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  1. 1:39:16) The Chinese were already setting parental controls for children/young people. We’re a few years behind schedule.

  3. Catherine & John, congratulations on a wonderful partnership rapport during this episode. Timing/spacing was exquisite. And the laughter, as usual…. You’ve made it a home.

  5. The central bank warfare model – these characters use cunning as their weapon, and they’re really good at it.

  6. 1:20:17) Catherine, if the government was part of the fraud and, ipsofacto, there’s no defrauding the government, is Brook Jackson on a losing trajectory and should she change the focus of her case and is there still time to do it?

    1. My understanding is that they may appeal. Do not know what approach they will take. One of the things I wonder. If they knew that people would die, not sure the government can relieve you from criminal and civil liability in an intentional poisoning.

  7. 1:18:11) SVB short seller fraud is parallel to the Block CASH APP fraud and parallel to what’s going on in the OTC market today. They’re buying and selling “fake” shares with no enforcement to settle their trades. It’s the wild west. Couple that with the murder of Cash App founder Bob Lee.

  8. 1:16:20) I loved the idiom, “a [government] auditor comes in and bayonets the wound” after watching the fraud “play out” and then coming in for “the kill.” Please, MORE OF THESE!!!

  10. In case you haven’t seen it, La Quinta Columna, a group of Spanish scientists, did an incredible job of pulling together all the med events to make their case during their recent “Conference of La Quina Columna: THE GAME IS OVER.” Watch through to the end. It’s worth it.

  11. 1:04:35) This is what you’re not being told about robots which is causing geat concern:
    Look up 2023 01-05 “Japanese Killer Robots Murder 29 Scientists Elon Musk Warned Us About This” on YT.

  12. “World devolves into darkness, run by Larry Fink”. ??? snorted my coffee on that one.

  13. Howdy again. I’m at the CBDC part of they can’t do CBDC without bringing in the guns first.

    That assumes they won’t go cyber polygon event using either EMP/solar based power outage or cyber hack that erases all records.

    If they go that route, CBDC could be presented as a temporary solution to a terrible and unexpected problem created by a terrible and unexpected emergency. ??

  14. Greetings. Lovely chat. I just got to the part where you folks are discussing that the banks are saying/demonstrating that they have “nothing to invest in”, and in my head i heard Catherine remind folks to invest in their families and community, which is, of course, brilliant advice.

    Perhaps the lack of big things to invest in is a consequence or outgrowth of where we are in the timeline. This is when everything, including and most especially investing, needs to become hyper local. Maybe the time of big investment things is passing?

    I’m about to launch a new concept with my business, and my first thought for raising money was crowd funding, not venture capital firms far away, banks or government. Local business, local money.

    We shall see.

  15. On the topic of AI, the following two changes to the comment system would make it harder for any “AI observers” to use Solari comments to augment existing digital-twin models of subscribers:

    1) When sending out email notification of comments, include a link to the comment, but not the full text. This will require subscriber login authentication to read the comment text, which will block all bots from scraping comment text via emails.

    2) When sending email notification of comments, delay each notification by a random interval of 30-90 minutes. “AI” predictive analytics of future behavior are based on past behavior. Random delays deprive bots of precise timing on past behavior, which limits the precision of future predictions.

  16. Hello Catherine,
    I noticed you and John Titus had a conversation about who is the head of the evil empire. And you discussed maybe the FDA or maybe the US military or maybe the worlds chief bankers?
    I must confess this really has me confused right now. A couple years ago I thought it was the Chicoms as Rush used to call them. SO many in high places seemed to have sold out to them. The Bidens and the Clintons seemed to have sold out to them. Then in the past couple of years I thought it was the WEF people. But after Russia invaded Ukraine I thought maybe it is the neocons threatening everyone.
    Often I think that Russia is really fighting whoever the evil empire but I heard that Russia along with all the other countries were trying to force their citizens to take the vaccine. I really am at a loss to understand who is pulling all the strings for the deep state?

    1. Phillip I would suggest to you build a bigger picture. There are elite at the top who we never see or know. Some we can guess who they are. They direct the Central banks and some of the sub people like Gates, then the presidents military etc. It is a power structure and command structure. Things we don’t know, how many they are? Is it a hand full of families, is it 100 or 1000? We don’t know. Suggest you read Silent Weapons for Quite Wars, it came out in 1954.

      1. Thanks for that remarkable doc pointer.

        This short clip from Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight (2008) includes an undated reference to 1666 London. His brother Jonathan co-wrote The Dark Knight and would later make Person of Interest, Blacklist, WestWorld and Peripheral. Viewers can skip S1 of WestWorld /w excess trauma and later weak seasons of Blacklist.
        https://www.invidious.baczek.me/watch?v=2S-r_v08ieA&t=33s

        See also the DVD/bluray of the 2006 Taboo TV series (only one season) from Tom Hardy and Ridley Scott. The dark storyline from 1814 Britain includes conflict among the British Crown, East India Trading Company, American Intelligence, slavery, weapons, black magic and a former employee of the EITC. https://www.invidious.baczek.me/watch?v=r9QvSry2-CM

        Recent YouTube episodes from DarkJournalist featuring Joseph Farrell and John Warner IV also cover the “Who is Mr. Global” topic.

  17. I have to say, though a letter regarding proposed control of AI development signed by an “illustrious” group of scientists, business tycoons and ranking “academics” sounds like a noble gesture, the next ploy will be how necessary it will be to get government regulation and control of the issue….this is exactly the goal of a ploy like this…(nothing is what it seems)… and this is a very good example of an eloquent maneuver to make the general public think that centralized government control of AI is safer than its control by a pseudo “free” market….the US government is losing ground to the development of AI along with its applications and ownership and will stop at nothing to harness it to their control and benefit….do not be deceived.

  18. I don’t care how long these podcasts are:))) They restore my grip on reality when it all seems to be spinning apart on so many levels. Thank you.

  19. In 2006 I left the Fortune 10 world forever. It was a hard slog, but I knew I would rather die than go back to work for a large corporation in ANY capacity. My eternal thanks to my Mom for helping me transition out when my income dropped.

  20. Also, I wanted to congratulate John Titus on his latest YouTube video-outstanding work, as ever. And was referenced by other credible commentators, such as Mike Maloney.

    I love the way John refers to Klaus Schwab as “Clown” Schwab. Laughing at these chew toys is a powerful and underutilized weapon of ours. Narcissistic psychopaths can’t abide being mocked.

  21. Titus the term for Janet Yellen you’re looking for is “useful idiot”. She ain’t in charge that’s for sure.

  22. JUST READING AN ARTICLE ABOUT FIVE BANKS IN CA. THAT INITIATED THE USE OF FEDNOW..OH,BACK IN 2021….NO COINCIDENCE ONE OF THESE WAS SVB!!!! HA! IMMEDIATE TURNOVER CAME IN QUITE HANDY,EH? AM PLANNING TO INVESTIGATE WHICH BANKS IN MY STATE ARE NOT PLANNING ON FEDNOW,AS SUGGESTED BY ANOTHER SUBSCRIBER IN THE ASK CATHERINE SECTION…VERY GRATEFUL TO ALL INVOLVED IN SOLARI AS WELL AS THOSE WHO ADD TO OUR KNOWLEDGE BY POSTING INFORMATION=INCREDIBLE!!!!THANK YOU,ALL!!!!

  24. Regarding the discussion of the Missouri mRNA bill regarding food some clarification is needed:
    Lawmakers in Arizona, Idaho, and Missouri have introduced legislation related to the use of mRNA vaccines in food. The Arizona bill only restricts labeling such food as organic. The Idaho bill amends state law to prohibit the sale of such foods unless conspicuously labeled that the presence of the vaccine is in the food.  
    The Missouri bill requires a conspicuous “Gene Therapy Product” label. 

  25. I agree with John. These people are worse than the mob because they have no risk due to immunity. At least the mob has risk and something to lose.

  26. Ha! Catherine! I know exactly what you’re referring to when you mentioned the ‘family friendly mob!’ Our lives are very similar in a lot of ways. Even the story of your mother. But for me it was my sister and, very sadly, she was not doing ‘good’ things.
    Your comment made my heart smile with memories and my eyes water with tears of sadness for a world we have lost. Seems as though it was another lifetime.

  29. Oh my goodness!! Listening to Catherine discuss the Harvard endowment and her realization they were actually just the mafia is EXACTLY how I felt as a physician realizing the FDA, CDC and NIH were a bunch of LIARS and criminals during this “plandemic”! It’s a difficult TRUTH to recognize but once you see it, it can never be unseen.

    1. DeAnna good for you on being awake. Suggest if you have not already start leaning food in your dr world to help people. There is a reason it is not taught in med school. Here are a couple of MDs to start with if you have not dove down the food rabbit hole. Dr Annette Bosworth MD and Dr Paul Mason MD. A great all around book that I tell lots of people to read is Why We Get Sick by Dr Ben Bikman. May Well Wishes to you.

        1. Yes Ira, I like Zach, there are a lot of low carb drs I follow. A few also understand how important the gut microbiome is to our health and immune sys. I have been fermenting now for 8 years, Kefir, Kombucha, old way fermented veggies and now the 3 special bacteria in yogurt form that Dr Davis MD talks about. They are more trouble than kefir but seem to be adding and changing my gut microbiome as well.

  30. What was that Catherine was saying about Harvard? Dusting off that 1990s post Soviet collapse Russia playbook.

    https://omny.fm/shows/the-take/ukraine-s-other-land-grab

    Description
    Ukraine might not look like a good financial investment after a year at war with no end in sight, but Harvard, Saudi Arabia, a handful of oligarchs, and Vanguard Group see it differently. They are just a few of the investors who have been buying up Ukrainian land – and its rich, fertile soil – en masse, while many Ukrainian farmers argue it should stay in Ukrainian hands.

  33. Just another WTF? 

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/04/fbi-members-of-army-special-ops-raid-wrong-hotel-during-training-exercise-detain-guest/
“Members of the FBI and the US Army Special Operations Command who were conducting a training exercise in downtown Boston raided the wrong hotel room and detained the person inside before realizing their mistake, the FBI said in a statement to CNN. The FBI said its Boston division was helping the military with a training exercise around 10 p.m. Tuesday “to simulate a situation their personnel might encounter in a deployed environment.””

  34. After the war is over, the Lawyers go in and bayonet the wounded and then the Q Surveyors go in and strip the bodies ……

  35. Pfizer… there was no fraud on the part of Pfizer or the government, only coordinated deception 🙂

    1. Is that the definition of racketeering?

      Racketeering
      Racketeering is a type of organized crime in which the persons set up a coercive, fraudulent, extortionary, or otherwise illegal coordinated scheme or operation to repeatedly or consistently collect a profit.

  36. Just FYI my recollection is that during the 2008 meltdown, the Fed Reserve underwrote the exchange of collateral between Lehman Bros and J P Morgan at face value. It was the traders that picked and chose which paper to accept.

  37. regarding Lockheed’s hypersonic missiles…

    you would only make an announcement that the test failed if the test was actually a complete success and you wanted to keep the results to yourself while making others think that you didn’t have that arsenal.

    1. https://www.defenseone.com/technology/2023/03/whats-next-us-hypersonic-efforts-air-force-shelves-arrw/384655/

      focus on a far more practical and important goal: the scramjet-powered Hypersonic Attack Cruise Missile … The Air Force ended its previous scramjet missile program in 2012, which Lewis called a huge mistake.

      … King said that he was “encouraged” by the $11 billion investment in hypersonics research in the Pentagon’s budget request and the President’s March 3 order on using the Defense Production Act to accelerate the nation’s industrial base for hypersonics. 

      1. so it’s possible that they announced the “failure” of the test to justify getting another grant from the government for further development of their “hypersonic missile” project, which may or may not have anything to do with hypersonic or missiles; i.e., word substitution.

  38. Watch the sign language interpreter in the NZ Prime Minister segment without sound and it says it all. A picture, or in this case a moving picture, speaks a thousand words.

    1. Mary great comment. Body language is near 100 percent. Always good to watch people and what they do with their body when talking. Even some times we can figure out a person’s personality type by certain body language or even how they dress.

    1. Yes, posted. RFK and Sasha are next Hero of the Week for this one.

  40. Just my take Miss Catherine, many in Congress and Government know we are at the end and they are spending every dollar they can, pad and line their pockets when it all comes to an end…….seems now it will be sooner than later. Great example all the personal trips that were made to Ukraine and the Billions sent with no strings or accountability. Maybe this except my believe it is fees for our friends by xxxxx amounts. Then the steward said within himself, What shall I do? for my lord taketh away from me the stewardship: I cannot dig; to beg I am ashamed.
    4 I am resolved what to do, that, when I am put out of the stewardship, they may receive me into their houses.
    5 So he called every one of his lord’s debtors unto him, and said unto the first, How much owest thou unto my lord?
    6 And he said, An hundred measures of oil. And he said unto him, Take thy bill, and sit down quickly, and write fifty.
    7 Then said he to another, And how much owest thou? And he said, An hundred measures of wheat. And he said unto him, Take thy bill, and write fourscore.

    1. they’ll get rich and never be prosecuted. it’s going to be a very rough 10 years. the end of the 4th age is upon us. but we will win. we can at least take solace in that.

    1. California has a $97.5bn budget surplus? I thought the state (CALPERS), etc., was completely broke?

    1. Great example of the importance of family wealth Fitts always talks about.

  45. Did anyone else see this on ZeroHedge? Quite amusing, although of course, upsetting for anyone who’s lost their job:

    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/after-nprs-major-layoff-employees-accuse-ceo-racism

    I have very little time for any media outlet which receives such a significant proportion of their funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and the various Rockefeller Foundations. And clearly, they’re doing very little in the way of journalism that their listeners actually want.

    It would appear that such organizations will simply never be diverse/equitable/inclusive enough; no matter how hard they try, some group will always claim to be being discriminated against.

    It reminds me of the recent UK Guardian newspaper article in which the UN’s racism czar accused electric vehicle owners of “racism”. Not the reaction EV customers were expecting/hoping for, I’m sure.

    1. Did you listen to Tucker Carlson’s report? Ignorance elevated to extreme heights. It’s beyond tragic.

      1. Sandra,
        Yes, I did. I watch/listen to very little corporate media, but I did see that.
        NPR apparently going the same way as Disney; pumping out agenda driven content that nobody wants. Which is fine; until it leads to mass layoffs for rank and file employees of such organizations.

        2. NPR has been doing that for at least a decade, maybe longer. I’m they changed when they were able to take funding from Corporate donors. Something Obama passed.

  46. https://pete843.substack.com/p/our-common-agenda-given-a-booster

    A complex global shock is defined as “an event with seriously disruptive consequences for a large part of the global population and leading to secondary effects in a number of sectors” … UN lists seven possible future crises that could justify activating the platform.

    Climate or environmental disasters Pandemics with secondary cascading effectsEvents where biological substances (bioweapons) are intentionally or unintentionally releasedInterrupted global flows of goods, people and financeCyber attacks and interruptions in the digital infrastructureA large-scale event in outer space that damages one or more critical systems on EarthUnpredictable risks

  48. More news from Canada.

    Quite a number of NHL players have been refusing to wear Pride Jerseys and now, some of the NHL teams are opting out.

    They’re saying that hockey players are not activists.

    2. Feel free to email the legislators on the committee. At this point who cares if your not from Missouri. TN has a similiar bill just like it in the works. I hear the lobbists internationally have swooped down from their high perches to pound this bill from ever gaining traction. Missouri State BBB has already come out against it citing businesses would have to release trade secrets.
      From Missouri 🙂

  50. May I introduce the honourable Chris Hipkins (Chippie), prime minister of New Zealand. Here, answering one of the most complex and difficult questions a leader of such stature can possibly be asked in this year of ours, 2023.

    https://youtu.be/53ktY65eOdk

      1. Indeed!
        It is making the rounds on alternative media, but our local mainstream media ignores it as they do.

        1. They’ve actually now picked it up when it hit international mainstream like Fox etc. since its a bit awkward to ignore now. ?

    2. Turn off the sound and read the sign language by the lady to his left. Truly priceless. She must go home and have some really expressive conversations.

      My, my.

      2. I do love the way in which would-be tyrants (the “attack poodles”, as Catherine has amusingly referred to such folks in the past) including this new lightweight, as well as Ardern, Trudeau, Freeland, Andrews, Sturgeon, etc., seem to be under the impression that they can make the most oppressive and damning of pronouncements, but that their terrifying words are somehow absolved by the presence of a sign language interpreter.

        1. Attack poodles they are indeed. Lol!

          A sign language interpreter next to a speaker has become a sign to me I’m probably going to need a big sack of salt, not a grain, to process what I’m about to hear from them.

          1. Yep, exactly.
            “You can definitely trust whatever this weirdo is saying, they care about deaf people”.
            Er…

          2. Also, did you catch the line, “I wasn’t expecting that question, so it’s not something I’ve pre-formulated an answer on”?

            Wow. Modern elected officialdom. Summed up in a single soundbite.

          3. Yes. So embarrassing how he grasped at straws there. Sinking deeper with each sentence.

            I really wonder what his mum thinks about all this?

    3. If a “gender identity” value was to be defined for machines/robots, and humans can initiate a bureaucratic process to change the gender identity recorded in their central government identity database record, could a human choose to define their identity as a machine/robot? Or vice-versa?
      Why do the proposed world government/health treaties emphasize an equivalence between human, animal and environmental concerns? Could trans-gender obfuscation be extended to trans-species obfuscation, e.g. human-machine or human-animal hybrids?
      Carnival Row S1 visualizes some of these topics. Trailer: https://www.invidious.baczek.me/watch?v=369LHB9N-Ro

      1. I think the aim is to confuse and break down family structures for the next generation of children so they’ll be easier to control and manipulate.

        Postmodernism where everthing is relative, has that kind of chaotic result.

        2. Also avoidance of lawsuits and treaties on chemical pollution: https://theecologist.org/2008/oct/01/ch-ch-changes

          Environmental toxins have given us lesbian seagulls and transgender crabs, but pollutants may also be causing gender ambiguity in humans … In 1991, a group of scientists met in Racine, Wisconsin, to discuss the effects of living in what many describe as a sea of artificial oestrogens, and issued something called the Wingspread Statement …

          ‘Unless the environmental load of synthetic hormone disruptors is abated and controlled, large-scale dysfunction at the population level is possible’ – which would seem to imply that social sexual choices and behaviour could be affected by exposure.

          … Five years later, Theo Colborn, Dianne Dumanoski and John Peterson Myers came out with the book Our Stolen Future, establishing that hormone effects were not only well-documented, but also subtler and more widespread than anyone had anticipated.

          What would the original Malthusians have thought about chemical disruption, living standards and population growth? From “Farewell to Arms”: https://faculty.econ.ucdavis.edu/faculty/gclark/Farewell%20to%20Alms/FTA-chapter2.pdf

    4. I just love watching the sign language… her signals and expressions say everything you need to know on the topic ???

  51. Peggy Hall making some great points about sniffing out Fakers/Phones/Controlled Opp. I know from personal experience that there are MANY…Some are fairly obvious after a little research and thought and you will say, I Should have seen that.” Others will lead you to the Dark Night of the Soul. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZMERzC31mU

  52. Beware local building code changes. Local authorities are pushing new building codes which require the builder to install car charging stations for all new homes. No wood stoves or gas stoves allowed.

    Denver is limiting the number of gas stations to force people into electric cars.

  54. Looking back at the 1999 WTO/globalization protests in Seattle. Might be good to stitch these into one video and host a backup. Youtube has a 1-hour subset of the 125 min total.

    https://archive.org/details/ddtv_186_a_showdown_in_seattle https://archive.org/details/ddtv_186_b_showdown_in_seattle https://archive.org/details/ddtv_186_c_d_showdown_in_seattle https://archive.org/details/ddtv_186_d_showdown_in_seattle https://archive.org/details/ddtv_186_e_showdown_in_seattle

    From a 2015 review of the similarly-named Hollywood movie,
    https://www.amazon.com/Battle-Seattle-Blu-ray-Andr%C3%A9-Benjamin/dp/B001O5LVVM/

    at the time of the protest, the only protestors committing acts of violence and vandalism were uniformly dressed in black with their faces concealed. They were voiceless, violent, and still seem to be as unaccountable now as they were at the time of the Seattle protest. In this movie, they were made to seem like real protestors with real voices, but that’s not how it actually was. The real protestors were trying to stop these athletes in black, if anything, while asking why were they being violent when it was a peaceful demonstration, etc. The heavy-handed police retaliation began only as a response to the few violent ‘protestors’, oddly all physically very fit and athletic and in their late twenties and early thirties. Odd about their consistency, isn’t it? And if they had been real protestors, why would they have remained silent, instead of singing protests, carrying signs and/or sitting like typical protestors? No, they were too busy destroying things and then vanishing into thin air, as though they had completed a mission. Anyone curious?

  55. I’ve been hearing discussions about the existence of NESARA as well as bonds that were issued and traded with the creation of every birth certificate — money that will be returned to us in time. Is there truth to either of these? I’m new to the Solari Report and have been searching the library for past or more recent discussion or mention of NESARA and/or the bond/birth certificate issue but haven’t come across anything. Any reality to either of these?

    1. My impression of NESARA/GESARA is that it’s fairy tales for adults.

      2. Yup. I think it got started by one person making a serious effort to propose real solutions, so the core material is worth reviewing.

    2. Julia I have a good friend who believes in the whole deal. Sorry I don’t buy it. Over the last 3 yrs he has told me so many things that have not panned out. As Catherine has said the Right uses mind control just like the left. The Trump carrot on the stick is a great example of that usage in my opinion. Two things I use to help Always ask questions about stuff we don’t know and always build the bigger picture. One of the big reasons I love to pick Catherine’s brain and read her comments. So keep asking questions………we should all keep asking……..

    1. Don’t understand Kirsch’s comment. The data provided by an anonymous survey can not be be independently investigated and corroborated. The paper should not be amended.

      The journal has made it clear it is not willing to base its publications on facts and its stated peer review and publication process as opposed to politics. A great deal of time and effort was made over almost a year to make the survey politically acceptable for this journal for the initial publication. So is this really publication worth investing additional time and effort in?

      There is a broader question here. When will choose to commit to transparency instead of sucking up to those who are killing us? At some point twisting ourselves into knots to please those who do not have integrity or are afraid or base their process on politics – whatever the reasons – is not an optimal use of our time.

      1. Mark Skidmore strikes me as balanced, brilliant, reasonable, and calmly on point. Having survived in Academia as long as he has, I suspect he may have already come to similar conclusion(s), as to what you are saying Catherine. You have to admire his patience :).
        Steve K. is an interesting character, and I appreciate his efforts & accomplishments too, however, he seems (IMO) too frequently tempted to provocation and devil’s advocate. That can be a waste of time and precious thinking time and space.
        It did occur to me also that the “retraction” could end up giving more attention to the survey. It could easily backfire into greater publicity, as more and more are people seem to be paying attention.

        1. That would be a wonderful outcome. Bound to happen at some point. Many of the best papers are being retraced.

  57. I look forward to Money and Markets every week. And, I miss you and John during the off weeks! Especially during this volatile time.

      1. Good idea. John and I both love the reports we get from subscriber – best actionable intelligence we receive.

    1. https://www.patreon.com/posts/79871723

      the Fed is at war with Eurodollars, both ‘real world’ and ‘crypto.’ This bank run was absolutely another hit job on ‘crypto’ but not Bitcoin.  

      SVB eurodollar deposits in branches outside of the US (e.g. Cayman) were of course not covered by US FDIC. What were the relative sizes of the US vs. non-US depositor base? What percentage of non-US deposits were withdrawn before collapse?

  60. An inspirational example of push back (hat-tip to UKColumn extra):
    Colchester (UK) residents present solid research on EV’s at their local council meeting in a very calm, measured and polite manner, also reminding councillors of their “duty of care” and liabilities.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1b7nH8L5Ko

    1. That’s a fantastic video, well done to the residents who brought such facts to the attention of their local councilors. I thought the body language of the panel was extremely arrogant and dismissive.

  61. I thought that the CBDCs wouldn’t be ready for at least another year. Panic from the Central banks?

    1. CBDCs are far from ready to go. Buy financial and payment systems capacity to do surveillance and control are increasing daily without CBDCs.

    2. George Gammon gives a great definition of CBDCs (on the Feds website) and clears up the fact that it is NOT a new unit of currency.

      “A CBDC is NOT a new form of money/currency issued by the Fed.

      Again, it simply means you have an account with the Fed and you’re using bank reserves as legal tender.

      IOW, base money becomes broad money.” — George Gammon

      If our deposits were transferred from our bank balance sheet to the Feds balance sheet that would make them a CBDC. The only thing needed is a central bank ledger system/software. You can see how these bank bailouts/bank runs could facilitate that process.

      https://www.youtube.com/live/nsAUXmIjU1o?feature=share

      1. That reserve money is not programmable per Carsten’s statement, so it isn’t the CBDC he was envisioning. The programmable CDBC is a new form of money.

  62. China-style regulation of US internet?

    https://twitter.com/greg_price11/status/1640722365809147905

    https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/686/text?s=1&r=15

    https://dossier.substack.com/p/the-patriot-act-on-steroids-dc-uniparty

    https://beincrypto.com/vpn-users-risk-20-year-jail-sentences-us-restrict-act/

    https://old.reddit.com/r/TheDollop/comments/122gu0t/the_next_patriot_act_but_so_much_worse_bill_s686/

    TikTok staff changes: https://www.mintpressnews.com/nato-tiktok-pipeline-why-tiktok-employing-national-security-agents/280336/

    1. Data becomes a national security issue, so tech companies become subject to national security concerns. As data is ubiquitous, from simple internet use to more of the physical data collected from 5G platforms, everything related to data can be related to national security.

      One great reason to make legislation very broad and ambiguous is that it gives flexibility to the enforcement arm to pursue violations as they deem fit at the current moment. At any other moment, the priorities can be changed without needing new legislation. The policy pursued at the moment can be very specific, such as targetting one specific entity or specific industry. Or it can be not enforced at all. This is a very East Asian model of governance, ambigous laws with uneven enforcement.

      1. Opaque, uncertain and ever-changing “dynamic” policy is at the heart of CBDCs, kill switches, psy warfare and control systems.
        Since ambiguous legislation can neither be enforced nor judged consistently, it defeats separation of powers and undermines social contracts with the all-important karmic consent of the governed.
        https://scholarlycommons.law.northwestern.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1115&context=nulr

        The U.S. Constitution’s separation of powers has its origins in the British idea of the desirability of a Mixed Regime where the King, the Lords, and the Commons all checked and balanced one another as the three great estates of the realm. Aristotle, Polybius, Cicero, St. Thomas Aquinas, and Machiavelli all argued that Mixed Regimes of the One, the Few, and the Many were the best forms of regimes in practice because they led to a system of checks and balances.

  63. Bug report: “News Trends & Stories” link in the right column points to 2022, while the NTS link on top menu bar points to 2023 articles.

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