The Company’s Retirement Plan Invests in Contraception Manufacturers
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***CAF Note: The information age is now permitting us to look across our balance sheets and notice the multiple personality disorder throughout our finances. One way …

Machine to Machine
By Wikipedia
Machine to machine (M2M) refers to technologies that allow both wireless and wired systems to communicate with other devices of the same type. M2M is a broad term as it does not pinpoint…

Promoting Women Part I
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By Catherine Austin Fitts
“Let me tell you what’s going to happen this year….” was the way the chairman of the firm opened the partners January strategi…

How Much Is NSA Spying Costing In Lost Productivity?
By Washington’s Blog
Spy Agencies Are Spying On All Of Us, Taking Screenshots of Our Webchats, Creating Vulnerabilities On Our Computers and the Internet, and Intentionally Disrupting Some of Our Fun…

Rodney Jordon for City Council!
By Catherine Austin Fitts
Long time business colleague, ally & friend Rodney Jordon is running for city council in Norfolk, Virginia. If you are in Norfolk, please do consider giving him your supp…

Open Source Ecology: Upcoming Workshops
By Open Source Ecology
OSE workshops are intended to provide you with immersion, hands-on training in practical skills – so you can Build Yourself – and thereby build the world around you. The …

You’ll Never Look At The ‘Wealthiest 1%’ The Same Way
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By Joe Weisenthal
In recent years, as income and wealth inequality have grown as matters of concern, the term “1%” has become a popular way to connote the rise of a sup…

Yellen: Fed’s ‘Extraordinary’ Policy to Be Around for the Long Haul
By Javier E. David
The Federal Reserve will continue to bolster the U.S. economy, Fed Chair Janet Yellen said on Monday, given the halting pace of the recovery and a still moribund job market.
In so…

New Silk Route Railway Line Links China, Europe
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By AFP
It is one of the world’s longest railways, an approximately 11,000-kilometre “modern-day silk road” that traverses Russia and Kazakhstan to link a megacity in the h…

The Power of Soil
(**CAF Note: This letter comes from a great Montana ally who understands the importance and power of soil. For those of you who have not focused on the opportunity to improve soil and nutrition, it …

Invasion of the Data Snatchers
By Catherine Crump and Matthew Harwood
Estimates vary, but by 2020 there could be over 30 billion devices connected to the Internet. Once dumb, they will have smartened up thanks to sensors and other…

London to Become Renminbi Trading Centre
Photo Credit: AFP
By Harry Wilson
London will become the first centre outside Asia in which investors will be able to clear and settle Chinese renminbi trades.
The major boost to the City came aft…

For Profit Surveillance
By Catherine Austin Fitts
One of the most amazing things to watch these days is the building of a FOR PROFIT surveillance state.
Aaron Russo was a fine man. A very successful Hollywood producer, he …

Our Latest Crowd Funding Donation!
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Real Shelter for Real People
According to the UN, 45 million people around the world have been displaced from their homes due to natural disaster or armed conflicts. The World Health O…

Living Expenses From January ’00 to March ’14
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Russia Is Ousted From Group of 8 by U.S. and Allies
By Alison Smale and Michael D. Shear
The United States and its closest allies on Monday cast Russia out of the Group of 8 industrialized democracies, their most exclusive club, to punish President Vl…

My First Etsy Purchase
By Catherine Austin Fitts
I first noticed Etsy when the Mayor of Rockville, Illinois invited the artisan commerce website to help rebuild their local economy.
After trolling around Etsy for a whi…

Israel Closes Embassies Around the World as Diplomats Strike
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By Allyn Fisher-Ilan
Israeli diplomats launched an unprecedented strike on Sunday, forcing the complete closure of embassies around the world as they escalate…

Contact Lenses With Night Vision Could Be on the Way Thanks to Graphene Breakthrough
By James Vincent
Night vision technology has been around for a while, but it’s only really used by professionals (or professional creeps) due to its prohibitive size.
But what if night vision was so…

Tugg – The Movies You Want at Your Local Theater
By Catherine Austin Fitts
How many people have told me they would love to have a screening for a given documentary in their home town. Well now there is a website that would help you do that.
Welc…

The Russians Have Already Quietly Pulled Their Money From The West
By Tyler Durden
Earlier today we reported that according to weekly Fed data, a record amount – some $105 billion – in Treasurys had been sold or simply reallocated (which for political reasons is the…

Dollar Strengthens as Fed Changes Guidance for Rates
By Andrea Wong
The dollar gained versus all its major counterparts after Federal Reserve policy makers indicated they’ll probably raise interest rates by the middle of next year with the U.S. eco…

The New Age of Crony Capitalism
By The Economist
As the regime of Viktor Yanukovych collapsed in Ukraine, protesters against it could be found outside One Hyde Park, a luxury development in west London. Their target was Rinat Akhme…


Phasing Fannie and Freddie – From Homeowners to Landlords
By Catherine Austin Fitts
The current proposal to phase out Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac has the potential for ever greater back door shenanigans. Lot’s of money that can go out through the back do…

NASA is Being Forced by the US Government to Fly a Mission to Europa
By Sebastian Anthony
In a rather intriguing twist, it appears that NASA is now mandated by law to fly a robotic mission to Jupiter’s watery moon Europa. Europa is an incredibly exciting science t…

General Explanations of the Administration’s Fiscal Year 2015 Revenue Proposals
The U.S. Department of the Treasury released its General Explanations of the Administration’s FY2015 Revenue Proposals, known as the “Greenbook,” which explains the Administration’s revenue proposals …

How to Keep the NSA From Spying Through Your Webcam
By Kim Zetter
You already know that laptops, desktop computers, tablets and mobile phones are all at risk of being hacked. But did you know that intruders might use the built-in camera to take surrep…

Coming Clean: Beyond the Fiscal Cliff – Who’s The Leader?: 22nd 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
Ultimately, we must each decide…

Ukraine Crisis: Putin Signs Russia-Crimea Treaty
By BBC News
President Vladimir Putin and the leaders of Crimea have signed a bill to absorb the peninsula into Russia.
Mr Putin told parliament that Crimea, which was taken over by pro-Russian for…

Putin Strikes Back: Russia’s Sanctions List Said To Include US Senators, High Ranking Administration Officials
**CAF Note: If the US and Russia target the finances and assets of individual officials, then the only people who will be able to hold government office are people with no laundered or illegal offshor…

Peace On Earth – An Interview With Daisaku Ikeda
By Alastair Thompson
Japanese peace builder and Buddhist philosopher Daisaku Ikeda has a unique perspective on the path humanity needs to follow to achieve Global Peace. Ikeda is President of Soka …

Putin Debt to Equity Hit on Crimea Seizure: Russia Reality Check
By Bloomberg
Markets are reacting in real time to Russia’s military incursion into the Crimea section of Ukraine.
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Gazprom Chairman Sold All His Shares Just Before Russia Invaded Crimea
By Tyler Durden
We are sure it is just coincidence – and awkward combination of luck and suspicious timing – but Vedomosti reports that Viktor Zubkov, the Chairman of Russia’s massive energy monopo…

Why Russia Stresses Out Europe Way More Than The US
By Steven Perlberg
Global markets are still jumpy about the situation between Russia and Ukraine. But as one market analyst notes, there’s a reason Europe has more to fear than the U.S.
Wells Farg…

U.S. Criticized for Lack of Action on Mortgage Fraud
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By Matt Apuzzo
Four years after President Obama promised to crack down on mortgage fraud, his administration has quietly made the crime its lowest prior…

Global Debt Exceeds $100 Trillion as Governments Binge, BIS Says
By John Glover
The amount of debt globally has soared more than 40 percent to $100 trillion since the first signs of the financial crisis as governments borrowed to pull their economies out of reces…

The Precautionary Principle
**CAF Note: the following article identifies the core problem involving transhumanism and trans-ecology – they have the potential to destroy the food supply.**
By Yaneer Bar-Yam, Rupert Read, and Nas…

Bank of England Drops a Bombshell on Parliament: It Shredded Its Crisis Era Records
**CAF Note: As the subscriber who sent this one to us noted, I have found your construction of a framework describing governance by Mr. Global invaluable!
The report on the Bank of England is jus…

GM vs. Tesla vs S&P – 2014 YTD
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President Kennedy Visits Grave of James Forrestal
By Catherine Austin Fitts
Last night I had a life changing moment.
Thanks to Michael Salla’s new book, Kennedy’s Last Stand, I learned two things that I did not know. First, that President Eisenho…

Second Opinion: Laetrile at Sloan-Kettering
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I Have Risked My Life, To Tell You The Truth
**CAF Note: Edward Snowden is describing an economic warfare machinery. If the machine turned off, the slow burn would be difficult, if not impossible, to maintain, and we might have to return to a le…

Ukraine Gold Reserves Said To Be Put On Plane For Safekeeping in the US
By Jesse’s Café Américain
This is a story based on a report out of the Ukraine. Obviously I do not know yet if it is accurate. The information coming out of the Ukraine and Crimea should be sifted …

Coming Clean: Beyond the Fiscal Cliff – Trust: 21st 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
Financial systems operate on tr…

Financial Perspectives – Mar 10,2014
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By Chuck Gibson
We closed out 2013 with a bifurcated market. US stocks were the only place to be while the balance of the choices vying for your investment doll…

On Our Latest Reports
**CAF Note: Yes, we just keep peeling the onion, and keep finding there is more to peel!**
By a Solari Report Subscriber
I am taking time off to write to one of my favorite people simply because y…

S&P 500 vs. MSCI Russian ETF
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Attorney Client Privilege
By Catherine Austin Fitts
Money makes the world go round. For the trillions of annual dollars transacting through illegal activities, financial fraud or simply transferred illegally or engaged in t…

Ukraine’s Government Mulling Privatization of Energy Sector – Yatseniuk
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By Interfax
The government of Ukraine has the idea of privatization of the energy sector in the country, Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk ha…

The US, Russia & The Power of Soft Weapons
By Charles Hugh Smith
All those focusing on the West’s lack of leverage are forgetting that the Empire retains multiple way of striking back.
Many observers have focused on the relative paucity of t…

Exclusive: Russia Wants IMF to Move Ahead on Reforms Without U.S.
(Photo Credit: Reuters/Jonathan Ernst)
By Anna Yukhananov and Lidia Kelly
Russian officials are pushing for the International Monetary Fund to move ahead with planned reforms without the United Sta…

Fed Nominee Stanley Fischer Has a Citigroup Problem
By Pam Martens
Last evening, the U.S. Senate Banking Committee made the unexpected announcement that it was postponing the confirmation hearing of Stanley Fischer to serve as Vice Chairman of the F…

150 Global Scientists Condemn Retraction of Seralini GMO Study
By Sustainable Pulse
The number of scientists and experts condemning a journal editor’s retraction of a study that found serious health effects in rats that ate a Monsanto genetically modified (GM)…

An Anti-Pension Billionaire Shows the Five Rules of Deceptive Native Advertising
By David Sirota
The term “native advertising” may be new, but the principles of deception and camouflage that define it are not.
The Federal Trade Commission used to call this kind of thing “d…

Stakes Rise for Bitcoin Backers as Hackers Attack
Stakes rise for Coinbase as hackers attack bitcoin
By Philip Pearlman
Over the last week, thefts have been reported at three different bitcoin sites, one of which was the first exchange and at one…

Coming Clean: Beyond the Fiscal Cliff – Performance: 20th 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 remarkable and miraculous s…

Bailing In Down Under
By Catherine Austin Fitts
A subscriber from “down under” sent a series of interesting links on blog posts published last year on Australia’s plans to be prepared for “bail-ins.” My thanks…

26 Top American Corporations Paid No Federal Income Tax From ’08 to ’12 – Report
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By RT
Twenty-six of the most powerful American corporations – such as Boeing, General Electric, and Verizon – paid no federal income tax from 2008 to…

High-Interest Web Banks on the Rise in China
By David Barboza
Last June, an affiliate of the Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba made an offer to its hundreds of millions of users: Give us your cash, and we will pay more than Chinese banks will.
…

Kickstarter Passes $1 Billion in Pledges
By Kickstarter
On March 3, 2014, Kickstarter passed $1 BILLION in pledges.
That’s $1,000,000,000 pledged by 5.7 million people to creative projects.
More than half was pledged in the last 12 m…

Support Your Local Slaughterhouse
By Nicolette Hahn Niman
LATE on Saturday, Feb. 8, news broke of the recall of 8.7 million pounds of beef that had come through a Northern California slaughterhouse. Social media buzzed with tweets …

NYSE Margin Debt and the S&P 500
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Strange Weather
By Catherine Austin Fitts
On Sunday morning, March 1 at 6:05am, the temperature in Hickory Valley TN was 64F. By 9pm, it was 34F and is expected to drop to 15F. My e-mail subscribers are reporting…

Nixon, Rockefeller, IG Farben, and Global Control
By Jon Rappoport
To learn why Richard Nixon was really blown out of the White House, you could begin with the infamous Nazi chemical/pharmaceutical cartel, IG Farben. The cartel that pushed Hitler ov…

Russia Moves to Deploy Troops in Ukraine
(Photo Credit: AP)
By Alan Cullison, Paul Sonne, and Gregory L. White
The American and Russian presidents spoke on the phone for 90 minutes on Saturday after Russia’s parliament voted unanimously t…

Bill Withers – “Lean on Me”
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Ukraine: A Warning To Those Who Are Fools
By Karl Denninger
There are many who have expressed the opinion over the years that the United States should go down some sort of “revolutionary” road. The topic has come up repeatedly in various ar…

Musk’s $5 Billion Tesla Gigafactory May Start Bidding War
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By Alan Ohnsman
Tesla Motors Inc. (TSLA)’s plan to build what co-founder Elon Musk bills as the world’s largest battery factory could shake up the powe…

Rolls-Royce Believes Time of Drone Cargo Ships Has Come
(Photo Credit: Reuters / Aladin Abdel Naby)
By RT
Marine innovation engineering department at Rolls-Royce has presented a draft design of an ocean-going robo-vessel that could enter service within …

Gray Water’s Time in The Sun
By Cynthia Koehler and Audrey Finci
“Can Anybody Save California?” That was the headline of a Politico story earlier this month about our state’s water crisis. Predictions of apocalypse are not unc…

New Snowden Doc Reveals How GCHQ/NSA Use The Internet To ‘Manipulate, Deceive And Destroy Reputations’
By Mike Masnick
A few weeks ago, Glenn Greenwald, while working with NBC News, revealed some details of a GCHQ presentation concerning how the surveillance organization had a “dirty tricks” group kno…

Coming Clean: Beyond the Fiscal Cliff – The Great Governance Mystery: 19th 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
Who is really in charge? And wh…

Nuclear is Key Energy Source, Japan’s First Energy Policy Draft Since Fukushima Says
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By RT
In its first draft energy policy since 2011, Japan says nuclear energy is still among its vital sources of electricity. This comes after three years …

The Touch
“Nothing real can be threatened.
Nothing unreal exists.
Herein lies the peace of God.”
~A Course in Miracles
By Catherine Austin Fitts
I tense up when I get the calls. I can usually hear it after …

Email From Author of Study on Roundup/Gluten Intolerance
By Jon Rappoport
A few days ago, I reported on a recent study of Roundup, the Monsanto herbicide, and how Roundup is involved in causing gluten intolerance and celiac disease.
http://jonrappoport.wo…

G20 Vows to Add $2 Tn to World Economy to Lift Growth
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By Martin Parry
The world’s biggest economies vowed Sunday to boost global growth by more than $2 trillion over five years, shifting their focus away from austerity as…

Pentagon’s Chuck Hagel Plans to Downsize US Military
By BBC News
Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel has unveiled plans to shrink the US Army to its smallest size since before World War Two.
Outlining his budget plan, the Pentagon chief proposed trimming …

Major U.S. Utility Says “No Rational Basis” for Mandating Smart Meters
By SkyVision Solutions
Northeast Utilities (NU) operates New England’s largest utility system serving more than 3.6 million electric and natural gas customers in Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New…

Anatomy of the Deep State
**CAF Note: The spinners of limited modified hangouts are out in force. This is the best of the best, useful for giving an overall framework of numerous constituencies within the Washington beltway …

Quantum Physics: The Physics Of Dreaming
by Paul Levy
For the last few months, all I’ve wanted to do is to read about quantum physics. I’ve been studying quantum physics off and on for decades, but have never gone as far down the rabb…

New Radioactive Leak at Fukushima Nuclear Plant
By The Telegraph
One hundred tonnes of highly contaminated water has leaked out of a tank at the Fukushima nuclear plant, the worst incident since last August, when a series of radioactive water le…

Can PayPal Beat Apple, Google, Amazon And Icahn In The Wallet Wars?
(Photo Credit: Eric Millette For Forbes)
By Steven Bertoni
PayPal is in the center of two battles: one for control of every transaction on the planet, the other for control of its own destiny.
Th…

Railroads Fall on Mexican Bill
By Thomas Black
Kansas City Southern (KSU), the U.S. railroad that gets almost half its revenue from Mexico, fell the most in the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index after the lower house of Mexico’s…

No Blocking Web Traffic, FCC to Say in New Internet Rules
By Todd Shields
The U.S. plans to rewrite rules that would prevent Internet service providers from slowing Web traffic from companies such as Netflix Inc. (NFLX) and Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN)
Tom Whe…

Obamacare’s Latest Surprise for Taxpayers?
By Megan McArdle
Industry sources tell the Washington Examiner’s Susan Ferrechio that the Barack Obama administration is thinking of extending the Affordable Care Act’s “risk corridors,” the federa…

The Dynamic Relationship Between Bytes and Atoms
By Catherine Austin Fitts
As the “Internet of Things” develops we are seeing a very dynamic relationship occur in retail shopping. Online stores want a bigger share of the consumer market. Cons…

US-EU Divide & Conquer
By Catherine Austin Fitts
Whoever who has spent the last year making sure that a US-EU trade agreement never happens is certainly bucking for a really big bonus this year.
Check out the latest
An…

Coming Clean: Beyond the Fiscal Cliff – Force: 18th 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 political process has devol…

FX Traders Facing Extinction as Computers Replace Humans
**CAF Note: Are computers replacing FX trades because they are more efficient? Or because they are more obedient at implementing illegal schemes?**
By Ambereen Choudhury and Julia Verlaine
A widen…