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I pause at 42:00 to commend you both on your conduct during the treasuries discussion. What poise! What style! I *wish* we could all disagree like that.
It seems people need to know alternatives to day-to-day banking. Public Square is a parallel economy start up.They have just acquired Credova. Let’s do a deep dive on this it may be the beginning of an alternative banking.
https://investors.publicsq.com/news/news-details/2024/PublicSquare-Acquires-Credova-in-All-Equity-Transaction/default.aspx?lid=6g5k3157u2h5
When they were arguing over how to invest your money, Catherine’s suggestion to the father to invest in his kids came up. When I initially heard this story I thought the father bought the house(s) outright and the kids paid a mortgage to him. Didn’t think he refinanced the houses. That doesn’t sound like the sound investment Catherine was advising. Their discourse confused me on that point.
The situation here is that the father basically “buys out” the mortgage from the bank by paying it off. Then children owe the mortgage payments back to the father to pay him back.
This would screw the bank as paying off the loan destroys the money and all the future interest the bank is hoping to collect.
It also means if the children can’t pay the loan for any reason, the property still stays within the family instead of going to a bank.
As far as Boeing having trouble I don’t think this is natural or just decay.
I saw this UK climate plan to eliminate all air travel and shut down all airports by 2050.
https://ukfires.org/impact/publications/reports/absolute-zero/
They certain locked down as much air travel during covid as they could. I flew from London to Los Angeles during Nov 2020 and have pictures of Heathrow’s international terminal with no one there. Oddly, at a time when they could have used a plane in their fleet with the Dreamliners supposedly the most fuel efficient – that flight was on a plane several decades old.
I still wonder about that. Most people I know in early 2020 were getting covid or getting sick after getting off international flights. A friend high up in Russia told me they had flights where everyone got on fine – but 100% got off sick.
On the M1 Abrams in Ukraine –
These tanks were first designed in the 1970s and then first deployed in 1980. While the tanks produced in the last decade share the same name, they are very different in capability than the originals. Also the the versions for export differ from the US versions, likely lacking the best modifications. But we are speaking about a 50 year old platform.
I was a cadet at West Point in the early 1990s during Desert Storm and we were brief on how well they performed and trained to use them. At the time, the tech was amazing, but this was over 30 years ago. The Russians and Everyone else has had decades to figure out counters.
However it also wouldn’t surprise me that the US managed to find some old 1980s stock to send over. This would line up with all the other old ex-soviet and other trash weapons they sent to Ukraine previously.
Also anyone that has been in the military know much of the equipment gets heavily abused and officers try to offload barely functioning and other broken gear on any unsuspecting party they can as the army will charge officers with the cost of equipment they break. The Ukraine war is perfect chance to offload the worst and most damaged gear.
Catherine, in regard to Faith for Vaccines and your experience with Tim Keller: I was intrigued by a podcast I listened to recently featuring a former CIA agent who revealed the acronym they were taught regarding how to manipulate [or motivate] a target: RICE, which stands for Reward, Ideology, Coercion, and Ego. He stated that Coercion was the least effective, because while it could work in the short run, it could only be used sparingly, as the target would lose trust in the operative and be more difficult to influence down the line. The most effective by far, he stated, was Ideology. If you could tap into the target’s ideology and convince them that what you were trying to get them to do was consistent with their “beliefs”, you could get them to do the most illogical and uncharacteristic behaviors. I’m certain TPTB were well aware of this phenomena in influencing religious leaders.
https://youtu.be/QVVe2rCHtN0
There is a lot of truth to this. You see the biggest influence on trusting the false covid science in atheistic and agnostic liberals, primarily because Mr. Global was able to hijack their moral framework. You are good if you wear a mask and granny killer if you didn’t. Anyone with a well formed higher purpose was less influenced because these new rules did fit well in those other moral frameworks.
Also this is the known in sales. I highly recommend reading SPIN Selling, by Neil Rackman. He discusses how closing techniques which use a type of coercion work well in low value impulse sales but fail miserably in multi-meeting high value sales.
Also the book Influence by Caldini, studies this whole area at length including how Chinese Communist use small rewards to turn American POWs during the Korean War over to Communist ways of thinking.
Not sure that I agree with your assessment that atheistic/agnostic liberals were the most influenced by the ideological hook; as CAF and John discussed, many religious types were roped in, a phenomena I witnessed firsthand in my rural community. Most churches (and there’s one every mile or so) shuttered up and either went online or disappeared altogether during the lockdowns, including the Jehovahs, albeit with the notable exception of the Mennonites (who also kept their businesses open in the face of broad-based criticism). But yes, the ideological aspect is very effective in producing the most illogical of responses, e.g., insisting that men can breast feed and toddlers are capable of deciding their own gender, both based upon some sort of impulse to not offend LBGQT people; or defacing priceless art work to protest the level of CO2 in the atmosphere, a complete non sequitur.
Regarding SPIN, I am familiar. Back in the mid-90s I was given an opportunity to learn/train others to use the then relatively new “system” in the commercial banking arena. I had recently wrapped up a 20-year stint as a successful mid-level executive, somewhat renown by my peers for my business development skills. Perhaps the particular instructors did not fully grasp nor properly interpret Mr. Rackman’s concepts, but I found them very gimmicky and superficial. My own track record for attracting and retaining clients stemmed from being able to properly assess their needs and then deliver on what I promised. In other words, trust based on actual performance. The notion that a relationship could evolve from “spinning” questions and objections in a very prescribed manner was so foreign to me, I simply couldn’t wrap my mind around it. Needless to say, I did not pursue the assignment, lol; however, I’m not disregarding the possibility his approach has some merit.
As to the POWs during the Korean conflict, my father-in-law (now deceased) was the ranking American officer in a communist Chinese POW camp. He was an MD who had received his medical training courtesy of the US government; active duty was his payback, which he initially served stateside. However, he was recalled in 1950 and taken captive in November of that year while serving as Captain and medical officer for the 25th Infantry. He spent the next 3 years in captivity. He lectured often about the techniques used by the Chinese and Koreans to attempt to get him and his men to ascribe to communist ideals; he even testified in front of Congress. But here’s the punchline: all of his kids (including my ex-husband), all his many nieces, nephews – the entire extended family – fell hook, line and sinker for the plandemic and all its accoutrements. If we hadn’t already been divorced, my stance as the lone objector to the mandates (along with our son) would have gotten me chased out of the tribe. I have often envisioned the old Doctor, for whom I had a great affection, turning in his grave these last four years, enraged by the similarities in the weapons of tyranny employed now to those during his internment…
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