Science & Technology – Week of 09.29.13

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

Food & Health – Week of 09.29.13

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

Life – Week of 09.29.13

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

Wild Cards – Week  of 09.29.13

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

GlobalBEM Indiegogo Campaign

GlobalBEM Indiegogo Campaign

Bigger, Boulder, Better Hello everyone, thank you for taking the time to read this. We want to put up the best conference on Breaktrough Energy

Open Source Education

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

JP Morgan & the Sheriff of Nottingham

JP Morgan & the Sheriff of Nottingham

Photo Credit: Reuters By Catherine Austin Fitts The latest headlines announce that “J.P. Morgan Chase is in talks to pay up to $11 billion to settle

Quote du Jour – Peter F. Drucker

Quote du Jour – Peter F. Drucker

“How knowledge behaves as an economic resource, we do not yet fully understand … We need an economic theory that puts knowledge into the center

Quote du Jour

Quote du Jour

“How knowledge behaves as an economic resource, we do not yet fully understand … We need an economic theory that puts knowledge into the center

Take Back Your Power

Take Back Your Power

Take Back Your Power takes us on a journey of revelation and discovery, as we question the benefits and risks of “smart” meters and grid

Thank You, BlackBerry Ltd!

Thank You, BlackBerry Ltd!

By Catherine Austin Fitts BlackBerry held out for a long time. However, successfully catering to business and investment professionals meant their data flow was much

Requiem for a Whistleblower

Requiem for a Whistleblower

By Chris Floyd A former colleague of mine died recently, although I didn’t know he had been my colleague until I read his obituary in

Our Chat With Jeremy Grantham

Our Chat With Jeremy Grantham

By Ian Salisbury Jeremy Grantham’s got a track record that’s impossible to ignore—he called the Internet bubble, then the housing bubble. While moves like those

Money & Markets – Week of 09.22.13

Money & Markets – Week of 09.22.13

Fund to Let Investors Bet on Price of Bitcoins Telegraph | 25 September 2013 The upstart stock exchange SecondMarket has made a name for itself

Precious Metals – Week of 09.22.13

Precious Metals – Week of 09.22.13

Finland Latest to Join Gold Repatriation Movement Wealth Cycle | 23 September 2013 Finland recently became the latest nation to initiate action to pull its

Geopolitical – Week of 09.22.13

Geopolitical – Week of 09.22.13

China’s Maritime Disputes Council on Foreign Relations | 27 September 2013 The East and South China Seas are the scene of escalating territorial disputes between

Science & Technology – Week of 09.22.13

Science & Technology – Week of 09.22.13

India’s Incoming Solar Power Plant Will Be Bigger Than the US’s Ten Biggest Combined Motherboard | 24 September 2013 The impact on jobs and other

Food & Health – Week of 09.22.13

Food & Health – Week of 09.22.13

Cancer Officially Number One Cause of Childhood Death in U.S. Banoosh | 25 September 2013 The number one reason blamed for childhood deaths in America

Life – Week of 09.22.13

Life – Week of 09.22.13

Duped By The Beast of War Awaken in the Dream As if living in a never-ending “war-time,” the war drums are once again fast approaching…

Wild Cards – Week  of 09.22.13

Wild Cards – Week of 09.22.13

Conn. Panel Orders Release of Newtown 911 Tapes Huffington Post | 25 September 2013 The state’s Freedom of Information Commission on Wednesday ordered the release

Crowdfunding, What It Means To You

Crowdfunding, What It Means To You

View the Money & Markets Presentation Read the Transcript Read the transcript of “Crowdfunding: What Does it Mean to You” here (PDF) Read the transcript

The Federal Reserve

The Federal Reserve

By Catherine Austin Fitts The Fed’s decision not to taper quantitative easing this week has equity and commodities markets up and interest rates falling. On

It Pays To Be Useful

It Pays To Be Useful

By Catherine Austin Fitts I copied these results from a Yahoo Finance poll that I took yesterday. It is an interesting comment on two important

Naval Sea Systems Command

Naval Sea Systems Command

By Wikipedia The Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) is the largest of the United States Navy’s five “systems commands,” or materiel (not to be confused

Money & Markets – Week of 09.15.13

Money & Markets – Week of 09.15.13

U.S. SEC Approves Long-Awaited Municipal Adviser Rule Reuters | 18 September 2013 The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission unanimously approved on Wednesday a long-awaited rule…

Geopolitical – Week of 09.15.13

Geopolitical – Week of 09.15.13

Linus Torvalds Admits He’s Been Asked To Insert Backdoor Into Linux Slashdot | 19 September 2013 At the Linuxcon conference in New Orleans today, Linus

Science & Technology – Week of 09.15.13

Science & Technology – Week of 09.15.13

Sun Mysteriously Goes All Quiet Just When Its Activity Should Be Highest Wired | 16 September 2013 Almost every measure of solar activity flatlined over

Food & Health – Week of 09.15.13

Food & Health – Week of 09.15.13

New Orleans Parish Water System found having Brain-Eating Amoeba Top News | 19 September 2013 Clean drinking water is the basic requirement for survival… Japan

Life – Week of 09.15.13

Life – Week of 09.15.13

10 Ways to Become More Conscious Conscious Life News | 17 September 2013 What does it mean to become more conscious? On Begley Street Comes

Wildcards – Week of 09.15.13

Wildcards – Week of 09.15.13

Black 9 11 Money, Motive, Technology, and Plausible Deniability YouTube | 12 December 2012

The Governance Shell Game: Where is the Money?

The Governance Shell Game: Where is the Money?

By Catherine Austin Fitts Everyday we are presented with two diverging economies in North America. Bailouts and quantitative easing have extinguished the outstanding fraudulent securities

Quote du Jour

Quote du Jour

“Life is on the wire… the rest is just waiting.” -Karl Wallenda

An Anniversary Prayer – September 11, 2013

An Anniversary Prayer – September 11, 2013

Catherine’s Anniversary Prayer — September 11, 2013 By Catherine Austin Fitts Lord, we gather in prayer on the twelfth anniversary of 9-11; We thank you

Financial Perspectives – Sept 9, 2013

Financial Perspectives – Sept 9, 2013

By Chuck Gibson With the month of August wrapping up last week, I wanted to do a quick check back in on how different segments

Syria’s Latest Developments

Syria’s Latest Developments

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad told Charlie Rose on Sunday that he is preparing for a U.S. strike, and that Syria and some of their allies

Money & Markets – Week of 09.08.13

Money & Markets – Week of 09.08.13

“Trimming” Overseas Investments: J.P Morgan, and the Wider Implications Giza Death Star | 11 September 2013 This article from the Wall Street Journal was sent

Housing & Mortgage Markets – Week of 09.08.13

Housing & Mortgage Markets – Week of 09.08.13

JPMorgan Removes Lending Barriers in Booming U.S. Markets Bloomberg | 11 September 2013 JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM), the nation’s largest bank by assets, is

Geopolitical – Week of 09.08.13

Geopolitical – Week of 09.08.13

Snowden Leaks Only Tip of the Iceberg DW | 05 September 2013 A former NSA technical director tells DW that the revelations by former NSA

Science & Technology – Week of 09.08.13

Science & Technology – Week of 09.08.13

200,000 Apply For One-Way Mission to Colonise Mars – But Only Four Can Become the First Human Settlers of the Red Planet The Independent |

Noonan: Why America Is Saying ‘No’

Noonan: Why America Is Saying ‘No’

By Peggy Noonan There is something going on here, a new distance between Washington and America that the Syria debate has forced into focus. The

Life – Week of 09.08.13

Life – Week of 09.08.13

The Battle for Our Angel Awaken in the Dream There is a particularly powerful practice in the Islamic tradition… Money Concerns Sap Mental Capacity Squared

What Is Breakthrough Energy?

What Is Breakthrough Energy?

“Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I

Movie Review: Moon Rising and Moon Views

Movie Review: Moon Rising and Moon Views

By Catherine Austin Fitts Last night I had the opportunity to watch Jose Escamilla’s fascinating movies on the moon, drawing from significant footage from the

SEC Warms to Social Media for Disclosures

SEC Warms to Social Media for Disclosures

By Howard E. Berkenblit In 2007 the Securities and Exchange Commission said that companies no longer needed to send printed proxy materials to investors, but

USDA: Rural Population Needed For Military

USDA: Rural Population Needed For Military

Photo Credit: USDAgov/Flickr By Joel Salatin Why do we need more farmers? What is the driving force behind U.S. Department of Agriculture policy? In an

September: Crunch Time Cometh!

September: Crunch Time Cometh!

By Catherine Austin Fitts Take a moment to review some of the decision points coming up this month.  We are watching a scramble for market

Full Show: America’s Gilded Capital

Full Show: America’s Gilded Capital

By Moyers and Company Mark Leibovich covers Washington, D.C., as chief national correspondent for The New York Times Magazine. In his new book, This Town,

Money & Markets – Week of 09.01.13

Money & Markets – Week of 09.01.13

IRS Rule Leads Restaurants to Rethink Automatic Tips The Wall Street Journal | 04 September 2013 Gratuities Added for Large Groups Will Be Taxed as

Precious Metals – Week of 09.01.13

Precious Metals – Week of 09.01.13

Guess Which “Bearish” Bank Bought A Record Amount Of GLD In Q2 Zero Hedge | 30 August 2013 In early April, the status quo was

Geopolitical – Week of 09.01.13

Geopolitical – Week of 09.01.13

Senators Authorizing Syria Strike Got More Defense Cash Than Lawmakers Voting No Wired | 05 September 2013 Senators voting Wednesday to authorize a Syria strike

Science & Technology – Week of 09.01.13

Science & Technology – Week of 09.01.13

Robotics Make Sense for Manufacturing Save Your Factory Robots allow businesses to remain competitive without off-shoring… Researcher Controls Colleague’s Motions in 1st Human Brain-to-Brain Interface

Life – Week of 09.01.13

Life – Week of 09.01.13

Cheryl Wheeler – Where’s All the Money? YouTube | 05 December 2011 Cheryl Wheeler sings Where’s All the Money in Fort Collins, CO…

Wildcards – Week of 09.01.13

Wildcards – Week of 09.01.13

Why Don’t We Have Space Elevators? Popular Mechanics | 07 March 2013 Why fly a rocket into orbit when you can just hop in an

Book Review: Sauder on Underground Facilities

Book Review: Sauder on Underground Facilities

By Catherine Austin Fitts Dr. Richard Sauder is an investigative researcher who has amassed a significant amount of information about the extensive underground facilities funded

Announcing Refiner’s Fire

Announcing Refiner’s Fire

Music matters… at least great music does. Founded by Chris McMurtry and Mike and Janet Linton, REFINERSFIRE is committed to the idea that great music

WHO in the World is Spraying?

WHO in the World is Spraying?

(Michael Murphy’s last film won Solari Movie of the Year) By Truth Media Productions We must find out who is behind the current ongoing destructive

Solari Toon Creator Comments

Solari Toon Creator Comments

(The above Toon is an earlier draft of this month’s Solari Toon) (The Solari Toon creator makes some comments about Catherine’s critique of an earlier

A Jon Rappaport Report, Doing Your Best

A Jon Rappaport Report, Doing Your Best

“Rise like Lions after slumber In unvanquishable number, Shake your chains to earth like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you- Ye are many