Money & Markets Report: May 19, 2022

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    1. There was an e-mail provider with e2e encryption. They refused to install a backdoor for CIA and other agencies. Lavabit. Since they had their servers in a totalitarian country, the company was closed.

      And you think that they will allow any crypto that cannot be controlled to exist?

      1. It is easy to take down a centralized operation. Not so for anything, e.g., a cryptocurrency or a messaging service, that is decentralized.

        Example: They obviously don’t like monero, due to its superior privacy. The only thing they could do so far is to delist it from centralized exchanges such as Kraken in the UK. The community happily continues to exchange peer-to-peer.

      2. I think several things happened here….but it doesn’t help that the founder of Luna refused to comply with and then sued the SEC…painted a bright red target on his own back.

    1. Something strange is happening with weather but nobody seems to care. Like with everything else.

      You can see on satellite images big clouds 4-500km in size that just vanish next hour. Few days ago we got yellow alert for heavy rain ‘next 24h’ and not a single drop of rain. The weather app would show ‘heavy rain now’ while it was sunny.

      Very often, the rain will stop at the countries border. Like, ‘you did not paid for rain this week’. It can be seen on satellite images. This may be normal if the border is a mountain range but not normal if the border is a small river.

      I have a picture with a rectangular cloud about 200m wide 20-30km long. Absolutely natural formation.

      Another feature last few years is heavy winds. The wind starts in one minute lasts 10-20-30-40min than stops instantly. Every time we got rain last few years it was like this: High wind than it stops instantly, than it will rain for 30min, high wind and all clouds are gone in 15min.

      No free press will touch this subject. Even a question on a free forum would get me a ban.

    2. Not at all surprised by this. Is there a link for the information on the $$ being offered to homeowners and farmers? I’d like to have that document/link if available.

  5. Huge confusion about Wall Street Journal report that March 22 China Eastern flight crash was ‘a deliberate act’.

    The news hit the Western presses yesterday, yet up to now Chinese counterparts investigating the crash claim they have not been notified.

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    Flight data suggests China Eastern plane deliberately crashed: Wall Street Journal report

    Hong Kong (CNN) – Black box data recovered from a China Eastern flight that crashed in March suggests someone in the cockpit intentionally downed the plane, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing a preliminary assessment from United States officials.
    The Boeing 737-800 was flying from Kunming to Guangzhou when it nosedived from 29,000 feet mid air into the mountains, killing all 132 passengers and crew on board. It was China’s deadliest air disaster in decades.
    Information extracted from the plane’s damaged flight-data recorder shows human input orders to the controls sent the plane into its deadly dive, according to the Journal, citing people familiar with the probe.
    “The plane did what it was told to do by someone in the cockpit,” the Journal quoted a person who is familiar with American officials’ preliminary assessment as saying.
    https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/18/china/china-eastern-crash-wsj-report-inlt-hnk/index.html

    BUT SEE:

    U.S. yet to provide data on March jet crash, says China

    China on May 18 said that U.S. investigators haven’t released any information about the cause of a China Eastern Airlines jetliner crash in March after The Wall Street Journal reported its flight data recorder indicated someone pushed the Boeing 737-800 into a steep dive.
    American investigators confirmed to the Civil Aviation Administration of China [CAAC] that they released no information to reporters, the government newspaper Global Times reported. Phone calls to CAAC weren’t answered.
    https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/us-yet-to-provide-data-on-march-jet-crash-says-china/article65426914.ece

    U.S. investigators confirm not disclosing plane crash information: Chinese aviation regulator
    https://english.news.cn/20220518/f3cf17bf51574ba4aa80b8985146b14f/c.html

  6. Nat Gas comment: Current Appalachian production is running maybe 20% or so ahead of decline replacement (well production decline rate is around 40%/yr) So far, at least, increases in production remain muted.

    Here’s something to ponder…the major oil companies did not swoop in and buy into the shale plays when asset values were crushed. Historically that has been their MO…

  7. Catherine, I am perplexed if not vexed by your apparent disgust with the performance of President Trump and also Dr. Robert Malone. Both of these men are valiant patriots who have worked their butts off to help the American people over the last many years. They are not perfect who the hell is!!! Who is your less divisive person who has the could go up against Mr. Global as Trump did over his 4 yrs in office. Yes he made ugly mistakes but he was bated by insane drivers of Covid hysteria.

    I love you Catherine but you seem to be falling into trap of allowing us patriots to divided and then crushed. You can share problems with these men but disdain and insult is self defeating of our goal as a nation to remain free.

    1. Hey William,

      This is a long post and I am but a lowly subscriber. I’m sorry to interject into your conversation with Catherine. I appreciate your desire to maintain the cohesion of the populist/alternative movement. I have thought much on this subject and I am certain that your perspective is from a genuine and sincere place. Like me, I’m sure that you are authentic and want to see nothing more than a united front against seemingly intractable forces arrayed against humanity. It can be quite difficult to keep that cohesion in the face of divisive tactics employed by authoritarians who would happily see the public further balkanized and the populist movement dissolve via petty disagreements and in-fighting.

      That said, it cannot be understated that the populist movement should be opposed to centralized forms of top-down authoritarian control in every way possible. Where they would have us be blindingly obedient to increasingly arbitrary dictates (towing the party-line), populists ought to reflect the opposite (plurality of opinion).

      This is one of the primary differences between populists and authoritarians. Populists tend to respond to reason, backed with data and evidence. By comparison, authoritarians impose conclusions. Rigorous discourse, debate, or argument has no place in the authoritarian’s lexicon. Generally populists want a society based on meritocracy, where the competent are given limited/temporary power. Authoritarians, in contrast, invoke “might is right” and place wholly incompetent people in permanent power using tenuous and feeble justifications.

      If one of our people makes a mistake or missteps, we point it out. We don’t point it out in order to permanently ruin their reputation, or black-ball them (as authoritarians do), but to provide necessary feedback to them and to others who might follow in their footsteps. It may seem like an obvious or trite distinction, but I think it is an important one nonetheless. We criticize ourselves and each-other from a place of love, respect for ethics, morals, and virtue. Whereas authoritarians would have us shutdown our critical faculties altogether and accept whatever garbage they shove down our throats without question.

      Don’t get me wrong, I’m not suggesting that you are an authoritarian. I think you see legitimate fissures in the populist movement and those are disconcerting because it seems that authoritarians could leverage that and shatter whatever hard-fought cohesion populism has mustered in recent history. I would simply say that these differences among populists are NOT reflective of a weakness, but rather a strength born out of the plurality of opinion that we should expect in any grass-roots movement filled with real people.

      For example, I think Trump made some serious and costly mistakes. I won’t enumerate them here, but suffice to say that _despite that_, most of us are likely open to forgiveness and redemption. It is the same for him as it is for any of us. He has only to acknowledge the mistake and use the lesson to guide his actions in the future. It is difficult for him to acknowledge such missteps, likely in part because of his personality and likely due to poor advisors, but also because the authoritarians will use any sincere apology as a justification for why he couldn’t ever be trusted again. Frankly, writing him off forever due to a mistake is just not how rational people operate, that’s how authoritarians operate.

      I’m sorry again. I don’t think you’re bad or wrong, only that the the discussion could benefit from some unpacking and I hope I have brought some clarity to the issue.

    2. William:

      I am not campaigning for political office. I am a publisher. And if I comment on politicians, it is my responsibility to hold them accountable – good and bad. I have consistently complimented Trump for the good actions he took and his courage in doing so. I have also consistently held him accountable when he did things which I believe crossed serious ethical or legal lines – like being part of shutting down 1MM small businesses and organizing $10 billion for Operation Warp Speed and appointing someone who is an expert in brain machine interface to run it and adopting FASAB 56 so essentially the entire US government and the US securities market could be run with secret books – little things like that.

      That said, I went to great lengths and expense during the campaign to get my vote into the US to vote for Trump on the hopes that he would keep the US out of the WHO and in the hopes that he would be less enthusiastic about mandates. I also believe that if Trump had gathered the Republicans in leadership he could have stopped the campaign rigging sufficient to win. IMO he did win the election. I wish he had managed to do so.

      As a publisher it is my job to run a filter – to make sure that the people I post are the best I can find, or the most useful I can find (obviously I don’t always agree) or have a few nuggets worth considering when I post in UnAnswered Questions. This is called Quality Control. If someone or something does not pass my filter, you are free to listen to them elsewhere. There is no effort to censor them – I leave that to Facebook, Twitter, Google, AT&T etc.

      My goal is not to be inclusive or to support patriots. My goal is to get you and the subscribers the best actionable intelligence to live a free and inspired life. As it is, I publish more than a busy person can digest. If anything, I need to raise the quality filter higher.

      I would recommend that if we keep repeating this discussion – we will start to sound like Groundhog Day. If we do, I am going to encourage you start reviewing the links here – start with the Giordano videos at the bottom https://home.solari.com/mind-control-tactics-used-on-young-people-and-children/

      Hope that helps – I always value your opinion.

      Catherine

      1. Well said Catherine! Both you and Joseph are spot on with calling out Mr. T! It takes a patriot to do so! There are a bunch of folks coming on the scene late not hearing the reason and logic presented over the past issues. Brandon seems to overshadow and make even the worst Presidents look more acceptable.

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