Hindsight is not only 20/20, in this case it’s a little alarming.
Last year, we were discussing the massive increases in food and farming costs associated with increased fertilizer prices. By the time we got to late January, the World Bank (WB), United Nations (UN) and the Davos / World Economic Forum (WEF) group were discussing it. At first the perspective was the potential for lower crop yields creating increased global famine.
However, if we apply a little hindsight from the geopolitical world surrounding the current issues in Europe, specifically Ukraine, and then consider the background of what the Biden team were doing, while Russia, Belarus and China were stockpiling, things look a little more concerning than just lower crop yields as an outcome of higher natural gas prices – vis-a-vis nitrogen fertilizer.
As noted by Forbes last month, “Russia and China have imposed export restrictions on fertilizer. Both are, or were, big exporters of plant food. The decline in exports makes getting the vital nutrients harder across the globe. China and Russia account for 29% of world exports for nitrogen-based plant food. The two countries also have significant, albeit, smaller shares of the phosphate and potash markets, respectively, the report states.”
Now, keep in mind how Belarus helped Russia with the current military operation.
In August of 2021 the United States, Canada and the EU hit Belarus with punitive sanctions on the one-year anniversary of what they called a fraudulent election. As noted by Politico at the time, “The sanctions partially ban imports of potash fertilizer, petrol and petrol-based products from Belarus.” […] Targeting Belarus’ potash sector was a strategic move insofar as the country is the second largest exporter of the fertilizer behind Canada, covering 21 percent of the world’s potash exports in 2019.
In September of 2021, at the same time as China was investing heavily in the purchase of U.S. farmland, Beijing simultaneously announced a ban of export for phosphates until June of 2022. With China banning export of the source material, the global fertilizer market now needed to look elsewhere for future purchases.
We now know that Russia and China were talking geopolitical strategy with each other long before the Russian army crossed the border into Ukraine. However, in the weeks before they launched their military operation, in late January, Russia also triggered a full ban on the export of ammonium nitrate.
Against the backdrop of Ukraine’s importance as a “breadbasket” for the EU, similar in strategic importance as California is for the U.S., these background moves by Russia and China now appear coordinated.
China moved first to block the key ingredient for fertilizer, then Russia moved to do the same about four weeks before they launched militarily.
Both the Chinese and Russian moves could be viewed as proactive food security positions against any reactive sanction activity that would target food production. Individually each of these moves may seem small, but take them collectively, and there’s an alarming big picture.
If you remove the raw material fertilizer products from China, Belarus, Russia and now Ukraine from the global marketplace, that’s over two-thirds of the total global supply gone. As bumbling Joe would say, “That’s a big effen’ deal,” big enough to create havoc when it comes to the 2022 farm growing season in just about every country.
Assuming strategic government intervention, the U.S. and Canada can withstand it (albeit with massive price increases for farmers) but many other countries around the world will be in big trouble with a much lower harvest yield. One nation that would be particularly vulnerable is Brazil – the world’s second largest exporter of soybeans (U.S. #1, Brazil #2).
Did China, Russia and their strategic partners plan this out?
Apply hindsight and the answer seems obvious, yes.
Overlay what we have previously discussed about the geopolitical dynamic of the BRICS group (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa).
BRICS is a key strategic geopolitical trade partnership that was created during Obama, was weakened during Trump, and now with Obama back at the helm of globalist advancement – likely way more important. The core of BRICS’ purpose is a countermeasure against the coordination of globalist multinational corporations. BRICS is somewhat an anti-WEF assembly.
Do you remember everyone getting mad at India for not supporting the U.N Security Council resolution against the Russian invasion of Ukraine? Well, again, apply hindsight. Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS) have a strategic geopolitical relationship framed around trade.
Given the scale of their population, food security is a BIG issue for India. If we are about to enter a food war, specifically where food now becomes a national security issue, there’s no way India would want to be on the short end of that conflict.
Things are sketchy as heck right now, because this food war picture is pretty clear.
However, if the BRICS group join in a digital trade currency together, which would effectively negate any sanctions the rest of the world might attempt, we can katy-bar the door, because actual rockets and missiles come next. The U.S./EU/UN message will shift from Putin killing Ukrainians, to Putin/Xi starving the world.
Xi Jinping (China), Vladimir Putin (Russia), Jair Bolsonaro (Brazil), Narendra Modi (India) and Cyril Ramaphosa (South Africa)
” Keep humanity under 500 million ”
People don’t think the Georgia Guidestones be like they is …… but they do !
In general, people just don’t think.
This is true, most people are sleeping sheep.
I disagree. This is a myth, and like many other false narratives, benefits our enemy, so we should stop giving aid and comfort.
The result is “most people are asleep, sheeple and so “whats the use?”
It also feeds an aspect of human nature, the vanity that ‘virtue signalling’ on the left feeds.
WATCH the John Spiropolis interviews.
I went to see the convoy, on the very day Truedoe revoked the emergency act, and unfrose the accounts.
And all but one of the people I talked to, KNEW about BOTH of these actions.
It was “Did ya hear,..?”
“Yeah, and did ya hear, .?
“YES, isn’t it GREAT!”
WE have gotten so used to deriding “the sheeple” that when the sheep look up, and as a flock realise they are being led to the slaughter house, stampede and break the fences, we are (at least far too many of us) still locked into our abused conservative mindset.
Agree, Dutchman.
Is it just me, or are we seeing a surge in Treehouse commenters cleverly wringing hands, claiming impossibilities and doling despair to “Wave White Flags”?
You are not imagining it BlcakKnight.
I have noticed the same thing.
A lot more “Woe is me we are all going to die!”.
This old lady wonders still what the U.S. would be like if we had all these same kinds of people when we were building this country. There are too many who expect ‘everything’ to be taken care of for them. They don’t need to do a thing and someone else will do it.
Doomers.
I’m going down at the Alamo
upright and not on my knees
Well geez Dutch….People in and around the Freedom Convoys (both CA and US) are/have been very “awake” and aware of the totalitarian problems both populations have with their respective national and some regional governments. Thats why those folks showed up.
IDK what the comparative percentages are, but if you go into comments under any of the vast number of MSM / progressive media / social media sites, a very lopsided percentage of comments illustrate a blatant lack of awareness of facts “on the ground” and appear to be mostly parroting the Left’s narratives and talking points.
One reason for optimism is, unfortunately, the current policy-caused steep declines in every aspect of our national economy and cultural cohesion are eventually going to seriously harm most people, regardless of ideology. Many on the Left have already been harmed by Obama-Biden and state government totalitarians.
Our hope is that the people having been harmed will somehow understand that the harm is the direct result of current Administration policies, but is NOT an 18-month delayed reaction from President Trump’s policies. But we know for dead certain that the current fraudulent Administration will continue to look right into the cameras and make that exact charge….and too many low information folks will continue to believe it.
Nicely done, GB!
Good points.
I also always consider the possibility that many comments on the Internet are paid for by the oodles of Pig Pharma $$ flowing to the leftist ideologues everywhere at the moment.
Given the amount of dishonesty that runs rampant in today’s media and throughout the political realm I wouldn’t doubt that that a lot of people are getting paid to make comments that support big Pharma and the globalists.
But it’s anyone’s guess as to what percentage of the the lefts brainwashed masses are truly just idiots or are aware of reality and just write agitprop for the dollars.
Almost every one of Trumps “told you this would happen” has come true. If anyone was paying attention “back then” they would be in good shape now.
After spending some time with some progressive “friends”, I realized they are not sleeping sheep, they are emoting sheep. One woman asked me if I liked her manicure and I politely complimented it and she followed with “Do you know the significance?”. Honestly told her I didn’t have a clue. Her nails were yellow and blue and she told me it was in support of Ukraine. I mentioned this to a friend who I thought a bit more level headed, but she responded “That’s great! I have yellow and blue ribbons tied around my trees!”
These two ladies do some “charity” work, but are more preoccuppied with their facebooking their work, gala and gowns than where the money actually goes. So, going back to the 60’s mantra that I despised “If it feels good, do it!”
My church just moved an icon of Stabat Mater (sorrowful mother) and a candle stand next to an icon of Jesus, hung on a cross that’s at the front of the church. There’s also a basket for candle money and offerings that will be sent to Mukachevo seminary; it’s now a place of refuge for those fleeing home and they’ve shut down the seminary and are holding school classes to normalize children’s lives.
They’ve been led not to think by their televisions.
ah, food schmood … there are more important issues to be concerned with
like Ukraine war coverage bees all raycissss an’ sheeeeit
Critics Call Out ‘Racist’ Western Coverage of Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine
nimrodman: This is the defining issue of our time.
O.K. Time’s up.
…raw material fertilizer products from China, Belarus, Russia and now Ukraine from the global marketplace, that’s over two-thirds of the total global supply…”
I had no idea. Nowhere else mentioned that I’ve ever seen.
This is why CTH is 6 months ahead of everyone else.
This is why nothing, other than caterwauling, will ever be done. And no one will understand why. But US easily could become “fertilizer independent”. Its not hard to do, and would be widely accepted, and will be opposed at every turn by the commies in DC.
Two of the largest fertilizer plants in the world are in Iowa. One just south of Sioux City along the Missouri River and the other in Weaver, Iowa south of the quad cities along the Mississippi. Any guesses as to who owns them?
https://www.oci.nl/operations/iowa-fertilizer-company/
Thanks for the link. Originally Egyptian owner, now domiciled in E.U. Traded on E.U. stock market.
They better hire guards with automatic weapons and fence and defend those fertilizer plants.
Remember the chickens?
Be a shame if something happened to those plants, eh CIA .
Eminent domain cures the chi-comm ownership problem.
Use the same low-ball appraisers NJ used to dispossess beachfront property owners in Kelo.
With global marketplace dynamics, US Fertiliser companies WILL raise their prices.
Any who are, or are contemplating home gardening, on whatever scale, I strongly urge you to research “Aquaponics”.
It is infinetly scalable, from a small tabletop model to grow herbs, to adapt well to apartment balconies, to major home gardening.
And, it requires NO FERTILISER or major insecticides; you “raise” fish that you can harvest and eat. Typically talapai or trout. The fish put “fertiliser” in the water, which is pumped to hydroponic TYPE growbeds.
The plants use the fertiliser, and clean the water which then drains back to the fish.
Putting a lot of work into a major gardening effort, only to find fertiliser unavailable or cost prohibitive would be a major hit on your survival plans.
And its not like you have a binary choice of one or the other, you can do both “raised bed” gardening, AND aquaponics.
Kathy method is also low tech.
Maybe we should just start ignoring those in DC and stop asking their permission to do what is necessary to survive?
This is why Sundance and the deep thinking commentary here left the Anons with the Q phenomenon in the dust.
I can’t access links to twitter posts any longer. I don’t have an account and don’t care to, but I do typically like to read the added info posted here by Sundance and some other trusted individuals.
Is there a different way to view these posts without signing up for twitter?
Go through the start of signing up, but close the sign up page. (It has an X, unlike the one demanding you sign up. You can continue to browse Twitter from that tab, but I am not sure that you can do it from another tab. If you close that tab you will definitely have to repeat the nonsense the next time you open a Twitter link.
By the way, it feels like Twitter automatically blocks tweets they don’t want read, but waits until you scroll to block tweets they like.
instead of twitter.com, type in nitter.net
works for me, haven’t touched twitter in ages
If you happen to have a Gmail account you can sign it with that. At least it allowed me to. First time I used that account in years. Normally it’s my dead letter box.
You don’t need an account to view public twitter accounts. You just need the right link (URL). For instance, Sundance on twitter:
Tweets by TheLastRefuge2
Unless you’ve been banned like me.
With a VPN they won’t know its you.
I use the ‘Nitter Redirect’ extension with a chromium-based browser (not GOOG brand Chrome but Dissenter or Brave, etc), works great, no more landing on twitter dot com.
Me too, I try to decipher the image through the follow up comments. I was banned on Twatter after 3 days. 2 many true Cobid comments…
I have a Samsung phone. I touch and hold the link. Then it asks if I want to open in Samsung network. It appears to work.
I refuse to sign up with Twitter.
Go into your setting and delete the twitter cookie. I then put twitter on the list for automatic delete when I shutdown my laptop
Hmm isn’t Bill Gates also one of the largest farmland owners in the U.S. now?
Time for me to rebuy GrowGeneration Corp GRWG? I believe they are the largest seller of hydroponics equipment and supplies.
Terrific contribution, Sundance.
You’re our Paul Revere on steroids!
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Please consider for a future post:
Has it occurred to our “Idiot Regime” that their blatant actions and vocal intent to isolate-and-destroy the Russian Economy will drive the Russia-Chyna Alliance (with ChYna’s access to most of America’s trove of Patents and Advanced Materials-and-Production IP) to simply steal that IP to displace USA Products and Services with their own?
• They have NOTHING to LOSE by stealing and replicating all of our IP in their own Products & Services … before we even ponder how Chyna’s next-step control of 2/3 of global Semiconductor Capacity.
• We’re exhausting further FINANCIAL CONSEQUENCES, having proven our capability to remove them from the SWIFT Transaction System with impunity
• We’ve boxed ourselves into Energy, Food, Materials and Industrial DEPENDENCE on their Alliance (including ChYna’s control of raw materials and ports in their Belt & Road Countries)
• We’ve demonstrated our unwillingness to restore Domestic Self-Sufficiency much less use our recently-degraded and collectively-insufficient Military Capabilities to DEFEND against their unfolding dominance.
• They have NOTHING but UPSIDE by selling their own USA-IP-infused Products & Services to the rest of the world to DISPLACE those from the USA (rinse & repeat for our European “Allies”).
• They’ll have MASSIVE COST ADVANTAGES for Energy, Materials and Labor inputs
• They can therefore endlessly UNDERPRICE our Products & Services until they’ve driven our Non State-Owned companies out of business
• This will IMPLODE the VALUE of our STOCKS, MARKETS and RETIREMENT ACCOUNTS
• Then they can UPCHARGE America and the West, as the OFFSHORE REPLACEMENT for our Essential Industries.
Glad you’re back, BKR. Always such great posts…
And here we are burning corn in our gas tanks…
I always thought this was totally stupid.
It IS totally stupid. Has been. Will be.
Never divert a food source for fuel.
a recent study came out saying it is energy NEGATIVE to use ethanol in our tanks…..I already knew it causes more “greenhouse gas” emissions than petroleum and EACH gallon of ethanol takes 3 gallons of freshwater to produce but Grassley is FULLY behind its production and mandated use as a boost in retail gasoline
Grassley has shown himself to be Uniparty, a Mitch Bitch, a long time ago.
He does the Uniparty two step, just like mitt and all the rest.
well whats gonna happen when the price of corn hits 20 bucks a bushel??govnment will subsidize the ethanol plants for the corn they buy.supposedly here in iowa 53% of the corn goes to ethanol production.so whats it gonna be,gas in the tank or food on the table,can’t have both.
Ethanol destroys engines. Grassley needs to go. He’s another crony Capitalist do nothing blow hard. (Some of them are nice like him) but still do nothing but YAP!
It is a different kind of corn– one that you would not want to eat. However, ethanol destined corn is a huge fertilizer hog. Cutting back on fertilizer to that market would certainly help other fertilizer needs.
As for China buying American Farmland– that needs to come to a screeching halt, and the USA needs to get that land back into American hands.
I daresay that hard corn is a staple of all sorts of grain eating critters, e. g. cattle, hogs, sheep, chickens….
Look at who used to be Land Commish in Texas…
allowed China to purchase up land…
then runs against Paxton for AG.
George Prescott Bush
There is no doubt that the Bushes would love to
get rid of the America First, Trump endorsed, Paxton.
That’s why I donated what little I could to Paxton. Also I was really annoyed at Gohmert for being a splitter. I thought he had a brain, guess not.
This morning on the Posobeic podcast the guest was James O’Keefe. They talked about the big-donor problem with all the RINOs under “elite merger” to Pig Pharma, Chyna, etc.
They agreed the only way to solve it is to support the good candidates with as many small donations as possible. I know it’s hard right now…
There are too many people here in the U.S. alone who would love to get rid of ALL the America First Trump loving people.
If they were to stand to be counted, we would notice they don’t add up to $hit or $hinola. But, what would stand out is the interesting way they cluster in positions of influence.
It’s all about extinguishing the medium, and the way they wield it, to spread the propaganda.
have read that lots of farmers are going to plant soybeans in stead of corn.soybeans need a whole lot less of fertilizer.
Ethanol is used because it is a oxidizing agent and promotes cleaner combustion. They used MTBE (methyl tertiary butyl ether) in the 90s and into early 2000s, but it started showing up in aquifers and was contaminating ground water.
Ethanol took its place.
country boy can survive…
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day.
Teach a man to fish and he will sit all day in a boat and drink beer.
Teach a man to fish and he’ll drop $20,000 on a deluxe bass boat with echo-locating fish finder
Wanted Ad — Good woman who can clean and cook fish , must have boat and motor.
Send picture of boat and motor 🙂
lol
Looks like you have not priced a deluxe bass boat recently. $20K is the down payment. New delux bass boats touch $100K.
I’ll stick to a cane pole and slough bank 🙂
Just passed a guy turning into the marina at Ky Dam. $70,000+ black Denali with a top of the line Ranger( 110,000 plus 40,000 or more in misc. equip.
Son in law is a fishing guide who does a lot of repairs to bass boats. Most of his customers never question his prices, they just want it done.
Let’s go fishing!
……Biden administration bans fishing because it is “rooted in racism”.
Media applauds the move.
“Fish equity” trends on twitter…..
Followed by “fish justice”.
AOC ends up saying something stupid about something somehow related to fish.
Lol
And, what you describe, is spot on the truth of our world today.
“Fishermen all want to DATE me!”?
With the ridiculous woke bullshit going after Native American names, saw where the term “Squaw” will be outlawed. So, does that mean Squaw fish that take over fresh water lakes and rivers have to be left alone to destroy trout populations? You can’t kill what you can’t identify. sarc
Correct!
Going after “Squaw” fish would be “Targeting”.
Also be fish profiling
Kamala will tell us that fish swim in the water.
Right after she carefully explains that water is wet.
Fish Lives Matter.
Except in Michigan. Lol
Remember when governor Whitman banned garden supplies and seeds?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/nicksibilla/2020/04/16/michigan-bans-many-stores-from-selling-seeds-home-gardening-supplies-calls-them-not-necessary/?sh=2e7399ab5f80
Operation Market-Garden , WW ll
New version – Operation Blackmarket Garden
“Hoarders! Turn in your neighbors, these “survivalists” who are stockpiling, and even growing their own food!
THEY are all Putin-loving white supremacist granny killing anti-vaxxers, and all of your troubles are all THEIR fault!”
Oh no Dutchman, will storing food be illegal because it is “too white” and all of our food storage will be confiscated and considered contraband.
Looks like she was ahead of the global plan.
Given the hysterical climate propaganda coming from the IPCC, western governments and NGOs, could it be that they have a depopulation goal in mind?
And if so, could they have been pushing toward this result intentionally?
So…….you’ve noticed.
The WEF wants to ban cows due to methane.
Cows produce fertilizer.
Can WEF say sh*t out of luck?
Like petroleum is used for more than just gasoline, cows are used for more than just steak.
Sometimes if you want the milk, you have to buy the cow.
If you want to deprive other people of the milk you buy the cow.
I know how that works.
Find your freinds who have cows and chickens great fertilizer, not to mention rabbits too.
We have hundred’s and hundred’s of pounds of the stuff.
Maybe it will finally be useful.
Probably why the back edge of my yard where the rabbits all live is so fertile…
Rabbit manure is the best fertilizer. Not too hot like chicken fertilizer and it doesn’t stink.
Holistic animal husbandry, with cows, can turn desert into fertile land. See the work of Allan Savory.
The WEF is not interested in the fertility of the world. They just want to eliminate people.
Now is the time to remind every Republican voter you discuss politics with– we are stuck with these problems because McConnell and the GOP establishment held the gate open for the election fraud that put Biden in. They are, to this day, still blaming Trump as much as they are Biden for our problems.
Heck, they are blaming Trump MORE than they are blaming Biden.
He set the DC establishment goals back by four years.
Chamber of Commerce is likely a local affiliate of WEF. Same people, same ideology, same goals.
The GOP position on selling farm land to China: wonderful.
All these “leading” figures controlling business, banking, farming, and finance are all cozy with people advocating one world government and 95% population culling but somehow we are lectured to cry “Putin Evil” and focus all our attention on Ukraine.
Have refused to even enter any store that even suggests it welcomes the Chamber, let alone puts that sign up saying they are endorsed by them. Been that way for years. Chamber has never been a friend of the regular person.
Just think, ChiCom Mitch’s strategy for the mid-terms is not to have a Republican’t agenda beyond, “but we’re not FJB or Demoncraps, vote for us!!!”
Not FJB, but little better than PedoJoe.
ChiCom Mitches strategy for the midterms, working in close cooperation with Pelousi,…is to do everything they can to blunt the MAGA wave they see coming, using every concievable trick in their book.
Redraw Congressional districts.
Run “splitter” Maga candidates.
Rig primary and general elections.
Use propoganda to demonise MAGA candidates.
Argue MAGA candidates are ‘insurrectionists’, therefore unelectable.
The Uniparty is “All in” as they recognise 2022 and 2024 is where they either “hold the line” against the MAGA insurgency, or lose control of the Republican Party.
Sadly so, Dutchman.
=> Exactly why President Trump’s burnishing his “Endorsement Record” as his antidote to focus all America-First Patriots on the team we must elect to UNIFY!
Uniparty.
Populist, Do you know the difference between the communist in Russia and the Communist in Washington? The communist in Russia will steal your wallet, the snakes in DC with steal your wallet and then help you look for it.
Serious question: didn’t Trump endorse cocaine Mitch in 2020?
If yes, WTF was he thinking?
Rock and a hard place. The democrat would have won.
Fine. Given after one year with a Democrat in Oval office, and several years of Dems control of Congress, their cratering popularity makes it clear having Dems win is NOT at all good for their brand.
Personally, given that McConnell did far more to hurt US and PDJT than Pelosi did, I would take that trade off, of a Democrat Senator representing Kentucky, if thats what it takes ti get rid of McConnell. HE would be out of leadership,and the Dem would be a freshmen.
Actually, wasn’t that the calculation behind the Tea party? In attempting to primary Republicans i leadership, there was always the risk of losing the general.
To my mind, its WORTH it.
I agree it’s worth it.
But we’d have to primary John Thune too while we’re at it. Also need to figure out who are the next 3 or 4 players MitchBitch has lined up already… and primary them.
If he’s not primaried , i will vote for the democrat. I’ve voted for the slimey bastard ever since he snuck into KY and claimed to be a long time resident and for the common man.
No more, i’m done with him and everybody like him.
If Trump had been allowed to take office (bc he WON), he would have needed to have friends, including McConnell.
As good as Pres. Trump was, though, too many were infected with
SWAMP infection.
It is actually a cheap shot (in my book) to blame him.
This is why I, personally do NOT take the view that I will vote for anyone who PDJT endorses.
A leader can only do so much, and those he leads, those who follow the leader have obligations beyond blind obedience.
PDJT needs to maintain the BRAND of his endorsements; they have to MEAN “Winner”, otherwise they haveclittle value.
In a given contest, IF there is a STRONG MAGA candidate, doing WELL in the polls, etc. (see KariLake as an example) of COARSE PDJT will endorse them.
However, in a contest with only a RINO running, or with a MAGA candidate doing poorly, unfortunately PDJT has to endorse the Rino, even if they are a schmuck.
It is up to US, to put forward MAGA cadidates, and WORK HARD within our districts, county and States, to give PDJT Strong, popular candidates he can comfortably endorse.
And, its up to us to have the political sophistication to recognise these political realities, and to recognise that voting for “whoever Trump endorses” is no different than voting for “whoever the Republican candidate is” and its how we ended up with RINOS ruling Congress.
Keep doing what we’ve “always done” we’ll keep getting what we’ve always got, which is SHAFTED.
To break the cycle, you HAVE to change YOUR behavior, even though its uncomfortable, cause YOUR behavior is all you can control.
So, how about doing what you CAN to control the selection process (getting involved in local Republican party and campaigns) and, when you get into the booth, ONLY voting for a Cadidate you truly feel represents you, NOT because they are a lesser weavil?
When there is only a rino running, that is the time to cross the line and ask for a democrap instead of a republicant. They gotta be for conservative something some time.
Wasn’t thinking at all. He should have finagled a couple of “recess appointments” before he endorsed. But he was so politically naive.
There was the “rule” no recess appointments while he was in office, remember? Only the democraps get to do that.
There should be a law that no farmland can be sold to another country or a citizen of another country. PERIOD.
or Bill Gates?
“At some point, you’ve bought enough farmland”
States could set an amount of farmland that is considered a monopoly when under the control of one person or a group of the same individuals or organizations. Control would need to be defined in a way that identifies the appearance of diversity vs actual control through multiple alliances among individuals or entities.
Yrah, just what we need,….
MORE laws, rules and regulations which they will inevitable manipulate the writingor enforcing of, to benefit THEM, and screw US.
Foreign countries have been buying and cultivating in the U.S. for many years.
Him too.
Sorry, it does not work that way. If you want to give another country your money in exchange for something of value, they have to be able to spend the money you give them.
If you restrict the money you are handing out, your money comes with restrictions and has less value.
Most countries do the opposite, they ban you from selling them things of value. That is why we have these insane trade balances that leave them with all our dollars and nothing to spend it on, forcing them to buy land or companies etc.
But our spenders in Congress love it, because they buy federal bonds etc., funding our wasteful spending and enslaving our grand kids with debt.
If you ban sales of farmland, gas goes to $20 a gallon.
Not necessarily…..we just need to allow the U.S. to become energy independent AGAIN.
If you are going to run trade deficits, you must also have deficit spending to create the debt instruments for others to hold on their balance sheet. The two go hand in hand.
Otherwise, you create a treasury shortage. Congress will make absolutely sure there is no treasury shortage 🙂
Okay, but …
other countries do not let non-citizens buy up land.
Sure, you can go shopping for luxury goods, stay in hotels, and eat at their finest restaurants.
However, buying farmland is regulated, prohibited, requires joint-purchase with a citizen, etc.
OK but,
The USD is the world reserve currency. There are trillions stacked everywhere because it is considered money good. Money is held by smart people.
As soon as you move protectionist what happens? The smart people will ask what is next!
What just happened in Canada? The bank froze accounts. Even the dumb people figured they better get their money out.
Two days later a shaken and twitching Freeland appeared. We know why. It started a cash run on the banks and they were going to run out of cash if they did not immediately reverse themselves.
Restrict the money and you create a treasury dump fest. This will dive the dollar forcing up interest rates. Interest rates would necessarily skyrocket.
Everyone holding Treasuries as collateral just got punked. Inflation will skyrocket because the dollar now buys less.
If George Soros had advance notice on this move, he would make the killing of his life. Your reward is $20 gas.
Been saying that same thing for 50+ years, but they do it here all the time…..but those who have the resources seem to allow the rules/laws (whatever you want to decide to call them) be broken if they want to. Nobody has to pay the price for broken laws any more.
I imagine I cannot buy land in China.
(They are commies and nobody owns land)
Nobody can buy a house in MX. Lease or rent. Buy, no. I can’t buy land in JAPAN, either. I am not Japanese. Japan was the world’s China in the 1o80s and 1990s. So, yeah.
Laws are so yesterday. /s
And kick out the ones who have purchased our farmland.
You mean, like every other country in the world…??
Who’s really playing ‘4D Chess’? I don’t think it’s the State Dept, Biden WH, or Pentagon.
It’s all spelled out at Davos/Bilderburg/WEF. They openly brag about it. Tactical details change based on chance but the objectives and methods are not hidden.
It’s not 4D chess either. It’s just old fashioned evil that never goes out of fashion with our elites. Only this time, they had total control over media/Hollywood/education/law to bring it all into reality.
A reality soon to be of Biblical proportion, I tell ya!
Heh, the Biden admin couldnt win at checkers.
They usurped the presidency, threw open the southern border, made the USA dependent on foreign energy again, tricked more than half of America into getting genetically modified, and more.
Seems like they’re winning pretty good.
Seems like you have hit the nail on the head……I’m gonna award you all the rest of the nails too.
They are playing checkers
Plant your Gardens as soon as Possible while seeds and gardening utensils are still available.
Since Biden was installed, I have been vacuum packing ammo and seeds.
Heirloom seed packs are hot items on Facebook.
Get some while you can.
Why should you vacuum pack ammo ?
Dont draw a hard vacuum on ammo!!!
To keep out moisture.
I don’t want my shot shells for rabbits, squirrels, and birds to spoil due to wetness and mold.
I could use a .308 tree!
Dillon, Lee, RCBS, Redding, etc.?
Do Not Tell All your friends and neighbors. Otherwise you leave yourself wide open for theft when things get desperate .
And be sure to seed save from your crop for next year when seeds may really be scarce.
No. Its been going on. We have been too distracted by other events to notice.
Not that the MSM would investigate and inform us.
Thirteen Days of the Cuban Missile CrisisWhy Putin Invaded Ukraine – and what’s really going on
https://maajidnawaz.substack.com/p/thirteen-days-of-the-cuban-missile?r=m7mcm&s=r&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
Excellent article !
Great article, thank you!
How are we going to feed the 2 million illegal aliens arriving per year. With a food crisis can we expect that to increase to 2 million per month.
Eat them.
Soylent Green.
It’s what’s going to be for dinner!
It’s the Green New Deal!
A deal so good you”ll eat it up!
It already is. Research “Impossible burgers”… and other “foods” and you’ll find out.
yuuk
The Road -with Viggo Mortensen.
I love Mexican food!
Simple, the illegals get fed first.
aoc said to just print more food stamps.
Outstanding!
Why do you think they were allowed to travel through the other countries to get here?
But, but, but, they get stuff free…..after all they just got here and are not equipped to fend for themselves.\s
Many Treepers will recall Bill Gates massive purchase of US farmland.
2/4/21– childrenshealthdefense.org
Now today , I just read Bill Gates may be taking control of GLOBAL seed banks.
No link – open source , do some searches , many results.
Control the food…control the people.
Simple.
Henry Kissingers EXACT statement – To control nations control OIL.
To control people , control FOOD
If Trump were inaugurated, as he should have been, he could ramp up fertilizer production in no time.
But if Trump were, we wouldn’t be in a warm war with Russia and China.
Nitrogen is all around us. Even the inventor of the first process to extract nitrogen from air won a Nobel prize because that would help feed the world.
We are idiots to have let our enemies do so much that is necessary for our lives. But we will be even greater idiots if we in the west can’t go back to doing the things we invented.
But, while we can and should, how does this play into WEF plans and will we actually save lives or let people starve to death while blaming enemies?
God makes plant food….each bolt of lightning creates Nitrogen oxide as it streaks through the atmosphere
“We are idiots to have let our enemies do so much that is necessary for our lives.”
This is essentially a variant of the Morgenthau Plan, a scheme by one of Roosevelt’s communist underlings to systematically remove knowledge on how to maintain an industrial society from German heads, making them ignorant and dependent. Now, it’s being done to us.
The communist criminal Fascist Left need to be destroyed, not just defeated in November 2022. There is simply no way you can coexist with these people.
Either they destroy us or we assimilate to their ways.
To coexist is to assimilate.
There’s not too much time to think about driving and fuel prices when one is starving. Lower your expectations.
And have a Margharita while you’re at it.
Makes you sound like the current resident…..that is what he says.
The Chicago Mercantile Exchange has been regularly tripping circuit breakers, trading is halted due to price increases reaching the daily limit. The wheat circuit breaker tripped before the open yesterday and I believe again today. Yup, we’re effed. Buckle up buttercup it’s about to get bumpy.
AgriCensus
US wheat futures touch limits again, exceeding $10/bu
10 hours ago
JoeBama has three more years to empty the shelves and starve us into submission. Build back better or bust.
I have a feeling JoeBama wont need three more years
One or two more will do.
I have a feeling he won’t last three more years.
I believe the plan is to “bust, then build back better, or something…”
The RED LINE: 2022 elections.
If fraud impacts key radical wins, including TURNCOAT RHINOs, another two years of investigations is NOT an OPTION.
And then you have the state of California choosing to divert water from farmers in order to save a few dozen fish.
Delta smelt isn’t even a native fish to the area….kind of like when they talked about the owls to shut down the national forests in our NW…it had migrated from other previously harvested forest areas
I remember Rush highlighting a picture of the owls nesting in a billboard after the enviro wackos saying they would die without being able to nest in trees. Lol
Which caused farmers and ranchers in Californias Central Valley to pump and severly deplete groundwater too quickly for the subsurface reservoirs to replenish water resulting in their collapse and thus preventing them to collect water. From what I have heard and read.
Then they tried to build high speed elevated rail on land undergoing aquifer compaction, and couldnt keep things lined up.
Check out the building, not just using ground water quickly. More homes/apartment building, more water necessary. Just look at all the new ones.
…..while they refuse to build dams to contain water.
Looks to me that it’s time to nationalize ANY farmland owned by foreign interests not on America’s good side ie Rush’s excrement list.
Trouble is we have too many politicians owned by and serving foreign interests which makes nationalizing farm and ranch land a bad idea.
and we have a regime in power that thinks/believes instead of USA First, they think “USA Last”
DC would be very happy if millions of Americans died off due to either starvation, war, or plandemic….They will get rid of those pesky “white supremacists” one way or the other.
Fertilizer prices currently at an all time high and there is a possibility of shortages heading into the growing season.
Bloomberg | Feb 23, 2022
https://www.farmprogress.com/fertilizer/fertilizer-shortages-due-russia-ukraine-conflict-may-hit-us-growing-season
“Wars, rumors of wars, famine, pestilence, earthquakes.”
Cue the earthquakes.
A Revelation checklist.
Nukes.
Where’s E.T. ?
No, we need Klaatu and Gort.
Nah, I never liked that Klaatu dude.
He struck me as a leftist control freak.
Kinds fits into the Earth destroyed by Fire prophecy.
I live in the center where 65% of the Nations fruits/vegetables are produced and 75% of nuts. No farmer I know is going to cutback on fertilizer. The bigger issue is lack of water. so far we are in a severe drought.
As a side note there are almost an unlimited amount land which could be farmed if the Libtard environmental wackos would get out of the way and allow water projects. It reminds me of a pauper sleeping on a mattress of gold, but won’t spend a bit of it to buy a cup-of-coffee.
When America gets back control over it’s own affairs, and I believe we will sooner than later, we must get CA back in the farming business again in full. That’s another self inflicted wound on Americans for liberal dumb sh_it.
I like hearing your on the ground reports from CA farm country.
CA has lost all of its tree farming also…..no avocados hardly, no oranges hardly, grapefruit seldom, grapes (except for wine) hardly. I can remember as a child going to see an aunt along the now interstate 5 and seeing nothing but orange groves from north of LA all the way to San Diego County.
Sometimes it’s hard, in fact, almost impossible, to believe we are all children of the same God.
We’re all God’s creation. We’re not all God’s children. Jesus Himself told the Sanhedrin “You are of your father, the devil.” (Jn 8:44)
Galations 3 says the inheritance goes to Abraham’s seed, meaning Isaac, not Ishmael. The sons of Isaac and the sons of Ishmael are at war still, to this very day.
We are all children of God and right now and for several years past, he is very angry with all of us.
Not for me. Some children are just going to rebel and do bad things.
Many choose to be adopted children of Satan, the father of lies and illusions.
Occam’s Razor:
Many of the richest and most powerful people in the world (Warren Buffett, Bill Gates, Ted Turner etc.) believe that the world is vastly over-populated.
The so-called environmental movement always boils down to a conviction that over-population is the root cause of most of our problems.
The environmentalists are strongly opposed to using DDT to fight malaria – far and away Africa’s biggest problem.
The great Canadian thinker and writer George Jonas said that what fascism and communism were to the 20th century, environmentalism would be to the 21st century.
Hitler believed that if he killed enough people and the right people he would take Germany to paradise. Strip away the excess verbiage and this is exactly what most mainstream, mainstream leftists believe today.
Build back better? Build back after what?
Stalin killed more people than Hitler, and he mostly used starvation.
at their core they consider man to be an evil foisted upon nature and yet their solution to ANY problem is government….an organization populated by MAN
The difference is that they think they will be the ruling MEN.
government is full of very arrogant, egotistical and evil men.
They project too much.
NAZI doctors did not just die and disappear after the war , the were brought out in OPERATION PAPERCLIP
What did Putin just say ? — He is going to De-Nazify Ukraine.
( Thinking that means its a nest of mad scientists )
Look up the AZOV Battalion
They worship Hitler, wear German uniforms and are a bunch of thugs.
I think Putin was referring to them and others like them.
Like Thanos?
You will eat nothing and be happy.
How smoothly things just happen to be progressing toward the bursting of the worldwide Everything Bubble and the start of The Great Reset.
Next up, the invasion of Taiwan at some point in the future, probably on the RINOs’ watch..
It would make sense for China to horde goods concerning food, and foodstuffs as well. They don’t have the geography to feed their population as it is. I bet they have been stockpiling food for a while now, especially during the years that the Trump economic policies put them under pressure.
Seen estimates as low as 11% on China’s available arable land; no wonder they shop out-of-country for farms.
America, on the other hand…. absolutely God’s country. In a pinch we’re all farming on the square-foot plan, and up from there.
China is stockpiling food at historically high levels and now has more than half of the world’s maize and other grains. By mid-2022, the country is estimated to hold 69% of the world’s corn reserves, 60% of rice, and 51% of wheat.
https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/china-stockpiling-food-at-historically-high-levels/
Lo jive.
Tender, delicate hands on Xi.
We are at war.
With the fraud in the White House we are in heap big trouble.
We have been at war for a long time. We will remain that way for a longer time.
Add global cooling to the equation and we’ve got some rough times ahead. Lower crop yields, shorter growing seasons.
Add a volcanic eruption or two and pretty soon you have a year without a summer, like when Kraketoa erupted.
Vermont experienced famine — no crops could be grown for a year or two.
There was a massive out migration. At one time much of Vermont had been turned into fields. After the years with no summer, the trees came back.
So, my summary…
military<financial<food
If China knew about it, the US government knew about it. Bet on it.
Love to see the transcripts of Biden and his”good friend Xi”.
I would love to know all about the conversations that were on going btw US and China about Russia’s future invasion of Ukraine. Meanwhile, China and Russia were making a $120 Billion gas and oil deal which was announce to the world during the Olympics. That’s why Putin attended…but not Biden.
The Lapdog Media and politicians are completely mute on the details on the orchestrations btw. these Countries. .
but, but, the American people are too stupid to understand, so we can’t tell them what is really going on…..that won’t do….that is what the politicians say. That is why they lie….all the time.
Just a friendly reminder to those who grow food in the yard, our hair is full of nitrogen and I have taken hair from my brush, pushed it into the soil of a dying plant and it was back to normal the next day. This wont help big farms- but it’s just good info to have.
I just learned something. Thanks.
Tree people are best people 🙂
Grass clippings are nitrogen, add some to water and let it set for 3 days .. then water your plants.
epsom salt will help the plant take in nutrients
Coffee grounds are nitrogen and great to add in the garden.
I had been using coffee grounds for my flowers until last fall, read somewhere on the web that it actually hurt them instead of helping.
I should have looked to find confirmatory sources. Anyway, I have plenty of daily coffee grounds to spread around.
I went to the doctor and he told me I have some blood in my coffeestream.
Coffee grounds are an excellent well-balanced fertilizer. God knows how much this country loves coffee! Places like Starbucks GIVE AWAY their used coffee grounds! While that may not be enough for a farm, it may help suppliment a home garden.
I guess bald folk are outta luck.
Doh! Can still use coffee grounds and egg shells 👍🏼😅
To grow Hair~~~
Yes! Coffee grounds are an excellent well-balanced fertilizer. Egg shells not only add calcium, but also improve the soil texture.
Interesting. The amino acids(proteins) in the hair have nitrogen. You know I would of thought this was far-fetched, but it may just work. I’m gonna think about that when temperatures rise.
Have horses or neighbors with them? Use the mane and tail hairs from brushing, and the shedding coat (it’s that time again) hairs, too. Hey, we can do this! Got a dog or cat or rabbit? Heck, yeah!
Dog hair.
Biden’s speech on winter of death amidst port backlogs means the Ukraine thing was sheduled for sooner than it played out.
There was a LOT of fertilizer spread last night in the SOTU speech.
Well at least Xiden will have a retirement business then.
Most of it probably in Jobidens pants
Hunger, and I mean real hunger, will make anybody do things they never thought possible of themselves until they become too weak or sickly to do anything.
All I know is when there is a world wide food shortage I want President Trump to be in office in the White House! That vegetable, dolt, village idiot ChiCom Joe will just cave to Xi Jinping! God help us! Hosanna!
This was just a month ago- fire in fertilizer plant in North Caroline:
I find timing to be very suspicious…
Big one went down in Belarus too IIRC
Sure have been so many Fertilizer plant explosions while Bill Gates has been buying up Farm Land.
Big fire at a fertilizer plant in Sunny side Washington on the 21st
I heard it here first.
Apparently the real deaths from covid wasn’t that high. They can’t knock off enough with the vaccines, so here we are with the old standby, starvation. If that doesn’t work I’d be worried about nukes.
In 1815, the human population first hit the 1 billion mark. In 1946, we were looking at 3 and 3/4 billion. Today, we are rapidly approaching 8 billion. Two things have driven this population explosion, the first being advances in medical care for infants, children and pregnant women, and the second being chemical fertilizers.
The latter translates into calories. Fewer calories will trigger massive population decline, and it will be quite swift because roughly 1 and 1/3 billion are subsisting at near starvation levels as we speak.
….also increasing availability of cheap, reliable ENERGY….it not only increases food production but is used in the life-saving drugs we ingest, provides heating/cooling in extreme environments (lived in the Mojave Desert where temps regularly hit 120+ in summer) AND enabled transport networks to move the critical goods from production to consumption sites
Interesting comment Kroesus.
If we do get to a point where food is scarce I wonder how our lives might be disrupted in other ways.
Will we still have the comfort of air con for the very hot regions of the US that so many live in now very comfortably with air conditioning but with out it life can be miserable.
Also nice easy peasy heat for the house that does not involve cutting wood.
Will our lives go on exactly as they are now just with a lot less food.
Or will we be without much of the comforts that we take for granted.
Will we be able to cook and preserve our food in the kitchens we have now.
I suppose all we can do is try to store our food and hope for the best on the rest of everything.
I does make me wonder thought that if we get that low on food in the US that life as we know it will change drastically.
Folks like the Amish will survive quite nicely, thank you very much.😉
The poorest of the poor are already unlikely to survive the plandemic aftermath. Fertilizer shortages will bury the next layer up. God’s beloved children. Wonder what He thinks of the people doing this on purpose….
I support The Brooke at http://www.thebrooke.org
It is a charity that renders aid to working equines whose owners need them to scratch out a living in places where humans subsist on $1 a day. It is eye opening. God have mercy on these hard working, destitute people and the animals that they rely upon.
Evil is pressing us hard.
PERHAPS… the plus side will be farmers and ranchers will stop poisoning the population with their chinese GMO seeds and Chemicals (saving our lakes and streams) or…. humanity will learn to grow organic themselves and reduce the need for china either way.
Boom!
Nice.
Local COGIC congregation had a nifty sign:
Eternity. Smoking or non-smoking?
Sheep keep electing wolves instead of sheep dogs.
Yes a terrible recession is coming and people will fight for necessities. The Russians aren’t leaving and if the West intervenes Moscow will respond in the only way it can win, nuclear war.
Pravda, The Russian Propaganda News, Reveals what Putin will do with Ukraine
– The Russian Federation will negotiate a ceasefire with elements of the Ukrainian Military.
– A military government will be installed in Ukraine. The new military government will then carry out reforms with a tough hand before the Russian military police leave Ukraine.
– The Russians will be there a long time, stating denazification and demilitarization take a lot of time, meaning they will kill off the right sector types in the nation.
– The new military government in Ukraine will then hold a number of referendums in all regions of the country, but this is not going to happen in a year or two. It will most likely be possible when Russia rebuilds its economic ties with Ukraine.
– So the Russians are not leaving and they are going to eventually divide Ukraine into a number of smaller states. They plan to rebuild its economy via a puppet military government.
Dividing it into a bunch of tiny states in the end is probably their way of making sure Ukraine can never rise again as an enemy nation.
Interesting. As far as I’m concerned, everything the West is doing is just talk as long as they are consuming Russian oil. And they know it. Did you get this info about Russia’s plans from from the privately owned site (https://www.pravda.ru/) or the communist party run site (www.gazeta-pravda.ru/)? I’m just curious.
Since you really only need three things (air, water, food) to survive, cutting off air would kill everyone —- cutting off or restricting potable water would be too obvious —- so, food shortages is all that’s left in their quest for complete control.
End the use of corn for ethanol and return those millions/billions of bushels of corn to the food supply! That’s a no brainer!
In case we aren’t connecting the dots to our reality, this will impact animal feed (wheat, corn, oats, barley, etc). While my animals graze across the small acreage, a base amount of feed is necessary and especially during winter. Where do people think Grocery store meat comes from? Methinks my quarter acre garden just got expanded to an acre+. Maybe the neighbors will appreciate it as well as the animals. Definitely Depression Era attitude. And I think I’ll keep those obnoxious roosters for propagation in the chicken yard even though I had them scheduled for Freezer Camp.
I MISS TRUMP!!!!
Thank you Sundance. The Communists in our midst don’t understand food production. Unbelievable.
Dear Globalist POS’s: We are not going to eat crickets and “beyond meat” lab concoctions. Ain’t happenin. Chicken, steaks, fresh corn, ‘taters, watermelon, fresh homemade ice cream, etc.
In a battle between BRICS, and WEF, its really hard for me to side with WEF.
Its like the “choice” dictated to us by our elections, where I no longer choose to vote for the “lesser of two weavils”.
I equate China with Dems, and WEF with Rinos.
Sure as heck am NOT for China (CCP), or for Dems, but ain’t for WEF, or Rinos, either.
Only one person who could possibly sort out this mess, and no respectfully its not Desantis, although he could help.
Moreover, as his first term demonstrated, WE need to do this, PDJT can not be viewed as fixing this FOR us.
WE need to do this, by engaging in this battle on multiple fronts, supporting PDJT being but one.