[click on the image for a larger version] The United States fiscal cliff refers to a large predicted reduction in the budget deficit and a

By John Naughton Almost without noticing it, our world crossed a significant threshold last week. Jerry Brown, the governor of California, signed into law a

By Dr. Joseph Farrell The latest brain child to cross the desks of the Victor Frankensteins running the world’s science laboratories is this little story

A Special Thanks to Simon Black for this find. Social unrest may reflect a variety of factors such as poverty, unemployment, and social injustice. Despite

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Guns and Butter – September 26, 2012 at 1:00pmClick to listen (or download)   “Dillon Read and The Aristocracy of Stock Profits”, live with Catherine

Creating and disseminating media to help regenerate the Earth. These videos are documents from two design courses taught by Bill Mollison at the Fossil Rim

By Kim Komando According to one research firm, mobile smartphone payments will grow by a factor of four and account for $1.3 trillion of all

From BBC Technology: A humanoid robot designed to work safely alongside people on factory production lines has been unveiled in the US. Priced at $22,000

Japan Follows U.S. and Europe in Stimulus Moves; Other Actions Expected By Tom Lauricella Massive injections of stimulus into financial markets by the world’s largest

By Catherine Austin Fitts Being away from my church home is one of the challenges of living on the road. I am having a wonderful

What would we do without Microsoft PowerPoint? How would we communicate with each other? PowerPoint was developed by engineers as a tool to help them

In the early Christian era, many Celtic Christians embarked on a kind of pilgrimage called a peregrinatio. Unlike the pilgrimages to the Holy Land undertaken

[Note from Solari team member: Major ruckus in Maker-land. Makerbot Industries got new VC funding and created a new printer. It may or may not

By Jesse’s Café Américain A “Cup and Handle” is a bullish continuation pattern in an uptrend.  The greatest factor working against this current gold chart

By Michael Keller The days of getting lost in the art museum or mall might be drawing to a close. So, too, might the universal

By Kim Dixon Technology giants Microsoft Corp and Hewlett-Packard Co used offshore units to shield billions of dollars from U.S. taxes by taking advantage of

[Note from CAF: Looks like the cocktail of currency debasement and shifting incomes abroad, high sugar and chemicals in the food, chemtrails and GMOs will

With QE3, we are essentially being bought out with our own money…and unemployment is being used to facilitate this process in a very clever manner.

By Brent Rose The guys at Re-Char, a small startup that makes carbon-negative products, were faced with a problem. They wanted to ship products to

By Henry Fountain Andemariam Beyene sat by the hospital window, the low Arctic sun on his face, and talked about the time he thought he

On the Sept 20 Solari Report, Catherine Austin Fitts discusses QE3 and what it means to you! By Catherine Austin Fitts I used to have

In the foothills of the highest mountain in Europe, in a valley with glacier-fed springs, surrounded by ancient megaliths and natural power spots, there lies

By Will Ferguson The hottest new material in town is light, strong and conducts electricity. What’s more, it’s been around a long, long time. Nanocrystalline

In an unprecedented and controversial move, the Federal Reserve today announced the initiation of an open-ended round of Quantitative Easing (QE3) and extended the period

By Steven Levy Had Narrative Science — a company that trains computers to write news stories—created this piece, it probably would not mention that the

By Pam Martens Adding to those seemingly insurmountable headwinds, Sheikh Ahmed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Managing Director of ADIA, would not be able to give

By Harriet Torry Germany’s Federal Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe is set to rule Wednesday at 8 a.m. GMT on whether the European Stability Mechanism —

[CAF Note: Note that the expenses of stealing these assets are on budget for the federal government and households. However, when it comes to their

By Ian Austen Calling Iran “the most significant threat to global peace and security in the world today,” Canada’s foreign affairs minister, John Baird, abruptly

[CAF Note Below] By Kevin Flaherty The link on this update mentions Decree #123-2011, which is just 15 pages long, but will have you wondering,

Steve Hanke and Nicholas Krus, “World Hyperinflations”. Cato Working Paper no. 8, August 15, 2012. Forthcoming in: Randall Parker and Robert Whaples (eds.) (2013) The

By: Charles Benbrook Center for Sustaining Agriculture and Natural Resources Washington State University In a comprehensive paper published in the September 4, 2012 issue of

By Paul Schwennesen A 1981 Dodge Ram Van (faded brown with those funky round portholes in the back) leaves the town of Winkelman at 45

By Jeffrey Heller Israeli officials played down a report in an Israeli newspaper on Monday that accused Washington of secretly negotiating with Tehran to keep

By Nelson D. Schwartz Even as Greece desperately tries to avoid defaulting on its debt, American companies are preparing for what was once unthinkable: that

Here are some great tunes reminding us how to build skills and resilience: See the Maker Movement — Catherine

Whether you live in California, in North America or around the globe, this is a critical issue. If states can achieve labeling of GMO, we

Percent Change at Seasonally Adjusted Annual Rate M1 M2 3 Months from Apr 2012 TO Jul 2012 11.3| 6.5| 6 Months from Jan 2012 TO

[Note from CAF: Not to mention the money disappearing through the black budget, $4 trillion missing from federal accounts and on and on….] Related Viewing:

Throughout the Transformations & Renewals weekend this October, we will enjoy fresh, healthy food and a wonderful selection of wines grown and prepared in Middle

By Wikipedia Pharaoh acknowledged that Joseph’s proposal to store grain during the abundant period was very wise. So before Joseph was even 30 years old,

Source: YouTube This seminal documentary provides compelling evidence to help explain the deteriorating health of Americans, especially among children, and offers a recipe for protecting

By Dean Baker “Free trade” is a sacred mantra in Washington. If anything is labeled as being “free trade”, then everyone in the Washington establishment

By Michael Ramos In 2010, many sectors of the U.S. economy began to improve from the Great Recession—however, small businesses lagged behind, largely as a

By Josh Cothran, Georgia Institute of Technology [CAF Note: Ever notice that the more private insurers and the government get involved, the worse and more