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Supplies Are Starting To Get Tight As Food Distribution Systems Break Down
All across America, store shelves are emptying and people are becoming increasingly frustrated because they can’t get their hands on needed supplies.
Most Americans are blaming “hoarders” for the current mess, but it is actually much more complicated than that. Normally, Americans get a lot of their food from restaurants. In fact, during normal times 36 percent of all Americans eat at a fast food restaurant on any given day. But now that approximately 75 percent of the U.S. is under some sort of a “shelter-in-place” order and most of our restaurants have shut down, things have completely changed. Suddenly our grocery stores are being flooded with unexpected traffic, and many people are buying far more than usual in anticipation of a long pandemic. Unfortunately, our food distribution systems were not designed to handle this sort of a surge, and things are really starting to get crazy out there.
I would like to share with you an excerpt from an email that I was sent recently. It describes the chaos that grocery stores in Utah and Idaho have been experiencing…
When this virus became a problem that we as a nation could see as an imminent threat, Utah, because of its culture of food storage and preparing for disaster events seemed to “get the memo” first. The week of March 8th grocery sales more than doubled in Utah, up 218%. Many states stayed the same with increases in some. Idaho seemed to “get the memo” about four days later. We were out of water and TP four days after Utah. Then we were out of food staples about four days later. Next was produce following a pattern set by Utah four days earlier.
The problem for us in Idaho was this. The stores in Utah were emptied out then refilled twice by the warehouses before it hit Idaho. Many of these Utah stores have trucks delivering daily. So when it did hit Idaho the warehouses had been severely taxed. We had a hard time filling our store back up even one time. We missed three scheduled trucks that week alone. Then orders finally came they were first 50% of the order and have dropped to 20%. In normal circumstances we receive 98% of our orders and no canceled trucks. Now three weeks later, the warehouses in the Western United States have all been taxed. In turn, those warehouses have been taxing the food manufacturers. These food companies have emptied their facilities to fill the warehouses of the Western United States. The East Coast hasn’t seemed to “get the memo” yet. When they do what food will be left to fill their warehouses and grocery stores?
Food distribution and resources for the Eastern United States will be at great peril even if no hoarding there takes place. But of course it will.
Additionally the food culture of the East Coast and other urban areas is such that people keep very little food on hand. They often shop several times weekly for items if they cook at home. They don’t have big freezers full of meat, home canned vegetables in their storage rooms, gardens, or beans, wheat, and rice in buckets in the their basements.
With most of the country locked down, normal economic activity has come to a standstill, and it is going to become increasingly difficult for our warehouses to meet the demand that grocery stores are putting on them.
Meanwhile, our farmers are facing severe problems of their own. The following comes from CNBC…
The U.S.-China trade war sent scores of farmers out of business. Record flooding inundated farmland and destroyed harvests. And a blistering heat wave stunted crop growth in the Midwest.
Now, the coronavirus pandemic has dealt another blow to a vulnerable farm economy, sending crop and livestock prices tumbling and raising concerns about sudden labor shortages.
The chaos in the financial markets is likely to continue for the foreseeable future, and it is going to remain difficult for farm laborers to move around as long as “shelter-in-place” orders remain in effect on the state level.
Iowa farmer Robb Ewoldt told reporter Emma Newburger that “we’ve stopped saying it can’t get worse”, and he says that this coronavirus pandemic looks like it could be “the straw that broke the camel’s back”…
“We were already under extreme financial pressure. With the virus sending the prices down — it’s getting to be the straw that broke the camel’s back,” said Iowa farmer Robb Ewoldt.
“We were hoping for something good this year, but this virus has stopped all our markets,” he said.
Of course this comes at a time when millions of Americans are losing their jobs and unemployment is shooting up to unthinkable levels. Without any money coming in, many people are already turning to alternative sources of help in order to feed themselves and their families.
On Monday, hundreds of cars were lined up to get food from a food bank in Duquesne, Pennsylvania. To many, this was eerily reminiscent of the “bread lines” during the Great Depression of the 1930s.
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And it is also being reported that the number of people coming for free meals on Skid Row in Los Angeles has tripled since that city was locked down.
Sadly, these examples are likely only the tip of the iceberg of what we will see in the months ahead.
And it won’t just be the U.S. that is hurting. The following comes from a Guardian article entitled “Coronavirus measures could cause global food shortage, UN warns”…
Kazakhstan, for instance, according to a report from Bloomberg, has banned exports of wheat flour, of which it is one of the world’s biggest sources, as well as restrictions on buckwheat and vegetables including onions, carrots and potatoes. Vietnam, the world’s third biggest rice exporter, has temporarily suspended rice export contracts. Russia, the world’s biggest wheat exporter, may also threaten to restrict exports, as it has done before, and the position of the US is in doubt given Donald Trump’s eagerness for a trade war in other commodities.
If this pandemic stretches on for an extended period of time, food supplies are inevitably going to get even tighter.
So what can you do?
Well, perhaps you can start a garden this year if you don’t normally grow one. Apparently this pandemic has sparked a tremendous amount of interest in gardening programs around the country…
Because of the coronavirus pandemic, more people are showing an interest in starting home gardens. Oregon State University‘s (OSU) Master Gardener program took notice of the growing interest.
To help citizens who want to grow their own food, the university kindly made their online vegetable gardening course free until the end of April. OSU’s post on Facebook has been shared over 21,000 times.
Food is only going to get more expensive from here on out, and growing your own food is a way to become more independent of the system.
But if you don’t have any seeds right now, you may want to hurry, because consumer demand is spiking…
“It’s the largest volume of orders we have seen,” said Jere Gettle of Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds in Mansfield, Missouri. Peak seed-buying season for home gardeners is January to March, but the normal end-of-season decline in orders isn’t happening.
Customers are gravitating to vegetables high in nutrients, such as kale, spinach and other quick-to-grow leafy greens. “Spinach is off the charts,” said Jo-Anne van den Berg-Ohms of Kitchen Garden Seeds in Bantam, Connecticut.
For years, I have been warning people to get prepared for “the perfect storm” that was coming, but of course most people didn’t listen.
But now it is upon us.
Desperate people have been running out to the grocery stores to stock up on toilet paper only to find that they are limited to one or two packages if it is even available.
And now that “panic buying” of seeds has begun, it is probably only a matter of time before many stores start running out.
We have reached a major turning point in our history, and things are only going to get crazier.
Unfortunately, the vast majority of Americans still have absolutely no idea what is ahead of us…
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244 Comments on "Supplies Are Starting To Get Tight As Food Distribution Systems Break Down"
Larry on Tue, 31st Mar 2020 9:36 pm
This is garbage, went to Walmart mart today and groceries were at least. 90% full. Pure sensationalism tripe.
DT on Tue, 31st Mar 2020 10:28 pm
There are a whole heck of a lot of people and infrastructure involved in our current food industry. It will not take much to take the system down partially or even in whole. Are the farmers and workers out in the fields and slaughter houses? How about the people that work in canned and packaged food processing plants? Many questions that only time will tell. So far I am not going hungry………..
JuanP on Tue, 31st Mar 2020 11:19 pm
I know as a fact that there is an egg shortage in the USA, and when I ordered 100 one day old layers from the US’ largest hatchery yesterday, I was told that the delivery time would take three months instead of the usual three weeks. I also know that in Miami there is a serious shortage of fresh veggies because I grow and sell them locally, and people are desperate to get there hands on them right now.
JuanP on Tue, 31st Mar 2020 11:46 pm
This article seems to be pretty accurate. We used to sell our veggies and eggs to restaurants, but now we are selling them in stores. We have also experienced problems when ordering seeds, too, something that had never happened to us before. I have friends that do veggie garden installations for a living and they have several times the normal demand for this time of the year. I have also had a large number of people asking me where to buy seeds and chickens and whether I would be willing to help them start a veggie garden at home.
FuelShortageComing on Wed, 1st Apr 2020 12:29 am
Amazing US Canada going full retard on this COVID shit. I just cannot believe this shit. Even Russian is onboard with this shit. I have no words.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOsBECmQKds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2xdMenxFrY
Theedrich on Wed, 1st Apr 2020 1:13 am
S China U: C19 from Wuhan labs horseshoe bats. “A bombshell study by the South China University of Technology reveals coronavirus could have started in a lab just 300 yards away from the Wuhan seafood market.” The following is from “Bombshell Chinese Study Fuels Conspiracy of Coronavirus Being a Bioweapon: Evidence is mounting that coronavirus originated in a Wuhan lab. A Chinese university is the latest to make such claims.”
But of course, the miscegenationist media does not want you to know this. Because even thinking it would be “racist.”
FuelShortageComing on Wed, 1st Apr 2020 2:22 am
Fauci is saying that COVID will be cyclical and will reemerge at fall this year. Same thing Singapore said
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2bSDfKBics&t=440s
Singapore saying virus will be with us until the end of the year.
They are reading from the same script.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eG91sZR4IU
I laught so hard that I almost choke myself to death
FuelShortageComing on Wed, 1st Apr 2020 2:48 am
They are trying to quarantine to whole world until the end of the year. I just cannot believe this shit. Russia is even in this hoax.
Yeah we reach peak oil. Just cannot believe that there solution is to lie and scare the whole planet in an attempt to reduce fuel consumption.
I am still laughing so hard that I almost choke myself to death. I just cannot believe what I am seeing and hearing lately.
Abraham van Helsing on Wed, 1st Apr 2020 3:54 am
In Some Decades, Nothing Happens; In Some Weeks, Decades Happen.
— Vladimir Lenin
makati1 on Wed, 1st Apr 2020 4:06 am
The US pain is just starting, I think.
What if all the home deliveries end?
What if the truckers start getting sick? No JIT deliveries?
What if the farmers cannot get laborers to plant, tend and harvest the crops?
What if the bankruptcies explode, taking down a lot of suppliers YOU depend on?
What if…?
Too early to say all will be well. After all, the US got a late start and now timelines are extending. The National Guard is being called up in more and more locations. Police are getting sick by the hundreds.
If you think you know what is going to happen…why didn’t you tell us three months ago so we could prepare? No one knows how this will all shake out, but it won’t be pretty.
Abraham van Helsing on Wed, 1st Apr 2020 4:29 am
Political attack sold as “humor”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0vaDV_T9g4
Bill Maher as always launches his anti-white subliminal messages to promote the standard jewish policy of multicult, diversity and race-mixing, which is implicitly and intentional anti-white.
He builds up his diversity case around a statement by Hillary Clinton, who has said that 66% of US GDP voted for her in 2016, where 33% voted for Trump. This may even be true, but he introduces the giant falsehood by suggesting that the GDP of a formerly white area increases if you import sufficient people from Somalia or Pakistan or India, which is wrong. The real reason why 66% GDP voted for Clinton is based on the excessive unequal income/wealth distribution in the US:
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2017/jan/16/worlds-eight-richest-people-have-same-wealth-as-poorest-50
“World’s eight richest people have same wealth as poorest 50%”
Names: Gates, Amancio Ortega, the founder of the Spanish fashion chain Zara, and Warren Buffett, the renowned investor and chief executive of Berkshire Hathaway. The others are Carlos Slim Helú: the Mexican telecoms tycoon and owner of conglomerate Grupo Carso; Jeff Bezos: the founder of Amazon; Mark Zuckerberg: the founder of Facebook; Larry Ellison, chief executive of US tech firm Oracle; and Michael Bloomberg.
6 are Americans, of which 4 jews.
None of these oligarchs will ever vote for “America Firster” Trump, but instead for the globalist Dems. These oligarchs couldn’t care less about the details of the demographic composition of the US; for them the current US is a template of how the rest of the world should be: a world without nations, without borders, without racial identity, without fundamentalist religions (“NWO”). Instead it should be one giant unified capitalist machine, where every human biped is an economic commodity and most important: the entire world in the pocket of a few US oligarchs.
That is the REAL American Dream, virulent since the beginning of the 20th century and spearheaded by the Maher tribe, on this board represented by Mobster and de facto supported by anglo-zionist-supremacists like empire dave and joe esquire.
And it is now all going to fail, the Eurasian geopolitical opposition to this model has become too fierce.
And Corona could very well hasten that process and send US social order into meltdown, for the simple reason that there is no social ethnic consistency in the US, only competing tribes.
And we all know what happened in Yugoslavia, Palestine, Turkey-Kurds, Palestine, Syria, Donbass: “there will be blood”.
Abraham van Helsing on Wed, 1st Apr 2020 5:01 am
“Nearly a FIFTH of UK firms could shut within four weeks: Up to a million small to medium companies face ruin because banks are ‘refusing to give them government-backed loans'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8174967/Nearly-FIFTH-UK-firms-shut-four-weeks.html
Only because we attempt to keep 82 year old’s alive with our “ventilators” and give them a few months life-time extra, we accept the ruin of our societies. It is a mechanism comparable to the idiocy of taking in 100 economic migrants from Africa, just because of the remote possibility that 1-2 of them could be bona fide refugees.
It is the secular Christian do-gooder sentiment gone wild.
There is no corona-crisis, in reality it is the non-acceptance that people’s lives are finite and that, from a viewpoint of society, there is no drama if you die when you are 80. It is what you should have expected all along.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memento_mori
joe on Wed, 1st Apr 2020 5:40 am
“Only because we attempt to keep 82 year old’s alive with our “ventilators” and give them a few months life-time extra”
Stupid idiot. 20 of ALL people who contract that Covid 19 need some kind of hospitalization and ventilation. The system is not trying to save 82 yr olds. All kinds of ages are in hospital, it’s the elderly who are dying the most cause they are weakest. They have every right to life that anyone else has you sick f**k! Cloggie
joe on Wed, 1st Apr 2020 5:41 am
20% of people
Davy on Wed, 1st Apr 2020 5:57 am
“Chinese University Links Coronavirus To Wuhan Virology Institute”
That should shut up some challenged people here. LOL
Davy on Wed, 1st Apr 2020 5:59 am
“The US pain is just starting, I think Asia is already along that path. The P’s is very exposed to food shortages. My little island of Luzon has 57MIL people.”
There fixed that
Davy on Wed, 1st Apr 2020 6:04 am
“Stupid idiot. 20 of ALL people who contract that Covid 19 need some kind of hospitalization and ventilation. The system is not trying to save 82 yr olds. All kinds of ages are in hospital, it’s the elderly who are dying the most cause they are weakest. They have every right to life that anyone else has you sick f**k! Cloggie”
the cloggo gets numbers mixed up and he tries to put lipstick on bad numbers. He parades good numbers like a kid who just learned to jerk off. What cloggo does not want to think bout is all those people who are younger who get the weaponized China virus or the fact younger people that have something else wrong but the health care system can’t properly take care of them. It is much more complicated than let fat 80 year olds die.
Abraham van Helsing on Wed, 1st Apr 2020 6:06 am
Corona politics: large increase political support in polls for sitting government (“rallying around the flag effect”).
– Holland: PM Mark Rutte and his liberal-right VVD, massive gain
– Germany: Merkel and her conservative CDU, massive gain
You can extrapolate this tendency to the US and add a likely electoral corona bonus for Trump as well, regardless of how many corona deaths there are going to be.
I expect many non-whites to vote for Trump, to buy 4 more years of relative social peace, before the Dims-Bolsheviks will inevitably take over in 2024, which will send the country in a tail spin of ethnic conflict.
Related to the above… British white nationalist (but unfortunately a Brexiteer and hence a de facto Anglo-supremacist and not a European) Nick Griffin posted this professional video about (British) demographics:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuX8lsYJbfU
The video is entirely correct in that it describes in a low-key, non-emotional, non-hateful way the fate of the British Isles. It ain’t pretty. London is already gone, Birmingham is next. English minority in 46 years.
But what this video entirely fails to address is to WHY this is happening! Why are modern societies like Japan and Korea, who make a big mark in this globalist world, still 100% Japanese/Korean and why will the English be a minority in England by 2066 (the Scots btw are still 98% Scottish, welcome to continental Europe folks!).
(hint: these societies are not burdened with the Christian shit-hole “love” religion and they have no jewish diversity mongers, who control the media and use the media to promote diversity)
It also fails to address that the British government circles around Churchill (not Chamberlain) in WW2 were on the side of (((those))) who instigated this disaster, although this is way beyond the comprehension of the average Tommy WW2 cannon fodder:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1229643/This-isnt-Britain-fought-say-unknown-warriors-WWII.html
“‘This isn’t the Britain we fought for,’ say the ‘unknown warriors’ of WWII”
You really have to dig deep to find the carefully hidden truth about WW2.
https://documents1940.wordpress.com/2017/09/25/chamberlain-and-the-forrestal-diaries/
Davy on Wed, 1st Apr 2020 6:16 am
“Who’s Next To Fail In The Post-COVID World?”
https://tinyurl.com/rrr3t3a tom luongo
“the engine of the world is coming to a halt. Money velocity has been falling for years. It is now cratering as we hide in our homes from a bug that eventually we will all have to reconcile with. Credit is the engine of the world of today. It is the gas which fuels the engine of the world. COVID-19 has cratered the global economy exposing the internal rot within our hyper-financialized global economy as nothing more than a pyramid of Ponzi schemes……piling credit on top of credit until there are no more greater fools to sell the new debt to. That’s the system we have. And it is collapsing precisely because the world is situated at the point where there is little more productive capacity to monetize and pull that capital from the future to fund the new debt. It won’t matter if we replace this system with pure helicopter money without debt as the Modern Monetary Theory proponents argue. We’re already doing a version of this by having the central banks buy debt they never intend to sell on the open market. So, the debt itself is without value. The money printed from those bonds is as much scrip as if the bond had never been issued. But the time lost by people in pursuit of uneconomic ends by mispricing risk and servicing debt they are legally obligated to service is real”
Davy on Wed, 1st Apr 2020 6:17 am
“Who’s Next To Fail In The Post-COVID World?”
https://tinyurl.com/rrr3t3a tom luongo
“And it will set Italy in the post-COVID-19 world at odds completely with the rest of Europe. Ambrose Evans-Pritchard adds more color to what happened at last week’s meeting of EU national leaders in which both sides of the fiscal divide dug in their heels. Dutch premier Mark Rutte has become the spokesman for the hardliners – giving political cover to Germany – categorically ruling out emergency “coronabonds” or other forms of debt mutualisation. “It would bring the eurozone into a different realm. You would cross the Rubicon into a eurozone that is more of a transfer union,” he said. “We are against it, but it’s not just us, and I cannot foresee any circumstances in which we would change that position.” Enrico Letta, Italy’s former-premier and an ardent EU integrationist, accused the Netherlands of leading the pack of “irresponsibles” and trying to “replace the United Kingdom in the role of ‘Doctor No’”. The reflexive use of the UK as a rhetorical foil evades of the true issue. It was not London that blocked moves to fiscal union over the last decade; it was Germany.”
Davy on Wed, 1st Apr 2020 6:18 am
“Who’s Next To Fail In The Post-COVID World?”
https://tinyurl.com/rrr3t3a tom luongo
“Like the obsequious worm that he is, instead of doing the right thing, issuing mini-BOTs, to free up domestic liquidity issues, Conte is looking at putting up the whole of the Italian government’s holdings as collateral against new debt to pay for stimulus of Einsteinian proportions. This is the ultimate sellout of Italy to the EU. As a proposal it is the ultimate betrayal of the Italian people. These buildings and infrastructure are their legacy and they will be sold as collateral to loan sharks as opposed to reclaiming their national dignity. There is no market for these bonds. So,who will buy them? The ECB. Who then owns all of this property, ultimately? The ECB and therefore the EU.”
Davy on Wed, 1st Apr 2020 6:18 am
cloggo, will you let us know how hell is?
Abraham van Helsing on Wed, 1st Apr 2020 6:24 am
“Stupid idiot. 20 of ALL people who contract that Covid 19 need some kind of hospitalization and ventilation.”
I’m not talking about hospitalization, I am talking about DEATH RATES, you little englander and nail in the coffin of the white race. The average age of a corona death in Holland IS 82, mostly male, where the male life expectancy is 81. Everybody who needs hospitalization SHOULD be hospitalized, BUT younger people SHOULD get preference over older with ventilation, in case of a shortage, which is now the case almost everywhere, except for Germany.
“The system is not trying to save 82 yr olds. All kinds of ages are in hospital, it’s the elderly who are dying the most cause they are weakest.”
Exactly right. The point is that we are imposing draconian measures on society that threaten the very stability of our societies, the result of which could be far worse than what is currently happening in the hospitals.
“They have every right to life that anyone else has you sick f**k! Cloggie”
Typical anglo virtue signaling. “Rights”, “rights”, “rights” for everybody (except their own white kids of course), even if demand outstrips supply.
Fortunately the English are disappearing from the face of this earth and be taken over by Muslims by 2066 at the latest, which is perfectly OK. These joe esquire types don’t have the spine to defend their own DNA anyway, too much obsessed to “prove” that they are morally superior over continental Europeans and not at all racist and not nahtzis, a suicidal strategy if there ever was one.
#RiversOfBlood
Their problem, we are going to escape from the post-1945 Anglo-Zionist grip and enjoy the demise of the Anglo-Zionists, like joe esquire and empire dave, like a 20 meter long, hand-rolled, Cuban cigar, from a safe distance. And pick up the pieces afterwards
ROFL
Davy on Wed, 1st Apr 2020 6:26 am
This stupid liberal shit happened in the US too. The witch Pelosi was in China town hugging Chinese at some point. Not much out of the open border crocodile tear liberal fucks lately. The rabid California Universities are talking lynching (intellectually) anyone calling the Weaponized China Virus what it really it.
“Spanish Government Being Sued For Encouraging Mass Gatherings Right As COVID-19 Hit”
https://tinyurl.com/r23u8pv summit
“The Spanish government is being sued for gross negligence after it encouraged citizens to attend giant feminist rallies across the country on March 8, potentially exposing hundreds of thousands of people to coronavirus…The Spanish government’s culpability for exposing its own citizens to coronavirus in the name of ‘woke’ activism has been almost completely ignored by the western media, despite there being much reporting about a Champions League soccer game in Milan, Italy on February 19th which was attended by 40,000 residents of Bergamo and has been described as a “biological bomb” during which “the virus was widely spread” according to Mayor Giorgio Gori. As we document in the video below, it wasn’t just in Spain that political leaders were urging citizens to attend huge rallies and parades right as COVID-19 hit hard. In Italy, the left-wing Mayor of Florence and leftist activist groups urged Italians to hug Chinese people in the street, despite thousands of Chinese migrant workers in northern Italy having potentially been exposed to COVID-19.”
Abraham van Helsing on Wed, 1st Apr 2020 6:39 am
“Who’s Next To Fail In The Post-COVID World?”
https://tinyurl.com/rrr3t3a tom luongo
Haha, an Italian defector to the US pontificating about the corona drama in Europe.
“Like the obsequious worm that he is, instead of doing the right thing, issuing mini-BOTs, to free up domestic liquidity issues, Conte is looking at putting up the whole of the Italian government’s holdings as collateral against new debt to pay for stimulus of Einsteinian proportions. This is the ultimate sellout of Italy to the EU. As a proposal it is the ultimate betrayal of the Italian people. These buildings and infrastructure are their legacy and they will be sold as collateral to loan sharks as opposed to reclaiming their national dignity. There is no market for these bonds. So,who will buy them? The ECB. Who then owns all of this property, ultimately? The ECB and therefore the EU.”
It is precisely the other way around. If we give in to these “corona bonds”, we would create the next Greece. In the end an Italian right-wing government will simply leave the EU and leave the disciplined northerners with the Italian debt. Not going to happen. It doesn’t need to happen as Italy is stinking rich, but corrupt to the core.
Fortunately the Italians begin to reflect about themselves and even the POPE has chimed in. One the most important Italian MSM journalists has admitted:
“Pope says Italy tax dodgers bear partial blame for virus health care crisis“
https://www.euractiv.com/section/coronavirus/news/pope-says-italy-tax-dodgers-bear-partial-blame-for-virus-health-care-crisis/
“It has become evident that those who do not pay taxes do not only commit a felony but also a crime: if there are not enough hospital beds and artificial respirators, it is also their fault,” Francis quoted verbatim from the article.
According to Italian Treasury figures last September, tax dodgers cost the country 109 billion euros on average each year between 2013 and 2015. Italy has the highest level of Value Added Tax evasion in the EU, the European Commission says.”
Solution: because of the tax dodging, 70% of the Italians live in real estate with on average only 17% mortgage, internationally a ridiculously low figure. I calculated that in order to bring down Italian public debt from 130% to 100%, it suffices to saddle every Italian household with an extra 30 year mortgage of a meager 20k euro. Absolutely doable! The West-Germans likewise were forced to pay hundreds of billions of “solidarity tax” for the East-Germans.
Median per capita wealth:
Italy 102k
France 92k
US 69 k
Germany 35k
Support for the Italians? My foot! They are the richest of them all! LOL
The article of Francis and support from the pope come at precisely the right time.
There will be some compromise and European lip service to “solidarity”, but that will be it. Either the Italian government accepts that mortgage scheme above or it leaves the euro and starts mad man printing liras, like in the old days, with 10% inflation per year. I bet the Italians will chose to remain in the euro.
Davy on Wed, 1st Apr 2020 6:47 am
The economic situation will likely include market intervention in a variety of markets and support for strategic industries similar to WWII. We are already seeing this in the financial markets.
“The Cheapest Way For Trump To Save US Oil”
https://tinyurl.com/urnvtc6 oil price
“The President of the United States has the power, at his sole discretion without any other authority, to place a fee on imported oil or products. It becomes variable when a base price (floor price) is set and a fee is paid on any imports where the price on imports is below the base price. If the base price for oil was set at $50.00 per barrel and the import price is $30.00 per barrel, then an import fee of $20.00 per barrel would be paid to the United States Treasury. Likewise, if the import price (world price) is $50.00 a barrel, then no fee is paid. Thus, the fee is variable depending on the price paid for an imported barrel.”
Davy on Wed, 1st Apr 2020 6:56 am
Russia and KSA are crippling themselves instead of shale. Finance is easier to manipulate than geology.
“Goldman Says Shale Might End Up Being a Winner of the Oil War”
https://tinyurl.com/s4go7a5 bloomberg
“The bruised and battered U.S. shale industry is poised to emerge from the oil crash a winner, according to Goldman Sachs Group Inc. Shale’s high-pressured wells and short drilling time mean the industry is well positioned to benefit if the current plunge in oil causes long-term damage to production capacity, resulting in a price jump when demand returns, Goldman analyst Damien Courvalin said in a note dated March 31. “Shale’s flexibility is likely to be finally monetized by producers once demand starts to recover to fill any global supply gap,” Courvalin said.”
Davy on Wed, 1st Apr 2020 7:15 am
“’Texas Miracle’ “On Ice For Time Being” As Crude-Carnage & COVID-Chaos Double-Whammy Strikes Lone-Star State”
https://tinyurl.com/t54l22v zero hedge
“In three weeks’ time, Saudi Arabia and Russia launched an oil price war that has sent WTI prices tumbling 57% and now risks imminent doom for US shale (and its junk bonds). More specifically, Texas accounts for 42% of US crude output and has been hit with twin shocks: one from waning crude demand, and another from the COVID-19 outbreak forcing the state to issue a “stay at home” public health order – restricting the travel of residents. Texas oil output is expected to decline in the second half of the year as investments in exploration and drilling contracts are reduced or canceled.”
“My outlook on the domestic oil and gas industry has never been bleaker,” one executive told the Dallas Fed. Another grimly joked: “What is the difference between a Texas oilman and a pigeon? The pigeon can put down a deposit on a new Mercedes.”
Abraham van Helsing on Wed, 1st Apr 2020 7:24 am
“Goldman Says Shale Might End Up Being a Winner of the Oil War”
One-trick ponies, rear-guard fight.
The real energy future is being developed in Europe.
One of the most promising combinations in green hydrogen land are British ITM and Danish Orsted. They are working on the next phase of producing renewable hydrogen by looking at the interaction of wind and electrolysis. ITM already has a 10 MW project for Shell in Germany.
https://www.evwind.es/2020/02/19/industrial-scale-renewable-hydrogen-project-advances-to-next-phase/73628
“Industrial scale renewable hydrogen project advances to next phase”
Companies: Sumitomo, Ørsted, National Grid, Cadent, Northern Gas Networks, Gasunie, RWE, Engie, BOC Linde, Toyota, Honda, Hyundai and Anglo American among others.
They work together in several other projects as well, scattered all over western Europe.
Davy on Wed, 1st Apr 2020 7:26 am
I have seen many articles doubtful of the EU surviving this event let along the process. I would say if it does survive then it will definitely demonstrate armor. I am not optimistic for the EU or the rest of the global political arrangements not grounded in tribal affiliations. I feel this is an inflection with normal gone so a trial by fire is ahead for everyone. Will the US survive as-is with its political tensions?? That is not to say the EU might use this opportunity to reset to something more realistic in a world of decline. Currently it is caught between the Rock of becoming a United States and the hard place of the North subsidizing the South with traditional EU mechanisms in a time of trial by fire. Does this subsidization become exploitation and or gifting? It will be seen if the union can survive hard times since all it has known is the good times.
“Italians are not singing anymore: No joke for this April 1st”
https://tinyurl.com/wtpcpfk casandra legacy
Davy on Wed, 1st Apr 2020 7:27 am
“End The Shutdown!”
https://tinyurl.com/ubu63we zero hedge
“The shutdown of the American economy by government decree should end. The lasting and far-reaching harms caused by this authoritarian precedent far outweigh those caused by the COVID-19 virus. The American people – individuals, families, businesses – must decide for themselves how and when to reopen society and return to their daily lives. Neither the Trump administration nor Congress has the legal authority to shut down American life absent at least baseline due process. As Judge Andrew Napolitano recently wrote, business closures, restrictions on assembly and movement, and quarantines are not constitutionally permissible under some magic “emergency” doctrine. At a minimum, the federal government must show potential imminent harm by specific infected individuals at some form of hearing or trial. To date, COVID-19 deaths in the US are far fewer than deaths in ordinary flu seasons or from past pandemics such as the H1N1 virus. This understanding is critically important to put the virus, and the government response to it, in perspective. Even during past pandemics, depressions, and world wars, Americans went to work. On a fundamental level, freedom really is more important than security—or, in this case, an illusion of security. We all demonstrate this in our personal lives every day, from flying to driving to riding bicycles, to consuming unhealthy food and drink simply because we like it. Security has never been the sole or even primary goal for a country born in rebellion. Government cannot decide what aspects of our lives are essential or nonessential. The American people cannot simply sit at home and wait for government checks written on funds that government does not have.”
“End the shutdown.”
Davy on Wed, 1st Apr 2020 7:29 am
“Industrial scale renewable hydrogen project advances to next phase”
Europe is broke cloggo and fossil fuels are almost being given away and you expect a resurgence of the alternative growth. I suspect it will not die but your 100% renewable world just evaporated like a popcorn fart…as I said it would. You are just a wounded animal not yet contemplating the chewing off of your paw.
Abraham van Helsing on Wed, 1st Apr 2020 7:53 am
Corona Netherlands, improving picture:
https://www.ed.nl/dossier-coronavirus/rivm-134-sterfgevallen-en-447-nieuwe-ziekenhuisopnames-minder-dan-gisteren~ac642502/
134 dead and 447 new hospitalized, less than yesterday.
To put things into perspective, every year 159,000 people die in the Netherlands, that’s 435 per day. So yes, currently is corona the most important cause of death.
So far 1,000 have died from corona. If we assume that the Netherlands has plateaued, we can double that figure as an estimate for the first phase of corona (“flattening the curve” phase).
2,000 dead as compared to 159,000 is a fly poop. Expect MANY more than these 2,000 to die in the rest of the year, perhaps 10,000 or much more.
https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2020-03-31/coronavirus-death-rate-estimates-show-risk-rising-sharply-with-age
“New coronavirus death rate estimates show how sharply the risk rises with age”
Lancet figures:
For instance, the fatality rate for infected people in their 20s is 0.03%, compared with 4.3% for people in their 70s. Likewise, the fatality rate for twentysomethings with COVID-19 is 0.06%, versus 8.6% for those in their 70s.
The oldest age group in the study is people who are 80 and up. For them, the fatality rate among people infected with the new coronavirus is 7.8%, rising to 13.4% among those sickened with COVID-19.
Note, this doesn’t mean that 8.6% of folks in their seventies will die, only that 8.6% of those who get symptoms and need to be hospitalized will die. The risk of young people to die is negligible (0.03% of those with symptoms).
The vast majority will have nothing at all.
It is just a flu with a nasty ending.
A far better approach would be to let young people lose on society, get back to work and keep the elder inside and avoid a social crash.
And forget about thousands of 80+ on ventilator machines. These machines do not exist and neither the qualified people to operate these very complex machines.
I predict that by the end of 2020, the number of people who have died will be somewhat higher than the usual 159,000 but not that much more. Because people who die from corona won’t die from other causes and the people who do die, were already with one leg in the grave.
Obviously, the usual suspect virtue signalers like empire dave and joe esquire will seize on the opportunity to call me names, their favorite past-time, typical for people with little substance, but that is not my problem.
A day not have been called a natzi by an anglo, is a day not lived.
Abraham van Helsing on Wed, 1st Apr 2020 7:59 am
Europe is broke cloggo and fossil fuels are almost being given away and you expect a resurgence of the alternative growth. I suspect it will not die but your 100% renewable world just evaporated like a popcorn fart…as I said it would. You are just a wounded animal not yet contemplating the chewing off of your paw.
The opposite is the case. Currently the intended renewable energy transition is a rat race against an ever growing economy. A temporary economic stand-still is welcome and an opportunity to catch up.
Everywhere in the world demand for fossil is plummeting, where the wind miles keep turning and the sun keeps shining over these panels.
The growth in the share of renewable energy in the total energy budget will be HUGE in 2020. Even without installing a single panel or turbine. Not in the least because we again had additionally a very mild “winter” this year in Europe. And then there are all these planes that are grounded and cars that are not driving.
REAL Green on Wed, 1st Apr 2020 8:08 am
I am a green prepper. I am close to nature as a permaculturist but also a naturalist. I am repairing my local ecosystem of 500 acres in the MO Ozarks with native species but also managing invasives as the new natives. I avoid chemicals and mechanized management technics but use them when the system gets too far from balance. I also have a small multi-species grazing operation of goats and cattle who work together to manage pasture on 100 acres of 10 paddocks on these 500 acres. I have small stocking rates so this covers cost but does not pay my labor. Large stocking rates are needed to make a living in farming but then you naturally drift into industrial tendencies. Yet, I have a food store. I harvest solar energy through animals and plants. I also have 3600 watt solar system with batteries. I have a heating system for space heat and water that uses wood which my local has plenty of. I sustainably manage my forests. I also have a garden, orchard, and grapes. Now all I need is more labor because I am at my limit. This is a hybrid effort but one that attempts to go local in a delocalized world.
I am hopeful that this viral attack on globalism will also be an attack on delocalization so to speak. I think it is important now to reflect on how brittle globalism is leaving locals massively exposed to healthcare issues and food issues. That said a whole scale retreat from globalism is not advisable unless you want an extremism of death and destruction from cascading failures of important nodes of systematic support. This is now the Anthropocene trap so complete deviation is not an option except if an extreme reset is desired. Some want this but they have not thought it through. They are emotional not rational. It is better to adapt and mitigate just like what will need to be done with climate issues.
My point here of course is with two levels of honest science. The first being honesty about the problem then honesty about the solutions. Traps don’t get fixed they get adapted to. Modern greens pride themselves on honest science with the problems but fail miserably with the solutions. A solution with local farming will be a recognition that permaculture is a less affluent pathway not in regards to natural systems but in regards to market based economics. A permaculture enthusiast will have to be poorer. Those seeking subsidies need to recognize the world post pandemic is poorer. That said governments can promote localism as they try to salvage their markets and safety-nets.
The biggest help would be getting out of the way of passionate people who seek this life. The way they would do this is stop unfair markets and taxation for people that are at the grass roots level supporting the greater good. Stop allowing big business that is hyper efficient because of economies of scale and specialization from out competing small communities and farms. Locals maybe now can be helped to be buffers for areas what are densely populated and require constant energy inputs at high levels. Small farms and communities can go intermittent with energy and more self-sufficient with food if promoted. This then becomes an abstract battery or storage strategy in relation to what renewables are seeking.
Instead of being so concerned with techno optimism like the rich modern green is the REAL Green needs to consider behavioral changes of decline in place with dignity that yields a spiritual counterbalance to decreased comforts. A hybrid of the modern and the poorer past is then combined to leverage best “things”, practices, and lifestyles of the modern and the old. To top the list is stay local. Make it easier for locals to stay in place. Reduce consumerism that naturally delocalizes by whatever means is best for that local. This must be done relatively in regards to the realistic. The Anthropocene has changed the human and natural ecosystem so much that a proper level will need some delocalization tendencies by necessity. This virus was an event but now a process of change can begin if we as a modern people summons the will.
Realgreenadaptation.blog
joe on Wed, 1st Apr 2020 8:09 am
EU flags being taken down in Italy.
“www.dailysabah.com/world/europe/reaction-grows-against-eu-in-italy-as-politicians-start-to-remove-blocs-flags/amp”
Abraham van Helsing on Wed, 1st Apr 2020 8:29 am
How stupid must you be to place a link between quotes and as such make it unclickable. joe is just another internet illiterate.
Are you 80+ joe and therefor mad at me when I say that idiots like you should not be put on a ventilator if that machine can be used for a younger, more promising individual than you?
But perhaps that is the purpose. Joe esquire has found a TURKISH source that exactly says what he wants to hear. Currently the Turks HATE the EU because finally it showed a spine against the Turks and their attempts to blackmail the EU into accepting yet another batch of swarthy Muslims.
Btw, Italy defecting prematurely to Russia and China is perfect. They are just paving the way, AWAY FROM ANGLOS like joe esquire.
Abraham van Helsing on Wed, 1st Apr 2020 8:30 am
“Fake News: Italians did not swap EU flags for the Chinese one”
https://english.atlatszo.hu/2020/03/27/fake-news-italians-did-not-swap-eu-flags-for-the-chinese-one/
Sorry joe. LOL
Abraham van Helsing on Wed, 1st Apr 2020 8:46 am
Why Brexit is such a gift from heaven, the jews HATE it. Like this Behr fella:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/apr/01/coronavirus-crisis-brexit-brexiteers
“The scale of the coronavirus crisis exposes how pointless the Brexit cause is”
This jew is much smarter than our joe esquire, who still loves to think that Britain has a permanent subscription to an important geopolitical mission in life. It hasn’t, other than perhaps the role as unsinkable aircraft carrier of the Behr’s of this world, directed against continental Europe, where French and Russian nuclear missiles will balance anglo-zionist missiles.
The British geopolitical role is over for good, after the US skillfully setup Britain for war between 1933-1939 and afterwards completely demolished the British empire. Of all the players in WW2, the British were the largest victims in geopolitical terms, where the Germans and Russians were the largest victims in human toll and US jews the big winners.
Behr knows that the bond between Anglosphere and continental Europe is broken, thanks to Brexit, and that the latter is a lost cause for the NWO project and that 1939-1945 was fought for nothing. Or as Behr’s c*ck-sucker Lord Heseltine has said:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/03/24/lord-heseltine-suggests-brexit-allowing-germany-win-world-war/
“Lord Heseltine suggests that Brexit allows Germany to win WW2”
Behr and Heseltine think alike and are on the same page.
Toodeledokie, Anglos, come and get us! LOL
Abraham van Helsing on Wed, 1st Apr 2020 8:57 am
America fighting a rearguard fight:
https://cleantechnica.com/2020/03/31/gm-ford-reveal-2026-marketing-plans-lots-of-suvs-not-so-many-evs/
“GM, Ford Reveal 2026 Marketing Plans — Lots Of SUVs, Not So Many EVs”
The US industry missing the boat.
JuanP on Wed, 1st Apr 2020 9:18 am
The USA is #1 again! It has more COVID-19 total cases, active cases, daily new infections, and daily deaths than any other country in the world. We’ve also managed to beat China in every single COVID-19 statistic. We have also 10 times the number of cases and six times the number of deaths per capita than China has. The USA had more than 1/3 of the total number of new cases reported in the world. Time proves me right again and the Exceptionalist wrong. There is only one country in the world that could do worse than the USA in the future, India. But at this moment the Trump Epidemic in the USA is the epicenter of the COVID-19 global pandemic.
Inquiring Minds Want to Know on Wed, 1st Apr 2020 9:54 am
Why does the DavyScum use a sock (REAL Green) to peddle his BS website?
I AM THE MOB on Wed, 1st Apr 2020 10:06 am
Time to cook the international jew filth. They are already profiteering of the dead and planning for your country/people next.
Davy on Wed, 1st Apr 2020 10:07 am
“We’ve also managed to beat China in every single COVID-19 statistic. We have also 10 times the number of cases and six times the number of deaths per capita than China has.”
That is because you believe what China tells you like a good sheeple.
juanPee is stupid on Wed, 1st Apr 2020 10:07 am
This is from stupid:
Inquiring Minds Want to Know on Wed, 1st Apr 2020 9:54 am
Why does the DavyScum use a sock (REAL Green) to peddle his BS website?
Davy on the record on Wed, 1st Apr 2020 10:09 am
JuanPee. I know you want to be me so bad you have gone full lunatic. FOR THE RECORD DAVY IS ALSO REAL GREEN. Mindless Lunatic, do you feel better now?
Davy on Wed, 1st Apr 2020 10:11 am
“GM, Ford Reveal 2026 Marketing Plans — Lots Of SUVs, Not So Many EVs” The US industry missing the boat.”
cloggo, what part of broke do you not understand? LMFAO. This is more so for Europe BTW.
Davy on Wed, 1st Apr 2020 10:16 am
this is for sheeple and juanPee is sheeple. Cloggo and makato-one for that matter:
“Tucker Carlson: The WHO Helped China Cover-Up COVID-19”
https://tinyurl.com/saz6de5 summit
“Tucker Carlson exposed during a powerful monologue last night how the World Health Organization helped China cover-up the severity of coronavirus and how the U.S. media turned a blind eye…“Everything you just heard him say there was a lie,” said Carlson, highlighting an Australian 60 Minutes piece which features an expert explaining how China knew human to human transmission of COVID-19 had happened back in December.
Indeed, as we previously highlighted, on January 14th, the WHO was amplifying Chinese fake news that no human to human transmission of coronavirus had occurred.
Preliminary investigations conducted by the Chinese authorities have found no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission of the novel #coronavirus (2019-nCoV) identified in #Wuhan, #China. pic.twitter.com/Fnl5P877VG
— World Health Organization (WHO) (@WHO) January 14, 2020
“So the World Health Organization’s leadership tells you that China ‘set the standard’ for the response to the outbreak, apparently that standard includes disappearing doctors who tell the truth about it,”
Davy on Wed, 1st Apr 2020 10:20 am
I respect Putin but he is still mortal:
“Putin Self-Isolates After Shaking Hands With Infected Doctor At Moscow Hospital”
https://tinyurl.com/rs2tvfq zero hedge
“On Tuesday it was revealed that Denis Protsenko, the head doctor at the infectious diseases hospital treating coronavirus patients in Moscow, tested positive for COVID-19. Just a week ago Dr. Protsenko was photographed shaking hands with President Vladimir Putin, during the Russian leader’s visit to the hospital, where he donned a full protective Hazmat suit to visit patients. But during most of his interaction with Protenko, Putin wasn’t wearing the protective gear. Putin’s office now reports he’ll conduct his duties remotely, in self-isolation after the exposure. “The president prefers these days to work remotely,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told the press just before Putin was due to hold a cabinet meeting by videoconference Wednesday.”
Abraham van Helsing on Wed, 1st Apr 2020 10:24 am
Hoppa, a potential corona vaccine that already exists:
https://erj.ersjournals.com/content/43/1/24
https://www.forbes.com/sites/ericmack/2020/03/31/a-vaccine-from-the-1920s-could-help-fight-the-coronavirus-pandemic/#6f06cfc81220
Comment Pegida white nationalist Tatjana Festerling (Google translate):
“++++ THAT is really interesting! ++++
It has been found that the Covid-19 disease courses in Eastern Europe are significantly milder. This could be related to the tuberculosis vaccination of infants from Eastern Bloc times, which is still mandatory in Bulgaria today.
The number of deaths attributed to COVID-19 per million population is also clear in the countries that have general TB vaccination (usually at birth) compared to the countries that have never adopted such a policy lower. Bacille Calmette-Guerin (BCG) is not vaccinated in Italy and the United States, the two countries most affected by the pandemic.
If these observations are confirmed – and a number of studies are currently underway in Australia and Europe – this could result in the longed-for time that research needs to find a medicinal response to the Wuhan coronavirus.
Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology have developed a newer variant of the old BCG vaccine (which has been in use since 1920), which will soon be used for the study in Germany. This substance “VPM1002” has been shown to protect the respiratory tract of mice against viral infections – hopefully also those of humans.
Another huge advantage is that “VPM1002″ can be manufactured very quickly using the most modern manufacturing methods.
It would really be a blast if a centuries-old tuberculosis vaccine can strengthen the human immune system so that it can fight the Wuhan coronavirus.”