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  1. HI Catherine!
    First, awesome story about Mo Ne Davis of Philadelphia. I will look her up further… The town where we live was overtaken by “Little League World Series Fever” a couple of years ago because our local team was one of the final 2 or 3 (I’m not a parent, and I’m forgetting…sorry) in that big game, which includes teams from other countries, the end of summer. The young guys, ages 12 or 13 or so, were adored for months afterward… a parade… an invitation to the major league stadium by the pro baseball team … on and on. It is a kick and a half to see her success! A GIRL !! African American !! Wow.

    Secondly, I enjoyed the J. Rappoport inverview about Ebola (is ‘enjoyed’ the word?). There is an interesting article from 2013 in the New Yorker about the rich natural resources in the region… The richest iron ore deposits in the world are there…besides diamonds. I think Jon Rap. is right in his analysis that they can shut down the whole region with the Ebola problem and start grab- bing the natural resources. Already I read about commercial flights not flying in and out of these W. African countries. Anyway, link below. THANKS.

    http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/07/08/buried-secrets

  2. Here is a motley collection of reading material related to cybernetics and transhumanism

    Before trying to understand modern technology, a look at history improves the reader’s ability to audit modern media claims. One of the most readable books on the history of technology is sci-fi author L. Sprague de Camp’s 1963 “The Ancient Engineers”, from antiquity up to the Renaissance.
    https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/l-sprague-de-camp-14/the-ancient-engineers-2/.

    An Amazon review says “History, technology, culture, finance, and sociology intersect here. It’s not history from the top (kings and such, which some say is dry), nor history from the bottom (average people, which is necessarily endless and perhaps not very revealing). It’s history from the nuts-and-bolts middle–how structures were built, how materials were transported, how wars were fought. When you know this sort of foundational information, everything else becomes more real.”

    This blog & Twitter account is run by an academic, http://stopthecyborgs.org/, “”Only the unmeasured is free”. It often has useful papers and articles.

    Are Questions or Answers more important? http://kiriakakis.net/comics/mused/a-day-at-the-park

    In the 1950s, Heinz von Foerster coined the term “cybernetics”. He later lead the “Biological Computing Laboratory” at U of Illinois. One of his best essays is on the topic of Ethics, http://web.stanford.edu/group/SHR/4-2/text/foerster.html

    “”Man does not have a nature, but a history. Man is no thing, but a drama. His life is something that has to be chosen, made up as he goes along, and a human consists in that choice and invention. Each human being is the novelist of himself, and though he may choose between being an original writer and a plagiarist, he cannot escape choosing. . . .. He is condemned to be free.

    … the problem is understanding understanding; the problem is making decisions upon in principle undecidable questions … Metaphysics appeared and asked her younger sister, Ethics: “What would you recommend that I should bring back to my proteges, the metaphysicians, whether or not they call themselves such?” And Ethics answered: “Tell them they should always try to act so as to increase the number of choices”

    “The Future of Futures” by Elena Esposito is expensive, but a web search may find an online version. Her work was influenced by Heinz von Foerster (cybernetics) and Niklas Luhmann (systems theory). She has interesting ideas about “probablistic fiction” and economics.
    https://www.reading.ac.uk/web/FILES/law/new_esposito_reviw_16-7-11.pdf
    http://www.lse.ac.uk/management/documents/Esposito-transcript.pdf
    http://www.mpifg.de/people/jb1/downloads/2013_Imagined%20Futures_TheorySociety.pdf

    From a separate Amazon review: “This book reconstructs the dynamics of economics, beginning explicitly with the role and the relevance of time: money uses the future in order to generate present wealth. Financial markets sell and buy risk, thereby binding the future. Elena Esposito explains that complex risk management techniques of structured finance produce new and uncontrolled risks because they use a simplified idea of the future, failing to account for how the future reacts to attempts at controlling it. During the recent financial crisis, the future had already been used (through securitizations, derivatives and other tools) to the extent that we had many futures, but no open future available.”

    Joss Whedon’s Angel TV series had an espisode set in Las Vegas, where “Lorne confesses he tells Lee about the people with bright futures, so that they can be lured into the Spin and Win game. Their destinies are sucked into the chip they play and later sold on the black market.”, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_House_Always_Wins

    Here is a blog post on the geographical equivalents of latency (time to access data in memory vs. disk vs. network). Time is the crux of many topics related to humans vs. robots vs. transhumans. What isn’t obvious to most people is that the path to robots and transhumans began with writing, when we started encoding “knowledge” in symbols that would eventually be read by “faster” machines.
    http://blog.codinghorror.com/the-infinite-space-between-words/

    For humans to compete with machines, we need to revisit the role of human memory, relearning oral skills (e.g. poetry & narrative) which we left behind with the advent of writing. The timing of communication _within_ the brain is faster than communication between brain & paper, brain & mobile phone, or mobile phone & cloud. Not to mention the metaphysics of non-symbolic consciousness.
    Storytelling and memory: http://www.story-alchemy.com/?page_id=211
    Memory training techniques: http://artofmemory.com/

  3. Rich:

    I don’t know anything about them. I think the thing worth addressing here are the transhumanism question. We did a Solari Report with Jon Rappoport about the Singularity. However, my plan is to do more on transhumanism as very important developments and trrends are involved that we will all be called with deal with.

    I do feel that the best use of time is on helping to support people in finding and nuturing the very best of Western Civilization both now and from antiquity.

    Catherine

    Catherine

  5. J. Rapoport interview. Insightful. Public disdain for government deceit is above the curve on the hockey stick. The media gives the government a pass every time a justified criticism of a wrongful government decision or action issues and the boss hog of the unit of government deceit is NOT NAMED. We must start demanding accountability or at least embarrassment of mendacious hiding bureaucrats.

  6. Dr. Bourke:

    Thank you so much for taking time to post your feedback – and for your kind words.
    The Solari Report team meets for round ups three times a week. A critical item on the agenda is – given what we have learned today and over the prior week – where is the immediate opportunity to help our subscribers navigate? – and as Harry Browne once said – “stay free in an unfree world.” So keep that feedback coming because “fresh, relevant and astute,” is what we seek to achieve.

    So, you made my day!

    Catherine

  7. Kathleen:

    Dmitry has been a guest on the Solari Report. His insights on the collapse in the Soviet Union are very astute and I am glad you reminded us of his work.

    Given that the groups that were involved in collapsing Russia appear to be gathering for a US reengineering, I think it is very timely to revisit Orlove’s “lessons learned.” Even though the process is working differently in the US than in Russia (and I expect it to continue to be different), Dmitry’s insights are invaluable for increasing personal resilience and independence in the US situation.

    Catherine

  8. Wow!
    I was impressed by Catherine from years of listening to C2C, but as a recent subscriber I’m now thoroughly impressed!!
    Material and insight is fresh and relevant and astute. Not the usual drivel from MSM.
    And to top it all off I received a hand written note from Catherine thanking me for my subscription.
    This is the type of service that leaves a lasting impression.

    Many thanks.

  9. Hi, Catherine – thanks so much for the wonderful work you are doing. I have had to unsubscribe for September for cost reasons, but hope to re-subscribe soon.

    Meanwhile, I was fascinated by this video by engineer Dmitry Orlov:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrz5ucQACo8

    Although I am fully persuaded by your prediction of a continued slow burn rather than a financial collapse, I found the rest of what Orlov had to say to be very interesting. In particular he points out how much more prepared the Russians were for financial collapse than the U.S. is presently, largely because they had little faith in their government and instead relied on “black market” or underground economy resources and personal connections. Most of them grew food, for instance. I would love to hear your comments on this.

    Thanks again!

  11. As usual, I was astounded at Catherine’s incredibly astute view of what is going on in NY state. I left there as a permanent resident 7 years ago and just went to my house in the Adirondacks (for the first time since then) only to see that in that very conservative part of the state, the latest Cuomo has been spending money like a bride at the casino. We have new things everywhere, not that we don’t need some of it (Hurricane Irene devastated a large part of the settled river valleys) but there is a new push to pull in even the most upstate of upstate NY into the Cuomo Fold.

    As much as I try to figure out the gold/silver market (even as a member of Franklin’s newsletter), the correlation between geopolitics, the faux stock market, the value of the dollar, and the value of precious metals has me totally scratching my head. It is always a wonder to listen to the two of you throw out all the possibilities when so many of us expect the impossible: that you would have a lead to what is really going to happen next. I respect the fact that there are so many people who have predicted a spew from the fan whereas Catherine has correctly predicted a slow burn… and her suggestion that a need for emergency supplies in coming months tells me that she believes that we are finally nearing that change point.

    Thanks as always for your incredible tete-a-tete. Most enlightening and enjoyable.

    Jane

  13. I always look forward to your interviews with Dr. Farrell and the latest one is fascinating as usual. It’s pretty heady stuff to wrap your mind around but the positive interaction and mutual respect between your great minds makes the listening all the more enjoyable…and the learning more accessible. Thank you Catherine.

    Judi Oderkirk

  14. Denis:

    Apologies that you find accessing what you want challenging. Several suggestions:

    1. We have been working on a new blog that will launch by the fourth quarter that is designed to make access much easier, including for smart phones. I believe that will help.

    2. We don’t publish a money & markets in the last week of every month – I have asked the blog master to put a note to that effect in the last week, so no one gets frustrated looking for it.

    3. There is a money & markets library at your resource page, so that make sure to check the library if you are having trouble finding it on the blog post,

    Hope this helps,

    Catherine

    1. Thanks Catherine;

      Here are a couple of User Interface suggestions…

      ~ I noticed the comment that “there is no Ask Catherine commentary on your Aug 28 show”, but it was hidden in the text of article instead of in the place that most users would seek to click to download it. If this comment was placed in the top download link location (when there is no commentary), the users would immediately notice it, and not be left with the impression that you are late in posting it.

      ~ You seem to have 2 different topics that are both called Money & Markets… One that is your M&M Audio Commentary, and one that is a different Money & Markets that does not include your M&M Audio Commentary. I think this mislabeling causes additional UI confusion because your M&M Audio Commentary is not listed in this Money & Markets section. Not sure what to suggest here other than adding a link or renaming one of them, but I also understand that this may also be a Subscriber/Non-Subscriber interface oversight. Either way, the current double-labeling seems quite confusing. I think this may be solved by adding a default line each week that says the M&M Audio Commentary is in the subscriber content section.

      ~ I noticed a comment from a subscriber that they could not find an “Ask Catherine” link. After a quick look, I’m not sure where it is either. Why not add a “contact us” to your main header menu with a couple of sub menus for “Ask Catherine” “Show Suggestions” “Customer Service” etc. etc.

      I hope this helps.

      You show is great!

  15. The advent of a German C.O. over US troops in Europe. Was, in my opinion, a deal struck to keep US troops on the ground there. W/o this deal, Europe would have become like Okinawa. Where the removal of US troops has been a hot topic for decades. This is yet another crack in the AngloSphere..

    JQ

  16. RE: Catherine’s “current” money and market report and more…

    Ever since you stopped combining the Money and Market Audio file with the Interview, it has been very frustrating trying to find the current report. You have a category called “Money and Markets” but the .mp3 does not appear to be there. There are posted interview archives, but there is no consistency in your menus.

    I see you have Money and Market Archives, but where is the current “Money and Markets” audio file posted?

    I’m sure that I am not the only subscriber that is frustrated by your site and the manner in which you seem to “hide your posted content”.

    There are dozens of examples of subscriber sites that have VERY easy to find content, I can send you links to those sites if you wish… I subscribe to several sites like Solari, (Puplava, King, TF Metals, Casey, Red ice, Veritas, George Ure, Coast2Coast) and I consider finding the content on your site to be the most frustrating out os all of these.

    I suppose if I went to your site on a daily basis, I would know exactly where to go, but I think it is the inconsistency of the menus and the mystery-meat approach that you seem to have for indexes and buttons that could be wrong

    Denis Pelletier
    riskjunkie@gmail.com

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