Like I’ve said before, during the Revolutionary war era when we didn’t like a politician we’d burn down their houses and run them out of town. Good to see that practice come back!
I'll just repeat what people who have accused me of being a conspiracy theorist my entire life have said, "Man, you're crazy. That would never happen here."
Hmm. Well, when you live where wind chills can be 40 below at night and live in a home built in the early 1900s it's a good idea to run a bit of heat at night. Lol. Otherwise, in the winter, it's during the day we try to limit heat usage if there's enough sunlight to warm things up a bit.
I grew up in apts. in NYC, with steam-heat radiators, and the cost of heating was built into the maintenance or rent charges. Though electric bills via the captive-audience utility were always outrageous in apts. where I paid that separately, that is a relative value.
Eventually I moved to a NE state with high utility costs, and rented an apt. carved out of a private home, and the carving included excluding the apt. from the heat ducts fed by the furnace, and installing electric baseboard heating the tenant paid for, and propane for the hot water.
This is an area where a typical winter might include a few minus16F days or so, and balmy will be in the +10s
I had separate thermostats for each room, and bought a lovely little faux fireplace with electric convection heat for an alcove of the living room, because I didn't need to heat the whole room. When I was out during the day (every day, at my unemployee volunteer "job"), I kept the thermostat at minimum in the kitchen and bathroom so the pipes wouldn't burst, and only turned the heat up when I needed it.
Starting that first November, after three pairs of socks and several layers of fleece didn't stop me from shivering, I'd put the heat on. And the bills went up, and up.
Dec/Jan/Feb averaged nearly $600/month. I couldn't afford to move until my Medicare kicked in and I could stop paying $700/month for COBRA. (And yeah, I checked out ACA plans. Not, you know, affordable.)
My rent now is a bit more than twice what it was in that place, but the heat and hot water are included and I don't start actually crying when winter comes around anymore. God help Germany.
Sounds a bit the way we've always done it here, outside the cities that is.
Iron stoves, both the kitchen variety and the other kind. In Sweden, we traditionally build the house around the furnace and chimney, so I you like me live in a house built pre-electrcity every room on both floors is connected to the chimney and can have a stove installed. Houses with basements usually had a huge one there, to do double duty heating water for manual laundry - mom still tell horror stories about working the crank or feeding the furnace when doing the laundry when she was a child.
In Oktober/November we stop using the electrical stove for cooking and start using the old iron one, which is about a century old. And when it hits 0C as highest all day aound we fire up the one in the bedroom in the evening, shut off all the rooms we aren't going to use during winter, and put the food that's in the freezers in the animal-proof boxes outside. To save electricity (to save on the bill that is).
Problem is, even in summer as it is now, about 65% as a minimum of the electrical bill is taxes and fees and taxes on the fees, last month we used power for about $15 but had to pay closer to $50 anyway. When you get $850 from the state per month to live on, $50 is a lot.
As we've taked about many a time, opting out has costs that everyone aren't willing/able to bear: I think the financial cost - the initial investment can be quite high - is one we've overlooked? One family in the next village over has gone otg, their own power production, own well, sewage separation (they make manure from it, takes about three years), growing crops, goats, sheep, rabbits and ducks and hens oh my. The whole deal.
Initial investment, everything from enough solar panels to a battery bank to digging the well and so on - ran to about $75 000. Not many people have that lying around, I think.
This sounds like Europe in the 7 or so years after World War II ended.
Societal upheaval is part of the plan. Things have to be torn down before the WEF can "build back better".
Do we really believe we can imagine winter in the midst of the dumpster fire of a summer?
‘And German leaders better learn from the mistakes of places such as Sri Lanka before they’re on the receiving end of a scene like this:…’
I think it’s going to take scenes like this in all our capitals before ‘leaders’ learn anything.
I agree to your terms.
Thankful for your reporting.
Hoist on their own Green petard…
Not being conspiratorial at all, but it has to be this way.
Too few people can take events of the present and forecast the future and to realize the destructive seeds that have been sown.
It will take crisis, disaster, violence and carnage for those unable to see past "the current thing" to understand what has and is and will happen.
Like I’ve said before, during the Revolutionary war era when we didn’t like a politician we’d burn down their houses and run them out of town. Good to see that practice come back!
Leaders were taken to the guillotine for far less in the past.
I've said it over and over, it's been a while since we've used the tar and feathers -- and it shows.
With the flu outbreaks in the chicken and turkey populations, we might be short of feathers. I wonder if MyPillow has a supply laid in?
Promo code "insurrection" will get you 60% off.
Funny
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I'll just repeat what people who have accused me of being a conspiracy theorist my entire life have said, "Man, you're crazy. That would never happen here."
That's what people say to me too. This complacency virtually insures that it *will* happen here.
See what I mean SimComm? I don't think ignoring this shit is an option.
I'm probably an outlier here, but why does anyone have their heating on during the night?
Some of us live in extremely cold places. Water pipes (interior plumbing) can freeze and burst if there's no heat. That's just one practical reason...
Hmm. Well, when you live where wind chills can be 40 below at night and live in a home built in the early 1900s it's a good idea to run a bit of heat at night. Lol. Otherwise, in the winter, it's during the day we try to limit heat usage if there's enough sunlight to warm things up a bit.
I get sick when the room temperature gets too low. Doesn't matter how many blankets I pile on.
Have you tried using real skins? Like a blanket made out of a couple of moose-skins. Reindeer is best in my experience.
I'm sorry....:]
Whaaat?!
That sounds like my wife.
Sorry. Choking lmao
When civil wars break out worldwide, I got my list and my axe and baseball bat.
Now, that’s funny……what a visual. I’ll be the catcher.
And who is that? If we believe it is us, we need to take steps quickly to begin to restore it.
I grew up in apts. in NYC, with steam-heat radiators, and the cost of heating was built into the maintenance or rent charges. Though electric bills via the captive-audience utility were always outrageous in apts. where I paid that separately, that is a relative value.
Eventually I moved to a NE state with high utility costs, and rented an apt. carved out of a private home, and the carving included excluding the apt. from the heat ducts fed by the furnace, and installing electric baseboard heating the tenant paid for, and propane for the hot water.
This is an area where a typical winter might include a few minus16F days or so, and balmy will be in the +10s
I had separate thermostats for each room, and bought a lovely little faux fireplace with electric convection heat for an alcove of the living room, because I didn't need to heat the whole room. When I was out during the day (every day, at my unemployee volunteer "job"), I kept the thermostat at minimum in the kitchen and bathroom so the pipes wouldn't burst, and only turned the heat up when I needed it.
Starting that first November, after three pairs of socks and several layers of fleece didn't stop me from shivering, I'd put the heat on. And the bills went up, and up.
Dec/Jan/Feb averaged nearly $600/month. I couldn't afford to move until my Medicare kicked in and I could stop paying $700/month for COBRA. (And yeah, I checked out ACA plans. Not, you know, affordable.)
My rent now is a bit more than twice what it was in that place, but the heat and hot water are included and I don't start actually crying when winter comes around anymore. God help Germany.
Sounds a bit the way we've always done it here, outside the cities that is.
Iron stoves, both the kitchen variety and the other kind. In Sweden, we traditionally build the house around the furnace and chimney, so I you like me live in a house built pre-electrcity every room on both floors is connected to the chimney and can have a stove installed. Houses with basements usually had a huge one there, to do double duty heating water for manual laundry - mom still tell horror stories about working the crank or feeding the furnace when doing the laundry when she was a child.
In Oktober/November we stop using the electrical stove for cooking and start using the old iron one, which is about a century old. And when it hits 0C as highest all day aound we fire up the one in the bedroom in the evening, shut off all the rooms we aren't going to use during winter, and put the food that's in the freezers in the animal-proof boxes outside. To save electricity (to save on the bill that is).
Problem is, even in summer as it is now, about 65% as a minimum of the electrical bill is taxes and fees and taxes on the fees, last month we used power for about $15 but had to pay closer to $50 anyway. When you get $850 from the state per month to live on, $50 is a lot.
As we've taked about many a time, opting out has costs that everyone aren't willing/able to bear: I think the financial cost - the initial investment can be quite high - is one we've overlooked? One family in the next village over has gone otg, their own power production, own well, sewage separation (they make manure from it, takes about three years), growing crops, goats, sheep, rabbits and ducks and hens oh my. The whole deal.
Initial investment, everything from enough solar panels to a battery bank to digging the well and so on - ran to about $75 000. Not many people have that lying around, I think.
Burn the governments down... all the way down.
None protected us against the deathvax.... they helped the murderers
I hope the FBI is listening!
Who is John Galt?
"Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind"
- Ayn Rand
We The People need to tell these profligate parasites who has the POWER!