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Today's America: An Economy Of Shortages

FRIDAY, JUL 08, 2022 - 12:28 PM
Authored by Robert Genetski via The Epoch Times,

For the first time in over 40 years, the U.S. economy is dealing with widespread shortages. Parts are unavailable for manufacturers when they need them. Airlines abruptly cancel flights. Railroads and trucks are cutting shipments. Food shelves in some areas are depleted with some areas reporting a lack of meat supplies, milk, or other essential food items.


What’s going on?
Shortages and empty shelves are characteristic of economies where governments control and allocate resources. They are not characteristic of America’s free-market economy. The only other times America has faced shortages were during World Wars or during the 1970s.

Government-imposed price controls were directly responsible for shortages in the early 1970s.

When businesses were unable to raise prices to sell their goods at a profit, they stopped producing, which created the shortages. Once the price controls were removed, the shortages ended.

Also in the 1970s, government price controls on oil and gas led to severe shortages on both. By the end of the decade, there were long lines of cars waiting at gas stations and purchases were rationed to ten gallons of gas. As soon as President Reagan removed price controls, the shortages of oil and gasoline ended and prices declined.

Free-market economies seldom experience shortages. This isn’t because everything is always plentiful. Bad weather can destroy crops. Disease can kill herds creating a shortfall in meat. Labor disputes or international shocks also disrupt markets. While shortfalls in some items are inevitable, a free-market economy adjusts and corrects for such events.

In free-market economies, shortages are rare because the market is remarkably efficient at raising prices of items that are in short supply. Sharply higher prices for scarce items, limit their use to the most efficient uses of the items and encourages the use of substitute items.

Doing so enables the economy to adjust to potential shortages and shocks in the most efficient way possible.

In the current situation, the wide range of shortages highlights a serious problem. As with prior shortages, this one is due to government policies. While the federal government has not placed direct price controls on the economy, it has distorted markets in a number of indirect ways.

Energy production is one of the most obvious areas the Biden administration has redirected resources. Using theoretical environmental policies to limit fossil fuels, the government has redirected resources from the most efficient production of energy. The administration’s war on fossil fuels has been every bit as effective in limiting supplies as price controls have been.

In February of 2020, with oil prices at $45, U.S. oil production reached 13.1 million barrels a day.

Today, with oil two and a half times that price, production should be at least 15 million barrels a day or higher. Instead, it’s 12 million. While the United States can’t control the world supply of oil, the failure to allow maximum domestic production reduces a resource critical to the efficient movement of all products and services.

In addition to restricting energy production, the administration’s climate policies have forced industries to redirect resources into bio-degradable fuels, leading to shortages in specific types of fuels. Laws providing rebates for solar power and windmills further reallocate resources to where the government wants them, rather than where markets would send them.

Almost every business currently complains about a severe shortage of workers.

Businesses say they are unable to receive, produce, or ship products due to a lack of workers. Other than during wartime, there has never been a labor shortage in U.S. history.

Why Now?
Despite a surge in employment in recent months, May employment data show the economy has fewer workers today than before the lockdown.

Some claim generous government benefits associated with the lockdown created the problem. Enjoying what amounted to an extended vacation, many workers became used to not working. Returning to work can be difficult after months of leisure. It is even more difficult when the government offers incentives for not working.

Few want to talk about another possible reason for the labor shortage.
The growing number of reports of abnormal and even deadly reactions to the COVID-19 vaccines has made some workers reluctant to accept jobs that force them to take the jab. Most notably, thousands of airline pilots and 20 percent of health care workers have quit rather than risk the jab. These and other workers are concerned the vaccines have created the type of adverse reactions reported in the vaccine trials and also in the military where soldiers have been forced to take the vaccine.

The hesitancy of some to take the vaccine may be warranted. Insurance companies have reported a 40 percent increase in deaths among the working-age population in the latter half of 2021. Half of these were listed as COVID-19 and the other half non-COVID-19 deaths. In that period, the death toll among the working-age population amounted to a loss of at least 350,000 workers. This alone would account for a significant part of the labor shortage.

Since more than half the population had been fully vaccinated by the last half of 2021, the insurance company data point to problems with the vaccine in effectively dealing with COVID-19 or as a possible factor in the surge in deaths among the working-age population.

In addition to deaths, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reports a surge in disability among the population 16 years and over. A country doctor, with a career in dealing with disability cases believes the COVID-19 vaccines are responsible.

Misallocation of Resources
Widespread shortages are a characteristic of a problem with the economy. The root cause of shortages in a market economy always has been related to government interference with markets or people. The current period is no exception.

The forced lockdown of the economy, federal actions to limit energy production, generous government subsidies and payments, and government mandates regarding COVID-19 and vaccines all have played a role in the widespread shortages plaguing the economy.

The solution to shortages is for government to cease attempting to redirect resources away from market pressures. Government isn’t very good at running itself, and worse at running the economy. Federal officials should recognize the market system is the best way to allocate resources. Government misallocation of resources is the main reason America is suffering from widespread shortages in almost everything except inept leadership.

 

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Why Goldman Is Buying Every Barrel Of Oil It Can Find

FRIDAY, JUL 08, 2022 - 12:10 PM
With commodity markets suffering a historic rout in the past few weeks, it will not come as a surprise to anyone that recession risks now dominate all macro markets.

Earlier this week, Deutsche Bank economists wrote that the rolling 20-day move in their commodity index is now seeing the third largest decline in 90 years, behind only the GFC, the initial Covid shock, and on a par with that seen in the early days of WWII in 1940. In March, we saw the fourth largest 20-day uptick after the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The start of WWII and two occasions in the 1970s were the only bigger moves.



Goldman picks up on this and writes overnight that concerns over the deteriorating economic growth outlook in the US and Europe have dominated all markets lately, with commodities no exception. The BCOM and S&P GSCI total return indices respectively shed -18% and -16.5% relative to their YTD peak hit as the sell-off that initially started in industrial metals not only broadened to other sectors but intensified significantly over recent trading days.



As recession fears have gripped risky assets, Goldman's chief commodity strategist Jeffrey Currie writes that "commodities have become positively correlated to equity and bond markets and negatively correlated to the US Dollar, a stark departure from previous months when commodities delivered outstanding diversification benefits to investors" (the full note available to professional subs).

Yet as we first noted in "Inside The Oil Market's Jekyll-And-Hyde Moment", Currie also writes that "this latest commodity sell-off is completely delinked from physical fundamentals and driven by financial liquidation."

Meanwhile, in the physical realm, inventories of energy and metals continue to fall from already uncomfortably low levels as demand remains above supply in all cyclical commodities, except iron ore. Timespreads, the single most accurate measure of underlying fundamentals, trade at unprecedented levels of backwardation, irrespective of the price sell-off.



That's because mobility remains robust globally and continues to recover strongly in China and the oil market is pointing to a 1 million b/d deficit. US and European aluminium premia remain historically high, while physical order books for metals remain strong.

As such, Goldman predicts that this micro scarcity paints a fundamentally constructive outlook for commodities despite the rising probability of a US and European recession over the coming 12 months, which commodities stand to weather on China's large-scale counter-cyclical stimulus.

It is in this bifurcated world - one where financial liquidation pressures keep slamming prices even as physical fundamentals point to much higher demand, and thus price spike - that Goldman says "commodities remain the best macro hedge" adding that although the bank expects spot prices to remain vulnerable to spec length liquidations triggered by negative economic news flow, "we believe it is premature for commodities to succumb to recession concerns when the global economy is still growing and markets remain in deficit on strong demand."

As a result, Currie writes, he views this price pullback as a longer-term buying opportunity, and barring a large synchronous negative global demand shock that creates a level-shift down in demand, demand rationing will remain the dominant theme for energy and food commodities while an accelerated stimulus program in China should help to create a turnaround in base metals pricing in Q3. Thus, Goldman believes the correlation between commodities and other risky assets is set to decline again given that commodities are spot assets while risky assets discount future expectations that have turned more negative. The bank also reminds its clients that with the exception of the GFC, commodities have been a great macro hedge, with all sectors delivering positive returns during large drawdowns in 60/40 portfolios since 1990.



But why have markets failed to understand the powerful upside fundamental case? Simple: as Currie explains, while many commodity markets remain remarkably backwardated so is volatility, making them harder to invest in.



As such "trading frictions have pushed up near-dated volatility and raised initial margins to extreme levels, thus pushing more market participants off-exchange, which has cemented a negative spiral between low liquidity and high volatility." As a result, price adjusted AUMs in commodity indices are down 24% YTD! On net, Goldman warns that "while current price levels do not seem to reflect current micro conditions nor the full impact of Russian sanctions, long-term investors in commodities will likely have to continue to stomach higher volatility in return for a significant total return pay-off."

As an aside, Goldman also writes that a "mild recession" is not a risk for commodities, and, given the inherent structural supply constraints, should not stand in the way of further physical goods inflation because "the current macro demand set-up is very different to 2008/09, when an exogenous credit and deleveraging crisis led to a sharp downturn in demand. We also find that the US share in global commodity markets is now much lower than it was historically, with the share of demand in EMs, particularly China and India, much larger."



Thus, Goldman writes, China and its zero-covid policy is significantly more important to commodities demand, and the bank sees growth and demand accelerating there in a counter-cyclical fashion to the West. Underlying physical demand itself remains solid for commodities, underscored by a rebound in oil demand growth, both seasonally and linked to a normalization in international travel, and robust order books for metals. Moreover, even in a recession, US demand would likely be supported by tight inventories of commodity-intensive goods (houses and autos).

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Turning exclusively to oil, Currie writes that the recent sharp sell-off in crude oil prices has been driven by growing recession fears in the face of low trading liquidity, with technicals exacerbating the sell-off. Doing some math, the Goldman commodities team writes that "the declines in prices and refining margins since mid-June are now equivalent to the oil market pricing in a 1.1% downward revision to 2H22-2023 global GDP growth expectations." Goldman believes this move has overshot, and while risks of a future recession are growing, the key to Goldman's bullish view is that "the current oil deficit remains unresolved, with demand destruction through high prices the only solver left as still declining inventories approach critically low levels."

Additionally, and as Goldman has explained in the past, the bank continues to see the oil market in a structural deficit that requires still higher prices to rebalance. Indeed, the oil market remained tighter than we had expected, reducing global inventories, after a record drawdown of 1350 million bbls to levels that were significantly lower than Goldman had previously expected. This more than offset the recent April-May surplus, the first after a record-long 23 months of deficits. This shift to surplus was driven by lower Chinese demand, record large SPR releases and a smaller-than-expected decline in Russian exports.

Notably, Goldman calculates that this surplus has now already come to an end, as the rebound in Chinese demand more than offsets the resilience in Russian exports, pushing inventories to historical new record lows. This deficit will likely persist at current oil prices given the expected moderate recovery in Chinese demand and declines in Russian exports (amid EU sanctions). While Goldman remains cautious on both, it expects the decline in Russian exports to accelerate from 0.3 mb/d to reach 1.5 mb/d by 1Q23 (versus 4Q21) given the logistical difficulties of now having to re-route nearly 5 mb/d of Western exports.



On the demand side, the negative global economic growth impulse remains insufficient to rebalance inventories at current prices while supply remains inelastic to prices – especially for shale – given investor and logistical bottlenecks. True, there will be higher core-OPEC supply later this year but this is mostly offset by the lack of progress on returning to the Iran Nuclear deal.

On net, even with Goldman's cautious assumptions on China/Russia, the bank calculates that "oil prices need to rally further to normalize the unsustainably low levels of global oil inventories, as well as OPEC and refining spare capacities."

As such, based on the bank's latest supply and demand expectations, Goldman forecasts that Brent prices will need to average $135/bbl in 2H22-1H23 for inventories to finally normalize by late 2023, "the binding constraint to prices in our view."



For long-only investors, Goldman advocates near-dated positions in Brent crude oil to benefit from the price upside as well as steep backwardation. The bank is also bullish Brent crude oil timespreads near-term as refinery runs ramp up by more than the risks to Russian production and Chinese demand. Having said that, there is also upside to longer-dated prices, such as Dec-23, as cost inflation and ESG drivers should exert upside pressure on long-dated prices while the multi-year supply response that needs to happen in order to rebuild spare capacity has yet to be triggered.

There is much more in the full Goldman report available to professional subs in the usual place.

 

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Millions Of Canadians Can't Use Debit Cards Due To "Nationwide Internet Outage"

FRIDAY, JUL 08, 2022 - 11:24 AM
Canada's Rogers Communications Inc. reported widespread network outages on Friday morning, affecting financial institutions, government agencies, law enforcement, businesses, and wireless phone and home internet customers.

"We are aware of issues currently affecting our networks and our teams are fully engaged to resolve the issue as soon as possible," Toronto-based Rogers tweeted.

Customers were extremely angry with Rogers, responding to the tweet by saying:

"$400/mth for services I can't even f**king use. This company is and will always be a f**king joke," one person said.

Another said: "for my American followers: Canada has only two companies with telecom infrastructure in the entire country and one of them is currently suffering a complete nationwide outage."

WSJ reports Rogers' customers first reported outages around 0400 ET. Police in Ottawa and Toronto warned residents of connection issues with the 9-1-1 emergency hotline.

"The outage, which appears bigger than the one last year that largely affected consumers, comes as Rogers is attempting to take over rival Shaw Communications," Reuters notes.

There were also significant issues with Interac, a Canadian e-transfer service, which tweeted around 1035ET about "nationwide Rogers outages," impacting debit-card transactions online and at checkout counters.

"This is impacting INTERAC Debit and INTERAC eTransfer. INTERAC Debit is currently unavailable online and at checkout," Interac tweeted.

The Canadian interbank network also said: "INTERAC e-Transfer services are unavailable at most financial institutions, impacting the ability to send and receive payments. We are waiting for updates from Rogers on their resolution."

A spokeswoman for Royal Bank of Canada told WSJ the widespread internet outage is affecting some of its lender's services across the country.

NetBlocks' real-time data confirmed a "major internet courage" across Canada where "national connectivity down to 75% of ordinary levels" this morning.



Another internet tacking website shows a significant loss in online traffic beginning in the early morning hours.



Here's what people are saying on Twitter about the widespread outage:









There's still no word on what caused the massive outage.

 

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Debunking The Key Misconceptions About Oil And Gas Prices

FRIDAY, JUL 08, 2022 - 08:25 AM
Authored by Robert Rapier via OilPrice.com,

• There are some major misconceptions when it comes to oil and gas prices.
• Many politicians are quick to blame oil companies, but the market is much more complicated than that.
• While oil companies have seen windfall profits thanks to the increase in oil prices, they are not the ones that are driving prices higher.

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but it seems like the vast majority of the country — including many politicians — still suffer from some major misconceptions when it comes to oil and gas prices.



Let’s first talk about things that are true.
It is true that oil companies benefit from actions that increase the price of oil. Over the past couple of years, OPEC has taken actions that have increased the price of oil.

In April 2020, OPEC+, a group of 23 oil-producing countries, enacted a huge supply cut because of the drop in global oil demand associated with the Covid-19 pandemic. In fact, oil prices even turned negative at one point, and U.S. oil producers saw their share prices plunge. President Trump asked Saudi Arabia and Russia to intervene.

At that time, he tweeted: “Just spoke to my friend MBS (Crown Prince) of Saudi Arabia, who spoke with President Putin of Russia, & I expect & hope that they will be cutting back approximately 10 Million Barrels, and maybe substantially more which, if it happens, will be GREAT for the oil & gas industry!” Moments later he tweeted “Could be as high as 15 Million Barrels. Good (GREAT) news for everyone!”

Those cuts did happen, and that helped shore up oil prices in the months to follow. In fact, between April 2020 and January 2021 — Trump’s last nine months in office — the average monthly price of West Texas Intermediate rose from $16.55 to $52.00 (source), an increase of 214%. Oil prices would continue to increase throughout 2021 as demand returned to normal.

ExxonMobil and other U.S. oil producers benefitted from this increase.
Then, in February 2022 Russia invaded Ukraine. The U.S. and some other countries made the decision to stop importing Russian oil. Oil prices soared. But that “oil” was primarily in the form of products like diesel and gasoline, and it supplied 7% of U.S. imports in 2021. This caused a significant disruption with U.S. refiners, and product prices soared along with refinery margins.

Oil producers benefitted from the rise in oil prices following Russia’s invasion, and refiners benefitted from the rise in product prices. ExxonMobil owns both oil production and refinery operations, and they benefitted from these price rises.

It’s perfectly legitimate to discuss how ExxonMobil benefitted from the OPEC production cuts and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. It is a fact that the U.S. energy industry has benefitted, and that is at the expense of U.S. consumers. I understand why people are angry about this, but their anger is misdirected.

What people get wrong is that ExxonMobil doesn’t have any control over this.
In 2020, ExxonMobil had to sell oil for less than it cost to produce it. They are at the mercy of the markets, which is why they lost $22.4 billion in 2020.

Think about it. Do you think ExxonMobil was just being generous in 2020, and decided to sell oil for under $20 a barrel? And in 2022 they got really greedy and decided to sell it for over $100 a barrel? No, because that’s not the way oil is sold.

The reason ExxonMobil can’t influence oil prices is they don’t produce enough oil to significantly impact the global oil supply picture. OPEC — with 35% of the world’s 2021 oil production — can substantially impact that picture. Add in the OPEC+ coalition — which Russia is a part of — and it’s close to half of global oil production.

ExxonMobil doesn’t even produce 3% of the world’s oil. If they restrained production in order to try to influence pricing, it would only cost them money.

So, you can be angry that ExxonMobil is profiting at your expense.

But just understand it’s not because they suddenly decided to gouge you. They have no control over this, which is pretty obvious when you look at their quarterly financial reports over the past decade.

 

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The One Commodity That Won't Stop Soaring

FRIDAY, JUL 08, 2022 - 07:01 AM
Authored by Tsvetana Paraskova via OilPrice.com,

• In the past week, nearly all commodity markets have crashed amid growing fears of a recession, but one commodity price continues to rise.
• A combination of reduced supply from Russia and an outage at the U.S. Freeport LNG facility has sent natural gas prices soaring.
• One analyst compared today’s natural gas markets to the oil markets of the 1970s, with supply shortages highlighting its importance.

While crude oil and other commodity prices have plunged in the past week amid growing fears of recession and less liquid markets in the summer, one commodity is bucking the trend and continuing to rise - European natural gas.



Benchmark gas prices in Europe at the Dutch TTF hub hit their highest level in nearly four months earlier this week. Prices have shot up by a mind-blowing 700% since the beginning of 2021. And we likely haven’t seen the biggest rally yet, analysts say.

Europe’s Gas Prices Buck The Trend In Recent Weeks
Gas prices started soaring amid the energy crisis in the autumn of last year. Then the crisis reached a whole new level after the Russian invasion of Ukraine in late February, which prompted the E.U. to race to replace as much Russian gas supply as possible, while Russia slashed deliveries to major customers—including Germany and Italy—in the middle of June. In the three weeks since Russia reduced supply to Europe and an outage at the U.S. Freeport LNG facility halted exports, European gas prices have jumped by 60%.

The front-month TTF futures contract surged by 8% to $179 (175 euro) per megawatt-hour (MWh) on Tuesday, hitting the highest level since March. The price is five times higher than at this time in 2021. That’s also more than 11 times above the long-term average, according to Ole Hansen, Head of Commodity Strategy at Saxo Bank. The European gas price surged to an equivalent of $300 per barrel of crude oil, Hansen noted.

[ZH: For context, the following charts compares - on an oil barrel equivalent basis - EU NatGas, US NatGas, and WTI Crude. EU NatGas is trading at triple the cost of US NatGas...]



Meanwhile, other commodities, including oil, have slumped since mid-June as the Fed and other central banks hiked key interest rates by the most in decades to fight the highest inflation in more than 40 years, inflation that was exacerbated by surging energy and fuel prices. The aggressive rate hikes heightened fears in the equity and commodity markets that a recession is looming.

Significantly lower gas deliveries from Russia to Europe, the imminent two-week regular maintenance on the Nord Stream pipeline beginning on July 11, and fears that Russia may not restore supply once the maintenance is over, are also critical factors in the fears of a recession in the German and the Eurozone economies, and all economies in the E.U., in the very near future.

“This is the 1970s for natural gas”
The forever-changed energy markets since the Russian invasion of Ukraine have highlighted the fact that gas has become a truly global commodity in recent years, with strong LNG demand in Europe driving up prices in the region and in Asia. The ability of American exports to at least partially compensate for lost Russian supply has also pushed the price of the U.S. natural gas benchmark at Henry Hub to double over the past year. U.S. gas prices have slumped by some 40% since the Freeport LNG outage as more gas will be available for U.S. consumption.

“This is the 1970s for natural gas,” Kevin Book, managing director at U.S. research firm ClearView Energy Partners, told Bloomberg earlier this week.

“The world is now thinking about gas as it once thought about oil, and the essential role that gas plays in modern economies and the need for secure and diverse supply have become very visible,” Book added.

The need for diversification and the importance of gas as a global rather than regional commodity has never been greater as Europe aims to free itself from the Russian gas grip and never be dependent on Moscow for its energy supply again. The E.U. is far from reaching that goal now, as the Russian cuts to gas supply showed—Germany, Europe’s biggest economy, warned of a “Lehman Brothers” moment if gas stops now.

Not that Europe is not trying—projects for LNG import terminals have been activated from Greece to Germany and Finland, but it will take a while for Europe to break free from Russian gas dependence. The E.U.’s target is for this to happen by 2027.

LNG Investment Is Back

The leaders of the G7 group of the world’s leading industrial nations also stressed the importance of LNG during their summit in Germany at the end of June. While reiterating support for the Paris Agreement climate targets of limiting global warming, the G7 leaders acknowledged that “investment in this sector is necessary in response to the current crisis.”

“In these exceptional circumstances, publicly supported investment in the gas sector can be appropriate as a temporary response,” they added.

Meanwhile, LNG buyers are returning to long-term contracts in order to secure the long-term supply of non-Russian gas and to insulate themselves from spiking volatile spot prices.

“Many traditional LNG buyers will neither procure spot gas or LNG nor renew or sign additional LNG contracts with Russian sellers. Spot prices have also been high and volatile, pushing many buyers towards long-term contracts,” Wood Mackenzie principal analyst Daniel Toleman said in May.

According to Massimo Di-Odoardo, Vice President of Gas and LNG Research at Wood Mackenzie: “A huge increase in LNG project investment is being supported by a rapid increase in European LNG demand, with U.S. developers already looking to fill the space.”

Qatar is also significantly expanding its LNG export capacity in the world’s largest LNG project ever, which was announced a year before the Russian invasion of Ukraine. In recent weeks, state firm QatarEnergy has picked international majors ExxonMobil, ConocoPhillips, Eni, TotalEnergies, and Shell as partners in the North Field East expansion project.

Until new U.S. and Qatari capacity comes online in the middle of this decade, the gas market will be tight as energy trade flows are changing forever. The recent rally in Europe’s gas prices since Russia slashed supply may not be over, as the E.U. scrambles for alternative supply to avoid a winter of rationing and recession.

(COMMENT: As I understand it, natural gas is a key component of fertilizer production. The shortage and cost of NG is a reason why fertilizer costs have skyrocketed. It is my understanding from a speech by EU's Ursula vander Leyen at the WEF, that Biden pledged a third of our NG to Europe. It would appear that European exports have substantially increased the cost of NG. Are we supporting Europe at the expense of our food supply?)

 

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Dave Walsh On The Biden Admin’s ‘Impeachable Backdoor Deals’ With Italy And China Surrounding Oil 7:41 min

Dave Walsh On The Biden Admin’s ‘Impeachable Backdoor Deals’ With Italy And China Surrounding Oil
Bannons War Room Published July 8, 2022

(No synopsis given. Have not yet watched.)

 

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AK Senate Candidate Sarah Palin: Biden’s Destruction Of American Energy Production Is ‘Purposeful’ 6:39 min

AK Senate Candidate Sarah Palin: Biden’s Destruction Of American Energy Production Is ‘Purposeful’
Bannons War Room Published July 8, 2022

(No synopsis given. Have not watched.)

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Liz Cheney-Challenger Harriet Hageman: Biden Administration Destroyed ‘American Energy Producers' 9:08 min

Liz Cheney-Challenger Harriet Hageman: Biden Administration Destroyed ‘American Energy Producers'
Bannons War Room Published July 8, 2022

(No synopsis given. Have not watched)

 

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Daniel Turner: Congress 'Must Investigate' Biden Selling America's Oil To Foreign Countries 7:14 min

Daniel Turner: Congress 'Must Investigate' Biden Selling America's Oil To Foreign Countries
Bannons War Room Published July 8, 2022

(No synopsis given. Have not watched.)

 

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Today's America: An Economy Of Shortages

FRIDAY, JUL 08, 2022 - 12:28 PM
Authored by Robert Genetski via The Epoch Times,

For the first time in over 40 years, the U.S. economy is dealing with widespread shortages. Parts are unavailable for manufacturers when they need them. Airlines abruptly cancel flights. Railroads and trucks are cutting shipments. Food shelves in some areas are depleted with some areas reporting a lack of meat supplies, milk, or other essential food items.


What’s going on?
Shortages and empty shelves are characteristic of economies where governments control and allocate resources. They are not characteristic of America’s free-market economy. The only other times America has faced shortages were during World Wars or during the 1970s.

Government-imposed price controls were directly responsible for shortages in the early 1970s.

When businesses were unable to raise prices to sell their goods at a profit, they stopped producing, which created the shortages. Once the price controls were removed, the shortages ended.

Also in the 1970s, government price controls on oil and gas led to severe shortages on both. By the end of the decade, there were long lines of cars waiting at gas stations and purchases were rationed to ten gallons of gas. As soon as President Reagan removed price controls, the shortages of oil and gasoline ended and prices declined.

Free-market economies seldom experience shortages. This isn’t because everything is always plentiful. Bad weather can destroy crops. Disease can kill herds creating a shortfall in meat. Labor disputes or international shocks also disrupt markets. While shortfalls in some items are inevitable, a free-market economy adjusts and corrects for such events.

In free-market economies, shortages are rare because the market is remarkably efficient at raising prices of items that are in short supply. Sharply higher prices for scarce items, limit their use to the most efficient uses of the items and encourages the use of substitute items.

Doing so enables the economy to adjust to potential shortages and shocks in the most efficient way possible.

In the current situation, the wide range of shortages highlights a serious problem. As with prior shortages, this one is due to government policies. While the federal government has not placed direct price controls on the economy, it has distorted markets in a number of indirect ways.

Energy production is one of the most obvious areas the Biden administration has redirected resources. Using theoretical environmental policies to limit fossil fuels, the government has redirected resources from the most efficient production of energy. The administration’s war on fossil fuels has been every bit as effective in limiting supplies as price controls have been.

In February of 2020, with oil prices at $45, U.S. oil production reached 13.1 million barrels a day.

Today, with oil two and a half times that price, production should be at least 15 million barrels a day or higher. Instead, it’s 12 million. While the United States can’t control the world supply of oil, the failure to allow maximum domestic production reduces a resource critical to the efficient movement of all products and services.

In addition to restricting energy production, the administration’s climate policies have forced industries to redirect resources into bio-degradable fuels, leading to shortages in specific types of fuels. Laws providing rebates for solar power and windmills further reallocate resources to where the government wants them, rather than where markets would send them.

Almost every business currently complains about a severe shortage of workers.

Businesses say they are unable to receive, produce, or ship products due to a lack of workers. Other than during wartime, there has never been a labor shortage in U.S. history.

Why Now?
Despite a surge in employment in recent months, May employment data show the economy has fewer workers today than before the lockdown.

Some claim generous government benefits associated with the lockdown created the problem. Enjoying what amounted to an extended vacation, many workers became used to not working. Returning to work can be difficult after months of leisure. It is even more difficult when the government offers incentives for not working.

Few want to talk about another possible reason for the labor shortage.
The growing number of reports of abnormal and even deadly reactions to the COVID-19 vaccines has made some workers reluctant to accept jobs that force them to take the jab. Most notably, thousands of airline pilots and 20 percent of health care workers have quit rather than risk the jab. These and other workers are concerned the vaccines have created the type of adverse reactions reported in the vaccine trials and also in the military where soldiers have been forced to take the vaccine.

The hesitancy of some to take the vaccine may be warranted. Insurance companies have reported a 40 percent increase in deaths among the working-age population in the latter half of 2021. Half of these were listed as COVID-19 and the other half non-COVID-19 deaths. In that period, the death toll among the working-age population amounted to a loss of at least 350,000 workers. This alone would account for a significant part of the labor shortage.

Since more than half the population had been fully vaccinated by the last half of 2021, the insurance company data point to problems with the vaccine in effectively dealing with COVID-19 or as a possible factor in the surge in deaths among the working-age population.

In addition to deaths, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reports a surge in disability among the population 16 years and over. A country doctor, with a career in dealing with disability cases believes the COVID-19 vaccines are responsible.

Misallocation of Resources
Widespread shortages are a characteristic of a problem with the economy. The root cause of shortages in a market economy always has been related to government interference with markets or people. The current period is no exception.

The forced lockdown of the economy, federal actions to limit energy production, generous government subsidies and payments, and government mandates regarding COVID-19 and vaccines all have played a role in the widespread shortages plaguing the economy.

The solution to shortages is for government to cease attempting to redirect resources away from market pressures. Government isn’t very good at running itself, and worse at running the economy. Federal officials should recognize the market system is the best way to allocate resources. Government misallocation of resources is the main reason America is suffering from widespread shortages in almost everything except inept leadership.

Widespread shortages?

That's what she said.

 

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Michael Yon: ‘16 Year Old Boy’ Protesting In Netherlands Shot At By Police 5:05 min

Michael Yon: ‘16 Year Old Boy’ Protesting In Netherlands Shot At By Police
Bannons War Room Published July 8, 2022

(Yon: The Dutch government is in the pocket of the WEF and are in the process of doing a farm confiscation. The Farmers are rising up. Depending on what you read, the Netherlands is either the second or fifth largest exporter of food in the world.

Bannon: This is going to come to the US. Gov Kristi Noem has been closely watching it. Are the farmers in the Netherlands going to back down to these folks?

Yon: It is getting stronger. It is picking up. The police shot at a 16 y/o boy and hit his tractor. That has raised sympathy among the population. People are wearing red scarves to show their support. Polish farmers are upset. German farmers have gotten involved in solidarity. There are issues with farmers in Italy and Spain. This is also related to shutting down food distribution with truckers in the US. These are not discrete issues. It is all global and against the cult of Davos operational plan to drive famine. We are clearly going to go into famine on a massive scale. That is why they want to cut down Dutch farmers, because they are the most efficient farmers in the world.

^^^^^
Michael Yon: The Dutch Government Wants To ‘Confiscate All The Land’ From Dutch Farmers 5:13 min

Michael Yon: The Dutch Government Wants To ‘Confiscate All The Land’ From Dutch Farmers
Bannons War Room Published July 8, 2022

(Bannon: The fight here in the Netherlands is a global fight of farmers against Davos. It is the universal fight of farmers. It is spreading to Italy.

Yon: The government of Netherlands is intent on confiscating all the farmland. All the small and medium sized farmers - they want to take it all. They are very clear about it. Some have already been delivered their letters. The excuse they are using is nitrogen/ammonia issues. It is just BS. Just like the CO2 for the global warming. Because Dutch farmers are arguably the most efficient in the world, to shut them down means that we would be shifting their contribution to the food supply to even less efficient farmers who will use even more fertilizer to produce less food.

This is not about pollution or global warming. It is about authoritarian control -a complete and utter take over. We see it with American truckers - knocking small, independent truckers out of business. They want to knock all the small independent farmers out of business so they can control the food supply, food production and distribution. Basically control everyone on earth done through energy, the money supply systems and the food and IT as well.

Bannon: Yon said when you were leaving the Darien Gap for the Netherlands, it was because his theory on osmotic pressure was centered around food. You see in the Netherlands, taking 50% out of production is going to contribute to a shortage of food and osmotic pressure.

Bannon: It is amazing you spotted this story early on and now it's everywhere.

Yon: HOP - human osmotic pressure comes from pandemic, famine and war. Then there is the one that pulls you in - economic betterment. The Frisian farmers, by the way, ripping them off their land will interrupt centuries of knowledge. Also, their culture. When you go into these small villages around Netherlands, it's all migrants.

Bannon: These farmers have been doing this for 2000 years. 3/4 of this country is reclaimed under water (level.) The farmers that came to America learned their trade passed down by generations of farmers from France and the Netherlands. )

(Comment: True. Some of my early maternal ancestors were Dutch farmers who settled upstate New York and along the Delaware River in New Jersey. )

 

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Harnwell: EU Parliament just gave “massive bitch-slap” to the pope for not defending Cardinal Zen 7:21 min

Harnwell: EU Parliament just gave “massive bitch-slap” to the pope for not defending Cardinal Zen (and the spread of the farmer's protests to Italy)
Bannons War Room Published July 8, 2022

(Harnwell: The Netherlands protests have spread to Poland, France, Spain and Germany. [videos in background] The momentum is really closing down the country and emptying super markets. Wiping the shelves of the Netherlands itself. Anger over the blatant lies of the government that has now started to claim that is farmers don't cut emissions by 2030, they will endanger the plants, protected habitat and wildlife across the EU.

Everyone knows this is a lie and that the government is talking to us like we're idiots. That is a fact that is driving anger across the EU.

Bannon: The Gilets jaunes (yellow vests) in France was about the Paris Accord making rural people pay for "climate change," while the CCP poured pollutants into the air. What is it about Paris, Davos, Brussels - why do they look down on the most productive people in all of Europe - the great farmers of Europe. Why are they always after the farmers?

Harnwell: Our sociopathic overlords are crazy. They are not in "public service" to make a difference in society - certainly not to enbetter their own peoples. They do disastrous things that punish their own peoples and they always sidestep responsibility. What they are in politics for is grift - especially in the super-national institutions. These people are motivated by broadcasting their moral superiority.

 

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Biden Sells SPR Oil Barrels To CCP-Owned Company Financially Linked To Hunter Biden 1:31 min

Biden Sells SPR Oil Barrels To CCP-Owned Company Financially Linked To Hunter Biden
Red Voice Media Published July 8, 2022

Fox News host Jesse Watters details how the Biden administration sold off nearly 1 million barrels of oil from the United States' Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) to a CCP-owned oil company that reportedly has financial ties to a firm cofounded by Hunter Biden.

 

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Altering the Human Genome: Study Shows COVID Jab Can Modify DNA, Opens Door for Lawsuits 2:18 min

Altering the Human Genome: Study Shows COVID Jab Can Modify DNA, Opens Door for Lawsuits
Red Voice Media Published July 8, 2022

"We were told this messenger RNA could not go into your DNA, but this was shown in a lab [that] it can."

 

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Lucky to Be Alive: 16-Year-Old Jouke Speaks Out After Being Fired Upon by Dutch Police 1:39 min

Lucky to Be Alive: 16-Year-Old Jouke Speaks Out After Being Fired Upon by Dutch Police
Red Voice Media Published July 8, 2022

"Yes, yes. There are some impressions here [by the window]."

(Auto-generated subtitles)

 

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Hunter Biden Making Money off of Oil Reserve Sales?

Is Hunter Biden making money from his dad’s releasing oil from the strategic reserve to China. Watch LIVE➡ https://bit.ly/plutolive Watch more #AmericasVoiceLive with Steve Gruber here: https://americ

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Hunter Biden Making Money off of Oil Reserve Sales?
Americas Voice Live Show Published July 8, 2022

Is Hunter Biden making money from his dad’s releasing oil from the strategic reserve to China.

 

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Rebel News arrives in Leeuwarden, where Dutch farmers protest outside government building 7:38 min

Rebel News arrives in Leeuwarden, where Dutch farmers protest outside government building
Rebel News Published July 8, 2022

'They don't need our nitrogen, they need our land.'

(The farmers have stopped producing food in an effort to show their importance.

Interviews with Dutch farmers protesting outside of a provincial government house. Apparently, the Dutch standard for nitrogen load is quite a bit less than the German load. it will close half their farms. The politicians have boycotted a meeting with them twice. The last chance is next Wednesday, then the politicians do not meet for another 2 months. If they refuse to meet next Wednesday, it is predicted that the farmers will blow up.

Another farmer said 85% of land is for farming. The government wants it for building and recreation. It is currently a national problem. The problem is Natura 2000 areas. The Netherlands has 161 areas involved. He believes the Germans only have 4, but the German farmers think they will be targeted next. With a growing population, they need more food. It is stupid to chase the farmers away. Who will provide food

Reporter: If the demands are not met, they will come back next Wednesday and there will be way, way more farmers turning up and like the farmer said, it will explode.

^^^^^

Natura 2000 - Environment - European Commission

Natura 2000 is the largest network of protected areas in the world. It offers a haven to Europe's most valuable and threatened species and habitats.

ec.europa.eu

Natura 2000
In a nutshell
Stretching over 18% of the EU’s land area and more than 8% of its marine territory, Natura 2000 is the largest coordinated network of protected areas in the world. It offers a haven to Europe's most valuable and threatened species and habitats.

 

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More Good News from the Supreme Court

Among the various governmental injunctions in our country, there are laws and regulations. Of the two, laws are the most powerful. These are rules made by the state legislature for a society to follow

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3:57 min

More Good News from the Supreme Court
The New American Published July 8, 2022

Among the various governmental injunctions in our country, there are laws and regulations. Of the two, laws are the most powerful. These are rules made by the state legislature for a society to follow, and that are in force over long periods of time. A regulation, by contrast, is the interpretation of a law made by a government agency (akin to a President's executive order).

Oftentimes, such regulations do not have the force of law. They are "strong suggestions" made by administrative agencies. But, as in all things, if you give an agency an inch, it will take a yard.

If the legislature passes a law curtailing the IRS's taxation power, for instance, containing the collection of taxes to 4 basic groups of people, the Internal Revenue Service will create an internal regulation, claiming that they can tax everyone. The Supreme Court just ruled against the EPA in their habit of doing the same thing. What this means is that a precedent is now established to push back against out-of-control deep state bureaucracies who have taken the law into their own hands, unconstitutionally. On the balance sheet, this is a check in the box of freedom: a point scored for rule of law.

DISCLAIMER: Views and opinions expressed on The Daniel Natal Show are solely those of the host and do not necessarily represent those of The New American. TNA is not responsible for, and does not verify the accuracy of, any information presented.

 

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"That Could Never Happen in the United States of America"

As many know, I read all emails that don't get hit by the spam filter whenever people correspond at jdrucker (at) substack (dot) com, as well as my open Twitter DMs on Twitter @jdrucker. The most prev

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"That Could Never Happen in the United States of America"
The JD Rucker Show Published July 8, 2022

As many know, I read all emails that don't get hit by the spam filter whenever people correspond at jdrucker (at) substack (dot) com, as well as my open Twitter DMs on Twitter @jdrucker. The most prevalent comments I received about the notion that the powers-that-be will be trying to force us into dependency were the ten most dangerous words patriots could ever speak: "That could never happen in the United States of America."

It can, and it likely will if we don't act now to stop it.

 

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Matt Palumbo Discusses Soros’s ‘Full Scope’ Of Influence In US And Trail Of Destruction Left Behind 7:39 min

Matt Palumbo Discusses Soros’s ‘Full Scope’ Of Influence In US And Trail Of Destruction Left Behind
Bannons War Room Published July 8, 2022

Matt Palumbo Discusses Soros’s ‘Full Scope’ Of Influence In US And Trail Of Destruction Left Behind

(No summary provided. Have not watched)

 

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European Farmers Fight Back Aginst the Globalist Scheme to Destroy the World's Food Supply (Video)
Amy Mek
July 8, 2022

The European Union is fighting to slash its carbon emissions by 55% by 2030, a goal requiring radical policies that will destroy farmers.

For weeks there have been protests by farmers in the Netherlands against their left-wing government’s Great Reset policies, the EU’s “Green Deal,” and the associated forced closure of farms. Their government’s radical ‘climate change’ measures aim to slash emissions in some provinces by 95%. That would mean the end for about 30 percent of the farmers.

The Dutch government has recently announced new policies which limit the number of cattle that farmers can legally own. The radical measures are aimed at helping the European Union E.U. reach its emissions goals set under the Paris Climate Accords. The bloc aims to reduce carbon emissions by 55% by 2030, which will require a radical overhaul of member states’ economies and end modern farming, reports National File.

Other policies being forced upon the Dutch include the banning of fertilizers that use nitrogen and the forced dismantling of many cattle ranches. As reported previously at RAIR Foundation USA, the plans stipulate farmers will give up their farms voluntarily and receive compensation for doing so – on the condition that they guarantee never to go back to farming. If they disagree, the state will take over their farm. So the great expropriation has begun.

The Netherlands is one of Europe’s largest agricultural exporters, which has made it a target of E.U. climate change policies. As reported at RAIR, “the socialists pushing these outrageous proposals care much less about the environment than about controlling you.”

Farmers in other nations, Spain, Italy, Poland, Germany, and France, have begun their own protests as the E.U. intensifies its efforts to slash emissions in all member states causing harm to citizens livelihoods and the global food supply.

Spain
The Netherlands protests and blockades are already affecting some supermarkets that are running out of food. Moreover, Spain’s farmers have again taken to the streets because of inflation.

Especially in the southern part of Spain, in Andalusia, farmers are protesting because of the enormous increase in prices for energy and food. In Spain, inflation was already above the 10% mark in June.

Farmers block A4 Highway in Jaén, Andalusia [Spain]:

Spain: Farmers Block A4 Highway in Jaén, Andalusia to protest Against Rising Fuel Prices .21 min

Spain: Farmers block Highway in Andalusia protesting rising fuel and essential goods prices .08 min

Mass protests back in March
And this year is not the first demonstration in Spain because of the massive price increases and the government’s inaction. Back in March, 150,000 farmers protested in Madrid. Spain’s socialist Prime Minister, Pedro Sanchez, pledged to take action then and stated that he would campaign at the EU level. But months later, it is becoming apparent that the EU is unable and probably unwilling to tackle the problems. Instead, the problems worsened due to the sanctions policies against Russia.

Poland
Polish farmers also staged protests in Warsaw, marching in the streets against their government’s destabilizing policies:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1545070542432227331

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Italy
Italian farmers have since joined the mass protests, having had enough of their left-wing government’s climate policies and rising food costs.

In the following video, a farmer can be heard encouraging others to mobilize and stage their protests in Rome. “We are not slaves; we are farmers!” shouted a farmer from his tractor.

You should all come along with us! Because under these conditions, we cannot put food on the table anymore! We can’t take it anymore! You should side with us! To Rome! We must go to Rome! Because we can’t take this anymore!

Italian Farmers Protest: 'We can’t take this anymore!' .58 min

Germany
German and Dutch farmers joined at the Heerenberg border crossing on Wednesday and blocked a roundabout. Others lined the A7 highway alongside the road on Thursday, where flags of both nations were visible.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1544763652615671808

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Warning strikes in France
In France, meanwhile, airport ground staff went on warning strikes at the beginning of the vacation period, causing dozens of flights to be canceled. The strikes were about poor working conditions, staff shortages, and low wages. The issue is that while the airports have 95 percent occupancy rates like before the Covid crisis, according to the CGT union, thousands of employees are missing at the airports.

FPÖ (The Freedom Party of Austria ) warns of the EU’s “Green Deal”

The [Austrian] liberal spokesman for agriculture, Peter Schmiedlechner, once again voiced severe criticism of the EU’s agricultural policy. “Because of the so-called ‘Green Deal,’ the government in the Netherlands has done something outrageous, and it is to be feared that the same thing will happen in Austria,” he said, drawing attention to the existential problems of Dutch farmers. Because of the nitrogen reduction decision, the Netherlands government wrote to the farmers that a third of their farms were to be closed down. If they did not agree to this, they would simply be expropriated.

That’s why Schmiedlechner isn’t surprised by the farmers’ protests because, ultimately, it’s about their survival. Especially since, at a time when a veritable food supply crisis is looming, and prices for staple foods are constantly reaching new record highs, it seems downright absurd to sabotage agricultural production in Europe in this way. “At the same time, the EU is signing a trade agreement with New Zealand, creating new dependencies. In what world does that make sense?” explains Schmiedlechner as he shakes his head.

 

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Netherlands Government Wants The Great Reset: Courageous Farmers Are Fighting Back (Videos)

The farmers’ protests in the Netherlands continue. Thousands of Dutch farmers have been taking to the streets for weeks. They block roads and paralyze access roads and distribution centers. In short: they are fighting for their survival – against expropriation. The reason for the protests is the Dutch government’s plans to massively reduce nitrogen emissions by up to 95 percent. That would mean the end for about 30 percent of the farmers.

These are peasant protests of unprecedented proportions. Last year, Christianne van der Wal, Minister for Nature and Nitrogen, was commissioned to reduce nitrogen emissions by 50 percent by the end of 2030. With her plans, she wants to ensure the end of many Dutch farmers. The plans stipulate that farmers will give up their farms voluntarily and receive compensation for doing so – on the condition that they guarantee never to go back to farming. If they disagree, the state will take over their farm. So the great expropriation has begun.

Nitrogen reduction by 2030
The government in the Netherlands seems to have set itself the task of ruining the farmers. With their nitrogen plans for reducing nitrogen emissions presented on June 10th, around 30 percent of farmers have to close their businesses. By the magical year of 2030, Dutch national nitrogen emissions are to be reduced by 50 percent, in many places up to 70 percent, and in nature reserves up to 95 percent.

Kill the livestock
That means the end for many farmers who keep livestock. The Dutch climate craze to comply with EU regulations means death for many animals. This is the only way to achieve climate regulations. The rulers don’t seem to care that reducing farmers and their cattle breeding will lead to an emergency in supply, or they even consciously accept it. The expropriation of farmers has started in the Netherlands, and it is only a matter of time before these plans are implemented here as well.

Manure sanctions from the EU
But the devastating nitrogen policy in Holland is not the only attack against farmers.

Numerous farms are to be closed as part of the Green Deal and EU requirements. In addition, new liquid manure sanctions are to come from Brussels. As reported by De Telegraaf, less liquid manure should be applied. This would lead to high bills for ranchers – they would have to reduce their livestock.

The farmers’ protests keep Holland in suspense. Countless pictures and videos can be found under the hashtag #boerenprotest :

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1544011305774120961

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People show solidarity with the farmers and take to the streets in large numbers:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1543699039342202881

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There is apparently no basis for negotiation. The military is said to be mobilizing tanks:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1543625058123673602

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Supermarket chains and distribution centers are blocked. The blockades are already causing the first supply bottlenecks:


MICHAEL WENDLER 2:05 min

Spioniker .21 min



A police station was blocked with tractors:

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Fishermen also join the farmers and block ports:

Royal allemand .20 min

#WirMachenAuf & Zentrale für KindesRechtsVertretung - INFO KANAL .14 min

In any case, open rumors are circulating among farmers that the Dutch farmers are actually standing in the way of the EU’s migration plans. Mass immigration as part of the “UN Replacement Population Plan” could be the reason for the mass dispossession of farmers. This is how the government would come ashore cheaply:

Royal allemand .37 min

Farmers apparently want to shut down Amsterdam Schiphol Airport:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1543835604307554304

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Plan to also reduce animals and humans
No matter how you twist and turn it, there is no getting around the Great Reset. The green conversion plans after the Great Reset not only provide for a reduction in CO2 emissions by the automotive industry – animals are also to be reduced. So it’s only a matter of time before laws are passed to reduce the number of people.

This article was first published in the German newspaper Wochenblick

 

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Dutch journalist explains farmer rebellion 7:56 min

Dutch journalist (Eva vlar Dingerbroek) explains farmer rebellion
Rebel News Published July 8, 2022

'Mark Rutte is very deeply involved in the World Economic Forum and it's obvious that this law is a product, again, of these globalist institutions... it's very clear that this is a made-up crisis as we've seen before with these institutions.'

This is just an excerpt from The Ezra Levant Show. To see full episodes, which air every weeknight at 8 p.m. ET/6 p.m. MT, become a subscriber to RebelNews+.

 

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Dutch journalist explains farmer rebellion 7:56 min

Dutch journalist (Eva vlar Dingerbroek) explains farmer rebellion
Rebel News Published July 8, 2022

'Mark Rutte is very deeply involved in the World Economic Forum and it's obvious that this law is a product, again, of these globalist institutions... it's very clear that this is a made-up crisis as we've seen before with these institutions.'

This is just an excerpt from The Ezra Levant Show. To see full episodes, which air every weeknight at 8 p.m. ET/6 p.m. MT, become a subscriber to RebelNews+.

Basically, people are getting tired of being shit on!

 

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Biden adviser: ‘Liberal world order’ demands enduring high gas prices… 2:56 min

Biden adviser: ‘Liberal world order’ demands enduring high gas prices…
solarireport Published July 8, 2022





Liberal Order and Rules based order. We're done with the rule of law, now it's the rule of us.

 

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Hundreds Of Dutch Farmers Protest With Their Tractors In EPIC Display .18 min

Hundreds Of Dutch Farmers Protest With Their Tractors In EPIC Display
Dinesh D'Souza Published July 8, 2022

(No farmers no food)

^^^^
You Shall Not Pass" - Nijmegen Mayor eats his own words as tractors descend on city in Netherlands .25 min

YOU SHALL NOT PASS" - NIJMEGEN MAYOR EATS HIS OWN WORDS AS TRACTORS DESCEND ON CITY IN NETHERLANDS

• WATCH

^^^^
Holland Today. No Farmers, No Food. .15 min

HOLLAND TODAY. NO FARMERS, NO FOOD.

• WATCH

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Farmers in the Netherlands refuse to supply food to stores due to mass protests .16 min

FARMERS IN THE NETHERLANDS REFUSE TO SUPPLY FOOD TO STORES DUE TO MASS PROTESTS

• WATCH

 

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State Attorney Generals Seek Injunction After Whistleblower Docs Reveal Biden Admin’s Agenda 9:58 min

STATE ATTORNEY GENERALS SEEK INJUNCTION AFTER WHISTLEBLOWER DOCS REVEAL BIDEN ADMIN’S AGENDA

• WATCH

The First Amendment vs Biden's Ministry of Truth.

 

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Unusual coalition aims to turn Biden against LNG exports

Volatile energy prices are uniting some otherwise unaligned industrial manufacturing interests and environmental groups in a campaign to cut down on U.S. liquefied natural gas exports.

www.washingtonexaminer.com

Unusual coalition aims to turn Biden against LNG exports
by Jeremy Beaman, Energy and Environment Reporter |
| July 08, 2022 07:00 AM

Volatile energy prices are uniting some otherwise unaligned industrial manufacturing interests and environmental groups in a campaign to cut down on U.S. liquefied natural gas exports.

LNG is a major U.S. energy export and a big part of President Joe Biden's efforts to help Europe reduce its reliance on gas supplies from Russia, but higher export volumes can be tied to higher prices for gas domestically, driving up the cost of industrial processes and electricity generation.

Proponents of new export restrictions, who support a pullback up to and including a complete ban on LNG shipments overseas, are lobbying the Biden administration to take action to keep more U.S.-produced natural gas at home in hopes that it will lower prices and prevent them from rising back up to the 13-year highs they reached in June.

Natural gas prices peaked at their highest levels since 2008 last month, trading above $9 per MMBtu range for consecutive days, up from the $2-$5 range that buyers and traders have been more used to in recent years. Prices have since fallen some 40% following the June 8 explosion at Freeport LNG's Gulf Coast export terminal, one of seven operative terminals.

The terminal will be offline until October, when partial operations are expected to restart. Full operations will not return until late in the year, the company said.

Freeport has a capacity to liquefy just over 2 billion cubic feet of gas per day, meaning the outage has knocked out demand by that much for months to come. The drop in demand has helped to drive U.S. futures and spot prices downward, according to industry analysts.

Paul Cicio, president and CEO of Industrial Energy Consumers of America, which represents a wide range of manufacturers producing everything from chemicals to plastics and cement, pointed to the outage in a recent protest filing with the Department of Energy to argue that DOE should scale down its LNG export authorizations to keep more of that gas at home.

IECA is particularly focused on ensuring affordable and reliable energy supplies for its members, whose industries are particularly energy-intensive and who have seen their operating costs rise substantially on higher prices.

"The Freeport LNG fire illustrates the negative impact that LNG exports have on domestic prices," Cicio wrote in the filing.

Freeport's capacity amounts to a small share of demand, relative to the 95 bcf of gas currently being produced each day, but "even relatively small volumes have significant leveraging effects on prices" when supply and inventories do not keep up, he also wrote.

U.S. LNG exports have increased to record levels, with increasing shares destined for Europe, where countries are facing an even more acute energy crisis than the U.S. The Biden administration has also been authorizing more exports in a bid to help allies in Europe further displace demand for Russian gas.

IECA's filing was directed at one of those authorizations. DOE recently extended the export authorization for Lake Charles LNG's planned 2.2 bcf per day export terminal, which is not yet under construction, through 2050.

The group argued that the authorization, as part of DOE's total approvals for 63 bcf per day of LNG exports to non-free trade agreement countries, violates the standard set out in the Natural Gas Act that export approvals be in the public interest.

"We're not against LNG exports. What we are against is what we classify as excessive LNG exports," Cicio told the Washington Examiner.

IECA is asking DOE to define "public interest" more specifically so that any export volume expected to affect the price of natural gas in the U.S. be deemed outside the public interest.

"We are captive to a pipeline," Cicio added. "We cannot switch from gas to electricity, for example, and so it gives the exporter and foreign countries access to our gas and in large quantities without any considerations, so far, to the public interest."

Most of the capacity authorized for export has not yet been built. The U.S. is currently producing approximately 12 bcf of LNG per day.

Cicio didn't explicitly endorse an outright ban on LNG exports, but some environmental groups have grasped on to the natural gas price swing since the Freeport explosion to lobby for one.

Food & Water Watch has been putting pressure on the administration to use its authority to stop exports of both LNG and oil products.

"While global supplies are tight, corporations are exporting fuels to buyers that can pay the most, raising the costs of home heating and electricity for American families," the environmental NGO said in a recent press release noting the drop in prices since the Freeport explosion.

A number of Democrats in Congress have also backed an export ban on LNG and petroleum products since prices began rising last fall.

The Biden administration has committed to helping facilitate more LNG exports to Europe, where natural gas prices are more than eight times higher than U.S. prices and the threat of shortages looms ahead of winter.

Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said in December that the administration would not pursue an oil export ban but more recently said President Biden is "not willing to take tools off the table" to bring down fuel prices.

Granholm did not speak on the prospect of a ban on LNG exports at the time.

 

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Zerohedge

ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero

www.zerohedge.com

Gaslighting: The Psychology Of Shaping Another's Reality

FRIDAY, JUL 08, 2022 - 04:40 PM
Authored by Cynthia Chung via 'Through A Glass Darkly' Substack,

“But I don’t want to go among mad people,” Alice remarked.
“Oh, you can’t help that,” said the Cat: “we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad.”
“How do you know I’m mad?” said Alice.
“You must be,” said the Cat, “or you wouldn’t have come here.”
– Lewis Carroll’s “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”

We are living in a world where the degree of disinformation and outright lying has reached such a state of affairs that, possibly for the first time ever, we see the majority of the western world starting to question their own and surrounding level of sanity. The increasing frenzied distrust in everything “authoritative” mixed with the desperate incredulity that “everybody couldn’t possibly be in on it!” is slowly rocking many back and forth into a tighter and tighter straight jacket. “Question everything” has become the new motto, but are we capable of answering those questions?

Presently the answer is a resounding no.

The social behaviourist sick joke of having made everyone obsessed with toilet paper of all things during the start of what was believed to be a time of crisis, is an example of how much control they have over that red button labelled “commence initiation of level 4 mass panic”.

And can the people be blamed? After all, if we are being lied to, how can we possibly rally together and point the finger at the root of this tyranny, aren’t we at the point where it is everywhere?

As Goebbels infamously stated,

“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State [under fascism].”

And here we find ourselves today, at the brink of fascism. However, we have to first agree to forfeit our civil rights as a collective before fascism can completely dominate. That is, the big lie can only succeed if the majority fails to call it out, for if the majority were to recognise it for what it is, it would truly hold no power.


The Battle for Your Mind

“Politicians, Priests, and psychiatrists often face the same problem: how to find the most rapid and permanent means of changing a man’s belief…The problem of the doctor and his nervously ill patient, and that of the religious leader who sets out to gain and hold new converts, has now become the problem of whole groups of nations, who wish not only to confirm certain political beliefs within their boundaries, but to proselytize the outside world.”
– William Sargant “Battle of the Mind”

It had been commonly thought in the past, and not without basis, that tyranny could only exist on the condition that the people were kept illiterate and ignorant of their oppression. To recognise that one was “oppressed” meant they must first have an idea of what was “freedom”, and if one were allowed the “privilege” to learn how to read, this discovery was inevitable.

If education of the masses could turn the majority of a population literate, it was thought that the higher ideas, the sort of “dangerous ideas” that Mustapha Mond for instance expresses in “The Brave New World”, would quickly organise the masses and revolution against their “controllers” would be inevitable. In other words, knowledge is freedom, and you cannot enslave those who learn how to “think”.

However, it hasn’t exactly played out that way has it?

The greater majority of us are free to read whatever we wish to, in terms of the once “forbidden books”, such as those listed by The Index Librorum Prohibitorum[1]. We can read any of the writings that were banned in “The Brave New World”, notably the works of Shakespeare which were named as absolutely dangerous forms of “knowledge”.

We are now very much free to “educate” ourselves on the very “ideas” that were recognised by tyrants of the past as the “antidote” to a life of slavery. And yet, today, the majority choose not to…

It is recognised, albeit superficially, that who controls the past, controls the present and thereby the future. George Orwell’s book “1984”, hammers this as the essential feature that allows the Big Brother apparatus to maintain absolute control over fear, perception and loyalty to the Party cause, and yet despite its popularity, there still remains a lack of interest in actually informing oneself about the past.

What does it matter anyway, if the past is controlled and rewritten to suit the present? As the Big Brother interrogator O’Brien states to Winston, “We, the Party, control all records, and we control all memories. Then we control the past, do we not? [And thus, are free to rewrite it as we choose…]”

Of course, we are not in the same situation as Winston…we are much better off. We can study and learn about the “past” if we so desire, unfortunately, it is a choice that many take for granted.

In fact, many are probably not fully aware that presently there is a battle waging for who will “control the past” in a manner that is closely resembling a form of “memory wipe”.

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William Sargant was a British psychiatrist and, one could say, effectively the Father of “mind control” in the West, with connections to British Intelligence and the Tavistock Institute, which would influence the CIA and American military via the program MK Ultra. Sargant was also an advisor for Ewen Cameron’s LSD “blank slate” work at McGill University, funded by the CIA.

Sargant accounts for his reason in studying and using forms of “mind control” on his patients, which were primarily British soldiers that were sent back from the battlefield during WWII with various forms of “psychosis”, as the only way to rehabilitate extreme forms of PTSD.

The other reason, was because the Soviets had apparently become “experts” in the field, and out of a need for national security, the British would thus in turn have to become experts as well…as a matter of self-defence of course.

The work of Ivan Pavlov, a Russian physiologist, had succeeded in producing some disturbingly interesting insights into four primary forms of nervous systems in dogs, that were combinations of inhibitory and excitatory temperaments; “strong excitatory”, “balanced”, “passive” and “calm imperturbable”. Pavlov found that depending on the category of nervous system temperament the dog had, this in turn would dictate the form of “conditioning” that would work best to “reprogram behaviour”. The relevance to “human conditioning” was not lost on anyone.

It was feared in the West, that such techniques would not only be used against their soldiers to invoke free-flowing uninhibited confessions to the enemy but that these soldiers could be sent back to their home countries, as zombified assassins and spies that could be set off with a simple code word. At least, these were the thriller stories and movies that were pumped into the population. How horrific indeed! That the enemy could apparently enter what was thought the only sacred ground to be our own…our very “minds”!

However, for those who were actually leading the field in mind control research, such as William Sargant, it was understood that this was not exactly how mind control worked.

For one thing, the issue of “free will” was getting in the way.

No matter the length or degree of electro-shock, insulin “therapy”, tranquilizer cocktails, induced comas, sleep deprivation, starvation etc induced, it was discovered that if the subject had a “strong conviction” and “strong belief” in something, this could not be simply erased, it could not be written over with any arbitrary thing. Rather, the subject would have to have the illusion that their “conditioning” was in fact a “choice”. This was an extremely challenging task, and long term conversions (months to years) were rare.

However, Sargant saw an opening. It was understood that one could not create a new individual from scratch, however, with the right conditioning that was meant to lead to a physical breakdown using abnormal stress (effectively a reboot of the nervous system), one could increase the “suggestibility” markedly in their subjects.

Sargant wrote in his “Battle of the Mind”: “Pavlov’s clinical descriptions of the ‘experimental neuroses’ which he could induce in dogs proved, in fact, to have a close correspondence with those war-neuroses which we were investigating at the time.”

In addition, Sargant found that a falsely implanted memory could help induce abnormal stress leading to emotional exhaustion and physical breakdown to invoke “suggestibility”. That is, one didn’t even need to have a “real stress” but an “imagined stress” would work just as effectively.
Sargant goes on to state in his book:

“It is not surprising that the ordinary person, in general, is much more easily indoctrinated than the abnormal…A person is considered ‘ordinary’ or ‘normal’ by the community simply because he accepts most of its social standards and behavioural patterns; which means, in fact, that he is susceptible to suggestion and has been persuaded to go with the majority on most ordinary or extraordinary occasions.”

Sargant then goes over the phenomenon of the London Blitz, which was an eight month period of heavy bombing of London during WWII. During this period, in order to cope and stay “sane”, people rapidly became accustomed to the idea that their neighbours could be and were buried alive in bombed houses around them. The thought was “If I can’t do anything about it what use is it that I trouble myself over it?” The best “coping” was thus found to be those who accepted the new “environment” and just focused on “surviving”, and did not try to resist it.

Sargant remarks that it is this “adaptability” to a changing environment which is part of the “survival” instinct and is very strong in the “healthy” and “normal” individual who can learn to cope and thus continues to be “functional” despite an ever changing environment.

It was thus our deeply programmed “survival instinct” that was found to be the key to the suggestibility of our minds. That the best “survivors” made for the best “brain-washing” in a sense.

Sargant quotes Hecker’s work, who was studying the dancing mania phenomenon that occurred during the Black Death, where Hecker observed that heightened suggestibility had the capability to cause a person to “embrace with equal force, reason and folly, good and evil, diminish the praise of virtue as well as the criminality of vice.”

And that such a state of mind was likened to the first efforts of the infant mind “this instinct of imitation when it exists in its highest degree, is also united a loss of all power over the will, which occurs as soon as the impression on the senses has become firmly established, producing a condition like that of small animals when they are fascinated by the look of a serpent.”

I wonder if Sargant imagined himself the serpent…

Sargant does finally admit:

“This does not mean that all persons can be genuinely indoctrinated by such means. Some will give only temporary submission to the demands made on them, and fight again when strength of body and mind returns. Others are saved by the supervention of madness. Or the will to resist may give way, but not the intellect itself.”

But he comforts himself as a response to this stubborn resistance that “As mentioned in a previous context, the stake, the gallows, the firing squad, the prison, or the madhouse, are usually available for the failures.”

Part 1 of 2

 

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Part 2 of 2

How to Resist the Deconstruction of Your Mind

“He whom the gods wish to destroy, they first of all drive mad.”
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow “The Masque of Pandora”

For those who have not seen the 1944 psychological thriller “Gaslight” directed by George Cukor, I would highly recommend you do so since there is an invaluable lesson contained within, that is especially applicable to what I suspect many of us are experiencing nowadays.

The story starts with a 14 year old Paula (played by Ingrid Bergman) who is being taken to Italy after her Aunt Alice Alquist, a famous opera singer and caretaker of Paula, is found murdered in her home in London. Paula is the one who found the body, and horror stricken is never her old self again. Her Aunt was the only family Paula had left in her life. The decision is made to send her away from London to Italy to continue her studies to become a world-renowned opera singer like her Aunt Alice.

Years go by, Paula lives a very sheltered life and a heavy somberness is always present within her, she can never seem to feel any kind of happiness. During her singing studies she meets a mysterious man (her piano accompanist during her lessons) and falls deeply in love with him. However, she knows hardly anything about the man named Gregory.

Paula agrees to marry Gregory after a two week romance and is quickly convinced to move back into her Aunt’s house in London that was left abandoned all these years. As soon as she enters the house, the haunting of the night of the murder revisits her and she is consumed with panic and fear. Gregory tries to calm her and talks about the house needing just a little bit of air and sun, and then Paula comes across a letter written to her Aunt from a Sergis Bauer which confirms that he was in contact with Alice just a few days before her murder. At this finding, Gregory becomes bizarrely agitated and grabs the letter from Paula. He quickly tries to justify his anger blaming the letter for upsetting her. Gregory then decides to lock all of her Aunt’s belongings in the attic, to apparently spare Paula any further anguish.

It is at this point that Gregory starts to change his behaviour dramatically. Always under the pretext for “Paula’s sake”, everything that is considered “upsetting” to Paula must be removed from her presence. And thus quickly the house is turned into a form of prison. Paula is told it is for her best not to leave the house unaccompanied, not to have visitors and that self-isolation is the best remedy for her “anxieties” which are getting worst. Paula is never strictly forbidden at the beginning but rather is told that she should obey these restrictions for her own good.

Before a walk, he gives as a gift a beautiful heirloom brooch that belonged to his mother. Because the pin needs replacing, he instructs Paula to keep it in her handbag, and then says rather out of context, “Don’t forget where you put it now Paula, I don’t want you losing it.”

Paula remarks thinking the warning absurd, “Of course I won’t forget!” When they return from their walk, Gregory asks for the brooch, Paula searches in her handbag but it is not there.

It continues on like this, with Gregory giving warnings and reminders, seemingly to help Paula with her “forgetfulness” and “anxieties”. Paula starts to question her own judgement and sanity as these events become more and more frequent. She has no one else to talk to but Gregory, who is the only witness to these apparent mishaps. It gets to a point where completely nonsensical behaviour is being attributed to Paula by Gregory. A painting is found missing on the wall one night. Gregory talks to Paula like she is a 5 year child and asks her to put it back.

Paula insists she does not know who took it down. After her persistent passionate insistence that it was not her, she walks up the stairs almost like she were in a dream state and pulls the painting from behind a statue. Gregory asks why she lied, but Paula insists that she only thought to look there because that is where it was found the last two times this occurred.

For weeks now, Paula thinks she has been seeing things, the gas lights of the house dimming for no reason, she also hears footsteps above her bedroom. No one else seems to take notice.

Paula is also told by Gregory that he found out that her mother, who passed away when she was very young, had actually gone insane and died in an asylum.

Despite Paula being reduced to a condition of an ongoing stupor, she decides one night to make a stand and regain control over her life. Paula is invited, by one of her Aunt Alice’s close friends Lady Dalroy, to attend a high society evening with musical performances. Recall that Paula’s life gravitated around music before her encounter with Gregory. Music was her life.

Paula gets magnificently dressed up for the evening and on her way out tells Gregory that she is going to this event. Gregory tries to convince her that she is not well enough to attend such a social gathering, when Paula calmly insists that she is going and that this woman was a dear friend of her Aunt, Gregory answers that he refuses to accompany her (in those days that was a big deal). Paula accepts this and walks with a solid dignity, undeterred towards the horse carriage. In a very telling scene, Gregory is left momentarily by himself and panic stricken, his eyes bulging he snaps his cigar case shut and runs after Paula. He laughingly calls to her, “Paula, you did not think I was serious? I had no idea that this party meant so much to you. Wait, I will get ready.” As he is getting ready in front of the mirror, a devilish smirk appears.

Paula and Gregory show up to Lady Dalroy’s house late, the pianist is in the middle of the 1st movement of Beethoven’s Piano Sonata #8 in C minor. They quickly are escorted to two empty seats. Paula is immediately immersed in the piece, and Gregory can see his control is slipping.

After only a few minutes, he goes to look at his pocket watch but it is not in his pocket. He whispers into Paula’s ear, “My watch is missing”. Immediately, Paula looks like she is going to be sick. Gregory takes her handbag and Paula looks in horror as he pulls out his pocket watch, insinuating that Paula had put it there. She immediately starts losing control and has a very public emotional breakdown. Gregory takes her away, as he remarks to Lady Dalroy that this is why he didn’t want Paula coming in the first place.

When they arrive home, Paula has by now completely succumbed to the thought that she is indeed completely insane. Gregory says that it would be best if they go away somewhere for an indefinite period of time. We later find out that Gregory is intending on committing her to an asylum. Paula agrees to leave London with Gregory and leaves her fate entirely in his hands.

In the case of Paula it is clear. She has been suspecting that Gregory has something to do with her “situation” but he has very artfully created an environment where Paula herself doubts whether this is a matter of unfathomable villainy or whether she is indeed going mad.

It is rather because she is not mad that she doubts herself, because there is seemingly no reason for why Gregory would put so much time and energy into making it look like she were mad, or at least so it first appears. But what if the purpose to her believing in her madness was simply a matter of who is in control?

Paula almost succeeds in gaining the upper-hand in this power-struggle, the evening she decided to go out on her own no matter what Gregory insisted was in her best interest. If she would have held her ground at Lady Dalroy’s house and simply replied, “I have no idea why your stupid watch ended up in my handbag and I could care less. Now stop interrupting this performance, you are making a scene!” Gregory’s spell would have been broken as simple as that. If he were to complain to others about the situation, they would also respond, “Who cares man, why are you so obsessed about your damn watch?”

We find ourselves today in a very similar situation to Paula. And the voice of Gregory is represented by the narrative of false news and the apocalyptic social behaviourist programming in our forms of entertainment. The things most people voluntarily subject themselves to on a daily, if not hourly, basis. Socially conditioning them, like a pack of salivating Pavlovian dogs, to think it is just a matter of time before the world ends and with a ring of their master’s bell…be at each other’s throats.

Paula ends up being saved in the end by a man named Joseph Cotten (a detective), who took notice and quickly discerned that something was amiss. In the end Gregory is arrested. It is revealed that Gregory is in fact Sergis Bauer. That he killed Alice Alquist and that he has returned to the scene of the crime after all these years in search for the famous jewels of the opera singer. The jewels were in fact rather worthless from the standpoint that they were too famous to be sold, however, Gregory never intended on selling these jewels but rather had become obsessed with the desire to merely possess them.

That is, it is Gregory who has been entirely mad all this time.

A Gregory is absolutely dangerous. He would have been the end of Paula if nothing had intervened. However, the power that Gregory held was conditional to the degree that Paula allowed it to control her. Paula’s extreme deconstruction was thus entirely dependent on her choice to let the voice of Gregory in. That is, a Gregory is only dangerous if we allow ourselves to sleep walk into the nightmare he has constructed for us.

“When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone,
“it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.”
“The question is,” said Alice, “whether you can make words mean so many different things.”
“The question is,” said Humpty Dumpty, “which is to be master – – that’s all.”
– Lewis Carroll’s “Through the Looking Glass”

 

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Green Energy Push to Blame for Coming Wave of Power Outages Across America

The entire country is at risk of blackouts this summer, say analysts. And the independent media is pointing to green energy as one of the culprits. On July 4, Power the Future founder and executive director Daniel Turner told Fox News that a “huge energy shortage” is underway and that there is...

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Green Energy Push to Blame for Coming Wave of Power Outages Across America

by Ethan Huff
July 8, 2022


The entire country is at risk of blackouts this summer, say analysts. And the independent media is pointing to green energy as one of the culprits.

On July 4, Power the Future founder and executive director Daniel Turner told Fox News that a “huge energy shortage” is underway and that there is no place “that is truly safe.”

As fossil fuel plants get replaced with solar and wind farms, energy reliability declines. And that is the direction in which the United States has been going in recent years. (Related: The Wall Street Journal is also warning about nationwide blackouts.)

“The areas of the country I’d be most concerned about are the ones that already have inherent weaknesses,” Turner added.

“Texas, California, New Mexico, New York, all of New England. These are areas whose policies and political decisions have weakened their electric grid.”

Every place in the world where so-called “green” energy is replacing reliable fossil fuel energy has seen its electric grid weaken. Now, the entire country is at risk of an energy collapse because of the transition.

Are you ready for a dark winter?
While many Americans are used to hearing about periodic blackouts in places like California, they are not so aware of the fact that the Midwest, for instance, is now in similarly dire straits.

Rolling blackouts and brownouts are expected this summer in places like Illinois and Missouri – places where a decade ago you never would have thought would have an energy crisis.

“A recent generation capacity auction has revealed that the Midwest could fall short of needed generation capacity to serve the summer peak load under certain conditions,” announced the Southeastern Illinois Electric Cooperative in a recent letter.

“In the event that this happens, your Cooperative would be directed to disconnect a portion of the load in order to prevent an electric grid failure.”

Several electric carriers in Michigan sent out similar letters to their customers warning that they “need your help to keep the lights on in Michigan this summer and beyond,” to quote Thumb Electric Cooperative General Manager Dallas Braun.

“Electric reliability is at risk today and demand is projected to grow. As soon as this WEEK Michigan regulators are considering closing down more power plants in Michigan. Please join ME in telling them that reliability matters and that they shouldn’t prematurely close these plants.”

Michigan is expected to face power shortages this year as capacity shortfalls in both the north and central regions of the country, resulting in an increased risk of “temporary, controlled outages to preserve the integrity of the bulk electric system,” says JT Smith, executive director of the state’s Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO).

MISO, which operates the power grid for about 42 million people in 15 central states, says it has never had to implement controlled power outages in Michigan. What is happening, in other words, is unprecedented in our nation’s history.

“Michigan is going down the same route that before it New Mexico has gone, California has gone,” Turner added during the Fox segment.

In the comment section, someone noted that once the power goes out, everyone who relies on electric cars and electric bicycles (e-bikes) to get around will no longer have transportation available to them – unless they have solar panels and it happens to be a sunny day.

“Just wait until they mandate that we all drive electric cars,” interjected another about the Orwellian future of electric vehicles.

“The problem is that this is exactly what they want. It is not about green energy or the environment, it is about having total control over us!”

The latest energy news can be found at PowerGrid.news.

 

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Bill Gates tells governments to invest in technologies for "payment and ID systems"

More central control.

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• Issue: July 8, 2022

Bill Gates tells governments to invest in technologies for “payment and ID systems”
More central control.

• By Ken Macon
• Posted 4:21 pm

Account ownership and digital payments have increased, so has the gender gap in account ownership, according to the World Bank, after it analyzed the Global Findex 2021 database.

The World Bank attributed the improvement on financial inclusion by controversial modern digital ID systems, and called for more investment in the technology.

“The world has a crucial opportunity to build a more inclusive and resilient economy and provide a gateway to prosperity for billions of people,” said Bill Gates, co-founder of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, a non-profit that supports the Global Findex database.

“By investing in digital public infrastructure and technologies for payment and ID systems and updating regulations to foster innovation and protect consumers, governments can build on the progress reported in the Findex and expand access to financial services for all who need them,” Gates added.

Between 2017 and 2021, account ownership in Europe and Central Asia grew by 13%. The largest improvement in developing regions was in Latin America, where the increase was 18%.
According to the Global Findex, lack of IDs in Sub-Saharan Africa is one of the major reasons 30% of the region’s population do not own financial accounts. As such, there is “an opportunity for investing in accessible and trusted identification systems.”

From From Central Bank Digital Currencies make authoritarianism, censorship, and surveillance easy:

“Beyond simply keeping an ever watchful eye over what citizens are up to, governments would also be able to decide on more radical and in immediate terms much more damaging moves, such as cutting people off from their money. The world has recently learned through Canadian authorities’ flabbergasting actions when bank accounts of participants in a civil protest were frozen, that this is perfectly doable even without centralized, government-issued digital money.

“But imagine if that form of currency were the only one available? The unprecedented level of financial mass surveillance itself would be almost insignificant compared to the potential damage done by replacing all other forms of currency, including fiat money, and cash as one of its manifestations, say critics.

“This would remove private banks and physical cash as “middlemen” leaving citizens “alone in the room” – and all the money they have to their name – with the state. And from that point on, they would have to trust that state implicitly and explicitly not to misuse that massive power. But that is becoming a less and less likely option for more and more people, exhausted by, but also wiser to, the various forms of creeping authoritarianism that the pandemic and the response to it has brought in some expected places – like China – but also some unexpected ones, like Canada.

“All this is a far cry from the original idea of decentralized cryptocurrencies, supposed to assume the role silver and gold had before the “onslaught” of paper money, and allow for safe, protected, unrestricted and universal transactions.”

The gender gap in financial accounts ownership decreased by 4 points in North Africa and the Middle East.

The World Bank acknowledges that COVID-19 increased digitization and the wide use of remote financial services.

 

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The Future of Food, #NoFarmersNoFood

Huge farm equipment has been moved onto streets and surrounded government buildings in protests reminiscent of the Canadian Truckers Freedom protests...

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The Future of Food, #NoFarmersNoFood

by Peter Breggin MD and Ginger Ross Breggin | Jul 8, 2022 | Lifestyle, Politics, World

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We have been so busy living our own lives that up until COVID-19 hit, we did not see the changes being implemented for our futures through our governments. Governments that have been manipulated and cajoled and brainwashed and bought to support a utopian dream of global control of all peoples have been preparing for big changes in the basics we depend upon. Most primary among the basics that support our lives is the food we put on our tables every day. Now we have rumors and promises of massive food shortages. But are they true?

Like sausage-making, it is the details that go into the process that deserve investigation and exposure. Contemporary food production and supply chains are about to be completely upended. Right now, most of us go to the store, shop, bring home food that looks a lot like what we ate growing up, and serve it to our families.

Farms are operated on acres of land. The plants, from vegetables to grains and fruit, are grown outdoors, in the sunshine, and then harvested when ready. After harvesting, and processing commences, foods are baked, preserved, or sold fresh to grocery stores where families like ours collect our sustenance for the week.

But the future is barreling down the pike toward reality. No more farms. Instead, huge “vertical farms” of produce and other plants are being planned, and the first is being implemented. As our guest Corey Lynn of Coreysdigs.com says, “Imagine a day where farmers markets no longer exist, you can’t drive over to your local farmer to buy produce or cuts of meat, and the only food growing outside of the globalists secured indoor vertical farming and lab-grown meat facilities, is in your windowsill, garden, or greenhouse.”

We talk with Corey about this vision, currently being planned and implemented by the same globalists, the same global predator elites who brought the world the COVID pandemic. The image is frightening but not hopeless, as we shall see.

Even now, there is pushback against this synthetic nightmare. In the Netherlands, there are huge protests in multiple cities by farmers and ranchers and their supporters against the Dutch government’s attempts to shut down dozens of farms and cattle ranches to “reduce nitrogen by 30%-70% to comply with European Union (EU) regulations on nitrogen pollution.”

Many of the images (which have not been covered at all by legacy media) can be found on Twitter and other social media platforms — search “Dutch protests.” The hashtag #NoFarmersNoFood says it all. Huge farm equipment has been moved onto streets and surrounded government buildings in protests reminiscent of the Canadian Truckers Freedom protests. We in the U.S. and other nations everywhere need to be aware that what is happening in the Netherlands is destined to happen to us.

The globalist forces have captured many of our national governments and are preparing to enforce the changes they desire. Those changes will make us serfs and the elites yet more wealthy. Listen to Corey Lynn today and catch up with what is being planned so that we may all take steps toward preventing this dystopian future.

Resources: Corey Lynn’s report on vertical farms: NEW Controlled Food System Is Now In Place And They Will Stop At Nothing To Accelerate Their Control – coreysdigs.com.

Dutch Farmers Uprising: Uprising in response to World Economic Forum “controlled government” (euroweeklynews.com).

 

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NEW Controlled Food System Is Now In Place And They Will Stop At Nothing To Accelerate Their Control - coreysdigs.com

The globalists are demolishing farmers and already have the new food system in place to control the food supply. Gene editing and digital IDs.

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NEW Controlled Food System Is Now In Place And They Will Stop At Nothing To Accelerate Their Control
April 27, 2022 / 55 Comments

“Who controls the food supply controls the people; who controls the energy can control whole continents; who controls money can control the world.” This famous quote by Henry Kissinger is ringing more and more true by the week. The globalists already control the majority of the money, are moving ever so swiftly to convert the energy system over into systems they are all invested in, and have been taking drastic measures to control the food industry while running much of it under the radar. If they control the seeds they control the food, and if they control the food they can use the digital ID to control consumer access to the food. While a rash of fires suddenly destroy food processing, meat, and fertilizer plants, during a time where farmers are hurting and supply chain issues are kicking in, an entire traceable food infrastructure system has already been built in multiple cities and is making its way across the globe.

Imagine a day where farmers markets no longer exist, you can’t drive over to your local farmer to buy produce or cuts of meat, and the only food growing outside of the globalists secured indoor vertical farming and lab grown meat facilities, is in your windowsill, garden, or greenhouse.

• The indoor vertical farming industry was valued at $5.5 billion in 2020 and is projected to reach $19.86 billion by 2026. Urban indoor farming controlled by the globalists is the future of food they have reimagined, and it’s already in thousands of grocery stores without people realizing it. Whereas the U.S. is leading in this industry, this is a global agenda with vertical farms popping up across the globe.

• For perspective, Bowery Farming’s new facility in Arlington, TX will be able to serve 16 million people in a 200-mile radius. This is only one of dozens of vertical farming companies with massive facilities across the country, backed by big investors.

• AeroFarms, who has the largest indoor vertical farming facility in the world, co-developed the first CRISPR-Cas9 gene-edited produce product, now hundreds are following, while National Geographic believes that gene editing is the next food revolution. AeroFarms also worked on an NIH sponsored trial to produce proteins for the Covid jabs.

• The University of California is developing a plant-based mRNA vaccine in the hopes that farms can grow edible vaccine heads of lettuce.

• Monsanto/Bayer is creating gene edited seeds for vertical farm companies, while Bill Gates, the Rockefeller and Ford Foundations, and the World Bank control 10% of the world’s germplasms and hold some of the world’s largest seed banks. Bayer and BASF, two of the world’s largest suppliers of seed, are both involved with the vertical farm industry.

• The USDA and FDA have already approved lab grown meat, genetically modified cattle, and are funding the globalists to research and develop cellular agriculture as well as indoor growers and genetics companies, while they slack on regulations for gene-edited produce.

• Well over a dozen major food processing and meat plants have coincidentally gone up in flames in the past several months.

• Union Pacific is mandating railroad shipping reductions by 20%, impacting CF Industries Holdings, the world’s largest fertilizer company. Vanguard, BlackRock, and State Street happen to be the top shareholders of Union Pacific, and BlackRock and Vanguard are in the top 3 shareholders of CF Industries Holdings.

• By mapping some of the biggest vertical farms (below in this report), it reveals the crops, grocery stores involved, locations, and billions pouring in by globalist investors and shareholders. It quickly becomes evident that this is the global plan to control all produce – ingredients that go into all food products.

May 6, 2022 episode of Dig It! Podcast covers a big chunk of this report, plus additional connections made after this report was published. Watch here:

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How Did They Lock This in Under The Radar? Some Critical Points:
The food industry is already monopolized by 10 companies, the majority of which include Vanguard and BlackRock as top shareholders. What happens when they control all of the seeds, produce, and meat too? What happens when produce and meat are all grown inside secured facilities after a gene splice or inside a petri dish, and farmland becomes dormant due to overreaching regulations, lack of supplies, and manufactured inflation?

In 2014, during the Obama administration, congress established the Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research Act (FFAR) through the Farm Bill, which ultimately created a non-profit organization outside of the government with a $200 million kickoff from taxpayer dollars and additional millions in support from Bill Gates as seen here, and here. USDA Secretary Vilsack announced its creation on July 23, 2014, stating that they were appointing a 15-member board of directors which unsurprisingly included deputy director Dr. Robert Horsch of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and high-ranking employees from Cargill and the Aspen Institute, among others. This new foundation would “leverage public and private resources to increase the scientific and technological research, innovation, and partnerships critical to boosting America’s agricultural economy.”

On April 2, 2019, FFAR announced they were launching Precision Indoor Plants (PIP) Consortium, a public-private partnership consisting of indoor growers, breeders, and genetics companies including AeroFarms, BASF, Benson Hill Biosystems, Fluence Bioengineering, Green Venus, Japan Plant Factory, and Priva. Their focus is on five key crops: lettuce, tomatoes, strawberries, cilantro, and blueberries, with a goal to advance speed-breeding, and to alter chemicals produced in plants that impact flavor, nutrition and medicines.

As quickly as Bill Gates was buying up farmland, money began pouring into the new future of food – urban vertical indoor farming where they claim the masses will all eventually migrate to.

According to Research And Markets, the global vertical farming market was valued at $5.5 billion in 2020 and is projected to reach $19.86 billion in 2026. These growing facilities are astronomical in size as far as their ability to serve millions of people. For example, Bowery Farming is in the process of building their newest “smart” facility in Arlington, just outside of Dallas, TX, which will be capable of serving 16 million people within a 200-mile radius.

Bill Gates insists that droughts and climate change is destroying our ability to farm and that the future will consist of populations moving into metropolitan cities where indoor vertical farming is necessary to feed people. If this is the case, why has he acquired 242,000 acres of farmland over the past decade while simultaneously investing in indoor vertical farming? Who gets to sit at the table with healthy produce served up by Gates while the rest of the population eats gene-edited produce from locked-down facilities, delivered to their local grocery store, and accessed only through a digital ID?

Meanwhile, the Consultative Group of International Agriculture Research (CGIAR) holds the world’s largest private seed banks consisting of 10% of the worldwide germplasm across the globe, which is controlled by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Rockefeller and Ford Foundations, and World Bank, managing 768,576 accessions of hijacked farmers seeds.

Once the future of food through vertical farming took root, by August 2020, Monsanto/Bayer and Singapore’s sovereign fund Temasek launched a $30 million startup called Unfold which develops new vegetable seed varieties tailored to vertical farms. Bayer licensed the rights to seed germplasm from their vegetable portfolio. By 2021, they leased a 12,000 square foot laboratory research building in Davis, California. But don’t worry, rather than genetically modifying and inserting a gene into the DNA strand, like how Monsanto operated (acquired by Bayer in 2018), they only intend to cut a gene, still modifying its DNA. Perhaps this can be done in an effective and beneficial way, but at the hands of those behind all 2030 UN agendas, it gives one great pause. GMOs already account for 75-80% of food Americans consume.

There are already over 100 companies in the Sacramento area working on seed development, so it should come as no surprise that the University of California is developing a plant-based mRNA vaccine in the hopes that farms can grow edible vaccine lettuce. Sounds deliciously perfect. As with so many exciting projects such as this, the National Science Foundation granted $500,000 for this gem.

“Imagine walking into your local grocery store on a frigid January day to pick up freshly harvested lettuce, fragrant basil, juicy sweet strawberries, and ripe red tomatoes – all of which were harvested at a local farm only hours before you’d arrived.” That quote from the USDA’s article on Vertical Farming for the Future, published in October 2021, sounds so deliciously enticing and convenient, especially in anticipation of meeting the needs of 9 billion people by 2050, doesn’t it?

But, yes there’s always a “but,” what’s going to happen to the farmers when these astronomically enormous indoor vertical farm facilities have taken over every major city, locked in contracts with all major grocery store chains, and are funded by some of the same billionaire globalists who are seeking to control human beings through every industry for their fourth industrial revolution? It’s a legitimate concern. Add “gene-editing,” “smart,” “traceable,” and “net zero” to the production of these facilities, and the fact that they are still moving full speed ahead on digital IDs and currency, and it becomes even more concerning.

Sure, the idea of indoor vertical farming could be a great avenue for those with little land, those who live in harsher climates, and everyone who wants food security while these agendas against humanity continue to roll out, but wouldn’t it make more sense for communities to be doing this to meet their own needs, rather than relying on a digital ID to get access to a controlled food industry? The nutritional value from LED versus the sun likely removes some of the nutrients in the produce, but if faced with having difficulty accessing food, or not desiring gene-edited food, it might be a good idea.

Whereas this provides a lot of explanation on the absolute intentional demolition to all of our farmers on the seed, vegetable, and produce front, people should also be aware of what’s been taking place with cattle ranchers and the globalists’ plan to take over the meat industry as well.

Lab grown meat has already been approved by the FDA and USDA to move forward in the U.S. and labs are eagerly filling up their petri dishes to get this ball rolling. In fact, back in September 2021, the USDA was seeking comments on the labeling of meat and poultry products derived from animals cells – in a press release that no one ever knew about. Upside Foods lab grown meat facility just launched in California, funded by Bill Gates, Temasek Holdings, and 37 other investors. Meanwhile, the USDA is still pushing for RFID surveillance of cattle and doing everything they can to control ranchers.

The USDA and FDA are fully on board with genetic modifications. First it was pigs, then it was salmon, now it’s cattle. Who knows what concoction will move from the petri dish to your dinner plate when it’s the same individuals behind every agenda.

On February 1, 2016 the Good Food Institute was launched by Bruce Friedrich with funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Open Philanthropy Project, and Y Combinator, with the goal to “reimagine meat production.” In October 2021, the Good Food Institute celebrated the USDA’s $10 million grant for the creation of the first-ever National Institute for Cellular Agriculture at Tufts University so they can back researchers in manufactured meat.

To be certain all of these goals are locked into place and the UN 2030 agenda is achieved, disrupting the fertilizer industry, food supply chain, and a rash of coincidental fires to food processing plants sure would help to seal the deal, wouldn’t it?

Since the start of 2022, over a dozen major food processing and fertilizer plants have gone up in flames, exploded, or been struck by a plane crash in Arizona, Arkansas, California, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Oregon, Texas, Washington, and Wisconsin. Nothing odd about this at all. Some articles on these fires can be found here, here, and here.

Some of the food processing plants that went up in flames:
Azure Standard Foods
Bonanza Meat Co.
Cargill-Nutrena Feed Mill
Deli Star
East Conway Beef and Pork
General Mills
Idaho’s Gem State Processing Facility
JBS
Louis Dreyfus Company, largest soybean processing and biodiesel plant in the country
Maid-Rite Steak Co.
Maricopa Food Pantry
McCrum Potato Facility
Nestle
Nutrien Ag Solutions Fertilizer Plant
Raw Farm, largest raw milk producer in the country
Rio Fresh
Shearer’s Foods
Smithfield Foods
Taylor Farms
Tyson
Wisconsin River Meats

In February, the Weaver Fertilizer Plant in Winston-Salem caught fire, burning several hundreds tons of ammonium nitrate during a time when farmers were already concerned about getting enough fertilizer due to supply chain disruptions and inflation. So in an effort to make matters worse, without any advance notice, on April 8, 2022, Union Pacific began mandating railroad shipping reductions by 20%, impacting CF Industries Holdings, the world’s largest fertilizer company. Vanguard, BlackRock, and State Street happen to be the top shareholders of Union Pacific, and BlackRock and Vanguard are in the top 3 shareholders of CF Industries Holdings, along with T. Rowe Price Associates. This will directly impact key agricultural areas such as Iowa, Illinois, Kansas, Nebraska, Texas, and California. This will ultimately effect food supply and pricing. CF Industries is only one of 30 companies dealing with these restrictions.

The Canadian National Railway (CN), which runs from New Orleans up through Illinois, branching out through Michigan and Minnesota, up into Canada, alleges to be helping the fertilizer market grow. Are any of these affected companies utilizing CN? Coincidentally, Bill Gates holds the largest ownership stake in CN.

Surely, Bill Gates and friends will save the day through their Breakthrough Energy Ventures, whereby they have heavily invested in alternative fertilizers. The Breakthrough Energy Coalition launched in 2015 and originally listed the full group of 28 involved, which has since been scraped down to Bill Gates and the occasional mention of Jeff Bezos. It’s important to understand just how large this group is and how involved they’ve become in the energy sector.

Corey’s Digs covered this group in a 2019 report involving dozens of islands they were infiltrating to run alternative energy and takeover their tourism. The University of California is part of this group, as well as Jeff Bezos, George Soros, Richard Branson, Jack Ma, Mark Zuckerberg, Marc Benioff, Reid Hoffman, Tom Steyer, Meg Whitman, and Nat Simons.

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Bill Gates explained his love for fertilizer in 2018 while in Tanzania. Coincidentally, Gates-led and Rockefeller-funded Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) has been an epic fail, with a first ever evaluation report that came out on February 28, 2022 after a 15-year effort with bold claims to rescue Africa’s small farmers. Their false promise to “double yields and incomes for 30 million farming households by 2020” was removed from their website in June 2020 after an assessment by Tufts University revealed little evidence of progress, and in fact showed a 31% increase in hunger. Evaluators stated there were many deficiencies and AGRA’s reporting and monitoring data was weak. Even the German government is considering pulling funding from AGRA over their pesticide use, which is ironic because Gates claims we need to remove pesticides in the U.S. and move to indoor vertical farming. Yes, USAID will of course continue their support to AGRA, having already contributed $90 million taxpayer dollars thus far. Full summary here.

One of AGRA’s biggest achievements was their participation in 72 agricultural policy reforms in 11 African countries, pertaining to seed, fertilizer and market access. Laws were created to protect intellectual property rights for “certified” seeds, as penalties were created for open-source seed sharing. Imagine being a farmer, homesteader or gardener and having to share and trade seeds on the black market so you don’t get penalized. Anyone who believes they won’t try this in the U.S. is kidding themselves, especially since the globalists hold the largest private seeds banks, and invest in the largest commercial seed companies. BASF, Corteva (formerly Dupont), Syngenta (part of ChemChina), and Monsanto (now Bayer) control roughly 50% of the global seed market.

On March 17, 2022 a notice was published to the U.S. Federal Register seeking comments by May 16, 2022 on Competition and Intellectual Property System: Seeds and Other Agricultural Inputs. Remember to read through the proper lens when reviewing this document notice that derived from an executive order signed by Biden in July, 2021 on promoting competition in the American economy.

Their ultimate goal – every human being, every piece of food, resource, and product on this planet will be tracked and traced via blockchain. This isn’t a theory – it is their goal. In July, 2021, the FDA released their “New Era of Smarter Food Safety” which consists of using tech-enabled traceability for a digital, traceable food system, from farm to plate using blockchain. A digital identity to grant access to establishments, control financial spending, and trace everyone’s moves has been rolling out on multiple fronts, including the vaccine ID passport.

Eventually they will try to move toward a chip, as it will be easier with biometrics being installed everywhere.

Urban, Globalist-Controlled Indoor Vertical Farming is The Future of Food

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2018 video on Feeding the World: From Mendel to CRISPR, presented by Carolyn Rasmussen

For clarification, gene editing varies from genetic modification. Whereas editing removes a splice, modification inserts a splice, but ultimately, both alter the overall DNA and both have been a hot controversial topic among scientists and individuals. Kicking off the presentation, Rasmussen makes a good argument, stating that humans have been cross breeding dogs for decades and have been selecting traits in crops, have grafted them, and cross-bred them for hundreds of years, leaving everyone to feel like a simple slice removed from the genetics of a carrot or wheat is no different, and in fact is needed to make them more drought tolerant or disease resistant, while also helping them to grow faster, making them more flavorful, and allegedly nutritious.

Whereas most people might say that it’s not right to alter nature, but when faced with starvation they may change their tune. So the real question one needs to ask is, are we faced with starvation, lack of land, drought, unusable soil and farmland, and all of the other scary stories that the globalists keep insisting people should fear right now? If that were the case, would Bill Gates have purchased 242,000 acres of farmland in the worst investment of the century? Unlikely.Is it a faster, less labor-intensive, pesticide-free, more convenient, environmentally friendly and a sustainable way to grow produce – through indoor vertical farming? That one is tough to argue. It’s actually quite brilliant, if not for the investors behind it and unregulated gene-editing taking place. Creating ones own vertical farm on their property might be the best option in this case.

The World Economic Forum assures us that urban indoor farming is the way of the future for our food, both in countless articles as well as videos featuring AppHarvest and AeroFarms.

Mapping Some of The Biggest Vertical Farms: Crops, Investors, Grocers & Locations

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Why The Future of Farming is in Cities – video by Venture City

When people are rushing through the grocery store to pick up food for their families, and make a b-line for the produce section to grab bags of lettuce, fresh veggies, and fruit, most people don’t pay any attention to the brand itself, they just look at the expiration date and product. Meanwhile, a good chunk of grocery chains across the country are already serving up vertically grown food without people realizing what they’re buying. Are the products tasty, healthy, nutritious enough? Have they begun rolling out vaccines into lettuce at grocery stores? How would anyone know? What products have been gene-edited? This isn’t to fear monger, it’s to point out the rapidly changing industry which people know little about, so that people can start asking questions, do a little research, and perhaps begin growing their own food.

Vertical farming substitutes soil with aeroponics, hydroponics, or aquaponics. They all claim they can produce between 300-400 times more product than traditional farming. In a 2018 report by Agrilyst on indoor farming, they reported that glass or poly greenhouses were the most dominant at 47% followed by vertical farming at 30%. Those numbers have likely flipped by now.

AeroFarms (Dream Holdings, Inc.) Boasts the World’s Largest Indoor Farm
Founded in 2004 by David Rosenberg, Ed Harwood, and Marc Oshima, AeroFarms is a private company based in Newark, New Jersey and has thrived for much longer than the other vertical farms in this report. Having grown over 550 different crops, some of their main products include baby kale, watercress, and rocket, which are sold under the name Dream Greens, and they are now growing berries as well.

In 2017, AeroFarms received a $2 million grant from the Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research (FFAR), a nonprofit organization created in 2014 via the Farm Bill, to improve the characteristics of plants grown indoors to feed urban populations.

As of 2021, AeroFarms already had nine farms and was working on building a tenth. They state that they can go from seed to harvest in 15 days with their patented technology.

In 2021, Cargill announced its partnership with Aerofarms in a multi-year research collaboration on extending cocoa bean yields by experimenting with indoor growing technologies.

In February, 2021, the CEO of AeroFarms released a short video describing how they utilized one of their ten farms to scale up proteins for the Covid jab and boosters. They also indicated in a presentation that they had participated in growing an Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient for Covid-19 therapeutic trial sponsored by the NIH. The study on proteins from plant growth at AeroFarms and Fraunhofer, can be read here.

In a March 2021 SEC document pertaining to a potential merger between AeroFarms and Spring Valley Acquisition Corp, which later fell through, the CFO of AeroFarms highlighted their experience with advanced genetics, noting that:

“To be clear, we are a technology platform, not a conventional greenhouse grower using off-the-shelf equipment. We have had over 250 invention disclosures to date, a number which is constantly growing. We have grown over 550 different varieties of plants to date. We also see an addressable market in advanced genetics, using our platform for speed breeding and other genetic development work in plants. Here, we are a Founding Member of the Precision Indoor Plants Consortium and Principal Investigator for its first and largest project in lettuce. With this partnership, we work alongside companies like BASF to utilize our platform to optimize new genetics. Another example has to do with CRISPR-Cas9. If you’re not familiar, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2020 went to the developers of CRISPR-Cas9, which is a genetic editing tool where scientists are able to pull out a genetic trait in a genetic sequence.

Using our platform, we co-developed the first CRISPR-Cas9 produce product.”

Lots more at website: NEW Controlled Food System Is Now In Place And They Will Stop At Nothing To Accelerate Their Control - coreysdigs.com

 

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Uprising in response to World Economic Forum “controlled government”

THOUSANDS of farmers in the Netherlands used their tractors to block the German/Dutch border in protest against the government’s controversial nitrogen policy.

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Thousands block German border with Holland in protest over controversial Dutch nitrogen policy
By Anna Ellis • 03 July 2022 • 13:39

Dutch uprising in response to the World Economic Forum "controlled government". Image Keean Bexte Twitter

THOUSANDS of farmers in the Netherlands used their tractors to block the German/Dutch border on Sunday, July 3, in protest against the government’s controversial nitrogen policy.

It has been confirmed by Vikendi that larger nationwide protests are planned for Monday, July 4.

The protest comes just days after Dutch farmers sprayed several public buildings with manure after politicians voted on proposals to reduce emissions of harmful pollutants.

This plan could actually force farmers to reduce their livestock or even stop working altogether.
Mark Rutte who has been the Netherlands prime minister since 2010 has said that overall, a full 50 per cent of the country’s nitrogen oxide and ammonia emissions are to be eliminated by 2030 which would deal a devastating blow to agriculture in the Netherlands.

Many World Economic Forum (WEF) sycophants also sit in the Dutch government and they are promoting the climate policy which is being pushed by the WEF.

Internationally recognised journalist, Keean Bexte, has been following the demonstration.

On Saturday in a post on Twitter, he said: “The Dutch protesters are pouring manure on government offices, flooding streets, and becoming all together ungovernable.”

“This uprising is in response to the WEF controlled government shutting down farms to ‘save the planet’.”

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1543300949870927873

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Followers were quick to respond with one posting: “This was just their final warning. Our government didn’t listen so their next strike is coming Monday.”

“They’ll shut down our infrastructure by blocking airports, distribution centres, highways and harbours. They’ll be supported by truckers, fishermen and Dutch citizens.”

 

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System Collapses Begin as Germans Warned to Prepare for Heating Shortages, School Closures - Medical Kidnap

Officials in Germany warned citizens this week to prepare for gas shortages due to cuts in natural gas imported from Russia. Trying to sell the war in Ukraine and sanctions against Russia, Germans are being told to prepare for hot water shortages, and rationing of gas to heat their homes where...

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July 8, 2022

System Collapses Begin as Germans Warned to Prepare for Heating Shortages, School Closures

by Brian Shilhavy
Editor, Health Impact News

Officials in Germany warned citizens this week to prepare for gas shortages due to cuts in natural gas imported from Russia.

Trying to sell the war in Ukraine and sanctions against Russia, Germans are being told to prepare for hot water shortages, and rationing of gas to heat their homes where limits may be set to only 62 F (17 C).

Two days ago, Germany’s second-largest town of Hamburg told residents to prepare for hot-water rationing during certain times of the day due to “an acute gas shortage.”

Now, Germany’s largest landlord has warned tenants that when the heating season starts in autumn, they will only be able to turn their heat up to 17C (62.6F) between the hours of 11pm and 6am.

In a Thursday announcement, Vonovia said the move was intended to save energy and gas use during the current crisis. The company added that the change won’t affect daytime temperatures, and that access to hot water won’t be affected, meaning tenants can wash and shower as usual according to The Local.

Workers will modify the heating system during routine maintenance, and is expected to save around 8% on heating costs once the change comes into force.

Vonovia’s announcement comes after it emerged that a housing co-op in Saxony had taken drastic steps to minimise energy use in its buildings – including turning off the hot water for several hours a day.

The move means tenants of Dippoldiswalde Housing Cooperative can only take warm showers in the early mornings and late afternoons on the weekdays. The heating systems are also set to remain off until September. -The Local

Meanwhile, Germany’s Federal Network Agency has been pushing for a change in the legal minimum temperatures for tenants – with president Klaus Müller telling the Rheinische Post last month that tenants should face pressure to reduce their energy usage ahead of winter.

“In tenancy law, there are specifications according to which the landlord must set the heating system so that a minimum temperature of between 20C and 22C is achieved,” he said, adding “The state could temporarily lower the specifications for landlords. We are discussing this with politicians.”

Right now the legal minimum temperature is currently 16-17C in the night, and 20-22C (68-71.6F) during the day.[/QUOTE]

With Germany scrambling to replenish its energy supply for the winter, Economics Minister Robert Habeck (Greens) has set strict legal targets for gas storage facilities – with just 40% of the usual deliveries flowing through the Nord Stream 1 pipeline from Russia.

If the situation continues to deteriorate, caps on energy usage or other measures – such as reducing temperatures in apartment complexes, may be ordered at the federal level. (Source.)

This has caused mass panic buying of wood-burning stoves and firewood throughout Europe.

This energy shortage also threatens to shut down schools and educational facilities in Germany this winter.

Gas shortages could see German schools shut – official

Schools and other educational facilities in Germany should be classed as critical infrastructure to prevent their closure this winter due to possible gas shortages, the country’s education minister has argued.

Speaking to Germany’s Rheinische Post newspaper on Thursday, Bettina Stark-Watzinger said it should be a priority for Olaf Scholz’s government to make sure that schools and universities remain open even if the country ends up running low on gas this coming winter.

Now that Russia has considerably reduced supplies via the Nord Stream 1 gas pipeline, and with talk of a complete stoppage in the future, “close attention” has to be paid to schools and universities in Germany, “so that it does not possibly come to class cutbacks or even cancellation” in winter, Stark-Watzinger warned.

According to the official, educational institutions will, however, have to become thriftier in how they use energy, and re-evaluations are already underway in many schools and universities.

Gas shipments to Europe by Russia’s Gazprom via the Nord Stream 1 pipeline dropped to about 40% of capacity last month. Moscow claimed it was the direct result of Western sanctions, which prevented some key equipment from being returned to Russia.

To make matters worse, the pipeline is going to shut down completely for 10 days in mid-July for scheduled maintenance. (Source.)

Expect Disruptions to Your Previous Way of Life to Become the New “Norm”

As we reported yesterday with the farmer rebellion in Europe right now, shortages of just about everything now loom in the worldwide economy, due to government actions, such as the “Green Agenda” in the Netherlands that is trying to take farmland away from farmers, to the war in Ukraine, or to government mandates such as COVID-19 vaccines where a significant portion of the workforce has either quit, or for the ones who complied, have now died or become permanently disabled.

Very few people today are truly understanding just what is in store in the future, especially because so many have a false belief in the technology that today holds everything together.

The technology is failing, and will continue to fail, as it takes a tremendous workforce to be able to service this technology and keep it running, not to mention that it also takes massive amounts of energy to produce the electricity that runs it.

Today in Canada, millions of people could not use their debit cards due to a major Internet outage.

Canada’s Rogers Communications Inc. reported widespread network outages on Friday morning, affecting financial institutions, government agencies, law enforcement, businesses, and wireless phone and home internet customers.

“We are aware of issues currently affecting our networks and our teams are fully engaged to resolve the issue as soon as possible,” Toronto-based Rogers tweeted.

Customers were extremely angry with Rogers, responding to the tweet by saying:

“$400/mth for services I can’t even f**king use. This company is and will always be a f**king joke,” one person said.

Another said: “for my American followers: Canada has only two companies with telecom infrastructure in the entire country and one of them is currently suffering a complete nationwide outage.”

WSJ reports Rogers’ customers first reported outages around 0400 ET. Police in Ottawa and Toronto warned residents of connection issues with the 9-1-1 emergency hotline.

“The outage, which appears bigger than the one last year that largely affected consumers, comes as Rogers is attempting to take over rival Shaw Communications,” Reuters notes.

There were also significant issues with Interac, a Canadian e-transfer service, which tweeted around 1035ET about “nationwide Rogers outages,” impacting debit-card transactions online and at checkout counters.

“This is impacting INTERAC Debit and INTERAC eTransfer. INTERAC Debit is currently unavailable online and at checkout,” Interac tweeted.

The Canadian interbank network also said: “INTERAC e-Transfer services are unavailable at most financial institutions, impacting the ability to send and receive payments. We are waiting for updates from Rogers on their resolution.”

A spokeswoman for Royal Bank of Canada told WSJ the widespread internet outage is affecting some of its lender’s services across the country.

NetBlocks‘ real-time data confirmed a “major internet courage” across Canada where “national connectivity down to 75% of ordinary levels” this morning.

There’s still no word on what caused the massive outage. (Full article.)

Reports out of Sri Lanka show the country has completely broken down, where chaos now rules. What is to stop this from happening to other countries in the not-too-distant future?

In the U.S., it is being reported that the Biden Administration has been shipping the nation’s emergency oil reserves overseas, which will cause higher gas prices and potential shortages here in the U.S.

Millions Of Barrels From US Emergency Oil Reserve Sent Abroad, Including To China

With a growing number of people realizing that the Biden administration has drained more oil from the US strategic petroleum reserve, which is meant to be used during real emergencies not fake, made up ones such as Democrats facing a catastrophic failure at the midterm elections…

… more people are starting to ask the next big question: where is this furious liquidation of US black gold going?

Courtesy of Reuters we know: more than 5 million barrels of oil that were part of the historic U.S. SPR release were exported to Europe and Asia last month, including top US geopolitical nemesis in the global arena, China, even as U.S. gasoline and diesel prices hit record highs.

The export of crude and fuel is blunting the impact of the moves by U.S. President Joe Biden to lower record pump prices. In a widely mocked call, Biden on Saturday renewed a call for gasoline suppliers to cut their prices, drawing rightful criticism from Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, because going after mom and pop gas stores merely demonstrates just how clueless the handlers of the senile presidential puppet truly are. (Full article.)

As we have been warning for months now, all these actions are PLANNED, and not accidental, being the result of government actions who are doing the bidding of the Billionaires and Bankers they work for and who know full well that the current economy cannot sustain the massive debts and corruption that have propped up the system for far too long, and their goal is to crash everything, reducing the world’s population in the process, and then implement the Great Reset where they are the masters, and where those of us who survive are the slaves.

A critical mass of people waking up from the mind-numbing propaganda and resisting the tyrants, as maybe we are beginning to see in Europe with the farmers, is perhaps the only thing standing in their way.

Here is a good article written by Robert Genetski and republished on ZeroHedge News, that accurately describes our situation today. This news is being CENSORED in the corporate media, because that media is owned by the same Billionaires and Bankers who are behind all of this.

(See website for more)

 

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Natural Gas to be Rationed in Switzerland, Government Warns | SHTF Plan

The federal government of Switzerland has warned that it may ration energy in the event of natural gas shortages.

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Natural Gas to be Rationed in Switzerland, Government Warns

by Arsenio Toledo | Jul 8, 2022 | Headline News | 0 comments

The federal government of Switzerland has warned that it may ration energy in the event of natural gas shortages.

Switzerland gets most of its gas through trading hubs in neighboring countries in the European Union, which means that disruptions affecting the rest of the continent also make their way to landlocked Switzerland, even though the country has a relatively low demand for gas compared to its neighbors. (Related: More ‘green’ insanity: Swiss firms told to brace for wave of power grid blackouts as the government tells citizens to cut back on electricity.)

Natural gas represents around 15 percent of total energy consumption in Switzerland. Around 42 percent of the gas is used to heat households, and the rest is used by different industries, including manufacturing, services, and transport.

But despite this low demand, Energy Minister Simonetta Sommaruga emphasized that Switzerland is very reliant on imported oil and gas. “That is why no one can guarantee that there will always be enough gas for everyone,” said Sommaruga.

Matters were made worse by Russia’s ongoing war with Ukraine. Forty-seven percent of Swiss gas imports come directly or indirectly from Russia.

“We are not an island, so the war in Ukraine and the global energy crisis also affect Switzerland.

In this context, there is no certainty about what awaits us,” said Sommaruga during a press conference. She later admitted that the energy crisis could hit them hard.

“That’s why we are concerned about reserves and preparing for emergencies,” she added.

Swiss already have plans in place for possible natural gas shortages
Before Sommaruga’s comments, the Swiss federal government outlined plans to address the possibility of a natural gas shortage, especially this coming winter. The government warned that it would have no choice but to resort to rationing should other measures to shore up the national gas supply prove insufficient.

Back in March, Switzerland approved a plan to establish a gas reserve for the winter of 2022 to 2023. Both the government and the gas industry are preparing for this plan’s implementation.
Five regional gas utilities have already secured nearly 3.8 terawatt-hours of physical gas reserves. These are currently stored in neighboring countries and represent around 60 percent of the government’s target. The government is working on securing additional energy reserve options.

Switzerland is also exploring purchasing natural gas from European countries to reduce reliance on Russian gas. Currently, France, Italy, and the Netherlands provide Switzerland with about 20 percent of the gas it consumes during winter.

The government is also exploring rationing options that it said companies should prepare for now. For example, companies operating dual-fuel plants that can switch from using natural gas to extra-light heating oil should start filling their oil tanks now.

If the government does order the country to ration gas supplies, priority for getting gas would fall to households connected to natural gas networks and to basic social services outside of education and public administration.

The first to be hit by rationing would be businesses. Sommaruga said it would initially target non-essential functions, such as escalators and neon signs. Member of the Swiss Federal Council and Economy Minister Guy Parmelin added that energy could also be cut off from unoccupied buildings, and the government could force businesses to switch to biofuels via ordinances.

If the shortage persists despite these interventions, quotas on gas consumption would be implemented, at least temporarily. Exceptions will be granted for private households and essential services such as hospitals.

“The role of the state is to guarantee a good supply of gas and electricity to the country. We want at all costs, to avoid a disruption in supply, which would have a strong impact on businesses and would then lead to an economic crisis,” said Parmelin. “We are doing everything we can so that our country can best adapt to this situation.”

Watch this clip from WION featuring Russian President Vladimir Putin signing a decree taking over oil and gas drilling in Sakhalin Island, further shoring up the country’s fuel supplies as Europe continues scrambling to deal with its energy shortages.

 

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15:15 min

Episode 612 - What's happening in the Netherlands with Michael Yon and Masako Ganaha

Jul 8, 2022


The Hot Zone With Chuck Holton

Japanese Journalist Masako Ganaha and War Correspondent Michael Yon are in the Netherlands covering the farmer's protests. Also, Masako comments on the assassination of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.

 

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10:23 min

Huge Real Estate Title Company Closes It's Doors Forever As SHTF 2022


The Economic Ninja

Huge Real Estate Title Company Closes It's Doors Forever. First American Title Company in Ventura shut down operations a few days ago. The reason for closing is unclear as of yet but as the housing market continues to slow down more real estate companies will be closer to going out of business. What scares me the most about the real estate market Mass Real Estate Layoffs Just Announced As SHTF In The Housing Market. I have heard your questions like: when real estate crash or when will real estate market crash or when will real estate bubble burst. Well don't worry because Redfin just told you it happening & that mortgage rates are going higher. Some people are still looking for will real estate prices go down and I'm here to say that the Housing Crash has already begun!

 

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12:47 min

The Agenda Against Farmers and Fertilizers Is What’s Creating the Global Food Crisis | Crossroads

Premiered 4 hours ago


Crossroads with JOSHUA PHILIPP

(Notes -Philipp: Absolutely, definitively this is an agenda. This is not a natural crisis. Even with Russia and Ukraine, we could still fix this. This is countries around the world placing restrictions on fertilizers, on food supplies, on cattle that should not be there, that have no place being there. Because they're doing this, they're creating - i.e. global crisis, a global famine. They're in the works of creating a global famine - definitively.

Some of the agenda: 2020, 1 year after Sri Lanka implemented their no chemical fertilizer policy and 1 year into COVID. Center for Public Integrity stated: "Fertilizers are contaminating and warming the planet." [They are damaging the planet and creating global warming.] "Regulators haven't acted on decades old warnings."



The efficiency of modern farming comes with a toll. In America's corn belt, some of it escapes the soil and becomes a contaminate creating global warming threat. Some of these compounds enter the atmosphere as a potent greenhouse gas.



They also claim nitrates from fertilizers are contaminating wells and exceeding health limits. That's because the European Commission has created limits on nitrates in the water supply. This is one of the excuses they are using to create policies restricting nitrates i.e. fertilizers and cows.

This is another report from 2021: "Our World In Data" - Can we reduce fertilizer use without sacrificing food production? They are arguing that you can reduce fertilizer use without starving the entire world. Some countries could use less fertilizer. Philipp reference Michael Yon's comments about less efficient farmers over-using fertilizer. It is not as big of an issue in efficient farming countries. The problem is, the regulations are falling on the most efficient, shifting farming pressure to the least efficient and most wasteful.



The agenda: Reducing nitrates in water 9reduce cattle); it is causingCO2 emissions.

Canada has not ruled out limiting the amount of fertilizer that farmers can use in order to meet their national emissions target of 30% below 2020 levels from fertilizer. (The same target they want to push in the Netherlands.) In the fine print, it's 30-70%.



Argument that these proposed policies would damage farmers.



What they want to do in the Netherlands is by the book, the same in Canada. Public petition for non-restriction of fertilizer use by farmers in Canada



Davos, public policy institutes and countries like the Netherlands and Germany are saying go ahead and do it. There is enough room that it won't make a difference. They say that, but you end up in the Sri Lanka situation where people face mass starvation.

2018 New Zealand fewer cows and reduction/elimination of nitrogen fertilizer.



Currently - the call to ban nitrogen fertilizer sale production and import by 2024 has been rejected temporarily and will be reviewed in 2023.



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