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Maybe the question to ask CHAT GPT (or, as I call him Chad GPT) is how we can #EndtheFed and transition into a different scenario.

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unfortunately chadGPT is a esg brainwashed democratic liberal programmed with a lefty bias so getting the answer would be hard without substantial prompt hack engineering

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Agreed that our friend Chad GPT is libtard crap.

That being said, Clif knows his way around a computer program. I have no doubt he could ask any question he wanted and get a valid answer simply by framing it the right way. He knows how; most of us don't.

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It amazes me how Clif keeps getting roped into these techie scams. Bitcoin was created by the banks to acclimate the slaves into the digital currency prison for THEIR future. I don't waste time with ChatGPT when I can have so much fun with Linux.

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If Bitcoin was created by the banks, that means it would be centralized. Bitcoin is decentralized, therefore the banks did not create it.

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All of Bitcoin is contained on the blockchain where it can be hacked by those with backdoor access (NSA? etc. etc.) Thus Bitcoin is centralized - on the blockchain. It is fun to see Martin Armstrong has said the banks created Bitcoin. This is so obvious it is embarrassing Clif hasn't seen it.

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Highly doubtful that Clif missed anything when it comes to Bitcoin.

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He likes labor backed currency. One unit of currency equals one hour of unskilled labor. Everything else is priced by market forces.

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"QFS" lol!?

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The FED is are biggest PROBLEM from day ONE

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The International Imposter .

The worlds foremost problem

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Could also be the uber wealthy bums that came up with the idea of the FED?

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Back in the late 1990s when I lived in south central Texas and owned a 20 acre ranch, I would drive a couple of hours south to pick up day old chicks for about 50 cents a bird from a poultry grower. You had to get a minimum of 50 -100 birds being rock cornish hens, they were meant to be butchered young. Today baby chicks sell for anywhere from $5.00 to $8 or even more depending upon variety, a more than 10 fold increase in three decades. Weiner pigs could be had for $25 at about six weeks--now they are at least $100 -$125 a pop.

Leas than 20 years ago good alfalfa hay was $5 for a hefty bale they are $25 at the feed store & 8 percent tax!

You could get a 50 pound sack of corn for $6 now it is at least $20 plus tax. And it wasn't all GMO'd. I couldn't tell you how much eggs & bacon was in a restaurant back then cause I never at pie out and still don't...

Am working on becoming a breath-a -terian now that i have started using solar photons for breakfast😁🖖

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About 20x more expensive, and 20x less nutrition, with 20x the amount of toxicities (unless organic). So the value is also reduced by that.

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Excellent Sir clif.

EH !!!

We're fed up ! To the chin.

(Cool Sanka history too).

Always Interesting clif.

AND THAT IS TRUE !

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Thank you Clif. Just fyi and this not related to the topic. Live close to and have timeshare in Nola. The crooked feds and dems have literally ruined the once great city. So riddled w corruption and crime that all of my friends have sold their beautiful historic homes and left.

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Mayor of New Orleans Latoya the destroya is a graduate of the Aspen Institute.

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It's a bad idea to be interacting with that thing. Every interaction teaches it more about you, and 'it' is an unknown entity, connected to unknown people. You are in a sense 'giving away' your intellect and making 'it' smarter with your questions.

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If there is anyone who is capable of retraining that AI crap to spit out truth. it is Clif. Myself, I won't mess with it. But if you have a cell phone and you use it for anything- or just leave laying around- every detail of you life has already been gathered and is being gathered anew 24/7. It uses that information every day to direct you to all sorts of ads and news and other things IT/THEY want you to look at, think about, buy, give energy/attention to. Your cell phone is already controlling you whether you realize, acknowledge, or believe. Everything that you didn't specifically solicit is part of your personal brain washing program, so if you keep using it for anything other than calls & texts, and leave it on wherever you are you are "in their system". I think it was Snowden who told us years ago that they can do more remotely with YOUR smartphone than you can do with it directly in your hands. Maybe turning it off wouldn't even work, if they can turn it back on by remote.

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I destroyed my smart phone years ago, now have an old ATT flip phone for calls and texts only. It has an option to turn wifi and networks off, which I keep off. I have an Xfinity land line for routine calls (can't receive texts). Am I deluding myself into thinking I'm protected from surviellance?

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Nobody is ever truly protected from surveillance; if [they] want to know something about you, they will find a way to do it.

As I see it you basically have two choices: (1) Go ahead and live life pretty much normally, letting them monitor your phone calls, internet and credit cards and making them think you are a Normie and not worth bothering with; or (2) go scorched earth and get rid of all e-gadgets, internet (including substack) and basically hide under a rock. Barter for what you need and have a useful skill(s). No mortgage, live off grid.

When TSHTF, [they] will be so busy trying to keep all their plates spinning, as they watch them crash to the floor one after another like the most exciting Greek restaurant scene you've ever seen, that they won't have time to worry about any of us. OPA!!!

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Well, crap :)

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Nope, just like here. However you already won, because at least you can see....90% can't. I like the term, "destroyed my smart phone," to most thats like saying, "I destroyed a statue of Jesus." Keep up the good work.

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Thank you, Mr. Guillory. Your words are so very much appreciated.

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You do what you can. My last operational smart phone was a Nexus One, the first Android. I say 'operational' because I recently bought a PinePhone because I couldn't resist it. I can ssh into it over USB and talk to it like it's one of my Linux boxes, because, it is one of my Linux boxes and that's too cool to leave alone.

But I haven't put a simm card in it.

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I became a computer programmer the day I got my ZX81 and have been doing it since. Retired from designing ATC systems.

I'm not touching that thing. Primarily because of who owns it. If it was open source I'd be having a field day. That was the initial intention.

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I get that idea that some folks think we can 'use their own tools against them' but most folks are not as astute as Clif. The more users AI gets, the more powerful/influentual it will be. If we don't want an AI future, we might not wanna use it at all.

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I use a flip dumb Trac-phone for calls when I am not home and do a little texting for some who don't like to "talk" on the phone. I also have a landline for backup when all the cell towers are down...it uses copper wiring. I don't answer calls if I don't recognize the number.

Use open source Linux for my internet service. I do not have a smart meter on my home; I still have my analog meter where they come out to read my meter.

Don't have credit cards...pay cash everywhere. Don't buy things online. Use an email provider out of Sweden...never get any spam.

There are ways one can avoid their snooping eyes, but I am pretty sure I am still on their "radar". LOL

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Yes. The AIs' handlers are gathering up the info WE (well, any-ya'll; I won't spend the time!) give it to build BETTER controlling propaganda! The more they see how 'we' try to trip it up to provide TRUE info, the more they have to block and subvaricate. (Is that even a word?) It's also just one more brick in the "trust NO one" paranoia we're all learning. I look askance at the odd word use or the stilted formality in just about EVERYTHING now... is it GPT? Or just odd habit.

(I teased my late husband that his writing was SO pompous! He always answered that he was NOT writing for a general audience; and had no TIME for anyone if they couldn't keep up!

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I think you get dibs on 'subvaricate', perhaps to make a subvariety of something. Cool.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/subvariety

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Thanks.

'Suborn' didn't do it, 'edit' didn't do it, 'vary it' not good ... trying to find "substitute the falsities and provide fake variants the left requires to lie about the Right."

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My Two Cents; Ya, "But" it's Transitory!

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That will cost you seven dollars and eighty five cents, today only!

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What's the true price of silver then . Looking at the breakfast inflation chart , silver should be 15X easy !

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Apr 27, 2023·edited Apr 27, 2023

As a point of reference, US stopped using silver coinage in 1964. Historically $1 would get you a coin or coins containing 0.715 troy ounce of silver, for a silver price of about $1.40.

In 1964, the intrinsic value of silver grew to where $1 of coins was worth more than $1 -- the government loses money minting coins at that point, so they changed to the 'sandwich metal' coins.

Today the price of silver is around $25 per troy ounce, almost 18 times what an ounce of silver cost in 1964. That was 59 years ago. And Nixon took the US off the gold standard in 1971 when an ounce of gold was worth (officially) $35. Now it is $2000 -- a 57-times increase in 52 years.

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And the price of gold and silver/ounce should be WAY higher!

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Soon they will. So will Bitcoin.

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Scottsdale Mint sucked me in again.... Not ACTUALLY 'Kek' coins - but VERY close! Had to get some... (LOVE Scottsdale Mint's stuff!)

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Gas war price $0.25 / gal in 1964; in 2023; 1964 quarter = $4.53 =1.2 gal +/- but it's polluted with ethanol so call it 1 gal / '64 Quarter

That '64 Quarter has held up just fine; my 1960 Corvair not so much. Floor rusted out. Too bad, w/ 4 studded snow tires it was the ultimate winter-beater :-)

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$4.53 is the melt value; the coins are actually worth more than that: according to PCGS and NGC common silver quarters (including the 1964s) are worth $6; USA Coin Book lists them at $9.22. So-called 'junk' or 'constitutional' silver coins command premiums much greater than modern one-ounce coins, ranging in the recent past from 25 to (currently) 55% which would make that quarter worth a bit more than $7.

https://sdbullion.com/silver/junk-silver/90-constitutional-junk-silver

I remember gas selling for as low as 19.9 cents during the 1960s gas wars in Michigan. My '73 VW Super Beetle was great in the snow there -- a heck of a lot of fun too. Never got it stuck where a coal shovel and a few handfuls of rock salt wouldn't free it up in a few minutes' work. I never had snow tires for it much less studded (weren't legal there then, I don't know about today) but it never really seemed to need them. Just start off in 2nd gear and use a gentle foot on the throttle, and off you go.

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Gold and silver were on the rise, they seem to have plateaued (?) it somehow. We can keep buying it, for now. I don't have much to spend at this point.

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It’s all manipulated.

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That was my point, yes.

But there is only so much that they can do and their grasp is becoming less secure as time passes, their manipulations become more apparent to more people. Sunshine is their biggest enemy.

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Sunshine our best friend! A good source to follow the manipulation of this market sector :

GATA. Gold antitrust association:

https://www.gata.org/

:)

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Cool site! Thank you!🤩

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The breakfast menu above included "pasties" rather than "pastries", and I had a good giggle visualizing how those must have been served!

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Pasties, pronounced 'PAST - eez,' are a Cornish meat pie still served (and popular) in places with a lot of mining history, such as Michigan's Upper Peninsula (UP). Cornishmen were miners, as were many of the Northern Europeans (Swedes, Finns) that immigrated to the upper Midwest where iron and copper were mined. My grandfather was a Cornishman, and worked for the iron mining companies on the Mesabi Range of Northern Minnesota, near Ely (north of Duluth and close to Ontario).

https://www.lehtospasties.com/ -- sell by mail order if you're interested

https://harrypotter.fandom.com/wiki/Cornish_pasty

Pasties were the ideal miner's lunch, since they would hold their heat well for the morning's work and still be nice and toasty when the miners took lunch. In the underground mines of the UP and Northern Minnesota, the temperature is a constant ~50 F year-round, so a warm lunch was well appreciated.

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Thank you! I learned something new today. I still have an R-rated image in my head of being served breakfast by a server wearing pasties though - haha!

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And I have no idea whether that menu actually referred to Cornish pasties, or if it was simply a typo. Makes for interesting speculation -- and conversation!

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I made these pork pies that were a hot water crust with chunks of pork (or ground pork) Baked and then filled with gelatine through a hole left in the top.

Really good.

Is that a Cornish Pastie?

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It does sound good, there are many variations of meat pies because of the imagination of cooks everywhere 😉

Cornish pasties are made with a standard lard or butter crust, using a filling of diced beef, potatoes, onions and rutabaga. Salt and pepper before sealing. They are actually mostly potato (2/3 to 3/4) with most of the rest beef, and the onion and rutabaga for flavor.

My mother made them two to a round glass pie plate; you start with a single dough layer and fill it halfway, then fold over and pinch off that crust. Then drape another dough layer over the whole thing, and fill the other half, fold over and pinch off. You should end up with two symmetrical half-pies, basically.

You can look at the links above to Lehto's and the Harry Potter wiki, they both have pix of what a finished pasty (or sometimes spelled pastie in the singular) looks like.

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Not the same then. What you describe is more like an empanada. I can look it up, so I just did, heh. Yup, the pastry is the same as pie pastry, which an empanada is not, but I have made empanadas with pie pastry.

All of the things we have mentioned are hella good. I try not to use flour any more and this makes me sad.

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Pastries are bakery products.

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It was New Orleans was it not?

You're probably both right.

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#2619 12/12/18 Anon asks: Q: Do we have the gold?

Q responds: Yes. Gold shall destroy FED.

#119 11/06/17 excerpt: Who controls the FED?

How did political leaders/’talking heads’ accum assets in excess of $5mm+?

What was the net worth for each prior to taking office?

Reconcile.

Why is this relevant?

Snow White.

Godfather III.

Q

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Apr 27, 2023·edited Apr 27, 2023

Curious. How many of these depressions and recessions required a war, police action or some other military conflict to recover from it?

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The FED will end when the new world order ( One World Government ) has been put in place with the help the FED. There will be no need for a US FED.. as it will have become obsolete in the New Wave system of full spectrum control by the elites. No money, no inflation, no fiscal policy, no monetary policy, no interest no debt. Once true Brother/Sisterhood dominates all humanity... You will like it and be happy.. COMRADE

The evil creation and use of money left in the hands of Khazar Satanists and allowed to go on for centuries by the leaders of non Khazar peoples has brought us to an ignoble and terrible future, if not an end to our existence altogether.

What can you do... Mr & Mrs. average world citizen.

How about praying for a mirarcle, an intervention of the divine. Pray hard, real hard because you know that you are too weak and dumb to do anything to challenge the coming change.

Besides why should you, you have been happy with the CCrds played to the max' and thanks to the FEDs smaller friendly banks grateful as H for that credit. Without it yous'e

all would on the street & the kids too.

So.. like the PRICE IS RIGHT or any TV game show... this life of yours is one too, the biggest one of all. Choose a door you have no choice.

For the willing eternal sheep

Door #1 You will have no debt, own nothing, and be happy with our little blue pill.

You will be told where to live, work and how many children if any you can have.

Those contemplating rebellion

Door#2 You will live on a vast estate provided with no housing, food water medication or clothing.

The oldsters and worn out just plain ornery cusses like me. But here is the kicker I don't need your stinking pill or needle. I'll do the job myself as best a man can without leaving a mess for the clean up people.

Door#3 Painless termination of your residence on planet earth at no cost to you upon request. Note: This option is currently only available on Canadian soil, but free transportation to Canada will be provided if you have proper proof of full vaccination against C19.

Democracy! Always good for thieves politicians and manipulators. Finding the lowest common denominator. A system for the insane.

WBJ.

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Nice to know we're number one with Door# 3 here in CHINADA with our MAID program 😀

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I've lived long enough to see a movie ticket go from 50 cents to see JAWS and now $10.99 to $12.99 (Canada) these days to see a movie. I miss the days when I could get a coffee in high school for 27 cents. Have our wages kept up? I read somewhere that adjusting to inflation, we're stuck at around year 1967 wage levels. All under the radar.

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LOL! I saw JAWS in 1975. My dad and I waited in line about an hour on opening night! I was 12 years old. What memories!

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Hahaha I was 9 and it was a Saturday afternoon matinee. I'll bet you still remember the severed head suddenly popping up too? haha Scared the daylights out of me. I was way too young to see such a graphic movie. I was afraid to go swimming for a few years afterwards. JAWS 2 didn't help either LOLOL

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Actually, I had one of those huge beach towels with the iconic picture on it, so it looked like the shark was attacking me-LOL!

My dad always took me to R rated movies: The Deer Hunter, Tales From the Crypt, Midnight Express, Willard, Ben. I thought it was so cool going to R movies…even after nightmares-LOL!

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I'm lazy about doing the research myself, but I'd like to see another column showing which political party was in power during those recessions (or when they started).

Be interesting to see if a pattern exists.

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Easy, the UniParty.

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I agree with the uni-party comment but it's interesting that all the destroyed cities are run by Demonrats.

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Of the craziest, farthest-left sort to boot...

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Communist cult party-goers!

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Apr 27, 2023·edited Apr 27, 2023

You're fired!! (the FED, not you Clif) lol

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