@snoopydawg

with the grid is terrible.

We Californians are watching our state burn. Our houses are literally on fire, and yet we should not be surprised. Our current “new normal” is an utterly predictable consequence of global warming. While the climate crisis fueling our wildfires is the direct result of the fossil fuel industry’s profit-driven corporate greed, another culprit, one that has for years valued moneyed interests over human needs, is also to blame: the nation’s largest utilities company, Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E).

https://www.truthdig.com/articles/california-must-take-back-its-power-li...

Hope you are staying warm!

How is it possible to be so cluelessly cruel? Poor people, elderly folks, disabled people bear most of the hardship of these shutdowns. There work closed, replacing food, purchasing supplies, not having a car to get these things or to evacuate…@PGE4Me has A LOT to answer for.

— FlamencoKat (@flamencokat) November 3, 2019

Just unbelievable.

@Anja Geitz

but I feel better being informed of what is being perpetrated by the US upon our citizenry and globally on the people and planet. Greed is a disease that isn't discussed as it should.

Hope you're having a nice weekend. Thanks for the visit!

The government, and those in power, have exercised on us is almost mind altering in a way. I mean, yeah, sure, I'm aware of the bigger picture, but hearing the details is akin to chipping away a glacier sized ice cap from my previous world view. Chomsky paints a very different picture then what that idiot from the BBC keeps regurgitating.

Thank you Lookout, for spending the time this morning to inform us, and rip the curtain away. Speaking truth about what these monsters are doing is not an insignificant tool we still have to fight back, even if it feels like it sometimes.

EDIT: typo

@snoopydawg

I sing a couple I learned from Janis. Me and Bobby McGee (which Kris wrote) is an one and Mercedes Benz is another. Alabama has a Mercedes factory which is when I started singing it.

All the best!

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgAlhsTxbuI]

@smiley7

They are easy and healthy...
Here's a short clip https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gdGvT8oEdQ (5 min)

Glad you came by!

Where to start, will save the Buckley vid, the firing line of youth. Been fascinated by Donovan and company for a lifetime and know enough to always be suspicious. Good we have a few voices, journalists keeping an eye and having said that knowing that journalism and CIA have been in bed since it's inception, interpreting the news and creating it, sadly; propagandists extraordinaire.

Someday, i would enjoy trying a simple indoor growlight garden, space and even the minimal expense and time being in the way of doing so.

Once again, you've worked hard in producing an excellent Watch, appreciate it.

Making snow at Sugar. Winter is here.

@snoopydawg

Our little community is pretty savvy. Russiagate is easy to see through if you look. Sadly people are sucked into the Madcow mentality infected with TDS - trump derangement syndrome.

Ukrainegate is as well. How is this any different than the Trump impeachment accusation?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCF9My1vBP4&t=1m19s (about 1 min is all you need)

Have a good one!

What is happening to Julian is just heartbreaking. I think of him often through the week. I follow his mom on Twitter and it is also heartbreaking watching her ask the world to save her son. We can kill millions for greed and profit without any repercussion, but just for telling us what we did to people in Iraq in the Collateral Murder video, in other countries. What other countries do to their citizens with our blessings. Posting the Vault 7 tapes that show what the CIA can do online and for letting us know that Hillary and the DNC rigged and stole the primary from us and he is being murdered right in front of us. And most of the world think he deserves it because they have bought the propaganda against him without a second thought. Just so horribly sad....

That democratic voters are now on board with what the CIA and FBI are doing to Trump is beyond words. The IC are trying to remove an elected president just like they have all over the world and people not only think that is okay they also cheer it on. The recent document dump has been brought to you by the deep state. FOIA requests take years to go through and lots of court appearances and yet here we are getting them within a few months since Mueller released his report. Just another attempt to keep Russia Gate in the news. Just beyond idiotic!!! I am so proud that people here did not fall down the Russian rabbit hole. Big kudos everyone for seeing it for what it is.

@enhydra lutris

We already try to minimize our consumption and try to grow (and buy local) our food. Gas is what I was thinking about...working people might need to stock pile what they would need for a consumer strike. I drive less and less these days.

Thanks for coming by and reading! Good luck with the garden.

in various places for further study and future reference.

Thanks also for the gardening info, though we are largely winter gardeners, but will be diving into cover crops to revive some beds, buckwheat and clover.

Feet in the streets are the only thing that hs ever produced change here and the only thing that ever will. That is, of course, if all forms of strikes are treated as feet in the streets, including consumer strikes. One pitfall to avoid is running out and stocking up with double purchases on week s-1 in order to "strike" on week s. Too often one winds up buying more this way than if one hadn't gone on strike at all, especially i during the strike one finds that they have forgotten critical items and goes shopping anyway. Unless one shops fresh to table every day or two like many Europeans, one usually has enough to get buy stashed if one simply changes one's consumption habits (skip the fresh fish on Monday for a change, and have legumes or tuna casserole instead, etc.) A big thing is to start shifting ones "needs" in such a pattern as to reduce one's consumption overall, especially in the area of buying oversize quantities at a "bargain" price and then eventually discarding 20% of it later.

Thanks, as usual, for the weekly watch and have a good one.

@magiamma

pick up sticks. That's life in the forest! As we walk trails and paths.

The Education of Little Tree has a great description of a storm coming through and cleaning the forest. I often think about nature's way of cleaning things up. Our extinction may be among those techniques.

Hope you're surviving the fires and consequences of our poor decisions.

Thanks for all the news and gardening links.

I am at a loss for words at this point. Keep on keepin' on. I think more people are waking up. That is amazing. As they wake up I think many of 'us' are realizing how short a time we really have to turn this puppy around. I am still pondering your earlier thought - that the changes we need to make cannot be made in time while the ptb have their foot on the brake, control the media, etc. Me thinks that it is all ramping up everywhere on both sides. We live in interesting times.

Been doing a lot of work outside picking up, cleaning, and now pruning. Grounding. We are still here aren't we? Why that amuses me I do not know. Nature is still beautiful. The crows are after the peregrine still. I hope it eats them, so there. It is so amazing and flies with such ease. Still here. We are all still here.

Planning on listening and reading more later. Have a good one. Be well...

@snoopydawg

attempting to capture Ukraine also.
https://journal-neo.org/2018/12/06/natos-aggression-reaches-for-russian-...

Had it not been for the opposition of sane European leaders at the time, Ukraine and Georgia would have been put on track for NATO membership with dangerous consequences for all concerned. In other words, Bush didn’t change his mind after “mulling the pros and cons,” but was prevented from pressing ahead with a reckless policy only because of resistance from our allies in Europe. Bush very much wanted to “amend the list,” but was blocked from doing so. The point here is that it should not be forgotten that just a few years ago the U.S. was eagerly pushing to expand NATO into these countries. This was a consensus view in Washington endorsed by leading members of both parties, including the current president and vice president, and judged in retrospect it was an even more ludicrous and dangerous idea than it seemed at the time.

https://www.theamericanconservative.com/larison/misremembering-bush-and-...

Not to mention the Obummer influence/coup
A couple of interesting sources...
http://resistir.info/livros/ww_ukraine.pdf

The conflict in east Ukraine is Obama’s war; launched by Obama’s junta government, executed by Obama’s proxy army, and directed by Obama’s advisors in Kiev. The driving force behind the war is Washington’s ambitious pivot to Asia, a strategy that pits Russia against Europe to prevent further economic integration and to establish NATO forward-operating bases on Russia’s western border.

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Washington’s harebrained gambit was doomed from the get go. Who made the decision to topple Yanuchovych, install a US-puppet in Kiev, fill-out the security services with neo Nazis, and wage a bloody ethnic cleansing purge on the Russian-speaking people in the east? Who was it? Isn’t there any accountability among the Obama team or is it all a matter of “failing upwards” like the Bush crowd? Here’s Putin again:

“Our western partners created the ‘Kosovo precedent’ with their own hands. In a situation absolutely the same as the one in Crimea they recognized Kosovo’s secession from Serbia legitimate while arguing that no permission from a country’s central authority for a unilateral declaration of independence is necessary….And the UN International Court of Justice agreed with those arguments. That’s what they said; that’s what they trumpeted all over the world and coerced everyone to accept – and now they are complaining about Crimea. Why is that?”

http://themillenniumreport.com/2014/09/ukraine-obama-nato-beg-for-more-w...

This is a great Twitter thread about how it's the democrats who are involved in the corruption in Ukraine. That this is what they are trying to impeach Trump for is just incredibly dumb. They have to know that their dealings there would come out during the senate hearings. And none of the people who have testified to congress were in any position to change what Trump wanted to do there. Vinland said that he tried to change the wording of the phone call, but was unable to. WTF? This is supposed to be acceptable? Oh yeah..he is also getting lots of flack for wearing his uniform. Apparently this is not cool.

BREAKING NEWS
Biden's links to Ukraine's organized crime groups / Neo Nazi militias.

Chalupa is connected.
The DNC is connected.
Schiff is connected.
Hunter Biden is connected.
Obama is connected.
Hillary is Connected.
Brennan and Ciaramella probably are too. pic.twitter.com/lntaUn3f2F

— Ukraine Anti-Corruption (@UkraineLiberty) October 31, 2019

And Trump did not ask Ukraine to investigate his political opponent like the media wants us to think. ByeDone is a private citizen right now and so he does not get any special treatment just because he is trying to become president. Again. For the 3rd time.

Remember. The Ukraine coup happened during Obama's tenure and he knowingly helped install the neo Nazis in the government with help from John McCain who never saw an evil person he didn't want help from. He was right there when the Maiden square massacre happened.

@GreatLakeSailor

I'll check those out. Might learn a new recipe.

Hope all is well in your world.

Best Ever Food Review Show that did a series on Iran.
link to all the Iran shows: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%23BestEverIranTour
and here is one of the episodes. Wonderful series