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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Yesterday, there was a wall of Tesla patents in the lobby of our Palo Alto headquarters. That is no longer the case. They have been removed, in the spirit of the open source movement, …

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You want to pay attention to the fuss over the waiting times at a VA Hospital. This is what happens when a benefit is promised, but Congress does not appropriate the resou…

By BBC News

The amount of private wealth held by households globally surged more than 14% to $152 trillion (£90tn) last year, boosted mainly by rising stock markets.

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By Greg McNeal

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued an executive decree banning the centuries old practice of aging cheese on wooden boards. One bureaucrat within the FDA, without surv…

By The Washington Post Editorial Board

At the Department of Veterans Affairs, the federal government’s largest employer (the Army ranks second), only 56.9 percent of employees believe they can disc…

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NATO might be wasting a lot of money, or maybe they are short of cash. Frankly, we have no idea’, says Saskia Stuiveling, president…

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Pope Francis sacked the five-man board of the Vatican’s financial watchdog on Thursday – all Italians – in the latest move to break with an old guard associated with a murky past…

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By RT

Inhabitants of a small village in Germany have taken the digital law into their own hands. They laid their own fiber optic cables setting up their own b…

By NASA

NASA’s flying saucer-shaped test vehicle is ready to take to the skies from the U.S. Navy’s Pacific Missile Range Facility in Kauai, Hawaii, for its first engineering shakeout flight.

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Going to work and collecting paychecks isn’t the only way to make money in America.

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I don’t remember a week in which I have had more conversations about the value and the future of the U…

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Scientists in the Netherlands have achieved a breakthrough in quantum teleportation that could quash Albert Einstein’s objection to the notion of quantum entanglement, which he f…

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