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   From: BS@tutanato.com   
      
   On 3/15/2025 12:37 AM, Jan Panteltje wrote:   
   > On a sunny day (Fri, 14 Mar 2025 09:11:04 -0600) it happened Burny Sanders   
   >  wrote in :   
   >   
   >> On 3/14/2025 1:09 AM, Jan Panteltje wrote:   
   >>> On a sunny day (Thu, 13 Mar 2025 07:01:51 -0600) it happened Burny Sanders   
   >>>  wrote in :   
   >>>   
   >>>> On 3/13/2025 12:35 AM, Jan Panteltje wrote:   
   >>>>> On a sunny day (Wed, 12 Mar 2025 21:53:09 -0600) it happened Burny   
   Sanders   
   >>>>>  wrote in :   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> Could not US sanctions have something to do with it?   
   >>>>> And at least Cubans have housing, do not sleep on the streets like   
   'merrycans.   
   >>>>> And it has sane leaders, unlike YouAsh   
   >>>>   
   >>>> It's funny that you don't see homeless Americans trying to escape to   
   >>>> Cuba on makeshift rafts for a better life.  The article stated that over   
   >>>> 100 nations don't have sanctions on Cuba.  Cuba outlawed guns, so the   
   >>>> people can't overthrow the shitty pseudo-Marxist white guy who lords   
   >>>> over them. Cuba is the Zimbabwe of the Caribbean.   
   >>>   
   >>> And as to solar panels, how many thousands are without power every year in   
   the US?   
   >>> Just a little wind is all it takes to kill all your over-ground wiring.   
   >>> I am in the Netherlands now, and most power wiring is underground.   
   >>> Do have solar panels, a DC to AC pure sinewave converter and 250 Ah lipo   
   battery backup anyways just in case.   
   >>> Largest outage was 2 hours a year or so ago, just kept watching TV,   
   >>> computers (5) just kept working, satellite TV the same.   
   >>> Communication.. am radio ham, no problem.   
   >>> So, for survival...   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >> You are obviously well prepared for weather emergencies, as is your   
   >> nation.  As for Cuba, it was a thriving nation prior to Marxist Fidel   
   >> Castro's experiment with communism and his nationalization of American   
   >> owned companies without compensation in 1959.  He had support in the   
   >> U.S. for a brief period of time and was even considered a George   
   >> Washington style revolutionary figure.  It seems that several Democratic   
   >> Party mayors and governors in the United States want to take us down the   
   >> same failed path that Castro did in Cuba.  Not sure why you seem to be   
   >> upset by my post which paints a sad picture of Cuba today.   
   >>   
   >> For the time being, at least, I support Elon Musk's DOGE and President   
   >> Trump's efforts to stop taxing Americans who work hard in order to   
   >> support illegal colonists that "Joe Biden" invited to invade our nation.   
   >>   
   >> I do appreciate your comments. I have one gasoline powered generator, a   
   >> few modified square wave inverters and one pure sine wave inverter along   
   >> with a few lead acid batteries lying around.  Our Democratic governor   
   >> and the Democratic state legislature are trying to disarm the citizens   
   >> of my state, Fidel Castro style, as they fight President Trump over   
   >> deporting the Tren de Aragua gang members Biden imported to the U.S.   
   >> Having read your comments, I am motivated to improve and update my   
   >> emergency supplies.  A neighboring state still supports the Second   
   >> Amendment, so I may have to visit a gun store there soon to improve my   
   >> personal arsenal.   
   >   
   > I am not really into guns   
   > That said, being an electronics designer I worked for the army and navy   
   here, even did some stuff for space.   
   > I am very familiar with the US, travelled all over it, and did some jobs   
   there.   
   > Went with a group of what was the word? 'hippies'   
   > travelling in an old Volkswagen bus, from place to place taking jobs we   
   found in the newspaper.   
   > That sure makes you learn things about US culture and survival.   
   > Got my visa cancelled when I tried to sneak into Canada,   
   > got in jail at the Mexican border, was with the gangs in NY, most places I   
   have been there.   
   > So... have not been in the US for many years, last time was Denver IIRC.   
   > Been camping in the wild nature in N America...   
   > Am almost 80 years old now.. but still sometimes feel that thing to get a   
   sailboat   
   > and sail south....   
   > CIA wanted me to work for them... I declined.   
   >   
   > Yesterday there was something on TV here about desperate US scientists who   
   see their (sometimes beneficial for humanity) research cancelled by Musky.   
   > I think they have demonstrations now in the US.   
   > As to picking oranges: I did that too for a while.   
   > Those science guys may flee to Europe ..   
   > all their good paying jobs gone, less sales for the shops, end of the US   
   empire?   
   > Will Texas leave the union and join Mexico? Drugs are cheaper there,.   
   > I stopped using drugs in the late seventies... Into chocolate now at times   
   :-)   
   > The smell of the stuff we smoked got into your closes at work,   
   > people gave you that funny look, worked in the national TV network as   
   technician for many years here, when the moon landings happened.   
   > Interesting world, now Europe seems to want to re-arm   
   > Germany borrowing a lot of money for weapons production.   
   > Timeline:   
   > Germany nuke test 2026   
   > V4 launches to free America 2027   
   > France invades Russia ??   
   >   
   > Personally I think we should make peace with Russia,   
   > and US has to pay every European compensation for the extra they had to pay   
   for gas after US had North-stream2 blown up.   
   > CIA pouting oil on every unrest just to sell weapons (Biden way), makes wars   
   everywhere.   
   > Is there a cyclus in time (of very large) wars?   
   > Some things I agree with, like Trump making peace in Ukraine, respecting   
   Russia.   
   > But Musky seems like / behaves like an idiot,   
   > That already started when he asked people on Twitter if he should buy it.   
   > If I design something or play on the stock market, I do not ask in a bar   
   what I should do.   
   > Now Musky may kill America...   
   > His same mentality (and Trumps) causes inaccuracy and errors, his Startships   
   crash again and again,   
   > debris over populated areas, same for Starlink debris falling in Poland.   
   > He (Musky) seems to be more into playing with his kids on TV than into   
   giving guidance to his SpaceX.   
   > Engineers would leave with a guy like that in control.   
   > His only brain pattern seems to be firing people.   
   > Boeing one problem after the other....   
   > Airplane crashes one after the other,   
   > And I see that firing thing now moving to the UK too, Starmer? firing the UK   
   health care system?   
   >   
   > In short, the Roman empire no longer exists, after 'Carthago must be   
   destroyed'.   
   >   
   > Same pattern.   
   >   
      
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