This is again a very important posting by Elizabeth.A splendid wordsmith with the truth to back it up. Three or four years ago I struck up a conversation with a local farmer here in R.I USA at a market and learned his farm was about a mile from my home. I had moved permanently to R.I from Sag Harbor NY where I did home restoration work for the rich and famous and not so rich and famous since the early eighties. Sag Harbor for those who don't know used to be Southamptons poor dumb cousin as it was a hardscrapple fishing village with a Main Street about two blocks long and at one time boasted having the most bars per capita of any town in the US. I had watched for decades potato fields, which most of eastern L.I. was famous for slowly make way for subdivisions of McMansions "till there was virtually no farms left that actually grew anything. When working for rich city people who every weekend head west to the Hamptons to live next to the same people only with nicer landscaping between them became untenable I moved into our 18th c home I restored in R.I never to go back. The farmer whom I befriended seemed like someone I had a few things in common with and when he told me how it was impossible to get any help other than the one Guatemalan fellow he had I decided to volunteer a few hours most mornings to help him out. His farm was about ten acres where he raised cows and pigs for meat, chickens for eggs and vegetables all without chemicals. When he purchased the farm in the 90s the town and surrounding neighbors fought to keep him from farming the land even though it had been farmed by the previous owners. He said he spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to fight city hall and finally they dropped the lawsuit. This is sort of the same mentality I experienced in the Hamptons when the famous Bridgerhampton race track operational since the 1950s was forced to shut down by the locals who had moved near and around the track decades after it was opened Now it is a pricey golf club that sits atop the only aquifer that feeds the areas water supply. I can tell you as fact that local ,small time farming is a very tough and not very profitable vocation. I could spend every waking hour every day there and never get to the end what needs to be done. Last year was the last year we raised turkeys as few people want to spend the money for an organically raised bird . He tells me the cows will be the next to go as hay, electricity, and fuel have risen too much to make it worth while. My generation will be the last to remember what it was like to live in a sustainable agrarian society and that memory is fading fast. I fear that people will only rise up when they are at the point of starvation. That time is definitely on its way.
I'm on my way to Church, so only have a moment, but just have to say that, with yesterdays post on The Pipeline, you've wrapped and tied with a bow why those evil bleeps must be stopped. What hasn't been turned into The Wasteland has had its productive past surgically removed (think of Squamish's Britannia West pulp mill or Nelson's Kootenay Forest Products sawmill) and replaced with chic vegan restaurants and other services for the wealthy climbers, skiers and dirt bike crowd. Sure, you can earn a living there, waiting tables. The towns are shiny and painted nicely, just like Disneyworld. On the east coast there's a bit less Wasteland, but the it's still largely encroachment from the cities - the DC-Baltimore corridor in Maryland, the DC-Northern Counties and Richmond in Virginia, etc. God help us, for we have sinned by not pushing back before this. God help us know what to do now.
And just think about how many people still are not paying attention. I never hear concerns expressed at social gatherings. People have drliberately blocked out how how government policies are destroying the world.
I'm very grateful to Elizabeth for introducing me to Feargus O'Connor Greenwood's "180 Degrees: Unlearn the Lies You've Been Taught to Believe" a month or so ago. It has a lot of excellent suggestions how to effectively spread the word without chasing all of your friends and relatives away. Not everyone can hear the truth, but with care and caution the word can be spread. I sincerely hope.
"But the hive mind is on the march." Agreed, but there is a resistance that must be toppled further.
I live in a town in MN of 5,000 with smaller surrounding communities. It is 40 miles from the TC and is an Ag+bedroom community. It is a treasure. The public schools are asking for money in an off year and they(aside from early voting) should be widely voted down. The 'Soccer Moms' are onto them after 2020-21 where schools were closed but still had their kitchens open to prepare 1,000 meals a day for 'poor' yet closed for education. "The Math" as you talk about is not working.
This is not a normal 'recession' type of year even though interest rates are high, etc. Honestly, I think Trump dropping our corporate tax rate from the highest in the world(39%?) to 21% is going to be our saving grace as work is coming back here by the 10s of thousands of assembly hours alone in my company. If you are willing to work there is much to be had. Keep the faith!
There is something about the family farm that is rarely discussed. It supports the other members of society to specialise. I consider meagre earnings, supporting very undervalued land (not farmable - rock and desert ) with heavy focus on home production of most food a major effort in undermining the current system dynamics at play. Basically live on land people don't want and don't try to compete. Just let the toxic system burn out while hashtag living your best life. Micro farms may be the way to destabilise a parasitic banking class, dunno but it's my thing.
Nice piece, a little narrow in perspective but it's glorious heart is in the right place, I say this as a regenerative organic farmer😉🎩
Unfortunately, the middle class that has/had the power of time wealth, to ponder the spiritual health benefits of a good organic cuppa and conversation, vs the time-destitute lower socioeconomic class, the middle are being steadily and systematically wiped out or pushed into "upper middle poor".
So unless we can get more traction of understanding within the poor that THEY need to start producing some food, any food, not only for their own benefit, but so we can begin to strip the technocracy from their stranglehold on the food system and their profiteering.
Amazon was, for a brief period, helpful to rural customers. Now, with their cut off of rural delivery, they have relegated themselves to the same status that The Whole Earth Catalog once had for rural buyers: a dream book pastime for winter months, resulting in few purchases after long shopping projects. Leave Amazon to its own devices and it will self destruct.
Adulteration and fornication of the whole earth and everything in it is what our evil cousin Lucifer S. Satan had in mind when he seduced Eve and sodomised Adam. The old A & F won't last forever but that's the way things are now. For evil or good, every human action begins with a choice.
Bad Choices = Bad Changes. EDIT: I meant to say "our distant cousin, Lucifer." God created him just like he created us so we're all related. Only Satan is doomed and we're not. So far, Satan and his evil goombahs are the only members of The Doom Club.
Thank you for another well-researched, bang-on piece. I notice that the link to purchase the book is through Amazon.com not Amazon.ca. In Canada the price is more than twice as much.
👍👍👍 Thanks. It is an awful spector we face but there is hope. Resist much . Obey little
This is again a very important posting by Elizabeth.A splendid wordsmith with the truth to back it up. Three or four years ago I struck up a conversation with a local farmer here in R.I USA at a market and learned his farm was about a mile from my home. I had moved permanently to R.I from Sag Harbor NY where I did home restoration work for the rich and famous and not so rich and famous since the early eighties. Sag Harbor for those who don't know used to be Southamptons poor dumb cousin as it was a hardscrapple fishing village with a Main Street about two blocks long and at one time boasted having the most bars per capita of any town in the US. I had watched for decades potato fields, which most of eastern L.I. was famous for slowly make way for subdivisions of McMansions "till there was virtually no farms left that actually grew anything. When working for rich city people who every weekend head west to the Hamptons to live next to the same people only with nicer landscaping between them became untenable I moved into our 18th c home I restored in R.I never to go back. The farmer whom I befriended seemed like someone I had a few things in common with and when he told me how it was impossible to get any help other than the one Guatemalan fellow he had I decided to volunteer a few hours most mornings to help him out. His farm was about ten acres where he raised cows and pigs for meat, chickens for eggs and vegetables all without chemicals. When he purchased the farm in the 90s the town and surrounding neighbors fought to keep him from farming the land even though it had been farmed by the previous owners. He said he spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to fight city hall and finally they dropped the lawsuit. This is sort of the same mentality I experienced in the Hamptons when the famous Bridgerhampton race track operational since the 1950s was forced to shut down by the locals who had moved near and around the track decades after it was opened Now it is a pricey golf club that sits atop the only aquifer that feeds the areas water supply. I can tell you as fact that local ,small time farming is a very tough and not very profitable vocation. I could spend every waking hour every day there and never get to the end what needs to be done. Last year was the last year we raised turkeys as few people want to spend the money for an organically raised bird . He tells me the cows will be the next to go as hay, electricity, and fuel have risen too much to make it worth while. My generation will be the last to remember what it was like to live in a sustainable agrarian society and that memory is fading fast. I fear that people will only rise up when they are at the point of starvation. That time is definitely on its way.
this piece was pointy as a sharp ass knife. i LOVED it. thank you. i FEEL your rage and see you incensed. brill. did i say thank you already?
I'm on my way to Church, so only have a moment, but just have to say that, with yesterdays post on The Pipeline, you've wrapped and tied with a bow why those evil bleeps must be stopped. What hasn't been turned into The Wasteland has had its productive past surgically removed (think of Squamish's Britannia West pulp mill or Nelson's Kootenay Forest Products sawmill) and replaced with chic vegan restaurants and other services for the wealthy climbers, skiers and dirt bike crowd. Sure, you can earn a living there, waiting tables. The towns are shiny and painted nicely, just like Disneyworld. On the east coast there's a bit less Wasteland, but the it's still largely encroachment from the cities - the DC-Baltimore corridor in Maryland, the DC-Northern Counties and Richmond in Virginia, etc. God help us, for we have sinned by not pushing back before this. God help us know what to do now.
And just think about how many people still are not paying attention. I never hear concerns expressed at social gatherings. People have drliberately blocked out how how government policies are destroying the world.
I'm very grateful to Elizabeth for introducing me to Feargus O'Connor Greenwood's "180 Degrees: Unlearn the Lies You've Been Taught to Believe" a month or so ago. It has a lot of excellent suggestions how to effectively spread the word without chasing all of your friends and relatives away. Not everyone can hear the truth, but with care and caution the word can be spread. I sincerely hope.
"But the hive mind is on the march." Agreed, but there is a resistance that must be toppled further.
I live in a town in MN of 5,000 with smaller surrounding communities. It is 40 miles from the TC and is an Ag+bedroom community. It is a treasure. The public schools are asking for money in an off year and they(aside from early voting) should be widely voted down. The 'Soccer Moms' are onto them after 2020-21 where schools were closed but still had their kitchens open to prepare 1,000 meals a day for 'poor' yet closed for education. "The Math" as you talk about is not working.
This is not a normal 'recession' type of year even though interest rates are high, etc. Honestly, I think Trump dropping our corporate tax rate from the highest in the world(39%?) to 21% is going to be our saving grace as work is coming back here by the 10s of thousands of assembly hours alone in my company. If you are willing to work there is much to be had. Keep the faith!
I pray you're right. I wish I could live to see it.
Will the powers that shouldn't be EVER figure out how hubris works...or doesn't work...
There is something about the family farm that is rarely discussed. It supports the other members of society to specialise. I consider meagre earnings, supporting very undervalued land (not farmable - rock and desert ) with heavy focus on home production of most food a major effort in undermining the current system dynamics at play. Basically live on land people don't want and don't try to compete. Just let the toxic system burn out while hashtag living your best life. Micro farms may be the way to destabilise a parasitic banking class, dunno but it's my thing.
Nice piece, a little narrow in perspective but it's glorious heart is in the right place, I say this as a regenerative organic farmer😉🎩
Unfortunately, the middle class that has/had the power of time wealth, to ponder the spiritual health benefits of a good organic cuppa and conversation, vs the time-destitute lower socioeconomic class, the middle are being steadily and systematically wiped out or pushed into "upper middle poor".
So unless we can get more traction of understanding within the poor that THEY need to start producing some food, any food, not only for their own benefit, but so we can begin to strip the technocracy from their stranglehold on the food system and their profiteering.
Keep up the good work👏👏🙏
#wearemany #wearememory #wewillnotforget #getlocalised
You're seriously unable to find a replacement for Amazon? C'mon, I NEVER use it - so why do you?
Amazon was, for a brief period, helpful to rural customers. Now, with their cut off of rural delivery, they have relegated themselves to the same status that The Whole Earth Catalog once had for rural buyers: a dream book pastime for winter months, resulting in few purchases after long shopping projects. Leave Amazon to its own devices and it will self destruct.
Oh wow - didn't know that. I hope you're right about it self-destructing - IMO that would be magnificent.
Adulteration and fornication of the whole earth and everything in it is what our evil cousin Lucifer S. Satan had in mind when he seduced Eve and sodomised Adam. The old A & F won't last forever but that's the way things are now. For evil or good, every human action begins with a choice.
Bad Choices = Bad Changes. EDIT: I meant to say "our distant cousin, Lucifer." God created him just like he created us so we're all related. Only Satan is doomed and we're not. So far, Satan and his evil goombahs are the only members of The Doom Club.
I hope Nickson is correct in forecasting a global renaissance.
Personally I think we have to abandon hope. Only then will we be able to see things as they really are.
Here’s the root I’ve been hacking away at:
https://dawnfrench.substack.com/p/the-fascinating-truth-about-the-16th
The more of us there are hacking away at whatever root is in front of us is really the only way through.
You nailed it!! Love this, thanking you from across the pond for articulating this so succinctly.
Thank you for another well-researched, bang-on piece. I notice that the link to purchase the book is through Amazon.com not Amazon.ca. In Canada the price is more than twice as much.
Thanks. I was merely making a comment about the link. Indigo is Chapters, with local outlets, and it is a few dollars cheaper there.
There is always hope!
I would love to be able, if only for a short while, to see humans at near 100% thru your eyes. even tho' I can't, your words stir me deeply. dave