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Food for the Soul – Binge on History

“Those who fail to learn from history are condemned to repeat it.” Winston Churchill, paraphrasing George Santayana By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout Long winter nights are just perfect for plunging into long TV shows brought to your local computer screen by accommodating streaming services. We thought it might be fun to list some…

Scenario #1: Whew!

Scenario #1: Whew! [Human-Transparent] – Weighting = 5%—This is the wonderful day we wake up and we are back in a world where people regularly […]

Top Broker-Dealers

The following table shows the top 15 broker-dealers based on their assets under management in 2018. These are the firms that play an important role […]

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Food for the Soul: The Year of da Vinci

“Ars longa, vita brevis. Art is long, life is short“- Hippocrates “Life, if well spent, is long” – Leonardo da Vinci By Nina Heyn -Your Culture Scout Imagine a designer whose technical designs remain mostly in the blueprint but never go into technical trials or a production line. Imagine a scientist who has to hide…

The U.S. Statutes Creating Modern Constitutional Financial Management and Reporting Requirements and the Government’s Failure to Follow Them

“About 34 percent of the federal government’s reported total assets as of September 30, 2016, and approximately 18 percent of the federal government’s reported net cost for fiscal year 2016 relate to significant federal entities that, as of the date of GAO’s audit report, were unable to issue audited financial statements, were unable to receive…

The Black Budget: The Crossroads of (Un)Constitutional Appropriations and Reporting

The $52.6 billion “black budget” for fiscal 2013, obtained by The Washington Post from former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, maps a bureaucratic and operational landscape that has never been subject to public scrutiny. Although the government has annually released its overall level of intelligence spending since 2007, it has not divulged how it uses the…

The Appropriations Clause: A History of the Constitution’s (As of Yet) Underused Clause.

“No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law; and a regular Statement and Account of the Receipts and Expenditures of all public Money shall be published from time to time.”  ~ARTICLE I, SECTION 9, CLAUSE 7, UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION Table of Contents I. Introduction    A. Appropriations Clause    B. Permanent…

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Introduction

“I think the first duty of society is justice.” ~ Alexander Hamilton By Catherine Austin Fitts Our civilization is approaching a crossroads – will we […]

Stavoren & Friesland

About Stavoren & Friesland The historical Stavoren was granted city rights between 1060 and 1067, making it the oldest city in Friesland. It is mentioned […]

Terms & Conditions

Solari Event Terms & Conditions ~ Please make sure you have read the Solari Event Terms & Conditions. ~ Our terms and conditions reflect our […]

Travel & Hotel

Travel from Amsterdam Stavoren is approximately 1 1/2 hours to the north by car from Schipol Airport in Amsterdam in the Netherlands If you let […]

Vision

  Our Vision The insights that have emerged from Ulrike’s presentations on the Solari Future Science Series and Brigitte’s presentations on the Solari Wellness Series […]

Fee

Fee & Expenses The Solari fee includes your arrival and departure travel between Stavoren and Amsterdam, your Saturday and Friday dinners and all costs associated […]

Hang

Hang with Solari – Stavoren 2019 Catherine will be in Stavoren in the Netherlands for a month in February and March where she co-locates several […]

Our Schedule

SCHEDULE SATURDAY, MARCH 9, 2019 Arrive by 4pm in Stavoren. 6:30pm Opening Dinner at Café Max Jeroen Van Straaten of the Breakthrough Energy Movement and […]

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Food For the Soul: Oscar Treasures in Black and White

“It shouldn’t work. It shouldn’t be magic. You shouldn’t weep happy and then sad and then happy again. But you do. And I do. And we all do.” 
― Ray Bradbury, The Cat’s Pajamas By Nina Heyn, Your Culture Scout Foreign black and white movies do not find favor with contemporary American audiences. The 2011 French movie The…

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Space – 1st Quarter 2019

SpaceX snags second Falcon 9 booster in two weeks after Crew Dragon launch
Teslarati | 06 March 2019

IAI (Israel Aerospace Industries) unveils improved anti-jamming GPS
GPS Daily | 06 March 201…

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A New Prime Number

A new prime number has been found! And it has almost 25 million digits…. Prime numbers are those special numbers whose only divisors are themselves and 1. They are not only mathematically fascinating but today also highly significant and indispensable in cryptography and thus all matters of banking and finance, online transactions and even crypto-currencies:…

Commodities

“Let me tell you my story once again of the devil and the farmer. The devil goes to a Midwestern farmer and he says, “OK, […]

Equities

“Professional investors are wrestling with four big concerns, what I call the Four Horsemen of the Investing Apocalypse: The Fed keeps on raising interest rates […]