On one hand losing the ability to manufacture aluminum is bad news for any economic activity that requires the use of aluminum. However, on the other hand, this politically guided ‘new world’ we are going toward doesn’t need aluminum, because you cannot eat it.
Predictably 2023 is going to be the beginning of several ‘Build Back Better’ decades where the ownership of material things disappears. When your wages are focused on sustaining yourself with housing, food and energy, all of those other purchases become mere indulgences.
Sustainable life in equity with the needs of the planet, means returning to the era when you received an orange or a piece of chocolate as a Christmas gift, and you are thankful. Cars, appliances, phones or other types of luxury durable goods are indulgences which become out of reach for the worker class. Thus, removing smelters, iron works, factories and other heavy industrial machines only makes sense.
As meager wage earnings are focused on purchases to sustain life, there is little room for indulgences. As the World Economic Forum has stated, we will own nothing and we will be happy. Happiness experiences will be provided and the virtual metaverse will fill our needs.
LONDON, Sept 1 (Reuters) – Two more European aluminium smelters are powering down as the region’s energy crisis shows no signs of abating.
Slovenia’s Talum will reduce output to just a fifth of capacity and Alcoa (AA.N) will curtail one line at its Lista plant in Norway.
Close to 1 million tonnes of European primary aluminum capacity is now offline and more may follow as a notoriously power-hungry sector struggles to cope with soaring energy costs. (read more)
Again, I return to the imagery surrounding our foundational questions, and hopefully things are starting to make sense.
Im sure China and the the other BRICS nations will be more then happy to sell their metals to us. Feature not a flaw because of the fake “War in Ukraine”
China imports energy. I had coffee with a geologist yesterday. He is selling Natural gas for 6 dollars 1,000 cubic feet.
Our residential rate is towards $9. Germany 80 dollars.
Back in the ’50s, gas was 4 cents per 1000 cubic feet….
I grew up in TX and back then (’50’s) they use to burn-off the natural gas from the oil wells because it had so little value it wasn’t worth recovering. I remember seeing the flares from the wells in the night sky.
Our electric rates will skyrocket.
“Necessarily” skyrocket. This is Obama’s plan coming to fruition. Enjoy the decline. Err, the “transition” into permanent poverty
….while all the correct thinking liberals, gladly take the hit to their family’s budget. After all this can’t be Pedo Peter’s fault. That Putin is so mean, he has caused all fossil fuels to “skyrocket”; mostly his and Trumps fault.
Remember it’s only money and if a few of you old people who miraculously survived the China Flue, freeze to death this winter, well, it’s okay. We will honor you after your death for your sacrifice to Mother Earth.
All of us serfs must reduce our carbon footprints, so our climate lords and masters can continue to fuel their private planes and yachts.
Here in Alberta the price is $1.23 Canadian, it actually went negative for two days last month:
https://www.gasalberta.com/gas-market/market-prices
Our “pretty boy” only believes in energy from windmills etc and is controlled by the WEF.
Spot on, MP. Funny how these Greentarded ideas end up benefiting the Dragon and the Bear.
https://investingnews.com/daily/resource-investing/industrial-metals-investing/aluminum-investing/aluminum-producing-countries/.
The original ecology movement in the United States began in the 1970s funded by Moscow and Saudi Arabia for the purpose of making sure we didn’t cut into their oil revenues. I don’t remember what year it was, but out of nowhere suddenly there was huge publicity for Earth Day, whatever that was.
The key requirement for being in favor of the earth as opposed I guess to Mars or something, was to pick up litter, and not produce oil.
The left will not give up a tactic that works that well until it doesn’t anymore.
I remember the commercial back then that showed littered streets and landscapes and closed with an American Indian with a tear running down his cheek.
I remember the commercial back then that showed littered streets and landscapes and closed with
an American IndianEspera de Corti — the Italian-American acting as an American Indian — with a tear running down his cheek. FIFY!I didn’t know that! Thank you so much.
That makes 2 of us 🙂
I remember that also and another memory is that for a while Gorbachev had an office at the Presidio in SF where he was working in ecology. I don’t recall for how long but since the ecology movement was originally orchestrated from Moscow I always wondered about his role.
Interesting, I never knew that.
Thought it (Earth Day) was started by that killer Ira Einhorn when he fled to Europe to avoid prosecution.
It was Senator Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin an environmentalist, who came up with it. For me it was a good occasion to stop smoking. So when medical people ask the standard question I say I quit on the first earth day which seems to usually confuse them, ha, ha.
Don’t count on them selling them to us. There could be several reasons why they might not, among them that perhaps our currency will not be desirable.
Our currency will be replaced, likely with money. (don’t take the FedCoin feint) But it’s just a tool, a stand in for actual goods and services. They’ll trade with us, as long as we produce something of value.
While the east is famous for their higher intelligence, millennia of “hammering down the nail that sticks up”, have damaged their creativity and innovation. The west, including Russia, do far better here. We will survive.
My heart goes out to the working class European citizens who will surely suffer and die because of the utter stupidity of their political leaders.
Used to live in an an area that had both a large aluminum production facility and a large aluminum rolling mill. When they closed down after more than 50 years in operation the local economy got hit especially hard. The old rule of one industrial job supporting three service sector jobs was played out over about a 6 month period. All totalled about 30k jobs were lost. The closure of these two aluminum production facilities, at the time, was blamed on an overly unionized environment. Their productivity was about 70% of like sized facilities due to work restrictions within the different job classes.
Starbucks employees are voting to be unionized.
Not sure where they are at in the process, but
based on the obviously mostly lefties that work
there, I suspect they will vote yes.
Since the price of a tea or coffee is already
between $3-5.50, depending on the type
and size, I wonder what the cost of going
union will do to their business.
It will be interesting
CA Gov Newsom just raised the minimum pay for fast-food workers to $22.00/hour. That will of course raise the price of a fast-food meal, and millions of people will no longer be customers. The typical working class cannot afford to eat out and also pay for home heating, water, and electricity.
When the customers stop coming, due to the increase in prices, how many of these $22.00/hour employees will continue to be employed?
Exactly.
The true minimum wage is zero.
Costs $2600 a month, for a fast food worker,…costs $3000/ month, for a ROBOTIC fast food worker.
So yeah, bye bye entry level jobs,…
Rita, way way too much forethought there…….
Newsome & Auntie have it all figured out
Gas station coffee is better anyways.
Does anyone here really believe Starbucks will still be in business, a year from now?
It was always a luxery item, expensive coffee, purchased because of “the experience”?
People struggling to eat, stay warm and sheltered, AREN’T going to pay $10-12 for a cup of flavored coffee, those workers are whistleing past the graveyard, thinking they will benefit by unionising.
Like I have posted before, I had Charbucks once in 1995.
Several of us from work used to walk over to Starbucks for coffee at break time. Just the smell hurt my stomach so much I didn’t buy any but enjoyed the short walk anyway.
Starbucks will coincidentally evaluate the area, declare the store underperforming, and shut it down. You can’t go a mile here in southeast PA without tripping over SB in Target, the grocery store, and multiple standalones. The “build everywhere” model works in the good times, but we are in recessionary times now, so it’s time to downsize.
Can you say Keurig? Because once they unionize Starbucks is just going to be a fancy ordering machine like a few McD’s I’ve been to.
I love my moka pot.
I have a Barista Warrior percolator with a snazzy Pyrex carafe.
Not very. They will unionize, their high prices for bad coffee will climb even higher and many will wake up and stop buying it. It might even truly harm the chain, but isn’t that the goal?
Wasn’t the plant right next to John Day dam.
No, over by the Idaho border
Amazing how many plants the state had. Vancouver,Longview, Tacoma,Wenatchee, Ferndale, Goldendale, and Spokane. All gone now.
Unions raise the cost of labor relative to places where people are destitute.
Historically, these United States could not just print money (gold standard) and could not tax citizens, so it’s income was limited largely to import tariffs. Tariffs make it easier to compete with foreign slave labor (at least locally).
One might say those aluminum production facilities were destroyed by the Federal Reserve and income tax.
BINGO!!
Now we see where MAGAnomics was headed. . .
I worked summers during college for a refractory contractor. One job we had was relining one of the aluminum recycling furnaces. I had to regularly pass through one of the other furnace rooms that was in operation. These furnaces were quite large with huge doors that were raised and lowered like a garage door. This allowed fork trucks to continuously charge the blazing pool of molten aluminum with large bales of compacted aluminum scrap. The rooms were about three stories high and wide enough to allow the fork trucks to maneuver. The startling feature in these furnace rooms was the aluminum splatters all over the room’s block walls from floor to ceiling. Apparently some of the scrap bales had water trapped within that would explode as the bale sank into the molten pool. Needless to say whenever the furnace door was open for charging there was no way I walking through!
I’ve seen similar studies that when a big mill shuts down, it may take as many as seven service sector jobs with it.
Those range from contractors, suppliers, to the people with the coffee trucks that go into the plant to the lunch counters and bar rooms within walking distance.
they will die because they are disarmed
The Europeans have a history of violently overthrowing oppressive governments. If the EU goes Tienanmin square on anyone not only are their governments toast but any semblance of wealth evaporates too. That includes Schwabbs buttboys
See December 25, 1989.
Ah, Romania. Nick and Elly’s really bad Christmas.
Yes indeed…and their last.
yes….they overthrow filthy rich despots….who always said they fight for workers …as dems saying here…..
REAL PEOPLES REVOLUTION…..WITHOUT GUNS…..
Throughout the Germanics peoples history there has never been a time where the wealth inequality hasn’t been maintained. The size of such a population may shrink as does the poor, but it never disappears.
I am not sure that European countries may not have changed so much that history is no longer a guide for their behavior.
And then there is also the second question your post brings up, what was the end result of Tiananmen square? Do you recall?
The Chinese government had found that Chinese armored units refused to enter the square violently due to sympathy with the protesters.
The solution for the Chinese government was to bring in armored units from Manchuria, whose troops did not speak Chinese and did not feel close ties with the people of beijing.
Cannot you think of people who could be called in to take care of European protests in a similar way?
That history is a western history. Will it persist when they are replaced by emigrants from places without that history?
I guess we are about to find out.
IMHO, the recent immigrants into Europe will attack the wealthy and the government /those in charge before the native peoples.
Indeed. But do not lose sight of who elected their stupid LIBERAL leaders. Then apply that lesson to the US and tell us what you learn. This a homework problem for 4th graders. Not necessarily smart ones.
Or maybe they were installed like Biden?
Will they……..👀
Will you?
eventually
They are letting them do this, they are not leaders nor rulers. They are desposts. If they can’t figure it out. C’est la vie, or more like mort
They’re not *supposed* to be leaders or rulers. They’re *supposed* to be our representatives.
Not stupidity…this is all entirely intentional. We are in an unrestricted, unconventional war, and they are purposely collapsing the energy, food and financial systems.
They want to blow up dams on the Snake river
Hydro power for aluminum and Boeing.
Wondering when the corporate cheerleaders for this abominable state of affairs will realize they’ve been played for the absolute fools they have turned out to be.
Bed Bath Beyond went woke, you know what happened to their CFO!
I do…he was involved in some pretty shady dealings to keep the stock price up, and was found out. Insider trading as it were. His mistake was forgetting that little sideline is reserved only for Congress.
That whole save the salmon on the Snake and the Columbia is nothing but bull shit. Just went fishing for Kings 2 weeks ago over by Omak Washington. There were so many 20+lbs Kings trying to get back up the fish ladder you could have walked across them. Also, look at the actual fish counts. They’re higher this year on the upper Columbia and the Snake than anytime in the last 10 years. We were fishing right below a dam. We watched the flow change as it responded to electrical requirements. The save the salmon by removing dams is total bull shit
Juneau Alaska has so many salmon heading for the Taku River they have to kill thousands to keep the hordes from destroying the natural spawning locations.
I don’t even trust the weather reports these days. Everything they say is a lie as far as I’m concerned.
Idaho needs to secede. The people there are amazing, and wonderful, but they don’t see what’s coming. They think they’re immune or protected from it. They don’t have the appalachian nature of defending their privacy from despots, because they haven’t had any.
I’m afraid their “rude awakening” will come too late.
North Idaho like Eastern Washington has way to many California libbies relocating there. You can always spot the “native” people vs the CA transplants. The locals will tell you to piss off and really mean it.
I always assumed the libs in CDA were from Seattle and Spokane. That whole interstate corridor might be a bad place to live too close to soon. War zone north of CDA… you can even see the billboards warring with each other. Not gonna be pretty.
yea, some still wear masks outside the stores. Im north east of Bonners Ferry in “no where”.
we see whats coming. if the SHTF today, 3/4 of northern Idaho would have enough to survive on for months, while the “gimme dats” throughout the US would perish.
Yeah, actually, I see that. I was thinking more like Clearwater and Idaho counties.. those seemed to me less likely to erupt in violence than CDA and immediately north… but what do I know… you live there.
Washington State is banning gas powered cars also. Watch the Libs who can’t afford an EV or who wise up to scam flood over the border to come & live in ID not too long from now. One can only hope they will learn the error of their ways to vote Democrat.
I’ve not much hope there, but…. how exactly are they going to *get* from Seattle to Moscow? Electric car? Gas car after they’ve stopped selling gas for “illegal” cars?
I actually forsee a near future in which most people have stopped pulling over for cops. They’ve abandoned the rule of law. *Everything* gets weirder from now on.
Kate Brown is about done. DNC is livid that our home grown commies just can’t get the football past the goal post.
on the bright side, recycling soda cans looks like a promising side hustle /S
In our neighborhood, Chinese lady on a three wheeler stacks large bags of aluminum cans and plastic bottles, pulls in 100-120 dollars per load. Tax free.
So glad you didn’t say where you were, Mike, for her sake…or else 87,000 armed IRS Gestapo would hunt her down, truss her up and throw her into prison.
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Same here in mine. As a side note, she drives a Mercedes.
Don’t knock it. In the very early 1980s, I remember a guy who would fill his station wagon to the headliner with soda cans. Probably thousands of them at a time. Just enough room left in the vehicle for him to drive it.
To drive them a state away, a “deposit” state, where they would pay him enough after costs to make a profit.
Every 24 cans is 1 pound
My recycling record is 130 pounds of aluminum cans (crushed).
Serious. I was a poor college kid and had to drink a lot of cheep beer to save enough to buy a new 21′ sailboat.
They are also getting shortages of beer bottles. Glass making expensive.
Dumpster diving for food will come back to life again.
It already has. Look on Youtube!
I’ve got a few tubes of horse paste saved for that scenario.
Remember after 2009, when people went on a weeks vaca, only to find their homes stripped of recyclable copper wire, etc?
Finding your catalyctic converter (replacement cost around $1000) removed in the night?
Or, my personal favorite, they would use an electric drill, to drill holes in gas tanks, to steal the gas.
Its coming,…gird your loins, …
“And ya tell me,…over and over and over again my friend, ah ya don’t believe, we’re on the eve of destruction!”
“its so frustratin’ my bloods coagulatin!
Hold the line, check your 6, and hunker down.
And PRAY, “over and over and over again, my friend”!
Local gal had her plastic gas tank on her jeep drained. Right outside the hospital she worked at.
You’ll have to fight the homeless for a place in line.
You stay away from the ditches on Main Street, Regitiger…those are my hunting grounds! 😂
I’m mostly a frogger in the ditches…but I have a feeling most of the ditches in the rest of this country are not TRUE bayous like we got down here full of rich aquatic life and frogs till the cows come home.
You are safe.
If it can’t be smelted, there will be no market for aluminum scrap. The fall back in times of trouble will fail.
Aluminum scrap doesn’t require smelting, it is already refined and requires little processing, requiring much less energy than separating it from ore.
Is Jamaica still the largest producer of bauxite?
(don’t try this with steel)
Bien sûr que non!
well ok, go right ahead if you’ve got the charcoal to pull it off…. dats alota trees…. or maybe you live near coal deposits? They did all that in the gold rushs, but it took a long time for the trees to come back.
I said “Of course not!” 😉
my mistake. I’m unfamiliar with the language, and read it as “good sir why not?”. oops.
Really? There is no difference in the processing of cast aluminum scrap, cans, plate and turnings? It must be reduced and re-alloyed. It does not require as much as raw ore, of course, but it does require processing.
Of course.
Aluminum scrap can easily be melted and cast with a small electric or wood fired forge you can make yourself. Even if electrically fired, the power is well within the means of a mid-range solar system.
Yes, it can. However, if you are making aluminum for manufacturing it has to be specially formulated for how it will be used. There is a big difference in a home casting furnace (I have one) and the manufacturing of aluminum products for industry. It is not simply melted and reformed.
lesser formulations work too. When the material cannot be engineered to the specifications of the product, the product must be engineered to the specifications of the material. It’s all doable.
You can also start with material you already know meets your spec, and feed that exclusively into the furnace. Lots of aluminum engine blocks lying around in scrap yards. Yes, simply melted and reformed.
Can’t remember what we called it, something like ‘The Beast’. It lived at the end of my street.
It was a large contraption the size of a dumpster. You pour aluminum cans into it, press a button and it spits out coins. Coins! Ha
In duh future it will offer social credit points.
Can’t spend ’em, but they might allow one to eat.
Hold out for Soylent Green Gummies!
Yeah, watch your hands when you feed that beast . . .
We had the “ Golden Goat” in our area. Same action.
When smelting stops, recycling stops.
I wouldn’t worry too much about shutting down the smelters. At Jacks magic coffee shop they offer up free aluminum. F J B
As I posted to an earlier today Sundance article, it takes 15 to 20 kWh to produce a kg of aluminum from mine to smelter. This number could be as much as doubled depending on ones power source and transmission losses. This is about as energy intensive as any commodity.
Recycled aluminum requires about 6% of the above energy. Only problem is that you need new aluminum to make up for the losses and increased consumption. Eventually only recycling means you run out of material.
Recycling aluminum siding would be more lucrative.
But Putin…..
Pootin.
Pootin on the Ritz.
Not so tasty.
If this winter doesn’t wake up the normies, nothing will. Think of how many people will get fired, so no work, no money, higher costs for food, electricity, gas. What else are we missing? Will they throw in a war with china too or some new viral variant?
Don’t forget our new non-citizens being pumped in from the worst places on earth and strategically located nationwide.
Many aspects of the chaos to come are already baked into the cake, so to speak.
When things get rough and the immigrants decide that our streets really aren’t paved with gold, they’ll come to steal your food
Some of them will regard us as food.
Our homes as shelter.
Our belongings as fuel.
… still others will *become* food … and/or soil amendments.
Don’t forget the hard dope! Plenty of that to ease our cold,dark and hungry collective misery!
That way lies suicide. If you’re part of a big enough collective with someone on watch you can trust maybe… but does do the hard dope too?
For the foreseeable future, we need to keep our wits about us, and our head on a swivel. Sell the hard dope to your enemies.
Dude, I was joking. I hate hard dope with a passion.
They’re really going to miss global warming.
The one thing they’re missing is the fact that the other passing out another booster that will kill hundreds of thousands of people. But don’t worry, it’s been tested on mice
Eight mice!
The other mice refused to participate as the human trials were incomplete.
But they’ll take in African & Muzzie “migrants” and those people will get the money.
My money’s on the new viral variant…or two.
Monkeypox and several worsening iterations of that tops my list of viral emergencies.
They first insisted that it had gone airborne, and I wouldn’t put it past them to have already so weaponized it.
Puts new meaning to SHTF, n’est-ce pas?
I think we should expect all four horsemen. Maybe five.
They never ride alone.
We’ve had steel, aluminum, chip makers, saw mills, you name it all shut down because globalism is the religion that’s being taught to the educated. Dumb ass pecker snots. You don’t pee in your own bathtub.
Where is this, Rix?
How do we stop this short of armed revolution?
Then again, I find it hard to believe they can pull this off when a YUGE backlash is coming.
The downsides of Globalism WILL become apperent.
With such an interlinked “Global” system, the pending collapse will finally demonstrate “the Domino theory” used as fake justification for Viet Nam, but in a way they never visualised.
And of coarse its not REALLY GLOBAL system, as the Brics cleaving off, demonstrates.
Its City of London, Swiss and NYC financiers, deluding themselves the World was their oyster, and reality is about to smack them in the face, just like the sidewalk for that Bed, bath beyond executive.
The Chinese are in the war business. Dick made money from shoe strings to Bombs and he still pushing it
PRAY, Witness, and then pray some more.
As I get older, I realize so much more of the breadth and depths of those biblical directives to 1) avoid greed in all its forms, 2) the love of money is the root of ALL evil, and 3) PRIDE is the root of all the bad things in man.
The pride thing is so devious and pernicious over time. And engenders such INSANE DECISIONS.
God’s always right. He’s just right over LONG periods of time.
Omniscience and omnipresence tend to do that. We are also blessed in that he’s a merciful God.
Backlash only if we all vote. We must watch for suspicious activity as well
We must watch for suspicious activity, and when we see it we must stop it. We found in 2020 that once the ballots get into the hands of the bureaucrats, they are mixed with everything else and nothing can be repaired.
There are other possibilities for backlash.
Watch and maybe work on getting voter rolls cleaned up at same time as going back to manual voting, manual vote counting. Mike Lindell’s cyber experts have been engaged in reviewing counties; info of 800 of ~3200 counties have been inspected so far. 4% have seemed to be totally free of any manipulation. Short video >
Mike Lindell: Only 4% of Counties Reviewed by Cyber Security Experts show No Manipulation
They can’t pull it off, and they’re already flailing. The devil is trying to discourage us is all.
What’s coming is the demise of the EU. That, and a hard time for us in the US as we pay the piper for a hundred yeras of dollar abuse and decades of imperial overreach. Trump was all about ending American empire, and he may have strengthened us enough to muddle through what’s coming. The globalists are down to Europe, outbacks, and us, and we can probably get free of them after the political plants in our government and the Vatican die off. That’s only going to take about 10 years. Have patience. We just have to repent and reboot. Simple but not easy.
Do you believe the openly expressed Chinese intent to depopulate and colonize Australia and America will patiently stand aside while we muddle through?
Yeah, no… that’s a thing in Australia. Glad I’m not there. Stateside? Dunno… better armed, longer supply chain…. seems like an outside bet…. but then… if they can target with a genetically specific pandemic? … or more likely just get us all to kill each other… hard to say….
… oh, and Hawaii too. Just another Austrailia… likely New Zealand… Papau…
Their plan was and is to use genetically targeted pathogens.
Why’d’ya think so many of those DNA tests and Covid swabs ended up in Chinese hands?
And yes, they are using pretty much an all of the above strategy, and I’m not the least convinced that the WEF suicide squad isn’t ultimately a Chinese operation. The same people that mentored Schwab opened China and set in on its current course.
Yeah, all that seems plausible. I just don’t see any evidence that anyone has an actual clue about how life works. They don’t seem to get their anticipated results.
There’s so many variables. Even if they got something that *always* infected over 30 feet, and *nobody* had any immunity… lot’s of us go months without human contact. Any survivors will know what you did and be quite butthurt.
Too many moving parts to have any certainty, so I sprout a bit of faith in what life has endured thus far, and that we have natural defenses which none of us knows anything about. Placebo is a wakeup call: Some folks seem to be able to do things they shouldn’t (according to the model), out of sheer force of will, or conviction.
Hope Is Never Vain.
It is hard to fight back when you are starving, fighting off hordes of other starving people, and you can’t go anywhere because your car doesn’t have gas and the trains and buses aren’t running. I think that is the plan.
Fair points. It gets really complicated really fast trying to see how all that interplays… my head hurts.
There will be some who retain mobility, at least for awhile, but who? Is it random? Just warlords? Deep rural preppers?
And what does it buy them? I can see a motive to prep for being able to try to go fetch your family to the bugout if/when the roads clear, and you can muster the team to pull it off. Way to many variables.
There can be no prosperity without cheap energy.
Our whole world is based on fossil fuels…Without them, it’s the 18th century, maybe earlier…
Today I purchased a laundry drying rack, so I have the option of not using the dryer. I’m planning ahead and adjusting everything I can think of to adjust to reduce each utility bill.
We never had an electric dryer in our farm home in the ’50s (my childhood years) so the “clothes rack” is a very familiar piece of equipment for me–actually a friendly memory, even though the present reasons are disgusting beyond comprehension.
This nifty little item was, of course, Made in China. And I’m not going to drive all over shopping for one made in the USA (if such a thing exists any more). The price of gas, compared to June, has come down a full dollar now and it’s still twice as much as it was the day Robinette moved into the White House.
I bet you will see a lot of people going back to using the old clothes line outside.
The HOA folks are gonna be pissed! 😉
Good! Bunch of anal retentive Commies!
IMO, the HOA should be outlawed. If not, anybody who buys a HOA-ruled house is subject to their commie rules.
Good!
Outside clothes lines forbidden in some UK cities.
Actually I prefer my clothes dried by the wonderful sunshine. Have alway hung my clothes out (70 yo). To me they smell fresher.
I want one of those drying racks I’ve seen in hotels.
They were on the walls over bath tubs. You pull a cord and attach it to the other side. Thx for the reminder to go find one of those.
We built our clothes rack in the garage, it goes up with a manual lift after being used, simple design with strong cords, comes down when needed so it’s not always in the way.
i’ve always used alternate ways to dry my clothing. We lived in an old house with radiators when I was in my 20s and we use the radiators to dry or outside clothesline. I lived in Germany for many years we had radiators again and I stretched out clothing along furniture and all over the house to dry. It’s not such a revolutionary thought.
The real thing you need to get used to is eating once a day. Eat less, and eat once a day. It’s healthier for your mind and body and will help you adjust when there’s not enough food
Good idea, Sharon.
In the UK dryers were a luxury for the most part when I moved there in ’86. Clothes lines were everywhere. Now I take my wet clothes out of the washer for a quick ten minute tumble in the dryer with a dryer sheet, take them out, hang them up and let air dry…no wrinkles, no ironing. Works a charm for me.
Nor were dishwashers, that I considered then a necessity, widely available or used. I started hand washing my dishes…when in Rome…and have never looked back.
When we returned to Texas I was perfectly content to continue to hand wash, so much so that the dishwasher in our home has never been used. Saves a bundle on power.
I do dishes by hand. I only use my dishwasher to sterilize my canning jars
For that it makes sense.
My friend in Sweden reminded me again how useful the products from the Amish are (since they don’t use electricity)- they have a lot of laundry shortcuts..
https://www.lehmans.com/category/amish-made
Excellent thank you! I’m going to order the drying rack.
Great site! Thank you!
My husband ordered a belt: $28.99 for a leather belt.
I just bought a *2002* F150 Supercrew as a giant middle finger to them all.
The good old fashioned clothes line! I so miss it. The smell of fresh-air dried sheets and clothes…. the elite do not allow clotheslines in their communities. I don’t live in one of those communities. I live by the beach but not with much sun in my garden; I’m still trying to figure out how to hook up a clothes line in my tiny space.
Clothing, even more delicates, last longer in pristine shape if dried in a clothes rack. I try to use the dryer as little as possible.
Thank God it’s not lead….we will need that more.
Melting point of lead is about half that of aluminum.
You can make tire weights, wink wink, in your back yard.
I’ll just smelt my own aluminum. Now, if I can just remeber where I put the bauxite.
Lots of bauxite in S. America & Mexico.
Remember early on when PDJT tarriffed Chinese metals and we learned that a Chinese oligarch had 2.4 Billion worth of aluminum ingots sitting in Mexico?
I wonder how that bit will play out, and if it’s perhaps not the only example of China pre-staging such materials?
😅😅😅😆😆😅😂😂
That high school rock collection may be usefull finally, OMG
We don’t need manufacturing in the West….CNBC told me so.
Oil and gas? Nah. Those dirty people in Middle America didn’t go to Williams College or Cornell.
We need to storm the Hamptons. That is where the protests need to happen.
And where’s the right wing radio in the Mid Atlantic calling for the tearing down of the Pelosi statue in Baltimore?
Oh that’s right….Salem Broadcasting is a total joke and so are the principled conservatives.
A declaration of war has been declared , it came in a leaked think-tank paper called :
SILENT WEAPONS FOR QUIET WARS , and the writers admit it is such.
Mankind has been deemed too stupid to save itself , so , they , the so called world-controllers have decided to reduce consumption ” their way ” by means of what they call ‘ benevolent slavery + genocide ‘.
Their view is that if they do not do this action , the people of the world that they view as cattle will destroy each other and the planet. Their own writings say this decision must be kept secret.
Feel free to look it up yourself. It’s all there.
Europe is more than the canary in the mineshaft…it IS A BIG MINE IN ITSELF! When decisions and dictates by corrupted leaders can take down a continent this quickly, it is not inconceivable to see it coming for us…unless we don’t allow it.
Note Sundance’s article on the ruler of California and his energy demands address to his subjects….THAT is who the leftists want to install next as the puppet leader for this nation.
Yup.
Had his job interview while Lesko was away.
Newson is a haircut nothing more. His opposition ads write themselves. Statewide lockdown and mask and vaxx mandates while he parties maskkess in swanky restaurants with his super rich buddies. No combustible engine cars sold by 2035 while he takes a nuke plant offline and can’t service the state for electricity. And today……he decrees we need to sacrifice during a heat wave while he wears a Wind breaker indoors during said heat wave. And San Fran went to crap with homeless crime and drugs under his watch. George Gascon was his DA at the time. Let Newsom be Newsom he’s a joke.
So is Biden…..how’d that work out for us??
Well…those who never owned anything may be happy,
but those who HAD owned anything are going to be pissed…cold rage…if the numbness in charge think they are going quietly into the night, they are sorely mistaken…
That’s numbnuts, not numbness
The typos are gonna be epic when all our digits are cold numbed.
As long as this site remains we’ll keep typing. Fat fingers, frozen fingers, no fingers!
Amen!
They are not going to take it, they will tax it until it’s not worth owning.
The trick is *collecting* that tax, hence the 87K new agents… Still: “The mountain is high, and the emperor is far away”, at least some places anyway. We really need to stop using their money.
My husband and his four other siblings received one Christmas a Mr. Potato Head, just one present for all five kids. And that present was from a friend of the family, not even his parents. Times were rough…eat or toys, eat or toys, eat, eat, eat.
My father-in-law got an orange, a banana, and an apple in his Christmas stocking. That was it. His dad had to save up to get them for the kids. When he turned 17, he took a trip to Europe courtesy of Uncle Sam and got to meet a lot of Germans.
The greatest generation was great because they were tough and hardened by growing up in the 1930’s. When the time came to fight, they could fight. They also had turned to God as that was all they had to turn to.
If we go through a similar time, the current generation will be tough in about 7 years, at least the ones that survive. They will have a job to do and they will be ready. It might just be the plan. It won’t be the first time.
Sounds about right. Seven years into the culling… it will be a completely different world.
You gotta boil that plastic potato a long, long time to make it tender enough to eat.
my father worked hard every day and we had little money to spend on luxuries. I wore hand me down clothes and I recall one Christmas that my father had picked up an old junk bike and put a new coat of paint on it and a new seat and that was my present. I grew up in the Midwest. Fly over country to the elitists
My father did the same, when I was about 8 or so I got a used bike for Christmas, newly painted red. Selfish me at that point, was so mad I never even learned to ride it! Was 50 yrs old before I learned to ride a bike. Now a days, shopping in thrift stores is my favorite thing even when I don’t really need to do so!
The plan is to shift it to BRICS. WEF needs a bogey man and Russia gives no f#x.
will be interesting to see how it plays out. One thing’s for sure: Putin’s IQ is likely double that of Schwab.
In another 6 months, Putin will march right thru the EU and the people might actually like it to happen.
BTW ,not Poland Guess where our Trillion tax dollars also went . Word is Poland is flush with Ukrainians and American cash from the military spending . Great place to run to , until they wake up to the fact that they are just Patsys for the globalist to poke the bear and start WW3 .
Yeah, not Poland… or Germany… and a few others… but still… I’d rather have to learn Russian than Chinese… just sayin.
I really don’t believe that Putin has any imperial desire to conquer and rule Western European territory. For one very big thing, it comes with a hugely serious Muslim problem.
I see Putin and Russia recognizing that a loooong dark and cold night will descend upon Europe, and is prepared to wait patiently for the fires of nascent nationalism to ignite, revealing many hungry new customers for Russia’s commodities and manufactured goods, which will be freely marketed at prices fixed in rubles.
Western Europe is going to burn for a good while yet, and Russia patiently waits and holds the key to unlock God-fearing Western CIvilization once the pyres have guttered and gone out
Vlad cut off gas through Nord stream#1….main source of gas to EU…do you remember when Vicky Nudelman said in 2014 in the time of coup in the Ukr. F*CK EU….VVP said it few days ago…….
Who could possibly have the money power and influence to make something like this happen on a worldwide basis?
God??
Methinks God was shaking his head as this was done.
Old name Banksters.
Rock something or another.
They don’t just *have* the money, they *make* it, from thin air. Look at Davos, they’re *all* bankers.
Big Pharma will be a real shot in the arm for humanity when the economies implode.
From a happier time in America …
Fight like hell. Never stop fighting. We can have it back.
Fascinating, a stop-motion tour de force. We were giants then – this is from the year of my birth – thank you Oldersoul!
I don’t see this being that dire I think it maybe a little over hyped..
When President Trump returns so will some sort of normalcy and these bat sh.t crazy ideas will stop.
I know President Trump will shut it down.
Until then ….. we wait..
And of course if they continue on .. we’ll nobody does it better than America . 👍👍👍
Wow, if the end of modern western civilization is overhyped to you, I can’t imagine what it takes to get you excited.
A. The people behind this rigged a presidential election to get control of the country. They have no intention of giving it back. Just so ya know.
Trump won’t be coming back. Not in a million years.
This is the Big one.
Brace for impact.
I’m not sure how this works in dozens of countries with hundreds of millions of people who remember not being serfs and having good lives. One would hope the self-appointed aristocracy meets the same fate as the French nobility in the Revolution.
they were serfs to Covid
They overplay the hard lockdowns, another one WON’T WORK.
I think the most recent generations have no such memories. They see the system rigged against them, and see no opportunity.
So they only have to kill us old farts!
This should do wonders for the price of scrap metal.
Be prepared for the theft of aluminum street lights poles and signs.
They’ll be as valuable as gold and silver.
Not really. I collect and sell scrap. If the smelters are not buying to process, the retail scrap yards do not buy. The price of just about all scrap began to crash mid-summer. The big processors had no more room because the refiners had no more room because manufacturers were not buying finished metals. I sold a bunch of aluminum and copper at the peak. Now I am back to collecting, sorting and storing.
Is it even “theft” when they grid is down for good, and the cops don’t respond? More like salvage really.
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Muh Beer Cans.
If you haven’t read them, I suggest the 4 fiction books in the World Made by Hand series by James Howard Kunstler and his non-fiction tome, Living in the Long Emergency. Best get prepared for what could be coming.
EXCLUSIVE EU, U.S. step up Russian aluminium, nickel imports since Ukraine war
https://www.reuters.com/markets/europe/exclusive-eu-us-step-up-russian-aluminium-nickel-imports-since-ukraine-war-2022-09-06/
I will confess. As a child I had a real ladies stocking with an orange in the toe, a few nuts in shells, a few beads to string and a little harmonica, or something like that for Christmas each year
We got fruit, candy, and for several years, coal. We had a coal furnace until I was around 14. Man, natural gas burns a lot cleaner. We didn’t have to wash the walls above the heating vents anymore.
That sounds really cool… depending on your age…
Putin started out focusing on eastern Ukraine. He may be able to walk into a pacified chunk of Europe before long.
Buy your AR15 now, while they still have aluminum to make them from.
Trump 2024 Can’t come fast enough.
The entire planet is going to become Ultra MAGA by then.
Jim Bruer has a serious side and a big heart!
Set aside one hour tonight, and watch the most hilarious comedy set since I don’t know when.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bItcoUb5xsw
Yeah, hes good
the manufacturing process of aluminum requires a lot of energy
of which the costs are going sky high
Glass will become precious for storage, and already is for canning. Ditch your plastic storage and get glass while you can. If you are a canner, get the Tattler lids and learn how to use them properly.
I really feel bad for the Europeans heading into the 2022 dark winter. I’ll even pray that they turn back on their foolish thinking. That being said, like the catchy phrase “go woke, go broke”; in this case, ” go green, get reamed!”
Europeans? Where in the hell do you think you are heading?
What’s the difference between deodorant and antiperspirant ?
Aluminum.
Toothpaste and medicines have aluminum.
Aluminum is a heavy metal that is sucked up in your body and collects in your brain.
No more beer kegs of crap aluminum cookware. Going back to cast iron would be the best thing for the health of all.
Some believe aluminum is the number one contributor to us all (80%) if we make to old age of dementia and Alzheimer’s because that heavy metal disrupts the electric signals in our brain.
In the early 80s I read that autopsies found high amounts of aluminum in Alzheimer’s patient’s brains. Until that time I only bought anti-perspirant that had “aluminum chlorohydrate” as the anti-sweating compound. The day I read that article was the last day I ever used anti-perspirant or any deodorant with aluminum chlorohydrate or cooked with aluminum cookware, including tin foil.
I think the human race decided to go against its own smells when TV commercials came into being. Talk about being brainwashed. I remember when one bath a week was accepted as the norm before TV came along. It was Saturday so all would be clean to enter the Lord’s house on Sunday. Plus, from the smallest child up to the last, the father shared the same water. Oh, how times have changed.
VIVA MEXICO 🇲🇽
FMX. so hard.
I’m a visual person so I’m with you all the way on a diagram or schematic.
I could be wrong here but I believe they are going to provide a monthly living wage using Digital Currencies just like they do with state budgets. If you don’t spend it all in the month and have some left over, then you will receive less for the next month.
let’s hope I’m way off.
Yes, they have been quite clear that that is their plan, a digital currency, and a “minimum living allowance” funded by MMT funny money,…
THATS their PLAN,…BUT;
“No war plan survives first contact with the enemy” and in this case, their biggest enemy is REALITY.
And, “if you wish to amuse God,…make plans!”
Being athiests who eschew “war maxims” they are cruising for a bruising, and haven’t a clue.
A wise man once said, “Everyone has a plan until they get hit in the face.”
That’s what they get for calling “ah-lu-MINI-yum” for all these years.
Honestly I hate it but I have lost my ability to empathize with people who insisted this be done to them. Greenie Euros, Weak Americans…if you’re not resisting you’re part of the problem and you get what you deserve.
Yeah, they earned their dark winter. But the aluminium thing is blamed on a yankee reporter who copied it wrong.
Aluminum (aluminium) takes a great deal of electrical power to produce economically. It was once so rare and precious that it was used to cap the washington monument. It remained that way until Nikoka Tesla designed the hydro-electric plant at Niagara Falls, making electricity affordable.
You can’t eat self-defense, but even (especially) in a famine, you *need* it, and it involves forged and/or machined metals. Aluminum is far easier to cast and machine that other common metals, and individuals can easily do this with off-grid power. Fortunately, aluminum has been so cheap for so long that it’s discarded everywhere. It does corrode though, and 50 years from now it may become a novelty again.
Is everyone enjoying the Liberal (Gay/Antifacism) ideology yet?
I don’t understand any of this because it is so unnecessary. It’s Joey’s legacy. I hope it follows him forever.
“Joe biden made a mockery of the U.S.A”
Sundance , I Love you brother , but I have one request …….
When you post a picture such as the stained glass from ” Fabian Socialist Society ” shown above , please , please include at least some context for newer readers so that they can begin to learn WHY it matters.
We have a duty to hand out sunglasses. 🙂
That’s what we’re here for!
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A gentleman that reports to me lives in England with his family. He has 10 children, as such his energy costs will certainly be a little higher than average. He queried me about my monthly energy bill for the home (Gas and Electric). He stated that he’s run the numbers and in January of this coming winter, he’ll be paying 20,000 pounds per year base. He indicated his monthly costs will be approaching 2K pounds per month. In Idaho with 3 adults we’re averaging $95.00/month and that’s running the AC every day.
I am in California now, and this warning just came up on my phone:
The world will be a wonderful place for some of the survivors, who will eventually see for themselves ‘man-made’ CO2 has nothing to do with Earth’s climate. For the billions who won’t make it, the globalists are sorry you were born in the first place.