16 Sept 2022.- via our very own Longtime Vilca Expat- @Nick Vasey of 'INSTACASA REAL-ESTATE- LATEST Mailout Number 9- "Please find the link herein to the latest InstaCasa Real-Estate mailout-update to our subscribers. This update covers ...
1. my general thoughts on the state of play, globally, 2. how that is playing into ... the real-estate scenario in Vilcabamba (and Ecuador more generally),
3. my thoughts on the current Ecuadorian scenario, its attendant politics, etc, 4. what the feeling and flavour of things is in Vilcabamba at the moment,
5. and the latest half dozen or so real-estate listings we've added to our website. Feel free to share this link around to whomever you think might enjoy or benefit from it. Anyone who has any questions or wants to organize a chat with either myself or Santiago ... can PM me here, or alternatively get in touch via all the means supplied in this update. Best wishes to all.-
1. Global State of Play- "I have to say, this is an exciting, grimly fascinating and (frankly) kind of terrifying ... time to be alive. For anyone who has retained their critical thinking capacity after the relentless onslaught of propaganda and bullshit we've been subjected to in recent times, it kind of feels like society (globally) has, (since when exactly?)
become completely and ever-more-obviously un-moored from any stable or remotely sensible "platform" or common-sense ideology whatsoever ... and is now adrift in and getting buffeted by ... what feels more and more like the Perfect Storm....." -
https://mailchi.mp/f628cb6b5bcf/intotheperfectstorm
🤠iffin you gonna move down or remain in Ecuador on into 2025, get prepared for whats a coming down the pike🥷🏼its not and has not been just a Coastal & #GYE thang, its also a Sierra & Metro #Quito Thanggy as well👮🏻♂️💰
My 2025 NewYears Resolution is more time out on the La G range, zz style, 🎸🥁🎸 cuzz (imho) we gonna dang sure be a needin it🥷🏼if anybody wants to no longer be an outlaw? Call me to join our Qtowne Quito gun club and get legal to tote with a 55hr CCW Course,
now a days The CCW is pretty much streamlined down to this:
plan on about $300 for to join the gun club,about $200 or up to $300 for the CCW course,about $300 for psyche, psycho and toxico exams,
a 9mm Taurus for say $1200.
a 9mm CZ for say $1500.
aprox $80 to $100 for a box of 50rds 9mm FMJ
i see peeps now a days getting legally armed in about a 3-4 months time frame, kinda like a tuff assed visa process!
'Always be prepared' - BSA & SA,
"When guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns" - Louis L'Amour (1908-1988) Western novelist of ...
09OCT26 (23:15)🚨'Alert ECUADOR ORDERS TEMPORARY DISCONNECTION OF ELECTRICITY SUPPLY TO CERTAIN INDUSTRIES
⚡ "The Ministry of Environment and Energy announced that it has ordered the temporary disconnection of electricity supply to industries classified as "High Voltage 1" and to specific "Medium Voltage" industrial users, due to current conditions within the national electrical system.
📢 According to the statement, the measure is a response to hydrological conditions at power generation plants and difficulties in supplying fuel to power-generating barges caused by sea conditions.
🏠 What is the goal of this decision?
According to the authorities, the measure aims to prioritize electricity supply to Ecuadorian households while operational limitations persist.
🔌 Service restoration for the affected industrial users will take place once technical conditions allow, the Ministry reported.
⚠️ ATTENTION: The information provided does not specify the duration of the measure or the full list of ...
28JUL 2026☣️ 'Biological War: A Scenario' is a 2026 nonfiction book by American investigative journalist Annie Jacobsen.
Published in the United States by Dutton on July 28, 2026, the book examines the potential consequences of a large-scale biological attack or the accidental release of an engineered pathogen.
The book uses a fictional near-future catastrophe to describe how governments, health systems, armed forces and civilian populations might respond to the rapid spread of a highly lethal biological agent.
It combines the fictional scenario with accounts of historical biological-weapons programmes,
interviews with scientists and national-security officials, and discussion of advances in genetic engineering, synthetic biology and 👾artificial intelligence.
It is a thematic successor to Jacobsen's 2024 book -
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Nuclear War: A Scenario, which employed a similar narrative technique to describe the escalation of a hypothetical nuclear conflict!..." -
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