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  1. Hi Catherine, I can’t find the direct question about finding a good doctor and I wanted to suggest that people get ahold of Dr. Randy Tent and Diverse Health Services – https://www.diversehealthservices.com/. He is incredibly competent and completely accessible and affordable. He does Skype appointments is one of the best doctors I’ve every used. Hope that helps

  2. Just formally joined with membership. I am very impressed with the quality of analysis and professionalism. I look forward to being a part of this cyber community and learn from all of you participating. I hope my perspectives drawing from my life experiences and scholarship in and about Europe (especially Balkans), West Asia/Indian Ocean world and Western Africa can help us navigate this world targeted by empire.

    1. Listening to my first Money and Markets report. 22 mins on how the empire seeks to destroy all autonomous economic activity reminds me of how I observed IMF/US embassy initiatives (via USAID) throughout East Africa and especially Yemen from the late 1990s. I tied these measures to destroy independent farming communities, recognizing the larger trends that clearly include the US these days. I elaborate here:
      https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520296145/destroying-yemen

      Professors James Scott and Nick Cullather have their own angle to explain empire’s investment in various governance methods to destroy economic independence of farmers throughout Asia
      https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674725812

      https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300169171/art-not-being-governed

  3. Sidebar:

    Given that Apple and Google are finally starting to force contact tracing updates on older models, it may be a good time to revisit your pet interest in the slave trackers!

    This man’s channel is a wealth of information, particularly on having a comprehensive privacy approach that includes de-Googling your Android device and nuking the contact tracing API:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmoJrLfk5fE

    Unfortunately options like Purism and the Linux-powered PinePhone are either far too immature for daily use or back-ordered to oblivion, and short of ditching cell phones entirely, it looks like we’ll have to do this ourselves. The hyperactive Bluetooth now being activated and “enhanced” WiFi triangulation is simply too dangerous to ignore any longer.

  4. Ask Catherine:

    I was listening to your latest appearance on Dark Journalist where you recap your “rock ‘n roll” strategy, stressing the need for mobility.

    This concept stands in stark contrast to the local resilience you so often talk about on Solari, especially local food resilience. Farming/homesteading is a notoriously immobile lifestyle!

    How can we deliver wins on a local and immediate scale if we all become nomads?

    We can lend capital and remote skills as “mobile cosmopolitans”, sure, but wouldn’t this ultimately result in the same kind of “brain drain” that the heartland has already bled to the coasts for the past two decades?

    Curious as to your strategies for squaring this circle!

  5. @minute 3 in the Ask Catherine…”tracks”. In my experience i found the picture of “silos” and siloed information descriptive as well.

    1. Here’s the right link, disregard the first one.

      https://whalewisdom.com/filer/rothschild-asset-management-inc#tabholdings_tab_link

      Just think of how much they can discredit with a s&p down 70-80%? They can hide the central banks/banks from blame.

      They can discredit
      -Nationalism
      -Tariffs
      -Protectionism
      -Trump and his supporters who got screwed by corporate oligarchs go down with him
      -Religion
      -National Elections
      -Oil/Coal

      I hope the conspiracy isn’t this big, but it sure looks that way.

    3. At a quick glance does not look chilling to me. First 13 pages are buys or old and then sells. Does not look like more sells than buys. Just looks like a large asset manager in a changing market.

  7. ROBERT ROGERS BLAKE, Ph.D.Professor of Psychology, University of Texas and a 60’s US military brainwashing expert, wrote that a mind controller’s “success…depends heavily on the ignorance of his victims.” C. EMORY

    Carla’s intention to write her book was to help her readers “replace ignorance with [complete and accurate information] knowledge”. She further states “information control is mind control…for either an individual or a large democratic society to best function, there must be complete and accurate information.”

  8. first China shuts down ant IPO because it would be too big in the financial space, then they clamp down on other tech companies, tanking their stock markets in the meanwhile..

    https://www.bbc.com/news/business-54898357

    the CCP gets it. maybe they are watching the US election and seeing how the tech companies have become political actors?

    1. I think what happened on the Ant IPO is very important. Would love to know the true story. If I was watching the US elections and I was the CCP, I would absolutely put the tech industry back in the box.

  9. Catherine, I just want to comment and hope you will address this week something that just hit me between the eyes as I heard from a close acquaintance, another person whose conservatively-raised kids turned away in this election. Never even heard of Hunter’s laptop and didn’t like Trump’s tweets, while acknowledging he has done a good job. We baby-boomers are being gaslighted–as they say today–by Wokess-Porn throughout the fascist media. I don’t know if you remember much of the comedy troupe Firesign Theater, but a continuing theme in its comedy records (could be played by Joe Biden’s machine) was literally communist-style thought-shaping and mind-control.

    1. IMO, the mind control technology is much more significant than most people can fathom/imagine. Not sure why I can not communicate this successfully. Thinking about what to try next.

      1. I have to say that we Boomers, as a generation, have been marginalized by a media system that makes non-wokeness an excuse to cancel us collectively and individually as necessary. Some Holly-wooden statues speak the requisite words and are tolerated as counter-arguments to what we might point out, but on the whole, we, like Tom Hagen, are “Out.” I am quite serious, though I have not pondered it sufficiently to uncover the mechanism. I feel sure it can be sussed out if a few of us noodle on it a bit.

        Preliminarily, I would say that generationally we have rhetorical styles that contain in their very structures, the hideous characteristics of aggression and objectivity, as opposed to obliqueness, passive-aggression and subjectivity that is sensitive to the weak, who, one supposes, just missed out on getting their own beatitude, due to some prejudice or other.

        1. This conflict is more than a century old:

          1992 thesis: https://archive.schillerinstitute.com/fid_91-96/921_frankfurt.html
          2020 recant/rebuttal: https://communemag.com/the-american-roots-of-a-right-wing-conspiracy/

          We will have to face the fact that the ugliness we see around us has been consciously fostered and organized in such a way, that a majority of the population is losing the cognitive ability to transmit to the next generation, the ideas and methods upon which our civilization was built. The loss of that ability is the primary indicator of a Dark Age. And, a new Dark Age is exactly what we are in. In such situations, the record of history is unequivocal: either we create a Renaissance—a rebirth of the fundamental principles upon which civilization originated—or, our civilization dies.

          … the Institute worked out what was to become the Comintern’s most successful psychological warfare operation against the capitalist West. Lukacs identified that any political movement capable of bringing Bolshevism to the West would have to be, in his words, “demonic”; it would have to “possess the religious power which is capable of filling the entire soul; a power that characterized primitive Christianity.” However, Lukacs suggested, such a “messianic” political movement could only succeed when the individual believes that his or her actions are determined by “not a personal destiny, but the destiny of the community” in a world “that has been abandoned by God”

          … In essence, Adorno and Benjamin’s problem was Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. At the beginning of the eighteenth century, Leibniz had once again obliterated the centuries-old gnostic dualism dividing mind and body, by demonstrating that matter does not think. A creative act in art or science apprehends the truth of the physical universe, but it is not determined by that physical universe. By self-consciously concentrating the past in the present to effect the future, the creative act, properly defined, is as immortal as the soul which envisions the act. This has fatal philosophical implications for Marxism, which rests entirely on the hypothesis that mental activity is determined by the social relations excreted by mankind’s production of its physical existence … This philosophical sleight-of-hand allows one to do several destructive things. By making creativity historically-specific, you rob it of both immortality and morality.

          … The principles through which Western Judeo-Christian civilization was built, are now no longer dominant in our society; they exist only as a kind of underground resistance movement. If that resistance is ultimately submerged, then the civilization will not survive—and, in our era of incurable pandemic disease and nuclear weapons, the collapse of Western civilization will very likely take the rest of the world with it to Hell.

          The way out is to create a Renaissance. If that sounds grandiose, it is nonetheless what is needed. A renaissance means, to start again; to discard the evil, and inhuman, and just plain stupid, and to go back, hundreds or thousands of years, to the ideas which allow humanity to grow in freedom and goodness. Once we have identified those core beliefs, we can start to rebuild civilization. Ultimately, a new Renaissance will rely on scientists, artists, and composers, but in the first moment, it depends on seemingly ordinary people who will defend the divine spark of reason in themselves, and tolerate no less in others.

          1. Thank you for the thoughtful response, Rich. You may be right about a coming Dark Age. As I watched the election returns, which by all rights, should have been routine, and a Trump landslide, I remembered Barbara W. Tuchman noting the words of Sir Edward Grey, as mistakes and miscues and suspicions caused one thing leading to another in the runup to WW1, “The lamps are going out all over Europe, we shall not see them lit again in our life-time.” Or as The Moody Blues said, “Breathe deep, the gathering gloom… Red is gray and yellow, white, but we decide which is right, and which… is an illusion.” Sometimes, it seems that the Imp of The Perverse just has it marked to ruin everything, come what may.

            Catherine came to Asimov’s Foundation later in life, but it impressed me as a young reader that those who oversaw the decline of an advanced, fictitious civilization realized that their zest to make all manner of living comforts with their ingenuity had the result of nobody doing anything productive, and indeed actually losing the skills to make replicas or replacements for the marvelous machines they had come to rely upon. Foundation was their solution, a repository for the hard-bitten gains of a sincere, industrious people that believed it would be better to hold a lot of it back while their own Dark age ran its course. Joseph Farrell often describes a similar trajectory for the remnants of our actual precursor civilizations. What is less clear is whether the withholding is a provident move to ensure survival of the information, or itself the principle that spreads darkness as a policy. It’s a considerable conundrum.

          2. All are encouraged to take in E.A. Poe’s masterpiece, The Imp of The Perverse https://poestories.com/read/imp

            For those familiar, the richly embroidered Dostoevsky story, “Crime and Punishment” tracks a similar theme: The protagonist wishes to perpetrate a heinous crime for the mere purpose of its being forbidden. Thus we have with election tampering, with human trafficking, child-abuse and worse. Perhaps as Joseph has said, it seeks to shock the medium, perhaps–and even dumber–it seeks to provoke The Divine. Those who follow me may have noticed how I have been on about the calamitous falsehood that “the end justifies the means.” This idiotic, anti-intellectual principle appears to wish, as does Poe’s narrator, to out guess God, Himself, and know that their desired end will be an ultimate one, rather than just some forgotten instance in an ocean of events that make up time, a mere instance itself of Eternity. What fools be men.

      2. For most not using technology is a no go and when one does realize it is scary as hell to know.

  10. The formula for breaking up the Trump Coalition:

    1) Spend 6 months talking about the Red Mirage (Trump doing well on election night but then Biden surging forward with mail-ins)

    2) Halt the vote in the swing states when Trump will easily win.

    3) BLATANTLY commit mass election fraud (totally ignored by the corporate media).

    4) Call Biden the president-elect (celebrated by the media).

    5) Call Trump a sore loser, leveraging off the last 4 years of Trump bashing.

    While it may not be over, there is a LOT of momentum going towards Biden stealing this election. Even if Trump has another 4 years in office, he will – again – be considered illegitimate by one third of the electorate and all of the corporate press.

    We live in interesting times ….

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