Posted on 04/03/2022 10:11:29 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Editor’s Commentary: There was a time not so long ago when I would lambast “Chicken Littles” for claiming we’re on the verge of an economic collapse. I’ve been hearing it for decades and I’ve made a habit of pushing back. Even as recently as 2020, I railed against those who were buying up all the face masks, flour, and hand sanitizer because I thought the unhinged reaction to the pandemic was destructive, not to mention my annoyance of having to go to the grocery store several days in a row to find out they still had no toilet paper.
This is very different. For the last several months, I’ve become a “Late Prepper” with the intention of not only learning about and preparing for whatever is to come, but also to help others who find themselves in a similar situation. I researched all the emergency supply stores and chose to take on My Patriot Supply as a sponsor. I even recently started a new podcast about it. After being the guy who shook my head at people who bought a bunker ahead of Y2K, I’m now finding myself feeling ill-prepared for the current situation.
The article below by Arsenio Toledo focuses on Europe, but we have to assume that such challenges there will also reach our shores. It will be for different reasons; the Biden-Harris regime seems determined to do their part to usher in The Great Reset with open borders, energy production restrictions, and intentional failures on every economic front. What we’re seeing in Europe is a harbinger for what we’re almost certainly going to see in the United States very soon. Here’s Arsenio…
Countries all over the world, especially in Europe, have started implementing policies that ration food and fuel.
Europe’s struggles with its food and fuel supplies began after most nations on the continent imposed economic sanctions on Russia following its invasion of Ukraine. This threatened the flow of already-critical commodities in Europe and threatened to collapse already-struggling global supply chains.
As a result, the prices of everything from oil to wheat have soared, leading to multi-decade high inflation rates. Supplies of these essential products have also dwindled after exports from Russia were completely strangled.
In Spain, the country started experiencing sporadic shortages of different products like eggs, milk and other dairy products almost immediately following the outbreak of the war in Ukraine. In early March, major supermarkets like Mercadona and Makro began rationing sunflower oil.
Spain’s left-wing government even went further and gave stores the option to temporarily impose limits on the number of certain products customers purchase.
In Greece, at least four national supermarket chains have started rationing food products like flour and sunflower oil due to critically low supplies caused by the crippled supply chains coming out of Russia and Ukraine.
The supermarkets claim the current rationing is only a preventive measure that will be rolled back once Greece’s supplies of flour and sunflower oil stabilize. Around 30 percent of Greece’s wheat imports come from Russia and Ukraine.
“The reason for the cap on these products is only precautionary, as our customers are concerned about the war in Ukraine,” said one official from supermarket chain Alfa-Beta Vassilopoulos. “We want to ensure we will be able to serve our customers’ needs in the future too.”
“Flour and sunflower oil are the two products which, apart from energy, the war has affected more than anything else,” said Greek Minister for Development and Investment Adonis Georgiadis. “There are already shortages throughout Europe.”
In Germany, the nation triggered the first part of a three-stage emergency plan to conserve the country’s natural gas supply. This move came after Russian President Vladimir Putin demanded that Germany pay for Russian gas in rubles in an attempt to twist Western sanctions against Russia.
The first stage of the emergency plan will lead to “targeted” shutdowns of the flow of natural gas to “specified individual large consumers.”
German Vice-Chancellor and Minister for Economic Affairs Robert Habeck explained that the current rationing plan is a preventive measure implemented to make sure the country doesn’t experience a critical shortage.
Germany is also attempting to reduce or outright eliminate its dependence on Russian gas. Before the war, 55 percent of Germany’s natural gas came from Russia. Now, that number has been reduced to 40 percent with the help of natural gas flows from the Netherlands, France and Belgium.
“The collapse is on … and no signs of slowing down anytime soon,” said Harrison Smith of InfoWars. “In fact, all evidence points to the contrary. It points to those in charge and with the ability to prevent the downside doing everything they can to exacerbate and perpetuate the total collapse of the world economy, particularly in Western countries.” (Related: Gas rationing, food vouchers and hunger are now being normalized for the war phase of the plandemic.)
Smith, the host of “American Journal” on InfoWars, noted that if the global economy wasn’t so dependent on imports from other nations, the war in Ukraine would not have caused such a massive problem for the food and fuel supplies of other nations.
“All of this is really just predicated on globalism. It wouldn’t really be that big of an issue if we didn’t get our toilet paper from China,” he said. “If some ship running aground in the Suez Canal, quite literally on the polar opposite side of the world, somehow makes it so that I can’t buy toilet paper … that’s a problem, and it’s a problem in our world structure.”
Should help raise prices for our farmers since we are a net exporter of food anyway.
I work at a farmers’ coop. Can’t get half the fertilizer we need, and the price is through the roof. Most farmers bury themselves in debt every year and gamble they’ll make a profit. Lots of them are opting to not take the risk this year with the level of debt they would have to take on.
The price of fertilizer already was high back in November. There are a ton of articles out there talking about the fertilizer shortage that predated this war.
Could the food implosion just happen already? I really would like to eat my popcorn and watch leftists starve
Part of the reason for the millions of illegals streaming across the border is so that they will be roaming the countryside like a swarm of locusts when the grocery store shelves are empty.
When legacy US citizens defend themselves from being robbed by them, the United Nations will declare a humanitarian crisis because white supremacists are slaughtering innocent “migrants” in cold blood.
Then come hundreds of thousands of UN “peacekeepers” to herd the white supremacists into death camps for their safety.
I am not disputing that. I merely said that the price of fertilizer is through the roof and some farmers aren’t willing to bury themselves in that much debt.
Europe voted for this.
Now let them enjoy it.
L
(From the article):" The article below by Arsenio Toledo focuses on Europe, but we have to assume that such challenges there will also reach our shores.
It will be for different reasons; the Biden-Harris regime seems determined to do their part to usher in The Great Reset
with open borders, energy production restrictions, and intentional failures on every economic front.
What we’re seeing in Europe is a harbinger for what we’re almost certainly going to see in the United States very soon."
" “The reason for the cap on these products is only precautionary, as our customers are concerned about the war in Ukraine,”
said one official from supermarket chain Alfa-Beta Vassilopoulos.
“We want to ensure we will be able to serve our customers’ needs in the future too.”
“The collapse is on … and no signs of slowing down anytime soon,” said Harrison Smith of InfoWars.
“In fact, all evidence points to the contrary.
It points to those in charge and with the ability to prevent the downside doing everything they can to exacerbate and perpetuate the total collapse of the world economy, particularly in Western countries.” (Emphasis mine )
At present, most of the food and fuel rationing appears to be limited to businesses enterprizes
along with the encouragement from European governments who wish to remain in the background as shortages may occur.
Items that seem to be rationed in Europe include :
eggs, flour, and dairy products - Spain
flour and sunflower oil (for cooking/baking)-Greece
Fuel (heating - Germany, which is primarily restricting heaviest users, and relies 55% of natural gas from Russia)
Fuel (transportation) which will impact on the already crisis in the supply chain turmoil)
You can figure it out for yourself because the bulk of humanity remains in "Normalcy Bias" mode,
and figures that all this is accidental, and that things will work out and there will be no catastrophe, just a little inconvenience.
Nothing could be further from the truth as we have experienced a sequence of chaotic situations and castrophies which seem planned, rather than purely accidental.
It is time to use your head, logically, and not use your emotions to direct your activities.
The hour for preparation is getting late !
It's happening folks,..just don't hide you head in the sand.
Good God - UN troops? From where exactly, and how do they get here?
Most states have more deer hunters than nations have for armies. That “black helicopter” type fear porn is total bullshit, and makes FR seem like InfoWars or Debka files.
“Then come hundreds of thousands of UN “peacekeepers” to herd the white supremacists into death camps for their safety”
While their property is pillaged and looted for the common good of course.
WWI - ‘alien enemy’Germans living in US were put in camps. The Govt took over $7B in property.
WWII- Germans once again but mainly , It was the Japanese’ turn.
Don’t think it won’t happen again to the Targets the Govt chooses. Desperate times, desperate measures.
“San Joaquin Valley...Democrats in California turned it into a dustbowl over a tiny fish that lived hundreds of miles away.”
The Central Valley is made up of hard-working farmers and small business people, so of course it votes solidly Republican. That’s the real reason the Dems in Sacramento cut off the water - to force the Central Valley economy into collapse to punish these people. The “small fish” (snail darter) was just a convenient excuse to divert 70% of the Sierra runoff from Central Valley farms and into the SF Bay.
Devin Nunes is a Central Valley farmer - no wonder he’s not a RINO.
“Sunflower oil, wheat, dairy and gas are being rationed
In Spain, the country started experiencing sporadic shortages of different products like eggs, milk and other dairy products almost immediately following the outbreak of the war in Ukraine. In early March, major supermarkets like Mercadona and Makro began rationing sunflower oil.
Spain's left-wing government even went further and gave stores the option to temporarily impose limits on the number of certain products customers purchase.
In Greece, at least four national supermarket chains have started rationing food products like flour and sunflower oil due to critically low supplies caused by the crippled supply chains coming out of Russia and Ukraine.”
Tough call for farmers because crop prices should be higher than normal. Biden Administration doesn’t care about people who produce things, though. They care more for the leeches who take rather than those who make.
I have to agree with datura on this one. I have worked with U.N. troops before and they would be scared to death over here. Getting them to leave their encampments would be almost impossible, if you could even find a country which would send troops over here.
I know, China. Sending their troops over here for that mission would remove them from keeping their own people quiet. And the families would not like their one baby boy going away to never come back.
I guessed you missed the part about millions of “migrants” roaming the countryside like the walking dead looking for food.
On October 22nd last year on I-70 in Missouri we saw charter buses as far as the eye could see heading west.
When we stopped in Columbia, dozens of them were lined up at the mall and restaurants and they were filled with “migrants.”
They’re invisible right now, but they won’t be when the supply chain sputters to a halt.
But you're correct about the rest.
-PJ
It’s Mass Psychosis and it’s caused by constant fear mongering.
“The hour for preparation is getting late !”
I don’t think I have room for much more!
Uhmmmm.... each year 33 million hunting tags/licenses are issued.
That is more men/women with long guns than all nation armies combined.
The UN can come here on their convenient uniforms and blue helmets ⛑️ which make for fine targets and we’ll go home every night to a warm bed.
The UN is never going to take over a zip code anywhere in the U.S. of A.
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