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  1. Catherine,

    An Ontario judge released Tamara Lich, organizer of the Trucker Convoy in Canada, on bail. She spent a total of 49 days in prison since her first arrest for mischief charges. She was arrested on a NATIONAL warrant. This is on the heels of Artur Pawlowski’s vindication a few days ago.

    I expect the hammer to fall swift and hard in Canada now that the judges are starting to rule in favour of the Constitution.

  2. A research note released today by The New Zealand Initiative mainly attributes the outbreak of inflation in many economies to Global central bank mistakes.

    The foreword by Dr William White, former deputy Governor of the Bank of Canada and a former Economic Adviser and Division Head at the Bank for International Settlements, concurs: “Central bankers have fundamentally misread the nature of the system they are trying to control”, Dr White observes.

    The paper argues that central banks overall:

    were too confident about their monetary policy framework;
    were too confident about their models;
    were too confident they could control output and employment;
    lost their focus on price stability and took on too many mandates;
    faced conflicts in some cases with conflicting ‘dual mandate’ objectives;
    and were distracted by extraneous political objectives, such as climate change.

    https://www.nzinitiative.org.nz/reports-and-media/media/media-release-how-central-bank-mistakes-after-2019-led-to-inflation/

    1. Here, I fixed it for them:

      The paper argues that central banks overall:

      were too confident about their monetary policy framework;
      were too confident about their models;
      were too confident they could control output and employment;
      lost their focus on price stability and took on too many mandates;
      faced conflicts in some cases with conflicting ‘dual mandate’ objectives;
      and were distracted by extraneous political objectives, such as climate change.

      Actually…

      gave trillions of dollars to their friends.

      1. Perfect example of translation from central bank pretzel talk to straight English!

  3. Today is the birthday of Aldous Huxley, one of the most influential thinkers of the 20th Century. He’s best known for “Brave New World,” but he was also a tireless explorer of consciousness and the inner life and a powerful advocate for Vedanta philosophy and the responsible use of psychedelics. Here is a famous interview that centers on Huxley the social critic, pretty relevant today. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alasBxZsb40

  4. Just discovered, in looking at water sourcing here, that this is coming to a blue state near you:

    “California is siccing its Environmental Protection Agency on property owners who have private water wells on their land and making them pay based on how much water volume they use, according to a new report.”

    https://www.dailywire.com/news/california-targets-private-property-with-latest-water-well-fees-charges-report
    In the last couple of years the local water district here in California installed new digital water meters with a wifi connection. Sold as convenient ways to self-track water usage and possible leaks in real time. The digital meters are installed, but not the transmitters. The transmitters are easy to spot on the new irrigation box lids of those who opted in. Most jumped right no board, but interestingly enough, more than a few did not.
    The noose is getting tighter though.

    2. First time we heard of this plan to put ‘smart’ meters on private wells in California was in 2008. It’s been in the works for some time…

    1. There is no better analogy for the battle between AI vs humanity than this.

      Engineers are generally required by investors to have a purely utilitarian approach to implementing this technology. Programs will follow the program, unequivocally. Let me ask, if humans have not established or applied a consistent philosophy to determine what behavior is ethical for themselves – how on earth are humans going to engineer ethics into AI? There is no incentive to implement any principles, much less the non-aggression principle. In-fact, there are strong disincentives: private industry does not want their AK-47-wielding dog-bot having an existential crisis on the battlefield.

      https://www.theverge.com/2022/7/21/23272237/robot-dog-gun-skynet-russia-alexander-atamanov

  7. Oh Boy! It’s Monday the 25th and I just read an article on CNBC going petal to the metal with Monkeypox. We can’t let this happen again. They refuse to show examples of the rash which is odd since we need maximum terror. It might just be herpes lesions, which infects 70% of all humans, expressing itself in people with mRNA damaged/destroyed immune systems.

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