Desperate people do desperate things during desperate times – hyperinflation, shortages and war will have Americans reliving the 900 days of Leningrad

disaster.news ^ | 6/12/22 | News Editors

[Roman_War_Criminal]

This morning the CPI (Consumer Price Index) report came out and was higher than expected (Inflation stayed red-hot in May as CPI spiked 8.6% — highest since 1981).

(Article by Stan Szymanski republished from EncouragingAngels.org)

It is kind of like telling someone who is buried on the beach up to their neck in sand that the tide is coming in but not as fast as you think it is.

Most of the food prices I see are up at least 15-33% from what I was used to paying. I know that the standard government numbers say that food inflation is 10% up for the year (CNBC 6/10/22), but I think that we would all agree that that report is just a story, a fabrication. I used to pay $8.00 for a can of Folgers coffee at Wally World; now it is almost $15 and the can is smaller. Gasoline and diesel are both double what they were when Joey Poopy Pants sat down behind the big boy desk at Pennsylvania Avenue and the cost of fuel plays into the cost of every morsel of food as it is transported to stores all across the USA. Shortages across many sectors of the food industry are now commonplace.

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Thanks.

[PUGACHEV]

When the Berlin Wall went up it trapped thousands of rabbits between the two walls comprising it. For 28 years they enjoyed a protected existence, without dogs or predators and with plenty of food, in a wide belt of land surrounding the city. When the wall came down, rabbits flooded Berlin and were shot and cooked by the residents to the point where no one ever wanted to think about eating rabbit again. Until then it was a rabbit paradise.

A beautiful political satire of this event, told from the rabbit's perspective, was filmed in 2010, Rabbit a la Berlin, which is available on Amazon Prime.

https://youtu.be/1sHC0FE101I

[woodbutcher1963]

When I think of “tame” rabbits all I can think of is the scene from “Monty Python and the Holy Grail”

“That rabbit is dynamite”

[jmacusa]

Years ago I read Harrison Salisbury’s excellent ‘’The 900 Days; The Siege of Leningrad’’.

Talk about harrowing. When we’ve eaten all the dogs and cats
and then when we start eating each other, as Leningraders eventually did then we’re REALLY in trouble!

[dfwgator]

What’s really sad is after the War, Stalin had most of the Leningrad Leadership during the Siege killed. He treated anyone from Leningrad with suspicion.

[GraceG]

Putin's fault: