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1. Catherine, news from Alberta.

   The federal government has quietly begun the creation of Personal Information Banks (PIB) to collect and store data on Canadians. Categories of information include biometrics (DNA, blood type, eye/facial scan, fingerprints, etc), personal biography, medical history, financial history, credit information, etc…

   The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) has added it to their Privacy Terms so that in order to submit an application for benefits you must click that you agree to terms including “…being described in Personal Information Bank (under development)” in order to submit your application. It is also a term in the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) application and will likely will be a term of condition for submitting your income tax return.

   In other words, Premiers Moe and Smith will agree to digital IDs while deceiving the public.

   1. You can just mail in your form for benefits, you do not have to do online. The website states that it will take 4 months by paper to get approved…but you can backdate your request date to start. I sent in my CPP by paper and it was approved in 5 days. I did not see any of the PIB stuff posted that you refer to so it must of came in after November 2022. I was going to apply online through Service Canada and authentication was done in the past using my banking information…that changed in November. It goes to your bank but there is a new agreement that you must agree to with Interac and it basically says you have to agree to anything they want to do in the future. Then I learned that Interac signed an agreement with the federal in October 2022 to be the purveyors of digital ID in Canada.
      https://www.interac.ca/en/content/news/interac-acquires-securekey-digital-id-services-for-canada-five-things-you-need-to-know/
      more scary stuff with Interac:
      https://www.interac.ca/en/content/ideas/collaborating-with-interac-get-to-know-the-innovation-partnerships-team/

   2. Hi Elisabeth, thanks for posting this. Do you know where I would find the details from the CRA? Was looking around on the website and didn’t see it.

      1. https://www.canada.ca/en/treasury-board-secretariat/services/access-information-privacy/access-information/information-about-programs-information-holdings/standard-personal-information-banks.html

         1. Much appreciated Elisabeth

   3. Groan

2. CBDC tracker tool with world map
   https://cbdctracker.org/

   1. Thank you.

3. hI Cate, I just viewed your exchange with Viviane Fischer and Wolgang Wodarg of the Corona Investigative Committee. Good stuff. I am beginning to understand the depth of shit that we’re in: deep!

   Any insight into the schism that developed between them and Reiner Fuellmich?

4. Re: work cultures, https://twitter.com/chrisjbakke/status/1633501676299771905

   Scheduling a meeting:

   American: “I’m having brain surgery tomorrow from 2-5pm but can do 5:15pm tomorrow if that works”

   European: “Tomorrow is the 789th anniversary of the local cheesemaker setting up shop in our town, which is a 3-day holiday, but I can do next week.”

   1. Touché!

5. Silicon Valley Bank + social media incitement, https://twitter.com/search?q=svb%2Bbank

   https://twitter.com/billclerico/status/1633982764562415616

   Zero inside knowledge, but JPMorgan has always coveted SVB’s business. I’d bet on something happening there. Fed won’t let SVB lose customer deposits.

6. Hi:

   What was the book reference to the Federal Reserve, Income tax and Drugs?

   Thanks

   1. Dan Russell, Drug Wars

      Also highly recommended for this history

      Organized Crime and American Power: A History

      • Michael Woodiwiss
      • Published 1990

7. Hi Catherine,
   FYI, Professor Zharkova’s modelling of solar activity forecast a Grand Solar Minimum beginning 2028 and lasting until 2042. The dates are a bit hazy, because the taper into GSM begins around 2020. Part of the forecast is colder spring weather with delays to crop planting, and reduced yields.
   Yesterday my local supermarket had a notice apologising for problems with the supply of bell peppers because of cold weather in Spain.

   1. Indeed. Not afraid to stand up in front of an audience and say “well, we’ll know relatively soon if I’m right or wrong”. Could well be why there is so much push to “reduce CO2 emissions” now, so when the planet turns colder they can point to that being that being the cause, and not the fact that Prof. Zharkova knew where the dimmer switch was.

      1. Next time you are putting petrol into your car, run these numbers through your head (just rough calculations). To fill 50 Litres, pay, and drive off takes around 5 minutes. That is 600 litres per hour per pump. Each litre is close to 10KWh, hence 6 MWh delivered by each pump at peak times.
         660MW is a common size for a large, steam driven, electrical generating set.
         My local politicians have signed up to the climate emergency. Presumably they want to replace those petrol cars with Teslas, and do away with a number of petrol filling stations. How many? To some extent, that’s a different question, but on a like for like basis, that would be 110 pumps replaced by one 660MW set in a new power station!
         If there are plans for new power stations, I must have missed that news. And, it takes ~100,000 miles to get to breakeven for an EV and that’s after they have been on the road for quite a while.
         Just sayin’

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