Global Shortages of Everything

[Sue (Ayt)]

Out of curiosity, I typed in "shortage" on Google News, just to see what came up.
OMG - there are so many MSM articles now about shortages all over the world.
Even though I limited it to only articles in the past 24 hours, pages and pages of results came up!

Here's a few headline examples from page 1 alone:


Bad news, car buyers: Chip shortage, supply chain woes are worse than we thought
Boris Johnson's Brexit choices are making Britain's fuel and food shortages worse
Why Is Everyone Talking About a Global Power Shortage? (bloomberg)
The day care shortage and the worker shortage
Red Cross experiencing blood shortage
Nationwide alcohol shortage impacts local business
CO2 shortage could force farmers to cull own pigs


Anyway, this thread can be about shortages that we are reading about, noticing ourselves, wondering why they are happening, and ways to best prepare.

For whatever reasons, seems they are certainly putting the squeeze on!
:(

[gini]

Gravitas US Edition: Europe's energy crisis to worsen with the onset of Winter .28 sept- 4 minutes

Winter is coming & Europe is worried. Natural Gas is alarmingly in short supply in UK, France, Germany & Spain. This crunch could get worse as the temperature drops. Millions will be unable to heat their homes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RlzeONwBQE

China turns off traffic lights amid power crunch .28 sept- 4 minutes

Hundreds of homes and factories in China are going dark amid a major power crunch. Some cities are turning off traffic lights to ration power. Why is China running out of energy? What does it mean for the world
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_b8R4vaRRGQ

Will the UK use the Army to transport petrol ? 28 sept-4 minutes

Up to 90% of the pumps in major British cities were out of fuel today. Reports say UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson could consider using the army to deliver fuel to petrol stations.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHqmvZfh3sU

[palehorse]

Shortage on everything, the Deposit Protection Agency in Thailand announced this year the deposit protection for customers is much lower now (capped to 1 million thai baht), more than 250 banks closed their branches since the start of covaids plandemix.
The great adoption of crypto currency in Thailand, there is no interest to the average depositor to keep their money in the bank, it worth more buying Gold which is very common over here, or buying crypto currency as seem many Thai people now is jumping in this new trend.

Shortage on fiat, death of banks on the horizon!!!

source: https://www.archyde.com/bank-of-thailand-adjusts-deposit-protection-limit-to-1-million-baht-but-why-crypto-people-can-still-smile/

There is many sources about it, the above is a kind of neutral one, Thai media stinks they usually has a one-way to explain things and not open to an alternative point of view.

[sijohn]

Common sense and consideration for others in large part of world population

[Sue (Ayt)]

Common sense and consideration for others in large part of world population

Yes - Those are a couple of shortages that I miss the most!

[syrwong]

China is hard hit by the rising price of coal. The world factory may reduce the production of goods. Will this trigger rapid inflation worldwide?



https://edition.cnn.com/2021/09/28/economy/china-power-shortage-gdp-supply-chain-intl-hnk/index.html

China's power shortages threaten more supply chain chaos and may hit GDP
Hong Kong (CNN Business)A growing power supply crunch in China is triggering blackouts for households and forcing factories to cut production, threatening to slow the country's vast economy and place even more strain on global supply chains.

Companies in the country's industrial heartlands have been told to limit their energy consumption in order to reduce demand for power, state media has reported. And supply has been cut to some homes, reportedly even trapping people in elevators.


This shortage of electricity in China is likely to worsen, from a company website:

https://www.echemi.com/cms/357768.html
The power outages in various provinces across the country are far more severe than imagined! Electricity is tight, power curtailment will continue, production capacity is limited, and raw material prices continue to skyrocket!

Shaanxi: Electricity rationing until the end of the year.
Ningxia: High-energy-consuming enterprises stop production for one month.
Sichuan: Suspend non-essential production, lighting, and office loads.
Henan: Some processing enterprises have limited power for more than three weeks. Chongqing: Some factories halted power production in early August, and the deadline is yet to be determined.
Guangdong: "Two stops and five stops" is not enough. There is a direct power outage for 4 days.
Shandong: Energy consumption dual control, power shortage for 9 hours a day.
Jiangsu: Forced to take a "holiday" for 20 days, with a power outage until October 8.
Zhejiang: Power outages for 20-30 days in the fourth quarter.
Yunnan: It is required to strengthen production control in key industries.
Qinghai: Received the national power rationing warning notice.
Xinjiang: Strictly control production capacity.
Guangxi: The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology issued a power saving notice.
Inner Mongolia: No longer approve new polyvinyl chloride (PVC) projects.
Anhui: There is a gap of 2.5 million kilowatts of electricity.
thermal-power

[Pam]

A small window was broken in my garage. I went to the local glass company in town to have a piece of glass cut so I could replace it. He told me they are literally running out of glass due to the glass shortage. They are resorting to pulling glass out of picture frames to do repairs. I asked him what the problem was with the supply line and he said it must be about trade wars with China, as all US glass is made in China?

He also told me there had been roofing and wood shortages earlier this year.

I was also told their is a problem with certain types of paint.

At the grocery store they had sign up a while ago about the national shortage of coins????

My intuitive feeling is that we are seeing the beginnings of many, many shortages and these shortages are planned.

I have never been a very good or efficient prepper, and have sometimes felt like a fool for doing it, but I am beginning to feel like it was the best decision.

Am getting extra food for my dogs as well.

[Journeyman]

I've waited over 3 months for a tiny replacement part for a dishwasher to be shipped from Germany, constantly being delayed only to be told now that they're no longer stocking it. :facepalm:

I think we're in a choreographed movie and shortages are a part of the script. They've been previewed in advance, just like internet outages etc.

Are we being taught a lesson about Globalisation or Consumption? Does this prefigure a reimagining of the global economy? Are we to learn to live with less and develop workarounds and substitutions?

Food security may come into play. Particularly if you live in a highly populated island that doesn't grow enough food to support its populace...

[Pam]

I've waited over 3 months for a tiny replacement part for a dishwasher to be shipped from Germany, constantly being delayed only to be told now that they're no longer stocking it. :facepalm:

I think we're in a choreographed movie and shortages are a part of the script. They've been previewed in advance, just like internet outages etc.

Are we being taught a lesson about Globalisation or Consumption? Does this prefigure a reimagining of the global economy? Are we to learn to live with less and develop workarounds and substitutions?

Food security may come into play. Particularly if you live in a highly populated island that doesn't grow enough food to support its populace...


I absolutely believe this is choreographed. This is all a part of the psy-op. This is to induce fear and confusion which will promote more submission and reliance on the "authorities". The fact that the authorities are bat shiiit crazy makes no difference. Each country is being manipulated. We are all living in crazy town.

[I am B]

In spain food is fine, but gas is gonna hit 1'50€ soon , and electricity is breaking records by the day, almost at 200€/Mwh. average.

Yesterday night most of my town's street lights were off, wonder if it was because of it.

MSM is not reporting on this crisis.

[jimbobule]

I think lots of this is the media inflating first world problems designed to further put stress into the minds people…the bill of materials in daily life is massive so they can always say something is missing.

In the UK, I filled my car up with diesel while the headlines on the newspaper stand were ‘Key workers should fuel first’ and the staff inside were complaining that there was no breakdown in the fuel chain and they were sick of the very newspapers they were selling.

First hand cognitive dissonance propaganda

[palehorse]

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Are we being taught a lesson about Globalisation or Consumption? Does this prefigure a reimagining of the global economy? Are we to learn to live with less and develop workarounds and substitutions?

Food security may come into play. Particularly if you live in a highly populated island that doesn't grow enough food to support its populace...

Seems like one the scenarios narratives (Rockefeller - smart scramble) taking place.

https://i.imgur.com/hzs7LGF.png
https://i.imgur.com/ycKLDm1.png

[Brigantia]

Well, it's clearly being noticed as memes are starting to appear...

[yelik]

The elite are like magicians - watch this hand showing you shortages and distracting you whilst the other hand pushes through Agenda 21 / 2030 controls

[Ewan]

I think lots of this is the media inflating first world problems designed to further put stress into the minds people…the bill of materials in daily life is massive so they can always say something is missing.

In the UK, I filled my car up with diesel while the headlines on the newspaper stand were ‘Key workers should fuel first’ and the staff inside were complaining that there was no breakdown in the fuel chain and they were sick of the very newspapers they were selling.

First hand cognitive dissonance propaganda

You were lucky Jim.

I got up at 05:30 this morning from a hotel in London to get an early start. There was 20 miles range in the car I had. The SEVENTH garage I went to had fuel which I queued over 30 minutes for.. Lost over an hour in that endeavour.

Later in the day, in a second car I had to visit 3 different motorway service stations before I found one with fuel. It had 160 miles of range when I collected it, 32 miles left when I found fuel. That was near Leeds.

Tomorrow I have three cars to move all up in Scotland, I am hoping it is a little better there. Otherwise I'll end up in some other kind of lockdown that wasn't enforced.

I also think this is choreographed, would love to speak with transport depot managers to get their responses. I notice there are less trucks on the road. I don't buy that it is ALL down to a shortage of drivers.

Second hand car market is super busy, because there is a shortage of new cars.

The plan may be an organised global collapse so they can offer their solution, and when 25% of the world's population is already dead and the rest living day to day of course they/we will all grasp at that solution with eager hands - only to discover it was a giant trap all along.

[Sadieblue]

Around here car lots are begging for trucks, older trucks and will pay a fortune to get them.

[Bill Ryan]

Here's Chris Martenson, with a video published yesterday about exactly this:

The energy crunch is going to impact you and your family


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03bCDEwLCTk

[jimbobule]

I think lots of this is the media inflating first world problems designed to further put stress into the minds people…the bill of materials in daily life is massive so they can always say something is missing.

In the UK, I filled my car up with diesel while the headlines on the newspaper stand were ‘Key workers should fuel first’ and the staff inside were complaining that there was no breakdown in the fuel chain and they were sick of the very newspapers they were selling.

First hand cognitive dissonance propaganda

You were lucky Jim.

I got up at 05:30 this morning from a hotel in London to get an early start. There was 20 miles range in the car I had. The SEVENTH garage I went to had fuel which I queued over 30 minutes for.. Lost over an hour in that endeavour.

Later in the day, in a second car I had to visit 3 different motorway service stations before I found one with fuel. It had 160 miles of range when I collected it, 32 miles left when I found fuel. That was near Leeds.

Tomorrow I have three cars to move all up in Scotland, I am hoping it is a little better there. Otherwise I'll end up in some other kind of lockdown that wasn't enforced.

I also think this is choreographed, would love to speak with transport depot managers to get their responses. I notice there are less trucks on the road. I don't buy that it is ALL down to a shortage of drivers.

Second hand car market is super busy, because there is a shortage of new cars.

The plan may be an organised global collapse so they can offer their solution, and when 25% of the world's population is already dead and the rest living day to day of course they/we will all grasp at that solution with eager hands - only to discover it was a giant trap all along.

That gives a different perspective! Covid Track and Trace pings + Brexit overseas labour supply + media shortages = your personal chaos. I wonder which one of these factors is the driving force?

[Brigantia]

That gives a different perspective! Covid Track and Trace pings + Brexit overseas labour supply + media shortages = your personal chaos. I wonder which one of these factors is the driving force?

Add to that a young potential native workforce who want 'fun' jobs and don't want to do anything taxing - in Britain, anyway. From the time I spent in Italy I noticed a young population who were happy to roll their sleeves up and do hard work.

That's why we now have a heavy reliance on EU workers, because they want to work. I presently work with 3 people from an EU country and their rate of work is phenomenal. In the past year and a half that I've had to do a job with hard physical work I've seen about 3 young Britons join the shift and they have all quit after a couple of weeks.

[Sérénité]

I’ve just had a random email from United Utilities Water, alerting me that the water from our local supply (Lake District) has gone down by 2.5% in a week (which they then state isn’t normal)

...It’s not stopped raining the last few weeks and the last few days we’ve had torrential rain, so I’m not sure where it’s gone?!

It says the reservoirs are only at 34% full levels when they should be at least 70%.

Genuine or manufactured? No idea but it’s another ‘shortage’ to add to the ever expanding list!

*Update
I’ve just checked where my water supply comes from and it actually comes from Lake Vyrnwy in Wales. So this is clearly a generic email being sent out.

I wonder how much United Utilities are being paid for that mail shot 🤨

[yelik]

We are witnessing 'Problem, Reaction,Solution, on a grand scale where the Covid bioweapon has been used to force corrupt and incompetent governments into committing economic and social sucide whilst convincing themselves they did the right thing because they had no clue about the corrupt science being peddled to them - or did they? All in the interest of safety and freedom - we've lost both due to acquiescence. Global governments have been told, paid and agreed with the idea that 'stopping the earth spinning' for a while is a good idea - whoops.


Governments have a 100% track record of getting things wrong as they discover that their budgets are limitless whilst quickly realising they are unable to provide even basics like food, energy and warmth - the only solution quite clearly is the great reset (Central Bank Digital Currencies CBDC - coming our way soon) and new world order - a corporate / government centralised control and ownership system


We are perhaps witnessing, via the media hype, that chaos and destruction is the new normal, well, until Agenda 21 is implented by 2030 or even sooner - The vaccine (wealth transfer and transhumanism) and vaccine passport is clearly an important aspect of total control.


Any semblance of normality is far away but we are seeing a wide range of growing protests take place around the world - both genuine and paid for actors that add to the turmoil - from anti-vaxers, the anti-vaccine passporters, the anti-lockdowners, those protesting shortages, inflation, pension, climate change - the list goes on but energy and food is the biggy where even YOU may join in !!


The likelihood of the people coming together under a common cause to stop this destruction by the hybrid destroyers is remote - until our food and energy threatens our families, but they already know that.

[Bill Ryan]

Here's Chris Martenson, with a video published yesterday about exactly this:

The energy crunch is going to impact you and your family


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03bCDEwLCTk:bump:

I think this is pretty important. Chris Martenson really does explain, with references and charts, what's about to hit the entire planet.

And from CNN yesterday:


https://edition.cnn.com/2021/09/29/business/supply-chain-workers/index.html

The workers who keep global supply chains moving are warning of a 'system collapse'

Seafarers, truck drivers and airline workers have endured quarantines, travel restrictions and complex Covid-19 vaccination and testing requirements to keep stretched supply chains (https://edition.cnn.com/2021/08/23/business/global-supply-chains-christmas-shipping/index.html) moving during the pandemic (https://edition.cnn.com/2020/06/18/business/seafarers-shipping-coronavirus/index.html).

But many are now reaching their breaking point, posing yet another threat to the badly tangled (https://edition.cnn.com/2021/09/15/business/shopping-shortages-covid/index.html) network of ports, container vessels (https://edition.cnn.com/2021/09/08/business/shipping-containers/index.html) and trucking companies that moves goods around the world (https://edition.cnn.com/2021/09/28/business/auto-industry-supply-chain-problems/index.html).

(article continues (https://edition.cnn.com/2021/09/29/business/supply-chain-workers/index.html))

[Bill Ryan]

A press release (29 September) from the International Chamber of Shipping:

https://ics-shipping.org/press-release/joint-open-letter-transport-heads-call-on-world-leaders-to-secure-global-supply-chains

Joint open letter – Transport heads call on world leaders to secure global supply chains

Since the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the maritime, road and aviation industries have called loudly and clearly on governments to ensure the free movement of transport workers and to end travel bans and other restrictions that have had an enormously detrimental impact on their wellbeing and safety. Transport workers keep the world running and are vital for the free movement of products, including vaccines and PPE, but have been continually failed by governments and taken for granted by their officials.

Our calls have been consistent and clear: freedom of movement for transport workers, for governments to use protocols that have been endorsed by international bodies for each sector and to prioritise transport workers for vaccinations as called for in the World Health Organization’s SAGE Roadmap for Prioritizing Uses of COVID-19 Vaccines in the Context of Limited Supply.

Heads of government have failed to listen, to end the blame-shifting within and between governments and take the decisive and coordinated action needed to resolve this crisis.

This is why IRU, the world road transport organisation, IATA, the International Air Transport Association, ICS, the International Chamber of Shipping, and ITF, the International Transport Workers’ Federation, have come together to make an urgent plea to the world’s heads of government and the United Nations Agencies to remove restrictions hampering the free movement of transport workers, and guarantee and facilitate their free and safe movement.

Our collective industries account for more than $20 trillion of world trade annually, and represent 65 million global transport workers, and over 3.5 million road freight and airline companies, as well as more than 80% of the world merchant shipping fleet. Seafarers, air crew and drivers must be able to continue to do their jobs, and cross borders, to keep supply chains moving. We ask heads of government to urgently take the leadership that is required to bring an end to the fragmented travel rules and restrictions that have severely impacted the global supply chain and put at risk the health and wellbeing of our international transport workforce. We also need the same urgent leadership to increase global vaccine supply by all means at our disposal, in order to expedite the recovery of our industries.

We ask that our transport workers are given priority to receive WHO recognised vaccines and heads of government work together to create globally harmonised, digital, mutually recognised vaccination certificate and processes for demonstrating health credentials (including vaccination status and COVID-19 test results), which are paramount to ensure transport workers can cross international borders.

We also call on the WHO to take our message to health ministries. Despite early engagement at the outset of the pandemic and issuance of guidance, health and transport ministries have not utilised it, resulting in the situation we face today. We need the WHO and governments to work together to ensure this guidance is accepted and followed.

The impact of nearly two years’ worth of strain, placed particularly upon maritime and road transport workers, but also impacting air crews, is now being seen. Their continued mistreatment is adding pressure on an already crumbling global supply chain. We are witnessing unprecedented disruptions and global delays and shortages on essential goods including electronics, food, fuel and medical supplies. Consumer demand is rising and the delays look set to worsen ahead of Christmas and continue into 2022.

We have all continued to keep global trade flowing throughout the pandemic, but it has taken a human toll. At the peak of the crew change crisis 400,000 seafarers were unable to leave their ships, with some seafarers working for as long as 18 months over their initial contracts. Flights have been restricted and aviation workers have faced the inconsistency of border, travel, restrictions, and vaccine restrictions/requirements. Additional and systemic stopping at road borders has meant truck drivers have been forced to wait, sometimes weeks, before being able to complete their journeys and return home.

It is of great concern that we are also seeing shortages of workers and expect more to leave our industries as a result of the poor treatment they have faced during the pandemic, putting the supply chain under greater threat.

In view of the vital role that transport workers have played during the pandemic and continue to play during the ongoing supply chain crisis, we request, as a matter of urgency, a meeting with WHO and the ILO at the highest level to identify solutions before global transport systems collapse. We also ask that WHO and the ILO raise this at the UN General Assembly and call on heads of government to take meaningful and swift action to resolve this crisis now.

[Ewan]

A press release (29 September) from the International Chamber of Shipping:

https://ics-shipping.org/press-release/joint-open-letter-transport-heads-call-on-world-leaders-to-secure-global-supply-chains

Joint open letter – Transport heads call on world leaders to secure global supply chains

Since the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the maritime, road and aviation industries have called loudly and clearly on governments to ensure the free movement of transport workers and to end travel bans and other restrictions that have had an enormously detrimental impact on their wellbeing and safety. Transport workers keep the world running and are vital for the free movement of products, including vaccines and PPE, but have been continually failed by governments and taken for granted by their officials.

Our calls have been consistent and clear: freedom of movement for transport workers, for governments to use protocols that have been endorsed by international bodies for each sector and to prioritise transport workers for vaccinations as called for in the World Health Organization’s SAGE Roadmap for Prioritizing Uses of COVID-19 Vaccines in the Context of Limited Supply.

Heads of government have failed to listen, to end the blame-shifting within and between governments and take the decisive and coordinated action needed to resolve this crisis.

This is why IRU, the world road transport organisation, IATA, the International Air Transport Association, ICS, the International Chamber of Shipping, and ITF, the International Transport Workers’ Federation, have come together to make an urgent plea to the world’s heads of government and the United Nations Agencies to remove restrictions hampering the free movement of transport workers, and guarantee and facilitate their free and safe movement.

Our collective industries account for more than $20 trillion of world trade annually, and represent 65 million global transport workers, and over 3.5 million road freight and airline companies, as well as more than 80% of the world merchant shipping fleet. Seafarers, air crew and drivers must be able to continue to do their jobs, and cross borders, to keep supply chains moving. We ask heads of government to urgently take the leadership that is required to bring an end to the fragmented travel rules and restrictions that have severely impacted the global supply chain and put at risk the health and wellbeing of our international transport workforce. We also need the same urgent leadership to increase global vaccine supply by all means at our disposal, in order to expedite the recovery of our industries.

We ask that our transport workers are given priority to receive WHO recognised vaccines and heads of government work together to create globally harmonised, digital, mutually recognised vaccination certificate and processes for demonstrating health credentials (including vaccination status and COVID-19 test results), which are paramount to ensure transport workers can cross international borders.

We also call on the WHO to take our message to health ministries. Despite early engagement at the outset of the pandemic and issuance of guidance, health and transport ministries have not utilised it, resulting in the situation we face today. We need the WHO and governments to work together to ensure this guidance is accepted and followed.

The impact of nearly two years’ worth of strain, placed particularly upon maritime and road transport workers, but also impacting air crews, is now being seen. Their continued mistreatment is adding pressure on an already crumbling global supply chain. We are witnessing unprecedented disruptions and global delays and shortages on essential goods including electronics, food, fuel and medical supplies. Consumer demand is rising and the delays look set to worsen ahead of Christmas and continue into 2022.

We have all continued to keep global trade flowing throughout the pandemic, but it has taken a human toll. At the peak of the crew change crisis 400,000 seafarers were unable to leave their ships, with some seafarers working for as long as 18 months over their initial contracts. Flights have been restricted and aviation workers have faced the inconsistency of border, travel, restrictions, and vaccine restrictions/requirements. Additional and systemic stopping at road borders has meant truck drivers have been forced to wait, sometimes weeks, before being able to complete their journeys and return home.

It is of great concern that we are also seeing shortages of workers and expect more to leave our industries as a result of the poor treatment they have faced during the pandemic, putting the supply chain under greater threat.

In view of the vital role that transport workers have played during the pandemic and continue to play during the ongoing supply chain crisis, we request, as a matter of urgency, a meeting with WHO and the ILO at the highest level to identify solutions before global transport systems collapse. We also ask that WHO and the ILO raise this at the UN General Assembly and call on heads of government to take meaningful and swift action to resolve this crisis now.

You made no comment so I thought I might highlight the above.

It looks like a call for sanity and a secure future for transportation of goods, but that one highlighted point just gives in to the agenda.

[Bill Ryan]

A press release (29 September) from the International Chamber of Shipping:

https://ics-shipping.org/press-release/joint-open-letter-transport-heads-call-on-world-leaders-to-secure-global-supply-chains

Joint open letter – Transport heads call on world leaders to secure global supply chains

Since the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the maritime, road and aviation industries have called loudly and clearly on governments to ensure the free movement of transport workers and to end travel bans and other restrictions that have had an enormously detrimental impact on their wellbeing and safety. Transport workers keep the world running and are vital for the free movement of products, including vaccines and PPE, but have been continually failed by governments and taken for granted by their officials.

Our calls have been consistent and clear: freedom of movement for transport workers, for governments to use protocols that have been endorsed by international bodies for each sector and to prioritise transport workers for vaccinations as called for in the World Health Organization’s SAGE Roadmap for Prioritizing Uses of COVID-19 Vaccines in the Context of Limited Supply.

Heads of government have failed to listen, to end the blame-shifting within and between governments and take the decisive and coordinated action needed to resolve this crisis.

This is why IRU, the world road transport organisation, IATA, the International Air Transport Association, ICS, the International Chamber of Shipping, and ITF, the International Transport Workers’ Federation, have come together to make an urgent plea to the world’s heads of government and the United Nations Agencies to remove restrictions hampering the free movement of transport workers, and guarantee and facilitate their free and safe movement.

Our collective industries account for more than $20 trillion of world trade annually, and represent 65 million global transport workers, and over 3.5 million road freight and airline companies, as well as more than 80% of the world merchant shipping fleet. Seafarers, air crew and drivers must be able to continue to do their jobs, and cross borders, to keep supply chains moving. We ask heads of government to urgently take the leadership that is required to bring an end to the fragmented travel rules and restrictions that have severely impacted the global supply chain and put at risk the health and wellbeing of our international transport workforce. We also need the same urgent leadership to increase global vaccine supply by all means at our disposal, in order to expedite the recovery of our industries.

We ask that our transport workers are given priority to receive WHO recognised vaccines and heads of government work together to create globally harmonised, digital, mutually recognised vaccination certificate and processes for demonstrating health credentials (including vaccination status and COVID-19 test results), which are paramount to ensure transport workers can cross international borders.

We also call on the WHO to take our message to health ministries. Despite early engagement at the outset of the pandemic and issuance of guidance, health and transport ministries have not utilised it, resulting in the situation we face today. We need the WHO and governments to work together to ensure this guidance is accepted and followed.

The impact of nearly two years’ worth of strain, placed particularly upon maritime and road transport workers, but also impacting air crews, is now being seen. Their continued mistreatment is adding pressure on an already crumbling global supply chain. We are witnessing unprecedented disruptions and global delays and shortages on essential goods including electronics, food, fuel and medical supplies. Consumer demand is rising and the delays look set to worsen ahead of Christmas and continue into 2022.

We have all continued to keep global trade flowing throughout the pandemic, but it has taken a human toll. At the peak of the crew change crisis 400,000 seafarers were unable to leave their ships, with some seafarers working for as long as 18 months over their initial contracts. Flights have been restricted and aviation workers have faced the inconsistency of border, travel, restrictions, and vaccine restrictions/requirements. Additional and systemic stopping at road borders has meant truck drivers have been forced to wait, sometimes weeks, before being able to complete their journeys and return home.

It is of great concern that we are also seeing shortages of workers and expect more to leave our industries as a result of the poor treatment they have faced during the pandemic, putting the supply chain under greater threat.

In view of the vital role that transport workers have played during the pandemic and continue to play during the ongoing supply chain crisis, we request, as a matter of urgency, a meeting with WHO and the ILO at the highest level to identify solutions before global transport systems collapse. We also ask that WHO and the ILO raise this at the UN General Assembly and call on heads of government to take meaningful and swift action to resolve this crisis now.

You made no comment so I thought I might highlight the above.

It looks like a call for sanity and a secure future for transportation of goods, but that one highlighted point just gives in to the agenda.Right. But I think that can be disregarded. Those kinds of measures aren't going to happen (at least to that requested degree).

A few thoughts:


One might ponder the result of a 'vaxxident' when piloting a giant container ship down the Suez canal.
Many 'vaccinated' people will get sick or worse. That might happen next week, next month, or in 3 years' time. That will take its own toll on work forces everywhere. It's just on a slow burn.
The agenda (alas) is to kill people. Supply chains will break whatever happens. The current supply chain meltdown (which is what it is, in slow motion) won't magically reverse itself with a bunch of 'vaccination' certificates. Wait until millions of truck drivers, seamen and cargo handlers quit their jobs to avoid getting very very sick on mandate.
There's going to be a great deal of chaos ahead. Like nothing we've ever seen in our lives. I do think now that it's 100% unavoidable. All one can do is take care of oneself, one's friends and family (if possible), and (if possible) help one's local community be as strong as possible. And stock up on critical stuff — again, if possible.

[I am B]

In spain food is fine, but gas is gonna hit 1'50€ soon , and electricity is breaking records by the day, almost at 200€/Mwh. average.

Yesterday night most of my town's street lights were off, wonder if it was because of it.

MSM is not reporting on this crisis.

Remembering my last post here 7 days ago, and while tomorrow's electricity in Spain will top at 320€/Mwh, and gas is well settled above 1'50€/L (almost at 1'60 already) can't recommend enough that Chris Martenson video.

[Bill Ryan]

In spain food is fine, but gas is gonna hit 1'50€ soon , and electricity is breaking records by the day, almost at 200€/Mwh. average.

Yesterday night most of my town's street lights were off, wonder if it was because of it.

MSM is not reporting on this crisis.

Remembering my last post here 7 days ago, and while tomorrow's electricity in Spain will top at 320€/Mwh, and gas is well settled above 1'50€/L (almost at 1'60 already) can't recommend enough that Chris Martenson video.A useful conversion for American readers: 1'60€/liter = $7.00 for a US gallon.

[RunningDeer]

In spain food is fine, but gas is gonna hit 1'50€ soon , and electricity is breaking records by the day, almost at 200€/Mwh. average.

Yesterday night most of my town's street lights were off, wonder if it was because of it.

MSM is not reporting on this crisis.

Remembering my last post here 7 days ago, and while tomorrow's electricity in Spain will top at 320€/Mwh, and gas is well settled above 1'50€/L (almost at 1'60 already) can't recommend enough that Chris Martenson video.A useful conversion for American readers: 1'60€/liter = $7.00 for a US gallon.

The national average price of gas as of 10/6/21 is $3.22. The range is $2.85 - $4.42. Here’s the state gas price averages (https://gasprices.aaa.com/state-gas-price-averages/) according to AAA.


https://i.imgur.com/xovUZsC.jpg

PUMP PRICES EDGE HIGHER AS OIL PRICES KEEP UP THE PRESSURE





article (https://gasprices.aaa.com/pump-prices-edge-higher-as-oil-prices-keep-up-the-pressure/)



https://i.imgur.com/1xNxzeY.jpg

[Bill Ryan]

More from Chris Martenson. As usual, he explains the financial and supply chain dominos-falling complexity as well as or better than anyone else might be able to.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7pZvUT4NjM

[Sérénité]

This incident is now also being blamed for adding to potential energy shortages, leading to winter blackouts until March 2022 here in the U.K.

https://theguardian.com/business/2021/sep/15/fire-shuts-one-of-uk-most-important-power-cables-in-midst-of-supply-crunch

“Fire shuts one of UK’s most important power cables in midst of supply crunch
Coal plants being warmed up as market prices surge to £2,500 per MWh from a norm of £40”


https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/business/2021/oct/07/winter-blackout-risk-great-britain-rises-after-cable-fire

“Winter blackout risk in Great Britain rises after cable fire
Blaze affecting vital subsea cable hits backup energy supply cushion, adding to industry troubles”

Talk about ‘bad timing’ 🤨

[mountain_jim]

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/luongo-europes-entire-energy-crisis-manufactured

https://tomluongo.me/2021/10/06/european-energy-crisis-gas-you-think-burning/



European Energy Crisis — And is That Gas You Think You’re Burning?

The European Gas Crisis keeps hitting new high after new high as gas prices around the world go ballistic. While this isn’t just a European problem, if you read the MSM, that’s all they seem to care about.

You know, it snows in Japan as well folks, and China.

Prices keep skyrocketing in Europe because there is no shortage of idiocy at the top of the European power structure. The confluence of the pressurizing of Nordstream 2 with the release of the “Pandora Papers” and the beginnings of German coalition talks just after the beginning of Q4 should have everyone’s Spidey-Sense shutting down like your adrenals do after a long period of self-inflicted stress.

And honestly, whose adrenals aren’t on the verge of collapse after eighteen months of ‘flatten the curve,’ ‘follow the science,’ and ‘just roll over to the Communism, already, you disgusting plebe!’ that we’ve been going through.

I guess that’s yet another thing we have to try and factor into our analysis of what collapse is the most imminent?

Because when you put this gas crisis in Europe into its proper context it should be clear where the battle lines are being drawn as the extreme pressure cooker of today’s geopolitical landscape forces everyone off the sidelines and into the fray.

On the one hand we have natural gas prices in Europe approaching coffin corner. On the other we have Russia browning out gas deliveries to Europe. China is experiencing major energy shortages and the entirety of the coal delivery network around the world is buckling.

These are facts. There are more I could list but let’s stay focused here.

The thing that makes no sense, seemingly, is that no one has an answer why these facts exist in the first place.

Because all anyone official ever wants to do is blame the sneaky Russians to avoid their own responsibility for this.

Finally, after a couple of weeks of this howling, Russian President Vladimir Putin addressed the issue (https://sputniknews.com/20211005/putin-says-global-hysteria-in-hydrocarbon-market-can-be-resolved-through-shift-to-alternative-1089684318.html) from their side.

I suggest strongly you read his remarks carefully. Because in there you’ll find a couple of ‘facts’ which make this entire crisis in Europe seem like yet another staged ‘false flag’ for political gain. Ready (https://twitter.com/JavierBlas/status/1445725844693991424)?

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FBA__iiWUAATmPt?format=png&name=900x900

The two middle points are the ones the no one want to report on but are the key to the understanding of this.

Europe is engaged in a game of idiotic brinksmanship with its people and the capital markets over gas supplies. They do this to construct a narrative and distort markets for political benefit.

When the reality is that this entire ‘crisis’ is a manufactured one because of their unwillingness to bow to the forces their policies have unleashed.

Gas prices in Europe are this way because of Europe’s own mistakes in trying to remake its economy (Putin Point #4).

Moreover, Putin also urged Gazprom, as a gesture of good faith despite his misgivings, to ship gas through Ukraine even though it would be better to turn on other capacity.

“Gazprom believes that it is economically more viable, it would even be more profitable to pay a fine to Ukraine, but to increase the volume of pumping through new systems precisely because of the circumstances that I mentioned – there is more pressure in the pipe, less CO2 emissions into the atmosphere. Everything is cheaper, around 3 billion a year. But I ask you not to do this,” the President said.

Does this sound like the mustache-twirling tyrant that’s portrayed in the odious British, US and German media?

Of course not. Now, I’m not accusing Putin of being an angel here or anything, he’s throwing scraps back to people who have put themselves in a position to starve and freeze to death, both literally and politically.

The goal here is to highlight just how moronic the EU’s stance on energy has become, to finally to break up the logjam.

He’s happy to see Gazprom (and possibly Rosneft if need be) sell all Europeans as much gas as it can supply and they demand, but only on terms that benefit everyone, supplier and demander. As I’ve talked about in previous blog posts, the EU thinks they have a monopsony on Russian gas and because of this can dictate terms to them.

This is patently untrue, and Gazprom shifting around supplies for a few days here and there proves that point dramatically. Like Jay Powell draining the world of eurodollars with just five basis points, Putin and Gazprom can expose the the extent of Eurocrat mendacity with just a few days of slowing gas exports.

That’s why this brinksmanship over gas supplies and electricity prices isn’t aimed at the Russians, who clearly have other customers for their gas, but with the people of Europe themselves and the capital markets all structured around one-sigma price volatility they are now extremely vulnerable even if things begin to return to normal.

The Russian Bogey Man is simply the cover story for what is a much deeper and, frankly, much more disturbing game.

So, while Zerohedge is correct about gas supply brown outs in Europe it’s only partly for reasons abundantly clear to even first-year geopolitical analysts:

Flows dropped as Gazprom has booked only about a third of the gas transit capacity it was offered for October via the Yamal-Europe pipeline and no extra transit capacity via Ukraine.

Gazprom declined to comment. It has repeatedly said it was supplying customers with gas in full compliance with existing contracts and said additional supplies could be provided once the newly built Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline was launched.

Ball. Court. Germany.

Yes, Germany needs Nordstream 2. Hell Europe needs Nordstream 3 if these Davos ninnies are wrong about Climate Change, which they are.

Germany is the country caught in the middle of this titanic battle for the future of the world and Davos is the group creating this false flag to force a shift in sentiment negatively towards Russia.

That’s what’s driving this current crisis, one that, I think, is now threatening the future of the European Union itself. If those are the stakes, then eventually someone will finally do the right thing. Putin just offered the smallest of olive branches. Now let’s see if the European Commission has three collective brain cells to rub together and figure out how to save face (and their backsides).

Beating up and demeaning your neighbor is not a winning strategy, nor is it a path to lower prices and stable markets. At some point they, the Russians, realize that the situation is exactly what it looks like from the outside, war. And, in this case the Russians under Putin are finally treating the EU commissars as enemy combatants because that’s who they are.

That’s why his comments were structured to put the onus of the crisis back on Europe’s leadership rather than blaming the people keeping the lights on in the first place.

Whenever things like this happen Capitalism is always blamed. But, it’s always Commie vandals like the EU Commission who created the problem, either deliberately with dumb things like the Third Gas Directive or malinvestment of capital which leaves the world vulnerable to a hot summer in Asia.

And this is the essential point no one wants to confront. The EU picked this fight purely for political purposes because they have an agenda — energy instability for political benefit — but it has come back to bite them in the ass.

Because, as I said, the markets are so tight it takes only a small shift in sentiment to see the prices of things with inelastic demand, like energy, rise dramatically with a marginal shift in either supply, demand or, in this case, both.

Russia doesn’t act this ‘by the book’ at this moment in time without a plan. Treating the EU like the enemies they are is the strategic play. Whining about it in the media only accentuates their weakness and lack of leverage.

My friends at Mittdolcino.com are positively despondent because they see this power play for how it affects Italy, which is that it will carve the country up into pieces over divergent needs for inflation and deflation between it and Germany since one of these two countries need to exit the Euro-zone.

There’s no way this massive ‘drop’ in Russian supplies to the EU occurs without a longer-term strategic plan by the Russians. Putin has made it clear he is fully fed up with EU shenanigans and this is the time for him to put the most pressure imaginable on Brussels to break the EU into tiny pieces.

How? It’s again, all about Germany.

When Nordstream 2 was announced and I was writing Gold Stock Advisor for Newsmax in 2013 I talked then about how the difference between how gold was accounted for between the ECB and the Fed. That put Germany squarely in the middle between the U.S. on one side and Russia on the other.

Russia and China still hadn’t signed the big deal for the Power of Siberia pipeline at the time. They are now working on Power of Siberia 2, which will open up the massive mineral deposits in Mongolia. So, even then, in my naïve way of seeing the world then as a first-year geopolitical analyst, I understood that Russia’s foreign policy had to be focused on getting Germany to side with them versus the U.S.

The political establishment in Germany was never going to let that happen because under Obama Davos was running the operation to cleave Ukraine from Russia. To date, both have been partially successful. Both Ukraine and Germany are being torn apart from within as domestic leadership bows to internationals forces forcing them to pursue policies which go completely against their countries’ wishes and best interests.

So, now, fast forward to today. The day after the German elections brings a mess but with a highly likely outcome that the SPD will ally with the Greens and the FDP. With Christian Lidner (FDP) as Finance Minister (at least temporarily) we have a German government at war with itself.

As Alex Mercouris brought up after I left the chat with Crypto Rich last week, the Greens are fracturing over the Russia issue. Part of them want a restoration of good Russian relations, the other are neocon/Davos infiltrators trying to constantly move the goalposts on both Climate Change and geopolitics.

The SPD are pure Davos scum at this point so expect nothing good from them. This is why I think Putin ‘shut off the taps’ the day after the election. Like everyone else, he can see what Davos is doing and doesn’t like it. So, in order for him to make his point he does exactly what he should, stop trading with those who have unofficially declared war on Russia and push the political scene in Germany to a breaking point.

Because here’s where this goes. Germany needs to either control the purse strings of the EU or it needs to leave the euro-zone and be independent of the sinking ship. Putin realizes that the best way to achieve this is to pour gasoline on a raging firestorm in the energy markets (oh, the humanity of the puns!) and remind German voters just who is truly responsible for their €2000/month electricity bills.

It’s not Putin. It’s Berlin. So, Berlin needs to sign off on Nordstream 2 and then ram it down the EU Commission’s throat. And they better do it soon because Winter is Coming, after all.

And they just voted for more of this while Merkel, who has been the biggest obstacle to AfD’s inclusion in any government, is leaving the scene. The CDU leadership got whacked across the board. Most of the big names will not be in the Bundestag this time around, so the party will be doing a lot of self-reflection.

Inflation of the type Putin is ‘forcing’ on Europeans today is the type a country only recovers from with a political inversion. This is why today we’re seeing surprise rate hikes from Poland, for example. It’s why Serbia is begging Russia to increase gas supplies there and Hungary signed a 15-year deal to secure its energy future.

While there is no appetite for a political inversion in Germany today after last week’s vote, there will be in about 3 months if coalition talks stall. Because the ECB under Christine Lagarde cannot raise rates but is powerless to stop them rising ultimately if the market senses that there is no political leadership capable of reining it in.

That ship sailed a few months ago after the Fed called Lagarde’s hawkish bluff and actively drained more than $1 trillion from overseas dollar markets and just increased the capacity to drain even more, without tapering QE.

Now let’s go back to the Fed and Wall St. If there is a real backlash within some areas of the U.S. ‘big money’ against Davos which is showing up as Fed monetary policy, per my consistent analysis of the situation and events playing out to support it, then they are tacitly coordinating with Putin to give Germany what it wants, an excuse to leave the euro and conduct independent trade and energy policy.

Think about it. On the one hand the Fed is drying up dollars. On the other Putin is spiking energy prices making it impossible for Germany to fight inflation within the EU. On the third hand, China is cracking down on property speculation domestically, kicking out the foreign NGOs and reminding foreign investors that the rules in China are not the same as they are in the West.

You can and will lose all your money if you invest behind the Great Wall, as so many Evergrande bondholders just found out.

Now let’s square the entire circle. If Europe’s energy crisis is a constructed false flag event to spook capital, encourage speculators and effect political change, then can’t you make the same arguments for the concurrent fight on Capitol Hill regarding the Democrats, the debt ceiling and the spending bills?

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has been adamant that the Democrats do not need any help in passing a debt ceiling resolution. They can do it any time they want to. But, the Democrats won’t do this? Why? They are manufacturing a narrative that there is crisis on the horizon — default on U.S. bond payments.

This is the one outcome no investor wants to contemplate. So, the Democrats, like the Europeans, are arguing against themselves in order to blackmail the world into giving them their cookie or they will hold their breath until they collapse global markets.

Let me repeat. There is no debt ceiling crisis. There is no U.S. default crisis. There is only a bunch of Mafiosi on Capitol Hill doing what they’ve been told to do while purposefully scaring everyone into believing there is a crisis when none exists.

Do I have to invoke a classic Who song to make my point?

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What’s the goal? Chaos and the continued undermining of faith in politics, capital markets, energy production and seizing supply chains as we approach the winter in the Northern Hemisphere where susceptibility to pesky things like the flu, the latest iteration of COVID-9/11 and blatant political bull**** swells like a boil on the back of a government bureaucrat blocking a permit for some basic, but eminently important thing.

That Putin came out and told the world he’s ready to work with Europe to do his part alleviating the energy supply problems in Europe I’ve not heard one encouraging word from those that would benefit from this the most.

Their silence is deafening.

And that brings me back to Germany where, unless this gets resolved quickly, the most likely downstream outcome is Germany leaving the euro, reinstitute the Deutsche Mark, watch it fall vs. the dollar in the near term but outcompete the euro.

With the euro in freefall after a disastrous Q3 close and German Bunds getting prepared for their next big sell-off, perhaps, maybe, for the first time in a long time, the markets are beginning to wake up from their central bank induced SOMA injections and get real with the possibilities that forces are now aligned to do the unthinkable, break up the EU.


But that only happens with a political inversion where the CDU/CSU ally with AfD and the FDP to form a real government after the current parties can’t form a coalition or any three-way coalition formed fails as inflation crushes the German middle class.

If the AfD were smart now they would be blaming all of this on Merkel’s moronic energy policy. Now we’re seeing calls for delaying shutting down Germany’s nuclear reactors. They can’t import enough coal to feed the plants. BASF has shut down ammonia production, so food production is threatened.

There is no Agenda 2030 on the horizon if Germans freeze to death in their homes or get decimated by COVID-9/11 because they can’t afford to heat their homes.

This will crush France and Macron, overthrow Davos at the mid-terms here in the states and break the European Union in the process.

Germany is the lynchpin to the entire Davos edifice. Without a compliant and beaten Germany there is no further Great Reset. A Germany that breaks from the euro becomes a Germany that realigns with Russia and Eastern Europe. It’s a Germany no longer hell bent on internal European mercantilism and the establishment of the Fourth Reich through the EUSSR.

The German people keep asking for that policy to end but aren’t given the options by their leadership to make that happen. Then again, they keep giving their leadership just enough power to forestall their having to make a real decision. That decision is coming at them, fast.

As it is everyone across the West in various guises.

So, as as Powell with five little basis points is under extreme pressure to go full MMT retard but so far has held his water and Putin with a few million BTUs of gas, these men are forcing open fault lines in the aristocracy that thinks it deserves to run the world and can bring down the whole rotten edifice.

[Brigantia]

Brilliant assessment of the gas shenanigans. ∧

If Germany leaves the EU, the corrupt and incompetent EU is done; it's dependent on Germany as a net contributor.

[meat suit]

so, just after my friends grandma insightfully mused that the UK fuel shorteges wwould have been caused by the disire to empty all the filling stations for the arrival of the new E10 fuel, i spotted this on RT

Government conversion to ‘greener fuel’ led to UK petrol crisis as retailers had already emptied old fuel – media
The recent case of fuel shortages across the UK, though partially caused by panic buying, were worsened due to the government’s decision to switch to a more eco-friendly fuel, according to local med

https://www.rt.com/uk/536898-government-eco-fuel-sparked-crisis/

[Ernie Nemeth]

And so they cause panic to buy up all the old fuel, at the inconvenience of all those caught in long lines or having to go without.
This is how we are treated by those who purportedly act in our best interest...

[pyrangello]

My buddy was over here the other day, his cousin farms soybean, he and myself have been reading about farmers being paid by our government to til over food crops and being paid 1.5 times what they would normally get. If they refuse then their subsidy's from the government are being threatened with decreases. WHY? I'm guessing this goes to Kissinger's statement, control the money and control countries, control the food and control the people. What a time we are living in aren't we.

[mountain_jim]

https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/we-cannot-survive-here-over-1000-crew-members-are-stranded-cargo-ships-globally-without

https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/styles/inline_image_mobile/public/inline-images/abandonedcrew.jpg?itok=z3_BEbQe




Over 1,000 Crew Members Are Stranded On 'Abandoned' Cargo Ships Globally Without Pay Or Food

BY TYLER DURDEN
FRIDAY, OCT 08, 2021 - 08:00 PM
Pandemic-driven global trade disruptions and an increasing number of shipping companies abandoning their own vessels over mounting debts including older vessels deemed too costly to repair has led to the rise in the phenomenon of crewmembers simply being abandoned at sea, often left to fend for themselves as they await pay which sometimes never comes.

A Friday investigative report in The Wall Street Journal has detailed some of the shocking stories of tanker crew members left adrift after companies abandoned vessels or sold or transferred them, or couldn't pay mounting debts, while trying to survive oftentimes on little food even while moored close to resort locations in places like Dubai - or in other cases floating off the Suez Canal or at Black Sea ports.

"The $14 trillion shipping industry, responsible for 90% of world trade, has left in its wake what appears to be a record number of cargo-ship castaways," the report begins. "Abandonment cases are counted when shipowners fail to pay crews two or more months in wages or don’t cover the cost to send crew members home, according to the International Maritime Organization, a United Nations agency."

< more at link >

[Clarity]

My friend sells new camper vans, they have been told by their supplier that there's going to be little to no stock next year (they would normally be making that stock now) as there are no parts available.
I've heard similar from a mechanic talking about parts for older cars.

[Bill Ryan]

From Sputnik News, a few hours ago:


https://sputniknews.com/20211010/chinas-unprecedented-power-crunch-may-ripple-through-global-economy-1089808890.html

China's 'Unprecedented' Power Crunch May 'Ripple Through' Global Economy

The authorities of several provinces in China, mainly in the northeast of the country, are still trying to cope with the consequences of major power shortfalls, reportedly caused by the high cost and dearth of coal, as well as an increase in natural gas prices.

China's latest power crunch may "ripple through" the world economy, earlier reshaped by the COVID-19 pandemic, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) has reported.
The newspaper claims that the power meltdown will most likely worsen "a global energy squeeze", which may then damage the post-pandemic economic recovery.The power crunch in China also reportedly risks putting more pressure on global supply chains by increasing prices for raw materials and essential components.
Ting Lu, chief China economist at Nomura Holdings, wrote in a note to clients that global markets "will feel the pinch of [China's] shortage of supply from textiles, toys to machine parts".
He was echoed by Mike Beckham, co-founder and CEO of the Oklahoma-based company Simple Modern, who said that "there'll be a cascading effect" from the recent power shortfalls in China.
"As we started to comprehend the ramifications of what's happening, we realised that this is potentially bigger than anything we've seen in our business careers", Beckham argued referring to China's power meltdown.
He suggested that as a result of this crunch, US retail prices for many products could increase by as much as 15% next spring amid a "strong appetite" from retailers.

Steve Cooke, managing director of Cre8tive Brand Ideas Ltd., an England-based distributor of promotional merchandise such as branded bags, clothing, pens, and computer accessories, told the WSJ about the "incredible" situation pertaining to the power meltdown. According to him, the company mainly relies on suppliers who source about 80% of their products from China.

The comments come as Chinese authorities are trying to tackle the repercussions of what the state-run tabloid Global Times described as an "unexpected and unprecedented" power cut that hit a number of China's northeastern provinces in late September.

The power shortfalls in the provinces of Heilongjiang, Jilin, and Liaoning, as well as the southern province of Guangdong, a major industrial and shipping hub, reportedly "resulted in major disruptions to the daily lives of people and business operations". The power outages occurred as Beijing actively seeks to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, the use of coal, and develop a green economy.

The developments unfold amid turmoil on the European gas market (https://sputniknews.com/20211006/five-eu-countries-want-gas-market-investigated-to-mitigate-further-price-spikes-1089700959.html), where the price of fuel soared to a record high of more than $1,900 per 1,000 cubic metres earlier this week, before falling by $740 and temporarily stabilising at about $1,200.

[Matthew]

Rotten Politics reports on a Daily Mail article which says the DVLA has a backlog of HGV licence applications, and home working is the blamed for the inefficiency.

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[mountain_jim]

https://media.gab.com/system/media_attachments/files/087/378/943/original/2a198a0ff1d94beb.png

[mojo]

No surprise everything Brandon touches turns to pooh...

There are no shortages
This has been planned all along to destroy & take down America.
edit: Perhaps this video should be a separate thread? but for now...

https://rumble.com/vnlk39-whistleblower-la-port-worker-says-shortages-are-fake.html

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[CurEus]

All things taken into consideration what resonates most for me over the last decade or so are the "recalls" made by governments. By now they are so banal that "someone" is stockpiling.

We have run into severe weather as well as "manufactured" droughts, fire, and flooding but we are also moving into severe earth changes and challenges with food production that will be ongoing

YET another coordinated effort to create transportation ( land, sea, rail, road, air) is exacerbated by governments forcing producers to use reserves...and then bottlenecking ( worker, key technologies shortages) so animals and food just must be left to rot or die...or goods just left in containers for months on end...how about the "bizarre" numbers of key proding factories.just burning down? It's endless.

THIS is not a co-incidence.

All the labour strikes and walk outs coming up and on going.
Just another piece of the puzzle.

America is getting rolling blackouts for the Dark Winter"......seriously?
The UK has no Co2 or petrol or natural gas? ....seriously?
Will Canada run out of Ice......?

[Brigantia]

We're being told that the shortage of lorry drivers is 'due to Brexit' and 'EU workers going home'.

It turns out that there is a shortage of lorry drivers throughout Europe. From The Scotsman (https://www.scotsman.com/business/is-there-a-lorry-driver-shortage-in-europe-what-is-the-situation-across-the-channel-3398097):

"As early as 2020, logistics analysts Transport Intelligence reported that Germany had an industry gap of between 45,000 and 60,00 HGV drivers. Predictions for 2024 see this number increasing to up 185,000 by 2027.

In France, there has been a shortage of 43,000 drivers since 2019 and Italy reports a deficit in drivers of around 15,000.

Clearly, the problem is not isolated to the UK, but has been a common issue across Europe for the last couple of years. In total, Europe has an estimated shortage of 400,000 HGV drivers, according to Transport Intelligence."

I also took a screenshot recently of these figures:

Germany - 85,000 short
Spain - 20,000 short
Italy - 20,000 short
France - 50,000 short
Poland - 125,000 short

[bobme]

I believe I read here not long ago, that the reservoirs are purposely being drained. correct me if I am wrong.

But a few years ago I read an article that showed this was already planned,[the shortages that are beginning now], would happen soon.

Cannot be sure if it was David Icke, or a Rockefeller foundation report. But one of the two.

Anyway I have seen canned cat food, sugar free items such as fudge pops for one,[ all brands], completely disappear from freezers in all stores. This within a month. The gas and oil lines shut down by Biden and our wonderful political stooges here in Michigan, are causing the shortages, and the prices of fuel to skyrocket at faster than warp speed. Which leads shippers to raise prices on delivery, and thus stores to raise prices on all foods and, and every thing else you by.

This is on purpose for sure.

The tv and papers all blame it on covid issues, but that is B.S. It is the Shortages caused by the limited fuel supply,done on purpose,that is causing the problem. Your gift from the Government, you may, or may .not have elected into office.

[prc]

There are chip shortages here impacting car manufacturers. For the time being there is no food shortages, what we have is food prices increasing while the package of food shrinks. Never seen this in Europe for instance but here it does happen. People are going hungry here, they stand on supermarkets entrance asking for food instead of money. There is no worker shortages here, we have a huge unemployment rate 14% of the population wants to work but cannot find a job. We have a shortage of rain, this is impacting our hydroelectrical generation. So energy is in shortage here at the moment. Tehre are people that are already stopping using house appliances like Washing machines and the like because cannot afford to pay for energy. We are heading towards the middle ages in 21st cenury. No cars, no house electrical appliances, perhaps no planes who knows... I don´t go out very much so we might have other shortages that I am not aware of.

[Bubu]

Any recommendations/ solution for the coming shortage? I see absolutely no point in discussing shortage if we're not going to talk about solutions. I could be wrong but this thread looks more like a fear porn to me. Not saying its deliberate or something to that effect. Its just that every time I come to this. There is this negative feeling towards helplessness. endlessly talking of shortage without talking of solution??? what do we get?

Shortage is already very obvious anywhere in the globe even the ignorants agree with me. whats the point of hammering this news? just asking. In asking there is a possibility of being enlightened.

[I am B]

Any recommendations/ solution for the coming shortage? I see absolutely no point in discussing shortage if we're not going to talk about solutions. I could be wrong but this thread looks more like a fear porn to me.

Not more than going through a prepping schedule and plan, something that everyone should have done already at some point.

Keep your vehicles with good amounts of gas or even keep some extra at home, a usual good supply of food, meds, batteries,a bag... Normal prepping stuff to be able to organise yourself and live independently if the need arises, or at least buy you some time to do so.

And regularly keep an eye in case something bigger happened. Which is basically checking avalon from now and then like you probably do.

Anyways, in my humble opinion, the crack has already happened, and now it is nothing but a gradual lowering of the standards until it becomes either unsustainable, or "by the book" slavery. Sadly only time will tell.

I don't fear life conditions being bad. They already are not good, and getting worse by the day. I fear people will not only comply, but defend those conditions.

[Bill Ryan]

Any recommendations/ solution for the coming shortage? I see absolutely no point in discussing shortage if we're not going to talk about solutions. I could be wrong but this thread looks more like a fear porn to me.

Not more than going through a prepping schedule and plan, something that everyone should have done already at some point.

Keep your vehicles with good amounts of gas or even keep some extra at home, a usual good supply of food, meds, batteries,a bag... Normal prepping stuff to be able to organise yourself and live independently if the need arises, or at least buy you some time to do so.

And regularly keep an eye in case something bigger happened. Which is basically checking avalon from now and then like you probably do.

Anyways, in my humble opinion, the crack has already happened, and now it is nothing but a gradual lowering of the standards until it becomes either unsustainable, or "by the book" slavery. Sadly only time will tell.

I don't fear life conditions being bad. They already are not good, and getting worse by the day. I fear people will not only comply, but defend those conditions.Exactly. It's just like a weather forecast. If one's aware of what might happen tomorrow, one can swing into action and take good care of oneself and everything and everyone around you.

[Brigantia]

Any recommendations/ solution for the coming shortage? I see absolutely no point in discussing shortage if we're not going to talk about solutions. I could be wrong but this thread looks more like a fear porn to me. Not saying its deliberate or something to that effect. Its just that every time I come to this. There is this negative feeling towards helplessness. endlessly talking of shortage without talking of solution??? what do we get?

Shortage is already very obvious anywhere in the globe even the ignorants agree with me. whats the point of hammering this news? just asking. In asking there is a possibility of being enlightened.

To be honest, this has been discussed on PA for quite a long time and it is now becoming evident that the supply chains are starting to break down. I built up my store cupboard in the spring and early summer of long-life provisions when supplies were normal, so I can now leave whatever is on the shelves for others.

I'm now turning my attention to next year's gardening supplies so that I can grow my own food, also I have 3 sets of Japanese onions planted that will be ready in early summer when this year's onion summer crop runs out (properly dried out for a few days in the sun and now in the fridge, where they will last for months).

[RunningDeer]

Any recommendations/ solution for the coming shortage? I see absolutely no point in discussing shortage if we're not going to talk about solutions. I could be wrong but this thread looks more like a fear porn to me. Not saying its deliberate or something to that effect. Its just that every time I come to this. There is this negative feeling towards helplessness. endlessly talking of shortage without talking of solution??? what do we get?

Shortage is already very obvious anywhere in the globe even the ignorants agree with me. whats the point of hammering this news? just asking. In asking there is a possibility of being enlightened.

Hi Julian,

Sometimes I have to step away from a thread for a bit and revisit after I’ve recharged. The same for the need to know every little detail of what’s happening out there. (diminishing returns)

The way I see it is I’ve prepared as best I can which isn’t much in comparison to the preppers, but suspect it’s more than most of my family and neighbors. At present, my preparation is less time in worry and more time in flow.

Note: I'm a work in progress. http://paula.avalonlibrary.net/smilies/laugh-big-smile-teeth.gif


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Resource suggestions - approximately 519 threads in Living Off the Grid (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/forumdisplay.php?69-Living-Off-The-Grid) Section:


Living Off the Grid (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/forumdisplay.php?74-General--Living-off-the-Grid-) - 180 threads
Amateur Radio (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/forumdisplay.php?106-Amateur-Radio) - 4 threads
Emergency & Survival Supplies (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/forumdisplay.php?72-Emergency-Survival-Supplies) - 35 threads
Food & Water (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/forumdisplay.php?70-Food-Water) - 180+ threads
Personal Sovereignty (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/forumdisplay.php?159-Personal-Sovereignty)- 9 threads
Power & Transport (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/forumdisplay.php?73-Power-Transport) - 60 threads
Shelter (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/forumdisplay.php?71-Shelter) - 40 threads
Strategic Relocation (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/forumdisplay.php?122-Strategic-Relocation) - 11 threads

[Bassplayer1]

We live on the top floor of a high rise in the downtown, hardly ideal for prepping! But we've managed to do what we can and I think we can stretch (just about) to around six months. This is assuming there's no power outage because we are relying on the stash in our chest freezer!

I've accepted that there are some situations I can prep for but not others because of where we live and the lifestyle we chose at the time when we moved. Generators and military buckets of protein meals 25 years shelf life would be very much appreciated but its not practical in our situation. I would love to move to a house in the countryside but that's not realistically on the horizon any time soon. So we work with what we've got.

I've accepted that we can get through around 6 months of weirdness in the world - to a degree - ie food shortages. But anything more apocalyptic is where the end of the line is. I am planning well for what we can survive rather than worrying about what we may not. Our hallway is stacked with water and the walk in closets are stashed with the usual suspects - rice, beans, pasta, tinned stuff, supplements etc with fresh fruit and veg packed in the freezers.

I try not to worry. There are some shortages here in my area of Ontario - but its unexpected stuff. I could do with getting a new winter coat but there really is a shortage. The racks in all the stores are spaced out with last season's 'dead stock' that hasn't sold and isn't necessarily the best for warmth. I was shocked that some of the adventure and mountaineering stores have absolutely no Northface, Patagonia etc. Nothing. Some have yet to get in any of their winter line of coats and normally, this time of year is when the stores are full of winter clothing and one store even had a sign in the entrance acknowledging no coats and empty shelves due to awaiting deliveries. I'm assuming it may be a shortage of buttons and zips etc due to plastic shortages.

Also, I was taken aback by the empty shelves in Staples the office store. Many of the items we take for granted unavailable. Rows and rows of spaced out toner cartridges but a shortage of printers is an example. Mice, keyboards etc.

Something is going on for sure and I've been so busy focussing on rice, beans and enough booze that it didn't occur to me shortages in coats, electrical stuff etc. Many of the stores around us have plenty of food still but no pet food or cat litter etc. The shortages are unpredictable.

[jaybee]

This would be good to make if there was no power and a shortage of wood as it is very economical re fuel - just a few sticks...

I'm going to start collecting bricks because it could be fun to make and use anyway...

Maybe in an emergency a much smaller one could be made and put on a window sill by an open window in a flat - not sure if that would be a good idea or not... :)

If you go to the YT link there are videos of other brick rocket stoves being made...


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[Eva2]

Taken from a post today (October 12):
'this is a map of container ships parked off the coast of California as of today. None can unload because the cranes are not operating and there are no trucks or drivers that can take the containers.
This is why your refrigerator or furniture is backordered until December, your car part is not available and the hardware for your shower isn't available until December or even January. This is a very real problem and is hurting businesses all over the country.
You can see it for yourself at www.marinetraffic.com'
https://scontent.fyvr2-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.6435-9/241521108_10161181375565559_8938505250840263421_n.jpg?_nc_cat=100&ccb=1-5&_nc_sid=730e14&_nc_ohc=QhqYdbgUxaIAX9iNbTU&_nc_ht=scontent.fyvr2-1.fna&oh=a0fee2de125476d7e3df23b3f9992938&oe=619140A1

[pabranno]

Just a quick aside… I could have said this on any number of threads…
I am offended by comments which refer to those who aren’t ‘enlightened as ‘ignorant’’ etc.
as if we somehow are inherently superior beings by and those ‘others’ are repugnant unworthy and clearly inferior souls.

Millions of souls are chained for hours in a rice paddy field, etc etc etc etc etc ,
and have no spare energy/resource to delve into deeper reality.

It is soooo easy to feel superior and smug because we can see much that others do not.

No doubt some of it IS willful ignorance.
That’s not for me to judge.

It is for me to be vigilant, discerning, and compassionate

I am deeply grateful I have been allowed the resources and desire to seek and understand deeper.


Pamela

[pabranno]

Y’all want a good laugh? As I reread what I just posted, I realized my post itself was full of the self righteous smuggery I was condemning! It was ME. I was posting to myself. What a lesson. Hope the lesson sticks with me. Rather embarrassing.
I obviously needed to see that

Laugh and move on, folks. Nothing to see here!😳


Pamela

[pyrangello]

There is some truth to the fact that so many are wrapped up in being so busy they have no time to look around and realize whats happening right before their eyes. As with each individual its a timing thing . As for the shortages, consider this? We today are still eating better than many king henry's of france with the variety of foods that are available. Now raw materials is another thing, the garage door guy across the street from me said there is a 22 week wait on garage door panels, and thats just one item.

[RunningDeer]

Just a quick aside… I could have said this on any number of threads…
I am offended by comments which refer to those who aren’t ‘enlightened as ‘ignorant’’ etc.
as if we somehow are inherently superior beings by and those ‘others’ are repugnant unworthy and clearly inferior souls.

Millions of souls are chained for hours in a rice paddy field, etc etc etc etc etc ,
and have no spare energy/resource to delve into deeper reality.

It is soooo easy to feel superior and smug because we can see much that others do not.

No doubt some of it IS willful ignorance.
That’s not for me to judge.

It is for me to be vigilant, discerning, and compassionate

I am deeply grateful I have been allowed the resources and desire to seek and understand deeper.


Pamela

Pamela, I missed the self righteous smuggery. I only read your sincere intent that it's not an equal opportunity for everyone to stay on top of what’s going on.

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[Sue (Ayt)]

Y’all want a good laugh? As I reread what I just posted, I realized my post itself was full of the self righteous smuggery I was condemning! It was ME. I was posting to myself. What a lesson. Hope the lesson sticks with me. Rather embarrassing.
I obviously needed to see that

Laugh and move on, folks. Nothing to see here!😳


Pamela
Haha - It's always been that way when you think of it... The irony of folks "condemning the condemners".

I condemn you for condemning!!!
:cool::ROFL:

PS - (just joking.) Superior "spiritual" attitudes frustrate me too, and generally drive me off.

[ExomatrixTV]

"Transport & Food Crisis" is a direct result of unconstitutional v@x mandates serving #Agenda2030 (https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/agenda2030?__eep__=6&__cft__[0]=AZWn4fbv7WfWRxa64uIj-QB3MlqJSioWUqeGTH4K3ctOFauc1ivnhbkrb8jLdSKTtAjr8Cd_AqqP9dlFE2dxBnHa59O7WLmwZFjO4ySEzXYwiC8fiQ7TLoOij Lj7IPdekA0&__tn__=*NK-R) and MSM = 100% complicit ...

[Bubu]

Thanks everyone for prepping suggestions. Let me add mine. This will all boil down to shortage of food. The most basic to survive. Thus I started producing food. Also I am trying to find an old junk engine that I can run on woodgas or biogas. This will be my main power supply when petrol runs out. This was use extensively during world war 2 when supply chain was disrupted.

[Bubu]

Just a quick aside… I could have said this on any number of threads…
I am offended by comments which refer to those who aren’t ‘enlightened as ‘ignorant’’ etc.
as if we somehow are inherently superior beings by and those ‘others’ are repugnant unworthy and clearly inferior souls.

Millions of souls are chained for hours in a rice paddy field, etc etc etc etc etc ,
and have no spare energy/resource to delve into deeper reality.

It is soooo easy to feel superior and smug because we can see much that others do not.

No doubt some of it IS willful ignorance.
That’s not for me to judge.

It is for me to be vigilant, discerning, and compassionate

I am deeply grateful I have been allowed the resources and desire to seek and understand deeper.


Pamela

Apologies for the bad word. I am not English so I might have given it a wrong meaning. correct me if I am wrong. "ignorant" comes from the word ignore and the opposite would be vigilant. Ignoring something does not make one inferior in most cases its good because "ignorance is bliss" :)

[Bubu]

I was going through the links provided by Paula and this caught my attention.

https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?103065-How-to-Survive-ANYTHING-in-3-Easy-Steps

I think it all boils down to confidence, to not panic. I do not doubt for a second that I can survive alone or with some people. I have survive a number of times getting lost in the forest, being poisoned by mushroom while alone in the wilderness etc. And that gives me the confidence. I think all people have the innate knowledge of survival. However that innate knowledge should come out before panic or before death. BUT i don't want to survive I want to thrive I don't want shortage I want abundance. That's what I am working for. If I am to live I shall live happily and that requires people around me to be happy as well. vibes is contagious me thinks.

[RunningDeer]

There were four major turning points. Looking back I approached them as a new chapter in life. I’ll be brief because I’ve shared much of this before:




1) The day before my 18th birthday, I filled a brown paper bag with some clothes and a few books and hitched a ride across state lines to begin a new life. I had an apartment and in the fall registered for my last year of high school and worked a 3rd shift job.

2) I filled up my VW with essentials for my son and I and drove away from our new home that became a house.

3) A week before I began my last semester at college, the TV began to flame. I grabbed my son while he grabbed his teddy bear. The volunteer fire department didn’t believe our apartment was engulfed in flames because there were two false alarms in the complex that day.

I know I have it in me to weather whatever comes next. In many respects, the worst is behind me. The spirit within knows no bounds. All I have to do is remember that if/when the time comes. But I’d add that I don’t sense the doom and gloom coming on as strong as we’ve been lead to believe, or perhaps life has prepared me on how to roll with it all.


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♡

[pabranno]

I apologize Bubu. I misunderstood and I became self righteous and insensitive. I so enjoy your posts.
Please forgive me and do not take it to heart
MY BooBoo…..(English slang for ‘I made a stupid mistake’
🤗

Pamela

[Bubu]

I apologize Bubu. I misunderstood and I became self righteous and insensitive. I so enjoy your posts.
Please forgive me and do not take it to heart
MY BooBoo…..(English slang for ‘I made a stupid mistake’
🤗

Pamela

Not I bit :flower:

[Bubu]

Let's say this SHORTAGE descended into real shortage, people are getting hungry while I have a stash good for one year. Do you think I will be able to sleep at night without holding a gun knowing that people around me has children that are hungry? This is the reason I am not into prepping. Right now I am into production and teaching/ encouraging people how to produce. I don't see me living peacefully while people around me are hungry and problematic. That is simply not possible whether I like it or not. Anyone who have a supply for two years while people around him is hungry should build an impenetrable house.

[Brigantia]

Apparently Britain is facing a 'pie crisis' due to a lack of aluminium to make foil, most of the world's aluminium production comes from China. Honestly, is this country so lacking in basic cooking skills that no one knows how to make a pie from scratch?

Here's a brilliant take on this latest 'crisis' from Andrew Lawrence, but - WARNING - it's got quite a bit of profanity, so don't watch if you're easily offended. Only 2 minutes long.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EeYdEuvzPA

[I am B]

Let's say this SHORTAGE descended into real shortage, people are getting hungry while I have a stash good for one year. Do you think I will be able to sleep at night without holding a gun knowing that people around me has children that are hungry? This is the reason I am not into prepping. Right now I am into production and teaching/ encouraging people how to produce. I don't see me living peacefully while people around me are hungry and problematic. That is simply not possible whether I like it or not. Anyone who have a supply for two years while people around him is hungry should build an impenetrable house.

Why only prep learning? Do you know how to can food? Its actually preety easy, and you can teach people around you so they can save whatever they have remaining in the fridge in case there is a lasting power outage or famine. Teaching to produce as you say. But what is it worth if you starve to death on the first 10 days? (or 40, whatever) Prepping is not about hoarding, its about making it through. Prep to survive too, so you can help people like you suggest.

"There are 9 meals between peace and anarchy. " said someone. But potatos don't grow in that time as far as I know.

[Bill Ryan]

Let's say this SHORTAGE descended into real shortage, people are getting hungry while I have a stash good for one year. Do you think I will be able to sleep at night without holding a gun knowing that people around me has children that are hungry? This is the reason I am not into prepping. Right now I am into production and teaching/ encouraging people how to produce. I don't see me living peacefully while people around me are hungry and problematic. That is simply not possible whether I like it or not. Anyone who have a supply for two years while people around him is hungry should build an impenetrable house.You may be missing part of the problem here. One also needs to consider all this:


Parts for your plumbing system (joints, valves, washers, filters, silicon sealing tape)
Anything electrical that might need repair (switches, connectors, sockets, electrical tape)
Easy-to-replace spare parts for your car (bulbs, fuses, filters, spark plugs, oil)
Any tools that you might need, including for your garden (don't forget things like spare wooden handles, drill bits, some wood and metal components to make things with, epoxy glue, duck tape, masking tape, screws, bolts and nails of every size, rope, wire, etc etc etc)
Basic first aid supplies
Soap, washing powder, personal toiletries
... and much more. Anything you might ever need and then suddenly can't find.

It's not just about food!

[Bubu]

yes Bill you're absolutely correct. Its wrong for me to say I am not prepping. As part of my prepping I have built a mobile corn thresher and mill that runs on petrol. Eventually this will run on wood gas if things get to that point. More machine to come. And this is intended to cater to 3 adjacent villages. I guess I am done prepping for myself and family as I have an entire arsenal that is needed to construct a hotel from bottom up inside out or maybe its not yet time to do so. More prepping to come for entire villages. I am working for entire villages to be self sustainable. That's my goal and I don't expect anyone to go that route. Those who are not as skilled as I am should definitely prep more. My point is if you have to prep, at least include some people if you can.

[Bubu]

Let's say this SHORTAGE descended into real shortage, people are getting hungry while I have a stash good for one year. Do you think I will be able to sleep at night without holding a gun knowing that people around me has children that are hungry? This is the reason I am not into prepping. Right now I am into production and teaching/ encouraging people how to produce. I don't see me living peacefully while people around me are hungry and problematic. That is simply not possible whether I like it or not. Anyone who have a supply for two years while people around him is hungry should build an impenetrable house.

Why only prep learning? Do you know how to can food? Its actually preety easy, and you can teach people around you so they can save whatever they have remaining in the fridge in case there is a lasting power outage or famine. Teaching to produce as you say. But what is it worth if you starve to death on the first 10 days? (or 40, whatever) Prepping is not about hoarding, its about making it through. Prep to survive too, so you can help people like you suggest.

"There are 9 meals between peace and anarchy. " said someone. But potatos don't grow in that time as far as I know.

When TSHTF where are we going to get a supply of cans. . Most of my prepping is learning. How to preserve veggies on charcoal and without electricity. Things like that, that is entirely independent of big factories. We have become too dependent on technologies and the goal of the elite now is to withdraw all those tech. So prepping is about surviving without those.

food is not going to banish in a month. I have a complete line of hunting tools also. I have mushroom spawn that can be harvested within 14 days from planting and other fast growing seeds. I think I am done prepping. Though not stacking on food. it may come later. for now I dont see it is needed.

[I am B]

Let's say this SHORTAGE descended into real shortage, people are getting hungry while I have a stash good for one year. Do you think I will be able to sleep at night without holding a gun knowing that people around me has children that are hungry? This is the reason I am not into prepping. Right now I am into production and teaching/ encouraging people how to produce. I don't see me living peacefully while people around me are hungry and problematic. That is simply not possible whether I like it or not. Anyone who have a supply for two years while people around him is hungry should build an impenetrable house.

Why only prep learning? Do you know how to can food? Its actually preety easy, and you can teach people around you so they can save whatever they have remaining in the fridge in case there is a lasting power outage or famine. Teaching to produce as you say. But what is it worth if you starve to death on the first 10 days? (or 40, whatever) Prepping is not about hoarding, its about making it through. Prep to survive too, so you can help people like you suggest.

"There are 9 meals between peace and anarchy. " said someone. But potatos don't grow in that time as far as I know.

When TSHTF where are we going to get a supply of cans. . Most of my prepping is learning. How to preserve veggies on charcoal and without electricity. Things like that, that is entirely independent of big factories. We have become too dependent on technologies and the goal of the elite now is to withdraw all those tech. So prepping is about surviving without those.

food is not going to banish in a month. I have a complete line of hunting tools also. I have mushroom spawn that can be harvested within 14 days from planting and other fast growing seeds. I think I am done prepping. Though not stacking on food. it may come later. for now I dont see it is needed.

Thats solid! It was mostly in case you lived in the city or so, but it surely doesn't look like so!

For the canning, you just need glass pots, like the ones with pickles, etc. (can be recycled) Then its fairly easy to do with water and a fireplace. But that would be a matter for a whole other thread!

[Waldo]

I own a relatively small business we manufacture and distribute craft soda syrups for fountain dispensing in restaurants. We have to follow the business model established years ago by the big soda companies. Whenever we land a new account we have to place the fountain equipment and maintain the system for 24-7 so the restaurant account always has the beverages available for the customers. The average system cost for an 8 valve ice beverage combo unit is about 5K so it takes a while before we breakeven and start making money.

The 2020 shutdowns for covid impacted our business dramatically due to big soda controlling almost all of the quick serve restaurants that still sold sodas in the drive through windows. We struggled through 2020 and without the help of gov handouts we would have been done in 2020. We recovered nicely in late 2020 and things took off for us in March of this year. We are now dealing the supply chain from hell. Every day we are getting price hikes and we have had to more than double up on the ingredients and packaging materials we use to make our products. Some of the increases have been dramatic like citric acid going from $.90/lb to $$2.75/lb 5 gallon boxes from $.92 each to $1.46 each. Just finding some of the materials has been difficult. Our lead times from extract suppliers has gone from 3 weeks to 8 weeks.

I went through hell and back to get this company to where it is today with no capital to start with and my first 2 landlords were bat chit crazy lunatics that did everything they could to destroy me and my business. Holy crap when does it let up?

Anyone want to buy a thriving craft soda company in the great state of Texas?

[Bubu]

Let's say this SHORTAGE descended into real shortage, people are getting hungry while I have a stash good for one year. Do you think I will be able to sleep at night without holding a gun knowing that people around me has children that are hungry? This is the reason I am not into prepping. Right now I am into production and teaching/ encouraging people how to produce. I don't see me living peacefully while people around me are hungry and problematic. That is simply not possible whether I like it or not. Anyone who have a supply for two years while people around him is hungry should build an impenetrable house.

Why only prep learning? Do you know how to can food? Its actually preety easy, and you can teach people around you so they can save whatever they have remaining in the fridge in case there is a lasting power outage or famine. Teaching to produce as you say. But what is it worth if you starve to death on the first 10 days? (or 40, whatever) Prepping is not about hoarding, its about making it through. Prep to survive too, so you can help people like you suggest.

"There are 9 meals between peace and anarchy. " said someone. But potatos don't grow in that time as far as I know.

When TSHTF where are we going to get a supply of cans. . Most of my prepping is learning. How to preserve veggies on charcoal and without electricity. Things like that, that is entirely independent of big factories. We have become too dependent on technologies and the goal of the elite now is to withdraw all those tech. So prepping is about surviving without those.

food is not going to banish in a month. I have a complete line of hunting tools also. I have mushroom spawn that can be harvested within 14 days from planting and other fast growing seeds. I think I am done prepping. Though not stacking on food. it may come later. for now I dont see it is needed.

Thats solid! It was mostly in case you lived in the city or so, but it surely doesn't look like so!

For the canning, you just need glass pots, like the ones with pickles, etc. (can be recycled) Then its fairly easy to do with water and a fireplace. But that would be a matter for a whole other thread!

Canning with glass bottles? :) But yeah I get the idea and thanks for the reminder. I should start saving those glass jars. I have tried my hands on this couple of times.
I use to be in construction business with some people working for me. Not the big one with heavy equipment. We only have the basic tools and simple machines. Nevertheless we were able to construct house/building. More than 40. I am now relieve of family duty so I am working to get my lifelong goal become a reality. I now work part time as a professional handyman and inventor. I design and construct costume equipment. Mostly for agri. businesses. So yeah that's a solid background to fulfill my goal. As the saying goes. "Anything you know is simple". I have thought/plan for this for decades. I have actually wrote to Bill Gates foundation back in 2005 (not knowing what it is for) and other foundations to seek for financial assistance for the farmers and fishermen coop that I organize. Farmers and fishermen is the most exploited people here. So I made it my goal to empower them. I know what to do. Its not that big and difficult as some may think. I am not going to feed the whole villages. What I am going to do is to give them the pieces of the puzzle that's missing in order for them to be self sufficient. Its a lifelong plan And partly prepping because of the urgency as the SHORTAGE has now begun. This can no longer wait. I am glad I am finally into it.

[Bubu]

I own a relatively small business we manufacture and distribute craft soda syrups for fountain dispensing in restaurants. We have to follow the business model established years ago by the big soda companies. Whenever we land a new account we have to place the fountain equipment and maintain the system for 24-7 so the restaurant account always has the beverages available for the customers. The average system cost for an 8 valve ice beverage combo unit is about 5K so it takes a while before we breakeven and start making money.

The 2020 shutdowns for covid impacted our business dramatically due to big soda controlling almost all of the quick serve restaurants that still sold sodas in the drive through windows. We struggled through 2020 and without the help of gov handouts we would have been done in 2020. We recovered nicely in late 2020 and things took off for us in March of this year. We are now dealing the supply chain from hell. Every day we are getting price hikes and we have had to more than double up on the ingredients and packaging materials we use to make our products. Some of the increases have been dramatic like citric acid going from $.90/lb to $$2.75/lb 5 gallon boxes from $.92 each to $1.46 each. Just finding some of the materials has been difficult. Our lead times from extract suppliers has gone from 3 weeks to 8 weeks.

I went through hell and back to get this company to where it is today with no capital to start with and my first 2 landlords were bat chit crazy lunatics that did everything they could to destroy me and my business. Holy crap when does it let up?

Anyone want to buy a thriving craft soda company in the great state of Texas?

Sad to hear another story of struggle to survive. Trust me its now the common tale. The first to be hit by this shortage are the ones that is dependent on big factories and businesses. They are closing the taps up there. Then those that makes money (trading or buy and sell). Those that are making goods out of something that the controller have no control are the ones that will survive and thrive.

[Bill Ryan]

A rather apocalyptic (but possibly quite realistic) new article by Michael Synder from The Economic Collapse Blog.


http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/our-epic-supply-chain-crisis-just-hit-another-level-and-biden-is-considering-calling-in-the-national-guard-to-help

Our Epic Supply Chain Crisis Just Hit Another Level, And Biden Is Considering Calling In The National Guard To Help

It is the month of October, and right now many Americans are more scared by the state of our national supply chains than by anything else. Some of the things that I am going to share with you in this article are truly frightening, and I would very much encourage you to take them seriously. Our economic infrastructure is failing on a massive scale, and officials are openly admitting that things will get even worse in the months ahead. We are in uncharted territory, because none of us has ever seen anything like this before. If our leaders cannot get this fixed, 2022 is going to be a truly nightmarish year.

Of course just last week Joe Biden gave a big speech in which he assured all of us that he was implementing measures which would soon turn things around.

Unfortunately, just like with Afghanistan, the southern border, inflation and so many other problems, our supply chain crisis has gotten even worse now that Biden is personally involved. On Tuesday, it was being reported that the number of vessels backed up off the coast of southern California has just hit a brand new record high (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10108163/Backlog-ships-Californias-two-largest-ports-hits-record-100-supply-chain-crisis-worsens.html)…
The nation’s largest ports shattered more records Monday as massive bottlenecks at the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach continue to wreak supply chain havoc.
The Marine Exchange of Southern California reported 100 vessels berthed October 18, topping the previous record of 97 set September 19.
A single container ship can hold thousands upon thousands of enormous shipping containers, and so we are talking about a backlog of absolutely immense proportions.

It would take many months just to work through a backlog of this magnitude even if the ports in southern California were making progress in paring it down.

But instead of making progress, the backlog just continues to get even deeper.

As the supply chain crisis escalates, the Biden administration has actively been considering using the National Guard (https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/white-house-has-weighed-tapping-national-guard-to-address-mounting-supply-chain-backlog/ar-AAPImgz) on an emergency basis…
White House officials have explored in recent weeks whether the National Guard could be deployed to help address the nation’s mounting supply chain backlog, three people with knowledge of the matter said.
The idea appears unlikely to proceed as of now, the people said, but reflects the extent to which internal administration deliberations about America’s overwhelmed supply chain have sparked outside-the-box proposals to leverage government resources to address the issue.
This is how serious things have become.

Our supply chains are in such a state of chaos that the Biden administration is actually thinking of doing something that has never been done before in American history.

Of course publicly they are still trying to put a happy face on things, but privately administration officials are really freaking out.

And things could soon get a lot worse.

Today, approximately 85 percent of all magnesium production in the world happens in China. We should have never allowed ourselves to become so dependent on China, because now we are facing a critical shortage of magnesium, and that could result in a nightmarish shortage of aluminum (https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/chinas-magnesium-shortage-could-spell-trouble-global-car-industry)…
The source of the shortage is China’s monopoly on global magnesium production. Production curbs of energy-intensive smelters (https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/china-provincial-governor-pleas-more-coal-imports-resolve-power-crunch) have reduced the industrial metal’s output, resulting in dwindling stockpiles in Europe and North America.
Barclays analyst Amos Fletcher told clients in a note that “there are no substitutes for magnesium in aluminum sheet and billet production.” He warned if “magnesium supply stops,” the entire auto industry will grind to a halt.
Oh.

That is bad.

What I first read that, I just sat there stunned for a moment.

Are things really that crazy already?

Yes, they are. In fact, we are being told that magnesium reserves in Europe will be completely exhausted “at the end of November 2021 at the latest” (https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/chinas-magnesium-shortage-could-spell-trouble-global-car-industry)…
“It is expected that the current magnesium reserves in Germany and throughout Europe will be exhausted in a few weeks at the end of November 2021 at the latest,” the group said. “In the event of a supply bottleneck of this magnitude, there is a risk of massive production losses.”
Needless to say, it wouldn’t just be the auto industry that grinds to a halt.
Just think of how many food and beverage products come in aluminum cans.

I don’t know if I even have sufficient words to describe how serious this is.
Meanwhile, it is also being reported that we are potentially facing a propane “armageddon” (https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/ihs-market-warns-armageddon-us-propane-market) this winter…
The expanding energy crisis is causing propane to rocket higher (read: here) as supplies dwindle to below seasonal levels as research firm IHS Markit Ltd. warns of “armageddon” during the Northern Hemisphere winter.
IHS analyst Edgar Ang told attendees during a virtual presentation on Tuesday that US propane inventories are at a record low and will be extremely tight as cold weather is ahead.
That isn’t good.

Millions of Americans use propane to heat their homes. So what are those millions of Americans going to do when supplies of propane run out?

If you use propane to heat your home and you don’t have a back up plan, you need to start developing one right now.

As if things weren’t bad enough already, the absurd mandates that our politicians are pushing on all of us threaten to make things far, far worse.

Let me give you just one example (https://www.wowt.com/2021/10/15/union-pacific-railroad-enacts-federal-vaccine-mandate/)…
Union Pacific Railroad is the latest company to board the mandatory vaccine train.
The company’s 31,000 employees across 23 states have been given just under two months to comply or face additional consequences.
We are already having enormous problems getting things transported across the country, and trains are a key part of that equation.

So what would happen if thousands upon thousands of highly experienced railroad workers are suddenly railroaded out of their jobs?

Of course similar scenarios will be playing out in industry after industry in the months ahead.

The stage is perfectly being set for so many of the things that I have been warning about (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B099C8R1V1), and I am entirely convinced that we will soon see extreme economic pain all across the nation.

In this sort of an economic environment, there is no way that our politicians should even be considering any sort of mandates.

But they are pushing ahead anyway, and we are all going to feel the consequences very deeply.

[Bill Ryan]

A rather apocalyptic (but possibly quite realistic) new article by Michael Synder from The Economic Collapse Blog.


http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/our-epic-supply-chain-crisis-just-hit-another-level-and-biden-is-considering-calling-in-the-national-guard-to-help

Our Epic Supply Chain Crisis Just Hit Another Level, And Biden Is Considering Calling In The National Guard To Help

Mike Adams, in his Situation Update for today, tends to agree.

Start in at 12:53, and the section ends at 36:39.

https://brighteon.com/ca618304-e94f-4dc2-b3c0-369eff3a8d94

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[Brigantia]

I went into 3 supermarkets this morning, supplies were very good at all of them and there was lots of top stock - surplus that they keep on the top of the shelves. Car fuel supplies are back to normal, but the price of a litre is now £1.41 round our way (or £5.64 per gallon, that's US $7.78).

If that's how things are in other parts of the country, now's a good time in the UK to top up emergency reserves.

[I am B]

I'm not sure this has been posted before, couldn't find it.

Austrian defense ministry (if I didn't get it wrong) issues a energy blackout prepping pamphlet, and made a video published on the 6th of October , probably filmed a few weeks previously (which is a bit "weird", huge anticipation) talking about it.

The website specifically mentions "Whole Europe long duration blackouts" in the title.

http://bundesheer.at/archiv/a2021/blackout/blackout.shtml

[Sérénité]

We are now looking at a severe short supply of magnesium, which in turn will lead to issues with not just the auto trade of manufacturing cars, lorries and parts for already existing automobiles...but also the food industry as it will impact tins for food and drinks.

I’m not posting from a perspective of fear or fear mongering, I just think we can gain good insight into what areas are being (quite clearly now intentionally) hit on.

It appears they are hitting the vehicles and transport from every angle now.

They have slowly and quite inconspicuously been closing ALL the small driving theory test centres in towns around the U.K. since last March and you can now only access a theory test by going into a main City Centre test centre...which aren’t always easy to access if you don’t drive and has also caused even bigger backlogs for people waiting to pass their driving tests.

During a time when the DVLA are aware there is in excess of 70,000 people waiting to get a driving test and over 90,000 waiting to get their HGV license, why would DVLA be closing test centres and making the backlog even longer???

Reports coming through seem to say most places are running low on magnesium already and once those stocks have depleted (this side of Xmas for the U.K.) we will struggle.

https://www.mining.com/global-shortage-of-magnesium-to-cripple-car-industry/

It’s like a giant game of jenga now. They know if they keep pulling strategic blocks out of the pile eventually the whole stack is going to fall down
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[Brigantia]

I don't know whether to laugh or cry at this. The tabloid newspapers in the UK often run competitions, to win things like cash, a holiday or a car.

Looking at the website of the propaganda arm of the British government, the BBC, I took a look at the newspaper front pages and saw this on the front page of today's Sunday Express. It may or may not be the case that we will have energy shortages though it's looking likely, but the fact is that prices are rising so sharply (just before winter as well) that many people are going to have a lot of trouble in paying their bills.

[mountain_jim]

https://twitter.com/clif_high/status/1452044003512225797?s=20

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[Brigantia]

Here's another potential disruption to British supplies seeing as much of our food comes from Europe - a row between London and Paris over fishing rights (https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2021/10/25/france-preparing-implement-go-slow-strategy-british-lorries/).

I do admire the direct action that the French have taken to keep their fishing and agriculture a profitable business, but the amount of foreign fleets that have been allowed to fish in British waters has decimated our domestic fishing fleet, driving many out of business.

"France plans 'go slow' strategy on British lorries in retaliation over fishing row

Paris is believed to be preparing a series of pre-Christmas reprisals if French fisherman (sic) are not granted greater access to British waters.

France is preparing to implement a go-slow strategy for customs checks on shipments to and from Britain ahead of Christmas in an escalation of the post-Brexit war over fishing rights, officials fear.

Paris will on Tuesday rubber-stamp a package of planned retaliatory measures that could be triggered if French fishermen are not granted greater access to Britain’s coastal waters.

The Telegraph understands the prospect of French customs officials deliberately disputing cross-Channel trade is a chief concern amongst British officials.

French fishing leaders are also threatening to blockade shipments in and out of Calais from Saturday morning unless they are granted more permits to operate off Britain’s coast.

Jean Castex, France’s prime minister, will warn EU and UK negotiators - who on Monday continued high-stakes discussions over post-Brexit fishing licences - that they have until midnight on Friday to resolve the row.

France is furious that the UK has approved just 15 permits for small French fishing boats to operate in the zone between six to 12 miles off its coast, out of 47 applications.

The row threatens to plunge Franco-British relations to a new low. Paris and London have also been at odds over Channel migrant crossings and the UK’s Aukus nuclear submarine with Australia and the US, which cut out the French.

Responding to mounting pressure from French trawlermen, Mr Castex will on Tuesday unveil a package of planned reprisals that could be triggered as early as November 1.

It will include cutting energy supplies to the UK and Jersey and blocking Britain’s fishing fleet from entering French ports.

He is unlikely to secure support for hitting British exports with trade tariffs from the European Commission or EU capitals, some of whom believe Mr Macron is using the row as part of his re-election campaign ahead of next year’s presidential ballot.

But Paris could order its customs officials to cause backlogs by carrying out more physical checks on shipments between Britain and France, and vice-versa."

[Brigantia]

In addition to the driver shortages already discussed here, the RAC is reporting that councils are now saying that they face a shortage of gritter drivers to clear icy and snowy roads. Let's hope for a mild winter, and drive safely everyone!

"Roads could be left covered in snow and ice this winter – councils warn

Motorists may face even more dangerous conditions than usual on the UK’s roads this winter due to a shortage of gritter drivers, councils have warned. 

Local authorities admit their struggles to retain and recruit bin lorry drivers – which has disrupted refuse collections across several areas – could also affect gritters when harsher conditions prevail.
Without enough gritter drivers to spread salt when the mercury drops, drivers risk facing extremely hazardous snowy and icy conditions on the roads.

Councils are calling on the Government to work with them to 'address these short-term staffing issues to ensure people across the country can continue to receive the services they rely upon'.

This follows the much-documented recent fuel-delivery crisis, with a shortage of HGV drivers affecting supply available at forecourts."

(Full article here (https://www.rac.co.uk/drive/news/state-of-the-roads/roads-could-be-left-covered-in-snow-and-ice-this-winter-councils-warn/?cid=eml-AC058_CHUB_MEMBERS_RE-CHUB_M_RE_W1_20211026_105336&utm_medium=email&utm_source=AC058_CHUB_MEMBERS_RE&utm_campaign=CHUB_M_RE_W1_20211026_105336&omhide=true&contactURN=45723787&hasBreakdown=false).)

[gini]

Gravitas Plus: The Great Resignation. About alarming numbers of people quitting their jobs all over the world.

31 Oct, 9.45 min


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOphIpddRAk

[Bubu]

Gravitas Plus: The Great Resignation. About alarming numbers of people quitting their jobs all over the world.

31 Oct, 9.45 min


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOphIpddRAk

This is so very good news. What will happened if people don't work for some people? it will break the pyramid scheme of control. People have lost their job here too. I get inquiries for egg incubators and other equipment almost everyday. People are going to farms. That's another so very good news.

[Bill Ryan]

A long and very interesting piece from Ryan Johnson, a highly experienced truck driver in the US, published 4 days ago.

https://medium.com/@ryan79z28/im-a-twenty-year-truck-driver-i-will-tell-you-why-america-s-shipping-crisis-will-not-end-bbe0ebac6a91
(https://medium.com/@ryan79z28/im-a-twenty-year-truck-driver-i-will-tell-you-why-america-s-shipping-crisis-will-not-end-bbe0ebac6a91)
I’m A Twenty Year Truck Driver. I'll Tell You Why America’s “Shipping Crisis” Will Not End.

I have a simple question for every ‘expert’ who thinks they understand the root causes of the shipping crisis:

Why is there only one crane for every 50–100 trucks at every port in America?

No ‘expert’ will answer this question.

I’m a Class A truck driver with experience in nearly every aspect of freight. My experience in the trucking industry of 20 years tells me that nothing is going to change in the shipping industry.

Let’s start with understanding some things about ports. Outside of dedicated port trucking companies, most trucking companies won’t touch shipping containers. There is a reason for that.

Think of going to the port as going to WalMart on Black Friday, but imagine only ONE cashier for thousands of customers. Think about the lines. Except at a port, there are at least THREE lines to get a container in or out. The first line is the ‘in’ gate, where hundreds of trucks daily have to pass through 5–10 available gates. The second line is waiting to pick up your container. The third line is for waiting to get out.

For each of these lines the wait time is a minimum of an hour, and I’ve waited up to 8 hours in the first line just to get into the port. Some ports are worse than others, but excessive wait times are not uncommon. It’s a rare day when a driver gets in and out in under two hours. By ‘rare day’, I mean maybe a handful of times a year. Ports don’t even begin to have enough workers to keep the ports fluid, and it doesn’t matter where you are, coastal or inland port, union or non-union port, it’s the same everywhere.

Furthermore, I’m fortunate enough to be a Teamster — a union driver — an employee paid by the hour. Most port drivers are ‘independent contractors’, leased onto a carrier who is paying them by the load. Whether their load takes two hours, fourteen hours, or three days to complete, they get paid the same, and they have to pay 90% of their truck operating expenses (the carrier might pay the other 10%, but usually less.)

The rates paid to non-union drivers for shipping container transport are usually extremely low. In a majority of cases, these drivers don’t come close to my union wages. They pay for all their own repairs and fuel, and all truck related expenses. I honestly don’t understand how many of them can even afford to show up for work. There’s no guarantee of ANY wage (not even minimum wage), and in many cases, these drivers make far below minimum wage. In some cases they work 70 hour weeks and still end up owing money to their carrier.

So when the coastal ports started getting clogged up last spring due to the impacts of COVID on business everywhere, drivers started refusing to show up. Congestion got so bad that instead of being able to do three loads a day, they could only do one. They took a 2/3 pay cut and most of these drivers were working 12 hours a day or more. While carriers were charging increased pandemic shipping rates, none of those rate increases went to the driver wages. Many drivers simply quit. However, while the pickup rate for containers severely decreased, they were still being offloaded from the boats. And it’s only gotten worse.

Earlier this summer, both BNSF and Union Pacific Railways shut down their container yards in the Chicago area for a week for inbound containers. These are some of the busiest ports in the country. They had miles upon miles of stack (container) trains waiting to get in to be unloaded. According to BNSF, containers were sitting in the port 1/3 longer than usual, and they simply ran out of space to put them until some of the ones already on the ground had been picked up.

Though they did reopen the area ports, they are still over capacity. Stack trains are still sitting loaded, all over the country, waiting to get into a port to unload. And they have to be unloaded, there is a finite number of railcars. Equipment shortages are a large part of this problem.

One of these critical shortages is the container chassis.

A container chassis is the trailer the container sits on. Cranes will load these in port. Chassis are typically container company provided, as trucking companies generally don’t have their own chassis units. They are essential for container trucking. While there are some privately owned chassis, there aren’t enough of those to begin to address the backlog of containers today, and now drivers are sitting around for hours, sometimes days, waiting for chassis.

The impact of the container crisis now hitting residencies (https://newyork.cbslocal.com/2021/10/19/supply-chain-cargo-ship-bottleneck-port-los-angeles-long-beach/) in proximity to trucking companies. Containers are being pulled out of the port and dropped anywhere the drivers can find because the trucking company lots are full. Ports are desperate to get containers out so they can unload the new containers coming in by boat. When this happens there is no plan to deliver this freight yet, they are literally just making room for the next ship at the port.

This won’t last long, as this just compounds the shortage of chassis. Ports will eventually find themselves unable to move containers out of the port until sitting containers are delivered, emptied, returned, or taken to a storage lot (either loaded or empty) and taken off the chassis there so the chassis can be put back into use. The priority is not delivery, the priority is just to clear the port enough to unload the next boat.

What happens when a container does get to a warehouse?

A large portion of international containers must be hand unloaded because the products are not on pallets. It takes a working crew a considerable amount of time to do this, and warehouse work is usually low wage. A lot of it is actually only temp staffed. Many full time warehouse workers got laid off when the pandemic started, and didn’t come back. So warehouses, like everybody else, are chronically short staffed.

When the port trucker gets to the warehouse, they have to wait for a door (you’ve probably seen warehouse buildings with a bank of roll-up doors for trucks on one side of the building.) The warehouses are behind schedule, sometimes by weeks. After maybe a 2 hour wait, the driver gets a door and drops the container — but now often has to pick up an empty, and goes back to the port to wait in line all over again to drop off the empty.

At the warehouse, the delivered freight is unloaded, and it is usually separated and bound to pallets, then shipped out in much smaller quantities to final destination. A container that had a couple dozen pallets of goods on it will go out on multiple trailers to multiple different destinations a few pallets at a time.

From personal experience, what used to take me 20–30 minutes to pick up at a warehouse can now take three to four hours. This slowdown is warehouse management related: very few warehouses are open 24 hours, and even if they are, many are so short staffed it doesn’t make much difference, they are so far behind schedule. It means that as a freight driver, I cannot pick up as much freight in a day as I used to, and since I can’t get as much freight on my truck, the whole supply chain is backed up. Freight simply isn’t moving.

It’s important to understand what the cost implications are for consumers with this lack of supply in the supply chain. It’s pure supply and demand economics. Consider volume shipping customers who primarily use ‘general freight’, which is the lowest cost shipping and typically travels in a ‘space available’ fashion. They have usually been able to get their freight moved from origination to delivery within two weeks.

Think about how you get your packages from Amazon. Even without paying for Prime, you usually get your stuff in a week. The majority of freight travels at this low cost, ‘no guarantee of delivery date’ way, and for the most part it’s been fine for both shippers and consumers. Those days are coming to an end.

People who want their deliveries in a reasonable time are going to have to start paying premium rates. There will be levels of priority, and each increase in rate premium essentially jumps that freight ahead of all the freight with lower or no premium rates. Unless the lack of shipping infrastructure is resolved, things will back up in a cascading effect to the point where if your products are going general freight, you might wait a month or two for delivery. It’s already starting. If you use truck shipping in any way, you’ve no doubt started to see the delays. Think about what’s going to happen to holiday season shipping.

What is going to compel the shippers and carriers to invest in the needed infrastructure? The owners of these companies can theoretically not change anything and their business will still be at full capacity because of the backlog of containers. The backlog of containers doesn’t hurt them. It hurts anyone paying shipping costs — that is, manufacturers selling products and consumers buying products.

But it doesn’t hurt the owners of the transportation business — in fact the laws of supply and demand mean that they are actually going to make more money through higher rates, without changing a thing. They don’t have to improve or add infrastructure (because it’s costly), and they don’t have to pay their workers more (warehouse workers, crane operators, truckers).

The ‘experts’ want to say we can do things like open the ports 24/7, and this problem will be over in a couple weeks. They are blowing smoke, and they know it. Getting a container out of the port, as slow and aggravating as it is, is really the easy part, if you can find a truck and chassis to haul it. But every truck driver in America can’t operate 24/7, even if the government suspends Hours Of Service Regulations (federal regulations determining how many hours a week we can work/drive), we still need to sleep sometime.

There are also restrictions on which trucks can go into a port. They have to be approved, have RFID tags, port registered, and the drivers have to have at least a TWIC card (Transportation Worker Identification Credential from the federal Transportation Security Administration). Some ports have additional requirements. As I have already said, most trucking companies won’t touch shipping containers with a 100 foot pole.

What we have is a system with a limited amount of trucks and qualified drivers, many of whom are already working 14 hours a day (legally, the maximum they can), and now the supposed fix is to have them work 24 hours a day, every day, and not stop until the backlog is cleared. It’s not going to happen. It is not physically possible. There is no “cavalry” coming.

No trucking companies are going to pay to register their trucks to haul containers for something that is supposedly so “short term,” because these same companies can get higher rate loads outside the ports. There is no extra capacity to be had, and it makes NO difference anyway, because If you can’t get a container unloaded at a warehouse, having drivers work 24/7/365 solves nothing.

What it will truly take to fix this problem is to run EVERYTHING 24/7: ports (both coastal and domestic),trucks, and warehouses. We need tens of thousands more chassis, and a much greater capacity in trucking.

Before the pandemic, through the pandemic, and really for the whole history of the freight industry at all levels, owners make their money by having low labor costs — that is, low wages and bare minimum staffing. Many supply chain workers are paid minimum wages, no benefits, and there’s a high rate of turnover because the physical conditions can be brutal (there aren’t even bathrooms for truckers waiting hours at ports because the port owners won’t pay for them.

The truckers aren’t port employees and port owners are only legally required to pay for bathroom facilities for their employees. This is a nationwide problem). For the whole supply chain to function efficiently every point has to be working at an equal capacity. Any point that fails bottlenecks the whole system. Right now, it’s ALL failing spectacularly TOGETHER, but fixing one piece won’t do anything. It ALL needs to be fixed, and at the same time.

How do you convince truckers to work when their pay isn’t guaranteed, even to the point where they lose money?

Nobody is compelling the transportation industries to make the needed changes to their infrastructure. There are no laws compelling them to hire the needed workers, or pay them a living wage, or improve working conditions. And nobody is compelling them to buy more container chassis units, more cranes, or more storage space. This is for an industry that literally every business in the world is reliant on in some way or another.

My prediction is that nothing is going to change and the shipping crisis is only going to get worse. Nobody in the supply chain wants to pay to solve the problem. They literally just won’t pay to solve the problem. At the point we are at now, things are so backed up that the backups THEMSELVES are causing container companies, ports, warehouses, and trucking companies to charge massive rate increases for doing literally NOTHING.

Container companies have already decreased the maximum allowable times before containers have to be back to the port, and if the congestion is so bad that you can’t get the container back into the port when it is due, the container company can charge massive late fees. The ports themselves will start charging massive storage fees for not getting containers out on time — storage charges alone can run into thousands of dollars a day.

Warehouses can charge massive premiums for their services, and so can trucking companies. Chronic understaffing has led to this problem, but it is allowing these same companies to charge ten times more for regular services. Since they’re not paying the workers any more than they did last year or five years ago, the whole industry sits back and cashes in on the mess it created. In fact, the more things are backed up, the more every point of the supply chain cashes in. There is literally NO incentive to change, even if it means consumers have to do holiday shopping in July and pay triple for shipping.

This is the new normal. All brought to you by the ‘experts’ running our supply chains.

[Inna]

There is so much information about the upcoming food shortage and evacuation plans. Some people say that governments are going to evacuate people to Covid camps and vaccinate them there or just do the same as Hitler did during the World War II(killing people with gas and burning them in crematories). Does anyone know, are the governments going to accomplish such plans? And if it is true, when it can happen: this year, maybe next?

[Patient]

There is so much information about the upcoming food shortage and evacuation plans. Some people say that governments are going to evacuate people to Covid camps and vaccinate them there or just do the same as Hitler did during the World War II(killing people with gas and burning them in crematories). Does anyone know, are the governments going to accomplish such plans? And if it is true, when it can happen: this year, maybe next?

If I had to guess, I think that most areas will be left to themselves - certain areas will be important, but who knows really?

The jab will do (has already begun) it's job. I think the camps are extra areas in reserve to put people as the jails will fill quickly if people riot and continue on a line of chaos.

I think that this is time for internal reflection, build yourself up spiritually in whatever way works for you. (If you have no ideas, just turn to nature.) Stay healthy, keep in best physical shape as you can. Take your vitamins. :)

Take care of your surroundings, your neighbours, your family and prepare for winter. The more prepared you are at home, the less you will have to travel far from it.

When you get stressed - calm your mind by breathing. Take care of what you watch online and on TV. Watch and read things that make you happy and other things that will help you accomplish small goals. There will be a lot of negative media - we don't have to see or watch it all to know what is happening.

There is a lot of really great information here - and some pretty good people too!

[aoibhghaire]

Farmers Panic, Can't Get Supplies to Grow Food

Around the world, farmers are panicking as they are unable to get the supplies they need to produce food, from fertilizers to herbicides to tractor parts. India has setup a "War Room" for fertilizers after China stopped exports of DAP, prompting farmers to riot to obtain the product they need. Many nations are now limiting exports of food and these inputs, so that they may feed their own people. This was all foreseen by the Food Chain Reaction Game, which--like Event 201--announced this engineered crisis, and pre-scripted the solution. This is broken down in segments in this important Ice Age Farmer broadcast.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqOSagleOA4

[Bill Ryan]

An interesting irony:

https://reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/who-warns-shortage-1-2-bln-covid-vaccine-syringes-2021-11-09

WHO warns of shortage of 1-2 billion covid vaccine syringes

[pueblo]

There are no words.

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[gini]

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Global energy crisis & Lunar eclipse( =today 19 november)
Astrological forecast for the eclipse season and aftereffects next half year. Ashish Mehta

[gini]

You Can KEEP Your SH*TTY JOB!!" Millions More QUIT Work . Russell Brand 23-11-'21

A sign left by Chipotle employees who walked out on their jobs has gone viral. As the Great Resignation continues, what does this mean regarding the power of workers when they come together?r7PnBcmOaOk 13 min

[Sue (Ayt)]

This seems alarming to me.
Question for the medical trained folks here, but isn't this part of the very standard life-saving IV treatment that many patients are immediately given to stabilize their electrolytes?

Next Up in Drug Shortages: Potassium Chloride
— Healthcare providers facing a nationwide shortage of the intravenous formulation

While the COVID-19 pandemic continues to muddle supply chains and raise demands for routine medical items, the latest nationwide drug shortage facing healthcare providers involves the intravenous formulation of potassium chloride.

Joel Topf, MD, a nephrologist in Detroit, tweeted about the shortage on December 15. He posted the contents of a memo from his institution that read in part, "We have been notified by pharmacy that there is a nationwide shortage of intravenous potassium chloride. It is unclear when we will get additional supplies. With the exception of ICU and a few procedural areas most of the remaining supply has been pulled ... Please use oral forms of [potassium chloride] whenever possible."

A TEMPORARILY OUT OF STOCK stamp on a photo of a vial of concentrated potassium chloride for injection.
While the COVID-19 pandemic continues to muddle supply chains and raise demands for routine medical items, the latest nationwide drug shortage facing healthcare providers involves the intravenous formulation of potassium chloride.

Joel Topf, MD, a nephrologist in Detroit, tweeted about the shortage on December 15. He posted the contents of a memo from his institution that read in part, "We have been notified by pharmacy that there is a nationwide shortage of intravenous potassium chloride. It is unclear when we will get additional supplies. With the exception of ICU and a few procedural areas most of the remaining supply has been pulled ... Please use oral forms of [potassium chloride] whenever possible."


The shortage is affecting pediatric patients' nutrition and replenishment of electrolytes, especially neonates, said Jason Tomichek, PharmD, of the Department of Pharmaceutical Services at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville.

"It is mainly isolated to the concentrated form," he told MedPage Today."We've been dealing with it for the last 3 months."

It started "popping up on our radar" in September, but there was product in the marketplace through the beginning of November. Then it suddenly dried up, he added.

That is typical of a shortage -- there are "rumblings" of it coming and then it hits the market, Tomichek said. "We're hoping this is relatively short-term."

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"Potassium chloride is an important medication to have in any functional hospital," Sparks told MedPage Today. "Many different types of patients have low potassium. A lot of them are in intensive care units. And so it does scare me to think about a hospital that would not have access to intravenous potassium chloride."

Sparks likened potassium chloride in medicine to the bricks, boards, and nails needed to build a house. "It just cuts across many different types of patients," he said."

More at link:
https://www.medpagetoday.com/special-reports/exclusives/96271

[mountain_jim]

I had posted this in the wrong thread previously, but it belongs here



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[mountain_jim]

https://dailyreckoning.com/the-great-supply-chain-collapse/

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/rickards-great-supply-chain-collapse



The Great Supply Chain Collapse

What’s at the root of the supply chain breakdown? That’s a critical question but the answer is almost irrelevant. The supply chain is a complex dynamic system of immense scale. It is of a complexity comparable to the climate as a system.

This means that exact cause and effect cannot be computed because the processing power needed exceeds the combined processing power of every computer in the world.

Most people have some notion of how supply chains work, but few understand how extensive, complex and vulnerable they are. If you go to the store to buy a loaf of bread, you know that the bread did not mystically appear on the shelf.

It was delivered by a local bakery, put on the shelf by a clerk, you carried it home and served it with dinner. That’s a succinct description of a supply chain – from baker to store to home.

Yet that description barely scratches the surface. What about the truck driver who delivered the bread from the bakery to the store? Where did the bakery get the flour, yeast and water needed to make the bread? What about the ovens used to bake the bread? When the bread was baked, it was put in clear or paper wrappers of some sort. Where did those come from?

Even that expanded description of a supply chain is just getting started in terms of a complete chain. The flour used for baking came from wheat. That wheat was grown on a farm and harvested with heavy equipment. The farmer hires labor, uses water and fertilizer and sends his wheat out for processing and packaging before it gets to the bakery.

The manufacturer who built the oven has his own supply chain of steel, tempered glass, semiconductors, electrical circuits and other inputs needed to build the ovens. The ovens are either hand crafted (engineered-to-order) or mass produced (made-to-stock) in a factory that may use either assembly lines or manufacturing cells to get the job done.

The factory requires inputs of electricity, natural gas, heating and ventilation systems, and skilled labor to turn out the ovens.

The store that sells the bread is on the receiving end of numerous supply chains. It also requires electricity, natural gas, heating and ventilation systems and skilled labor to keep the doors open and keep merchandise in stock. The store has loading docks, back rooms for inventory, forklifts and conveyor belts to move its merchandise from truck to shelf.

Every link in these supply chains requires transportation. The farmer relies on trucks or rail for deliveries of seeds, fertilizers, equipment and other inputs. The oven manufacturer also relies on trucks or rail for deliveries of its inputs, including oven components. The bakery and the store rely mainly on trucks for deliveries of their inputs and the finished loaves of bread. The consumer relies on her automobile to get to the store and return home.

These transportation modes have their own supply chains involving truck drivers, train engineers, good roads, good railroads, rail spurs and energy supplies to keep moving and keep deliveries on time.

This entire network (farms, factories, bakeries, stores, trucks, railroads and consumers) relies on energy supplies to keep working. The energy can come from nuclear reactors, coal-fired or natural gas-fired power plants or renewable sources fed to a grid of high-tension wires, substations, transformers and local connections to reach the individual user.

Everything described above sits somewhere in a complex supply chain needed to produce one loaf of bread. Now take everything else in the grocery store (fruits, vegetables, meat, poultry, fish, canned goods, coffee, condiments and so on) and imagine the supply chains needed for each one of those products.

Then take all the other stores in the shopping center (home goods, clothing, pharmacy, hardware, restaurants, sporting goods) and imagine all the goods and services available from those vendors and the supply chains behind each and every one of those.

In case you think I have exaggerated the components and steps in making a loaf of bread in the above example, I didn’t. The example above is a grossly simplified description of the actual supply chain.

A full description of the needed supply chain would reach back further (where do the seeds for the wheat come from?) and branch off in tangential directions (where do the bread wrappers originate?).

A full description of the loaf of bread supply chain with choice of vendor analysis, quality-control tests and bulk purchase discounts among other decision tree branches could easily stretch to several hundred pages.

Now consider all of the supply chain links and possible bottlenecks described above are purely domestic. But very few supply chains are actually that local. CEOs, logistics engineers, consultants and politicians have spent the past 30 years making supply chains global.

You’ve heard discussion of globalization since the early 1990s. What one may not have realized is that the process that was being globalized was the supply chain.

You know your iPhone comes from China. Did you know that the specialized glass used in the iPhone comes from South Korea? Did you know the semiconductors in the iPhone come from Taiwan? That the intellectual property and design of the iPhone are from California?

The iPhone includes flash storage from Japan, gyroscopes from Germany, audio amplifiers, battery chargers, display port multiplexers, batteries, cameras and hundreds of other advanced parts.

In total, Apple works with suppliers in 43 countries on six continents to source the materials and parts that go into an iPhone. That’s a quick overview of the iPhone supply chain. Of course, every supplier in that supply chain has its own supply chain of sources and processes. Again, supply chains are immensely complex.

Once the global perspective is added, we have to expand our transportation options from trucks and trains to include ships and planes. That means ports and airports are additional links in the chain.

Those facilities have their own links and inputs including cranes, containers, port authorities, air traffic controllers, pilots, captains and the vessels themselves. And to our list of trucks, trains, ships and planes we can add pipelines that transport liquids such as petroleum, gasoline and natural gas.

You get the idea. Supply chains may be hidden but they are everywhere. They are interconnected, densely networked and unimaginably complex.

The touchstone of these efforts was the idea of just-in-time inventory (JIT). If you’re installing seats on an automobile assembly line, it is ideal if those seats arrive at the plant the same morning as the installation. That minimizes storage and inventory costs. The same is true for every part installed on the assembly line. The logistics behind this are daunting but can be managed with state-of-the-art software.

All these efforts are fine as far as they go. The cost savings are real. The supply chains are efficient. The capacity of this system to keep a lid on costs is demonstrable.

The supply chain revolution since the early 1990s has been about cost reduction, which gets passed to consumers in the form of lower prices. That practically explains the entire phenomenon.

There’s only one problem. The system is extremely fragile. When things break down, everything gets worse at the same time. One missed delivery can result in an entire assembly line shutting down. One delayed vessel can result in empty shelves. One power outage can result in a transportation breakdown.

In a nutshell, that’s what has happened to the global supply chain. There’s a lack of redundancy. The system is not robust to shocks. The shocks have occurred nevertheless (pandemic, trade wars, China-U.S. decoupling, bank collateral shortages and more) and the system has broken down.

The failures have cascaded. Delays in receiving commodity inputs in China have resulted in manufacturing delays for exports. Energy shortages in China have resulted in further disruption of steel production, mining, transportation and other basic industries.

Port delays in Los Angeles have resulted in component and finished goods delayed in the U.S. Semiconductor shortages have halted production of electronics, appliances, automobiles and other consumer durables that rely on automated applications. You’ve seen how complex the system is.

The bottom line is if supply chains are breaking down, the economy is breaking down. If the economy breaks down, the breakdown of social order is not far behind.

And the costs of social disorder are far higher than any possible savings from supposedly efficient supply chains.

Regards,

Jim Rickards
for The Daily Reckoning

[Bill Ryan]

From Zero Hedge today:


https://zerohedge.com/commodities/europes-energy-crisis-rapidly-intensifies-power-prices-scream-higher

Europe On Edge Of Energy Disaster As Power Prices Smash All Records

Europe's energy crisis got even worse on Tuesday as a shortage of natural gas, nuclear outages, declining wind power output, and cold weather boosted prices.

The gas price at the Dutch TTF hub, the benchmark gas price for Europe, soared 10% to a new record high of 165 euros per megawatt-hour after gas entering Germany at the Mallnow compressor station plunged to zero. Flows were diverted eastward to Poland.

European gas prices hit a record high.

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For some context, European NatGas is trading at an oil-barrel-equivalent price of $340 (why aren't more producers shifting?)

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Compared to US NatGas, which has traded in an arbitrageable range for15 years, things are out of control...

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And all of this as gas flows into Europe plummet.

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Russia's Gazprom PJSC has steadily reduced gas flows to Europe as the controversial Nord Stream 2 pipeline had its certification delayed until possibly July (https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/germany-wont-approve-nord-stream-2-until-july-eu-natgas-hits-record-high). No new flows into Europe are forcing utilities to drain their gas storages (already at seasonal lows). Some utilities have had to restart fossil fuel generators to avoid grid disruption.

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The energy crisis worsened in the last several days as France; usually, an exporter of power, has been desperately seeking imports and even restarted fuel-burning generators as the country's top power utility, Electricite de France SA, halted four nuclear reactors (https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/another-french-nuclear-reactor-cuts-output-due-strike) accounting for 10% of the country's nuclear capacity, straining power grids as the continent copes with cold weather.

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"It's illustrating how severe it is when they're actually starting to burn fuel oil and importing from all these countries," said Fabian Ronningen, an analyst at Rystad Energy. "All the unexpected maintenance is also causing the extremely high cost of supply, which is reflected in the market prices."

30% of France's nuclear capacity will be offline in the coming weeks. Germany will lose about half its nuclear capacity next year. As the Northern Hemisphere winter begins, the continent will be at the mercy of Mother Nature.

Another issue developing this week is that Germany's power output from thousands of wind turbines has plunged to five-week lows as cold weather strains the grid.

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As a result of the grid strain, German power prices climbed 30% to a record 431.98 euros per megawatt-hour.

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It looks like the European energy crisis is rapidly accelerating and could get even worse as cold weather is expected to persist for the coming weeks.

[Frankie Pancakes]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8V6CxBIdo8

[Bill Ryan]

An opinion article in Newsweek, published a week ago. The author, Gordon Chang, has written a book called The Coming Collapse of China.


https://newsweek.com/thanks-china-supply-chains-will-never-recover-opinion-1669895

Thanks to China, Supply Chains Will Never Recover

If you are in the habit of celebrating Halloween in the middle of January, you're in luck this year. American ports, plagued by logistical problems, are now unloading Halloween gear from container ships.

Supply chains, which once delivered goods to American stores cheaply, quickly and at the right moment, are now, as Jonathan Bass tells Newsweek, "not cheap, not quick and not just-in-time."

Bass, CEO of Whom Home and a nearshoring advocate, also points out that retailers, anticipating long delays, are ordering goods nine to 12 months ahead of time. Shelves at stores both big and small are sometimes empty, and delivery times are no longer predictable.

In 2020, the Financial Times tells us (https://www.ft.com/content/21242e3b-298b-4a6f-a35f-32fdde905952), "a highly synchronized system was spun out of rhythm."

There's no mystery why an extraordinarily efficient global mechanism broke down. Draconian COVID-19 lockdowns in China closed factories, and disease stopped trucks and planes in both producing and consuming countries. At the same time, there was a surge in demand for goods from locked down consumers who could not spend their money on services. A logistical supply chain with little resiliency thus collapsed.

There are now about 120 ships waiting off the twin ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. Off China's ports, the numbers are far higher. In the beginning of November, for instance, there was a total of 493 ships loitering, waiting to load (https://www.freshplaza.com/article/9372839/port-congestion-will-continue-to-drive-freight-rates-through-q2-2022/). The backups are significant: Ships carry about 90 percent of the world's cargo.

So when does the world get back to normal?

Perhaps never. It is true that these delays are the result of misguided transportation policies in the U.S., especially California, as well as fundamentally flawed policies in China. But countries adjust and, as COVID dissipates, many problems will eventually go away.

These disruptions, however, will have a profound long-term effect on manufacturing. Companies will be forced to adjust. As Scott Price, president of UPS International, told the Financial Times, there will be a "migration to new supply chain models"—in other words, producers will move factories closer to consumers.

Yet there are more than just logistical reasons for companies to shorten the long route between factory floor and store shelf. First, as Washington, D.C. trade expert Alan Tonelson points out, China is shortening supply chains by driving factories out.

"Xi Jinping's neo-Maoist counterrevolution," Tonelson tells Newsweek, "has made the People's Republic of China an increasingly unreliable and unpredictable place to do business."

As a result, some production has migrated to even lower-cost jurisdictions in Asia, such as Cambodia and Vietnam. But factories have also moved to cheap-labor countries in the Western Hemisphere. In the middle of last year, for instance, American footwear and apparel company Steve Madden announced (https://www.businessoffashion.com/news/global-markets/steve-madden-shifts-production-from-china-to-mexico-and-brazil/) that, due in part to supply chain problems, it was relocating about half of its women's production from China to Mexico and Brazil.

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A container is offloaded from a ship at the Port of Los Angeles on November 30, 2021 in San Pedro, California.

Second, as Indian analyst Brahma Chellaney observed (https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/china-weaponization-of-trade-by-brahma-chellaney-2017-07) in a Project Syndicate piece, "China is turning into a trade tyrant." The country, from especially the end of the first decade of this century, has tried to use its manufacturing and production clout to obtain geopolitical goals.

Most famously, sometime in the second half of 2010, Chinese customs authorities imposed an embargo (https://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/23/business/global/23rare.html) on the export of rare-earth metals to Japan in order to force Tokyo to release the captain of a Chinese fishing boat that had encroached on Japanese waters around the Senkaku Islands, which China claims as the Diaoyus.

The action, although unofficial, was a clear violation of Beijing's World Trade Organization obligations and was lifted after two months. But it was not lifted before Tokyo released the captain, who was part of a Chinese government-directed effort to use force to pry the islands from Japanese control. China has imposed or threatened other rare-earth metal embargoes from time to time.

More recently—March 2020—China's official Xinhua News Agency said the regime could throw America into a "mighty sea of coronavirus" (http://www.xinhuanet.com/2020-03/04/c_1125660473.htm) by withholding protective gear. That threat was not idle: As Fox (https://www.newsweek.com/topic/fox) Business Network's Maria Bartiromo (https://www.newsweek.com/topic/maria-bartiromo) reported (https://video.foxbusiness.com/v/6133772857001/?playlist_id=3166411554001#sp=show-clips) in February 2020, China turned around a ship carrying medical protective gear heading to New York hospitals.

At the same time, Peter Navarro, President Trump's director of trade and manufacturing policy, said Beijing had imposed export restrictions on N95 masks and nationalized an American factory producing them there. "How is anybody going to trust China, in terms of keeping up their end of the bargain again in business?" Bartiromo asked.

There is one additional reason factories will move closer to the point of consumption: The world is transitioning from a period of general stability to one of constant instability—and perhaps conflict.

Bad actors—most notably China and Russia—are becoming bold, and the rest of the world does not look like it is prepared to stop them. How many ships will leave Chinese ports if China, whether intentionally or accidentally, starts a conflict with Taiwan, Japan or the Philippines? In November, the State Department actually had to threaten to use force (https://www.state.gov/on-the-situation-in-the-south-china-sea/) against China for dangerous activities in the South China Sea, around Second Thomas Shoal.

Long supply chains, stretching halfway around the world, will no longer be viable when navies clash.

The most recent round of globalization started when countries lowered political barriers to trade after the Cold War. Reflecting the general euphoria of that time, almost no one thought that form of governance mattered anymore. Democracies believed they could, without national security repercussions, trade with—and thereby strengthen —authoritarian, dictatorial and totalitarian states. Now, China has proven that pollyannaish theory to be disastrously wrong.

The world looks exceedingly dangerous, and supply chains are already fragile.

[Bill Ryan]

Let's say this SHORTAGE descended into real shortage, people are getting hungry while I have a stash good for one year. Do you think I will be able to sleep at night without holding a gun knowing that people around me has children that are hungry? This is the reason I am not into prepping. Right now I am into production and teaching/ encouraging people how to produce. I don't see me living peacefully while people around me are hungry and problematic. That is simply not possible whether I like it or not. Anyone who have a supply for two years while people around him is hungry should build an impenetrable house.You may be missing part of the problem here. One also needs to consider all this:


Parts for your plumbing system (joints, valves, washers, filters, silicon sealing tape)
Anything electrical that might need repair (switches, connectors, sockets, electrical tape)
Easy-to-replace spare parts for your car (bulbs, fuses, filters, spark plugs, oil)
Any tools that you might need, including for your garden (don't forget things like spare wooden handles, drill bits, some wood and metal components to make things with, epoxy glue, duck tape, masking tape, screws, bolts and nails of every size, rope, wire, etc etc etc)
Basic first aid supplies
Soap, washing powder, personal toiletries
... and much more. Anything you might ever need and then suddenly can't find.

It's not just about food!A thinking-aloud addition to my own list, shared above a few months ago.

It's now becoming clear that some specialist electrical items may become expensive or hard to find. One or two of these might not be all that obvious.

1) Car batteries might become particularly valuable. A regular car battery should last a few years, but all you have to do is leave the lights on overnight one time and then it could be toast.

If you can easily afford it, it might be an idea to stockpile a spare battery for your vehicle. An unused new battery will last in storage quite a while if it's recharged occasionally. (And a cheap car battery charger might be a good investment, too.)

2) Chargers for (e.g.) laptops or other devices. (Or anything else!) Sometimes, the connectors break, and then there's nothing you can do.

3) Mike Adams, who some might say is way over-cautious (or even paranoid), often talks about these things. (But then, he's a millionaire, so he buys everything he can think of.) One thing he's mentioned recently is spare belts for his old tractors.

You may not have a tractor, but that brings to mind a timing belt for your vehicle. They last tens of thousands of miles, but if they break then the engine can be wrecked. They're expensive to have replaced (it's usually quite a lot of work), but the belt itself is comparatively cheap. It might be a good idea to just buy and store the one you'd need, even if the replacement would be a few years from now.

[Bill Ryan]

Now there are riots. This news is from Peru, where there are escalating fuel and fertilizer shortages.

https://bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-60993768
(https://bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-60993768)
Peru imposes curfew as rising fuel and fertilizer prices spark nationwide protests

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Tuesday 5 April: protesters approach Plaza de San Martín in Lima.

Peruvian President Pedro Castillo has imposed a curfew in the capital, Lima, and the port city of Callao following nationwide protests over rising fuel and fertilizer prices.

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On Protesters created road blocks with burning tires and also burnt toll booths in the city of Ica

On Sunday, the government announced it would temporarily scrap the fuel tax in an attempt to stabilize petrol prices. But truck drivers and farmers blocked roads in much of the country again on Monday.

The government says four people have died in the protests.

President Castillo announced the curfew after a meeting with his Council of Ministers. He also declared a state of emergency for Lima and Callao, suspending some rights such as freedom of assembly and the right to circulate freely.

“I call for calm and serenity. Social protest is a constitutional right, but it must be done within the law,” President Castillo said in a TV address. The curfew — which will affect some 10 million people – has been widely criticised as “authoritarian” by critics of the president.

The prices of fertilizers and fuel have shot up in Peru since the start of the war in Ukraine.

Truck drivers started to block major roads last week, which in turn triggered a rise in food prices. Some of the protests turned violent on Monday, with protesters burning toll booths. The protests come at a time when Peru is already suffering from high inflation and the president’s popularity is low.

The left-wing leader has been in power since July after winning by a slim majority. Opinion polls suggest his approval rating has since dropped to about 25%.

In his short term in office, he has renewed his cabinet on a number of occasions, replacing key ministers, and survived two impeachment attempts. Impeachment proceedings are relatively common in Peru, where the legislative and the executive are often at loggerheads.

[mountain_jim]

https://twitter.com/WallStreetSilv/status/1511921482275999754?s=20&t=r01OICDsS6qCzb_5oOaRKw

1511921482275999754



https://twitter.com/WallStreetSilv/status/1511946877993775104?s=20&t=r01OICDsS6qCzb_5oOaRKw


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[Sue (Ayt)]

Around here, the canned catfood aisles have been empty in every store, even Walmart.
When I searched news, it is being blamed on the aluminum shortage.
Apparently it is also affecting the beer industry.


Aluminum shortage affecting local breweries

SIOUX CITY (KTIV) - All across the country businesses are seeing a shortage of aluminum from cat food to canned beer. A shortage of aluminum is starting to impact breweries across the nation.

Demand for aluminum canned products first sky-rocketed during the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, as alcohol consumption rose, and breweries shifted to “to-go” options.

Jackson Street Brewing in Sioux City typically has 12 different selections for canned beverages. Co-owner Dave Winslow says the price for aluminum right now has not impacted his prices much because unlike larger breweries Jackson Street Brewing cans and delivers its own products.

“You know it may affect different sized breweries differently since we are small we pay more for cans anyways, and we still have been able to get them without any huge hiccups and I usually just buy two to three pallets at a time and haven’t been told we can’t buy cans. We haven’t been pushed out by the big breweries yet so right now we are okay,” said Dave Winslow, Co-owner of Jackson Street Brewing.
https://www.ktiv.com/2022/04/07/aluminum-shortage-affecting-local-breweries/

[Sérénité]

Just seen this advice from U.K.Gov…

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/apply-for-a-lump-sum-payment-to-leave-or-retire-from-farming

Apply for a lump sum payment to leave or retire from farming
Check if you’re eligible for the Lump Sum Exit Scheme, what you need to do and how to apply.

From:
Rural Payments Agency and Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
Published
12 April 2022

Details
The Rural Payments Agency (RPA) will manage the Lump Sum Exit Scheme.

You should read this scheme guidance before you apply for a lump sum payment.
There are dates by which you must take action to qualify for lump sum payments.

They are being given 4 calendar weeks between 12th April and 16 May 2022 to apply and come September the whole scheme will have been turned around and closed.
By November 2022 they are starting payments to the farmers who have ceased to own the lands and therefore expect the transfer of farming land to be under way at that point.

Why the rush???

The offer only came out on the 12th April and by November they want the deal completed and all agricultural land transfered legally to them?
Talk about pushing people in a situation to take rash decisions!

[Sue (Ayt)]

Baby formula shortage 2022: When will it end? Why is it happening? What stores are rationing?

Some major retailers and stores are now instituting a limit on how much baby formula you can buy due to an ongoing shortage of the product.

Here’s what you need to know about the 2022 baby formula shortage.

Why is there a baby formula shortage?

The baby formula shortages have been exacerbated by several recalls, including one by Abbott Laboratories for several batches of its powdered formula brands such as Similac, Alimentum and EleCare.

The recall was initiated because four consumers said the products gave their infants bacterial infections.

The recall then expanded after an infant died after consuming the formula.
What stores are rationing baby formula right now?

Retailers have started rationing and limiting baby formula purchases.

Stores such as Walmart, Kroger, CVS, Target and Walgreens have placed purchasing limits on how much baby formula you can buy.

A spokesperson for Walmart, for example, told The Wall Street Journal that shoppers are only allowed to buy five containers of formula per day.
CVS and Walgreens, meanwhile, each told CBS it is limiting customers to three formula products per transaction.

Does Amazon sell baby formula?

Amazon does sell baby formula, but do be mindful about potential price-gouging or fraudulent products from third-party sellers.

If you buy on Amazon, we recommend doing so directly from the brand’s storefront.

What should I do if I can’t find the baby formula I need?

If you can’t find any at the store, retailers sell baby formula online, so refresh often to see if what you need is in stock.
If you still are coming up empty, call your pediatrician or doctor before anything else. They sometimes have samples available and also can provide the best advice based on your situation.

When will the baby formula shortage end?

The baby formula shortage will not be in place forever.

But you can’t just circle an end date on the calendar, either.

Abbott told The Wall Street Journal it is currently trying to increase the availability of baby formula by ramping up production at some of its other manufacturing facilities not affected by the recall, shipping formula into the U.S. from Europe via air, and creating new facilities that are able to produce formula for infants with special needs.

All that is to say: We don’t exactly know when the baby formula shortage will end.
https://www.nj.com/business/2022/04/baby-formula-shortage-2022-when-will-it-end-why-is-it-happening-what-stores-are-rationing.html

[TrumanCash]

Union Pacific Curtails Fertilizer Rail Shipments, Prevents New Orders

https://www.icis.com/explore/cn/resources/news/2022/04/14/10754362/union-pacific-curtails-fertilizer-rail-shipments-prevents-new-orders-cf

This is how big corporations are creating fake shortages. I live next to a Union Pacific and Canadian Pacific railroad crossing where they have to blow their horns within a hundred feet of my home and the ground shakes my home whenever they pass. It is unavoidable that I always hear and feel them. (However, it's kinda nice at night cuz it shakes the bed like those motel beds where you inserted a quarter to make the bed shake for relaxation.)

This was happening many times every day and into the night until recently--Lots and lots of trains going by. There are now almost no trains passing by.

It appears that this is not just about creating fake fertilizer shortages, but perhaps shortages of everything (except what can be produced locally).

I hope everyone is stocking up on everything they will need.

[Ewan]

Related to Sérénité's post above..


exit-scheme-opens-to-support-farmers (https://www.gov.uk/government/news/exit-scheme-opens-to-support-farmers-who-wish-to-leave-the-industry-and-create-opportunities-for-new-entrants)



Farmers in England who wish to leave the industry can now apply for the new Lump Sum Exit Scheme which will provide a payment so they can exit the sector in a managed way. In return, farmers will be expected to either rent or sell their land or surrender their tenancy in order to create opportunities for new entrants and farmers wishing to expand their businesses.

The Scheme, which opens for applications today until 30 September 2022, follows a public consultation and builds on evidence that some farmers would like to retire or leave the industry but have found it difficult to do so for financial reasons.

The exit payment provided to eligible applicants will be based on the average direct payments made to the farmer for the 2019 to 2021 Basic Payment Scheme (BPS) years. This reference figure will be capped at £42,500 and multiplied by 2.35 to calculate the lump sum, meaning that farmers could receive up to around £100,000.

We want to support new entrants coming into the industry and will be giving more detail of our next steps in the near future.

Environment Secretary George Eustice said:

"The decision to retire or exit the industry can be extremely difficult and is frequently postponed. The purpose of the Lump Sum Exit Scheme is to assist farmers who want to exit the industry to do so in a planned way that provides them with the means to make a meaningful choice about their future. The Scheme will also free up land for new entrants to farming, and we will be saying more about our new entrants scheme shortly".


The Future Farming Resilience Fund, which provides free expert business advice to BPS recipients in England, is still open for applications. Our delivery partners will be able to support farmers in making decisions on how to ensure they have viable businesses or indeed to make the decision to exit the sector. A further phase of support will be launched in late September and will run until March 2025.

[Sérénité]

Related to Sérénité's post above..


exit-scheme-opens-to-support-farmers (https://www.gov.uk/government/news/exit-scheme-opens-to-support-farmers-who-wish-to-leave-the-industry-and-create-opportunities-for-new-entrants)



Farmers in England who wish to leave the industry can now apply for the new Lump Sum Exit Scheme which will provide a payment so they can exit the sector in a managed way. In return, farmers will be expected to either rent or sell their land or surrender their tenancy in order to create opportunities for new entrants and farmers wishing to expand their businesses.

The Scheme, which opens for applications today until 30 September 2022, follows a public consultation and builds on evidence that some farmers would like to retire or leave the industry but have found it difficult to do so for financial reasons.

The exit payment provided to eligible applicants will be based on the average direct payments made to the farmer for the 2019 to 2021 Basic Payment Scheme (BPS) years. This reference figure will be capped at £42,500 and multiplied by 2.35 to calculate the lump sum, meaning that farmers could receive up to around £100,000.

We want to support new entrants coming into the industry and will be giving more detail of our next steps in the near future.

Environment Secretary George Eustice said:

"The decision to retire or exit the industry can be extremely difficult and is frequently postponed. The purpose of the Lump Sum Exit Scheme is to assist farmers who want to exit the industry to do so in a planned way that provides them with the means to make a meaningful choice about their future. The Scheme will also free up land for new entrants to farming, and we will be saying more about our new entrants scheme shortly".


The Future Farming Resilience Fund, which provides free expert business advice to BPS recipients in England, is still open for applications. Our delivery partners will be able to support farmers in making decisions on how to ensure they have viable businesses or indeed to make the decision to exit the sector. A further phase of support will be launched in late September and will run until March 2025.


“We want to support new entrants coming into the industry and will be giving more detail of our next steps in the near future.”

New entrants;
https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2021/01/15/22/38066496-0-image-a-5_1610749566881.jpg

[TrumanCash]

Union Pacific Curtails Fertilizer Rail Shipments, Prevents New Orders

https://www.icis.com/explore/cn/resources/news/2022/04/14/10754362/union-pacific-curtails-fertilizer-rail-shipments-prevents-new-orders-cf

This is how big corporations are creating fake shortages. I live next to a Union Pacific and Canadian Pacific railroad crossing where they have to blow their horns within a hundred feet of my home and the ground shakes my home whenever they pass. It is unavoidable that I always hear and feel them. (However, it's kinda nice at night cuz it shakes the bed like those motel beds where you inserted a quarter to make the bed shake for relaxation.)

This was happening many times every day and into the night until recently--Lots and lots of trains going by. There are now almost no trains passing by.

It appears that this is not just about creating fake fertilizer shortages, but perhaps shortages of everything (except what can be produced locally).

I hope everyone is stocking up on everything they will need.

UPDATE: After several days of nearly zero train traffic, there are only a few trains every day but only about half of what it was. I can only hear and feel the trains going by so I cannot see if it's a Union Pacific or Canadian Pacific train. UP's claim of crew and locomotive shortages sounds pretty fishy to me in light of the fact that it appears that they have targeted fertilizer and a mandatory diesel additive used also for diesel trucks and tractors right before spring planting.

"Union Pacific will start metering traffic on Monday [April 18, 2022] if shippers don’t voluntarily reduce their active freight-car inventories on the railroad, which is bogging down due to a combination of crew and locomotive shortages."

“Over the last few weeks, our network has experienced some setbacks – including numerous service interruptions, crew shortages in select areas and delays to our network – as we have seen our operating inventory continue to climb over the past 60 days. This additional inventory has led to more congestion in yards, an imbalance of our resources, and further slowdown of our operational performance,” Kenny Rocker, executive vice president of marketing and sales, wrote in a message to customers on Monday.

“We are now asking for your help to further reduce the number of active rail cars on our network. We have already identified and notified those customers who can help us manage the current congestion by reducing their rail car inventories,” Rocker wrote. “If we do not see reductions to the operating inventory through their voluntary efforts, then we will begin metering traffic after April 18th. This action, along with our other ongoing initiatives, will give us the ability to work through our backlog and improve the service for all our customers.” https://www.trains.com/trn/news-reviews/news-wire/union-pacific-to-begin-metering-traffic-if-shippers-dont-reduce-car-inventory/

**************************************************

CF Industries ships to customers via Union Pacific rail lines primarily from its Donaldsonville Complex in Louisiana and its Port Neal Complex in Iowa. The rail lines serve key agricultural areas such as Iowa, Illinois, Kansas, Nebraska, Texas and California. Products that will be affected include nitrogen fertilizers such as urea and urea ammonium nitrate (UAN) as well as diesel exhaust fluid (DEF), an emissions control product required for diesel trucks. CF Industries is the largest producer of urea, UAN and DEF in North America, and its Donaldsonville Complex is the largest single production facility for the products in North America.

["DEF is an integral part of the emissions control system and must be present in the tank at all times to assure continued operation of the vehicle or equipment....DEF is 32.5% urea, or aqueous ammonia solution, and 67.5% deionized water" https://kus-usa.com/resources/what-is-diesel-exhaust-fluid/]

“The timing of this action by Union Pacific could not come at a worse time for farmers,” said Tony Will, president and chief executive officer, CF Industries Holdings, Inc. “Not only will fertilizer be delayed by these shipping restrictions, but additional fertilizer needed to complete spring applications may be unable to reach farmers at all. By placing this arbitrary restriction on just a handful of shippers, Union Pacific is jeopardizing farmers’ harvests and increasing the cost of food for consumers.” https://www.cfindustries.com/newsroom/2022/union-pacific-shipping-restrictions

[onawah]

What The MSM Is NOT Telling YOU About The Food Crisis*Public Panic Setting In?*
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[TrumanCash]

Union Pacific Curtails Fertilizer Rail Shipments, Prevents New Orders

https://www.icis.com/explore/cn/resources/news/2022/04/14/10754362/union-pacific-curtails-fertilizer-rail-shipments-prevents-new-orders-cf

This is how big corporations are creating fake shortages. I live next to a Union Pacific and Canadian Pacific railroad crossing where they have to blow their horns within a hundred feet of my home and the ground shakes my home whenever they pass. It is unavoidable that I always hear and feel them. (However, it's kinda nice at night cuz it shakes the bed like those motel beds where you inserted a quarter to make the bed shake for relaxation.)

This was happening many times every day and into the night until recently--Lots and lots of trains going by. There are now almost no trains passing by.

It appears that this is not just about creating fake fertilizer shortages, but perhaps shortages of everything (except what can be produced locally).

I hope everyone is stocking up on everything they will need.

UPDATE: After several days of nearly zero train traffic, there are only a few trains every day but only about half of what it was. I can only hear and feel the trains going by so I cannot see if it's a Union Pacific or Canadian Pacific train. UP's claim of crew and locomotive shortages sounds pretty fishy to me in light of the fact that it appears that they have targeted fertilizer and a mandatory diesel additive used also for diesel trucks and tractors right before spring planting.

"Union Pacific will start metering traffic on Monday [April 18, 2022] if shippers don’t voluntarily reduce their active freight-car inventories on the railroad, which is bogging down due to a combination of crew and locomotive shortages."

“Over the last few weeks, our network has experienced some setbacks – including numerous service interruptions, crew shortages in select areas and delays to our network – as we have seen our operating inventory continue to climb over the past 60 days. This additional inventory has led to more congestion in yards, an imbalance of our resources, and further slowdown of our operational performance,” Kenny Rocker, executive vice president of marketing and sales, wrote in a message to customers on Monday.

“We are now asking for your help to further reduce the number of active rail cars on our network. We have already identified and notified those customers who can help us manage the current congestion by reducing their rail car inventories,” Rocker wrote. “If we do not see reductions to the operating inventory through their voluntary efforts, then we will begin metering traffic after April 18th. This action, along with our other ongoing initiatives, will give us the ability to work through our backlog and improve the service for all our customers.” https://www.trains.com/trn/news-reviews/news-wire/union-pacific-to-begin-metering-traffic-if-shippers-dont-reduce-car-inventory/

**************************************************

CF Industries ships to customers via Union Pacific rail lines primarily from its Donaldsonville Complex in Louisiana and its Port Neal Complex in Iowa. The rail lines serve key agricultural areas such as Iowa, Illinois, Kansas, Nebraska, Texas and California. Products that will be affected include nitrogen fertilizers such as urea and urea ammonium nitrate (UAN) as well as diesel exhaust fluid (DEF), an emissions control product required for diesel trucks. CF Industries is the largest producer of urea, UAN and DEF in North America, and its Donaldsonville Complex is the largest single production facility for the products in North America.

["DEF is an integral part of the emissions control system and must be present in the tank at all times to assure continued operation of the vehicle or equipment....DEF is 32.5% urea, or aqueous ammonia solution, and 67.5% deionized water" https://kus-usa.com/resources/what-is-diesel-exhaust-fluid/]

“The timing of this action by Union Pacific could not come at a worse time for farmers,” said Tony Will, president and chief executive officer, CF Industries Holdings, Inc. “Not only will fertilizer be delayed by these shipping restrictions, but additional fertilizer needed to complete spring applications may be unable to reach farmers at all. By placing this arbitrary restriction on just a handful of shippers, Union Pacific is jeopardizing farmers’ harvests and increasing the cost of food for consumers.” https://www.cfindustries.com/newsroom/2022/union-pacific-shipping-restrictions

And, oh I forgot to mention, Vanguard and Blackrock are the Union Pacific's two largest shareholders: https://www.wallstreetzen.com/stocks/us/nyse/unp/ownership -- #3 is State Street Corp.

[Bill Ryan]

A detailed article by William Engdahl on Global Research, the title of which says it all:

https://globalresearch.ca/nato-sanctions-coming-global-diesel-fuel-disaster/5777305

US-NATO Sanctions and the Coming Global Diesel Fuel Disaster

[extract]

Amid the ongoing global inflation crisis, NATO heads of state and mainstream media repeat a mantra that high energy prices are a direct result of Putin’s actions in Ukraine since end of February. The reality is that it is the western sanctions that are responsible. Those sanctions including cutting SWIFT interbank access for key Russian banks and some of the most severe sanctions ever imposed, are hardly having an impact on the military actions in Ukraine.

What many overlook is the fact that they are increasingly impacting the economies of the West, especially the EU and USA. A closer look at the state of the global supply of diesel fuel is alarming. But Western sanctions planners at the US Treasury and the EU know fully well what they are doing. And it bodes ill for the world economy.

While most of us rarely think about diesel fuel as anything other than a pollutant, in fact it is essential to the entire world economy in a way few energy sources are. The director general of Fuels Europe, part of the European Petroleum Refiners Association, stated recently, “… there is a clear link between diesel and GDP, because almost everything that goes into and out of a factory goes using diesel.”

Diesel Moves World Trade

A global shortage in diesel fuel, temporary or longer-term, is therefore a catastrophic event. Goods cannot be moved from container ports to inland destinations. Without diesel fuel trucks cannot deliver food to the supermarket, or anything else for that matter. The entire supply chain is frozen. And there is no possibility to substitute gasoline in a diesel engine without ruining the engine.

[Bill Ryan]

Folks, I rarely if ever post a video on three threads in parallel. (And I don't want to encourage others! :) ) But this is VERY VERY important, a detailed, high-quality summary by Chris Martenson of the systemic collapse that the EU and (very probably) the US are now almost inevitably heading towards.

It's about energy, and food, and also fertilizer — the shortage of which in the US Martenson is questioning whether is due to malice or stupidity. Martenson uses the word "starve" several times, including in his video title.

And he made this video before he heard of Vladimir Putin's decree earlier today banning Russian exports of oil, gas, wheat and other commodities to "unfriendly nations". That will lead to very, very bad times in the EU and the US.

While food shortages worldwide will be very serious, certainly in developing countries (leading to huge migration problems, principally in Europe: but that's a different topic), it may be the "unfriendly nations to Russia" that will be brought to their knees.

MUST SEE. Never has Martenson chosen a title like this.

Will You Starve to Death This Year?


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVLgVWf2s9U

[Bill Ryan]

Here's a tiny local story, almost (but not quite!) a trivial one. But I thought it might underscore some of the looming issues mentioned on this thread, and one or two prepping posts I've made recently about exactly this kind of thing.

My steering column indicator (signal light) stalk switch broke, and so with it I couldn't indicate turns (precarious in Ecuador!), or activate my windshield wipers (even more of a problem).

https://projectavalon.net/Indicator_stalk.jpg

I've never before encountered any issues at all with parts for my ancient Izuzu Trooper, which are made in Japan, and I figured it'd only cost a few $$ to put right; quickly too. But my mechanic couldn't find any replacement part, new or used, in all of Ecuador.

As this is a developing country, all mechanics here are highly skilled in improvising parts or even making them on a lathe if they can't be found. So next week he's going to create some ingenious way to make all this work again.

But it's just a little red flag warning. Other vehicle parts, in other countries, may not be so easy to work around or make if suddenly they can't be found. And some of them, if they fail, will stop your whole car.

Tires are one thing (they're oil products, NOT rubber), and vehicle batteries are another. And for who know about such things, cam belts, which have to be new and if they break because they're not replaced as part of the servicing schedule, will destroy your entire engine. Even regular oil-change oil might be smart to buy a few cans of.

All these things, and many others one might brainstorm some of which are small and very cheap, can be bought long in advance (if one has the cash, of course), and will keep forever in your garage or basement.

:grouphug:

[samildamach]

https://www.dorset.live/news/dorset-news/gillingham-fire-workers-smoke-raced-7042965
Another food factory this one is a major supplier of ingredients to other factorys

[gord]

Here's a tiny local story, almost (but not quite!) a trivial one. But I thought it might underscore some of the looming issues mentioned on this thread, and one or two prepping posts I've made recently about exactly this kind of thing.

My steering column indicator (signal light) stalk switch broke, and so with it I couldn't indicate turns (precarious in Ecuador!), or activate my windshield wipers (even more of a problem).

https://projectavalon.net/Indicator_stalk.jpg

I've never before encountered any issues at all with parts for my ancient Izuzu Trooper, which are made in Japan, and I figured it'd only cost a few $$ to put right; quickly too. But my mechanic couldn't find any replacement part, new or used, in all of Ecuador.

As this is a developing country, all mechanics here are highly skilled in improvising parts or even making them on a lathe if they can't be found. So next week he's going to create some ingenious way to make all this work again.

But it's just a little red flag warning. Other vehicle parts, in other countries, may not be so easy to work around or make if suddenly they can't be found. And some of them, if they fail, will stop your whole car.

Tires are one thing (they're oil products, NOT rubber), and vehicle batteries are another. And for who know about such things, cam belts, which have to be new and if they break because they're not replaced as part of the servicing schedule, will destroy your entire engine. Even regular oil-change oil might be smart to buy a few cans of.

All these things, and many others one might brainstorm some of which are small and very cheap, can be bought long in advance (if one has the cash, of course), and will keep forever in your garage or basement.

:grouphug:

And don't forget oil filters and air filters too.

[gini]

Gravitas Plus: Which countries could go the Sri Lanka way
Sri Lanka's debt crisis is a warning to the world. The World Bank says a global debt storm is coming. It could engulf 70 developing countries & make their economies fall like dominoes. What are the threats they face? How can they be averted? Palki Sharma explains.---14/5/22---9.30 min

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[gini]

8M9Ack29DCI-14/4/22---11min

[Bill Ryan]

Chris Martenson again bangs his drum as loudly as possible about the energy crisis (which is driving the economic and food supply crises). His video title "I Give Up" is a references to his giving up on any politicians or so-called global authorities in the 'west' to properly and responsibly manage anything at all that's happening now.

The start of the video is about what seems like the start of an epidemic of Hepatitis in children, something that's (a) not good news and (b) important to explain and understand. (He's very careful not so speculate on YouTube about what's triggered this, but it's very clear he suspects it's the vaxx. I also posted the video on the Vaccine Injuries thread. (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?113668-Vaccination-Injuries-On-Record-for-Covid19&p=1498279#post1498279))

For the section on global energy shortages, which may seem a little dry and academic to some but is VERY important to understand, start in at 22:50.

One of the many very interesting aspects to this (for me) is that Martenson points out that the Chinese are clearly very well aware of all this, and have been for years, and that is highly likely to be what's driving their entire social, political and geopolitical strategy.

And I would add that if the Chinese are well aware of this, the Russians are too. What does this mean? Super-hard times for the 'western' world, and, as has been argued on many other forum threads, the inevitable demise of the US and Europe.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SGWkTwpWrY

[Sue (Ayt)]

(This video was posted by AFT Dispatch Youtube Channel - Truck Dispatch Services and Lease on Owner Operators. Scary!)

May 14, 2022 • There's a diesel shortage coming in 2022 yet most people have no idea how big the diesel price hike will be or how it'll affect us all, trucker or not. The coming diesel shortage will be felt throughout the entire country. Most people have no idea that the East Coast has about 3 days of diesel left and is experiencing historically low diesel volume.
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[Bill Ryan]

I'm posting this new video here for the moment, but it may well need a thread of its own as the scope and breadth of what is discussed transcends [almost] any one single Avalon thread topic.

The conversation is between David DuByne (Adapt 2030), and Jeff Nyquist, who to his great credit is refreshingly intellectually honest and confesses he's having trouble understanding everything that's happening in the world right now.

(I wish more alt media analysts would confess the same. :) Many people focus on just one part of the VERY big picture, which I increasingly suspect is far bigger than most of us may imagine, and pride themselves that they have some understanding of that one partial thing.)

The video is about Russia and Ukraine, but also the US, China, and the global shortages of everything (hence posting it on this thread). But it also extends into extremely interesting speculation that the Chinese have been planning for the current global food shortages for several years now, and that this may also be connected with an imminent major solar or geophysical event that the Chinese are fully aware of.

That dovetails into Ben Davidson's Suspicious 0bservers reports, which David Dubyne references and which onawah (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/member.php?310-onawah) has been faithfully sharing on the Geomagnetic Reversals and Ice Ages (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?107798-Geomagnetic-Reversals-and-Ice-Ages) thread, and also Chris Martenson's important last video, posted above (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?116410-Global-Shortages-of-Everything&p=1454759&viewfull=1#post1454759), about the imminent global energy crunch and how that problem drives just about everything else.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbdZsVOZnr4

[onawah]

Thanks for the reference, Bill. :nod:
Being an INFJ (as many Avalonians are) I tend to skip steps.
Though I may not fully understand a lot (such as mathematical and/or scientific data), with well developed intuition and an affinity for connecting the dots, it's not that difficult to figure out what the future likely holds.

Re: " the imminent global energy crunch and how that problem drives just about everything else."
It's certainly a problem that is driving everything else that is of immediate concern, but in the long term (the next 2 decades of so) the problems are enormously more serious.
Those being the magnetic pole reversal which creates global cataclysms such as occurred 12,000 years ago, ending with a nova-like killshot from the Sun which is best survived by sheltering underground.

Hopefully the promised sequel to Ben Davidson's appearance on Mike Adams' show will bring the data he and other "suspicious observers" have been collating more fully to the attention of other, less scientifically oriented researchers.

The work has been done, it's mostly a matter now of disseminating the knowledge and sharing it in a format that the layperson will be able to understand.
Davidson has done quite a good job doing that here, imho in:
the playlist:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHSoxioQtwZcVcFC85TxEEiirgfXwhfsw
The abbreviated version: ihwoIlxHI3Q
and 2 other documentaries
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It takes some time and focus to take it all in, but as Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra said (he who knew all about tilting at windmills) "Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory.”

At least, psychologically prepared, if nothing else...


I'm posting this new video here for the moment, but it may well need a thread of its own as the scope and breadth of what is discussed transcends [almost] any one single Avalon thread topic.

The conversation is between David DuByne (Adapt 2030), and Jeff Nyquist, who to his great credit is refreshingly intellectually honest and confesses he's having trouble understanding everything that's happening in the world right now.

(I wish more alt media analysts would confess the same. :) Many people focus on just one part of the VERY big picture, which I increasingly suspect is far bigger than most of us may imagine, and pride themselves that they have some understanding of that one partial thing.)

The video is about Russia and Ukraine, but also the US, China, and the global shortages of everything (hence posting it on this thread). But it also extends into extremely interesting speculation that the Chinese have been planning for the current global food shortages for several years now, and that this may also be connected with an imminent major solar or geophysical event that the Chinese are fully aware of.

That dovetails into Ben Davidson's Suspicious 0bservers reports, which David Dubyne references and which onawah (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/member.php?310-onawah) has been faithfully sharing on the Geomagnetic Reversals and Ice Ages (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?107798-Geomagnetic-Reversals-and-Ice-Ages) thread, and also Chris Martenson's important last video, about the imminent global energy crunch and how that problem drives just about everything else.

[Matthew]

I've just got off a call to a work colleague in New Zealand. He asked me "have you got issues with supply shortages?". He told me they're having issues, I said we only have rumours at the moment but we are expecting shortages. He said in New Zealand "Things are running out everywhere".

[Matthew]

More fear from the mainstream. I refuse to be frightened, despite being frightened; it's the principle.


Six million Brits could face power cuts this winter with Government planning electricity rationing
The Government cannot be "absolutely certain" there will be no power outages this winter, Eamon Ryan has warned. Issue date: Wednesday September 29, 2021. (edit update: I think this is the issue date of the photo in the article... the article was published 30 May 2022)

https://www.gbnews.uk/news/six-million-brits-could-face-power-cuts-this-winter-with-government-planning-electricity-rationing/305725


Ministers have reportedly been warned of potential power cuts to as many as six million households this winter, with the Government drawing up plans for rationed electricity if supply issues deteriorate.

According to The Times, Government modelling of a “reasonable” worst-case scenario predicts major gas shortages in winter if Russia cuts off more supplies to the EU.

The paper writes limits could be imposed on industrial use of gas, including on gas-fired power stations, causing electricity shortages.

As a result, six million homes could see their electricity rationed, primarily during morning and evening peaks, in curbs that may last more than a month.

...



edit update: the GB News article has been criticised for being inaccurate and has been corrected in a post below in this thread (see this post (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?116410-Global-Shortages-of-Everything&p=1500474&viewfull=1#post1500474))

[Brigantia]

More fear from the mainstream. I refuse to be frightened, despite being frightened; it's the principle.

Six million Brits could face power cuts this winter with Government planning electricity rationing
[I]The Government cannot be "absolutely certain" there will be no power outages this winter, Eamon Ryan has warned. Issue date: Wednesday September 29, 2021.

Wilko for candles and tealights, 100 pack - best price anywhere. I also bought a small tripod stand for cooking last year just in case; light about 3 tealights under it and put a pan on top of the stand, it'll cook or boil anything.

I also have plenty of batteries for torches.

I need to get heating oil asap for the winter, the price has doubled from last year's price but it should be cheaper in the summer when not many people are ordering. Also I plan to get engine oil for the car soon.

[aoibhghaire]

This needs correction.

BRITAIN'S NEWS CHANNEL has incorrectly published this news using Eamon Ryan MP as a Minister.

Firstly, Eamon Ryan is not an MP or Minister in the British Parliament.

Eamon Ryan-is a Minister in the Irish government and his speech from 29 Sep 2021 quoted in the BRITAIN'S NEWS CHANNEL is not a speech to the British parliament but to the members of the Irish government. However, when you listen to his speech to the Irish government it is completely different.

The BRITAIN'S NEWS CHANNEL has misrepresented this news. The channel needs to be educated as to what country government is making these speeches. Remember Ireland is a sovereign state. Its policies for energy are quite different to the British policies.

Background on Eamon Ryan

Eamon Ryan is an Irish Green Party politician who has served as Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications and Minister for Transport since June 2020 and Leader of the Green Party since May 2011 in the government of Ireland.

[Matthew]

This needs correction.

BRITAIN'S NEWS CHANNEL has incorrectly published this news using Eamon Ryan MP as a Minister.

Firstly, Eamon Ryan is not an MP or Minister in the British Parliament.

Eamon Ryan-is a Minister in the Irish government and his speech from 29 Sep 2021 quoted in the BRITAIN'S NEWS CHANNEL is not a speech to the British parliament but to the members of the Irish government. However, when you listen to his speech to the Irish government it is completely different.

The BRITAIN'S NEWS CHANNEL has misrepresented this news. The channel needs to be educated as to what country government is making these speeches. Remember Ireland is a sovereign state. Its policies for energy are quite different to the British policies.

Background on Eamon Ryan

Eamon Ryan is an Irish Green Party politician who has served as Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications and Minister for Transport since June 2020 and Leader of the Green Party since May 2011 in the government of Ireland.

Thanks for the correction!

I have a feeling GB News aren't the only ones who have chronically dropped their standard of quality. I assume they will get away with whatever low quality they can get away with. Feels like a symptom of some kind of systemic decay. Thanks again!!

[justntime2learn]

I'm posting this new video here for the moment, but it may well need a thread of its own as the scope and breadth of what is discussed transcends [almost] any one single Avalon thread topic.

The conversation is between David DuByne (Adapt 2030), and Jeff Nyquist, who to his great credit is refreshingly intellectually honest and confesses he's having trouble understanding everything that's happening in the world right now.

(I wish more alt media analysts would confess the same. :) Many people focus on just one part of the VERY big picture, which I increasingly suspect is far bigger than most of us may imagine, and pride themselves that they have some understanding of that one partial thing.)

The video is about Russia and Ukraine, but also the US, China, and the global shortages of everything (hence posting it on this thread). But it also extends into extremely interesting speculation that the Chinese have been planning for the current global food shortages for several years now, and that this may also be connected with an imminent major solar or geophysical event that the Chinese are fully aware of.

That dovetails into Ben Davidson's Suspicious 0bservers reports, which David Dubyne references and which onawah (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/member.php?310-onawah) has been faithfully sharing on the Geomagnetic Reversals and Ice Ages (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?107798-Geomagnetic-Reversals-and-Ice-Ages) thread, and also Chris Martenson's important last video, posted above (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?116410-Global-Shortages-of-Everything&p=1454759&viewfull=1#post1454759), about the imminent global energy crunch and how that problem drives just about everything else.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbdZsVOZnr4

If you haven't seen this video that Bill posted, I strongly recommend you do. Ben Davidson from suspicious observers was mentioned favorably for have gotten this information out long ago and up until now.

The only time I remember Ben ever taking a day off was his daughter's birthday last month. Now, he announces his app and website will be casualties of 2022 and not nefariously. Listen to his reason towards the end of the video.

The video is about 4 minutes long:

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[Dumpster Diver]

…interesting, inventories are massively building in the USA, so much that it will “cripple” US businesses.

[Bill Ryan]

Chris Martenson asks whether Europe is committing economic suicide. Unfortunately, the answer is YES.

Quite a bit of the central part of the video is explaining how oil refining works. (And it's interesting and important.)

The simplest summary is that there are different kinds of oil, which the refineries worldwide in each country have taken 100 years to organize themselves for. When that all changes, you can't just replace (e.g.) a barrel of Russian oil with a barrel of Algerian or Venezuelan oil. It's far more complicated than that. And no politicians anywhere seem to realize this.

A lovely analogy which Martenson uses: animal feed in a zoo. If you run out of food for the lions and tigers, you can't replace it with food intended for the zebras and elephants. Animal food isn't just 'food'. It's very specialized, and you can't always easily substitute one thing for another. The entire system will break.

For those not interested in the technicalities, go straight to 43:12 for the predictive conclusions. Summarized again, those are that there are sure to be major disruptions and shortages in food and energy supply for everyone in Europe — coming in a few months' time. With that, the European economy will be severely impacted, along with its entire industrial base.

And the knock-on effect on constrained global energy supplies will affect everyone in every country.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Sb-GsM2bfk

[gini]

GONZALO LIRA - A REVOLUTION IS COMING IN THE WEST---28/5/22--5.38 min--https://www.bitchute.com/video/0G6452UGJTVi/

[Yoda]

Chris Martenson asks whether Europe is committing economic suicide. Unfortunately, the answer is YES.

Quite a bit of the central part of the video is explaining how oil refining works. (And it's interesting and important.)

The simplest summary is that there are different kinds of oil, which the refineries worldwide in each country have taken 100 years to organize themselves for. When that all changes, you can't just replace (e.g.) a barrel of Russian oil with a barrel of Algerian or Venezuelan oil. It's far more complicated than that. And no politicians anywhere seem to realize this.

A lovely analogy which Martenson uses: animal feed in a zoo. If you run out of food for the lions and tigers, you can't replace it with food intended for the zebras and elephants. Animal food isn't just 'food'. It's very specialized, and you can't always easily substitute one thing for another. The entire system will break.

For those not interested in the technicalities, go straight to 43:12 for the predictive conclusions. Summarized again, those are that there are sure to be major disruptions and shortages in food and energy supply for everyone in Europe — coming in a few months' time. With that, the European economy will be severely impacted, along with its entire industrial base.

And the knock-on effect on constrained global energy supplies will affect everyone in every country.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Sb-GsM2bfk


Chris Martensen made this video, just before the crash of 2008.
Really good explanation of the stew we are in now.


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[Yoda]

Michael Moore tried to explain the true cost of the "Green New Deal".

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[Casey Claar]

I started being impacted here in California in 2020, as my diet is highly specialized and all organic, many of the items in my daily diet became harder, and some impossible to find in my area. Organic foods are still highly impacted and I imagine may remain so. The other thing I notice is the amount of foods on store shelves with expiration dates ( not 2-4 years in the future, as is normal ) but with just months, weeks, days and even sooo many items with past expiration dates listed. So tiring, you have to check each and every item you pick up to buy. I don't know much about what is happening "out there", I am certainly no economist or person otherwise in the know, I just know what is right in front of my face and what is right in front of face tells me things are brewing.

So - just reporting. Southern California---out.

[Yoda]

Entropy = closed system = running out of energy

The Universe has constantly expanding resources, we just can’t envision this.

Nikola Tesla had a car running on universal energy, in 1932, as a proof of concept.

John Searl was imprisoned for running his home on universal energy.

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NASA, as a proof of concept, launched a tethered satellite from the space shuttle. The captured energy was so beyond their expectation, that they had to severe the tether. The truncated tether could still be seen, radiating, from 100 miles away.

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Thomas Bearden was responsible for over 30 DVD’s, demonstrating Energy from the Vacuum.

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Since necessity is the mother of invention, the time has come for new vision. We are floating in a sea of energy.

[Yoda]

Entropy = closed system = running out of energy

The Universe has constantly expanding resources, we just can’t envision this.

Nikola Tesla had a car running on universal energy, in 1932, as a proof of concept.

John Searl was imprisoned for running his home on universal energy.

mi55kH2rZOQ


NASA, as a proof of concept, launched a tethered satellite from the space shuttle. The captured energy was so beyond their expectation, that they had to severe the tether. The truncated tether could still be seen, radiating, from 100 miles away.

SU9q1N9B-MM


Thomas Bearden was responsible for over 30 DVD’s, demonstrating Energy from the Vacuum.

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Since necessity is the mother of invention, the time has come for new vision. We are floating in a sea of energy.

[Bill Ryan]

Chris Martenson asks whether Europe is committing economic suicide. Unfortunately, the answer is YES.

Quite a bit of the central part of the video is explaining how oil refining works. (And it's interesting and important.)

The simplest summary is that there are different kinds of oil, which the refineries worldwide in each country have taken 100 years to organize themselves for. When that all changes, you can't just replace (e.g.) a barrel of Russian oil with a barrel of Algerian or Venezuelan oil. It's far more complicated than that. And no politicians anywhere seem to realize this.

A lovely analogy which Martenson uses: animal feed in a zoo. If you run out of food for the lions and tigers, you can't replace it with food intended for the zebras and elephants. Animal food isn't just 'food'. It's very specialized, and you can't always easily substitute one thing for another. The entire system will break.

For those not interested in the technicalities, go straight to 43:12 for the predictive conclusions. Summarized again, those are that there are sure to be major disruptions and shortages in food and energy supply for everyone in Europe — coming in a few months' time. With that, the European economy will be severely impacted, along with its entire industrial base.

And the knock-on effect on constrained global energy supplies will affect everyone in every country.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Sb-GsM2bfkIn his weekly newsletter, Chris Martenson added this commentary:

~~~
European leaders just did something I doubted they would do, which was to immediately ban most imports of Russian oil.

Because this is such a self-harming move, I had thought it was a distant possibility. But, here it is. It has happened.

First, this will be a lot more problematic than officials are letting on. Mainly because “oil” isn’t a thing like potable water is a thing. Oil is a catch-all term for a very wide and diverse set of ancient residues from bygone eras.

Some oil wells produce very light and sweet oil. Some produce heavy, sour oil chock full of sulfur and other impurities that have to be removed during refining. Some don’t produce oil at all but rather a heavy tar-like substance that has to undergo a lot of pre-treatment and subsequent refining steps before it can be consumed.

The relationship between large diversified markets and their need to specific quantities of various refinery outputs is one that has developed very carefully over the past 100 years. The grades and types of oil any given refinery can even process is rather narrow compared to the total oil universe, and many refineries were actually built for the specific output of a given oil field.

Somehow, European politicians are of the mind that they can simply stop buying Russian oil and can replace it elsewhere on the open market. Perhaps that’s possible, but my prediction is it won’t be easy. There will be disruptions.

Second, horrible, terrible, no-good monetary decisions within Europe have already ignited raging inflation. Any additional strains due to oil or gas shortfalls will pile-drive onto an already weakened European economic and monetary situation.

If you live in Europe, please do whatever you can to prepare for a hard landing. Plant a garden. Get a country spot. Insulate your home. Buy sweaters. It’s going to be a long year...

[Casey Claar]

https://consciousnessexplorationblog.files.wordpress.com/2022/06/img_0137.jpeg

Ouch.

I am very fortunate at the moment, and for the past year, I have not had to drive very much and only have to fill my tank roughly once ever 3 months. I suppose I will have to maintain a habit now of keeping the tank full. I just swung by the gas station yesterday and it was just under $50 to put HALF a tank of gas in my EcoSport.

[Bill Ryan]

Ouch.

In California a few days ago:

https://s.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/G0KpZHrHx3GUS8j7hw_FZw--~B/aD03MjA7dz0xMjgwO2FwcGlkPXl0YWNoeW9u/https://media.zenfs.com/en/kameraone_537/5988b688c42826364111dcb0921c76b7

And in Europe, it's the same or more. American signs and pumps are now being reconfigured to feature 4 digits rather than 3. There's no indication where or when this will end: $10/gallon is inevitable, and it might climb much further than that.

[I am B]

The 9'9999 on the gas stations would be such a sight... xD

In spain, back when we were already hitting the 2€/L mark, we got a 0'20€/L oil tax cut by the government which lowered the prices considerably. In a way, a smart move that prevented people from seeing the 2€/L mark on the price thingies, and when they did, they didn't go crazy because knew it wasn't that bad since a discount was applied later. More of a psichological measure rather than a practical one.

This was supposed to be a temporal measure until the end of June, when they "managed to" (magically i suppose) regulate the prices, or as I say, let people get used to the horrible sight of 2€/L.

Well guess what... We're hitting the 2€/L yet again, with the tax discount still on. And the government said that maybe they'll leave the discount on for a few more months. BUT IT DOESN'T MATTER. Gasoline is 1'998€/L and the summer price peak hasn't even started.

And all that without mentioning that the price is already preposterous.

[Casey Claar]

Ouch.

In California a few days ago:

https://s.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/G0KpZHrHx3GUS8j7hw_FZw--~B/aD03MjA7dz0xMjgwO2FwcGlkPXl0YWNoeW9u/https://media.zenfs.com/en/kameraone_537/5988b688c42826364111dcb0921c76b7

And in Europe, it's the same or more. American signs and pumps are now being reconfigured to feature 4 digits rather than 3. There's no indication where or when this will end: $10/gallon is inevitable, and it might climb much further than that.


Yes in some areas in California it is this high and HIGHER in the $9+ spectrum.

We are out here in what is considered the boonies, right at the edge of East San Diego County where the prices are climbing slower. ( but yikes )

Really something I could not previously have ever imagined. Normal prices are less than half this.

Upwards of $10 is downright frightening.

[Matthew]

I just heard about this, - what happened in Sri Lanka. I knew it was hot, but I didn't twig how hot. Sri Lanka got so sick of everything they burned down politician's houses.




Why Mobs Are Torching Sri Lanka Politicians’ Homes
A combination of Covid, energy price hikes and government-mandated organic farming brought a popular tourist spot to the brink of chaos.
May 12, 2022
https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-mobs-are-torching-sri-lankan-politicians-homes-rajapaksa-prime-minister-crisis-11652389728

Sri Lanka is back in the news—for all the wrong reasons. On Monday besieged Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa resigned after weeks of protests, amid a cratering economy and violent clashes between government supporters and antigovernment protesters in the capital, Colombo.

At least eight people have died in the violence, and some 200 were injured. Rampaging mobs torched more than 50 houses, including the ancestral home of the Rajapaksa clan, a family that has dominated Sri Lankan politics for nearly two decades. Rioters have set up roadblocks on the way to the airport to prevent politicians from fleeing the country.

...



And reported by CNN:


Sri Lanka protesters burn politicians' homes as country plunges further into chaos
By Iqbal Athas and Rhea Mogul, CNN
Updated 1050 GMT (1850 HKT) May 11, 2022
https://edition.cnn.com/2022/05/10/asia/sri-lanka-protests-police-shoot-intl-hnk/index.html

Colombo, Sri Lanka (CNN)Protesters in Sri Lanka have burned down homes belonging to 38 politicians as the crisis-hit country plunged further into chaos, with the government ordering troops to "shoot on sight."

Police in the island nation said Tuesday that in addition to the destroyed homes, 75 others have been damaged as angry Sri Lankans continue to defy a nationwide curfew to protest against what they say is the government's mishandling of the country's worst economic crisis since 1948.
The Ministry of Defense on Tuesday ordered troops to shoot anyone found damaging state property or assaulting officials, after violence left at least nine people dead since Monday; it is unclear if all of the deaths were directly related to the protests. More than 200 people have been injured.

...

[Bill Ryan]

I just heard about this, - what happened in Sri Lanka. I knew it was hot, but I didn't twig how hot. Sri Lanka got so sick of everything they burned down politician's houses.Yes, and this is ongoing. Those excellent reports you posted were dated over 3 weeks ago. Here's a 4 June update from Time:


https://time.com/6184189/sri-lanka-crisis

I'll not copy the article here, but it's interesting and pertinent, and the title is What the Crisis in Sri Lanka Means for the World. It states exactly what I was about to post in reply anyway: that this is a harbinger, an early warning of things to come elsewhere.

[Bill Ryan]

Here's the [excellent, official] translation of Vladimir Putin's explanation for how come everything is going so very badly wrong in the US and Europe re food and energy shortages.

This was an interview he did with Rossiya TV a few days ago, with no teleprompter or prepared script. Whatever one might think of the man and his motives, he's well-informed, articulate, knowledgeable and intelligent, and (in my opinion) he is exactly correct in everything he explains. I'm sure he was well-prepared for the questions, of course, but that's his job to be.

(And a side note, I think obvious to all: it would be utterly impossible to imagine Biden talking about any of this in such a lengthy, precise, detailed and reasoned way.)


http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/68571

Because some may not be able to access the Kremlin's website :facepalm: , I'll copy it all here for the record. It's well worth reading.

http://static.kremlin.ru/media/events/photos/big/9V109cuHpTIpHufXBqI5fjzcLkvz9AeK.jpg

Pavel Zarubin: Mr President, we have just followed your meeting with the head of Senegal who is also the current leader of the African Union. He expressed, and actually in the past week many countries have expressed concern not so much about the food crisis, but they are afraid of large-scale famine because world food prices are climbing and so are oil and gas prices, These issues are interrelated.

Naturally, the West blames Russia for this, too. What is the real situation at this point, how is it developing? And what do you think will happen in the food and energy markets?

Vladimir Putin: Yes, indeed, we are seeing attempts to place the responsibility on Russia for developments in the global food market and the growing problems there. I must say that this is another attempt to pin the blame on someone else. But why?

First, the situation with the global food market did not become worse yesterday or even with the launch of Russia’s special military operation in Donbass, in Ukraine.

The situation took a downturn in February 2020 during the efforts to counter the coronavirus pandemic when the global economy was down and had to be revived.

The financial and economic authorities in the United States, of all things, found nothing better than to allocate large amounts of money to support the population and certain businesses and economic sectors.

We generally did almost the same thing, but I assure you that we were much more accurate, and the results are obvious: we did this selectively and got the desired results without affecting macroeconomic indicators, including excessive inflation growth.

The situation was quite different in the United States. The money supply in the United States grew by 5.9 trillion in less than two years, from February 2020 to the end of 2021 – unprecedented productivity of the money printing machines. The total cash supply grew by 38.6 percent.

Apparently, the US financial authorities believed the dollar was a global currency, and it would spread, as usual, as it did in previous years, would dissolve in the global economy, and the United States would not even feel it. But that did not happen, not this time. As a matter of fact, decent people – and there are such people in the United States – the Secretary of the Treasury recently said they had made a mistake. So, it was a mistake made by the US financial and economic authorities – it has nothing to do with Russia's actions in Ukraine, it is totally unrelated.

And that was the first step – and a big one – towards the current unfavourable food market situation, because, in the first place, food prices immediately went up, they grew. This is the first reason.

The second reason was European countries’ short-sighted policies, and above all, the European Commission’s policy in regard to energy. We see what is going on there. Personally, I believe that many political players in the United States and Europe have been taking advantage of people’s natural concerns about the climate, climate change, and they began to promote this green agenda, including in the energy sector.

It all seems fine, except for the unqualified and groundless recommendations about what needs to be done in the energy sector. The capabilities of alternative types of energy are overestimated: solar, wind, any other types, hydrogen power – those are good prospects for the future, probably, but today, they cannot be produced in the required amount, with the required quality and at acceptable prices. And at the same time, they began to belittle the importance of conventional types of energy, including, and above all, hydrocarbons.

What was the result of this? Banks stopped issuing loans because they were under pressure. Insurance companies stopped insuring deals. Local authorities stopped allocating plots of land for expanding production and reduced the construction of special transport, including pipelines.

All this led to a shortage of investment in the world energy sector and price hikes as a result. The wind was not as strong as expected during the past year, winter dragged on, and prices instantly soared.

On top of all that, the Europeans did not listen to our persistent requests to preserve long-term contracts for the delivery of natural gas to European countries. They started to wind them down. Many are still valid, but they started winding them down. This had a negative effect on the European energy market: the prices went up. Russia has absolutely nothing to do with this.

But as soon as gas prices started going up, fertiliser prices followed suit because gas is used to produce some of these fertilisers. Everything is interconnected. As soon as fertiliser prices started growing, many businesses, including those in European countries, became unprofitable and started shutting down altogether. The amount of fertiliser in the world market took a dive, and prices soared dramatically, much to the surprise of many European politicians.

However, we warned them about this, and this is not linked to Russia’s military operation in Donbass in any way. This has nothing to do with it.

But when we launched our operation, our so-called European and American partners started taking steps that aggravated the situation in both the food sector and fertiliser production.

By the way, Russia accounts for 25 percent of the world fertiliser market. As for potash fertilisers, Alexander Lukashenko told me this – but we should double-check it, of course, although I think it is true – when it comes to potash fertilisers, Russia and Belarus account for 45 percent of the world market. This is a tremendous amount.

The crop yield depends on the quantity of fertiliser put into the soil. As soon as it became clear that our fertilisers would not be in the world market, prices instantly soared on both fertilisers and food products because if there are no fertilisers, it is impossible to produce the required amount of agricultural products.

One thing leads to another, and Russia has nothing to do with it. Our partners made a host of mistakes themselves, and now they are looking for someone to blame. Of course, Russia is the most suitable candidate in this respect.

Pavel Zarubin: Incidentally, it has just been reported that the wife of the head of our largest fertiliser companies has been included in the new European package of sanctions.

What will all this lead to in your opinion?

Vladimir Putin: This will make a bad situation worse.

The British and later the Americans – Anglo-Saxons – imposed sanctions on our fertilisers. Then, having realised what was happening, the Americans lifted their sanctions, but the Europeans did not. They are telling me themselves during contacts: yes, we must think about it, we must do something about it, but today they have just aggravated this situation.

This will make the situation in the world fertiliser market worse, and hence the crop prospects will be much more modest, and prices will keep going up – that is it. This is an absolutely myopic, erroneous, I would say, simply stupid policy that leads to a deadlock.

Pavel Zarubin: But Russia is accused by high-ranking officials of preventing the grain that is actually there, in Ukrainian ports, from leaving.

Vladimir Putin: They are bluffing, and I will explain why.

First, there are some objective things, and I will mention them now. The world produces about 800 million tonnes of grain, wheat per year. Now we are being told that Ukraine is ready to export 20 million tonnes. So, 20 million tonnes out of 800 million tonnes amounts to 2.5 percent. But if we proceed from the fact that wheat accounts for merely 20 percent of all food products in the world – and this is the case, this is not our data, it comes from the UN – this means that these 20 million tonnes of Ukrainian wheat are just 0.5 percent, practically nothing. This is the first point.

The second. 20 million tonnes of Ukrainian wheat are potential exports. Today, the US official bodies also say that Ukraine could export six million tonnes of wheat. According to our Ministry of Agriculture, the figure is not six but about five million tonnes, but okay, let us assume it is six, plus it could export seven million tonnes of maize – this is the figure of our Ministry of Agriculture. We realise that this is not much.

In the current agricultural year of 2021–2022, we will export 37 million and, I believe, we will raise these exports to 50 million tonnes in 2022–2023. But this is apropos, by the way.

As for shipping out Ukrainian grain, we are not preventing this. There are several ways to export grain.

The first one. You can ship it out via the Ukraine-controlled ports, primarily in the Black Sea – Odessa and nearby ports. We did not mine the approaches to the port – Ukraine did this.

I have already said to all our colleagues many times – let them demine the ports and let the vessels loaded with grain leave. We will guarantee their peaceful passage to international waters without any problems. There are no problems at all. Go ahead.

They must clear the mines and raise the ships they sunk on purpose in the Black Sea to make it difficult to enter the ports to the south of Ukraine. We are ready to do this; we will not use the demining process to initiate an attack from the sea. I have already said this. This is the first point.

The second. There is another opportunity: the ports in the Sea of Azov – Berdyansk and Mariupol – are under our control, and we are ready to ensure a problem-free exit from these ports, including for exported Ukrainian grain. Go ahead, please.

We are already working on the demining process. We are completing this work – at one time, Ukrainian troops laid three layers of mines. This process is coming to an end. We will create the necessary logistics. This is not a problem; we will do this. This is the second point.

The third. It is possible to move grain from Ukraine via the Danube and through Romania.

Fourth. It is also possible through Hungary.

And fifth, it is also possible to do this via Poland. Yes, there are some technical problems because the tracks are of different gauges and the wheel bogies must be changed. But this only takes a few hours, that is all.

Finally, the easiest way is to transport grain via Belarus. This is the easiest and the cheapest way because from there it can be instantly shipped to the Baltic ports and further on to any place in the world.

But they would have to lift the sanctions from Belarus. This is not our problem though. At any rate, President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko puts it like this: if someone wants to resolve the problem of exporting Ukrainian grain, if this problem exists at all, please use the simplest way – through Belarus. No one will stop you.

So, the problem of shipping grain out of Ukraine does not really exist.

Pavel Zarubin: How would the logistics work to ship it from the ports under our control? What would the conditions be?

Vladimir Putin: No conditions.

They are welcome. We will provide peaceful passage, guarantee safe approaches to these ports, and ensure the safe entry of foreign ships and passage through the Sea of Azov and the Black Sea in any direction.

By the way, several ships are stuck in Ukrainian ports at this point. These are foreign ships, dozens of them. They are simply locked up and their crews are still being held hostage.

[onawah]

Dr. Joseph Farrell says he thinks the shortages, energy crisis, etc are being caused deliberately by the NWO, all tied in with the Continuity of Government issue and phony ET Disclosure, because they want to have enough global crises to declare COG (or martial law).
He thinks the so-called "Alien Threat" is their last card, after the failure of the climate change crisis, the COVID crisis, etc, but it's a tricky one.
And that they may stage a fake alien invastion (which Werner Von Braun warned us about), but the problem is "the real thing might show up!"
...And more in the latest talk with Dark Journalist, starting at about 20 minutes in here:
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(Was it ever proven the some ETs warned the world governments that if they didn't 'fess up about ET presence, they would step in and do it for us?
Or was that just wishful New Age thinking?)

[onawah]

Food shortages now are definitely appearing to be caused intentionally by the CCP. See:
https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?111363-Turmoil-in-China&p=1501627&viewfull=1#post1501627

[Tintin]

Pavel Zarubin: How would the logistics work to ship it from the ports under our control? What would the conditions be?

Vladimir Putin: No conditions.

They are welcome. We will provide peaceful passage, guarantee safe approaches to these ports, and ensure the safe entry of foreign ships and passage through the Sea of Azov and the Black Sea in any direction.

By the way, several ships are stuck in Ukrainian ports at this point. These are foreign ships, dozens of them. They are simply locked up and their crews are still being held hostage.

:thumbsup: For sure, and reinforces the information shared with Patrick Lancaster by the Turkish captain in this video, here, which has already been shared on the WW3 thread I think by John Kuhles:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyVSCUBrFTk&ab_channel=PatrickLancaster

[Brigantia]

This is a good video from Andrew Lawrence, less comedic than usual and laying out the state of affairs in Britain. Less than 3 minutes.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VxrI9-ZQT8&list=LL&index=1

[Matthew]

Slightly more protectionism

https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1536350721326604289
Disclose.tv
@disclosetv
JUST IN - Ukraine bans the export of coal, fuel oil, and domestically produced natural gas.

[Simon Sparx]

This is just in the USA.

Here is the Updated List of US-Based Food Manufacturing Plants Destroyed Under Biden Administration

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/06/updated-list-us-based-food-manufacturing-plants-destroyed-biden-administration/

[Matthew]

The farce plays out taking well-meaning, good people by surprise.

I can't get bottles derp, I can't get cans derp lolwut.

This does not play out well but I am hoping for new resilience and entrepreneurial spirit when push comes to shove, since default human behaviour of good faith is bias towards wanting to supply. I'm looking from afar thinking we've seen this sort of thing emerge in Cuba, although I wasn't there and I'm the height of naivety on the subject. As shortages play out the surprise aspect is the nasty part, I see this pulling people out of cerebral level thinking (is it scarce or is it rare? Do you panic or do you plan?). Aside from that, I hope for useful things to emerge from the bad situation that I assume will happen as these surprises happen more and more. Good God I hope I'm over-egging my concerns :bigsmile:

https://twitter.com/DagnyTaggart369/status/1536642312322879488
Dagny Taggart
@DagnyTaggart369
🇧🇪 Belgian brewers are running out of bottles.

Previously, containers were supplied from Russia. It is too expensive to produce glass in Europe.

The offer to replace the bottles with aluminum cans was quickly rejected – it turned out that aluminum also came from Russia.

[Matthew]

It's an old trick that food producers do, to reduce the size of the product but keep the price the same. But it feels like this is happening faster at the moment.


https://twitter.com/01_VicThor_01/status/1537120223425347586
£VICTOR£
@01_VicThor_01
Replying to
@BernieSpofforth
I bought a yoghurt pack which usually cost £2. at £2,70

I thought: ok it's inflation.

The problem I realized at home, the yogurt was only half full.

I felt like I've paid for nothing.

[Brigantia]

It's an old trick that food producers do, to reduce the size of the product but keep the price the same. But it feels like this is happening faster at the moment.

The apples I buy each week are decreasing in size every week. Also, the quality of fresh food is getting worse, the supermarkets are buying the dregs and charging the same price.

That's why I've extended my food patch in the garden this year; the apple tree is looking good as well.

[EarthGirl]

If you would like to ask any questions with regards growing veg or fruits, or want any help feel free to ask as a fellow UK inhabitant we don't enjoy the growing conditions of other countries, alas our season is quite short... Apologies this isn't meant to come across as some kind of "I know it all" quite the opposite, different ideas work for different folk but when we all accumulate to our position on the earth and communicate great things happen :heart:



It's an old trick that food producers do, to reduce the size of the product but keep the price the same. But it feels like this is happening faster at the moment.

The apples I buy each week are decreasing in size every week. Also, the quality of fresh food is getting worse, the supermarkets are buying the dregs and charging the same price.

That's why I've extended my food patch in the garden this year; the apple tree is looking good as well.

[Brigantia]

If you would like to ask any questions with regards growing veg or fruits, or want any help feel free to ask as a fellow UK inhabitant we don't enjoy the growing conditions of other countries, alas our season is quite short... Apologies this isn't meant to come across as some kind of "I know it all" quite the opposite, different ideas work for different folk but when we all accumulate to our position on the earth and communicate great things happen :heart:

That's kind of you - I'm not sure if it was to me specifically or to all? If to me, I've been growing food for a few years, nothing too complicated such as soft fruit, onions and tomatoes, but have really pushed the boat out this year in addition to finding some great YT channels for know-how. Next door neighbour is a garden centre manager so he's very useful for advice - and I get the benefit of his 20% discount for anything I need!

[Matthew]

So how will this be framed? Climate change is causing food shortages? Really hard to put this in context; is it more common than I would know (being an English suburbanite)? I don't expect so, but right now I'm looking at this assuming a lot of bad things. Any cowboys or cowgirls able to give a gut feel on this?

The video is a pan of lots of dead cows :(

https://twitter.com/JamesMelville/status/1537149934213992451
James Melville
@JamesMelville
Thousands of cattle suddenly died last weekend in Kansas. The reason given - high temperatures.

[Gwin Ru]

...

... 10,000 cattle dead:

From Jim Stone:

THOUSANDS of dead cattle in Nebraska (https://twitter.com/i/status/1537133550272761859)

No one knows why, but this is something you don't see every day.

UPDATE: THE ANSWER IS IN: SOMEONE SNUCK ONTO THE RANCH AND POISONED THE WATER THE CATTLE DRANK. THIS IS A DIRECT ATTACK ON AMERICA'S FOOD SUPPLY. OVER 10,000 HEAD OF CATTLE KILLED.

Now who, what group, has a history of poisoning it's opposition? Don't pretend to guess.

UPDATE TO ABOVE: This may sound crazy and I don't normally link stuff like this, but a psychic nailed the cattle poisonings that just happened, and she did it on June 1.

There is ZERO "fruitcake" in this psychic, I would not have put this here if it was not shocking, she nailed this mass cattle die off, the lack of water and then poisoned water and that people did it, how the people who watched the cattle were Mexicans, how saboteurs arrived, and EVERY DETAIL RELATED TO IT. Now that it has been revealed that the cattle did indeed die from poisoned water and not heat or disease this really takes the cake.

Her segment of the video is long. At 37 minutes (her segment starts at 30 minutes) She nails the fact that the feedlot animals were not messed with, but the free range animals got their water supply poisoned when the dry stream they drank from suddenly got water, and the water was poisoned which killed them all. She ties it all together at 43 minutes.

Clearly, someone released water from a dam which the cattle drank, and they poisoned the water when they released it to cause a mass cattle die off. That's exactly what just happened today.

I never saw anything like this that hit so many details perfect. At first it looks like nonsense but if you watch it a second time, you'll be captivated by the detail and how it ended up being true.

CONCLUSION: The elite who ran the large feedlots poisoned the water supply to the smaller farmers to kill all their cattle, so the elite could more completely take over agriculture. She saw EVERY BIT OF IT.

Farsight Human News Forecast: June 2022 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFfvwBxQ7rs&t=1779s) 46:38

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Jun 1, 2022

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[Matthew]

Here's a small collection of comments from US cattle farmers on twitter. I was looking for opinions from cattle farmers, and I thought this thread was a thoughtful discussion. It's all in the comments on that thread, here's a selection

https://twitter.com/Kurt1775/status/1537420567032242176
Isabella Maria DeLuca, @IsabellaMDeLuca

I’m having a hard time believing that heat killed thousands of cattle.

Anyone else?


Beyond the Narrative 🇺🇲
@Kurt1775
Replying to
@IsabellaMDeLuca
I kind of believe it. In southern states they have overhead sprinklers to help keep cattle cool during hot/humid weather & I didn't see any sign of sprinklers in videos. But, seems hard to believe farmers weren't aware of heat dangers.
2:03 pm · 16 Jun 2022·Twitter Web A



And some other guy called Robby Starbuck
https://twitter.com/robbystarbuck/status/1537508872742653954


Here's that tweet's text and a bit more:


They did not die of extreme heat. I talked to multiple ranchers since I saw this video (one from Kansas) and they all say this needs to be investigated ASAP to get to the bottom of this because there’s no way heat caused 10,000+ cattle to drop dead. This is not normal.

The Kansas rancher said it was hot but not temps they’ve never seen before. They said it could be as simple as a lack of water access or something else but that the heat alone doesn’t explain it. Many possibilities but all of them agreed it wasn’t the heat.

The rancher also said they aren’t sure it was 10,000 cows that died, they’re hearing 3,000+ but said it’s still just as bizarre. At any rate (I’ve seen many estimates), thousands of cows died and ranchers say heat makes no sense as their cattle experience the same with 0 deaths.

...

[Bill Ryan]

An apparently urgent heads up for those reading this who have diesel cars or trucks, or who own and operate diesel equipment. (Don't forget your diesel generator, either.)

There's almost no diesel oil left, and pretty soon there will be none anywhere for the next year.

Here's a short (2 minute) video:

https://brighteon.com/4938fb56-a9e2-4dda-8fe8-c43945a3b070
4938fb56-a9e2-4dda-8fe8-c43945a3b070

[BMJ]

An apparently urgent heads up for those reading this who have diesel cars or trucks, or who own and operate diesel equipment. (Don't forget your diesel generator, either.)

There's almost no diesel oil left, and pretty soon there will be none anywhere for the next year.

Here's a short (2 minute) video:

https://brighteon.com/4938fb56-a9e2-4dda-8fe8-c43945a3b070
4938fb56-a9e2-4dda-8fe8-c43945a3b070

Comment on the video and something to consider

Michael j • a day ago
" You can clean your engine oil by placing hemp rope in container and letting it clean the oil by dripping into container lower than dirty oil container,, will syphon out and the impurities are trapped in the hemp rope, this was done in the old days to conserve oil there's nothing wrong with the oil it just needs cleaning "

[Inversion]

The problems mentioned are product shortages, delivery delays, and persistent supply chain bottlenecks. The trucking industry has driver shortages and face bankruptcy if the government doesn't step in. Shipping container costs have skyrocketed.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eVR2X0bXaE

Experts are warning that the global supply chain crisis is going trigger a record number of disruptions as we enter the second half of 2022. Things were supposed to be getting better by now. Instead, every new survey, study, analysis, or forecast about global supply chains suggests that we are headed to the most chaotic peak shipping season ever recorded. Companies continue to suffer from a myriad of problems caused by product shortages, delivery delays, and persistent supply chain bottlenecks, often leading them to collectively lose billions of dollars each year. Meanwhile, the vast majority of U.S. consumers are still facing empty shelves, soaring prices, and poor customer experience. New data shows that Americans are getting increasingly frustrated with the rising number of out-of-stock products, price hikes and higher costs for shipping.
Every sector of the industry is being burdened by a series of problems caused by broken supply chains. A new study published by the Small Business Association of Michigan noted that 59% of U.S. small businesses have been facing persistent complications in logistics and transport which led 87% of them to face higher costs than before the pandemic, with almost half – 43% - reporting price increases of 20% and more. Due to these obstacles, 20% of U.S. small businesses said they’re still feeling pessimistic about the long-term survival of their operations.
The system has been broken so many times over the past two years that industry executives don't see an end for supply chain problems coming about anytime soon. In fact, many issues are likely to worsen this year, as roughly 40% of workers in the transport sector are threatening to quit their jobs. Truckers collect and distribute over 70% of the goods arriving at U.S. ports around the nation. Such a shortfall of workers could paralyze domestic supply chains indefinetely. Road transport operators are warning about a “perfect storm” for the trucking industry in 2022. As the backbone of global supply chains, road transport operators are calling on governments for support to avoid bankruptcies and to stabilize the transport system as a whole. “Right now, driver shortages and drastic fuel price increases have created a “perfect storm” that can further aggravate supply chain disruptions this summer,” said Bob Costello, chief economist for the American Trucking Associations.
On top of all that, global container capacity has been dramatically reduced in the past few months, and millions of containers are still stuck outside ports worldwide as congestion escalates. The outlook for the next six months is grim - we're about to witness the cumulative impact of almost 24 months of continued interruptions.
The stress we've felt as a result of supply chain problems over the past two years was nothing compared to what we will experience in the coming months. Geopolitical conflicts, extreme weather, slower manufacturing, higher fuel costs, and global inflation will continue to wreak havoc on supply chains - and more importantly, we will continue to feel the impact of all of these problems in our monthly budgets. We can only advise you to stock up while you still can because the chaos ahead will be devastating. And in today's video, we compiled several facts that reveal the extent of the problems we've already faced and the challenges that will continue to aggravate the supply chain crisis as we enter the second half of the year.

[Bill Ryan]

More from Chris Martenson, a concise 20 minute extract from a conference presentation on the very serious energy crisis issue that he's stressed several times before, and which affects absolutely everything else.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehHibdfvSqM

[I am B]

Predictive programming much.

https://www.instagram.com/tv/CgRuSuig455/

P3NBd3UjH5Y

This is not planned and produced in a weekend.

[I am B]

Well, we're having the first aknowledged shortages happening.
The product? Ice.
The reason? The price of energy to produce it and the price of gas to transport it.

Article in spanish

https://www.sport.es/es/noticias/fuera-de-juego/hay-escasez-hielo-bares-restaurantes-14230825

https://www.larazon.es/economia/20220805/xgze564iebbnnipeyupiyeq4mu.html

[Casey Claar]

Here in California it is mostly organic products that can be missing from the shelves. Liquid chlorophyll is almost impossible to find, and it looks like there is only a single manufacturer left producing it ( this is really bad news for me ). The best quality items are what can go missing, sometimes for long ( 6-12 month periods of time ). The olive oil I normally get, California honey ( is a hit or miss ) ( this is one of the things I stock "just in case" ), raw organic apple juice. Organic fresh fruit is just appalling, and scary for someone who lives where SO MUCH fruit is produced, and who eats 65% fruit. There are so many items I normally get/choose that are gone. Alternatives to them still exist, but they are not my usually choices for producers/manufacturers *for a reason. I still have to check every item I pick up for its expiration date, roughly half of what I pick up is still near to, or fully expired. I do not shop at the regular stores so I do not know what is happening there. Expiration dates on toxic food ( salt-ridden food ) is likely greater than what I buy but I cannot eat that kind of food so it is not an option in any event.

[gini]

In China, people use Ice to keep offices cool.The iconic Shanghai skyline went dark on Monday. Offices are using large blocks of ice to stay cool due to power cuts. Why is China struggling to power its cities? Palki Sharma tells you.--24/8/22--4min--J7ANcTgo9ZU

[gini]

Lights off in Europe as winter approaches.
Europe is slashing energy consumption as Russia cuts off supplies. Germany has switched off street lights. France plans to ban illuminated billboards. Spain has limited air conditioning at airports. 27/8/22--5 min--4bTX0yXHTMg
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[gini]

Tucker Carlson: Things are falling apart every quickly--30/8/22--17 min-Zn6c-UkqlHo

[gini]

Heat banks? Re-educating people to give up independent life. Dependency is beguilingly easy--.Katie Hopkins--39/8/22--12 min----fZvi8HAhT6U--ba_tfM7NQSM

[Bill Ryan]

The G7 has announced their decision to [try to!] impose a global price cap on oil. In this short 10-minute Duran video, Alexander Mercouris explains how China and India won't play along, this will inevitably disrupt and destabilize oil markets, Saudi Arabia will be surely pushed into BRICS (with the resulting demise of the pertrodollar), global oil supplies to the west (i.e. the North America and Europe) will be greatly squeezed, and domestic prices of everything in any way connected to oil will rise even further.

Moreover, Ursula von der Leyen, the EU president, has now recommended a similar price cap on Russian gas. (OMG. :facepalm: ) The Russians won't stop producing oil (they can't shut down oil wells just like turning off a tap, and oil storage is a problem), but surplus and unsold natural gas is far easier to dispose of: they'll just flare it (burn it), right before the eyes of the Europeans, while Gazprom continues to find reasons not to flow any gas to Europe at all.

It's a giant, self-destructive mess — either malice, bewildering incompetence, or both. At the risk of making a dark, not-very-funny joke about something increasingly serious for millions of households, just buy lots of new kettles (or electric cars!) and everything will be just fine.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnEYicivz6g

[Denise/Dizi]

Here in California it is mostly organic products that can be missing from the shelves. Liquid chlorophyll is almost impossible to find, and it looks like there is only a single manufacturer left producing it ( this is really bad news for me ). The best quality items are what can go missing, sometimes for long ( 6-12 month periods of time ). The olive oil I normally get, California honey ( is a hit or miss ) ( this is one of the things I stock "just in case" ), raw organic apple juice. Organic fresh fruit is just appalling, and scary for someone who lives where SO MUCH fruit is produced, and who eats 65% fruit. There are so many items I normally get/choose that are gone. Alternatives to them still exist, but they are not my usually choices for producers/manufacturers *for a reason. I still have to check every item I pick up for its expiration date, roughly half of what I pick up is still near to, or fully expired. I do not shop at the regular stores so I do not know what is happening there. Expiration dates on toxic food ( salt-ridden food ) is likely greater than what I buy but I cannot eat that kind of food so it is not an option in any event.

Hi Casey, Just thought I would pop in here and let you know that I am in Nevada County, and thus far, we are not seeing this shortage... I have a friend that is a beekeeper, so if you need California honey, I can get you some the next time he empties his hives.. I bought 12 bottles the last time he emptied the hives, but gave it alot of it away as gifts because it is so good! But it is coming to the time where he will be doing it again soon...

As for fresh fruit and raw organic apple juice? I have other friends that have farms... One is bierwagons apple farm (In Colfax) and they have the best organic apple juice I have ever had, And bottle it up by the gallon... The place is famous for it...

And the other farm, is owned by a really good friend and his family... and they harvest fresh fruits weekly. Two days before delivery, he calls his customers, and by taking "pre orders", the next day, that is what they harvest... Just what they know will sell.. Once a week, he appears in our shop, delivering an entire flat of fresh organic fruit! (As much as we want!) and it is always what is in season as they planned the farm to provide year round...

If you are close enough to drive up the hill, you could probably stock up on everything you need from here. (If you do, I would happily show you around to all of the places that you can walk into.. and get info as to how you can get ahold of the other items that are time sensitive, such as the honey, as it goes fast once harvested... It is the only honey I eat, as it is from local bees...)

The health food stores in the area that carry roots, powders, leaves, and all the things that require preparation, seem to still be fully stocked as well... As far as the liquid chlorophyll, I haven't checked recently... But I could calll around to the local shops and see if they have the brand that you usually get, just let me know if I can help in any way... We actually have an abundance of these type stores in our community, all staffed by those that live the natural lifestyle, so they have everything without shortages thus far...

It's one thing to go without fuel, and entirely different story to go without quality foods, so just PM me, if I can help!

[Bubu]

We are starting mushroom production. It does need fertilizer. Though uses lots of heat to strilize substrate. I can solve this by using any type of used oil and water. There are YT videos on how to burn used Oil. I also desinged and constructed one of the best solar dryer you can find anywhere. First it must be made of metal. Metal is a far better conductor of heat. many use wood very poor design right from the start. Sun is not going into shortage so I am looking to exploit this source.

[Bill Ryan]

A two-part presentation by David DuByne from Adapt 2030. Not for the faint-hearted, rather apocalyptic, but very analytical, logical and laden with spiking graphs. He may well be correct in his dire forecast for what awaits Europe (and global financial markets) in the months to come.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbt-yKRZIDg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ASYGJ0dwq0

[Casey Claar]

Here in California it is mostly organic products that can be missing from the shelves. Liquid chlorophyll is almost impossible to find, and it looks like there is only a single manufacturer left producing it ( this is really bad news for me ). The best quality items are what can go missing, sometimes for long ( 6-12 month periods of time ). The olive oil I normally get, California honey ( is a hit or miss ) ( this is one of the things I stock "just in case" ), raw organic apple juice. Organic fresh fruit is just appalling, and scary for someone who lives where SO MUCH fruit is produced, and who eats 65% fruit. There are so many items I normally get/choose that are gone. Alternatives to them still exist, but they are not my usually choices for producers/manufacturers *for a reason. I still have to check every item I pick up for its expiration date, roughly half of what I pick up is still near to, or fully expired. I do not shop at the regular stores so I do not know what is happening there. Expiration dates on toxic food ( salt-ridden food ) is likely greater than what I buy but I cannot eat that kind of food so it is not an option in any event.

Hi Casey, Just thought I would pop in here and let you know that I am in Nevada County, and thus far, we are not seeing this shortage... I have a friend that is a beekeeper, so if you need California honey, I can get you some the next time he empties his hives.. I bought 12 bottles the last time he emptied the hives, but gave it alot of it away as gifts because it is so good! But it is coming to the time where he will be doing it again soon...

As for fresh fruit and raw organic apple juice? I have other friends that have farms... One is bierwagons apple farm (In Colfax) and they have the best organic apple juice I have ever had, And bottle it up by the gallon... The place is famous for it...

And the other farm, is owned by a really good friend and his family... and they harvest fresh fruits weekly. Two days before delivery, he calls his customers, and by taking "pre orders", the next day, that is what they harvest... Just what they know will sell.. Once a week, he appears in our shop, delivering an entire flat of fresh organic fruit! (As much as we want!) and it is always what is in season as they planned the farm to provide year round...

If you are close enough to drive up the hill, you could probably stock up on everything you need from here. (If you do, I would happily show you around to all of the places that you can walk into.. and get info as to how you can get ahold of the other items that are time sensitive, such as the honey, as it goes fast once harvested... It is the only honey I eat, as it is from local bees...)

The health food stores in the area that carry roots, powders, leaves, and all the things that require preparation, seem to still be fully stocked as well... As far as the liquid chlorophyll, I haven't checked recently... But I could calll around to the local shops and see if they have the brand that you usually get, just let me know if I can help in any way... We actually have an abundance of these type stores in our community, all staffed by those that live the natural lifestyle, so they have everything without shortages thus far...

It's one thing to go without fuel, and entirely different story to go without quality foods, so just PM me, if I can help!

Thank you, Denise.. my apologies, I am just seeing this.

It is a very kind offer and I may just one day take you up on this. So far, due to how much I overstock honey, quality mineral salt and a few other things I am fine here so far. There are lots of people producing honey down here outside the stores, it is only inside the store(s) that I was reporting on up there. It is still possible to get most everything down here, there is just a BIG difference at times relative to what is usually on the shelves and what is now, notably when it comes to organics and locally produced items sold at stores. San Diego, for whatever odd reason is not as 'with it" as Los Angeles and San Fransisco when it comes to these things. It can feel like I am in a whole other state altogether, but, yes, a reasonably short drive ( 1-2 hours ) gets me to most everything I need. Fingers crossed it remains this way, and/or improves. I am here if ever you need, as well.


Casey

[justntime2learn]

A two-part presentation by David DuByne from Adapt 2030. Not for the faint-hearted, rather apocalyptic, but very analytical, logical and laden with spiking graphs. He may well be correct in his dire forecast for what awaits Europe (and global financial markets) in the months to come.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbt-yKRZIDg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ASYGJ0dwq0

Watched 1st vid. After one minute into the second I must say, I knew something was up last week when the Pope set a deadline of October 1st for all Vatican linked institutions to deposit their assets into the Vatican Bank.

[ceetee9]

Who’s laughing now? Once more, what were touted as “conspiracy theories” for the last couple of years by the government and their media shills have become fact. I’ll leave it to rational inquiring minds to determine whether the facts are merely coincidental or part and parcel of the globalist’s “Great Reset” and their population reduction agenda. Here’s a short list of some of the things people were warned about that have transpired over the last year and a half (in no particular order):

• Food shortages with over 100 food processing plants that mysteriously caught fire
• Record food price increases
• Record gas prices
• Record inflation
• Record housing costs with houses being bought up by multi-millionaires and billion dollar corporations
• Record deficit (nearly $31 Trillion with “Unfunded Liabilities” over $171 Trillion, “Social Security” over $22 Trillion and “Medicare” over $34 Trillion, but I guess they get the $227 Trillion for those three from the money tree and aren’t really part of the deficit. LOL!)
• Empty grocery store shelves and many products dropped and/or becoming harder to get
• Ongoing auto, computer and other product part shortages
• Ongoing electric grid blackouts and brownouts (but somehow they’ll be able to handle charging countless more electric vehicles. Go figure!)
• Power plant explosions
• Ongoing supply chain disruptions
• Supply chain truckers quitting, losing their job, and/or threatening strikes
• Disappearing diesel oil additives (any idea what type of vehicles are used for the supply chain and building infrastructure?)
• Fertilizer shortages (any idea what’s used to grow crops?)
• Farmland being bought by Bill Gates and farmers paid to not grow certain crops
• Countless business closings and others raising prices by 20% or more to stay in business
• People taking loans to buy food and essential products
• Myriad athletes dropping dead, sharp uptick in heart attacks, neurological disorders and cancers, strange rubbery blood clots, and SADS that “doctors” can’t explain all of which have occurred just since the experimental jabs began (where’s the investigation into the causes?)
• Suppression of inexpensive therapeutics to treat COVID while extremely expensive (and deadly) drugs are pushed by government, big pharma and media
• Censorship of doctors, scientists, journalists and others who dared challenge official narratives
• Some government “health” agencies now admitting their policies and actions were ill-conceived and detrimental to the public (let’s see if all those scientists and doctors who told them so 2 years ago will receive an apology, have their reputations (and jobs) restored, and be uncensored—I won’t hold my breath)
• More draconian laws being passed to suppress truth (under the guise of dis/misinformation) and censor anyone who dares to speak the truth
• Government administration that demonizes over half the people in the country (e.g., Patriots, Conservatives, Republicans, white people, etc.--so much for their faux love of inclusivity and diversity.)
• Government administration that supports open borders and giving illegals free housing, cell phones, food, transportation, education and medical care while we have millions of homeless citizens and people losing their homes and jobs (nearly 5 million illegals have entered the country since Biden took office—that’s equivalent to the size of Ireland.)
• Billions of dollars given to Ukraine while people in this country can’t afford housing, energy and food
• Government, big tech and media pushing “climate change” and telling us we need to go “green” while they fly in their private jets, buy multi-million dollar mansions on the coast, and live like kings
• Government (and media) pushing anti-gun rhetoric and telling us walls/fences are “racist” while they’re protected by armed guards and building walls around their homes (meanwhile the cities with the most restrictive gun laws continue to have the highest crime and gun deaths in the nation. That’s so odd!)

[Ratszinger]

Industries for food processing have been down sizing every product we buy for years. I knew we were coming to a serious situation when you can compare old coffee containers from Folgers and others to the new ones! They cost more and you get less. This is the same for cereals, for many canned goods we've bought over the years and even cat foods. Some of these places that process the foods even use the same old larger boxes but when you open the package there is smaller amounts of both. Even Lean Cuisine has secretly reduced the amount of food you get in their packages even tho the box looks the same. There is for sure a shortage of these things and it is now beyond their being able to hide it. I understand things such as ketchup and salsa will be very hard to find in the near future from things I've read recenlty in headlines.

[TomKat]

Industries for food processing have been down sizing every product we buy for years. I knew we were coming to a serious situation when you can compare old coffee containers from Folgers and others to the new ones! They cost more and you get less. This is the same for cereals, for many canned goods we've bought over the years and even cat foods. Some of these places that process the foods even use the same old larger boxes but when you open the package there is smaller amounts of both. Even Lean Cuisine has secretly reduced the amount of food you get in their packages even tho the box looks the same. There is for sure a shortage of these things and it is now beyond their being able to hide it. I understand things such as ketchup and salsa will be very hard to find in the near future from things I've read recenlty in headlines.

this sounds more like "shrinkflation" than food shortage. It's been going on for decades -- I first noticed it in candy bars maybe in the 1970s

[TomKat]

Tucker Carlson: Things are falling apart every quickly--30/8/22--17 min-Zn6c-UkqlHo

This explains Biden's Philadelphia speech declaring war on MAGA Republicans. He plans to blame his carefully engineered collapse on MAGA Republicans.

[Orph]

this sounds more like "shrinkflation" than food shortage. It's been going on for decades -- I first noticed it in candy bars maybe in the 1970sYup. That's the first time I noticed it as well. (Candy bars back in the early '70s).

[TomKat]

this sounds more like "shrinkflation" than food shortage. It's been going on for decades -- I first noticed it in candy bars maybe in the 1970sYup. That's the first time I noticed it as well. (Candy bars back in the early '70s).

As I recall, some candy companies were more clever -- they made the candy bar 50% bigger and doubled (100%) the price.

[Ratszinger]

Industries for food processing have been down sizing every product we buy for years. I knew we were coming to a serious situation when you can compare old coffee containers from Folgers and others to the new ones! They cost more and you get less. This is the same for cereals, for many canned goods we've bought over the years and even cat foods. Some of these places that process the foods even use the same old larger boxes but when you open the package there is smaller amounts of both. Even Lean Cuisine has secretly reduced the amount of food you get in their packages even tho the box looks the same. There is for sure a shortage of these things and it is now beyond their being able to hide it. I understand things such as ketchup and salsa will be very hard to find in the near future from things I've read recenlty in headlines.

this sounds more like "shrinkflation" than food shortage. It's been going on for decades -- I first noticed it in candy bars maybe in the 1970s
Really? Wouldn't you agree that it's a bit more extreme than this when stores start offering four and six packs of eggs? That sounds and looks more like desperate times to me. I do appreciate your opinion but this is not just ordinary inflation adjustments anymore in mine.

[TomKat]

Industries for food processing have been down sizing every product we buy for years. I knew we were coming to a serious situation when you can compare old coffee containers from Folgers and others to the new ones! They cost more and you get less. This is the same for cereals, for many canned goods we've bought over the years and even cat foods. Some of these places that process the foods even use the same old larger boxes but when you open the package there is smaller amounts of both. Even Lean Cuisine has secretly reduced the amount of food you get in their packages even tho the box looks the same. There is for sure a shortage of these things and it is now beyond their being able to hide it. I understand things such as ketchup and salsa will be very hard to find in the near future from things I've read recenlty in headlines.

this sounds more like "shrinkflation" than food shortage. It's been going on for decades -- I first noticed it in candy bars maybe in the 1970s
Really? Wouldn't you agree that it's a bit more extreme than this when stores start offering four and six packs of eggs? That sounds and looks more like desperate times to me. I do appreciate your opinion but this is not just ordinary inflation adjustments anymore in mine.

It's very possible it's more in reaction to supply shortage than just inflation. It's hard to tell without talking to some people in the food industry.

[I am B]

This weekend some german family came to visit and enjoy the last remnants of warm summer in spain.
For context, they live a bit above average, owning a small company with a big warehouse and employ a handful of people.

We did talk about shortages, and they do seem to be going to have a BAD situation this winter. (Despite being in such an economy) As they explained, they usually spend slightly less than 2k€ to warm a 3 storey house during winter next to the city of Stuttgart. This year, the energy company estimates that its gonna be just above the 5,5k mark. And the worse of all, the german government in their area has limited the harvesting of wood around their area, and forbidden the use of woodstoves without specific homologation and licenses on the neighborhood.

[Bill Ryan]

This is so high-level important it might need its own thread, but for the moment this is the best home for it.

In an information-dense 45-minute video published 4 days ago, Chris Martenson talks about Complex Systems and how mere humans (like the WEF! :facepalm: ) cannot hope to control or predict them.

He shows that 'decarbonization' (a new religious mantra) will inevitably plunge us into a new Dark Age unless it's fully recognized what a critical role fossil fuels still play in absolutely everything, including the entire global GDP.

The results of attempts to maintain what we value as civilization, without adequate energy resources to fuel it, can be seen before our very eyes in real time in Europe right now.

There's much more, and the video defies a simple summary — because how global energy fuels every aspect of our lives is a very complex subject. Disregard the video title, because this is about far more than the WEF. It's about our very future and how it's all being catastrophically badly mismanaged. Either the 'managers' are ignorant or incompetent, or they're destroying civilization willfully and knowingly. There are only two ways it could be.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOiHA6NiqZU

[jaybee]

This is so high-level important it might need its own thread, but for the moment this is the best home for it.

In an information-dense 45-minute video published 4 days ago, Chris Martenson talks about Complex Systems and how mere humans (like the WEF! :facepalm: ) cannot hope to control or predict them.

He shows that 'decarbonization' (a new religious mantra) will inevitably plunge us into a new Dark Age unless it's fully recognized what a critical role fossil fuels still play in absolutely everything, including the entire global GDP.

The results of attempts to maintain what we value as civilization, without adequate energy resources to fuel it, can be seen before our very eyes in real time in Europe right now.

There's much more, and the video defies a simple summary — because how global energy fuels every aspect of our lives is a very complex subject. Disregard the video title, because this is about far more than the WEF. It's about our very future and how it's all being catastrophically badly mismanaged. Either the 'managers' are ignorant or incompetent, or they're destroying civilization willfully and knowingly. There are only two ways it could be.

(video snipped see above)




Thanks - a few thoughts regarding the video... around the 5:00 min mark and the chart showing what will be needed to create so called 'green' energy to replace fossil fuels to the 2019 levels.... what isn't factored in is that all these figures could be reduced by 9/10 if....IF.... what we hear about the Globalist Agenda plan to reduce the Earth's human population by 90% actually happens - I also suspect that although 'free' energy and all inventions to get it to the People have been suppressed.... the plan could be to bring them out when humanity has been culled and herded into Smart Cities - the whole thing about wind turbines, solar panels etc could be a major distraction and there is no plan to rely on that kind of 'green' energy at all, in the long run...

After all the planning over decades I don't think the Globalists are going to want a return to the Dark Ages because their plans rely on advanced technology and that system would disappear.... it could ultimately even be to humanities advantage that we do get reduced to the Dark Ages and a return to survival of the fittest because the alternative looks pretty grim... aka transhumanism, transgenderism, strict population control, no personal freedom etc...

I think while they ARE trying to collapse civilization they are doing it sneakily and gradually so enough of the masses don't see what's happening and put a stop to it ...

Ultimately the plans of the Tyrannical Globalist Technocrats could flounder and that could be down to the element of unpredictability that Chris Martenson talks about - we have to hold on to that or all is lost...

[Bill Ryan]

Bumping this thread with a 13-minute update from Tucker Carlson. The title is self-explanatory, though he also addresses the very critical situation in Europe with a searing critique of Biden's destructive policies.

The US is about to run out of diesel fuel


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUZoli8oekg

[Bill Ryan]

Another Michael Yon interview, published a couple days ago. Very apocalyptic, and it's hard to refute anything he states — which is that pretty soon everything's going to break and then global famine will be inevitable.

I have to say that I find his forecasts all too credible and plausible. It's an hour long (though most of the core info is in the first 20 mins), but if you listen to just the first few minutes you can then decide whether to hear more.

Michael Yon sounds alarm over BASF shuttering operations, causing catastrophic supply chain collapse

https://brighteon.com/bfe4e7d7-bf52-4edd-a2d8-cafd28b97a9e

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So THIS is why people are going to FREEZE this winter, it's all planned | Redacted w Clayton Morris--Nov 2, 2022
CNBC calls the diesel market a "perfect storm" as some say that the U.S. has less than two weeks' supply. Prices have increased by 33% and are expected to keep going and reserves are at their lowest level since the 1950s! And in case you missed it, we use a heck of a lot more fuel these days than we did in the 1950s. What is going on here??--26 min.-gqVMaD7pX9Y

[justntime2learn]

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2 Catastrophic Things Are About to Happen to Our Supply Chain in November


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If you think things are bad economically now, hang on to your halo. We are facing a perfect storm for our supply chain within the next month unless several things change dramatically.

It’s been one thing after another ever since the Covid pandemic began to affect our supply chain back in 2020. To be clear, you don’t have to believe that a pandemic existed, that the virus was serious, or even that the virus existed. That isn’t what this article is about. Regardless of one’s feelings, it was a trigger for an economic disaster that has continued to snowball.

We watched the shelves in America get cleared in a day in March of that year, and things have never been the same since. Global shipping all but shut down.

And the prices went up.

Farmers could not harvest their food or get it processed and ready to be delivered to stores.

And the prices went up.

Then the cost of fuel skyrocketed.

And the prices went up.

And now, we’re facing a new challenge in what can only be described as a looming transportation collapse. Two things are slated to happen within the next month that could make what we’ve experienced so far look like a walk in the park.

1.) We have 25 days of diesel fuel left.

2.) Biden has failed to come to an agreement with rail workers’ unions, and a strike could start as soon as November 19th.

Let’s take a closer look at each of these factors.

The diesel fuel shortage
The diesel fuel shortage that is looming could be absolutely catastrophic. The fuel of trucks, trains, and ships – this could put a real kibosh on the transit of goods. What’s more, the diesel shortage also affects home heating fuel.

OilPrice.com reports:

A shortage of diesel fuel is spreading across the United States, with one company launching an emergency delivery protocol, requesting a 72-hour advance notice from clients to be able to make the delivery.

Per a Bloomberg report, fuel supplier Mansfield Energy wrote in a note to its clients that “conditions are rapidly devolving” and “At times, carriers are having to visit multiple terminals to find supply, which delays deliveries and strains local trucking capacity.”

Some are blaming this shortage on a lack of refining capacity. If you look more closely at this, refineries are closing down in direct response to the current administration’s new policies to move the country to green energy.

Phil Flynn, an analyst for Fox News, said:

Phil Flynn, a senior account executive/market analyst at the Price Futures Group and FOX Business contributor, warned that strict regulation under the Biden administration will continue to put pressure on refineries to stay in business.

“It wasn’t too long ago the country was clamoring for the industry to buy and build new refineries because they couldn’t keep up with demand,” Flynn said Monday.

But government pressure to wean the country off of fossil fuels has made business difficult, with Flynn arguing that “refineries are getting squeezed out of business because of stricter regulations from the Biden administration and the pressure by the government” to “reduce demand for gasoline.”

If we actually run out of diesel fuel, the result on our supply chain would be catastrophic. We could expect shelves to empty and cargo ships to divert from America to places that have a better chance of delivering the goods. What’s more, prices would skyrocket on any good that has to be transported – which is basically all of them. If you can find it at all, it will cost significantly more.

What is being done about this?
It’s pretty hard to solve a problem created by bad policies. It’s not something you can undo overnight. Yahoo News reports on these potential actions that could be taken to try and lessen the blow.

Deese adds that the Fed has some tools to bolster diesel supply, like the Northeast Home Heating Oil Reserve, which houses one million barrels of diesel in case of a disruption in supplies.

“We have looked very carefully at being prepared to deploy as and when necessary,” he said.

But The Washington Post reports that diesel demand is so high, that if a million barrels of diesel were delivered from the Northeast reserves, they would be depleted in less than six hours.

The Biden administration also recently announced it would be tapping into the country’s emergency oil reserves to counter rising gas prices, despite concerns over the long-term efficacy.

White House officials haven’t completely ruled out fuel export restrictions either, but the American Petroleum Institute and the American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers sent out a joint letter expressing their concerns in early October.

“Banning or limiting the export of refined products would likely decrease inventory levels, reduce domestic refining capacity, put upward pressure on consumer fuel prices and alienate U.S. allies during a time of war,” the group wrote.

(Now’s a good time to check out our free QUICKSTART Guide to building a 3-layer food storage system.)

The potential rail strike
Next, we have the possibility of a rail strike. This crisis was narrowly averted back in September when Biden and union representatives reached a tentative agreement. At the time, Biden hailed it as “an important win” for the American people, but it looks like the win was only a temporary kicking of the can.

Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees Division has rejected the deal offered last month, putting a strike back on the table.

The Washington Post reports:

…many union members were skeptical from the start, with some telling The Washington Post that the details were opaque. The plan included a 24 percent pay increase by 2024 — bringing the average wage to $110,000 a year — and $1,000 annual bonuses for five years. It also ensured health-care co-pays and deductibles would not increase.

But it seemed to include only one paid sick day, even after union leaders had pushed for 15.

“Railroaders are discouraged and upset with working conditions and compensation and hold their employer in low regard. Railroaders do not feel valued,” BMWED President Tony D. Cardwell said in a statement Monday announcing the vote outcome. “They resent the fact that management holds no regard for their quality of life, illustrated by their stubborn reluctance to provide a higher quantity of paid time off, especially for sickness.”

The tentative pact stemmed from two years of negotiations between the carriers and unions, and the White House appointed an emergency board in early July to mediate. One of the sticking points was a points-based attendance policy adopted by some of the largest carriers earlier this year. Those policies can penalize workers for missing work for routine doctor’s appointments or family emergencies.

Unfortunately, that “win” wasn’t so much a victory as it was a temporary reprieve. Apparently, the decision of this union was a shock.

“For the first time that I can remember, the BRS members voted not to ratify a National Agreement, and with the highest participation rate in BRS history,” said Michael Baldwin, President of the BRS, in a statement.

Two of the biggest unions have not yet voted, and their decision could doom us to a railway shutdown. The deadline to reach an agreement is November 19th.

What would happen in the event of a rail strike?
Edward Segal of Forbes.com has been carefully watching this situation.

As I wrote last month, “Had the national railroad strike become a reality [in September], the labor stoppage would have created another crisis for thousands of companies and organizations. The impact on companies, organizations and fragile supply chains would have depended, of course, on the duration of the strike.”

Another factor company executives should keep in mind if there’s a strike is the reaction of consumers.

“After nearly three years of supply chain delays and asks for ‘understanding’ during difficult times, customers are facing supply chain fatigue,” Kushal Nahata, CEO of FarEye, a last mile delivery management company, said via email.

“The patience they had during the early days of the pandemic is waning, and the overall sentiment is that companies should be able to plan accordingly and have solutions readily available,” he advised.

Companies “should adapt their logistics models so [that] very little disruption is felt by their customer base. If they don’t, customers have no problem moving onto another brand that can— nearly 90% of customers will abandon an online retailer if they see poor delivery terms,” Nahata warned.

Segal isn’t wrong. We, the consumers, are sick of paying through the nose for terrible policies that have caused this economic disaster.

But, yet again, the decisions are out of our hands.

How do you prep for something like this?
How on earth do you prep for a transportation shutdown, especially after the past two and a half years? The supplies in stores are depleted and expensive; many of us have consumed a portion, if not all of our existing supplies; and Americans are broke.

Unless you are one of the people fortunate enough to be in a position to do so, you can’t buy your way out of this problem.

My suggestion is to consider the things you truly cannot get by without: medications, special foods necessary to your health, and any other essential item you must have, and focus your resources on these things. This isn’t about “wants” and “comforts.” It’s about “needs.” Be sure that you are clear on the difference. If we get lucky and these issues are resolved without a transportation collapse, you know you didn’t purchase a bunch of stuff you’ll never use – you got the things that are necessary.

As for everything else, we’re going to have to focus on being the most adaptable and resilient versions of ourselves. We are going to have to learn to live with different options at the store, making do, and doing without.

While we aren’t surrounded by marauders, and we still have power, this is the scenario we’ve been prepping for, and I believe that we, as preppers, are mentally ready to survive this. It won’t be easy, but we have the advantage – we knew it was going to happen. We didn’t know for sure what it would look like, but we’ve known for years that this kick-the-can economy was hanging on by a thread.

More inside link: https://www.theorganicprepper.com/supply-chain-storm-november/

[Sue (Ayt)]

Federal health officials report shortage of widely used antibiotic
It wasn’t immediately clear what prompted the shortage of amoxicillin or how long it could last.

Nov. 2, 2022, 11:39 PM CDT
By Tim Stelloh and Denise Chow
One of the most commonly used antibiotics in the country, amoxicillin, is in short supply, federal health officials say.

The notice from the Food and Drug Administration about an oral solution of the drug comes as pharmacy owners report diminished inventory of the medication, which is prescribed to treat bacterial infections, including pneumonia and bronchitis.

The department also listed a shortage for an oral powder. Amoxicillin is available in chewable tablets or capsules.

It wasn't immediately clear what prompted the shortage or how long it could last.

The FDA did not immediately respond to a request for comment, nor did three key makers of the antibiotic — Hikma Pharmaceuticals, based in the United Kingdom; Sandoz, based in Switzerland; and Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd., based in Israel.

A spokesman for the FDA previously said a number of factors can cause drug shortages, including manufacturing and quality problems, delays and discontinuations.

The American Society of Health-System Pharmacists, which maintains a database of drug shortages (https://www.ashp.org/drug-shortages/current-shortages/drug-shortage-detail.aspx?id=875&loginreturnUrl=SSOCheckOnly), last reported shortages from the companies Monday.

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/amoxicillin-shortage-federal-health-officials-rcna55389

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Fuel Company Warns Cities May Run Out Of Diesel, Apocalyptic For Democrats.--7/11/22--15 min--rcphe0PKOpA

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It's only WEEKS away and it might be worse than the Great Recession | Redacted with Clayton Morris--22/11/22--20 min-

Many people are skipping Thanksgiving dinner because they simply can't afford it. We have disturbing new economic numbers out today show how we may be facing the worst economic crisis since the great recession couple of key data points that we want to talk about. Consumer spending is down, consumer savings is down and consumer credit is up, up, up! -G0mz2MvLWrI

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Germany has lost its mind and they are not ready for what's coming from the WEF | Redacted


Nov 23, 2022
Germans are simply not ready for what's unfolding across their country from blackouts to food shortages and rationing of electricity. Germans corrupt leaders turned off their nuclear power plants and pushed the country toward renewables that don't work. Now they are scrambling to figure out a solution. -z09K2SvXwjg

[Tintin]

Global shortages of everything, except rat, if you're in New York City:

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Source: https://twitter.com/kenmilesamerica/status/1602175400196669440

More rat this time in Queen's:

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Source: https://twitter.com/carla_venezia/status/1602222977579261952

[Spiral]

Global shortages of everything, except rat, if you're in New York City:

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Source: https://twitter.com/kenmilesamerica/status/1602175400196669440

Looks like a guinea pig to me, they have eaten them in South America for centuries.

Might seem strange to us but it's only culture.

Probably very much like rabbit.

[Matthew]

I guess if it's edible by humans that would be one up on eating insects.

I wouldn't like it coming to me like that though, I'd prefer it in a pie, casserole or *ehem* ratatouille.

Who is going to be the first to try it?

Sorry

[Bill Ryan]

Once more, Chris Martenson lays it all out, and no-one is talking about this. There's no deus ex machina (no miracle to save us), not solar, not windmills, not fusion, not nothing. :)

Global GDP (= wealth expansion) is linked 1:1 to global energy supply, and for the next several decades at least that is (a) finite and (b) rapidly drying up, becoming more and more expensive every year to get every barrel of oil out of the ground. And natural gas is similarly limited, as is coal.

We're rapidly eating our way through our energy inheritance, and there's almost nothing to replace it any time soon. And that effects everything, literally everything.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2VIm_aRWPo