Money & Markets Report: February 16, 2023


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Theme: It’s a bird, it’s a plane—it’s a DISTRACTION

Interview: The Economy of the Energy Body with Ulrike Granögger

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  1. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2021/11/16/warren-buffett-bill-gates-build-nuclear-power-plant-wyoming/8634699002/

    Gates and Buffett are building a $4 billion Natrium reactor in Kemmerer, Wyo. It’s a smaller reactor like those used in Navy submarines and uses a different type of fuel. They claim this is the future of nuclear energy. The federal government is paying half the cost. Gate’s company, Terra Power, is partnering with the federal government to develop a US controlled source of fuel. The reactor is expected to be running in seven years and to operate for 60. It’s expected to provide power to 250,000 homes. Kemmerer is a small town of 2,700, fairly close to Salt Lake City. The Natrium reactors are said to be faster to build, cheaper and safer. It’s cheaper to build because it’s built with less expensive concrete to contain the reactor.

  2. Oxalates are a factor in the formation of kidney stones. Reading Toxic Superfoods, Sally K Norton, I was surprised by a list on page 110 of ingestible oxalate precursors. Included in that list was ethylene glycol. I don’t know why antifreeze might be in our food but I recall they put it in the Covid shots (polyethylene glycol). Norton doesn’t mention the shots and may be unaware of the connection. Her book discusses ways to reduce oxalates in the body: diet, lemons, calcium citrate, potassium citrate and magnesium.

  4. James Delingpole did an interview with Sandi Adams recently, and she commented that the UK plans on implementing CBDC by December 2023.

  5. The official report on Trudeau’s invocation of the Emergencies Act comes out today.
    The Commissioner (Justice Paul Rouleau) is the husband of Justin Trudeau’s aunt.

    At least they’re keeping it in the family.

    1. I tried to verify. It looks like this is not the case. Pierre Rouleau married Carol Paquette. See the obituary of his father in this thread:
      https://www.tweet247.net/canada/pierre%20rouleau
      So he isn’t related in this way but the Paul Rouleau (judge that presided over the inquiry) is Liberal party member. Still a conflict of interest. Justin Castreau doesn’t care about the need to appear impartial since he is never held to account for all of his lawlessness.
      See this:
      In 1983, he was part of John Turner’s leadership campaign to take over when Pierre Trudeau announced his retirement. Rouleau then had a hand in helping pick Turner’s cabinet once he won leadership and is described in various media reports as either his executive assistant or appointments secretary in media reports from that era.
      from this link
      https://torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/lilley-trudeaus-inquiry-cant-be-used-to-sweep-emergencies-act-failings-under-the-carpet

  6. Reader’s note: John has his geography wrong. East Palestine is on the Ohio/Pennsylvania border. Pittsburgh is downwind by an hour from there. N. Lima is a tiny place probably no more than 30 miles to the NW. Lima is in western Ohio and is a much larger, industrialized city off I-75 that he may have gone through. Close downstream from E. Palestine on the Ohio River are water intakes for many, many cities. I am pretty sure the selection of burning was considered the lesser of evils versus letting large quantities of toxic liquids spread that way.

    Keep in mind, only local authorities, particularly firemen, who were probably volunteers, had the job of dealing with it. There wasn’t any help from Columbus or Washington DC. There was a much bigger US HAZMAT response when the tractor trailer full of Covid vaccines rolled over on I 77 in West Virginia during 2021.

    1. Yeah, you’re exactly right. Like I said, I’ve driven through Lima (where that local news story originated) plenty of times. And I’m right that Lima is 75 miles away from Palestine–on the western side of the state. However, I made two big mistakes:
      (1) North Lima is nowhere near Lima; it’s on the east side of the state; and
      (2) East Palestine is nowhere near Palestine; it’s on the east side of the state as well.
      This generated a third mistake:
      (3) while Lima is in fact 75 miles away from Palestine, North Lima is only 15 miles away from East Palestine.
      Ugh. So glad I moved out of the midwest. Aside from being warmer in the south (it’s 65 degrees in Raleigh today vs. 25 in Wolcottnam today), the geography is much less confusing imo.
      That said, the Ohio River is one of the more breathtaking sights I’ve come across in the U.S. (esp. where it meets the Kanawha River at the W.Va border), and the consideration you raise re spillage into the river is a valid one.

      1. I appreciate your work and attitude. I also maintain an NC residence on the coast and a cordial relationship with our hostess. We’re both from West Philly and had surgeon fathers. We lived in the cheaper section than the Fitts’ but moved out when it began to get too dangerous.

  7. It’s been years since I first pointed out that the cost of all of deception to keep the government and the powers that be in control would exceed the benefit of that control. What is the control grid, except the extension of this deception? Digital currency adds to it and will overtake the control grid itself if it becomes common place, but for now, the Internet of things contributes so much data management burden to the system, that it can on its own, outrun our energy resources. Soros, and whoever is above him will eventually have to fire the smart, young “leaders” that made the bad decisions to enact a universal surveillance system. The quarry is some tiny fraction of all the surveillance information, most of which will be useless in practice. These are people who adhere to economics before anything else, so the Midianite thing may eventually overtake their current management scheme.

    1. The #1 weakness in the automated control grid is its dependence on real-time signals for correlation of events and predictive analytics of future behavior. Like ChatGPT, it’s not intelligence but auto-complete, trying to predict “Next”, “Next”, “Next” based on historical patterns.
      The #1 way to increase cost in the control grid is to deny real-time signals for correlating event A to event B. Move from synchronous to asynchronous (partly offline) interactions. Download and read/watch offline. Batch and mix events so that cause and effect are non-obvious. Avoid just-in-time transactions and repeating behavior/location sequences that can teach algos to predict your “Next” actions.
      A German constitutional court has ruled against use of Palantir predictive policing algorithms, https://twitter.com/montezumachavez/status/1626255161935990785
      In the 2014 words of Dan Geer, CISO for In-Q-Tel, https://www.securityforward.com/cybersecurity-as-realpolitik-by-dan-geer/

      Misrepresentation is using disinformation to frustrate data fusion on the part of whomever it is that is watching you … Misrepresentation means putting a motor-generator between you and the Smart Grid .. Misrepresentation means hiding in plain sight when there is nowhere else to hide. 

      … I conclude that a unitary, unfakeable digital identity is no bargain and that I don’t want one. I want to choose whether to misrepresent myself. I may rarely use that, but it is my right to do so. If that right vanishes into the panopticon, I have lost something and, in my view, gained next to nothing. 

      … Sadder but wiser hires, however, come only from people who have experienced private tragedies, not global ones. There are no people sadder but wiser about the scale and scope of the attack surface you get when you connect everything to everything and give up your prior ability to do without. Until such people are available, I will busy myself with reducing my dependence on, and thus my risk exposure to, the digital world ..

    2. Yes, I am hoping the energy burden contributes mightily to implosion. May be why some believe they are trying to hook us up to the grid to get energy generated from us.

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