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  2. Hi Solari

    Every time I try to download Rappaports “New Teaching ” I get a file with zero bytes ?

    please help..

    many thanks

  3. What a show with Greg Hunter this week! He sure got hot under the collar when it sounded like you might assign Israel some culpability in the continuing hostilities of the middle-east. This has been my year of enlightenment as to the role IDF plays in stirring up contention among the nations and their other nefarious acts. Christopher Bolin has done a thorough job of exposing who’s who in much of their global control. I know you couldn’t “go there” with him and you certainly were “grace under fire” during that conversation. I just wish he would have allowed you to speak freely.
    I’m glad someone had the moxy to get you to Austin; the great pretenders of economic stability abound here. Everyone thinks the economy is in a strong recovery and the news of financial woes is the work of Alex Jones’s on-going conspiracies. (Alex is a resident of ATX). Our city continues to grow and prosper when other Texas cities are struggling, but I fear there is a lot of debt involved in the growth. High tech companies run this town and UT provides top notch thinkers and planners.
    Did you hear Gov Abbott has signed a law that Texans can use gold and silver for currency, and he is also building a depository for us to use like a bank?
    I hope you come prepared to issue a wake-up call for those who are Asleep at the Wheel (another great ATX band).
    Looking forward to your visit!
    Deborah Fajardo

  4. Catherine,

    It was just a year ago that I got the chance to hear you speak at the Secret Space Program in San Mateo and I am forever grateful that I was able to attend. While I have been a Solari.com follower since 2012, you and Dr. Farrell, with the rest of the incredible speakers, were able to fill in gaps that had many of us were yearning to understand. Not everyone seems ready to listen as your recent interview with Greg Hunter, Watchdog USA, illustrated. He was absolutely insistent that he was right on his view of Iran without being able to hear what you offered as insight into what you see is not necessarily what is going on. With that in mind, I came across a link provided by a GizaDeathStar commenter that I think you will find illuminating: a lecture by Harald Kautz Vella, that simply creates new fabric from the weaves and warps that we have been able to identify singularly. Most importantly, I think you will enjoy his summation that absolutely follows your Q2 wrap up three options: depopulation, war, or change.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6URg8cqgZM

    See you in Austin! (yay)

    Jane

  5. Thank You for improving the design of the site… the consistency in the interface makes things much easier to find.

    1. You are most welcome. We are excited about the new site launching this summer but want to make sure that the existing is always getting better.

    1. Diane:

      I am pleased that you found it useful! High praise considering the source!

      Catherine

  7. Also, PLEASE do not miss this succinct and ENLIGHTENING article by Mailer Mattié in our site… she combines a Ph.d. in economics with an ABD in anthropology:

    http://www.institutosimoneweil.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=405:moneys-goodness-moving-on-towards-new-ways-of-gettin-along&catid=48:mailer-mattie&Itemid=68

    In time I would like us to be able to integrate a round-table on some of these concepts to see where they will lead and how the Solari model fits in with Gesell’s (and Weil’s) perceptions… Civilization missed the boat at some point… see how we can straighten out the course… 🙂

  8. Dear Catherine,
    Thank you for facilitating our work in bringing to Pope Francis’ attention more of the many things he should be addressing right now. Your vocabulary and ours, I think, are awaiting reconciliation in some respects, however…

    You mention “monies stolen by illegal means” which strikes a funny cord to my sensibilities, at least. You mean to say that there are legal means of stealing, which we of course are aware of but need not accept –at least not forever and ever… for that is what “monies stolen by illegal means” implies… or not? And since theft should be prohibited in the Republic or the commune or anywhere civilized company is supposed to exist, then are we not thereby forced to point the finger at capitalism itself –and not just to some sort of “criminal activity” of the kind that there are laws against. I mean, theft is theft whether legal or illegal… And if there is so much criminality going on, is it not because the system itself requires it… ? When a marriage is not working, it is not because one or both are cheating: they are cheating on each other because the marriage is not working, I say…

    At any rate, some of us in our corner of the globally thinking world have begun to follow Michael Eisenstein’s suggestion that we become acquainted with Silvio Gesell’s great work on The Natural Economic Order –already a hundred years old but still mostly awaiting discovery by people like yourself and dear Joseph Patrick Farrell, whose recent vouching in favor of the nation-state puzzles me to no end… All your readers deserve that you pay attention to Gesell’s analyses and proposals for a currency that will allow for real economic freedom or “free enterprise” –which is what “capitalism”, in your own mind, still stands for, it would seem like… For us, now, “freedom of enterprise without capitalism” is the expression increasingly becoming somewhat of a mantra throughout so many spread out niches of our global, “speculative,” transactions that we invite you to critique since it becomes increasingly imperative to remain open to all evidences, conjectures, experience, knowledge… But, clearly, for some of us at least, decrying capitalism does not necessarily mean opposing private property which, along with communal property, is one of the “earthly needs of the soul” as Simone Weil put it in a text written shortly before her death in 1943, at age 34, the essence of her, and our, “Profession of Faith,” http://www.institutosimoneweil.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=70:english-version&catid=53:simone-weil&Itemid=73

    Your use of the word “sovereignty”, again, bothers me because of the duplicitous uses that notion constantly receives –how often has it not been invoked in order to precipitate us into war or at least into the purchase of armaments along with ever mounting centralization and militarization of civil life. Some of us, from the corner of our global world, are pleading for the use of the term “autonomy” which, I suspect, is all we can possibly have or should hope for… Our bodies and houses must remain as close to fulfilling the notion of “sovereignty” as possible, but not altogether, since, as Benito Juárez famously put it, “respect for the right of others amounts to peace”… something with which you definitely agree, no doubt…

    Much work requires to be done in order to clear up these linguistic “snafus” so that the exchange of real, clarified thoughts will not continue to find itself seriously compromised. . . I sense again that we would all benefit from your bathing in the pristine waters of Karl Polanyi’s The Great Transformation (1940) –more clear-headed and knowledgeable by far than his opponent von Mises, Ayn Rand’s mentor and part of the problems we are struggling against today… You are too great a person to spend much time in such wicked company (and the same goes for John Rappapport whose basically decent inspiration misses some important points, glaze-eyed as he is by Atlas Shrugged, The Fountainhead and other adolescent readings that have harmed the judgment of several generations of readers already…). Polanyi fittingly reveals the false premises of liberal thinkers of the 19th C. who ignored much of what really characterizes so called “primitive” societies… He is a mine to explore for someone like you and dear Dr. Farrell …

    Hoping to get around to translating –from the Spanish– “The Virgin’s Letter to the Pope in Search of Francis,” now complemented by your own set of sound recommendations concerning areas you understand much better than I do,

    I remain, always, yours
    In Peace and Love,

    Sylvia María de Jesús Valls http://www.mama-doc.com http://www.institutosimoneweil.net
    Valle de Bravo, Mx. 51200 (p.o. box #8)

    1. Syvlia:

      Great insights. I really appreciate the insight and education you provide!

      Catherine

      1. I do know instinctively that you and I are working from the same niche of the heart in alliance with the mind… I have added this p.s. to my letter to you in English which appears in Sp. as well along my translation of yours to “Francisco”… It says:
        ” Let me say, additionally, that your Solari model has always seemed to me to fit very well with the future we envision, allowing for private and communal property, a reduced level of “public” (state held) areas and shared interests by locals and non-locals in a creatively productive system characterized by mutuality –what we mean by “free enterprise without capitalism”… that is, without systematic theft… legal or illegal!”
        http://www.institutosimoneweil.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=533:dear-catherine-some-reflections-on-yours-on-the-popes-encyclical-laudato-si&catid=40:english&Itemid=56

  9. Hello Catherine and Solari,

    Thank you for your manifesto re the Pope encyclical. I did not see it on your website yesterday (29-Jun-2015) but on Rense.com
    with an attribute to the New Zealand Herald. I received a proxy denied message from that link, and similarly, when I searched for the article from Duckduckgo. com.
    Yes Catherine, you have definitely pissed on someone’s Cheerio;s with that article. Touche!
    And far be it from me to question your exquisite writing skills -and Mea Culpa (pun intended), but did you intend to write choking instead of chocking on debt?
    Goddess bless, e

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