“[Mobile home] communities are being bought en masse by private equity firms…. More worrisome is the fact that many new owners are buying [trailer] parks for the land and clearing them for re…
“Your family are the people who won’t turn you in.”~ Andrew Vachss
The 2010 action-comedy movie The A-Team, based on the 1980s television series of the same name, was Solari’s…
“The West Virginia boys have moved the mountains. All of the roads were just gone, until now. It’s nothing short of miraculous.”~ Chimney Rock resident
The swift, practical, and heroic a…
“The light/dark cycle is key in circadian entrainment. The acute alterations in timing due to transitions to and from [Daylight Saving Time] contribute to misalignment between the circadian bio…
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“What if our leaders aren’t actually being elected by us, but instead…selected?”~ [S]election Code website
The 2022 documentary [S]election Code tells the story of Tina Peters, who as …
“This is one of those times where—the idea of neighbors helping neighbors, it should go from West Coast to East Coast and come together to be able to help the people impacted.”~ Art delaCru…
“Merchants who managed to open their doors were sometimes demanding that customers use cash only because of an inability to process credit or debit card transactions.”~ News report about Hurr…
“I’ve always told my patients: avoid the mammography merry-go-round.”~ Dr. Toni Bark
The American public health and medical establishments recommend that women get screening mammography ever…
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By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout
At the origi…
We are challenging Solari Report subscribers and others to hand out cash (for example, dollar bills) and pocket Constitutions to trick-or-treaters this year instead of poisoning kids with candy!
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“Jurisdiction matters.”~ Catherine Austin Fitts
In the aftermath of Hurricane Milton, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis noted that President Ronald Reagan once said, “the nine most terrifying word…
Józef Chełmoński. Storks, 1900. Oil on canvas. National Museum in Warsaw. Photo: National Museum in Warsaw
By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout
Jozef Chełmoński (1874-1914; his last name is…
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By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout
As the end of hot summer days approaches, it is the perfect time to binge a little on some shows, perhaps during a lazy weekend by the water. Lolling about on a…
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By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout
When we think of German Expressionism, the images that mos…
John Singer Sargent. Lady Agnew of Lochnaw, 1892. Oil on canvas. National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh. Photo: Wikimedia Commons
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After John Singer Sargen…
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“We must break the money trust or the money trust will break us.”~ Louis Brandeis
By Catherine Austin Fitts
Brendan Ballou’s Plunder: Private Equity’s Plan to Pillage America comes …
“The Pennsylvania [Public School Employees Retirement System] pension’s decision to keep investing with Apollo mirrored similar actions taken by public funds across the country. They throw th…
Ethel Walker. Decoration The Excursion of Nausicaa, 1920. Oil on canvas. Private collection. Photo: Courtesy of Tate
By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout
This summer, the Tate Gallery in London …
“The American, by nature, is optimistic. He is experimental, an inventor, and a builder who builds best when called upon to build greatly.” ~ John F. Kennedy
No matter where you are on Earth, we …
“I’m gullible. I think people mean what they say.” ~ Colin Trevorrow
By Catherine Austin Fitts
I typically don’t review books that I do not recommend reading. Paper Soldiers: How the Weapon…
“A good father is one of the most unsung, unpraised, unnoticed, and yet one of the most valuable assets in our society.” ~ Billy Graham
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The Value Club – November/December 2023
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In Asia, being born in a Year of …
St. Patrick’s Day observes of the passing of St. Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland. The holiday has evolved into a celebration of Irish culture with parades, special foods, music, dancing, drinking…
By Nina Heyn
Canadian director Denis Villeneuve has always made interesting films. After his intriguing sci-fi tale Arrival, he was brave and talented enough to make Blade Runner 2049, which i…
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President’s Day honors and celebrates the life and achievements of George Washington, the first President of the United States (1789-1797) and ‘The Father of his Country’. The day is, in practice…
Valentine’s Day, also called Saint Valentine’s Day or the Feast of Saint Valentine, is celebrated annually on February 14. Originating as a Western Christian feast day honoring one or two early s…
John Singer Sargent. Carnation, Lily, Lily Rose, 1885-1886. Oil on canvas. Tate Britain, London. Photo: Wikimedia Commons
By Nina Heyn
For its Color of the Year 2024, Pantone elected the color …
In Absentia – September/October 2023
Why are we haunted by certain things we hear or read? I’m thinking of stories that are so spooky or unusual they hang around in your mind for a long tim…
Caspar David Friedrich. Moonrise Over the Sea, 1822. Oil on canvas. Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin. Photo: Jörg P. Anders; courtesy National Museum Berlin
By Nina Heyn
January being a good month…
No better way to celebrate the day after Christmas! If I could be in Pennsylvania I would be seeing the hounds off!
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[CAF Note: A wonderful Solari Circle leader played King Cash for Halloween. She gave out 160 dollar bills to the trick-or-treators. Quite a response!]
– I told all the kids to ‘remember to p…
The Real Estate Chamber of Greater Paris presents:
Lecture by Catherine Austin Fitts: 3:30 – 4:30 p.m.
Topic: The lecture will take stock of issues related to property and freedom in times …
Billion Electron Volts – August 2023
Bev in high-energy physics stands for “billion electron volts.” In 1969, the director of the National Accelerator Laboratory, located in Batavia, Illinois…
“This is an expanded view of artificial intelligence as an extractive industry.” ~ Kate Crawford
“The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.” ~ Audre Lorde
Kate Crawford wo…
Setting aside time to give thanks for one’s blessings, along with holding feasts to celebrate a harvest, are both practices that long predate the European settlement of North America.
The firs…
Support Local Meat Processing HR 2814 / S.907
The PRIME Act has a better chance of passing into law as part of the Farm Bill rather than as stand-alone legislation. Giving the bill momentum wa…
Gustav Klimt. The Kiss, 1907. Oil and gold leaf on canvas. The Belvedere, Vienna. Photo: Wikimedia Commons
By Nina Heyn
Artworks by Gustav Klimt (1862-1918), the most popular representative of…
By Meryl Nass
The International Pandemic Preparedness Act, which was inserted in the 2023 NDAA and passed last December, pages 950-967, was probably not read by most members of Congress, who m…
Veterans Day continues to be observed on November 11, regardless of what day of the week on which it falls. The restoration of the observance of Veterans Day to November 11 not only preserves the…
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Johannes Vermeer. The Art of Painting, c. 1666-1668. Oil on canvas. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna. Photo: Wikimedia Commons
By Nina Heyn
We conclude “The Year of Vermeer” at Food for the…
Election Day in the United States is the annual day for general elections of federal public officials. It is statutorily set by the U.S. government as “the Tuesday next after the first Monday in …
Daylight Saving Time was first implemented in the US with the Standard Time Act of 1918, a wartime measure for seven months during World War I in the interest of adding more daylight hours to con…
Solari Report Subscribers Attending the Children’s Health Defense Conference:
Join Catherine for an informal lunchtime get-together on Friday – November 3, 2023 in Savannah, Georgia. Catherine…
Halloween is a holiday celebrated each year on October 31.
This day marked the end of summer and the harvest and the beginning of the dark, cold winter, a time of year that was often associate…
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The first recorded celebration of Columbus Day in the United States took place on October 12, 1792. Organized by the Society of St. Tammany, als…
Johannes Vermeer. The Music Lesson / A Woman at a Virginal with a Gentleman, c. 1662-1664. Oil on canvas. Royal Collection, His Majesty King Charles III, Buckingham Palace, London
By Nina Heyn
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Brag the Rest of Your Life – June/July 2023
Once upon a time, back in the 1970s in southern California a new form of fun came to be: combining three sports, one after another, to see who coul…
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There are so many artworks in London museums that you can always find a substantial exhibition taking place, no matter when you visit. Such is the cas…
By Nina Heyn
I went to Prague to look at paintings in museums, but I found out that the best art there is not necessarily on the walls inside but on the ones outside. In other words, there is …
By Nina Heyn
Within one month of its global release, the movie Oppenheimer has grossed $700M in cumulative worldwide box office, making it more successful than Interstellar, the 2014 space mov…
By Nina Heyn
It used to be called counter-programming. Studios would, for example, plan to release a comedy skewed to female audiences on a Super Bowl weekend, reasoning that women who would n…
Puzzle Mindset – May 2023
This newsletter will be something like a puzzle. That’s because I don’t know the answer, or maybe even what the question is, or the challenge. There are pieces t…
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Over the past decade or so, a growing number …
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Tell Your Representative and Senators to Cosponsor the PRIME Act
The PRIME Act [House Resolution 2814 (H.R. 2814) and Senate Bill 907 (S.907)], badly…
By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout
If you, like me, are heading to movie theaters to cool off and to check out the latest blockbusters, you may want to keep in mind that next summer, big-budg…
“The American, by nature, is optimistic. He is experimental, an inventor, and a builder who builds best when called upon to build greatly.” ~ John F. Kennedy
No matter where you are on Earth,…
Edward Kemeys. Lion at the front of Art Institute of Chicago, 1893. Bronze. Photo: Nina Heyn
By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout
Comprehensive and large-scope art museums tend to be those creat…
Holo-Symbiosis – March/April 2023
I admit that until just the other day I never heard of the following words: oneiromancy, arithmancy, chiromancy, ceromancy, ololygmancy, tyromancy, or tasseo…
Commesso mosaic from the workshop of Scarpelli Mosaici, Florence. Photo: Nina Heyn
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By Nina Heyn,
Like all of Italy, except a bit more so, Florence is all about stone. Green and…
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“Lord, lead us from the unreal to the real.”~ Ancient Sans…
Second Position – January 2023
Not too long ago I ran into a neighbor outside who told me she had just completed a pilot for a television show. I had heard about this pilot several months ago…
“Every year, people in the United States use guns to defend themselves against criminals an estimated 2,500,000 times – more than 6,500 people a day, or once every 13 seconds. Of these in…
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Johannes Vermeer. The Milkmaid, 1658-1659. Oil on canvas. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Purchased with the support of the Vereniging Rembrandt. Photo: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
By Nina Heyn — Your…
Johannes Vermeer. Woman with a Pearl Necklace, c. 1663-1664. Oil on canvas. Gemäldegalerie State Museum, Berlin. Photo: Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons
By Nina Heyn — Your Culture Scout
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Henryk Waniek. Beginning of Paradise/Początek Raju, 2020. Oil on canvas and panel. Private collection. Photo: Courtesy Henryk Waniek
By Nina Heyn — Your Culture Scout
Even though most of …
Murano glass, Venice, 2022. Photo: Nina Heyn
By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout
Even before Roman soldiers started building and then marching on the roads of the empire, expanding the imperial…
President’s Day honors and celebrates the life and achievements of George Washington, the first President of the United States (1789-1797) and ‘The Father of his Country’. The day is, in practice…
Valentine’s Day occurs every February 14. Across the United States and in other places around the world, candy, flowers and gifts are exchanged between loved ones, all in the name of St. Valent…
The American tradition of Groundhog Day sees the nation’s most well-known groundhog take a stance on the season ahead. If he sees his shadow, he predicts six more weeks of winter. If he doesn…
By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout
A few weeks ago, we highlighted a few early and interesting contenders for the Best Picture crown at the upcoming Academy Awards. Here we present the remain…
By Nina Heyn — Your Culture Scout
A few weeks ago, we introduced some new international espionage shows. Two new American spy shows recently got dropped at the streamers, so it’s worth tak…
Please note that this is a personal newsletter written by Sofia Smallstorm. It is not “the news,” but rather a reflective way of sharing information.
Sofia covers a range of subjects. You …
Lunar New Year is one of the most important celebrations of the year among East and Southeast Asian cultures, including Chinese, Vietnamese and Korean communities, among others. The New Year cele…
Johannes Vermeer. The Concert, 1663-1666. Oil on canvas. Stolen from Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston. Photo: Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons
By Nina Heyn — Your Culture Scout
We c…
The digital magazine PDF of the 2nd Quarter 2022 Wrap Up: Gold & Silver: Defending Family Wealth and Sovereignty for 5,000 Years is now available to Solari Report subscribers!
By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout
This year, there are hardly any choices of theatrical films to qualify for Best Picture nominations. Current leading contenders in this year’s Oscar race …
Please note that this is a personal newsletter written by Sofia Smallstorm. It is not “the news,” but rather a reflective way of sharing information.
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“Pray Big!” ~ Polly Tommey
By Catherine Austin Fitts
A hero, according to the dictionary definition, is someone of great courage and whose achievements attract admiration. Our 2022 trut…
By Nina Heyn — Your Culture Scout
For a cerebrally inclined viewer, spy shows have advantages over regular crime series. There is less gore (all those chopped-up bodies and morgue scenes get…
Please note that this is a personal newsletter written by Sofia Smallstorm. It is not “the news,” but rather a reflective way of sharing information.
Sofia covers a range of subjects. You …
Please note that this is a personal newsletter written by Sofia Smallstorm. It is not “the news,” but rather a reflective way of sharing information.
Sofia covers a range of subjects. You …
Giving thanks for you and everything you are doing in this wonderful world! ~ The Solari Team
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