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Post by bug on Aug 15, 2022 9:41:05 GMT 10
Supermarkets are just awful for the 'not meeting spec' thing. An insane amount of perfectly good food is thrown away because of this.
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Post by spatial on Sept 6, 2022 21:37:06 GMT 10
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Post by norseman on Sept 7, 2022 6:04:40 GMT 10
Politicians, Police and Press the (the 3P Triad) getting ready to suppress and control the taxpayer peasants again! Floods, fire, war, pandemics, famine, financial depression etc. all this but the "work and suffer in silence bastards" and "keep paying those taxes or else" narrative is being exposed Globally now! Many starting to figure out they are being wilfully controlled by the Big End of Town! Governments around the World aware they don't have any solution to any of this except suppression of the population and mostly false propaganda everywhere to mitigate the sheeple's dissent. The core focus of State and Federal Governments now is raw face saving and looking good for the next round of elections and that's it! We're clearly on our own folks so just keep prepping!
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Post by malewithatail on Sept 7, 2022 8:56:21 GMT 10
Keep em under control with endless mindless junk from the media on tv.
Try to get back on topic, he said moderately.
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Post by bug on Sept 7, 2022 9:10:01 GMT 10
Doubt the "people are starting to realise" bit. For instance, Trump publicly told Merkel et al not to rely on Russian gas as it would end badly. They did the usual 'orange man bad' laugh and ignored what was obviously common sense advice. Now he's been proven right, nobody is blaming Merkel's decision. Quite the opposite, people seem to be blaming the alternatives that could have reduced reliance on gas earlier. Orwell's "the party is always right" statement from 1984 holds true. The media has consistently supported it over recent years.
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Post by ausprep130 on Sept 7, 2022 10:13:22 GMT 10
Keep em under control with endless mindless junk from the media on tv. Try to get back on topic, he said moderately. It works. It works a treat. That's why there's so much mindless dribble or "reality TV" or should that be "poorly scripted and poorly acted TV) Couple that with social media apps such as FiendFace, InstaNarcissist and Twatter and you have yourself the perfect platform to control people.
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Post by norseman on Sept 7, 2022 11:41:19 GMT 10
Doubt the "people are starting to realise" bit. For instance, Trump publicly told Merkel et al not to rely on Russian gas as it would end badly. They did the usual 'orange man bad' laugh and ignored what was obviously common sense advice. Now he's been proven right, nobody is blaming Merkel's decision. Quite the opposite, people seem to be blaming the alternatives that could have reduced reliance on gas earlier. Orwell's "the party is always right" statement from 1984 holds true. The media has consistently supported it over recent years. OK so maybe I'm misreading the signs and / or being a little too optimistic with the "people are starting to realise" bit ! But shit is going down Globally it's not localised and that's the scary bit, potentially no place to run to!
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Post by frostbite on Sept 7, 2022 12:11:45 GMT 10
No need to run when you live behind enemy lines
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Post by Beno on Sept 7, 2022 14:15:13 GMT 10
wolverines!
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Post by spatial on Sept 7, 2022 23:21:59 GMT 10
Doubt the "people are starting to realise" bit. For instance, Trump publicly told Merkel et al not to rely on Russian gas as it would end badly. They did the usual 'orange man bad' laugh and ignored what was obviously common sense advice. Now he's been proven right, nobody is blaming Merkel's decision. Quite the opposite, people seem to be blaming the alternatives that could have reduced reliance on gas earlier. Orwell's "the party is always right" statement from 1984 holds true. The media has consistently supported it over recent years. OK so maybe I'm misreading the signs and / or being a little too optimistic with the "people are starting to realise" bit ! But shit is going down Globally it's not localised and that's the scary bit, potentially no place to run to! More European countries falling over due to energy issues. Antwerp Mayor Blasts "Green Dogmatics", Admits "Bankrupt" Belgium Is "The New Greece"
www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/antwerp-mayor-blasts-green-dogmatics-admits-bankrupt-belgium-new-greece“Oil, gas and coal were no longer allowed. No investments were allowed in reserves. Germany does not have a single LNG terminal (a terminal for liquefied natural gas, ed.). The dumbest countries, Germany and Belgium, have phased out nuclear energy in parallel. We have pushed away all energy sources, making ourselves dependent on Putin. Now we hang on to it.”
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Post by bug on Sept 8, 2022 9:07:38 GMT 10
OK so maybe I'm misreading the signs and / or being a little too optimistic with the "people are starting to realise" bit ! But shit is going down Globally it's not localised and that's the scary bit, potentially no place to run to! More European countries falling over due to energy issues. Antwerp Mayor Blasts "Green Dogmatics", Admits "Bankrupt" Belgium Is "The New Greece"
www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/antwerp-mayor-blasts-green-dogmatics-admits-bankrupt-belgium-new-greece“Oil, gas and coal were no longer allowed. No investments were allowed in reserves. Germany does not have a single LNG terminal (a terminal for liquefied natural gas, ed.). The dumbest countries, Germany and Belgium, have phased out nuclear energy in parallel. We have pushed away all energy sources, making ourselves dependent on Putin. Now we hang on to it.”
Typical example of politicians blame shifting. They were warned not to be reliant on Russian fossil fuels. They ignored that advice, now this peanut is blaming one of the main ways they could have become self-sufficient. Do agree that they should not have phased out nuclear until adequate renewables were ready. On the other side of Eurasia, Japan has repeatedly refused offers of an energy supply from Russia, via Sakhalin and are now in the process of putting renewables everywhere they can. Most of their reactors are back online now too. Looks like they were a little less naive than the leftist politifilth in Europe.
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Post by ausprep130 on Sept 8, 2022 11:37:43 GMT 10
Japan has never really got along with Russia so no surprise that they refused their energy offers.
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Post by bug on Sept 8, 2022 12:18:48 GMT 10
There's that whole "Sorry but we're invading and taking this land, even though you've already surrendered and the war is over" thing that Stalin did after the end of WWII. It irritates the Japanese a little bit.
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Post by ausprep130 on Sept 8, 2022 13:31:33 GMT 10
Do you mean the freeing of Mongolia, Manchuria and Korea from Japanese control? Or do you mean the Kuril islands to the north east of Hokkaido?
Anyway, my point was Japan and Russia have had long history of conflict dating back before WW1.
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Post by bug on Sept 8, 2022 16:18:24 GMT 10
The Kurils. The others were not 'freed' by the soviets. The Japanese were already well beaten by the time the soviets declared war on them on August 8th, 1945. They just showed up to claim some spoils.
Edit: Just realised the word 'freed' was being used for a place coming under stalin's rule. Yikes.
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Post by tactile on Sept 8, 2022 17:05:20 GMT 10
Belgium has 2 nuclear plants (7 reactors) and they are still running...probably will for a while too...
Everyone knows Zero Hedge is pro - Putin right? I read a lot of the articles but I am always aware of this leaning.
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Post by bug on Sept 8, 2022 20:11:50 GMT 10
Belgium has 2 nuclear plants (7 reactors) and they are still running...probably will for a while too...
Everyone knows Zero Hedge is pro - Putin right? I read a lot of the articles but I am always aware of this leaning.
ZeroHedge is pro-alarmist. Chicken Little has his own segment.
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Post by rastus on Sept 18, 2022 22:23:33 GMT 10
One of the things I have noted from history and current events overseas, is that most authoritarian/totalitarian regimes have "protected" militants and criminals. It is like selective enforcement, but on steroids because they don't give a toss if the "protected" groups are violent or even kill, but watch out if anyone else even thinks wrongly.
IMO this is one of the biggest dangers with civil unrest.
As to how to prepare for it if you see it creeping in? I am not sure, apart from making sure you live nowhere near populations of the "protected" groups. At least if you and most of your community are all equally despised by those in control, there is equality in that. Law will still be enforced and you can defend yourself if attacked - as long as no party is "protected".
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Post by bug on Sept 20, 2022 12:59:58 GMT 10
Spot on Rastus. Recently we've seen BLM 'protesters' get away with an absolute swag of criminal activities. On the other side, we saw the recent freedom protesters attacked both legally and physically, sometimes to a point where it verges on state sponsored persecution.
The term for it is 'anarcho-tyrrany' or something like that. Effectively it's a situation where an authoritarian regime is in place and the only 'crimes' they care about punishing are ones that threaten their power. Actual crimes go largely unpunished.
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Post by malewithatail on Sept 20, 2022 14:19:45 GMT 10
The Biden stance in America re illegals coming across the boarder is a prime example of this.
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