WATCH: The Edward Institute – A Post-Mortem #SolutionsWatch
The Edward Institute for Village Studies has come to an early end. I’ll allow you a moment to collect yourselves. … Wait, what’s that? You’ve never heard of the Edward Institute for Village Studies? And you don’t know the earth-shaking effect it had in inspiring trillions of people around the world to flee the city and embrace the country life? Well, let’s correct that right now. Joining us today on #SolutionsWatch to tell us all about this grand experiment is Edward Institute co-founder, Riley Waggaman.
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To be more serious, the way Waggaman explain real life is giving. I have enjoyed his articles and get them frequently in my mail box.
But……the more serious case is the troubles with the Russian Authorities. This is absolute not the best time for friendship with Europeans and an Internet Site who ridicule Russia’s more doubtful measures.
So to comment on this, I do have sympathy for the fear for the Russian Authorities.
but be careful to understand what is behind the vulnerability from the Russian Authorities side.
I just saw the recent Tucker’s interview with a high level Russian Putin adviser and he and they (Russia) are pessed (to say it very mildly) on Europe.
Europe stole (froze) $120 billion of Russia’s money. Europe destroy all Trump’s attempt to make peace in Ukraine.
Someone destroyed the new mutual build gas pipe between Russia and Germany, and thereby destroyed forever Europe’s ability to be somebody on the International scene.
European Leaders mostly socialists are begging Trump on their knees to continue the war in Ukraine.
On Europe’s behalf Trump is now stealing Russia’s oil/gas to and from Venezuela.
Plus Russia has during the history been visited by almost every single country in Europe who have burned their fingers on invasion of this gigantic country who are larger than China and India together.
My advise to Waggaman is that he should think and avoid to make it look like he participate in some Western regime change operation in Russia, a la Colour Revolution or similar.
Respect that your country is in a précaire situation and do not try to worsen it.
The Russian high level Advisor also says “Yes Sovjet had troubles in the past” but under Putin, Russia has become a complete other country in the last 25 years.
The Russian Advisors opinion about Europe’s Elite is that they are just extreme dangerous clowns without Intellectual and moral capacity due to the influence from the 1968 hippie atheist culture who destroyed the European school system and a much admired culture up to then.
I never liked Waggaman’s writing and now that I could see him (and listen to him) I understood why. Sorry Erik, sometimes I don’t agree with you (it’s not about you wrote in the post, just about Waggaman) but I am not your enemy.
It’s always funny to hear townies describe basic agricultural activities and the character of rural life. In what way is this “grand experiment” different from the naive attempts of 60s/70s hippies to “live off the land”?
‘Naive’?
No, just overly optimistic. Some of them made it work.
Naive attempts?
We hippies found out that a horse is much stronger and faster than a human, therefore a horse is a better specie than a human.
We found out it was not necessary to do a polluting bath 3 times a day from limited resources like they do in the big cities, but a one week shower is enough to scrape the dirt off, because water belongs to the nature and not on the human body.
In the cities they only fock with the same sex in narrow apartments, while we who live in real houses found out animals had the same sweaty pussies as humans have it.
A pig, a cow, and even a horse can be used both ways. If you use a little ladder, banging it while it try to kick you with its right back leg.
The country land is an Eldorado for universal useful experiments for a global population.
Any Welshman will be disappointed 😥 at you not mentioning,
The wondrous woolly softness of sheep . . . 😂
Absent my horse, at this moment victory ✌
‘Board of Peace’
or
‘Bored of Peace’
Which is the more accurate spelling?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9vx7kn33elo
More like a Rogue’s Gallery.
And that’s putting it politely.
Agree. What a boring sadistic Board. Pity for their eternal victims.
What kind of retard writes “bored OF“? It’s “bored WITH,” dumbasses.
Slang.
You can’t even write slang. English is a foreign language to you that you do not understand. Do not correct anybody.
You need to travel more. “bored of” is a perfectly valid expression in the UK
“Valid” it may be, grammatically correct it certainly is not
If an expression is used extensively in the vernacular (as ‘bored of’ is) then it’s also ‘grammatically correct’.
Languages aren’t static phenomena.They change with time
You are wrong. And too stupid to understand how and why.
I’m sorry, but UKians who say “bored of” are retarded.
Likely as ‘retarded’ as anyone who speaks a foreign language in all those other non-US countries that are rumoured to exist. Those pesky French, Germans and Russians for example.
Should not the whole world speak US English after all
The UKians you allude to apparently got it from recent transformations in Ebonics (or more properly AAVE, but I will use the popular term because more people recognize it.) Just as they got pronouncing “stew” as “shteeyoo” from recent Ebonics. Traditionally, English verbs usually have their own, particular, fixed prepositions. “With” is the traditional preposition associated with “bored.” In Ebonics, there is a tendency for many or most prepositions to get replaced with “of.” It’s easier that way. (This tendency has a serious detrimental effect, btw, on the acquisition of mathematics. Diction has consequences. Which is why “Why can’t we just all be free and say whatever we want?” is a question which begs itself.) 70 years ago, most UK speakers of English did not say “bored of.” (Nor did most Ebonics speakers.) Or “Shteeyoo” either. Even cockneys or Geordies didn’t. (Although I have no idea from under which rock “speak to” crawled out. Even Rumpole mocks “speak to.” 🙂 It seems as if some English people (not all by any means) may be forgetting how to speak English. It’s like Fahrenheit 451.
Change, real change, is in our hands, and hearts:
https://winteroak.org.uk/2026/01/17/renewal-from-within-and-beyond/
Heads are helpful too
So the Russian government and bureaucracy is just as paranoid of outliers as most other parts of the world.
What a pathetic bunch of grovellers they are.
I’m pretty sure Putin wouldn’t give a shit about a few ‘hippies’ growing their own food.
He’s got bigger fish (pardon the pun) to fry.
That aside, here’s some practical steps one can take towards part self sufficiency in a suburban backyard, rental property, apartment or community garden:
https://retrosuburbia.com/
How Rishi and Bob transformed a dry village lot to a paradise garden:
The harvest
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A happy husband Rishi and Bob with their two wives
Thank you, thank you for this link Johnnyyyy.
Sorry to hear of your fall Erik.
Into unreality.
Novgorod oblast, where Mi6-CIA recently tried to kill Putin by drones using his phone location connected to peace negotiations with Trump?
The rest of Asia (Russia included, PR China no!) is a better location but than small towns of < 50K, not the middle of nowhere.
An anarchistic Russian – American couple active on Telegram / Substack crossing international borders as if there was no “Cold” war III war going on?
Naive doesn’t cut it.
Forget the West for this including Down Under.
25th AMENDMENT INVOKED TO REMOVE THE PREZ FROM POWER
HE’S SAID TO BE “BARRICADED IN WHITE HOUSE, CALLING IT A COUP”.
I suppose you’ve heard the rumors about the president’s mental state– no, I don’t mean about Venezuela & Greenland; in these actions the prez is a mask for the Deep State, surely. But the rumors are about his mental capacity, some sort of dementia.
i spose Venezuela & Greenland matters may be thought of as related.
At any rate, half his cabinet & the VP are going along w this.
For the disagreement/incident which led to this action go to 10:00.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zld7cbvlnkI&t=216s
(It’s about invoking the military within the US)
I WISH it were true.
I guess this kind of thing will be the pretext for a gatekeeper as to what we’re allowed to post– an authority who will decide what is “true.”
This Rachel Maddow appears to be a manufactured contrivance.
Always was …
Reminds me of 11 November 1975 when Australia’s Governor General
sacked the Labor Party government and gave over the reins to the leader
of The Loyal Opposition. The Coup was successful because the corporate
propaganda media and Big Business were onside… In Australia’s case it
was only A Convention that was trampled on, though i ‘Maintained The
Rage’ for quite some time…
The Democrats will do anything to let a Lesbian in as their new President. Anything!
We need a 26th Amendment called Direct Democracy Realignment. Language clarification.
“Person” is only an individual human being. “Democracy” requires acceptable consensus of some consensus form rendering sign-on consent to all legislation by constituents. The public needs to decide these parameters. The “elected” have no authority to decide, independent of constituent consent. Public “budget development” is public participatory, consent sign off at every level. The “Federal Reserve” is a Public Banking System with permanent nominal savings and borrowing rates, with no public-private-partnerships, and overseen by public consent. US Court System is “jury of peers” based court system defined in Common Law and judges are merely unbiased, untampering referees to facilitate procedure only. “Military” is only for defense purposes, stationed only on US soil and never deployed domestically and foreign without Congressional declaration of war. “CIA and all spy agencies” functions are abolished and disbanded permanently. “Earned labor income” is not taxed, “unearned income” is taxed.
Sandy, I’m in favor or a Great Big People’s Bill too– altho not exactly the one you outline. Maybe judges should be allowed a little wider latitude— particularly given how dumbed down much of the population has become w all the vaxxes, toxins & nonexistent educational institutions. Indeed, seems like the youngest of us have been educated by TV.
Penelope, I want to know whether you knowingly posted the link and promo to the fraudulent Maddow video and, if so, what your intention was.
Sonny-Raye, the videolink SAYS in the upper left corner “Altered or synthetic content.”
I do not know the significance, if any, of this invention.
I am reminded by it of the 1938 Saturday evening radio broadcast of the
adaption of HG Wells ‘War of the Worlds’ by Orson Wells… The sound
effects, but particularly the authoritative reporting, had many US country
folk panic… The authoritative commentary makes the video quite
believable…