It's a pirates life for me

[Bombadil]

3 hours ago, Macnamara said:

 

yes and there is that word 'global' in there which means they intend to scale it globally

 

what does it all mean for individual freedom also?

 

is it some sort of part of the 'great reset'?

I think we are now going to see an avalanche of new ways of living suggestions. So far most, if not all, seem to involve similar attitudes to resolving problems. As you said, global etc.

I don’t think humans do well in large groups at all. Just a few in a room will eventually cause an argument. I like the idea of my cart being rode to market once a month or so. Bit of socialisation then back to my family. 

I also believe that my idea of freedom is probably very different from the average person. I don’t need rights to ensure access to the internet or telephones. I don’t need the right of massive consumer choice. I need a safe environment, clean potable water, healthy food and a shelter I can keep warm in the winter. The luxuries I can gain by bartering goods for things I can’t create myself.
 

Edited June 10 by Bombadil
Repeated myself at the end

[Macnamara]

1 minute ago, Bombadil said:

I think we are now going to see an avalanche of new ways of living suggestions. So far most, if not all, seem to involve similar attitudes to resolving problems. As you said, global etc.

I don’t think humans do well in large groups at all. Just a few in a room will eventually cause an argument. I like the idea of my cart being rode to market once a month or so. Bit of socialisation then back to my family. 

I also believe that my idea of freedom is probably very different from the average person. I don’t need rights to ensure access to the internet or telephones. I don’t need the right of massive consumer choice. I need a safe environment, clean potable water, healthy food and a shelter I can keep warm in the winter. The luxuries I can gain by bartering goods for things I can’t create myself. The rest I can barter for if needed.
 

 

i'm with you 100% on all points

[Campion]

Also the Commons idea of housing owned communally rather than privately by families sounds rather like a scaled-down version of council estates, which fits in with the reset principle of "you will own nothing ..." without a money back guarantee if you're not happy of course! 

[Macnamara]

12 Ways to Cut the Chains of Financial Serfdom

Charles Hugh Smith

June 11, 2023

Ours is a neofeudal economy of financial serfs in servitude to a Financial Aristocracy. The Financial Nobility / Aristocracy own all the debt and the serfs owe the debt to the Aristocracy. The serfs own assets that don’t generate much income, the Aristocracy owns assets that generate trillions of dollars in income. The serfs pay high tax rates if they make above-poverty wages, the Financial Nobility pay low taxes thanks to tax-avoidance scams arranged by the Aristocracy’s toadies and lackeys in the Central State. The serfs create value, the Financial Nobility is parasitic.

That we are powerless is one of the key social control myths constantly promoted by the Status Quo. What better way to keep the serfs passive than to reinforce a belief in their powerlessness against Financial Feudalism?

 

But we are not powerless. Our complicity gives the Financial Aristocracy its power. Remove our complicity and the Aristocracy implodes.

The pathway of liberation is to opt out of financial feudalism. Here are twelve paths any adult can legally pursue in the course of their daily lives:

1. Support the decentralized, non-market economy. The core ideology of consumerism and financialization is that non-market assets and experiences have no status or financial value. This includes social capital, meals with friends, projects done cooperatively with friends, home gardens and dozens of other decentralized activities that cannot be financialized into centralized market transactions. Identity and social status are established in the non-market economy by collaboration, sharing, reciprocity, conviviality and generosity.

Decentralized means localized; farmers markets are examples of local market economies where the transactions are in cash (so banks can’t skim transactions fees) and the money stays in the local economy rather than flowing to some distant concentration of capital.

If you start valuing non-market assets and experiences as the most important markers of status, you are resisting both financialization and consumerism.

Top-down centralized “solutions” imposed by the Central State are the problem, not the solution, as they further the concentration of wealth and power into unstable monocultures. Stop looking to overly complex fake-reforms and centralized solutions to unsustainable systems and start exploring decentralized, localized solutions that bypass both the Central State and the Financial Aristocracy.

2. Stop participating in financialization. Financialization is the insidious imperative of the Financial Aristocracy that seeks to turn every human interaction into a financial transaction that can be charged a fee, and transform all assets into financialized instruments that can be commoditized and sold for immensely profitable fees.

As the finances of local governments implode under the weight of their protected fiefdoms, many are heeding the siren song of financialization as a temporary (and inevitably disastrous) “fix” to their structural insolvency. For example, the revenue stream from parking meters is financialized into an asset that is sold to a private corporation. When parking fees double, the residents of the city have no recourse via democracy or petition, as the meters in their city are now “owned” by a distant concentration of capital that can double late fees, charge outrageous transaction costs, etc., at will.

This is how financialization inevitably transitions into financial tyranny.

The erosion of America’s middle class security has several structural causes, but chief among them was the financialization of the housing market. This has led to serial bubbles of housing valuations and the widespread extraction of equity for consumption–the classic “windfall” that financialization always produces in its first toxic blush.

3. Redefine self-interest to exclude debt-servitude and dependence on consumerism and the Central State. Unless you are long retired and have no other option, minimize reliance on the State. Reliance on the State weakens the correlation between sustained effort and gain, so the work ethic and entrepreneurism both atrophy as they no longer offer competitive advantages in a system where bread and circuses are guaranteed by the State.

4. Act on your awareness that the nature of prosperity and financial security is changing. Dependence on centralized concentrations of power (Wall Street and the Central State) is now an extremely risky wager that what is demonstrably unsustainable will magically become sustainable via pixie dust or more Federal Reserve trickery. Security flows from resilience, self-reliance, decentralized, diversified sources of income and abundant social capital, not speculation fueled by Fed policies and Wall Street.

5. Stop supporting distant concentrations of capital that subvert democracy by using their gargantuan profits to buy the machinery of State governance and regulation. For example, stop watching broadcast programming owned by the six global media corporations that control the vast majority of the media/marketing complex.

Stop eroding your health and sending your money to corporate headquarters by no longer frequenting fast-food restaurants and by no longer buying unhealthy packaged foods from corporate agribusiness.

Close your accounts with Wall Street investment firms and the “too big to fail” banks that dominate the mortgage, credit and debt markets in the U.S. If you need such an account to transact your business, maintain low balances so the banks cannot sweep your capital for their own use every day.

6. Stop supporting the debt-and-leverage based Financial Aristocracy. Liquidate all debt as soon as possible, take on no new debt except for short periods of time, explore localized or crowd-sourced private-capital loans that exclude the banks and limit the number of financial transactions that enrich the banks and Wall Street.

7. Transfer your assets out of Wall Street and into local enterprises or assets that do not enrich and empower Wall Street. Buy assets you control 100%, without the mediation of Wall Street.

8. Refuse to participate in consumerist status identifiers and the social defeat they create. Stop admiring and respecting those displaying status signifiers (supercars, $300 million yachts, etc.); start thinking of them as pathetic prisoners of a pathological mindset. Stop judging people based on their lack of status signifiers. Free your own mind from the toxic sociopathology of consumerism and social defeat. Stop watching commercial television and streaming corporate distractions and minimize your exposure to marketing and consumerist propaganda.

9. Vote in every election with an eye on rewarding honesty and truth and punishing empty promises. Unless the incumbent has renounced corporate contributions, unsustainable debt, financial tyranny and Central State encroachment of civil liberties, then vote against the incumbent, for they are just another lackey of the State-Plutocracy partnership. Avoid voting for either the Demopublican or Republicrat branches of the plutocracy; vote for an independent or third party candidate.

Remember that resistance isn’t just about refusing to participate in pathological neofeudalism; it’s about establishing a sustainable alternative to the unsustainable State-Aristocracy partnership. When people say that voting for a third-party candidate is “wasting your vote,” reply that voting for either of the plutocrat parties is the real waste of a vote because their “leadership” is dooming the nation to destabilization and insolvency. As independents pick up more and more “wasted” votes, they shift from being “marginalized” to becoming powerful voices of integrity and transparency.

10. Stop supporting inflationary policies such as money creation – QE by the Federal Reserve and Federal deficit spending. Act on your knowledge that inflation is theft and that the Federal Reserve is a private consortium of banks that is the enabler and protector of the parasitic Financial Aristocracy.

11. Become healthy, active and fit. Refuse to consume unhealthy junk food and packaged food, refuse to squander much of your time in sedentary “consumption” of corporate “entertainment” and digital distraction, and devote your energy and time to mastery, new skills, developing social capital and friendships, projects you own and enterprises that benefit your true self-interest. Refuse to follow the marketing/media siren song into chronic ill-health, social-media addiction and social defeat.

12. Embrace self-directed plans and construct a resilient, community-based, localized life of identity and meaning. Build a social ecology of positive, productive, collaborative, non-pathological people of like minds and spirits. Be powerful via Self-Reliance, not powerless via apathy, passivity and complicity.

https://www.activistpost.com/2023/06/12-ways-to-cut-the-chains-of-financial-serfdom.html

[Macnamara]

Some americans might be interested in the declaration of independence project:

https://sign1776.com/

Edited June 15 by Macnamara

[Macnamara]

TOM PARKER BOWLES: Why you simply must pour yourself a glass of creamy, rich, voluptuous... raw milk

• READ MORE: TOM PARKER BOWLES savours memories of Coronation banquets

By Tom Parker Bowles Event for The Mail on Sunday

Published: 22:00 BST, 17 June 2023 | Updated: 22:22 BST, 17 June 2023

The idea that raw milk is unsafe and poisonous is ingrained in the British psyche,' says Jon Cook, who runs Dora's Dairy in Wiltshire with his wife Sarah. 'But there was a good reason for pasteurisation.

'During the Industrial Revolution, when dairies moved into towns, the cows were fed brewery and bakery waste, not grass. And they became ill. And ill cows produce ill milk.'

Add in hygiene standards that ranged from the poor to the non-existent, and pasteurisation became an essential and life-saving innovation. These days, though, English and Welsh raw-milk producers (the milk is still illegal in Scotland, for some unfathomable reason) operate to some of the highest hygiene standards in the world.

In 2014, once the FSA had visited Hook and Son (as well as Ellie's Dairy in Kent), its officials were, in the words of Mr Hook, 'incredibly impressed. And began to understand that farmers could produce raw milk safely, train staff, have food management systems in place, that they understood pathogen risks and mitigated those risks, and carried out independent testing to validate their raw-milk sales.'

Mr Cook points out that pasteurisation destroys goodness, adding: 'Raw milk is a complete food, perfectly designed to grow a baby mammal for up to a year.'

His dairy herd is made up of a mix of Jerseys and alpine breeds, such as Fleckvieh and Brown Swiss.He says: 'Your farming practices have to be very high and to make good food, you need low-stress systems. Whereas a commercial cow can produce up to 3,000 gallons of milk per year, we get only 440 to 660 gallons. But, once people have tasted it, there's no going back.'.

By 2018, the demand for raw milk had grown five-fold and the number of licensed farmers went from 70 to 200. Now, with FSA support, there's a Raw Milk Producers Association, which offers guidance to anyone new to the sector. As well as Hook and Son there is the Morwick Dairy, Northumberland, where Ben Howie started with an ice-cream parlour and then began selling raw milk in 2016.

He says: 'It's an intensely local product. All I can say is 'give it a go'. Once tasted, you'll be hooked.'

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-12206547/TOM-PARKER-BOWLES-simply-pour-glass-raw-milk.html

[Macnamara]

I first heard about this one on The corbett report podcast episode 394 and i see that Richard vobes has just done a podcast on it.

Episode 394 - Solutions: Survival Currency

Corbett • 01/29/2021

The miracle of Wörgl

19 Jun 2018

In 1932, in the middle of the Great Depression, the Austrian town of Wörgl was in deep trouble and prepared to try anything. Of its population of 4,500, a total of 1,500 people were without a job, and 200 families were penniless. Mayor Michael Unterguggenberger had a long list of projects he wanted to accomplish, but there was hardly any money to carry them out. These projects included paving roads, streetlights, extending water distribution across the whole town, and planting trees along the streets.^{1 2}

Rather than spending the 32,000 Austrian Schilling in the town’s coffers to start these projects off, he deposited them in a local savings bank as a guarantee to back the issue of a currency known as stamp scrip. The Wörgl money required sticking a monthly stamp on the circulating notes to keep them valid, amounting to 1% of the note’s value.^{1 2} A businessman named Silvio Gesell came up with this idea in his book The Natural Economic Order.

Nobody wanted to pay for the monthly stamps, so everyone receiving the notes would spend them. The 32,000 schilling deposit allowed anyone to exchange scrip for 98 per cent of its value in schillings. Hardly anyone did this because the scrip was worth one schilling after buying a new stamp. But people did not keep more scrip than they needed. Only 5,000 schillings circulated. The stamp fees paid for a soup kitchen that fed 220 families.^{1 2}

The council carried out all the intended works, built new houses, a reservoir, a ski jump and a bridge. The key to this success was the fast circulation of the scrip money within the local economy, fourteen times higher than the Schilling. This increased trade and employment. Unemployment in Wörgl dropped 25% while it rose in the rest of Austria. Six neighbouring villages copied the idea successfully. The French Prime Minister, Édouard Daladier, visited the town to witness the ‘miracle of Wörgl’ himself.^{1 2}

In January 1933, the project was copied in the neighbouring city of Kitzbühel. In June 1933 major Unterguggenberger addressed a meeting with representatives from 170 different Austrian towns and villages. Two hundred Austrian townships were interested in the idea. At this point the central bank decided to assert its monopoly rights by banning scrip money.^{1 2}

The local currency of Wörgl demonstrates that the economy can do well without more debt if money keeps circulating. Negative interest rates can make that happen. Stamps on money like in Wörgl make negative interest rates possible as you can avoid paying for stamps by lending out money. For instance, lending out money at a negative interest rate of 2% per year would be more attractive than paying for the stamps. Negative interest rates might have prevented the depression or ended it once it had started. So if scrip had been money in the 1920s and 1930s, World War II might never have happened.

https://theplanforthefuture.org/2018/06/19/the-miracle-of-worgl/

[Macnamara]

THE GREAT RISING

Humanity now faces its greatest ever challenge. We are under all-out attack on every quarter by the globalist medical-military-industrial-intelligence complex bent on depriving us of health, wholesome food, rights and freedoms, our way of life and even our very lives. The Globalists are weaponising everything from air, water and food to money, media, entertainment, education and academia, and much else besides. All this in pursuit of their goal of a depopulated, dumbed-down, compliant, neo-feudal humanity, ruled over by a one world government controlled by them, for their perpetual benefit.

However, humanity is fighting back! The oppressive experiences of the last three years have triggered a Great Awakening—ever more people are waking up and questioning the mainstream narrative. As people learn about the global elite and their unfolding plan to enslave us in a neo-feudal global dictatorship, they are coming together in a Great Rising. Untold numbers are forming local campaign groups, doing research, taking direct action, engaging with elected representatives, creating alternative systems and finding ways of restoring human values and meaning to their lives.

 

MISSION STATEMENT

 

To put in place an effective strategy that will swiftly mobilise millions of truth and freedom activists to overwhelm and collapse in a peaceful manner the planned ‘Great Reset’ of the World Economic Forum along with the criminal anti-human agenda currently being rolled out by the corporate globalists. This will be done by carrying out lawful actions of mass non-compliance at a local level and through the creation of new, parallel systems that make existing and corrupted systems of state control completely redundant.

ACCELERATORS

To mobilise the millions needed, these are the 'accelerators'—areas of potential or actual accelerating public concern:

• Sudden Death Syndrome: vaccine damage with increasing cardiac arrests in young people… evidence of weekly excess deaths. WHO Pandemic Treaty.
• Travel restrictions: The ‘Net Zero’ fake green attack. Uniting people with the full implications… 5G, ULEZ, SMART 15 Minute Cities, Climate Truth (CO₂ is actually the Gas of Life; we need more, not less!). Mobilising car users and bikers to stand up for their essential freedom to travel as they wish.
• Child Abuse: inappropriate sex education… deliberate attempts by UN to bring in the premature sexualisation of children that could be the prelude to the attempted legalisation of paedophilia.
• Financial Freedom: to undertake private financial transactions without the State being involved. The huge Orwellian problems surrounding CBDCs. Programmable digital money that will lead to oppressive measures involving ‘carbon credits’ and a ‘social credit system’ as found in Communist China.
• Eating insects: Coerced veganism. Urban vertical and chemically-induced ‘forced growing’ factory units. The insanity of destroying fertile and productive farm land in favour of ‘wilding’. Increasing GM crops and precision-bred farm animals. Small and medium-sized family farms being bought out.
• Transhumanism: psychopaths trying to improve on and perfect the work of the ‘Creator’. The artificial creation of sexless ‘humanoid’ slaves. Waking religious people up to the Luciferian/Satanic agenda that is now on full display.

And finally:

• The Trajectory: showing people what’s actually happening in Communist China—complete tyranny is being rolled out using invasive and cutting-edge technologies. This is what’s coming rapidly to a community near all of us unless we rise up quickly and take back full control from these dangerous and psychotic globalists.

https://the-great-rising.org/

[k_j_evans]

On 6/18/2023 at 8:43 PM, Macnamara said:

TOM PARKER BOWLES: Why you simply must pour yourself a glass of creamy, rich, voluptuous... raw milk

• READ MORE: TOM PARKER BOWLES savours memories of Coronation banquets

By Tom Parker Bowles Event for The Mail on Sunday

Published: 22:00 BST, 17 June 2023 | Updated: 22:22 BST, 17 June 2023

The idea that raw milk is unsafe and poisonous is ingrained in the British psyche,' says Jon Cook, who runs Dora's Dairy in Wiltshire with his wife Sarah. 'But there was a good reason for pasteurisation.

'During the Industrial Revolution, when dairies moved into towns, the cows were fed brewery and bakery waste, not grass. And they became ill. And ill cows produce ill milk.'

Add in hygiene standards that ranged from the poor to the non-existent, and pasteurisation became an essential and life-saving innovation. These days, though, English and Welsh raw-milk producers (the milk is still illegal in Scotland, for some unfathomable reason) operate to some of the highest hygiene standards in the world.

In 2014, once the FSA had visited Hook and Son (as well as Ellie's Dairy in Kent), its officials were, in the words of Mr Hook, 'incredibly impressed. And began to understand that farmers could produce raw milk safely, train staff, have food management systems in place, that they understood pathogen risks and mitigated those risks, and carried out independent testing to validate their raw-milk sales.'

Mr Cook points out that pasteurisation destroys goodness, adding: 'Raw milk is a complete food, perfectly designed to grow a baby mammal for up to a year.'

His dairy herd is made up of a mix of Jerseys and alpine breeds, such as Fleckvieh and Brown Swiss.He says: 'Your farming practices have to be very high and to make good food, you need low-stress systems. Whereas a commercial cow can produce up to 3,000 gallons of milk per year, we get only 440 to 660 gallons. But, once people have tasted it, there's no going back.'.

By 2018, the demand for raw milk had grown five-fold and the number of licensed farmers went from 70 to 200. Now, with FSA support, there's a Raw Milk Producers Association, which offers guidance to anyone new to the sector. As well as Hook and Son there is the Morwick Dairy, Northumberland, where Ben Howie started with an ice-cream parlour and then began selling raw milk in 2016.

He says: 'It's an intensely local product. All I can say is 'give it a go'. Once tasted, you'll be hooked.'

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-12206547/TOM-PARKER-BOWLES-simply-pour-glass-raw-milk.html

They forgot to mention Wheelbirks Farm - also in Northumberland that does raw Jersey milk and ice cream - and you can visit the cows. Oh, and  Baysleap, where you can buy raw milk from a vending machine (but no cow visits). It used to be really easy to buy green top milk back in the 70s and 80s. When did they start saying it was dangerous, I can't remember? 

[Macnamara]

46 minutes ago, k_j_evans said:

 When did they start saying it was dangerous, I can't remember? 

 

i dunno....maybe it was around about the same time they started telling people that butter was bad for them and that they should eat margerine instead? Which also coincided with a rise in heart trouble....

[Campion]

12 hours ago, Macnamara said:

 

i dunno....maybe it was around about the same time they started telling people that butter was bad for them and that they should eat margerine instead? Which also coincided with a rise in heart trouble....

 

I remember, and then the common market had a butter mountain and milk lake they couldn't sell. It's like a planned slow demolition of farming and our health. 

[Macnamara]

On 6/20/2023 at 11:32 AM, Campion said:

 

I remember, and then the common market had a butter mountain and milk lake they couldn't sell. It's like a planned slow demolition of farming and our health. 

 

they are long, well planned agendas that are part of a multi-generational conspiracy. They have been boiling the frog slowly

[Macnamara]

The Self-Reliant Way - #SolutionsWatch

Corbett • 08/02/2023

Do you feel there is a conspiracy against manhood? Are you struggling to find meaning and purpose in the face of the rigged game that is modern society? Have you given up on life? Today we talk to Benny Wills about The Self-Reliant Way, a new course for helping men to identify their purpose, cultivate their skills and realize their true potential.

https://www.corbettreport.com/solutionswatch-self-reliance/

BennyWills.com

[Macnamara]

Be your own hero...

 

At the moment a lot of folk don't want to hear the full truth because the truth is we are all culpable for what's happening in various ways. Every pound we spend is a vote for the kind of world we want to have take shape around us so every time we buy the goods and services of the cabal we feed the beast. How many people are ready to let go of their smart tech or their wifi or their processed food? IMO in order for people to be prepared to make those sacrifices necessary to starve the beast they must first understand that all of these things they complain about like ULEZ or 15 minute cities or migrants in hotels or NHS waiting lists are all really just aspects of the same agenda which is being pushed by the same cabal because its only when you realise that all these things and much much more are coming from the same cabal do you realise that you are having a war waged against you. Until you realise it is all by design you just reason that politicians are just 'incompetent' instead of malicious; but no: they ARE malicious.

Neil Oliver: ‘...fixing the mess we’re in, is going to hurt!’

 

[Macnamara]

Ways of processing information

 

I completely relate to what this dutch professor is saying. I like his analogy of the current education system treating peoples brains as a storehouse into which they dump their information into is a great one along with his answer to that poor approach to education which is instead to treat our heads like a house where we are careful about what we take in there and also about how we arrange it in our heads so that it works efficiently. This of course requires us to ask 'why' things are happening and also understanding how things interconnect so that we can see things within the context of a larger scheme.

The Dutch School of Understanding - #SolutionsWatch

https://www.bitchute.com/video/9IGwNmNcGST6/

 

[Macnamara]

The power of 'NO':

Why are People so Obedient? - Compliance and Tyranny

 

[Macnamara]