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  1. The creators of Artificial Intelligence being used in war would be as liable for wrongful death as is Tesla for the people killed by Tesla’s auto driving cars. It is my belief that if the creator of Lavender are located in the US, they could be on the hook for the wrongful deaths of all of the innocents killed as “a proximate cause” of the software that picked the targets.

  2. Although I have never delved into finance, I too was skeptical about Bobby’s bitcoin agenda. Thanks for filling in the many gaps. Hopefully he will remember his remarks about being able to change his mind if presented with the cogent arguments.

    1. I suggest that John Titus, in that video, may have erred in his calculation of the average value of a bitcoin sale. Miners process several sales together, hence the mean value may be closer to $2000 than $45,000. It is possible to inspect the numbers as they are processed, and it is likely that the numbers are skewed by a few very large sales. Transaction has specific meaning.
      I suggest that Catherine has a false understanding of bitcoin production. This is not the same as the creation of fiat money via, say, a credit card transaction. That said, while the bitcoin concept initially is sound, practically everything since is suspect, particularly Tether and Ether.
      And RFK Jr clearly does not understand bitcoin. The only way bitcoin gets a valuation over $1,000,000 is via hyperinflation of the US$.

      1. On another note, Richard, what would you recommend is the best one or two sources I should use to understand the Lightening network?
        Thanks!

      2. Yes, good point about batching. Thanks for posting.

        The idea of ballooning Tether and the stablecoins is to build a new market for US Treasuries.

        The idea of depopulation is to build in sufficient deflation and dropping of capital through generations to offset monetary inflation to avoid hyperinflation. Given the ability to tracking and manage the population to calibrate labor deflation with monetary inflation, I agree that the chances of a dollar hyperinflation are small. What is good is a steady inflation that wipes out many people’s time, money and happiness.

        That is where we should focus our time.

        1. FYI there is a sort of ticker tape of unconfirmed transactions, ie as they happen, here :

          https://www.blockchain.com/explorer/mempool/btc

          I’ll have to read up on the Lightning Network. Things have a habit of changing when you are not paying attention.

  3. Beware of a recent ploy/scam, I believe, by the IRS. This week I received a letter from the IRS saying that I ‘may be’ a victim of identity theft. The IRS said that If I hadn’t already submitted my 2023 taxes then I needed to verify that I did not submit my 2023 taxes. The IRS thought another person might have submitted a REFUND claim on a 2023 tax submission using my Identity. The IRS instructed me to register on ID.me (the next-generation digital identity network that simplifies how individuals securely prove their identity online; it’s a private company) which the IRS uses. ID.me requires you upload your Bio-metric ID by using your phone to photo analyze your face upload the front and back of your driver’s license. Do Not do this. Call your CPA/Accountant and they can check on the IRS ID.me website for you. My CPA confirmed no 2023 tax forms were submitted by anyone, including me because I had filed for an extension. I surmise this is how the IRS tries to scare people to register on ID.me, i.e. giving up your bio-metric data to Mr. Global.

      1. We publish our interview with Bob Sullivan this coming week. The sophistication of the scams are astonishing.

        1. Is it true that Walmart and other retailers have this tech in their store entrances and self checkouts?

    2. Mr Global likely has your biometric data if you have walked into any Walmart, or other chain retailer with the tech.

  4. On Peter Theil –

    Whitney Webb just released an excellent podcast on Theil. This is a must listen.

    https://unlimitedhangout.com/2024/07/resources/show-notes/the-thiel-verse-with-stavroula-pabst/

    If you want to see how Theil thinks about business, here is his Stanford talk, which teaches students how to create monopolies.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Fx5Q8xGU8k

    On their hiring page, Theil’s company, Palantir, is not only in the US but heavily embedded in the UK government.

    https://www.palantir.com/careers/

    A friend of mine just had his daughter hired by Palantir’s new health division in New York. You can draw your own conclusions on what Palantir is planning to do with health.

    However, there is a big connection with Theil’s world and the limited hangouts for Covid. Steve Kirsch and Robert Malone were completely unknown until they appeared on Bret Weinstein’s Dark Horse Podcast. Bret’s Weinstein’s brother Eric works directly for Theil’s VC firm – very similar to JD Vance. If you start pulling the amazing coincidences around Bret and his rise to popularity, it is hard to imagine it is all coincidence. Interesting that Eric Weinstein was pushed out of Harvard and now is fully in bed with the Stanford faction.

  5. So, maybe you missed Gavin Newson’s executive order this past week to take down all the homeless encampments. Jimmy Dore just put a video of the brutality of what this really looks like on the ground – it is a horror – I don’t know how to describe this other than more depopulation.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qe3sJ1PVDs

    This builds on the recently passed Proposition 1 (they claim this passed by a hair – which I think means they rigged the vote on this because the law is 80 pages of awful). Proposition 1 calls for much of the county-level homeless program funding to be centralized at the state level under a new layer of bureaucracy – but far more scary was its funding for several new state locked mental institutions. Why would there need to be all these new LOCKED mental institutions? This seems almost something out of Bulgokov’s Master and Margarita.

    Prop 1 builds on the California CARES court system implemented a couple of years ago. The propaganda on these courts claims some odd things about these courts being “voluntary”. Not sure how people being ordered into a court process is voluntary. Basically, anyone, literally anyone, can refer someone they feel has a mental health issue to CARES court and the court can order them medicated for their mental health disorder. Most people wouldn’t know how to make this referral – so the state has a special cadre being organized to make these recommendations. More info is at the link. Note who can refer to it and what remedies the court can impose.

    https://www.chhs.ca.gov/care-act/

    1. I worked with a reporter who did a deep dive into the patient records of St Elizabeth’s mental illness hospital in Washington. This is where indigent people were sent. She asked me why everyone committed died 6 months after admission. I explained that was likely when the municipal subsidy ran out.

      1. Seems like the homeless in CA are going to be the new indigent. First they came for the homeless . . .

  6. Worth watchiing. Best deescription of “private equity” that I have encountered, just another version of the “leveraged buyout operators” from the 1980s movie Wall Street. They borrow money to buy out assets, then strip out the assets and sell, to put cash into their own packets, then take 5 years to force ‘efficiencies’ on the company, hiring and firing employees, then sell the company. Restaurent RED LOBSTER is a case in point … the real estate that the restaurents were on was sold, and then the restaurents had to pay rent to the new owners … Red Lobster went bankrupt as a result.
    Gretchen Morgenson: The Plunderers Now Run Our Economy (July 30 2024)
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmkqHGtOp6U

  7. Catherine, modern art and architecture have been controlled by tptb from the beginning. My son was telling his wife that, and she, an art major in college, laughed and said, “Everybody in the art world knows that.”

    1. Artists have to be, they are the vanguard of propaganda. The good and or famous ones might no more then a high profile mason / rosicrucian personages.

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