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What’s Next for the Going Direct Reset? With Jon Titus

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  1. On the carbon credits, starting to investigate this in New Zealand, our productive farmland is being swallowed up by larger forestry companies is what looks like a virtual farm, because the value of the logs does not stack with the prices they are paying. Through our family beef and sheep station partnership i place a bid for part of a neighboring station on the market, we priced it at the earnings power of the stock units it could carry for a 15 year payout on 3.5% loan. While we have not been able to find the exact price is sold for, it is of the order of 5 to 10 times the value of our offer. There is a gathering movement here to understand where this carbon credit incentive is taking us, we end up with great swaths of land producing carbon credits and trees both products we as a nation have no control over the market. for starters i am looking to monitor the trend of a land (and by whom) being taken out of producutive sheep beef and land to forest and credits.

    1. John:

      Thank you for posting this. Would deeply apppreciate learning what you find. Big game going on here and we need to figure how much of it is cheap fiat printing and how much is carbon credits related, etc.

      Catherine

      1. Catherine,
        Below is a quotation for one submission into New Zealand’s ETS (Emssions Trading Scheme). As a country we tend to be naive and easily manipulated/seduced by worldly institutions to the detriment of the country.

        Quote “If the primary purpose of ETS is to drive people away from carbon creation and large amounts of tax are being taken in the process , shouldn’t some of this tax be made available to assist with funding conversion to
        lower carbon emission.
        The forrest growers lobby group are very keen to push carbon credit levels to $150-200 range (currently <$50) as they simply see this as self interest revenue revenue revenue .
        By default or poor planning it seems the pine they are growing has no commercial wood value and we really have to question is it sensible for NZ to be planting out the nations farm land in this form of forestry just to farm carbon credits?" Regards Carl Alsweiler

        I am working my way through 1000's of pages of NZ submissions and legislation on this topic. The bigger picture of the International policy influences will be harder to get.
        Pine forest sequestration arguably is already the most lucrative crop on the land, taking land out of food production.
        Is big finance deliberately driving this (food markets distortion, land grabbing) or simply clipping the ticket on global warming policy?

        1. Not sure. They are clearly trying to set up the conditions to force people into a biotech food solution and to central control of food. IMO this is required to deliver a digital transaction system of the kind they envision. But the details are far more complex and I do not see how the carbon credit schemes help them deliver it. If Biden comes out with a tax bill we may see a clearer picture.

  3. Hi Catherine,

    In your Ask Catherine, you shared that you believe gold Eagles are 24k and Krugerrands are 22K, actually Eagles are also 22K as well. The US Mint believes in adding copper to their gold coins even though they don’t circulate as currency, which is why I prefer my gold coins that are minted by other governments who do understand there is no point in adding so much copper because they don’t circulate so they mint 24k gold coins.

    1. Ah, thanks, Our equivalents chart got taken down, but I should have looked elsewhere. We hope to have the silver and gold calculator back up by the end of April.

  4. The link to Dr. Levy’s book is not in the notes. I also cannot find it. I really want to share this.
    Thank you.

    1. I added it to the links above. Then a member of our team updated, and it looks like it disappeared. I just added it again. It is in the links above in the commentary. Also in the Subscriber Input response.

  5. DOD did indeed award contract to Microsoft… @50.28 minutes in the Report… Link.. https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/industry-blog/government/2019/01/14/defense-department-awards-five-year-enterprise-services-contract-to-microsoft/?ranMID=24542&ranEAID=a1LgFw09t88&ranSiteID=a1LgFw09t88-nYFxx8.8Mn0F4Jw6TWeK3g&epi=a1LgFw09t88-nYFxx8.8Mn0F4Jw6TWeK3g&irgwc=1&OCID=AID2000142_aff_7593_1243925&tduid=%28ir__rvlx3ezf29kfqgcgkk0sohznyv2xpuyxoy0i6qpz00%29%287593%29%281243925%29%28a1LgFw09t88-nYFxx8.8Mn0F4Jw6TWeK3g%29%28%29&irclickid=_rvlx3ezf29kfqgcgkk0sohznyv2xpuyxoy0i6qpz00

    1. I tried to download Dr. Levy’s book from this link. The pdf and the ePub versions are not working. Is there another link?
      Thank you.

  7. Will the link to Dr. Levy’s e-book be provided on the Solari website? It is not in the notes and I cannot find it anywhere. Thank you.

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