THE Prepping thread - a new beginning :)

ivyleaf

That's great news thriftwizard :T

(That your mother is able to use her legs again, I mean, not that she won't be able to make her own supper yet )

thriftwizard

Panic over, she's coming home tomorrow. I should be able to carve a few minutes out of the day to buy in some necessities!

mardatha

That's nice to hear xx

daz378

Thriftwizard good to hear your family situation getting better. ive been sorting through 2nd bedroom 7 FB pies to eat this year.... took some early 2016 tins to flat reception about a carrier bag full on way to shopping ...upon my return they were gone...good to see someone could use them...was emptying storage containers for newer tins....dont want all my tins on kitchen shelves. take care

maryb

Interesting article in the Torygraph from Ambrose Evans Pritchard
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2016/09/21/un-fears-third-leg-of-the-global-financial-crisis-with-epic-debt/

The headline looks like pure doomer !!!!!!. But it's actually a bit more interesting than that. I wonder if we could manage a turnaround in thinking to a more productive economy that - whisper it- resulted in decent jobs for the majority not just the elite

GreyQueen

I've just been reading that myself, maryb. Got it open on another tab as we speak, in fact.

The Torygraph isn't a renowned outpost of tinhattery and this is a respectable journalist.

This exerpt:
It allegedly "works" for emerging nations, and this is cited as the paramount moral justification even if free flows of capital have regrettably allowed multinationals to fatten on 'labour arbitrage' and play off western wages at against low-pay hubs abroad.
But what UNCTAD shows is that globalisation has not in fact worked for these countries, bar a few exceptions. One starts to suspect that it works for nobody except the owners of capital and their close allies.

Some of us have been convinced of this for many years already.:rotfl:

westcoastscot

Interesting article Maryb thank you. I don't see how we can avoid another/a continuation of the latest recession/depression. I know the powers that be, and lots of people on the street, are congratulating themselves that the sky didn't fall after the brexit vote, but has no-body realised that nothing has actually happened yet in that regard? I just don't see how we can come out of the brexit vote unscathed - we're so far from being an autonomous country now that we just cannot exist in a vacuum, and we haven't really recovered from events of recent years. Certainly here in Argyll the worst is yet to come, going by the cuts that are coming our way the next couple of years.

maryb

suggestions are that Philip Hammond is prepared to spend on productive investment. But what's to say it won't end up being owned by foreign investors who just drain the profits?

Whereas the French were completely unembarassed by claiming that Danone was an industry of strategic national importance and should not therefore be allowed to be taken over by foreign investors

GreyQueen

The taking over of UK utilities and other key businesses has been disquieting me for decades now. To me, having the key controls over your power, and any number of other things, in the hands of foriegn entitites, is nothing short of madness.

Those entities may be part of neutral or allied nation-states at the time of the takeover, but who knows how long that state of affairs may pertain?

If someone else has control of the resources your nation needs to survive, they have you by the proverbial short and curlies.

ivyleaf

I did read today that TTIP looks close to collapsing. Should I be pleased, or not? I haven't a clue - I'd sort of gathered that TTIP was a Bad Thing, but the piece said that it would be much more difficult for the UK to secure trade deals after Brexit without it.