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1. Hi Catherine:

   Just a couple of questions about GoldMoney, FATCHA, and recent changes. GoldMoney, though they have no US business presence, has decided to comply with FATCHA by requesting SSNs from all US customers and will be reporting each customer’s June 30 balance (measured in USD) to the US Department of Treasury. I have a few questions regarding possible futures. 1) At some point if there is a US-only or global wealth tax of 30%, for example, will my holdings in the City of London be compromised? Will Jersey Common Law protect me? Will I be better off in other jurisdictions — e.g., Gold Money storage vaults in Singapore, Hong Kong, Switzerland etc.? 2). If the US makes private ownership of precious metals illegal, will my continued holdings in the City of London or elsewhere outside of the US — but known to the IRS — make me a criminal? I feel that the US views me as its property — and that I am not as free as I would like to be. If you wish to touch on this in your next precious metals report with Franklin, that would be fine.

   I thank you in advance for your response,

   Derek

   (PS. I accidentally posted this question on the April question page.)

2. Thank you for publishing Carolyn Betts’ summation of the TPP, a concise and sobering look at how big corporations, the logical public expression of the Breakaway Civilization, are about to become invincible, totally unaccountable to their ravage and pillage over the slaves (us) that comprise most of humanity. Doing so in their usual boring C-Span excuse of transparency, that is behind closed doors, without trying to be the focus of a Rappaport rant, I am at a loss for finding a way to change the eventual agreement that allows “them” to take everything else from us. TPP, Agenda 21, faux Stock Market, manipulated commodities, how do we not throw up our hands?

   I am reminded of a friend, a former NSA researcher, who worked for the Sharon Engel campaign only to be audited continuously over the past three years. Unless we are part of the system and can benefit from our protestations, we are reluctant to make too much noise for fear of being swallowed up whole.

   Meanwhile, enjoy Australia! I read your accounts with great enthusiasm. I raise a number of Australian grass finch species and have forever wanted to make a journey there to see these marvelous birds in their native habitats. Uluru is home to the Painted Finch and the common Zebra Finch… Sydney to the Owl or Double-Barred Finch and the Diamond Firetail!

   Best regards,
   Jane

   1. http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-05-19/someone-finally-read-obamas-secret-trade-deal-and-admits-tpp-will-damage-nation

      Here is another take on this disastrous deal. According to the article, people “in the know” can actually be jailed for releasing information about the details so that there can be no objections voiced. Talk about a Catch 22! There doesn’t seem to be anything good to say about this trade deal if it goes through.

3. Stories from Uluru. Exquisitely portrayed through words. You sound so peaceful. Thank you for sharing with your subscribers. The ancients are indeed with us if only we listen. All the best, Allison, Washington

   1. 🙂

      In Sydney CBD today – bustling with a whole new set of ancestors!

4. Note that all Bitcoin transactions are public. From a Delft (known for security research in the Netherlands) article on Bitcoin, http://www.pds.ewi.tudelft.nl/~victor/bitcoin.html: “The key three features of the system, namely (1) peer-to-peer architecture, (2) anonymousness, and (3) cryptographic security are only met if their definitions are somewhat relaxed. … As you might see, the claims laid by Bitcoin are far from definite. In terms of peer-to-peerness, privacy, security and usability it might actually turn worse than the present-day real-world legacy banking system.”.

   Questions about the origin of Bitcoin: https://bitcoinisablackop.wordpress.com/

   Research on deanonymization of IP addresses used for Bitcoin transactions, http://arxiv.org/abs/1405.7418 : “We present an efficient method to deanonymize Bitcoin users, which allows to link user pseudonyms to the IP addresses where the transactions are generated. Our techniques work for the most common and the most challenging scenario when users are behind NATs or firewalls of their ISPs.”

5. Dear Catherin-
   First of all I love your report, for the information and inspiration, thank you.
   I found your site and report while searching for an indepented voice that isn’t screeching “collapse” but is not part of the mainstream with it’s indecipherable babble and obscuration of seemingly important facts.
   You always need a second opinion…
   As a young woman from Tel-Aviv I’m trying to understand what’s going on and what to do with my savings, please mind my spelling!
   Anyway, this connects to my first thing I wanted to say- I’ve heard you mention always speaking in interviews about how there’s no collapse (whatever that means) coming tomorrow etc.

   I , and I assume many other would find it very beneficial to hear a dedicated peace that compares the claims about the US and Europe being on the brink of collapse with all the debt, inflated stock market, QE etc (the leading opinion in the anti-mainstream economic community ) VS seeing it as engineered and controlled. It would really help to connect the dots. In any case I would be glad to find resources that address this divergence in opinion.
   2)I saw your program from 2005 about the housing bubble. Do you identify a major bubble in any other market as of now?
   3)are you aware of the new decentralization encryption protected possibilities the Blockchain (the underlying info-structure of currencies like Bitcoin) system offers?
   It is quite technologically revolutionary in the new options it offers for collaborative, semi-indestructible networks for things like transparent trading, contract proving, collaborative law, reputation and identity systems and tones more things that in the past needed a trusted third party.
   If not, I would be very glad to try to point you to resources. I think it’s the perfect tool for decentralizing software.
   It’s a little bit hard to describe in a few lines but it I think it’s very important to understand and be aware of.

   Thank you and have the best day,
   Sarah

   1. Sarah:

      Yes, please point me to resources. I am a sceptic that anything will be allowed to flourish that is indestructible.

      Sections of the bond market are in bubble territory.

      Catherine

6. Is there an audio for the lunch with Catherine and Richard Dolan? Or any of the other luncheons?

   1. Richard:

      There is no audio – at my request. These are intimate gatherings where people are free to speak their minds and interact openly.
      Audio – even for the speakers comments – can distract from that so we do not record.

      We are scheduled with Richard to do another luncheon in New York on April 30, 2016.

      Catherine

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