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“Maxine Waters of California alerted the entire country with a devastating result of sequestration. She warned that 170 MILLION jobs could be lost to sequestration.
This is terrifying, especially whe…
“Maxine Waters of California alerted the entire country with a devastating result of sequestration. She warned that 170 MILLION jobs could be lost to sequestration.
This is terrifying, especially whe…
Jack is a fifteen year old freshman in high school. He developed a paper sensor that could detect pancreatic, ovarian and lung cancer in five minutes for as little as 3 cents. He conducted his resea…
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China’s ruling Communist Party has unveiled the next generation of leaders who will take charge of the country.
The seven men will sit at the top of the Politburo Standing Committee, C…
By Gretchen Morgenson
Two weeks ago, I wrote a column about a secret agreement struck in July 2012 by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and Bank of America. The existence of the confidential deal …
By Renee Sharp and J. Paul Pestano
Water Treatment plants along the east coast are struggling to recover from superstorm Sandy, whose torrential rains washed tens of millions of gallons of raw or par…
By Raphael Minder
Swiss citizens voted Sunday to impose some of the world’s most severe restrictions on executive compensation, ignoring a warning from the business lobby that such curbs would un…
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By Catherine Austin Fitts
I love really fine coffee. I also love it hot. Keeping it hot is a challenge given all the long road trips I take. I have been known to spend way too …
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, commonly referred to as the ACA or Obamacare, will go into full effect in 2014. This decree mandates that all Americans must purchase and mainta…
“In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you.”
– Buddhist Saying
“In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you.”
-Buddhist Saying
By John Hathaway
The investment case for gold, in our opinion, rests squarely on the prospect for U.S. sovereign credit, and by extension, the value of the U.S. dollar. The prospect, in short, ap…
Resolving Globally Active, Systemically Important, Financial Institutions
FDIC | 10 December 2012
The financial crisis that began in 2007 has driven home the importance of an orderly resolution proces…
Homeland Security Drones Designed to Identify Civilians Carrying Guns
Breitbart | 05 March 2013
Recently uncovered government documents reveal that the U.S. Department…
Russia Carries Out its ‘Bigg…
Chinese Physicists Measure Speed of Einstein’s ‘Spooky Action at a Distance’: At Least 10,000 Times Faster Than Light
ExtremeTech | 07 March 2013
A team of Chinese physicists have clocked the sp…
Food Cravings Engineered by Industry
CBC News | 06 March 2013
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Direct Farm Subsidies May be Ending; California Rice Farmer…
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Youtube | 25 February 2013
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The Solari Report 2013-02-28
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By Witta Priester
What kind of clouds are these? Although their cause is presently unknown, such unusual atmospheric structures, as menacing as they might seem, do not appear to be harbingers of me…
By S. Derek Turner
AT&T has a sneaky plan.
It wants to exploit a loophole in the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)’s rules to kill what remains of the public telecommunications network —…
Transcript of The Non-Revolution in Digital Payments with Eric Hughes is now available to Subscribers!
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By Dan Cossins
Researchers have electronically linked the brains of pairs of rats, enabling the animals to communicate directly via implanted microelectrode arrays to solve simple behavioral proble…
By April Rabkin
Beijing’s Forbidden City was the Chinese empire’s seat of power for 500 years. It was built out of rammed earth and wood in the early 1400s, and its majesty has been largely preserv…
By Catherine Austin Fitts
A governance transition by the largest organization in the world is always important. In a world in which we are encouraged to forgo the sacred or to forget that our freedom…
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[CAF Note: One must ponder whether the Justices were really free to decide or are subject to control file fears.]
By The New York Times
The Supreme Court severely damaged the rule of law in its deci…
Transcript of How the Youngest Generations Will Contribute with Neil Howe is now available to Subscribers!
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Alaska House Passes 2nd Amendment Preservation Act, 31-5
Today, February 25th, Alaska’s Second Amendment Preservation Act, HB69, has passed the State House and will now move on to the Senate for co…
[CAF Note: Last week Jin Zengmin was the Solari Hero, for challenging a local politician to swim in the polluted rivers in China. This week another activist, Chen Yugian, spoke out online against t…
By Skylar Bergl
Venture capital was a who-you-know business, until AngelList made a mass introduction. Like online dating, its transparent network connects startups with accredited investors, and n…
By John Hooper
By any standards, and whatever happens, Beppe Grillo and the Five Star Movement (M5S) have emerged from Italy’s general election as big winners.
Because of the way the electoral sys…
By William Selway & Michael C. Bender
Federal budget cuts will probably push the U.S. back into recession by damaging states’ economies recovering from the worst fiscal crisis since the Great Dep…
[CAF Note: This article persuaded me to significantly increase my Vitamin D intake starting over the holidays. The results have been both positive and dramatic. Hmmm…..]
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After enduring last summer’s destructive drought, farmers, ranchers and officials across the parched Western states had hoped that plentiful winter snows would replenish the ground …
By Dave Smith
Mark Zuckerberg, Sergey Brin and Yuri Milner have teamed up to create the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences Foundation, which now offers the most lucrative annual prize in the history…
Incarceration in the United States is one of the main forms of punishment, rehabilitation, or both for the commission of felony and other offenses. The United States has the highest documented incar…
Swiss Billionaire Meyer Forms Fortune With Kissing Party
Bloomberg | 01 March 2013
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Ousted Groupon CEO Andrew Ma…
Congress Heads Out as the Sequester Blows In
The Washington Post | 28 February 2013
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Judge Accepts Bradley Manning’s Guilty Pleas…
Intuitive Robot Probe Threatens Trend-Setting Surgeries
Bloomberg | 01 March 2013
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Boy, 7, Raises More Than $30,000 for Sick Friend
ABC News | 26 February 2013
Never underestimate first-graders.
Solve For X: Andras Forgacs on Sustainable, Scalable Meat
Youtube | 10 February 2013
Problem: 8% of the world”s water supply and one third of the..
A 12-Year-Old Spells Out the Fraud That Banks Ar…
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The Solari Report 2013-02-21
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I wanted our readers to have this case study that embodies a robust selection of the criminal and civil violations visited upon homebuyers and homeowners in…
By Cha Cha
As a high school or college graduate, you’re really excited to leave your parents behind and move out into your own place. You find a decent apartment at a reasonable price, and you prep…
By Catherine O’Driscoll
A team at Purdue University School of Veterinary Medicine conducted several studies 1,2 to determine if vaccines can cause changes in the immune system of dogs that might le…
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Three controversial television films suppressed as part of the continued persecution of Andrew Wakefield are now available to watch on YouTube. The drama ‘Hear the Silence’ sta…
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This Solari Story, “The Fiscal Cliff and Gun Control”, is the first of many brief and insightful videos that Catherine will be releasing throughout the year. Che…
Transcript of Precious Metals Market Report with Franklin Sanders is now available to Subscribers!
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By Bernie Becker
The House Ways and Means Committee formally announced 11 separate working groups they hope will push the ball forward on tax reform.
The working groups will not be charged with craf…
By The Economist
WHEN THE ECONOMIST INTELLIGENCE UNIT, a sister organisation of this newspaper, published the first bound edition of “Tax Havens and Their Uses” in 1975, a queue several blocks …
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China will proactively introduce a set of new taxation policies designed to preserve the environment, including a tax on carbon dioxide emissions, according to a senior official wi…
By Julia Werdigier
Novartis, one of Switzerland’s biggest drug makers, said Tuesday it scrapped a planned $78 million payment to its departing chairman because of pressure from shareholders and l…
By Sam Byford
3D printers are getting smaller and cheaper all the time, but they’re still not exactly mainstream. The 3Doodler is an attempt to change that — it’s a small pen-style device that it…
By Rebecca Christie & Ben Moshinsky
The European Union failed to seal a deal on Basel bank rules after disagreeing on bonuses, capital requirements for big lenders and disclosure of profit and tax …
A provider of “realistic” shooting targets to the Department of Homeland Security and other federal agencies has created a line of “non-traditional threat” targets that include pregnant wome…
Transcript of Coming Clean: Detox Power with Dr. Laura Thompson is now available to Subscribers!
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“One person can make a difference and every person should try.” ~ John F. Kennedy
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[Note from CAF: This is both a phenomenon and verb that is very useful to have available on the tip of your tongue these days!]
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MANY people became rightfully upset about bailouts given to big banks during the mortgage crisis. But it turns out that they are still going on, if more quietly, through the bac…
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Pope Benedict’s decision to live in the Vatican after he resigns will provide him with security and privacy. It will also offer legal protection from any attempt to prosecute him…
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good leg will fall; a straight back will stoop; a
black beard will turn white; a curled pate will grow
bald; a fair face will wither;…
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good leg will fall; a straight back will stoop; a
black beard will turn white; a curled pate will grow
bald; a fair face will wither;…
Cost of Dropping Citizenship Keeps U.S. Earners From Exit
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Intermediate Gold Chart Revisited – Range Trade in the Currency War
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E-Mails Imply JPMorgan Knew Some Mortgage Deals Were Bad
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Papal Resignation Linked to Inquiry Into ‘Vatican Gay Officials’, Says Paper
The Guardian | 21 February 2013
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iDoctor: Could A Smartphone Be the Future of Medicine?
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Snow, Hail and Rain Falls in Phoenix Area; Snow Falls Around Arizona
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The Solari Report 2013-02-14
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By Jan Strupczewski and Lesley Wroughton
G20 officials will disregard key parts of a currency statement issued this week by the Group of Seven powers, according to a communiqué drafted for financ…
“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.” ~ C.S. Lewis
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“If leadership has a secret sauce, it may well be humility. A humble boss understands that there are things he doesn’t know. He listens: not only to the other bigwigs in Davos, but also to the kind of…
“If leadership has a secret sauce, it may well be humility. A humble boss understands that there are things he doesn’t know. He listens: not only to the other bigwigs in Davos, but also to the kind of…
By Pat Garofalo
Last year, economist Emmanuel Saez estimated that the richest 1 percent of the U.S. captured a whopping 93 percent of the income gains in 2010, as the U.S. was emerging from the Gre…
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European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso made the announcement following President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address.
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We would like to wish everyone a happy Chinese New Year, as we welcome in the Year of the Snake!
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The debate, between both the main participants and many of those who have left comments, is running on two tracks. One argument has developed about the nitty-gritty of shale-gas extraction. What the i…
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