Current high levels of financial repression create significant costs and lower long-term investors’ ability to channel funds into the real economy, a new Swiss Re

By Catherine Austin Fitts I just ordered Dr. Joseph Farrell’s latest: The Third Way: Nazi International, the European Union and Corporate Fascism – an exploration

“What we’re doing here will send a giant ripple through the universe.” ~Steve Jobs By Catherine Austin Fitts The market valuation of Apple passed $700

What we think of as 3D printing, says Joseph DeSimone, is really just 2D printing over and over … slowly. Continue reading Related reading: Carbon3D

In from a Solari Report subscriber: New VA Loans Available Just received a notification in my VA network that Obama has waived requirements for military

“”As time goes on, I get more and more convinced that the right method of investment is to put fairly large sums into enterprises which

YouTube Related reading: Secret Space Program and Breakaway Civilization Presentation – View Free Online Solari.com

Click on the map to see the world’s top 20 arms exporters for the period 2010–2014. Click on the map to see the world’s top

German Foreign Minister Steinmeir: Germany Must Take Up The Mantle of Being A World Power by Dr. Joseph Farrell Where have we heard this before?

(Photo Credit: Coolcaesar) “And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.”

By Trey Garrison New emails contradict earlier claims Cuomo adviser recused himself Emails have come to light from 2007 and 2008 that show an influential

By AP Americans’ confidence in the Supreme Court, the executive branch, and Congress has been declining over the last decade and each are at or

[CAF Note: In last week’s discussion on the Solari Report, Franklin Sanders and I addressed this issue. A convention opening up the US Constitution will

Click on the image for a larger version by Justin McCarthy Americans continue to name the government (18%) as the most important U.S. problem, a

The Global Breakthrough Energy Movement (GlobalBEM) is a non-profit volunteer-powered organization dedicated to educating & activating the public about breakthrough energy technologies which are clean,

click on the image for a larger version by Catherine Austin Fitts I try to stay in a higher mind. However, if one more financial

“Sometimes the hardest thing to do is to do nothing.”” ~ David Tepper By Catherine Austin Fitts Our trader has been reluctant to proceed with

by Catherine Austin Fitts Apple Watch is going to fizzle. That is because even Apple can not persuade consumers to pay to physically wear a

click on the image for a larger version by Hedgeclippers An analysis by Competitive Advantage Research, which examined the campaign spending of 570 hedge fund

“The point to remember is that what the government gives it must first take away.” ~ John S. Coleman by Catherine Austin Fitts There is

A detail from the front of the United States Federal Reserve Board building is shown in Washington October 28, 2014. by Gary Cameron (Reuters) –

Gallup tracks daily the percentage of Americans who approve or disapprove of the job Barack Obama is doing as president. Daily results are based on

Click on the image for a larger version “So much money is now in circulation that you can tackle whole countries with it.” ~ Rainer

S&P Homebuilder ETF (XHB) vs. the S&P “Our economy isn’t going to recover until the housing market finds its footing” ~ Mark Zandi By Catherine

by Wikipedia The Government Pension Fund Global (Norwegian: Statens pensjonsfond Utland, SPU) is a fund into which the surplus wealth produced by Norwegian petroleum income

by Richard Dobbs, Susan Lund, Jonathan Woetzel, and Mina Mutafchieva Seven years after the bursting of a global credit bubble resulted in the worst financial

[CAF Note: Scoop’s contribution to free press globally is a modern day David and Goliath story.  Great reporting requires great publishers and enlightened owners to

”As in Athens, state accounting in Rome was haphazard, and fraud was common. In his Philippics (44-43 BCE), Cicero complained of bad accounts in his

““Know what you own, and know why you own it.”” ~Peter Lynch By Catherine Austin Fitts Chewing this week on potential investments… Related Reading: Bond

Hello Barbie is the latest incarnation of the doll – and will record what your kid says [CAF Note: Time to start buying dolls at

By Gretchen Morgenson On Aug. 17, 2012, the federal government began expropriating all the earnings of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the mortgage finance giants

by Mary Holland J.D. On September 23, 2014, an Italian court in Milan award compensation to a boy for vaccine-induced autism. (See the Italian document

The Montana House Judiciary Committee recently passed a resolution calling for an Article V Convention (HJR 4), and your action is urgently needed to stop

Ranking of every country in 2015 according to the Reporters Without Borders index. click on the image for a larger interactive version Top 10 Finland

Samsung is warning customers about discussing personal information in front of their smart television set. The warning applies to TV viewers who control their Samsung

by Huw Jones (Reuters) – The EU turns to stock and bond markets this week with reform proposals intended to help companies raise the cash

“If we want to reduce poverty and misery, if we want to give to every deserving individual what is needed for a safe existence of

by Barbara Loe Fisher There have been hundreds of media stories published in the U.S. and around the world since Jan. 14, 2015, the day

click on the image for a larger version By Catherine Austin Fitts The market valuation of Apple passed $700 billion this week. Let’s put that

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Morgan Stanley chart showing the net issuance of government debt in 2015… click on the image for a larger version Continue reading

“I hate bullies. I hate them. I’m not good enough with words to describe how much I hate them.” ~ Andrew Vachss By Catherine Austin

Domestic and global statistics from the Department of Energy published December 2014… Continue reading the pdf

by Jenny Hopkinson Forget legalizing pot: Two of the most powerful Republicans in the Senate believe there’s a much stronger chance to legalize growing hemp

by Jamie Condliffe A slew of 30,000 leaked Swiss HSBC bank account details—what the Guardian calls the “biggest banking leak in history”—lays bare the practices

“If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change” ~ Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa By Catherine Austin Fitts The long

Check out the first minute of this explainer from Vox: by Josh Harkinson It’s Friday afternoon in San Francisco and, to be honest, I’m sick

‘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,

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

‘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

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

[CAF Note: Obama Administration is dropping the proposal to tax 529 plans.    I told you the week it was announced that it was DOA.

“The American people need health care, not health insurance.” ~ Catherine Austin Fitts by Catherine Austin Fitts Personal health care choices have become a risky

by Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com Continue reading

“What we need to do is always lean into the future; when the world changes around you and when it changes against you – what

[View Chart Here] by David Goldman Tech blogger Robert Cringely wrote last week that IBM would lay off 26% of its staff, or nearly 112,000

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

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

by Jena McGregor Last Thursday, a technology blogger for Forbes magazine reported that IBM was planning to cut 26 percent of its total workforce —

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

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

[click on the image for a larger version] by Jeff Black and Simon Kennedy Mario Draghi led the Central Bank into a new era, pledging

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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

“To feel the love of people whom we love is a fire that feeds our life.” ~ Pablo Neruda By Catherine Austin Fitts I spoke

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

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

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

[CAF: Please note that there is no proposal to return the hundreds of millions of dollars and assets stolen from innocent citizens] By Robert O’Harrow

[click on the image for a larger version ] By Mike Whitney January 15, 2015 “ICH” – “Counterpunch” – Is America in the throes of

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

(Photo Credit: Simon Dawson/Bloomberg) By Simon Kennedy The road to normal is proving to be bumpy. Stunning monetary-policy shifts in Switzerland and India sent markets

[click on the image for a larger version] by Elena Holodny On Wednesday Russia’s announced that it will shift all its natural gas flows to

[click on the image for a larger version] by Jim Clifton The U.S. now ranks not first, not second, not third, but 12th among developed

[click on the image for a larger version] By Catherine Austin Fitts There is nothing more impressive than grace under fire. Over the last two

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

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

“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