This site supports the "No National Animal ID System" Campaign! Click here to find out what you can do to stop THEM from RFID chipping your livestock animals! Because if THEY can chip your chickens or horses, they can CHIP YOU!
FYI: PreparedSociety.com - International Survival and Homesteading Forum Community. Everything related to Preparedness from Survival to Homesteading plus Gallery, Groups and Links.
Thinking of moving to a rural remote location? Then read this first! Learn what you need to consider before you buy your land and homestead!
November 1, 2009 Newsletter
On Going Solar, and A Whole Lot More Just For the Fun of It
Remember I said last time that NOT going solar was NOT an option? Wrong! It is just an option, because going solar is: one, expensive, and two, something that needs a huge amount of planning, with, IMHO, someone who has either done it or knows enough about it to help you do it, probably for a hefty fee. Without going into all the details of what I have seen regarding using solar energy (suffice to say though I have been to experimental solar houses and know a couple of families out here who use it), the fact is that if one is going to go exclusively solar it is going to cost well over one-hundred-thousand-dollars just to get one's feet wet in the process. In fact, aside from this one family I know out here who is completely off the grid with solar--and are doing it panel by panel, that is, not having the funds to go full scale running appliances and a computer 24/7--going completely off the grid (unless you are a multi-millionaire like perhaps that ex-ambassador to Mongolia I mentioned recently who is moving out here) absolutely makes no sense. Sorry to burst the bubble I may have created for you.
So then, if you are going to go solar and make the system pay for itself in less than 50 years, then the only option I can think of is to go solar AND stay connected to the grid as well. That way, if you live in an area (such as far west Texas) that is reasonably sunny most of the year, you can generate however much solar electricity capacity you need, and sell the rest back to the utility company that is supplying your "on the grid" electricity. Now, being "physical-science challenged" (I can do the math and that's about it) and barely remembering when I took physics in college about 30 years ago anything about electrostatics, I won't go into the details (and you can google it or use wikipedia), but as you probably know by now, the power grid you use now is AC, but solar is DC. (Now why couldn't Tesla work with Edison? Don't you think this would have solved a huge number of problems? Then again, most Americans never quite make it to Europe.). This means, of course, that an "inverter" must be used if you are re-selling excess solar generated electricity back to the Utility, and not only that, but are you going to order all of your appliances from Europe instead of using the ones you have now, the ones you know work fine with AC outlets? Because I admit it: I was a complete idiot before the "solar house" exhibits, not realizing that solar ran on DC. Not only that, but I feel like an idiot even bringing up solar! In fact, those of you who are reading this, please send a comment or at least an e-mail. Because I want to know about how having solar energy systems work when your appliances and outlets are AC, or DC, or whatever.
So, while solar houses are pretty cool, I have a funny feeling we are going to have to do a huge amount of planning and reworking our living arrangements before we even attempt to "go solar"!
Last time I had fun with presenting a worst-case scenario. This time I will try to explain, as far as I can see it, why the powers-that-be would be crazy to implement whatever "screw the sheeple" nonsense they could come up with...or am I the only one who thinks these folks pay too much attention to the Alex Jones's of the world? I mean, does Alex come up with this stuff and the PTBs just take it from him, or what? (Or, which came first, Jones's video of the "new world order," or the new world order?) Makes sense if Christopher Story is right and Jones is just another CIA operative, and even more sense if Mike Rivero is! But anyway, imagine if this Jonesian or Riveroian scenario came about: Obama (or somebody) declares martial law for whatever reason (H1N1, hyperinflation, "global warming," "angry white males," you name it). This causes either your more psychopathic variety "soldier" (or, more likely, some foreign Xe operative...think "Red Dawn"), and/or government recruited Crip/Blood/Latino Mafia/Aryan Brotherhood-type gangs, to start shooting innocent folks en masse, so that nobody even considers going out into the streets, even to buy food. Well, what food? Imagine, truck after truck of food that is spoiling sitting in long truck lines waiting to get past dozens of check points, or imagine folks who do go out because either they have jobs or school having to wait in line to get through Xe/Gangland check points (think the West Bank Palestinians and the IDF). Because, like I said, the experience of the first Russian Revolution has taught the PTBs not to rely on patriotic soldiers when mercs and psychopaths (or do I repeat myself) can do the job, just not quite for free. "Money for nothin', chicks for free". Now, We the People, who, unlike Alex Jones's fevered imagination, are not the "slaves" he thinks we are, are doing our very best to get through this (imagined scenario) by engaging in all sorts of disorganized civil disobedience, such as underground tactics like clandestinly putting a pitch fork into some persons or other. I do not advocate this, but let's be realistic: there are many Americans fed up with certain denizens of a certain street in New York City that might be bold enough to do this. It's the old "I know where you live" scenario. Or, some politician. Because what we would have is millions of Americans, young and old, with literally nothing left to lose, in this form of scenario. So, why not? And if enough oligarchs, CEOs, bought and paid for politicians and law enforcement types were "terminated with extreme prejudice," and if enough Xe folks were bought off by enough patriotic Americans with means (that is, many, because many patriots just happen to be wealthy as well...rich doesn't mean traitor), and if enough of these Xe folks really weren't psychopaths after all, well, would you want to be an oligarch or a politician in this case? Folks, it is this reality, and not a scenario--that the powers-that-be will not be allowed by anyone, including those in the PTB that actually use their brains, to truly "screw the sheeple" because then they will screw themselves even more--that leads me to believe that we must prepare for the worst and hoping for the best is not some fantasy. And this is not even to mention the spiritual element, that God is in control. Which He is! Further, if Story is right (and I don't think he's ever been wrong on purpose), then We the People are closer than we think in overcoming "the worst".
Then you have more reports of the NSA building some sort of super database on every American, here. Data, measured in "yottabytes," that is, 1 followed by 24 zeroes! In other words, for you math affecionadoes, 1 times 10 to the 24th power! A couple of trillions of those and you have a googleplex, a number so large that you can't fit it on any single paper that would fit into the entire universe! So said the late Carl Sagan. Now, as Mark Levin might say, "ladies and gentlemen," do you really think the NSA has enough operatives to actually make sense of all this information? Me thinks the NSA is becoming a victim of the Peter Principal: it is rising to its level of incompetence! So, go ahead, keep exercising your right to free speech, because there is no way these bozos are going to be able to keep track of everything you do and say. You simply aren't important enough, and neither am I, so keep on keeping on.
We now have the OECD (Office for Economic Co-operation and Development), created in 1961 to advance "building confidence in governments" and "democracy" under the unbrella of "Market economy" to build "sustainable economic growth." Sounds like a globalist organization to me. Also sounds like this report by the OECD on US income inequality might be true, but in a statistical fudging sense, as in this meme, "lies, damned lies, and statistics." Being a math teacher, I understand how statisitics is used to back up whatever theory you want. The OECD Report might just be such. If the stats are true, does this mean the US is "third world poor," where upwards of 90% or more live in utter poverty, or does it mean that there are many more millionaires and billionaires living here, but that the number of poor people is growing thanks to the so-called "jobless" "recovery"? In the mid-eighties, in the days of Michael Milkin and the other Wall St. "Wonder Boys," I read a newspaper article originally in the Philly Enquirer about the "Disappearing Middle Class." Since the middle class really does now appear to be "disappearing" thanks mostly to folks using their credit cards to buy stuff they couldn't afford and have put themselves in almost unpayable debt, it doesn't surprise me that this class is "disappearing." I suspect, therefore, that the OECD has an agenda behind its report. Sorry, but the US ain't quite Haiti poor, and probably never will be. It will have broken up by then if such becomes the case. However, since the US middle class has been so large up until now, it is not hard to understand that a screwed economy full of huge numbers of people with huge amounts of debt would in fact create huge numbers of people who are now falling from the middle class.
Continuing something I started in the last post and spurred by this article, I can say that Congress is making a sticky situation worse by appearing to do everything they can to screw We the People even more for the fun of it, just to be cynical. But the reality is that We the People keep on electing these folks, so, if the definition of insanity is "doing the same thing over and over expecting different results" doesn't that make We the People insane? I believe more and more folks do realize that electing these folks is meaningless (unless you live in the Galveston-to-Victoria splotch of district in Texas that is Ron Paul's), but knowing that these folks keep getting elected even when that is the last time in two years for Reps and six years for Senators that these folks give a crap what we think because they are slaves to lobbies and to Wall Street/the Federal Reserve Banks--that is, the folks are OWNED by the lobbies and the Banksters-and-associated-Criminals--why do folks still bother to vote? I will vote this coming Tuesday, because the Nature Conservancy and their minions are trying to ram more "Eminent Domain" crap down our throats. I have no problem voting on local issues as long as they threaten to destroy our lives out here in the rural remote.
And, in the world of sports, fans of the perennially losing Cleveland Browns of the NFL are going to stage a protest during the early part of the Browns Monday night game with the Baltimore Ravens (the Ravens, you see, used to be the old Cleveland Browns, but the owner moved the team to Baltimore in the mid-90s...because the original Baltimore team, the Colts, moved to Indianapolis in the early 80s!). They are protesting all the losing. Considering this is "rust belt" Cleveland we're talking about, don't you think these folks have better things to do than protest the losing ways of their football team? How about protesting losing your homes, your jobs, your city, and your freedom, to the traitors who are making all this happen? I say this even though I follow NFL football. Still, I can't understand how folks nowadays can make a priority of football when they are getting so screwed otherwise.
REMEMBER! If you want to post a comment to this article, post it here.
Don't forget, if you have a comment on this or other posts, e-mail me with your comment, and put the name of the article in the subject line. However, I would prefer it if you simply posted your comment here.
