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  1. A spotlight finally turning on Harvard and its Endowment, https://twitter.com/BillAckman/status/1742441534627184760

    Might it be worth drawing Bill Ackman’s attention to any particular materials? I had some brief dealing with him over a decade ago, and he was exactly the person he presents in this piece: razor sharp, terrier for the facts, total integrity. Also a great sense of fun.

    1. Yes, Mr. Ackman’s attention should be drawn to this wife’s thesis, which apparently contains multiple examples of plagiarism, according to Business Insider.
      https://www.businessinsider.com/bill-ackman-wife-neri-oxman-mit-dissertation-plagiarism-2024-1
      This may well be a limited hangout in two respects: First a diversion of attention from the apparent funding of his wife’s work at MIT, at least in part, by the Jeff Epstein-Maxwell operation, and secondly by Ackman’s apparent efforts to facilitate a dual citizen into the Harvard presidency. The new interim president’s ethnic background on Wikipedia was scrubbed of that fact literally within minutes of his appointment.

      1. Just listened to this week’s M&M and now reading your comments, David, for which thank you. What a mess…

        Rappaport and Titus’ double “false prospectus” thesis hilarious. The gradient of my learning curve risks inducing vertigo.

      2. Mr. Ackman posted an angry screed on X late last night or early this morning threatening MIT with an exhaustive investigation of its faculty’s, administrator’s and all other key personnel’s past work in search of examples of plagiarism. Apparently to blunt any similar investigation into his wife’s work. Talk about potential to croak an institution’s (or an individual’s) reputation!
        But just like that, bada bing bada boom! the posting is gone! Can’t find it. Saw it on a third party web site, but no more there. Presume it’s gone from X, have no license there to check directly, but a safe bet.
        Multi-directional, interdisciplinary pushback!

    2. Off the top of my head I seem to remember that some Harvard Students had set up a satrical online site the exposed a few of the doings of the higher ups. Maybe 15 years ago?

  2. On one of the other M&M programs or Wrap ups, the topic of focusing on the impending food shortage came up. I hope it would be helpful to start a thread on this, or perhaps there already is one. I posted a comment, but can’t locate where I posted it. It was an idea that would take 10 years and I doubt if we even have 10 months, so I wanted to delete it.

    We know they are planning a supply chain breakdown. The Panama Canal has a low water level and they are going into the dry season. Add to that the unstabilizing effect of the mass migration through the Darian Gap. Now the Red Sea,
    https://www.dw.com/en/shipping-red-sea-crisis-escalates-raising-concerns-around-global-supply-chains/a-67879129

    We also have the fertilize ‘shortage’. There are other solutions to help us through this. The Native Americans had the three sisters. I have an area in my garden where the plants keep growing so much that they are climbing shrubs and over each other. I am trying to determine what the combo is that is creating this lush area, as I do not do anything to it. If we all put our heads together, maybe we can find a direction on the fertilizer front.

    Then there is the taking of land and regulations to harm small farmers and our food supply. There are organizations fighting these on the legal front, but we don’t have time for that. Other have found out that none of the Biden administration have proper written oaths of office, when they even have a written one. If this is also true of the people making these rules that take the land and put in regulations, we must find out if they have written oaths of office. If they do not, they have no authority, thus they are invalid. I seems this would be a much faster course of action than the courts.

    1. Another thing worth considering with regards to companion planting systems like the “Three Sisters” (which serves to increase soil fertility and decrease water usage through nitrogen fixation and soil protection from strong sunrays) is that you do not necessarily have to use corn as the tall ‘sister’ in that configuration.
      I personally love heirloom corn and we do grow Hopi Blue Corn in our three sisters guilds often, I also however opt for other heirloom crops that can fill that same niche in the companion planting system to diversify the nutrition coming out of my garden and make my crops more likely to be resilient in extreme weather events.
      When choosing an alternative for corn in the three sisters system, you just need something that had a rigid stem and will grow tall enough to support the beans up above the squash. Sunflower and Amaranth are both great contenders.
      I lean toward Amaranth most of the time as you can eat the nutrient dense leaves as well as the seeds (which we grind into flour for making bread in the winter).
      For more information on growing Amaranth at home:
      https://gavinmounsey.substack.com/p/amazing-amaranth

    2. I also compiled some resources for those interested in educating themselves about practical applications of food forest design on a small rural scale here.
      https://recipesforreciprocity.com/book-recommendations/
      It is worth noting that like an intact forest ecosystem, “food forest” ecosystems (which provide more quantity and higher quality food than monocultures per acre) never have to be fertilized or watered as they align with nature’s soil fertility and water retention building cycles.

    4. Beyond just the three sisters (which I do personally use as it is a highly practical and effective companion planting technique and I have wrote about in my book and in posts like this: https://gavinmounsey.substack.com/p/the-three-sisters-and-the-time-of ) we need to look to Regenerative Agroforestry techniques.
      Indigenous peoples of “Turtle Island” (aka North America) had created ingenious multilayered food cultivation systems that resemble what some people now call “food forests”.
      I have seen evidence from multiple sources that people who called those lands home actually had extremely advanced food cultivation and farming systems that seamlessly blended with existing forest ecology.
      Thus, they did not simply forage or garden with things like the three sisters companion planting system, but rather actively managed (and even enhanced ecosystems biodiversity) in order to produce an abundance of nutrient dense food (and in a way that expresses an advanced understanding of botany, the interdependence of species and soil ecology).
      Here is a link to a video presentation that explores of those ancient methods
      “Architects of Abundance: Indigenous Food Systems and the Excavation of Hidden History” by Dr. Lyla June
      youtube.com/watch?v=UxxRV44-wZ0

    5. I just started watching a program with Michael Yon. He is talking about the migration and the coming food storages and why. He is in the Darian Gap now.
      https://www.brighteon.com/4ec4c96d-813a-4b19-b79f-a8cc08ed04e0
      Also wanted to mention Mayorkas going to the Darian Gap and handing out money. Mayorkas does not have a valid oath of office, so how is allowed to act? Our Congress people know. Just before MTG said she wanted to impeach Mayorkas, Josh Howley said, while questioning Mayorkas, I don’t know why we listen to you, you have no oath of office. So our Congress knows, yet they let him pretend that he holds the position of Secretary of Homeland Security, while he is funding this mass illegal migration into the USA.
      What a friggin mess!!

      1. Hard not to be worked up but one has to be careful with emotions with so many folks stirring up the pot. I really liked Michael Yon early on, very well read with lots of Art of War and eastern philosophic angles but after a while thought maybe a bit of a chaos agent, at least in his tenor. I still check in with his blog from time to time to learn what I can, but he’s very strident and takes the worst case scenario very seriously. Famine. Invasion. War. I’m cognizant to these dangers but he’s very well connected and who knows what all the angles are there. We have to stay focused on understanding what we can control in order to work on solutions and stay positive, right? That will spread.

      2. I apologize for the raging. I know we have to go through this process to end up where we belong.

        1. No worries from this Solari subscriber. I know exactly how you feel! It’s sort of cathartic and then one cringes at themselves! But it needs to be said!!! And the Mayorkas makes me cringe, and I think that so many of them are traitors. I wonder if some of them are citizens. I’m getting so fatigued though. I’ve been peeling away layers of the onion since 1987. Initially, I kept everything to myself and if I dared mention anything, people were condescending and patronizing. Some of us are tired.

  3. What’s happening with the post office? The town of Bolinas, CA has not had a post office for almost a year. One can’t help thinking this is part of the plan to privatize it.

    1. It is. They’ve been consolidating post offices for decades. They want snail mail gone. They want digital transactions only. Most of the labor is outsourced which is why there are news stories about mail being dumped and no repercussions for what is, I believe, a Federal crime!

  4. In this M&M Catherine said she made a list of 50 Great Takings i.e. 50 ways the plunder economy is currently harvesting us in our everyday lives. Has Catherine published this list. Does anyone have a link or description of how to navigate to it?

      1. Don’t forget the Global labor arbitrage, downsizing, etc. has been going on since the 2980’s. Salaries are the same now as in the 1980’s. For 3rd World employees it’s a boom. For Western 1st World it’s financial decimation.

  5. I read the Great Taking after hearing Ellen Brown talk at Weston Price. I stayed up most the night after reading it. Knocked me for a loop. After some digging and a few days reflection something didn’t feel quite right. Excellent things in the piece. I sent it to a childhood friend, now a retired, wealthy hedge fund master. He loved his intro/setup but no comment on the rest. I agree with Catherine, what’s with the reaction? Several colleagues have said ‘THE END IS NEAR” after reading it. Limited hangout or maybe some kind of entrainment going on? Or maybe none of the above.

    1. As I have said, a housewife does not give away the vacuum cleaner when the house is only half clean.

  6. Catherine – you had said a few months ago that a CBDC for large purchases was inevitable. Obviously that word is out, but they can use ‘cryptocurrency’ or ‘international electronic currency’ or whatever they want to call it. ‘Fraud’ will go through the roof, ‘tax fraud’ will be a big thing, countries like Australia have already banned large purchases in cash – all that needs to happen now is to introduce an ‘international currency’ (something like what the BRICS are doing) and then require its use for large purchases, to prevent ‘fraud’. Of course, that use must be linked to your Digital ID. Small purchases would be fine, but ‘large’ purchases must incorporate the Digital ‘international currency’ – to prevent fraud, of course.

    1. `When did I say it was inevitable? Don’t remember doing so. I have said that it was inevitable that they would try to do one. Different. Don’t count us out!

    2. Another variable that I do not see many people discussing (especially not those who advocate for cryptocurrencies) is the potential for a C.M.E. or E.M.P. to either erase and/or render all digital assets inaccessible for long periods of time.
      Most of our money is now digital, that means your hard earned dollars stored in a bank account are vulnerable too.
      This is another argument for why cash is a wiser choice than digital currencies.
      Our local star (Sol aka “the sun”) goes through natural cycles in which it casts off a mass of magnetized plasma.
      These powerful solar flares are referred to as CME-s (coronal mass ejections) and they are capable of causing a large geomagnetic storm if the solar matter impacts the Earth (which can damage the telecommunications infrastructure that provides online services, cell service and even has the potential to physically damage satellites, modern vehicles, electrical grids and other electronic devices).
      While some argue that cryptocurrency may be a preferable alternative in the short term for investing in something more stable in value and less restricted/controlled by plutocrats than fiat currency (conventional banking systems) it is also true that we could face situations in which all of the above would be rendered practically worthless in the near future. EMP devices or naturally occurring CMEs (geomagnetic storms) could cripple telecommunication networks and personal hardware that transmits/verifies and stores cryptocurrency and or one’s CBDC account.
      For more information:
      https://gavinmounsey.substack.com/p/preparing-for-the-100-year-storms

    3. Thanks for the comment Laura. I have also been noticing an increase in instances where the financial institutions I work with are trying to pressure me into signing up for biometric identification methods to access my accounts (Digital ID).
      I of course refuse to go along with it but I wonder how long until the banks will use some manufactured event to justify making the biometric identification mandatory (for ‘safe and effective’ ‘security reasons’ of course)
      James Corbett did a great episode on Digital ID, if you have not seen it I recommend checking it out:
      https://www.corbettreport.com/flashback-digitalid/

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