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February 17, 2008Newsletter
"Politically Incorrect" Recycling. And "Wanta" Hear an Incredible Story which Just Might Be (somewhat) True?
I will get to "recycling" in a minute. However, over the past week I have been engaged in research that I, who takes little credence with "conspiracy theory" but when it comes to "conspiracy fact" suspends disbelief, couldn't help but be involved in: "wantagate", which is a cutsey name for what (if it really is true and there is little reason to believe it isn't true) could very well be the biggest bank/oligarch fraud since the creation in 1694 of the modern fiat-money banking system, and involves the Bush/Cheney, Clinton, and Bush I Administrations, among others. As I said, if this story is true, because, folks, while the positive ramifications of the resolution of this might be too good to be true (and, since it involves NESARA, it may be too good to be true), I have no doubt at all that those involved in perpetrating this fraud are perfectly capable of having pulled it off and covered it up, at least until now. But I digress: back to "how to really recycle."
Back when we were building our house about 20 years ago or so, we built or acquired most of the necessary furniture or structures necessary to live a simpler (than probably most everybody else's) existence. But we never built or bought cabinets, and I assumed that well, we were going to be the first couple ever to not use kitchen cabinets! Or something. I've slept since then, but I am fairly sure that I asked my husband at some point: "When are we going to get kitchen cabinets?" (since we were at the time putting things like canned goods in boxes) and his probable answer was "Eventually." And it was true back then that since I was teaching out of the area (but still relatively close by) I, full time, and he, part time, lived in what we called "teacherages" or "teacher trailors" next to the school. In fact from 1986 to 1991 when I taught full time we mostly lived in our present-day house weekends only. That decision was made because I wanted to stay home to raise the family and concentrate on that (I did, however, go back to the local college to get a Master's Degree in Counseling).
Well, when you start having kids things change. You simply CANNOT (for their safety and your sanity) leave everything in boxes on the floor where babies and toddlers can reach in and put whatever into their mouths, or fall over and hit their baby heads on furniture or climb up onto then fall and break limbs. A "back to the simple life" couple can live a somewhat cluttered and disordered existence, but little ones can't. And then the kids grow up, go over to friends houses and see how organized everything is then come back home and wonder why the heck can't my parents stop living like "hippies"? So it was, around 1996 or 1997 or 1998...or maybe 1995, I simply don't remember the year...that I took it upon myself, having been fed up with complaints and and possiblities of serious accident and just the general feeling of "I would really like my house to look normal, if not laden with luxuries," to make our cabin more livable. I moved furniture where I thought it should be, and made the loft a bedroom (it had been a storage area for all kinds of junk, tools, keepsakes, personal items, etc.). And then I set the kitchen right, and this is where the recycling comes in.
I didn't have kitchen cabinets, but I did have a "baby changing table" my husband built out of scrap wood that I turned into a "cupboard" for canned and jarred goods, plastic wrap/wax paper/aluminum foil/etc. and eating utensils. We also had several microwave-type ovens, most of which had stopped working. We also had an old hand-me-down desk and would later be given (by a neighbor who didn't need it) a bookshelf of unfinished hardwood. With the hand-made "shaker styled" kitchen table and a single counter including stovetop and sink and one section for the dish rack and one section for food preparation (probably the most used four square feet in the whole house!), we put together a good working arrangement for the kitchen, which is undoubtedly the most used area of the house (actually, we don't have rooms as much as "areas". The kitchen-dining-"office" area is in one space on one side of the house, and the living room-outdoor/camping/fishing/emergency equipment area is in another space on the other side of the house, separated by wood burning stove and fish tanks. There are separate rooms for bathroom (enclosed on the kitchen side) and kids' bedroom (on the living room side), with the loft above the kids' room. All in all a little over 1,000 square feet. Yes, you can raise two kids in a very small house (and I've known a family to raise three kids in a house half the size of ours!).
Now, recycling. I call it "politically incorrect" recycling because few Americans (but many third worlders, if they could get their hands on such items) have the "sensibility" to take old microwave ovens or regular or convection ovens or scrap wood shelvings--or any unfinished wood items, period--and incorparate these things into their house furniture. People generally like "nice looking" stuff in their homes and leave the "ugly" stuff for basements or garages. But necessity is the "mother of" invention, or at least wise use. And I am a believer in wise use! Why throw away when you can use? Why throw away an old Amana Radar-range when you can put your dishes it to keep the dust and the spider-dropping off them? Why throw away your old small microwave that stopped working when you can put your bowls into it? Why throw out an old desk when you can put a shelf on top that holds your convection oven and several appliances? Why throw out a "baby changing table" when you can use it to store canned goods and stack other appliances on top? And then I really went hog-wild for this recycling and got one sheet of scrappy wood and laid it across an area (above the garbage bin) afixed to the stove top on one end and the "changing table shelf" on the other end: this piece of wood, coverd with a cloth, is where I put my pots, to keep them handy and out of the way of bugs under the sink. Another old desk is now being used for numerous house plants because it's by the window. And another bookshelf nearby holds other appliances and more canned food.
Finally, since I am using all these bookshelves for kitchen stuff, what are we doing with the huge amount of books we have? Well, back before this major recycling project we kept every single book we owned on the floor of the bathroom, but one day it rained so hard that water seeped into the bathroom from outside (and yes our house is above the ground on pilings of rock) and ruined several books (one on fruitarianism, which is even more ascetic than vegetarianism or veganism, and another book on holistic house building which was the guide to our house). After that (this was back in the mid-80s), my husband borrowed an idea from his friend who helped him build his mother's house: instead of putting a wall between the living room and the bedroom (kids's room now), make the wall of bookshelves! So my husband cut out sections for shelves into the wall joists and put shelves in according to the sizes of books; some from 5 by 7 mass market paperbacks, some for hardbacks. Yet, we still needed room for more books as we got them. So, using heavy duty and well-preserved scrap wood--as well as left-over "bee boxes" (that are used to ship bees in...did I mention my husband was also a beekeeper at the time?)--and other heavy boxes full of self-published fiction books that remain unsold (yeah, I know, what weirdo self-publishes fiction??)--we now have plenty of bookshelf space! Further, those fish tanks I mentioned: one tank is on a tank stand that was bought with the tank (and given to use by a neighbor as partial payment for services rendered), and another tank stand was built by my husband out of more well-preserved scrap wood. Along with a few other furniture pieces that were given to us by nearby relatives a long time ago when we were first starting out, as well as a VERY FEW pieces of furniture we had to buy (which I'll tell you about in a minute), that pretty much tells you about our house: we built all of our house and most of our furniture.
In fact, the only items in our house that we bought (or were bought for us as gifts) are the following: our couch (another chair was given to us because the seat part has a rip in it, which I refurbished), the children's crib (now used to hold camping equipment), our new mattress in the loft, the kids' bunk bed, an old kitchen table (now in th ekids room to hold the old computer-set up), the bathroom sink (marble, scallop-shaped), kitchen sink/counter/stove top, computer desk (given by another person for services rendered), refrigerator, toilet, dresser drawers (one from a relative, one from a neighbor, bought for $75), and a few footlockers that now hold various personal items. I may have left out a few things, but basically that's about it. Total spent on furniture when brand new: less than $2,000 easily. Think: how many people go deep into debt because they have to have brand-new furniture that "looks nice"? Now, as small as this house is, I'd venture a guess that if we bought all of our furniture brand new when we needed it, we'd probably still be heavily into debt over it. Probable cost at the time would be well over $10,000, and I am being conservative. I truly believe that with the debt/credit/recession (dare I call it depression?) we are in now, I truly believe we made the right decision to recycle for furniture.
Now, back to the "wanta" business...
It all apparently started when President Reagan was trying to bring down the "evil empire", the old Soviet Union. Many factors off course brought it down, but perhaps the most important and least understood reason was the collapse of the ruble currency. Reagan apparently assigned a CIA agent, Leo Wanta, to set this scheme up using a huge sum of American dollars that would, as the plan worked out, be used in all sorts of fraud schemes between the CIA and US-friendly "Russian oligarch/mafia types" (allied, I presume, with Boris Yeltsin) to destroy the ruble. But you know how CIA schemes work: this one definitely got out of control, and the most of the funds authorized by Reagan to be used by Wanta got "siphoned off" if you know what I mean. Since I am still not absolutely sure this thing is for real, I am not going to recapitulate all of this and I'd probably need several newsletters to do it, so instead I will post the links and let you, dear reader, do your own research and judge for yourself. In fact, I almost hope this IS a hoax! It is all tied into NESARA somehow, and, in my opinion, NESARA (some kind of world wide financial recovery act) is really, truly, too good to be true (I referenced this act in my "Ron Paul/Devil's Advocate" article here). Further, to know that our past/present five presidential administrations can be involved with such massive fraud that could easily destroy the economies of the whole planet is truly disgusting and I'd like to think the Bushes and the Clintons couldn't possibly be this corrupt!). Here are the pertenent links:
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