The vulnerable British national power grid.

[Silent Earth]

Jonnte / TF is not the SIZE that is the issue, its the vulnerability to your security, If your on a rented site with your micro home your landlord can raise rents or simply evict you. if you have bought or leased a chunk of land say in a forest to put your home on, A malicious State or Federal authority has a huge arsenal of laws / cons / deceits it can use to kick you off that land if they decide you are not complying and toeing the line. In the US some environmental protection laws are nothing more than big sticks to beat off gridders and homesteaders into submission. A couple of states have threatened home and land siezures and even prison time to some folks if they do not connect to mains power, water and sewage systems at huge personal expense.

 

[jontte]

independence from the big boys,seems to be a curse word these days,that's why my dream place,if I get it,will cost a little more as the land will be bought too,it's an extra 10 big ones..

 

[Silent Earth]

independence from the big boys,seems to be a curse word these days,that's why my dream place,if I get it,will cost a little more as the land will be bought too,it's an extra 10 big ones..

Go for it my friend, you wont regret it.

 

[ANACONDA]

I seriously doubt Putin is going to commit an act of war against one of the major security council members of the UN.
Proxy wars for former satellites, that's a different story....but the UK? Nope...not going to happen.

Now is not the time to openly commit a military act.
Suffice it to choose the 3 most depressive areas, to bring in each of them a wagon of weapons and distribute it to everyone who wants it for free. A week later, a small, decisive war will begin there, and a week later, the rebel leaders, financially stimulated by the Russians, will raise Russian flags on the territories they are holding and declare themselves to be part of Russia.
In the UN, the Russians, as always, say that this is an internal conflict, they are not there, they did nothing there, and all your evidence is not evidence

 

[Squirtgunsquirter]

My dream home is an Airstream. Always has been.

Don't like my neighbors? The view? Back up the Ranchero and down the road I go. Might as well, I haven't lived in one place for more than 5 years since I was a little kid, and my wife is almost as bad.

Home and land ownership has its upsides and downsides as well.

Besides, I would choose a tent (if it was a nice tent) over the condo.

As far as the power grid, I seem to recall a few years back, reading an article about someone shooting cooling oil tanks on power substations out west somewhere... like they were timing how long it took crews to respond. Can't find the article now.

Power runs on high wires attached to big spindly metal structures. Pretty susceptible to sabotage. In any country.

 

[lonewolf]

not just susceptible to sabotage, but winter storms and icy weather too.
we get one flake of snow in the UK and the whole country grinds to a halt.

 

[Gazrok]

It simply won't happen. I'd bet on an asteroid impact first.

 

[lonewolf]

my money's on an EMP/Solar Storm.

 

[Gazrok]

I just can't see Putin attacking any NATO power, that's just suicide

 

[Silent Earth]

Further to my post 11 & 13 in this thread.

Divide, Isolate and Conquer.
Contemplate this, Yes most of us hate stuff like Twatter and Facebook and other Instant Media systems, (1) Ever thought your underlying distrust and dislike of these things may be a subconscious warning to you from the same department that makes the hairs to stand on the back of your neck or persuades you to cross the road to avoid some strange unusual people near the ATM.

What about false news, organised trolling, misinformation, stories about data harvesting, propaganda stories, online fraud, stories about your ID being cloned, talk about the Mic and Camera on your phone and laptop being controlled remotely by bad people etc etc Most of it is probably true and its all very bad for our privacy, liberty and security.

It makes people like you and I question the validity and accuracy of everything thing we see, hear and read, it creates suspicion and mistrust. it makes us very cautious and sceptical. None of that is necessary a bad thing, only a fool takes things on face value BUT. Its also a pretty good weapon for creating mistrust among anti establishment types like us. We find it hard and harder to trust others even within our own community because we don't know what we see or hear is true. Just like the German propaganda ministry did in the 1940s in places like France, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Greece etc among the assorted resistance groups.

The net end result of such spreading distrust of ALL media sources is we become ever more isolated from other people like ourselves, divide and conquer by stealth and lies what more could the ruling elite want ?