Happy Monday All! I hope everyone had a great digital ID free weekend spent with a lot of cash transactions!
Isn't it so interesting that so many "western" countries have an "immigration problem"? It's almost as if they all loosened the controls on immigration to purposely create a problem for which they have a solution to. 🤔 It's mind numbing that so many people haven't caught on to the problem reaction solution playbook that is used ad nauseum by the perps at the top.
Jenna knows where most of her supporters stand on this issue and her poll will let us know! In the mean time, does anyone know anyone that is trying to start a local community that is working to decentralize itself outside of the beast system? I have seen a few but nothing local to our area just yet.
I looked into this before, and I don't like the fact that there is (or was at the time) absolutely NO info about who is behind this "Freedom Cell" movement.
Makes me wonder who's compiling what kind of list with all the names and contact info of everyone who signs up?
Derrick Broze came and spoke to "Mask Off Minnesota" a few years ago which is how I heard about "Freedom Cells". There were a number of small groups around Minnesota a few years ago but they seem disorganized.
As Metta pointed out, another concern is who is "watching" those attempting to build Freedom. Is it safe to publicly join such groups?
Based on things I've seen and on some long-evolved Spidey sense, I think that lots of organized groups and initiatives of all kinds -- this is my opinion only -- are started by savvy, charismatic individuals, on somebody's payroll to speak, who impress and facilitate and welcome people in. Metaphoric false messiahs in a sense. To guide and gatekeep, to identify and shepherd people of interest in various useful ways to them, etc.
Of course I'm not pretending to know that this is true of this particular organized group, but I can't help but at least say that everyone should always keep in mind that organized groups may be led by wolves in sheep's. And to always observe and listen and notice carefully the things that leaders and "lieutenants" of those leaders say, recommend, and do. Collect dots and clues and connect them when and as they warrant connections.
It's just self-defense. If you're interested. Interested in not being identified, watched, used, manipulated, misguided, or whatever.
Another way to group-up and build support systems is to try to start your own with people you know halfway decently and expand when and as you meet people who pass whatever smell tests you may have.
The how-to stuff is online at lots of places: where to buy land, reference and how-to books to collect and have on hand, security issues, supplies needed, skills to build, etc., etc.
It’s going to require leadership. Not too down, but skills based is how I am envisioning this to work. Self sufficiency ain't going to cut it much longer than a few months if the shit hits the fan.
It’s why I have been sharpening up on a few old and new skills!
Been my discussion when peeps post 'resist, don't comply'. Easy to say and write but totally useless. Post ideas on how to, okay, otherwise it's a waste of my time. I resist these freedom movement clubs too because....who knows who it is. The Cdn Gov wud love to have a list of self made resisters...to add to its 'trucker 'lists'. Cash will work only if the electric system goes down and only until the food runs out, then it will be a dog eat dog world. So much to say but Siri is listening.......do they make flip phones ?
I've tried to encourage people one on one, in person to opt for freedom. I've only had one person take me up on the choice to be paid in silver instead of dollars.
Most people are totally oblivious, not just to this but to pretty much everything. Have you forgotten COVID?
The VAST majority will go along to get along--it's what they do b/c the are natural slaves--but tens of millions will refuse point blank, so it is doomed to failure.
Also, ALL of "their" pans require two things: (1) a universal supply of electricity and (2) an UNFAILING supply of electricity.
One year ago today, I was without electricity for many, many days; millions of us were, thanks to Hurricane Helene. And those storms are par for the course in fully one quarter of our continent. This hellish plan simply cannot succeed in America. ALL of our electrical infrastructure is above the ground. And regardless of where you are, if you look out the nearest window, you will see that.
And if you have a chain saw in your garage . . . well . . . .
No question that the problem/reaction/solution playbook is what's behind the Digital ID bullshit!
I keep suggesting the local decentralized network approach, and I get so much pushback. As you all know (by now), I live in a cobalt blue coastal city in the Communist Republic of Cali. If anyone on this comment thread can lead me to a group/network, I would greatly appreciate it. I have time and resources to contribute!
"I keep suggesting the local decentralized network approach, and I get so much pushback."
Ignore the pushback. The overwhelming trend worldwide is towards DEcentralization, and people will eventually accept that fact b/c they will have no choice. The age of "bigness" is passing away right before our eyes. The evidence is ubiquitous; just look around.
The internet has some influence in that direction, but that is by no means the only factor propelling decentralizatiion and the end of Big This and Big That.
Just look to your own household if nobody else is ready to "go local" fight now. Find a local farmer for milk and vegetables, etc. Shop with cash only.
These folks are top-notch, selling excellent products for all kinds of emergencies and for camping, etc. The food has a 25-year shelf life, and I can personally vouch for the company and their products.
So strike out on your own and JUST DO IT. You don't need anybody else.
These folks are top-notch, selling excellent products for all kinds of emergencies and for camping, etc. The food has a 25-year shelf life, and I can personally vouch for the company and their products.
These folks are top-notch, selling excellent products for all kinds of emergencies and for camping, etc. The food has a 25-year shelf life, and I can personally vouch for the company and their products.
We need to have a new money system that avoids all the taxes, high interest and digital id system. It needs to be global and needs to get around the government rules that prohibit 'competition'. It needs to be more than covert, but something that stands up to legal challenges and shows the corruption that is inherent in what is currently going on. I think it is possible.
It's not merely "possible"; it's unavoidable. But that is one of those things that will--must--happen from the bottom up, so a period of . . . well, let's just say, "great inconvenience" must come between now and then.
And when the time comes, as it must, I think you'll find that the vast majority of people will "heave to" and will very quickly adapt, and local "currencies" will pop up like mushrooms in a pasture after a summer rain. That's exactly what happened during the Great Depression." Most people are not "Mad Max" types.
Most people will pull together and will adapt and survive although, of course, Mad Max will show up in some places; maybe in many places, but that won't last very long. But *most* people will co-operate b/c they will have to, and most people will do so gladly.
I don't have a cell phone, but can easily do anything I want online using something called a desktop computer. It has a nice big monitor. I can't imagine trying to read things on a tiny smartphone screen...
Use a computer. Park that cell phone in a Faraday bag. I only use my cell phone when I'm traveling and it's in it's faraday bag while traveling and only gets pulled out and turned on when needed.
I have never owned or even used a "smart" phone. What a ridiculous, childish thing to "need"! Life without electronic gadgets is entirely possible and really very pleasant. I have lived without TV since 1987. You can, too. I have almost NO negativity in my life b/c I don't have TV; I don't want it, so I arrange my life without it. You can, too.
I miss NOTHING. I have a desktop computer with which I make my own TV programming. And as you are a reader of this blog and therefore clearly have brains and common sense, you can do that, too. It doesn't hurt a bit. You *might* miss TV for a week or two, but I doubt it. There are thousands of *very* good movies and documentaries on YouTube and the others, not to mention millions of videos with all the music in the world. Do your own TV programming. Stop paying for cable and those stupid subscription "services." You've got brains and common sense; USE them. UNPLUG. you can EASILY keep up with everything online. EASILY.
Here in FL there is a group that a young, energetic, and idealistic guy is leading. He's done great work to get some land devoted to permaculture (not sure who actually owns it 🤔) but the people involved are a real mixed bunch. It ain't easy to get a bunch of non-conformists to agree on anything 😂. Plus, the kid is also all over the map; there's little focus or clear mission, so I've just been on the fringes, not wanting to throw myself into it.
The other issue is FL itself. My experience since moving here from NY in 2022 has been that people here trust the state to do the right thing, so they're not as active in pushing back. I'd be interested to hear what others in FL think.
Yes, I relocated here from Oregon and haven’t met a single person with an interest in building a self sustaining community. The growing season isn’t long enough in FL so I can’t consider it long term anyway.
I follow a fellow who is writing a book via his Substack. His name is Christopher Cook and his book Stack is called Freedom Scale. His book is all about creating community and exiting the system.
I would love to know if there are people near me planning for alternatives too, but my nextdoor feed of late is full of people posting where to get their flu shots & worried about availability of C19 boosters. ARRGH!
Journalist Derrick Broze, who has been warning about the technocratic state for a long time, has a network called Freedom Cells. (I have not yet joined) https://freedomcells.org/
I refuse facial scans at the airport. I simply say “no thank you” with a great big smile on my face (in the US, you are NOT required to have your pretty little face scanned by the very talented TSA). I do the same for the full body scan. And if I have to have a pat down instead? Fine. I usually request the cute guy over there…that usually stump them as I am quite obviously a SHE. My license is up for renewal THIS WEEK, and I’m refusing the Real ID…AI even wrote my script for the DMV who is sure to harass the heck out of me next week here in deep blue Colorado. The only downside of NOT having a RealID is having to fly with my passport. So fine. I’ll fly with my passport. Whatever little acts of rebellion there are, bring them on. I’m SO DONE with all of it. Red light camera tickets for running lights or speeding? Hello big brother, not paying those. No due process. How can I possibly argue with the MAIL when I can’t remember the circumstances? The whole world has gone buggy. We all bought a ticket to the show, and I, for one, want my money back. Preferably in bitcoin.
REALLY IMPORTANT! READ NARD'S COMMENT! No pictures (facial scans) at any airport. Do not comply-opt out (nicely if at all possible!) by saying "no thank you!" Opt out of the toxic radiation full-body scan. It's always easy for me because I travel with one of my dogs! It's horribly intrusive, but most of the time, the TSA agents feel awkward, so I put them at ease and distract them with my cute pup. Copping a feel sucks!
Feck-off with the REAL ID, and travel with your Passport.
Red light camera tickets are unconstitutional and have been thrown out of court, so the cameras have been dismantled (inoperable) even here in the Communist Republic of Cali.
The biometric bullshit becomes operable to travel in the EU on October 12th. It's called the EES (Entry/Exit System) for entering and exiting the Schengen Area. What does this mean? Travelers must register their biometric data and passport details at automated kiosks or designated booths at border crossings, airports, train stations, and ports!
Guess why I didn't travel to Europe (specifically, Nice, France) this fall? Ding, ding, ding...
Hubs asked if I would ever travel to Europe again last night. Answer: NOT under the current system being rolled out, sadly!
That is, of course, if they can implement it as planned over the next nine months. Consider the significant backlash in the UK against the forced adoption of Digital ID to work. I would not be shocked if they all of a sudden back off this biometric bullshit and give some lame ass excuse.
I always opt out of photo at TSA and usually opt out of full-body scan booth. I was horrified last year at the Rome airport when I was herded through their new entry system with no one to speak to and no way to opt out of the photo process, all automatic. And you don’t realize it until you’re at the turnstile after a long walk. Unbelievably freaky feeling and frustrating. The only way to avoid it is to not enter. Which, I did for three years to avoid jabs or getting stuck somewhere because of not having a jab passport. Having lived there for a good chunk of my life, and feeling like it’s my second home, it’s unbearably sad to think I won’t be traveling to Europe anymore one day soon. This dystopia is all too real. Now, I’m trying to rescind the Real ID license I naively signed up for when I moved back from Italy a number of years ago before I woke up to the con.
Just heard about this today...daughter is on vacay there. Hope she can exit without providing. I have warned her to resist, say nothing you no thank you. She is smart.
Hahahaha! The one thing one can count on in France is apathy and laziness. One of the things that used to drive me nuts was going to the local Monoprix, Casino, or Carrefour! Everything operates like slow molasses. If a human-operated checkout even existed, the person was always seated with a nasty scowl on their face! At least I could make them smirk with my broken French, desperately trying to pluck the proper verbs!
I will miss the daily trips to the open-air markets, J. Multari, La Fromagerie du Carre d’Or on rue de France, and Boucherie de France, among others.
Hahahaha! My grandma and mum used to say something very similar about “city folk.” “J, M, and J, molasses moves faster than those smartypants city folks!!”
I think I read travel to the EU will require fingerprints as well? If so, those of us who've been fingerprinted in the past for job requirements already have ours in the system so is this EU fingerprinting any different than existing fingerprints in "the system"?
My two bits....if you are American, it's private to America ( maybe Israel). If you donate to the EES, that WEF/WHO. You are done for. Should someone need your kidney....say goodbye to your kidney.
I refused the facial scan at the airport last year and I could tell they were pissed. I got "selected" for additional screening, which was me sitting in a very public time out chair while they put my phone in a box and I am sure, copied the contents into their system. That is why they are always asking for your phone number now as well...it is one of the first steps to a digital ID and people don't give it a second thought. I always use my disconnected landline phone number. NONEYA. But, they are making it more difficult to opt out of anything. And, the new passports have a lovely chip in them and are twice as heavy as the old ones.
I had the same experience at the airport last year with pissed TSA agent who acted like she couldn’t do manual ID verification because her “computer had to be reset for it.” AYFKM?! I just waited. Then I had the same experience with my phone being taken for a couple minutes and I thought WTF! 🤬
“Hi, I’m here to renew my driver’s license. I’d like to request a standard Colorado license, not a REAL ID-compliant one. I already have a valid U.S. passport for travel, so I don’t need the federal ID features.”
If they ask why:
“I prefer not to participate in the REAL ID program due to privacy concerns. I understand the standard license won’t be valid for federal identification, and that’s fine.”
here in Indiana, they rolled out the Real ID thing almost 10 yrs ago, with little fanfare nor information. they literally just gave you one, at the BMV, with zero explanation that I recall. I will be going to have my switched back and will be applying for a Passport (even though I have no plans to leave the country)
my fella in the UK (who is a successful, self-employed master gardener) has already informed his clients that he will not comply and will become unemployable if they (his fellow subjects of the crown) allow this to go through.
p.s. they now have well over 2 million signatures on that petition in the UK; nearly 15% of their population, my fella informs me.
Same here in the Communist Republic of Cali. I don't think it's been 10 years, but at least 8 years ago. I had no idea what this bullshit was all about because I was still semi-sleepwalking through life back then.
Get a Passport even if you have no immediate travel plans. It's easy peasy! This is your new analog ID! It's a pain, but the alternative is NOT acceptable.
Same for me in MI, I don’t recall asking for or receiving informed consent on Real ID. Last time i renewed they just gave me one. Now that i know better, i want to go back and have it reverted back to regular old ID.
I tried to look into it online today, but to even get any info about Real ID you have to create an account and I was wary of doing even that. I will go in.
I heard it was super easy. you don't even have to wait until you are up for renewal. Bret Weinstein recently interviewed an expert on the Real ID. I will link it.
Same thing happened when I got a new license years back and I’m going to try to rescind the Real ID. Took off organ donor when I renewed last year, but naively didn’t think about Real ID at the time. I picked up an application at the post office today for a passport card, it’s much easier to carry and I don’t have the same fear of losing it as I do my passport, which I will use just for international travel…oops, if I can ever do that again. Anyway, I suggest getting the passport card if you’ll just use it in the U.S. Same application as for a passport, you just check passport card instead on the last page.
It will also never be "final". They'll just gradually keep linking in your health records, your banking records, and your social credit score ~ and then eventually all your criminal records once you begin breaking the "rules" of the Great Reset . . . .
The whole thing is just unworkable. ALL of "their" plans require two things: (1) a universal supply of electricity and (2) an UNFAILING supply of electricity. But fully one quarter of our continent has hurricanes and tropical storms EVERY SUMMER. That's 113 MILLION people. Moreover, ALL of our electrical infrastructure is above ground. And if you look out the nearest window, you will see that. And if you have a chain saw in your garage . . . well . . . .
I dunno, aren’t we already so deep that it’s kinda moot? Not I don’t want to comply, but look at us! We’re here reading this on an internet connection?!?! 🤷🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️
That’s how I feel about my online presence. They already know soooooo much about me (I’ve run for office twice and my professional life pretty much demanded social media use…), I’m sure my avatar is much more interesting than the real me lol. But as far as travel, personal life, purchases, etc. Nonya.
Maybe I'm at a library or someone's free wifi and I always I use a VPN with multiple hops on my devices. If you are not using a top notch VPN, God help you.
VPNs are good for anonymizing your activity from the local wifi/provider and all the other local nodes involved in your connection, though I suspect that most or all VPNs are actually run by intel, in case that's relevant to given individuals.
"As discussions begin this week at the World Economic Forum, creating universal access to identity is an issue at the top of Microsoft’s agenda, and we think technology can be a powerful tool to tackle this challenge. It was last summer that Microsoft took a first step, collaborating with Accenture and Avanade on a blockchain-based identity prototype on Microsoft Azure. Together, we pursued this work in support of the ID2020 Alliance – a global public-private partnership dedicated to aiding the 1.1 billion people around the world who lack any legal form of identity. To say that we were encouraged by its mission would be an understatement. We were inspired by it."
I won't even get a Real ID, shocked at how many of my friends have shrugged and complied.
my sister traveled 3 hours, one way, to get to a BMV in North Carolina, all in a panic, to get one! she fell for all the covid hysteria to so... no surprise.
yeah I know :( Hard core liberal corporate media consuming. total TDS. but at least she knows MY views and my reasons for them and never acts disrespectful towards me.
And let us not forget our are somewhere state college students who basically can’t critically think how horrific a digital app ticket to get into a football game that is connected to their cell phone college ID?
Solution: can’t use your ticket -switch phones w a friend. I guess they forgot to think that through…
What if no one went to a game? Wouldn’t that send a message?
Nope- why would they agree to that?
I’m trying to laugh through the digital ID nightmare.
Yes, we went to a concert in an out of town venue, about an hours drive. Planned to buy a ticket with cash at the door. They didn't have 'tickets'. Gave the cash to them, and they sent us a text to load some app on our phones that had an 'e-ticket' to get in the door. If we had known before we drove all the way there we would have skipped it. Deleted the app after the show.
About the friends who got a Real ID: that shocked me too. Many of them knew enough not to get jabbed, so I don’t get it. They all said, “but I might want to fly someday.”
There is a list somewhere of id forms that are acceptable substitutions for Real ID. It includes military identification, veteran identification, and a lot more than I can remember. But why do we need any ID at all just to travel inside our own country? I’d bet that a solid argument can be made against the constitutionality of a national ID for interstate travel. It’s bad enough our Social Security numbers are now used for identification purposes.
Surely if one needs ID to travel through the US as a US citizen, one needs the same ID to vote !!! In Chinada, you cannot vote except in your own city..... with your voting card and ID. So that wud be a good sales pitch.
Plus they are good for 10 years, how long is your Real I.D. good for? And have you seen some state's requirements for Real I.D., got divorced 30 years ago and your name changed, show us the official documentation. Passports are much simpler.
I got my new license (Real ID) when I moved a number of years ago and I don’t remember if they took my fingerprints. You’re saying if they did, we’re screwed, doesn’t matter if we try to rescind the Real ID and get a new one, they can still tie the new one to our fingerprints (digital ID)?
Thanks for your follow-up, Laurie. I don't know if rescinding is an option here in Texas, or not ~ but I hope to find out before I have to renew my license again.
I also don't know anything about how this works in other states.
All I know is that, in Texas if you have the star on your license, it is a real ID ~ and, based on my experience, it appears that the star and the real ID are both tied to our biometric data (fingerprint):
Yeah, I need to call and find out what to do. My passport is expired and its lost. Supposed to use your old one to get the new one, but checked all the junk drawers and such and its MIA - last time I used it was an Alaska cruise in 2011 so who knows where it is!? My hubby has a 'truck driver gene' (his dad was an OTR trucker) and actually LIKES to drive so we don't fly much. I did miss out on going to a R women's convention last week since I didn't have the Real ID and no way was I driving to Orlando from MO.
You can reapply for a passport. Since it’s been a long time since it’s expiration and you don’t have it in your possession, you will have to apply like it’s the first time. Many Post Offices have a designated person who handles all passport applications and such. Inquire in your area what P.O. handles passport applications. You can get a passport application from them as well. And they will tell you all documents you need, and you will need two passport photos as well. You can do expedited processing (for a higher free) or regular processing. They will tell you all of that. And this information is all online was well. I highly recommend a passport now for ID purposes over a Drivers License or REAL ID.
It’s sad that we have to use a US passport to travel, within our own country! 😣
Yes. I just checked today at my post office in my very small town. Photos and whole process done there. And you can get a passport card instead, or maybe in addition to. I already have a passport, but don’t want to carry that for domestic travel or other needs, so I’m getting the card. Same application, you just check a different box on the last page.
I think it depends on the area the post office is in. There’s a neighborhood post office about a mile from me (I live in metro San Diego) and they do passport applications. They have done them for years.
When you re-apply, you might consider *not* writing in an SSN.
There is an advertised possibility of a fine of $200 if you don't provide it, but that's from the Infernal Revenue separately and not from the Post Office or the passport agency. I don't know if they add an SSN anyway, but as a general rule, not having an SSN attached to your passport seems wise, all other things being equal.
They are natural slaves. Most people are. But this digital ID idea simply cannot be made to work in the US b/c 113 million of us live in the Southeast, where hurricanes and tropical storms knock out electricity for weeks at a time for millions of people. Will life just come to a complete halt, then? No, it's just not practicable b/c ALL of our electrical infrastructure is above ground. Oh, yes, they will certainly try it. They will make the usual noises, but it's just not workable, and that is true even apart from the fact that millions of Americans will "just say no." Look at it this way, if only one percent of Americans refuse, that's 1,320,000 people. It can't work. If 5% say no, that's 16,000,000+. But I don't think that 20% is unreasonable b/c we have MANY well-designed and well-executed studies dating from more than 60 years ago up to the present, so we know that 20% of ANY population can---and do--think for themselves, and that would be 64 million Americans opting out. Then what? "Their" power is not unlimited. And the legitimacy of ALL governments EVERYWHERE is circling the drain even as I write.
So just make up your mind to say NO. You will be one of many millions, I assure you. It's a stupid, unworkable plan.
Look what is happening right now in the most ruthlessly conformist country in the world:
Although I’m in northwest Pennsylvania, we frequently lose power but not for days on end. Most of our small businesses only take cash, like the gut who whacked two trees in our yard, local beauticians, etc. I absolutely will not comply with digital currencies should they be mandated.
I use digital fingerprints for getting into a ton of my apps. Because brain fog is real, y'all. And remembering passwords that have to include 50 letters, 4 numbers and a special character that doesn't include your basic special characters is HARD. But this is downright scary, and now I'm rethinking all that.
I only have a cheap TracFone for auto emergencies. If it is not in use, it is in a Faraday bag. I think I've used it twice in a decade. It has no apps, because I don't know how to app, it also has no voice mail for the same reason. I live in a tiny village with no cell service so we all here still have land lines (kids: that's a phone attached to the wall in your house).
Just last year I had to explain to some young 20-something guy how an analog dial phone worked.
I also loved your reference to trying to teach a young 20-something how to use a rotary phone. Reminded me of this hilarious video of two 17-year-olds trying to figure it out on their own:
Awesome. And the Faraday bags I've seen are very inexpensive. Different sizes for different-sized devices, but all ranging somewhere between $1.50 and $6.00 maybe, just approximating. With zip-lock seals.
It was at a prepper supplies site. No longer remember which one. The bags were silver-colored, like strong plastic, perhaps containing a mylar layer or similar. I tested it by trying to call my phone and it didn't ring. Don't know how GPS signal fares, though I suspect it stops that too.
I looked at one of them. Interesting what I found out.
It's labelled as some kind of bag/envelope for some other purpose. (I can't remember it right now -- I'll try to grab it next time I can.) But it nonetheless happens to work as a Faraday bag (at least as regards phone signal, which is all I've tested it for).
Interesting. So you may be able to buy these things for cheap and use them off-brand, so to speak.
It's true, I think, that a non-"smart" phone is much better, but unlike older flip phones, today's flips all now have GPS built into them, so they can likely see where you go as long as the phone's turned on. (Probably best to remove the battery to be sure, which is something you *can* still do with flips that you can't do with "smarts.")
I use LastPass password vault that spans all of my devices to keep passwords. I do try NO APPS on phone whenever possible. I’m finding brick and mortar stores are not stocking much product these days; colors of everyday items in clothing and decorator things all seem to be black/blue/grey 🤢 If I want unusual or colorful Amazon is the only source. I refuse to live in a Millennial grey/black/white world.
I refuse digital fingerprints or facial scanning for apps. I’m old school and keep a list of my passwords and have come up with a system of creating passwords that I’ll remember for any given app. We have to try to outsmart them.
Last I looked into this -- and assuming some of your apps or web sites will permit it -- you may not always have to use hard-to-remember gobbledygook passwords. You could have passwords that are even stronger than the gobbledygook ones by using a phrase or sentence instead, or just several random (real or invented) words strung together, all lowercase or whatever you like. Much easier to type and remember, even though the total password length is maybe double the length.
For example, instead of "9Jhe#sT0," you could have "stamps arise foundation laser." (Of course, that string of words sounds ridiculous, but that's partially why it's safer. If you used some popular phrase or sentence from literature, like "now is the time for all good men," it would be easier for bad guys to crack.)
Here's the approximate strength of each of the passwords above, in terms of "bits of entropy" (which means the total number of guesses that a computer would have to make to break each full password):
9Jhe#sT0 --> 3.90625×10¹³
stamps arise foundation laser --> 1.081999577×10⁴¹
(Grok identifies which number is larger: "Here, 41 is much greater than 13, so $10^{41}$ is significantly larger than $10^{13}$, regardless of the coefficients.
Therefore, $1 \times 10^{41}$ is the larger number."
Vanguard (yes I know so no comments please—your streams will be poofed))😀😕 now wants us to give them our banks as defaults so they can just make it so much easier to pop money in or out. . We operate on a “this is what I want to do and where I want it to go basis”. Naw, I don’t think so but we are totally aware of what is in the works. UK is on fire in so many ways. The illegals don’t need work ID or permissions now. They are illegal and won’t be seeking any. DUH. It’s the camels whole body inside the tent with this. Fight hard, UK and Canada.
My credit card monthly statements are ridiculously low, like $200, or even $0, since I moved to doing business with cash, about 4 years ago. Biden scared me. Confess I have used the card a bit more freely since Jan. 20, however.
Yeah, guilty. We track our spending and the CC makes it easier plus we get rewards, never not paid the balance in full in 35 years so they lose money on us. Problem with cash is it just disappears so harder to track. We do tip in cash, though. (and last year would write 'no tax on tips - vote Trump 2024' on every receipt). And there are now some places that don't take cash, which is irritating and makes me want to go to all cash, rebellious streak in me.
Sometimes it hits us by surprise, though. Royals, Chiefs, most concert venues are all no cash now. We just don't buy anything when we are there as a protest.
Yeah. UTAH NATIONAL PARKS are the worst at demanding all digital everything. For a republican state they are stepping right into socialism with heads in the sand. Most of the credit unions demand digital. The dominate religion there is taught to follow laws of the land which is antithetical to its beginning of literally being run out of Missouri by the governor Boggs back in late 1800s on an extermination order on them. Then they migrate to Utah, set up shop and go right down the same path of do it for the good of the whole "beehive" insanity. Good training for acceptance of socialism. It's a crazy maker.
100% agree!!! literally the ONLY 'rewards' program things I will agree to do is for locally-owned, one-off businesses. screw that credit cards tracking all your shit. I refuse to do any of that 'digital coupons' or ANY of that crap. I won't even take my phone into a store, like never.
Keep in mind those CC “rewards” you receive are being paid by the business allowing you to use cards. They are expensive. So if you are shopping locally at a small business, it costs that business more than you realize. Cash actually helps them avoid a lot of “tax” of business expenses.
Yes some actually add in a fee if you use a card or have purchase minimums. I am a Dave Ramsey fan and we have been 'debt free' for 20 years but never followed his credit card advice as we've never charged more than we can pay off monthly. But his research has shown that people spend more on plastic than cash, as spending cash activates the 'pain center' in your brain when you have to part with that cash and/or limits your spend to cash on hand. So they are trading the higher spend for the fees. We have been Aldi shoppers for decades and they only took cash or food stamps/EBT for years. Know I would skip buying 'extras' when they were cash only as I didn't want to have to make another trip to the ATM.
A number of small businesses around here will give you a 3% discount (the cost of the cc merchant's fee) from your total if you pay cash, including the Chinese restaurant and the farm/feed store.
I keep receipts but cash is like dropping $5 in the donation bowl, a coffee at the gas station, tips or splitting the check with friends kind of stuff. Just sit down once a month and enter in excel from the cc statement downloads and check register. (I'm old, lol) We just have a 'cash' category on our spend tracker but it's a black hole most of the time.
I have what I call “food truck-fruit stand” money. Take $100 in small bills. Spend it however. It gets a $100 line entry in the monthly budget. I don’t always use it all. When the pile gets silly I set aside the extra in my savings.
VVV - I haven't figured out how using cash will make any impact. If the leadership (eg. Starmer) decide that cash is no longer accepted, how has my non-cash use impacted anything?
A "gray economy" will spring up when the time comes. It will happen naturally, organically. And cash will be the medium of exchange, especially in the beginning. Later, local currencies (scrip) will spring up. That happened throughout the US during the Great Depression, but Britain is much smaller, so I don't know whether that will be widespread there or not, but it WILL happen. People are very adaptable; it's what humans do best. It's a good idea to start hoarding cash now. AND KEEP QUIET about it.
This concern was going the rounds during the dark days of ‘21, ‘22-and much talk was made about an alternative economy. Involving hard currency and barter. I cannot answer your question, am not an economist (don’t knwo that they could, either). What I do know is that I “feel” more comfortable using cash.
✅ ✅ YES,THAT to delay or minimize the inevitable oppression (sorry, but it’s true). What WON’T do jack is writing very, very, very strongly-worded letters of opposition to your government representatives and local newspaper’s Letters to the Editors. Don’t bother.
We’re pretty much screwed until the Second Coming, so … 🙏🏼
I actually think writing LETTERS TO THE EDITOR is one of the best ways to reach multitudes of average citizens who only consume mainstream media, and as we know the MSM is the biggest barrier to truth. So I encourage everyone here to carve a little time to write letters to the editors of your local papers, to educate in-the-dark citizens about issues like this, as well as MAHA, the good work RFK is doing, etc. They likely won't come across truthful information any other way, being MSM-only consumers, and some eyes and minds will be opened.
[11] And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon.
[16] And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
[17] And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
[18] Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore (a score is 20)and six.
Can anybody see THE Anti Christ yet???
If my Faith in Jesus be great, I will NOT starve. Faith in man will cause me to starve.
Because GOD, JESUS said it, AMEN my friend!! It IS the ONLY truth we have. Praise Glory and Honor to God the Father of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ! May His WORD be the life for all!
Veronica! Thank you for the Scripture. All of this is heading to the Mark of the Beast! It is a subtle attack. Get your Bibles out and read folk. Look up! Redemption draweth nigh! He is coming! The world is being dubbed!
Cell phone: No plan, buy minutes until need to buy again. Bills are paid by check because once an error is made in your file, it takes 100 yrs to get it corrected and ALL the work is on you! Airport, nope no digital pic, you'll have to stop the line and put my details in dear agent, looking inconvenienced. Cash not so much but using CC and playing them for the most rewards as in take from them + always pay on time. Bank accounts: banks can't be trusted and will surely default when the unravelling comes! Coops and credit union have been weakened with unpayable loans, so ... use gov t-bills because the gov needs you to support the insane debt! No Alexa, no smart appliances, no fancy car tracking and no ring witness providing data to "them". Use Brave, get off Edge and such. Understand that AI is a dud but collects on you. It's a heck of a hill to climb but simplying our life is well worth it. All the tech is a power and control play; look how they have dehumanized kids. Lay low, think of the why and how and decide what keeps you out of reach. Scramble their eggs!
Younger college educated (indoctrinated) Americans will fall for the Digital ID propaganda, hook, line and sinker. “It’s really cool technology, it’s for the greater good”. They will really like the digital currency propaganda. “My QR Code is my best friend. We go everywhere and do everything together.” Until catastrophe happens. “My Bestie QR Code stopped working and I’m penniless and hungry”.
1551, name of an imaginary island enjoying the utmost perfection in legal, social, and political systems, coined by Thomas More (and used as title of his book, written in Latin, published 1516). Extended to any perfect place by 1610s. It is literally "nowhere," coined in Modern Latin from Greek elements: ou "not" (see below) + topos "place" (see topos).
Oh. Wow. I had forever assumed that this word was made from "eu" meaning "good." Etymonline does indeed say what you point out:
"Commonly, but incorrectly, taken as from Greek eu- "good" (see eu-) an error reinforced by the introduction of dystopia (by 1844). On the same model, Bentham had cacotopia (1818)."
STOP THE WORLD! I WANT TO GET OFF!!!!!
They have a vaccine for that! 😂
LOL!
The King will take all who are His off when it is time.
Just STAY OFF MY LAWN !!!
Happy Monday All! I hope everyone had a great digital ID free weekend spent with a lot of cash transactions!
Isn't it so interesting that so many "western" countries have an "immigration problem"? It's almost as if they all loosened the controls on immigration to purposely create a problem for which they have a solution to. 🤔 It's mind numbing that so many people haven't caught on to the problem reaction solution playbook that is used ad nauseum by the perps at the top.
Jenna knows where most of her supporters stand on this issue and her poll will let us know! In the mean time, does anyone know anyone that is trying to start a local community that is working to decentralize itself outside of the beast system? I have seen a few but nothing local to our area just yet.
the Greater Reset program has what they call Freedom Cells, that lets you try to hook up with other local, like-minded people.
I have not been successful at finding anyone local to be (the industrial armpit of NW Indiana)
Just reading this, Warrior Mom. I will research the Greater Reset and Freedom Cells...
Thanks!
I looked into this before, and I don't like the fact that there is (or was at the time) absolutely NO info about who is behind this "Freedom Cell" movement.
Makes me wonder who's compiling what kind of list with all the names and contact info of everyone who signs up?
Nope. I think I'll pass. . . . .
John Bush is behind this one, who also works closely with Derrick Broze from the Conscious Resistance.
Good to know, Vee. Thanks for your follow-up.
I'd be a lot happier, though, if there was greater transparency . . . .
When I was living in Portland OR , I learned a little about it. They have some very good ideas. I’ve been out if the loop for 5 years now.
Derrick Broze came and spoke to "Mask Off Minnesota" a few years ago which is how I heard about "Freedom Cells". There were a number of small groups around Minnesota a few years ago but they seem disorganized.
As Metta pointed out, another concern is who is "watching" those attempting to build Freedom. Is it safe to publicly join such groups?
"Is it safe to publicly join such groups?"
Does it matter? It's do-or-die time.
It's better than doing *nothing*!
These groups can take years to develop, so don't wait for the last minute.
Based on things I've seen and on some long-evolved Spidey sense, I think that lots of organized groups and initiatives of all kinds -- this is my opinion only -- are started by savvy, charismatic individuals, on somebody's payroll to speak, who impress and facilitate and welcome people in. Metaphoric false messiahs in a sense. To guide and gatekeep, to identify and shepherd people of interest in various useful ways to them, etc.
Of course I'm not pretending to know that this is true of this particular organized group, but I can't help but at least say that everyone should always keep in mind that organized groups may be led by wolves in sheep's. And to always observe and listen and notice carefully the things that leaders and "lieutenants" of those leaders say, recommend, and do. Collect dots and clues and connect them when and as they warrant connections.
It's just self-defense. If you're interested. Interested in not being identified, watched, used, manipulated, misguided, or whatever.
Another way to group-up and build support systems is to try to start your own with people you know halfway decently and expand when and as you meet people who pass whatever smell tests you may have.
The how-to stuff is online at lots of places: where to buy land, reference and how-to books to collect and have on hand, security issues, supplies needed, skills to build, etc., etc.
Yes, we can't abandon common sense even when someone is saying the things we want to hear.
Metta, good point.
Thanks Kat. I am aware of Freedom Cells but haven't had much look when I looked back a few months ago. I'll give it another go!
Okay. This is going to require some more work.
It’s going to require leadership. Not too down, but skills based is how I am envisioning this to work. Self sufficiency ain't going to cut it much longer than a few months if the shit hits the fan.
It’s why I have been sharpening up on a few old and new skills!
Been my discussion when peeps post 'resist, don't comply'. Easy to say and write but totally useless. Post ideas on how to, okay, otherwise it's a waste of my time. I resist these freedom movement clubs too because....who knows who it is. The Cdn Gov wud love to have a list of self made resisters...to add to its 'trucker 'lists'. Cash will work only if the electric system goes down and only until the food runs out, then it will be a dog eat dog world. So much to say but Siri is listening.......do they make flip phones ?
Lively Jitterbug Flip phones for seniors
Flip phones or the burners!
John 8:36 So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.
"IF you continue in my Word, THEN ... the truth shall make you free."
And I shouldn't have to point this out.
See - it worked! Made you look.
I've tried to encourage people one on one, in person to opt for freedom. I've only had one person take me up on the choice to be paid in silver instead of dollars.
Here too. 3-4 people signed up but no activity, no replies, nothing.
Most people are totally oblivious, not just to this but to pretty much everything. Have you forgotten COVID?
The VAST majority will go along to get along--it's what they do b/c the are natural slaves--but tens of millions will refuse point blank, so it is doomed to failure.
Also, ALL of "their" pans require two things: (1) a universal supply of electricity and (2) an UNFAILING supply of electricity.
One year ago today, I was without electricity for many, many days; millions of us were, thanks to Hurricane Helene. And those storms are par for the course in fully one quarter of our continent. This hellish plan simply cannot succeed in America. ALL of our electrical infrastructure is above the ground. And regardless of where you are, if you look out the nearest window, you will see that.
And if you have a chain saw in your garage . . . well . . . .
No question that the problem/reaction/solution playbook is what's behind the Digital ID bullshit!
I keep suggesting the local decentralized network approach, and I get so much pushback. As you all know (by now), I live in a cobalt blue coastal city in the Communist Republic of Cali. If anyone on this comment thread can lead me to a group/network, I would greatly appreciate it. I have time and resources to contribute!
"I keep suggesting the local decentralized network approach, and I get so much pushback."
Ignore the pushback. The overwhelming trend worldwide is towards DEcentralization, and people will eventually accept that fact b/c they will have no choice. The age of "bigness" is passing away right before our eyes. The evidence is ubiquitous; just look around.
The internet has some influence in that direction, but that is by no means the only factor propelling decentralizatiion and the end of Big This and Big That.
Just look to your own household if nobody else is ready to "go local" fight now. Find a local farmer for milk and vegetables, etc. Shop with cash only.
https://www.realmilk.com/raw-milk-finder/
https://www.westonaprice.org/#gsc.tab=0
Put in two years' worth of emergency food:
https://www.mypatriotsupply.com/
These folks are top-notch, selling excellent products for all kinds of emergencies and for camping, etc. The food has a 25-year shelf life, and I can personally vouch for the company and their products.
So strike out on your own and JUST DO IT. You don't need anybody else.
100%, TIP! We are getting the feck out of this BS state, for starters, so we can pursue everything you have wisely advised.
And I wish you the very best of luck!
Bless you, and thank you, TIP!
And I wish you the very best of luck!
Actually, info for the whole left coast would be appreciated.
We may have to start our own chapters! Too many loons, lunatics, and apathetic folks as far as the eye can see…
Find a local farmer for milk and vegetables, etc. Shop with cash only.
https://www.realmilk.com/raw-milk-finder/
https://www.westonaprice.org/#gsc.tab=0
Put in two years' worth of emergency food:
https://www.mypatriotsupply.com/
These folks are top-notch, selling excellent products for all kinds of emergencies and for camping, etc. The food has a 25-year shelf life, and I can personally vouch for the company and their products.
Thank you, we need to keep sharing these resources.
I would highly recommend: https://yourfamilyfarmer.com/
Thanks for the link! Courage!
https://www.google.com/search?q=freeze-dried+pasture-raised+beef&rlz=1CAEWPX_enUS1140&oq=freeze-dried+pasture-raised+beef&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOdIBCjE2NTI1ajBqMTWoAgiwAgE&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
Well, I did move to South Dakota (from Minnesota) because of this crap.
That was a good move, John! TN may be our next chapter!
I'm not sure state matters as much as getting away from the big cities.
Having said that, I would completely avoid the West Coast and Illinois and New York.
I’m seriously considering TN
Tennessee would be a very good choice--outside of Shelby and Davidson counties.
The Axis of Evil.
Find a local farmer for milk and vegetables, etc. Shop with cash only.
https://www.realmilk.com/raw-milk-finder/
https://www.westonaprice.org/#gsc.tab=0
Put in two years' worth of emergency food:
https://www.mypatriotsupply.com/
These folks are top-notch, selling excellent products for all kinds of emergencies and for camping, etc. The food has a 25-year shelf life, and I can personally vouch for the company and their products.
Thanks!
Excellent resources!
I’d add - if you can, plant a garden. Even if you can’t grow much, it’s good for the soul.
We need to have a new money system that avoids all the taxes, high interest and digital id system. It needs to be global and needs to get around the government rules that prohibit 'competition'. It needs to be more than covert, but something that stands up to legal challenges and shows the corruption that is inherent in what is currently going on. I think it is possible.
How 'bout honest money? i.e,. Gold and Silver?
> https://workflowy.com/s/beyond-covid-19/SoQPdY75WJteLUYx#/a25488abfd5f
*New* isn't always better . . . .
Yes, one of the MOST important concepts we the free people, need to adopt is rejection of fiat money!
It's not merely "possible"; it's unavoidable. But that is one of those things that will--must--happen from the bottom up, so a period of . . . well, let's just say, "great inconvenience" must come between now and then.
And when the time comes, as it must, I think you'll find that the vast majority of people will "heave to" and will very quickly adapt, and local "currencies" will pop up like mushrooms in a pasture after a summer rain. That's exactly what happened during the Great Depression." Most people are not "Mad Max" types.
Most people will pull together and will adapt and survive although, of course, Mad Max will show up in some places; maybe in many places, but that won't last very long. But *most* people will co-operate b/c they will have to, and most people will do so gladly.
OK, number 1: Cancel smartphone/data plan. Whew!! already feeling smarter.
OK, number 2: Oops, now how do I read Jenna's blog?
OK, number 3: Oops again, how do I sign up for a Freedom Cell, without a smartphone/data plan?
OK, number 4: Oh man, I forgot to withdraw all the $$ in my bank before canceling and now I can't access/verify my bank account.
OK, number 5: Thankfully I bought some crypto currency, so I'm set. Oops one more time. How do I access my account and put in all my 'keys'?
OK, number 6: Go back and purchase another cell phone plan/data plan. Oh wait, I don't have the digital ID they now require to set up service.
Yes, Earth, come get me now!!
I don't have a cell phone, but can easily do anything I want online using something called a desktop computer. It has a nice big monitor. I can't imagine trying to read things on a tiny smartphone screen...
Use a computer. Park that cell phone in a Faraday bag. I only use my cell phone when I'm traveling and it's in it's faraday bag while traveling and only gets pulled out and turned on when needed.
look into the Above Phone
I have never owned or even used a "smart" phone. What a ridiculous, childish thing to "need"! Life without electronic gadgets is entirely possible and really very pleasant. I have lived without TV since 1987. You can, too. I have almost NO negativity in my life b/c I don't have TV; I don't want it, so I arrange my life without it. You can, too.
I miss NOTHING. I have a desktop computer with which I make my own TV programming. And as you are a reader of this blog and therefore clearly have brains and common sense, you can do that, too. It doesn't hurt a bit. You *might* miss TV for a week or two, but I doubt it. There are thousands of *very* good movies and documentaries on YouTube and the others, not to mention millions of videos with all the music in the world. Do your own TV programming. Stop paying for cable and those stupid subscription "services." You've got brains and common sense; USE them. UNPLUG. you can EASILY keep up with everything online. EASILY.
Best wishes!
LOL, but all true.
Here in FL there is a group that a young, energetic, and idealistic guy is leading. He's done great work to get some land devoted to permaculture (not sure who actually owns it 🤔) but the people involved are a real mixed bunch. It ain't easy to get a bunch of non-conformists to agree on anything 😂. Plus, the kid is also all over the map; there's little focus or clear mission, so I've just been on the fringes, not wanting to throw myself into it.
The other issue is FL itself. My experience since moving here from NY in 2022 has been that people here trust the state to do the right thing, so they're not as active in pushing back. I'd be interested to hear what others in FL think.
Where are you, Vee?
Yes, I relocated here from Oregon and haven’t met a single person with an interest in building a self sustaining community. The growing season isn’t long enough in FL so I can’t consider it long term anyway.
I follow a fellow who is writing a book via his Substack. His name is Christopher Cook and his book Stack is called Freedom Scale. His book is all about creating community and exiting the system.
Thank you for sharing!
Can’t believe I missed mass immigration as problem, reaction, solution! 🙄
I would love to know if there are people near me planning for alternatives too, but my nextdoor feed of late is full of people posting where to get their flu shots & worried about availability of C19 boosters. ARRGH!
sounds like a 'walking dead' coming to a town near us all...
That is valuable knowledge. Now you know whom you can trust, etc. Cut them out of your life.
This thread is worth reading. Very enlightening!
https://x.com/megynkelly/status/1972821889740603582?s=46&t=j3mMoE9Wpk-GybvTmhUdgg
Journalist Derrick Broze, who has been warning about the technocratic state for a long time, has a network called Freedom Cells. (I have not yet joined) https://freedomcells.org/
I refuse facial scans at the airport. I simply say “no thank you” with a great big smile on my face (in the US, you are NOT required to have your pretty little face scanned by the very talented TSA). I do the same for the full body scan. And if I have to have a pat down instead? Fine. I usually request the cute guy over there…that usually stump them as I am quite obviously a SHE. My license is up for renewal THIS WEEK, and I’m refusing the Real ID…AI even wrote my script for the DMV who is sure to harass the heck out of me next week here in deep blue Colorado. The only downside of NOT having a RealID is having to fly with my passport. So fine. I’ll fly with my passport. Whatever little acts of rebellion there are, bring them on. I’m SO DONE with all of it. Red light camera tickets for running lights or speeding? Hello big brother, not paying those. No due process. How can I possibly argue with the MAIL when I can’t remember the circumstances? The whole world has gone buggy. We all bought a ticket to the show, and I, for one, want my money back. Preferably in bitcoin.
REALLY IMPORTANT! READ NARD'S COMMENT! No pictures (facial scans) at any airport. Do not comply-opt out (nicely if at all possible!) by saying "no thank you!" Opt out of the toxic radiation full-body scan. It's always easy for me because I travel with one of my dogs! It's horribly intrusive, but most of the time, the TSA agents feel awkward, so I put them at ease and distract them with my cute pup. Copping a feel sucks!
Feck-off with the REAL ID, and travel with your Passport.
Red light camera tickets are unconstitutional and have been thrown out of court, so the cameras have been dismantled (inoperable) even here in the Communist Republic of Cali.
The biometric bullshit becomes operable to travel in the EU on October 12th. It's called the EES (Entry/Exit System) for entering and exiting the Schengen Area. What does this mean? Travelers must register their biometric data and passport details at automated kiosks or designated booths at border crossings, airports, train stations, and ports!
Guess why I didn't travel to Europe (specifically, Nice, France) this fall? Ding, ding, ding...
Hubs asked if I would ever travel to Europe again last night. Answer: NOT under the current system being rolled out, sadly!
So all these Africans and Muslims they are importing into Europe will have to register and be part of the digital I’d ?? Didn’t think so.
Of course, NOT!
Son of a .... It's very, very sad to realize that I'll never be able to experience Europe ever again.
That is, of course, if they can implement it as planned over the next nine months. Consider the significant backlash in the UK against the forced adoption of Digital ID to work. I would not be shocked if they all of a sudden back off this biometric bullshit and give some lame ass excuse.
Maybe after the war.
https://www.cashmatters.org/blog/sweden-went-cashless-now-it-is-telling-citizens-to-keep-cash-ready
https://www.cashmatters.org/blog/sweden-went-cashless-now-it-is-telling-citizens-to-keep-cash-ready
Yep! I’ve been on the cash bandwagon for a few years.
Encouraging speculation. Thanks, KW.
I always opt out of photo at TSA and usually opt out of full-body scan booth. I was horrified last year at the Rome airport when I was herded through their new entry system with no one to speak to and no way to opt out of the photo process, all automatic. And you don’t realize it until you’re at the turnstile after a long walk. Unbelievably freaky feeling and frustrating. The only way to avoid it is to not enter. Which, I did for three years to avoid jabs or getting stuck somewhere because of not having a jab passport. Having lived there for a good chunk of my life, and feeling like it’s my second home, it’s unbearably sad to think I won’t be traveling to Europe anymore one day soon. This dystopia is all too real. Now, I’m trying to rescind the Real ID license I naively signed up for when I moved back from Italy a number of years ago before I woke up to the con.
Just heard about this today...daughter is on vacay there. Hope she can exit without providing. I have warned her to resist, say nothing you no thank you. She is smart.
Yes, good-bye Europe. You can't get anywhere there without going to Schengen first. Where is that time machine again?
Hahahaha! The one thing one can count on in France is apathy and laziness. One of the things that used to drive me nuts was going to the local Monoprix, Casino, or Carrefour! Everything operates like slow molasses. If a human-operated checkout even existed, the person was always seated with a nasty scowl on their face! At least I could make them smirk with my broken French, desperately trying to pluck the proper verbs!
I will miss the daily trips to the open-air markets, J. Multari, La Fromagerie du Carre d’Or on rue de France, and Boucherie de France, among others.
"Everything operates like slow molasses."
Made me laugh b/c in the South we say, "Slower'n molasses in January!"
Hahahaha! My grandma and mum used to say something very similar about “city folk.” “J, M, and J, molasses moves faster than those smartypants city folks!!”
I think I read travel to the EU will require fingerprints as well? If so, those of us who've been fingerprinted in the past for job requirements already have ours in the system so is this EU fingerprinting any different than existing fingerprints in "the system"?
My two bits....if you are American, it's private to America ( maybe Israel). If you donate to the EES, that WEF/WHO. You are done for. Should someone need your kidney....say goodbye to your kidney.
Well, hmm. I kinda like my kidney right where it is!
...right under my favorite holster.
I also recently learned that you can bring your own water bottle with your own water by telling the agent smiths that it's "medical grade" water.
Bigger fish to fry than a water bottle.
Omgosh. "Yes, this is medical-grade water. I NEED it. I will die without it!!!"
"...but don't jostle it. Really. I'm serious."
Hey, don’t forget to remove your donor authorization from your drivers license.
Thanks for the reminder 😬
I refused the facial scan at the airport last year and I could tell they were pissed. I got "selected" for additional screening, which was me sitting in a very public time out chair while they put my phone in a box and I am sure, copied the contents into their system. That is why they are always asking for your phone number now as well...it is one of the first steps to a digital ID and people don't give it a second thought. I always use my disconnected landline phone number. NONEYA. But, they are making it more difficult to opt out of anything. And, the new passports have a lovely chip in them and are twice as heavy as the old ones.
I had the same experience at the airport last year with pissed TSA agent who acted like she couldn’t do manual ID verification because her “computer had to be reset for it.” AYFKM?! I just waited. Then I had the same experience with my phone being taken for a couple minutes and I thought WTF! 🤬
Cdn too, much heavier
Speaking of AI…IT LIES.
Yeah…you often have to drill down to get to the truth. It’s apologies crack me up.
Those aren't lies: those are "artificial informations."
EXCELLENT, THIS COMMENT!
Nard, how do you go about refusing or reverting Real ID in your state?
Here’s the script (written by AI)
DMV Script: Opting Out of REAL ID
“Hi, I’m here to renew my driver’s license. I’d like to request a standard Colorado license, not a REAL ID-compliant one. I already have a valid U.S. passport for travel, so I don’t need the federal ID features.”
If they ask why:
“I prefer not to participate in the REAL ID program due to privacy concerns. I understand the standard license won’t be valid for federal identification, and that’s fine.”
Thank you!
DO NOT COMPLY. period. full stop.
here in Indiana, they rolled out the Real ID thing almost 10 yrs ago, with little fanfare nor information. they literally just gave you one, at the BMV, with zero explanation that I recall. I will be going to have my switched back and will be applying for a Passport (even though I have no plans to leave the country)
my fella in the UK (who is a successful, self-employed master gardener) has already informed his clients that he will not comply and will become unemployable if they (his fellow subjects of the crown) allow this to go through.
p.s. they now have well over 2 million signatures on that petition in the UK; nearly 15% of their population, my fella informs me.
While we are at it, don't forget to UNCHECK the organ donation button!
Smart move. Why give them even more reason to want you dead?
oh yeah, thanks for the reminder on that!!
Same here in the Communist Republic of Cali. I don't think it's been 10 years, but at least 8 years ago. I had no idea what this bullshit was all about because I was still semi-sleepwalking through life back then.
Get a Passport even if you have no immediate travel plans. It's easy peasy! This is your new analog ID! It's a pain, but the alternative is NOT acceptable.
I agree. No reason not to have and use one of these instead.
Actually, passports aren’t analog anymore. They went digital a while back. But, I’m not sure what they integrate with.
Same for me in MI, I don’t recall asking for or receiving informed consent on Real ID. Last time i renewed they just gave me one. Now that i know better, i want to go back and have it reverted back to regular old ID.
How do you ‘switch back’ your Real ID?
Maureen, I understand that you can make an appointment at your local DMV to revert to the old (regular) DL. Check online.
You lost it, it was stolen...get a new one without the star
I was thinking of saying that since it’s an easy option and unverifiable.
no appt necessary here in Indiana. our BMV's are actually quite efficient, believe it or not
Lucky you! One has to make an appointment here in So Cal because every illegal is in line to get their fecking license or some such shit! ERRR!
I tried to look into it online today, but to even get any info about Real ID you have to create an account and I was wary of doing even that. I will go in.
Thanks. I’ll check it out.
https://rumble.com/v6vrcg5-real-id-and-medical-freedom-twila-brase-rn-phn-on-darkhorse.html?e9s=src_v1_cmd%2Csrc_v1_ucp_a
I heard it was super easy. you don't even have to wait until you are up for renewal. Bret Weinstein recently interviewed an expert on the Real ID. I will link it.
Same thing happened when I got a new license years back and I’m going to try to rescind the Real ID. Took off organ donor when I renewed last year, but naively didn’t think about Real ID at the time. I picked up an application at the post office today for a passport card, it’s much easier to carry and I don’t have the same fear of losing it as I do my passport, which I will use just for international travel…oops, if I can ever do that again. Anyway, I suggest getting the passport card if you’ll just use it in the U.S. Same application as for a passport, you just check passport card instead on the last page.
Same. When the uproar started this year, I went and looked at my DL renewed on 2020.
Yep Real ID.
However I don’t think that is the final one.
You're right. Many folks don't realize they already have a Real ID through their driver's license:
> https://open.substack.com/pub/jennamccarthy/p/big-data-meets-big-brother-digital?utm_campaign=comment-list-share-cta&utm_medium=web&comments=true&commentId=161117612
It will also never be "final". They'll just gradually keep linking in your health records, your banking records, and your social credit score ~ and then eventually all your criminal records once you begin breaking the "rules" of the Great Reset . . . .
The whole thing is just unworkable. ALL of "their" plans require two things: (1) a universal supply of electricity and (2) an UNFAILING supply of electricity. But fully one quarter of our continent has hurricanes and tropical storms EVERY SUMMER. That's 113 MILLION people. Moreover, ALL of our electrical infrastructure is above ground. And if you look out the nearest window, you will see that. And if you have a chain saw in your garage . . . well . . . .
😔
I dunno, aren’t we already so deep that it’s kinda moot? Not I don’t want to comply, but look at us! We’re here reading this on an internet connection?!?! 🤷🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️
That’s how I feel about my online presence. They already know soooooo much about me (I’ve run for office twice and my professional life pretty much demanded social media use…), I’m sure my avatar is much more interesting than the real me lol. But as far as travel, personal life, purchases, etc. Nonya.
Maybe I'm at a library or someone's free wifi and I always I use a VPN with multiple hops on my devices. If you are not using a top notch VPN, God help you.
VPNs are good for anonymizing your activity from the local wifi/provider and all the other local nodes involved in your connection, though I suspect that most or all VPNs are actually run by intel, in case that's relevant to given individuals.
I read about this long before the covid scam gave me time to go down a lot of rabbit holes. https://www.id2020.org/ website is still up. Of course Microsoft and the WEF were in on it. From 2018: https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2018/01/22/partnering-for-a-path-to-digital-identity/
"As discussions begin this week at the World Economic Forum, creating universal access to identity is an issue at the top of Microsoft’s agenda, and we think technology can be a powerful tool to tackle this challenge. It was last summer that Microsoft took a first step, collaborating with Accenture and Avanade on a blockchain-based identity prototype on Microsoft Azure. Together, we pursued this work in support of the ID2020 Alliance – a global public-private partnership dedicated to aiding the 1.1 billion people around the world who lack any legal form of identity. To say that we were encouraged by its mission would be an understatement. We were inspired by it."
I won't even get a Real ID, shocked at how many of my friends have shrugged and complied.
my sister traveled 3 hours, one way, to get to a BMV in North Carolina, all in a panic, to get one! she fell for all the covid hysteria to so... no surprise.
Poor girl. God help her
yeah I know :( Hard core liberal corporate media consuming. total TDS. but at least she knows MY views and my reasons for them and never acts disrespectful towards me.
And let us not forget our are somewhere state college students who basically can’t critically think how horrific a digital app ticket to get into a football game that is connected to their cell phone college ID?
Solution: can’t use your ticket -switch phones w a friend. I guess they forgot to think that through…
What if no one went to a game? Wouldn’t that send a message?
Nope- why would they agree to that?
I’m trying to laugh through the digital ID nightmare.
Yes, we went to a concert in an out of town venue, about an hours drive. Planned to buy a ticket with cash at the door. They didn't have 'tickets'. Gave the cash to them, and they sent us a text to load some app on our phones that had an 'e-ticket' to get in the door. If we had known before we drove all the way there we would have skipped it. Deleted the app after the show.
oh ooooooh. that sucks. I would have been so pissed. :(
About the friends who got a Real ID: that shocked me too. Many of them knew enough not to get jabbed, so I don’t get it. They all said, “but I might want to fly someday.”
You don’t need real ID if you have a passport!
There is a list somewhere of id forms that are acceptable substitutions for Real ID. It includes military identification, veteran identification, and a lot more than I can remember. But why do we need any ID at all just to travel inside our own country? I’d bet that a solid argument can be made against the constitutionality of a national ID for interstate travel. It’s bad enough our Social Security numbers are now used for identification purposes.
Surely if one needs ID to travel through the US as a US citizen, one needs the same ID to vote !!! In Chinada, you cannot vote except in your own city..... with your voting card and ID. So that wud be a good sales pitch.
Plus they are good for 10 years, how long is your Real I.D. good for? And have you seen some state's requirements for Real I.D., got divorced 30 years ago and your name changed, show us the official documentation. Passports are much simpler.
Too late if you already have a Texas drivers license:
> https://open.substack.com/pub/jennamccarthy/p/big-data-meets-big-brother-digital?utm_campaign=comment-list-share-cta&utm_medium=web&comments=true&commentId=161117612
I got my new license (Real ID) when I moved a number of years ago and I don’t remember if they took my fingerprints. You’re saying if they did, we’re screwed, doesn’t matter if we try to rescind the Real ID and get a new one, they can still tie the new one to our fingerprints (digital ID)?
Thanks for your follow-up, Laurie. I don't know if rescinding is an option here in Texas, or not ~ but I hope to find out before I have to renew my license again.
I also don't know anything about how this works in other states.
All I know is that, in Texas if you have the star on your license, it is a real ID ~ and, based on my experience, it appears that the star and the real ID are both tied to our biometric data (fingerprint):
> https://www.texas.gov/driver-services/texas-real-id/
Yeah, I need to call and find out what to do. My passport is expired and its lost. Supposed to use your old one to get the new one, but checked all the junk drawers and such and its MIA - last time I used it was an Alaska cruise in 2011 so who knows where it is!? My hubby has a 'truck driver gene' (his dad was an OTR trucker) and actually LIKES to drive so we don't fly much. I did miss out on going to a R women's convention last week since I didn't have the Real ID and no way was I driving to Orlando from MO.
You can reapply for a passport. Since it’s been a long time since it’s expiration and you don’t have it in your possession, you will have to apply like it’s the first time. Many Post Offices have a designated person who handles all passport applications and such. Inquire in your area what P.O. handles passport applications. You can get a passport application from them as well. And they will tell you all documents you need, and you will need two passport photos as well. You can do expedited processing (for a higher free) or regular processing. They will tell you all of that. And this information is all online was well. I highly recommend a passport now for ID purposes over a Drivers License or REAL ID.
It’s sad that we have to use a US passport to travel, within our own country! 😣
Some post offices now take the photos for you, on site, right during the appointment. Much easier than running around getting them done elsewhere.
Maybe all the larger post offices do this, not sure.
Yes. I just checked today at my post office in my very small town. Photos and whole process done there. And you can get a passport card instead, or maybe in addition to. I already have a passport, but don’t want to carry that for domestic travel or other needs, so I’m getting the card. Same application, you just check a different box on the last page.
I think it depends on the area the post office is in. There’s a neighborhood post office about a mile from me (I live in metro San Diego) and they do passport applications. They have done them for years.
Some post offices now take the photos for you, on site, right during the appointment. Much easier than running around getting them done elsewhere.
Maybe all the larger post offices do this, not sure.
When you re-apply, you might consider *not* writing in an SSN.
There is an advertised possibility of a fine of $200 if you don't provide it, but that's from the Infernal Revenue separately and not from the Post Office or the passport agency. I don't know if they add an SSN anyway, but as a general rule, not having an SSN attached to your passport seems wise, all other things being equal.
Passport anyone? They are still relatively safe....I think.
They are natural slaves. Most people are. But this digital ID idea simply cannot be made to work in the US b/c 113 million of us live in the Southeast, where hurricanes and tropical storms knock out electricity for weeks at a time for millions of people. Will life just come to a complete halt, then? No, it's just not practicable b/c ALL of our electrical infrastructure is above ground. Oh, yes, they will certainly try it. They will make the usual noises, but it's just not workable, and that is true even apart from the fact that millions of Americans will "just say no." Look at it this way, if only one percent of Americans refuse, that's 1,320,000 people. It can't work. If 5% say no, that's 16,000,000+. But I don't think that 20% is unreasonable b/c we have MANY well-designed and well-executed studies dating from more than 60 years ago up to the present, so we know that 20% of ANY population can---and do--think for themselves, and that would be 64 million Americans opting out. Then what? "Their" power is not unlimited. And the legitimacy of ALL governments EVERYWHERE is circling the drain even as I write.
So just make up your mind to say NO. You will be one of many millions, I assure you. It's a stupid, unworkable plan.
Look what is happening right now in the most ruthlessly conformist country in the world:
https://www.cashmatters.org/blog/sweden-went-cashless-now-it-is-telling-citizens-to-keep-cash-ready
Aw, Sweden! So now people have to keep cash on hand! LOL
Although I’m in northwest Pennsylvania, we frequently lose power but not for days on end. Most of our small businesses only take cash, like the gut who whacked two trees in our yard, local beauticians, etc. I absolutely will not comply with digital currencies should they be mandated.
I use digital fingerprints for getting into a ton of my apps. Because brain fog is real, y'all. And remembering passwords that have to include 50 letters, 4 numbers and a special character that doesn't include your basic special characters is HARD. But this is downright scary, and now I'm rethinking all that.
You might even want to reconsider the "smart" phone itself, since they can't track you if you don't have one.
(I've never had one ~ and, God willing, I never will.)
I only have a cheap TracFone for auto emergencies. If it is not in use, it is in a Faraday bag. I think I've used it twice in a decade. It has no apps, because I don't know how to app, it also has no voice mail for the same reason. I live in a tiny village with no cell service so we all here still have land lines (kids: that's a phone attached to the wall in your house).
Just last year I had to explain to some young 20-something guy how an analog dial phone worked.
Good for you, VFW! Sounds great.
I also loved your reference to trying to teach a young 20-something how to use a rotary phone. Reminded me of this hilarious video of two 17-year-olds trying to figure it out on their own:
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHNEzndgiFI
THANK YOU! You have made my day! That is hilarious! (I am 70.)
Awesome. And the Faraday bags I've seen are very inexpensive. Different sizes for different-sized devices, but all ranging somewhere between $1.50 and $6.00 maybe, just approximating. With zip-lock seals.
Where did you see Faraday bags at these prices?
It was at a prepper supplies site. No longer remember which one. The bags were silver-colored, like strong plastic, perhaps containing a mylar layer or similar. I tested it by trying to call my phone and it didn't ring. Don't know how GPS signal fares, though I suspect it stops that too.
I found the bags. They're NOT made to serve as Faraday bags. They're being used that way in an off-label capacity.
Here's how they are labelled. Yellow ink on silver-colored plastic material with zip-lock at one end to seal off the envelope:
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DRY-PACKS (TM) - Moisture Barrier Bag
Attention: Contents are Moisture and Static Sensitive
LDPE 04
--
If these work fully as off-label Faraday bags, prevening all signals from your devices, they may be much cheaper than official Faraday bags.
Again, these are in the range of $1.50 to $5 each, depending on the size. Grab one and test it for phone signal, BlueTooth, wifi, and GPS.
I looked at one of them. Interesting what I found out.
It's labelled as some kind of bag/envelope for some other purpose. (I can't remember it right now -- I'll try to grab it next time I can.) But it nonetheless happens to work as a Faraday bag (at least as regards phone signal, which is all I've tested it for).
Interesting. So you may be able to buy these things for cheap and use them off-brand, so to speak.
I'll try to put my hands on this again soon.
I found the bags. They're NOT made to serve as Faraday bags. They're being used that way in an off-label capacity.
Here's how they are labelled. Yellow ink on silver-colored plastic material with zip-lock at one end to seal off the envelope:
--
DRY-PACKS (TM) - Moisture Barrier Bag
Attention: Contents are Moisture and Static Sensitive
LDPE 04
--
If these work fully as off-label Faraday bags, prevening all signals from your devices, they may be much cheaper than official Faraday bags.
Again, these are in the range of $1.50 to $5 each, depending on the size. Grab one and test it for phone signal, BlueTooth, wifi, and GPS.
It's true, I think, that a non-"smart" phone is much better, but unlike older flip phones, today's flips all now have GPS built into them, so they can likely see where you go as long as the phone's turned on. (Probably best to remove the battery to be sure, which is something you *can* still do with flips that you can't do with "smarts.")
Same here.
I use LastPass password vault that spans all of my devices to keep passwords. I do try NO APPS on phone whenever possible. I’m finding brick and mortar stores are not stocking much product these days; colors of everyday items in clothing and decorator things all seem to be black/blue/grey 🤢 If I want unusual or colorful Amazon is the only source. I refuse to live in a Millennial grey/black/white world.
Try Marshall’s and Kohls.
Easy solution: no apps.
Easier solution ~ no "smart" phone.
I refuse digital fingerprints or facial scanning for apps. I’m old school and keep a list of my passwords and have come up with a system of creating passwords that I’ll remember for any given app. We have to try to outsmart them.
Password manager and not a free one or browser based.
For anyone who's not aware of this yet:
Last I looked into this -- and assuming some of your apps or web sites will permit it -- you may not always have to use hard-to-remember gobbledygook passwords. You could have passwords that are even stronger than the gobbledygook ones by using a phrase or sentence instead, or just several random (real or invented) words strung together, all lowercase or whatever you like. Much easier to type and remember, even though the total password length is maybe double the length.
For example, instead of "9Jhe#sT0," you could have "stamps arise foundation laser." (Of course, that string of words sounds ridiculous, but that's partially why it's safer. If you used some popular phrase or sentence from literature, like "now is the time for all good men," it would be easier for bad guys to crack.)
Here's the approximate strength of each of the passwords above, in terms of "bits of entropy" (which means the total number of guesses that a computer would have to make to break each full password):
9Jhe#sT0 --> 3.90625×10¹³
stamps arise foundation laser --> 1.081999577×10⁴¹
(Grok identifies which number is larger: "Here, 41 is much greater than 13, so $10^{41}$ is significantly larger than $10^{13}$, regardless of the coefficients.
Therefore, $1 \times 10^{41}$ is the larger number."
Vanguard (yes I know so no comments please—your streams will be poofed))😀😕 now wants us to give them our banks as defaults so they can just make it so much easier to pop money in or out. . We operate on a “this is what I want to do and where I want it to go basis”. Naw, I don’t think so but we are totally aware of what is in the works. UK is on fire in so many ways. The illegals don’t need work ID or permissions now. They are illegal and won’t be seeking any. DUH. It’s the camels whole body inside the tent with this. Fight hard, UK and Canada.
We are.
My credit card monthly statements are ridiculously low, like $200, or even $0, since I moved to doing business with cash, about 4 years ago. Biden scared me. Confess I have used the card a bit more freely since Jan. 20, however.
Yeah, guilty. We track our spending and the CC makes it easier plus we get rewards, never not paid the balance in full in 35 years so they lose money on us. Problem with cash is it just disappears so harder to track. We do tip in cash, though. (and last year would write 'no tax on tips - vote Trump 2024' on every receipt). And there are now some places that don't take cash, which is irritating and makes me want to go to all cash, rebellious streak in me.
Yeah…we stopped going anywhere that doesn’t take cash. ridiculous.
Sometimes it hits us by surprise, though. Royals, Chiefs, most concert venues are all no cash now. We just don't buy anything when we are there as a protest.
Unbelievable.
Many parking lots at airports are no cash, pisses me off.
I was disappointed the national parks will not take cash for permits.
Yeah. UTAH NATIONAL PARKS are the worst at demanding all digital everything. For a republican state they are stepping right into socialism with heads in the sand. Most of the credit unions demand digital. The dominate religion there is taught to follow laws of the land which is antithetical to its beginning of literally being run out of Missouri by the governor Boggs back in late 1800s on an extermination order on them. Then they migrate to Utah, set up shop and go right down the same path of do it for the good of the whole "beehive" insanity. Good training for acceptance of socialism. It's a crazy maker.
You've gotta be kidding. Do you know if they'd take money orders, I hope?
Easy, rewards, discounts, convenience.
You're in the psychological digital prison using all the terms the globalists have sought to brainwash you with.
100% agree!!! literally the ONLY 'rewards' program things I will agree to do is for locally-owned, one-off businesses. screw that credit cards tracking all your shit. I refuse to do any of that 'digital coupons' or ANY of that crap. I won't even take my phone into a store, like never.
Keep in mind those CC “rewards” you receive are being paid by the business allowing you to use cards. They are expensive. So if you are shopping locally at a small business, it costs that business more than you realize. Cash actually helps them avoid a lot of “tax” of business expenses.
Yes some actually add in a fee if you use a card or have purchase minimums. I am a Dave Ramsey fan and we have been 'debt free' for 20 years but never followed his credit card advice as we've never charged more than we can pay off monthly. But his research has shown that people spend more on plastic than cash, as spending cash activates the 'pain center' in your brain when you have to part with that cash and/or limits your spend to cash on hand. So they are trading the higher spend for the fees. We have been Aldi shoppers for decades and they only took cash or food stamps/EBT for years. Know I would skip buying 'extras' when they were cash only as I didn't want to have to make another trip to the ATM.
When I get cash, I get 100's. It always makes me wonder "do I need this bad enough to break a hundred?" The answer is usually "NO".
Love it. I do the same. I think guess I didn't really didnt need that when they cant break a 100.
My grand daughter hates it when her dad, my son, only has large bills because the school game concession stand can’t take them 😁
Lol. Time to grow up.
A number of small businesses around here will give you a 3% discount (the cost of the cc merchant's fee) from your total if you pay cash, including the Chinese restaurant and the farm/feed store.
Why do you find cash payments harder to keep track of? You do keep your receipts and enter all payments—cash and credit— in an account book, I hope?
We don’t keep track of cash either… But everything on the cards goes through QuickBooks…
Start keeping track!
YNAB is the way to go. It was amaze you and save you tor tracking and managing everything financial.:
> https://www.ynab.com/
Can't recommend it highly enough!
I keep receipts but cash is like dropping $5 in the donation bowl, a coffee at the gas station, tips or splitting the check with friends kind of stuff. Just sit down once a month and enter in excel from the cc statement downloads and check register. (I'm old, lol) We just have a 'cash' category on our spend tracker but it's a black hole most of the time.
I have what I call “food truck-fruit stand” money. Take $100 in small bills. Spend it however. It gets a $100 line entry in the monthly budget. I don’t always use it all. When the pile gets silly I set aside the extra in my savings.
VVV - I haven't figured out how using cash will make any impact. If the leadership (eg. Starmer) decide that cash is no longer accepted, how has my non-cash use impacted anything?
A "gray economy" will spring up when the time comes. It will happen naturally, organically. And cash will be the medium of exchange, especially in the beginning. Later, local currencies (scrip) will spring up. That happened throughout the US during the Great Depression, but Britain is much smaller, so I don't know whether that will be widespread there or not, but it WILL happen. People are very adaptable; it's what humans do best. It's a good idea to start hoarding cash now. AND KEEP QUIET about it.
there are lots of people in the UK intent on keeping cash alive.
Glad to hear that. Stand your ground.
This concern was going the rounds during the dark days of ‘21, ‘22-and much talk was made about an alternative economy. Involving hard currency and barter. I cannot answer your question, am not an economist (don’t knwo that they could, either). What I do know is that I “feel” more comfortable using cash.
Seriously, join a credit union, and a church while you’re at it.
How are credit unions an improvement over banks?
CUs are always local and best of all those who use their services are also the owners.
absolutely! I belong to one that is so small that they only have 3 branches, all in northern Indiana. and my branch is literally one block away.
One big essential and meaningful difference is the For-Profit (banks) vs. Nonprofit (cu) aspect.
https://www.forbes.com/advisor/banking/difference-between-bank-and-credit-union/
✅ ✅ YES,THAT to delay or minimize the inevitable oppression (sorry, but it’s true). What WON’T do jack is writing very, very, very strongly-worded letters of opposition to your government representatives and local newspaper’s Letters to the Editors. Don’t bother.
We’re pretty much screwed until the Second Coming, so … 🙏🏼
I actually think writing LETTERS TO THE EDITOR is one of the best ways to reach multitudes of average citizens who only consume mainstream media, and as we know the MSM is the biggest barrier to truth. So I encourage everyone here to carve a little time to write letters to the editors of your local papers, to educate in-the-dark citizens about issues like this, as well as MAHA, the good work RFK is doing, etc. They likely won't come across truthful information any other way, being MSM-only consumers, and some eyes and minds will be opened.
👍🏼 To each his own, whatever one thinks effective.
Revelation 13:11,16-18 KJV
[11] And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon.
[16] And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
[17] And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
[18] Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore (a score is 20)and six.
Can anybody see THE Anti Christ yet???
If my Faith in Jesus be great, I will NOT starve. Faith in man will cause me to starve.
I was wondering if I was the only one who immediately thought of this very passage. This is the truth, and we know it because God has said it.
Because GOD, JESUS said it, AMEN my friend!! It IS the ONLY truth we have. Praise Glory and Honor to God the Father of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ! May His WORD be the life for all!
Me too Jeff Johnson!
Veronica! Thank you for the Scripture. All of this is heading to the Mark of the Beast! It is a subtle attack. Get your Bibles out and read folk. Look up! Redemption draweth nigh! He is coming! The world is being dubbed!
True, but common-sense preparation is up to YOU.
Indeed. The beasts are 'it' rather than 'he'.
https://alphaandomegacloud.wordpress.com/2022/06/10/666/
https://alphaandomegacloud.wordpress.com/2021/04/14/mark-of-the-beast/
Time for a parallel money system. They are requiring selling your soul to participate in their corrupt, high interest monetary system.
What if we had a new barter system that provided 1% interest loans, zero tax and was totally anonymous?
When the Greek economy crashed and literally NO ONE had any "cash", industrious citizens did just that. Developed a barter system.
The Greeks survived that crash...
Eventually, we could also go back to using *honest* money:
> https://workflowy.com/s/beyond-covid-19/SoQPdY75WJteLUYx#/a25488abfd5f
Awesome.
Absolutely.
Screw that! Just say NO!
If you're in the US, check your driver's license ~ You may already have a digital ID:
> https://open.substack.com/pub/jennamccarthy/p/big-data-meets-big-brother-digital?comments=true&commentId=161117612
Cell phone: No plan, buy minutes until need to buy again. Bills are paid by check because once an error is made in your file, it takes 100 yrs to get it corrected and ALL the work is on you! Airport, nope no digital pic, you'll have to stop the line and put my details in dear agent, looking inconvenienced. Cash not so much but using CC and playing them for the most rewards as in take from them + always pay on time. Bank accounts: banks can't be trusted and will surely default when the unravelling comes! Coops and credit union have been weakened with unpayable loans, so ... use gov t-bills because the gov needs you to support the insane debt! No Alexa, no smart appliances, no fancy car tracking and no ring witness providing data to "them". Use Brave, get off Edge and such. Understand that AI is a dud but collects on you. It's a heck of a hill to climb but simplying our life is well worth it. All the tech is a power and control play; look how they have dehumanized kids. Lay low, think of the why and how and decide what keeps you out of reach. Scramble their eggs!
My sons inherited some farm ground, mortgage free. They have told me I will be invited ‘off-grid’ with them when the time comes.🙏🏻
Off grid! Bravo that is a sure way to tell the gov to stay out of your business! Good sons!
Ditto 100%! 🎯
FYI, the best definition I ever saw for civil disobedience I found in the Substack comments:
> "Do everything they don't want us to do."
Ah, Orwell, you b*st*rd! “We’re gonna party like it’s…” 1984.
Younger college educated (indoctrinated) Americans will fall for the Digital ID propaganda, hook, line and sinker. “It’s really cool technology, it’s for the greater good”. They will really like the digital currency propaganda. “My QR Code is my best friend. We go everywhere and do everything together.” Until catastrophe happens. “My Bestie QR Code stopped working and I’m penniless and hungry”.
I 1000% refuse to mess about with any of the QR code bullshit on my phone. never, ever, ever.
Watch out for "The Greater Good" and the tyranny of "utopia"
> https://workflowy.com/s/beyond-covid-19/SoQPdY75WJteLUYx#/612e7a6ad197
utopia(n.)
1551, name of an imaginary island enjoying the utmost perfection in legal, social, and political systems, coined by Thomas More (and used as title of his book, written in Latin, published 1516). Extended to any perfect place by 1610s. It is literally "nowhere," coined in Modern Latin from Greek elements: ou "not" (see below) + topos "place" (see topos).
Oh. Wow. I had forever assumed that this word was made from "eu" meaning "good." Etymonline does indeed say what you point out:
"Commonly, but incorrectly, taken as from Greek eu- "good" (see eu-) an error reinforced by the introduction of dystopia (by 1844). On the same model, Bentham had cacotopia (1818)."
Do you by any chance have a link or source related to this info?
I'd love to add it into my "red pill" library:
> BeyondC19.org
Never mind. Found it! Many thanks again!
https://www.etymonline.com/word/utopia
That's amazing, TIP! Thanks so much for sharing!
I have to take a closer look now. . . .