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   From: BS@tutanato.com   
      
   On 3/16/2025 12:55 AM, Jan Panteltje wrote:   
   > On a sunny day (Sat, 15 Mar 2025 11:04:00 -0600) it happened Burny Sanders   
   >  wrote in :   
   >   
   >> 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.   
      
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