America’s Fading Footprint in the Middle East
U.S. Army soldiers board a helicopter as they leave after the end of their one-year deployment in Kunar province, eastern Afghanistan, in March 2012.
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European Refugees: A Comment
[CAF Note: Nothing is more valuable then direct intelligence from the ground. Here is feedback on the European refugee migration from a wonderful subscriber in Zagreb, the capital of Croatia, who has …
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Money & Markets – Week of 10.11.15
Auditor calls Bank of England Regulation Bill ‘Unacceptable’
Gata | 15 October 2015
Public entity could…Britain’s Biggest Banks to be Forced to Separate Retail Banks from Investment Arms
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Precious Metals – Week of 10.11.15
Gold Comes Back to Life as Prices Exceed 200-Day Moving Average
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Housing & Mortgage Markets – Week of 10.11.15
Foreign Homebuying Drops in California as China Slowdown Seen
Bloomberg | 08 October 2015
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Geopolitical – Week of 10.11.15
Jonathan Pie: Reporter Gets Angry and Tells Us the Real News, Video
Facebook | 09 October 2012
Reporter gets angry and tells us the real news…The Mistake Of Only Comparing US Murder Rates To “Deve…
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Science & Technology – Week of 10.11.15
LENR Explanation Break-through
Revolution Green | 15 October 2015
Ponderomotive forces at resonance frequencies…Tesla’s New Software Helps Model S Drive Itself
USA Today | 14 October 2015
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Food & Health – Week of 10.11.15
American Psycho: Has the United States Lost its Collective Mind?
RT | 15 October 2015
Free and Disturbed is an antipsychotic, happily named…The Truth About Cancer: A Global Quest Docu-Series – Of…
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Life – Week of 10.11.15
South African Woman in Court for Selling Baby Online
Africa Review | 16 October 2015
Ascertain where the…Doctor, ABC News Reporter Jamie Zimmerman Dies at 31
NY Daily news | 15 October 2015
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Wildcards – Week of 10.11.15
Suicide at San Francisco Marriott By Former Employee of DHS Terrorist Behavioral Study Group, Following Brutal Assault
Target Liberty | 14 October 2015
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Flash Mob: Il trovatore
CAF Note: This weekend I am seeing Il trovatore at the Amsterdam Opera.
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3rd Quarter 2015 Wrap Up: Equity Overview
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The Solari Report 2015-10-08
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Billions in Change Official Film
Published on Oct 4, 2015
The world is facing some huge problems. There’s a lot of talk about how to solve them. But talk doesn’t reduce pollution, or grow food, or heal the sick. That takes doin… -
Dominant and Dangerous
As America’s economic supremacy fades, the primacy of the dollar looks unsustainable
IF HEGEMONS are good for anything, it is for conferring stability on the systems they dominate. For 70 years …
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Point Blank: Guns and Violence in America
[CAF Note: This was published in December 2012. I am republishing today, in October 2015, as the debate in the US is sadly short of facts, not to mention an understanding or analysis of covert o…
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Peabody Energy
By Catherine Austin Fitts
If you think you have had a tough decade so far, consider the leadership of the coal companies. In the last five years, the S&P is up almost 70%. Peabody Energy, the large…
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Money & Markets – Week of 10.04.15
The Final Leaked TPP Text Is All That We Feared
Electronic Freedom Foundation | 09 October 2015
Importation of cheaper versions…Metals-Zinc Surges 12 pct after Glencore Cuts Output, Fueling Metals…
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Geopolitical – Week of 10.04.15
Portugal: European Left Batting 1,000
Dispatches From The Edge | 08 October 2015
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Science & Technology – Week of 10.04.15
Opinion: Edward Snowden’s New Revelations Are Truly Chilling
True Activist | 07 October 2015
Even when the phone is…U.S. Gov’t Spends Half Million Dollars on Robots That Read to Children
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Food & Health – Week of 10.04.15
Supreme Court Justices Uphold Appeals Court Ruling Violating Constitutional Right of Religious Freedom
Infowars | 08 October 2015
Refused to hear a case challenging…Global Obesity Rise Puts UN Goa…
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Life – Week of 10.04.15
U.S. Navy Teaching Members to Combat ‘Male Privilege’
The American Mirror | 08 October 2015
Stereotypical examples of…What Does It Mean To Raise A Spiritual Child?
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Fox Stock up on Mars
by Catherine Austin Fitts
21st Century Fox stock is flying on the performance of The Martian with Matt Damon.
One of the things that helped The Martian was the announcement last week by NASA that …
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What Did Putin Just Say?
By Catherine Austin Fitts
Vladimir Putin’s recent speech at the United Nations is well worth reading. I would like to emphasize a section worth contemplating — especially when considering the em…
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Welcome to Amsterdam
“The rise of the Dutch Republic must ever be regarded as one of the leading events of modern times.” ~ John Lothrop Motley
By Catherine Austin Fitts
When I was growing up in Philadelphia, the boar…
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Norah Jones – Sunrise (live in Amsterdam )
Norah Jones – Sunrise (live in Amsterdam )
YouTube | July 2017
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Changing Your Mind with Jon Rappoport
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The Solari Report 2015-10-01
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GoldMoney Stock Down on Continued Losses
By Catherine Austin Fitts
In June, I withdrew my recommendation of GoldMoney as an option for storing precious metals, as did Franklin Sanders of The Moneychanger. My reasons were a change of control…
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Money & Markets – Week of 09.27.15
The Stock Market Hasn’t Made this Much Sense in 4 Years
Business Insider | 02 October 2015
Good news for patient investors who are…US Judge Rules No Copyright in Happy Birthday To You
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Precious Metals – Week of 09.27.15
“The Physical Gold Markets In The East Will Prevail” – The Matterhorn Interview – Sept/Oct 2015: Folker Hellmeyer: Audio
Gold Switzerland | 01 October 2015
No Longer the case in the…Switzerl…
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Housing & Mortgage Markets – Week of 09.27.15
D.C. Housing Authority Flipping Houses For Good?
DCist | 28 September 2015
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Geopolitical – Week of 09.27.15
Let’s Politicize this: Latest Nutjob to become Famous for Killing People
The Burning Platform | 02 October 2015
Drugged up by Big Pharma with dangerous…Congress Averts Government Shutdown, Obama S…
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Science & Technology – Week of 09.27.15
The Cost of Mobile Ads on 50 News Websites
NY Times | 01 October 2015
Every day for a month would cost the equivalent of about…U.S. securities regulator expands use of powerful software: source
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Food & Health – Week of 09.27.15
GMO-Free Zone: Germany Tells EU it Bans Genetically Modified Crops Cultivation
RT | 01 October 2015
Genetically modified corn is incompatible with…The GMO Scrapbook: More European Countries Join…
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Life – Week of 09.27.15
Badass People: Grandma Gatewood and the Appalachian Trail
Dyer and Jenkins | 19 November 2014
Dedicated to people we think are awesome and…Americans’ Trust in Media Remains at Historical Low
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Beyer Clock and Watch Museum
“Great moments in science: Einstein discovers that time is actually money.” ~Gary Larson
By Catherine Austin Fitts
I was in Zurich for a week to visit with a series of Swiss money managers. These …
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Why I Love Opera
“An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in my imagination, it becomes my life, and it stays part of my life long after I’ve left the opera ho…
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A Week in Assisi
“If God can work through me, He can work through anyone.’
~ Francis of AssisiBy Catherine Austin Fitts
I arrived in Assisi by train from Rome on the Monday before last to attend a workshop on the P…
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Levenslied – Fantasy
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What You Need to Know Now
Solari Report Resources:
Entrainment, Subliminal Programming and Financial Manipulation
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Breakaway: The Shift from Global 2.0 to 3.0
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Transcript for “What’s Up This Fall?” Now Available to Subscribers!
Subscribers can now access the transcript for the Solari Report “What’s Up This Fall?” at the post here. Non-subscribers can learn more about subscribing to the Solari Report at the store page here.
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Money & Markets – Week of 09.20.15
Yellen Returns to Washington; Questions Remain after Health Scare
Reuters | 25 September 2015
Former Bank of Israel chief Stanley Fischer — would…Wednesday Report…Deflation Signals Abound
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Precious Metals – Week of 09.20.15
LBMA/BOE VAULTED GOLD: Case Study of Physical Gold Stored in London Vaults
Share Lynx | 24 September 2015
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Geopolitical – Week of 09.20.15
British Prime Minister and an Obscene Act with a Dead Pig’s Head: How David Cameron Took Part in Sordid Initiation Ceremony after Joining Oxford University Dining Society as a Student
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Science & Technology – Week of 09.20.15
We’re Going Back to the Moon
Kiplinger | 04 August 2015
Moon seems likely sometime late in…New Venture Touts $100 Million for Vegas-Victorville Express Train
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Food & Health – Week of 09.20.15
Dark Cloud Over Sunnyvale CA: Neighbors Suing Family with Autistic Child as “Public Nuisance”
Age of Autism | 24 September 2015
“The question I have for each and every one of you is:”…Pharma Comp…
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Life – Week of 09.20.15
Will Feminists and Gender Activists Demand Perfect Gender Equality When It Comes to Workplace Fatalities?
Economic Policy Journal | 23 September 2015
Top ten fatal injury worker gender chart…Amer…
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Wildcards – Week of 09.20.15
The Media Response to the Growing Influence of the 9/11 Truth Movement
Global Research | 21 September 2015
international media may pave the way for the US…Strange September 18th Warning Letter Goe…
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Falstaff Highlights – San Francisco Opera (2013)
CAF Note: Next week I am seeing Falstaff at the Zurich Opera – a very special occasion!
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Health Freedom
“If we fail to insist on health freedom, we lose our ability to create excellent health. They go hand in hand.”
~ Scott TipsBy Catherine Austin Fitts
Well, good for Donald Trump. He pointed out…
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Money & Markets – Week of 09.13.15
TPP Could have ‘Catastrophic Effects’ on Canada’s Economy
CTV News Canada | 18 September 2015
“Basis of the global”…Updated: Last Ditch TPPA Ministerial in 10 days – is Groser Preparing to Swall…
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Precious Metals – Week of 09.13.15
Gold Daily and Silver Weekly Charts – The Misguided Paperati and Bifurcated Markets
Jesse’s Cafe Americain | 16 September 2015
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Geopolitics – Week of 09.13.15
75% in U.S. See Widespread Government Corruption
Gallup | 19 September 2015
Figure is up from…Iran Nuclear Deal is Done, but Not the Debate in Congress
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Science & Technology – Week of 09.13.15
U.S. and China Seek Arms Deal for Cyberspace
NY Times | 19 September 2015
United Nations code of…Satellite Images Show Economies Growing and Shrinking in Real Time
Spin | 26 August 2015
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Food & Health – Week of 09.13.15
Govt Decides to Ban GMO Food Production in Russia – Deputy PM
RT | 18 September 2015
Creation of a national research base for…11th Holistic Doctor Found Dead: NYC Author & MD Mitchell Gayno…
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Life – Week of 09.13.15
8 Italian Words We Should Be Using in English
Babbel | 18 September 2015
Are sonorous, playful and really…Making Care Easier
MCE | 17 September 2015
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Wildcards – Week of 09.13.15
Creating a Crime: How the CIA Commandeered the DEA
Couterpunch | 11 September 2015
Manages the judicial system on behalf of the rich political elite..Retired CIA Agent: “We Run the Afghan Opium Tr…
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The Offshore Financial System with Lucy Komisar
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The Solari Report 2015-09-17
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Mapping Your Local Financial Ecosystems
[CAF Note: I am republishing this post – originally published in March 2009 of a taxonomy made in the 1990’s – as a subscriber asked for guidance on the important areas of data collection for ma…
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“Prayer of St. Francis” sung by the Philippine Madrigal Singers
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Pistis Sophia
“And now, let all Matter rejoice; let all aspire to the Light, that the power of the soul which is in you may live.” ~ Pistis Sophia I:32
By Catherine Austin Fitts
From Thursday, September 17 to S…
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The Refugee Migration
“My record label always says you shouldn’t talk about money because it makes people extremely uncomfortable. Refugees can’t talk about money. Rappers can talk about money; refugees can’t talk about …
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An Anniversary Prayer – September 11, 2015
Catherine’s Anniversary Prayer — September 11, 2015
By Catherine Austin Fitts
Lord, we gather in prayer on the fourteenth anniversary of 9-11;
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The Student Loan Scam with Alan Michael Collinge
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Heads Up: It’s a Trap
By Catherine Austin Fitts
“The lion cannot protect himself from traps, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves. One must therefore be a fox to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten wolves…
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Book Review: The Globalization of War
“The lies and fabrications which sustain the war agenda must be uncovered.”
~ Michel ChossudovskyBy Catherine Austin Fitts
Ultimately, all control and enforcement comes back to physical force…
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Happy Labor Day!
On Work
By Kahlil Gibran
You work that you may keep pace with the earth and the soul of the earth.
For to be idle is to become a stranger unto the seasons,
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Money & Markets – Week of 09.06.15
Goldman: This May Push Oil to $20
CNBC | 11 September 2015
Is even more…Big Banks in $1.87 Billion Swaps Price-fixing Settlement
GATA | 11 September 2015
Twelve major banks have…Why the Surgi…
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Precious Metals – Week of 09.06.15
Big Cap PM Stocks…Can they Go Any Lower: Rambus Labor Day Weekend Report
Gold Paradise | 07 September 2015
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Geopolitical – Week of 09.06.15
Nearly 1/3 of Americans would Back Military Coup against Government – Poll
RT | 09 September 2015
Takeover if the government violated…Vote Allows Palestinian Flag to be Raised at UN
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Science & Technology – Week of 09.06.15
Justice Department’s New Stingray Surveillance Policy Has Major Loophole
MintPress News | 08 September 2015
Won’t Get a Warrant if we don’t…Cloak of Light Makes Drone Invisible?
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Food & Health – Week of 09.06.15
Greek Crisis Prompts a Rethink on Food Waste
Ekathemerini | 07 September 2015
Forced us to end the ‘each man for…Heroin
NPR | 10 September 2015
Working to put…Bring on the Adult Mandates!
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Life – Week of 09.06.15
Robert Redford: From Sundance Kid to Hollywood Legend
WSJ | 02 September 2015
Even in their twilight years cool…Liam Dutton Nails Pronouncing Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogo…
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Wildcards – Week of 09.06.15
Hollywood Film Pilot Who was Working with Tom cruise on New Pablo Escobar Film Dies after his Small Plane Crashes in Medellin
Daily Mail | 11 September 2015
Seal was shot and killed in 1986 in…The…
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“That’s How It Still Oughta Be” – Trent Tomlinson
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What’s Up This Fall 2015?
Read the 44-page Printed Transcript
“This summer I was getting many questions, both on radio and Internet shows and from clients and subscribers, about all sorts of extreme sce…
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Shadow Work: Your Stolen Time
“Time and tide wait for no man.”~ Geoffrey Chaucer
By Catherine Austin Fitts
Download Shadow Work: Your Stolen Time as a PDF
Craig Lambert recently published a book called Shadow Work: T…
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Community Data
“To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven.”
~ Ecclesiastes 3:1By Catherine Austin Fitts
When I suggested the placed-based data opportunity to Michael Bloo…
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Remembering Katrina
“I see a beautiful city and a brilliant people rising from this abyss, and, in their struggles to be truly free, in their triumphs and defeats, through long years to come, I see the evil of this t…
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Infrastructure: Conquest or Creation? Online Book Version Now Available for Subscribers!
The online book version of the 2nd Quarter Wrap Up – Infrastructure: Conquest or Creation? is now available for subscribers!
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Money & Markets – Week of 08.30.15
Putin Says Dump Dollar
RT | 01 September 2015
Create preconditions for greater…Federal Workers on Track to Get 1.3 Percent Pay Hike in January
Washington Post | 30 August 2015
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Precious Metals – Week of 08.30.15
Rambus: What if Gold is Just in a Great Big Bull Consolidation Pattern?
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Housing & Mortgage Markets – Week of 08.30.15
Abandoned Homes a Growing Menace
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Geopolitical – Week of 08.30.15
Whistle Blowers File $100 Million Suit Against NSA, FBI
Who What Why | 01 September 2015
NSA, FBI, and the Department of Justice…knowingly and intentionally…Russia to Begin Airstrikes Against IS…
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Science & Technology – Week of 08.30.15
U.S. Working on Sanctions against China over Cyber Espionage
MSN | 31 August 2015
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Food & Health – Week of 08.30.15
Anti-abortion Mom Wins Right to Not Vaccinate Her Son
NY Post| 31 August 2015
linkage between vaccines and abortedCatalan Project Harvests Unwanted Fruit and Veg for People in Need
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Life – Week of 08.30.15
Remembering Wayne Dyer: 20 Quotes to Help You Become a Better You
Entrepreneur | 01 September 2015
Beautiful soul and…UN Confirms Destruction of Ancient Temple of Bel in Palmyra, Syria
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Free & Inspired in Mississippi
“Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good, too.”
~Yogi Berra
By Catherine Austin FittsIt is remarkable what a talented entrepreneur can do when they decide to make…
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The Plunge in Commodities
“Whatever commodity you want, other than truth, is available in great supply, at a good price.” ~ Don Coxe
By Catherine Austin Fitts
I keep talking about the continued plunge in commodities prices…
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Happy Anniversary!
By Catherine Austin Fitts
Congratulations to Diane and John Shear, two of our amazing subscribers on their 50th Wedding Anniversary. Here is a picture of them from our lunch earlier this month when…
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“Fortunate Son” – Creedence Clearwater Revival
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Wellness: Staying Energized this Fall with Dr. Laura Thompson
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The Solari Report 2015-08-27
“Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.”
~ HippocratesBy Catherine Austin Fitts
Autumn is ap…
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Global Equity Markets
By Catherine Austin Fitts
At last I can stop saying “the US markets are significantly overdue for a 10-25% correction.”
The correction is here. The S&P 500 is down 9.3% for the year and down 1…
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Book Review: The Paris Architect
By Catherine Austin Fitts
In The Paris Architect by Charles Belfoure, Lucien Bernard is an architect struggling to make his way in Nazi-occupied Paris. A wealthy industrialist offers him a large su…
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Solari Toon: Magical
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Money & Markets – Week of 08.23.15
Jackson Hole Summit 2015: What is It, Why is It Important and Who Will Be There?
City AM | 12 August 2015
Somewhat marred by…Agricultural Commodities Sink After USDA Report
CNBC | 12 August 2015
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Precious Metals – Week of 08.23.15
Wednesday Report…Keep Your Eye On the Precious Metals Bear
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Geopolitical – Week of 08.23.15
FBI ‘A-team’ Leading ‘Serious’ Clinton Server Probe, Focusing on Defense Info
Fox News| 28 August 2015
Rules do not make the “send” or “receive”…Europe in Free Fall
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Science & Technology – Week of 08.23.15
Many scientific studies can’t be replicated. That’s a problem.
Washington Post | 27 August 2015
May succumb to motivated…The Future of the Internet Is at Risk
Financial Sense | 26 August 2015
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