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Yes Newfoundland would put a bit of a ripple in it. Sorry Micheal, I’m in Nova Scotia lots of oak here and I’m just seriously considering acorn flour this season.Export deals agreed to before the directive issued Friday could still be honored, but future shipments need government approval, it said.”
“could” not “will be” According to wiki the total world wheat production in ’19 was 765.8 billion metric tons, of that 311.7 is produced by the top three which are in order China, India then Russia. The rest of the world produces the remaining 454.1 metric tons. Next three in descending order US, France and Canada combined total 125.2 with the Ukraine coming in fifth at 28.4 but I believe we can scratch that from the shipping manifest for now. These numbers don’t flesh out well when you start looking into consumption globally! The coming winter is going to be something.
Micheal, cloudhidden have a look at this for a maybe?
@V “Wake up tomorrow and stop this shit!!!!”
Today! Wake up TODAY! Find ways of living without “paying” much. The less you need to warm and feed your household the less you have to earn. If you don’t “earn” it you don’t pay tax on it. Plus you aren’t making someone else money. At this point in western civ fiat is king but it will soon go where all fiat has gone before, sometime this decade I suspect. So earning a load of fiat you can’t use in the near future is only enriching others. Little people are like grains of sand, a few are annoying in the swimsuit, a few trillion and a little breeze you’ll have yourself a good old fashioned dust storm.Russia the one notable exception! Salt in the self inflicted wound.
Global Wheat Production Faces Weather Threats, While U.S. Food Prices Climb
“Droughts, flooding and heatwaves threaten output from the U.S. to France and India, compounding shrinking production in Ukraine. Just about every major producing region is facing one threat or another. The one notable exception is Russia, which is shaping up for a bumper crop and stands to benefit from the rising prices and limited supply elsewhere.
“I am a dinosaur, but I have never seen these things,” Saudi minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman, who’s been attending OPEC meetings since the 1980s, said Tuesday at a conference in Abu Dhabi, referring to the surge in prices for refined products. “The world needs to wake up to an existing reality. The world is running out of energy capacity at all levels.”
The true cause of inflation in the 1970s was rising energy prices – including the 1973 OPEC oil embargo – which drove the cost of everything upward. Even the recession – which economists and bankers credit Paul Volcker with creating – turns out to have been the result of the oil shock from the Iranian revolution and the Iran-Iraq war. And while neoliberal governments took the opportunity to crush unions and tear holes in social safety nets, what brought a brief return of prosperity in the 1990s was the opening up of new oil deposits in Alaska, the Gulf of Mexico and the North Sea, together with a banking deregulation that generated billions of dollars, pounds and euros in debt-based derivatives, underwritten by the anticipated profits from that new oil.
TDK “i bet he’s listening to dr. clippy.” I’ll bet he doesn’t even have it! Just more PR from clown world.
“We show you pictures of food and other people eating, and you put the pictures in your mouth.”
A bit of traffic on the way to the keyboard today Dr. D? Love that line, reminded me of a line my father used to say way back when we lived in caves; What’s for supper? Bread and point, have a piece of bread and point to pics of what you would like to be eating in the good house keeping mag. That’s supper! Bread and point or maybe cake and point. ;-).An example of a talking head getting in over his head.
Sky news
https://t.me/ostashkonews/11001“Ukraine diverts some Russian gas flows, claims battlefield gains”
Not much about the gas there. Not surprisingly since the “story” was posted at 5a.m. ADT only mid morning in Ukraine. It’s a propaganda piece about all the military successes the nazi’s are having at the expense of the Russian forces. I’d guess this hit piece was written up yesterday afternoon as a way to finish out someones work day. I note the disclaimer of having no one on the ground to verify any of it.
“Reuters was unable to independently verify the reports of fighting.”
Because they won’t spend the coin to do it properly. I doubt if they could even get close if they were there on the azov side. A bit too dangerous for those cupcakes, as well as too much anti thesis for their gaslighting to continue.Fun times ahead, it will be just like camping!
https://www.wsj.com/articles/electricity-shortage-warnings-grow-across-u-s-11652002380See, just spend more time at the library, it’ll be fun and you can take some new courses!
Not to worry though the Russians are having a much harder time of it if you were to believe these a-h@#es!
“The main negatives are the oil embargo, the EU giving up Russian gas, along with more departures among foreign companies,” said Natalia Lavrova, chief economist at BCS Financial Group in Moscow. “All that will probably expand gradually, with a lot of negative carrying over in to 2023.”
@germ Insanity, doing the same things over and over expecting different results? But are the results we’re told to be looking for the results that are expected by the pushers of said results?
“We do believe there are others out there,” Mr Kohlmeier told the broadcaster.
Yah think!
“Another technology – in the broadest sense of the word – that looks set to go the way of the dodo is the once ubiquitous shopping high street. The once prestigious department stores were already in freefall before SARs-CoV-2 began its world tour. But two years of lockdowns have devastated retail businesses of all kinds, leaving shuttered-up shopfronts along every high street in the country, with the Welsh city of Newport claiming the record for having a third of its former shops empty.”
“Soylent Green.” Kind of. But the handlers promoted Covid so they wouldn’t have to have soylent green. They are the heroes of their own story, doing the difficult thing that must be done. Killin’ some 25M folks using eugenics. It’s only logical. If you’re a sociopath.
They are legends in their own minds! So all will go as envisioned.
“UN: Obesity Levels In Europe At ‘Epidemic Proportions’ (AP)”
This coming winter should cure most of it!
Having done the small animal husbandry thing for a number of decades I can say that manure is like gold if you’re a gardener. I no longer keep any animals but maintain a large enough garden that we are still eating from last years produce. Finding manure for the garden is now a trip of about one hour one way so I don’t have as steady a supply as I once had. We compost everything except bones, they draw bib animals such as bears. I fortunately live near the ocean and can haul seaweed by the truck load to the gardens and, in my experience it is as good as manure, maybe better. This should help with the culling:https://www.iowapublicradio.org/2022-05-05/great-plains-drought
The tools of psychology are dangerous in the hands of the wrong men. Modern educational methods can be applied in therapy to streamline man’s brain and change his opinions so that his thinking conforms with certain ideological systems. — Joost A. M. Meerloo, The Rape Of The Mind, 1956.
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Since the declaration of the Covid-19 Pandemic in March, 2020, the phenomenon of “mass formation psychosis”, essentially hypnosis at population level, has become a major subject for discussion, due largely to interviews of psychiatrist Mattias Desmet. Becoming aware of it, one begins to recognize the effects of the cultivation of anxiety and mental confusion, of the steady diet of terrifying data, of constantly changing and conflicting information, of enforced compliance to shifting policies demanding physical and visual isolation.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/campaign-against-critical-thinking/5779313Retired General Trevol Kadier has been arrested by Russian Forces. He was in charge of a Ukrainian based US-sponsored Biolab.
Sure he was. Not saying that there weren’t any under him just that, that is an awfully high rank for looking after a lab, but then he probably has a Phd. in biology or maybe chemistry.
“According to media reports, the general’s name is Trevor Kadieu. Seven months ago, he was appointed to the post of commander of the Canadian Army, but before the inauguration, he was involved in a sex scandal. In the harassment that occurred back in 1994, he was accused by a former colleague. The general called the accusations false, but in April 2022 he retired from military service.”
April of 2022? So he was in Avozstal while being employed as a Canadian Forces commander? Or did he sneak in after he retired?
Yesterday DBSmith “If you want to save money and turn bigger profits with less work then the nearly perfect three-for-one operation is famine.”
Would this do the trick: https://www.globalresearch.ca/big-pharma-set-control-entire-food-supply/5779182“Monsanto is creating specially-tailored genetically-cut seeds for these vertical farms and the University of California is developing a plant-based mRNA vaxxine that farms can grow in heads of lettuce, which happens to be the main crop of these new farms.”
Germ. I heard this on the radio news this morning here in Canada and it wasn’t the CBC,(covid broadcasting corporation). They’re using models again and we know how well they preform. Models?!
Real war correspondents are few, however 19 April:
Concerning Gonzalo it is possible he just can’t communicate due to the Russian advance on Kharkiv. They seem to be able to crush domestic comms for the duration of their campaigns within certain ranges. It does look as if they’re lining this area up for the removal of the remaining Azovs within this city as well as the area in general. Hopefully this is the case.
Anyone concerned about the WHO Pandemic Treaty, now inviting submissions from the general public. There is a short submission period, so this is urgent.
There is an international outcry that sovereign nations will lose control of their own constitutional public health policy control, which it seems may be controlled by a global WHO/WEF pandemic policy. We have just witnessed the extreme shortcomings in the WHO/FDA/CDC pharma-dominated SARS-2 policies.
It is very easy to fill out the WHO submissions form here.
Public hearings regarding a new international instrument on pandemic preparedness and response: written component
As a professional career librarian, I have just published my own 250-word-limit submission, which I invite anyone to copy and use.
After careful thought, I don’t believe that each submission needs to be original. The main thing is that you will have expressed an educated voice. (My submission was approved by an epidemiologist.)
This can be done in 10 minutes. It’s easy.Summary
The vaccines are bad news. Fifteen bodies were examined (all died from 7 days to 6 months after vaccination; ages 28 to 95). The coroner or the public prosecutor didn’t associate the vaccine as the cause of death in any of the cases. However, further examination revealed that the vaccine was implicated in the deaths of 14 of the 15 cases. The most attacked organ was the heart (in all of the people who died), but other organs were attacked as well. The implications are potentially enormous resulting in millions of deaths. The vaccines should be immediately halted.No need to worry. It is doubtful that anything will happen because the work wasn’t published in a peer-reviewed journal so will be ignored by the scientific community. That’s just the way it works.
” expected to be a full-scale Russian assault in the east”
Just a few small battles so far I guess as the Russians have yet to make any headway.
The MSM lackey’s and their audience will be surprised at how quickly the east has fallen after all the aid that was sent to help the nazi’s in there holy war against the evil bear.About those pesky fuel price rises,
In 2020 Russia was the world’s second largest exporter of diesel fuel behind USA, shipping more than 1 million barrels daily. Most of it, some 70%, went to the EU and Turkey. France was the largest importer, followed by Germany and UK. In France some 76% of all road vehicles—cars, trucks—use diesel.The EU diesel demand is far higher than in the US as most cars also use the more economical and efficient diesel fuel. In the first week of April the EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen proudly announced new sanctions against Russian energy that would begin with a ban on coal. The EU is the largest importer of Russian coal. Oil and gas she said would follow at a later date. That foolish move will merely boost costs of energy, already at record high, for most of the EU, as it will force oil and gas prices far higher.https://www.globalresearch.ca/nato-sanctions-coming-global-diesel-fuel-disaster/5777305
Dr.D “Stand up for and support the brave and glorious Azov Nazis in their fight against civilians. Bad bad stuff. I’m done. He’s no longer an actor, a cut-out, an innocent.”
Most of the whole paragraph sounds like the dynamic duo of Trudeau and Freelander doesn’t it? Except they’re a drama teacher and a nazi.“ The WHO Is Building a Global Vaccine Passport (Bexte)
plans to link every person on the planet to a QR code digital ID.”Highly unlikely to work for a number of reasons the first, and probably the strongest, reason against it working is the people most likely to follow along are lining up for their booster as I type this. If the some of the worst things happen, as pointed out on this site, the most likely will no longer be with us. It may by accident reduce the coming famine as well. Thought they would kill off the un-compliant with a famine and feed all the digital QR’s with CBDC. Opps it isn’t following the model again! Now what? Must be missing some inputs. Try again might be enough time to get it right before they come a huntin’.
Rule of my thumb: no new drugs for at least five years after they went to market.
Integrity is the choice between doing what is convenient and what is right.The following may help to understand the global situation in the west is what is really under siege. Degrowth is upon us! It’s the resources stupid. We don’t have what is required to keep growth for growth’s sake going. Real growth died earlier this century and it has been smoke and mirrors ever since. Financial adventurism, MMT, and the like. Fantasies that work only in computer games, i.e. models.
In conclusion, a fair-shares assessment of resource use
shows that high-income nations bear the overwhelming
responsibility for global ecological breakdown, and
therefore owe an ecological debt to the rest of the world.
These nations need to take the lead in making radical
reductions in their resource use to avoid further
degradation, which will likely require transformative
post-growth and degrowth approaches.https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/article/PIIS2542-5196(22)00044-4/fulltext
Dr.D you’ve nailed again quite nicely about the “experts”. It all went sideways with education, or as I now call it indoctrination. The further along one progresses through todays education system the less one thinks on their own. It’s systemic. Here in Canada you take your personal physician, they are merely interrupters. You go in for a check up and after a weigh in and blood pressure check, which you can do at home, they ask about any concerns, if you have any it’s off to the “specialist”. If none you’re still sent for blood work. This will be interrupted by the doc and if any anomalies show up… you guessed it, off to the specialist. I have a good friend with degrees in philosophy who is always interesting to have conversations with until you get to the MSM and their world view in the west. His is a parrot version with no critical thought what so ever. Amazes me every time. His world view is very Anglo Saxon, India bad, Russia bad, Germans, French, China, etc. all bad. Then will go on to tell me how he assesses people individually based on only the conversations with them. Needles to say when the conversation drifts in this direction I have to bite my tongue and steer it in another direction.
VP ‘The Wi-Fi restrictions were a valuable compliance measure to help promote participation,” St. Clair said. “Our hope is that it will continue to have an impact.”
Our hope is that it will continue to have an impact! Oh it will just look at Germs link in comment above. #105889 Brace for impact!
This should be interesting, live feed starts at 8 a.m. EDT
https://rumble.com/vzn4yg-the-first-casualty-of-war-is-truth-live-wscott-ritter.htmlhe Entire Data Base of “Covid-19 Confirmed Cases” is Invalid.
Media disinformation has prevailed for more than two years despite the fact that both the WHO and the CDC (with the usual innuendos) have confirmed what was known from the very outset in January 2020, namely that the RT-PCR test used to justify every single policy mandate including lockdowns, social distancing, the mask, confinement of the labor force, closure of economic activity, etc. was flawed and invalid.The WHO issued its Mea Culpa more than a year ago on January 20, 2021. A few months later, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) (July 21, 2021) called for the withdrawal of the PCR test as a valid method for detecting and identifying SARS-CoV-2.
As of December, 31 2021, the PCR test is no longer considered valid by the CDC in the U.S. For more details see: CDC No Longer Recognizes the PCR Test As a Valid Method for Detecting “Confirmed Covid-19 Cases”?
The CDC has now firmly acknowledged that the PCR test does not effectively differentiate between Covid-19 and Seasonal Influenza. A PCR positive does not imply a “Covid-19 Confirmed Case”. It could be influenza or a corona common cold. The CDC called for its withdrawal effective December 31, 2021.
Dr.D read the rest of the article only half is posted and that was a mistake on my part. I didn’t mean to post nearly that much. I felt the more important bit follows on after what’s seen in the post. Maybe you have read it, if so apologies.
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Among humanity’s greatest failings is our inability to process time. No doubt in our evolutionary past, the need to focus on the here and now – both to avoid danger and to secure the means of staying alive – will have left little time to think about the future. The transition from hunting and gathering to agrarian settlement, of course, required the development of the calendar – which is why, for example, neolithic Britain was dotted with stone circles – but even then, the aim was to remove the need to think about the future. Instead, generation after generation learned that when the sun comes up over this stone, it is time to plant seeds. And when the sun comes up over that stone, it is time to bring in the harvest. And later, these neolithic time markers were incorporated into the Church calendar in the form of “holy days.”In 1972, psychologist Walter Mischel devised an experiment to test children’s ability to defer gratification. This “marshmallow test” confirmed that, in fact, very few of us are able to make rational decisions about even the short-term future. Only ten percent of children managed to “pass” the test and earn the promised reward. And this has more than humorous consequences. The ten percent of children who could process time rationally, went on to get higher educational grades, better jobs and more stable relationships. As I explained in my 2015 book, The Consciousness of Sheep:
“The overwhelming majority of us are completely disconnected from our future selves. We understand at a cognitive level that we will become a different person in the future to the person that we are today. But we struggle to understand that these people that we are to become are really ourselves. If they become unwell, we are going to have to experience their pain. If they are poor, we are going to have to experience their poverty. If they are obese, we are going to have to struggle for breath as we lug their excess weight around.
“Nor is it only our negative future life events and situations that we cannot connect with. Another famous experiment, in which adults are asked to choose between a small box of chocolates today and a large box next week, has exactly the same outcome as the marshmallow test. Ninety percent of us take the immediate gratification of the small box today rather than the deferred gratification of a large box later on. We simply cannot connect with the fact that it is the same me who will get to enjoy a large box of chocolate next week if only I can resist the temptation of a small box immediately.
“This experiment has important consequences for all of humanity. It highlights a key reason why so many people stay stuck in unpleasant situations simply because they will not put effort into making change. Again, we all ‘understand’ this at a cognitive level. For example, we know that someone who is in a poorly paid and/or stressful job would be better off taking up a night school or distance learning course than, say, going to the pub in an attempt to unwind. Nevertheless, adult education is struggling to recruit students while pubs are full of people complaining about their jobs!
“To most of us, our future selves are complete strangers. Indeed, we are often more caring about our present friends and relatives than we are about our future selves. And if our future selves are strangers, is it any surprise that we offer them no greater support than we would to a stranger today? It is not that we wish them harm. But – let’s be honest – how many of us would give up a small box of chocolate today so that someone else can have a large box next week?
“Of course, many of the issues facing us are so much greater than who gets chocolates. An adult will not educate themselves so that a stranger can get a better job. A drunk will not turn down a drink so that a stranger will be spared a hangover. A smoker will not turn down a cigarette so that someone else does not get cancer. And none of us will leave our cars at home or turn down holidays abroad so that strangers do not have to cope with economic collapse and climate change.”
This is why we should avoid making radical changes to our way of life – such as locking down national economies in the face of a not particularly dangerous pandemic – without having sought to understand and mitigate the likely consequences. Even economists and central bankers understand that economic policy is often like pulling on a brick with an elastic band – minor changes seem to make no difference but then all of a sudden, the brick comes flying up to hit you in the face. This is why, for example, central bankers tend to raise interest rates gradually in case they trigger a massive debt default crisis. Nevertheless, a financial economy which, today, is largely divorced from reality, responds rapidly in comparison to the real economy of energy and materials which economists hubristically refer to as “externalities.” Acting in ways that impact the real economy is more like attempting to steer a supertanker – the ship may travel tens of miles before the change of course takes effect. And in the event of over-steering at the beginning, the ship may well end up grounded on the rocks (which is why, incidentally, modern oil tankers have double hulls).
It was not until the summer of 2021 that the economic effects of the lockdown in March 2020 began to be felt. First in the form of the fake fuel shortage, but later in the very real surge in oil and natural gas prices. We might look back fondly at an oil price of $80 per barrel. But this time last year, there was concern that a rise above $80 would be enough trigger a global recession. In truth, recessionary indicators could be seen all over the place if anyone cared to look. Town and city centres were devastated by lockdowns. The entire travel and tourism industry is little more than a corpse waiting for a priest to arrive to administer the last rights. Hospitality businesses have closed in droves. Even Cardiff’s iconic Brains brewery had to be quietly sold off to the English – something akin to sacrilege in these parts – during the pandemic. All around the world, supply chains have been collapsing as shipping and transport costs rise far above anything the economy can afford in the long-term.
In the UK, as the winter of 2021-22 approached, people faced the biggest cost-of-living crisis since records began. What began as a series of eye-watering fuel and energy price increases, morphed into a generalised inflation as everything which depended upon energy and fuel in its manufacture and delivery became more expensive. The situation was not helped by central and local government tax hikes, nor by the central bank’s decision to raise interest rates.
@Oxy “If I had my way (and I would think D Benton and many others feel this way too) they would all go to jail but it’s not going to happen.” It is happening now, they are doing to themselves. They have a name for it, gated communities. These will become prisons at some point. They will have to leave for supplies as things deteriorate further. It seems to be slowing turning into the bastard child of The Hunger Games and Orwells 1984. As far as yesterdays floating LNG terminal the whole thing is pie in the sky. Russian gas flows to Europe at approx 500 billion cubic meters per year and the usa is offering up 15 billion. They have a bit of a short fall there.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/nato-russia-proxy-war-revealing-signs-of-a-fading-america/5775462
From the transcript with Micheal Hudson:GR: I know that Russia is very rich in mineral deposits, its rich in oil and gas as well. Russia and Ukraine form part of the breadbasket of the world. And as they control the important minerals like lithium and palladium and so forth, so they’re dealing with Ukraine, part of that plan, as a result you’re going to see, as I mentioned, a lot of impacts worldwide including food, and we’re probably going to start to see even food shortages pretty soon.
MH: That is the intention, You have to realize that this was anticipated. Without gas, already German fertilizer companies are going out of business because fertilizer is made out of gas, and if they can’t get their Russian gas, they can’t make the fertilizer, and if you don’t have the fertilizer, the crops are not going to be as prevalent and abundant as they were before. So all of this, you have to assume that, it’s so obvious, they knew this would happen, and they expect the United States to benefit from the cost squeeze that it’s imposing on food importers to the US benefit.
