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  1. Catherine, in the past you talked about budgets being balanced with depopulation. If there are off planet agendas is depopulation still needed to the same degree? Considering the breakaway civilization, what is the agenda for the planetary population?

    1. Cybele:

      If you want to look at things from a possible depopulation point of view, here is one piece that could help you see this from the “livestock” management mindset:
      http://tinyurl.com/o9swtcg

      I don’t know where this is coming from, but I think there is real concern about how many people the planet support and in what form. Another question is whether or not there is an immigration happening from off planet or other dimensions or concern about serious space weather issues.

  2. Yesterday on a plane flight I had an amazing 3-hour conversation with a very intelligent 16-year old young lady who has plans to attend a top university for physics and engineering. She has a particular interest in robotics. We discussed artificial intelligence, transhumanism, GMOs, geoengineering, breakthrough energy, breakaway civilization, UFO/ET, and how her generation is flooded with distractions from “reality”. I was impressed by her intense interest and thoughtful questions throughout the whole 3 hours. As a gift, I provided her my copy of the 2015 Free and Inspired wrap-up report, which she promised to read and share with her family and friends. I walked off that plane with a greater sense of hope than I’ve had in a long time, that a new generation of leaders will indeed awaken and rise up. I believe Haley will be one of them.
    Joel Garbon

    1. Wouldn’t you love to see the facts of of what was behind this story! What a world.

  5. Apologies if this was already posted.

    http://business.financialpost.com/2014/07/14/secret-path-revealed-that-allows-wealthy-chinese-to-transfer-billions-overseas-buying-pricey-property-in-vancouver-new-york-and-sydney/

    “HSBC Holdings Plc, which runs the largest branch network among foreign banks in China, offers its Chinese clients another way to access offshore mortgages while avoiding the cap on foreign-exchange conversion … Customers deposit yuan with HSBC’s mainland unit or purchase its wealth-management products, and the bank’s overseas branch then issues a foreign-currency denominated mortgage using the China deposits as collateral, the person said.”

    http://www.theprovince.com/business/Will+cancellation+Immigrant+Investor+Program+spark+flight+Chinese+money/9886021/story.html

    “in March 2014, just weeks after the federal government announced cancellation of the Immigrant Investor Program (IIP), average prices for detached homes in Greater Vancouver dropped by a monthly record of 11 per cent from February 2014. Young says the IIP was “the most popular scheme in the world for millionaire migrants” from China to protect their wealth against fears of social and political upheaval at home. It provided a cheap, risk-free, and almost guaranteed path to citizenship.”

  6. Would Catherine please explain the concept “U.S. dollar bear trap ” Thanks, TF

    1. If you look at the technical definition of the term “bear trap,” I am somewhat misusing it. I am referring to setting a trap for the investors and constituents who are planning on the dollar staying low or falling. Instead, they find themselves trapped in a scenario where the dollar rises and, as a result, are financially or politically in a tight spot or cornered.

      For example, a large emerging market financial institutions borrows in dollars and reinvests in the local currency. As the economy slows, the amount of dollars that the local economy is making falls. QE ends, interest rates rise. Suddenly, it takes a lot more work to earn a dollar and it is more expensive to borrow dollars. But the institution has to pay whatever it costs – because the money is owned. Add up enough such institutions and sovereign governments and you get significant momentum behind the growing fears.

      The US is in the enviable position of being able to print dollars – in good times and bad.

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