In September, 2011, Manitoba judge Robert Heinrichs ruled that a sixteen year old accused of murder would remain in youth court where he faces a maximum sentence of four years rather than the possib…
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By Jon Rappoport
The best way to depict what’s going on in America is through a letter from the head of the Sinaloa Drug Cartel, to President Obama.
In case people are ready to assume this letter …
By Robert Johnson
After repeatedly flying surveillance aircraft into disputed airspace with Japan, and Tokyo scrambling F-15s in response, China’s now sending fighters of its own on “routine flight…
By Tim Schmidt, Publisher – Concealed Carry Report
Every person on earth has the natural born right to defend themself from harm.
This is where I believe so many people get off topic. Many folks
arg…
By Fox News
The National Rifle Association emerged from a meeting Thursday with Vice President Biden and accused his gun violence task force of leading an “attack” on the Second Amendment — just h…
“The 2nd amendment wasn’t written so we could go hunting. It was written so we could shoot at the gov if it was ever taken over by tyrants.”
– Judge Napolitano via Twitter
“The 2nd amendment wasn’t written so we could go hunting. It was written so we could shoot at the gov if it was ever taken over by tyrants.”
– Judge Napolitano via Twitter
“All political power comes from the barrel of a gun. The Communist Party must command all the guns; that way, no guns can ever be used to command the party.”
– Mao Zedong
“All political power comes from the barrel of a gun. The Communist Party must command all the guns; that way, no guns can ever be used to command the party.”
– Mao Zedong
By Jim Christie
The second largest U.S. pension fund decided on Wednesday to sell off its investments in the manufacturer of the rifle used in last month’s mass shooting at an elementary school in Ne…
By Jillian Rayfield
Joe Biden said today that the president is prepared to take unilateral action in order to implement stricter gun control measures. “The president is going go act,” he said. …
By Eric Markowitz
Just one day after Inc. covered the formal launch of Mosaic, a clean enery crowdfunding platform based in Oakland that connects investors with solar energy projects, the start-up …
Please enjoy the first SolariToon of 2013. Solari Report cartoonist Bob Parsons designed this for Catherine’s special fiscal cliff article. Read it here.
Enjoy more of Bob Parsons’ work here.
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Please enjoy the first SolariToon of 2013. Solari Report cartoonist Bob Parsons designed this for Catherine’s special fiscal cliff article. Read it here.
Enjoy more of Bob Parsons’ work here.
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By Catherine Austin Fitts
[Published in 2005, this checklist was designed to help people shift from large banks whose incentives are out of alignment with people and living systems to community ban…
By News 9 Finance
The world-first change – a temporary measure – comes after a branding survey commissioned by the fast food chain found that 55 percent of Australians called the company by its sho…
Banks Win 4-Year Delay as Basel Liquidity Rule Loosened
CNBC l 07 January 2013
Global central bank chiefs gave lenders four more years to meet…
Irish Newspapers Want To Pass A Law That Would Mean …
New Gold for a Scary New World
Yahoo! Finance | 06 January 2013
Divisible gold ‘Combibar’ can easily be broken into one gram pieces and used…
U.S. Government Increases National Debt—and Keeps 128 Million People on Government Programs
The Heritage Foundation | 08 January 2013
Between 1988 and 2011, the amount of the U.S. population that r…
Proving The Value Of Crowdfunding, Soldsie Raises $425K And Hires One Of 72 Investors Via FundersClub
Tech Crunch | 09 January 2013
Online venture capital firm FundersClub is pioneering equity crowdf…
The Connection Between Diet Drinks and Depression
Activist Post | 09 January 2013
A new study has been published from the University of Rochester Medical Center
Cell Phone Radiation Safety Limits A…
High School Student Shot in Calif.; Suspect Held
CBS News | 10 January 2013
A student was shot and wounded at a rural San Joaquin Valley high school Thursday…
About That Overpopulation Problem
Sl…
By Karen Weise for Businessweek
The mortgage settlements just keep coming. On Monday morning, Bank of America said it reached an agreement to resolve virtually all existing and future claims that it …
By Peter Bergen
President Barack Obama has nominated his top counterterrorism adviser, John Brennan, to be the next director of the CIA.
If there is an emerging Obama doctrine to deal with the thr…
These are invaluable sets of abstracts (data-based to be searchable) covering the RFR scientific literature, as well as collections of scientific abstracts on free radical damage (from both RFR and …
By Catherine Austin Fitts
Ben Lizardi of Lizardi Communications designed our wonderful new poster for 2013, using an original art work from Holly Bedrosian. We thought you might like to learn more…
“The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.”
– Leonardo da Vinci
“The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.”
– Leonardo da Vinci
By Catherine Austin Fitts
The ability to kill with impunity is the power that runs the planet today. Assassination is an ancient craft.
Killing successfully for political purposes in the modern sta…
By Gretchen Morgenson
IF you were hoping that things might be different in 2013 — you know, that bankers would be held responsible for bad behavior or that the government might actually assist trou…
Before launching work on the current volume, the NIC commissioned an academic study of the four previous Global Trends studies, beginning with the first edition
in 1996-97. The reviewers examined th…
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By Jon Rappoport
It doesn’t surprise me that the NY Times has decided the Constitution is merely a reference document now. The paper’s loyal readership, what’s left of it, lives huddled on the …
“When you put your faith in the people who are trying to kill you, then things can only get worse.”
– Solari Report Team Member
“When you put your faith in the people who are trying to kill you, then things can only get worse.”
– Solari Report team member
By Housing Affairs Letter
HUD intends to submit a new rule proposal in April targeting massive desegregation of each of the nation’s more than 74,000 census tracts. The plan, modeled on HUD’s Westche…
By Market Watch
So, the fiscal cliff brawl is finished. Washington is breathing easy, right?
Wrong. Three more budget-related battles are looming just over the horizon, meaning lawmakers and the Whi…
By Dina ElBoghdady
The proposed merger of a leading commodities exchange and the world’s most famous stock market raises a burning question for Washington: Does it make sense to have two U.S. reg…
By: Emilia Istrate and Carey Anne Nadeau
This interactive feature provides economic growth data (real GDP per capita and employment change) for the largest 300 metropolitan economies worldwide for th…
By Beau Hodai
In Arizona an unsettling trend appears to be underway: the use of private prison employees in law enforcement operations.
The state has graced national headlines in recent years as t…
[CAF Note: Is hedge fund and institutional investor activity the reason for the improved housing prices? Note this story from the Sacramento area]
Here are the latest stats for cash purchases in Sa…
By Barry C. Lynn
Where the independent pharmacist counted pills, we see a CVS employee. Where family livestock farms dotted the landscape, we see immense operations run by Smithfield and Tyson. Where…
By Jonathan Pearlman
The tests were carried out in waters around New Caledonia and Auckland during the Second World War and showed that the weapon was feasible and a series of 10 large offshore bla…
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By Matt Stoller
Throughout the months of November and December, a steady stream of corporate CEOs flowed in and out of the White House to discuss the impending fiscal cliff. Many o…
By Catherine Austin Fitts
Ben Lizardi of Lizardi Communications designed our wonderful new poster for 2014, using an original art work from Miki de Goodaboom. We thought you might like to learn mor…
“There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light get’s in.”
– Leonard Cohen
“There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light get’s in.”
– Leonard Cohen
By V. Dion Haynes
Mortgage rates, which took some dramatic dips in 2012, were among the lowest on record this year, according to data released by Freddie Mac on Thursday.
The 30-year fixed-rate aver…
By Dana Bash, Dana Ford, and Josh Levs
The House of Representatives voted Tuesday night to approve a Senate bill to avert a feared fiscal cliff.
The measure that sought to maintain tax cuts for most…
By Paul Bonner and Alistair M. Nevius
Pulling back from the “fiscal cliff” at the 13th hour, Congress on Tuesday preserved most of the George W. Bush-era tax cuts and extended many other lapsed t…
“It’s called, in intelligence circles, a limited hangout. You expose a piece of a crime, in order to transmit the illusion of guilt-and-justice, while the true RICO dimensions are kept out of view.
…
“It’s called, in intelligence circles, a limited hangout. You expose a piece of a crime, in order to transmit the illusion of guilt-and-justice, while the true RICO dimensions are kept out of view.
…
By Jon Rappoport
Somebody has to write about these things. Since I’ve worked as a reporter for 30 years, I know enough about how the game is rigged.
I’m talking about the big mass tragedies. San…
By Jon Rappoport
I’ve been listening to a stream of police dept. audio during the initial response to the Sandy Hook shooting.
At roughly 2:38, a police voice says: “Party in custody.”
Then a…
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A Texas writer, Robert Morrow, sent me the following:
There is an extremely important book that came out in 2003 and was published by Vision. It is “Operation Cyanide-Why the Bomb…
The Economist magazine highlights research that suggests farmland yields have peaked.
[CAF Note: On the contrary, demonizing the likes of Monsanto is a very good idea.]
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As the specter of federal gun control legislation in 2013 rises, the debate is being defined
by primarily fiction, rather than fact. For those interested in shifting th…
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Banking regulators are close to a $10 billion settlement with 14 banks that would end the government’s efforts to hold lenders responsible for foreclosure abuses like …
Fed Minutes Show Some Concerns on Bond Purchases
Yahoo! Finance | 03 January 2013
Federal Reserve policymakers expressed broad support last month for the Fed’s…
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Bigger Fights Loom After “Fiscal Cliff” Deal
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“YOU are walking around naked on the Internet and you need some clothes,” says Michael Fertik. “I am going to…
The $3.7 trillion municipal market is poised for its steepest monthly decline since 2010 as investors spooked by threats to the debt’s tax-exempt status withdrew the most money in almost two years.
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Is Sugar the Next Tobacco?
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Study Confirms Anecdotal Link Between Flu Vax and Miscarriage
The He…
Chinese Bride Marries With £100 Million Dowry
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A Democratic source familiar with the talks tells CNN they have hit a “major setback” because Republicans are now insisting that any fiscal cliff deal include “chained CPI,” whic…
By Jessica Silver-Greenberg
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The world’s biggest bond dealers are growing more reluctant to give up their record holdings of Treasuries, providing support for a ra…
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As the specter of federal gun control legislation in 2013 rises, the debate is being defined primarily by fiction, rather than fact. For those interested in shifting the debate to fact, including s…
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The Solari Report 2012-08-30
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From landing the Curiosity rover on Mars after a 350m-mile journey, to the discovery of the world’s most wanted sub-atomic particle, the top 10 scientific achievements of 2012 have …
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Yet another mass killing. Yet another tragedy. It is terrible. It is horrible. It is wrong.
People are scared.
People are looking for a group to be scared of.
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