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    1. That is truly good news. Elizabeth Young will be hero of the week on the Solari Report!

  2. I was watching a discussion on why some specific TV news ratings have been falling, and it was mentioned that so many news sources, including the major New York news media, are now trying to appease the Silicon Valley political culture with the subject matter and the spin within their own news coverage, because of how important social media has now become in maximizing the exposure of the news. It was further stated that we are now experiencing a shift in the power of news reporting from New York City towards Silicon Valley.

    1. Editorial in the Australian paper this am – Facebook and Google are utilities and should be regulated accordingly.

  4. Regarding Chinese factory workers and how they are leaving their children behind, there is a documentary from 2010 or so called ‘Last Train Home ‘ that tracks the impact of this on a particular family. There is a rather flippant but still quite intelligent review of this movie at http://www.ruthlessreviews.com/10969/last-train-home/

    1. Learning a lot in Australia about how hard life is in China for some many children – rich and poor.

  5. This is a good article written by Jon Rappoport on the politics of healing here in the United States, and here is an excerpt from it:

    “This is how the federal bureaucracy operates. ‘Do you have a government-issued license to heal? No? You’re a criminal.’

    I believe that if Jesus of Nazareth were walking the Earth today, in the United States, he would be arrested on the same grounds.

    This would be particularly so if he were curing cancer.”

    https://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/2017/05/23/would-the-government-let-jesus-cure-cancer/

  7. Just finished watching GeorgWebb’s youtube day 214.6.

    As Catherine – you have been blogging about all these issues for a long time, I would like to post the comment I made there – that did not get published – here:

    This explains it all, full and clear:

    The Pedophilia. the electronic torture to keep people silent, total 100% mind control of the family and community. The murders and poisonings, the non-forced break-ins, the drugs (meth in my town), the HUGE double-up police forces with expensive and unnecessary equipment and top-secret technologies, paid to sit behind computers and torture and rape women with electronics – because the public is too afraid to believe the truth. The brand new cars with no front license plates, the gangs of tattooed young people – especially men doing street theater, the spies, the unaccountable attorney generals and DOJ next door to the FBI who sends back certified letters unopened regarding the torture. Senator’s offices closed because of a “lack of staff”. My attorney suddenly turned into a judge, my doctor has disappeared and I am not allowed to contact her. And on and on. My home raided all documentation of evidence stolen.

    The all brand-new university with top secret experiments going on, the downtown business authority that meets in a conference room in the university that looks EXACTLY like the Reichstag, the suicides – 3 to 6 every month for the last 15 years, the 4 new hospitals in a town of 100k, with helicopter, the busy airport with military planes and helicopters, the oil, the gas, and the mental institution which made 450 million in one year – doing what? Seeing homeless people for therapy???

    America has unwittingly paid for it’s own destruction by not paying attention to the secret technologies being developed in secret. By not listening to the whistleblowers. By not attending the funerals of journalists. By being afraid. It’s time to stop being afraid. Of the bullies in your neighborhood. Of the owners of all the brand new cars and trucks. Of the city council. Of the county council. Of the police forces and sheriff.

    Human harvesting.

    Censured email. Censured websites. The police have been given what, 6 billion, to build a new internet only they can control, so the information about what they are doing does not get out?

    The doctors who are doing human experiments without any lawsuits – lobotomies with installed Brain Computer Interfaces – that’s like cutting off someone’s arms and legs and installing prothesis to see if they work. Or how about lobotomizing babies while the mother is in the hospital delivering – to see if the brain tissue grows back in infants? Do we want this going on under ZERO oversight???! Unimaginable human experiments are taking place. Guaranteed.

    Setups for chipped slavery and property asset forfeiture? I’ve seen it all. It is mind-blowingly horrific what has been set up in secret. The alarms have not gone off because it’s invisible. But it’s been going on for a long time.

    1. The invisible technologies are indeed very dark. I have not heard of medical interference with babies. Only switching them.

      1. Note: The medical interference with babies part is a guess on my part. The other is all experience. Although I did see a competition between hospitals for newborns on billboards around town about 6-9 months ago, implying “augmented” super babies if you go to “their” hospital. We know the good is advertised. The bad is hidden. And apparently it is more extreme than the public had imagined.

        I do not like to look at it. But ignoring it does not make it go away.

        Which is why I bring this up. It’s really hard to digest because it is so far beyond normal thinking. But facing it is important. Which is one of the reasons I subscribed. Because I SO VERY MUCH appreciate you Catherine for posting videos about what is going on – that others are afraid to do. I would not have believed it either, if I hadn’t experienced it. I check your site every day, several times, because you are a trusted and savvy source.

        Thank you so much.

        1. Yes, some very strange things going on – hard to fathom that not everyone has empathy.

  8. FYI, Catherine. It would be nice if environmentalists got their head on straight and put their efforts on problems that are affecting us right now and not AGW, if it is actually happening, which may or may not affect us in 50-100 years. Mundane things like taking care of our garbage properly is much more important for the health of our planet at this time.

    Chad

    https://www.yahoo.com/news/apos-ocean-smog-apos-taking-090105455.html

  9. From the Bilderberg Meetings website:

    “Thanks to the private nature of the meeting, the participants are not bound by the conventions of their office or by pre-agreed positions.”

    This seems rather convenient, only isn’t one’s office itself the one that demands, yea, binds its holder to those pesky conventions? One doesn’t imagine that the electorate (in the case of politicians) or the shareholders (in the case of corporate officials) have been consulted for dispensations to their officers. What is this group which can void the individual’s sworn fidelity to the position which gave him his entree in the first place, then send him back armed with some secret information or bound by some hidden covenant? Should electors or shareholders allow involvement in Bilderberg without accountability?

  10. There were 20-25,000 people at the Ariana Grande concert in Manchester, and I’m sure a ton of them had mobile devices.

    And yet, no one has posted video of the carnage, the injuries, and the bodies on YouTube.

    In addition, take a look at this photo that has now been released, showing bodies laying on the ground after the explosion. The explosion supposedly happened at around 10:30 p.m., and yet you can see what appears to be a ton of direct sunlight coming in through the windows.

    So they must have taken this photo during the day well before all of the concertgoers arrived.

    In addition, note how the people at CNN are utilizing the term “super-tease” within the URL of this photo:

    http://i2.cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/170523062741-21-manchester-explosion-0522-super-tease.jpg

  11. “This act would establish a system to regulate the intentional manipulation of the global environment, through various means, that are known as “geoengineeringâ€. This act would also provide that a person seeking to engage in geoengineering activities would require a license from the director of the department of environmental management.”
    ‘Rhode Island’s “Surprising†Geoengineering Act of 2017’
    http://www.activistpost.com/2017/05/rhode-islands-surprising-geoengineering-act-2017.html

  12. I have a friend of mine in England who follows what’s really going on behind the scenes very closely. He told me that so far he hasn’t seen any video showing casualties from the Ariana Grande concert, or any photos that aren’t blurred. He said that bizarrely, their mobile communications systems shut down simultaneously with the explosion, and their election campaigns in Britain have now been suspended.

    In addition, who would already have signs printed to hand out to people in mourning, as is evidenced by this photo?

    http://pictures.reuters.com/Doc/RTR/Media/TR3_UNWATERMARKED/f/b/f/6/RTX371XX.jpg

  14. As Trump, Ross,T-Rex, et al. boogie to Wahhabi war dances, what’s left of america burns.
    Is building bomb factories with Saud petro-$$ and offering our young women/men as merchants of death bomb technicians the only way we can jump-start our debt-saturated consumer economy?
    It’s hard not to get the sense that denouement cometh.

    1. Unfortunately, it feels that way. US Dollar Index says someone else feels the same. Lets see if it breaks the 92 line. The Midianite thing cometh.

    1. Affairs of state are hard work! Secretary of Ross looks a bit uncomfortable, but those great oil and gas guys always know how to boogie.

    1. Bad sign. You get the feeling he has been cornered by the Neocons. Back to the 7 countries in 5 year plan. Forget MAGA.

  17. After seeing the trailer for The Bilderberg Movie posted on the Solari Home Page, I then went to the movie’s Web site, where they had the following quote written on their own Home Page:

    “World events do not occur by accident. They are made to happen, whether it is to do with national issues or commerce; and most of them are staged and managed by those who hold the purse strings.â€

    Denis Healey
    Former British Secretary of State for Defence from 1964 to 1970

    http://bilderbergthemovie.com/

  18. It was interesting searching Google under the term “seth rich”, and seeing an extremely high number of mainstream media Web sites and articles being given top priority within the search results. Years ago the search results would have been different.

    But here’s an article from Zero Hedge that does a good job of summarizing many things about the case, including Federal law enforcement officials confirming that Rich sent more than 44,000 DNC E-mails to Wikileaks, and a tweet from the Russian Embassy asking why the mainstream media here in the U.S. is so focused on Russian hackers and hasn’t taken notice of the case:

    http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-05-19/russian-embassy-implicates-hillary-tweet-asking-who-killed-seth-rich

  19. Hi Catherine,

    I watched the link you posted with Jesse Ventura and Dr. Robert Duncan. I am sure you heard NYC had an incident of a driver going wild in Times Sq. killing one person and injuring 22. I found a Telegraph article quoting the suspect saying he heard voices inside his head.

    Is it possible they are ramping up the technology? Also, could this be the new false flag?

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/05/19/times-square-driver-heard-voices-head-crashed-deliberately/

    Najat

  20. RE: REQUEST FOR LINKS ON THE REAL HISTORY OF SILICON VALLEY

    you might want to start with Steve Blank The Secret History of Silicon Valley and

    https://solari.com/blog/category/top-picks/technology/page/3/

    This is good on technology transfer – but imperfect. Will describe more on Ask Catherine but worth your reading

    https://www.amazon.com/Day-After-Roswell-Philip-Corso/dp/067101756X

    Strong recommendation you read Richard Dolans UFOS for the 21st Century Mind

    And listen to the Solari Report with Nafeez Ahmed and read his series

    https://solari.com/blog/the-cia-nsa-google-with-nafeez-ahmed-2/
    I will do a Solari Report on Silicon Valley this year – overdue.

    More on technology transfer:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qt1WVeyMqdo

  21. Hello Catherine:
    I just finished reading the transcript of your interview with Junious Staton. The interview was excellent as always. One big lie I would like to see added to your list is materialism and consumerism as a way of personal fulfillment. I am old enough to have witnessed our collective migration from Yankee ingenuity to nanny state.

    In my opinion Berney’s biggest con was convincing generations that inanimate objects can relieve feelings of inadequacy or depression. I cannot tell you how many students will argue that “shoe therapy†really is a solution to life’s shortfalls. They sincerely believe their success in life is dependent on something external to themselves.

    Materialism is a psychological dead end that has left generations emotionally bankrupt and spiritually bereft. No wonder additions are epidemic and suicide a leading cause of death.

    Edward Berney’s story is documented in the video A Century of Self.

  24. FYI someone is really using YOUR “Red Button” ! What caught my eye was not only the article’s title, but the caption photo of a finger on a red button. Thought, “that must be Catherine.” Unfortunately not. It’s posted on https://fee.org/articles/would-you-press-the-button/. The author’s website: http://www.pressingthebutton.com/
    “William Nava is a co-founder of Pressing the Button, your go-to resource for discovering cooperative alternatives to government-provided services.” And a website to boot!
    Deeply disappointed you, Solari, were not credited or written about in the article. Guess that’s what happens when you are one of the finest and of the most influential women of the century in a corrupt world. Keep shining the light and infinite gratitude.
    –A devoted 15-year reader

    1. There is no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he doesn’t mind who gets the credit. ~ Ronald Reagan

      🙂

  28. 1. The Fed (post-Volcker, circa 1985) panics and tells its genius PhD economists to figure out a way to control interest rates in the face of runaway deficits (which they cannot resist running up, as they control the printing press).
    2. The monetary alchemists develop a bold, wholly unnatural scheme to do just that. Then, they prove that it works.
    3. The Fed + its shareholder banks then conclude (for instance, in the case of interest rates) “Holy Moly, now that everyone knows interest rates have to go up, even as we’ve secretly developed mechanisms to prevent that, we can actually sell risk-free products to protect them from an inevitability that will never happen. Aka inside game free $$.
    In the interview, Catherine and Kirby talked about $$ trillions of fraud, without ever mentioning this component of the diabolical scheme. It’s part and parcel to how they do what they do, and it’s also in the $$ trillions.

  29. Per the Kirby derivatives discussion, it’s really important to take a holistic view of just how insidious these derivative schemes are.
    In that regard, the owners of the secret syndicate known as the Federal Reserve do much more than simply protect their inside game via the mechanisms described in the interview. They also profit massively by creating and selling _ thru their shareholder banks – can’t lose products. For instance, interest rate protection after their mad-scientist monetary alchemists have perfected the means by which they can keep interest rates from ever rising. In other words, the sequence goes something like this:

  30. Thank you Catherine, and Thank you Rob Kirby for such clarification on derivatives and the critical focus on interest rate swaps and FRA. I am not so good at distilling lots of information down to the basics in order to communicate critical issues. I get overwhelmed with a lot of data.

    If you think it is important/helpful for us to write to our various representatives, friends, acquaintances (and more) about these issues, do you have a simplified version that points to what has happened, continues to suppress to our interest rates, who benefits and who bears the costs? I will try to do a mind map of sorts, but if someone has already done the work (like an outline of the 2 key elements) that would help a lot.
    Gratitude and Appreciation to All,
    Addi J

  32. Catherine,

    The globalists are coming down hard for Trump. It is incredible. Where Nixon was pushed out on one issue they are hammering on 3-4 maybe more by the end of summer. It’s more than just democrats and Tweedledum & Tweedledee (aka McCain and Graham) , Chaffetz has joined in. His party is selling him out. They must be really afraid.

    Do you think Trump can sustain this and weather the storm?

    Najat

      1. Catherine,

        Your clip on the interview with Junious is having an affect. What perfecting timing to have the discussion. I shared it with a few people and I feel like it made a dent.

        They still believe the Russians are coming but I feel like a little light crept in.

        Thank you so much for your dedication and hard work. You are a remarkable woman and inspiration.

        You are truly one of my heroes. God bless you.

        Najat

        1. Thanks, Najat. The divine intelligence is always available

          Psalm 16 King James Version (KJV)

          16 Preserve me, O God: for in thee do I put my trust.

          2 O my soul, thou hast said unto the Lord, Thou art my Lord: my goodness extendeth not to thee;

          3 But to the saints that are in the earth, and to the excellent, in whom is all my delight.

          4 Their sorrows shall be multiplied that hasten after another god: their drink offerings of blood will I not offer, nor take up their names into my lips.

          5 The Lord is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup: thou maintainest my lot.

          6 The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage.

          7 I will bless the Lord, who hath given me counsel: my reins also instruct me in the night seasons.

          8 I have set the Lord always before me: because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.

          9 Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth: my flesh also shall rest in hope.

          10 For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.

          11 Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.

    2. ——– Forwarded Message ——–
      Subject: Of Great Concern
      Date: Fri, 12 May 2017 22:48:35 -0400
      From: Catherine Austin Fitts
      To: lhernandez@co.sherman.or.us

      Ms. Henandez:

      I am writing regarding Azure Farms in Sherman County

      My understanding is that Sherman County may be issuing a Court Order on May 22, 2017, to quarantine Azure Farms and possibly to spray the whole farm with poisonous herbicides, contaminating them with Milestone, Escort and Roundup herbicides.

      This will destroy an organic farm – 2,000 organic acres would be impacted. The county would then put a lien on the farm to pay for the expense of the labor and chemicals used.â€

      This is insanity. You would destroy a successful organic farm. Are you trying to destroy your economy and the rule of law in Sherman County?

  37. Hi Catherine,

    Hope you’re well.

    Is there anyway to combat the mind control that is going on? I wish I can say living in NYC is like being in the Twilight Zone. At this point, the Twilight Zone would be sane in comparison to what’s going on. I’m in the land of the walking dead. Citizens regurgitating hashtags like resist and revolt. It feels dangerous.

    The only way for Trump to have a chance is to cut the mind control.

    Najat

    1. It is dangerous. If you have not watched the Chuck E. Cheeze brawls, you need to do so. We need enough citizens to realize that this is really happening. Watch the movie They Live.

  40. POLISH DEFENSE MINISTER MEETS WITH TI’S
    Interesting news from Poland per Mojmir Babacek. He states that the Polish Defense Minister met with TI leaders there and is on the verge of telling them who is targeting them. This would be an extremely important revelation if it does happen. http://wg4p.r.ca.d.sendibm2.com/1gmhgh27gzwvf.html

    1. Very interesting finds, Peter. I will post. Unpacking these kinds of networks is essential. This is the prototyping they are doing to learn how to mind control the whole population.

  41. Catherine: I watched with interest your recent appearance on Alex Jones. Please consider writing a book titled along the lines of “How America can prosper by Draining The Swamp”. I have a strong feeling it would be a runaway best seller. And our country needs millions of people to understand and start discussing and demanding and implementing your ideas on restoring real prosperity and how to actually do it.

    1. Laurence:

      I was going to call the 2nd Quarter Wrap Up Theme – The Rule of Law: How to Enforce the Law When the Government is Breaking It. Maybe your title is better. I think it is essentially the same thing.

      Catherine

      1. Catherine: I believe there is a hunger out there among sincere Republicans and Democrats to fix a Country that is in serious trouble. Most people know that the Country is in trouble but they don’t know what it is and they don’t know the specific facts and the mechanisms involved. Your concepts of the “Tapeworm economy” “The Financial Coup D’ Etat” and the “Red button” are concepts each and every American needs to know,understand and discuss. It is imperative that this becomes common knowledge. And a popular well written book can best accomplish this. We all want to change our Country for the better. Both Republicans and Democrats, Conservatives and Progressives love their families and they love their Country. And we should all be united because we are all being done dirty by the Globalist Commando Elite. They want to divide us up and have us squabble about political differences meanwhile no matter who gets elected the Bankers and the War Profiteers get what they need from a Congress that has become their subsidiary. You are one of the few people who has enunciated the actual mechanism as to how this is being done and made it intelligible for the average person to understand. This is a Divine gift. Please consider writing a book entitled ” How Americans can Profit from Draining the Swamp.”

        1. I appreciate this. Will give it serious consideration. I would like to write a book, question is how to make the time.

          I was very struck by the show that one of the corporate media did of citizens in Pa. It is up on the website. So grounded. So intelligent. Focused on reality. Adult. The DC politicians and Shriek-o-meter look ridiculous next to them.

          1. The book has already been written. It has been written by you in a different format. By explaining what is wrong with our country,The concepts of the “Tapeworm”,The Coup D’Etat , The “Red Button” and turning it Green. And the fact that we can create 100 times more wealth than we have now. Tell people how we can do this by de-centralizing control to the local level. Show people just how this can be done. Just explain and elaborate what has already been said in your videos. They are Dynamite. People yearn for this so badly as they are struggling in their day to day lives.So who says the ’50’s were prosperous? Not me!

          2. Yes. It is true it is written. It is a matter of pulling it together. Then the proofing and the real work begins!

    1. I posted one article about it this morning. We have been trying to play with it to get it to work. Having difficulty. I am confident it will get better over time. Good to see they have begun though.

  44. Hi Catherine,
    Wouldn’t laundering drug money preclude a “cashless” economy?
    Thanks,
    Cheri

    1. Not for Mr. Global. Same as now. All the wires batch and go through the NY Fed. They have control.

      1. Sorry, I guess I should have been more specific. Absent cash, how would buyers of drugs pay for the drugs?

        1. Long list…think of anything that is desired
          Credits
          Asset barter – guns, oils, appliance, cigarettes, liquor
          Actions – assasination, harrassment, sex

  45. I can’t thank you enough putting together the Pasadena Luncheon. A wonderful opportunity to connect with like minded people in my area and I especially appreciate actionable solutions discussed. I came away feeling lighter.

    I notice you discussed Goldmoney with James Turk in 2010, I would appreciate an updated review when possible.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqmzB0PHOcE

    1. Updated with review with Franklin Sanders when Turk sold. We withdrew our recommendation. I will find and post.

  46. A companion for Community Wizard, which I hope appears in the future as a similar kind of product: https://usafacts.org. Steve Ballmer’s new open source “follow the government money”.

    1. Yes, I have posted twice now. Very hopeful! Very positive. I am hoping for great things.

  50. Sarah did a pretty good job of fading your contention that the bitcoin protocol has been compromised. In that regard, bitcoin heists have nothing to do with the bitcoin protocol. Separate domains.
    Per back doors, etc., I have two suggestions:
    1. start with legacy digital systems; for instance, banks that have migrated to digital. It’s an open secret that the global banking system – as it has necessarily migrated to digital – is subject to an almost infinite number of attack vectors due to its legacy architecture. “Money” as we know it as an out-loud, unmitigated disaster. Any honest big banker will concede this to you in private. Call Blythe Masters; she’ll fill your ear. My point: if you think bitcoin has issues, consider the state of the money system as it exists today.
    2. review with Sarah how to store bitcoins safely. She talked about it on the interview. Off-line storage using best practices is safe. By comparison, depositing your $$ in a bank is the equivalent of handing it to a thief. You know this … JPMadoff, etc.
    Prudently used, private keys and multi-sig features are powerful security tools. By comparison, the incumbent banking system is woefully behind the times trying to introduce private key mechanisms on top of a depository/regulatory system designed for plunder.

    1. Disagree. Depositing at my bank is not handing money to a thief. An FDIC insured bank deposit is much safer and more secure than any Bitcoin. My bank will using some of that money to make good loans to local businesses and property owners. Good thing.

      The way you compromise a Bitcoin holding is with software that compromises keyboard and keystroke and with laws that control your actions as a citizen – to report, to pay tax, etc. That includes stealing your wallet and putting a gun to your head to ask for your key.

      I have litigated with the US government. That is why my core holding is physical, it is someplace entirely unknown to anyone and will die with me.

  51. Also, in the Wiesner interview, I loved your request of Sarah to integrate the bitcoin discussion with what Solari is all about.
    Imo, Solari and bitcoin are intimately intertwined. Why?
    Solari is all about helping its subscribers build wealth in a world where that simple goal is becoming ever more difficult.
    Per this goal, prosperity has historically been facilitated by commercial transparency. Correspondingly, transparency has been achieved with the help of rules-based math. Prominent examples include:
    1. the 15th century invention of double entry bookkeeping (a core CAF expertise):
    http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2012/10/04/162296423/the-accountant-who-changed-the-world and
    2. the insistence of our Constitution’s framers that silver be the only legal form of money, thereby making money more transparent thru Mother Nature’s geological math (i.e., counterfeit-proof silver). From memory, Franklin Sanders gave a passionate description of the framers’ decision and subsequent prosperity in a 2014 Solari interview.
    Transparency via immutable math (i.e., double-entry book keeping and hard money usage) – while massively beneficial toward general prosperity – is highly inconvenient for those who prefer to be predators and parasites. For this reason, transparency has constantly been under siege by ne’er-do-wells.
    In fact, double-entry book keeping has been fully neutralized by contemporary accounting gimmickry, derivatives, etc. (CAF knows way more about this than I do). Likewise, gold/silver have been de-monetized by the creation of central banks, and de-natured by the explosion of paper derivatives, now traded widely as if they were actual precious metal.
    At immeasurable cost to general prosperity, kleptocrats have purged transparent bookkeeping and dependable math-based currencies from commerce. Correspondingly, as Solari has proceeded toward its mission of enhancing subscribers’ wealth in a world bereft of transparency and hard (i.e., math-based) rules, one of Catherine’s mantras has become:
    “First, fix the money”. We need a new answer.
    Now comes bitcoin, released in semi-exasperation (as it was still in beta-test) during the throes of the 2008-9 monetary crisis. Satoshi sensed the central banks’ debt-based system may have already failed, so he decided to go ahead and release the bitcoin protocol.
    Bitcoin has many extraordinary features, among which are the above referenced qualities of being transparent and math-based.
    Transparency is provided by the public ledger (aka blockchain) via each bitcoin’s public key, which records a kind of third accounting record/time-stamp of each bitcoin transaction. In this regard, many folks refer to bitcoin as a TRIPLE-entry bookkeeping system, which re-invigorates the original, but degraded, power of double-entry bookkeeping. Bitcoin’s public ledger is transparent and immutable, which makes it impossible to manipulate, and therefore fully trustworthy, as double-entry bookkeeping used to be.
    As Sarah explained, bitcoin is also pure, rules-based math; no need to belabor that point.
    So, there you have it … in summary, Solari and bitcoin have largely overlapping goals toward renewed prosperity via the return of transparency and immutable rules as applied to money and commerce. The respective goals are so much in-line that we might even think of bitcoin as Satoshi’s response to Catherine’s mandate that we must “first fix the money” … which would cast Satoshi as a kind of crypto-Catherine.

    1. Jim:

      Double entry book keeping was deeply compromised as it moved on to digital systems. Ditto bitcoin has the same problem. It is operating on digital systems that lack integrity. As one of my team mates point out – when the technology exists to track your keyboard, how is it safe.

      So that is why we need to figure out how to create systems of integrity in a world where 1 small group can kill with impunity and do so invisibly and continue to enjoy great wealth and social respectability.

      Catherine

    2. One good comment that came in this afternoon:

      The most interesting hole in the BitCoin saga is the total lack of any forensic investigations into BitCoin heists. But now, the stories of RansomWare have the capability of bringing cyber crime to a whole new level; has piqued my interest.. Where if you are an OSE, LBT Party, Green Party, WikiLeaks and you have substantial holdings in BC. Guess what? Your harvest awaits…

      I’m going to do some research on software / hardware back doors in Smart Phones, PC’s etc. and try and find an SME that would be worthy of an interview..

  52. Do madness and logic intersect?
    Kubrick’s “Dr. Strangelove” may still be worth a watch in this regard:
    http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/almost-everything-in-dr-strangelove-was-true
    Oliver Stone even had Putin watch the movie as part of his upcoming 4-part Showtime interview:
    http://uproxx.com/news/putin-watched-dr-strangelove-oliver-stone/
    Ironically, one outcome of this yearning to understand the madness of our military leaders may be the same for Oliver Stone as it was for Kubrick in that it humanizes the Russians, even Darth Vader Putin.

    1. Given what happened in the Rape of Russia, Putin does not strike me as mad. He strikes me as quite sane.

      1. Simple observance suggests he’s totally sane.
        But the controlled narrative has guided otherwise.
        Which surprises me that now western media may crack open the window to his (and Russia’s) fundamentally human side.
        We shall see.

  53. There’s no way we can really know, but the historical backdrop suggests Tillerson was used around the Syria attack analogously to how he was used by Yukos/Rothschild/Khodorkovsky. The neocons may have even drafted him for this exhibited trait.
    But, yes, he clearly has other strengths in that he is a listener, collaborative, and not hostage to his ego. Hair-raising lack of guile for this type of position, but hairpin adaptive (with prodding from his Russian friends) when he finds himself being played as a patsy.
    I pray that Saker’s hopeful read is right.

    1. A number of intelligent sources have indicated they figured out they got played. If that is the case, expect Tillerson to learn quickly. It looks like McMaster has been pushing for boots on the ground in Afghanistan and may get sent back to DOD. If that is the case, why the madness. What insanity would have a General think we can financially afford to do something that will not rebuild the nation. I still think we are missing important intel.

  54. Per the Saker interview and extensive Tillerson (“RT”) speculation, there was a precedent – and I think relevant – 2003 Russian incident known as the Yukos affair. RT was being groomed as the Exxon CEO heir apparent and he was lured into buying a large stake in Yukos by its oligarch backers. The about-to-retire CEO Lee Raymond smelled trouble and phoned Putin, who told him basically that Exxon was backing the wrong team. Exxon quickly cut ties with Yukos, and re-aligned its Russian ambitions.
    Summary: Tillerson/Exxon had been used and Raymond fixed it; consequently, the Yukos affair set back Raymond’s retirement and RT’s ascension by two years, as the Exxon board was mortified by the chain of events. Marin Katusa included a fascinating description of all this in his 2014 book:
    https://www.amazon.com/Colder-War-Global-Slipped-Americas/dp/1118799941
    Postscript: the Russians know RT’s strengths and weaknesses very well. For all the reasons that Saker suggested, it’s highly likely they gave him a tongue-lashing and reminded him clearly how they had already rescued him before from the Yukos catastrophe.
    Other telltale signs that RT is not so much of a powerhouse as a simple-minded West Texan include the way he was unwittingly tapped for his current job by Robert Gates and Condoleezza Rice:
    http://www.politico.com/blogs/donald-trump-administration/2016/12/bob-gates-praises-tillerson-for-secretary-of-state-232555
    and his own dryly hilarious account of his wife pulling the God card to maneuver him from planned ranch retirement with his grandkids:
    http://nypost.com/2017/03/22/tillerson-took-secretary-of-state-job-because-his-wife-told-him-to/ .
    Considering all this, Saker may be right about RT’s trip to Russia being a singular positive event so far in Trump’s presidency. Not so much because Tillerson is a super-talent, but because he’s had the painful, relevant experience of being used and hopefully applied his Texas horse-sense and charm to to contain the calamity.

    1. Fascinating. Thanks for posting, Jim. There is something about Tillerson that I find quite impressive. It is intuitive. He listens and connects with people as a human. Combined with his experience it is a powerful combination. My history with the oil and gas industry in Texas is they stay close to the ground and understand the power of keeping your word. They have lived through enough boom and busts to develop perspective.

    1. What a coincidence that something is happening that would lead the general population to value tough enforcement. Quelle suprise!

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