Food & Health – Week of 10.27.13
Obama Officials In 2010: 93 Million Americans Will Be Unable To Keep Their Health Plans Under Obamacare
Forbes | 31 October 2013
On Wednesday, Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius…
Life – Week of 10.27.13
50 Ducks Walked Into A CVS… There’s No Punchline, Just 50 Ducks In A CVS
Consumerist | 28 October 2013
Do ducks prepare for the winter by gathering supplies from nearby retail outlets?
Part 2, Ho…
Wild Cards – Week of 10.27.13
Dark Journalist & Richard Dolan: Strange UFO Encounters & Intelligence Connections
YouTube | 29 October 2013
Join Dark Journalist and Oxford Scholar Dr. Joseph Farrell in a riveting interview as the…
Welcome to Our World, Angela
Photo Credit: Keith Tyler
By Catherine Austin Fitts
On behalf of the American people, Chancellor Merkel, I would like to apologize for the invasive surveillance that you may have experienced over t…
16 Horsepower – “Praying Arm Lane”
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16 Horsepower’s Official Website
Equity Overview with Chuck Gibson, Emerging Markets 101
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Equity Overview: Emerging Markets 101
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Flashpoints 10-23-13. Catherine Austin Fitts
Today on Flashpoints: Catherine Austin Fitts Returns for another in-depth session of community business.
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A Ditty From the Irish
A song inspired by the Irish Government and their efforts to work for the benefit of everyone – except the Irish people.
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7.3-Magnitude Quake in Japan
By ABC News/AP
An earthquake of magnitude 7.3 struck Saturday morning off Japan’s east coast, the U.S. Geological Survey said. Japan’s emergency agencies declared a tsunami warning for the region t…
Crowdsourcing
By RT
Crowdfunding is coming to Wall Street! Will a new SEC rule democratize the capital markets?
Or is Joe Six-pack about to be “muppetized” by a new brand of sell-side-marionets?
We dig into th…
Social Security’s Real Retirement Age Is 70
**CAF Note: Here is a trial ballon from a respected source on one of the options to reengineer Social Security. This is one to take seriously.**
By Alicia H. Munnell
The brief’s key findings are:
…
The Popsicle Index
YouTube | October 2013
By Catherine Austin Fitts
I first came up with the notion of the The Popsicle Index in the first Bush Administration. After a month or so of being lobbied by var…
European Utilities: How to Lose Half a Trillion Euros
By The Economist
On June 16th something very peculiar happened in Germany’s electricity market. The wholesale price of electricity fell to minus €100 per megawatt hour (MWh). That is, generatin…
SEC Releases ‘Crowdfunding’ Rule
Photo Credit:Reuters/Jonathan Ernst
By Sarah N. Lynch
Entrepreneurs and start-up companies looking for investors will be able to solicit over the Internet from the general public under a new propos…
At Home in Dogwood Mudhole Part 2 is Now Available for Pre Order
By Franklin Sanders
Friends, Volume 2 of At Home In Dogwood Mudhole (Best Thing We Ever Did) is now available for preorder at www.dogwoodmudhole.com. It went to the printer today and we estimate it…
Oct. 21, 2013
By Chuck Gibson
As a part of our regular market analysis we continuously watch the internals to look for structural changes that may provide warning a change may be afoot. Two of the “internals…
The Politics of Sex and Race
By Catherine Austin Fitts
One of my greatest prayers for America is that men and women have an honest conversation about how we have been played against each other and then black folks and white fo…
Treasuries Lose Cachet on Lowest Foreign Demand Since ’01
**CAF Note: The cost of the US government borrowing money to generate corporate earnings is now reaching parity globally**
By Daniel Kruger & Anchalee Worrachate
America’s borrowing costs are on t…
Fukushima Overwhelmed With Radioactive Water
By AlJazeera
Highly radioactive water overflowed barriers into Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station after its operator Tepco underestimated how much rain would fall and failed to pump it…
Coming Clean: Beyond the Fiscal Cliff – Disclosure: 1st of 22 Challenges
**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!**
Challenge #1 Disclosure
By Catherine Austin Fitts
We do …
SEC Looks to Ease Checks on Crowdfunding Investors
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By Dave Michaels
Small businesses raising money by selling shares over the Internet wouldn’t have to verify that their backers comply with individual …
Money & Markets – Week of 10.20.13
Exclusive – Boeing Gets $20.7 Billion Worth of 737 Max Commitments from China: Sources
Reuters | 25 October 2013
Boeing Co (BA.N) has secured commitments for around 200 of its 737 Max aircraft…
Fed…
Precious Metals – Week of 10.20.13
China’s London-Zurich-Hong Kong Gold Conduit — a Major Financial Coup D’etat
USA Gold | 18 October 2013
The United Kingdom’s gold exports to Switzerland jumped from 85 tonnes to 1,016 tonnes…..
Housing & Mortgage Markets – Week of 10.20.13
Bank of America Liable for Countrywide Mortgage Fraud
Yahoo! Finance | 23 October 2013
Bank of America Corp was found liable for fraud on Wednesday over defective mortgages…
U.S. Housing Regulators…
Geopolitical – Week of 10.20.13
Closer Look: Travels of Xi and Li Show Beijing Has New Approach to ASEAN
Caixan Online | 25 October 2013
The president and premier hit the trail to start a fresh diplomatic effort in the region…
Fu…
Science & Technology – Week of 10.20.13
Who Said Money Doesn’t Grow on Trees? Gold Found in Eucalyptus Tree Leaves
ABC Melbourne | 23 October 2013
In a world-first research conducted by CSIRO geoscientists, gold particles have been discover…
Food & Health – Week of 10.20.13
Get Informed. Get Inspired. Take Action.
GMO Mini-Summit
The scary truth about Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) is being deliberately kept from you…
China Smog Emergency Shuts City of 11 Milli…
Limits Approved for Genetically Modified Crops in Kauai, Hawaii
By Andrew Pollack
Legislators on the island of Kauai in Hawaii have approved a bill that would restrict the use of pesticides by companies developing genetically modified crops there.
The 6-to-1 …
Life – Week of 10.20.13
Catherine’s Latest Kiva Loan
Kiva
A loan of $275 helped Korto to purchase more rice, oil, pepper, fish, meat, charcoal, etc. for her business…
The Brutal World of the Nelson-era Navy
BBC News | 20…
Wild Cards – Week of 10.20.13
Dark Journalist & Richard Dolan: Strange UFO Encounters & Intelligence Connections
YouTube | 20 October 2013
In this no-holds-barred part two of Dark Journalist’s interview with historian Richard Do…
Open Letter to Senator Warren
Dear Senator Warren:
I write as a supporter of your campaign for Senator.
It is remarkable how unpopular financial accountability truly is. The House Republicans are trying to stop a few things. Gro…
Les McCann and Eddie Harris – “Compared To What”
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Les McCann on Wikipedia
Les McCann’s Official Website
Eddie Harris on Wikipedia
Eddie Harris’ Official Website
A Jon Rappoport Report: Obamacare – What is Really Going On?
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JPMorgan Reaches $4 Billion Deal With U.S. Housing Agency
By Yahoo! Finance
JPMorgan Chase & Co has reached a tentative $4 billion deal with the U.S. Federal Housing Finance Agency to settle claims that the bank misled government-sponsored mortgage agencies…
There is a Bull Market Somewhere
“Altogether, a Bloomberg survey in August found that the six biggest banks had spent $103 billion on legal costs since 2008.”
Holman, W. Jenkins, Jr, WSJ Editorial Page, October 18, 2013
Transcript of “A Beginners Guide to 3D Printing” is Now Available!
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David Ray Griffin’s Review of “September 11 – The New Pearl Harbor.”
By David Ray Griffin
There have been several good films and videos about 9/11. But the new film by award-winning film-maker Massimo Mazzucco is in a class by itself.
For those of us who have been …
SEC to Release Crowdfunding Rule Easing Investor Verification
By Dave Michels
Small businesses raising money by selling shares over the Internet wouldn’t have to verify that their backers comply with individual investment limits under a U.S. regulatory propos…
A Dark Dawning
By Catherine Austin Fitts
The announcement of a bipartisan deal to open the government and keep the debt issuance humming along is a reprieve from the dark dawning on millions of Americans that the…
Transcript of “3rd Quarter Wrap-up” is Now Available!
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Switzerland Signs OECD Multilateral Convention
By Press Trust of India
In a major boost for India and other countries seeking details on suspected black money stashed in Swiss banks, Switzerland has agreed to automatic exchange of information a…
Dr. Farrell’s New Books Available
By Catherine Austin Fitts
Dr. Joseph Farrell’s new books are now available. I have started them. Don’t wait for me. Like all of Dr. Farrell’s books, these are must haves for anyone interested in …
Crowdfunding: Growing Fresh Food Entrepreneurs
By Catherine Austin Fitts
One of the most important opportunities in America today is the creation of new enterprises to provide fresh, local food.
The national debate over healthcare has made cle…
Welcome to Going Organic Magazine
By Going Organic Magazine
Going Organic Magazine is a unique publication dedicated to creating better health and lifestyles for readers. Our goal is to provide information and inspiration to help p…
Poem From a Solari Subscriber!
By John Rushton
Nighttime falls, I study on.
I find another hero. It’s time to sleep.
Sleep lasts but half the night.
Burdens pile up,
The tax man calls in 5 days,
Men of all kinds fight for con…
Scott Adams’ Secret of Success: Failure
By Scott Adams
If you’re already as successful as you want to be, both personally and professionally, congratulations! Here’s the not-so-good news: All you are likely to get from this article is a …
Not Open for Business
By Schumpeter
Start-ups have always been at the heart of America’s economic success. Companies that are five years old or younger account for all of the country’s net job creation. They also ac…
Money & Markets – Week of 10.13.13
No, JPM Isn’t Banning International Wire Transfers, No Limits On Withdrawals Either
Forbes | 17 October 2013
Is JPMorgan Chase trying to control customers’ money by preventing wire transfers and lim…
Precious Metals – Week of 10.13.13
Mysterious Gold Seller Is Back With Periodic High Volume Slams, Fails To Break Market
Zero Hedge | 15 October 2013
Unlike on the two prior occasions when the “mysterious” (coughBIScough) gold seller…..
Geopolitical – Week of 10.13.13
Michigan Walmart Worker Says He was Fired for Helping Assaulted Woman
Fox News.com | 17 October 2013
A Michigan man says he was fired from his job at Walmart after he tried to help a woman being assau…
Science & Technology – Week of 10.13.13
Decentralized Power To The People’: UK Energy Minister
Revolution Green | 18 October 2013
This would be a fitting headline at last weeks Global Breakthrough Energy Movement Conference…
GridEx
NE…
Food & Health – Week of 10.13.13
8 Amazing Maps of Food in America
Wired
WIRED partnered with Food Network and crunched 49,733 recipes and 906,539 comments…
Why Your Supermarket Only Sells 5 Kinds of Apples
Mother Jones | April 20…
Wild Cards – Week of 10.13.13
Nick Begich : Technology to Control the Weather
YouTube | 17 September 2013
Dr. Nick Begich, will discuss his research on HAARP and its implications for controlling the weather…
The Mountain Goats – “Amy aka Spent Gladiator 1”
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The Mountain Goats’ Official Website
A Beginners Guide to 3D Printing
Photo Credit: Subhashish Panigrahi
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Overunity & Free Energy: Where To Now Part 3
By Mark Dansie
I saved this for the Breakthrough Energy Movement Conference being held in boulder latter this week. I wanted to point out the steps needed to hopefully be able to resource some of t…
Federal Budget
By The Solari Team
There are so many irreconcilable issues in the federal budget, and there are many pieces and aspects to understanding the fiscal cliff policy. If you’d like to take a deeper look…
GlobalBEM References
Here is a collection of links that Catherine makes note of in her GlobalBEM speech on October 11, 2013 from 11 – 12 MT.
Special Reports:
A Special Solari Report: Crowdfunding & the Legal Pathw…
A Special Solari Report: Crowdfunding & the Legal Pathways to Raising Capital – Now Available to Public!
By Catherine Austin Fitts
Complex legal and regulatory requirements govern access to raising private equity capital in the United States.
This means an entrepreneur looking to finance a start up or…
“The Lady in Number 6”
By Nick Reed Entertainment
Alice Herz-Sommer is 109 years old. As well as being the second oldest person living in London, England – she is more significantly the world’s oldest survivor of Hit…
Good News at the Fed
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By Catherine Austin Fitts
Janet Yellen has been announced as the new Federal Reserve Chairman. That’s good news. She was the best candidate on the Presi…
Obama to Pick Yellen as Leader of Fed, Officials Say
Photo Credit: The New York Times/Mary F. Calvert
By Jackie Calmes
President Obama will nominate Janet L. Yellen as chairwoman of the Federal Reserve on Wednesday, White House officials said Tuesday…
Tesla Goes to #1 in Norway
By Catherine Austin Fitts
The Globe and Mail’s story yesterday A.M. that Tesla’s new Model S is now the # 1 selling car in Norway is a reminder that we are in a period of accelerating shifts of tec…
From The Kiplinger Letter, Oct. 4, 2013
Despite U.S. opposition, a pipeline from Iran to Pakistan is inevitable. Pakistan needs natural gas to fuel its power plants and has no good options. The Obama administration is threatening to put in …
European Youth Unemployment Rate Holds Steady
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Money & Markets – Week of 10.06.13
Goldman “Whistleblower” Sues NY Fed For Wrongful Termination
Zero Hedge | 10 October 2013
After seven months of investigating Goldman Sachs’ legal and compliance divisions…
IMF Calls For a Tax on H…
East Village to East End: Airbnb’s Chief Mapmaker Charts the World’s Neighborhoods
Photo Credit: The Verge
By Ben Popper
With more than 500,000 rooms available to rent on any given night, Airbnb now ranks among the largest hospitality companies in the world. But the homes and apa…
Open Source Ecology’s Microhouse
By Catherine Austin Fitts
Here is the proof – I was at Open Source Ecology’s design sprint on September 28th for the building of the Utility Frame for OSE’s Microhouse. Project manager Chris Reinha…
Precious Metals – Week of 10.06.13
Gold Plummets After Rocky Trading Day
Forbes | 11 October 2013
Gold continued its rocky year on Friday…
The Worlds 10 Largest Companies by Market Cap
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Geopolitical – Week of 10.04.13
Debt Cap Raise Until Nov. 22 Gains Support to Bar Default
Bloomberg | 10 October 2013
The White House endorsed a short debt-limit increase with no policy conditions attached…
Wendell Berry on His H…
Quote du Jour – Robert Orben
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“Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian.”
– Robert Orben
Quote du Jour
“Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian.”
– Robert Orben
Science & Technology – Week of 10.06.13
Lockheed Martin, Concord Blue to Deploy Waste Gasification
BioMass Magazine | 10 October 2013
Lockheed Martin and Concord Blue USA Inc. have teamed up to deploy a waste gasification technology…
Nuc…
Food & Health – Week of 10.06.13
Robot Surgery Damaging Patients Rises With Marketing
Bloomberg | 08 October 2013
Porter Adventist Hospital in Denver announced last year that Warren Kortz…
South Dakota Blizzard Kills 75,000 Cattle…
Life – Week of 10.06.13
One-Man Militia Cleaning Up National Mall For Vets With Park Service Furloughed
CBS News | 09 October 2013
You probably haven’t heard of the Memorial Militia…
Billionaire Couple Donates $10 Milli…
Currency Wars and the Ghost of Bear Stearns – The Mass Exodus of Gold Bullion
**CAF Note: Reported gold inventories show significant drops in the US and European positions**
By Jesse’s Café Américain
Here is one take on the gold inventory conundrum that I posted about las…
Bob Dylan – “Times They Are A Changin’ “
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Bob Dylan on Wikipedia
Bob Dylan’s Official Website
3rd Quarter Wrap-up
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The Solari Report 2013-10-03
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Catherine’s Speech – Links
CAF Note: I am posting links referred to in my speech on October 5th at the Casey Research Summit in Tucson.
Sir James Goldsmith’s Globalization Warning
Dillon Read & the Aristocracy of Stock Pr…
’4D Printing’ Adaptive Materials
By Kurzweil Accelerating Intelligence
Researchers from three universities are proposing to add a dimension to 3D printing by developing “4D” materials that can exhibit behavior that changes ove…
Subscriber Lunch in San Francisco, CA – October 29, 2013
If you are a Solari Report subscriber, you are cordially invited to meet and lunch with Catherine.
This will provide an opportunity for you to meet Catherine in person and to get together with oth…
U.S. Debt and Debt Ceiling
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Book Review: The Master Switch
By Catherine Austin Fitts
In this well done history of the information industry, Tim Wu shows again and again how what begins as a robust, entrepreneurial process gets converted to a centralized …
A CEO Who Resisted NSA Spying is Out of Prison. And he Feels ‘Vindicated’ by Snowden Leaks.
Photo Credit: NSA/Reuters
By Andrea Peterson
Just one major telecommunications company refused to participate in a legally dubious NSA surveillance program in 2001. A few years later, its CEO was i…
Vatican Bank Opens its Books in Transparency Drive
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By Katrina Bishop
The Vatican bank published its annual accounts for the first time on Tuesday in an attempt to boost transparency and distance itself from a st…
Money & Markets – Week of 09.29.13
Twitter Files for IPO, Shows $317M in Revenue
Wired | 03 October 2013
Twitter has filed to go public, saying it will sell shares under the name TWTR…
Russia Sinks $1.5 Billion Into U.S. Tech Firms
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Lavabit’s Ladar Levison: ‘If You Knew What I Know About Email, You Might Not Use It’
By Kashmir Hill
Ladar Levison, 32, has spent ten years building encrypted email service Lavabit, attracting over 410,000 users. When NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden was revealed to be one of those…
Geopolitical – Week of 09.29.13
France Makes it Illegal to Close Your Company
Armstrong Economics | 04 October 2013
Only in France is something so Socialistic-Draconian even possible…
Wild Car Chase Ends With Suspect Shot to Deat…
Science & Technology – Week of 09.29.13
Bitcoin Forum Hacked in Aftermath of Silk Road Takedown
Naked Security | 04 October 2013
The popular Bitcoin discussion forum, Bitcointalk.org…
IBM’s Watson Gets Its First Piece Of Business In Heal…
Food & Health – Week of 09.29.13
New California Law Aims to Cultivate Urban Agriculture
Los Angeles Times | 02 October 2013
Sandwiched between rows of homes in the fog-kissed Mission Terrace neighborhood…
New Blood Testing Technol…
Life – Week of 09.29.13
Peru Makes Book Writing Into a Spectator Sport and Invites Desperate Writers Into Combat
PRI | 30 September 2013
On a chilly Monday night in Lima, a bar called La Noche is packed…
Wild Cards – Week of 09.29.13
Panicked MSM Begins Killing Off Comment Sections
YouTube | 27 September 2013
Desperate to cling onto their ability to dictate reality, the crumbling mainstream media is beginning to kill off article …
Norah Jones – Forever Young
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Norah Jones on Wikipedia
Norah Jones’ Official Website
Transcript of “Crowdfunding, What it Means to You” is Now Available!
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GlobalBEM Indiegogo Campaign
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A Jon Rappoport Report – Century of the Brain
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Open Source Education
By Catherine Austin Fitts
Pay attention to the explosion of on-line education. There is a lot of excellent curriculum and teaching that is becoming available – much of it designed to support the ex…