moopere
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Post by moopere on Dec 11, 2022 1:17:38 GMT 10
Its only a short step to not serving you if they don't like the color of your car/skin etc. I'm sure this will manifest via the coming social credit system. We'll all be barcoded and linked back to a central database. To get into the store at all you'll need to pass security (ie, robotic gate). If your SC isn't up to snuff you don't get to go inside.
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bug
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Post by bug on Dec 11, 2022 12:31:08 GMT 10
Prepay for some things does make sense. Anybody selling anything that the police don't care about if it gets stolen, needs additional security measures.
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Post by dirtdiva on Dec 12, 2022 3:03:31 GMT 10
US members could chime in here but I thought the US was pre-paid for a long time, way before riots, Covid etc. At the property I owned and lived before this one the house heat and cooking range was propane with a tank. Propane was purchased a year in advance and prepaid. The benefit of this was that it locked in the price you paid to the price at the time of prepay. The truck came around about every 2 months and checked the tank and topped it off. As for vehicle fuel in my area there are no stations that offer prepay. (It may be available in larger cities) Here prices change daily and have even see them change more than once in a day no way they are going to lock that in and miss those increases.
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Post by spatial on Dec 12, 2022 23:14:48 GMT 10
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Post by bug on Dec 13, 2022 10:13:20 GMT 10
Probably because Australia is one of the few countries that calls out the CCP over what it is doing.
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Post by bug on Dec 13, 2022 10:16:25 GMT 10
On that point, is there any historical precendent where a major power (in this case the PRC) has attempted to annexe the territory of so many neighbours, and not had it turn into a major conflict?
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Post by malewithatail on Dec 13, 2022 12:35:10 GMT 10
Having had a planter wart burnt off my foot, and discovering that we didn't have a good stock of band aids, bandages etc, we are now stocking up. Anyone noticed the band aid shelf in the local chemist is rather bare ? Yes, a few packets, but if you want 1/2 dozen, they are not there, but can be 'ordered'. Also, only one pharmacy stocks the gel filled strips, ideal for foot injuries. Once again, one or two paks on the shelf, but can be ordered.
Stocking up on cremes and salves as well, whilst they are available and cheap.
You can survive it all, with knowledge and preparedness
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Post by Stealth on Dec 13, 2022 14:13:05 GMT 10
I've noticed a bit of a shortage in bandaids of all types too, MWT. I'll be stocking up, we needed some on the weekend and didn't have any. I hate not having my preps on hand and can't wait until it all arrives in about a week!
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Post by spinifex on Dec 14, 2022 19:11:34 GMT 10
On that point, is there any historical precendent where a major power (in this case the PRC) has attempted to annexe the territory of so many neighbours, and not had it turn into a major conflict? Soviet union perhaps? The early bit with all the Stans being turned into Russian satelites? Or ... The US? Annexing chunk after chunk of Native American Territory in its earlier years? I think it depends on wether the weaker ones being taken over are worth the effort of squabbling over by a rival empire. If there is no rivalry ... a rising power will consume neighbours with little risk of major war.
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Post by bug on Dec 15, 2022 13:00:32 GMT 10
Yeah, satellite states tend not to cause the major conflict. It's more the annexing. Arguably what Russia is doing now to a few of its neighbours would fit that category. Nobody is even close to what the CCP is doing though.
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Post by spatial on Dec 18, 2022 12:11:59 GMT 10
Another day more compounding disasters.. endoftheamericandream.com/5-global-flashpoints-which-could-absolutely-explode-during-the-early-stages-of-2023/5 Global Flashpoints Which Could Absolutely Explode During The Early Stages Of 2023It is all heating up to more violent levels. Serbia India & China border dispute Taiwan Iran Ukraine Perfect Storm Arrives: "Massive Wave" Of Car Repossessions And Loan Defaults To Trigger Auto Market Disaster, Cripple US EconomyLast GFC was due to hosing crash, where banks were so desperate to male new loans they even gave loans to unemployed, then put the dept on high interest stocks. Now US housing and car loans are doing the same old tricks again. The silver lining is that while the US auto sector faces unmitigated disaster in 2023, for those in the repossession business, it’s been difficult to keep up. Jeremy Cross, the president of International Recovery Systems in Pennsylvania, said he can’t find enough repo men to meet the demand or space to hold all the cars his company has been tasked with repossessing. With the holidays approaching, he’s been particularly busy as people prioritize spending elsewhere, and he’s expecting business to keep up throughout next year and 2024. www.zerohedge.com/markets/perfect-storm-arrives-massive-wave-car-reposessions-and-loan-defaults-trigger-auto-market
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Post by spatial on Dec 20, 2022 6:49:02 GMT 10
US and most of the western financial bond markets have gone very negative, it is guaranteed recession/depression on the way since the 1960's every inverted yield curve has ended with recession. www.gurufocus.com/yield_curve.phpwww.zerohedge.com/markets/visualizing-and-understanding-inverting-yield-curveWhat Denotes an Inverted Yield Curve?
Generally speaking, the yield curve is a line chart that plots interest rates for bonds that have equal credit quality, but different maturity dates. In normal economic conditions, investors are rewarded with higher interest rates for holding bonds over longer time periods, resulting in an upward sloping yield curve. This is because these longer returns factor in the risk of inflation or default over time. So when interest rates on long-term bonds fall lower than those of short-term bonds, it results in an inverted yield curve. The worrying trend is that an inverted yield curve in key government securities such as U.S. Treasuries can often foreshadow a recession. For every recession since 1960, an inverted yield curve took place roughly a year before, with just one exception in the mid-1960s. This is because the yield curve has steep implications for financial markets. If the market predicts economic turbulence, and that interest rates will fall in the long term, investors flock to buy longer-dated bonds.
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Post by spatial on Dec 20, 2022 6:55:03 GMT 10
Interesting article: We truly live in a time of denial and bread and circuses that the Romans used to distract the population while Rome was disintegrating. A Great Madness Sweeps The Land
charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2022/12/a-great-madness-sweeps-land.htmlGreat madness sweeps the land. There are no limits on extremes in greed, credulity, convictions, inequality, bombast, recklessness, fraud, corruption, arrogance, hubris, pride, over-reach, self-righteousness and confidence in the rightness of one's opinions. Extremes only become more extreme even as the folly of previous extremes wearies rationality. Imaginary sins are conjured out of thin air to convict the innocent while those guilty of the most egregious fraud and corruption are lauded as saviors. The national mood is aggrieved and bitter. The luxuries of self-righteousness, indignation, entitlement and resentment have impoverished the national spirit. Bankrupted by these excesses, what little treasure remains is squandered on plots of petty revenge. Blindness to the late hour is cheered as optimism, confidence in the false gods of technology is sanctified while doubters of the technocratic theocracy are crucified as irredeemable infidels. Witch-hunts and show trials are the order of the day as those who cannot stomach the party line are obsessively purged, as healthy skepticism is condemned as a mortal sin by brittle true believers who secretly fear the failure of their cult. Mired in a putrid sewer of suspected subversion and disloyalty to The One True Cause, heretics are everywhere to those caught up in the mass hysteria. In this choking atmosphere of toxic hubris, self-righteousness, indignation, entitlement and resentment, humility is for losers, prudence is for losers, caution is for losers, skeptical inquiry is for losers. Completely untethered from cause and effect, those confident in the inevitability of a glorious future of unlimited expansion cling to past glory as proof of future glory, even as their hubris leads only to a treacherous path of decay and decline. As they stumble into the abyss, their final cries are of surprise that confidence alone is not enough. Those who see the madness for what it is have only one escape: go to ground, fade from public view, become self-reliant and weather the coming storm in the nooks and crannies where cause and effect, skeptical inquiry, humility, prudence and thrift can still be nurtured.
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Post by Tim Horton on Dec 20, 2022 8:49:33 GMT 10
Or ... The US? Annexing chunk after chunk of Native American Territory in its earlier years? === Seems a good idea to me to not go too far back with this.. Like stop at ...1900.. for instance... Yes the Boer wars then, WW1 and so on.. Anyway...
From about a half step back. trying to take in a bigger picture of the time line 1900 to date, 90% of aggressions seem to be over control of resources and coincidentally the territory that comes with that... Seems some of the old thinking that made for issues then is being revisited now... My 5 cents of opinion.. === These numbers seem funny in a way.. Countries believing war will come... That being more wars, world war, you name it...
Aus = 81% Canada - US = 76%
Ukrane = 70%.... What are they thinking ?? It is in there neighborhood already...??
I think you got it more right...
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Post by tactile on Dec 20, 2022 16:06:53 GMT 10
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Post by bug on Dec 21, 2022 10:29:34 GMT 10
Probably the worst case of the US annexing land was Hawaii. Completely independent nation at the time. It's good to see the US has changed their tune to some extent, but the CCP is picking up where the US left off. Taking land from their neighbours and threatening WWIII to anyone who wants to stop them.
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Post by bug on Dec 21, 2022 11:24:26 GMT 10
"over-reach and self-righteousness". That describes perfectly what most western governments did last year.
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