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  1. Dear Catherine

    In the Notes for ‘Questions for Catherine’ you are asked you about flip phones and you reply that you’re researching them. Can you please briefly explain what is so special or different about flip phones and what their significance or advantage is?

    Also, many thanks to the subscriber who shared his extensive information on assessing web browsers.

  2. Dear Catherine

    What an excellent report! You have given me so much to think about.

    You suggest writing letters to public officials. When I hear this I imagine an old Colonel Blimp type chap getting all indignant and threatening that he’s going to write a letter to The Times, convinced that this will put the world in order. I suspect that in reality when letters arrive they are opened and if there is a cheque enclosed it is taken out. Then rest is put in the wastepaper basket.

    I loved your Hypocrisy Awards. I found this link to the Tucker Carlson clip in which he reports on some of the offenders you mentioned:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFNvcw12d08

    At the end of Carlson’s clip he says, “They simply don’t care enough about your opinion to bother with what you think.” In such a world, where lobbyists influence outcomes and elections are manipulated, would my writing letters really accomplish anything other than wasting my time?

    Later on you talked about the American bankruptcy epidemic. Let’s spare a thought for people in counties which do not have bankruptcy laws. In Germany, for example, there is no personal bankruptcy, no second chance. (In German the word for ‘debt’ and ‘guilt’ is the same.) Bankruptcy in Germany is only available to companies, which means that people can never escape. They must carry their debts with them until they die. As far as I know there is no personal bankruptcy in China https://www.gdlaw.ca/blog/2019/06/no-personal-bankruptcy-laws-in-china.html
    or in Viet Nam or in a host of other countries, especially those with a strong culture of face-saving. People there must turn to the black market where they get caught in a spiral of debt which with usurious interest rates spirals out of control. If they don’t pay back everything plus interest on time they or their family members wind up being maimed or killed as a punishment and also as a lesson to others as to what happens on those who renege. One way people try to get out of this debt spiral is by selling their organs, but I expect that now, if the law of supply and demand are still working then the glut of people selling their organs will shift the supply curve upwards meaning that the price these desperate people get for their kidneys will drop significantly. Compared to this, bankruptcy doesn’t seem so bad

    To end on a happy note, I am indeed looking forward to hearing your causes for optimism as I am to your next report.

  4. Catherine,

    New Solari subscriber and I’m dumbfounded that I did not pony up sooner. Your Trends link aggregation service is worth the price of entry on its own.

    You changed my life forever when I was a young student at a “prestigious” University. I was campaigning for Ron Paul at the time and a friend showed me the late Mike Ruppert’s “Truth and Lies of 9/11” presentation in which you present the Red Button Scenario for the first time.

    That was nearly 10 years ago and now I’m a simple country homesteader who works from a laptop – no debt and no degree!

    It’s been difficult watching my friends suffer in the current predatory student loan regime, and now the few that thought they escaped by taking high-paying coastal tech jobs are stuck in a tenuous urban environment, to say the least.

    Becoming a “Jeffersonian Yeoman” was a lifestyle and health choice but in our current geopolitical and macroeconomic climate it’s shaping up to be a viable business model as well.

    Looking forward to the next report!

    2. Joshua:

      Welcome! I am VERY happy you are not stuck in a tech environment with an overinflated balance sheet! The ground is such a fine place to be right now. 🙂

      Catherine

      1. “The ground is such a fine place to be right now.”

        What a beautiful way to put it, hope you don’t mind if I borrow that one 🙂

        I initially signed up for a 30 day membership and could not in good conscience refuse the 1 year upgrade. Happy to support Solari for the long haul – your work is tremendously important. I couldn’t afford to support as a 19 year old all those years ago, but at 28 I’m glad to be able to invest in your continued success.

        When I used to be more active in alternative media, perhaps the greatest honor I received was when your friend and colleague Dr. Joseph P. Farrell saw fit to respond to one of my articles on Giza Death Star:
        https://gizadeathstar.com/2016/07/yet-another-perspective-coup-turkey-drugs-connection/

        The second greatest honor was Patrick Wood reblogging some of my writing on technocracy – were he still alive, Antony Sutton is the foremost historian I’d seek kudos from, so to have Mr. Wood’s acknowledgement is about as close as I can get! 😀

        In a somewhat bizarre twist of fate, I ended up running the exchange desk of a mid-size cryptocurrency company for a few years after retiring my blog – part quant, part project lead, part software developer. The industry is still very small and it’s strange to think that little ‘ol me is only one or two degrees of separation at this point from Larry Summers or Bill Gates – strange and unwanted bedfellows, to say the least.

        If I wanted to pass along some information to you on how the proverbial “blockchain sausage” gets made for your consideration, what’s a good email address to do so? I think the core of your thesis about Mr. Global and digital Wampum beads is as hilarious as it is prescient and I’m thrilled to hear you connecting more and more dots about Ripple, but in the spirit of candor, Ripple’s interbank lending standard is actually “old news” by crypto standards, having been started in 2014 or so.

        Things have accelerated greatly since then and are largely coalescing around BTC, and more importantly, the company that now controls the BTC repository called Blockstream. They got their seed capital from none other than Henri de Castries’ AXA Ventures, former chair of the Bilderberg steering committee, and have since been back-door financed via MIT Media Labs, the Gates Foundation, and even Epstein as Joi Itoi’s VC fund Digital Garage was also a Series A financier.

        “Make sure to log these donations under $100,000, it’s from Bill’s friend,” Itoi mused in the leaks while funneling black money to further research on the ill-fated Lightning Network.

        The MIT email leaks were ASTRONOMICALLY important for the entire cryptocurrency industry but everyone’s lips are still sealed tight, save for a few projects making noise about its ramifications. Many took the ticket and will never talk about it publicly, but most of the developers are just naiive idealists who don’t understand geopolitics. Working in the industry I came to learn that well as you did while attending crypto conferences.

        Mr. Global doubtlessly fired a “co-option shotgun” at the entire industry a few years back and now has enough festering wounds to offer pre-established treatment to those compromised firms.

        Any time you hear the term “sidechain” or “layer 2 scaling solution”, put on your They Live glasses!!!

        Wishing you the best,
        -Joshua

  5. Catherine,

    You’re not getting my emails. I already called James.

    Najat

  6. Dear Catherine

    Spiro Skouras has an excellent interview with Dr. Tenpenny – “This is The Biggest Scam Ever Perpetrated on The Human Race” which I learned about from your Twitter posting on the 4th May:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_9bQ_Ri9p0

    One important quote of Dr Tenpenny’s from the interview I’d like to share is,” When we say safe and effective, the general population of people who hear the word ‘effective’ equates that to mean it keeps you from getting sick but I can tell you that being effective just means you get an antibody, a marker of contamination, and you can have very high antibody levels and still get sick. So I want people to know that effective is not a synonym for protection; it’s just not.”

  7. https://harvardmagazine.com/2020/05/right-now-risks-homeschooling

    this was interesting on a few levels. it was a very sloppy and poorly reasoned attack on homeschooling. basically argued “homeschoolers are abused by their uneducated fundamentalist parents” while in a public school you have a whole “village” to look after a child’s welfare. implicit is also the homeschool vaccine exemptions, which was not mentioned. the comments are great, much more cogent than the main article.

    terrible article but it got me thinking, is this what is called a trial balloon? write the draft pro argument, and let the public feed back the arguments against. a kind of crowd sourced peer review of opposing views to the author’s main thesis. the author then has a better idea of what angle to take in their next attack. I am assuming this lady is working on something related to attacking homeschooling that is deeper in scope.

    if this is indeed the strategy now, interested people should NOT put forward the effort to honestly and cogently reply to these kinds of things. why give someone a knife with which they can attack you?

    on a deeper level this relates to the many surveillance capitalism / data monster encounters we have on a daily basis, and a way to approach them. the AI algorithms, and digital censorship in general, have one serious flaw which make them far less effective than we imagine them to be. that is, computers can only read things literally, without the human prism of sarcasm, or allegory, or analogy, or humor.

    if you ever research the state of literature and press in Poland during the Soviet days, you will find a lot of examples where things got past the censors due to double meaning or humor or the like. the effect was normal people got a good laugh and a reminder that the emperor had no clothes.

    for example, in the 80s the govt showed a documentary about NYC and how homeless people were sleeping on the street while everyone under socialism had a home. a few days later an ad appeared in the classified section of the main paper, “WILL TRADE DOWNTOWN APARTMENT IN WARSAW FOR A CARDBOARD BOX UNDER A BRIDGE IN NYC.”

    you mentioned before that kids should learn about encryption which is definitely true, but there are also much more human and fun ways to enjoy a good laugh while foiling the data beast. the beast has no sense of humor!

  8. International planes are flying. I just booked one to Spain but is it safe in the madness? And what are the risks from authorities? Any thoughts?

  9. Dear Catherine

    You and Dr Farrell were talking about culture. Since you are a Bach lover, in case you are not familiar with it already I thought you might enjoy listening to his Cantata BWV 208, in particular the 9th aria, not only for the beauty of the music but for the profundity and relevance of the text:

    Schafe können sicher weiden,
    Sheep can safely graze

    Wo ein guter Hirte wacht.
    where a good shepherd watches over them.

    Wo Regenten wohl regieren,
    Where rulers are ruling well,

    Kann man Ruh und Friede spüren
    we may feel peace and rest

    Und was Länder glücklich macht.
    and what makes countries happy.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yc_btdk-_d4 (Time: 14.31)

    1. Beautiful!
      I have the complete Cantatas….a great gift that was.

  10. Catherine,

    I don’t you saw my email but I would like to nominate Vanda Shiva for the hero of the week. Her fight against the Gates Foundation and the rights of the poor is amazing. I just pray she doesn’t disappoint like Dr. Shiva in MA. That was sad.

    The one light about Vanda is she accuses the chemical plants producing fertilizers and vaccines have roots in Hitler’s Nazi Germany. For her to say that on France 24 is impressive.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNM833K22LM

    2. I love Dr. Vandana Shiva and have followed her and her wonderful powerful work for many, many years. She’s good as gold! (no worries, she’s proved it consistently for decades)

      Her organization Navdanya http://www.navdanya.org/site/

      Recommend her many great books

      1. After watching Dr. Shiva via Solari, its true her books are really hard to find. I am asking my friends in India if they can find. any ideas?

          2. Hello Ira.

            I was able to find on AMAZON.INDIA (imagine that!) the book “One Earth, One Humanity vs. The 1%” however FISHPOND is favorable overall.

            ***Thank you***

            SLY

  11. CAN YOU EXPLAIN WHETHER GOLD IS A GOOD INVESTMENT RIGHT NOW? ALSO, HOW CAN THE METALS BE TAKEN OUT OF THE COUNTRY SAFELY?

    1. Mimi:

      I will cover in Equity Overview next week. Touched on it briefly in Ask Catherine last week.

  13. What is the meaning of these regional coalitions? Are they temporary, or is it in the interest of the power structure to invisibly divide the US for some reason?
    1. California, Oregon & Washington Announce Western States Pact Apr 13, 2020
    https://www.gov.ca.gov/2020/04/13/california-oregon-washington-announce-western-states-pact/
    2. Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey and Connecticut’s Regional Coalition
    https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/pennsylvania-joins-new-york-new-jersey-and-connecticuts-regional-coalition-combat-covid-19
    3. 7 Midwestern governors announce their states will coordinate on reopening April 17, 2020
    https://edition.cnn.com/2020/04/16/politics/midwest-governors-reopening-pact/index.html

  14. https://www.sott.net/article/433040-Techno-Tyranny-US-National-Security-State-Using-COVID-19-Pandemic-to-Copy-China-And-Implement-AI-Based-Do-Over-of-Western-Civilization
    The above report discloses that our government along with the private sector has been planning this for a long time. It completely overturns our constitution and way of life stating we need to adopt China’s model to compete with China, eliminate all store shopping, human doctors, cars and legacy systems! Insiders knew about it last year. What can we do and how do we explain to the American people that your own government and corporations have decided without your input or votes that your country is now the United States of Communist China? No republic,a totalitarian technocracy. Thank you for guiding us wisely through this internal coup. Be safe, stay well.

  15. Howdy

    Is the Coronavirus being used as a message to “Come together to save the planet”? In other words “To come together for the Common Good”

    Is the Covid-19 virus being used to promote the need of a global NWO government? I have noticed government heads calling for it along with Pope Francis calls for world unity.

    Why would VP Pence travel to the Vatican for a Jan 23rd meeting with Pope Francis? What was so important as the House of Representatives were conducting impeachment proceedings against a sitting President. Plus by Jan. 23rd the White House was watching the spread of Covid-19 with great interest.

    Here are 4 articles discussing the coronavirus. One is with 96 year old Henry Kissinger still cranking out his message of a NWO.

    https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/vp-pence-and-pope-francis-discuss-us-pro-life-movement-during-vatican-meeting-22928

    https://herald-review.com/pope-francis-calls-for-world-unity-on-earth-day-in-light-of-coronavirus-and-climate/article_246a2686-063b-5617-939d-3ee24c3ec05d.html

    https://thefederalistpapers.org/opinion/merkel-swipes-trump-brexit-calls-one-world-government

    https://www.rt.com/op-ed/485127-kissinger-new-order-defeat-coronavirus/

    1. “We are all in this together” – that must be why US billionares are 10% richer and 26MM are now filed for unemployment in US alone.

      So, yes, attack the nationalists, theft of significant wealth, reduce the populist movements to poverty and starvation and push for one world government and the Mark of the Beast.

      Because “we are all in it together.”

      1. Catherine

        I have a suggestion when people ask you about learning the Bible. Also include to study the lives of the Reformers and their trials to get the finish product of translating it to a common language where a plowboy could read.

        I have notice recently you speaking about the Mark of the Beast. From what I see many people think it is about a chip in the body to track every movement. Is it that simple? Whatever the Mark is it has to be well received and embraced as that is part of the spiritual warfare. The dragon has to say to God “See they reject You and choose me instead” A body chip does not fulfill that as it is an invasion to the person.

        I guess the first thing to do is who is the beast and what is the mark? Whatever the Mark is the beast has the authority to give it, so it is important to know the identity of the beast. Revelation 13 says there are two beasts, so I guess we will have to also know the identity of the other beast. The beast with the Mark is probably the one the dragon gave his power, throne and great authority.

        Is the beast a entity that the dragon possesses? Or is the beast a visiting alien claiming to be our creator? Could the beast be an A.I. robot? The 2nd Commandment states not to worship any graven images.

        Whatever the Mark is it has to be presented in a way that makes it reasonable to take it; the Mark does not have to be an object, it could be an idea or a law. Using “Common Good” or “For the family & children” may be used to accept the Mark.

        What is important to God? A chip to His creation? Maybe. Or would it be to tamper and change His Law? His Law that He put His finger onto stone and created His commandments to people to follow. So who has, if anyone, has changed God’s laws. The Vatican has. The 2nd commandment was deleted from the original, the 10th commandment of the original was divided into the 9th & 10th commandments of the R.C. version. But the one that got my attention is the changing of the 4th commandment from “sabbath day” to “lord’s day”. The sabbath day is the seventh day of the week, which is Saturday. So how was the day of worship for many changed to the first day of the week, Sunday? The Council of Laodicea in 336AD transferred the solemnity from Saturday to Sunday probably to bring together the Christians with the pagans. So all this time has man been sinning against God for worshiping the wrong day of the week? I doubt it as God judges the intent of the heart. But He may have an issue for any religious institution that has altered His Law.

        Has the Vatican acknowledge the change of the Law? Pope Nicholas stated “Pope’s will stand for reason. He can dispense above the law; and of wrong make right,by correcting and changing laws.

        Cardinal Gibbons in “Faith of our fathers” states ” Changing the pagan Sunday and making it the Christian Sunday is a Mark of the R.C. ecclesiastical power”

        During the Obama administration there was talk about making a Sunday law, an official day of rest , a day for the family & children. We saw Pope Benedict give a speech to the German parliament and discuss Roman law is above German law. Then Pope Francis came to America and addressed Congress, first time a Pope spoke before Congress. When President Trump was elected the push for a Sunday law dropped from sight. So I have to wonder if the virus outbreak is going to be used to push a global day of rest law that is another step to have a one religion under the Vatican umbrella. Is that the authority that the Dragon speaks about?

        Tidbit: Martin Luther was being “interviewed” by the Vatican’s representatives concerning buying oneself out of purgatory he was asked “what day do you worship”? Luther replied “Sunday” and the reply was “see you are a Catholic”

        When you reject the Law, you reject the Son, and you reject the Father.

        1. Bob:

          I think you are a deeper thinker than I am. Installing a nanoparticle/nanotechnology operating system inside a human body that can be manipulated with wireless technology and updated regularly like a Microsoft OS strikes me a fitting within what scripture was referring to.

          Catherine

          1. Not a deep thinker, just an old guy who asks questions. I do think that thinking the “Mark” has to do internal nanotechnology is a way to alert people of the attempted control of people. But with using the body meridian map most likely an external source, like a I Phone, is already doing that especially when 5G spreads.

            When John at Patmos wrote the Book of Revelations it covers thousands of years of events where it speaks about a war in heaven, different civilizations that leads to the last power where everyone on the earth shall worship him using a “mark”. This is a spiritual war that has been going on for thousands of years and to know the “mark” one has to know the beast. Is the beast big pharma? Big technology? Or is it an entity that has been involved in man’s affairs for hundreds of years using surrogates to install it’s wishes.

            I kinda think messing around with God’ commandments is a big deal as it says “I am above it”. Let’s look at some of the world events in the 20th century that may had to do with the changing of the 4th commandment, the sabbath.

            In 1935 Mussolini invaded Ethiopia where many Christians who observed the sabbath.

            And there was the treatment of the Jews by Hitler degrading them as subhuman.

            Is it a war against the sabbath keepers or also against the Muslim countries as they do pray everyday with Friday being a sacred day of worship called Al-Junah. Lots of conflict in the middle east & north african countries since 1991.

            Just asking questions

            Boy do I need a haircut.

  16. Dr. Andrew Saul, who was interviewed on Dr. Mercola’s YouTube Channel twice in the past few months regarding Vitamin C and COVID-19, said that Facebook put him in “Facebook jail,” and the censorship has gotten so bad that he has now moved to a new social platform similar to Facebook called MeWe. I am hesitant to join any new social media platform. Have you heard of MeWe? Do you think it is safe to open a new account and join?:
    https://mewe.com/

    1. Hi Audrey. I hadn’t heard of MeWe. I was really surprised by the image/photo on the home/welcome page – I found it immediately off-putting. IMO the images/photos are disturbing (sticky tape finger prison tats – seriously?) and do not match the many great good words. There’s an incoherence between images and words. I say Hands-off.

      Please let us know your experience if you decide to join MeWe.

      Does anyone have a first-hand MeWe experience?

      1. I looked at the ownership. Looks like one person who I don’t know. Not a lot of governance structure or institutional infrastructure that has protections for the long run.

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