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  1. I enjoyed the Greg Hunter interview and like your idea that we should at least be told where the $40T went, but then I began to muse about what such an accounting would look like. Would it include as assets (12) Solar Warden carriers, the depreciation on same, etc., and if so, wouldn’t we see that same money flowing through Lockheed-Martin, Boeing, General Dynamics, KBR, Halliburton, etc.? In turn, wouldn’t it be flowing through their banks, eventually ending up in the already recognizable economy? I don’t think it’s there, which suggests the ‘open’ economy leads somewhere invisible to us. This then begs the question of what is the transcendent currency, which as its very term implies, must flow for it to have any purpose. Money, like a river, has a velocity and area, which multiply to a quantity in a given time. That quantity must pass through other measurement places, even if we cannot see where it eventually goes. Where might we take such a downstream measurement?

    1. If you look at how much was flowing through investment and LBO firms in 1998-99, I think there is plenty right here on earth in the open economy.

      Step one = amount leaving government = grab back by common law right of offset and escrows
      Step two = hold private banks and defense contractors liable – offset against liabilities or exercise ownership of shares
      Step three – identify investment firms who received – assert ownership of assets
      Step four – identify assets – seize assets.

      between 1989 and 2010, U.S. attorneys seized an estimated $12.6 billion in asset forfeiture cases. The growth rate during that time averaged +19.4% annually. In 2010 alone, the value of assets seized grew by +52.8% from 2009 and was six times greater than the total for 1989. Then by 2014, that number had ballooned to roughly $4.5 billion for the year, making this 35% of the entire number of assets collected from 1989 to 2010 in a single year. Now, according to the FBI, the total amount of goods stolen by criminals in 2014 burglary offenses suffered an estimated $3.9 billion in property losses.

      http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-07-19/feds-just-expanded-civil-asset-forfeiture-laws-nationwide

    1. Very bad news. Trump is not the only person who is sorry he appointed Jeff Sessions.

  3. Catherine, thank you for hosting the interview with Joseph Farrell interview. I really welcome his perspective and insight. My one comment to both of your questions as to “WHY is the Deep State so militaristic in the Middle East?” appears obvious to me and yet I don’t hear you mention it.

    The King Dollar global reserve system is entirely dependent on demanding that all oil sales be performed using the US$. Regimes unfriendly to the US$ get attacked by ISIS (Langley) or the West. Without foreign central banks holding US treasuries, our economic and monetary system based on consuming what others produces and exporting debt and military hardware in exchange would have collapsed a long time ago.

  6. A Google-affiliated company, formerly known as Google Life Sciences, is releasing 20 million bacteria-infected mosquitoes in Fresno, California:

    https://techcrunch.com/2017/07/14/googles-life-sciences-unit-is-releasing-20-million-bacteria-infected-mosquitoes-in-fresno/

    Here’s additional information, including a video describing the project:

    https://blog.verily.com/2017/07/debug-fresno-our-first-us-field-study.html

    And here’s one more article on the subject:

    https://www.rt.com/usa/396390-mosquito-verily-field-fresno/

  7. In follow-up to your interview with former Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, here’s a video clip where she discusses the pressure that’s exerted on members of Congress to sign a pledge of loyalty and support to the State of Israel, and if they don’t sign, their campaign funds begin drying up:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXaCym8RjJU

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