Remember the power grid issues last year? Expect more of the same.

(I should clarify, I'm not the insider...this is just scuttlebutt I've overheard from people who know.)

I've always wanted to build a rocket stove, but have so many other options I've not done so yet. We have a propane stove here in the house, and a woodstove down at the shop.

But at the camp house I've got a little folding camp stove that can cook with just a few sticks...

There are several types that fold and store easily.

We have a well and a generator to hook up to the pump. We also have a spring where is easy to collect water.

I think preparing for the worse is a good idea. You haven't lost a thing even if the shit doesn't hit the fan.

Thanks for the OT and have a great trip!

Sen. @PattyMurray: "It is time to make daylight saving time permanent. This Sunday, millions of Americans are going to once again roll their clocks back, and in no time next spring, they'll have to roll their clocks forward. For what reason?" pic.twitter.com/MJmniEH8Os

— The Hill (@thehill) November 5, 2021

Dems discussing new plan: Pass infrastructure today. Pass rule for floor debate on $1.9T plan today. And then punt on final passage on $1.9T til later. (Could give time to get CBO score to alleviate demands from moderates). BUT this needs buy-in from progressives/rest of caucus

— Manu Raju (@mkraju) November 5, 2021

Got to keep President Manchin and the moderates happy.

Edited to add this gem.

The peculiar situation Dem leaders now face: some of the same holdouts demanding a CBO score showing Build Back Better is fully paid for are also strong supporters of the infrastructure bill, which CBO says is NOT paid for and adds $256 billion to the debt.

— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) November 5, 2021

This country wont be a safe place, and the people who claim to protect you are often the worst choices to do so. If 9-11 and coronavirus have taught us one thing that should be it.

Power corrupts, absolutely!

I was just reading about 7 WTC which seems to be a well documented disproving of the assertions that were made, by the NIST and government. Numerous videos were made of these events which show that the cause could not have been anything other than a intentional destruction, by professionals of the similarly named building complex..seemingly only explainable by the controlled implosion of these tall buildings & This is what a co worker pointed out to me just a few days after the events. And he was a scientist. And a computer graphics wizard. He also timed the collapse and concluded that nothing else could have been possible.

So the videos (collected and analyzed by many many people) represent proof thatthe official explanation was not done with the called for scientific rigor, to put it mildly.

They failed to explain the surgical precision of every one of those buildings crumbing straight down.

Why did they do this? They will have to be asked when (if) they are put on trial for the murder of 3000+ innocent people..

This scheme, whatever its goal, is also why there was a D-Notice or omerta on the media especially in the UK where the change was really obvious because there was a lively discussion in the UK press about GATS, especially, exactly until 9-11 and then it was abruptly stopped. There is no freedom of press in the UK like the US used to have.

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Would such a disaster be used to falsely justify a take over of society by a very few, and a diminuation of freedom and democracy? So that everybody who resisted could be branded a potential terrorist? Nullifying those pesky Democratic values? The book "Globalists" describes the ordoliberal ideology of the people who now control this country, the EU and much of the world which is quite different than the democracy I grew up in. Its the real reason why they dont make sense anymore and these kinds of politicians, like Macron, the hugely disliked elitist president of France, he just doesn't get it. Nor to the DNCs. Nor do the GOPs. They just have rigged the system so people are trapped with them, and nothing better, ever.

(-11 has also been used to "justify" (sarcasm) like has been done with Coronavirus, the repression of freedom of speech in the US. With endless DRAMA and HISTRIONICS. No we don't want these things they force on us.

And it seems obvious the goal is to distract attention away from the tragedy of a horrible but many predicted this disease was coming because the huge explosion in international travel and the fact that people now can and frequently do travel to the other side of the planet in a single day.

Making global pandemics inevitable.

Still, is anybody surprised, that we, because we are the poster child for medical injustice, have ended up with the worst mortality 5 million deaths and the failure to cope with it appropriately especially in its early days, is turning it into a endemic disease that may be very difficult or even impossible to eradicate. Imagine the astronomical toll in deaths in the large parts of the world where there is no government or doctors or wealthy corporations. This is a really hideous crime, if its in any way intentional. its killing of the poor simply because they are poor. Forcing people to live up to the wealthy countries demands of them - with the intent of stripping off all their natural resources.

The 'propertization' of everything so it can be stolen. Terra Lawson-Remer (California politician) has written very articulately about this forcing of a global theft in GATS and NAFTA. Her paper is worth reading. As it names whats being done by its proper name. And makes it clear that its a theft and also a "choice" that we the people NEVER made. They would claim that by electing neoliberals we gave THEM the right to trade our country and futures away. Did you? I didnt. I have also stopped voting for fake parties incumbent candidates.

But I would like to ask people to search in the various search engines on the WTO GATS Agreemenmt and do it using dates. You will find that a lively discussion of GATS was occurring in the British press, not here, and that it was abruptly stopped after 9-11. Since then there has been no more discussion, even now when Brexit threatens to end the UK's NHS, that is being hidden, because GATS forbids their selling insurance and providing a subsidized government competitor at the same time. So since the UK is not aboutto stop selling FS's (nor is the US) because of GATS, the NHS has to go, nomatter how many poor Britons die. This is why they left the EU, which protects social services not because they help people, its because they have become identified, (before Bolkelstein Directive, etc. ) with a social contract they had already committed to dismantle by joining WTO, (those jobs are promised to the Third World as their reward for their embrace of capitalism and highly mobile global capital. Their deal would fall apart if we tried to save the middle class jobs that sweetened the Uruguay Round deal, Ive been told. So TISA is just to make the GATS look legitimate. (when otherwise it has big and glaring problems)

Thats the way it is here too. People told about it don't beleive the politicians could be or are that evil, even when its literally staring them in the face (as it is today)

Look they lied to all of us and refuse to tell the truth. The situation with the so called infrastructure bill proves it.

Politicians who contend we can snap our fingers and vote for public healthcare (or childcare, or expansions in any "services" that were committed to global trade) without abolishing commercial health insurance are shameless liars. Not as bad as the people who stole democracy, but they are their enablers.

Returning to the discussion, the British people were conned out of their NHS but dont know it yet. Had it continued it would have prevented the UK from falling into the Brexit trap which is guaranteed to kill the NHS next year. (Its too good of a deal, as it steals the profits that the WTO guarantees investors, and also occurred after the standstill which took effect in the mid 1990s, which would seem to be a complicated legal case wide open to challenge because Beveridges NHS dates back to 1947 (when unions and the working people were much more powerful, politically. "They would never have gotten them to do that now" and indeed they made it illegal with the WTO. Only a real single payer system like Canadas could happen now. So The UK is out of compliance and the noncompliant NHS has to go. They designed the WTO rules to do that. And take back the most appreciated entity in the UK (just a few years after they celebrated it in the Olympics?) I think so would seem to be a good example of narcissistic pathological projectiuons habits. was part of the EU. I have no idea. Had UK citizens known this they would have been more vocal about it. (Instead it seems people are being paid to deliberately confuse them. So one can see where the WTC bombing must have been attempting to accomplish. Push this important fact out of the press and justify a huge theft of not just freedom of speech and democracy but also it allows drug prices to be weaponized. Starting with the deliberate destruction of deals the UK government had made with Big Pharma to bankrupt the NHS. Think of it as the first salvo of a dirty war against the poor and normal,honest people everywhere, a war betwren evil and good in between greed and common sense, in its purest forms. with their fake backwards extrinsic fraud's backwards fraud moral values the oligarchs want to see us do away with. Our measures against discrimination miraculously turned into discrimination and forbidden to us. No wonder Hillary Clinton wanted to keep black people close..

- its connection to healthcare is also why the media NOW never cover single payer or the TRIPS agreement being the cause of insane drug pricing and the government having no power or any other attempt to reign drug prices in.Except the fake ones that GATS blocks, this to fool people into not realizing that we've all been conned . And keep us voting for the same crooks, and deceived into not seeing the obvious. . The incident happened immediately before the pivotal WTO 4th Minesterial, in Doha, Qatar, 9 to 14 November 2001 where much of the GATS and TRIPS agenda was literally stuffed down the planets throat. Sympathy for the US because of the thousands killed was still running high allowing us to get our way there (for example the creation of the TRIPS drug pricing situation of today) when perhaps it would have been better if we hadn't (gotten away with it) Certainly the millions of deaths that have occurred from HIV and people never getting life saving drugs all through the 1990s because of US and EU pharmaceutical industry would not have happened..Ive heard estimates of as many as 30 million deaths. Because they could not pay the $12,000-15,000 a year ($35/day for the rest of one's life) that drug companies demanded per person for the lifesaving pills.. Thats the same as they charged sick Americans with HIV. (and quite possibly still do)

Its a matter of principle for them.

Soon we will be a nation of nomads.. Rootless, voteless, nullified. Exactly what they want.

Be well. Rise Above!

Buy Baby Buy" is the name of a chain store in the country I live in. They sell cheap and flimsy appliances. An ode to over-consumption and the planned obsolescence if I ever saw one. Appliances and computers last too long, engineers are being told. Make the machines wear out sooner! Your jobs depend on this!

They want to blame it on the Russians or Chinese.