Posted on 03/27/2022 6:11:13 AM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
When I started warning of an emerging global food crisis a number of months ago, many out there assumed that I must be exaggerating things. Sadly, I was not exaggerating one bit. The soaring price of fertilizer, extreme global weather patterns, shocking crop failures and an epic global supply chain crisis had combined to create a "perfect storm" even before the war in Ukraine began.
Of course the war has made things far worse, because Russia and Ukraine collectively account for about 30 percent of all worldwide wheat exports under normal conditions. For a while, the mainstream media and our leaders in Washington were in denial about what was happening, but now everyone is finally admitting the truth. In fact, at this point even the Biden administration is conceding that a global food crisis is here...
The White House confirmed Monday they expect certain parts of the world to suffer a food shortage as an effect of Russian President Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine.
"We do anticipate that higher energy fertilizer, wheat, and corn prices could impact the price of growing and purchasing critical food supplies for countries around the world," White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Monday.
(Excerpt) Read more at prophecynewswatch.com ...
I am stunned advertisers still fall for paying such high prices for clicks. Advertising has become so overused as to be useless noise.
To your point, there are people here that I have no doubt are social media managers, people who are paid to suggest links to videos. SEO optimization companies get paid to join web sites and steer people into videos by suggesting videos to watch. I once counted up for two weeks the number of video minutes suggested to me in web sites and emails. It came out to over 3,000 minutes a day. There are only 1,440 minutes in a 24 hour day.
P.S. I would say 99.99% of all videos have but one to three sentences of content but take at least 10 minutes to say it, poorly. Youtube pays more for 10 minute or longer videos. Why do we need to watch videos of someone saying something they could just as easily write down?
Agreed. The majority of postings with links to videos on FR have the “Watch this” phrase and little else. If the poster of the link is so lazy or otherwise indifferent to not posting a synopsis, that should set of red flags.
I clicked on one video several months ago, and it was Alex Jones speaking while standing chest high in water in a swimming pool. Laughable.
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I am forbidden to kill and slaughter the wild pigs that roam in my yard. It’s a felony. We will need to make new arrangements when the genocide commences.
Building back better media approved.
I agree with not selling farmland to China but it is easier said than done. Consider the common scenario of Mr. and Mrs. Family Farmer retiring or passing on. Kids aren’t interested in farming and besides regulations are making it difficult to continue and compete with the commercial farming operations.
Who would be interested in buying the farm? If the kids are anxious to cash out the estate, another farming family probably won’t be able to pay top dollar. Developers might be interested but the market is soft for housing or commercial building unless the farm is located in the right place. Investment companies might be interested but Hunter’s laptop reveals the Biden’s made a lot of money providing an American face for Chinese money and it might just be a middleman between the farmer’s kids and the eventual owner of the land. This leaves commercial farming operations which, if they are interested, will likely low-ball the value. In these days of gigantic investment houses and commercial farm companies it is difficult to guarantee China has no involvement in land purchase.
The best representation of a food riot that I’ve seen is in the film “The Good Earth”.
The invisible hand favors short term profit. Dictators have the advantage to ‘go for the long run’ benefit - at the expense of their people - because ‘their people’ have such limited power.
Every incentive you mentioned is correct and I’m sure there’s more... but I feel - since this deals with a sale to a foreign country - that some limited regulations could work.
Any ideas on how to switch some of the incentives?
Pretty sure the instant you put “may be” in the sentence then “inevitable” should be out.
This is why it behooves us to be as ready as possible for what’s most likely coming, and to get your vegetable garden on order before the seeds and supplies are all gone.
It’s a Constitutional minefield also but, as far as incentive, I suspect the best you could do is set up an agency or quasi-government organization which would have the power and right to match best offer before that offer is accepted. Best I can do right now without a lot of forethought.
If you want it to end before then, cut off shipments into blue cities. Just long enough so every restaurant cannot restock. Forget about grocery stores, ordinary people actually buy their food and cook it for their families. And, they are not to blame for this. It is the commie trash who eat only from restaurants that need to be hit to wake them up to the disaster they have (deliberately) caused.
36-48 hours ought to do it.
I agree this will be a problem in the Middle East, among other places. Here on the U.S., we’ll just eat steak less often. They’ve been expensive lately so I haven’t been eating much steak anyway.
That is the main result of crazy prices.
I easily eat a dozen eggs a week.
But I refuse to pay $2+ for a dozen eggs. So now I only buy a dozen, if that, a month.
I paid $1.64 for a dozen jumbo eggs at Walmart Wednesday.
I paid $1.69 for an 18-count package yesterday...not at a Wal-Mart, though.
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