Special Solari Report: Weaponizing Blockchain: Profiting on the Growth of Inequality with Alison McDowell

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1. This was a great conversation. Listening to you both talking about the meaning of life and what it means to be human reminded me of this chilling report I just read on a Government of Canada site, Policy Horizons Canada. It is about the future of sense making and ‘Examining changes to the ways we think, act, and behave.’ A good example of what you were talking about…Here is the link:
   https://horizons.gc.ca/en/2021/05/29/the-future-of-sense-making/

2. I have been trying to understand all the implications/applications of the blockchain. Catherine, do you not think there can be uses of the blockchain that could protect privacy.

   1. there are reports now that there are quantum computers that the government uses to break the blockchain.

3. Yet another amazing Solari interview. I am so glad to be a part of this community! Sending blessings your way.

4. Dear Catherine

   What a treat it is to listen to two brilliant and articulate ladies, both of whom see the big picture.

   The funny thing is that each of you describes a different big picture yet your big pictures are somehow the same. It’s amazing that despite the grim scenarios you both present you are nevertheless able to laugh and smile. I think that laughing and smiling (which are now obscured with masks) will save the world.

   Alison mentioned Sophia, the robot, who is a citizen of Saudi Arabia. How does this work? If a robot can be made a citizen then can Mickey Mouse or a cup of tea be made a citizen too? Is there a 2-tier citizenship? If not then do robots have the same rights and obligations as humans, including doing such things as serving on a jury, getting married, getting citizenship through marriage, adopting children, filing tax returns, being conscripted, serving a prison sentence, being forced to retire at 72 and voting? Anything else would be apartheid, racism and discrimination.

5. Excellent interview – Alison does fantastic work and it’s nice to see the synthesis of researchers like the late Joan Veon, Rosa Korie, and Patrick Wood in an energetic and well-researched package!

   Alison is also very fatalistic, though – not in an overtly negative way, but she doesn’t see even passive resistance like local food systems or opting out of Big Tech software stacks as meaningful on a large scale.

   Where, then, are we to go from here? Just research Transhumanism ad-nauseam and hope Boards of Directors, 501c3, and Federal grants change or dry up?

   I have to believe that the Sustainable Development Goal’s shift to Public-Private Partnership is in part related to requiring our consent – either through the extralegal system of Terms and Conditions or the more spiritual aspect of compliance.

   What are we to do but withdraw our consent? To run alternate, data-respecting OSes like Linux. To stop feeding the DataBeast in our pocket with projects like https://privacytogo.co/ To grow our own food. To raise our own animals. To give community banking a shot.

   We all know telecoms and low-level hardware manufacturers are compromised at incredibly deep levels. Satellites and EMF are running rampant. Digital enforcement of financial access is about to be in full swing, and perhaps soon, robots for physical enforcement.

   But we must try where we can. Midianite-style. Joshua takes Jerusalem-style. David and Golaith-style. Harness God, the Tao, whatever the unnameable architect of Life is. The alternative is sheer despair.

   1. We need to be willing for pathways to appear.

      1. The trails provided by Divine Intelligence at present aren’t well-blazed and still only adjacent to the Transhuman Path.

         But it’s a start!

6. fantastic interview!

   regarding breaking the trance. one persistent myth we always hear is how America is a free market economy, and competition makes our country different from others.

   but looking around it’s clear monopolies, oligopolies, and centralization is the game.

   one book which deals with this topic from a very bottom up way is “Wealth Secrets of the One Percent” by Sam Wilkin.

   from the intro: “it is the central claim of this book… these wealth secrets involve some sort of scheme for defeating forces of market competition. most involve clever legal maneuvering or the exercise of political power. ”

   the book builds a up from a natural monopoly /robber barons/ to legislative monopolies /Indian conglomerates/, too big to fail monopolies /banking sector – being too big to fail is great business security/ and it ends with an short analysis of Microsoft.

   the “end” of the book is really just the beginning, because the authors analysis can be used to analyse other sectors of economy.

   so it’s a good primer. discussing blockchain and central banking are quite “advanced” levels of this analysis. this book is like “wealth centralization 101”.

7. Yes I can bear witness that the City of Philadelphia is a city of extreme poverty and extreme inequality. It used to annoy me how the modern day yuppies, whatever the label is they use these days would talk about, “oh isn’t Philly a great city”, they were referring to the fact that the city being great was their own little bubble that they lived in Old City, South Street, 12th and Locust, but I am sure none of them ever travelled to West 64th Street or Southwest Philly or Northwest Philly or North Philly or Strawberry Mansion for that matter. I used to have to wait for the bus on a street corner that looked like a war broke out without sidewalks reduced to rubble and houses that were completely hollowed out. No shame.

   And she is right, where did the Left go? They became corporatists. I remember there was an office of the Socialist Workers Party right on South Street back when it was dangerous to be on South Street at a certain time of night. Where are they now? Gone.

   And as far as firebombing, the City of Philadelphia is used to firebombing, they did it to the MOVE organization, you could literally see a police helicopter drop what looked like a paint can on top of their house and it immediately ignited into flames. I saw all of this live on TV and I was only 16 years old. All the adults pretended not to see what just happened and I was like, why did that police helicopter just bomb their house? Isn’t that what bad people do?

   So yeah thanks to nasty Philadelphia and Camden I became politicized early on in life.

   1. History repeating – the Hippies of the 60s and 70s became the current Corporatocracy and now the Millennial Hipsters/Rage Against the Machine generation eagerly takes their place in the hierarchy.

8. Okay, what was that about firebombing? What is that about a “Bloomberg” appointment for a Philadelphia administration? By the way, I once bumped into Mayor Nutter as I was on my cellphone talking to my daughter and I just said excuse me and kept walking, I had no idea who I bumped into, but I sensed the person felt insulted. When I looked again it was Nutter, he had a look in his face of how dare you…don’t you know who I am, I am surmising of course. He had just stepped out of his black SUV, you know what all the mafiosi ride in. I laughed to myself and kept walking and talking to my wonderful daughter on the phone. Doesn’t speak highly of his security detail though, does it? Haha 🙂

9. Excellent analysis. Thanks for delineating the pre-planned political structure of the blockchain/crypto tool now in play.

10. This interview puts the legitimacy of blockchain based cryptos in a coffin and nails it shut. Glad this is public, sending to people asking me about my opinion of cryptos. The total perspective from a financial and technological viewpoint is extraordinarily useful. Combined with interviews from Patrick Wood and Bill Binney, this topic is completely covered. Greatly appreciated – no idea where else this level of detail would be available.

11. I have been waiting to hear this for months. Solari does it again. Spectacular. I am especially happy to see how big picture thinking (Catherine) and detail thinking (Alison) mesh so well.
    I hope you do this again when Alison isn’t on the run.
    I loved the Alison’s live stream Revocation of Consent ceremony.
    It was fabulous ❤️

    Thank you Catherine for all your fabulous interviews.

    Money and Markets with John is incredible ?

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