MESSAGE TO ALL DAVID ICKE NEWSLETTER SUBSCRIBERS. PLEASE READ
You may have noticed that Davidicke.com is not available at the moment. This is due to an attack on the site that could only be stopped by taking it down and moving to alternative technology. This will be done, at still more cost, by tonight or tomorrow and the site will be accessible again.
It is just the latest in an endless stream of challenges, financial and otherwise, that have to be met to keep the site available for people - for free - and keep the information flowing as an alternative to the mainstream propaganda.
But, you know, I do wonder sometimes, no, increasingly often, why I bother. Every day I am faced with hours of unpaid work and a stream of emails asking me for help. I always try to do what I can, given that there is only one of me. But when I ask for help? Forget it.
Erm Dave, I'm fairly sure a lot of people have offered to help
The subscription take-up for a paid-for newsletter - I say 'paid for' I mean the price of a single beer a month - has been, how shall I put it?, virtually non-existent. When it was free, wow, yes please. Now it's the price of a pint of beer a month for four newsletters, no thanks.
Is it not OK for people to read information you have offered for free in self promotion? If they don't want to pay for it, they don't get the info. Seems pretty fair.
So if that's what they are considered to be worth - nothing - then why should I spend my time producing them while wondering if my basic bills will be covered at the end of the month and whether Davidicke.com can continue to exist in anything like its present form?
To promote yourself maybe?
The response has made me reassess all that I have done and am doing because I am up to here with giving out with so little in return. People say they support me? Okay, where is it? I put out an appeal for help with the website and every single response - bar one - was looking to make serious money out of doing it.
So you asked for people to help you, and they offered help? Wow how terrible. I'm fairly sure they've been buying your books as well.
How much is it worth not to be microchipped? How much is it worth not to have a uniformed thug knock on the door? How much is it worth to be free?
How much is it worth? Probably less than you would charge to be honest.
The next newsletter will go out on Saturday/Sunday and if the take-up is not vastly increased, it will be the last one. And I am certainly not, given this wake-up call, going to spend my hours every day on the website any more if this is how much the information is valued. Why should I? I have a family to look after.
You're self employed aren't you? Isn't that the job you chose to do?
There's plenty of bloggers out there with full time jobs and families and they put out every letter of their research for free.
Thanks so much to those few who have responded, it is so much appreciated. But after nearly
20 years of giving out with so little return, enough is enough.
Anyone who wishes to subscribe to the newsletter can do so once the site is back up later today or tomorrow at the latest. Here is the link you will need when it's back up and running:
www.davidicke.com/info.htm
Sorry if I sound pissed off, but then I am.
best wishes,
David
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Oh fuck off.