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But Brandon says everything is fine!

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Last week we spent $450 on groceries for the week. We are a household of 8. It is insane. We are frugal shoppers. I shop only sales and at 3 different stores. We used to be treading water. Now we are drowning.

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I'm a manufacturing manager supplying the mining industry. Crushed stone production, used for roads, residential and commercial construction, dropped almost 5% in Q1 compared to Q1 2023. We're all wondering where the "infrastructure" bill funding disappeared to. This wasn't supposed to happen. We were going to "Build Back Better" if I recall correctly. We are seeing a slow motion train wreck. These things aren't being reported by the main stream media but they have to be aware of what is going on.

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And how about adding car insurance, house insurance, electricity, heating, property tax increases, etc. I’m living on credit cards. I’m afraid of our personal future and children’s future. And this does NOT include ww3 fears!

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We are now rolling bills from month to month. We had to reduce our car insurance to liability only (our cars are paid for) and that is still over $200 a month. Our electricity: over $300. My husband works from home with variable hours. It’s a nightmare. We pay $900 a month for health insurance. I spend my days figuring what we can live without and spend my nights praying for God to get us through. I am between jobs and don’t start my new one until August! God help us.

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Testimonials

I started following Michael Snyder since 2011 or 12. One of the first postings that said "In the future it will not be can you find food, it will be can you find food you can afford?".

Is Michael Prophetic or What ?

Thank you Michael Syndey for being the intrepid reporter of the true facts of our Zeitgeist.

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We won't be able to blame all of this on creepy Joe anymore. The emperor truly has no clothes. MSN has no choice now but to admit they need to throw Biden away. Who will replace him? We shall soon find out. (The party of Democracy will put a person on the ticket w/o true democracy, how ironic).

The real cause of inflation is debt. This was started by the Republican Party when Nixon took us off the Gold standard (totally UN-Constitutional, and no one blinked an eye). That was the day America died. Because all nations that used fiat money went bankrupt and the nation died. Both parties maintained this fraud for 54 years; now it's dying, and there is nothing we can do. The masters behind this plan set this up 54 years ago (Nixon and Kissinger) knowing this would kill the dollar, kill this nation, and bring in the global NWO and let the dollar die to new global currency and tell everyone, we don't know what happened (or blame it on someone or event) but this is the only way to fix this and it will be so much better.

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I do a little trading in stuff, mainly hobby items. I don’t make money doing it, probably have lost a slight amount of money over the years. I do it to get rid of things I’m not using and make room for new stuff. Lately, it has become impossible to get rid of things at anywhere close to what I paid, even for unused items. I’m getting out of it now, because the market has fallen completely out of it. People don’t pay for anything that isn’t essential now. I went to the grocery over the weekend, bought some stuff for dinner and a couple of household items. Walked out sixty dollars lighter and none of it was anything extravagant. People need to go pick up a book or two on what happens when things turn bad in formerly comfortable societies. It isn’t pretty, and we’re about there.

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Hello JotW,

Too true Sir...FAR 'TOO True'...

Venezuela is likely the most recent example of what you describe. There friends of ours have related Horror stories of the 'de-evolution' of a society...as you say, 'It AIN'T Pretty.'

So, what then happens when - not IF - that phenomena begins propogating GLOBALLY?

In any complex system there exist the possibility that the driving impulses acting on said system will 'destabilize' that from even the possibility of seeking out and establishing a new 'equilibrium'.

All that is just techno-speak for 'The Wheels FLY OFF the WAGON', eh? Yup.

However, what - LIKELY - we'll be seeing presently will rapidly enter into a 'Positive Feedback loop'. The use of the Word positive in the foregoing is NOT cause for optimism, on the contrary, it is CAUSE for EXTREME TREPIDATION.

Postive Feedback loops act to DRIVE physical systems continuously closer and closer to the EDGE of thier operational envelopes...until DISASTER occurs.

Witness the simple example of a parent pushing a child seated on the seat of a swingset. Initially, the action produced is wholly predictable and regular, ie, periodic. However, IF the parent - synonymous with a DRIVING FORCE - continues to be applied then the swing grows wider and wider, higher and higher.

AT SOME POINT a critical threshold is reached and instead of regular, periodic motion the arc of the SWING grows great enough that the Child on the Seat rises SO HIGH that the swing abruptly changes it's character completely.

Specifically, said Child's 'swing' rises up beyond 90 degrees from the vertical. Beyond that point IF the arc RISES any HIGHER at all, the system - child, parent, SWING - becomes ABRUPTLY Chaotic.

The Child passes ABOVE the horizontal line, arcs BEYOND THAT and suddenly FALLS STRAIGHT DIWN until the chains holding the seat snap HARD arresting the fall...

Likely you yourself have seen this very thing happen, no...yes?

The issue is that ANY physical system HAS an 'envelope' in which it's predictability can be deterministically ascertained. PUSH that system - INCLUDING a Civilization - beyond that envelope and Catastrophe ensues.

We ARE NOW entering the the point in time near to 'horizontal plane' I described above. People are STILL individually attempting to SEEK a new equilibrium...which owing to the repeated 'positive feedback' loop inputs involved categorically CANNOT be achieved, unless and ONLY transiently.

Hereafter, IF no reduction in those inputs is observed then we WILL be driven outide of the ENVELOPE and abruptly quite nearly everything we take for granted will change from ordinary, predicatable behaviour into PURE Chaos.

By Chaos, I MEAN Mathematical Chaos...

something rather different than what people mean when they use the word in daily Life. The state I refer to is one in which nearly ALL predictability VANISHES like smoke in the Wind.

The point I am attempting to stress here - and above - is that the dividing line between the two states is extremely ABRUPT. In applying that to complex systems that is 'an ART' and NOT a Science. PERIOD.

Usually, in previous MAJOR Societal collapses, a single, CRITICAL subsystem of the Whole FAILS...and then that failure, by virtue of the 'interconnected nature' of all such, serves to drive another component of the system right up TO and then PAST it's own envelope...

At ever increasing speed a sequence of further failures occur and rapidly become the oft-spoken of 'Vicious Spiral' which usually begins accelerating at a Super-Exponential rate.

You WAKE on a Monday morning and the Stock Markets appear to behaving nominally. Around Noon, 'something' is clearly AMISS as ALL THE MARKETS are seen to DROP enough - typically 10% - that the exchange's 'Circuit Breakers' engage and all trading comes to an abrupt halt. The Pundits are mystified but ASSURE everyone that Trading tomorrow will resume and everything WILL 'Be coming UP Roses' by tomorrow Afternoon once the Exchanges reopen.

The following day those do indeed open and by noon ANOTHER 10% LOSS is realized, and again the Echanges Suspend Trading, TEMPORARILY. TWO hours later those reopen and ANOTHER 10% LOSS occurs much FASTER than had the previous episodes. The Exchanges ATTEMPT to blame the curious anomaly on Software Issues and declare a 'Transient Suspension' of Trading for at LEAST 24 HOURS.

This is the CUSP of when things begin to go VERY WRONG INDEED...

The MAJORS - Such as Citi, BoA, Wells-Fargo, JP Morgan and Goldman-Sacks ALL convene Emergency Board meetings that Evening, preparing for the 'inevitable': An Inevitability ENGINEERED by those and BY THOSE ABOVE THEM.

Abruptly the following day - during which the Markets AGAIN do not open - a rather large number of people going out to get groceries and other sundries find that thier 'Plastic' - which they YET have open Credit on, some large, some small, are being universally DECLINED. Initially, that is spun by thier parent companies as mere 'glitches'.

Perhaps the Markets DO open the following day...if they do, then the result is ASSURED: The Breakers engage early and ALL TRADING is summarily suspended without mention of when those WILL reopen.

By then we are at either Thurday or Friday, likely Friday. If the latter, then the End IS NIGH. Credit Cards contnue to be declined in evrr greater numbers, RAPIDLY climbing into the hundreds of Millions.

About that point the Networks are SCREAMING about 'Cyber-Attacks' on the Exchanges AND the Credit Card issuers, claiming that 'AGRESSIVE Messures' are being taken to HALT the ongoing Carnage, ASSURING everyone that ALL will be restored within a 'few more days'...timeline NOT SPECIFIED.

About that point the Global Derivatives Market begins sending out 'signals' indicating that SOMETHING is amiss there also. THE INSTANT you 'hear' ANYTHING of that sort the End is NOT Nigh...it is UPON us all.

Thereafter the latter begins to IMPLODE, RAPIDLY...every entity, everywhere declares 'Force Majeure' as a legal 'insulation' against anyone attempting to obtain a Court Injunction against them.

The Derivatives Market Collapses like a stellar remnant becoming a "Black Hole", sucking everything attached to it into a BOTTOMLESS PIT from which no information can EVER be subsequently extracted: The WEALTH of the ENTIRE WORLD VANISHES in a single day...really.

It goes without saying that neither Debit nor EBT cards are functioning at that point since ALL 'Plastic' is INERT by then...for some few days actually.

AT THAT POINT IF you have 'Junk Silver' USE IT to get EVERYTHING that you can haggle over with a local merchant AND NEED, since that WILL be your last chance before EVERYTHING Shutters it's DOORS for the foreseeable future. To be read as "Forever"...'Civilization' is JUST GONE at that point: ALL Logistics chains are PARALYZED since they cannot be assured of PAYMENT, hence NO GOODS MOVE ANYWHERE... INCLUDING FUEL.

The movement of GOODS across the Nation screeches to a HALT.

THAT is when things REALLY START to go BAD...

15 Million 'Illegals' realize that they are GOING to starve to DEATH, IMMEDIATELY. Need I describe HOW THAT will go? I thought not...

Once MASS RIOTING and LOOTING begins the Federal Government DECLARES "Marshall Law" and imposes STRICT curfews, which they are WHOLLY incapable of ENFORCING owing to 2.5 Million LEO, Nat Guard, Active Duty Military having ABSOLUTELY NO CHANCE in the face of 330 Million increasingly desperate Citizens who - at LAST - begin SEEING 'The Writing on the WALL'.

Meanwhile in Nuclear-Proof BUNKERS all over the Country - or World - a formidable panopoly of the Hyper-Wealthy have flown in on thier Private Jets and begin populating said Redoubts with THIER FAMILIES amd Apparatchiks. IF as I mentioned previously those ALREADY possess at least a couple of NMR's per Bunker, then the CAN and WILL implement thier long developed 'Final Solution'...yes, you're thinking correctly, the exact same situation as the Nazi's developed in WWII...but on a FAR GRANDER scale.

Recall the FIRST FOUR SEALS: WAR, FAMINE, PESTILENCE and DEATH and draw your own conclusion as to how things MIGHT GO...

The foregoing is but a possible scenario which does NOT account for the First Seal mentioned above; THAT could occur before, during OR after what is set forth above; it could be the TRIGGER, the AMPLIFIER or the Coup de Grace...either or.

Be well, be DISCERNING of AND VIGILANT about ALL that impinges on your consciousness in the Days to COME and all my Brothers and Sisters IN CHRIST, BE YE BLESSED ENTIRELY.

Recall that WE are MADE in HIS IMAGE, therefore THINK THRICE, ACT BUT ONCE.

JOG

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Biden-flation is on purpose to slo-kill the population.

What’s your best way to wake-up those who don’t want to open their eyes?

Please share your most effective wake-up strategies.

The more the awakened, the sooner this nightmare will be over!

The most effective strategy is asking about the person’s opinion on some of these topics:

Would you be interested in the story of how a father got 20 million dollars from the Government?

Or, show the video of the baby seizures:

https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/autism-day-shall-we-celebrate-the

That usually works, especially with young couples having children.

If the person doesn’t want to discuss injections, then food is a good start:

Why is food poisoning legal?

How Rumsfeld forced the approval of Aspartame.

Artificial sweeteners, MSG, PFAS, Glyphosate ... go organic!

https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/why-is-food-poisoning-legal

Then I’d follow with "Are you opened to see if the actual data matches your opinion?"

Then I start showing some of the shortcomings of the Pharma industry:

https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/system-failure-ai-exposes-zero-government

Then, show that every single person on the planet should be suing Pfizer and Moderna for deliberately hiding human DNA in their vaccines, and Pfizer, for injecting an undisclosed carcinogenic monkey virus (SV40) sequence into the cell nucleus of the clueless biohacked, as officially recognized by Health Canada !!!

Not like the topic? I’d show this video (all you need is 10 secs in the middle, who doesn’t have 10 seconds for you):

https://odysee.com/@ImpossiblyWackedOutWorld:f/WTC-7-Free-Falling:8

(caveat about the beginning: pot destroys your brain + “Raises Risk of Heart Attack and Stroke”)

9/11: two "planes", yet the third tower (WTC7) imploded, free falling on its footprint like in a controlled demolition. It was out of reach, and all 7 World Trade Center towers needed to be rebuilt, not the closer towers not belonging to World Trade Center... and the “owner” took an insurance policy for the WTC against terrorism, just months before, when no one was taking them … he didn’t show up for work precisely on 9/11 … just as his 2 grown up siblings. The inside information about the FUTURE 9/11 event helped masons make trillions by shorting the stock exchange: the records were deleted by the SEC so they wouldn't be prosecuted !!!

https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/911-2-planes-3-towers

https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/107-911

There's a plan to murder 95% of the global population by 2050… written on the masonic Georgia guide-stones: “Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 … ”:

https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/depopulation-or-extermination

- J6: The false flag operation of the fake riot was planned, incited and guided by FBI mason agents, who broke into the Capitol !!! All intel agencies (CIA, FBI, NSA) were founded by masons and are run by them for their own nefarious goals.

https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/j6-what-you-need-to-know

In 2022, the same mason-plot was copy-pasted to disband the demonstrations of millions of Brazilians against the stolen elections through the rigged voting machines owned by mason Soros:

https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/the-2020-american-coup

https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/dominion-over-us

Weaponization of migration to steal elections and destroy nations

https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/weaponization-of-migration

All political parties are compromised/infiltrated. For example, Italy supports vax pass and WHO Pandemic Treaty !!! Meloni's Government! People voted her for being against that!

https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/italy-endorsed-vax-pass-and-who-pandemic

- At least since the 90s, vaccines are weaponized to reduce the population, for example:

1. Adding hCG to infertilize women: lab detected in 30 countries

2. Overpassing the FDA 10 ng limit to human DNA “contamination” by 2000%, thus causing neuro-damage (autism, asperger, tics, dyslexia in 29% of kids, etc.) and childhood cancer epidemic (n.b. leukemia, non-Hodgkin’s lymphomas)

Check soundchoice.org or videos at bottom of next link:

Free 100 redpill movies and documentaries:

(don't miss the 1st one, 10 min at 2x, an amazing tool to start a discussion):

https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/wake-up-videos

- COVID was designed as a primer for even more lethal COVID haccines:

https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/the-real-covid-timeline

https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/not-vaccine-not-gene-therapy-just

https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/what-do-bioweapons-have-to-do-with

- You’ll go nowhere and you’ll be happy:

https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/2050-youll-go-nowhere-and-youll-be

Elon's top secret: EVs cause cancer

Go green with gasoline!

https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/electric-vehicles-cause-cancer

- It's genocide for depopulation:

Depopulation or EXTERMINATION? (finest quotes):

https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/depopulation-or-extermination https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/depop-vaccines-no-myth

- You are the carbon they want to exterminate!

1. No one denies there's man-made climate change but scientists disagree on the cause and remedies.

Prehistoric data from ice cores proves that temperature rise precedes carbon release in the atmosphere, not the other way around.

https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/best-scientific-sources-to-debunk

2. There's proof of deliberate geoengineering to increase global temperatures and droughts and decrease albedo by dissolving clouds with satellite Electro-Magnetic Frequencies.

https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/satattack

3. Life involves a carbon cycle. A war on carbon is a war on life, causing food scarcity, increase in food prices and famines. Decarbonization is part of the plan to exterminate 95% of the population.

Killing me softly with green songs:

https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/killing-me-softly-with-green-songs

Carbon reparations:

https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/carbon-reparations

Climate deaths:

https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/climate-deaths

- Their main source of power apart from sin-empowered demons? NOT a coincidence that the USA left dollar convertibility to gold in 1971, precisely triggering the exponential government deficit coupled with the trade deficit and inflation.

This is the Achilles’ heel of all nations: masonic and satanic secret societies counterfeit paper money and launder trillions with which they buy Banks, seats in the Federal Reserve (the only private run Central Bank in the world), political careers and parties, puppeticians, listed corporations, media, healthcare corporations and organizations, universities, foundations, judges, etc.:

Illuminati David Rockefeller (quotes):

https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/david-rockefeller-illuminati

Ex illuminati Ronald Bernard:

https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/confessions-of-illuminati-ronald

Illuminati Attali (quotes)

https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/attali-illuminati-finest-quotes

The way out of this mess:

1. Create an easy system for real money: private currencies/warrants based on real assets, goods, services, etc. (gold, corn, oil, distance/volume/weight transportation, labor human hour/minute, etc.)

2. Ban legal tender. Let the free markets decide which real-currencies/valuables/warrants they prefer to trade with

3. Ban paper-backed currencies (unlike real-backed ones of point 1.)

4. Enforce a Legal Banking Reserve of 100% of deposits (so banks don't create money based on air) and therefore there's no excuse for a Central Bank, because there would be no risk of bank-runs since all their loans are fully backed with deposits

Anything else you might think of?

Now, are you really ready for this?:

The full PLAN exposed:

https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/the-plan-revealed

16 laws we need to exit Prison Planet

https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/laws-to-exit-planet-prison

President John Quincy Adams: “Masonry ought forever to be abolished. It is wrong - essentially wrong - a seed of evil, which can never produce any good.”

If you are a mason or know a mason, ask him to ask his 33° master to put in writing and sign it, who is "the great architect" and that he is not Lucifer. If he refuses, then he’ll know who he is really serving, Satan: tell him to get out of masonry NOW. Sooner or later he’ll be required to trample on a cross to get to a higher degree.

Ex mason Serge Abad-Gallardo:

https://www.ncregister.com/interview/confessions-of-a-former-freemason-officer-converted-to-catholicism

Mason confession: we worship deities/demons

https://rumble.com/v294ksc-words-from-33rd-degree-master-mason-rare-video-masons-worship-all-sorts-of-.html

https://odysee.com/@HiddenTruths:c/Masonry's-Satanic-Connection:4

https://rumble.com/v2wg24a-masonrys-satanic-doctrine-from-their-own-books.html

https://odysee.com/@John_4-14:a/Do-Freemasons-Worship-Lucifer%EF%BC%9F-Evidence-They-Don't-Want-You-To-See-%EF%BD%9C-Hidden-Agendas---Walter-Veith:0

https://odysee.com/@thisworldworks:1/satanic-ritual-abuse-and-secret-societies-1995:3

https://odysee.com/@Gmail.com:52/822821884_Satanic-Pedophilia-Torture-and-Blood---Dark-Satanic-Secrets-Revealed:4

https://rumble.com/vs9mxb-heres-why-christianity-is-totally-incapatable-with-freemasonry.html

Almost all anti-viral vaccines and all COVID vaccines were abortion linked (using cell lines from aborted or butchered alive babies). Christians know that abortion is the most wanted sacrifice by Satan. Abortion linked vaccines have the same effect of hexxed food and it's sharing in the Satanic chalice of blood just the same as when they drink the blood of their victims in their ritual murders. Interesting: vexxed, vaxxed and hexxed sound similar =)

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Yup...we can all THANK our "Glorious Leader" - affectionately referred to as 'CREEPY Joe' - for all the MANY and WONDROUS Blessings he has secured for us!

Want to LIVE in America with BENEFITS greater than ANY Citizen as an ILLEGAL, COME ON IN!!,

Want to have a fine display of Fireworks on the 4rth of July - just be sure to wear 50 Million SUNBLOCK since the Fireworks MAY - just may - have Mushroom Cloud heads atop them,

Have a pechant for Rape and Murder? You're in the RIGHT PLACE!...we have SO MANY 'Useless EATERS' here, who's going to miss a few million of those,

and the LIST of all the MARVELOUS Blessings our "Neck Sniffer in Chief" has WORKED SO HARD to provide US just go on and on...

Now, HOW do we know this?

Simple, because our very own 'Ministry of TRUTH' aka, the MSM, tells us so...every day, INCESSANTLY...So that we don't forget how Truly Magnanimous our "Glorious Leader' iIS in treating with all of us 'little guys'.

Ah, I FEEL so MUCH better now; Life is SO GOOD here in the USSA, I just can't imagine why 'some people' SEEM to so disturbed by all this GOODNESS...

Unfortunately, as a consequence, we'll likely have to start rounding up all those pesky GUNS - or making SURE that WE KNOW exactly where those ARE - for later, WHEN we do! Then the GLORIOUS FINAL SOLUTION to all of Humanities problems will be at HAND, FINALLY.

First, we're going to relocate a BUNCH of really non-patriotic 'Americans' who simply don't APPRECIATE ALL of our HARD WORK to sunny camps in beautiful places where they can relax in perfect safety behind 42 strand Razor Wire fencing in REAL 'Gated Communities'. We'll figure out what to do with the excess LATER!

OH, WAIT...the Nazi's HAD A GREAT SOLUTION for THAT!!! Someone start a study group immediately!!"

"THE FUTURE'S so BRIGHT I've got to wear SHADES"...like Arc-Welding Glass and be 50 miles out from all those GREAT CAMPS we're building for those misguided INGRATES."

<SARC OFF>

One DOES - sometimes, NEED to be EXPLICIT about the Sarc tag, lest people accidentally get 'confused', eh? The 'General Public' is 'Dumbing DOWN' very nicely after all the chemicals in our 'New and IMPROVED Ultra-Processed Foods' have done thier job and reduced IQ's by roughly 30 points: JUST look at how EFFECTIVE that program has been on the East and West Coasts where people don't have ANY access to FRESH FOODSTUFFS...it's simply amazing what a few GMO Alterations can be used FOR! THE SUCCESS we've had in the 'Blue States' is ASTONISHING! Let's figure out how to 'divorce' all those pesky mid-west Farmers from thier lands and then we can 'Sew this Problem UP! All Hail THE MASTER...and His 'Prophet' and His PET, the BEAST...isn't that last one so cute...just keep FEEDING him some more Christians, He LIKES THOSE a LOT!!

Yup, the 'Smartest Guys' in DC know exactly HOW TO SOLVE all of our - oops, I meant THIER - problems, don't they?

Be WELL - ALL of you my Christian Brothers amd Sisters - BE VIGILANT in extremis henceforth, and as always, BE BLESSED beyond measure.

I Love every one of my 'Family in Christ' regardless of skin color or much of anything else, so long as they LOVE the Lord and live by His LAW...

JOG...have a SPLENDID Sabbath today. Amen...

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JustOneGuy

RE: Ah, I FEEL so MUCH better now; Life is SO GOOD here in the USSA (Hyder, AK), I just can't imagine why 'some people' SEEM to so disturbed by all this GOODNESS...

Shabbat Shalom, JOG. I enjoy Alaskan GOODNESS together with you, in Christ’s Spirit !

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Really! Color me STUNNED!

Do you LIVE in the locale mentioned...as do I? If so, then look for the ONE GUY in town CONSISTENTLY wearing RED "Keep America GREAT' ballcap. You'll KNOW IT if you SEE IT, eh?

I might - just MIGHT - have misconstrued your reply; but I HOPE NOT. Gee, wouldn't THAT be a HOOT! Yee-Haw!

Yup, McCarthy was a fine place...except for one lil bitty thing: Ancient Lake Ahtna. That covered a HUGE area including Chitina, MaCarthy and much of the southeast - excluding the IP - at the end of the last Ice Age. As a consequence, the Ahtna Indians referred to the vicinity around McCarth as "The HUNGRY Land", why?

If any large area is - in fact - covered by a large body of water for a very long time, then there exist a period measured in several THOUSANDS of years afterwards in which the local biota must re-develop an entire Eco-System...from the GROUND UP, literally.

So too, McC was similarly 'retarded' in it normal bio-cycles...until the Copper River choke point at Chitina 'Blew Out' via 'Wood's Canyon' and subsequently DRAINED the entire basin.

Hyder is WAY 'better' than all that WAS. We have a Super-Abundance of Dungeoness Crab, PRAWN of a size that is not to be believed (think here of a FOOT long or longer still!), Halibut abundantly and LACK only Moose...since the Snowfall here is truly EXTREME every so often and the local Wolf population simply decimates any attempting to Winter here.

But, if my surmize/interpretation of you reply IS correct, then you are VERY Likely already aware of ALL that I specified above, eh?

If instead I erred in my interpretaion then you have above a bit more insight into this vicinity...

Aa an anecdote here...

My Best Friend ON EARTH just came into town specifically to assess all that I had communicated to him about THIS PLACE and as well compare the many, many pix I had forwarded along to him, possibly beleiving that I was exaggerating matters somewhat...

His response upon EXPERIENCING this place was simply;

"OMG...J, you utterly UNDERSTATED WHAT this place actually IS." FWIW, I have not seen him so animated in 7 YEARS; he was like the 'Energizer Bunny' wanting to SEE EVERYTHING.

Turns out he's INCREDIBLY talented at discerning 'trails' hereabouts that I had never noted. Onesuch got us damn near up to Long Lake ere the snowpack still existant brought us to a halt; about 2000' ABOVE the road bed just down from the Salmon Glacier overlook...which we DID SUMMIT just days ago on Wheelers. I have never seen a Human being SO STOKED UP.

By all means, should you elect to reply I will be delighted - either way - since the sole other explanation is that you ARE an Alaskan.

Well-Met Brother!!

Be Well, BE SAFE - it IS Alaska after all! - and be BLESSED ABUNDANTLY,

JOG

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Hi JOG— I’m a transplant from Delta Junction to Prescott Valley, AZ where I am taking care of my 95 yo mother. I enjoy reading your posted musings, but would prefer to hear them in person, face to face, as your friends do. Your Best Friend ON EARTH travelled great length to spend precious time with you, causes my admiration for him.

Shalom Brother!!

johnshaphat@hotmail.com

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Hello John!

Nonetheless, I STILL say "Well-Met Sir!"

Delta Junction is directly familiar to me inasmuch as an Army Major (O-4) of my close acquaintance was stationed at the THAAD Battery up there and I visited him every now and then. DJ is MUCH 'nicer' IMHO than is Fairbanks, FWIW.

So, how is the weather down in your vicinity Sir? I ASK as I am seeing an unusual series of 'excessively violent and or UNUSUAL Meteorilogical activity' of late and that has piqued my curiousity.

I am gladdened that you ARE a dutiful man John; such is become itself UNUSUAL these days certainly. Do you now call Prescott Home...or are you still - in Heart - a 'Northern Lights' individual?

Should it EVER transpire that you are en route BACK to the North, feel free to divert up the Stewart-Cassiar Hwy (CA-37) starting at Kitwanga BC, about umm, say 8 plus hours out of Prince George, en route to Terrace BC...but turning thereat BEFORE actually GETTING to Terrace.

I would SO enjoy sitting down to chat with you...perhaps - as it SOUNDS - Thee and Me might well ENJOY that mutually.

Be Well, be SAFE and above all else, BE BLESSED...

JOG

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JustOneGuy

RE: Do you now call Prescott Home...or are you still - in Heart - a 'Northern Lights' individual?

"Well-Met Sir” back to you JOG!

Being a ‘Christian’ pilgrim (i.e. John Bunyan- Pilgrim’s Progress), a peculiar alien and stranger who briefly passes through the Satan’s Orwellian UN Global Village, I am - in Heart - temporally at home WHEREVER the Creator’s Holy Spirit leads me. Should it EVER transpire that the LORD’S Spirit leads me BACK to the ‘Northern Lights’ majestic North, I would SO be blessed to sit down and fellowship with you JOG..

Be Well, be SAFE and above all else, BE BLESSED...

John Shaphat

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O like your response John!

I too spent MUCH time being shuttled back and firth over the Atlantic in my Army Career and also became 'passably' accustomed thereto.

Only in the last several years - after a REAL NDE (Near Death Experience) - did I finally become - as the Prodigal Son - RESTORED to My Father's Graces. In all time since - ONLY AFTER I HUMBLED myself before HIM - did His Blessings TURN from Chastisement (which I FULLY DESERVED!) into those shich we woilf otherwise regard as the BLESSINGS of a Loving Fathet.

I was - and AM - so completely unworthy to be so treated my Brother, SO LOVED: My Mind cannot GRASP how that can be...for I am -STILL! - frequently ASHAMED of myself in His Sight.

I think that SURELY - when next you DO retutn 'this way' that we both would be WELL-SERVED to si face to face and chat...at LENGTH!

Of such ever seems potentially likely then it is simply a matter of you sending me a PM to notify me...and in return, I do similarly and ptovide you explicit directions fir the inbound leg.

FWIW, head for Prince George, BC and thereafter head towards Terrace, BC. Along the way you'll pass through Smithers, then New Hazelton. At that point - on the righthand side of the road you'll presently see roadsignage indicating your approach to CA-37, right at Kitwanga, BC...turn onto that, and cross over the Skeena River heading up to Meziadin Junction - adjacent to Meziadin Lake. Upon reaching that - a "T" in the road - simply turn left and yoi're about 40 miles out of Stewart at that point...

Naturally, I'd forward my Cell Number such that as you pulled into Stewart and GOT Cell Ssrvice back you could call and then come right on over...

Be Well Pilgrim, be SAFE and be BLESSED ABUNDANTLY also Thou my Brother in Christ,

JOG

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It's the higher cost of meats that send me flipping. No way will I ever buy into the veggie scene or the endless fast food nonsense.

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If you really want to know the truth, I spent about $150 for prime rib steak and shrimp in a grocery store for my family of four. I like to have a nice dinner on Sunday night. Now, while it does sound quite expensive, it really didn't hurt me, as I am a plumber on Long Island, New York. I'm sorry if that sounds condescending, but my goal here was to spread truth.

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It's a TRUE shame that the SubStack venue - apparently - does not permit pix to be posted.

Howdy Rich!

The foregoing 'cryptic' comment is explained thusly: Hereabouts 'we' - Hyder, AK and our 'Sister City' Stewart, BC, sit EXACTLY at the HEAD of the 97 mile long 'Portland Canal'...which in reality is actually s Fjord. That is a true Salt-Water estuary originating from off the Gulf of Alaska.

The Sea-Life contained in THAT is astonishing, REALLY.

Dungeoness Crab in quantities beyond belief and Prawn also; that latter being Shrimp over a FOOT LONG...really. I would include a pic thereof but NOTHING here at the 'Stack 'appears' to permit doing so; durn the luck...

Every so often one simply needs to recognize that REGARDLESS of 'how things are GOING', WE ALL need a TREAT to remind us of the GOOD in Life...which after THE RECKONING WILL improve beyond MEASURE. Amen!

Be Well, SAFE(!!) and Blessed Sir...

JOG

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I also heard this morning that John Deere is laying off and moving their business to Mexico. And look who is in control of the Red Button...

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That is true. I just saw that as well.

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