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  1. Thanks to the subscriber who posted the Asha Logos video. It describes a book hidden in the Vatican Library for 1000 years! Eerie parallels to this century.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procopius

    > Procopius’s now famous Anecdota also known as Secret History was discovered centuries later at the Vatican Library in Rome and published in Lyon by Niccolò Alamanni in 1623. Its existence was already known from the Suda, which referred to it as Procopius’s “unpublished works” containing “comedy” and “invective” of Justinian, Theodora, Belisarius and Antonina. The Secret History covers roughly the same years as the first seven books of The History of the Wars and appears to have been written after they were published. Current consensus generally dates it to 550, or less commonly, 558.

  2. Catherine, my understanding is that Elon bought Tweeter to decentralize it, to convert it into a Decentralize Autonomous Organization or DAO. This is one of the avenues for globalization- based on what is call “democratization” via technology. Elon will probably create its own governance and money-making rules for Tweeter as is private entity, but it will promise freedom of expression and “individual ownership” to anybody around the world. Unfortunately, this creates a sovereign problem since it will bypass countries laws – so they will need to decide if they want to be part of the new global norm basically with no borders or not participate (potentially go broke).

    1. Best thing to do with Twitter is walk away. That is why we stopped using.

      1. Technologies and IoE internet of everything implications and availability is actually poorly understood by many people, companies and even governments. Reason why is also so difficult for people to accept that humans can be very wicked using information mediums.

        If we take Elon at his word and his intention is to open “real debate” in Twitter and save our democracy, then again we also need to consider he said that China rocks, robot slaves will replace every worker, universal basic income will soon be necessary, all vehicles will be autonomous, AI will achieve a God-like status, brain implants will connect us to that God, and ultimately that there is a chance our universe is just a computer simulation or Metaverse. Completely crazy!

        Indeed Catherine, it is probably better to stay away from most social media or don’t engage. But in our very interconnected world (and growing) it is most difficult especially for younger generations. Extremely complicated to overturned.
        Universities are probably the places where we need to begin to clean up “immediately”.

        1. All good points. I can live with some limited engagement. A serious presence on social media to do it right given the risk issues would be a very expensive proposition.

  3. I had a quick scan through
    https://library.solari.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Solari_2nd_Q_Wrap-Up_9-7-2016.pdf
    thinking this was the writeup on popsicles and productivity.
    I was looking for comments on the link between GDP/energy.per.capita/productivity but this seems to be missing from the Report.
    I came across a link to
    https://home.solari.com/mapping-your-local-financial-ecosystems/
    and that looked interesting but the link seems to be down.
    My comment re productivity is that if improved productivity is always linked to increased per capita energy consumption; and energy production is 80% burning stuff; what happens when our ability to burn stuff gets reduced?

      1. Hi Catherine, I has a quick scan through those links. WoW!!!!!
        It will take me a week or two to get up to speed on those presentations.
        Many (and huge) thanks for that work. Pardon my curiosity, but you refer a couple of times to software that us.gov has refused to return. What did it look like?
        And BTW on my searches for the documents I came across your report on soil health, and that led me to links on Chromatography. Again, thanks!
        So much time, so little to do … 🙂

          1. I have hacked on some unrelated bits of code, hence I’m interested in how all this came together, and the things that US.gov is keeping to itself. If I may ask, what has gone? is it the databases themselves, or access to the databases, the connecting and search software, or the indexed searches themselves, or the user interface?

  4. About 5 years ago I took a tenants rent check of $800 to the bank it was drawn on, Wells Fargo. Before cashing they requested a finger print. I did not comply, and a meeting of the minds ensued behind the glass. They caved. When asked how I would like my cash, I responded in $100 bills please. The teller responded we no longer use $100 bills. She handed me $50’s instead.

  5. My son went to Ukraine March 6, thinking he would be one of the volunteers Zelensky was calling to join the military there. Volunteers were not getting into the army. Some were funneled into the International Legion which he said are under the Ukranian military but the paperwork was taking upwards of two months and the volunteers were looking for other ways to find some action. Many went to the Georgians, which is a militia that’s been in Ukraine since 2014. They live off donations and don’t really do anything. Volunteers getting through were those with actual military and combat experience. One group he saw go through in March were American and said to be going in for extractions.

    Son has no military experience but tagged on with a group of Brits, also inexperienced, who went to Kiev on March 11. They were brought there by a young Brit whose mother is a member of Parliament. There were nine or ten of them. For about two weeks, they took shifts in a trench at the end of a runway at Kiev’s smallest airport. They were given uniforms and weapons but were actually unpaid labor for a Ukranian who owned an airline, equipment and buildings in the area of the airport. This man had contacts with the SBU (formerly KGB), thus the weapons and uniforms. The Ukranian housed them in a warehouse and fed them. The Ukranian Territorial Army was stationed in the airport terminal and on the perimeter of the airfield, so these volunteers were warned to only walk between their trench and the warehouse or risk being accidentally shot. Everyone was pretty twitchy at that time. The airports were not bombed. He saw rockets overhead but Kiev had a dome and these were intercepted. There was some damage on the outskirts of Kiev. At the end of two weeks, tired of sitting in the bitter cold, and with no real action, the volunteers wanted to quit. They were required to surrender their weapons and uniforms. Many kept their uniforms but they did surrender the weapons. The Ukranian who hired them, without pay, also had body guards who took longer shifts in the trench. They appeared to be well paid, clothed for the weather and conscientious in their task which is unusual for Ukraine. Son said there were many such unpaid volunteers, without weapons, wearing uniforms, wandering about Kiev trying to figure out where to go. He said the Russians had left except for a few deserters who were in the forests. They stayed behind to steal.

    Most of the time, son was in Lviv and a village called Schpaniv, “training” locals for the Georgians in small arms. Problem is, they didn’t have any guns or weapons. That’s a whole other story I’ll save for another time. The whole time these young “volunteers” wanted to get to the war but they were diverted and frustrated.

    On April 22, son travelled with others to Kiev hoping they could find a way to be sent to the front. This is his note about Kiev: “A lot of people have trickled back into the city since the last time I was here. It’s still nowhere near as populated as it is in peacetime, but there are normal people on the sidewalks, and normal cars on the streets. Most of the checkpoints have been deserted, except in the government district. Air raid sirens are ignored, and I haven’t heard a single explosion since I’ve been here.”

    Son spent several months in Kiev in 2021 as a tourist before the war so he is familiar with the area. He thinks there is war in Kharkiv, Mariupol and the Donbass. Other than what these young volunteers want to believe, I didn’t hear any credible information to confirm that.

    A young Ukranian in Schpaniv regularly transports aid supplies and food coming into Lviv to the Donbass where he says people are starving. Reportedly, his truck comes back with bullet holes and he’s risking his life to go. I think it’s true he’s going and there must be a need. I can’t confirm the truth of the danger. I’m skeptical whether there is a conflict over there.

    1. Looks like the money that they are trying to send to the Ukraine is part of a good old mafia shakedown.

  6. Just yesterday I was at a meeting of EU head veterinary officers, and they all agreed that by far the most important thing right now is avian influenza, and (shockingly) vaccination of birds. So they aim to give a political signal to the pharmaceutical industry to encourage them to develop a vaccine. Very kind of them. : )

  7. Hi Catherine, I’m a married 39 year old, no kids but would like to have some soon. We live in the Hudson Valley of NY in a condo, which isn’t as resilient as we’d like. We’re contemplating a small nearby land purchase but we’re not sure if it’s best to deepen our roots in NY or maybe hedge towards a more free state like NH, Tenn, or FL. I’m also curious if you’ve seen particular areas of the country where people who are awakening to the Reality are tending to congregate. Very much appreciate your insight here!

    1. There is community in that area, around Ghent and Hawthorne Valley, farmers and a co-op.

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