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)
If Russia and China are collaborating, the ‘intelligence’ seeded into China to influence Russia w.r.t. Ukraine was actually U.S. deep state getting played
The Deep State / Soros Color Revolutions pretty much destroyed democracy and took Globalization along with it. No way China & Russia will experiment with democracy if it leads to what we lived through in November of 2020. And because they can’t rule out CIA influence in their media, it will result in media / internet restrictions also, probably to the point where each nation has its own internet. So, in the end, George Soro’s Open Society Initiative will result in a globe of “Closed Societies“… democracy was our only real export, but now that the globalists corrupted it, what does the West have to offer China? After a Century of Humiliation, they are not going to be governed from Davos, Switzerland… as we refuse to be as well.
And the only thing we can do is try to get these cretins out of out own democracy, if we can. (sigh)
Collaboration in plain sight. The delay was requested, apparently, to allow the Winter Olympics to finish uninterrupted. Priorities.
no doubt china didnt want the winter olympics ruined by this invasion… was kind of obvious too
They could not kill em with Covid so let’s starve em to death.
BBB
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666
Revelations
Historically, populations were controlled by the following.
Eventually something will win out.
FJB will bring all three in his stolen presidency
Behold A Pale Brandon
Biden is the only one that could hit that trifecta.
And then explain how we are better off.
It’s PDJT’s fault of course.
Man, what a week. Not sure I can stand much more good news here at the house. I’m about ready to jump on the sword.
Don’t give them that.
Endeavour to persevere Rem… Endeavour to persevere.
I’ll second that.
They gave us Covid, then war, and then famine.
WEF plan to reduce the human herd shall no be stopped.
Funny thing is, it’s not the West that is overpopulated.
Just ask Hank Johnson.
Tippy Hank, Cynthia McKenney’s successor.
I, personally, think Hank Rutherford Hill has a better grasp of life, the Universe, and everything.
Not to mention propane and propane accessories.
DEPOPULATION
What’s Vegas paying for hitting a this trifecta? The resident wants to know.
Exactly what the Nazis did during WW2 with infected insects with Entomological warfare.
USA is ruled by Traitors and Neo-Bolshevik Fools….
Don’t discount the compete imbeciles among them also.
Explain how Sandy Cortez became a ‘ruler’ of the USA, please. She has a “how to apply make-up video” on youtube.
And a video of how a garbage disposal works cuz she’d never seen one before.
It’s easy. She’s an actress. She was auditioned and hired for the role.
I notice no one ever mentions hydroponics as a way to grow food. I have several friends who commercially grow, herbs, strawberries, tomatoes, berries, hydroponically and it has been great for them. It is very efficient as to water use and can be done in any climate. If I were to go back into farming, I would be a hydroponic farmer.
Fandog love your posts but I’m in the biz and unfortunately that won’t work it would for your own consumption, but on a commercial scale no…. drip irrigation is the rage now and so is un sequestration of natural amounts of NPK in the soil profile. The feedlots are full the crops are going in and yes it’s more expensive. But don’t discount the American producer they will have struggles but we won’t back down no matter what China, Russia or any other foreign gang tries to cook up….
I was the first grower to use drip irrigation in my district. I grew fruit trees.
I do know farmers who do grow crops commercially using hydroponics. You can’t grow hay , cotton, wheat, soybeans commercially with hydroponics. I know a large wheat grower in Oregon who grows strawberries commercially using hydroponics. Another friend of mine, a large hay grower grows tomatoes commercially using hydroponics.
I wonder if they will have issues getting the nutrients with this fertilizer “problem”? I need to check the prices, now that I think about it. I grow lettuce for personal use and I am running low on the nutrients.
Get Americans to raise rabbits in the back yard…Quiet, and their poop is great for fertilizer. Trade for some veggies, trade rabbit meat.
Interesting. What would it take to build a 80 acre hydroponics farm?
80 acres would be one hell of a operation……………..there is a 30-acre hydroponic operation near Monahans, Texas (West Texas). It produces 880,000 pounds of tomatoes annually. – that’s 90% of tomatoes consumed in Texas.
https://www.esadevelopmentllc.com/tomatoes
The link article has some production stats for “greenhouse” gardening/hydroponic which is the most productive. Water is not wasted, it gets recycled.
With hydroponics you really don’t need more than a 1/4 acre to grow something as strawberries, herbs, tomatoes, commercially.
Heck, I was just thinking for my back yard to feed us, 80 acres!
Don’t you need electricity for lighting on the crops and power for heating. And what do you do for security when the city folks come looking for food?
The easiest solution for the City people, you think of them as varmints and shoot them. Lol
As far as electricity power needs even 1/4 acre is less power demand than farming something as a 1,000 acres commercially.
Shoot Shovel Shut up
My country upbringing took me about a millisecond to comprehend.
I like your thinking!
You can use a greenhouse. Sunlight is fine for regular growing. You do need electricity to run the pumps.
I need to look into hydroponics. I thought special lighting was necessary to grow crops to maximize output. Also thought you need to heat building in winter and perhaps some AC in summer. But if 1/4 acre can produce as much as 1000 acres, perhaps small generators can suffice if you lose the grid.
1,000 acres of wheat is not the same as 1,000 acres of strawberries. It is like a million dollar diamond is not the same as a million dollars worth of feathers. It is like to compare apples and oranges.
No light man makes is better than the God given sun
Depends upon where one lives. The Pacific Northwest needs a bit of help.
The Amish use wood stoves in theiR greenhouses in the winter
I can see many of our neighbors looking to their Amish neighbors for advice and guidance.
For Christmas I was given a small hydroponic system called a Gardyn. I was skeptical but I have to say that after the initial 3 weeks sprouting I get enough salad greens for 2 people plus some other things like herbs, peppers and cherry tomatoes. In a very compact space.
Fertilizer of course. Win-win situation.
Out here in the country many folks has a garden and/or a few animals. The ones who do, shrug off them being of any use in a SHTF scenario unless you can stand armed guard over them 24/7.
That will require community vigilance. Not to sound all “it takes a village” nonsense. Rather a community standing together to protect it’s members and resources. I can see this possibility where I live in rural WNY. We’re patriotic Americans who look out for each other.
Still need fertilizer.
Composting is not something people are remembering. Nor nitrogen fixing cover crops.
To use them means less production, but no dependency upon a foreign nation.
Another idea:
Not using a phosphate based hand dishwashing detergent like 7th Generation hand dish liquid to wash your dishes means you can use the end water to water plants. The food particles are so so small they break down rapidly in the soil.
They are a bit more pricey, and you have to do the dishes by hand, but if you are a home gardener, it may make the need for fertilizer moot.
I use a bar soap specifically created for washing dishes, from Goat Milk Stuff. No kidding, that’s the name of the business. They sell great soaps and lotions.
My dishes are clean and my hands don’t look like alligator hide.
I remember in the 50s my dad being a person with a green thumb who loved it to garden and grow food. He had a set up where our washing machine drained straight into the garden and where the water went it was greener. I wondered how he thought that soap was good for the garden but I guess he knew what he was doing. I was talking to my sister about this the other day.
Brilliant idea!
I use Palmolive dish soap.
https://www.gardeningchannel.com/using-dishwater-to-water-plants-which-greywater-is-safe-in-the-garden/
ABSOLUTELY!!!
Composting is so simple and easy! Along with coffee grounds and cured manure, a home gardener should have plenty of fertilizer.
Cover crops seem to be a lost wisdom in agriculture, along with field rotation. Fertilized with manure, this not only protects the soil from overuse and depletion, but it allows it time to replenish it’s nutrients.
Btw I’m a Certified Master Gardener through the Cornell Cooperative Extension service.
I am NOT an expert in veggie gardening or animal husbandry. I defer to my fellow Treepers who have access to such expertise.
1/4 acre of fertilizer requirement is way less than 1,000 acres of a viable commercial farm. Hydroponic is not a subacute for conventional farming, but some crops are ideal.
Urban people could use Hydroponics as perhaps a better means than a traditional garden. Easier to control pests, longer season, harsher climates. etc.. The internet has tons of information in regard to hydroponic growing.
I’ve seen some impressive swimming pool conversions that incorporate hydroponics and fish. Pretty cool little urban operations.
Aquaculture
Fish in a pond which the water is used to fertilize crops
Less fertilzer means less crops per acreage. Lees crops per acre means less corn for livestock which means less meat which the Greenies are pushing.
Hence the military seeking and offering a prize to anyone who can 3D print garbage as food! SOYLENT GREEN!
Grass fattened taste pretty good
Maybe aquaponics as well. Two birds. Fish and veggies.
I have yet to see one commercially run.
In Tucson it’s done with fish in the mix, which adds fertilizer and provides food too.
Electricity and fertilizer
Getting my indoor sprouts ready.
Corn, beans, squash
The 3 sisters
Now if I could just find some affordable fertilizer
(Chicks price about to go up, too)
Go old school completely! The 3 sisters need the help of chickens, rabbits & a goat for fertilizers while yielding eggs, meat, milk & furs to sell. If you can grow the animals feed, you have the complete cycle.
I saw chicks two weeks ago at farm store. Cheapest were $2.99 and went up to $9.99. Never saw prices so high before.
Find a local sheep herder. Best fertilzer you can get.
My Grandpa used “sheep dip” for his big gardens. Still remember the smell…
Rabbit poop. Quiet breeders, meat (altho not your entire meat supply), sell the poop.
Yes but no more mean tweets.
Anyone notice how tiny President Putin is?? Xi looks enormous standing next to him. And – we’re f’d, and – fjb.
It’s kind of confusing because I would have thought Xi was in on the WEF enslavement deal. Isn’t it the WEF looking for regime change in Russia so that it has access and control over all those natural resources? But, here we are with Putin and Xi hand in hand… I also remember that Lord Soros came out against Xi a couple of weeks ago (the day that the FBI admitted to suddenly realizing that China was a huge cyber threat). It’s such a soap opera with the deck chairs constantly getting rearranged.
Did you lay in a supply of seeds??? You’re going to need them to grow your own food – because all of a sudden, there isn’t going to be any.
Windmills and solar panels are gobbling up farm lands. When windmills die, they leave their megalith concrete supports under the soil, and solar panels leech toxic substances into the ground they cover. Windmills also kill essential pollinators, bees, bats and birds.
Starvation is a classic/historic genocidal means for authoritarian governments. Isn’t it then a given that the cabal currently tearing up our rights and destroying our foundational institutions, would consider using “any means necessary” to gain absolute power?
Society has its limits. They can only push so far and I assure you zero population growth and windmills won’t work here. My bet is if famine does go global they’re counting on a deluge of “refugees”in more stable nations like the US Audtralia etc. Europe will collapse.
That should be “leach,” not “leech.”
unreliables are soo bad in so many ways
No depth of evil is beyond these creatures! I pray every day for God to visit justice upon them all and deliver us. Such a distressing time to be alive. Truly Bible prophecy is being fulfilled before our eyes. My granddaughter has a bleak future ahead of her if the Lord does not intervene and take this demonic cabal down.
They are now offering 1200 bucks an acre annually with your tax dollars and wiping out farm after farm in Texas1
Have you seen the videos on YT of windmills catching fire before toppling over??
No thanks!
I’m all for personal wind/solar.
No wind/solar “farms”!
Now suddenly my wife doesn’t think I’m crazy by growing organic food in our backyard?
People are really waking up and that is good in a sense. Plant your Gardens friends.
Our gardens have friends? Lol
Plant your gardens…. friends. Meaning friends plant your gardens. Spammer… you dolts are always the same.
So China and Russia want be major farmers now.
Well all it would take is for Brazil to go in a drought or too much rain in India and it ruins the crops.
Guess what they may need to make wonton soup out of
Triple 18 fertilizer they are hoarding.
And if the farmers in Canada do the truckers strike move, China will not get Corn, Wheat or Alfalfa
That fertilizer better taste good to 2 billion china men
They will use dead Uyghurs
Hitler’s green gardener Alwin Seifert used Dachau ashes
September 12, 2009
German organic gardening guru Alwin Seifert took tips from Dachau experiments
Roger Boyes in Berlin
Harvest time is here again on Germany’s 1.2 million allotments: potatoes have to be hoisted out of the soil and the last of the peas must be plucked.
In the shed, next to the trowel and gloves, there will almost certainly be a well-thumbed copy of the gardeners’ bible written by Alwin Seifert, the country’s organic guru.
Now it emerges that at least some of Seifert’s useful tips in his bestselling book Gärtnern, Ackern-ohne Gift, (Gardening, Working the Soil without Poison) may have been gleaned from his observation of the experimental gardens set up on the grounds around Dachau concentration camp.
Tended by half-starved slave labourers, at least 400 of whom were killed, drowned in the carp pond or trampled into the mud of the latrine trenches, the Dachau gardens were established at the behest of Heinrich Himmler, Hitler’s security chief, and stretched to 211 blossoming hectares.
Seifert, who after the war became a founder of the Green movement, was one of the top landscape gardeners of the Nazi era. He even had the title Reichslandschaftsanwalt — advocate of the Reich’s Landscape. It was Seifert who managed to persuade the Nazi autobahn planners to make the motorway curve, following the natural contours of the German countryside. The well-connected gardener was also opposed to artificial fertilisers poisoning German soil and went to Dachau, apparently oblivious to the emaciated prisoners, to see what could be done in the gardens and arable fields of the Fatherland.
“The question has to be how much of the information that flowed into his book derived from the research being done in Dachau,” says the Munich-based cultural historian Daniella Seidl, who has been digging in the Bavarian and federal archives. “He was a regular visitor, maintained a correspondence with the head gardener Franz Lippert, and even arranged for a couple from the camp to work in his own household.” Some of the ideas being tried out in the Dachau gardens were certainly adopted by Seifert for use in his own garden in the Tyrol.
The Dachau complex was supposed to solve some riddles, such as why potatoes had become so vulnerable to pests and early decay, and to build a more or less scientific basis for an alternative “biological-dynamic lifestyle”.
That meant growing herbs for use as medicine, extracting vitamins, but also Germanising food.
Fermented blackberry and raspberry leaves were used to create German tea, reducing dependency on imports, and work was done on making a German pepper.
Gladioli were grown in great quantities to milk them for their vitamin C. The leaves were dried and pulverised in the camp garden complex and then mixed with a mixture of spices, beef fat and cooking salt to make a food supplement for SS troopers.
The gardeners also planted fields of primroses in a first attempt to extract an oil for use as medication. Evening primrose oil is now frequently used in complementary medicine.
“Seifert was probably most interested in Dachau’s use of compost techniques,” says Ms Seidl, who has just published her findings in a scholarly book, Between Heaven and Hell.
The Dachau gardeners set up herds of cows over 750 hectares (1,850 acres), tended by up to 800 inmates, whose task was to gather the dung for testing in the camp gardens.
The effect of dung on the soil was measured; a special compost was devised to speed the growth of healing herbs. This ran in parallel with experiments using worms to improve differently fertilised soil.
Seifert’s book goes into great detail about composting, and how it helps in poorly productive orchards. He writes with the authority of someone who has studied a large-scale project.
Unsurprisingly Seifert does not mention Dachau in the book, but he does give an appreciative nod to his old protector in the Nazi machine, Fritz Todt, the armaments minister and lord over millions of forced labourers.
Seifert joined the Nazi party in 1937. He became a professor at Munich technical university, head of the nature preservation league (a forerunner organisation to the Greens) and before his death in 1972, influenced a whole generation of organic garden planners throughout Germany and Europe.
The passion for organic gardening gripped Germany and has never let go. Whether it will survive the horrific images that emerge from Ms Seidl’s research, the imprisoned priests who were strapped to ploughs, the inmates killed for taking a bite of raw rhubarb, the overseer who received a cash bonus for shooting his 100th Jew among the gladioli, is another matter.
http://www.spunk.org/texts/places/germany/sp001630/peter.html
http://www.scrapbookpages.com/DachauScrapbook/Sscamp/Gates.html
Nadia, a Ukrainian, writes”
The camp they called “Dachau” was ten kilometres from Munich. It was the one where medical experiments were conducted on human beings. I heard this from people who were from other labour camps. The horror stories made my skin crawl when I heard them. The word of these experiments got around so that all of Germany knew about them, including us. The Gestapo were boasting that from human flesh, they made lamp shades, gloves, purses. From human hair they made stuffing for pillows.
I couldn’t believe that they actually boasted that they were sleeping on pillows made of human hair. Nothing was wasted there from the human body. Once they took the skin off of a person, they put ever part of their body to some use for medical experiments.
The bodies were burned and after that, they put the ashes in soil to use as fertilizer. The remainder of bones were then thrown into trenches and covered with lime, making the soil very fine and moist.
There were thousands of people who were exterminated at this camp.
For more, read “A Life of Hope, Memoirs of Nadia the Survivor” by Peter Anton, ISBN 0-9736966-0-5
So glad I’m not the only one thinking this way.
Trump was an economic nationalist also. It was pretty obvious to me after rigging the 2020 election that the Globalists were going to try and run the table on them all: Trump, Putin, Xi and the rest of the Brics. You don’t go to the extreme of blowing up your own democracy if you don’t plan on going all the way.
I have no doubt the Trump & Putin could have settled this, with everyone one getting to live where they wanted to live, in peace and economic prosperity:
“You really are on the same page as Donald Trump.”
And now we are going into another Cold War or Third World War thanks to these WEF globalists. There were a lot of similarities between John F. Kennedy and Trump… he wanted to end the Cold War, but a year after he was gone we were involved in Vietnam, and now we are involved in Ukraine. (sigh)
Team BRICS.
Tribalism and racism are now words with negative connotations, but the only apparent substitute for these concepts is globalism. Globalism, in practice, is the world-wide brotherhood of the proletariat, Marxism. And Marxism, in practice, has proven to be a total and irrefutable disaster.
Russians and Chinese have, now or in the past, claimed to be Marxists, but in practice, they mostly observe tribal or racial precepts. They will pursue policies that are very negative, even destructive, to other tribal or racial groups without admitting their antipathy or indifference to globalist (Marxist) principles. The Chinese, for example, treat the globalist concept of climate change as an enormous joke, without ever saying so.
Americans perch on a precarious pinhead. Americanism is mostly an ideological concept, tribalism really. But our leftists disdain Americanism, while pursuing their quixotic globalism. Therefore, our leftists have landed on anarchism. But anti-tribalism or anti-racism is not a value system. It is nihilism, and America is therefore in a no-win position against its greatest threats or rivals.
Uh oh
Conquest (rigged elections)
War (Ukraine)
Famine (BRICS food war)
Death (covid/vaxx)
This is not good.
They are gonna get to 500 million.
This is the real fight. WEF vs BRICS. The social construct is different between the two. Soros anti-Xi article in the Wall Street Journal makes way more sense.
Maranantha.
I see what you did there
These psychopaths are trying to kill us.
The Next Middle East Crisis Will Be Rising Food Prices
Prices have already soared 25% in the past year and are set to rise further. Could another Arab Spring follow?
Apr. 22, 2021
https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/.premium.HIGHLIGHT-the-next-middle-east-crisis-will-be-rising-food-prices-1.9737325
FEBRUARY 28, 2022
Ukraine war threatens to make bread a luxury in the Middle East
https://www.reuters.com/article/ukraine-crisis-food-mideast-idAFL8N2V31BU
Another Arab spring with $85B of American material.
Supposedly from Ukraine, this is what passes for war photojournalism these days.
Caption this.
Destroyed Russian GAZ Tigr somewhere…
Yard art
Reminds me of the reporter during the summer of love. Journalist in forefront telling us it is a “mostly peaceful protest” while the background is burning. This photo is the opposite.
Title it: “mostly peaceful war”
Somebody doing something
86/46 because he isn’t. More unattended consequences from US State Department poking the Bear.
Bill Gates owns 10% of US farmland. Coincedence?
Growing food…the next booming business.
There are approximately 913-million farmland acres in the united states. Bill Gates owns approximately 250-thousand acres of it.
How much does Monsanto own? And corporate AG? We need real farmers who can grow food AND regenerate the soil. We don’t need soybeans and corn. Real food would be nice.
lol, so we don’t need soybean and corn? Do you have any idea the number of food products rely on soybeans and corn?
Grapeless grapes
Grapeless grapes?
What are they made of? Plastic? 🤔
I guess it’s too hard to be a good manager these days and spell check.
Well sure. How do you expect to be able to make grapeless wine after all? Huh?!
Reminds me of the old Johnny Carson show.
That is supposed to be “seedless” as there are two varieties of black grapes
rofl.
vs. grapeful grapes?
I sorta liked those “orgasmic” blueberries somebody was selling not too long ago.
As amusing as that is, it’s also another sign of food domination by corporations. They don’t want you using seeds from their produce to grow your own…
https://www.naturalnews.com/2022-03-02-why-did-us-embassy-website-remove-all-evidence-ukrainian-bioweapons-labs.html#
To make it all better the FDA is now banning the last of the functional antibiotics on the market accessable to small farms.
Good times I guess… Gotta love federalism and the two party con job were living under!!!
Why?
Been watching this train for a while. Didn’t know about the Belarus sanctions on potash. The shortages we see now are just the previews. Wait for the feature presentation.
Today’s America is not self-sufficient and cannot fathom being told no. Far too many are so comfortable that the biggest challenge life gives them are which pronouns to use.
This is going to change. We are already to the point where stores are selling old stock.
Prepare accordingly.
The one upside to hard times is all those safe spacers will grow a little tougher skin or die trying.
Yep, and I care not which. Not my problem.
A lot of people Online were asking why China was stockpiling food and just throwing it in holes the ground, and covering with dirt.
President Trump had to choose his battles, but his support of ethanol was a bit disappointing.
so was his utter collapse on not supporting DACA and deportation AFTER he was elected
I agree, I thought from day-1 Trump was screwing-up big-time on this one.
The Clinton’s sold American uranium mines to Russia and American phosphate deposits to Marocco. The latter deal made the Clinton Foundation 28 million dollar richer.
https://dailycaller.com/2016/10/31/hillarys-two-official-favors-to-morocco-resulted-in-28-million-for-clinton-foundation/
Have we cut off our nose to spite our face?
No, Biden has cut off OUR noses.
China and Russia have starved millions in the recent past. Both States have experience with killing millions just because they are able.
It’s hard not to arrive to the conclusion that while BRICS seem to try to protect their populations, WEF/EU/US seem to be doing the opposite.
Parasites feed off the host until it dies.
Dead Sea Works is the largest potash producer, which is probably why Russia will attack Israel some day, perhaps soon. I recommend you call on the name of the Lord Jesus before that happens.
It’s definitely time now for any leaders out there with brains between their ears to come to terms with the obvious and agree to Russia’s terms. They’re hardly unreasonable and any interest the US or any other Western nation has in Ukraine is simply not with running the risk of starting WW III over. It blows my mind what an absurd position this is for us to be in.
And someone needs to tell Trump, since he appears not to understand this: Joe Biden didn’t cause the Russia-Ukraine conflict because he wasn’t “tough enough on Russia”. This whole “get tough on Russia” BS is what has caused this entire mess in the first place and it’s entirely counter-productive to our interests. Trump needs to re-adopt his 2016 pre-Russiagate stance on Russia, because it was the correct one.
Trump wants to look tough against Russia because he is shell shocked from years of “Russia, Russia” and “Putin’s puppet” allegations. However, his real problem was the US State Department./IC and the Ukrainians that participated in the Russia hoax and Ukraine hoax and subsequent impeachments.
Yep. Also, Trump doesn’t want to admit that he allowed himself to be bullied and blackmailed, so he’s acting like the reason he took the anti-Russia measures he did was because he thought they were a good idea.
If I were his advisor, I would tell him to revert his stance on Russia back to where it was in 2016. If anyone asks why he’s making the about-face, he can just tell the truth: he was under assault in one of the most outrageous scandals in US political history and he felt at the time that he needed to make a policy concession somewhere to gain the support of at least some portion of the Swamp bureaucracy so he could get their cooperation on other parts of his agenda. Now that Russiagate and Ukrainegate have been exposed as fraudulent and the people who perpetrated them exposed as criminals, he has no reason to make any concessions with anyone about US foreign policy toward Russia.
Don’t forget, they tried to impeach Trump because he delayed an arms shipment to Ukraine by about a month. That was what the “phone call” was all about. He probably would have been impeached if he cancelled the arms shipment completely. The Deep State / Intelligence Community made sure Trump could not do his job… it is amazing he accomplished anything at all in the 4 years he was in office. Go back and read your John F. Kennedy history, it was then that the Intelligence Community took over the United States and they have been running it ever since (with the exception of Donald Trump). IMHO
Yep, that was one of the reasons they gave for impeaching him. There was also something about a “quid-pro-quo” and I remember some State Department and other Deep State goons saying something in an outraged tone about Trump having the audacity to think he could just set foreign policy as he liked, even if it went against the “interagency consensus”. At the time, I thought the real motivation behind the impeachment was that they found out Trump knew about Biden’s money-laundering and bribery racket in Ukraine and were worried he was going to blow the lid open on it for all to see. I still think that was their big motivation, but I can see now that they had others too.
The only US politician to run against the Globalist Agenda was Donald Trump. Take it verbatim from Prof. John Mearsheimer, who predicted this Ukrainian whole shit-show in 2015. Trump was a “realist”, so instead of letting Trump lead us with a realist foreign policy, we are going to have to become realists the hard way:
DONALD TRUMP IS AN EXCEPTION – Prof. John Mearsheimer
“He ran against Liberal Hegemony and won.”
The US population sensed we were heading down the wrong road and voted accordingly. This is why democracy works, we voted out the idiots. However, there was nothing we could do about a stolen election. So, instead of getting corrected by their own voters, the NEOCONS and Globalists are going to get corrected by Xi & Putin. Our elites think we are all stupid and they know better… and this is where they led us.
How great it would have been if we started looking after our own economy and our own working class. And treated China as an economic competitor, with us safeguarding our own patents and industries. And if you want Democracy to take root in Russia & China you have to prove it works in the United States… but after what they did to the 2020 election, China & Russia will want no part of “Our” Democracy.
If you want to understand the real roots of this crisis it was the 2020 Rigged Election and the 4 years prior, when the globalists prevented Trump from doing his job at every turn. IMHO
Watching 10s\’s of thousands of loaded grain and coal cars head west to seaports via rail, while seeing fewer and fewer freight loads heading east is curious.
Explain?
Lord God, I wish you were wrong Sundance.
If you Haven’t been prepping up folks, you may still have a little time. But don’t put it off any longer.
specifically, what should people be prepping besides food.
Buy the foods you enjoy, and if they are none perishable, get them in bulk!
Purchase the highest energy per calories you can.
Rice, Beans, Oats, Canned Fish and Canned Meats if you’re not a canner. Instant Mash Potatoes, Pasta, Chocolate, Crackers, NIDO powdered milk, Egg powder, Body soap, Dish/Laundry Detergents, Bottled Water, First Aid, Aspirin, Tooth filling kit etc Don’t forget Sensodyne. Its the best toothpaste for knocking out pain. Do you have pets? They need food too
Imagine yourself in a dire situation. What would you need?
In case of no gas or electricity, I bought a solar cooker. Also got a grain mill for making flour — part of my stash is in flour and the other in wheat (two kinds, soft and hard). The mill can run on electricity or be used by hand.
Been working on most of that, but thanks for the list.
Luckily I really like sardines – not many do, so I can corner that market in a small personal way.
And I have the chocolate and coffee covered for at least a year out. Could always get some more…
Nido powered milk for sure!
They even have powered milk for those folks
who are lactose intolerant..
Everything essential thing you use on a daily basis.
A generator.
An emergency radio.
Batteries.
Big first aid kit.
Canning supplies.
Traditional gardening books.
Pet supplies.
Tools.
etc.
ammo… especially if you have food and live near any of the big blue cities. When the approximately 3 day supply of food runs out in the cities, the population will be looking everywhere else for food. So unless you can bury or otherwise hide your food supply you will probably need to be able to defend it.
California is not a bread basket, IMO. Food was once grown very local to the consumer and certain times of the year, you could not get certain types of produce.
Not to mention the Frankenstein stuff they pawn off as produce these days.
MitchSteel: That’s because CA grows fruits, vegetables, nuts and rice, not wheat and corn.
CA ****used to grow**** until they turned off the water. At $6,000+/acre ft for water, I wouldn’t consider CA an agricultural state any longer. It used to be a wonderful place until the democrats got control. Speaking as someone who was born next to Orange groves.
Always amazed me how they loved their almond milk. 1 gallon of water to produce one nut!
Those water policies might change as 35+ million Californians get hungry.
I remember living in San Francisco and thinking San Jose was a cow town filled with orchards and no one wanted to go there. Now all the orchards in the valley are gone and it’s filled with silicon.
And wine in a big way. Well, you did mention fruit.
I live in far northwest washington and regularly buy produce from the Salinas valley and Santa Maria at my local market.
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Part of me wonders if half of the reason for the Russiagate sh*tshow we were dragged through for years was the deep state planting seeds in the minds of the masses that Putin was our enemy, knowing full well that he would eventually be coming for their corruption playground in Ukraine.
WeThePeople2016: Of course. Russia is the Uniparty’s go-to boogeyman.
Seems to marry well with the plan to get us eating bugs instead of beef.
Abstaining from meat decreases the libido VERY significantly (translation= less breeding, more docility).
Religious orders like the Carmelites ban the consumption of meat.
Also, I just read an unexpected article the other day about how eating beef increases longevity. No kidding.
The traditional Christian fast was not to eat meat on Wednesday or Friday; the reason Mardi Gras is a thing is beacuse during Lent, Christians fasted from meat, eggs, dairy and oil. The Christian East still follows that fast and has “meatfare Sunday” a few weeks before lent begins, followed by “cheesefare Sunday” the day before Lent begins (it begins with Forgiveness Vespers at Sundown Sunday), followed by the strict fast throughout lent.
Note also that soy consumption serves the same purpose.
Remind me again which Lolitta Express flying pervert and likely sexual abuser of under-age children and world-renowned advocate for the depopulation of earth by way of harmful vaccines now owns a significant amount of farmland in the US?
Seriously.
Issues of food security is why it is vitally important for people to be self sufficient. I would highly recommend people start kitchen gardens, learn to can food, and stock up on beans and rice. When push comes to shove bartering will be the new economy.
FTA:
“…China was investing heavily in the purchase of U.S. farmland…”
WHY in the world do we let our enemies purchase land/buildings/businesses/ANYTHING in the US?
Because The Big Guy, Braaaack and all of their crooked masters, minions and collaborators get 10%.
US politicians are crazies. Cozying with Putin by buying oil from him, but at the same time time pushing WW3 against Russia. Nuts!
“BRICS is a key strategic geopolitical trade partnership that was created during Obama, was weakened during Trump……. The core of BRICS’ purpose is a countermeasure against the coordination of globalist multinational corporations. BRICS is somewhat an anti-WEF assembly.”
So why did Trump, an anti globalist, want to weaken BRICS?
Why would Brics be worried with Trump in office?
I would like the answer to this too. How much did he know about them? Did he do things purposefully to weaken them? Did he follow his plan without taking them into consideration? Lots of question from that comment. What do we know about what he knew/ thought about them.?
On the encouraging side….
I bet Xi and Putin aren’t toasting with water like effete westerners.
Peace is that brief glorious moment in time when people are standing around, and the smart ones are planting & reloading.
Trump knew what he was doing. We are seeing the alliance to take down deep state. As Q said on November 11, 2017 …what if Russia, China, and others are working with Trump….
Interesting
That’s some good stuff you are smoking.
Well, Nate is not making that up.
If you thought the “many in our government worship Satan” post was hard to swallow, imagine reading in November of 2107 that Russia, China, and Trump were working to bring down the globalist elite. Didn’t seem credible at all. Not at all.
Now . . . Now you really have to wonder. Looks like Soros thinks Xi double crossed him. OTOH, Xi runs an openly genocidal government. Ours is too, once you see it, but covertly. Anyways, that allegation was out definitely there in 2017 or 2018. Read it in real time.
Then there’s Thune’s weird hand signals while sitting behind Pence as he did an “Et tu, Brutus” — and so you have to wonder about the other thing too.
This is touching – Ukrainians gave a captured Russian soldier food and tea and called his mother to tell her he’s ok
https://commoncts.blogspot.com/2022/03/this-is-touching-ukrainians-gave.html
Touching, yet is there any independent verification?
Which is more important to social harmony, food or banks?
There can be no revolution on a full belly…
Modern farming practices with GMO corn/soybeans/wheat rape the land (soils on many farms are basically dead and require petroleum fertilizer, also the soil is bare for a big part of the year). Leads to processed food that can cause type 2 diabetes, “pregnant” men (compare side profiles of people today with pictures of people from 1970s).
Check out Joel Salatin’s Polyface farm: https://www.polyfacefarms.com
His main points, cattle raised on grasses (grasses/roots year round to suck up carbon. The land is not bare like with corn, soybeans). The land is alive and the cows then chickens can range on the grasses.
Healthier beef (right mix of 3/6/9 omega oils) — cows stomachs are made for grasses not grains.
Use the worst trees as bedding (chopped fine) during the winter then spread out the wood chips and cow/pig manure in spring — no need for oil based fertilizers! Also the best trees are left to grow and SEED new tress. Current practice seems to be to log the best tress and leave the worst trees to seed for the future.
Bottom line is less need for oil, gas, fertilizers on the farm because: the cows spread their manure in the fields; less need to till the land with tractors eating up fuel. Buy LOCAL so no need to transport food thousands of miles! This all leads to healthier food, more food, and we are not running down the soil like modern farming practices.
Always interesting to read something from someone who doesn’t know his ass from a hole in the ground what he is talking about. It has been awhile since I read this much cockamamie from one source in a long time. What is consistent, wrong about everything
Well then, you DON’T know what you are talking about. Do some research with an open mind. What Joe does is amazing and he isn’t the only one doing it.
For one thing my neighbor was a logger. Back when they had sensible Forrest management the forestry would select the tree he could log. Trees which were sick but nothing wrong with the wood was what was logged leaving the healthy trees. The forest was clean and healthy. No dead trees and no forest fires.
The do-gooders took over and now you have thousands of acres dead trees and forest fires. Why? Because of failed forest management void commonsense…..a total disaster run by Libtards.
Exactly, back when they had sensible forest management. You are proving me right 🙂
I grew up on a dairy farm and then lived on a hobby farm. The land all around my hobby farm was either corn or soybeans each year. I hated the times of the year when they sprayed all the chemicals on the fields and the wind blew toward our house. The water in my well became polluted from farm chemicals — this is well know that well water is polluted around corn/soy farmland.
Stop being lazy and saying I’m wrong. Give me some facts to support your side.
Looks like traditional farming practices.
This will work if TEOTWAWKI comes.
For many years I’ve been using on my 1/16 of an acre vegetable garden as fertilizer our appropriately diluted urine. Works fantastically!
Yep, great source of nitrogen. And Free!
You must stop obtaining your news and information from the mass media. That includes Fox.
The MSM is a very new, most ephemeral concept. People used to congregate by the docks, for centuries, to receive news of the faraway world from travelers and traders. This concept will prove far more reliable in the days to come than CNN or Fox. Surely by now it is clear to all but the most stupid that the news you are receiving conforms to the belief system of the billionaires who own these media outlets, or the leftist dogma of the talking heads. Truth or facts come a very distant third.
My grandfather believed the moon landing was faked, because flying to the moon conformed to his precept of the impossible. I did not condemn my grandfather for this, we lived in different realities.
Leftists have now adopted the post-modern: their reality is subjective. Men can be women if they say so.
What Jeff Bezos believes is what the Washington Post (their owner) publishes. That’s it.
Going forward, the most profound and efficacious act of rebellion will be simply asserting the American belief system, over the wacky belief systems of the billionaire media owners who oppress us. That is our challenge.
Bought my 12 acres (about 5-6 arable now), 2 ponds (about 1 acre and 1/2 acre), 2 wells, good soil, good drainage.
$85,000 about 7 years ago. Was offered twice cash a few months later. How much is it worth now? I haven’t checked and don’t care since I’m not giving it up.
A lot, believe me. We are looking for property, lol.
I’ve been told “they ain’t making any more of it.” 😉
Your ponds alone are worth about $16,000 in our parts right now.
You, sir, have a veritable Shangrila! Protect and preserve it!
The propaganda war is insane. There are other supposedly conservative sites running non-stop propaganda about how Ukraine is winning the war and Russian soldiers are crybabies and cowards while old ladies etc. fight them off. That with non-stop “conservative” commenters going hoorah let’s kill more Russians – Russia bad America good.
These idiots are the reason we have a uniparty and are facing food shortages, massive inflation, and climate lockdowns.
They are unbelievable. If you question at all the narrative of the MSM they accuse you of being retarded or a libtard or some other Hannity listener crap. I think I loathe them more than BLM and antifa.
Hear, hear. The only thing missing over at Red State is pom poms.
I guess I’ve been around humans long enough not to be shocked by it, but it’s still surprising to me to see how many people can have strong opinions about subject on which they actually have very little intimate knowledge. I often ask people who express passionate feelings of support for Ukraine and hostility toward Russia what they actually know about the region, what they know about Russian and Ukrainian domestic politics, what they know about Putin and how they think they know these things. It always turns out that they don’t really know anything – just the stuff they’ve heard in the media, like that Putin is a madman who wants to reconstitute the USSR so that’s why he’s invading Ukraine. (To which my question is: then why did he wait almost 22 years to do it? I ask this to get them to think critically about their stance, but it turns out that when a person’s foundational premise is also their conclusion, their mind grants them the freedom to dream up any old story to support it. Hence I often fail to get through to people using this tactic.)
Dan Bongino is down with the official narrative too. I can’t believe he can know what he knows about Russiagate and Ukrainegate and not be just a little skeptical of the MSM narrative on this one. In fact, I can’t believe he trusts anything the government or the MSM say about anything at this point.
The Daily Wire also reads like a pentagon propaganda rag. It’s just astounding to me.
The only positive note I can share here is that when I’ve talked to brainwashed Ukraine-boosters one-on-one and walked them through why the Ukraine-Russia conflict is happening, I’ve been able to break through to quite a few of them. It was like snapping them out of a trance. It does take considerable time and effort though.
Sadly, my husband (a well-educated man) is completely “brainwashed”.
I try to calmly tell him to look at different sources, to reserve judgement on photos/videos (many if not most proven to be fake), and not to jump to conclusions. He’s still all gungho, “We need to get an air attack on the Russian convoys!” I tell him how we do NOT need to escalate with a country that has nukes. He just ignores me.
Yes, one site I go to every day censored my comments about the situation. Strange to people who are supposedly conservative go full on globalist.
I find many of the posters on this website naïve, gullible, wrong as any Libtard on a Libtard website.
Especially when it comes to anything agriculture.
Big Ag is company’s like Monsanto (maybe changed their name to hid now?), and allot of other large multinationals. You are stupid to blindly trust these multinationals to provide good healthy food. Explain to me how high fructose corn syrup is healthy. Look at the ingredients in the typical processed food from that comes from corn, soy and wheat. There is a direct correlation to the food you eat and the size (or slimness) to your belly. Belly fat is not healthy. Wake up Fang and provide valid arguments and not lazy comments like being gullible, naive..
I grew up on a dairy farm in the 70’s and 80s. I know what I am talking about.