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I agree with you that whatever news about the WEF or their minions everywhere are just more of the same bloody boring insane nonsense since we know where that is going. But if Voltaire lived today in my mind there's no doubt he would have been part of that WEF crowd, Riley. I am French speaking and had to read his stuff in High School and College and I have to say I've always despised that psychopath S.O.B. Susan has more love for life than he ever did. We have to get on with our lives and so, greetings to you and your neighbors and the best of luck to us all!

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True, Voltaire was an asshole but he was a clever one. That being said, "cultivons notre jardin" is a fruitful truth.

Respectueusement

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I like the videos exploring places people were once living.

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You seem to be a human being, Riley. Care for yourself. We need more of you....

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Your adventures in post-Soviet Real Estate have uncovered some renovation opportunities, it seems... Fixer-uppers, as they say... I wonder, does anyone "own" these old rustic dwellings and barns? I have to imagine that they could be 'flipped' at great profit, in our modern capitalist Russia... It would only require someone looking for a place in the village - as the horrors of convenience, make city-life less bearable. That, and someone handy to make those abandoned houses, into homes, again.

It would probably distress Mr. Gref that people were fleeing the tyranny of his convenience... But he's a capitalist - he'd sell you the pike, upon which, you might impale him.

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A regime change could see homes and village cultures restored.

However, without real change, the dollar-collar will continue to enslave.

I am still trying to figure out the psychology of the elitists and their wannabe minions.

I think some are just plain evil; some appear to have ingrained messianic complexes; many appear to be compromised by ego, greed and ambition; some appear to just be incompetent puppets; many are truly deceived thinking they are working towards a better world; perhaps most are just enslaved by the dollar-collar and can't afford to really consider anything else - complicit by coercion.

Meanwhile, the rest are just struggling to survive and nothing else is really relevant.

A new world order to deliver us all from evil?

Perhaps all we can really do is take care of our own as best we can.

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I wish I could give you two likes, one for your comment, and one for this new to me expression, 'dollar-collar'. Even after paragraphs of rambling I haven't gotten within coo-ee of what this two-word expression so fluently conveys.

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"coo-ee" - are u living in the great (or not so great} land of OZ?

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I spent the majority of my formative years in Australia, but I never used that expression during that time, nor the archaic "cobber" as a term of endearment. I started using both terms habitually (doubtlessly annoyingly) after I left Australia and settled in the UK. Steve Irwin was a big thing back then, and it amused me to provide the Brits with false confirmation for hackneyed Australian stereotypes. Even though I left the UK several years ago, I've retained the coo-ee and cobber, so I suppose the jokes on me. But a good reason to use those terms or any other linguistic idiosyncrasy, at least to my perverted way of thinking, is that no one else uses them, and yet they're still kind of understood.

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I sense sad and forlorned hearts, a populace resigned to the decay and entropy, no time to build up, just prepare for what is coming, the leviathan is too big, unmovable and immutable. The sun sets.

At this time, it would behoove members to stay in touch via post in case the web gets turned off or inaccessible to those accused of wrongthink. Nice harvest Riley, healthy livestock, root cellar nearing completion. You and Ed Jr. are always in my thoughts. Stay well.

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I also sensed sadness in the abandoned homes, not just for families but for a nation.

Sadly the village sunset picture is pretty universal now due to geoengineering.

No more brilliantly coloured sunsets - just grey and pink chemical reflections.

Yet rainbows still defy the regime and assert sovereignty.

Just trying to be self-sufficient can be considered wrongthink today, so wisdom is needed.

There are attempts to "privatise" the postal system in some nations, and practically everything else as well, including land in the hands of the very rich, not the rest of us of course.

Evil is self-destructive.

Light inevitably conquers darkness.

Thus it is, always was and always will be.

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"Light inevitably conquers darkness. "

It always does, even if our own eyes may not be open to bear witness.

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Lots of room for Banyas…

The farm animals look happy.

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I also feel a certain untethering, openess, in penning a letter today to my friend at the northern beaches of Oregon, of what it is I might be doing, soon, versus what I do now. While I was writing, a woman at the public house I was at fell ill. I overhead 'a reaction to her anti-coagulant'.....emergency service was called and they took her away on a guerney, somewhat recovered, already typing on her phone again while laying down. And yet they do not get it, and few will say it, the genocide has been quite successful so far, and the people dumber than sheep. At least goats, and often cows, try to escape.

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I wish I could show my appreciation without it being a "like," because what you have written is dismal and dispiriting and I do not at all like the gloominess of the circumstances your words convey, and yet I'm so grateful you expressed these thoughts and shared them with us.

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As our correspondent in Russia is a humble man of the soil these days, I'll take it upon me to shill for a couple of his most recent interviews:

Riley Waggaman: A view from Russia | Tom Nelson Pod #252

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmFPN1HbZKw&ab_channel=TomNelson

206 Exploring Russian Myths and Propaganda W Riley Waggaman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6y6EFReXgVg&ab_channel=WhatisTRUTH%3FPODCAST

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Thanks for the links. Watching the second one atm. 25 views for these essential to know truths.

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Is there any village consensus forming on CBDC? Are people hoarding paper currency? (Rubles, Dollars, Marks)? Is there a committee starting to think about introducing a local currency? Several did start up at the state- perhaps even county- level here in the USA almost within living memory - early 1930s You like visitors now; is anyone thinking about unwanted city "visitors" when things turn unimaginably bad? Oops! Seems I've missed the spirit of the post; such are the times.

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Hoarding paper currency is a foolish endeavour. They (central bank, government, parliament, whomever with power) can announce a change of banknotes or a swap of banknotes for CBDC's. The existing banknotes cease being legal tender. Game over.

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Thanks - but I still think hoarding paper currency is a strong hedge; certainly in the short term (ask the people of western North Carolina) - and the history of local, alternative currency suggests they can be based on the legacy paper currency as the medium of exchange, even coinage (specie).

But you are of course correct, central authorities can and will take steps to undermine any alternative challengers. In the US, at the start of the pandemic operation, spring 2020 coinage almost completely dissappeared from circulation ("Nation wide coin shortage - no cash accepted"). But my scenario does assume a serious loss of control by central authorities - many of the very top figures will be in their bunkers in HI, Fiji and NZ; lower echelons in their designated DUMBs. Hang on! (Deep Underground Military Bases)

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Here's a community currency solution that seemed a pretty good attempt, in principle:

https://web.archive.org/web/20180421204821/http://www.ithacahours.com/

Unfortunately, it's no longer in operation, but I'm fairly confident there are others that are still viable and operating.

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Does Susan really look like Totoro ?

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hah! How about that? Wrong species, but the expression's bang-on!

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Laughed out loud at the chicken, freezer and hammer episode! Reminded me of the story of aircraft engineers testing the fan blades of a new jet engine for bird strike resilience and forgetting to defrost the chicken.

You are living the honourable, self sufficient rural life.

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Congrats on three fascinating, informative years of sharing! Been following from the very beginning!

I love the photos of the cats, Edward Jr.'s artwork and village life.

Many wishes for many more years of cultivating literal and figurative gardens.

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Here is earth-bound humility, earthy comedy, and a wholesomely, loamy humanity that is nonetheless utterly magnificent. Rarely, if ever does a writer and writing make me feel so honestly, bracingly good, both inside and out. With all my heart, thank you Edward.

By the way, that look on Susan's face, she be like, "What is this дерьмо? I said halibuts."

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Thanks for those videos. I'm wondering about the cost of housing in general in your village. Do most people own houses, or is there a rental market too? For comparison, rent.com says the current average rent for a two bedroom apartment here on the California coast is $5,147. and electricity costs 31 ¢/kWh on average. Probably closer to Sochi prices, but what does it cost to live in a village like yours?

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rent per what? month? calendar or lunar?

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Per month, with an apartment at that current average being $61,764 per year. There are less expensive apartments, but you can see why the demand for those would be high. Mine was built in the 60s and is considerably less, due to rent increase limits per year.

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It appears that these places were just up and abandoned, most likely quickly. So much was left behind?? What is the time period of these buildings...the old soviet era??

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Hi Edward,

Liz Ehrich, on the Climate Viewer Chat, suggested you may be interested in the Universal Community Trust, who are now setting up Sovereign Community Trusts in Russia. https://www.universal-community-trust.org/international-law/

Please contact me if you would like more information.

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