The screamingly high rate of pricing inflation is catastrophic to the American working middle class; however, there is one small benefit. More and more people are waking up to the reality that free market principles have been destroyed; what we have now are markets controlled by massive multinationals.
This isn’t news for CTH readers. Long before prices started to rise, we stood up against pressure from so-called ‘conservative’ pundits to outline that free markets were a joke in the modern economic era. The truth inside the economic argument is precisely why we stood up to support candidate Donald J Trump in 2015; and the truth inside that economic argument is exactly why we will stand again to support him if he runs again in 2024. Everything, e.v.e.r.y.t.h.i.n.g… every scintilla of a thing, centers around the economics of it. Economic security on every scale is what keeps YOU free.
In a brilliant outline of how the beef and cattle industry is now trying to fight back against the multinationals of Tyson Foods, JBS, Cargill and National Beef, Matt Stoller uses the cattle industry to talk about what we have outlined on these pages for ten years. The distance from the red line (steer price) to the blue bar (beef price) is the scale of the multinational profits inside this controlled commodity:
MATT STOLLER – […] Despite high consumer prices, independent ranchers are losing money, and going out of business. “If we don’t get some of these problems fixed quickly, we won’t have any independent ranchers in this country,” explained Oklahoma Farmers Union president Scott Blubaugh.
Why are there high prices to consumers and low prices to cattle ranchers? Grassley had an answer. “The four major beef packing companies control 80% of the cattle industry,” he told the House members. And they are what he called “a chokepoint” for the entire sector. In other words, follow the money. In the beef industry, it’s not Amazon, Apple, Google, and Facebook suppressing business, but “the Big Four” – Tyson’s, JBS, Cargill and National Beef, who control 85% of the market (and more in some regions). (read more)
Many Americans are recently awake to the singular indulgent ideology that surrounds DC politics, the UniParty. When it comes to creating systems to maintain their elite status, both Republicans and Democrats are joined in unity. The America First MAGA agenda was -and is- against their interests.
However, the UniParty political fraud also applies to our political economy, Main Street -vs- Wall Street. Just like the election, understanding the deception in modern economics means understanding previous false and promoted assumptions.
The professional political class would like both sides on the political continuum to continue disunity, argument/disagreement on the outcome and avoid discussing the root cause. It is within a comprehensive understanding of the root cause where Americans find unity.
Remember, there is no such thing as a “commodity” market in the free market sense of the word. Those commodity markets are now “controlled markets“, and fully under the control of massive multinational agricultural corporations.
When I say most multinational corporations hate capitalism many people look confused.
Multinationals want control; some call that corporatism…. but the names are moot. Multinationals want control of price and profit, and capitalism does not allow them control. That is why multinationals do not want capitalism. Multinationals use lobbyists to generate regulations that stall competition.
Multinationals do not want competition; they are, by nature of their interest, anti-capitalists.
This misunderstanding is everywhere.
Let me help by sharing a short video that explains why:
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President Trump was confronting multinational corporations and the global constructs of economic systems that were put in place to the detriment of the host (USA) ie YOU.
There are trillions at stake, and it is always about the economics; everything else is chaff and countermeasures.
The road to a “service-driven economy” is paved with a great disparity between financial classes. The wealth gap is directly related to the inability of the middle class to thrive.
Elite financial interests, including those within Washington DC, gain wealth and power, the U.S. workforce is reduced to servitude, “service”, of their affluent needs.
The destruction of the U.S. industrial and manufacturing base is EXACTLY WHY the middle class has struggled, and exactly why the wealth gap exploded in the past 30 years.
Behind this dynamic, we find the international corporate and financial interests who were inherently at risk from President Trump’s “America First” economic and trade platform. Believe it or not, President Trump was up against an entire world economic establishment. Conversely Joe Biden is an ally of the multinational corporations.
When we understand how trade works in the modern era, we understand why the agents within the system are so adamantly opposed to U.S. President Trump.
♦The biggest lie in modern economics, willingly spread and maintained by corporate media, is that a system of global markets still exists.
It doesn’t.
Every element of global economic trade is controlled and exploited by massive institutions, multinational banks and multinational corporations. Institutions like the World Trade Organization (WTO) and World Bank control trillions of dollars in economic activity.
Underneath that economic activity there are people who hold the reigns of power over the outcomes. These individuals and groups are the stakeholders in direct opposition to principles of America First national economics. Collectively known as “The Big Club”.
The modern financial constructs of these entities have been established over the course of the past three decades. When you understand how they manipulate the economic system of individual nations, you begin to understand why they are so fundamentally opposed to President Trump.
In the Western World, separate from communist control perspectives (ie. China), “Global markets” are a modern myth; nothing more than a talking point meant to keep people satiated with sound bites they might find familiar. Global markets have been destroyed over the past three decades by multinational corporations who control the products formerly contained within global markets.
The same is true for “Commodities Markets”. The multinational trade and economic system, run by corporations and multinational banks, now controls the product outputs of independent nations. The free market economic system has been usurped by entities who create what is best described as ‘controlled markets’.
U.S. President Trump understood what had taken place. He used economic leverage as part of a broader national security policy; and to understand who opposes President Trump, specifically because of the economic leverage he creates, it becomes important to understand the objectives of the global and financial elite who run and operate the institutions. The Big Club.
Understanding how trillions of trade dollars influence geopolitical policy we begin to understand the three-decade global financial construct they seek to retain and protect.
That is, global financial exploitation of national markets.
FOUR BASIC ELEMENTS:
♦Multinational corporations purchase controlling interests in various national outputs (harvests and raw materials), and ancillary industries of developed industrial western nations. {example}
♦The Multinational Corporations making the purchases are underwritten by massive global financial institutions, multinational banks. (*Note*, in China it is the communist government underwriting the purchase.)
♦The Multinational Banks and the Multinational Corporations then utilize lobbying interests to manipulate the internal political policy of the targeted nation state(s).
♦With control over the targeted national industry or interest, the multinationals then leverage export of the national asset (exfiltration) through trade agreements structured to the benefit of lesser developed nation states – where they have previously established a proactive financial footprint.
Against the backdrop of President Trump confronting China; and against the backdrop of NAFTA renegotiated; and against the necessary need to support the key U.S. steel and aluminum industries; revisiting the economic influences within the modern import/export dynamic will help conceptualize the issues at the heart of the matter.
There are a myriad of interests within each trade sector that make specific explanation very challenging; however, here’s the basic outline.
For three decades economic “globalism” has advanced, quickly. Everyone accepts this statement, yet few actually stop to ask who and what are behind this – and why?
Influential people with vested financial interests in the process have sold a narrative that global manufacturing, global sourcing, and global production was the inherent way of the future. The same voices claimed the American economy was consigned to become a “service-driven economy.”
What was always missed in these discussions is that advocates selling this global economy message have a vested financial and ideological interest in convincing the information consumer it is all just a natural outcome of economic progress.
It’s not.
It’s not natural at all. It is a process that is entirely controlled, promoted and utilized by large conglomerates, lobbyists, purchased politicians and massive financial corporations.
Again, I’ll try to retain the larger altitude perspective without falling into the traps of the esoteric weeds. I freely admit this is tough to explain, and I may not be successful.
Bulletpoint #1: ♦ Multinational corporations purchase controlling interests in various national elements of developed industrial western nations.
This is perhaps the most challenging to understand. In essence, thanks specifically to the way the World Trade Organization (WTO) was established in 1995, national companies expanded their influence into multiple nations, across a myriad of industries and economic sectors (energy, agriculture, raw earth minerals, etc.). This is the basic underpinning of national companies becoming multinational corporations.
Think of these multinational corporations as global entities now powerful enough to reach into multiple nations -simultaneously- and purchase controlling interests in a single economic commodity.
A historic reference point might be the original multinational enterprise, energy via oil production. (Exxon, Mobil, BP, etc.)
However, in the modern global world, it’s not just oil; the resource and product procurement extends to virtually every possible commodity and industry. From the very visible (wheat/corn) to the obscure (small minerals, and even flowers).
Bulletpoint #2 ♦ The Multinational Corporations making the purchases are underwritten by massive global financial institutions, multinational banks.
During the past several decades national companies merged. The largest lemon producer company in Brazil, merges with the largest lemon company in Mexico, merges with the largest lemon company in Argentina, merges with the largest lemon company in the U.S., etc. etc. National companies, formerly of one nation, become “continental” companies with control over an entire continent of nations.
Or, it could be over several continents or even the entire world market of Lemon/Widget production. These are now multinational corporations. They hold interests in specific segments (this example lemons) across a broad variety of individual nations.
National laws on Monopoly building are not the same in all nations. Most are not as structured as the U.S.A or other more developed nations (with more laws). During the acquisition phase, when encountering a highly developed nation with monopoly laws, the process of an umbrella corporation might be needed to purchase the targeted interests within a specific nation. The example of Monsanto applies here.
Bulletpoint #3 ♦The Multinational Banks and the Multinational Corporations then utilize lobbying interests to manipulate the internal political policy of the targeted nation state(s).
With control of the majority of actual lemons, the multinational corporation now holds a different set of financial values than a local farmer or national market. This is why commodities exchanges are essentially dead.
In the aggregate, the mercantile exchange is no longer a free or supply based market; it is now a controlled market exploited by mega-sized multinational corporations.
Instead of the traditional ‘supply/demand’ equation determining prices, the corporations look to see what nations can afford what prices. The supply of the controlled product is then distributed to the country according to their ability to afford the price. This is essentially the bastardized and politicized function of the World Trade Organization (WTO). This is also how the corporations controlling WTO policy maximize profits.
Back to the lemons. A multinational corporation might hold the rights to the majority of the lemon production in Brazil, Argentina and California/Florida. The price the U.S. consumer pays for the lemons is directed by the amount of inventory (distribution) the controlling corporation allows in the U.S.
If the U.S. lemon harvest is abundant, the controlling interests will export the product to keep the U.S. consumer spending at peak or optimal price. A U.S. customer might pay $2 for a lemon, a Mexican customer might pay .50¢, and a Canadian $1.25.
The bottom line issue is the national supply (in this example ‘harvest/yield’) is not driving the national price because the supply is now controlled by massive multinational corporations.
The mistake people often make is calling this a “global commodity” process. In the modern era this “global commodity” phrase is particularly nonsense.
A true global commodity is a process of individual nations harvesting/creating a similar product and bringing that product to a global market. Individual nations each independently engaged in creating a similar product.
Under modern globalism, this process no longer takes place. It’s a complete fraud. Massive multinational corporations control the majority of production inside each nation, and therefore control the global product market and price. It is a controlled system.
EXAMPLE: Part of the lobbying in the food industry is to advocate for the expansion of U.S. taxpayer benefits to underwrite the costs of the domestic food products they control. By lobbying DC, these multinational corporations get congress and policy-makers to expand the basis of who can use Food Stamps, EBT and SNAP benefits (state reimbursement rates).
Expanding the federal subsidy for food purchases is part of the corporate profit dynamic.
With increased taxpayer subsidies, the food price controllers can charge more domestically and export more of the product internationally. Taxes, via subsidies, go into their profit margins. The corporations then use a portion of those enhanced profits in contributions to the politicians. It’s a circle of money.
In highly developed nations this multinational corporate process requires the corporation to purchase the domestic political process (as above) with individual nations allowing the exploitation in varying degrees. As such, the corporate lobbyists pay hundreds of millions to politicians for changes in policies and regulations; one sector, one product, or one industry at a time. These are specialized lobbyists.
It is ironic when we discuss corporate financial payments to government officials in foreign countries we call them corrupt. However, in the United States we call it lobbying, the process is exactly the same.
EXAMPLE: The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS)
CFIUS is an inter-agency committee authorized to review transactions that could result in control of a U.S. business by a foreign person (“covered transactions”), in order to determine the effect of such transactions on the national security of the United States.
CFIUS operates pursuant to section 721 of the Defense Production Act of 1950, as amended by the Foreign Investment and National Security Act of 2007 (FINSA) (section 721) and as implemented by Executive Order 11858, as amended, and regulations at 31 C.F.R. Part 800.
The CFIUS process has been the subject of significant reforms over the past several years. These include numerous improvements in internal CFIUS procedures, enactment of FINSA in July 2007, amendment of Executive Order 11858 in January 2008, revision of the CFIUS regulations in November 2008, and publication of guidance on CFIUS’s national security considerations in December 2008 (more)
Bulletpoint #4 ♦ With control over the targeted national industry or interest, the multinationals then leverage export of the national asset (exfiltration) through trade agreements structured to the benefit of lesser developed nation states – where they have previously established a proactive financial footprint.
The process of charging the U.S. consumer more for a product, that under normal national market conditions would cost less, is a process called exfiltration of wealth. This is the basic premise, the cornerstone, behind the catch phrase ‘globalism’.
It is never discussed.
To control the market price some contracted product may even be secured and shipped with the intent to allow it to sit idle (or rot). It’s all about controlling the price and maximizing the profit equation. To gain the same $1 profit, a widget multinational might have to sell 20 widgets in El-Salvador (.25¢ each), or two widgets in the U.S. ($2.50/each).
Think of the process like the historic reference of OPEC (Oil Producing Economic Countries). Only in the modern era massive corporations are playing the role of OPEC and it’s not oil being controlled, thanks to the World Trade Organization (WTO) it’s almost everything.
Again, this is highlighted in the example of taxpayers subsidizing the food sector (EBT, SNAP etc.), the corporations can charge U.S. consumers more. Ex. more beef is exported, red meat prices remain high at the grocery store, but subsidized U.S. consumers can better afford the high prices.
Of course, if you are not receiving food payment assistance (middle class), you can’t eat the steaks because you can’t afford them. (Not accidentally, it’s the same scheme in the ObamaCare healthcare system)
Agriculturally, multinational corporate Monsanto says: ‘all your harvests are belong to us‘. Contract with us, or you lose because we can control the market price of your end product. Downside is that once you sign that contract, you agree to terms that are entirely created by the financial interests of the larger corporation; not your farm.
The multinational agriculture lobby is massive. We willingly feed the world as part of the system; but you, as a grocery customer pay more per unit at the grocery store because domestic supply no longer determines domestic price.
Within the agriculture community the (feed-the-world) production export factor also drives the need for labor. Labor is a cost. The multinational corps have a vested interest in low labor costs. Ergo, open border policies. (ie. willingly purchased republicans not supporting border wall etc.).
This corrupt economic manipulation/exploitation applies over multiple sectors, and even in the sub-sector of an industry like steel. China/India purchases the raw material, coking coal, then sells the finished good (rolled steel) back to the global market at a discount. Or it could be rubber, or concrete, or plastic, or frozen chicken parts etc.
The ‘America First’ Trump-Trade Doctrine upset the entire construct of this multinational export/control dynamic. Team Trump focused exclusively on bilateral trade deals, with specific trade agreements targeted toward individual nations (not national corporations).
‘America First’ is also specific policy at a granular product level looking out for the national interests of the United States, U.S. workers, U.S. companies and U.S. consumers.
Under President Trump’s Trade positions, balanced and fair trade with strong regulatory control over national assets, exfiltration of U.S. national wealth was essentially stopped. That’s why we saw so much economic expansion between 2017 and 2020.
However, America First also put many current multinational corporations, globalists who previously took a stake-hold in the U.S. economy with intention to export the wealth, in a position of holding contracted interest in an asset they could no longer exploit.
Traditional Fascism was authoritarian government working hand-in-glove with corporations to achieve totalitarian objectives. It didn’t work because the principles of free people cast aside the authoritarianism. Then along came a new approach to achieve the same objective.
The World Economic Forum (WEF) was created to use the same fundamental associations of government and corporations; only this time the WEF was organized for multinational corporations to assemble and tell the various governments how to cooperate to achieve control. Fascism is the underlying objective. The WEF just flipped the internal dynamic.
Some have called this corporatism. However, the relationship between government and multinationals is just fascism essentially reversed with the government doing what the corporations tell them to do. Brutally obvious example: Big Pharma telling governments to promote the vaccine, and figure out the control details later.
Perhaps now we understand better how massive multi-billion multinational corporations and the political institutions they pay for were aligned against President Trump. The WEF will never relent in their need to see the risk he/we represented destroyed…..
…… Even if that means a pandemic is deployed.
I will never relent in my support for anyone who fights this enemy.
PS. If Florida Governor Ron DeSantis wants to take the lead point in the America-First economic recovery, he needs to understand who the enemy is and drop his connections to any/all Wall Street and multinational corporate donors. This is not a debatable issue.
Regarding the first chart, does anyone know what happened in late 2014 that caused the calf/beef prices to diverge?
I raise beef and I’d like to know what happened there.
good guess, their were a lot of mergers and acquisitions, and buyouts by out of country companies going on about then??
Just a guess
Well, a quick google found that 2015 began a “regulatory capture” between major US beef lobbyist NAMI, the WTO, and FDA. One big issue was “country-of-origin-labelling”, or COOL, which the US continuously lost against the WTO. So, who knows where our imported meat is actually coming from, all we know is that countries are using Canada and Mexico as a bounce point.
https://www.foodsafetynews.com/2014/12/birth-being-given-thru-merger-of-new-powerful-meat-group/
My first knowledge of price fixing (not to be confused with understanding) involved milk prices … it was the late 1970’s and I figured it was corrupt Louisiana politics trying to bankrupt small state dairy farms … more than likely it was nationwide.
The uniparty has been destroying middle America ever since we won WWII.
Mr Chamber of Commerce Donahue immediately “retired” after JUDASpence certified the stolen election for braindead … mission accomplished.
as a dairy farmer I can tell you it WAS nationwide, barely survived it
This is just a guess based on what Sundance has told us about the behavior of multinational companies working together as a group. They buy and sell together. So, in theory, they would buy your beef at a price they set and sell in a different country for a price they would consider acceptable. If this was occurring only in the U.S. by one or two companies, you could take them to court for price fixing.
I still call it, price fixing by a group of companies. The companies are just located around the world instead of one country.
This should be illegal but clearly its not. I call it a RICO case.
The 114th Congress was seated Jan 2015, just as the the prices diverged. My guess is the multinational packers exercised bullet points 3 and 4 from Sundance’s article, above. Note that it was a Republican majority, proof of the Uniparty.
Hi Anita – I will give an educated guess, that is at least a coincidence.
Late 2014, there was a complete meltdown in the oil/energy markets. This put more $ in the pockets of the typical American consumer. Filling up the car went from $80 to $35 (or something like that) for millions of Americans. Home energy bills declined similarly.
This put more discretionary $ into the economy. In a manipulated market, as described by Sundance, the market manipulators can exploit this for their own benefit, charging higher for beef prices because people have the money, not less for beef because the energy costs associated with bringing beef to the market have also declined.
What I don’t know is whether there is an oil/energy price correlation to the drop in steer price.
Beef producers
feedlots
Packers
Market
To address aforementioned producer numbers being reduced
Tilted market structure to producers to give more “share” to them by setting future price out in front higher
Their fortunes were addressed for three yrs
Futures were lowered at one point
And price for producers returned to previous BOHICA share
Not much..
Beef is a structured managed market and profit is traded between producers feedlots packers and marketers
Packers own producers and markets
Markets own feedlots and packers and they work to
Get rich
Microcosm of want CTH suggests
Real people divvying up the pie
Maybe it has to do with US beef supplies were down, per this https://ag.purdue.edu/commercialag/Documents/Resources/Outlook/Livestock-Outlook/2014_02_24_Mintert_Beef_Pork_Industry.pdf
Perhaps to compensate, US beef imports exceeded exports. Or it’s another example of market manipulation.
https://www.fas.usda.gov/data/review-us-tariff-rate-quotas-beef-imports
I read a week ago (can’t recall where) that a group of independent ranchers were trying to put together their own meat packing facility from which they could sell directly to distributors or grocery stores.
This violates USDA rules.
All beef must be processed at a USDA-approved facility if it is to be sold to consumers.
If I slaughter my cow, you cannot legally buy a pound of ground beef from me. You cannot buy the cow’s milk, either.
You have to get your pound of ground through a government-approved supply chain. When the supply chain gets stressed, as it is now, demand can outstrip supply.
When cattle feed rises dramatically in price, it is cheaper to kill your cow than wait for the USDA supply chain to clear the backlog of orders.
Thus we see ranchers dumping their stock at distressed prices and consumers unable to buy beef because of the bottleneck.
If ranchers could bypass the USDA, the problem would be quickly resolved and supply/demand would equilibrate.
Who made the USDA powerful? Simple. Sheeple. Disobedience to tyrannical powers is obedience to God.
The scum are outnumbered by 10,000 to 1. What is wrong with Americans?
“Who made the USDA powerful?”
The socialist author Upton Sinclair wrote his alarmist novel “The Jungle” with the goal of getting the meat packing industry regulated. Like “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” his screed was filled with lies but still accomplished its objective.
The FDA was soon thereafter made a federal agency and the regulatory process grew like kudzu.
How do you explain those who buy a aide of beef from a farmer and have it processed in a nearby town then?
I buy half cows from Judd farms. When its ready to be processed they send it to Dunbar meat packing co. Which is a small family owned company in Milan Michigan. It’s a USDA inspected facility. They ask how you want it cut, then vacuum pack it and cryovac it. It’s a little bit more expensive, but I know where its being raised, what its being fed. No hormones. Plus I’m keeping small businesses in business.
Yes, you identify the specific enemy here. What would happen if consumers, even a small fraction of consumers, demanded “bypass beef”? What if there was a way they could pay a rancher and then arrange to meet to pick up the requested amount? What if there was a way for friends to tell friends where and how to get “bypass beef”?
This is how Black Markets originate. If the supply problem becomes severe, I expect to see cattle rustling and beef smuggling.
Big Ag joined the elitist club and realized they could control the prices like they do with fruits, veggies, pharmaceuticals, etc.
It’s no longer about making a decent profit. It’s about making an indecent profit.
According to Matt Stoller’s Substack article there were a lot of packing plant closures around that time. Packers and ranchers started entering into contracts where the price was set in the contract. As packers became fewer and fewer the remaining packers began colluding to push the prices paid to drop:
One witness described a conversation with the head of fabrication of a JBS plant in Texas, in which he was told “that each Defendant expressly agreed to periodically reduce its purchase and slaughter volumes to reduce the prices they would pay for fed cattle.” Another noted that the packers “worked together to reduce their purchases of cash cattle” because they realized that taking cattle out of the cash market would lower prices. “This reduced cash price,” the witness noted, “together with an interlinked depression of the Live Cattle Futures prices, lowered the price Defendants paid for all the cattle they purchased, with cash or otherwise.”
Just a coincidence but notice the big price squeeze to producers occurred at the end of the Obama regime and stopped at the rise of Trump coming into office. It bounced around a lot during his tenure but didn’t resume its downward trajectory. They got what they could while they could. I’m guessing the producers are close to/at their financial limits.
All of this happened before 100 years ago and was stopped (robber baron/interlocking directors/monopolies etc). The difference now is the GOP is as utterly corrupt as the left. Actually, it is more accurate to just say they are just part of the left.
Ann Barnhardt: https://www.barnhardt.biz/?s=cattle+prices
You can probably call her direct for more details.
Here it is: https://www.barnhardt.biz/2014/08/
There’s more if you care to look back over her posts from 2013 through 2014.
The prelude to 2014, a post from 2011:
https://www.barnhardt.biz/the-one-about/the-one-about-my-shutting-down-my-brokerage-letter/
Somewhere about that timeframe there was a very cold winter with a bad snow storm and thousands of beef froze because ranchers could not get them under cover and many couldn’t even get hay to them. Not sure if the year but may have been a contributing factor.
What I don’t understand is why local ranchers don’t get together and sell their beef locally they then could control a fair price for them and the consumer. As in any business there is usually a stupid law in the way plus getting a FDA slaughterhouse working with you might be a issue but auctions I do not see as a answer. Just curious let me know?
It is illegal to sell your product if it has not been processed at an FDA approved slaughter house.
A possible work-around is to “own” half a cow and take delivery of your own beef when the animal gets butchered. I know a man who gets his meat this way from an Indiana farmer.
You will need a chest freezer big enough to hold all the “leftovers” if you choose this route.
That is partly why I was a Pat Buchanan supporter in 1992-96, and 2000. He ended up being a prophet
The Death Of The West: Pat Buchanan on Point of View Radio Talk Show With Marlin Maddoux
I’ve never voted for a Bush in a primary. Not in 1980, 1988, 1992, 2000 or 2004. I admit to voting for Bush and W Bush in the general election a total of 4 times. I voted like you in 92 and 96 primaries. In 2000 and 2004 I voted Keyes both times. Primaries are for voting my heart.
Trump brought me back to the Republican party, as I never forgot or forgave how terrible and backstabbing the Neo-Con/Globalist/Liberal Rino’s were to Buchanan and his voters (which included large numbers of Blue Dog Democrats). One of my favorite Buchanan moments was of him during the 96 campaign on the David Brinkley Show, and him destroying Neocon’s Brinkley, UniBrow Sam Donaldson, Coki Lib Roberts, and George Will the fake conservative stiff. (Buchanan bragged about it later saying something like using a wet newspaper to smack them all down or something)
Nice to meet you fellow Brigade member!
Pat buchanan’s book, “suicide of a superpower” was an eye opener! I think it was published in ‘08 or thereabouts. Great book! I have it still and I should read it again now; he probably was spot-on for his discussions (education, our own govt).
“ One of my favorite Buchanan moments was of him during the 96 campaign on the David Brinkley Show, and him destroying Neocon’s Brinkley, UniBrow Sam Donaldson, Coki Lib Roberts,..”
One of my LEAST favorite Buchanan moments was of my foolish decision to debate him at a Roundtable event in Anchorage when he was running on the Perot ticket.
The topic was border security and I took the anti-wall position. I still bear the scars to this day.
Yes, he was – a prophet.
I’ll add a couple more things, just regarding the beef side of this. One of our beef processors quit doing USDA inspected meat. They said the USDA had added even more regulations and just made it economically non-viable to process beef to sell to consumers.
I happen to believe they do it deliberately. The big packing houses don’t like local competition, so they bribe Congresscritters and the USDA lackeys to impose regulations that make it impossible to compete.
Also, I was talking to a different processor this week. He said that he was talking to one of the state regulators and the regulator said that China is the world’s #1 pork producer. They are almost at parity with America in beef production.
The regulator said that China is allowed to send quartered pigs and beef to America where they are purchased by the largest grocery chains (Costco, Sams, WalMart, etc.) The grocery chain is allowed to cut it into steaks, roasts, etc. and advertise it as USDA inspected meat. The USDA allows them to honor China’s inspection system as if it were our own.
It deceives the customers into believing that the beef and pork has been actually processed in a regulated facility, when in reality it was processed and shipped from China and only cut into serving sizes in America.
Didn’t the Democrats favorite campaign contributors totalitarian China, purchase Smithfield? Your post is cause for great concern. This is partly why I was so against the “Free Trade” deals that were pushed on us, which IMO were some of the greatest acts of betrayal against Heritage America. I was a big Buchananite for partly that reason. We’ve lost so much because of those dirty deals, and your shocking story is a part of it.
I hated it when China bought our pork production facilities, but as far as I’m concerned, this is much worse. When it is produced in America, even if the company is owned by China, at least there is some local control over the facilities.
They are bringing in the meat that has been grown under unknown conditions, fed unknown substances, killed and cut up in Chinese factories and selling it to Americans as USDA inspected meat, which most people believe to be US produced and processed.
It sure is scary. Look what they did with the pet food a while back, had plastic parts in it that killed hundreds of our pets. This was not an isolated incident. They have done it many times, children’s toys also. They are evil Liberal totalitarians like their comrades the Democrats
https://www.organicconsumers.org/news/largest-pet-food-recall-ever-genetic-engineered-food-disaster
Imagine just how much of that is stuck in the backlog of containers in that bottleneck on the west coast.
Opportunities for (more) artificial scarcity and more price increases.
Gee. Sounds like a PERFECT vehicle to deliver lab-made viruses to the American public.
Good thing the Chinese are so honest and friendly. ?
Frankly, I have always trusted “USDA” as much as I trust “FDA”, which is about as far as I can throw my 10,000 lb. truck.
Mind you, I don’t like the idea of ANY food from CHINA, given their penchant for poor quality control, adulterated ingredients, etc.
Just no confidence in USDA “inspectors” who aren’t actually on scene.
They find salmanella in the Spinach, AFTER it goes to market.
That would explain the rise in salmonella cases (and other infected food recalls). Which makes me wonder if they were testing just how long the time span is from importation to public notifications of tainted foods. I’m sure that many people ate the tainted products before any notification. Planned correctly such info could be used by miltinationals in control of the tainted products (sales & distribution quantities) to poison mass populations at will. Creating a new form of political bio-weapon.
Not just to poison…I think they would do that too. But, I believe, more so, they want to understand the time span so that they can continue to sell tainted food for as long as possible before recall- minimize losses and maximize profits.
Do the labels say product of USA or product of China? I don’t have meat from those stores so I don’t know.
may I suggest some one like this
https://winnersmeats.com/
local and good meat especially their fresh sausage
I heartily recommend their fresh casing sausage as well as their excellent summer sausage. Love the jalapeno
also canned meats good for when shtf
look around there are many more places like this if you look hard enough
Their Sauerbraten is awesome, and their Weiners are the best I have ever had! Outstanding German food products. Everything will be well shipped and frozen perfectly. I order from them every fall/winter 2-3 times a year.
https://www.stiglmeier.com/
May I suggest buying beef and pork from someone like Anita? That way, you know exactly what goes into it and how it’s processed, not to mention helping a neighbor or, at least, a local farm that’s doing something valuable.
I now own 5 freezers, 2 of them bought used. I ordered a half cow and half pig this year and just told my guy I want to double that next year. I’m sure distorted market prices will enter into the eventual cost, but I assume the cost of production and processing will be moderated by the fact that this is a local product.
That is a major reason I do not by food of any kind from Walmart, BJs, Costco… I really don’t care how cheap the shiate they sell is. It is still chyna shiate and I am not eating chyna shiate.
Yep. I’m picking up a side of beef in a couple of weeks. Most of the price increase is due to added government fees.
Not surprised at all. Disgusted – but not surprised.
“ The big packing houses don’t like local competition, so they bribe Congresscritters and the USDA lackeys to impose regulations that make it impossible to compete.”
Break the USDA monopoly and you end monopolistic pricing.
Trusting “conservative” politicians is so 1995. Let’s have some MAGA politicians. (I can only think of one or two.)
Just as post Reagan, there are those who TRY to pose as Trump-like.
Remember Romney, McStain and many others STARTED OUT saying they were “Reagan Republicans”.
Fortunately, its not that hard to spot the phoneys, and the Magas;
See what they say about the 2020 election.
Is it “move along, nothing to see”? Obvious phoney.
Is it “our constituents deserve to know their vote was counted” (as an ‘argument’ for audits?
ALSO phoney.
Or is it (KariLake, running for Az. Gov) “if you think the 2020 election was legit, you should put down (Hunters)crack pipe.
Now THATS MAGA!
Buy local, hunt local. Seek out farmers and ranchers. Buy a cow with your neighbors. Take out the middle man.
Fill your freezer with your own harvests.
We buy Wisconsin inspected meat, poultry, pork, lamb, eggs and honey from local farms. We’ve gotten to know the farmers and their families. Make the effort and purchase a couple pounds, you’ll never go back to the national chains. The taste and quality difference is real.
Why do “Socialists” always make a total mess? Because they have to stick their nose in everybody else’s business. That’s how you wreck the Machine.
We live in a specialized Machine that provides survival for all of us. A man like Trump can manage the Machine because he knows how to stay out of the way. He just goes to where the Machine has sprung a leak.
It is important to understand the distinction here between production and processing. We buy all of our pork from a Hutterite colony outside Alexandria, SD. This colony also sells to Smithfield, which processes the colony’s product before wholesaling it to the usual list of retail suspects. So, from our POV, Smithfield is just another middleman. Similarly, we obtain our beef from a ranch outside Grand Forks, ND, our chicken and turkey from a local processor south of the Twin Cities, and out sausage from multiple local sources in Texas. We also buy fresh fruit and veg at farmers markets, as well as preserved and baked items from the Amish community.
Anyone in the central time zone with a freezer should be able to reduce his or her dependence on the chain supermarkets and the mega corporations that supply them to a minimum.
Guess where my Dollar General Supermarket gets their beef in a county full of beef ranchers (and surrounding counties). Guess where the packing plants are. Same for poultry and eggs. I would bet milk, as well, but haven’t looked closely.
See?
Local, local, local.
I know where the largest grocer in the US gets its milk as I am a contractor inside one of their facilities. The cows are in Indiana, it is processed in Kentucky and it gets shipped to Kentucky and surrounding states. Except for just a few things like fresh fish and some produce, milk has one of the shortest shelf lives. It is about 14 days from cow to sell by date. Milk derivatives like cheese and butter are longer.
“Multinationals use lobbyists to generate regulations that stall competition.”
Winner! Winner! Chicken dinner!
Reminds me much of Standard Oil and John D. Rockefeller.
The previous iteration of this phenomenon involved monopolists like Rockefeller. They have moved on to a cartel system to avoid the appearance of a monopoly … different name same result.
I also remember his name in reference to the Creature from Jekyll Island.
I doubt globalism would have taken off like it did without that creature.
Mrs. Jones: Exactly how it works. The “compliance industry” is also in on the game. Companies that tell you that they are “making compliance easier for small business” are some of the primary advocates, through lobbying, for new government regulations.
That’s why our greatest President in my lifetime PDJT’s promise of cutting 2 regulations for every 1 enacted was gold. Perhaps if there is a next time, the cuts will be much higher
This is why when I hear some ass hat say ” farmers will raise prices” I about blow a gasket, Farmers have no control over the price they RECEIVE. The lone exception is independent processor and they operate in a box. I belong to an exception CROPP coop / Organic Valley. So far they have managed to set a price and get it and us farmers are paid a good price. Honestly if you looked at all the government money paid out in “farm” assistance and did the math, our prices are approximately what the real cost of conventional milk is minus your tax money. And when OV shows a profit us members get an extra check, bet the big boys don’t do that!
One good thing that is happening due to these crazy prices in beef is local ranchers in some places are raising cattle and selling beef directly to local consumers. I used to live in Austin, Texas, but moved north to Georgetown, Texas a year ago because Austin is insane- Georgetown has easy access to Austin, but without the stupidity. There is a local Austin business called K&C Cattle Company that raises their own beef, slaughters it, and delivers it right to you- the prices are same or better than the supermarket, and the quality is far superior. These guys took off on Tik Tok, and now they are so busy delivering all over Central Texas they can barely keep up. Hopefully more local ranchers start following this model, cutting out the Big Four altogether, and delivering far superior beef (and pork) to customers.
My big struggle now is how do I invest my IRA funds to avoid these multinationals. I invest in mutual funds to spread my risk and have the Manley of my money in target date funds (2015, 2020, etc ) but also in other funds. Sigh…
I’m stocking up at the farmers market until it closes in mid-November to avoid the multinationals as much as I can but I still need flour, sugar, butter, milk, etc., that they don’t carry. I buy pork from a local farm while beef (and soon chicken) comes from https://sevensons.net/ but most people probably can’t afford that. I could not if I had a family to feed.
This is a great article. It’s just too bad that it’s so depressing.
Interesting, Sundance. Thank you for the explanation/description. Until President Trump, I thought we were a “free market” and capitalist country. I really want to see u become just that. Everyone perform to the best of their ability and have the freedom to earn what they can. We need to be a moral country again.
This is an interesting interview with General Kellogg about his time as an advisor to President Trump.
https://rumble.com/vo20i0-interviewing-gen.-keith-kellogg-trumps-trusted-advisor.html
Oops! I really want to see US become a free market economy and a capitalist country was what I meant. So sorry that I wasn’t clear and posted a typo in the process!
Are we going to have to return to a 19th century model of local production to defeat the evil vermin who are determined to drive us back to the 12th century? Buying meat from the farmer is only one aspect. Where do those hides go? Will the local tanners reopen and the local cobbler start making shoes so that we can break the chicom shoe addiction?
Mind you, I’m not opposed to local shoes, I wore Redwing for decades until they stopped making the very model I need. And now they’ve gone woke fascist with the jabs so that’s a lower, but still a decent cobbler would be a good asset in my town.
A majority of Redwing shoes are made in china. I stopped buying their safety shoes when noticed the made in China label.
I noticed that made in China and a reduced quality for Redwing boots. Did anyone find a suitable replacement?
I got some nice motorcycle boots from Chippewa . Made in the USA.
Keen work boots are expensive but when I ask those who bought them if they are satisfied with their purchase the answer has always been in the affirmative.
When I wear out my Red Wings, the next purchase will include trying some Keens for fit and finish.
Galts Gulch; a place where markets will be voluntary value to value based commerce.
“Are we going to have to return to a 19th century model of local production to defeat the evil vermin who are determined to drive us back to the 12th century?”
Driving us back to the conditions of preindustrial America seems to be the Left’s intention.
Won’t it be lovely to breathe the smell of manure and have dentists pull out your teeth with pliers like they did in your great-great grandfather’s day?
We have a 2 brother small cattle operation as our neighbors. I would say about 40-50 head. They have been at it for decades as their dad started it. I have asked them general things. I’ll see if I can ask them specifics about prices they have gotten over the years and what strict corporate “rules” they have encountered over the years.
And what I know is over 35% of employees in those 4 major processors are illegals. And around those facilities is Spanish grocers selling foods similar to Mexico.
Thank your elected representatives in Congress
No wonder the Rino’s hated Trump…Mitch and the gang wanted to keep those fat envelopes stuffed with cash coming from the meat industry…That’s why these grifters will never vote for term limits….It would be like a fox electing to become a vegetarian on a chicken farm.
Mitch represents the Chamber of Commerce, and his own pocketbook too.
So basically:
Multinationals = Atlas Shrugged writ large.
It’s the power of “pull”.
These days would be about the time for a pirate by the name of Ragnar to show up.
I’m sure like everything (and SD has noted) we subsidize the rest of the rest of the world with everything. I’m sure the same pound of beef costs $X.00 in US and 0.10 that in another country. Maybe the other country tells the multinational what they can sell for (to keep the populace passive) and multinational makes up the difference on us. Beef, veggies, fruit, everything.
Rump of cat or backyard dog barbecue is sounding mighty tempting after reading this .
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/2756912/Owner-roasts-family-pet-in-barbecue
So you recommended shooting squirrels to eat on an earlier thread, and now cats and dogs?
“- John Billings: I say we drink the wine, eat the dogs, and use the paper for musket wading.
– Reverend Oliver: [alarmed] Eat the dogs?
– Benjamin Martin: [going along with John Billings’ joke] A dog is a fine meal.”
“Patriot” with Mel Gibson
You are a truly sick and perverted individual.
I have unshakable faith there many Blessings to come from everything we’re going through now. EVERYONE is affected by the moronic policies of this regime (and communist agenda). This is beyond an education in real life effects of socialism/communism – It’s an AWAKENING!
My husband was approached last week by fellow customer complaining cut of beef is now double what it was last year. I was approached by several customers at HomeDepot just yesterday (while proudly wearing my “Let’s go Brandon!” t-shirt) in agreement and several more flashing a thumbs-up. All this in the I-4 corridor. No one can unsee what these people are doing to us or how little they care.
Call it “hopism” if you want but Sundance is FAR FROM ALONE when he states “I will never relent in my support for anyone who fights this enemy.” Music to my ears Sundance! WE ARE MASSIVE in numbers, proudly standing along side you who feel just as you do.
I really enjoyed/learned from this article. It is especially interesting to me because as I was thinking about the cargo ships off commiefornia the other day, I thought that we are not hearing anything about backlogs with regard to our products being exported. This article confirms my suspicions about it all being related to market manipulation.
As a gal from farming territory, I enjoy eating beef (and poultry and pork). What disturbs me is the way these animals are referred to as commodities. Not cows, chickens, or pigs. Just cleansed terms for the masses.
When small farmers were able to make a living, their animals were treated well and butchered humanely. Meat was safer, of better quality, and people respected the process.
Corporate “farming” has been a horror story.
P.S. – Not happy about the way we’re forced to deal with corn, beans, and wheat either…and those are just plants.
Getting back to God would resolve a lot of this. Our beautiful nation needs help. Mentor the children.
We seem to be living in a cardboard world?
https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/19669193.dorset-sainsburys-uses-cardboard-images-hide-empty-shelves-amid-food-shortage/
The Potemkin village is a daily feature of socialist economies.
Regarding beef, specifically, wouldn’t it be a win-win for consumers to go to local livestock producers and buy a side of beef directly from them (or their meet locker) instead of buying steaks, roasts, and ground beef from the local grocery?
Same for produce (or grow your own).
Yes. Join with your neighbors if a side of beef is too much. Buy a small freezer and put it in the spare bedroom if you have to. My local processor vacuum seals the beef and freezes it before delivery. He cannot sell “fresh” beef to the public by regulation. Find someone selling eggs. Find an Amish community for veggies.
Find the location of the local USDA farm services office and call or visit. There is one in nearly every county in the country. They can lead you to local producers selling directly to the public.
Here is the locator for Wisconsin:
https://offices.sc.egov.usda.gov/locator/app?state=wi&agency=fsa
Here is the national:
https://offices.sc.egov.usda.gov/locator/app
Big business is as big a danger as big government. Both inevitably end up as giant pyramids with control-freak paharoahs running them.
How about we make corporations illegal? Or if we settle for a corporation, declare it illegal to be a multi-national, make lobbying illegal with a fine of 50 percent of the yearly profits of the corporation and the immediate resignation of the office-holder or candidate? The money from the fine could go into every American’s bank account, even if it’s a fraction of a cent. Then, why not limit the payout of the CEO? Make it illegal for them to make more than twice the yearly salary or bonus of their LOWEST paid employee.
We’ve got to see that collectivism is not only a danger in governance and social politics, but also in economics. Let’s break all corporations into billions of pieces and let millions of mom and pop stores take over. There doesn’t need to be 20 7-11s in a city. There needs to be 20 different gas stations owned by 20 different families.
Just some ideas to reset the “resetters”/Schwab circle-jerk club.
Trying to make it “illegal” is how the whole thinh started, as they game the system, and OWN the system.
John Galt them, as suggested in the comments above, by buying local, and direct from ranchers.
“there outer be a law!” has been the instigation for much thats wrong with our Republic.
Its an UNDERSTANDABLE reaction, but leads to WAY too many laws.
“[T]here outer be a law!” has been the instigation for much thats wrong with our Republic.“
Congress critters are crooks and liars! Congress should pass a law against this!!
I marvel at the intellectual schizophrenia exhibited by some who regard themselves to be rational men.
“Then, why not limit the payout of the CEO?”
Prior to Senator Howard Metzenbaum’s legislation that made corporate takeovers almost impossible, corporate “raiders” would fire the officers who were looting the stockholders.
Look at Japan. The highest paid industrial executives there earn no more than 10-20x what the shop floor workers receive.
Once US corporate executives were protected from takeovers their compensation packages increased dramatically and they are now making more than their foreign counterparts.
There are now American CEOs being paid >$10 million dollars annually whose employees earn $25k yearly.
Making 400x what your hourly workers get is a clear indication that Metzenbaum’s legislation worked to enhance the riches of the wealthy.
A similar argument can be made about pharmaceuticals.
The US consumers pay much higher prices for new medicines than the rest of the world because our government does not allow the government to negotiate drug prices on behalf of citizens the same way that Canada, Germany, France, Britain, etc., do. Within the Federal government, the VA is allowed to negotiate drug prices, for its hospitals, but not other agencies, as best I can tell.
We (US) do not allow reimportation of prescription drugs, which perpetuates the price gradient between the US and Canada, and the rest of the world, for instance.
So drug manufacturers set high prices for US consumers to recover the cost of drug development and make a profit on top of that, while the rest of the world negotiates a profit margin on top of the incremental cost of making the drug. So we pay for drug development and the rest of the developed world does not.
If prescription drugs could be (re)imported into the US, we would benefit. Some would say that this would be the US riding the coattails of other countries’ anti-free market price controls and would be unfair. I say that the rest of the world is free-loading off of us, and if a drug company knew that it could not sell a pill in Canada for $0.15 that is selling for $1.50 in the US because the meds would go to the US, they would no longer be willing to negotiate a price of $0.15 for Canada; they would have to come up with a global price that would be similar in all developed countries.
I think this is the thought process behind some of Trump’s proposals for requiring the US not pay more than other countries for prescription drugs (with which I agree).
Can do this on your own, if you do your homework.
Price in Mexico, India $0.10 on the $ to U.S. in some cases, is not an exageration.
No Rx needed. Canada requires a Rx.
“[O]ur government does not allow the government to negotiate drug prices…”
Great negotiators, those government guys! They can buy a toilet seat for 5 or 6 hundred dollars and a screwdriver for just a little less because it ain’t their money and they are the world’s most hapless spendthrifts.
How does an agency that recklessly runs trillion dollar deficits get awarded the responsibility for drug price negotiations?
I’m to tired to take in all this valuable truth by Sundance.
I’ve been living this rolacoaster for for 50 years. It isn’t complicated to me personally.
Gas and energy is the magic to prosperity, in my world. I produce income out of building things from wood, which improves peoples lives. My biggest cost to produce comes from gas and energy, to make my product and supply my family with the most valuable commodity to human life, energy.
This will be a 1/2 a dozen times, I’ve had to go into survival mode to care for my family.
Gas and energy are the heart of a simple life with effort to succeed in a free society. I don’t know if I’ve ever seen freedom in the purity, our fore Fathers intended. But I feel it at times.
The first 3 years of the Trump Presidency, was one of those moments. I don’t except it in return, I’ve been on the other side. I believe many Americans discovered what I feel, for the first time in those 3 years.
That is why we’re going to conquer evil, with grace and moral clarity.
DeBeers artificially inflates diamond prices.
Multinationals greedily gouge us with meat prices.
Time to establish our own markets like Trump is doing with a new social media platform.
Time for two economies.
Them vs. Us.
This weekend, I had the pleasure of talking with a true blue, life long rancher who is now an agricultural educator who knows all the right players in and on the boards of the Ranchers fighting back. So I’m gonna put this out there for those seeking to pick up some top grade, grass fed beef. In fact, I’ll be ordering a whole cow. Roughly 400+ Lbs of meat.
This was the gentleman ranchers recommendation.
https://www.wisconsingrassfed.coop/
Big topic, not too esoteric. Clean and digestible walk through. You’re good at that.
I’ve sent many to the “main street” article and they appreciated, but this is a nice expansion.
I’ll keep pushing your print to the interwebs because…the “free market” hates competition!
i’m in n.w. iowa so cattle,pork, chickens and turkey’s are a way of life.there was a recent article in the des moines register of a cattle rancher who got fed up with the low prices and started talking to others,they got together and have raised 300 million dollars to start up their own packing plant.hope it gets built and starts cutting into the big multinational bottom line.alot of rural residents around here turn to local farmers for cows or pigs to butcher,but lockers are geting harder to find,and come nov-feb they have alot of deer to deal with so getting a time to bring in a cow or pig you have to set up an appointment 3-4 months out.
I bought a 7 pack of USDA Filets (I have young kids and they picky) for the bargain price of $99 at Gelsons. Of course I cut them all to 3oz steaks and freeze them. But meat prices are off the chain and I have 2 boys (3 if you include my husband).
Simply speaking, no matter the issue, no matter the subject. Power and control, is and always will be the objective. Anyone or anything, that disrupts the cycle is, the enemy.
Yes, he needs to drop his connections. He was financed by the Koch Brothers: https://www.tampabay.com/florida-politics/buzz/2018/07/10/koch-backed-super-pac-endorses-ron-desantis-for-governor.
Another clear example is with PHARMACUETICALS.
Even pre-Covid, all of what Sundance describes was very evident; the Exfiltration of wealth, with prices set by what a country could afford, not supply/demand.
I have purchased Rx medications from Thailand, India and Mexico for years, a tenfold reduction in price (over same pills in U.S.) is NOT an exageration.
Lobbying so Medicare/Medicaid pays a slightly lower price, as do Insurance companies, but still much more than in other countries, is similar to increasing Food Stamps.
Reality is, if most people had to pay the full price of their Rx medications,…there would be a lot less medications being Rx’d.
As “WE” now see, (as a result of Covid) and I have known for years, Corporatism has taken over the Healthcare industry, entirely.
Upset or shocked Big Pharma is “using us for labrats”? They have been doing that, for YEARS.
Yes, PDJT pulled off a lot of scabs, and showed us the festering mess underneath.
AmericaFirst is the ONLY logical policy to support.
“Conservative” vs “Liberal” is a dead argument, a distraction.
Its Economic Nationalism vs Globalism, and framed that way, Globalism ISN’T a “sellable” commodity, less “market interest” than “New Coke”.
Thats why they LIE; an honest competition, they LOSE.
What is a corporation but a species of government, borne of government, to serve government by collecting taxes for government and employing citizens in a manner that keeps the government in power.
The federal government is a nexus of corporations, as are all other domestic governments. The same is true of non-profits and NGOs and philanthropic foundations, universities, etc. They have an official ruling class. They are inherently fascist, authoritarian and feudal, and especially, they are extra-Constitutional non-human alien persons in the law.
Their hegemony requires the citizen lose sovereignty. Their hegemony requires the citizen lose equal protection under the law.
You cannot speak with an elected representative unless you are there representing a corporation. Try it. It is extremely rare that they would take time out to meet and speak with a mere individual citizen unless they were extremely wealthy or influential. And where did that wealth and influence arise, from a station and authority enjoyed by a sponsoring corporation, whether directly or indirectly provided.
We have a nation of the people, by the people and for the people. But this is not our governments or their fellow species. The nation and the government are fractured. Our government and its corporate children have become a breakaway society that feels little mutuality or regard for the citizens of the nation.
We have a government of the corporation, by the corporation and for the corporation.
The modern employed class who are paid to preside over these ‘artifacts of law’ feel little-to-no mutuality or reasonable regard for the citizens of the nation. The hostility and contempt for the citizen runs deep and fuels the pathologies that dominate the emerging breakaway society that for years has proclaimed the Constitution to be dead, as Pelosi and other Machine Democrats have boasted for years. They worship themselves and loathe us for thinking otherwise.
What they have done with beef prices is just one example of the way they have biased power to fleece the American people in unconscionable and principally unconstitutional ways.
They are anti-mutualist to the core.
“What is a corporation but a species of government,..”
This is a truism.
Corporations cannot exist without CEOs, Treasurers, corporate bylaws and budgets—all necessary features of good government.
The problem is not government; the problem arises when the corporation fails to service its customers as well as the competition, runs a loss and then runs to the civil authorities to beg them for protection from cut-throat competitors.
The fedgov seems always ready to oblige.
The last great Democrat is quoted as saying, “ It is not the responsibility of government to support the people; it is the people’s responsibility to support their government.”
Grover Cleveland was the last Democrat that deserves a vote. His like will not come again.
I saw an article today on General Dispatch about the supply chain problem and it said the Chinese have taken control of 85% of the world’s magnesium supply. That puts a halt to aluminum production if true. Supposedly US and European supplies are in critical short supply and will be exhausted in a matter of weeks. If anyone knows anything about this please add your info or let Sundance know.
A discussion on Magnesium supply wharfage from China because of electricity supply shortage. Producing magnesium requires massive electrical supply.
Sorry, here is the link
Magnesium is the 8th most abundant material in the earth’s crust. Even though it is widely distributed, it is cheapest to process it in close proximity to a body of salt water, e.g., the Great Salt Lake in Utah or the Dead Sea in Israel.
An alternate process is used in China that is labor intensive and requires cheap/slave labor to produce. Cheap labor is why China can generate a huge supply of magnesium.
If EPA regulations were relaxed, we could complete favorably with the Chinese.
This is definitely just a sidebar, my veterinarian a graduate of nearby ISU, one of the top schools in the country I believe, was aghast when I suggested a top sensitive stomach dog food I was considering for my boxer. She’d nearly died from a gastrointestinal infection/disease when she was a puppy. I had done my research, studied ingredients, checked ratings etc. He immediately blurted out “That’s a regional dog food”. I gave him an “And?” look. To me that seemed like a fresher/healthier option. His response “They don’t have top notch research history and programs like Purina, Science Diet (dog killers), Iams (cheap grocery store dog food)”.
I found his bought and paid for advice insulting. The regional dog food company used better products and sourcing than his multi-national options. I can research the ingredients and see for myself how much better they are.
And to top it all off he was unable to help our beautiful fawn boxer. We ended up taking her to an emergency vet hospital just over a year ago over Labor day weekend. Due to our vet not figuring out what was ailing her, I ended up diagnosing her. The emergency vet called me that evening and told me they thought i was correct when I told them what I’d found on Google. It was a rare condition mostly affecting boxers.
She went from looking like a starved shelter dog to an 80 lb beauty just over a year later. Oh I prayed for her.
when I went organic my former vet was indignant ” you are not supporting the dairy industrial complex” well yeah I’m not supporting the multinationals in drug , feed, chemical and seed. Besides what makes them think that they have a right to my pocketbook. And I have found out I can do just fine without them
You wonder why organic is hated so by the universities, they live off of big pharma.
It is all rigged folks… Here today, gone tomorrow, that is how it is set up, to keep you on that wheel like a gerbil in a cage. The time we waste with this nonsense. I am really starting to learn this hard truth, and it is very hard for many to learn, myself included.
Thank you Sundance for such an extensive review. This leaves me wondering how ‘weed’ fits in. It seems to be a whole industry that operates under the radar, cash business for sure, for those who don’t produce for the ‘regulated’ medical industry.
The only way I, as a single human being, know how to combat this is to buy local. Bought a side of beef from a rancher in my town. I did the same in the place I lived before, and I did the same in the place I lived before that – 3 different states. Not everyone can afford to buy a side of beef, but most of those same ranchers will sell you individual packages. The most recent purchase, the rancher said he’d sell (Angus beef) it to me for $2.50/lb + processing. I told him he needed to raise his prices. That says to me that if he sells commercially, the price is even lower than that. Then you go to the store and that same steak or roast is 5x-6x the price per lb. Cut out the middle men.
On things that we can’t grow here or build here in America, I’m committed to doing without and I fully realize what that means. I pray we can get out of this mess.
Why do they need music on these viedos? Tried to read captions but still distracted,might be old age related but I did not stay till the end.
“The FED Bailouts of top Banks 2008 financial crisis equates to $16 Trillion in under the table payouts.
“And the same bad actors are at it again to implode the financial system with their over leveraged derivatives.”
“The list of institutions that received the most money from the Federal Reserve can be found on page 131 of the GAO audit and are as follows.”
https://www.gao.gov/assets/gao-11-696(DOT)pdf
This is ONE Sundance Screed, among many, I might add, that have saved out.
I am explaining what is going on to people whose heads are glued to other news sources of what is going on and this is ONE EXAMPLE that brings the point home. When a nation has multi-nationals controlling the food supply, it is NOT far done the road of causing a catastrophic havoc in many areas. AND this is just one.
NOTE: I try to source ALL meat/fish/poultry/vegetables through local farmers and producers. And the meats taste better than the grocery stores…
I had to reread the headline and am I glad. I thought it said Beer Market.
Cartel.
We buy our beef on “the hoof”. Grass fed and finished as it’s our preference.
These are well treated, local animals. We buy about a side and a half a year.
Typically we. pay a premium to store bought that’s maybe 15-30% more than the typical price in the super market.
The premium this year has vanished and we’re now at a discount.
I would buy chicken this way, but the price is just prohibitive.
Buy local and screw the multinationals when ever you can.
The solution is not pretty.
“The solution is not pretty.”
But it is pretty easy.
Simply freeze the Federal Reserve’s balance sheet. No more purchases = end to inflation and no more handouts to “special friends”.