Posted on 03/13/2022 6:17:09 PM PDT by blam
If it’s ending, it’s because the central bankers didn’t reinvest in their economies. They removed too much wealth for themselves.
Cue the Black Horse.
A lot of Green New Deal policies and politics, both in Europe and the USA, are part of the problem here as well.
...A Global “Great Famine”...
More like bad global malnutrition a la N. Korea.
People will be forced to become skinnier.
Famines are the result of government policy - it is impossible for an agricultural power like the USA to suffer one unless it is through intentional mismanagement.
People will be forced to become skinnier.
But they won’t see it that way.
So true. Food may cost a lot more but it will ve available. Instead of buying a new iPhone for $1200, theyll buy food.
Of course not. Real malnutrition lead to bad health. Prone to disease, shortened life span to name a couple.
Mild malnutrition may be OK.
Who owns the farmland in the USA? Do you think the devoted eugenicist Bill Gates is interested in planting food? Do you think the CCP is interested in sending those pork items that were outsourced to them to process back to us?
In the long term you are correct. We will adjust and domesticate our food production like it always should have been.
In the short term there are going to be very bad shortages.
God just give me this one last deal and then I will get out and start a monestary. Just let this Ukraine deal hit pay dirt and I’m done. Really God. Just one last roll of the dice. It’s all set up. We’ve paid off half the western world to support this. It was good to go. We were about to sneak Ukraine into NATO, close the deal and smack the bear across the snout, and now this. Please God, I pray you. Stand up for right and fairness. It’s the democratic free market way.
Maybe not
Do Low Calorie Diets Help You Live Longer?
"Cutting calories from the diets of many animals dramatically increases their life span, leading some people to try to extend their own lives in the same way."
The current inflationary effect is the result of a tightening of supply chain controls for reasons that don’t make economic sense. Inventories of retail and durable goods is actually increasing at the same time that the M2 velocity (turnover of dollars) is at historic lows. This is a clear indication that people are not spending cash to beat perceived price increases as is typical of normal inflationary periods, they are simply sitting on cash because they either can’t or won’t pay for goods at inflated prices.
The exceptions are necessities like rent, food, and energy that are inelastic and ultimately tied to government contrived constraints like excessive property regulations, various wasteful taxes, and cult policies regarding climate change.
There’s nothing wrong with the economy that couldn’t be remedied by increased drilling and reduced regulation of shale oil fracking, accelerated programs to build new SMR and molten salt nuclear technology, simplified building permitting and land use regulation, and sensible water allocation in areas like the central valley of California.
As Reagan said, “Government is not the solution to problems, it is the problem.”
There is a big difference between bad malnutrition and a reduction in calories. Our population could use a reduction in calories.
Perhaps I did not make myself clear. I am talking about malnutrition of N. Korean scale or those people you see in bad African drought. It will lead to a host of health problem, including shortened lifespan.
My understanding of famine is that many people actually die of starvation.
Yes there are north koreans who had enough calories but died from malnutrition. Supposedly a lot of the people who died this way were holding on by eating corn, which has calories but is very low in nutrients. The ones who had access to rice, even some rice, were much more likely to survive
The CIO’s job is to manage information systems. Something seems off with this one.
In the past century-plus, Western “civilized” society has gone from nutrient-dense, low-calorie meals to nutrient-spare, high-calorie meals. That has combined with an increasingly sedentary lifestyle to prevent those “empty calories” from being efficiently burned in immediate physical activity; unburned carbohydrates are then instead stored as body fat.
In addition, foods have become less fresh, more processed, and increasingly polluted with artificial additives (often unnatural chemicals). Many are suffering from malnutrition even while eating generous meals. I was one:
Despite never having gone hungry, never having been drunk - much less drugged - and never having smoked, I nearly died from malnutrition in my early thirties. My body was unable to digest and assimilate nutrition even from the poor foods I was eating.
For the record (read: for the skeptics who still think that medical doctors actually know much about diet and nutrition), I was medically diagnosed with protein deficiency and pernicious anemia, despite being on a high-protein diet with foods containing B12.
The prescriptions I was given subjected my already-burdened body to agony; I stopped taking them after 3 days. Three weeks later, I collapsed. At the end of my ensuing five-week ordeal, I weighed 126 lbs. (I had lost about 50 lbs.)
After the crisis passed, I began a long study of diet and nutrition. I thereafter avoided ALL allopathic medical practitioners (although I would go to one for first aid if I suffered a traumatic injury), and am far healthier than I ever was when I listened to the same sort of “experts” who have been aggressively pushing experimental Messenger-RiboNucleic-Acid injections the past two years.
Hippocrates - who was natural and holistic in philosophy - would never be allowed a medical license in the USA today, which has suffered under medical tyranny from Big Pharma (via fascistic complicity from USDA, FDA, CDC, NIH... and NGO AMA) since 1910, discourtesy of John Rockefeller and and his paid NON-doctor, Abraham Flexner.
I was once a Biology major (with academic awards in all the physical sciences), and was once on the pre-med path. I emphatically opine that most so-called doctors are not physicians, much less healers. They are merely technicians (read: mechanics), and their knowledge is restricted by Big Pharma (who builds the curricula, and bribes the officials) to the Cut-Burn-and-Drug paradigm.
If you want just one valuable addition to any diet, I recommend Drumstick Tree [Moringa oleifera]. Water Thyme [Hydrilla verticillata] is another excellent candidate. Certain of the Brown Seaweeds (actually macro-algae, not plants) would add in Iodine, in which most Americans are deficient.
Translating the headline: If I can’t have MY war, you’re going to have to pay me beeg money!
The Biden administration made a big mistake in cutting domestic energy production. That said, the Europeans made an absolutely colossal mistake (the Germans in particular) allowing themselves to become so dependent on a single source for their energy. Now the Russians have them by the balls and can make them suffer greatly simply by turning off the taps.
The Poles were very smart to build a big new LNG terminal and sign a long term contract for more US natural gas. The French were smart to build a lot of nuclear power plants and get a lot of their energy from them. The western Europeans in general and the Germans in particular are going to have to choose between Gaia worship and national security/the domestic economy.
They also need to get that pipeline Trump proposed from the middle east through the Med and up through Italy built and running ASAP.
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