There seems to be considerable misunderstanding here.
Clif's concern is less about revenue than it is about pollution of internet data with his own work, which he must then take pains to filter out on his next bot run. He has spent a significant percentage of his programming time in recent years devising algorithms to keep his spiders away from his own words and predictions as they survey the net. Whenever his reports get put up on other, unauthorized sites, it makes his job much more difficult.
He is assuming, probably correctly, that those who make these unauthorized posts have connections to TPTB or their minions. It is these minions whom he is calling "rat bastards." I believe Laura would call them psychopaths, and probably worse. TPTB would no doubt like to see Clif's work shut down, since being aware and able to prepare for what they have in store for us would certainly be viewed by them as highly undesirable.
Anyone who has followed Clif's interviews for any length of time knows he is not out to make a "fast buck." As RflctnOfU stated, his server costs are significant, and once the spiders bring back the data, he burns a lot of midnight oil pushing himself to correlate and assemble it all into a cohesive narrative as quickly as he can. For what goes into it, $10 per report is a very low price by any standard.
In regard to my email exchange with Clif, posted on 6/17, I found no hint of sarcasm in any of his replies. He was polite even when he mistakenly thought I was referring to a New Age ascension/savior meme which he knows to be pure BS. I find it curious how several here reacted with "sarcasm" and "jerk" labels.
It occurred to me after I posted that each of his replies came back to me in plain text format with my hyperlinks disabled. So I don't think he ever saw, much less clicked on, any of the links to the Cassiopaea glossary that I reproduced in my 6/17 post.
Due to previous run-ins with would-be saboteurs, he has no doubt set his email server to convert all incoming email to plain text. So I seriously doubt he even knew what body of work I was referring to.
As to the credibility he gives to Jay Weidner, this seems to be based primarily on Clif's belief in Patrick Geryl's work concerning the likelihood of a huge CME event, which also correlates with "sun disease" linguistics he has been seeing for a number of years. Of course, Weidner gives lip service to that, even claiming the movie "Knowing" is based on his work (Is it?). Beyond that, Weidner evinces a hatred for TPTB, whether real or faked, which also gives Clif common ground with him. Hard to say if there's anything more to their association, or not.
Clif HAS done his research on Bill Deagle and Dan Burisch, whom he outed last year (which is why he is now personna non grata with Kerry Cassidy and, especially, Bill Ryan), so maybe he'll get around to Jay after a while.
Clif's statements concerning not living long and "my challenge is knowing" may relate to his seeing via the bot runs his own death by assassination in the near future. This possibility was much discussed a few months ago on the webbot discussions forum.
In any case it is clear that he withholds certain forecasts from his reports in an attempt not to give TPTB any chance to benefit from them. Occasionally a bit more is revealed in interviews, but his intention for his information to benefit "us little guys" as opposed to TPTB is always starkly evident.
