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  1. Just finished listening to the second water show. I am also listening to the rain on the roof. Very soothing even if my Cessna hasn’t been out of the hangar for a week. The rain is what I came here for. Looking at the drought monitor is very sobering. The whole western half of the U.S. is colored in deep brown. That means sever drought. I expect that at least half of the country will no longer be water blind. On a deeper level, we need to understand the relationship between water and the forest. No forest, no rain. The rise of civilization meant the destruction of forests. 10,000 years ago, the whole Mediterranean basin was heavily forested. A Chinese study has concluded that the value of all the services a living tree performs is worth 10 times the price of the wood. Unfortunately, the Chinese discovered this a 1,000 years too late. Pity we do not seem to be learning from their mistake. 175 years ago, the Erie Canal was opened. Most of the farmers left New England after that. The land returned to forest. I am now enjoying the benefits. Paradoxically enough, one result is very much better food here. The little local farms are separated by hundreds of miles of forest from the land of agribusiness. The result is no contamination by GMOs

    I feel a little uneasy writing about all the details of life around here. None of us want the word to get out.

  3. Hi Catherine,
    I wasn’t aware of this until I received a message from the Deputy Director for Planning and Business Management of NASA that “no IT products shall be purchased at this time.” Do a google search and you’ll be lucky to find less than a handful of references.

    ‘US Congress restricts government purchase of Chinese computer equipment, citing cyber-espionage concerns’
    http://www.theverge.com/2013/3/27/4154442/us-congress-restricts-purchase-of-chinese-computer-equipment-fearing-cyber-espionage

    I wonder how long it’ll take to either override this law or modify in some fashion, because I can’t see NASA being without the latest IT for very long. However, it appears to be more financial warfare against the Chinese.

    -Rick

  4. Water
    I am glad that you are doing a show on water; it is the reason I left Southern California. I was there for 40 years and endured drought and near drought for long periods, sometimes years at a stretch. The deep anxiety about water that permeated my subconscious finally drove me out. I am now in Western Massachusetts an area with abundant fresh water. Even last year, which was one of the driest on record, still had fresh clean water in the rivers all around me. And the rivers are all around me, running free all the time. Every day for my noon break I walk a mile south and check on the Little River. Sitting on the bank watching it for a few minutes is my therapy. I have been here almost two years now and no longer have any symptoms.

    I never cease to be amazed by the lack of interest in the people around me. I guess they do not realize how rich they are because they never had to do without. For me letting the water run while I brush my teeth is an extravagance beyond measure.

    It is raining now so maybe I will go out and walk around in it.

  5. One more thing. I consider Gregor McDonald to be the best of the energy analysts (gregor.us).

    Douglas M Dillon, 240-383-6846

  6. Here’s an “ASK Catherine”

    I listen to many voices and yours has been providing the most value recently. Your strengths are in out-of-the mainstream political analysis and finance, an area where I have need some real worldview rearranging.

    In my view, Peak-Oil based analysis provides considerable explanatory power for the current world political and economic situation. You seem to be of the view that there are energy solutions of almost magical potency that are available, but are being suppressed (interviews with zero-point energy advocates, etc.). You even go so far as to support theorists claiming recent high oil prices are due to a conspiracy to squeeze China.

    I’ve been looking at this pretty closely from a mainstream scientific perspective and I would have to say that the preponderance of evidence in the energy arena goes with the Peak Oil thinkers (e.g. Chris Martenson).

    What kind of empirical data would it take for you to change your views on the energy situation and what might the implications of such a change be on your worldview?

    Warm regards,

    Douglas M Dillon, 240-383-6846

  7. Enjoyed the Foster & Kimberly interview in the last solari report… thanks CAF !! Highlights for me: your explanation of the “modified hang-out” of how participants in the movie Thrive decided after the dissemination of the movie to dissociate themselves from the Thrive movie… I remember when the letter of dissociation was posted on the thrivemovement.com website I kept thinking, ‘what do these dissociators have to worry about? Each is presented quite respectfully, each is from a different sector of the culture, each is given a reasonable platform….And why are they objecting that they can’t control everything?” I sort of lost respect for a number of them right then….I didn’t lose total respect for them, but I lost an awful lot of respect for them…. Another highlight: when it seemed like you and Foster and Kimberly said nice things about each other (very supportive, which is how all of our lives need to be) and you said about the Gambles’ rough time with the dissociators, which must have been about a year ago for them: “yes, welcome to my world.. !! ” You guys have really been through it. Another highlight: 1 million people per month are watching Thrive. wow. Unstoppable, as maybe Jon Rappoport would say. thanks CAF and solari team… !!

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