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Are You Ready For WW3?

A Candid Journey Through Stockpiling, Strategy, and Survival in a Precarious World
Are You Ready For WW3?
In a fun year that seems to keep getting more fun every week (#ironyalert!) the EU (via the European Commission) has just launched a new “Preparedness Union Strategy” aimed at boosting Europe’s resilience to emerging threats. Among the 30 actions covering everything from early-warning systems to civil-military crisis exercises, it calls for “promoting population preparedness” by encouraging the public “to maintain essential supplies for a minimum of 72 hours in emergencies”. This follows on... read more
 
Posted by Steve Gould Thursday, March 27, 2025 1:57:00 PM Categories: America Andalusia Dystopia Electricity Food Geopolitics Spain WW3
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The demise of supermarket baskets.

I'm not a number, I'm a free man, and I don't want to use a trolley
The demise of supermarket baskets.
1st world problem I know, but I'm really cheesed off that my favourite supermarket here in Spain, Mercadona has phased out hand baskets - we're trolley only in my branch now, and while I've been suffering in silence about this for nine months or so, now is the time for the worm to turn. So I wrote them a letter of complaint about it yesterday in both Spanish and English, so let's see what happens. (My money is on nothing, as corporations always value profit over customer convenience). Here... read more
 
Posted by Steve Gould Thursday, March 20, 2025 12:11:00 PM Categories: Andalusia Dystopia Shopping Spain Spanish culture Tourism
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Adios

This is the last of my regular weekly postings
It's four in the morning. I've been binge-watching 'Mindhunter' and I just went to the kitchen to check on the sink, which has had problems draining. I boiled another five litres of water and poured it down with a litre of 6% wine vinegar which had been languishing at the back of the cupboard for years but it doesn't seem to make any difference. I'm at that stage in a non-practical man's life where I'm counting the times I buy the namby-pamby drain-cleaner solutions from the supermarket,... read more
 
Posted by Steve Gould Sunday, December 27, 2020 5:02:00 AM Categories: Andalusia Blogging Christmas Coronavirus Covid-19 Dystopia Poetry Spain Spanish Spanish culture
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