Preparedness for when

Frugalsod

AnimalTribe wrote: »

After Xmas I buy a load of YS cream and use it to make butter in the food processor. It only takes a couple of minutes. I just use a couple of small chopping boards to make a sandwich to squeeze the water out of the butter. The watery remains get made into scones.

I will try that but I need to sort out recipes that need butter milk first so I can use all the by products at once.

moneyistooshorttomention

Mind you - talking about being able to get at your money and there's even worse possibilities. That being that thing that is no longer just an idea - ie microchipping people. We have all seen recent examples of excuses used to do that and I was only having a discussion earlier today with people ITRW - in which we were all agreeing that TPTB would love to be able to force microchips into us all (that we would then need to be able to get at our money even).

Now this was a group of perfectly ordinary women and we were all in agreement that we fear TPTB might have something like that lined up for everyone at some point.

Frugalsod

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

Mind you - talking about being able to get at your money and there's even worse possibilities. That being that thing that is no longer just an idea - ie microchipping people. We have all seen recent examples of excuses used to do that and I was only having a discussion earlier today with people ITRW - in which we were all agreeing that TPTB would love to be able to force microchips into us all (that we would then need to be able to get at our money even).

Now this was a group of perfectly ordinary women and we were all in agreement that we fear TPTB might have something like that lined up for everyone at some point.

Personally I think that they will have a hard time enforcing that in the UK. Also to force it would require some extreme circumstances to make it even acceptable. Considering bail ins will destroy the credibility of the government for competence will they even be able to get any support for it?

Frugalsod

Penny-Wise wrote: »

Anyone else tried Goblin brand stewed steak? I've found it online for 99p a tin & free delivery if you spend over £30. BBE 2018

I'm interested because it doesn't have wheat in it and I'm intolerant to wheat. But if it's so cheap as to be inedible is it worth buying?

The problem with very cheap meat in a can is that you really have no idea what it really is. Unless you have canned it yourself you really have to take it on trust.

Frugalsod

I think we here knew about this months ago.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-06-21/its-time-hold-physical-cash-fidelity-manager-warns-ahead-systemic-event

Blue_Doggy

Re microchipping people: the easiest way is to start with babies - most are born in hospital, and removed from the mother at some stage. Microchipping could be done at the same time as other administrations: registration of the birth is then possible only on production of the microchip number. The mother can be rolled into the same process. Home births would need a bit more "attention" but the registration business should catch most of those.

Older children who are not already done can be caught at vaccination time/school registration/university registration.

And no passport issued to people who are not microchipped.

Easy-peasy.

Makes my blood run cold.

moneyistooshorttomention

One suggestion in this mornings conversation was the worry that, any time people had to have an operation of any description, they might get an "added extra" inserted without their knowledge or consent. That is, of course, something that would be physically possible and we would all be reliant on our medical providers being too ethical and insisting they were there to do their job only (ie and not TPTB's job). However, we've seen enough examples of medical people doing totally unethical things on behalf of TPTB of their own era/country to believe that they would all choose to "keep their hands clean".

Blue_Doggy

If TPTB made the "chip" a condition of getting treatment, benefits, your new-born returned to you (only an unfit parent would refuse...), consent, even if reluctant, would be high.

Get a "Celebrity" to wrap it up prettily, ostracise the refusers.

Not that I'm a cynic or anything .

nuatha

Blue_Doggy wrote: »

Re microchipping people: the easiest way is to start with babies - most are born in hospital, and removed from the mother at some stage.
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Older children who are not already done can be caught at vaccination time/school registration/university registration.

And no passport issued to people who are not microchipped.

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

One suggestion in this mornings conversation was the worry that, any time people had to have an operation of any description, they might get an "added extra" inserted without their knowledge or consent.

There is no need to use chips, which are a tech that can be changed or neutralised.
Banks are working on a hand scanner for ATMs that identifies individuals from the pattern of veins in their hands. Biometric passports work from eyescans and fingerprint recognition.
The scifi advantage of RFID chips is tracking movement, but the power of these chips is so low that identification and tracking requires almost intimate contact. Contrast that with the unique identifier/tracker most of us choose to carry, the mobile phone and the number of CCTV cameras combined with both facial recognition software and software that identifies movement and gesture patterns.

Given the current government, I suspect the first step would be a benefit claimant card with biometrics to access services, pressure on the banks to improve security with biometrics on all bank accounts and you have a backdoor national identity scheme. Any one who didn't comply would be cut off from accessing banking and benefits, so add biometrics to driving licences - you can see how easy it would be and all without any invasive tech.

As my business card used to say, Professional Paranoid.

Penny-Wise_4

Frugalsod wrote: »

The problem with very cheap meat in a can is that you really have no idea what it really is. Unless you have canned it yourself you really have to take it on trust.

I don't have a pressure canner or I would can it myself.

Most cans of meat are cheap meats that I wouldn't normally eat - but no matter what species is in there- even if it contains actual goblin - this one at least doesn't have stuff I can't eat in it.

I simply cant find another tin of steak without gluten in it.