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2013 Annual Wrap Up
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Petrodollar vs Petrogold
By Tyler Durden
It was in October 2012 when we explained how Iran evades the Western blockade (ostensibly with the implicit nod of none other than the US), and when we first defined the concept of Pe…
2013 Annual Wrap-Up: Break Away
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Sorry for Letting Them Snoop? Dell Apologizes for ‘Inconvenience’ Caused by NSA Backdoor
By RT
Security researcher Jacob Appelbaum dropped a bombshell of sorts earlier this week when he accused American tech companies of placing government-friendly backdoors in their devices. Now Texas…
2013: The Best Energy Stories of the Year
By Kevin Bullis
Clean energy technology made progress in 2013, but low-carbon energy isn’t growing fast enough to meet goals for limiting climate change. That would require switching energy sourc…
Comparing The Inflated Cost of Living Today From 1938 to 2013: How The US Dollar Has Lost Incredible Purchasing Power Since 1938.
By My Budget 360
Money is only as useful as to what it can purchase. The Fed has created a system where debt is now equal to money. This is why big purchases like cars, housing, and even going to…
30C3: To Protect And Infect – The Militarization of the Internet
By: Claudio Guarnieri and Morgan Marquis-Boire
2013 will be remembered as the year that the Internet lost its innocence for nearly everyone as light was shed on the widespread use of dragnet survei…
New Hazards in GMOs from Synonymous Mutations
By Institute of Science in Society
Single nucleotide mutations form the majority of genetic polymorphisms (single nucleotide polymorphisms, SNPs) in populations. When found in gene protein coding r…
Musk vs Bezos vs the Big Boys in Space
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Money & Markets – Week of 12.29.13
Debenhams Boss Say High Street Was ‘Sea of Red’ in Run-up to Christmas
The Telegraph | 31 December 2013
Debenhams issues major profits warning as difficult Christmas for the high street is confirmed…..
Precious Metals – Week of 12.29.13
Russian Banks Buy 181.4 Tons Of Gold In 2013
Zero Hedge | 31 December 2013
With headlines crowing of gold’s worst year since 1981 as a signal that the status quo is winning and proof positive that fia…
Housing & Mortgage Markets – Week of 12.29.13
Underwater Homeowners Could Face Extra Tax Burden in 2014
The Washington Post | 25 December 2013
Struggling homeowners could be hit with an unexpected tax bill in the new year…
Geopolitical – Week of 12.29.13
Chinese President Orders PLA To Prepare For War
Infowars | 30 December 2013
“Major changes” in Beijing’s national security situation…
Whither Net Neutrality?
Slate | 23 December 2013
The new …
Science & Technology – Week of 12.29.13
Spherical Glass Solar Energy Generator by Rawlemon
Desginboom | 25 August 2012
German born, Barcelona-based architect André Broessel has sent us images of his latest development…
Brainlike Compute…
Food & Health – Week of 12.29.13
McDonald’s to Employees: Avoid Burgers and Fries – It’s Risky For Your Health
RT | 25 December 2013
Expressing concern over employees’ health has backfired on the world’s leading fast food produce…
Life – Week of 12.29.13
Young Couple Quit Jobs to Build This Glass House for $500
Yahoo! Finance | 18 October 2013
Plenty of natural sunlight isn’t an unusual quality of a dream home…
Thinking, Fast and Slow
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Coming Clean: Beyond the Fiscal Cliff – Economic Health: 11th 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 vast majority of the people…
Gaia (Spacecraft)
**CAF Note: GAIA is the Grand Award Winner in the Aerospace category for Popular Science’s Best of What’s New 2013**
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Gaia is an unmanned space observatory of the European Space Ag…
IPO Investors Score Best Year Since Tech Boom
By Matt Krantz
Investors’ appetite for IPOs is reaching levels not seen since the rip-roaring stock market during the dot-com boom in 2000.
Thanks to a white-hot stock market in 2013, companies ar…
Museums: Temples of Delight
By The Economist
In 2012 American museums received 850m visitors, says the American Alliance of Museums. That is more than all the big-league sporting events and theme parks combined. In England ov…
Annual Wrap Ups
By Catherine Austin Fitts
I’m preparing the Solari Report Annual Wrap Up on January 2nd.
This is a fruitful time – a time to take stock of the road traveled in 2013 and what’s ahead. What is the dee…
The Piano Guys – O Come, Emmanuel
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How Your Mind Creates Your Future
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In Hoc Anno Domini
Vermont Royster’s Christmas message has been republished by The Wall Street Journal every Christmas since its first publication in 1949. As I can not think of a more beautiful way to celebrate the b…
1 – The Slow Burn – 2013 Wrap-Up
The Slow Burn Wins Again
The US Federal Reserve continued Quanitative Easing throughout 2013,
buying up and – I believe – shredding the fraudulent mortgage
…
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On Free Speech
“Today, we are putting all our ‘Duck Dynasty’ products back in our stores, and, we apologize for offending you. We respect all individuals’ right to express their beliefs. We certainly did not…
Coming Clean: Beyond the Fiscal Cliff – Building Empire: 10th 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
Global “Empire Building” an…
Money & Markets – Week of 12.22.13
China Money Rate Tumbles Most Since 2011 as PBOC Injects Cash
Bloomberg | 24 December 2013
China’s benchmark money-market rate tumbled the most since February 2011 after the central bank injected fu…
Precious Metals – Week of 12.22.13
The Big Squeeze – Mystery Hand Scoops Up Copper
Reuters | 20 December 2013
One investor held over 90 pct of copper contracts…
Geopolitical – Week of 12.22.13
Obama Repeals ObamaCare
The Wall Street Journal | 22 December 2013
It seems Nancy Pelosi was wrong when she said “we have to pass” ObamaCare to “find out what’s in it.”
Bars Hit With Huge Bill After …
Science & Technology – Week of 12.22.13
Leo the Maker Prince: Book to Teach Kids 3D Printing
Boing Boing | 20 December 2013
Leo the Maker Prince by Carla Diana is a charming picture book that teaches kids (and grownups who appreciate cute, …
Food & Health – Week of 12.22.13
New Maine Co-Op Draws Most Health Care Enrollments
Portland Press Herald | 20 December 2013
The nonprofit reports it’s been selected by about 75 percent of Mainers so far, but the reasons are unclea…
Industrial Robotics: An Introduction
By Catherine Austin Fitts
Engineer Onat Ekinci joined me on the Solari Report this year for an excellent briefing on 3D Printing.
Onat is briefing me on Industrial Robotics and has given permissi…
Gates on the Need for Company Creation
By Brad Stone
Are you optimistic that we can slow down climate change?
Anybody who says we’re close to the solution isn’t looking at the whole systems requirement. There’s 20 companies that I …
Christmas with J.S.Bach
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Winter Wellness with Dr. Laura Thompson
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Thank You, Dave Andrews!
By Catherine Austin Fitts
We’re partial to farmers here at the Solari Report. We are particularly partial to farmers who help other people learn how to farm, like Dave Andrews.
Dave is the executi…
Transcript of “The Oil Card with Jim Norman” is Now Available!
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2013 Global Surveillance Disclosure
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The global surveillance disclosure refers to an ongoing series of news reports in the international media that revealed operational details about the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA…
Algae Converted to Crude Oil in Less Than an Hour, Energy Department Says
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By John Roach
The day when planes, trucks and cars are commonly revved up on pond scum may be on the near horizon thanks to a technological advan…
Fed Delivers Bah Humbug to Gold
By Catherine Austin Fitts
After the Fed announcement yesterday that it will begin to taper its QE by $10 billion a month in January, precious metals prices fell, with gold breaching the 1200 price …
SEC Plans Higher Limit for Small Stock Deals Under JOBS Act
By Dave Michaels
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission unanimously proposed boosting by 10 times the amount of money companies can raise under a simplified public offering, the agency’s lates…
Evolving the New Digital Currency
By Catherine Austin Fitts
South Korea just announced that they are starting a physical gold exchange; this follows on the heals of Singapore, Moscow and Thailand doing the same, not to mention vari…
Fed Scales Back Stimulus Campaign
By Binyamin Appelbaum
The Federal Reserve said on Wednesday that it would reduce its monthly bond-buying campaign to $75 billion in January, beginning a retreat from its stimulus campaign, because …
Quote du Jour – Matthew
Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.
Matthew 7:6
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Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.
Matthew 7:6
Coming Clean: Beyond the Fiscal Cliff – Monetary Policy: 9th 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 federal government has dele…
Modified Limited Hangout Watch: Pentagon “Waste”
***CAF Note: In the world of modified limited hangouts, the Pentagon waste story is the equivalent of the Caddyshack Gopher. You can’t kill it, although it makes no sense, and it just won’t go away….
Quote du Jour – Ernest Hemingway
“We have come out of the time when obedience, the acceptance of discipline, intelligent courage and resolution, were most important, into that more difficult time when it is a person’s duty to under…
Quote du Jour
“We have come out of the time when obedience, the acceptance of discipline, intelligent courage and resolution, were most important, into that more difficult time when it is a person’s duty to under…
Money & Markets – Week of 12.15.13
Six More Countries Sign FATCA Agreements with US
CGMA Magazine | 19 December 2013
The US Treasury Department announced on Thursday that the United States has signed six more bilateral agreements…
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Precious Metals – Week of 12.15.13
Gold Funds See Unprecedented 31% Slump With World Losing Faith
Bloomberg | 16 December 2013
Investors are dumping gold-backed exchange-traded products at the fastest pace since the securities were cre…
What’s Next? Primary Trends in the Global Financial Market and the Impact on Bay Area Real Estate
By Catherine Austin Fitts
Subscribers have been asking for a recording of my speech to the Appraisal Institute in San Francisco this fall. I will be incorporating the material into the Annual Wrap Up…
MakerBot Opens 3D Print Service in Retail Stores
By MakerBot
MakerBot has opened 3D print services in three MakerBot retail stores in New York, Boston and Greenwich, Conn. Customers can simply walk into one of the MakerBot retail stores with a .S…
Housing & Mortgage Markets – Week of 12.15.13
Forget Golf Course Views; New Subdivisions Are Being Built Around Farms
Grist | 17 December 2013
Unless you’re a wealthy white man, you probably don’t play golf…
Geopolitical – Week of 12.15.13
Iran Nuclear Sanctions Bill Draws White House Veto Threat
Bloomberg | 19 December 2013
President Barack Obama would veto Iran sanctions legislation introduced in the Senate yesterday…
The 6,000-Pag…
Science & Technology – Week of 12.15.13
China Vows to Collect Lunar Samples in 2017 After Successful Mission
RT | 17 December 2013
With the Jade Rabbit rover currently reconning the lunar surface…
Wind Power Rivals Coal With $1 Billion O…
Food & Health – Week of 12.15.13
Corporate Espionage: The Séralini Affair and Beyond
Farm Wars | 16 December 2013
Compiled by Rosemary Mason MB ChB FRCA on behalf of a global network of independent scientists, beekeepers and environ…
Life – Week of 12.15.13
Book ‘Em: In Bozeman, Foibles Yield Sentences of Note
The Wall Street Journal | 19 December 2013
A Montana Newspaper Turns Its Police Blotter Into a Local Best Seller…
Uniquely Detroit: Night Light…
White House Team Recommends Ending Bulk NSA Surveillance
***CAF Note: Looks like the shadow government will own and control BIG BROTHER directly through the telecoms without interference from an agency subject to FOIA laws and Congressionally approved bud…
China Focus: China’s Lunar Probe Soft-Lands On Moon
By English.News.Cn
China’s lunar probe Chang’e-3, with the country’s first moon rover onboard, successfully landed on the moon on Saturday night, marking the first time that China has sent a spacec…
Bing Crosby – “White Christmas”
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Thank You, Court Skinner!
By Catherine Austin Fitts
One of our annual Christmas donations goes to a wonderful pre-school educational institution in East Palo Alto, California – the Creative Montessori Learning Center (You c…
The Oil Card with Jim Norman
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Thunder Road Report: The New New Great Game Geography, Energy, the Dollar and Gold
By Paul Mylchreest, Monument Securities
Sir Halford Mackinder’s 1904 speach in which he outlined his “Heartland Theory” was a founding moment for geo-politics. He argued that control of the Eur…
Exxon Mobil Predict Natural Gas Demand to Grow 65% in 30 Years
By Charles Kennedy
At a recent petrochemical conference in Pasadena, Exxon Mobil Corp predicted that by 2040 natural gas will be used to generate 25% of the world’s electricity, and overtake coal…
U.S. Loses Top App Revenue to Japan Thanks to Five Companies
By Michael del Castillo
The United States is no longer tops in global app revenue, ceding the position to Japan thanks to five major companies, according to an App Annie report published today. In …
Is Government Aid a Giant Money-Laundering Scheme?
By Jon Rappoport
Remember something called the War on Poverty? The Great Society?
President Lyndon Johnson declared it and announced it in 1965. Since then, the federal government and state governme…
Royal Mint In Talks To Create Gold Backed Bitcoin
By BBC News
Robert McDowall, Alderney’s Finance Committee chairman, has been in talks with the Royal Mint about producing coins based on the online money.
He said commemorative coins brought “a go…
The Volcker Rule has Been Approved
***CAF Note:The Volcker Rule has been approved. Here is the press release, draft regulation and fact sheet***
By Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
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Quote du Jour – Peter Lynch
“Never invest in any idea you can’t illustrate with a crayon.”
~ Peter Lynch
Quote du Jour
“Never invest in any idea you can’t illustrate with a crayon.”
~ Peter Lynch
Chart Of The Day: Jobs, Jobs, Jobs
By Tyler Durden
The number of employees across the firms of the broad-based Russell 2000 equity index has collapsed by more than half from its peak. The price of that index, in the same period, has…
Second Release of Secret Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement Documents
By Wikileaks
On 13 November 2013 WikiLeaks released the draft text of the crucial Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) Intellectual Property chapter during the lead-up to a TPP chief negotiato…
Santa Clause Rallies by Chuck Gibson
By Chuck Gibson
Most human activities have seasonal cycles. The stock market too, has seasonal cycles that have been powerful trends to follow over the long term. You have heard me mention the fact I…
Waiting for the Financial Godot
By Catherine Austin Fitts
Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot is an absurdist play in which two characters, Vladimir and Estragon, wait endlessly and in vain for the arrival of someone named Godot. …
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Save Water Works Park
*CAF Note: As municipalities struggle to address their economic problems, the pressure is on to shift valuable land in the commons to private control. Doing so will make the financial problems worse…
Coming Clean: Beyond the Fiscal Cliff – Black Budget: 8th 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
Significant funds have been div…
Story du Jour
One day in the late 1940s, Prime Minister Clement Attlee and his predecessor Winston Churchill found themselves standing together at the gents’ urinals at the House of Commons.
Churchill immediatel…
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Money & Markets – Week of 12.08.13
Vatican Clean-Up ‘Has Not Sorted Out Scandal-Hit Bank and Asset Managers’
The Guardian| 12 December 2013
The Holy See’s regulators had not done full inspections of the Vatican bank or of the Administr…
Precious Metals – Week of 12.08.13
Swiss Gold Sector Embraces Transparency, Up to a Point
Moneybeat | 13 December 2013
The window into the Swiss gold sector is about to become a little less fogged up…
Iamgold Shares Plunge After Di…
Bitcoins: A Fully-Compliant Currency The Government Can Love
By Gonzalo Lira
However, thinking about cryptocurrencies from the point of view of the Federal Reserve, or a senator on the Banking Committee, or a trader at a bank’s prop desk, cryptocurrencies…
NASA to Attempt to Grow Vegetables on the Moon
By J. D. Heyes
There are parts of the earth where plant life simply doesn’t grow well, if at all. But that isn’t deterring NASA from attempting to grow veggies on the moon.
According to Britain’s Da…
Geopolitical – Week of 12.08.13
Iran Quits Nuclear Talks After US Expands Blacklist Sanctions
Zero Hedge | 13 December 2013
“We are evaluating the situation and will make the appropriate response,”…
Government Spies Are Forcing P…
Someone’s Been Siphoning Data Through a Huge Security Hole in the Internet
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By Kim Zetter
In 2008, two security researchers at the DefCon hacker conference demonstrated a massive security vulnerability in the worldwide internet traffic-routing system …
Science & Technology – Week of 12.08.13
Human DNA Is Not A Document, It’s An App
Forbes | 13 December 2013
Yesterday, scientists at the University of Washington announced…
Second Annual Global Breakthrough Energy Movement Conference
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Food & Health – Week of 12.08.13
America’s Descent into Third World Status: Tropical Diseases Rise Among Poor (Update)
Naked Capitalism | 12 December 2013
To the extent that middle class and more affluent people think about poverty…
Life – Week of 12.08.13
Singularity Or Bust
Forbidden Knowledge | 09 December 2013
In 2009, film-maker and former Artificial Intelligence programmer Raj Dye spent his summer following futurist Artificial Intelligence…
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US Tax Issues for 2013-14 with Patty Kemmerer
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Brainstorming Bitcoin
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I am interested to see if Fitts concurs….