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    Thanks Bill for an interesting and sobering post on fertilisers.

    It just goes to show how industrialised farming is now; it was probably only about a century ago that farmers relied on digging manure into the fields and rotating crops for successful crop nutrition. Of course, it has changed completely here in Britain from many small farms with a diversity of crops and herds to mega-farming over hundreds of acres. It doesn't take much to put a spanner in the works with such a lack of diversity.

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    Christian Westbrook, the Ice Age Farmer (and among the best informed and most articulate of alt media presenters) has now abandoned YouTube and has his own BitChute channel: https://bitchute.com/channel/iceagefarmer.

    Here's his most recent video, published yesterday. It's about crisis-level fertilizer shortages (which are super-important to the global farming industry), but much else besides.

    Farmers Panic, Can't Get Supplies to Grow Food



    Source: https://www.bitchute.com/video/YK2RpvxCsNUt


    The video text:
    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 (diammonium phosphate), 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.
    ~~~

    More on the fertilizer issue, published on 31 October. I think we're going to hear a LOT more about this in the next few months.
    Fertilizer shortages could become the death knell for global food production

    The ongoing energy and logistics crisis is affecting most countries in the world. Many are beginning to feel the "pain" of a shortage of goods and skyrocketing prices for mainly energy. However, another more unknown shortage, which has now emerged, could be the death knell for global food security: Fertilizers.

    The production of fertilizers has stopped for various reasons and prices have reached record highs.

    Sky-high prices for electricity and transport will have a major impact on food prices, but fertilizer shortages risk knocking out large parts of global food production. The consequences could be grave.

    Extreme weather, not least precipitation and cold spells, have disrupted this year’s harvests to such an extent that it has a significant effect on global food production, which in itself creates price increases and a shortage of certain foods. In China, everything from the city’s street lighting to entire factories are being turned off while the Communist Party CCP has been trying to cover up a lousy autumn harvest. The recent floods in China once again hit Henan Province, which is considered China’s granary, seriously affecting China’s food production.

    Poor people in countries like Brazil are even worse off and already have to choose between being able to afford food or energy such as electricity and fuel. In the Philippines, for example, fuel prices have risen by almost 40 percent in just three weeks, but at least warm countries do not have to worry about cold winters.

    The latter is a real threat to northern latitudes, as last winter was historically long and cold in most places in the northern hemisphere. It may be repeated since we entered a Grand Solar Minimum (GSM) in December 2019, and it does not bode well for the coming winter.

    Food and commodity shortages have always created chaos. The example that may still be in fresh memory is the so-called Arab Spring of 2010, which started with bread riots. In countries such as Lebanon, the decline of society has also already begun. After months of week-long power outages, food shortages and skyrocketing commodity prices, the country is falling into chaos with threatening recurrences of civil wars.

    Developed countries will ‘soon feel the pain’

    For a few months now, the shortage of energy and goods has also affected developed countries and has gradually spread and worsened. An opinion poll conducted by the Atlanta-based survey company Trafalgar, which was presented on October 22, showed that more than half of all Americans were already affected by the shortage of goods. Some 54 percent answered “yes” to the question of whether they suffered from “delays or shortages in trying to buy ordinary consumer products”.

    Europe, which imports 90 percent of its natural gas, mainly from Russia, has so far mainly been affected by an energy shortage. On Tuesday 19 October alone, prices rose by more than 20 percent in a single day. Prices have increased fivefold since the beginning of the year, from 19 euros at the time of writing 96 euros per equivalent megawatt hour (MWh).

    Farmers across Europe are hard hit by this, which in turn threatens the entire food chain. An example is Italy, where the prices of methane gas have doubled, which will raise the prices of cereals such as wheat and thus, among other things, bread and pasta. This is because methane, propane and natural gas are used to dry harvested crops so that they do not rot.

    Meat and dairy products are also affected, as prices for animal feed have risen markedly during the year and have accelerated more rapidly in recent times. Valentino Miotto from the trade association Aires Association, which represents the grain sector, describes the increasingly difficult situation of Italian farmers with the words: “From October onwards, we have started to suffer an enormous amount,” Miotto told the AP news agency.

    The EU warns families and businesses

    On Wednesday, October 20, Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, warned that factories in the EU may be forced to close due to high energy prices. “We are seeing a rise in prices that makes it difficult for many families to get their finances together, and we also see that there is a risk that companies will have to close down,” said von der Leyen.

    The European Commission has six stated priorities for the years 2019-2024. The first is that Europe should “become the first climate-neutral continent” on the planet and the second is a “digital strategy” where the people of Europe will have to live with “a new generation of technology”, which will transform Europe during the “digital decade” by 2030. Then at least 55 percent of carbon dioxide emissions must also be eliminated, which requires a total adjustment of everything and not least industry – which now risks having to shut down due to energy shortages.

    Sources with insight at European government level said that behind closed doors around Europe, plans were now being drawn up for electricity rationing, similar to that in China, in case of a cold winter. There are many indications that Europeans are actually facing a record cold winter.

    Epidemic of accidents

    The only thing worse than energy shortages with skyrocketing prices for electricity and fuel is a food shortage. Already in the autumn of 2019, the EU’s Commissioner for Agriculture, the Pole Janusz Wojciechowski, sounded the alarm about how many farms were lost in the EU countries.

    ACCIDENT WITH FREIGHT TRAINS CARRYING FERTILIZER. No fewer than 47 wagons derailed and several began burning in the state of Iowa on May 16 (pictured). Less than a day earlier, another freight train with 28 wagons with chemical products for manure production derailed in Minnesota.

    And something which has the potential to knock out half of all food production in the world all at once, is the lack of fertilizer. As Alfred Henry Lewis (1855-1914), an American investigative journalist and author once noted: “There are only nine meals between humanity and anarchy.”

    Fertilizer manufacturers have suffered countless setbacks in recent times. It is about everything from climate-related political decisions and failed transport capacity, to natural disasters and a wave of strange accidents that occurred during the year. Around the world, everything from factories have been destroyed in explosions to trains loaded with fertilizer derailed. In some cases, sabotage is suspected.

    Natural disasters compounded

    An example of devastating accidents occurred in the US state of Iowa on May 16 earlier this year. A freight train transporting fertilizer in no less than 47 wagons then derailed and several of the wagons also started to burn. Less than a day before, another freight train with 28 carriages derailed in Minnesota. It carried, among other things, hydrochloric acid, which is an important ingredient for fertilizer.

    The accidents with hazardous chemical substances led to both evacuations of surrounding residents and time-consuming clean-up work, which disrupted both logistics and the supply just when demand was high. These are just two of the unusually high number of accidents that have affected manufacturers and transports of fertilizers in the past year. An American train driver with over 30 years of experience commented that “we have more derailments with fertilizer trains this year than during my entire professional time”.

    An example of a natural disaster that seriously affected the availability of fertilizers is when Hurricane Ida swept across the southern United States and Louisiana on August 29, the second most powerful hurricane after Katrina to hit the southern United States.

    In Louisiana, is CF Industries’ largest ammonia factory in the world, but it was closed down for safety reasons the day before Ida struck, but could not resume production after it had passed due to the power outage.

    When the news reached the market, the already sky-high prices of fertilizer skyrocketed. In many respects, the event triggered a negative spiral of rampant prices – which in turn created panic purchases and exacerbated the shortages.
    Fertilizer factories have recently also begun to close down their operations due to the high costs of natural gas, which is used in production.

    A couple of examples are two factories in the UK, one in Billingham and one in Cheshire, which closed in mid-September. The two plants account for no less than around 45 percent of domestic demand. Industry insiders have pointed out how they found it strange that these were owned by CF Industries.

    Instead of compensating for delays due to the hurricane, CF chose to close two more factories two weeks later.

    The same thing has happened in many European countries with “too high natural gas prices”. Austrian fertilizer producer Borealis AG and German SKW Piesteritz, which is Germany’s largest producer of ammonia have scaled down production by 20 percent. The German company said in a statement that “the level that has now been reached no longer enables economically sound production, so we have to take this step”.

    This could be devastating for next season and the 2022 harvest in the northern hemisphere. Hermann Greif, a farmer from the village of Pinzberg in the southern state of Bavaria, told AP that he was shocked when he discovered that he could not even order fertilizer for next year. “There is no product, no price, not even a contract. It is a situation we have never seen before,” said Greif. “If I do not give my crops the nutrition they need, the yield will be much lower. It’s that simple.”

    Ironically or tragically, his corn harvest does not go to food, which soon risks becoming a global scarce commodity, but to biofuels to create so-called emission-free electricity – which globalists have demanded that nation states force their farmers to switch to.

    Billion risk starvation without fertilizer

    China is the largest producer of fertilizer with 37 million tonnes (2019) per year, which is more than the total production in the number two producer India, the number three US and four Russia. After Russia, China is also the second largest exporter of fertilizers. Together, they account for a quarter of all exports. Should one of them suspend exports, it would hit very hard.

    This is exactly what happened on July 30, when the Chinese Communist Party CCP ordered its phosphate manufacturers to suspend their exports one year ahead, until June 2022. China is the world’s largest exporter of phosphate fertilizers and had time to deliver in the first half of this year, before the export ban.

    This happened after CCP has already reduced production due to “climate emission issues at production facilities”. Thus, globalists demand reduced carbon dioxide emissions and CCP reduces production so much that they then realize that they probably can no longer export. The effect of these decisions had an immediate effect on prices, as China accounts for almost a third of the world’s phosphate trade.

    According to studies (Erisman et al.) Published in the scientific journal Nature, 48 percent of the world population in 2008 was dependent on nitrogen fertilizers for their daily access to food. “This means that nitrogen fertilizers in 2015 provided food security for 3,5 billion people who would otherwise have starved to death.”

    Josh Linville is an analyst and expert in, among other things, fertilizers at the large financial services company Stone X. He has almost 20 years of experience in dealing with American and international fertilizer markets. On September 29, he commented on the development: “I have said it before and I continue to say it: This is not like 2008… it is more scary.”

    Translated to today’s population figures, the lack of chemical fertilizers would lead to 3.8 billion people being left without food, with mass starvation, mass death, war, chaos and social decay that have not been seen since the previous Grand Solar Minimum.
    Futuretimeline.net predicts global peak Phosphorus by 2033 citing this study

    Lifted from the Summary:

    Once phosphorus supplies are exhausted, phosphorus will need to be recovered and reused in order
    to avoid a massive global food security crisis
    . There are no substitutes for phosphorus in
    agriculture.


    Most of the world's farms do not have or do not receive adequate amounts of phosphorus. Feeding
    the world's increasing population will accelerate the rate of depletion of phosphate reserves.
    Future generations ultimately will face problems in obtaining enough to exist.


    Policy responses are necessary soon to prepare society for declining phosphorus supplies, to
    promote efficient phosphorus use, and to develop phosphorus recycling programs


    My cynicism has really taken off since advancing in my 40's (Is that normal?) when I see "develop phosphorus recycling programs" I hear Soylent Green.
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    I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer.

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    Farmers' Land Confiscated for 'Carbon Pipeline' through Corn Belt 19:19
    First published at 19:55 UTC on November 9th, 2021.

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    Farmers' land across the midwest is being confiscated to make way for construction of a massive, 1300-mi long Carbon Capture & Sequestration Pipeline.

    Town halls in hundreds of counties are full of angry farmers, as county officials announce, "There's not much we can do."

    As the world enters a food crisis, plowing under tens of thousands of acres of the best soil in America is complete madness...or is it a flawlessly calculated attack?

    Christian breaks it down in this critical Ice Age Farmer broadcast.


    FULL SHOW NOTES: https://www.iceagefarmer.com/2021/11...ugh-corn-belt/

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    Gwin, I think this all ends with global mass construction of nuclear energy plants. The work arounds, like this pipeline, for carbon mitigation and sequestration are so clunky and problematic, it makes sense to go nuclear. Let's revisit this in a year or two. My bet is thorium salt reactors are going to be big big news.

    The Molten Salt Reactor Experiment (MSRE) at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, located in the eponymous city in Tennessee, ran on thorium fuel rather than uranium for four years in the 1960s. More recently, private companies have revived this space-age relic. However, this announcement is the first serious backing from a major governmen

    https://www.palatinate.org.uk/thoriu...ify-the-world/

    https://www.europeanscientist.com/en...uclear-future/

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    Quote Posted by Brigantia (here)
    Thanks Bill for an interesting and sobering post on fertilisers.

    It just goes to show how industrialised farming is now; it was probably only about a century ago that farmers relied on digging manure into the fields and rotating crops for successful crop nutrition. Of course, it has changed completely here in Britain from many small farms with a diversity of crops and herds to mega-farming over hundreds of acres. It doesn't take much to put a spanner in the works with such a lack of diversity.
    I was just about to respond with similar. It was less than two generations ago that crop rotation was still practiced almost religiously. My Grandfather was a farmer, it was a tried and tested system over preceding centuries, AND, kept the soils healthy.
    Fertilisers do the opposite. They kill the natural life of the soils until nothing will flourish there without more fertilisers. I am not sure how long these soils will take to recover via the old methods, but it certainly would not be within a year and apparently very few modern farmers would know what to do anyway. That's astoishing!

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    Quote Posted by Ewan (here)
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    Thanks Bill for an interesting and sobering post on fertilisers.
    It just goes to show how industrialised farming is now; it was probably only about a century ago that farmers relied on digging manure into the fields and rotating crops for successful crop nutrition. Of course, it has changed completely here in Britain from many small farms with a diversity of crops and herds to mega-farming over hundreds of acres. It doesn't take much to put a spanner in the works with such a lack of diversity.
    I was just about to respond with similar. It was less than two generations ago that crop rotation was still practiced almost religiously. My Grandfather was a farmer, it was a tried and tested system over preceding centuries, AND, kept the soils healthy.
    Fertilisers do the opposite. They kill the natural life of the soils until nothing will flourish there without more fertilisers. I am not sure how long these soils will take to recover via the old methods, but it certainly would not be within a year and apparently very few modern farmers would know what to do anyway. That's astoishing!
    They definitely wouldn't be up to speed in a year, Ewan!

    I spent some time in a rural part of Italy and all the farmers knew the old ways; they also plant by the moon phase, that's huge across the Channel and something that I apply successfully to my veg plot. They plant roses at the end of the rows of vines as 'sacrifice' plants, so that the insects attack those instead of the vines and the wine has no pesticide residue. Also on a trip to Bosnia I found out that their farmers thought that putting chemicals in the fields was really stupid, everything that was locally produced was organically grown.

    It's not just farming though... our industrial base is destroyed... almost everything we needed to buy was made domestically a few decades ago but now it has to be shipped from the other side of the world. Now we're seeing how that heavy reliance on imports can go seriously wrong.

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    From Zero Hedge today:
    US Food Banks Struggle To Feed Hungry Amid 'Perfect Storm' Of Food Inflation

    America's largest food bank struggles to feed people amid a perfect storm of surging food prices and supply chain woes.

    Katie Fitzgerald, COO of Feeding America, a nonprofit organization that operates more than 200 food banks across the country, told AP News that her network of food banks is already stretched thin due to the unprecedented demand spurred by the virus pandemic downturn in the economy last year. She warned that it has become more difficult for her organization to absorb food inflation, resulting in fewer families being fed this holiday season.

    Supply chain disruptions, lower inventory, higher transportation and fuel costs, and labor shortages make matters worse for food banks that millions of people rely on. She said her organization has already swapped out smaller-sized food products or entirely substituted some to stretch the dollar further.

    Fitzgerald said soaring food inflation is an "insult to injury" for families who depend on food banks.

    Michael Altfest, the San Francisco Bay Area director, the Alameda County Community Food Bank in Oakland, said the food bank spends an additional $60k on food per month and is spending $1 million a month to distribute 4.5 million pounds of food.

    Altfest said in pre-COVID times. The food bank was spending a quarter of the money to distribute 2.5 million pounds of food. He pointed out prices for canned green beans and peaches are up 9%, canned tuna and frozen tilapia up more than 6%, 5-pound frozen chickens rose 13%, and oatmeal jumped 17%.

    New people are showing up every week at the Shiloh Mercy House food pantry in east Oakland despite President Biden promoting his economic success and "build back better" plan.

    Soaring food inflation is hurting families: "And a lot of people are just saying they can't afford food," Jason Bautista, the charity's event manager, said.

    This comes as consumer prices on Wednesday rose to their highest level in decades. Prices for meats, poultry, fish, and eggs rose 11.9%, with the sub-index for beef increasing 20.1% and the index for pork rising 14.1%, its most significant 12-month increase since the period ending December 1990.



    Oakland resident Sonia Lujan-Perez, 45, pays $2,200 in monthly rent and has no money left to feed her family. She frequents local food banks because food prices have skyrocketed over the past year.

    Lujan-Perez said the food bank "is wonderful for me because I will save a lot of money." This Christmas would be "rough" for her two children because she won't afford gifts.

    Biden's next political nightmare has already arrived: food inflation. Real wage gains are being wiped out as the cost of everything soars. The souring mood for the president is showing up in polling data.



    The Biden administration attempted to counter rising food inflation for the working poor by announcing an increase in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, to more than 40 million beneficiaries in August. This means the average monthly benefit increased more than $36 per person, but even that has failed to satisfy the stomachs of millions of hungry Americans.

    There's also another problem. Bryan Nichols, vice president of sales for Transnational Foods, which delivers to 100 food banks associated with Feeding America, said sourcing canned food from Asia has become more complex as shortages due to port congestion have materialized. He also said importing canned food from overseas has become incredibly expensive because shipping containers rates have gone from "$4,000 to $18,000" in less than a year.

    In Southern Colorado, Care and Share Food Bank's CEO Lynne Telford explains the cost of food products is going through the roof.

    Telford said, "the cost for a truckload of peanut butter — 40,000 pounds has soared 80% from June 2019 to $51,000 in August. Mac and cheese is up 19% from a year ago, and the wholesale cost of ground beef has increased 5% in three months."

    She said her organization is spending more money to make up for the lack of donations, and her other fear is that there won't be enough food for the holidays.
    "The other thing is that we're not getting enough holiday food, like stuffing and cranberry sauce. So we have to supplement with other kinds of food, which you know, makes us sad," said Telford, whose food bank fed more than 200,000 people last year.

    The data from food banks underscores what many poor working Americans already know. Some of the highest inflation in decades is crushing their budgets as they can barely afford to survive. Such pain in the wallet is making them hungry, coming off a demoralizing pandemic, threatening Biden and the Democrats ahead of midterms next year.

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    Food Buying Frenzy in China | Panic Buying Sweeps China, ‘Zero COVID’ Policy Worsens the Situation
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    "In recent days, panic buying has swept across many places in mainland China. The reason is that on November 1, China's Ministry of Commerce issued a notice, stating: “Families are encouraged to store a certain amount of necessities to meet the needs of daily life and emergencies”. The notice did not specify what the contingency was, but it caused anxiety among the public. So people in many places responded to the government's call to purchase and hoard living supplies. Videos circulating on the Internet show people snatching up rice and flour, with some buying 300 kilograms of rice at once. Some people rushed to buy vegetables, and some people bought pork half a pig at a time. Some people fought in the supermarket for goods, and others rushed to buy generators.
    The panic buying across China has driven up the prices of various food products. The prices of rice and flour have generally increased by more than 10%; the prices of cooking needs and condiments such as cooking oil, salt, sauce, and vinegar have generally increased by 10%-15%, with some increased by as much as 35%.
    Even though the Chinese authorities came out to stabilize everyone, folks have made various interpretations to the stockpile notice from the Ministry of Commerce.
    Some people believe the notice is related to the recent tense situation of the Taiwan Strait, suggesting that the Ministry of Commerce might be giving a hint that people should stockpile supplies in preparation for war.
    On November 6, the Australian news website News.com.au posted an article, saying that the supply stockpile notice, the armored vehicles in the city streets, and the notice for reserve veterans, seem to be a perfect combination of seemingly related events. It's no wonder that mainland China is flooded with claims this week that Beijing is about to invade Taiwan.
    However, it is also believed that the latest notification from the Ministry of Commerce is related to the COVID-19 outbreak.
    However, there is another interpretation of the Ministry of Commerce's notice. Overseas commentator Chen Pokong pointed out that the call for hoarding supplies is to stimulate domestic consumption. "
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    DeDukshyn posted here on the Wild Weather thread about the major road and rail washout in British Columbia following exceptionally heavy rain and flooding a few days ago.

    Now Christian Westbrook, the Ice Age Farmer, highlights that the port of Vancouver is totally closed, and many BC highways and rail lines will take a LONG time to repair. He's usually highly articulate, but he was partially lost for words when describing what a tipping-point supply chain crisis this may be, a perfect storm indeed.


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    An interview of David DuByne (Adapt 2030) by Jeff Nyquist (https://jrnyquist.blog), better known for his in-depth analysis of Chinese and Russian agendas.

    But Nyquist is very smart, and is fully aware of the reality of global cooling and the perfect storm of factors leading to an imminent severe global food shortage.


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    engineered food shortages and how they're doing it , ( this vid should be posted in multiple places )

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    Many topics in one post but bear with me:

    US to ask for vaccine passport on its borders for truckers from Canada and Mexico too.

    https://landline.media/u-s-set-to-be...rder-truckers/

    Idk how and if it'll be applied, just happened to bump into those news, anyone there probably knows more. Anyways, good luck getting Mexico's grain up there :S

    ---

    On another topic, a few days ago, through personal conexions, I happened to speak with the Russian Purchases Director for the Renault group in Russia (which is appropiate to note that owns the "Lada" car brand, super common there) .
    They are S T R U G G L I N G to find materials, and they are paying many times the usual price for it. They had to halt production of a few things and a few times already, and by her words, there is no outlook of it going better, mainly because of inflation prospects.

    On a last footnote, Spain is having a subtle yet historical increase in food prices too, not to mention energy.

    Slowly but surely, seems like its happening.
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    Strange but true black comedy about food shortages. A 40-person wild-west-saloon-style brawl breaks out after a restaurant in Pennsylvania runs low on steak. (Watch and be amazed)

    https://twitter.com/Raw_News1st/stat...40467804741632
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    Quote Posted by Bill Ryan (here)
    Strange but true black comedy about food shortages. A 40-person wild-west-saloon-style brawl breaks out after a restaurant in Pennsylvania runs low on steak. (Watch and be amazed)

    https://twitter.com/Raw_News1st/stat...40467804741632
    Business is so aptly named
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    Quote Posted by Bill Ryan (here)
    Strange but true black comedy about food shortages. A 40-person wild-west-saloon-style brawl breaks out after a restaurant in Pennsylvania runs low on steak. (Watch and be amazed)

    https://twitter.com/Raw_News1st/stat...40467804741632
    Interesting demographic representation in that clip..........

    but hey, at least it wasn't Feb yet.

    reminds me of this clip...............



    The propensity for irrational violence (throwing godamn baby highchairs ??) has been mostly (via evolutionary/societal pressures) minimized greatly... this type of behavior is not acceptable in most cultures, unfortunately the US has fostered and encouraged the "badass" or "gangster" mentality for a long time, most the people in this video look to be like people who grew up in the 90's or near to that... at a time when actions like this almost seemed to be encouraged.


    Through lack of stewardship we have allowed the greater american culture to fracture and turn on itself.....

    I've seen semi similar situations like this in D.C., I find it fascinatingly similar.
    Hard times create strong men, Strong men create good times, Good times create weak men, Weak men create hard times.
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    Car fuel panic buying has started in Britain over fears regarding the situation in the Ukraine. Also I noticed at work yesterday, it seems that food panic buying is under way again; long life items like tinned soup were stripped more than usual.

    Article on fuel.

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    A 10-minute update from Mike Adams, which may contain no surprises to anyone who's been paying attention to recent global affairs. (With a little less hyperbole, there have been similar reports the last couple of days on many mainstream platforms.)

    There may or may not be 'riots', but there are sure to be further shortages and price escalations. There are three major components, all simple to understand:
    • The increased cost of energy in all 'western' countries.
    • Russia is no longer exporting fertilizer.
    • Ukraine's wheat harvest (which needs to be planted soon; Russia and Ukraine combined produce 25% of the world's wheat) may well fail this year, for obvious reasons.
    https://brighteon.com/91c2328d-ed60-...6-a1e22748e281

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    Quote Posted by Bill Ryan;1485784[*
    Ukraine's wheat harvest (which needs to be planted soon; Russia and Ukraine combined produce 25% of the world's wheat) may well fail this year, for obvious reasons.
    I can't see why, Russian farms will still be functioning & the Russian invasion of Ukraine is aimed at taking out the Nazis, (which maps of positions show to be true) so no reason the farms there need to be effected.

    Plus if they grow "winter wheat" like we do in Europe it's already in the ground, and the conflict will most likely be over by harvest time.

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    Quote Posted by Spiral (here)
    Quote Posted by Bill Ryan;1485784[*
    Ukraine's wheat harvest (which needs to be planted soon; Russia and Ukraine combined produce 25% of the world's wheat) may well fail this year, for obvious reasons.
    I can't see why, Russian farms will still be functioning & the Russian invasion of Ukraine is aimed at taking out the Nazis, (which maps of positions show to be true) so no reason the farms there need to be effected.

    Plus if they grow "winter wheat" like we do in Europe it's already in the ground, and the conflict will most likely be over by harvest time.
    Sure, but if major world groups have sanctions against Russia, then why would Russia supply them?

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    Quote Posted by Patient (here)
    Quote Posted by Spiral (here)
    Quote Posted by Bill Ryan;1485784[*
    Ukraine's wheat harvest (which needs to be planted soon; Russia and Ukraine combined produce 25% of the world's wheat) may well fail this year, for obvious reasons.
    I can't see why, Russian farms will still be functioning & the Russian invasion of Ukraine is aimed at taking out the Nazis, (which maps of positions show to be true) so no reason the farms there need to be effected.

    Plus if they grow "winter wheat" like we do in Europe it's already in the ground, and the conflict will most likely be over by harvest time.
    Sure, but if major world groups have sanctions against Russia, then why would Russia supply them?
    Russia's first concern is going to be feeding herself, and then her friends & then those who will pay, of which there are no doubt plenty of countries. Western countries have no problem either growing enough due to advanced agriculture, or can just buy it because they are "rich", like they do for things they don't grow or want out of season.

    My main point was to counterbalance the fear factor, that said it's a good idea to stock what you can afford, and rotate the stock while it's available.

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