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.”
I grow strawberries and tomatoes, I bought all my fertilizer in October. Our local COOP manager called and said if you can buy your fertilizer now for next year you need to. He said if I have it next year your not going to be able to afford it.
Holodomor doesn’t care how many bullets you have.
Yep.
Anyone hyping hunger games this year is a fraud.
Next year is what to worry about. At least that gives some months to innovate.
For most people here, no need for ‘Survival Food’ that lasts 25 years, since this crap will be over (one way or another) in 25 months. Far better to simply buy the far cheaper and better quality canned food and bagged/packaged starches (unless you’re into keto), which are still good for at least 5 years, and often 10 years. Then just toss them out if not need.
Imagine the problems if Bran flakes are rationed. There will be scores of constipated people looking for relief.
Is that what might be called “a target rich environment”?
As soon as we start killing them the United Nations will declare a humanitarian crisis because white supremacists are slaughtering “migrants” in cold blood and they will bring in tens of thousands of Peoples Liberation Army troops disguised as UN “peacekeepers.”
You didn’t answer my question, LOL. /s
Greece and Spain two of the economic basket cases of the EU...
and the things the are named ase being rationed are wheat and sunflower oil, both of which are major exports if the Ukraine.
I smell panic-mongering.
Russia is the biggest exporter of wheat on the planet. And largest exporter of fertilizer to grow it.
And food price inflationary pressure is all across Europe including Germany.
It's not who voted, but who counted the vote.
“It’s not who voted, but who counted the vote.”
Spare me. The Left doesn’t have to cheat to win in Western Europe. They’ve been voting for this crap for decades.
Now they’re getting it.
Good and hard.
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Like California, where the cities drag the vote left, there are many conservative in Europe who dreaded the arrival of the EU. Memory of the national socialists and USSR still linger.
But, consider yourself spared of any further discourse on the subject.
“Like California, where the cities drag the vote left, there are many conservative in Europe who dreaded the arrival of the EU.”
I don’t doubt their existence. I do doubt their effectiveness.
But I’ll spare you any further discourse on that.
Build back better
If it were any other site but Infowars.
Ignorance is as ignorance does.
Well, I guess you’re correct if referring to Jones.
Most of what you know you know from the gaslight press.
The Newtown trial has been a complete kangaroo affair, but you wouldn’t know that. He was not allowed to present a defense by the judge. The same judicial system that stole the election from Trump.
Now the same thing is happening to him and Owen Schroyer over January 6th. The judge even said the FBI was lying, but that the government had a right to lie.
Jones is the canary in the coal mine.
He was the proof-of-concept of banning from the Internet, only he built his onw infrastructure and now hosts thousands of other conservatives for free.
He’s been fighting the globalists for thirty years, and everything he said would happen has happened. And he’s not psychic. He just reads their white papers and published goals.
He gets it right sometimes. Problem is he gets a lil wacky sometimes as well which kinda hurts his credibility.
I must say, I did enjoy his Bohemian Grove piece.
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