“If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change” ~ Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

By Catherine Austin Fitts

The long Treasury bond is correcting back to the 200 day moving average…

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by Josh Harkinson

It’s Friday afternoon in San Francisco and, to be honest, I’m sick of being in the office. So I’ve slipped out and headed o…

‘Military spending continues to fall in the West but rises everywhere else, says SIPRI’, SIPRI Press Release, 14 April 2014.

‘Trends in world military expenditure, 2013’, SIPRI Fact Sheet, April 2014…

Inside the secret network behind mass surveillance, endless war, and Skynet—

by Nafeez Ahmed

INSURGE INTELLIGENCE, a new crowd-funded investigative journalism project, breaks the exclusive stor…

‘Once Isis got near oil fields, the US sent drones to strike targets’

by Tom Bawden

Conspiracy theorists have long insisted that modern wars revolve around oil. Now research suggests hydrocarbons …

A stock photo of Graphene based transistors. @unknown

by Ahmed Bilal

One of the major reasons that solar panels are facing such hurdles to replace conventional electricity sources is because they a…

[CAF Note: Obama Administration is dropping the proposal to tax 529 plans. 
 
I told you the week it was announced that it was DOA. You did not even need the Congress to DOA it. The idea of taxing…

“The American people need health care, not health insurance.”
~ Catherine Austin Fitts

by Catherine Austin Fitts

Personal health care choices have become a risky gauntlet in America. Increasin…

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“What we need to do is always lean into the future; when the world changes around you and when it changes against you – what used to be a tail wind is now a head wind – you have to learn into that a…

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by David Goldman

Tech blogger Robert Cringely wrote last week that IBM would lay off 26% of its staff, or nearly 112,000 employees, in a massive restructuring. The cuts will be …

by John Leyden

Linux supremo Linus Torvalds has jokingly admitted US spooks approached him to put a backdoor in his open-source operating system.

During a question-and-answer ?session ?at ?the Li…

by Glenn Greenwald

One of the many pressing stories that remains to be told from the Snowden archive is how western intelligence agencies are attempting to manipulate and control online discourse w…

by Jena McGregor

Last Thursday, a technology blogger for Forbes magazine reported that IBM was planning to cut 26 percent of its total workforce — or some 112,000 jobs — in a “bloodbath” of lay…

by Glenn Greenwald

One of the many pressing stories that remains to be told from the Snowden archive is how western intelligence agencies are attempting to manipulate and control online discourse wit…

by Bloomberg

Billionaire venture capitalist Jim Breyer is heading to the Swiss Alps this year with an upbeat message. “This is a magical time,” says Breyer, founder and CEO of Breyer Capital and a p…

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by Jeff Black and Simon Kennedy

Mario Draghi led the Central Bank into a new era, pledging to buy government bonds in an asset-purchase program worth at le…

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by Joseph P. Farrell

As you can tell, this week we’ve been primarily focused on geopolitics and financial news (as distinct from last week’s focus on some technological issues and their implication…

“To feel the love of people whom we love is a fire that feeds our life.”
~ Pablo Neruda

By Catherine Austin Fitts

I spoke to a colleague last week. We had not spoken for a year or more. Each t…

By Catherine Austin Fitts

They have a name for men who round up innocent children and send them to prisons where they make uniforms for the military at great expense to the taxpayer. I am not going t…

by Cedit Suisse

The debate on what would happen if Scotland or Catalonia became independent opens up some very interesting arguments. On one side we have politicians and corporations advocating the…

Global wealth is increasingly concentrated in the hands of a small wealthy elite. These wealthy individuals have generated and sustained their vast riches through their interests and activities in …

By Robert O’Harrow Jr., Sari Horwitz and Steven Rich

Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. on Friday barred local and state police from using federal law to seize cash, cars and other property withou…

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By Mike Whitney

January 15, 2015 “ICH” – “Counterpunch” – Is America in the throes of a class war?

Look at the chart and decide for yourself. It’s all…

The 2015 State of the Union Address will be given by the 44th President Barack Obama on Tuesday, January 20, 2015, in the chamber of the United States House of Representatives. Speaker of the House Jo…

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By Simon Kennedy

The road to normal is proving to be bumpy.

Stunning monetary-policy shifts in Switzerland and India sent markets on wild rides, highlighting…

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by Elena Holodny

On Wednesday Russia’s announced that it will shift all its natural gas flows to Europe via Turkey, instead of Ukraine, reports Bloomberg N…

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by Jim Clifton

The U.S. now ranks not first, not second, not third, but 12th among developed nations in terms of business startup activity. Countries such …

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By Catherine Austin Fitts

There is nothing more impressive than grace under fire.

Over the last two years, Bill Gross, former head of PIMCO, has had one o…

by Rick Falkvinge

Activists from the Pirate Party’s youth wing have wiretapped high-level political surveillance hawks at Sweden’s top security conference. They set up an open wi-fi access poin…

According to the Allianz Risk Barometer 2015 cybercrime continues to rise rapidly in the ranking of disruptive scenarios. In Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States cyber risks are now am…

“Investing should be more like watching paint dry or watching grass grow. If you want excitement, take $800 and go to Las Vegas.”  ~Paul Samuelson

By Catherine Austin Fitts

Every other Monday nig…

By Sustainable Pulse

Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed the Russian Federation Code of Administrative Offences into law, including a new article establishing liability for the violation of…

Privacy is the new celebrity … Nico Sell shields her eyes from photography to avoid the risk of identity theft. Photograph: fastcompany.com

The founder of secure messaging app Wickr on privacy, wh…

by Joseph P. Farrell

his is an issue that appears not to be going away, and it’s worth rehearsing what the concern is. When Dr. DeHart and I wrote Transhumanism: A Grimoire of Alchemical Agendas,…

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The Kardashev scale is a method of measuring a civilization’s level of technological advancement, based on the amount of energy a civilization is able to utilize. The scale has three d…

The New Development Bank (NDB), formerly referred to as the BRICS Development Bank, is multilateral development bank operated by the BRICS,states (Brazil Russia, India, China and South Africa) as a…

Russia’s Rossiya and SMP banks, which fell under Western sanctions, are among the eight lenders that will start testing the country’s new national payment system on December 15.

“The pilot pro…

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November 18, 2014: it’s a day that should live forever in history. On that day, in the city of Yiwu in C…

Allied Arts Center, Menlo Park, California, November 8th & 9th, 2014

By Catherine Austin Fitts

Thirty-five subscribers came from all across the United States as well as from Europe, Australia …

By Catherine Austin Fitts

Melissa Millan, Executive Vice President of Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co (“MassMutual,”) was stabbed to death on November 20th. This raised more than a few e…

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“Our job is to find a few intelligent things to do, not to keep up with every damn thing in the world.” ~ Charlie Munger

By Catherine Austin Fitts

Every other Monday night is Team Awesome Sol…

By Gaia Pianigiani

NAPLES, Italy — One azure morning in December, Laura Cozzolino arrived at her corner cafe in central Naples and ordered her usual: a dense espresso, which arrived steaming h…

By Nick Lavars

3D printing technology may be some way off producing fully functional household appliances, but tiny steps are being made toward helping us out with our domestic duties. Hoover has …

By Catherine Austin Fitts

Sometimes I have a profound sense of being ignored.

Actually, I am not being ignored. Rather, I live among caring, well educated Americans with a profound desire to NOT f…

[CAF Note: Is a Jeb Bush campaign going to clear the decks by hanging it all on Cheney?]

Since the day President Obama took office, he has failed to bring to justice anyone responsible for the tort…

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North Korea–United States Relations developed primarily during the Korean War, but in recent years have been largely defined by North Korea’s three tests …

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By Heather Somerville

TRACY, Calif. — Investors and entrepreneurs behind some of the world’s newest industries have started to put their money and tech talents into farming — the world’s ol…

The year we piled up risks like a global game of Tetris

by David Collum

Every December, I write a Year in Review (ref 1–7) first posted on Chris Martenson’s website Peak Prosperity (ref 2) wi…

Alarmingly, the Russians in recent months have been using Cuba to build up a menacing Cold War-era presence at America’s doorstep.

Some Republican and Democratic leaders, along with many of my c…

[CAF Note: The Economist is dead wrong about gun control, but many of their other points are well taken. What is most interesting is that they are saying that the US police state has gone too far an…

by Dr. Joseph P. Farrell

Recently I had a private conversation with a friend of mine about what is going on in Russia, and the West’s assessment of it. During our conversation, I stressed that on…

By Catherine Austin Fitts

As Russia confirms that it will maintain oil sales at current levels, the oil price and Russia equities see a bounce:

5 Day chart of RSX vs OIL vs S&P

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CrowdMed harnesses the wisdom of crowds to collaboratively solve even the world’s most difficult medical cases quickly and accurately online. The company offers individuals, insurance providers, a…

[CAF Note: Friday is quadruple witching day!]

DEFINITION of ‘Quadruple Witching’

The expiration date of various stock index futures, stock index options, stock options and single stock futures. Al…

Three decades of tougher laws and policing have left nearly one in three adult Americans with a criminal record, according to data kept by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. That arrest wave is wa…

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by Catherine Austin Fitts

I don’t understand why the media keeps saying that Obamacare is not working and has n…

[CAF Note: I live in a rural area and do a lot of online shopping – particularly for books, so I found these numbers quite sobering.]

Independent businesses are poised to draw more people this holi…

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By Julie Bykowicz

Republicans now control the legislatures of 31 states, having just wrested chambers in nine from Democratic hands. Twenty-four of those states also have Republican governors, gi…

BIS warned that dollar loans to Chinese banks and companies are rising at annual rate of 47pc and now stand at $1.1 trillion

By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard

Bank for International Settlements concerned …

A wicked problem is a problem that is difficult or impossible to solve because of incomplete, contradictory, and changing requirements that are often difficult to recognize. The use of term “wicked”…

“Everyone is talking about the stock market,” [Wu Yunfeng, an individual investor from Shanghai] said. “I was eating dumplings at a street side stall and the old lady running the place was buy…

“Make a law, make a business.” ~Old New Jersey street saying

By Catherine Austin Fitts

I thought it worth noting that Corrections Corporation of America (known as CCA, their ticker symbol is CXW) …

By Catherine Austin Fitts

Our hero this week on the Solari Report is Congressman Marcy Kaptur of Ohio. She just won her 17th Congressional term by a landslide. Smart, honest, hardworking, well educ…

By Catherine Austin Fitts

The oil card is now getting an enormous push from the climate change chorus.

ISIS, College protests, OPEC, Al Gore’ whining, George Schultz’s electric car, German energ…

[CAF Note: Great discussion of the game between Russia and the G-7 – but be prepared for versions of this geopolitical parttern where the dollar goes much higher too.]

By Brandon Smith

Despite po…

“I hate weekends because there is no stock market.” ~ Rene Rivkin

By Catherine Austin Fitts

Tonight is a big one. We will review our allocations and key market indicators and proceed to present ou…

By Susanne Walker and Eshe Nelson

A gauge of government bond yields around the world fell to an 18-month low as tumbling oil prices push down inflation expectations and economic growth falters.

The …

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By Parmy Olson

Jerry Yang is giving a quick tour of the conference room at his private investment firm in Palo Alto, Calif. It’s dotted with gifts and photos fr…

By Catherine Austin Fitts

I sometimes get requests for advice on how to approach medical problems. I am not the person to ask. Each person is unique and effective diagnosis and treatment can be highl…

By Catherine Austin Fitts

My use of the word turtle as a verb began in 1998 during a period of extraordinary stress.

Almost all of my 1,001 best friends and colleagues decided to go with the flow …

***CAF Note: Hagel is competent. This is not good news.***

By Roger Runningen and Phil Mattingly

U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel is stepping down from his post after 21 months in office amid te…

[CAF Note: I suspect the recent meltdown by Bill Gross related more to his fears of managing the world’s largest bond fund in a world of diminishing dealer and institutional liquidity than personnel i…

[CAF Note: the integration of software and digital technology into hardware and infrastructure is upon us. This is an important development.]

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Mechatronics is a design process that inclu…

By Max Ehrenfreund

President Obama unveiled Thursday a major executive action on immigration policy, offering temporary legal status to millions of illegal immigrants, along with an indefinite reprie…

“Now all of political economy from prehistory on to 1932 has been intent upon one thing only—how to take the wealth from the producer, how to take the food from the person who cultivated it and ha…

By Catherine Austin Fitts

The S&P is up 11% year to date. Alibaba is up 18% from it’s IPO in September. Lockheed Martin, the prime contractor for the national security state, is up 25% year to da…

“We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed… A few people cried… Most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture the Bhagavad Gita; Vishnu is trying t…

by Sarah TheHealthyHomeEconomist

The stories became far too frequent to ignore. Emails from folks with allergic or digestive issues to wheat in the United States experienced no symptoms whatsoever wh…