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  1. I have no idea how to navigate this site or if this writing will go through. I don’t even know if I belong here. But since I like to test systems any kind of systems I’m giving it a shot.

    Forgive me my first sin: I do not typically look at dates or times (in a situation like this I only think I shot the arrow near the bulls-eye) since I have always lived on a different clock…don’t ask me, but for me it works. Even in my little late world of boy oh boy oh boy I’m losing so much money I have forgiven so much…now I’m reaaaly mad. A woman scorned! I own it since I am also a broad…no apologies since Whom is the real feminist? Hillary, my rad fem college prof…finger shaking at them…no no no. I’m a broad and that’s what I own. In all it’s innocence and ugliness. I’m a broad who believes in the prince of peace. I deserve nothing, but pray mostly in the shower. I care about myself, my daughter’s, my dead husband the hispanic speaking children my youngest daughter teaches, I care about the seemingly horrific woman that stole my identity and the man whom killed my husband in a horrific fatal crash. Forgive us our colors since those whom caused me great harm were not my color. Yet…yet…yet… politics would have you believe that . Law would have you believe that. Even though I had lost so so so much freedom and money stolen from me by my identity gun-shooting desperate thieves I lost the thing that should matter most in a faithful and “just” society: the law itself. Through time, since I could not find anyone beginning with the cops (I like saying it that way since they are NOT enforcement of law and they are Not peace-keeper’s)
    to help me I noticed my long-term relationships with my financial “manager’s did NOT care.

    I need to leap here in order to shut myself up since I am “testing the system.” Wish me luck that this will go through since I hate writing like this and would much rather have a chit chat with warm and wild thinker’s. Thank God, you guys are smarter than me. I mean that!

    And pray that I keep my hot-head (common-sense) under control when it gets challenged. So far unlike Miz Fitts, my hot-head has worked in ways my fair lady couldn’t imagine. But I know, I’m running out of time for my natural temp.!

    I want to say one more thing: (I know I do not stop). If I could have chosen my mother it would have been Miz Fitts…she’d have been a great mother that could have made me a better daughter. In my mind I send her prayers and flowers (pink) and joy every day. And, I would make her laugh like I do my own daughter’s right now since people that love and have faith do that.

    Thanks for being born, Miz Fitts,

    Karen

  2. Hi Catherine,

    All this stuff is getting exposed!

    Here’s the NPR- This American Life radio episode from today:

    http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/536/the-secret-recordings-of-carmen-segarra

    And…here’s the writeup of the story of Carmen Segarra, the Fed Reserve examiner who was fired because she wasn’t handling Goldman Sachs with kid gloves….She was smart enough to record what she found before they fired her.

    http://www.propublica.org/article/carmen-segarras-secret-recordings-from-inside-new-york-fed

  3. Thanks, Catherine! I later found your Spiritual Warfare blog post from April 2010, and I found Lucille Compton’s article linked at the bottom of the blog post (Anatomy of a SWAT From A Lawyer’s Perspective) to be especially illuminating. Perhaps it bears repeating.

  4. Catherine, I was reading this article today by Michael Ventura about our society’s collective, willful denial about the fragility of our technology in the face of weather and/or terrorism events. Here’s the link:

    http://www.austinchronicle.com/columns/2014-08-08/letters-at-3am-vulnerability-connectivity-part-1/

    Anyway, it occurred to me that one of the major reasons people don’t want to look at the issues you, Dr. Farrell and others raise is that those issues are unbelievably frightening, perhaps particularly to minds caught in the effects of entrainment. It may be a useless exercise, but I wonder if you could ever do a Solari Report on the spiritual topic of assisting our friends and family with their fear in this area. It seems to me this would go right along with the other necessary effort of learning to live with and love people in our lives who refuse to face the reality of our world, no matter what evidence is offered. In other words, perhaps not only spiritual warfare is needed, but spiritual healing.

    Any thoughts?

    Kathy Churay

    1. P.S. – Perhaps facing our own fears would be part of this topic too. I love the line from Dune by Frank Herbert: “Fear is the mind killer…”

    2. Kathy:

      This is a great suggestions as the power of people looking at things and simply creating a new intention or prayer can have such a powerful effect. Also, the power of love.

      Thanks – I may have to do more than one Solari Report on Spiritual Warfare!

      Catherine

  5. Regarding your discussion with Jo Kline Sebuhur, JD, I wanted to point to work being done by a wonderful professional harpist, Martha Gallagher of Keene, NY, who is taking the year off from her usual countrywide tour to play for the High Peaks Hospice, both to soothe patients and to help in garnering funding resources for the hospice program. My husband died in Keene before the physicians got their act together and enrolled him into the hospice program, a problem for which I have never quite forgiven the regional physicians, as at 43, my husband was not prepared to endure the rapidly debilitating cancer that killed him six weeks from the time he was diagnosed. It was a dark time for all of us, and while I have held back my support for hospice because of my frustration, I have come to realize how valuable hospice can be for both the patient and the family. For this reason, I helped Martha purchase a small harp, easily carried into the homes and hospital, and also carried to the tops of our beloved Adirondack High Peaks to serenade not only the fellow travelers but the spirits, like my husband, who whisper through the birches. She hopes to create a series of videos of those mountain performances that will be available to help the hospice.

  6. Hi Catherine,

    First as a new subscriber I want to express a big thank you for the quality and scope of resources you offer. I particularly value the expertise and experience of those you interview and the value-add you yourself bring to these discussions. I’ve been a subscriber of Joseph Farrell’s website for many years and am delighted to have found something equally valuable yet different.

    As a software architect by profession with a keen personal interest in distributed information systems and cryptography I thought perhaps I could clarify a few points about bitcoin made in some of these discussions. Not that I necessarily disagree with the tone of your misgivings, there are indeed some strange things about bitcoin.

    The key invention of bitcoin was to solve what’s known as the Byzantine General’s Problem, namely how to ensure trust within a network of inherently untrustworthy participants without invoking a central controlling or arbitrating party – which as we all know only invites new risks of abuse. This was achieved by maintaining a distributed triple entry book-keeping ledger of transactions known as the blockchain secured with cryptographic functions and authenticated by an incentivised proof of work algorithm.

    The blockchain isn’t centrally stored or managed it is distributed to all nodes on the bitcoin network. If you install the Bitcoin-QT client this will download and maintain your own personal copy. Bitcoin wallets are a bit of a misnomer as they hold key chains rather than coins. These keys authenticate access to the funds you own for the issue of new transactions.

    Transactions on the ledger are assigned to addresses which disguise ownership using hash functions. While mathematically very secure for authentication purposes it doesn’t offer anonymity in terms of linked transactions and their aggregate volume. Third party services like CoinJoin and tools like Dark Wallet are specifically designed to add fuller anonymity by making such deductions much harder if not impossible.

    So bitcoin solves the decentralized trust problem using a distributed transaction ledger with strong security, integrity and authentication plus full traceability with a degree of anonymity – all features of open peer to peer systems. What’s more it does so extremely elegantly. Indeed the elegance of the solution is what has captivated many technologists most besides its potential.

    However its not just this elegance which is exceptional, the degree of foresight evidenced in dodging numerous cryptographic and operational pitfalls has proven uncannily prescient. What’s more as a generic solution to the decentralized trust problem the blockchain is a particularly disruptive and hence valuable technology potentially impacting authentication of ownership, contracts and governance in general. With currency being just the first and most obvious application of a long list including automating legal contracts, complex financial instruments, corporate governance, elections and so on.

    Perhaps too good or disruptive for comfort? So who or what was Satoshi Nakamoto, the possibilities are many and potentially disturbing. (Yet in contrast to the scope of vision and excellence of its solution, the implementation was rather sloppy needing numerous revisions which by now pretty much amount to a full rewrite.)

    Kind regards, Tony

    1. Tony:

      Would love to discuss this sometime. I am driving to California this week, so more later.

      Catherine

      1. Likewise Catherine.

        Especially how this likely relates to your bigger picture – slow burn breakaway economy. Look forward to hearing from you.

        Tony

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