I recently read an article describing Imperial Japans 1880-1945 period. Japen's desire to dominate their geographic sphere (Week China, Russia) compares well with today's China. China is a Commie country, what commies do well is REGRESS their economies and they do not invent - no incentive. The people like Huewie can easily be compared to Russia's Oligarchs of recent times
Therefore China steeling IP can be related to Japan's need for raw materials a hundred years ago.
And as with Imperial Japan back then, today we (West) do not really know what is going on in China
So I woke up this morning.....NO HEAT!
Now I’d noticed the heat was anemic this past week and kept checking and checking. Finally I called the propane people and asked when they are going to deliver me propane.
“Our driver was out there about three weeks ago and said you had plenty of fuel.”
I told her that it’d been about three MONTHS since I had propane delivery. Of course most of that time was Summer and Fall but I do have a dryer running on propane so it’s not as it if it’s just the furnace using up the propane.
Still and so it’s been anemic and last night, of course, I was freezing. I check my thermostat at about 6:45 am and it read 56 degrees.
I called here and called yon. My propane people referred to me to a HVAC company, $220 an hour, but they would be there within an hour.
So “Mark” comes, goes into the crawl space....and....more on this.
My husband died in 2013. He had worked at Sears for 30 years and he fixed every appliance in this house, took care of air conditioners, furnaces...yada, yada.
I know that our furnace needed a new filter but had no idea how to replace, what size to buy, etc.
So Mark crawls under the house to the furnace, something I could never, ever do.
He got the furnace running again. I asked him what was wrong.
He told me it was on “lockdown” for an hour, he didn’t know why, but he reset this and reset that.
Then he goes over to the place where the furnace filter is, removed the grate, pulls it out and....in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost, it was covered with about three inches high of dust.
Mark puts the grate back and tells me to get another filter. He also told me that this was probably why the furnace shut down. And recall how anemic the heat was last week, so much so that I’d called the propane people.
Mark told me I could have re-set the fuse on the furnace at the breaker box because I told him no way could I crawl into that crawl space.
Anyway, it’s working. I am now $220 poorer but I have heat I was terrified of needing a new furnace, going without heat with all my pets....scared out of my mind.
DON’T FORGET TO CHANGE YOUR FURNACE FILTERS!!!
Could shut down your heat.
He goes into all that. The Japanese were VERY reluctant to fight the USA. And in months leading up to the war, they had gotten their noses punched hard by the Soviet's elite Far Eastern corps. They did not want to fight both.
They had a spy working in the Soviet embassy who told them that Stalin had pulled these troops to fight the Germans in October of 1941.
This led to Hirohito's war cabinet to agree to attack Pearl Harbor. Up until that time, it might never have happened. Japan only had 6 months of oil left for their fleet.
"East Wind, Rain" was one of three possible "execute" messages which Japanese diplomats around the world had been alerted to begin listening for on November 19th. They were told to monitor the regular news and weather broadcasts from Tokyo, just as they always did, but to pay especially careful attention to the phraseology employed to describe the weather."East wind, Rain" went out on November 20th, 1941.If they heard the words "North Wind, Cloudy," it meant war with the Soviet Union.
If they heard the words "West Wind, Clear," it meant war with the British Empire.
And if they heard the words "East Wind, Rain," it meant war with the United States.
It was very much a last minute decision.