Carmen Ortiz’s Sordid Rap Sheet

Carmen Ortiz’s Sordid Rap Sheet

By Christian Stork The suicide last Friday of information activist, computer hacker and technical wunderkind Aaron Swartz has focused attention on Carmen Ortiz, the U.S.

Money & Markets – Week of 01.20.2013

Money & Markets – Week of 01.20.2013

Gold Initiative Prepares the SNB Headache 20 Minutes Online | 24 January 2013 Where are the 1,040 tonnes of gold the Swiss National Bank?… The

Geopolitical – Week of 01.20.2013

Geopolitical – Week of 01.20.2013

2 Meter Opponents Arrested in Naperville: ‘A Society of Violating One Another’ The Chicago Tribune | 24 January 2013 Two vocal opponents of Naperville’s initiative

Food & Health – Week of 01.20.2013

Food & Health – Week of 01.20.2013

Piers Morgan Falls Ill Days After Receiving Flu Vaccine Info Wars | 24 January 2013 CNN host Piers Morgan is likely wanting another chat with…

Life – Week of 01.20.2013

Life – Week of 01.20.2013

A Grim Reminder That Military Women Have Already Been Fighting And Dying Buzzfeed | 23 January 2013 One hundred forty-six women have died in uniform

Wildcards – Week of 01.20.2013

Wildcards – Week of 01.20.2013

Obama: Selling Out America – Literally WND Commentary | January 2013 Like a young burglar I once saw featured in a documentary who enrolled…

Music by Algorithms

Music by Algorithms

Triumph of the Cyborg Composer David Cope’s software creates beautiful, original music. Why are people so angry about that? Computer-Generated Music, is it Art?

Stealth Hoodie Hides Wearer From Drones

Stealth Hoodie Hides Wearer From Drones

By Jesse Emspak Surveillance cameras are ubiquitous, especially in the U.K.. and in the United States, Congress has already approved the use of drones for

The Drums of War

The Drums of War

By The Economist WATCH Chinese television these days and you might conclude that the outbreak of war with Japan over what it calls the Senkaku

Transcript of 2012 Annual Wrap Up – January 3

Transcript of 2012 Annual Wrap Up – January 3

Transcript of Precious Metals Market Report is now available to Subscribers! From the transcript: Catherine Austin Fitts: Good evening! Welcome to the Solari Report, and

Poland Joins Growing List of Nations Banning GMOs

Poland Joins Growing List of Nations Banning GMOs

Well….now it’s Poland. This nation has joined the growing list of countries, particularly in Europe, that are displaying some rationality and caution with respect to

Tit for Tat?

Tit for Tat?

Did Congress just pay NY $51 billion to pass a gun control law? New York Passes Nation’s Toughest Gun-Control Law House Approves Post-Sandy Relief Bill

No-Book Library? BiblioTech is Coming

No-Book Library? BiblioTech is Coming

By Joanna Stern A book-less library. It sounds like an oxymoron, but come the fall of 2013, San Antonio’s Bexar County is going to be

March of the Machines

March of the Machines

By 60 Minutes One of the hallmarks of the 21st century is that we are all having more and more interactions with machines and fewer

Dispelling Wetiko by Paul Levy

Dispelling Wetiko by Paul Levy

By Catherine Austin Fitts Paul Levy’s new book, Dispelling Wetiko: Breaking the Curse of Evil, is now available. I wrote the forward. This is an

Goodbye Piers!

Goodbye Piers!

By Catherine Austin Fitts I took an online course on driver safety tonight. Here are two quotes from the material: “Most people do not realize

Money & Markets – Week of 01.13.2013

Money & Markets – Week of 01.13.2013

Rio Tinto to Book $14 Billion Charge; C.E.O. Steps Down The New York Times Dealbook | 17 January 2013 Two expensive acquisitions have come at

Precious Metals – Week of 01.13.2013

Precious Metals – Week of 01.13.2013

A New Gold Standard is Being Born The Telegraph | 17 January 2013 The world is moving step by step towards a de facto Gold

Geopolitical – Week of 01.13.2013

Geopolitical – Week of 01.13.2013

Texas Considers Jail For Federal Agents Enforcing New Gun Regulations Captain’s Journal | 15 January 2013 So as we have been discussing, Texas is considering

Science & Technology – Week of 01.13.2013

Science & Technology – Week of 01.13.2013

Japan to Build World’s Largest Offshore Wind Farm New Scientist | 16 January 2013 It’s goodbye nuclear, hello renewables as Japan prepares to… McDonald’s Installing

Food & Health – Week of 01.13.2013

Food & Health – Week of 01.13.2013

American Parents Awarded £600,000 in Compensation After Their Son Developed Autism as a Result of MMR Vaccine The Daily Mail | 14 January 2013 Parents

Life – Week of 01.13.2013

Life – Week of 01.13.2013

American Man Looking for Wife Gets Marriage Offers Instead The Star | 17 January 2013 After his wife went missing from the airport, American Henry

Wildcards – Week of 01.13.2013

Wildcards – Week of 01.13.2013

What are the ‘odds’?….. Half Past Human with respect…. a gift of a noodle for Catherine Austin Fitts. This Isn’t the Petition Response You’re Looking

Seen on the Internet

Seen on the Internet

1st Comment: Jon Corzine goes to jail or it’s all bull***t. Oh, and Angelo Mozilla needs to go to jail, too. 2nd Comment: I find

Quote du Jour – Chief John Ross

Quote du Jour – Chief John Ross

Once a person gets despair out of the way, few things can slow her progress. Despair is the dividing line between those who can take

Quote du Jour

Quote du Jour

Once a person gets despair out of the way, few things can slow her progress. Despair is the dividing line between those who can take

No Ma’am.

No Ma’am.

Senator Dianne Feinstein, I will not register my weapons should this bill be passed, as I do not believe it is the government’s right to

Sinéad O’Connor: 4th and Vine

Sinéad O’Connor: 4th and Vine

The music for this weekend is “4th and Vine” by Sinéad O’Connor. Check it out on Nowness.com.

Quote du Jour – Judge Napolitano

Quote du Jour – Judge Napolitano

“The 2nd amendment wasn’t written so we could go hunting. It was written so we could shoot at the gov if it was ever taken

Quote du Jour

Quote du Jour

“The 2nd amendment wasn’t written so we could go hunting. It was written so we could shoot at the gov if it was ever taken

Quote du Jour – Mao Zedong

Quote du Jour – Mao Zedong

“All political power comes from the barrel of a gun. The Communist Party must command all the guns; that way, no guns can ever be

Quote du Jour

Quote du Jour

“All political power comes from the barrel of a gun. The Communist Party must command all the guns; that way, no guns can ever be

Solari Hero of the Year 2013:  Alfredo Moser

Solari Hero of the Year 2013: Alfredo Moser

Our Solari Hero of the year is Alfredo Moser , the Brazilian mechanic and inventor who pioneered “the liter of light”—the conversion of plastic bottles inserted into rooftops that provide daylight. The technique, which Moser

Introducing Solari Toons!

Introducing Solari Toons!

Please enjoy the first SolariToon of 2013. Solari Report cartoonist Bob Parsons designed this for Catherine’s special fiscal cliff article. Read it here. Enjoy more

Introducing SolariToons!

Introducing SolariToons!

Please enjoy the first SolariToon of 2013. Solari Report cartoonist Bob Parsons designed this for Catherine’s special fiscal cliff article. Read it here. Enjoy more

How to Find a Good Local Bank

How to Find a Good Local Bank

By Catherine Austin Fitts [Published in 2005, this checklist was designed to help people shift from large banks whose incentives are out of alignment with

Money & Markets – Week of 01.06.2013

Money & Markets – Week of 01.06.2013

Banks Win 4-Year Delay as Basel Liquidity Rule Loosened CNBC l 07 January 2013 Global central bank chiefs gave lenders four more years to meet…

Precious Metals – Week of 01.06.2013

Precious Metals – Week of 01.06.2013

New Gold for a Scary New World Yahoo! Finance | 06 January 2013 Divisible gold ‘Combibar’ can easily be broken into one gram pieces and

Geopolitical – Week of 01.06.2013

Geopolitical – Week of 01.06.2013

U.S. Government Increases National Debt—and Keeps 128 Million People on Government Programs The Heritage Foundation | 08 January 2013 Between 1988 and 2011, the amount

Science & Technology – Week of 01.06.2013

Science & Technology – Week of 01.06.2013

Proving The Value Of Crowdfunding, Soldsie Raises $425K And Hires One Of 72 Investors Via FundersClub Tech Crunch | 09 January 2013 Online venture capital

Food & Health – Week of 01.06.2013

Food & Health – Week of 01.06.2013

The Connection Between Diet Drinks and Depression Activist Post | 09 January 2013 A new study has been published from the University of Rochester Medical

Life – Week of 01.06.2013

Life – Week of 01.06.2013

No Player Elected to Hall of Fame Fox Sports | 09 January 2013 Steroid-tainted stars Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens and Sammy Sosa were denied… Confirmed:

John Brennan, Obama’s Drone Warrior

John Brennan, Obama’s Drone Warrior

By Peter Bergen President Barack Obama has nominated his top counterterrorism adviser, John Brennan, to be the next director of the CIA. If there is

Bioinitiative 2012

Bioinitiative 2012

These are invaluable sets of abstracts (data-based to be searchable) covering the RFR scientific literature, as well as collections of scientific abstracts on free radical

Introducing Holly Bedrosian

Introducing Holly Bedrosian

By Catherine Austin Fitts Ben Lizardi of Lizardi Communications  designed our wonderful new poster for 2013, using an original art work from Holly Bedrosian. We thought

Quote du Jour

Quote du Jour

“The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.” – Leonardo da Vinci

Killing With Impunity

Killing With Impunity

By Catherine Austin Fitts The ability to kill with impunity is the power that runs the planet today. Assassination is an ancient craft. Killing successfully

Surprise, Surprise: The Banks Win

Surprise, Surprise: The Banks Win

By Gretchen Morgenson IF you were hoping that things might be different in 2013 — you know, that bankers would be held responsible for bad

Global Trends 2030: Alternative Worlds

Global Trends 2030: Alternative Worlds

Before launching work on the current volume, the NIC commissioned an academic study of the four previous Global Trends studies, beginning with the first edition

2012 Annual Wrap Up – January 3

2012 Annual Wrap Up – January 3

Happy New Year! It’s that time of year to assess – what happened in 2012? And what are the major trends for 2013? Our poster

Quote du Jour

Quote du Jour

“When you put your faith in the people who are trying to kill you, then things can only get worse.” – Solari Report team member

HUD Unveils Massive Integration Plan

HUD Unveils Massive Integration Plan

By Housing Affairs Letter HUD intends to submit a new rule proposal in April targeting massive desegregation of each of the nation’s more than 74,000

Global MetroMonitor

Global MetroMonitor

By: Emilia Istrate and Carey Anne Nadeau This interactive feature provides economic growth data (real GDP per capita and employment change) for the largest 300

Cash Feast Update in Sac, Placer & Yolo County

Cash Feast Update in Sac, Placer & Yolo County

[CAF Note: Is hedge fund and institutional investor activity the reason for the improved housing prices? Note this story from the Sacramento area] Here are

How Small Business (and Jobs) Got Done-In

How Small Business (and Jobs) Got Done-In

By Barry C. Lynn Where the independent pharmacist counted pills, we see a CVS employee. Where family livestock farms dotted the landscape, we see immense