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A very alarming global food shortage has already begun, and it is only going to get worse in the months ahead.  I realize that this is not good news, but I would encourage you to share the information in this article with everyone that you can.  People deserve to understand what is happening, and they deserve an opportunity to get prepared.

The pace at which things are changing around the globe right now is absolutely breathtaking, but most people assume that life will just continue to carry on as it normally does.  Unfortunately, the truth is that a very real planetary emergency is developing right in front of our eyes.  The following are 20 facts about the emerging global food shortage that should chill you to the core…

#1 One of France’s most important government officials is telling us that we should brace ourselves for an “extremely serious” global food crisis…
France’s Foreign Affairs Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said the EU must get to grips with the prospect that the war in Ukraine could prompt an “extremely serious” global food crisis.

#2 Joe Biden recently admitted that food shortages are “going to be real”, and his administration is now openly using the word “famine” to describe what is coming…
The Biden administration is worried Russia’s invasion of Ukraine will cause famine in parts of the world, White House Council of Economic Advisers Chair Cecilia Rouse told CNBC on Friday.

#3 It is being reported that food prices at German supermarkets will soon go up between 20 and 50 percent…
Just days after Germany reported the highest inflation in generation (with February headline CPI soaring at a 7.6% annual pace and blowing away all expectations), giving locals a distinctly unpleasant deja vu feeling even before the Russian invasion of Ukraine broke what few supply chains remained and sent prices even higher into the stratosphere. On Monday, Germany will take one step toward a return of the dreaded Weimar hyperinflation, when according to the German Retail Association (HDE), consumers should prepare for another wave of price hikes for everyday goods and groceries with Reuters reporting that prices at German retail chains will explode between 20 and 50%

#4 Rationing has already begun in Spain…
In Spain, the country started experiencing sporadic shortages of different products like eggs, milk and other dairy products almost immediately following the outbreak of the war in Ukraine. In early March, major supermarkets like Mercadona and Makro began rationing sunflower oil.

#5 Rationing has also already started in Greece…
In Greece, at least four national supermarket chains have started rationing food products like flour and sunflower oil due to critically low supplies caused by the crippled supply chains coming out of Russia and Ukraine.

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h/t Cousin John

US warship was chased by two car-size ‘balls of light’ UFOs

A US Navy warship was shadowed by two car-size balls of light that were unaffected by anti-drone weapons, it is claimed.

The USS Kearsarge is the latest vessel to have reportedly had a UFO encounter as the US military begins to open up about the mysterious phenomena.

Documentary filmmaker Dave C. Beaty — who produced 2019 film “The Nimitz Encounters” about the famous 2004 US Navy encounter with the “Tic Tac” object — revealed the reported sighting from October 2021.

At least two objects are said to have lurked near the 40,500-ton amphibious assault ship for several nights while it was on a training exercise off the East Coast of the US.

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h/t Jim Stone

The key to bartering is walking away. If you have ammunition and firearms to barter, are you arming someone to use these against you? These may be obvious assumptions as is not letting yourself get into a position where you absolutely “need” items.

If you are stocking up for just yourself and/or family, think about buying barterable goods for the future. If you have a service that people need, buy extra tools and supplies to be able to provide that service.

Suggestions:

1. Good quality wool socks. What would you give for warm feet in a nuclear winter?

2. Wool hats.

3. Good work gloves.

4. Hand tools, sandpaper, nails, nuts and bolts, screws and saw blades.

5. Lubricants, filters, gas and diesel additives.

Some people would add cigarettes and liquor, but I am not. I am building a library at the community center that will hopefully be used for school and study groups. If you have any extra books that you want to give to a good cause please send them. Bibles and school books are always welcome.

David DeGerolamo

84 Roberts Road, Murphy, NC 28906

It’s bizarre watching the world slowly crumble into chaos. I’ve been extremely busy with my kids and coaching their baseball teams. Carrying on like everything is fine in the world, while my mind, body and soul is screaming at me that trouble is just over the horizon is a bit surreal. How many people actually think like me and are just keeping their thoughts to themselves? Seems not a day goes by lately that I don’t get the “you’re crazy” look when discussing current affairs. It seems as though I am screaming into the wind still. Either people just don’t get it or they just don’t care. People just aren’t feeling the pain enough to be concerned about our society yet it seems. Even though coaching kids takes my mind off the troubles of our country for just a little bit, the thoughts come flooding back shortly after the excitement.

It seems as though we are never going to stand and fight back against this evil we are faced with. The question used to be asked “is it time to fight?” now the question is “will we ever fight?” I understand everyone desires peace. I understand everyone loves all the comforts of our modern society. But the road to peace is not one paved by passivity. Communist and tyrants don’t typically step down because they are ignored. While the Hunter Biden laptop isn’t being ignored at the moment, what exactly is being done about it other than talk? Has anyone been arrested for the crimes that are now apparent? No. Why not? We are weak, and we are going to pay a heavy price for being weak. Ignoring these evil people who have stolen our country from us only fuels them. They have no fear of us. There are so many lines that these evil people who rule over us have crossed, yet we keep turning a blind eye to it all. And yes, that’s not a mistake, they rule over us. You think you are free? The last two years with the hysteria of their fake “pandemic” answers that.

How mad do you get when you go to the gas station? Every time I visit the pump I put one of those I Did That! Biden stickers on the pump. I look at others pumping gas, make eye contact and just shake my head. Everyone is pissed, but what can we do? We are too afraid to upset the peace.

How about the grocery store? While my shelves around here have remained somewhat stocked, prices are outrageous. It has to be hitting hard on a lot of folks. But what can we do? We are too afraid to upset the peace.

The great men who founded our once great country desired peace. They did not want to fight. But “Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.” We all know what followed.

I feel so alone in my beliefs. What can one man do against all this evil? Nothing apparently. If I was single, it would be a different situation. But I have a family to care for and protect against the evils of this society. So things are going to have to get way worse for guys like me to be drawn into action. It’s frustrating and depressing. But that mirror continues to get harder and harder to look in to.

How TPTB keep things limping along while stripping us slowly of our Liberty never ceases to amaze me. They keep everything balanced on a razor’s edge and for me it’s stressful. But what can we do? Sometimes I long for the collapse of civil society just so we can get the process started of restoring or building a new Nation. It seems to be fast approaching, but it seems to always be delayed somehow.

We are now living in a perpetual state of Tyranny. Criminals within our government are continuing to walk free. There is only one way these evil people will ever be held accountable, and that is at the end of the barrel of our guns. Violence gave America its Independence. Violence has stopped evil throughout all of human history. Pacifism isn’t just wrong, it’s immoral. Individuals have a moral right to choose not to defend themselves when attacked. They have no right to demand that others commit suicide by proxy. We are slowly committing suicide. Our own government has been assaulting us for some time now. It’s time that we respond in kind.

There are very difficult days ahead of us, and difficult decisions to be made by all. I’ve made my peace with my decisions. I know what I am willing to do. It all boils down to this, There Is No Voting Our Way Out Of This! Which should be apparent to all, but will become obvious to everyone really soon. Once you accept that and understand what that means, then you are mentally prepared for what lies ahead, other than that you are living in fantasy land.

May God have mercy on our Souls.

Wes

What you have here is an interesting chain of circumstance: Ukraine, 2014, the astounding flop of Hillary… RussiaGate… the mystifying Democratic primary race… the Ukraine-based impeachment… the Covid-19 fiasco (including deadly mRNA vaccines) … the election of “Joe Biden”… and now Ukraine again. The American Deep State is in a heap of deep trouble. It’s impossible anymore to hide its turpitudes. Even The New York Times and the WashPo have been forced to confess that Hunter Biden’s laptop is for-real, including the thousands of incriminating memoranda and emails on it, along with all the selfie-porn and drugging. It’s obvious that the “president” of the US is corrupt and compromised. Doesn’t look too good.

Additionally, the Deep State must now try to hide the emerging attempted mass murder of the US population via the side effects of the Covid-19 “vaccines.” But the information can’t be hidden anymore and is, in fact, bursting out from unexpected places, for instance, from the life-insurance quarterly actuarial reports which show unprecedented “all-causes” deaths and injuries among people under 60-years-old. We know how this happened. On top of the deadly “vaccines,” introduced with falsified trials, the Deep State suppressed early treatment medications (is still at it, in fact), and instead forced protocols with the deadly drug remdesivir. In sum, America’s government has capped years of lying and conniving via high tech and the news media by killing its citizens. Rochelle Walensky & Company are still urging the public to vaxx-up and “boost.” How is that not criminal?

So, Ukraine is back onstage and the Deep State made sure it would be by refusing to rule out Ukraine joining NATO and by arming and subsidizing a large army that has spent eight years shelling and terrorizing the Russian-speaking population of Donbas in eastern Ukraine. Mr. Zelenskyy apparently was led to believe that NATO would come to his rescue, the poor chump, wherever he really is. CBS-News would have you believe that Russia is perpetrating war crimes by bombing hospitals in Ukraine. What they don’t tell you is that the hospitals were turned into fortresses by the Nazi-inflected Azov brigades.

They also would like you to believe that the Russian operation is a flop. That is not so, though it surely was not a cakewalk. What’s left of the Ukraine army (including its Azov brigades) is cut off from communication, out of diesel fuel, out of ammo, out of food, and soon to be shut down altogether. When that happens, Ukraine will not be used to make needless trouble in the world. The sanctions imposed on Russia have successfully destroyed the financial scaffold of the global economy so that an economic collapse of the nation states in Western Civ is a sure thing. The lingering question: will the hardships to come only reinforce America’s mass formation psychosis, or will it compel us to wake up and pay attention to the attempted suicide of our country?

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h/t CFP and WRSA

Just days after Germany reported the highest inflation in generation (with February headline CPI soaring at a 7.6% annual pace and blowing away all expectations), giving locals a distinctly unpleasant deja vu feeling even before the  Russian invasion of Ukraine broke what few supply chains remained and sent prices even higher into the stratosphere.

On Monday, Germany will take one step toward a return of the dreaded Weimar hyperinflation, when according to the German Retail Association (HDE), consumers should prepare for another wave of price hikes for everyday goods and groceries with Reuters reporting that prices at German retail chains will explode between 20 and 50%.

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I guess people are this stupid in Germany. A 7.6% inflation rate increases the price of food 20-50%?

The price of gas in the US was $2.20 in June, 2020. The price of gas today is $4.20. That is a increase of 68.2% in 22 months. Let’s make it easy and round up to 24 months. That means an inflation rate of roughly 30% annually for energy. I will forego any food calculations since prices seem to be going up hourly. How long can you hold out with an annual inflation rate of 30%?

David DeGerolamo

By Francis W. Porretto

A Long, Long Time Ago…

   …there was a company called Disney. Its products were aimed at American youth, typically below the age of puberty. The consistent quality and generally uplifting character of those products made it one of the most successful entertainment companies ever formed. Its founding genius, Walt Disney, was the icon of the company for the whole of his life.

     Walt Disney passed on to his reward in 1966. Part of his ethos remains, in bits and pieces, at the company he founded:

     If you roam the halls of the Imagineering department, you’ll encounter Mickey’s 10 Commandments, a distilling of storytelling wisdom that helps us stay on target when developing new projects.

1. Know your audience—identify the prime audience of your attraction or show before you begin design.
2. Wear your guests’ shoes—insist that your team members experience your creation just the way the guests do.
3. Organize the flow of people and ideas—make sure there is a logic and sequence in your stories and in the way guests experience them.
4. Create a wienie—create visual targets [wienies] that lead visitors clearly and logically through the experience you’ve built.
5. Communicate with visual literacy—make good use of color, shape, form, texture—all the nonverbal ways of communication.
6. Avoid overload; create turn-ons—resist the temptation to overload your audience with too much information and too many objects of interest.
7. Tell one story at a time—stick to the storyline; good stories are clear, logical, and internally consistent.
8. Avoid contradictions; maintain identity—details in design or content that contradict one another confuse the audience about story and time period.
9. For every ounce of treatment, provide a ton of treat—you can educate people, but don’t tell them you’re doing it. Make it fun!
10. Keep it up—everything has to work.

     These Commandments are complemented by Disney’s “Four Keys.” Every new cast member has these four keys drilled into them from day one: Safety, Courtesy, Show, and Efficiency. For over six decades, the Four Keys and Mickey’s 10 Commandments guided storytelling and experience-making in the Disney parks. These guiding principles have been in place, with only minor alterations, for roughly 65 years—nearly as long as the parks themselves have existed. They have helped a talented and dedicated team of Disney cast members tell stories that appeal across demographic, geographic, ethnic, religious, and political lines.

     However, things have changed. The Left, aware of the importance of capturing children’s minds at their most impressionable, made Disney a first-priority target.

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I read this article from Fran yesterday and I keep thinking about it. For me, Disney was a large part of being an American when I was a child. Sunday nights were special as the family watched Swamp Fox and Davy Crockett on Disney.

We know that their goal is to destroy our country. They overthrew the Old Republic and the Constitution in the 2020 fraudulent election. They will not stop until our religion, culture and morality are destroyed. What target could be more effective at destroying our morals and culture than directing their attacks on our children? Seriously, which corporation would you take over in order to brainwash our children’s minds?

David DeGerolamo

Why is setting a Fixed Price for Gold in Rubles significant?

By offering to buy gold from Russian banks at a fixed price of 5000 rubles per gram, the Bank of Russia has both linked the ruble to gold and, since gold trades in US dollars, set a floor price for the ruble in terms of the US dollar.

We can see this linkage in action since Friday 25 March when the Bank of Russia made the fixed price announcement. The ruble was trading at around 100 to the US dollar at that time, but has since strengthened and is nearing 80 to the US dollar. Why? Because gold has been trading on international markets at about US$ 62 per gram which is equivalent to (5000 / 62) = about 80.5, and markets and arbitrage traders have now taken note, driving the RUB / USD exchange rate higher.

So the ruble now has a floor to the US dollars, in terms of gold. But gold also has a floor, so to speak, because 5000 rubles per gram is 155,500 rubles per troy ounce of gold, and with a RUB / USD floor of about 80, that’s a gold price of around $1940. And if the Western paper gold markets of LBMA / COMEX try to drive the US dollar gold price lower, they will have to try to weaken the ruble as well or else the paper manipulations will be out in the open.

Additionally, with the new gold to ruble linkage, if the ruble continues to strengthen (for example due to demand created by obligatory energy payments in rubles), this will also be reflected in a stronger gold price.

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I encourage you to read the entire article concerning the relationship of Russia’s ruble, gold, oil and other commodities. Russia has pegged their ruble to the price of gold. Our petrodollar is “backed” by the full faith and credit in the United States. As the world shifts to a real currency, the dollar will be devalued very quickly. Buy barterable goods, food, gold and silver before your fiat currency becomes toilet paper like the Continental.

David DeGerolamo