Rethinking Diversification

Rethinking Diversification

[Originally published on Feb 2, 2009] For our entire lives, most of us have depended on highly centralized systems. Our food comes from a thousand or more miles away. Our savings is shipped into distant

How to Find a Local Bank

How to Find a Local Bank

“Many small businesses rely on small financial institutions, like credit unions and community banks, to meet their capital requirements. Without them, these small businesses would have to close their doors.” ~Sam Graves [CAF Note: Originally

Hero of the Week: February 1, 2021 – Hank Aaron

Hero of the Week: February 1, 2021 – Hank Aaron

June 1968; Unknown location, USA; FILE PHOTO; Atlanta Braves outfielder Hank Aaron (44) at bat during the 1968 season. Photo by Malcolm Emmons – USA TODAY Sports “Didn’t come up here to read. Came up

Fields of Gold (Sting) – Eva Cassidy

Fields of Gold (Sting) – Eva Cassidy

With this beautiful love song from Sting we celebrate our humanity while remembering Eva Cassidy (February 2, 1963 – November 2, 1996) and her absolutely perfect voice. Sting supposedly wept when he heard this song and

Hero of the Week: January 25, 2021 – Four Nurses in Kansas

Hero of the Week: January 25, 2021 – Four Nurses in Kansas

It takes a lot of courage to stand up against certain practices, especially in the medical field. Four nurses from the Coffey County Health Department in Kansas are our heroes this week as they refuse to vaccinate

Spem In Alium (Thomas Tallis) – Tallis Scholars

Spem In Alium (Thomas Tallis) – Tallis Scholars

This is another sublime piece of music that will appease any unsettled spirit. The purity of the sound of this interpretation is delightful and takes us above the turmoil of our times. Tallis served at

Planet Lockdown Interview

Planet Lockdown Interview

Catherine’s Planet Lockdown interview had reached 2.7MM views on the Truth Matters channel when it was taken down by YouTube over the last 24 hours. There were approximately 12,000 comments and 68,000 likes and 1,700

Hero of the Week: January 18, 2021 – Caitlin Johnstone

Hero of the Week: January 18, 2021 – Caitlin Johnstone

Caitlin Johnstone describes herself as a rogue journalist, bogan socialist, anarcho-psychonaut, guerilla poet, and Utopia prepper. Her latest article Just Because The System Is Stacked Against You Doesn’t Mean The Universe Is is a good

Dr. Mark Skidmore’s Lighthouse Economics

Dr. Mark Skidmore’s Lighthouse Economics

Professor Mark Skidmore’s new website and blog (Lighthouse Economics, http://mark-skidmore.com) is now open to the public. Dr. Skidmore is Professor of Economics at Michigan State University where he holds the Morris Chair in State and

Special Solari Report: Ahriman and the Present Age with Thomas Meyer

Special Solari Report: Ahriman and the Present Age with Thomas Meyer

Image Credit: Wellcome Library, London. Wellcome Images images@wellcome.ac.uk http://wellcomeimages.org “The ahrimanic beings have a different interest. Their firm intention is to get the human kingdom and thereby the earth along with it into their sphere

Hero of the Week: January 11, 2021 – Dr. Andrew Wakefield

Hero of the Week: January 11, 2021 – Dr. Andrew Wakefield

Andrew Wakefield addresses the devastating impact of the U.S. National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act adopted in 1986, which freed the pharmaceutical companies from any liability for anything they manage to call a “vaccine,” contributing to

Let’s Go to the Movies: Week of January 11, 2021 – 1986: The Act

Let’s Go to the Movies: Week of January 11, 2021 – 1986: The Act

Man and microbe, from polio to Covid-19…a never more relevant forensic examination of the 1986 National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act and its consequences. What happens when an ancient wisdom—a mother’s intuition—is pitted against powerful interests

Jimmy Rose – Coal Keeps the Lights On

Jimmy Rose – Coal Keeps the Lights On

In dedication to the United States veterans and coal miners of America. May God bless you and your families. From a friend of coal.

Was it a Rally,  Reality TV,  Riot Rally TV…?

Was it a Rally, Reality TV, Riot Rally TV…?

By Solari Report Roving Correspondant I feel used. It’s not a great feeling to be used as a pawn. That’s what happened on the 6th of January, we were used as pawns whether you were

Hero of the Year 2020: Russ and Pam Martens

Hero of the Year 2020: Russ and Pam Martens

Russ and Pam Martens are the founders and editors of Wall Street On Parade, an independent financial news site that has always been operating without external financial sources. This has allowed them to focus on

Food for the Soul: The Magi at the National Gallery

Food for the Soul: The Magi at the National Gallery

The Adoration of the Kings. Jan Gossaert (1510-15). Photo © The National Gallery, London. By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout One of the most artistically alluring Christmas themes is the one known as the

Food for the Soul Audio: Sagas on Screen

Food for the Soul Audio: Sagas on Screen

Nina Heyn is Your Culture Scout – the author of the Food for the Soul column and the creator of the Food for the Soul audio. Please click here for Audio

Prelude to a Revolution…. and so it begins.

Prelude to a Revolution…. and so it begins.

Jan. 5th, 2021 On the eve of the infamous Trump rally in Washington DC, many in the mainstream media call it Trump’s last-ditch Hail Mary to “steal” the certified election results from Biden. Trump supporters

Documentary of the Year – 2020 – My Octopus Teacher

Documentary of the Year – 2020 – My Octopus Teacher

A filmmaker forges an unusual friendship with an octopus living in a South African kelp forest, learning as the animal shares the mysteries of her world. African photographer Craig Foster spent a year developing a

2020 New Year Concert Vienna

2020 New Year Concert Vienna

Concert Nouvel An Vienne Related reading: Orchestra : Wiener Philharmoniker Conductor : Andris Nelsons

The Tenors – Auld Lang Syne (Official Video)

The Tenors – Auld Lang Syne (Official Video)

Related reading: The Tenors Lyrics: Should old acquaintance be forgot And never brought to mind Should old acquaintance be forgot And auld lang syne For auld lang syne, my dear For auld lang syne We’ll

Special Solari Report: Jury Nullification with Elizabeth Rich

Special Solari Report: Jury Nullification with Elizabeth Rich

Listen to the Interview MP3 audio file Download the Interview MP3 audio file Read the transcript of Special Solari Report: Jury Nullification with Elizabeth Rich “I consider [trial by jury] as the only anchor ever

Book Review: The Edge of the World by Michael Pye

Book Review: The Edge of the World by Michael Pye

“Plague justified the rules that kept a person in her place. . . . We’ve seen how plague became the reason, just like terrorism today, for social regulation, for saying how children must behave, for

Special Solari Report: Freedom Fighting with Mads Palsvig

Special Solari Report: Freedom Fighting with Mads Palsvig

Listen to the Interview MP3 audio file Download the Interview MP3 audio file By Catherine Austin Fitts Mads Palsvig is a freedom fighter from Denmark. He is someone you want to know. Mads’ efforts were

Movie of the Week: December 21 2020 – Joyeux Noël

Movie of the Week: December 21 2020 – Joyeux Noël

With the advent of World War I, Europe is thrown into a brutal and vicious chaos as men are forced to kill or be killed. While blood soaks the battlefield as Christmas approaches, the men

The Best of The Solari Report – The Weekly Interviews

The Best of The Solari Report – The Weekly Interviews

A Preview: “Thank you for the amazing ‘The State of Our Currencies.’ You have beautifully explained and illustrated a highly complex subject involving the most critical elements of our modern civilization and governance structures in

Book Review: The Alien Agendas by Richard Dolan

Book Review: The Alien Agendas by Richard Dolan

“There must be a way to retain what is best about us, even as we move toward an uncertain future that will surely effect deep changes on the very nature of our existence. To do

No-Your Social Media is Not Private

No-Your Social Media is Not Private

By Matthew R Hale, Attorney at Law Representing people in civil and criminal matters has taught me a few things about the nature of our social media, wearable technology, and other tech gadgets that gather

The Best of The Solari Report – The Series

The Best of The Solari Report – The Series

A Preview: "It happens all the time. What I have learned from Solari has helped me navigate the world in so many specific and maybe more so, non-specific ways. Sometimes it is nothing specific but

Food for the Soul Audio: Christmas Movies

Food for the Soul Audio: Christmas Movies

Nina Heyn is Your Culture Scout – the author of the Food for the Soul column and the creator of the Food for the Soul audio. Please click here for Audio .

Food for the Soul: Women at Work- IV – The Toil

Food for the Soul: Women at Work- IV – The Toil

Jewish Woman with Oranges. Alexander Gierymski (1881). National Museum Warsaw. Photo: Wikimedia Commons By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout There is nothing attractive about toil—this mind-numbing effort of farming or doing some menial, repetitive

Movie of the Week: December 7, 2020 – A Christmas Carol

Movie of the Week: December 7, 2020 – A Christmas Carol

An old bitter miser who rationalizes his uncaring nature learns real compassion when three spirits visit him on Christmas Eve. Related Solari Report: A Christmas Carol on Wikipedia Writers: Charles John Huffam Dickens on Wikipedia

You Raise Me Up – Martin Hurkens

You Raise Me Up – Martin Hurkens

Martin Hurkens always had a dream of being an opera singer, but he did not have the money to stay in music school. Instead, he became a baker to make a living and for 32

Why I’m an Optimist

Why I’m an Optimist

A Preview: "“The Lord by wisdom hath founded the earth; by understanding hath he established the heavens. By his knowledge the depths are broken up, and the clouds drop down the dew. My son, let

Book Review: Weatherman’s Guide to the Sun, Third Edition

Book Review: Weatherman’s Guide to the Sun, Third Edition

Review by John G. Dzwonczyk The isolation of COVID has had the result of much more book reading in my case and somewhat serendipitously, the effort has included in succession Gerald H. Pollack’s The Fourth

DC. . . Meet the Producers

DC. . . Meet the Producers

by Najat Madry No, I’m not talking about the cast members of the Broadway musical. Hillary Clinton had the nerve to called them deplorable. Tucker Carlson recently referenced them in a direct rant to the

How Should It Continue?

How Should It Continue?

By Sebastian Friebel I turn to you as a non-partisan former employee of the German Bundestag with the function of parliamentary adviser. Through my work both in parliament and a parliamentary group in the Bundestag

The War on Populism with CJ Hopkins

The War on Populism with CJ Hopkins

A Preview: “I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only

Transcending Fear with Peter Breggin, MD

Transcending Fear with Peter Breggin, MD

A Preview: "I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And

Food for the Soul: Women at Work Series II – At Home

Food for the Soul: Women at Work Series II – At Home

A Young Woman Sewing. Nicolaes Maes (1655). Harold Samuel Collection, © City of London Corporation, London. Photo: Wikimedia Commons By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout This is the second part in our series on

Coronavirus: War on the Citizens

Coronavirus: War on the Citizens

By Daphnévon Boch, MD. A slightly modified version of this article appeared in German in Der Europäer, Perseus Verlag, Basel, June 2020, p. 16-22. We have experienced a situation that is unique in history: a

Hero of the Week: November 16, 2020 – Pierre Barnerias

Hero of the Week: November 16, 2020 – Pierre Barnerias

Bio: Of Auvergne origin, whose family comes from a village in the canton of Saint-Rémy-sur-Durolle, Pierre Barnérias did a master’s degree in private law at the University Panthéon-Assas and, after a serious accident, joined the

Movie of the Week: November 16, 2020 – HOLD-UP

Movie of the Week: November 16, 2020 – HOLD-UP

Click here to view video: https://tprod.fr/project/hold-up/ The Covid-19 pandemic has given rise to contradictory exchanges between doctors, specialists, professors, politicians and experts, all orchestrated and fueled by the heavy media fire. Scientists have thus found

Remedy for Slaughterhouse Logjam?

Remedy for Slaughterhouse Logjam?

By Pete Kennedy Access to slaughterhouses has been poor for small livestock producers in most of the country for many years now but has become considerably worse since the onset of the COVID-19 crisis. USDA-inspected

Report from Roberts County, Texas

Report from Roberts County, Texas

Email from a Subscriber: 96.2% Trump 529 votes 3.1% Biden 17 votes Randall County 78% Trump Potter County north part of Amarillo 66% Trump I watched a little of Fox coverage last night. Rove was