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  1. I have no idea how to navigate this site or if this writing will go through. I don’t even know if I belong here. But since I like to test systems any kind of systems I’m giving it a shot.

    Forgive me my first sin: I do not typically look at dates or times (in a situation like this I only think I shot the arrow near the bulls-eye) since I have always lived on a different clock…don’t ask me, but for me it works. Even in my little late world of boy oh boy oh boy I’m losing so much money I have forgiven so much…now I’m reaaaly mad. A woman scorned! I own it since I am also a broad…no apologies since Whom is the real feminist? Hillary, my rad fem college prof…finger shaking at them…no no no. I’m a broad and that’s what I own. In all it’s innocence and ugliness. I’m a broad who believes in the prince of peace. I deserve nothing, but pray mostly in the shower. I care about myself, my daughter’s, my dead husband the hispanic speaking children my youngest daughter teaches, I care about the seemingly horrific woman that stole my identity and the man whom killed my husband in a horrific fatal crash. Forgive us our colors since those whom caused me great harm were not my color. Yet…yet…yet… politics would have you believe that . Law would have you believe that. Even though I had lost so so so much freedom and money stolen from me by my identity gun-shooting desperate thieves I lost the thing that should matter most in a faithful and “just” society: the law itself. Through time, since I could not find anyone beginning with the cops (I like saying it that way since they are NOT enforcement of law and they are Not peace-keeper’s)
    to help me I noticed my long-term relationships with my financial “manager’s did NOT care.

    I need to leap here in order to shut myself up since I am “testing the system.” Wish me luck that this will go through since I hate writing like this and would much rather have a chit chat with warm and wild thinker’s. Thank God, you guys are smarter than me. I mean that!

    And pray that I keep my hot-head (common-sense) under control when it gets challenged. So far unlike Miz Fitts, my hot-head has worked in ways my fair lady couldn’t imagine. But I know, I’m running out of time for my natural temp.!

    I want to say one more thing: (I know I do not stop). If I could have chosen my mother it would have been Miz Fitts…she’d have been a great mother that could have made me a better daughter. In my mind I send her prayers and flowers (pink) and joy every day. And, I would make her laugh like I do my own daughter’s right now since people that love and have faith do that.

    Thanks for being born, Miz Fitts,

    Karen

  2. Hi Catherine,

    All this stuff is getting exposed!

    Here’s the NPR- This American Life radio episode from today:

    http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/536/the-secret-recordings-of-carmen-segarra

    And…here’s the writeup of the story of Carmen Segarra, the Fed Reserve examiner who was fired because she wasn’t handling Goldman Sachs with kid gloves….She was smart enough to record what she found before they fired her.

    http://www.propublica.org/article/carmen-segarras-secret-recordings-from-inside-new-york-fed

  3. Thanks, Catherine! I later found your Spiritual Warfare blog post from April 2010, and I found Lucille Compton’s article linked at the bottom of the blog post (Anatomy of a SWAT From A Lawyer’s Perspective) to be especially illuminating. Perhaps it bears repeating.

  4. Catherine, I was reading this article today by Michael Ventura about our society’s collective, willful denial about the fragility of our technology in the face of weather and/or terrorism events. Here’s the link:

    http://www.austinchronicle.com/columns/2014-08-08/letters-at-3am-vulnerability-connectivity-part-1/

    Anyway, it occurred to me that one of the major reasons people don’t want to look at the issues you, Dr. Farrell and others raise is that those issues are unbelievably frightening, perhaps particularly to minds caught in the effects of entrainment. It may be a useless exercise, but I wonder if you could ever do a Solari Report on the spiritual topic of assisting our friends and family with their fear in this area. It seems to me this would go right along with the other necessary effort of learning to live with and love people in our lives who refuse to face the reality of our world, no matter what evidence is offered. In other words, perhaps not only spiritual warfare is needed, but spiritual healing.

    Any thoughts?

    Kathy Churay

    1. P.S. – Perhaps facing our own fears would be part of this topic too. I love the line from Dune by Frank Herbert: “Fear is the mind killer…”

    2. Kathy:

      This is a great suggestions as the power of people looking at things and simply creating a new intention or prayer can have such a powerful effect. Also, the power of love.

      Thanks – I may have to do more than one Solari Report on Spiritual Warfare!

      Catherine

  5. Regarding your discussion with Jo Kline Sebuhur, JD, I wanted to point to work being done by a wonderful professional harpist, Martha Gallagher of Keene, NY, who is taking the year off from her usual countrywide tour to play for the High Peaks Hospice, both to soothe patients and to help in garnering funding resources for the hospice program. My husband died in Keene before the physicians got their act together and enrolled him into the hospice program, a problem for which I have never quite forgiven the regional physicians, as at 43, my husband was not prepared to endure the rapidly debilitating cancer that killed him six weeks from the time he was diagnosed. It was a dark time for all of us, and while I have held back my support for hospice because of my frustration, I have come to realize how valuable hospice can be for both the patient and the family. For this reason, I helped Martha purchase a small harp, easily carried into the homes and hospital, and also carried to the tops of our beloved Adirondack High Peaks to serenade not only the fellow travelers but the spirits, like my husband, who whisper through the birches. She hopes to create a series of videos of those mountain performances that will be available to help the hospice.

  6. Hi Catherine,

    First as a new subscriber I want to express a big thank you for the quality and scope of resources you offer. I particularly value the expertise and experience of those you interview and the value-add you yourself bring to these discussions. I’ve been a subscriber of Joseph Farrell’s website for many years and am delighted to have found something equally valuable yet different.

    As a software architect by profession with a keen personal interest in distributed information systems and cryptography I thought perhaps I could clarify a few points about bitcoin made in some of these discussions. Not that I necessarily disagree with the tone of your misgivings, there are indeed some strange things about bitcoin.

    The key invention of bitcoin was to solve what’s known as the Byzantine General’s Problem, namely how to ensure trust within a network of inherently untrustworthy participants without invoking a central controlling or arbitrating party – which as we all know only invites new risks of abuse. This was achieved by maintaining a distributed triple entry book-keeping ledger of transactions known as the blockchain secured with cryptographic functions and authenticated by an incentivised proof of work algorithm.

    The blockchain isn’t centrally stored or managed it is distributed to all nodes on the bitcoin network. If you install the Bitcoin-QT client this will download and maintain your own personal copy. Bitcoin wallets are a bit of a misnomer as they hold key chains rather than coins. These keys authenticate access to the funds you own for the issue of new transactions.

    Transactions on the ledger are assigned to addresses which disguise ownership using hash functions. While mathematically very secure for authentication purposes it doesn’t offer anonymity in terms of linked transactions and their aggregate volume. Third party services like CoinJoin and tools like Dark Wallet are specifically designed to add fuller anonymity by making such deductions much harder if not impossible.

    So bitcoin solves the decentralized trust problem using a distributed transaction ledger with strong security, integrity and authentication plus full traceability with a degree of anonymity – all features of open peer to peer systems. What’s more it does so extremely elegantly. Indeed the elegance of the solution is what has captivated many technologists most besides its potential.

    However its not just this elegance which is exceptional, the degree of foresight evidenced in dodging numerous cryptographic and operational pitfalls has proven uncannily prescient. What’s more as a generic solution to the decentralized trust problem the blockchain is a particularly disruptive and hence valuable technology potentially impacting authentication of ownership, contracts and governance in general. With currency being just the first and most obvious application of a long list including automating legal contracts, complex financial instruments, corporate governance, elections and so on.

    Perhaps too good or disruptive for comfort? So who or what was Satoshi Nakamoto, the possibilities are many and potentially disturbing. (Yet in contrast to the scope of vision and excellence of its solution, the implementation was rather sloppy needing numerous revisions which by now pretty much amount to a full rewrite.)

    Kind regards, Tony

    1. Tony:

      Would love to discuss this sometime. I am driving to California this week, so more later.

      Catherine

      1. Likewise Catherine.

        Especially how this likely relates to your bigger picture – slow burn breakaway economy. Look forward to hearing from you.

        Tony

  7. Wow, Catherine, what a fabulous interchange between Jung and the Pueblo Indian chief. Regarding “Whole body thinking” … Actually, it sounds like a book title that is probably out there somewhere…If I find such a book title, I will post it, because I think you’re on to something. All this is really interesting…Thank you.

  8. From William Van Dusen Wishard, “The Heart of History,”

    1924 saw Jung once again in America, this time in New Mexico visiting the Pueblo Indian chief, Ochwiay Biano (Mountain Lake). His dialogues with the chief, which Jung recorded in his autobiography, Memories, Dreams, Reflections, gave Jung his first picture of how non-white people view the white man. The whites, Ochwiay Biano said, “are always deeking something. What are they seeking? The whites always want something; they are always uneasy and restless. We do not know what they want. We do not understand them. We think they are mad.”
    “Why is that?” asked Jung.
    “They say they think with their heads.”
    Jung showed his surprise at this answer and asked Ochwiay Biano what he thinks with.
    “We think here,” the chief replied, indicating his heart.

    ===================================

    Megan:

    I confess, I think we need to think with both – maybe even our whole body.

    Catherine

  9. Catherine,
    I am now fully immersed in videos and interviews with Simon Parkes. He has a talk from Sept 8 at “New Horizons” now posted…
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5S_XzTBlN4

    He talks about Jinn (Islamic term) for sort of shadow beings… He talks about his own White Rabbit programming, the arrival of “intelli-streets” which are streetlights basically outfitted with surveillance equipment… he says the kids are awakened to the heart and that our kids are our hope. But I think we “big people” can wake up too, find our hearts, go in a new direction.
    The new thought, the new feeling, the heart-centeredness, is what I think I’ve waited for my whole life…. and I hope it takes hold.

  10. I am really, really hoping you all get to Chicago sometime soon. Not only would I love to hear you and Joseph in person and Jon by phone (better than winning the trifecta at the track!), but I’d love to meet other Solarians in my area. Tried to organize a Meetup group but was unsuccessful. I need some Solari peers locally.

  11. Enjoyed the Joe-Jon-Catherine Solari report tonight… ! Thank you! Would love to try to come to Menlo Park in November for “Solarian Grove.”

  12. Dr. McDemmott:

    I am so sorry for your frustration. And I apologize for your challenges with the Ukraine audio. I have asked our audio/video producer to review and address.

    We have been working for many months on new subscription software as well as a new blog. Our goal is to better serve mobile and tablet users and well as make information more accessible. We intend to launch in the 4th quarter.

    If you can’t find something quickly, please post here or e-mail and I or our blogmaster will send you the link.

    Thank you for your patience.

    Best,

    Catherine

  13. Just a note to point out that since subscribing… I’ve found this site to be extraordinarily difficult to use. There is a wealth of information available… but I have to spend a lot of time trying to find it… moreover, much of what I read here is done in airports and hotels… on my Android smartphone… for example the cast on Ukraine sometimes can be downloaded and sometimes not…. attempting to hear the Ukraine interview repeatedly pulls up the “Money and Market” commentary….
    Overall, I’d say that the material is well worth the effort… but as a busy Army neurologist… I just don’t have the patience to continue fighting with this website… will try a while longer… a friend of mine had the same problems and advised a monthly subscription to start so that termination could be done once my frustration reached the breaking point…. which it is now doing…. so in summary, is the info worth the hassle…. at this point, the time factor will probably be the make or break factor… spending 10 to 20 minutes trying to get what I’m searching for… may not be feasible …. all the very best, J.E. McDermott MD

  14. Catherine, you frequently address issues important for investors. What do you see as the highest priorities for tiny investors ($50,000 or less) who are trying to preserve and increase their capital in this corrupt and rigged environment? I love the Solari report!

  15. Looking forward to Jo Kline Cebuhar, J.D. and repeat guest.

    Finding whatever it is that helps me SHOW UP for a friend or relative who is very sick or dying. Thanks for addressing that very difficult discussion. I even have trouble with early cancer discovert and treatment friends. I’m looking forward to learning.

  16. Hello Catherine,

    I agree it is the model that with time substitutes so to say honest businesses with the one financed by dirty money and that way that same money becomes clean and part of the system. Actually I listened to “Narco Dollars for Beginners” the other day and that made me realize the logic. Thank you for all great input we get at Solari.

    Best regards,
    Tea

  17. Tea:

    What you say makes sense to me. If you have not read Black Money by Michael Thomas, it has good examples of money laundering through retail businesses. Thomas uses a Pizza restaurant.

    One of the biggest problems is that you have a whole stream of economic activity that has a different economic model than market economics. So the honest folks get driven out because they can not compete – I talk about that a bit in “Narco Dollars for Beginners”.

    Catherine

  18. Hello Catherin and Solari team,

    I would like to share with Solari and its subscribers some conclusions that I have come to after listening and reading different materials on Solari website, especially regarding money laundering and drugs, I started to look around myself here in Croatia. I became aware that in recent 10 years the big construction boom that had happened here, which went hand in hand with credit expansion and people and companies taking big mortgages in this apparent overall boom, probably was our way here to launder money coming from number of things like strange privatization to the drugs trade. Being on the drug root between Middle East and Europe (this has been so also during the times of Yugoslavia), after the creating of Kosovo state, it looks like nothing disturbed that same trade. Funnily enough it is often said that, during our recent war here in the region, only the criminals kept on collaborating with no problems, regardless of their nationality. So, this construction boom never seemed ok to me in the first place and I was aware that I will come crushing down at certain point, but now looking at it from other perspective, it made more sense. We do not have strong stock exchange here, so probably there had to be other routes to launder the money. In recent years here the crisis can be felt like everywhere in Europe and our recent unfortunate entering the EU only made it worse (as was to be expected). So, what I see now around me is that many stores are closing, especially in the centers of cities, due to high rents. If you consider that most of those spaces in center of capital Zagreb are owned by the city of Zagreb, whose holding is the biggest company in Croatia in turnover, you can imagine that they are having big losses. But at the same time what seems to be popping up are very nice coffee shops and bars. Now, we have very strong culture of coffee shops and bars here, people meet always over a cup of coffee or a glass of wine or beer, and it is also true that we have more and more tourists every year, but this still did not make sense to me. Of course, in the meantime the construction boom was over and many apartments and office buildings are empty since there was never even the need for all of them to begin with. Then today I was at the friends birthday party and they were talking about some owners of bars, coffee shops, night clubs, and as the story goes on it turns out that basically most of those places here in Zagreb, but also some on the coast, are financed by the same approx. 4 – 5 people. Now these people seem to be basically criminals and are not unknown to the drugs, as it was hinted during our conversation. So, it seems pretty logical that all those bars, coffee shops, night clubs are actually big laundry machines as substitution to the construction business, possibly in arrangement with the local authorities. Also another phenomenon keeps getting bigger and these are so called factoring companies (in part also banks do factoring) which basically arrange multiple financial offsets as receivables collection in case of companies that don’t pay their bills, for certain %. Since one of my friends opened such a company, I found out that his funding is coming from one of those guys that were mentioned in the context of the bars, which also has the biggest recycling business in the region, often another business that has a component of crime in it (south of Italy is a very good example of that as Roberto Saviano wrote in his book Gomorra and after that ended up living his life in the witness protection). Sure enough one recycling facility and some restaurants just burnt down for no apparent reason during this summer alone here in Zagreb… So, these are just some of examples how the money flows thru local community here and I guess it goes to say that really it is global problem and mechanism, just with local variants depending on the situation and country.

    Regards to all from Zagreb and wish you all the best, please keep up the excellent work!
    Tea

  19. Hi CAF, I didn’t realize anybody in the western world existed like Anne Williamson, who could comment and be so credible about the whole Russia story. This was a very interesting interview. thank you.

  20. Posting an e-mail I sent to a subscriber re: Ferguson last week:

    OK, rather than wait, I am sending you the e-mail I was drafting. Have to give up on doing something complete and perfect…

    First, let me get your permission to post this dialogue on the blog, as I think it would be very useful for the subscribers.

    Second, let me respond by telling you my take on things.

    1. We have no facts about what really happened.

    At this point, the only information about what happened that I would trust would be affidavits or testimony submitted in a court of law where all sides were free and funded to submit whatever they wanted to submit about the facts and circumstance of Brown’s death.

    From what I can see it is perfectly plausible that the officer acted well within the boundaries of appropriate response and it is perfectly plausible that he acted outside those boundaries for a one of several very logical reasons, most of which have nothing to do with race.

    When corporate media or personal family and friends are our only source of information and the police officer in question is not free to speak, nor the dead free to speak, there is no way to tell what happened, IMO until it is held to a process governed by civil and criminal procedures where there are serious penalties for not telling the truth.

    I have personally lived through or been involved with situations where what was said in the largest newspapers and TV were complete lies – total propaganda. I have also had to manage situations where mind control agents were involved and design financial transactions to overcome the application of covert operations and mind control to sabotage or steal.

    Bottom line – the media can turn plus into minus and minus into plus long before a legal process can force adults to take responsibility to put things on the record – even then lies make it in. I have spent a lot of time and money watching federal government investigators, lawyers and judges intentionally lie and try to falsify evidence and rig cases. The power of civil and criminal procedures is that if enough people are committed to getting to the truth, it is possible to get there.

    2. The Divide and Conquer “Frame”

    So I don’t buy the poor Michael Brown was an innocent victim story or the “good clean police officer was dealing with low class trash asked for what he got” story. Both stories are promoted and used by the people who market drugs and guns into poor neighborhoods and arrange for swat teams to round up kids and stuff them into slave labor camps.

    I know because I grew up in a poor neighborhood and I watched the game emerge bottom up. I lived in a neighborhood where an 8 years old got shot in the back by a policeman no one did anything because there was nothing anyone could do and and where policemen chauffeured children to their sex slave assignments at the local Navy base.

    I then went to Wall Street and Washington and lived in very different worlds, where I finally got to unpack how the illegal monies flowed throughout the economy.

    The reality is that one way or another, every one is complicit. We are all up to our eyeballs in this system – whether its the kids dealing drugs or who have no faith in a lawless system and behave lawlessly, or police trying hard to do a good job caught between a pincer movement of US agencies and financial institutions promoting and supporting criminal activity in their community and a general population who is angry and does not know who they can trust.

    If you have not read http://dunwalke.com, I think it would help. I also gave a speech recently that will go public in October that I strongly recommend that will help you look at things from a financial standpoint.

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