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Many stores have extended Black Friday to Cyber Saturday. Cyber Monday sales are extended to Cyber Tuesday. We're on a roll and I see special sales that should be extended all through the month of December.
Black Friday extended... extended... extended...

I post stuff here to help expose what I think is wrong about Globalization. I believe in borders. If you wish to debate anything I post discuss it amongst yourselves or if no one else wants to engage your debate then discuss it among your inner voices. Feel free to post anything btw.

..... here we go

Speaking at the WEF, former head of the IMF's China division, Eswar Prasad: CBDC will be programmable, in a way that will enable governments to dictate how, when, where, on what and by whom they can be spent, including the imposition of expiry dates.

CBDCs are a totalitarian's wet dream, and would enable governments to centrally enforce tyrannical policies on an industrial scale—at the flick of a switch—without the need for human enforcement agents.

Not "up to date" with your injections? Exceeded your weekly carbon allowance? Ventured outside of your designated '15 minute' district? Oops, no money for you!

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And cash is not here to stay..... as the ECBDC wants everyone to believe.

So much for fading peacefully into hibernation. I get to work hours trying to seal my vacant house to make it through winter since my tenant died suddenly. Lucky I am still able bodied.His daughter, son and their family spent November sorting, clearing, hauling and settling his estate. A lawyer, he had no will. Said had little so intestate and kids get it anyway. Yeah..a mess to sort out! I sorted in carport and found out that he saw, he bought and never opened and ended up in the dirt. Left kids to wonder how to bury him with no money. Family helped to cremate him, cheapest way..and that was $5000!
They left stuff they didn't want, I can use in barn or in the house. I salvaged back out of the $1000 dumpster their gramps rented. Beds and sofas went cause no one will take a smokers stuff. Sad. What a waste.
Except for the piano that goes next weekend, they are cleared out. So now I shut the house down and seal for winter. Can do whatever with no one living in it. Furnace goes to 60 only. May put on old style that goes to 50. Try to heat all winter cause can work on it and need water to barn. If ends up using a few hundred gas a month, no choice but drain water and use heat lamps in cellar for barn pipe.
I started by using heavy plastic taped over LR and 2 kitchen windows, plus pink styrofoam insulation nailed and curtain taped. Got an idea, checked sofas in dumpster. HA! Cushions and bolster solid foam rubber. So stripped and stuffed in bathroom window and one kitchen and plastic taped over. Let cold try to get through that! I salvaged the interlocking foam floor mats, laid along outer floor bottoms, laid his rugs across LR wood floor to block cold coming up between logs. Shut down upstairs door and blanket over it.
Hauled spare bricks and laid secondary wall along sill plate to cellar, added 3 concrete blocks sitting on top of windshield reflective cover, then filled in and over with barnyard. It is broken, degraded hay and manure. Should insult cellar more.
Now I want to take aluminum foil and tape to porch doors to reflect heat back into rooms.
With luck can keep gas usage low. Not much other ideas to do except bury the whole house.
And now although I have a dog trot from main house to barn, I get to slog through cold and snow to other house. Can I run away from home?

I have nothing against Islam. It is the Jihadists that worry me. And those who think what is happening in Israel is something local and isolated, better have another think. It is part of something much bigger.

Israel only appears to be a hotbed because they are more successful against the Jihadists. But open your eyes and look around. You'll find them all over. To name just a few locations, I can start with countries like Syria, Lebanon, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Congo, Kenya, Somalia and, not long ago, as far south as Mozambique. This list is not nearly complete.

Europe and the Americas only think they're safe. It's already sticking its head out in France. Belgium, Denmark and Sweden also had problems with these Jihadists while the USA had their hands full with Al Qaeda. We remember 911 all too well.

On their own they appear as local and unrelated insurgencies but collectively they become a global catastrophe and I think those who don't see what's going on, don't want to see it.

Of course, I may be paranoid. I grew up in a country where we were spooked with all kinds of dangers. There were the black danger, the red danger, the yellow danger and any other conceivable danger but that does not mean that I'm wrong. As Adrian Monk said: "I may be wrong but I don't think so."

So, fellow singles from around the world, as Cody Rhodes asked in every appearance, what do you want to talk about? And by this, I mean what do you want to discuss in relationships? What topics would attract a person to commit to a relationship, whether mutual or more? What could be said to keep the interest going? Or, if no interest be found, what could be said to appear interesting that maybe, just maybe, a relationship could be formed in the first place?

And no, I am not on drugs when I wrote this. Well, unless you count caffeine...

I hate November, well this one this year.
Started off with a massive storm here, 185 kms an hour. Luckily we were warned. So shutters shut and as much battened down as i could. Then the fun started. Laid in bed listening to the top of my chimney banging, yes found that in the garden the next day. Moved downstairs, next to go was the roof off my terrace, still haven't found that. Then the trees started, three down, two with branches hanging off, well i was looking for a place for a wildlife pond, now I have the hole with no digging. Then 9 days without electricity, my trips to the rubbish bins with two dead freezers great. No electric, no, phone, can't recharge my mobile, no WiFi etc, cats moaning because its cold, yes no central heating and wood store under the rootless terrace now wet.finally got electricity the morning I sailed for 10 days in the UK. Let's just say England has changed a journey which normally took two hours was fours hours due to road works and General traffic omg so much traffic.
Finally arrived back in france, sigh of relief. More dam traffic and I'm sitting still in a queue of traffic and bang I'm rear ended so hard I'm pushed into the car in front. So I've now only got one side of my car undamaged. The insurance company loves me this week, house, car insurance claims plus one earlier this year for my new knee plus now a hospital appointment to see if its still in place. Next.

The internet is filling up with repetitive never-ending webpages. The example is Pinterest. Someone posts a page and links 30 other pages who in turn are linked to another 30 pages. Over and over again, so one photo appears on the internet several hundred times.
The same thing with X (Formerly Twitter that will always be Twitter) when someone says something stupid, 400 people copy it and it gets regurgitated no less than 2,000 times.

Something simple like a (wannabe) fashion model re-posting the same 10 photos on their Facebook page. Wasn't one standing by that expensive sports car enough? You think you're scrolling to the bottom of their page only to find you haven't... there's more and more. Go ahead, scroll down... there's lots more. It's never-ending.

This blog isn't a rant... instead it's a statement of fact. Saturation is everywhere and where we are headed doesn't look pretty.

Programmers have created programs that will scan your hard drive and let you know if a photo appears more than once so you have the opportunity of deleting the duplicates. The internet needs to apply the same thought.

Scrolling to the bottom of someone's page will then be possible.

Or at least go visit every year during fall, just to get my hands on them yummy ginkgo biloba that can be found all over NYC in abundance.

I spent Thanksgiving with my son in NYC. My first trip to NYC and for him, the second. We arrived on Tuesday and the first thing that struck me as we got out from the subway station and walked to our hotel that was just two blocks away, the streets were lined with beautiful ginkgo biloba trees or commonly known as Maidenhair trees here in North America. Their light-green leaves turned gloriously golden in fall.





They are everywhere in the streets of New York!



Strawberry Fields should be called Ginkgo Fields instead





I decided to watch the Rockettes on my last night in NYC. On my way walking back to the hotel ( which took me less than 20 minutes), I stopped by the side of a church to collect the fallen ginkgo fruits by the pavement, produced by female ginkgo trees.











To the uninitiated, the pulp of the ginkgo fruit has been compared from rancid butter to dog excrement!



It was cold and windy but it didn’t deter me from taking my gloves off and with my bad knees, bend ing over to collect them, one by one., with my bare hand. I spent about an hour and reluctantly pulled myself away and resumed my walk back to the hotel. Upon reaching the hotel, I discovered there were more fruits to be collected in front of the hotel and the nuts from those fruits were really “plumpy” and that made plumpy MiMi very happy!

I put them in my carry-on bag and was keeping my fingers crossed that the double layers of plastic bags will contain the putrid smell and was hoping no leakage or whatsoever. I certainly do not want the smell to permeate through the whole aircraft cabin





Was washing them in the kitchen when Art suddenly walked in and started screaming, “What in the hell is THAT smell?!?!! Puke? Dead animal?!?

He went on, “What are you going to do with them?!?”
I answered, “Why, I eat them of course! I’ve been eating them all my life!” Feeling annoyed and went on to explain to him the health benefits of consuming ginkgo biloba. He was not impressed at all and made me promised I will get rid of the smell by tomorrow morning.

I lit several scented candles and spray the whole house with air freshener hoping to be ridden of the vile and foul smell before Art wakes up.

Well, I’m too tired to think of other hacks and going to sleep now, thinking of the yummy dessert I’d be making with these nuts

Pak gor yee mai fu chuk, my late maternal grandma used to make them every now and then. Can be consumed either hot or cold.

It's almost Christmas, so I have been out buying presents today.

I forgot how expensive that is. I'm happy it's Christmas once a year.

All in all, I have spent 1700 kroner, or $250/£200, and I am not done yet. I still need to buy three gifts and a bottle of champagne, so it's gonna be a very expensive next few weeks.

Speaking of expensive..

For the past few days, one of the wheels on my gaming chair have shown signs of failure. The chair is just over a year old, so there's still warranty on it. Today, the wheel broke off completely, so I have written the company to say that their product is faulty. It looks like the welds snapped.

I haven't abused it, and I haven't exceeded the weight limit either, since the chair can support up to 150 kilos. I am not near that weight, so I'm guessing it's a production error. According to the Danish Sale of Goods Act of 2003, any product purchased comes with a 2 year right of complaint. That means if anything breaks under normal wear and tear within those two years, the company I have purchased the chair from, can either refund me the complete amount, or send a replacement item. I might just go for the money back and buy a different chair somewhere else. But for the moment, I am sitting on a chair with 4 wheels instead of 5.

We'll see what happens..