Introduction

“The way out is through the door. Why is it that no one will use this method?” ~ Confucius By Catherine Austin Fitts For many years, the Solari Report has published themes in our quarterly […]

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

I. Home Table of Contents Introduction Donations Year To Date II. Taxation: With or Without Representation? III. Food for the Soul IV. News Trends & Stories Part I: Trends We Track Part II: Trends We […]

Food for the Soul: Magdalena Abakanowicz – Women & Art Series 11
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Food for the Soul: Magdalena Abakanowicz – Women & Art Series 11

Magdalena Abakanowicz. Abakan Orange, 1971. Sisal. Jankilevitsch Collection. Photo: Marcin Koniak/Desa Unicum, Courtesy of National Museum Poznań By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout “Art does not solve problems but makes us aware of their existence. It opens our eyes to see and our brain to imagine.” ~ Magdalena Abakanowicz In 1962, a young woman…

Jason 3021

Jason 3021

“Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” ~ Hebrews 11:1 Please join us in the invention room. […]

Books

Catherine sits down with Jason to discuss Making Waves Catherine sits down with Jason to discuss In the Dark

Food for the Soul: Kraków, the City of Art
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Food for the Soul: Kraków, the City of Art

Rembrandt. Landscape with the Good Samaritan (1638). The Princes Czartoryski Collection, National Museum, Kraków. Photo: Wikimedia Commons By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout Europe has many places that are a perfect combination of art and history. One city that possesses this ideal combination in spades, but is less visited than it deserves, is Kraków…

Food for the Soul – New York Big Five – MoMA
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Food for the Soul – New York Big Five – MoMA

Marc Chagall. I and the Village (1911). MoMA. Photo: Wikimedia Commons By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, the world’s largest contemporary and modern art assemblage, has been in the avant-garde of modern art collecting for almost a century. Founded in 1929 by three enterprising society…

Food for the Soul: New York Big Five – The Frick
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Food for the Soul: New York Big Five – The Frick

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres – Portrait de Comtesse D’Haussonville (1845). The Frick Collection, New York. Photo: ©The Frick Collection, Wikimedia Commons By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout So many people love the experience of visiting New York. I don’t. I’m overwhelmed by the stone jungle of office towers and the incessant noise of construction, police sirens,…

Missing Money 2021 Update

Addendum to Missing Money—June 2021: An Additional $94 Trillion in DOD Accounting Adjustments Reported in Bloomberg. By Mark Skidmore On January 22, 2020, Bloomberg posted an article written by Anthony Capaccio, “Pentagon Racks Up $35 Trillion in Accounting Changes in One Year” (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-01-22/pentagon-racks-up-35-trillion-in-accounting-changes-in-one-year). In the article, the author reports that the Department of Defense recorded…

Rudolf Steiner

A Short Bio for Rudolf Steiner Born Feb. 27 1861 in Kraljevec (today Croatia) Technical Gymnasium, then Technical High School in Vienna Through teacher K.J. […]

Food for the Soul: Barbara Hepworth – Women Artists Series 9
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Food for the Soul: Barbara Hepworth – Women Artists Series 9

Barbara Hepworth. Sphere with Inner Form, 1963. Bronze. Barbara Hepworth Museum, St. Ives, UK. Photo: image (c)2003 Graham Rogers at Wikipedia Commons By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout Imagine that you are a mother of a four-year-old boy as well as newborn, underweight triplets. You are living in a damp, badly heated basement in…

Food for the Soul – Julie Mehretu – Women & Art Series 8
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Food for the Soul – Julie Mehretu – Women & Art Series 8

Julie Mehretu. Stadia II (2004). Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburg; gift of Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn and Nicolas Rohatyn and A.W. Mellon Acquisition Endowment Fund 2004.50. Photo: Courtesy the Carnegie Museum via the Whitney. © Julie Mehretu By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout The joint exhibition of the Whitney Museum of American Art and Los…

Via Europa Series

The French Disconnection with Vanessa Biard-Schaeffer – September 13, 2024 In this episode of Via Europa, I decipher the latest European and legislative elections in France. The French political system is blocked. Macron is slamming […]

About Vanessa

About Vanessa

Vanessa Biard-Schaeffer Real Estate Agent and Appraiser Graduated from the Sorbonne University, Master in Real Estate Lecturer at the Sorbonne University, English for Real Estate Ambassador-at-Large of the Institute of General Semantics Graduated in Linguistics […]

Food for the Soul: Gustave Caillebotte – The Unappreciated Impressionist
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Food for the Soul: Gustave Caillebotte – The Unappreciated Impressionist

Gustave Caillebotte. Paris Street, the Rainy Day (Rue de Paris, Temps du Pluie ), 1877. Oil on canvas. Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL. Photo: Wikimedia Commons. Impressionism owes a huge debt to Gustave Caillebotte but hardly anyone today knows his name. By Nina Heyn- Your Culture Scout Musée D’Orsay is one of the most…

Donations – 2021

“I think people forget that it doesn’t take a big donation to help someone, just a lot of little donations.” ~ Hannah Teter We believe in doing what we can to support those around us […]

Introduction

“This isn’t the end of the road to totalitarianism, but I’m pretty sure we are in the home stretch. It feels like things are about to get ugly. […] So pick a side, if you […]

Table of Contents

I. Home Table of Contents Introduction Donations Year To Date II. CBDCS: Central Bank Digital Control Movie List – Centralization of Power Summary – Going Direct Reset III. Food for the Soul IV. News Trends […]

Food for the Soul: California Reopenings. Back to Museums Part 2
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Food for the Soul: California Reopenings. Back to Museums Part 2

Serge Attukwei Clottey. The Wishing Well. 2021 installation at James O. Jessie Desert Highland Unity Center in Palm Springs. Photo: Nina Heyn. By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout California is one of the last states in the U.S. to have post-Covid-19 openings of entertainment and art venues, with many cultural events (such as the…

CBDC

GLOBAL Bank of International Settlements IMF World Bank NATIONAL USA: Federal Reserve Bank: NY Fed SF Fed Boston Fed Owners: JP Morgan Citibank Bank of […]

Food for the Soul: Calder-Picasso. Back to Museums Part 1
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Food for the Soul: Calder-Picasso. Back to Museums Part 1

In the center: Alexander Calder. Untitled (mobile-1956) and Untitled (painting-1967). Calder Foundation New York. Photo: Installation view of “Calder-Picasso” at the de Young Museum, photography by Gary Sexton. © 2021 Calder Foundation New York/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York Image provided courtesy of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. By Nina Heyn – Your…

Food for the Soul – Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun – Women Artists Series 7
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Food for the Soul – Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun – Women Artists Series 7

Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun. Self-Portrait, 1791. Oil on canvas. National Trust, Ickworth House, UK. Photo: Wikimedia Commons By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout When we think of the French upper classes just before the French Revolution, what comes to mind are those impossible panniered gowns, powdered wigs, rouged cheeks, and ostrich feathers. Which is…

Food for the Soul: Olga Boznańska – Women Artists Series 6
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Food for the Soul: Olga Boznańska – Women Artists Series 6

Olga Boznańska. Self-Portrait, 1908. Pastel, gouache on cardboard. National Museum, Warsaw. Photo: Wikimedia Commons By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout Even casual museumgoers are familiar with such female artists as Georgia O’Keeffe or Mary Cassatt—celebrated painters whose art is prominently displayed in major Western galleries. Fewer art lovers are familiar with someone like Olga…

Food for the Soul: Awards Season – Documentaries
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Food for the Soul: Awards Season – Documentaries

Photo credit: jovaughn-stephens/Unsplash photo By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout It’s a sign of the times that documentaries now seem to be more interesting than features. While some feature movies this year focus on exceptional situations (such as the last man on Earth’s travels to a polar station, or a moment in history from…

Introduction

Introduction

By Catherine Austin Fitts “It’s the family you choose that counts.” ~ Andrew Vachss The fight for human and property rights will be won in […]

Table of Contents

I. Home Table of Contents Introduction Donations Year To Date II. Take Action 2021 Solari Circles: Take Action Together Solari Circles: Taking Action at the […]

Food for the Soul: New Movies…Not in Cinemas…
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Food for the Soul: New Movies…Not in Cinemas…

By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout The 2021 Academy Awards have been moved two months later than usual to April 25, extending the entire awards season to eight long months. Movies are eligible for the 2021 Oscars—as well as numerous other awards (some critics’ organizations, BAFTAs, Golden Globes, etc.)—if released between January 1, 2020…

Food for the Soul: Coin Art
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Food for the Soul: Coin Art

By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout Even though practically every major ruler in world history has issued some coinage, just a handful of currencies have gone on to become international standards—used for a long time and widely traded. These include the drachmas of ancient Greece, the Roman Empire’s denari, and a coin called the…

Food for the Soul: Hilma af Klint, the first abstractionist. Women Artists Series 5
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Food for the Soul: Hilma af Klint, the first abstractionist. Women Artists Series 5

Hilma af Klint. Self-Portrait, date of painting unknown. Oil on canvas. Hilma af Klint Foundation. Photo: Wikimedia Commons By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout The fact that painter Hilma af Klint has been unknown in the history of modern art is not that surprising. That even now she remains unknown is a bit more…

Financial Markets

"The recent fall in cash and bond yields for those developed countries that still had positive yields has left government bonds in a position where […]

Food for the Soul- Women at Work, Part V – Princesses and Servants
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Food for the Soul- Women at Work, Part V – Princesses and Servants

Book of the City of Ladies. Christine de Pizan (c. 1405). Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris. Photo: Wikimedia Commons By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout We do not know who illustrated the Book of the City of Ladies, but we know the author: Christine de Pizan (or de Pisan). This miniature portrays her as…

Food for the Soul: Women at Work- IV – The Toil
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Food for the Soul: Women at Work- IV – The Toil

Jewish Woman with Oranges. Alexander Gierymski (1881). National Museum Warsaw. Photo: Wikimedia Commons By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout There is nothing attractive about toil—this mind-numbing effort of farming or doing some menial, repetitive tasks—to the person who is doing it. It can however, be appealing to artists as a subject, especially if such…

Food for the Soul: Women at Work Part  III – Out in the World
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Food for the Soul: Women at Work Part III – Out in the World

Land Girls Hoeing. Manly Edward MacDonald (1918-19). Canada War Museum. Photo: Wikimedia Commons By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout Women have not always been stuck at home just sewing and running households. They have also been out in the fields as farmers or trading in the markets as merchants. Industrialization brought women into cities,…

Food for the Soul: Women at Work Part II – At Home
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Food for the Soul: Women at Work Part II – At Home

Part A Young Woman Sewing. Nicolaes Maes (1655). Harold Samuel Collection, © City of London Corporation, London. Photo: Wikimedia Commons By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout This is the second part in our series on women at work—this time captured in their most accessible milieu—working at home. The tasks depicted may be some of…

2020 Holiday Greetings

“Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.” St. Paul in Galatians 5:1 Dear Friends, Clients, and Subscribers: Some years ago, I went to Vienna on business at Christmas time. Over the weekend, a local subscriber joined me for Sunday brunch….

Food for the Soul – Women at Work Part I – Masterpieces
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Food for the Soul – Women at Work Part I – Masterpieces

Birth of the Virgin. Domenico Ghirlandaio (1479-85). Santa Maria Novella, Florence. Photo: Wikimedia Commons Public Domain By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout The majority of figures in paintings, especially those created before the 20th century, are male. The paintings show men heroically fighting or representing religious or mythological figures, men hunting, or men suffering…

Equities

S&P 500 (SCHX) U.S. Small Caps (SCHA), U.S. Mid Caps (SCHM), U.S. Large Caps (SCHX) U.S. Aerospace & Defense (ITA) Consumer Discretionary (XLY) Consumer Staples […]

Commodities

Crude Oil (OILNF) Russia (RSX), Crude Oil (OILNF) Gold (GLD), Silver (SLV) Mining (GDX), Junior Mining (GDXJ) Commodities Index (CRB) Baltic Dry Index

Fixed Income

U.S. Dollar Index Fixed Income U.S. Bond Aggregate (AGG), High Yield Bond ETF (JNK) 5-7yr. Treasury ETF (IEF), 20 yr. + Treasury ETF (TLT)

Top News Videos

The curated collection of the Top News Videos for 2020 is here. ECONOMY AND FINANCIAL MARKETS Catherine Austin Fitts | Full Interview | Planet LockdownTruth […]

Part I: Top Ten Stories

Part I includes our stories for our first two categories: Economy & Financial Markets and Geopolitics. Headlines have been placed in a TablePress associating each […]

Donations – 2020

Donations – 2020

Take Action Crowdfund The Take Action Crowdfund was launched in May 2020 to encourage our subscribers and audience to directly support lobbying, litigation, and legislative […]

Introduction

Introduction

“Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure […]

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

I. Home Table of Contents Introduction Donations Year To Date Closing & Credits II. The Going Direct Reset Summary – Going Direct Reset The Going […]

Food for the Soul: Good and Bad Government
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Food for the Soul: Good and Bad Government

Effects of Good Government in the City. Ambrogio Lorenzetti (1339). Palazzo Pubblico, Siena, Italy. Photo: Wikimedia Commons Public Domain By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout The United States is preparing for the November 3rd presidential election amid the most polarized debate in living memory about what is right and wrong and what kind of…

Food For the Soul: Artists Gardens
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Food For the Soul: Artists Gardens

Strange Garden (Dziwny Ogród). Józef Mehoffer (1903). National Museum, Warsaw. Photo: Public Domain Wikimedia Commons. By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout There are very few advantages of a global lockdown other than decreased pollution, but perhaps one of them is our renewed appreciation of gardens. A lot of us have favorite gardens. It might…

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

I. Home Table of Contents Introduction Donations Year To Date Closing & Credits II. Food for the Soul: Visions of Freedom Introduction How Do You […]

Food for the Soul: Lost Masterpieces. Part 1: Destroyed
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Food for the Soul: Lost Masterpieces. Part 1: Destroyed

The Stonebreakers. Gustave Courbet (1849). Dresden Gemäldegallerie. Destroyed in 1945 during an air raid. Photo: Public Domain Wikimedia Commons By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout Art gets lost, stolen, or destroyed all the time. Thousands of works have been destroyed by fires and wars or simply by someone changing their mind, like Rockefeller being…

Financial Markets

Financial Markets

Table of Contents "The recent fall in cash and bond yields for those developed countries that still had positive yields has left government bonds in […]

Fixed Income

Fixed Income

U.S. Dollar Index Fixed Income U.S. Bond Aggregate (AGG), High Yield Bond ETF (JNK) 5-7yr. Treasury ETF (IEF), 20 yr. + Treasury ETF (TLT)

Commodities

Commodities

Crude Oil (OILNF) Russia (RSX), Crude Oil (OILNF) Gold (GLD), Silver (SLV) Mining (GDX), Junior Mining (GDXJ) Commodities Index (CRB) Baltic Dry Index

Equities

Equities

S&P 500 (SCHX) U.S. Small Caps (SCHA), U.S. Mid Caps (SCHM), U.S. Large Caps (SCHX) U.S. Aerospace & Defense (ITA) Consumer Discretionary (XLY) Consumer Staples […]

The Injection Fraud

“Every part of our lives will be subject to control. This virus is about training us for submission, training us to do what we’re told. […]

Truthstream Media Videos

Our collection of Truthstream Media Videos for this quarter is below. Other video collections for the 2nd Quarter 2020 include Pandemic Videos, Top News Videos, […]