Now the media wakes up.

Two kill and fabrication shifts had been canceled at JBS's beef plant in Greeley, Colorado, representatives of the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union Local 7 said in an e-mail. JBS Beef in Cactus, Texas, also said on Facebook it would not run on Tuesday -- updating an earlier post that had said the plant would run as normal.

https://money.usnews.com/investing/news/articles/2021-06-01/some-us-meat-plants-stop-operating-after-jbs-cyber-attack

Pilgrim’s affected by cyber attack on parent company

NACOGDOCHES, Texas (KTRE) - A cyber attack will affect operations at the Pilgrim’s plant in Nacogdoches, the chicken producer announced.

On its Facebook page, the company posted Monday night that a weekend cyber attack is impacting IT systems.

“First processing will now work on Tuesday, June 1, 2021 but start time will be 3 hours later than normal start time for first shift. Everyone else will work their normal schedule,” the post stated.

Pilgrim’s, the world’s largest chicken producer, said it would provide further updates to workers at its Nacogdoches facility via text message.

JBS, the majority shareholder of Pilgrim’s, announced Sunday that the attack was affecting some of its servers in North America and Australia.

There’s no indication data had been compromised or misused, CNN reported.

https://www.ktre.com/2021/06/01/pilgrims-targeted-in-cyber-attack-company-says/

China reports human case of H10N3 bird flu, a possible first

—remains to be seen how China reacts to this — if they slow poultry production, a real impact.

https://apnews.com/article/china-bird-flu-flu-health-b5862e1d9892b25fdb470abf30432289

I'll bet you 20 BTC there won't be a cyberattack on a lab-grown meat company.

If you believe the only way to "save the planet" is to kill off all cows, and eat lab-grown cell-cultured tumors -- you may be in a cult.

"The easiest, if not only, way to make our civilization sustainable is to eliminate livestock, the most dangerous technology on earth"

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Food Frontier founder and chief executive officer Thomas King said: "To be clear, we still frequently acknowledge that reducing reliance on systems of industrial animal agriculture will be essential to feed populations globally into the future."

It has joined plant-based "meat" companies in Australia including Sanitarium, Proform Foods, v2food, Rogue Foods and Nestlé Australia, along with the US's Impossible Foods on the Alternative Proteins Council.

Impossible Foods has come to attention after publishing a job advertisement looking to recruit a Australia/New Zealand general manager guided by the company ethos - "The easiest, if not only, way to make our civilization sustainable is to eliminate livestock, the most dangerous technology on earth".

https://www.farmonline.com.au/story/7278041/we-are-not-anti-meat-activists-alternative-protein-group-answers-critics/?src=rss

Frosts from Canada to Wisconsin into Indiana over the weekend further damaged crops. Yes, frosts going into June.

You could be forgiven for missing this with all the other news, but indeed, we are reeling in #GrandSolarMinimum:

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/canada/devastating-late-spring-frost-kills-large-swaths-of-fruit-crops/ar-AAKAmFX

Quebec, Canada here. We had frost for 3 days in a row last week. Normally mid May is last frost, tried to protect what we had planted on in the garden but mostly everything got wiped out.

Wow.

StoneX just dropped Brazil corn estimates below 90 mmt. ~25% drop from last year.

We knew Brazil's corn crop was late and not in good condition, but this is a huge drop.

Remember the safrinha tends to be exported, so this is 10mmt the rest of the world was expecting...

#corn #foodprices

JBS’s five biggest beef plants in the U.S. -- which altogether handle 22,500 cattle a day -- have halted processing following a weekend attack on the company’s computer networks, according to JBS posts on Facebook, labor unions and employees. Those outages alone have wiped out nearly a fifth of America’s production. Slaughter operations across Australia were also down, according to a trade group. One of Canada’s largest beef plants was idled for a second day.

Pork and chicken facilities across the nation including one in Minnesota were also closed by the owner of Pilgrim’s Pride Corp., the second-biggest U.S. chicken producer, according to union officials and employees. At least five of the six U.S. pork facilities were cutting back on operations Tuesday, according to Facebook posts from the plants.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-05-31/meat-is-latest-cyber-victim-as-hackers-hit-top-supplier-jbs

There is the mainstream admission - shortages ahead:

If the JBS hack isn’t solved soon it could cause very tight supplies for beef and pork and much higher costs for restaurants. It could also cause shortages of beef and pork like we saw at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Worst case scenario; restaurants could start to limit supply and we could see shortages if the producer is down for an extended period

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/jbs-cyber-attack-hits-cattle-futures-sparks-food-fears/ar-AAKBGxF

Within hours it is expected. How quickly the media advances.

Meat Shortages and Price Hikes Expected After World's Largest Supplier Is Hacked

https://news.yahoo.com/meat-shortages-price-hikes-expected-190114238.html

Blackrock's $334mil stake in JBS is noteworthy:

https://news.mongabay.com/2020/09/blackrocks-400m-stake-in-amazon-meatpackers-defies-sustainability-cred/

If you want to drink deeply from the language of the 4th industrial revolution, dive in! Starting with the 'global minimum tax':

WEF's "Jobs Reset Summit" is launching now -> https://www.weforum.org/events/the-jobs-reset-summit-2021

LATEST UPDATES on JBS -- MSM now predicting Meat shortages:
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JBS Shutdown: Biggest Attack on Food in History - Shortages Expected

JBS USA operations remain offline, as the media now reports "meat shortages" are in the future and that Russian hackers are responsible. Christian shares updates from employees, traders, and leaders within JBS to gain insight into what has become the most significant attack on our global food supply in history -- and what is absolutely the latest scripted, contrived crisis by the cabal to further their agenda for control.

#iafvideo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUvxuxUjtU4

WEF's "Invest in Forests" Exposed: Global Surveillance Grid

The World Economic Forum's "Investing in Forests" program sounds great - who doesn't want to plant more trees? But behind its philanthropic appeal lies a global surveillance grid, monitoring all activity on the planet -- just as prescribed by Agenda 2030 and their 4th Industrial Revolution. Christian shares an unreleased document and reveals the truth in this special Ice Age Farmer broadcast.

#iafvideo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDZqgK29TiM

“Even one day of disruption will significantly impact the beef market and wholesale beef prices," Steiner Consulting Group, which specializes in commodity prices, wrote in a note Tuesday.
Partially, that's because of the high demand for burgers and other beef products during Memorial Day Weekend.

"Retailers and beef processors are coming from a long weekend and need to catch up with orders and make sure to fill the meat case. If they suddenly get a call saying that product may not deliver tomorrow or this week, it will create very significant challenges," Steiner explained.
The attack could also "limit pork supply availability and push up pork prices in the near term," Steiner said. The group noted that "we think this is a major issue but much will depend on how long the disruption persists."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/jbs-cyberattack-what-the-hack-means-for-your-meat-supply/ar-AAKBP4B

This is good news if they are able to reopen:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/joewalsh/2021/06/01/jbs-expects-to-reopen-most-us-meat-plants-wednesday-after-cyberattack/

SkyTruth: as mentioned in the “WEF Invest in Forests” video above:

https://skytruth.org

Here is the original source document “Investing In Trees: The Business Case 2021” that was leaked to me from within WEF — it is slated to be released publicly within a week:

As I mentioned in the “exposed” report above, do note how it is more about MONITORING than trees:

https://iceagefarmer.com/docs/WEF_Investing_in_Forests_2021.pdf

https://www.romania-insider.com/smart-forest-romania-vodafone-2021

Now for the "solution" part of Problem/Reaction/Solution around #cyberpandemic:

The Cybersecurity 202: The Biden administration aims big on cybersecurity spending

The Biden administration wants to put its money where its mouth is when it comes to protecting government computer systems from hackers.

The White House is asking Congress to commit roughly $10 billion to civilian government cybersecurity next year – a jump of nearly 14 percent. Far more than that would go to funding military cyber operations, but the exact number isn’t clear because so much military cyber work is classified.

The super-sized requests reflect a punishing past six months for the nation's cybersecurity, including major hacks from Russia and China, which stole reams of classified government information. It also reflects the government’s scrambling efforts to respond to a wave of criminal hacks, including a ransomware attack against Colonial Pipeline that played havoc with gas supplies in the southeastern United States.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/06/01/cybersecurity-202-biden-administration-aims-big-cybersecurity-spending/

New research in Japan show compound in soybeans creates all female catfish

Researchers from Japan’s Kindai University’s Aquaculture Research Institute and based at the institute’s Shingu Station in Shingu, Wakayama Prefecture, used isoflavone — a compound found in soybeans similar in effect to female hormones — to create the all-female groups of catfish. The feat is a Japan first, according to the university. This development promises to increase the production efficiency of this and other species whose females are more valuable than males in aquaculture.
As female catfish grow faster than males, “by making them all female, production efficiency will rise,”

https://aquaasiapac.com/2021/05/29/new-research-in-japan-show-compound-in-soybeans-creates-all-female-catfish/

New Dutch animal law ENDS livestock -- and keeping pets! - by 2023:

'This new law, introduced by the Party for the Animals, provides that from 1 January 2023, animals may no longer experience pain or discomfort if they are kept in a stable, pen or cage. "

The law is not only about livestock - such as chickens, pigs and cows - but also about pets. "You can also think of the lonely rabbit in the hutch in the backyard or the bird in the cage," says Bas Rodenburg, professor of animal welfare at Utrecht University. According to the new law, animals must be able to display natural behaviour: pens, stables and cages must be adapted accordingly.

"A rabbit is now often alone in a pen, while they are actually very social animals," says Rodenburg. "That also applies to parakeets and other birds, which naturally have a lot of freedom of movement." It could also be the case that cats should always be given the opportunity to go outside.

Rodenburg questions the feasibility: "The question is whether the law can be enforced." Last April, Minister Schouten advised against the amendment of the law. Nevertheless, a majority in the House of Representatives agreed. The Senate also agreed last week: the senate dismissed it as a hammering piece.

Parties in parliament are now concerned. "Can we still walk dogs on a leash or should we give them the freedom to eat the neighbor's cat?" asks CDA MP Derk Boswijk. VVD, CDA, SGP and BBB also fear disastrous consequences for livestock farming in the Netherlands.

Minister Schouten says that her ministry is 'analyzing' what the adopted law will mean in practice. "The law is worded very openly," she says. "Within you have to look at what is and what is not possible." According to Schouten, for example, it is difficult to determine exactly what the natural behavior of animals is.

#WarOnMeat #WarOnDairy

https://www.ad.nl/nieuws/nieuwe-dierenwet-legt-bom-onder-veehouderij-en-houden-huisdieren~a55cc06e9/

Temperature extremes and poor growing seasons -- #GrandSolarMinimum

Atlantic City: coldest "summer" weekend on record, one week after record heat

One weekend after the hottest May weekend on record for many in southeastern New Jersey, the region shivered under record cold temperatures over the Memorial Day Holiday weekend. Away from the coast, it was the coldest during the unofficial summer season.

https://pressofatlanticcity.com/it-was-the-coldest-summer-weekend-on-record-one-week-after-record-heat/article_9008632e-c2ee-11eb-b92d-93f0525ba33a.html

DELHI, INDIA SUFFERS ITS COLDEST JUNE TEMPERATURE EVER RECORDED

India has been breaking low temperature records left, right and center this year; in fact, since August, 2020 the nation’s capital, Delhi has busted at least one major weather record each and every month.

#GrandSolarMinimum

https://electroverse.net/delhi-india-suffers-its-coldest-june-temperature-ever-recorded/

A rogue killer drone 'hunted down' a human target without being instructed to, UN report says

[IAF: Sounds great. Keep handing over the reigns to sensors IoT/IoB + automation/AI ... #ir4]

A "lethal" weaponized drone "hunted down a human target" without being told to, likely for the first time, according to a UN report seen by the New Scientist.
In the March 2020 incident, a Kargu-2 quadcopter autonomously attacked a person during a conflict between Libyan government forces and a breakaway military faction, led by the Libyan National Army's Khalifa Haftar, the Daily Star reported.
The Turkish-built Kargu-2, a deadly attack drone designed for asymmetric warfare and anti-terrorist operations, targeted one of Haftar's soldiers while he tried to retreat, according to the paper.
 
The drone, which can be directed to detonate on impact, was operating in a "'highly effective' autonomous mode that required no human controller," the New York Post reported.

"The lethal autonomous weapons systems were programmed to attack targets without requiring data connectivity between the operator and the munition: in effect, a true 'fire, forget and find' capability," the report from the UN Security Council's panel of experts on Libya said.

https://www.businessinsider.com/killer-drone-hunted-down-human-target-without-being-told-un-2021-5

A New Bird Flu Jumps to Humans. So Far, It’s Not a Problem.

Covid fuels the current virus pandemic, but the world is full of flu viruses waiting in the wings. And they keep changing unpredictably.

[IAF: The #zoonotic threat narrative continues — heads up here.

Remember all the predictive programming through headlines like “An outbreak from poultry farms will kill half the world’s population...”]

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/21/science/bird-flu-pandemic.amp.html

Reports that JBS/Pilgrims are already stalling on deliveries.

Hackers allegedly breach New York transit authority systems amid wave of cyberattacks, media point finger at China

The New York Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA), one of the largest public transportation networks in the US, said hackers infiltrated its computer systems, but noted that the attack was thwarted before any data was compromised.
The MTA confirmed the attack on Wednesday, saying the breach involved three of the agency's 18 computer systems and that it was alerted to the incident in April by the FBI and other federal agencies. In its report on the cyberattack earlier on Wednesday, the New York Times said the breach appeared to be carried out by a group of hackers “believed to be backed by the Chinese government,” citing cybersecurity firm FireEye. [IAF: always the same players]

#Cyberpandemic

https://www.rt.com/usa/525523-new-york-transit-system-hack/

Transhumanism + AI + communism dripped into the public awareness via Grimes/Elon Musk:

https://www.vulture.com/2021/06/grimes-tiktok-communism-ai-artificial-intelligence.html

Perfect blockade. Siege warfare. Supply chain collapse. As the food runs out.

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“People Are Panicking Now" - Container Ship Charter Rates "Have Gone Out Of Control"

“To put the enormity of the charter deal in perspective, the shipowner will earn back one-sixth of the ship’s value in a single voyage — and one-third of the vessel’s value if the charterer takes the option for the second voyage.”

The historic S Santiago transaction is yet another big red flag for cargo shippers. Charter rates like this only make sense if freight rates are high enough for the charterer to turn a profit.  
It also underscores just how tight vessel supply is.

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/container-ship-scores-off-the-charts-fantasy-charter-rate-135000-day

#supplyChain

The media narrative around "drought" is kicking into overdrive.

This is all about taking control of the water supply -- and shutting down agriculture.

#water

https://www.nytimes.com/article/drought-california-western-united-states.html

WEF has been waiting in the wings to push the privatization of all water supply -- this is why we saw "water futures" introduced just 6mo ago:

#water

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/03/the-future-of-water-should-not-start-with-water/

Here is the drought narrative coming up again -- now being tied to food prices. This is their big play -- blame global warming for droughts, engineer the food crisis.

Global Food Costs Surge to Decade High as Drought Parches Crops

(Bloomberg) -- Global food prices have extended their rally to the highest in almost a decade, heightening concerns over bulging grocery bills at a time when economies are struggling to overcome the Covid-19 crisis.

A United Nations gauge of world food costs climbed for a 12th straight month in May, its longest stretch in a decade. The relentless advance risks accelerating broader inflation, complicating central banks efforts to provide more stimulus.

Drought in South America has withered crops from corn and soybeans to coffee and sugar. Record purchases by China are worsening the supply crunch in grains and boosting costs for global livestock producers. Cooking oils have soared too on demand for biofuel. The surge in food costs has revived memories of 2008 and 2011, when spikes led to riots in more than 30 nations.

“We have very little room for any production shock. We have very little room for any unexpected surge in demand in any country,” Abdolreza Abbassian, senior economist at the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization, said by phone. “Any of those things could push prices up further than they are now, and then we could start getting worried.”

The prolonged gains across the staple commodities are trickling through to store shelves, with countries from Kenya to Mexico reporting higher costs for food items. The pain could be particularly pronounced in some of the poorest import-dependent nations, which have limited purchasing power and social safety nets, at a time when they are grappling with the ongoing pandemic.

#water #foodprices

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/global-food-prices-surge-highest-080152199.html

"People's basic household assets are being sold off to procure food. This is not sustainable and action needs to be taken immediately."

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/06/03/north-korea-facing-major-food-shortage-could-lead-death-millions/

Being herded into the smart cities.

As disasters worsen, California looks at curbing construction in risky areas

https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/as-disasters-worsen-california-looks-at-curbing-construction-in-risky-areas/

AI + blockchain + IoT for dogs.

Not just for your supply chain anymore - and indeed, it’s for you too.

https://iottechnews.com/news/2021/jun/04/how-pet-activity-tracking-inspired-an-enterprise-iot-mobile-app/

YOU WILL OWN NOTHING

California proposed paying(and OWNING!) 45% of home prices—at least for minorities.

This will help home prices explode, as worked SO WELL with student loans, college prices exploded until EVERYONE needed massive loans and financial assistance. Now we can do it with homes until the gov owns everyone’s house!

Oh and don’t forget, all “social benefits” are tied to incentives: did you get you vax yet? No? NO HOME FOR YOU.

https://calmatters.org/housing/2021/05/california-homeownership-black/

Telecoms giant collaborates on blockchain solution to enable future smart cities

Orange and Smartkey are unveiling what claims to be the first Blockchain-of-Thing Sim card, designed to enable access control and other smart city functions to be managed on a phone.

https://www.smartcitiesworld.net/news/news/telecoms-giant-collaborates-on-blockchain-solution-to-enable-future-smart-cities-6490

Rosa Koire is a hero of mine and will be missed.

Friends, We have just heard that Rosa Koire, an amazing researcher and speaker at the first Greater Reset passed away in the last couple days. We are saddened by this news and thankful we were able to work with her. Rest in Power. (The message with the pic is from researcher Charlotte Iserbyt)

I'm hearing from farmers, particularly in Iowa, who are very concerned as the drought worsens.

Note that Iowa is heart of corn production -- and a very low % of IA crop is irrigated.

And don't forget we just had a freeze 2 weeks ago that forced replanting of a decent amount of soybeans.

2021 is looking brutal.

$4bil for USDA to Build Back Better - including $1bil for expansion of SNAP/EBT (food stamps) — This is EXACTLY what was in Rockefeller’s “Reset the Table”:

https://fortune.com/2021/06/08/food-supply-chain-usda-investment-pandemic/

Cargill enters space of “helping companies replace fossil-fuel based supply chains” with new biotech, to move towards zero carbon future:

Cargill’s First-of-Its-Kind Facility in the US to Process Plant-Based Sugars, Provide Alternate to Chemicals from Fossil Sources

Qore has licensed Genomatica’s BDO process technology and is using Cargill’s global feedstock supply and fermentation manufacturing expertise to initially produce and distribute an expected 65,000 metric tons per year minimally of its first bio-intermediate, QIRA. HELM will work with brand owners, original equipment manufacturers and their suppliers to incorporate QIRA into their respective products.

As consumers demand more sustainable products, brands are looking for more environmentally-friendly solutions. “With consumers on the side of sustainability and renewably-sourced options for common apparel materials like nylon becoming available, the choice for brands should become easy,” predicts Christophe Schilling, Genomatica’s CEO.

Cargill’s supply chain and product commercialization experience in several bioindustrial markets, combined with HELM’s experience with chemical applications, will help meet this need, says Jill Zullo, VP of biointermediates/bio industrial at Cargill. The new facility will use about 30,000 bushels of corn per day, Zullo says.

#absoluteZero

https://www.environmentalleader.com/2021/06/cargills-first-of-its-kind-facility-in-the-us-to-process-plant-based-sugars-provide-alternate-to-chemicals-from-fossil-sources/

“You will own nothing, and you will be happy.”

Blackrock is buying every single family house they can find, paying 20-50% above asking price and outbidding normal home buyers.

https://twitter.com/aphilosophae/status/1402434266970140676?s=21

Brazilian chicken producers go on strike - world's largest poultry exporter held hostage:

Chicken producers in Mato Grosso state contracted to supply BRF Brasil Foods SA decided on Tuesday to stop fattening chicks next week for the world's largest poultry exporter unless it paid higher prices to cover rising production costs.

The association of chicken producers, meeting in Lucas do Rio Verde, is seeking a price hike of 10% to 12% in chicken sold to BRF, said Pablo Artifon, director of the trade group, in a phone interview.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-brazil-chicken-idUSKCN2DK2A3

Amazing to see that JBS claims to have paid $11m to get their systems back from “Russian hackers,” despite early releases from the company indicating the scope was limited and backup systems were unaffected...

https://www.reuters.com/technology/jbs-paid-11-mln-response-ransomware-attack-2021-06-09/

Every day you should be preparing to exist without the supply chain and power grid for a time.

Latest #SupplyChain attack threatening food supply / #foodprices :
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Italy’s Tomato Harvest Threatened by Can Shortages

Tomato sauce on your spaghetti may be harder to come by this year as a global shortage of steel sheets to make cans for food production risks leaving Italian tomatoes rotting in the fields.

“We cannot find cans. Big multinationals are defaulting on their contracts and the price of cans has increased by more than three times,” said Natasha Linhart, chief executive officer of Atlante, which supplies Italian fine-food retailers in several markets including the U.S., U.K., India, Japan and Canada.

Italy churns out about 5 million tons a of processed tomatoes a year, making it one of the world’s top producers. The delectable red fruits are harvested from July to September and need to be canned no more than 36 hours after picking. Any disruptions mean tomatoes will have to be thrown out.

“We don’t know how long this shortage will last, there is no end of the tunnel in sight,” Linhart said.

Demand for cans is being absorbed by China, which saw its economy recover sooner that the rest of the world. This means steel suppliers from India, like Tata Steel, but also from Italy, like Ilva, are not immediately able to deliver to their Italian customers, she said.

Italy is particularly affected because it does not use cartons as much. California for example, which is the only other market to process more tomatoes than Italy at about 10 million tons a year, has a bigger focus on concentrates like tomato paste, which need different packaging.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2021-06-09/supply-chains-latest-can-shortages-threaten-italian-tomatoes

I had a fantastic conversation with James Corbett on his #SolutionsWatch series.

Brought some fresh ideas on the solutions front (beyond growing food and the five principles of good soil husbandry! :) ). Some people just can't be reached with new data ("It's easier to fool a man than to convince him he's been convinced..."), so we have to go further:

- Using Radical Authenticity to actively shift the overton window towards sanity and liberty, and
- How the Asch conformity experiments show that each of us can make an impactful difference to everyone around us, and in turn, everyone everywhere.

When someone in the store sees you maskless, and proceeds to take off their mask -- that's it. Mass non-compliance starts with your non-compliance. And mass-awakenings begin with your conversations.

https://www.corbettreport.com/ice-age-farming-solutionswatch/

https://www.bitchute.com/video/WvxPJipi4E0y/

https://odysee.com/@corbettreport:0/solutionswatch-iceagefarming:a

The inflation is hitting #FoodPrices.

Campbell’s announces price hikes on their products:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/campbell-says-inflation-weighed-on-quarterly-profit-11623245692

Chipotle also raising #FoodPrices :

Inflation hitting hard

https://www.yahoo.com/now/chipotle-raising-prices-heres-know-145300503.html

Biden admin reverses order, takes control BACK over small water ways. This will accelerate the 30/30 plan and regulating agriculture out of existence.

Good thing drought is in ALL the headlines this past week to justify the narrative:

#water

https://brownfieldagnews.com/news/epa-department-of-the-army-to-revise-waters-of-the-u-s-definition/

NO JAB, NO PHONE:

Punjab, Pakistan is preparing to CUT cell service to those who refuse the killshot -- and perhaps deny them from parks, restaurants, malls (see last line):
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Punjab’s provincial government is turning to coercive measures to increase participation in its Covid-19 vaccination program, after unveiling plans to disable the SIM cards of people who decline to get jabbed.

The extreme decision was made during a meeting of high-ranking civil and military officials chaired by Punjab Health Minister Yasmin Rashid.

Rashid said that the policy would disable SIM cards belonging to those who fail to get vaccinated “beyond a certain time.”

“We are doing all we can to compel people to get vaccinated… The government cannot allow individuals, who do not want to get vaccinated, to risk lives of those who are already vaccinated,” the health minister told Pakistan’s Express Tribune. She said that the provincial government would devise a timeline for the policy’s implementation once it received formal approval from the National Command and Operation Center, which coordinates Pakistan’s national response to Covid-19.

Punjab’s Primary and Secondary Health Department announced the measure on Thursday in a tweet detailing the outcome of the meeting.

“Mobile SIMS of people not getting vaccinated may be blocked,” the department wrote.

Officials later signaled that the plan was moving forward.

“[A] final decision has been taken to block the mobile SIM cards of people not getting vaccinated,” Punjab Specialized Healthcare Department spokesman Syed Hammad Raza told Dawn, a Pakistani daily.

Citing a senior health department official, the paper said that the Punjab government will seek help from the Pakistan Telecommunications Authority (PTA) in order to implement the policy.

The measure is designed to counter “negative propaganda” about the jab and ensure that vaccination targets are met, Dawn reported, citing the official. The provincial government is aiming to vaccinate 40 million residents by November.

In addition to the SIM card restrictions, authorities might also ban unvaccinated people from going to parks, restaurants and malls, according to media reports.

https://www.rt.com/news/526262-punjab-pakistan-sim-card-vaccine/

Food shortages, fresh produce left to rot and prices to rise amid lorry driver ‘crisis’

Some goods are starting to vanish from shops because of a shortfall of as many as 65,000 HGV drivers

Gaps are starting to appear on supermarket shelves because of a “desperate shortage” of lorry drivers – a problem that will likely lead stores to raise food prices.

Piles of fresh produce are going to landfill and some goods are starting to vanish from shops because of a shortfall of as many as 65,000 heavy goods vehicle (HGV) drivers.

The “escalating crisis” stands to affect supplies of goods from fruit and vegetables to milk and cheese, the boss of a leading produce company has warned.

Brexit, which prompted thousands of EU lorry drivers to leave the UK, the introduction of IR35 tax changes in April, which has driven up costs, and a lack of driver training and tests during the pandemic has led to “a desperate shortage of lorry drivers”, said Tim O’Malley, managing director of Nationwide Produce.

“It’s an escalating crisis… deliveries are not going to supermarkets. Produce is prepared, packed, ready to go, and not being delivered.”

“Hundreds of loads of produce a day” are being “rolled” – their delivery to stores being delayed by a day or more, Mr O’Malley added.

This is shortening the produce’s shelf life or leaving food spoiled by the time it reaches its destination.

#SupplyChain #foodprices

https://inews.co.uk/news/hgv-driver-shortage-food-fresh-produce-rot-price-rises-crisis-brexit-1047059

To be clear: Punjab had recently announced they would stop paying salary to unvaccinated federal employees --but cutting the SIM cards is for EVERYONE:

https://www.thenationalnews.com/world/asia/punjab-province-in-pakistan-to-block-sim-cards-and-salaries-of-unvaccinated-people-1.1239324

I called this yesterday! Went shopping and noticed the way the goods on the shelves have been spread out as to appear fine. Most go about their shopping on autopilot but I notice a lot. Many, many products unavailable, some never coming back. Spoke to a store worker in Lidl and he confirmed a lot of my thoughts. All I can advise those who bother to pay attention is that if it's not produced or grown in the UK, get it now.

Exploding...

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$14 chicken wings and $40 lobster? Why food costs are forcing South Florida restaurants to hike menu prices

For Bobby Stern, owner of Wicked Wings in Plantation, chicken wings have lately been as tough to find as employees willing to work.

When his wing joint debuted in March 2020, a 40-pound case of fresh jumbo wings cost $58.88. Now his wholesaler charges triple: $190. Even deep-fryer oil jumped in price from $18.98 per jug to $49.98 over the same period. Customers are clucking about his pricier wings, now $13.99 for a 10-piece compared to $9.99 pre-pandemic.

“I keep saying food shortages and no workers are raising everything,” Stern says of his menu. “One lady last night complained about the price and said, ‘Oh, I didn’t notice any increases at Publix.’ Well, I have. I could have gone to a lesser-quality wing but our customers appreciate it.”

#FoodPrices

https://news.yahoo.com/14-chicken-wings-40-lobster-141600287.html

Getting reports all over of meat prices ABSOLUTELY EXPLODING -- asking for your data in comments:

Photo is from NW Mississippi, 74% increase in chicken prices in last 2 weeks.

edit: a commenter pointed out the UPC is different, so this is a different product. keeping this post for the replies.

#WarOnMeat #FoodPrices

According to a government-funded study, a computer model showed that global warming would cause more evaporation, and so we'll need to stop using water to irrigate crops for animal feed.

Source: World Economic Forum https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/03/us-faces-fresh-water-shortages-due-to-climate-change-research-says

You can't make this stuff up.

#water

The WATER WARS have begun: the state is simply turning off the water to farms & ranches, depriving them of water needed to grow food and raise animals. This will create food shortages by design, in order to then point at the massive problem and declare, "It's global warming! We NEED climate lockdowns! We MUST move to absolute zero carbon emissions! We HAVE to take away private ownership of cars! You HAVE to eat fake meat and move to post-animal economy!" The story is the same across the nation, and indeed the world. But who is behind these WATER WARS? Christian explores the WEF's "Global Water Initiative," an agenda to centralize and privatize control over the world's water supply, and how these engineered droughts are the lynchpin in the climate agenda and the takeover of food.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZ8NDupCAcM

#iafvideo #water

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZ8NDupCAcM

It’s time to cancel Pepsi, CocaCola and Nestle. Imagine how many gallons of water we’d save annually!

“No end in sight...”

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/container-rates-rocket-even-higher-and-theres-no-end-in-sight

Why We Are in a Shipping Crisis That's Sparking Shortages

#SupplyChain

https://www.businessinsider.com/shipping-crisis-causing-shortages-why-2021-6

The Fed is Wrong: inflation is sticky

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/fed-wrong-inflation-sticky

This is that dream of technocrats, to be able to arbitrarily assign value and influence economies and behaviors with the redefinition of "true cost accounting"

In a bid to get in front of the potential for greenwash to impede genuinely helpful behaviour change, the government in the UK also announced the establishment of a Green Technical Advisory Group (GTAG), which will oversee the delivery of a “Green Taxonomy” – a common framework setting the bar for investments that can be defined as environmentally sustainable.

https://inews.co.uk/inews-lifestyle/money/ethical-money/g7-leaders-on-climate-related-financial-disclosures-1046780/amp

Italy’s Tomato Harvest Threatened by Can Shortages

Even as shipping experts warn that delays and shortages are intensifying, Italy, one of the world's top tomato producers, warns that the harvest may rot in the fields due to a lack of cans. This is a perfect example of how our FOOD PRODUCTION is just as fragile and "Just-in-Time" as the rest of our supply chain, and is a harbinger of food shortages in the near due to these cascading failures. We must brace for these ongoing and worsening disruptions to our way of life: start growing food and spreading the world now.

#iafvideo

https://youtu.be/ugz0lOhGr0I

The best time to start a garden was years ago. The second best time is now.

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — You may have noticed a significant jump in prices at the grocery store.
More and more grocery shoppers are experiencing sticker shock every day. The price of food — especially meat, fruit and vegetables — is going up.

#FoodPrices

“Food’s going out of sight. It is. It really is. Prices are ridiculous,” said Donna Gallager

Seeing lots of reports of animal feed shortages. Openly blamed on shipping.

What are you seeing - how are prices/availability ?

https://www.agweb.com/news/business/technology/while-america-slept-china-stole-farm

Let’s just straight up give money to doctors who vaccinate the most patients. No conflict of interest there...

https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/payer-issues/centene-to-award-grants-to-providers-with-highest-vaccination-rates.html

Are people getting it yet?

Our food supply chain is under relentless attack, and the strain is now growing visible to retail consumers.

Start growing food!

Latest Tiktoks are showing magnets sticking to beef, chicken...

So - anyone sticking magnets to meat or people? Is this craziness? OPEN THREAD!

#OpenThread

Massive explosion at Illinois chemical plant prompts evacuation and potential ‘environmental nightmare’

This plant makes grease for many industrial applications including food.

https://news.yahoo.com/massive-explosion-illinois-chemical-plant-151923597.html

Top soil moisture is alarming, Iowa at 70% short, Minnesota 64%, and Illinois 34% short.

I *really* don’t like the narrative being constructed here:

1) cut off the water to farmers,
2) call them right-wing white supremacist domestic terrorists
3) wait for fireworks and then clamp down.

The media running headlines, “QAnon supporters are about to get violent because they can no longer ‘trust the plan.’”

They really want to set off this powder keg.

https://www.rt.com/russia/official-word/526594-oregon-water-protests-farmers/

Yuri Bezmenov was right all along. When they talk about "domestic terrorists" they're not talking about antifa and BLM communist terrorists, who burned cities down, killed lots of people, and destroyed billions of dollars in property damage. They're not talking about the Jihadist invader mass shooters they themselves imported into the country against the people's will. They're talking about you if you're white. Make no mistake, what you are seeing here is in fact a full-on communist takeover, and the beginning phases of a genocide against white American patriots. The destabilization phase of communist takeover is about to ramp up bigtime. Prepare for what is coming, America, Republican "leaders" are not going to help you, they'll let you be thrown into gulags because it makes them "not racist".

Another cyberattack on shipping :

#cyberpandemic

Yet another ocean carrier has fallen foul to a cyber-attack: this time it is South Korea’s HMM, which today confirmed a virus attack on its email system on 12 June.

“An unidentified security breach was detected, which led to limited access to the email Outlook system in certain areas,” said HMM.

https://gcaptain.com/hmm-confirms-cyber-attack-on-email-system/

Fresh Covid-19 outbreaks in Asia disrupt global shipping, chip supply chain

“An outbreak at one of the world’s busiest ports in southern China has led to global shipping delays, while infections at key points in the semiconductor supply chain in Taiwan and Malaysia are worsening a global chip shortage that has hindered production in the auto and technology industries.

The new headaches add to inflation concerns, after China and the U.S. this week recorded their biggest annual jumps in factory-gate prices and consumer prices, respectively, in more than a decade. If such problems continue—and get worse—they could weigh on global growth.”

#supplyChain

https://www.hellenicshippingnews.com/fresh-covid-19-outbreaks-in-asia-disrupt-global-shipping-chip-supply-chain/

“They look like lakes where there was cotton and soybeans. And there are even cornfields that are totally underwater,” he said.

The Mississippi Department of Agriculture said farmers are experiencing a total loss for some crops after the flooding conditions swept farmlands. This loss will affect the economy but hopefully not Mississippi’s food production.

#GrandSolarMinimum

https://strangesounds.org/2021/06/north-mississippi-flooding-farmers-total-crop-loss-video.html

A 1969 Rockefeller Foundation report lobbied for “synthetic meats” and “food from factories.”

It also called for a group to have “central responsibility” for the transformation of the world food supply - the EAT commission is playing that role (self described “Davos for food”).

For MUCH more, watch:

Frederic Leroy, Ph.D: Hostile Takeover of Food Production - Ice Age Farmer Broadcast

https://youtu.be/mVj5-95dkHY

North Korea: “Agriculture has failed...”

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North Korea’s agricultural sector had “failed” and that the “people’s food situation is now getting tense,” the latest in a series of similar warnings that the nation is on the brink of famine.

https://www.breitbart.com/asia/2021/06/16/kim-jong-un-north-korea-running-out-of-food-because-grain-production-failed/

"Where’s the beef?" Blame brexit...

Beef imports from the EU to the UK will be cut from 230,000 tonnes this year to 35,000 tonnes in 2022.

Trade Secretary Liz Truss warned Brussels must realise the benefits of trade they have enjoyed with the UK up until Brexit. Following the signing of a new free trade deal with Australia, Ms Truss said Britain are giving "Australia the same access the EU have to our market". She stressed how "we import far more beef from the EU than we do from Australia" but said the UK are working to rectify that in "15 years time". But she warned how beef imports from the European Union will be slashed by from "230,000 tonnes" this year to "35,000 tonnes" next year as the Australia trade deal comes into force.

https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1450512/Brexit-news-eu-beef-exports-uk-post-brexit-australia-free-trade-deal-liz-truss-politics-vn

California Rolls Out Scannable Vaccine Card Wristbands

Accessory called the 'ImmunaBand' embeds medical history with scannable QR code.

https://www.newswars.com/california-rolls-out-scannable-vaccine-card-wristbands/

Australian mice plague prompting farmers to burn their crops.

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‘You can’t get rid of the smell because they die in the walls’

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/interactive/2021/australia-mouse-plague-mice/

Blackrock isn't just buying up all housing to rent it back to you ("You will own nothing...") -- they also are using their gargantuan financial clout to enforce the zero carbon agenda:

#AbsoluteZero

$7 trillion asset manager BlackRock makes climate change central to its investment strategy for 2021

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/12/16/blackrock-makes-climate-change-central-to-investment-strategy-for-2021.html

New Zealand is shutting down farms in the name of "protecting 'sites of social relevance'."

To whom is a faiing farm socially relevant? Is it more important than eating? Who are these maniacs?

#Biodiversity

https://twitter.com/Katwoman6620/status/1404370572226748418

Similar reports from Scotland: farms being shut down in order to "rewild" them and plant trees.

Ironically this farmer is worried it will end up INCREASING carbon footprint, to then have to import all food:

Mr Connon said: “I am receiving fresh calls every week from despairing farmers and crofters across Scotland telling me of another farm or estate destined for tree planting.

“The more of Scotland’s limited productive land that shifts from farming to forestry, the more we are likely to simply offshore our emissions or even increase our carbon footprint.”

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Leading Scottish farmer sounds warning over planting trees on productive farmland

#Biodiversity

https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/farming/3141586/leading-scottish-farmer-sounds-warning-over-planting-trees-on-productive-farmland/

Problem, reaction, solution...

...more regulation!

#WarOnMeat
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CHICAGO, June 17 (Reuters) - U.S. lawmakers are seeking increased oversight of the beef sector as concerns about anticompetitive behavior increase after the pandemic and a cyberattack on a major meat company, JBS USA.

Agriculture officials are meanwhile pushing for more processing capacity and ranchers are opening new slaughterhouses after plant shutdowns highlighted the industry’s reliance on large facilities run by four main processors.

https://www.agriculture.com/markets/newswire/explainer-how-four-big-companies-control-the-us-beef-industry

Milk made from pineapple and cabbage — something no human would have ever dreamed of pouring into their breakfast cereal. The product, called NotMilk, uses more than a dozen ingredients, including chicory root fiber, coconut oil and pea protein, to make what the packaging calls a “plant-based milk alternative.” Featured on the carton: a drawing of a cow crossed out in black — erased.

Sold at Whole Foods in the United States, NotMilk will reach nearly 3,000 U.S. grocery stores this year, in addition to being available in Chile, Argentina, Colombia and Brazil. Investors include Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, which owns Whole Foods. (Bezos owns The Washington Post.) NotCo also makes plant-based mayonnaise, ice cream and burgers using the same base technology.

(YES you read that right -- Bezos funds the Not Company -- AND sells their products at WholeFoods)

#WarOnDairy

https://www.washingtonpost.com/food/2021/06/16/notmilk-non-dairy-drink/

India: Peta behind campaign to take control of Indian dairy industry, says Amul MD RS Sodhi

Amul MD RS Sodhi has hit out at Peta India over its letter saying that the cooperative organisation should venture into production of plant-based milk. The controversy began when Peta India and some others moved the ASCI against Amul's ad that claimed that only cattle milk is real milk. After ASCI settled the matter in favour of Amul, Peta India shot off a letter to Amul, saying that plant-based milk like soya milk and almond milk is gaining in popularity world-wide, and that Amul should join the business rather than campaign against it. Reacting to the letter Amul MD says that plant-based milk is based on vegetable oil in which chemicals are added as stabilisers and emuslifiers. The vitamins in these products are also added in form of chemicals, said RS Sodhi.

#WarOnDairy

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/videos/in-depth/peta-behind-campaign-to-take-control-of-indian-dairy-industry-says-amul-md-rs-sodhi/videoshow/83233229.cms

I'm reading it now, and it's scary to see our Western governments seemingly heading that way.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/06/15/biden-administration-asks-americans-to-report-potentially-radicalized-friends-and-family/

This is Amateur Hour next to Blackrock! But same principle:

YOU VILL OWN NOTHING!

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'Very frightening' plan by developer to buy $1B in homes will price renters out: anti-poverty group

An anti-poverty group is calling a Toronto-based developer's plan to buy $1 billion worth of single-family homes and turn them into rental properties a "frightening" example of how even more people will be priced out of an increasingly expensive housing market.

The plan, reported by the Globe and Mail on Monday, would see Core Development Group build a single-family home rental business by buying housing stock in medium-sized cities across Ontario, including London, Kingston, Hamilton, Barrie, Cambridge, Peterborough, Guelph and St. Catharines.

The developer wants to expand its footprint outside the province by 2026, to eventually build a fleet of 4,000 rental units in Ontario, B.C., Quebec and Atlantic Canada.

Critics say the move couldn't come at a worse time. Rents and housing prices are soaring across Canada, creating a shortage of single-family homes and making housing ever less affordable.

"I find it very frightening. It makes it even harder to find a decent place to rent, which at this point is darn-near impossible," said Samantha Lawrence, a member of the London, Ont., chapter of ACORN, a community organization of low- and moderate-income people.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/toronto-developer-buying-homes-anti-poverty-group-1.6066903

"What is the most important thing in life?"

Watch this man's answer. What's yours?

(full video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAGjuRwx_Y8 )

Portugal: GOVERNMENT TO SUSPEND NEW WATER HOLES IN ALENTEJO AND ALGARVE AMIDST DROUGHT

Suspend new water boreholes in the south of the country and intensify the promotion of reducing urban and agricultural water consumption. These are measures that the Government announced today, Wednesday the 20th, to combat the drought situation that the country is facing, with the most problematic regions being the Alentejo and the Algarve.

"Objectively drought is a structural problem" in Portugal said Pedro Matos Fernandes, Minister of Environment and Energy Transition, at the end of a Interministerial Drought Commission meeting. "It seems clear to all who attended the meeting that in consensus and in dialogue with all sectors we really have to change the consumption profile in Portugal," added Mr. Fernandes.

And to make this change in water consumption habits, the Government say they have "three main targets": "the municipalities, agriculture, and tourism."

#water #drought #portugal

Duckponics / Quackaponics:

Duck Aquaponics is sometimes referred to as Quackaponics. In this method, instead of using fish in an aquaponics system, you will raise ducks in a pond where the pond collects the animal droppings. From there, the water, now with nutrients from the droppings, will be pumped out and filtered. This will then be used to nourish the plants in your grow beds. These grow beds with drainage are connected back to the pond. It also serves as a filtration system so that your ducks can have cleaner water once again.

But using ducks for farming is not a totally new approach. In fact, in the 6th century, Chinese agriculture already used ducks aside from fish in their early aquaponics system.

#aquaponics

https://farmingaquaponics.com/duck-aquaponics/

NYTimes appears on cue to blame "Global Warming" for the drought and water wars:

toilet paper of record. #Propaganda

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A heat dome is baking Arizona and Nevada, where temperatures have soared past 115 degrees this week and doctors are warning that people can get third-degree burns from the sizzling asphalt.

At Lake Mead, which supplies water for 25 million people in three southwestern states and Mexico, water levels have plunged to their lowest point since the reservoir was filled in the 1930s. In California, farmers are abandoning their thirstiest crops to save others, and communities are debating whether to ration tap water.

In Texas, electricity grids are under strain as residents crank their air-conditioners, with utilities begging customers to turn off appliances to help avert blackouts. In Arizona, Montana and Utah, wildfires are blazing.

And it’s not even summer yet.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/17/climate/wildfires-drought-climate-change-west-coast.html

For the record, my magnets stick to exactly ZERO meat in the normie store.

BUT I was willing to try... ;-)

Drought impacts on crops intensifying:

https://www.profarmer.com/news/agriculture-news/drought-worsens-across-iowa-rains-do-little-good-dakotas

“An AgTech company most people have never heard of could prove itself more disruptive than Netflix or Airbnb”

The company, Indigo, uses “natural microbiology and tech to improve sustainability, profits for growers, and, of course, consumer health” with the help from “a digital platform that allows growers and buyers to electronically connect with each other.”

It has launched ventures that sprawl across the supply chain and the globe. As of right now, it manufactures seed treatments, incubates dozens of precision ag technologies, brokers billions of dollars of commodities, and is investing in storage, logistics, and more. The idea is now not just to sell a profitable alternative within the existing system, but to disrupt agriculture as we know it.

https://thecounter.org/indigo-agriculture-disruptive-startup/

Whoa - who fast-forwarded the narrative to the point where UFOs are a cited national security threat?

UFOs and white people. That’s what your government apparently fears...

Let’s just get it all on at the same time: false flag alien invasion, civil war, cyberpandemic/grid down, food shortages, ...
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U.S. lawmakers said Wednesday during a Capitol Hill committee hearing that UFOs could possibly pose a threat to national security as millions of Americans await the release of a highly anticipated Pentagon report on the unexplained aerial phenomenon. 

https://www.fox26houston.com/news/us-lawmakers-worried-ufos-could-pose-threat-to-national-security.amp

Bloomberg declares: You vill own nothing...

"Births on the Blockchain" -- because who wouldn't want a permanent, distributed, virtual/digital/twin record of your child's entrance into physical reality ?

Bottom line: Blockchain isn't just for digital currencies or supply chain / forest monitoring. Not just "each coffee bean at harvest" -- it's each HUMAN, at birth. It's perfect tracking, a virtual mirror of physical reality. It's the beast system.

After all, we need to start monitoring social/behavioral tendancies FROM BIRTH ... far, far beyond a "social credit score."

Run from all digital records. Protect your data -- and your child's data -- even at great cost.

https://blockchan.ge/blockchange-birth-registration.pdf

https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Its-Too-Late-To-Avoid-A-Major-Oil-Supply-Crisis.html

If they are shutting off our water -- we must expand use drought-tolerant methods. Gary Nabhan has some great info on drought tolerant design (even if he blames global weirding)...

OPEN THREAD: Any recommendations you have?

https://amzn.to/3zCkk0t

#OpenThread #Garden

Walmart's World Refill Day: you bring your containers, they refill with cereals, rice, pasta, tea, coffee, toiletry and laundry product.

Major changes coming to #retail . . .

https://one.walmart.com/content/asda-wm1/en_us/public/stories/we-re-marking-world-refill-day-by-extending-our-refillable-trial.html

Isn’t anyone concerned that you could bring a coronavirus laced container into Walmart? Don’t they know there’s a plandemic?! /sarcasm off

1,000,000 chickens euthanized due to labor strike in Quebec:

“The Saint-Hyacinthe farmer saw 62,000 of his chickens euthanized because of the workers’ strike paralyzing the Exceldor slaughterhouse in Saint-Anselme. On Wednesday, Premier François Legault urged union members to agree to mediation to settle the dispute and stop the “indecent” waste of food.

Bazinet said he suffered a “shock” when he saw his chickens dead on the floor after a team passed through to euthanize them. Since May 23, when the workers’ dispute started, one million chickens have been asphyxiated with carbon dioxide in Quebec.

https://www.thepeterboroughexaminer.com/ts/news/canada/2021/06/17/farmers-in-shock-over-euthanized-chickens.html

Hail? Just a flesh wound!

Parts of Indiana getting pounded today:

#gsmHail

Wisconsin: half of state is in moderate to extreme drought now:

“At the moderate drought stage, hay prices historically begin to rise, and horse sales begin to increase. Severe drought impacts include the loss of crops and pastures, as well as water restrictions and shortages. Extreme droughts have led to widespread watering bans in the past, as well as long-term crop and pasture damage, as well as fish kills being reported in shallower bodies of water.

#water

https://agroinsurance.com/en/usa-over-half-of-wisconsin-is-in-moderate-to-extreme-drought-conditions/

Iowa: corn damaged by the drought, now hailstorm:

US yield optimism fading

https://twitter.com/grantaschinger/status/1405510956889919500?s=21

UN warning its Lebanese employees to have 2 weeks food on hand. No warning (or assistance!) was issued to general public:

https://english.aawsat.com/home/article/3033901/un-advises-its-personnel-lebanon-stockpile-food

Minnesota: All 87 counties of Minnesota are suffering from drought stress, according to the June 8 drought monitor map.

Severe drought was noted in seven counties, covering about 2% of the state. At 44%, moderate drought covers most of the southern half of the state. That’s up from about 13% the week prior. About 54% of the state is abnormally dry, including much of the northeast part of the state.

https://agroinsurance.com/en/usa-all-of-minnesota-is-abnormally-dry-or-worse/

Portugal:

100% crop loss due to hail

The mayor of Lamego has said that “there are 100% crop losses” in the county, with damage of “enormous severity”, which is being evaluated, due to this weekend’s hailstorm.
“Parishes in the vineyard and orchard areas, such as Cambres, Sande and the town of Lamego, Várzea de Abrunhais, Britiande and Valdigem, mainly on Sunday, suffered extremely serious damage, with several situations of 100% crop damage,” the mayor of Lamego, Angelo Moura, told Lusa news agency on Monday.
“There were situations of damage to infrastructures”, but what “is of greater concern and where the damage is greater are the vineyards and orchards of various fruits”, stressed the mayor.

#gsmHail

https://agroinsurance.com/en/portugal-100-pct-crop-losses-in-lamego-region-due-to-weekend-hailstorms/

UK: Food shortages now ‘inevitable’ due to labour crisis, industry warns

[ IAF: grow your own food folks! ]
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Worsening supermarket food shortages are now “inevitable” in the coming weeks as labour shortages across the food supply chain approach crunch point, the sector has warned.

Chronic driver shortages have been compounded by shortfalls across other low-paid sectors including harvesting, manufacturing and packaging, and the supply chain is creaking under the pressure.

Trade bodies, logistics firms and suppliers all warn that the continued reopening of the economy combined with the start of the summer holidays will see a tipping point in supermarkets’ ability to keep shelves fully stocked.

#uk

https://www.thegrocer.co.uk/supermarkets/food-shortages-now-inevitable-due-to-labour-crisis-industry-warns/657227.article

Brilliant - another excuse for power grid failures: CA reservoirs so low, will need to shut down hydroelectric dams.

Moscow hospitals to deny routine treatment to patients who refuse Covid-19 vaccines, as Kremlin warns skepticism is costing lives

People waiting for planned operations and other non-urgent medical treatment in Moscow will be denied care in the Russian capital’s hospitals if they have not been vaccinated against Covid-19, but are eligible to receive a jab.

The rule change, designed to protect patients, came from the city's Department of Health on Friday. Under the new measures, only those with certificates proving they have been immunized will be admitted onto wards for most types of treatment and procedures.

Emergency care, along with anti-cancer therapy and support for those with blood diseases, “will be provided, without exception, to every resident of the city, regardless of their vaccination status,” the city administration confirmed.

“A person who is in a hospital because of an injury or illness, by definition, has a weakened immune system. For such patients, coronavirus disease is especially dangerous,” officials said in a statement. “Every day, patients are transferred from Moscow clinics to Covid hospitals. If a week ago there were 130 such cases per day, then yesterday it was already almost 200.”

https://www.rt.com/russia/526966-routine-treatment-refusal-non-vaccinated/

OPEN THREAD: Have you tested your soil? How did it help inform your amendment / crop selection?

If you've not -- it is recommended! Otherwise it's a black box . . .

https://loganlabs.com/get-started.html

#OpenThread

Cashless society going live : in food #retail :

Tesco announces check-out free stores:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9703389/Tesco-no-tills-Supermarket-giant-launch-checkout-free-store.html

WEF celebrates as birth rates drop. "The depopulation agenda is working !"

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/06/birthrates-declining-global-fertility-decline-empty-planet-covid-19-urbanization-migration-population/

Lebanese army removes meat from soldiers’ diets due to exploding food prices:

There is much more to this article but that sticks out to me. An army fights on its stomach...

“The army said last year it had scrapped meat from the meals it offers to on-duty soldiers over rising food prices.”

https://www.thenationalnews.com/mena/lebanon/lebanon-s-army-chief-warns-of-inevitable-collapse-without-urgent-aid-1.1243562

Whoa - Climate realists tying the knot! Give Tony Heller and Kirye a congrats if you are on the twatter...

https://twitter.com/tony__heller/status/1406313356571471876?s=21

UK: Food Shortages ‘Inevitable' & Beef Imports cut 85% under Brexit

Industry experts are warning that food shortages are "inevitable" in the UK as crops rot without reaching retail. Imports of beef from the EU are to be cut 85% under Brexit, leaving Brits asking "Where's the beef?" and seeing absurdly high prices. What's more -- the mainstream media is acknowledging the food shortages ahead, which means we are truly entering the "Problem/Reaction" stage of the dialectic intended to herd people into accepting the "Solution" of the fake food from the technocrats. The UK may be ahead of the curve here, but this is going global -- watch this video to find out why.

#iafvideo

https://youtu.be/6a9wFLxA-E8

Upon which supply chain do you wish to bet your life?

Start growing food and raising animals now.

https://t.me/iceagefarmer

https://www.iceagefarmer.com/2020/04/16/gabe-brown-on-regenerative-solutions-to-modern-problems-ice-age-farmer-podcast/

https://www.iceagefarmer.com/2019/07/17/soil-building-how-to-grow-abundant-cheap-food-effortlessly-with-matt-powers/

Pine needle tea actually quite delicious.

LET'S GO DOOR TO DAMNED DOOR and give killshots to EVERY FARMER.

- Nevermind that they DON'T WORK.
- Nevermind the "risk" of clotting, or spongiform encephalopathy / prion diseases, to say the absolute LEAST about the issues with turning your body into a spike factory

Let's MAKE ABSOLUTELY SURE we eliminate the food supply.
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Farm to arm: Atrium Health delivering COVID-19 vaccines straight to rural workers

Atrium Health has started a new program that brings COVID-19 vaccines directly to farms across the region. [IAF: I'm sure their consent is properly informed: "safe & effective"]

Dr. Dawn Caviness, a family medicine physician with Atrium Health – Cabarrus, understands how a farmer thinks.

Caviness knows working on a farm is all-consuming and said studies show many farmers don't prioritize consistent health care. That same trend shows in vaccination rates in rural areas of North Carolina.

“Also with the farm workers, often these are non-English-speaking workers on a government contract, they do not drive, they live on the edge of the farm,” Caviness said.

So far, Atrium Health has brought the shots directly to 10 different farms in the region, working through some hesitancy and breaking down the barriers keeping many from getting vaccinated.

https://www.wcnc.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/vaccine/north-carolina-rural-counties-covid-vaccination-rates-lower/275-c2f24a70-4c03-4531-98e9-22a2e2783572

- @iceagefarmer

Maersk: ‘Unceasing congestion becoming a global problem’

Delays of one or two days are becoming the norm at many ports as terminals become a bottleneck, according to Maersk.
Gary Howard | Jun 17, 2021

The container line’s analysis of disruption in the market came as it announced its strategy to cope with ongoing delays at the world’s third-busiest terminal, Yantian. Maersk and its partners will omit Yantian for 84 vessels across multiple services affecting 19 of Maersk’s mainland services, while some of its vessels will continue to call Yantian.

#SupplyChain

https://www.seatrade-maritime.com/containers/maersk-unceasing-congestion-becoming-global-problem

Bear in mind, Maersk is one of the partners of World Economic Forum

Think tank warns that inflation could soon hit 4% and the sudden spike will cost the average family £700

https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/markets/article-9703755/Sudden-spike-inflation-set-cost-average-family-700.html

The UK is pushing forward on a program for "novel vaccinations" for world's livestock, based on the zoonotic LIE -- with funding from the Gates Foundation:

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G7 Leaders To Agree Landmark Global Health Declaration: 12 June 2021

UK will establish a new centre to develop vaccines to prevent zoonotic diseases spreading from animals to humans

75% of new human diseases originate in animals and these diseases are emerging at an increasing rate. Controlling zoonotic diseases is a key element of the PM's 5 Point Plan for preventing future pandemics set out at the UN last year - the first plan articulated by a G7 leader on pandemic preparedness. To stop new animal-borne diseases before they put people at risk, the UK will establish a UK Animal Vaccine Manufacturing and Innovation Centre at The Pirbright Institute in Surrey.

The UK has contributed £10 million of funding for centre, which will establish the UK as world leader in the rapidly growing field of novel livestock vaccine development capability. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will provide £14.5m to establish the centre, building on its current investments in vaccines for livestock and zoonotic diseases at The Pirbright Institute.

This follows the Prime Minister's announcement last month that the UK had launched plans for a global 'pandemic radar' to identify emerging COVID-19 variants and track new diseases around the world. Today he will ask for G7 support for the Global Pandemic Radar, which will protect domestic vaccine programmes against new vaccine-resistant variants by identifying them early and before they are able to spread.

http://www.publicnow.com/view/8DF050BD4257D6A54B5F8F68928D31CCCC0E3128

Join @iceagefarmer for more.

Longest days of the year! How are you using the extra daylight ? 🙂

WHOA -- Dutch Parliament member Caroline van de Plas spoke in parlement where she raised the alarm bells regarding the food shortages as a result of the climate tyranny that is shutting down farms on a massive scale in The Netherlands and the rest of the world.

She cites an 11 week food stock world wide.

Youtube's auto-translate is less than perfect here, so I have a contact working on a "real translation" and will share this as it is available.

Join @iceagefarmer for more.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHh351QaG3A

China is working overtime to keep the world unaware of their internal struggles. Grains analysts who speak out are DISAPPEARING.

I am working on a report now, but frankly am struggling to capture the full extent of this situation -- with the water being shut off in the US, and China's crops failing, on the heels of Brazil's struggles with safrinha -- this is it. The world is steaming full ahead into an unforgiving wall of famine.

This will lead to the "climate lockdowns." This justifies the "climate tracing" eyes in the sky. You will eat the bugs. It is all so clear now -- and imminent.

Warn those you love. And brace.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2021-06-17/missing-china-grains-analyst/100219524

Join @iceagefarmer for more.

"Fake meat is SO hot right now!" Celebrities rush to get in on the craze -- JayZ (who also funded Impossible Foods and Oatly) makes it rain on "Simulate", the maker of NUGGS:

https://agfundernews.com/jay-z-fund-backs-nuggs-maker-simulate.html

DESTROY the hydroelectric dams! We don't need the power generation! Nevermind that you'll be required to have an electric car by 2030. Nevermind we're closing coal. SHUT IT ALL DOWN. (Because fish and stuff.)

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Plan to raze 4 dams on California-Oregon line clears hurdle

A proposal to bring down four hydroelectric dams near the California-Oregon border cleared a major regulatory hurdle Thursday, setting the stage for the largest dam demolition project in U.S. history to save imperiled migratory salmon.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission action comes after the demolition proposal almost fell apart last summer, but then a new agreement and additional funding revived it. Thursday’s ruling will allow the utility that runs the dams, PacifiCorp, to transfer its hydroelectric license jointly to the nonprofit Klamath River Renewal Corporation, Oregon and California.

https://apnews.com/article/california-oregon-dams-science-business-4062e8304fbc622b2771eccca97a5756

Canola killing frost, East Central Sask, Summer Solstice 6/21/2021

Stack food to the rafters.

#GrandSolarMinimum

https://twitter.com/hamiltondw2/status/1406941820035256323

Municipal water supplies down to 1-2 weeks in parts of Oregon:

Oregon is experiencing a shortage of chlorine, the chemical used in small amounts by water treatment facilities to prevent harmful bacteria growth in drinking water supply. State officials say they have a plan to help water districts across Oregon get the chlorine they need if their stockpiles run low and there’s no threat to the water the public depends on.

But city leaders in Lake Oswego and Tigard have asked residents to reduce their water use during the shortage.

The shortage occurred after a power outage earlier this month at the Westlake chemical facility in Longview, Washington, the main provider of chlorine for Oregon.

Matt Marhine, the deputy director at the Oregon Department of Emergency Management, says the shortage is not unique to Oregon.

“[This] is a situation that is occurring nationally as we see shortages and challenges with chlorine distribution and production throughout the country,” he said.

Here in the West, the distribution and production of the chlorine used in water and treatment and wastewater treatment is mostly facilitated out of Westlake. The facility had a power disruption due to a power connection failure, which is in the process of being repaired today.

“We expect to see that that facility has power before the end of the month and production is able to resume and deliveries get back on track,” Marheine said.

Oregon Emergency Management is working with 33 state agencies to keep the public informed of the water status. However, Marheine wanted to make one thing clear:

“The drinking water in the state of Oregon is clean and safe to use and drink,” he said.

The concern is how long the current chlorine supply will last. Most Oregon water districts have around a month’s supply of chlorine, according to Andre Ourso, administrator for the Oregon Health Authorities’ Center for Health Protection.

But some water districts are not in such good standing. The district that supplies water to Junction City has only a seven-day supply of chlorine.

“We can look into transferring some supply if it’s possible to those systems that are in need,” Ourso said.

Other cities with lower supply include Corvallis, with an 18-day supply, Estacada with 16 days, Florence with 16 days, Medford with 14 days, Ashlyn with 14 days, Forest Grove with 15 days and Scappoose with 14 days.

@iceagefarmer for more.

#water

https://www.opb.org/article/2021/06/18/oregon-chlorine-shortage-drinking-water/

Similar report for Washington:

https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/washington/longview-announces-water-shortage-emergency/283-22ae1172-f1e3-46db-bb63-35455455dfb2

So Bill Gates, largest private owner of farmland, is opting to push a 6,300 acre farm into solar.

https://amp.dispatch.com/amp/7544993002

Iowa also cutting municipal water usage:

https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/health/2021/06/15/des-moines-water-works-shortage-plan-iowa-drought-rationing-usage/7694213002/

Global Famine: Why? Bioengineered Tiny Humans for a Zero Carbon Future

As China arrests grains analysts for speaking about their grain shortages, and the US turns off the water to its crops, the question must be asked: why engineer a global famine? In this special Ice Age Farmer broadcast, Christian looks at their stated goals: a transhumanist future of bio-engineered tiny humans (with tiny carbon footprints, of course!), fed edible vaccines in fake food, unable to eat real meat. Only by understanding how extreme is the agenda we are facing can one fully appreciate the extent of the crisis they are manufacturing to achieve that agenda -- and the urgency with which we must fight it. Spread the word.

#iafvideo

More at @iceagefarmer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlUXTP4pGcA

Friends, it is with great sadness that I learn that my friend Robert Felix, author of “Not by Fire, but by Ice” and “Magnetic Reversals and Evolutionary Leaps,” has passed.

Robert was himself 'leaps' ahead of most in his work on cosmic cycles, geomagnetic reversals, and correlations with terrestrial events including the onset of ice ages. His work truly set the stage both for our understanding of cosmic/Earth events and a popular appreciation thereof. He has been a personal inspiration to me and, I know, many others.

His blog remains at iceagenow.info - and he will be missed. Thank you for your years of dedicated work, Robert.

[ While Robert did receive the J&J shot just weeks ago, he mentions in comments here that the health issues had begun earlier, and out of respect, I will leave it at that. ]

https://www.timesargus.com/obituaries/robert-felix/article_820a699c-964c-565d-bf66-78c73327e037.html

Philippines: take the killshot or go to jail.

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/philippines-duterte-threatens-those-who-refuse-covid-19-vaccine-with-jail-2021-06-21/

Is this why Gill Bates is pushing his thousands of acres into solar? from The Guardian (who accepts funding from Gates Foundation):

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Microbes and solar power ‘could produce 10 times more food than plants’

The system would also have very little impact on the environment, in contrast to livestock farming, "scientists" say

Combining solar power and microbes could produce 10 times more protein than crops such as soya beans, according to a "new study."

The system would also have very little impact on the environment, the researchers said, in stark contrast to livestock farming which results in huge amounts of climate-heating gases as well as water pollution.

The concept uses electricity from solar panels and carbon dioxide from the air to create fuel for microbes, which are grown in bioreactor vats and then processed into dry protein powders. The process makes highly efficient use of land, water and fertiliser and could be deployed anywhere, not just in countries with strong sunshine or fertile soils, the scientists said.

Food security is a “critical issue” for humanity in coming decades, they said, with the global population growing, biofuels competing for land with crops, and about 800 million people already undernourished today. Furthermore, tackling the climate crisis will be near impossible without slashing emissions from animal and dairy food production.

Microbes are already used to make many common foods, such as bread, yoghurt, beer and Quorn. But other researchers said converting consumers to eating microbial protein might be difficult and that such foods may not be nutritionally complete.

Dorian Leger, at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology in Potsdam, Germany, who led the new analysis, said: “We think microbial foods are very promising and will be one of the major contributors to solving the potential food crisis.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jun/21/microbes-and-solar-power-could-produce-10-times-more-food-than-plants

the cost of bringing a refrigerated container from Italy to New Jersey has soared to $10,000, more than twice the going rate before the pandemic.
"They say there's not enough containers in Europe, lack of space on the boats," says Philip Marfuggi, CEO of the Ambriola Co. and a board member of the Cheese Importers Association of America.
It not only takes up to twice as long for shipments to arrive, he says, but deliveries have become less predictable.
"Like the other day, I had eight containers show up," Marfuggi says. "They should have been like two a week. And then all of a sudden, they all showed up at once."
All of this unpredictability creates costs and headaches for businesses that had grown accustomed to reliable, just-in-time delivery.

https://www.opb.org/article/2021/06/21/cargo-is-piling-up-everywhere-and-it-s-making-inflation-worse/

What is a “climate neutral farm?”

Technology also forms a key part of the project; wider deployment of the strategy will include the rollout of a mobile app which will integrate farm and satellite data, habitat mapping and natural capital accounting, to provide users with information on the carbon footprint of their activities and to develop strategies to mitigate these.”

https://www.finegael.ie/climate-neutral-farm-project-paves-the-way-for-agriculture-sector-to-become-an-environmental-leader-lombard/

A hacker attempted to poison the water supply in California by stealing an employee's login information at a facility in the Bay Area and attempting to delete treatment programs, a new report has revealed.  

#cyberpandemic #water

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9709913/Hacker-tried-poison-Ca-water-supply-breaking-facility-manipulating-water-treatment.html

I’d asked folks in UK to share what they are seeing:

In London and other cities, shelves remain stocked.

In more rural locations, however, they are seeing this (Waitrose Saturday):

This is consistent with US Walmarts prioritizing urban stores for deliveries to maintain optics.

UK Supermarkets introduce RATIONING after shortage of store cupboard staple

Supermarkets are set to introduce new rationing after tinned tomato suppliers revealed they were running low on the item.

After three years of poor harvests, tinned tomato suppliers have imposed limits on the amount each supermarket receives.

This is to avoid running out of stock before the next harvest begins in August.

Director at Conserve Italia, Diego Pariotti, said: “We are basically out of stock on every single line because for the last three years we didn’t have enough to satisfy demand.”

Currently, Italy supplies more than three quarters of the UK’s tomatoes.

As a consequence, Britons may not be able to get their hands on tinned tomatoes this summer.

These shortages have also led to an increase of 20 percent on prices..

[IAF: Remember Italy can't find steel for cans, and so this harvest risks going to waste! Original report: https://www.iceagefarmer.com/2021/06/12/italys-tomato-harvest-threatened-by-can-shortages-food-supply-chain-failures/ ]

#GrandSolarMinimum #uk #FoodPrices

https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/food/1452764/tinned-tomatoes-shortage-steel-cans-supermarkets-tesco-asda-sainsburys

Remarkable scenes from Mt Etna's eruption 6/20/21:

#gsmVolcano #GrandSolarMinimum

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_v0Ti-HI_Uc

CORN, SOYBEAN, WHEAT CONDITIONS CONTINUE TO DECLINE

https://www.agriculture.com/news/crops/corn-and-soybean-conditions-continue-to-decline

Dubai bans use of fishing nets, announces plan to protect marine life

https://www.khaleejtimes.com/news/dubai-bans-use-of-fishing-nets-announces-plan-to-protect-marine-life

France decides to start phasing out cows and pigs to hit “climate targets.” Not a joke.

“Post-animal economy.”

#WarOnMeat

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France plans to reduce livestock numbers to meet climate targets
In order to become climate neutral by 2050, livestock numbers are to be reduced in France. The government plans 25% fewer cattle and 30% fewer pigs to reduce CO2 emissions by 46%.

To achieve its own climate targets, the French government is apparently planning to cut back on livestock. The National Strategy for Decarbonization (SNBC) stipulates that France - like the European Union as a whole - should become climate-neutral by 2050.

In order to reduce agricultural emissions by 18% between 2015 and 2030, the Paris Ministry of Agriculture is now aiming to reduce dairy and suckler cow herds by 13% and 12%, respectively, and sow numbers by 14%. Over the 2050 time horizon, the cattle herd and sow herd are to be reduced by 25% and 30%, respectively, compared to 2015 levels, in order to reduce emissions by 46%.

The head of agricultural policy at Climate Action Network, Cyrielle Denhartigh, confirmed that the herd reductions projected in the decarbonization strategy have not yet been made public.

Meanwhile, Pierre-Marie Aubert of the Paris Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations (IDDRI) says the technical assumptions in the strategy are "very optimistic." He fears, however, that the reduction in livestock may not be enough to meet France's climate commitments.

https://www.topagrar.com/management-und-politik/news/frankreich-plant-abstockung-der-tierbestaende-zur-erreichung-der-klimaziele-12596867.html

Trees spread COVID-19 ... via pollen! according to a new study.

(There's a nifty animation so you know it's real Science with capital S.)

Solution -- either increase social distancing beyond 2 during pollination in the spring, i.e., March to May, or get rid of the trees. (They were interfering with 5G anyway...)

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-9713357/Health-Tree-pollen-carry-COVID-particles-increase-infection-risk-crowded-areas.html

Direct to study: https://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/5.0055845

California municipal water supplies literally blowing up: #Water wars

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Surveillance camera captures deadly water tank explosion in Lemoore

The City of Lemoore has declared a State of Emergency following the deadly water tank explosion Monday afternoon.

The rupture of a 1.5-million-gallon city water tank has left the site out of operation.

City officials released new footage Tuesday night that captured the moment the tank exploded, hurting a city employee and killing a contactor.

“As a contractor started to weld, an explosion ensued, the tank separated from the ground, lifted approximately 70 feet vertically before a tsunami occurred, causing major damage to well site 7,” explained Lemoore City Manager Nathan Olson.

Until the site is fixed, residents are urged to save water by not watering their lawns or using hoses to spray down concrete or cars.

Source: https://www.yourcentralvalley.com/news/local-news/surveillance-camera-captures-deadly-water-tank-explosion-in-lemoore/

Post-human.

“Robot farmers could improve jobs and help fight climate change – if they're developed responsibly”

https://theconversation.com/amp/robot-farmers-could-improve-jobs-and-help-fight-climate-change-if-theyre-developed-responsibly-162718

RIP John McAfee. Too many losses this month.

Global protein shortage. Argentina limits beef exports through end of year.

I never expected to share Glenn Beck, but - interesting that he is tonight covering "Great Reset of Food":

https://twitter.com/glennbeck/status/1407853477062193152

“How a society treats or mistreats its soil presages it’s destiny, economic trajectory, or collapse.”

- Edward Hyams, Soil and Civilization

Looks like the images of massive hail across Iowa were representative. We just lost 10-15% of their corn crop. We are now decidedly below trend for 2021 corn yield. And China has pre-purchased a lot of what we will get.

Not a good sign.

It is true that hailstorms increase during Grand Solar Minimum -- but this was weather warfare of great precision: straight through the heart of US corn production, like the derecho last year.

#corn

https://www.agriculture.com/news/crops/hailstorm-cuts-portion-of-iowas-corn-yield-potential-by-10-15-agronomist-says

Mystery meat indeed.

Even PCR testing (!) finds no tuna in Subway's tuna sandwich:

The New York Times sent frozen samples of tuna meat ordered from three different Los Angeles-area Subway shops to a lab that specializes in fish testing, in order to determine how much tuna is in the tuna sandwiches. The world’s largest subway chain is caught in the middle of a class-action suit in California that claims the popular tuna subs are “completely bereft of tuna as an ingredient.” So the Times decided to analyze the sandwich’s main ingredient itself.

The Subway tuna samples were run through a $500 PCR test — aka a polymerase chain reaction test, which detects genetic material from a specific organism by making millions or billions of copies from a DNA sample. The lab was looking for traces of one of five tuna species, including the skipjack and yellowfin tuna that Subway’s tuna and seafood sourcing statement says are used in its sandwiches.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/subway-is-chewed-out-after-lab-tests-find-no-tuna-dna-in-its-tuna-sandwiches/ar-AALmf0r

https://twitter.com/Prestonnelly/status/1407779690249703426

https://twitter.com/DallasCHenry1/status/1407813560525148160

Record-breaking high temps forecast for Canada's grain belt:

https://www.theweathernetwork.com/ca/news/article/severe-storm-threat-spans-the-prairies-ahead-of-looming-heat-wave

The CFR wants to deploy the US military to crack down on people fishing.

This is not a joke. (Seems like I have to put that disclaimer on too many posts lately):

"Illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing—known as IUU fishing—is a global scourge. Carried out by malicious actors in the shadows of the world’s oceans, it can devastate ecosystems, degrade food stocks, and undermine fragile fishing economies. A broad network of international partners, including U.S. civilian and military agencies, should work to eradicate this threat to the world’s shared prosperity.

https://www.cfr.org/article/illegal-fishing-global-threat-heres-how-combat-it

Illinois Ag. Department Illegally Seizes, Kills Privately Owned Bees Resistant to GMO Poison

Terrence Ingram, a world renowned naturalist who once saved the Bald Eagle from being on the endangered species list, was recently met by the Illinois Agricultural Department which seized his privately-owned bees. The department seized his bees that were ‘resistant to GMO pesticides’ and killed the remaining healthy queen bees in his beehives.

Ingram had been researching the effects of Roundup, the Monsanto franken-food best-selling herbicide meant to make crops more resilient to pests. Roundup itself has long list of negative effects, with the product even shown to kill human kidney cells. Much of the ill effects of Roundup are produced by the active ingredient, glyphosate.

https://naturalsociety.com/illinois-ag-department-seizes-privately-owned-bees-resistant-gmo-poison/

So, the woman running Biden’s 30x30 plan to steal land from farmers in the name of Global Warming...

... is an open advocate of depopulation agendas and a literal eco-terrorist?

You can’t make this stuff up.

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Biden land management pick called for population control in master’s thesis

President Biden’s pick to run the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) argued in her graduate thesis nearly three decades ago that Americans should have no more than two children and claimed allowing livestock to graze on public land was “destroying the West.”

Tracy Stone-Manning was already under fire from Republicans for her links to a so-called “tree-spiking” operation to sabotage logging efforts in Idaho in the late 1980s. Stone-Manning eventually agreed to testify against two people involved in the eco-terrorist operation in exchange for immunity from prosecution.

https://nypost.com/2021/06/24/biden-admin-pick-called-for-population-control-in-masters-thesis/

UK: Supermarkets 'weeks away from gap in shelves' as supply chains fail 'It's at crisis point'

SUPERMARKETS are missing deliveries and not receiving all their stock, it has been reported. This could lead to empty shelves in "weeks" as staff shortages in Britain ensue.

Food shortages could worsen in the coming weeks and months due to staff shortages in various sectors within the food industry. There is a lack of labourers and lorry drivers due to a number of factors.

https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/life/1454399/supermarkets-empty-shelves-staff-shortage-crisis-food-products

N. Korea: Markets in Turmoil Across the Country: Households Register to Receive Chinese Aid and Trade Grinds to Halt as Food Prices Hit Yearly High

The prices of staple foods such as white rice and corn, which had skyrocketed since the beginning of June, dropped on the 19th but rose sharply on the 22nd, reaching the highest prices of the year in many places. Several merchants have stopped trading with no change in sight, causing a growing sense of anxiety among residents (Kang Ji-won / Jiro ISHIMARU).

Although there were slight price differences among the regions, the prices of white rice and corn soared. The average price in each area is as follows. Prices are in Korean won per kilogram.

“Staple food prices have skyrocketed, and everyone is dying [IAF: figuratively.] . Since food prices have skyrocketed, merchants are reluctant to sell other products because they don't know what will happen to them in the future. Chinese products are no longer available, and domestic products have all gone up, so trading has stopped,” said a reporting partner living in Hoeryong.

“The price hike is serious. I'm afraid of what will happen next. The market managers, police officers, and price-fixing teams cracking down on high prices are too bewildered to intervene. Those who have the goods are not willing to sell them, and the market is barely functioning," said reporting partner living in Hyesan.

#FoodPrices

https://www.asiapress.org/rimjin-gang/2021/06/society-economy/markets-turmoil/

US Soybean supplies “tight”:

USDA’s estimate of June 1 soybean stocks is expected to come in at a tight 787 million bu., a dramatic 594 million bu. under June 1, 2020.

Plague of grasshoppers:

“In central Montana’s Phillips County, more than 50 miles from the nearest town, Frank Wiederrick said large numbers of grasshoppers started showing up on prairie surrounding his ranch in recent days. Already they’re beginning to denude trees around his house.

“They’re everywhere,” Wiederrick said. “Drought and grasshoppers go together and they are cleaning us out.”

Grasshoppers thrive in warm, dry weather, and populations already were up last year, setting the stage for an even bigger outbreak in 2021. Such outbreaks could become more common as climate change shifts rainfall patterns, according to “scientists.”

To blunt the grasshoppers’ economic damage, the U.S. Department of Agriculture this week began aerial spraying of the pesticide diflubenzuron to kill grasshopper nymphs before they develop into adults. Approximately 3,000 square miles in Montana are expected to be sprayed, roughly twice the size of Rhode Island.

https://nypost.com/2021/06/24/historic-drought-in-west-brings-plague-of-grasshoppers/

UK: Expect "Rolling Blackouts" of Food

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Loss of 100,000 hauliers due to Covid and Brexit will cause food ‘rolling power cuts’, experts warn

“I think it is going to be like a series of rolling power cuts in that we are going to see shortages, then shelves replenished, and shortages again. That is going to carry on for as long as demand is unpredictable and labour remains as tight as it is,” he added Brennan.

“We firmly believe that intervention from the prime minister/Cabinet Office is the only way we will be able to avert critical supply chains failing at an unprecedented and unimaginable level. Supermarkets are already reporting that they are not receiving their expected food stocks and, as a result, there is considerable wastage,” it said.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/jun/25/uk-facing-summer-of-food-shortages-due-to-lack-of-lorry-drivers

Interesting that PBS is running specials on "How to Survive the Mini Ice Age ..."

(via Curtis Stone's On the Land broadcast) :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-YLTbm2GNQ

Boris Johnson’s food policy strategist says meat tax ‘may be necessary’ but warns of FOOD RIOTS if brought in too soon – reports

After the UK’s government climate change advisers urged it to implement policy to reduce meat and dairy consumption, Boris Johnson’s hand-picked food strategy planner reportedly says a meat tax “may be necessary” in the future
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Restaurateur Henry Dimbleby, chosen to lead Downing Street’s ‘National Food Strategy’ formulation body, believes that a levy on processed meat staples like burgers, steaks, ham, sausages, and chicken nuggets could be needed in order to tackle climate change, according to media reports.

However, Dimblebly is expected to tell the prime minister not to introduce any such tax in the short-term because of the potential unrest it could lead to during the pandemic, according to The Sun.

Citing unnamed sources familiar with a draft document due to be released next month, the paper noted that ministers fear street protests over food prices similar to those conducted by the ‘Gilets Jaunes’ (Yellow Vest) movement in France in recent years.

#WarOnMeat

https://www.rt.com/uk/527631-meat-tax-food-riots/

CDC is straight up blaming “your backyard chickens” for Salmonella outbreak:

“Animals are dirty and dangerous...”

https://www.foodsafetynews.com/2021/06/hundreds-more-confirmed-sick-in-outbreak-traced-to-backyard-flocks/

The #bioengineering /transhumanism push continues:

Stanford scientists are creating a 'superhero' vaccine based on DNA of Olympic athletes which could protect people against leading causes of death such as heart disease and Alzheimer's

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-9726519/Stanford-scientists-creating-superhero-vaccine-based-DNA-Olympic-athletes.html

Already had a pandemic ready to go. Indeed.

Getting reports that the heat wave is so severe that in Washington, grocery stores are closing off their coolers as they can't stay cold enough:

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/us-food-banks-warn-soaring-prices-will-affect-distributions

So the government is preparing for QAnon violence and running drills about cyberattacks taking down national grid.

Just to be clear.

https://texasnewstoday.com/national-guard-is-preparing-for-a-major-cyberattack-to-shut-down-utilities-across-the-united-states/330926/

Wow. This is some next level revelation of the method:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/are-covid-vaccines-riskier-than-advertised-11624381749

World’s first cultured meat-production plant opens in Israel
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Next the pets! Because animals are dirty and dangerous:

https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/uk-news/covid-jabs-should-given-pets-20912458.amp

Glad to see more people seeing through the green mask of ESG:

“Investment managers and banks are taking advantage of our collective willingness to help fight climate change because the ESG space is, to put it mildly, a zoo.
Epic greenwashing is everywhere: Out of 253 funds that switched to an ESG focus in 2020 in the US, 87 per cent of them rebranded by adding words such as ‘sustainable’ or “ESG” or ‘green’ or ‘climate’ to their names.
None changed their stock or bond holdings at that point.”

https://realinvestmentadvice.com/esg-investing-the-great-wall-street-money-heist/

Even as the shelves run empty, UK is getting rid of more of their farms:

The number of new solar farms planned for the east of England has more than doubled in recent months as farmers decide to swap crops for clean energy.

New solar farm applications for sites across Hertfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Essex in the last five months have climbed to 840 megawatts, or the same as 2m household solar panels.

The solar boom is expected to yield more than double the solar energy capacity that came forward for the east of England in the same months last year, and would be enough to power the equivalent of 400,000 homes with clean energy.

[IAF: And at the expense of how much annual food production?! No mention of this "true cost" here."]

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/jun/28/solar-farm-proposals-for-east-of-england-more-than-double

EU cuts off their incoming supply of fertilizer:

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EU sanctions damage lifeline transit of Belarus potash via Lithuania

An EU decision to ban potash from Belarus jeopardizes the lifeline export route for the world's top producer of the crop nutrient, a restriction that will tighten when an exemption for previously signed contracts runs out, analysts said.

The European Union banned imports or transfer of potash by the bloc from Belarus as part of its wide-ranging economic sanctions on Belarus on Thursday, a month after Minsk forced a Ryanair flight to land. read more

Belarus will now need to find other countries and ports to ship its top export via the Baltic Sea.

"At first glance, this looks like a killer measure for the industry," said Vadim Iossub, senior analyst at Alpari Eurasia.

The Baltic port of Klaipeda in Lithuania handles 97% of Belarusian potash exports - about 9.7 million tonnes a year. The potash exports are the main source of U.S. dollar revenue for Minsk's budget.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/eu-sanctions-damage-lifeline-transit-belarus-potash-via-lithuania-2021-06-24/

Ranchers are liquidating their cattle, unable to feed them:

https://brownfieldagnews.com/news/worsening-forage-production-drought-impacting-beef-cow-herd-liquidation/

People are even selling cow-calf pairs -- not what anyone wants to do this time of year:

This is a lasting reduction to our beef pipeline:

"In fact, herd culling has reached the point where co-owner Larry Schnell says the auction has two sales a week, which will continue through May..."

https://www.drovers.com/news/beef-production/drought-forces-nd-ranchers-sell-pairs

Oxford University biochemist raises idea that mRNA shots CAN ABSOLUTELY modify DNA of those injected:

“Our research suggests that polymerase theta's main function is to act as a reverse transcriptase,” says Dr. Pomerantz. “In healthy cells, the purpose of this molecule may be toward RNA-mediated DNA repair. In unhealthy cells, such as cancer cells, polymerase theta is highly expressed and promotes cancer cell growth and drug resistance.”

“And how would it deal with messenger-RNA for a spike protein, following a Covid vaccination, one wonders? Could some version of that end up incorporated into your previously healthy DNA?” asked Chris Woollams, former Oxford University Biochemist and a founder of CANCERactive. “Surely, that must be one of the 'serious questions' raised?”

Full article:
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Polymerase theta, present in human cells, has been found capable of copying foreign messenger-RNA in your cells and incorporating it into your personal DNA; it is highly expressed in cancer cells and drug resistance.

It has long been believed that polymerases worked only in one direction, copying DNA into RNA, avoiding any possibility of rogue RNA being copied and finding its way into your DNA blueprint.

This system would prevent RNA from viruses or parasites or gut bacteria ‘accidentally’ being incorporated into your DNA blueprint.

Unfortunately, this is no longer known to be true. it is now well established that HIV, for example, can have its RNA copied in the human body and the RNA can be incorporated into your DNA structure. This is because HIV uses its own ‘reverse polymerase’.

Thomas Jefferson University researchers decided to look at human polymerases to see if any could act in this ‘reverse’ way and found that one, Polymerase theta, did just that. “This work opens the door to many other studies that will help us understand the significance of having a mechanism for converting RNA messages into DNA in our own cells,” says Richard Pomerantz, PhD, associate professor of biochemistry and molecular biology at Thomas Jefferson University. "The reality that a human polymerase can do this with high efficiency, raises many questions.”

It is conceivable that this system is some sort of ‘Failsafe’ mechanism, allowing copies of your own RNA to be made and then incorporated back in to repair problems that have arisen in your DNA. But what is to stop RNA from an external source being incorporated too?

The researchers studied Pol theta and showed that it was capable of converting and incorporating RNA copies into your DNA and was as effective as the HIV reverse polymerase in doing this.

In fact, Polymerase theta was more efficient and introduced fewer errors when copying an RNA template to write new DNA messages, than when copying DNA into DNA, suggesting that this RNA-copying function could be its primary purpose in the cell.

The researchers also found Pol theta was uniquely able to change shape in order to accommodate the larger RNA molecules.

"Our research suggests that polymerase theta's main function is to act as a reverse transcriptase," says Dr. Pomerantz. "In healthy cells, the purpose of this molecule may be toward RNA-mediated DNA repair. In unhealthy cells, such as cancer cells, polymerase theta is highly expressed and promotes cancer cell growth and drug resistance."

“And how would it deal with messenger-RNA for a spike protein, following a Covid vaccination, one wonders? Could some version of that end up incorporated into your previously healthy DNA?” asked Chris Woollams, former Oxford University Biochemist and a founder of CANCERactive. "Surely, that must be one of the 'serious questions' raised?"

DEVELOPING: At least 34 people in the Vancouver area have died in a record heat wave engulfing western Canada and parts of the US Pacific Northwest, officials say - AFP

So the lockdowns are officially for stopping us from talking...

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HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, June 28, 2021:

An injunction outlawing in-person gatherings has a purpose other than just to prevent the spread of COVID-19, according to Nova Scotia’s chief medical doctor. If people are allowed to be together, they might “deliberately” spread “false information that creates risk.”

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/canadian-official-admits-ban-on-in-person-gatherings-is-to-prevent-spread-of-false-information

Toilet paper of record comes out just to dispel any fears you had that they were manipulating the weather to make the case for climate lockdowns:

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That heat dome -- it's climate change.

'This is not your grandparents’ climate...'

The western United States is currently under the influence of an epic heat dome, an expansive region of high atmospheric pressure characterized by heat, drought and heightened fire danger. It’s being called a once-in-a-millennium event, which means you might have expected to witness it once during your lifetime — if you happen to be Methuselah of biblical fame.

All bets are off when one accounts for human-caused warming. It no longer makes sense to talk about a once-in-a-century or once-in-a-millennium event as if we’re just rolling an ordinary pair of dice, because we’ve loaded the dice through fossil fuel burning and other human activities that generate carbon pollution and warm the planet. It’s as if snake eyes, which should occur randomly only once every 36 times you rolled a pair of dice, were coming up once every four times.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/29/opinion/heat-dome-climate-change.html

Mars, Inc. (huge food company behind M&Ms and more) aligns with Microsoft "to accelerate the digital transformation of our supply chain."

Mars also was a major sponsor of the Food Chain Reaction Game scripting out food shortages to bring in carbon tax...

https://www.mars.com/news-and-stories/articles/a-digital-first-future-mars-teams-with-microsoft

Interesting that as the National Guard is running drills about cyberattacks bringing down the power grid nationally, the FBI is running conferences about the threats to our food supply: (I'll be there!)

https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/4907371498997448203

Meteorologist calls for use of weather forecasts to proactively de-energizing powerlines in rural areas where wildfires could break out:

Also some shots of native plants that were seared in the heatwave here.

"Yesterday's searing heat fried many plants, including native species, with leaves turning brown and discolored. How many of you notice wilted and damaged vegetation? The soil was not dry....it was the sheer heat that damaged the plants."

https://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2021/06/the-big-heat-post-mortem-and-next-few.html

Washington State DoT reports Highways buckling during heatwave:

https://twitter.com/wsdot_traffic/status/1409632708385337346

Post-industrial? French farmers put down their tractors and return to horses!

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jun/28/draught-wines-french-vineyards-rediscover-the-power-of-horses

I can't believe this isn't satire. Reading stuff like this, I just want to throw up my hands and go back out into the garden.

Magnetic weight loss device that locks jaw almost shut created to 'fight global obesity epidemic'

Seven women were only able to open their jaws 2mm wide for two weeks and were put on a reduced calorie, liquid-only diet.

A weight loss device which uses magnets to stop a person's jaw from opening wide enough to eat solids has been developed by "scientists" in New Zealand and the UK.

https://news.sky.com/story/magnetic-weight-loss-device-that-locks-jaw-almost-shut-created-to-fight-global-obesity-epidemic-12343893

Thread for HAARP theories! When better to fire it back up...

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/haarp-firing-faa-issues-warning-about-electromagnetic-radiation

Plastic resin shortages now affecting water bottle availability. (Previously also reported on farmers dumping MILK because distributors had no plastic containers to receive it)

Shortages of plastic bottles for maple syrup producers too. https://vtdigger.org/2021/06/27/syrup-jug-delays-leave-maple-sugarmakers-scrambling-for-solutions/

As UK shelves empty, the BBC elects to run a piece on the scientific merits of food rationing:

A "scientific genius" whose work shaped Britain's World War Two food rationing is being honoured with a blue plaque.

Elsie Widdowson and her colleague Robert McCance showed it was "possible to live on a very simple diet" of bread, vegetables and potatoes.

Food rationing began in early 1940. It gave each person a scientifically-devised weekly allocation of food.

Dr Ashwell said: "They and a number of their colleagues ate only calcium-fortified bread, vegetables and potatoes.

"They then went on a rigorous course of cycling and mountain climbing in the Lake District in January 1940 to test out the diet's adequacy and delivered a report to the government in March which was used to develop the rationing policy.

"Of course, rations never got quite as bad as that - they were testing out an extreme."

One of the most important things they advised on was the need to add calcium - in the form of powered chalk - to bread.

Its addition by law continues today.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-57594654

More predictive rumblings about the "imminent destruction of the $50bb US pork industry" to ASF via wild hogs.

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Wild Pigs Could Trigger Decimation of US Pork Industry

What happens when wild pigs are given 1,000 tons of groceries per day in the form of landfill trash? Expect an explosion in pig and litter size, and quite possibly, a $50 billion decimation of the entire U.S. pork industry.

The Savannah River Site (SRS) in South Carolina has become ground zero for research drawing a nexus between wild pigs and the potential introduction of African swine fever (ASF) into the U.S. At an SRS location, wild pigs have grown notably bigger and birthed larger litters in just a handful of years, attributable to the establishment of a landfill—a veritable hog buffet. The SRS landfill and other similar refuse dumps across the U.S. may be ticking time bombs, and could open America’s door to ASF, an epic porcine disease with no vaccine or cure, and a century-long track record of sweeping over international borders and wiping out billions of pigs.

#AfricanSwineFever

https://www.agweb.com/news/livestock/pork/wild-pigs-could-trigger-decimation-us-pork-industry

#Brazil: crop damage after hard freezes.

"Minimum of 1.5” rain needed weekly to sustain crop each week from now to black layer..."

This is why they want to end animal agriculture. An integral, necessary part of good soil/land husbandry ... and food production !

https://twitter.com/whiteoakpasture/status/1410267917837537283

California's historic drought is causing drinking water to taste like dirt. Just 'add lemon,' officials say

Something is off about Sacramento's water. It smells and tastes a little "earthy," residents are saying — an effect of compounding climate change crises: extreme heat, little to no precipitation and a historic drought that has gripped the region for the better part of a decade.

Up and down the state of California, rivers, streams and reservoirs are drying up. In Sacramento, that has led to an increase in the concentration of geosmin in its drinking water, one of two organic compounds that give soil its characteristic smell.

It might not taste great, city officials say, but it's still safe to drink.

Sacramento utilities officials said they had to put out a statement after receiving calls from residents complaining about the taste.

"We realize that it's unpleasant," Carlos Eliason, the city's utilities spokesperson, told CNN. "The earthy taste that some of our customers are experiencing is harmless and can be neutralized by adding some lemon or putting it in the refrigerator."

#Water

https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/22/us/sacramento-water-taste-drought/index.html

Despite claims that the supply chain is "normalizing," interruptions to car manufacturers continue, and are illustrative of MANY aspects of production (including food):

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/business/autos/ford/2021/06/30/chip-shortage-prompts-new-downtime-fords-north-american-plants/7811728002/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1625069961

UK farmer explains the empty shelves are deliberately engineered.

Empty shelves (media now describing as "brownouts of food", some shelves, some days) are coming to a store near you.

Start growing your own food.

Almost as if the medical apartheid / two-tiered society IS the goal...

NEW - Dr. Fauci claims there may soon be "two Americas" due to the "widening gap between vaccinated and unvaccinated".

@disclosetv

Grow your own food folks.

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H-E-B is currently enforcing purchasing limits on chicken wings.

A notice in the meat section of the H-E-B store on Nogalitos alerted customers of the limit on Monday.

Fresh and frozen wings are limited to two packs per transaction. Dya Campos, H-E-B's director of public affairs, said the limit applies to all stores.

"Limits are temporary and necessary for you and your neighbors to find the products you need," the note said.

A national wing shortage has affected local restaurants, such as Hello Paradise and the Anchor Bar. The latter implemented a 20-cent surcharge per wing in response to the increase in costs. Increased demand over the last year compounded with labor shortages threw the country into a wing shortage.

Campos said the limits are in place to protect customers and said many retailers across the U.S. are facing the same issue.

"It's your classic supply and demand issue with commodity items, but we think it will stabilize," she added. "We'll keep limits so that customers can find the products that they need."

https://www.chron.com/food/article/heb-chicken-wing-shortage-limit-16235270.php

Vice has published a hitpiece on myself and Dave DuByne from Adapt 2030. This is essentially an attack caling for Patreon to de-platform, and an extension of calls for Youtube to deplatform/censor "Koch-funded climate deniers."

Note that their strawman argument is that we are arguing "an impending ice age will fix the Earth’s global warming crisis" -- not that the zero-carbon agenda is one of totalitarian control of humanity, or even natural solar cycles driving climate. But I expect very little from Vice.

The good news -- we're right over the target.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7e9y3/patreon-is-bankrolling-climate-change-deniers-while-we-all-burn