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  1. https://harvardmagazine.com/2020/05/right-now-risks-homeschooling

    this was interesting on a few levels. it was a very sloppy and poorly reasoned attack on homeschooling. basically argued “homeschoolers are abused by their uneducated fundamentalist parents” while in a public school you have a whole “village” to look after a child’s welfare. implicit is also the homeschool vaccine exemptions, which was not mentioned. the comments are great, much more cogent than the main article.

    terrible article but it got me thinking, is this what is called a trial balloon? write the draft pro argument, and let the public feed back the arguments against. a kind of crowd sourced peer review of opposing views to the author’s main thesis. the author then has a better idea of what angle to take in their next attack. I am assuming this lady is working on something related to attacking homeschooling that is deeper in scope.

    if this is indeed the strategy now, interested people should NOT put forward the effort to honestly and cogently reply to these kinds of things. why give someone a knife with which they can attack you?

    on a deeper level this relates to the many surveillance capitalism / data monster encounters we have on a daily basis, and a way to approach them. the AI algorithms, and digital censorship in general, have one serious flaw which make them far less effective than we imagine them to be. that is, computers can only read things literally, without the human prism of sarcasm, or allegory, or analogy, or humor.

    if you ever research the state of literature and press in Poland during the Soviet days, you will find a lot of examples where things got past the censors due to double meaning or humor or the like. the effect was normal people got a good laugh and a reminder that the emperor had no clothes.

    for example, in the 80s the govt showed a documentary about NYC and how homeless people were sleeping on the street while everyone under socialism had a home. a few days later an ad appeared in the classified section of the main paper, “WILL TRADE DOWNTOWN APARTMENT IN WARSAW FOR A CARDBOARD BOX UNDER A BRIDGE IN NYC.”

    you mentioned before that kids should learn about encryption which is definitely true, but there are also much more human and fun ways to enjoy a good laugh while foiling the data beast. the beast has no sense of humor!

  2. Dear Catherine

    Spiro Skouras has an excellent interview with Dr. Tenpenny – “This is The Biggest Scam Ever Perpetrated on The Human Race” which I learned about from your Twitter posting on the 4th May:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_9bQ_Ri9p0

    One important quote of Dr Tenpenny’s from the interview I’d like to share is,” When we say safe and effective, the general population of people who hear the word ‘effective’ equates that to mean it keeps you from getting sick but I can tell you that being effective just means you get an antibody, a marker of contamination, and you can have very high antibody levels and still get sick. So I want people to know that effective is not a synonym for protection; it’s just not.”

  3. Catherine,

    You’re not getting my emails. I already called James.

    Najat

  4. Catherine,

    New Solari subscriber and I’m dumbfounded that I did not pony up sooner. Your Trends link aggregation service is worth the price of entry on its own.

    You changed my life forever when I was a young student at a “prestigious” University. I was campaigning for Ron Paul at the time and a friend showed me the late Mike Ruppert’s “Truth and Lies of 9/11” presentation in which you present the Red Button Scenario for the first time.

    That was nearly 10 years ago and now I’m a simple country homesteader who works from a laptop – no debt and no degree!

    It’s been difficult watching my friends suffer in the current predatory student loan regime, and now the few that thought they escaped by taking high-paying coastal tech jobs are stuck in a tenuous urban environment, to say the least.

    Becoming a “Jeffersonian Yeoman” was a lifestyle and health choice but in our current geopolitical and macroeconomic climate it’s shaping up to be a viable business model as well.

    Looking forward to the next report!

    1. Joshua:

      Welcome! I am VERY happy you are not stuck in a tech environment with an overinflated balance sheet! The ground is such a fine place to be right now. 🙂

      Catherine

      1. “The ground is such a fine place to be right now.”

        What a beautiful way to put it, hope you don’t mind if I borrow that one 🙂

        I initially signed up for a 30 day membership and could not in good conscience refuse the 1 year upgrade. Happy to support Solari for the long haul – your work is tremendously important. I couldn’t afford to support as a 19 year old all those years ago, but at 28 I’m glad to be able to invest in your continued success.

        When I used to be more active in alternative media, perhaps the greatest honor I received was when your friend and colleague Dr. Joseph P. Farrell saw fit to respond to one of my articles on Giza Death Star:
        https://gizadeathstar.com/2016/07/yet-another-perspective-coup-turkey-drugs-connection/

        The second greatest honor was Patrick Wood reblogging some of my writing on technocracy – were he still alive, Antony Sutton is the foremost historian I’d seek kudos from, so to have Mr. Wood’s acknowledgement is about as close as I can get! 😀

        In a somewhat bizarre twist of fate, I ended up running the exchange desk of a mid-size cryptocurrency company for a few years after retiring my blog – part quant, part project lead, part software developer. The industry is still very small and it’s strange to think that little ‘ol me is only one or two degrees of separation at this point from Larry Summers or Bill Gates – strange and unwanted bedfellows, to say the least.

        If I wanted to pass along some information to you on how the proverbial “blockchain sausage” gets made for your consideration, what’s a good email address to do so? I think the core of your thesis about Mr. Global and digital Wampum beads is as hilarious as it is prescient and I’m thrilled to hear you connecting more and more dots about Ripple, but in the spirit of candor, Ripple’s interbank lending standard is actually “old news” by crypto standards, having been started in 2014 or so.

        Things have accelerated greatly since then and are largely coalescing around BTC, and more importantly, the company that now controls the BTC repository called Blockstream. They got their seed capital from none other than Henri de Castries’ AXA Ventures, former chair of the Bilderberg steering committee, and have since been back-door financed via MIT Media Labs, the Gates Foundation, and even Epstein as Joi Itoi’s VC fund Digital Garage was also a Series A financier.

        “Make sure to log these donations under $100,000, it’s from Bill’s friend,” Itoi mused in the leaks while funneling black money to further research on the ill-fated Lightning Network.

        The MIT email leaks were ASTRONOMICALLY important for the entire cryptocurrency industry but everyone’s lips are still sealed tight, save for a few projects making noise about its ramifications. Many took the ticket and will never talk about it publicly, but most of the developers are just naiive idealists who don’t understand geopolitics. Working in the industry I came to learn that well as you did while attending crypto conferences.

        Mr. Global doubtlessly fired a “co-option shotgun” at the entire industry a few years back and now has enough festering wounds to offer pre-established treatment to those compromised firms.

        Any time you hear the term “sidechain” or “layer 2 scaling solution”, put on your They Live glasses!!!

        Wishing you the best,
        -Joshua

  6. Dear Catherine

    What an excellent report! You have given me so much to think about.

    You suggest writing letters to public officials. When I hear this I imagine an old Colonel Blimp type chap getting all indignant and threatening that he’s going to write a letter to The Times, convinced that this will put the world in order. I suspect that in reality when letters arrive they are opened and if there is a cheque enclosed it is taken out. Then rest is put in the wastepaper basket.

    I loved your Hypocrisy Awards. I found this link to the Tucker Carlson clip in which he reports on some of the offenders you mentioned:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFNvcw12d08

    At the end of Carlson’s clip he says, “They simply don’t care enough about your opinion to bother with what you think.” In such a world, where lobbyists influence outcomes and elections are manipulated, would my writing letters really accomplish anything other than wasting my time?

    Later on you talked about the American bankruptcy epidemic. Let’s spare a thought for people in counties which do not have bankruptcy laws. In Germany, for example, there is no personal bankruptcy, no second chance. (In German the word for ‘debt’ and ‘guilt’ is the same.) Bankruptcy in Germany is only available to companies, which means that people can never escape. They must carry their debts with them until they die. As far as I know there is no personal bankruptcy in China https://www.gdlaw.ca/blog/2019/06/no-personal-bankruptcy-laws-in-china.html
    or in Viet Nam or in a host of other countries, especially those with a strong culture of face-saving. People there must turn to the black market where they get caught in a spiral of debt which with usurious interest rates spirals out of control. If they don’t pay back everything plus interest on time they or their family members wind up being maimed or killed as a punishment and also as a lesson to others as to what happens on those who renege. One way people try to get out of this debt spiral is by selling their organs, but I expect that now, if the law of supply and demand are still working then the glut of people selling their organs will shift the supply curve upwards meaning that the price these desperate people get for their kidneys will drop significantly. Compared to this, bankruptcy doesn’t seem so bad

    To end on a happy note, I am indeed looking forward to hearing your causes for optimism as I am to your next report.

  7. Dear Catherine

    In the Notes for ‘Questions for Catherine’ you are asked you about flip phones and you reply that you’re researching them. Can you please briefly explain what is so special or different about flip phones and what their significance or advantage is?

    Also, many thanks to the subscriber who shared his extensive information on assessing web browsers.

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