Tweeting the Campaign Away
By Catherine Austin Fitts
I have long been a skeptic of social media given its relationship to “surveillance capitalism.” However, there is something about the conversations happening on Twitte…
Money, Power and Politics by By Howard Switzer
Money, Power and Politics
By Howard Switzer
March 12, 2016
I was recently invited to represent the Green Party on a forum titled ‘Getting Money out of Politics’ at a local bioregional group’s …
Elon Musk Says Google Deepmind's Go Victory Is a 10-Year Jump For A.I.
By William Hoffman
Elon Musk can be labeled a space pioneer and an electric car innovator, but he’s also an all-around futurist, and this week he’s seeing some major progress in the advancement o…
The Kingsman Campaign
“This is an extremely dangerous machine. It should only be operated by someone as responsible and sane as me. Bad s**t can happen if this falls into the wrong hands.”
~ Richmond Valentine (played b…
UK Man Wins Court Case Against BBC for 9/11 Cover Up
By Realities Watch
Tony Rooke refused to pay a TV license fee because the BBC intentionally misrepresented facts about the 9/11 attacks, he alleged. It is widely known that the BBC reported the col…
Trump & the African-American Elite Gravy Train: The Party’s Over
“The party’s over
It’s time to call it a day
They’ve burst your pretty balloon
And taken the moon away
It’s time to wind up
The masquerade
Just make your mind up
The piper must be paid”
~ The Part…
You Need to Know About David Collum
“I’m not going to censor myself to comfort your ignorance.”
~Jon Stewart
By Catherine Austin Fitts
David Collum is a professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Cornell University. A qui…
Apple Letter to Customers on Fed Intrusion
By Apple / Tim Cook
February 16, 2016 A Message to Our Customers
The United States government has demanded that Apple take an unprecedented step which threatens the security of our customers. We o…
Unanswered Questions: Hillary Clinton & the African American Community
“Black people are hopeless. We are moving them out and moving Hispanics in.” ~Deputy Assistant Secretary of HUD, Clinton Administration, to Catherine Austin Fitts, then CEO of Hamilton Securiti…
The Execution of LaVoy Finicum: Cui Bono?
“Death, be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so.”
~ John Donne
By Catherine Austin Fitts
From a review of the available evidence, it appears that federa…
ANP Powerpoint: January 16, 2016
By Catherine Austin Fitts
Last weekend, I attended the Architects of the New Paradigm conference in San Rafael, California, north of San Francisco.
I spoke and ran a workshop. There were great pre…
The Value of Diversification Illustrated in an Exquisite Quilt
By Sam Ro
No single asset class has been the market’s top performer year after year on a consistent basis.
Unfortunately, no amount of skill or experience has enabled anyone to forecast how variou…
The 2016 U.S. Presidential Race Made Simple
“Our life is frittered away by detail… simplify, simplify.”
~ Henry David Thoreau
By Catherine Austin Fitts
If you are a U.S. citizen, one New Year Resolution you should make for 2016 is to st…
Missing You, Georgie…
YouTube
(14 Oct 11)
Related Reading:
Happy Birthday with Georgie!
(24 Dec 10)
Celebrating the Life of Georgie LaRue
(27 Dec 10)
Georgie Anna Branham LaRue: April 15, 1927-December 26, 2010
(27 D…
Colonel Wilkerson: The Empire is in Trouble
“The central foreign policy challenge facing the next President [of the United States] is how to re-establish American credibility with friends who no longer trust us and enemies who no longer f…
Holiday Magic Coast Style
By Catherine Austin Fitts
Who ever thought I would do a Christmas album with Pat Boone and Whitley Streiber? Only the team from Coast to Coast AM could create something this unusual and special!
C…
Malcolm on the Media
“If you’re not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” ~ Malcolm X
“The media’s the most powerfu…
TPP: New Life for Planet Debt
[Thanks to EO for sending in this delicious nugget]
By Catherine Austin Fitts
Looks like the federal credit is planning more avenues to create leverage. Interesting provisions buried in the TPP: A…
Esoteric Hollywood: Catherine Austin Fitts on Systemic Corruption
From the black budget to Enron to BCCI and the bailout, Fitts deconstructs how exactly we got into the mess we’re in, including the tie-ins of black markets. In an unparalleled way, Fitts’ brea…
The Truth About Cancer
By Catherine Austin Fitts
The Truth About Cancer is a 9-part documentary film by Ty Bollinger. It is a breakthrough effort to ensure that global audiences have the information necessary to avoid …
Year End Tax & Financial Planning
“Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.” ~ Peter Drucker
by Catherine Austin Fitts
December is a good time for checking on your financial plan to ens…
Pain in US Treasury Market
Related Reading:
U.S. Department of the Treasury: Resource Center
Catherine Austin Fitts: Trouble Coming with Federal Budget
From USAWatchdog.com:
What is the biggest financial problem the world faces? Investment manager Catherine Austin Fitts, who is an expert in the federal budget and a former Assistant Housing Secret…
The Chicken Heart That Ate Up NYC
YouTube | November 22 2015
By Catherine Austin Fitts
Over the last ten days, I have sat at my computer as the threat of terrorism exploded from engulfing Europe, to coming across the US …
Senate Votes Vaccinations for Veterans
Congresswoman Blackburn:
Last week the Senate passed ‘‘21st Century Veterans Benefits Delivery and Other Improvements Act’’.
The bill is reported to require veterans to have mandated vacci…
Guard Your Heart
“Above all else guard your heart, for from it flows the wellsprings of life.”
~ Proverbs 4:23
By Catherine Austin Fitts
Globally, the leading cause of deaths is heart disease — approximately …
The Deflation Dance
“And everybody knows that the Plague is coming
Everybody knows that it’s moving fast ”
~ Leonard Cohen
By Catherine Austin Fitts
Lockheed Martin is the largest US defense contractor. Since the Par…
Honoring Veterans
“In war, there are no unwounded soldiers.” -Jose Narosky
Related Reading:
History of Veterans Day
Veterans Day
Crickhowell: Welsh Town Moves ‘Offshore’ to Avoid Tax on Local Business
By Adam Sherwin
When independent traders in a small Welsh town discovered the loopholes used by multinational giants to avoid paying UK tax, they didn’t just get mad.
Now local businesses in Cri…
Catherine’s “The Space-Based Economy” Video and Slide Presentation now Available to Solari Subscribers!
Catherine Austin Fitts’ Video and Slide Presentation from The Secret Space Program “The Space Based Economy” is now available to all Solari subscribers.
Subscribers can log in to view the video a…
The Space-Based Economy – Catherine’s Slide Presentation and Video
Solari Report subscribers can access Catherine Austin Fitts’ PowerPoint presentation and video at the Secret Space Program (Nov 1, 2015) using the link below:
The Space-Based Economy – View Slides
…
ANP Conference in San Rafael, CA – January 16-17, 2016.
The Architects of the New Paradigm Conference Series brings together some of the most accomplished thinkers to present a fresh approach to the discussion of the world’s critical challenges. …
The Space Based Economy: Catherine’s Presentation at the Secret Space Program 2015
We will post Catherine’s Powerpoint for Subscribers here on Sunday which include recommended Solari Report Resources! Public Solari Report with Dr. Farrell about SSP 2015 will be posted here on even…
Vatican Inspectors Suspect Key Office was Used for Money Laundering
[CAF Note: This report is important and interesting. I believe that the Vatican real estate interests in the US are historically deeply intertwined with laundering illegal monies and funding the bla…
Secret Space Program 2015 Conference in 3 minutes
A short introductory video to the upcoming 2015 Secret Space Program conference. This will give you a good sense of the scope ot the topics.
Date: October 31 – November 1
Secure your Tickets Now,…
Solari Special Report: Issues and Framework of United States Law Concerning Outer Space
By David Liechty
October 20, 2015
[Note from Catherine Austin Fitts: A space-based economy will grow within a legal and regulatory framework for human activities in space. To help our subscribers…
The Stone of Scone
“Every man dies. Not every man really lives.” ~William Wallace
By Catherine Austin Fitts
I finally got to see the Stone of Scone or the Stone of Destiny as it is sometimes called. The Stone was re…
A Day in Edinburgh
“For we fight not for glory, nor riches, nor honors, but for freedom alone, which no good man gives up except with his life.”
~ Translation on the wall of the National Museum of Scotland from the De…
Sibel Edmonds Lays Down the Challenge of Our Time
Related reading:
The People’s Campaign: The Real Hastert Case-All in One Place
A Day In Haarlem
By Catherine Austin Fitts
Some Dutch friends invited me to visit Haarlem outside of Amsterdam to see the the Grote Kerk or St.-Bavokerk – a Protestant church and former Catholic cathedral located o…
The Rijksmuseum
“Art is not a thing; it is a way.”
~Elbert Hubbard
By Catherine Austin Fitts
On Friday I visited one of the great museums of the world – The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. The Rijksmuseum is listed …
Theranos: A Question from a Subscriber
Question from a Solari Report Subscriber:
Re: Theranos
Theranos has drawn big scrutiny. I suspect there is more to this story given the board populated by many Bohemian Grove types and headed by a b…
2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference
Virtual Tour of COP21
YouTube
[CAF Note: This is what the Pope’s lobbying was designed to support as he flew around in private planes supported by armies of PR agents, uninspired to reduce his own …
Promoting Women, Part VII
“What the f*** did we come here for? There’s no money here.’’~ Hillary Clinton to her staff upon arriving at a 4H Club in Upstate New York
By Catherine Austin Fitts
America has been on a tea…
America’s Fading Footprint in the Middle East
U.S. Army soldiers board a helicopter as they leave after the end of their one-year deployment in Kunar province, eastern Afghanistan, in March 2012.
PHOTO: ERIK DE CASTRO/REUTERS
By YAROSLAV TROFI…
European Refugees: A Comment
[CAF Note: Nothing is more valuable then direct intelligence from the ground. Here is feedback on the European refugee migration from a wonderful subscriber in Zagreb, the capital of Croatia, who has …
Billions in Change Official Film
Published on Oct 4, 2015
The world is facing some huge problems. There’s a lot of talk about how to solve them. But talk doesn’t reduce pollution, or grow food, or heal the sick. That takes doin…
Dominant and Dangerous
As America’s economic supremacy fades, the primacy of the dollar looks unsustainable
IF HEGEMONS are good for anything, it is for conferring stability on the systems they dominate. For 70 years …
Point Blank: Guns and Violence in America
[CAF Note: This was published in December 2012. I am republishing today, in October 2015, as the debate in the US is sadly short of facts, not to mention an understanding or analysis of covert o…
Peabody Energy
By Catherine Austin Fitts
If you think you have had a tough decade so far, consider the leadership of the coal companies. In the last five years, the S&P is up almost 70%. Peabody Energy, the large…
Fox Stock up on Mars
by Catherine Austin Fitts
21st Century Fox stock is flying on the performance of The Martian with Matt Damon.
One of the things that helped The Martian was the announcement last week by NASA that …
What Did Putin Just Say?
By Catherine Austin Fitts
Vladimir Putin’s recent speech at the United Nations is well worth reading. I would like to emphasize a section worth contemplating — especially when considering the em…
GoldMoney Stock Down on Continued Losses
By Catherine Austin Fitts
In June, I withdrew my recommendation of GoldMoney as an option for storing precious metals, as did Franklin Sanders of The Moneychanger. My reasons were a change of control…
Beyer Clock and Watch Museum
“Great moments in science: Einstein discovers that time is actually money.” ~Gary Larson
By Catherine Austin Fitts
I was in Zurich for a week to visit with a series of Swiss money managers. These …
Why I Love Opera
“An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in my imagination, it becomes my life, and it stays part of my life long after I’ve left the opera ho…
A Week in Assisi
“If God can work through me, He can work through anyone.’
~ Francis of Assisi
By Catherine Austin Fitts
I arrived in Assisi by train from Rome on the Monday before last to attend a workshop on the P…
Transcript for “What’s Up This Fall?” Now Available to Subscribers!
Subscribers can now access the transcript for the Solari Report “What’s Up This Fall?” at the post here. Non-subscribers can learn more about subscribing to the Solari Report at the store page here.
Health Freedom
“If we fail to insist on health freedom, we lose our ability to create excellent health. They go hand in hand.”
~ Scott Tips
By Catherine Austin Fitts
Well, good for Donald Trump. He pointed out…
The Refugee Migration
“My record label always says you shouldn’t talk about money because it makes people extremely uncomfortable. Refugees can’t talk about money. Rappers can talk about money; refugees can’t talk about …
Heads Up: It’s a Trap
By Catherine Austin Fitts
“The lion cannot protect himself from traps, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves. One must therefore be a fox to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten wolves…
Shadow Work: Your Stolen Time
“Time and tide wait for no man.”
~ Geoffrey Chaucer
By Catherine Austin Fitts
Download Shadow Work: Your Stolen Time as a PDF
Craig Lambert recently published a book called Shadow Work: The Unp…
Community Data
“To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven.”
~ Ecclesiastes 3:1
By Catherine Austin Fitts
When I suggested the placed-based data opportunity to Michael Bloo…
Remembering Katrina
“I see a beautiful city and a brilliant people rising from this abyss, and, in their struggles to be truly free, in their triumphs and defeats, through long years to come, I see the evil of this t…
The Plunge in Commodities
“Whatever commodity you want, other than truth, is available in great supply, at a good price.” ~ Don Coxe
By Catherine Austin Fitts
I keep talking about the continued plunge in commodities prices…
Happy Anniversary!
By Catherine Austin Fitts
Congratulations to Diane and John Shear, two of our amazing subscribers on their 50th Wedding Anniversary. Here is a picture of them from our lunch earlier this month when…
Global Equity Markets
By Catherine Austin Fitts
At last I can stop saying “the US markets are significantly overdue for a 10-25% correction.”
The correction is here. The S&P 500 is down 9.3% for the year and down 1…
Leadership
By Catherine Austin Fitts
In the last week, I have gotten several questions on leadership – in particular on women and leadership. I promised to republish a link to my recent series, Promoting Wome…
Now Available to Non-Subscribers! – Trade Agreements Part Two: Trade In Services Agreement Background, Composition of Support and Opposition, Potential Dangers and Links
[Note from CAF: This piece is the second part of a series on the proposed trade agreements. Our first piece on the Trans-Pacific Partnership can be found here. These agreements are expected to have …
The Tianjin Crater
(Click to view a larger image)
By Catherine Austin Fitts
Given the volume of Chinese exports to Europe and Japan (and how much the Euro and Yen have fallen against the dollar) it is quite remarkabl…
Solari’s Latest Crowdfunding Recommendation
By Catherine Austin Fitts
If you want your donations to go far and do much, I highly recommend supporting permaculturalist Philip Munyasia in Kenya.
Here is his current crowd funding campaign.
I …
Buffett’s Big Bet on US Federal Mortgage Credit & Housing
“Anything that can’t go on forever will end.”
~ Warren Buffett, Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting, 1987
by Catherine Austin Fitts
I am always surprised when investors in Berkshire Hathaway d…
Are You Not Entertained?
“When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.” ~ 1 Corinthians 13:11
By Catherine Austin Fitts
Last T…
What’s Up This Fall 2015?
By Catherine Austin Fitts
It’s August – and the tension about what’s coming in a busy fall is rising. Some of the tension is created by the forces of disinformation as part of ongoing economi…
Letter to US Department of State
Ladies and Gentlemen:
I strongly oppose the rewrite of the State Department’s arms control regulations (ITAR), which could potentially grant the State Department a wide-ranging power to monitor a…
Junk Science and Mandating Vaccines through Document Destruction
by Jon Rappoport
“Government science exists because it is a fine weapon to use, in order to force an agenda of control over the population. We aren’t talking about knowledge here. Knowledge is…
China’s Military Strategy
“Outer space and cyberspace have become new commanding heights in the strategic competition among all parties.”
~ China’s Military Strategy, May 2015
by Catherine Austin Fitts
China has issu…
Greek Sovereignty & Digital Systems
By Catherine Austin Fitts
It looks like Varoufakis and Tsipras discovered the same thing that I discovered when I served in the US government. The financial accounting and payment systems are contr…
Team Awesome Solari Circle, Part XVIII
“Stock market corrections, although painful at the time, are actually a very healthy part of the whole mechanism, because there are always speculative excesses that develop, particularly during the …
Bohemian Grove Underway, July 18th!
“The Bohemian club! Did you say Bohemian club? That’s where all those rich Republicans go up and stand naked against redwood trees right? I’ve never been to the Bohemian club but you oughta go. It’d b…
The Iran Deal
Greg Hunter and I had a spirited debate regarding the recent Iran deal on his website, usawatchdog.com. Grossly oversimplified, Greg opposed the deal while I was in favor of it.
My chief point was …
On the Road
“I’ve gone to look for America” ~ Simon & Garfunkel
By Catherine Austin Fitts
I am headed out tomorrow for a five day drive to California, much of it along the old U.S. Route 66.
I am curi…
Greece and Puerto Rico Ring the Bell
“If we had been obliged to get permission from a board of directors, from banking interests, or from outside stockholders, for the expenditure of the millions that we have put into new buildings, ne…
We Apologize!
By Catherine Austin Fitts
We apologize!
You may have noticed that we have been managing repeated Denial of Service and hack attacks. They have been quite fierce this year – coming from many differ…
Trade in Services Agreement
By Wikileaks
Today, 1500 CEST Wednesday, 1 July 2015, WikiLeaks releases a modern journalistic holy grail: the secret Core Text for the largest ‘trade deal’ in history, the TiSA (Trade In Services …
Latest Solari Donation – Indiegogo Greek Bailout Fund
By Thom Feeney
All this dithering over Greece is getting boring. European ministers flexing their muscles and posturing over whether they can help the Greek people of not. Why don’t we the people j…
Pope Francis: Care for Our Common Home
“Yet it must also be recognized that nuclear energy, biotechnology, information technology; knowledge of our DNA, and many other abilities, which we have acquired, have…given those with the knowl…
The Turn Is Upon Us
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Ligh…
My View: The Trans-Pacific Coup d’Etat
“I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.”
~ H. L. Mencken
By Catherin…
The Worricker Trilogy
By Catherine Austin Fitts
If you like action films half as much as I do, then you are going to love The Worricker Trilogy, three political thrillers staring Bill Nighy and written and produced by D…
Dressing Fascism in Skirts
“Trust is central to an economy that works.”
~ Stephen Covey
By Catherine Austin Fitts
In the late 1990’s, I conducted a deep analysis of control techniques in the United States. From my analysis…
A Reply to The WSJ’s “Letter to Stingy American Consumers”
By Catherine Austin Fitts
On June 2, 2015, the Wall Street Journal published its daily report on global central banks, Grand Central. The report was entitled, A Letter to Stingy American Consumers….
Team Awesome Solari Circle, Part XVII
“People are always asking me where is the outlook good, but that’s the wrong question, The right question is: Where is the outlook most miserable? ” ~ John Templeton
By Solari Team
We are back t…
Solari’s New Crowdfunding: Liberty Goes to Seattle
By Catherine Austin Fitts
We are supporting our great friend and ally Liberty Bain in financing her study with the Seattle School of Counseling. Liberty is doing great things in this world and thi…
Report from Down Under
“You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.”
~ William Hazlitt
By Catherine Austin Fitts
The way I understand what’s happening in the …
Vivid Sydney
By Catherine Austin Fitts
Vivid Sydney is an 18-day annual event of light, music and art. Nothing is more spectacular than the light show dancing on the Sydney opera house.
Here are several photos t…
Atamai Village: A Passion for Connection and Resilience
“How do we create a community where people are free to love one another?”
~ Jim Rouse
By Catherine Austin Fitts
On May 27, I flew from Wellington at the southern tip of New Zealand’s North I…
Catherine in Sydney: Planet Debt
By Catherine Austin Fitts
On Tuesday, Solari Report subscribers and selected friends and entrepreneurs joined Jason Bawden-Smith and me for a discussion of Planet Debt and the global re-balancing c…
Texas HB 483
By Franklin Sanders
I read this bill establishing a Texas state precious metals depository a few nights ago and it has everything. I talked to a person involved and learned this bill was also entere…
Real Estate: Juicing the US Housing Market
By Catherine Austin Fitts
Speaking as a former Assistant Secretary of Housing, an important traditional formula for Democratic Administrations to win Presidential elections is to juice the mortga…
Restoring the Balance
By Catherine Austin Fitts
In the action film Once Upon a Time in Mexico, Johnny Depp plays an intelligence agency operative working in Mexico who explains that his job is to “restore the balance.”
…