***CAF Note: This is a classic. Worth checking out!***

By J. Russell Smith

I stood on the Great Wall of China near the borders of Mongolia. Below me in the valley, standing up square and high, was a…

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***CAF Note: There are lots of reasons to wonder about the trajectory of the US equity markets, which are at all time highs. First, historical patterns say that ga…

***CAF Note: This is an oldie but goodie from one of my favorite writers about the cultural roots of rock and roll***

By Michael Ventura

The Voodoo ceremonies of Haiti are danced around a centerpost…

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By David Kravets

Global governments, the tech sector, and scholars are closely following a legal flap in which the US Justice Department claims that Microsoft must hand o…

I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live. ~Deuteronomy 30…

By Institute of Science in Society

The first hint that fathers can pass on acquired characters was the discovery that the experience of young boys could affect not just their health in later life, bu…

As we look over the fiscal cliff into our financial abyss, now is a good time to “Come Clean” about the real state of our lives, our communities, and our economy, starting with the U.S. federal fi…

By MarkWhittington

“Rep. Bill Posey (R-FL) announced on Thursday that he was introducing a bill along with Rep, Derek Kilmer (D-WA) called the American Space Technology for Exploring Resource Opportu…

By Washington’s Blog

Bloomberg reports:

Wall Street’s biggest trade group has proposed a government-industry cyber war council to stave off terrorist attacks that could trigger financial panic…

By Binyamin Appelbaum

The Federal Reserve intends to end its bond-buying program in October provided the economy continues to grow, according to an account published Wednesday of the central bank’s…

On the road again –
Like a band of gypsies we go down the highway
We’re the best of friends
Insisting that the world keep turning our way
~ Willie Nelson

By Catherine Austin Fitts

I left San Franc…

You are not it; it actually is you. —Ch’an Master Tung-shan

By Nines

Now that I meatspace love you, everything’s changed. You might not know this, but in satori the world looks different….

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An experimental fiction film that investigates the…

By Jessica Bliss

Stephen Gaskin…a proud “freethinker” and iconic founder of The Farm — died Tuesday morning at his home. He was 79.

More than four decades ago, Mr. Gaskin — an ex-combat mari…

***CAF Note: The airwaves are full of intellectual trash. First from Facebook executives, now from academia to help try and ruin our July 4th. Our freedoms come to us by divine authority. Daniel Web…

Wishing everyone in the United States and those of you celebrating with us, a happy July 4th weekend!

– Catherine and the Solari Team

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By The Next Web

It’s time for a design revolution in open technology. Companies like Google and Facebook that dominate the Internet promise us free services in exchange for the right to watch and s…

“An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.” ~ Plutarch

By Catherine Austin Fitts

As Congressional members increasingly focus on this year’s mid-te…

By David Warner Mathisen

The 2014 Secret Space Program and Breakaway Civilizations conference has come to a close, but the ideas and conversations that it has sparked are just getting started.

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***CAF Note: Sanctions are what inspire people to build alternative platforms. Some of the smartest financial people in the world have just been given a year …

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By Nines

I am still in the belly of the beast, but at least it’s at my safety zone in the Berkeley hills instead of down where freeway exhaust settles on every surface, coats yer lungs, pisse…

By Rob Wile

M&A activity has hit $750 billion through June, a level we haven’t seen in years, thanks to cash-flush corporations, steadily improving growth, and rising CEO confidence, according to G…

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***CAF Note: Now you know why the Solari Report and Catherine Austin Fitts do not have a Facebook page.***

By RT

Facebook conducted a psychological experiment on its us…

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By Nines

All of us.

My temporary boyfriend had to relinquish the wheel this morning, but we all look to be passably lucid anyway.  Of course, Catherine is the very por…

By The Voice of Russia

Vedomosti reports that Sergey Glaziev, the economic mastermind behind the Eurasian Union, sent an official report to Kremlin, stating the necessity of a radical revamp of Rus…

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By Nines

That was one looong day and I have to be to bed about three hours ago, but it turns out the men are fighting over me again and we’ve all been up hashing it out…

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By Nines

The marching band turned out to be a very neutral sort of beeping sound, and so did the army of gymnasts. Really inoffensive wake-up calls around these parts. Luc…

By Nines

Much later that same day.  OMG!  The meeting started at two, and they served pizza and tequila out of gallon jugs.  Very shortly we were all so sloshed we forgot our code words and had to…

By Justin Boldenow,

As we’ve set out here in Nashville to explore the diverse musical amalgam that forms the Middle Tennessee music scene, one of our directives was to find a bad case of the blues….

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By Nines

All right, you cusses, I’m up. This motel has pretentions to hoteltude and always has, but I think the nazis have ruined that for everyone. You are not allowed…

“There is always something to do. There are hungry people to feed, naked people to clothe, sick people to comfort and make well. And while I don’t expect you to save the world I do think it’s not aski…

**CAF Note: I asked one of my very favorite bloggers, Nines of “the nines” to blog as correspondent for The Solari Report this weekend from the Secret Space Program & the Breakaway Civilization …

By Institute of Science in Society

A team led by Andrea Crisanti at Imperial College London in the UK was widely reported to have made a breakthrough or even a ‘quantum leap’ in creating transgen…

**CAF Note: Did the Clintons just make a deal with Jeb Bush to engineer him into the White House in 2016? Why has Hillary Clinton decided to commit political suicide? Could Rove be right about brain…

By Catherine Austin Fitts

A marvelous group of Solari Report subscribers shared lunch yesterday under the tents in a large field in Marin County. Many had joined us for lunch last year and have bee…

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By Carrie Kirby

After housing and transportation costs, food consumes more of the average household’s budget than anything else. I’ve already looked at ways to cut housing and transportation. Now l…

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By Fox News

Argentina’s president has said that she would refuse to comply with a U.S. judge’s order to pay $1.5 billion to winners of a decade-long legal battle over defaul…

By Ralph Atkins

Central banks around the world, including China’s, have shifted decisively into investing in equities as low interest rates have hit their revenues, according to a global study of 4…

By Wikipedia

The U.S.–China Strategic and Economic Dialogue is a high-level dialogue for the United States and China to discuss a wide range of bilateral, regional and global political, strategic…