Preparedness for when

COOLTRIKERCHICK

nuatha wrote: »

I wonder if our magpies could be trained that way - almost as many of them as gulls round here and they are far quieter.



Sorry to read of your FiL's accident, he may have been lucky but that's a bad enough list of injuries. Your MiL might want to take up your suggestion of a UK visit for a couple of months.



Good to see you CTC,
Given we mainly import large quantities of fruit and veg the likely natural risks are E. Coli, salmonella and listeria. You'd either need to circumvent the veg washers or replace the bleach in the washing process with contaminants.
Though the same applies within the EU and even within the UK.

This would be the definition of a terror attack, the number of victims would likely to be low, the disruption and fear would be widespread.

And it wouldn't be a bit like germ warfare - it would be germ warfare.

what if they used something in the watering system, which the fruit/veg obsorbs, so it is actually in the produce rather than on it??


I must admit... even though I know you should, but I never wash fruit before eating it, sometimes instead of buying a bar of chocolate etc to eat while driving I will buy a pack of grapes and munch them...




EDIT..... I know this scenario sounds OTT.. but it wouldn't surprise me if they did, and I think the way the world is going, it might be something we need to start thinking about...

Frugalsod

jk0 wrote: »

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-04-04/germany-generously-offers-freeze-bank-accounts-wealthy-greeks?page=1

Anyone see this on Zerohedge?

One of the comments struck a chord:

The real problem is that much of that money is in London in property. The rich Greeks were hiding money in London Property for several years and it was why London property prices did so well.

Ultimately all the bailouts are bail outs of French and German banks, do not forget that more than 85% of the past bail outs went to abnks and never even went through the Greek financial system. This is what is planned for the next bail out. Nearly all of it will go to repaying the IMF and the Troika (or like Islamic State, and what ever it calls itself this week)

Frugalsod

Today I decided I needed to get more candles and tea lights. I recently bought some designer tea light heaters from Italy and so decided to get 500 tea lights from a well known Swedish store, along with some ordinary candles and candle/tea light holders. So if there are power cuts at least my heating and emergency lighting is taken care off.

COOLTRIKERCHICK

Frugalsod wrote: »

Today I decided I needed to get more candles and tea lights. I recently bought some designer tea light heaters from Italy and so decided to get 500 tea lights from a well known Swedish store, along with some ordinary candles and candle/tea light holders. So if there are power cuts at least my heating and emergency lighting is taken care off.

Have you got a link to the heaters you got from Italy please

Frugalsod

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

Have you got a link to the heaters you got from Italy please

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/egloo-candle-powered-heater

Perplexed_Pineapple

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

morning all,




haven't been here for a while, so need to catch up on the posts..


with what has been happening with IS Around the place etc.. do you think its only a matter of time where they will start tampering with the food chain? I mean with food we get from abroad... we get lots of fresh food coming in from Kenya etc..


all you need is a couple of converted workers, either in the growing/fields or in the packing plant to start playing silly buuggers with our food..


a bit like germ warfare, but with our food..

I think that active contamination of the food chain at source is pretty unlikely other than maybe very small scale activity. A more likely issue if ISIS/Boko Haram related disorder spreads would be disruption of supply chains, so there might be shortages of imported foodstuffs from North Africa and surrounds. That wouldn't be a really big problem unless imports from other parts of the world were restricted.

Frugalsod wrote: »

The real problem is that much of that money is in London in property. The rich Greeks were hiding money in London Property for several years and it was why London property prices did so well.

Ultimately all the bailouts are bail outs of French and German banks, do not forget that more than 85% of the past bail outs went to abnks and never even went through the Greek financial system. This is what is planned for the next bail out. Nearly all of it will go to repaying the IMF and the Troika (or like Islamic State, and what ever it calls itself this week)

I'm not sure that the IMF and EU Troika are quite the same as IS, Frugalsod

moneyistooshorttomention

Frugalsod wrote: »

Ultimately all the bailouts are bail outs of French and German banks, do not forget that more than 85% of the past bail outs went to abnks and never even went through the Greek financial system. This is what is planned for the next bail out. Nearly all of it will go to repaying the IMF and the Troika (or like Islamic State, and what ever it calls itself this week)

I'm not quite understanding your comment there??? - ie re ISIS/IS/whatever they are calling themselves this week as you put it (I'll stick with ISIS personally). Am I reading it that you think ISIS might manage to "waylay" some bailout money??

Me I just tend to think of ISIS as "people with bloodlust". Having read accounts of various other wars/terrorism/select name as applicable it seems that basically its usually the case that many people "on both sides" genuinely have been convinced/have convinced themselves that they are in the right and God/Allah/whatever are on their side. But this ISIS lot just seem to go in for sheer bloodlust for the sake of it and watching people get murdered for personal matters like what religion they are/what sexual orientation they are/what they are up to in their "private lives" and by such horrific methods is making my mind boggle.

jk0

Funny how some kitties love water, and some hate it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kgTfbL21G8

GreyQueen

jk0 wrote: »

Funny how some kitties love water, and some hate it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kgTfbL21G8

:T Lol, The Queen of Sheba is like this - open back door in the rain and she slinks around the edge of the garden as if she'll somehow avoid the raindrops. Meanwhile, Wild Thing, who has such a dense pelt she never seems to get wet through to the skin, positively relishes the downpour.

WT is on a bed, The Q is on a radiator atm. All is well in Catlandia.;)

zee_2

i,m old lurker with bad fingers to use keyboard, no need to use expensive heater with nightlights, to heat greenhouse I use 4n/lights on metal dish covered with plantpot, with 4 small lego blocks under rim of plantpot, light candles cover with plantpot ,put old can lid over plantpot base hole....you have a heater...or do same in house IN A SAFE POSITION..pets ,kids,wind ect.
like site but takes ages to type message like this....all best..zee