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Re: Crises Crisis
By: RE Date: January 10, 2022, 3:01 am
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There is so much shyt going down out there I am not even going
to try copy/pasting headlinrs. You can all Google the newz
yourselves. I will make a few comments though.
First, Khazakstan. That is the origin of the "Cossacks", famed
for doing a lot of pillaging a few hundred years ago. These
days, the Cossacks appear to be upset because fuel prices there
have skyrocketed, despite the fact the region ha a good suppl of
FFs. Reason here is the Elite Cossacks can get much morer money
by selling the stuff into the international market thr the local
Cossacks can pay. Similarly, the Coal miners in Indonesia get
quadruple the price for coal they sell on the international
market than the Indonesian power companies pay for it.
You would think these places that still have some FFs would stop
exporting them so their own population could keep the lights on.
It doesn't work that way though, because the Goobermints are
all controlled by a power Elite and multinational energy
companies.
The Cossack problem is interesting in terms of timing, since it
is going on exactly at the time as the brouhaha over Ukraine is
boiling up, which gives Vlad the Impaler a 2 front problem to
deal with. He's now shipping plane loads of paratroopers to
Cossack-land as well as rolling tanks and missiles to the
Ukrainian border.
Meanwhile down in Kenya, like Japan they apparently have a
shortage of French Fries.
Global supply crisis: A growing shortage of french fries, from
Japan to Kenya
HTML https://www.potatonewstoday.com/2022/01/08/global-supply-crisis-a-growing-shortage-of-french-fries-from-japan-to-kenya/
So far, there does not appear to be a shortage of spuds here.
The shipping cost for a new ATV Cripple Scooter quoted to me was
insane, so I haven't yet ordered my dream machine. Also still
no home internet service.
Just another new normal day.
RE
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European carriers are flying thousands of near-empty planes this
winter just to keep their airport slots
By: RE Date: January 13, 2022, 9:01 am
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It's becoming Kafkaesque in the world of Airline travel.
You all should be aware by now from recent articles I posted of
the Cancelled Flights prooblems stranding travellers here in the
FSoA. In Europe now they're having the opposite problem.
They're flying 1000s of near empty planes just so the carrier
can keep their plane landing spots at the various airportd!
lol. This is how they are going to meet their stated carbon
emissions targets? Do they really expect to start filling these
planes up withh passengers again anytime soon? Every country
over there has rules now regarding Covid and who can travel
where. Many of the countries are instituting Vax Passports.
Even if you have been Vaxxed, how many times do you need the jab
to keep your Passport valid? Who is going to fly anywhere with
this nonsense going on?
Economically of course, the airports can't function without a
certain number of planes flying in and out every day. The air
traffic controllers need something up there flying around to
control. lol. So do the guys on the tarmac who wave around the
red batons to guide the plane into a parking spot. So do the
guys who refuel the planes. etc, etc, etc.
It might be fun though to fly again on a near empty plane. I
flew on a near empty Qantas 747 to Oz back in the 70s. I was
the only passenger in First Class with 3 Stewardesses. lol.
Nowadays of course over on this side of the pond, they pack you
in like sardines.
I wouldn't get on a plane now if you paid me to do it.
HTML https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/13/european-carriers-are-flying-near-empty-planes-this-winter-to-keep-airport-slots.html
European carriers are flying thousands of near-empty planes this
winter just to keep their airport slots
RE
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'Turning into a nightmare': Norwegian cancels sailing mid-cruise
, passengers to be stuck on board for days
By: RE Date: January 15, 2022, 5:25 am
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What kind of idiot would book a cruise these days? ???
HTML https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/cruises/2022/01/14/norwegian-cruise-cancellation-during-trip/6526588001/
'Turning into a nightmare': Norwegian cancels sailing
mid-cruise, passengers to be stuck on board for days
RE
#Post#: 2516--------------------------------------------------
No one bid on this Italian villa with the world's only known Car
avaggio ceiling mural
By: RE Date: January 20, 2022, 5:10 am
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I guess the Billionaires aren't interested in old Italian real
estate.
HTML https://www.npr.org/2022/01/19/1074096108/villa-aurora-auction
RE
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NCAA changes transgender athlete participation policy amid calls
for reevaluation
By: RE Date: January 21, 2022, 3:14 am
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Why don't they just make another division for trannies? ???
HTML https://www.foxnews.com/sports/ncaa-changes-transgender-athlete-participation-policy
NCAA changes transgender athlete participation policy amid calls
for reevaluation
RE
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Register to Read
By: RE Date: January 23, 2022, 12:03 pm
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One of the last free MSM newz sources just dropped on a
"Register to Read" caveat. Reuters also dropped that on a while
back. No paywall, but you have to fork over your email in order
to read more than the Headline and the first paragraph. This
allows them to do all those nice data tricks, like track your
preferences and what kind of stories you read. Google does this
on everybody of course.
Do I really want to register with every damn newzz agency out
there? It's not enough that Google tracks every link I click
on?
So now we go from information overload wwith too many sources to
read from to information deficit with almost none to read from,
at least if you don't want to fork over your money or your email
to read it.
There are work arounds, I could use old emails I never use
anymore, but the whole thing pisses me off so much I just don't
care to bother. You can generally infer what's going to be in
the stories from the headline anyhow.
Video newz is still mostly free, like TV newz in the old days
since they run commercials. I have to watch my bandwith usage
though except on the phone itself. My new Basic Home Internet
package gives me 150 GB/mo. If I streamed newz stories all the
time I could use that up in a week or two EZ.
All that great potential the internet once had to expand access
to information to all people is all gone.
At least we're still free here though! :)
RE
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National Restaurant Association asks Congress for more grant mon
ey as omicron hits industry
By: RE Date: January 26, 2022, 4:52 am
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Restaurant Subsidies! SAVE Mickey D's! lol.
This industry isn't worth saving anymore. Forget the Fast Food
joints, even the "quality" restaurants serve crap. The service
sucks. The prices are outrageous, even for junk.
In major markets like NYC, there are probably still a few good
ones left. I know though that some of my favorites like Smith &
Wolensky's Steakhouse and the Stage Delicatessen are long gone.
Well before Covid.
Here in the Mat Valley, restaurants have never been very good,
but at least if you went to Red Robin you could get a decent
burger cooked to order as you like it (rare for me). Not
anymore. They serve the same type of thin patties quickly
cooked on the grill to overdone, then pile 2 of them on the bun.
The only difference from a Wendy's burger is there are more
choices of toppings and they charge twice the price.
At my local former favorite Asian restaurant Tokyo, their
Mongolian Beef or General Tso's Chicken is no better than the
stuff in the steamer tray at Fred Myer's hot food counter.
Their Sushi and Sashimi no better either, just twice the price
again.
You can still make a decent meal at home. Yesterday, I had my
PCA cook up to my specifications a Mushroom & Swiss Cheeseburger
that was thick, juicy and rare as I like it. I even was able to
consume the whole thig over the sourse of the day, though only
about 1/3rd while it was still hot off the grill. The rest I
ate cold in small bites over the rest of the day.
I made a delicious slow cooked lamb stew right after I moved
here out of the Gulag, which I am still periodically eating. I
froze most of it in containers and take them out of the freezer
when I am in the mood.
Yesterday, I had my PCA buy a NY Strip at the premium meat
counter at Fred Meyer for the exorbitant price of $16/lb, a full
1lb steak,, very thick. I have seasoned it and will Sous Vide
it today overnight, then grill it tomorrow. It will make at
least 4 scrumptious Steak Sandwiches to eat a bit at a time as
my alimentary canal can handle. Said steak would cost minimum
$50 in a restaurant, and probaly not cooked to perfection as I
like.
I doubt I will ever bother to eat at a restaurant again, if they
even still exist in a few years. It's a dying industry. Cooks
and waitresses and busboys and dishwashers aren't paid enough.
It's a shininig artifact of the past.
National Restaurant Association asks Congress for more grant
money as omicron hits industry
HTML https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/24/national-restaurant-association-asks-congress-for-aid-amid-omicron.html
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhh4DcUbQJQ
RE
#Post#: 2626--------------------------------------------------
The Birth of Civilisation - The First Farmers (20000 BC to 8800
BC)
By: RE Date: January 26, 2022, 11:08 pm
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-bQx0ZtHUw
#Post#: 2652--------------------------------------------------
Darwin Award of the Week
By: RE Date: January 28, 2022, 7:07 am
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Oops.
HTML https://www.cbsnews.com/news/richard-jacobson-fall-death-arizona-superstition-mountains/
Hiker falls 700 feet to death while taking selfie on a peak in
the Superstition Mountains near Phoenix
RE
#Post#: 2653--------------------------------------------------
Darwin Revisited
By: K-Dog Date: January 28, 2022, 1:55 pm
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Patient who refused COVID vaccine was denied a heart transplant
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width=600]
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MENDON, Mass. — A Boston hospital is defending itself after a
man's family claimed he was denied a new heart for refusing to
be vaccinated against COVID-19, saying most transplant programs
around the country set similar requirements to improve patients'
chances of survival...
HTML https://www.boisestatepublicradio.org/2022-01-26/patient-who-refused-covid-vaccine-was-denied-a-heart-transplant
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