By Brad Stone

Are you optimistic that we can slow down climate change?

Anybody who says we’re close to the solution isn’t looking at the whole systems requirement. There’s 20 companies that I …

By Wikipedia

The global surveillance disclosure refers to an ongoing series of news reports in the international media that revealed operational details about the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA…

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By John Roach

The day when planes, trucks and cars are commonly revved up on pond scum may be on the near horizon thanks to a technological advan…

By Catherine Austin Fitts

After the Fed announcement yesterday that it will begin to taper its QE by $10 billion a month in January, precious metals prices fell, with gold breaching the 1200 price …

By Dave Michaels

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission unanimously proposed boosting by 10 times the amount of money companies can raise under a simplified public offering, the agency’s lates…

By Catherine Austin Fitts

South Korea just announced that they are starting a physical gold exchange; this follows on the heals of Singapore, Moscow and Thailand doing the same, not to mention vari…

By Binyamin Appelbaum

The Federal Reserve said on Wednesday that it would reduce its monthly bond-buying campaign to $75 billion in January, beginning a retreat from its stimulus campaign, because …

**Note: We are republishing each of the 22 challenges from Catherine’s fiscal cliff article – one a week. Helps to digest them bit by bit!**

By Catherine Austin Fitts

The federal government has dele…

***CAF Note: In the world of modified limited hangouts, the Pentagon waste story is the equivalent of the Caddyshack Gopher. You can’t kill it, although it makes no sense, and it just won’t go away….

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By Catherine Austin Fitts

Subscribers have been asking for a recording of my speech to the Appraisal Institute in San Francisco this fall. I will be incorporating the material into the Annual Wrap Up…

By MakerBot

MakerBot has opened 3D print services in three MakerBot retail stores in New York, Boston and Greenwich, Conn. Customers can simply walk into one of the MakerBot retail stores with a .S…

***CAF Note: Looks like the shadow government will own and control BIG BROTHER directly through the telecoms without interference from an agency subject to FOIA laws and Congressionally approved bud…

By English.News.Cn

China’s lunar probe Chang’e-3, with the country’s first moon rover onboard, successfully landed on the moon on Saturday night, marking the first time that China has sent a spacec…

By Paul Mylchreest, Monument Securities

Sir Halford Mackinder’s 1904 speach in which he outlined his “Heartland Theory” was a founding moment for geo-politics. He argued that control of the Eur…

By Charles Kennedy

At a recent petrochemical conference in Pasadena, Exxon Mobil Corp predicted that by 2040 natural gas will be used to generate 25% of the world’s electricity, and overtake coal…

By Michael del Castillo

The United States is no longer tops in global app revenue, ceding the position to Japan thanks to five major companies, according to an App Annie report published today. In …

By Jon Rappoport

Remember something called the War on Poverty? The Great Society?

President Lyndon Johnson declared it and announced it in 1965. Since then, the federal government and state governme…

By BBC News

Robert McDowall, Alderney’s Finance Committee chairman, has been in talks with the Royal Mint about producing coins based on the online money.

He said commemorative coins brought “a go…

***CAF Note:The Volcker Rule has been approved. Here is the press release, draft regulation and fact sheet***

By Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

Five federal agencies on Tuesday iss…

By Tyler Durden

The number of employees across the firms of the broad-based Russell 2000 equity index has collapsed by more than half from its peak. The price of that index, in the same period, has…

By Wikileaks

On 13 November 2013 WikiLeaks released the draft text of the crucial Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) Intellectual Property chapter during the lead-up to a TPP chief negotiato…

By Catherine Austin Fitts

Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot is an absurdist play in which two characters, Vladimir and Estragon, wait endlessly and in vain for the arrival of someone named Godot. …

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By a Solari Report Subscriber

You will not be able to fully appr…

*CAF Note: As municipalities struggle to address their economic problems, the pressure is on to shift valuable land in the commons to private control. Doing so will make the financial problems worse…

**Note: We are republishing each of the 22 challenges from Catherine’s fiscal cliff article – one a week. Helps to digest them bit by bit!**

By Catherine Austin Fitts

Significant funds have been div…

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However, thinking about cryptocurrencies from the point of view of the Federal Reserve, or a senator on the Banking Committee, or a trader at a bank’s prop desk, cryptocurrencies…

By J. D. Heyes

There are parts of the earth where plant life simply doesn’t grow well, if at all. But that isn’t deterring NASA from attempting to grow veggies on the moon.

According to Britain’s Da…

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By Kim Zetter

In 2008, two security researchers at the DefCon hacker conference demonstrated a massive security vulnerability in the worldwide internet traffic-routing system …

This Christmas season, we invite all Solari Report subscribers to give someone special a free, two-month gift subscription to The Solari Report.

This free subscription will include:
* Catherine Aus…

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I am interested to see if Fitts concurs….

“Our human compassion binds us the one to the other – not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.” ~ Nelson Mandela

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By SF Gate/AP

A judge urged Detroit and its creditors to keep negotiating Thursday in a 150-page opinion that mimics his decision earlier this week that the city is…

By Ruth Simon and Angus Loten

Entrepreneur Adam Lee and his brother couldn’t get a bank loan. Then they learned that Georgia state officials had taken steps that might make it easier for their star…

By Marianne Garvey, Brian Niemietz and Lachlan Cartwright

It’s a leak Barbara Walters doesn’t want you to know about.

The ABC News doyenne pushed hard to have NSA leaker Edward Snowden at the …

“One’s own employees ought to be one’s own best customers. Paying high wages is behind the prosperity of this country.”
~ Henry Ford

By Catherine Austin Fitts

The debate continues regardin…

By Peter Coy and Susan Berfield

The public images of low-paying employers such as Wal-Mart and McDonald’s take a hit during the holidays, when Americans are seized by a spirit of charity. Stephen…

By Catherine Austin Fitts

November was not a strong month for precious metals. The current trends in the market have me concerned.

In last month’s Precious Metals Market Report, Franklin and I dis…

By Catherine Austin Fitts

There is no doubt about it. The stocks of pro-centralization team leaders were high flyers this year. Here is a chart of Lockheed Martin, Google and Facebook compared to th…

By Alex Fitzpatrick and Courtney Subramanian

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos revealed an experimental drone-based delivery service on Sunday, in an ambitious move by the online retailer to capitalize on a te…

By Simon Kennedy

Not long ago, before the financial crisis and the global recession it triggered, economists referred to Americans as the consumers of last resort. When the U.S. grew at a healthy pac…

By Bloomberg News

China’s move to end a 14-month ban on initial public offerings and allow the sale of preferred shares led to a rally in financial stocks as investors bet the measures will boost f…

**Note: We are republishing each of the 22 challenges from Catherine’s fiscal cliff article – one a week. Helps to digest them bit by bit!**

By Catherine Austin Fitts

Federal laws and regulations en…

By Catherine Austin Fitts

Chris Reinhart is now leading the MicroHouse program for Open Source Ecology (OSE) full time. OSE has exciting plans for workshops in 2014. If you and yours would like to …

By Wikipedia

Galileo is a global navigation satellite system (GNSS) currently being built by the European Union (EU) and European Space Agency (ESA). The €5 billion project is named after the Ita…

By The Economist

A simple idea underpins science: “trust, but verify”. Results should always be subject to challenge from experiment. That simple but powerful idea has generated a vast body of …

By Charles Seife

SA Forum is an invited essay from experts on topical issues in science and technology.

If there’s a gene for hubris, the 23andMe crew has certainly got it. Last Friday the U.S. …

By The Economist

The announcement by a Chinese military spokesman on November 23rd sounded bureaucratic: any aircraft flying through the newly designated Air Defence Identification Zone (ADIZ) in t…

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“I have three treasures which I hold and keep. The first is mercy, for from mercy comes courage. The second is frugality, from which comes generosity …

**CAF Note: You bet they planned this!**

By Laura Gottesdiener

“One s****y deal.” “S****y deal.” “S****y.” The date was April 27, 2010, and Senator Carl Levin (D-Mich.) was pissed as h…

By Catherine Austin Fitts

With the North American markets moving even higher, I was reminded by a colleague of the expression TINA, as in “There Are No Alternatives” to equity.

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The Institute for Responsible Technology (IRT) released a report today proposing a link between genetically modified (GM) foods and gluten-related disorders. In today’s report, a team o…

**Note: We are republishing each of the 22 challenges from Catherine’s fiscal cliff article – one a week. Helps to digest them bit by bit!**

By Catherine Austin Fitts

The budget and the federal regu…