More Fed Rates Hikes Are Coming
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Getting ready for CBDCs and Banning #Bitcon
4 Critical Prepper’s Recipes & Cooking Skills
https://www.cityprepping.com/2023/05/19/4-grid-down-prepper-recipes-using-what-you-have/
Good article for beginners.
A man who was convicted of raping & killing a 10-year-old child was released on lifetime parole in New York. He promptly went on to allegedly commit more violent crimes & remained free due to the state's restorative justice laws. He's now charged with another rape. https://thepostmillennial.com/man-on-lifetime-parole-for-raping-killing-child-charged-with-sexual-assaulting-elderly-woman?utm_campaign=64470. #newyork
Microsoft has uncovered malicious activity carried out by Volt Typhoon, a state-sponsored actor based in China that typically focuses on espionage and information gathering. Microsoft assesses with moderate confidence that this Volt Typhoon hacking campaign is pursuing development of capabilities that could disrupt critical comms infrastructure between the United States and Asia region during future crises.
Los Angeles: City Council approves Mayor Bass' budget, allocates $1.3 billion to fight homelessness.
Let’s run some numbers on Karen Bass’ “Safe Inside” program:
- 1,205 placements in rooms
- 22,427 hotel room-nights utilized
- total cost to date $34,000,000
That comes out to more than $1500 a night per room.
Somebody is getting rich under the guise of housing the homeless…
#LA #California #Homelessness
Situational Awareness - #Cybersecurity / Global Defense: Microsoft is reporting that "Volt Tycoon", a Chinese Communist Party affiliated hacking group, installed malicious code to U.S. telecommunications systems in #Guam as part of an "espionage campaign" capable of "destructive attacks".
Assessment: The group's targets appear to be focused on "critical infrastructure such as communications, electric/gas utilities, maritime operations, and transportation. An intial takeaway on this breach would be a Chinese attempt to probe for "ways-in" for a future attack to disrupt U.S. interference in a potential Chinese invasion of Taiwan. Guam is a Pacific strategic point for U.S. forces.
》Sources: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/24/us/politics/china-guam-malware-cyber-microsoft.html
Watered-down gas found in #Minnesota #gas stations leads to costly repairs for local drivers
Social Engineering: How to Defend Against #Manipulative Wolves in Sheep’s Clothing
https://www.offgridweb.com/preparation/social-engineering/amp/
Fermented Strawberry #Rhubarb Soda – Fermented with Wild Yeast
https://learningandyearning.com/fermented-strawberry-rhubarb-soda-fermented-with-wild-yeast/
7 Great Ways to Use #Rhubarb Leaves Around the Home or Garden
How To Can Homemade #Grape Juice
Growing #Zucchini
These are some of the people who'll be impacted if the U.S. defaults on its #debts
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#veterans
#Infrastructure: Power Grid
NERC projects "elevated risk" to the power supply in all regions of U.S. except Southeast; prepare for outages during summer 2023.
The North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) has published its Annual Summer Reliability #Power #Grid Assessment which has projected an "elevated risk" to electrical supply across the nation. Exempting the Southeast; the assessment found that most of the U.S. is at risk for blackouts/brownouts (temporary unplanned/planned power outages).
NERC reports that "challenges of the rapidly-changing resource mix" (climate change initiatives shifting energy production away from fossil fuels) and a "substantial increase in forecasted peak demand and new loads" are causing the risk estimates. Renewable energy dependency is expected to cause the summer to "have tighter hours than last summer with a higher risk of emergency operations."
Specific risks were projected for New England and all states West of Ohio (West, Midwest, Southwest, and Northeast).
A review of the assessment explained that "natural gas and coal delivery infrastructure constraints, new federal environmental restrictions, supply chain issues, low water levels near hydropower plants, and 'unexpected tripping' of wind and solar resources during grid disturbances all represent other risks facing the U.S. grid."
》Sources: https://www.nerc.com/pa/RAPA/ra/Reliability%20Assessments%20DL/NERC_SRA_2023.pdf | https://www.foxnews.com/politics/us-power-grid-facing-elevated-risk-shortages-summer-green-energy-push-watchdog
That Sinking Feeling. The U.S. East Coast Is Subsiding
https://www.engineering.com/story/that-sinking-feeling-the-u-s-east-coast-is-subsiding