Today we have a thought of the walk on mind control as well as some thoughts on how to break the cycle if you are in it (and maybe don’t even know it).
Greater Reset tonight -- community - I will be on the air talking about getting our tn freedom cell network up and running.
Friday Feature: Eric Meyers Online
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What’s Up in the Garden
Main topic of the Show: TOTW on Mind Control
It struck me the other day that people are walking around hypnotized
Hypnotized and unable to react to things with critical thought, an open mind and heart, or a willingness to learn.
And the funny thing is that I am not 100% certain that I am not also hypnotized. I would like to think I am not, but
We as a society have become hypnotized, and those who break out are not to be tolerated.
So then what can we do about this? How do we wake people up.
It goes back to gardening: Do no harm and plant seeds.
So how then do we protect ourselves from falling trap to this hypnotism?
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Today I will walk you through my indoor lettuce growing operation for 2021.
Medical system frustration story.
What’s Up in the Garden
2021 Winter Lettuce Growing System
Why I grow lettuce inside
What I did Last Year
Lessons learned: (Volume, algae, EC Meter and nutrient, plant spacing, lighting cycles)
This year’s system (16 Plants every two weeks)
Timeline
Supplies
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Today by request of the chatter over in our MeWe group, I will share with you my perspective as a landlord of 20 years, tell you the story of how I got started and what brought me to this point, as talk about some best practices I have put in place to support by growing business.
This is not investment, legal or real estate advice - rather I will share my personal journey.
Save the date: Rogue Food conference, June 5 in Tennessee - more details as things develop at https://roguefoodconference.com/.
The Greater Reset starts tonight at 6pm Central and sessions will stream here: https://thegreaterreset.org/.
Today’s topic: The Agora.
Tomorrow at 6: Take Control of Your Health and Education
Tales from the Prepper Pantry
Featured Forage: Update
Operation Independence
Main topic of the Show: My Experiences With Rental Properties
How I became a landlord:
Purposefully did not talk about rental laws, business structure and liability protections because this is very specific to your location, where your rentals are, and what your long term plans are with the properties.
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Today I am excited to have an interview show for you that I am sure you will love: we will talk about the best decentralized video platform I have used from a user standpoint and to do that, we have Jeremey Kauffman the CEO who is also a freedom loving New Hampshire Freestater. I think y’all will love this episode.
Friday Feature: LFTN
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Connect with Jeremy @jeremykauffman on Twitter
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Jeremy Kauffman is the CEO of Lbry and Odysee a great decentralized video platform that empowers the content creators and offers a better alternative to YouTube.
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Today Sue Zoldak joins me to talk about a myriad of things: community, marketing on Mewe, the state of the Union, and much more.
Greater Reset Jan 25-29, 2021 - Do not miss it!
Email feedback to nicole@livingfreeintennessee.com
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What’s Up in the Garden
Main topic of the Show: A Fireside Chat with Sue Zoldak
About Sue Zoldak
After a decade in the public relations agency world, Sue Zoldak founded The Zoldak Agency in 2016 after leaving a stint at the RNC during the 2014 cycle where she met her future business partner, Cassie. The Zoldak Agency serves organizations, trade associations, grassroots coalitions, and campaigns to further their communications and outreach goals with one purpose: to help her clients pass or defeat legislation. Zoldak loosely translates into "hired gun" in Slovak and she certainly loves to win.
Why we love her
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Over the weekend, we met in the mountains and shared ideas, feelings, information and camaraderie at The Station at 19e on Roan Mountain. Today, I will share some of my thoughts from this experience and what it means for the “New Normal.”
A Spring Workshop Update: We sold out over the weekend but if you were paying attention to TG or Mewe, I opened up four more tickets. Those are already gone, so if you had wanted to go but did not grab a ticket in time, sign up for the waiting list.
Tales from the Prepper Pantry
Operation Independence
Main topic of the Show: There Really is a New Normal
It was so very cool - 33 of us decided to go into the mountains and meetup at a hiker’s hostel. It was a meetup on crack.
Freedom Cell and what it is --
The why
How the meetup came to be
The purpose of the meetup
Things I learned
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It’s a Friday so we usually do an interview show or a thought of the walk. What is a thought of the walk -- simply a short episode where we dive into a single concept. How do I pick the topic? I go for walks with my dogs and shut off all media. While out and about, something that has been niggling on my brain often comes clear, then I share it with you.
This week, I have been thinking about punitive and restorative justice and will share my thoughts on that with you later in the show.
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Social Media and the move toward more decentralization and additional platforms
Justice - the idea that we can make right the wrongs that inevitably happen in this world. Drove you car into someone’s house because you fell asleep at the wheel -- well you ought to pay to fix it. Stole a chocolate egg from the store? How do you make that right? Pay for it?
Justice get’s harder as transgressions get bigger. Kidnapped and killed someone -- how do you ever make that right with the family? Can you be trusted to walk freely among society? If not, is the rest of your life in prison the answer, or something else. What is a proper response to kidnapping and killing someone?
It turns out that justice, while a very simple concept, becomes much more complex as we dive more deeply into it. People push for justice from people who new the person who transgressed. People want their pound of flesh because they were hurt. People want their pound of flesh on behalf of someone they perceive to have been harmed who is not themselves demanding one. People want things righted from generations past.
The problem? People got involved.
Yet that which is complicated is usually made so because we tend to take a simple concept, in this case justice, and make it complicated in order to manipulate things into going our way even when the simple interpretation does not go as far as we would wish. By over rotating on the concept, we can manipulate others into giving us what we want.
But is that truly justice?
One way to think about justice and how it is wielded is to break it down into two categories: punitive and restorative.
Simply put, punitive justice sets up the framework for retribution against the transgressor. Think eye for an eye. At the end of a punitive approach, the person who transgressed will be hurt so that they are also hermed as were the person or people they harmed.
The death penalty for murderers is an example of punitive justice. The person killed someone or many someones and therefore they themselves must also die. The families and friends of those killed, while they may get a bit of a morale boost, receive nothing to restore the damage caused to their lives.
Restorative justice on the other hand takes a different approach. It seeks to restore relationships and repair the damage caused by the transgression. This is most easily accomplished in crimes that are nonviolent but it is also possible in a murder case to come together and find a clear path toward reparations. In a murder case, it may mean that the transgressor agrees to send half their income to the family of the person they killed. This of course assumes the person does not kill again and there is no “Template” for what the right answer is to restore that kind of damage since you can never bring a person back -- at least not with our current technology.
Note: I do realize that there is also a concept around rehabilitative justice, but am concentrating on the two concepts for the purposes of today’s show.
Part of why the action taken against Parler is so disturbing this week is the punitive nature of the action taken being far out of scale for the transgression: They allowed people to freely exchange ideas. They are having their lives destroyed for someone else's action because they did not intervene to stop it before there was even any proof that the hot air posturing was going to be acted upon.
Because they did not take punitive action against people who had not really done anything wrong, they must be annihilated.
It is quite dangerous to encourage this sort of action. Yet we have set up in our society the approach that it is ok to take 5 pounds of flesh in exchange for the slightest perception of a transgression. Think expelling a child for eating his poptart into a gun shape. Publishing names addresses and calling for violence against the children of politicians we don’t agree with. Getting people fired from their jobs because we do not agree with their opinions.None of these actions address a core problem with an eye toward making amends or even persuading the person to change from their heart. Rather, it extends a stick or threat over their head and over the heads of all others so that they do not step out of line. A stick will work to change behavior -- but only for a time.Point: We are all tempted to demand punitive justice, but a restorative approach is better and those that demand their pound of flesh are making the division in our society far worse.
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Today I will share with you a real view of the first week of January on the homestead.
Spring Workshop Tickets go on sale on Friday at 9am - make sure you can log in. It is all tested and ready to go!
https://www.livingfreeintennessee.com/spring-workshop-2021/
The Greater Reset Online Conference
What’s Up in the Garden
Main topic of the Show: Real Life Homestead Week One
Projects
Food Highlights
The Suck
The Fun
Quaint Things That Seem Normal
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Today, I will share with you an alternative perspective to the Parler hullabaloo. One separated from a political party. Both Republicans and Democrats have this wrong -- and yet Big Tech has showed that, once again, absolute power corrupts absolutely. We will also talk about making some changes in how we operate.
GreaterReset.org Jan 25-29
Freedomcell update (Jan 16 on Roan Mountain)
Tales from the Prepper Pantry
Operation Independence
Main topic of the Show: Big Tech Bullies
Things I am trying: Telegram, mewe, signal, protonmail, epik.com, orangewebsite.com, octopus mail (I will let you know how it goes)
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Today, I wanted to take a deeper look at building community and foundational principles that I think are important to keep in mind. This is the start of this topic and I hope to hear from you if you think things can be combined or if something is missing, keeping in mind that the more rules you put in place, the easier it is for a community to transform from happy and functional to bureaucratic and abusive.
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Main topic of the Show: Organizing Principles of Community
Thoughts on why there is so much confusion about community.
A few Tangible Examples: Underground railroad, Underground Economy in Soviet Russia
Building community is not something you generally have to start on your own - and in fact it really does not work that way. LOTR story. Get started by seeing what communities are already around you, find your people, invest time, love and knowledge -- and let it build itself over time.
I know many of you feel urgent about this right now, but this is not something you just suddenly do. It is like a spark that becomes a flame that becomes a fire that becomes a bonfire. It will fo at its own pace and the best thing you can do is set a good foundation, guide it as you must, and let it develop into what it will be
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Monday’s show was three hours and it was so dark at times that I thought a live feedback show would be a good idea. The challenge being that some of you have not listened to Monday’s show yet because it is so long. But enough of you have that I have a set of things to talk about AND I wanted to talk about real community and what it means - because our prosperous US Society has done a pretty good job of changing the perception of how community works both through social networks and also government imposed, top-down, corporatized systems.
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January Prepper Projects
#HollerHatWednesday: Has died because IG
What’s Up in the Garden
The Dim Age Feedback
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Vin Armani joins me for today’s episode to discuss the coming dim age - and I think he is right about this. We discuss why he thinks one is coming with a particular focus on learning from past historical stories. We also talk about what it means for day to day life and, at the very end, what you should put in place to navigate this change. Because it is important to do what you can to protect both for your short term comfort and to set a foundation for your children’s future.
Before we do that, I wanted to give you the January updates. The Living Free in Tennessee Workshop is coming fast and we have some fantastic sessions coming your way.
April 22-24
Presenters are coming from all over our community and the country. You really do not want to miss this one. Tickets are $450 this year and will go on sale first to members, then to the general public. Camping is included and there are great room rentals nearby if you are not the camping sort.
Member tickets will go on sale on January 15 and to non-members on MLK day, January 18th. Do pay attention to LivingFreeinTennessee.com as we update the information from the 2020 event to this year’s shindig!
Vin Armani Bio
Vin Armani is a philosopher, serial tech entrepreneur, and CryptoSavage. In addition to being an author and speaker, he has made his living as a television star, film producer, high-end male escort, software developer, art gallerist, pirate radio station operator, DJ, music producer, and motorcycle courier. He studied Philosophy at Howard University.
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Odysee (Saucerocks): https://odysee.com/@livingfree:b
Mewe: https://mewe.com/join/lftn
Parler: @nicolesauce https://parler.com/profile/Nicolesauce/posts
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Main topic of the Show: Navigating the Dim Age with Vin Armani
When I did this interview with Vin, it was a hard discussion to have. Hard because I can see which story in history we are living right now. Hard because my close friends and family think that I am referring to Donald Trump when I bring it up and that Joe Biden is going to fix it. They do not realize that it doesn't matter who is in power. Hard because it feels like we have “stopped thinking” but the reality is that most people never did think. They parroted as if they are thinking. And that parroting is why it has been so easy to set up so-called experts in places of authority claiming they have THE answer releasing smart-sounding soundbites that are repeated and repeated and repeated until they sound true, feel true and are taken as facts.
But as my friend Kevan likes to say Do Hard Things.
So I see today’s interview as a wake up call to those who have not seen what is coming. As a look at the makeup-less morning face in the mirror after a sleepless night. As that belly roll hanging out in the mirror when you are not wearing spanx. We have some time right now to consider what is happening without the pretty trappings of “for the greater good” or “doing your part”. We are being gas lighted and have been for a long time.
When we accepted TSA Pre as a thing, we set a foundation for segmenting the population into two groups so that one can be pitted against the other. And that is just one example of the slow and subtle march toward this dim age. A time when the negative, power hungry elite seek to control the masses through division.
And yet if you look at the last time this cycle happened in history you also see bright spots and light. We have been here before and some stood up. Some stood out. Some quietly created systems and communities of support that operated outside the power structures being imposed on those around them. They set a foundation for an age of reason. And in this particular story, that is the denouement. That is how it ends - with a new and better story.
So I hope you will approach this episode with an open heart and mind. And when you feel that tightening of fear that you will pause, take a deep breath, and look at the belly fat in the mirror.
Wednesday’s episode will be a follow up to this episode and I invite you to send me your thoughts, questions and ideas.
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