Hey, JAG,
I keep feeling like I’ve been put in the position of an adversary when I didn’t know I was being adversarial. I think Doug completely misread both my response #164 to his question (that I assume was a real question, not ironically rhetorical), and then wrongly thinks Whoknew’s post (#177) relates to my comment on the topic he had raised. He also thinks you were writing against what I wrote, which is not how I read your post. Like mine, I thought your post was your educated opinion, nothing more or less, and on many points we’re agreed. I think he’s just confused.
@EddieLarry,
Not for the first time, you’re talking out your hat re bitcoin. The last thing it’s doing is devolving into a barter system.
@2retired,
There simply has to be more to this story. Likely you got a confusing account because the seller isn’t clear (as you report she indicated.) I can tell you, as someone who’s been in the bitcoin space since 2014, that anyone who has accumulated enough bitcoin to be able to use it’s appreciation to buy a house would not try to go to a bank and trade bitcoin for the deed. That would be as nonsensical as walking into a bank with a few stock certificates or bars of gold and try to barter them for the deed.
Bitcoin (or any other cryptocurrency), like gold bars and shares of stock, gets cashed out by an exchange. The dollar-denominated proceeds would then be used to buy real estate (or pretty much anything else).
Please advise us all when the income is coming ONLY to you and I will send what I can afford. Your work on covid in 2020 was invaluable and essential it’s just too bad we can’t reach more but people have close their minds and it is too bad for them. Good luck - Odysee and locals beckons…
Cheers
Grumpy old Canuck!!!
The FED is a privately owned company. The CDC is a privately owned company. Live with it!!!
When country exports its manufacturing, money velocity will crash since capital investment crashes. Buy a TV made in China vs USA…China TV money goes to China then maybe TBills. USA TV plant is built, employees employed, distribution created, money stays in USA etc etc.
The FED is a privately owned company. The CDC is a privately owned company. Live with it!!!
it’s a strong businesscase.
In view of what we have seen over the past year and the statements by governments versus reality, we can safely say the bullshit hasn’t stopped. We are getting rosy ‘light at the end of the tunnel’ messages everywhere. It s all vaccine, vaccine, vaccine. Where’s the actual treatments? What are all of these variants really doing? Why do governments pretend that current vaccinations are totally variant proof? When HCQ and Ivermectin were first floated the official response was ít’s unproven and therefore risky and we can’t use it. Now that vaccines are also killing people, suddenly the official line is “vaccines are an acceptable risk that we all must accept, even if some of you will die” How fast the language changes! When I turn on the news, I’m greeted by images of smiling faces getting their shots, but no technical discussion about targets and side effects. What I am hearing is the language of Damage Control, designed to placate and not inform. So what’s really happening? I have no f… idea.
To free yourself from the shackles of YouTube you might consider posting content to Vimeo.
Congratulations to you both, Chris and Adam. I have great respect for both of you, your integrity, insight, and energy.
I will continue to follow you both, but not on Youtube. Several other content creators I respect have been censored and I have followed them to other platforms. I did this because I choose integrity and reject censorship.
Chris, I think you are headed in the right direction on this count.
Adam, I don’t think you will be uncensored for long; the truth will not be tolerated by the tech giants.
Sincerely,
Edited.
On second thought, I’m trying not to leave the Internet a more bilious place than I found it.
I will just say that this post raises more questions than it answers and that it completely fails to address why the site was sold without any transparency to “potential partners” who are not even identified in this post. It is disappointing, to say the least.
It was a good run, and I especially enjoyed reading UK Locksmith, Dogs In a Pile, and VT Gothic, Karen Is A Farmer, Travissidelinger, and a couple of others. Take care, all.
Yes. It appears that Chris made a mistake. Chris may be human afterall. The question is, who among us will allow for his redemption? Must we all have front row seats to Chris’ soul searching? He doesn’t owe me anything. I expect a clean start soon.
Congratulations to all and best of luck going forward. We are in uncharted waters and the guidance offered on PP has always been most appreciated. I also enjoy Adam’s interviews and will follow along there as well.
Chris, special thanks to you for going out on a limb to guide us through the early Covid nightmare. Bless you!
People are jumping to way too many conclusions about what exactly happened.
E.g. the actual influence of the investors is totally unknown.
Has Chris made a mistake ? Possibly, but we don’t know;
I actually believe what he wrote, that all parties had best intentions. There’s a difference between a mistake (somethings that could have been anticipated) and a development that was impossible to anticipate. I believe the issues that arose more fall in the latter category.
Some people airing their grievances about lack of information or involvement of the tribe have might have never been in a leadership position. Armchair-quarterbacking is easy, doing it right in the middle of a crisis is much harder. And because of legal implications, you just can’t always do what would be most convenient to the masses.
Those overly critical towards Chris should ask themselves - does this incident really negate the character and integrity we have seen from Chris (and Adam) over the past many years ?
Community is not only built on trust and integrity, but also on grace, forgiveness and the ability to carry one another through a crisis. I’m not interested in a “community of people that are not willing to give and get involved, but are quick to be critical when things get tough. There is not much value in it.
I’m happy to reassure you that Chris’s daughter has been declared cancer-free. Her grandmother
I, and quite a few others that I know, would be a lot worse off right now if it were not for the insights Chris and Adam have brought to the table over the past 10 years. If it’s uncensored Chris coming back to the table then I’d chalk this one up to experience. None of us are perfect saints.
>>> How do we know other machinations haven’t been happening the whole time?
In my case, because I trust Chris and Adam.
Chris shared how he bailed on Corporate America, an experience which I think a lot of us can relate to.
I’m sure negotiating a less-corporate approach to things is what went on, at least on PP’s side of the table.
There’s PLENTY of America where Cynicism is very justified.
In the short term I will reserve my cynicism for the American “health care” industry, for example.
> I am a natural-born information scout.
Yes. And for that we thank you.
> I, Chris Martenson, am going to have sole control over Peak Prosperity.
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I appreciate and love both your work. I am happy to see that you will still help us navigate through this confusing times from 2 different yet critical aspects. Best of luck to both of your endeavors!
WB, Chris! Nice to see you’re working it out.
@Chris Martenson Still to this day there’s no predictability to any of it.Disagree, but you'd have to spend a lot of time observing. The main key is avoiding using certain terms, especially in the video titles. Mark Dice is one example of someone still on Youtube because he uses unspecific titles and knows exactly which words and wordings to avoid. Styxhexenhammer is another example, who doesn't restrict his titles/words/wordings but does separate content into YT and alt-tech exclusives. Ideally you would've seen the trend long ago and started to build your alt-tech presence, but it's not too late.
@kunga Over 70, here. The current shots are genetic enhancement, not a vaccine. They do not stop catching the catching of, or spreading the disease. We know effective remedies, which a competent person, in good health, can apply to self and family members. Some of us have made choices, all our lives, to be educated and live a healthy lifestyle. Not all people over 60 are the same. I'd rather die of Covid. My choice.Exactly, right? But the TV is an extremely dangerous weapon/drug and too many people don't realize it enough to shut it off from and out of their lives.
@LBL I can't see any reason to vaccinate older folks. Unless the goal is to generate more medical industry revenues.And the geronticide agendas, where the more criminally-inclined deeply indebted governments need to bring some semblance of balance to their budget and a major strategy is to kill off the elderly population as much as possible. Or at least that's what it looks like. An example is Germany: In blue, elderly home Covid deaths until vaccinations started (9 months). In red, deaths in the 2 months after vaccinations started.
As is, the CDC/FDA/NIH are saying nothing about Vitamin D & natural ionophores like Quercetin - which is like telling people to eat a little orange peel or banana peel (both great sources of Quercetin) ... or just dark skinned grapes. They're deliberately refraining from telling at-risk people how to make themselves less at risk. That tells us a LOT about the CDC/FDA/NIH. I read the CDC is not actually a US gov. agency. It's a 501C3 non-profit, with major pharma companies as donors. Anybody know ?The CDC is literally a vaccine company, as JFK Jr. explains: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CfLDXpC324 Even the former director, virologist Dr. Redfield, has stated that he believes the virus came from the Wuhan lab. The CDC obviously knows exactly what's happening, and that ivermectin and vitamin D are the real vaccines.
@davefairtex 2) Silver at $12.50 at or near the pandemic lows. Silver miners at or around the same time. Ridiculously big gains.Not bad, but compare that to the multiple >+1000%'s we crypto folks have been seeing.
@whoknew79 CM spent a bit of 2020 criticizing censorship, nondisclosed conflicts of interest, and poor communication in the major institutions and corporations around the world. He was right to be critical, but here he is engaging in small forms of that same thing.LOL, but Chris isn't causing the unnecessary deaths of over 1.8 million people.
I am not entitled to answers and NEVER did I think that I was (This statement contains an emotion called anger because you insulted me with your baseless assumptions about me). Anyway, it is a beautiful day and I am going to water the greenhouse and take the dog for walk. Get out there and enjoy it while you still can.May I recommend something? Cannabis. Less caffeine/stimulants, more social activities, meditation, avoid TV, censored platforms, MSG, aspartame, magnesium or omega-3 deficiency, high carb diet & junk food, electrosmog. Your life will be more fun.
@Judy I’m happy to reassure you that Chris’s daughter has been declared cancer-free. Her grandmotherAWESOME!!!
@Seedsower12 Think 'blockchain'. Decentralized, can't be de-platformed, secure, fast, etc. With all your Youtube videos & streaming show, think 'Theta', started by the co-founder of Youtube. https://www.thetatoken.org Decentralized/distributed networks can't be shut down & allows direct links between consumers and content creators. Think about your own blockchain enabled website, and your own crypto tokens. Instead of memberships, like-minded members of the 'Tribe' purchase tokens. Tokens can be used to 'tip' content creators, tribe members who post great content, spend them on farm projects, assign to members of your 'governance committee', etc. If 'Tribe' members don't spend their tokens during their membership period, they go into the 'Treasury' run by the Governance Committee. If they spend them sooner, perhaps they will buy more early. Tips can rank & prioritize content, so content most valued by the tribe is the easiest to access by all. You, as the main content creator, would get the most tips (tokens). Unspent tokens can 'stake' members of the governance committee. The Committee is basically voted in/out by tokens 'staked' their way. Polyface, Salatin, Chris, Eva, etc. This way, your Tribe is engaged in direction, projects, etc. As tribe members comment and add content, tips awarded to them will energize them further. Tips awarded can perhaps even be turned into cash, or used by tribal leaders to spend as they want in your ecosystem. The tribe sets the direction & tribal leaders will come and go, based on keeping the tribe energized and engaged, network effect, etc. Perhaps this can all be done on a mobile friendly platform/app? Hope any of this helps, lots more ideas, Decentraland, NFT's, etc. Big Sky Farm in CincinnatiTHIS!!!!! What are some examples of where this has been done? I think it can be done, Chris, you just need to find a good dev team. There's also Livepeer (LPT), more decentralized. Not financial advice obviously but THETA is at 18.6x LPT, even as it's up +2000% in the last 3 months (vs THETA +650%).
Very happy to hear about your granddaughter. You must all be so incredibly relieved. There is only one thing worse than personal pain and that is the pain or illness of a child, grandchild. It’s even horrendous if it’s a close pet!