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  1. Catherine and John,
    Thank you so much for the discussion, it is always eye opening. When discussing Israel, I completely understand your position and have gained greater understanding. For the life of me, I never hear you never acknowledge that Hamas/Iran are also intent on genocide, both sides are guilty of the same atrocities.

    1. Perhaps it has been because Netanyahu and his crew have been crazymaking in what appears to me to be violent and unlawfui or unethical ways in NY, DC and statehouses across the country for decades – and IMO are close to bribing and ruining the country I love into the ground. In the meantime, the only Iranians I have ever met are lovely persians who escaped to the US, many after the US intelligence agencies turned over the Shaw or who have quietly warned about how tyrannical and paranoid the existing government in Iran.
      In my opinion the correct framework is the faithful vs the satanic and the sane vs the insane. Mr Global is advantaged by supporting the insane in every faction which is why focusing on fction divide and conquer IMO puts us in a false frame.
      The insane want war. Dont let them play you for a patsy by embracing a false frame is my two cents. To help you do that, make sure you throw out your TV and keep your smart phone in a faraday bag or throw it out.

      1. I would note that includes engineering a mass atrocity in Israel and worldwide.

    2. Prima facie non-equivalence. 
      But go ahead, argue your case…crushing sweet innocent children under bulldozers is the same thing as someone thinking they may have an intent to do something at some point. Right.

    3. From what I know the criminality is all round. The criminals rise to the top in all factions and the hatred grows.

    4. Catherine and John and Joseph’s analysis are priceless and very useful indeed and I am very grateful to be part of the Solari community. I also think that the other subscribers’ comments and posts are very useful and insightful as well.
      That being said, I think Catherine said at least once something along these lines: “the same criminal syndicate is behind both Hamas and the Israeli govt”. Please forgive me if I misunderstood. As to the criminality of the Iranian or Hamas, I think it’s pretty obvious. No further explanation needed for me, at least. I have several Iranian friends and acquaintances and they all say that the Irani regime is corrupt and criminal. As for the Jewish people around me, I have a feeling they are made to believe that the whole world hates them and want them dead, which is quite sad and it’s not true.
      From what I understand personally, it’s a war of the so called elites on us, the people. Some of us are happy to be part of the system, and to profit from it in some way or another, however, we are all on the menu, middle management included.
      It took me a while to understand what Catherine said by coming clean. I have a long way to go myself, but this is the only way out. And we have to be careful about getting worked out or hating certain leaders or chew toys. In the end, this is a spiritual war, not one against the flesh. I remember what Joseph Farrell said about praying for the world leaders by using their names. This is quite useful and powerful, if we keep in mind that it is a spiritual war, first and foremost.

      1. Excellent insight and advice Iulia. For me, coming clean is a path, a journey, and it is never over.

  6. Related to United Health: Early in my career I worked for a consultancy and was placed at Blue Cross Blue Shield. I had been hired as a programmer, but I came on the job to find out that what they expected was manual data entry. In fact they had an entire department (25 people) dedicated to manually fixing claims which would fail processing on a daily basis. Instead of fixing their systems, they hired people like little Dutch boys to hold their fingers in the dam. And the company “culture” was such that people came there for early retirement, and it was a “value” of theirs to not do anything that would lose jobs. Well, even though I hadn’t been given any tools to do programming, I discovered that their Unix systems all had Perl installed. So I wrote a script to automate my job so that I could do it in the first 15 minutes of the day, and spent the rest of my time working on a startup company with some friends.

    One time, tens of thousands of claims failed processing and an all hands on deck meeting was held. Some employees were bravely volunteering to work through the weekend. I raised my hand and offered to use my script to do the job. They agreed to let me try, and within 3 hours I had the entire batch fixed. While the immediate problem was fixed, this caused discomfort within the department. I knew, and I’m sure others were realizing: it was within my capacity to replace a significant number of people. Some conversations were had, and I was subsequently shuffled onto another assignment.

    After this experience, I understood why healthcare insurance is so expensive. It’s a racket. It’s pure profiteering. These companies are so entrenched that there is no incentive for them to improve.

    Now, I don’t know specifically what is going on at United, or their recent acquisition. But if their culture and work ethic is anything like where I worked, a) I wouldn’t be surprised if they got hacked, b) I wouldn’t be surprised if they didn’t get hacked, but failed due to their own incompetence and negligence, and then decided to blame it on a hack.

    This is an industry ripe for disruption, and it’s probably only regulatory entrenchment and cronyism that prevents it. Course, I’m not sure if any of it is worth saving at this point, because even the “care” being administered is promoting toxicity and illness. I know an Ayurvedic doctor who has proposed a direct provider care network… something like that might work as an alternative that would actually support people’s wellness without robbing them.

    1. Brandon, thanks so much for recounting and sharing your most fascinating “adventure” into “programming.” There is no lack of cures or efficient fixes for everything. The problem is we have no free market. Imagine working for a chairman of one of the Big 6 accounting firms and having to find a missing report for an important meeting, hunting all through the office files to no avail, only to finally finding it in the chairman’s briefcase and, having found it, was fired.

  7. Related to United Health: Early in my career I worked for a consultancy and was placed at Blue Cross Blue Shield. I had been hired as a programmer, but I came on the job to find out that what they expected was manual data entry. In fact they had an entire department (25 people) dedicated to manually fixing claims which would fail processing on a daily basis. Instead of fixing their systems, they hired people like little Dutch boys to hold their fingers in the dam. And the company “culture” was such that people came there for early retirement, and it was a “value” of theirs to not do anything that would lose jobs. Well, even though I hadn’t been given any tools to do programming, I discovered that their Unix systems all had Perl installed. So I wrote a script to automate my job so that I could do it in the first 15 minutes of the day, and spent the rest of my time working on a startup company with some friends.

    One time, tens of thousands of claims failed processing and an all hands on deck meeting was held. Some employees were bravely volunteering to work through the weekend. I raised my hand and offered to use my script to do the job. They agreed to let me try, and within 3 hours I had the entire batch fixed. While the immediate problem was fixed, this caused discomfort within the department. I knew, and I’m sure others were realizing: it was within my capacity to replace a significant number of people. Some conversations were had, and I was subsequently shuffled onto another assignment.

    After this experience, I understood why healthcare insurance is so expensive. It’s a racket. It’s pure profiteering. These companies are so entrenched that there is no incentive for them to improve.

    Now, I don’t know specifically what is going on at United, or their recent acquisition. But if their culture and work ethic is anything like where I worked, a) I wouldn’t be surprised if they got hacked, b) I wouldn’t be surprised if they didn’t get hacked, but failed due to their own incompetence and negligence, and then decided to blame it on a hack.

    This is an industry ripe for disruption, and it’s probably only regulatory entrenchment and cronyism that prevents it. Course, I’m not sure if any of it is worth saving at this point, because even the “care” being administered is promoting toxicity and illness. I know an Ayurvedic doctor who has proposed a direct provider care network… something like that might work as an alternative that would actually support people’s wellness without robbing them.

    1. Brandon, thanks so much for recounting and sharing your most fascinating “adventure” into “programming.” There is no lack of cures or efficient fixes for everything. The problem is we have no free market. Imagine working for a chairman of one of the Big 6 accounting firms and having to find a missing report for an important meeting, hunting all through the office files to no avail, only to finally finding it in the chairman’s briefcase and, having found it, was fired.

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