BIDEN WATCH: 5.14.22 - 18 Signs That Food Shortages Will Get A Lot Worse

18 Signs That Food Shortages Will Get A Lot Worse As We Head Into The Second Half Of 2022- by Michael Snyder - http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/18-signs-that-food-shortages-will-get-a-lot-worse-as-we-head-into-the-second-half-of-2022/ If you think that things are bad now, just wait until we get into the second half of this year. Global food supplies have already gotten very tight, but it is the food thatwon’t be produced during this current growing season in the northern hemisphere that will be the real problem. Worldwide fertilizer prices have doubled or tripled, the war in Ukraine has greatly reduced exports from one of the key breadbaskets of the world,a nightmarish bird flu pandemic is wiping out millions of chickens and turkeys, and bizarre weather patterns are absolutely hammering agricultural production all over the planet. I have often used the phrase “a perfect storm” to describe what we are facing,but even that phrase really doesn’t seem to do justice to the crisis that we will be dealing with in the months ahead. The following are 18 signs that food shortages will get a lot worse as we head into the second half of 2022… #1 The largest fertilizer company on the entire planet is publiclywarning that severe supply disruptions “could last well beyond 2022”… The world’s largest fertilizer company warned supply disruptions could extend into 2023. A bulk of the world’s supply has been taken offline due to the invasion of Ukraineby Russia. This has sparked soaring prices and shortages of crop nutrients in top growing areas worldwide; an early indication of a global food crisis could be in the beginning innings. Bloomberg reports Canada-based Nutrien Ltd.’s CEO Ken Seitz told investors on Tuesday during a conference call that he expects to increase potash production following supplydisruptions in Russia and Ukraine (both major fertilizer suppliers). Seitz expects disruptions “could last well beyond 2022.” #2 The world fertilizer price index has skyrocketed to absurdheights that have never been seen before. #3 It is being reported that global grain reserves have droppedto “extremely low” levels… “Global grains stocks remain extremely low, an issue that has become amplified because of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. “We think it will take at least 2-3 years to replenish global grains stocks,” Illinois-based CF Industries Holdings Inc.’s president and chief executive officer Tony Willsaid in a statement in Wednesday’s earnings report. #4 Due to the war, agricultural exports from Ukraine have beencompletely paralyzed… Nearly 25 million tonnes of grains are stuck in Ukraine and unable to leave the country due to infrastructure challenges and blocked Black Sea ports including Mariupol, aU.N. food agency official said on Friday. The blockages are seen as a factor behind high food prices which hit a record high in March in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, before easing slightly in April, theFAO said on Friday. #5 The out-of-stock rate for baby formula in the United Stateshas now reached 40 percent… The out-of-stock rate for baby formula hovered between 2% and 8% in the first half of 2021, but began rising sharply last July. Between November 2021 and early April 2022,the out-of-stock rate jumped to 31%, data from Datasembly showed. That rate increased another 9 percentage points in just three weeks in April, and now stands at 40%, the statistics show. In six states — Iowa, South Dakota, North Dakota,Missouri, Texas and Tennessee — more than half of baby formula was completely sold out during the week starting April 24, Datasembly said. #6 In six U.S. states, the out-of-stock rate for baby formulahas actually risen to 50 percent or greater. #7 Searches for the phrase “how to make homemade formula for babies” on Google have spiked 120 percent. #8 We are being told that this is a “perfect storm” as shelvesbecome increasingly bare at food banks all around the nation. #9 In Canada, more than 1.7 million chickens and turkeys havealready been lost in recent months due to the global bird flu pandemic. #10 In the United States, more than 37 million chickens and turkeyshave already been wiped out due to the global bird flu pandemic. #11 The two largest reservoirs in California, Shasta Lake andLake Oroville, have both fallen to “critically low levels”. #12 Some communities in southern California won’t be able to makeit through the coming summer months without “significantly cutting back” on their water usage. #13 Many of the largest lakes around the world are currently inthe process of disappearing because they are rapidly drying up. #14 Wildfires continue to absolutely devastate agricultural landall across the western half of the United States. This weekend, it was New Mexico’s turn to be hit the hardest… After a few days of calm that allowed some families who had fled wildfires raging in northeast New Mexico to return to their homes, dangerous winds picked up again Sunday,threatening to spread spot fires and complicate work for firefighters. More than 1,500 firefighters were on the fire lines at the biggest blaze east and northeast of Santa Fe, which grew another 8 square miles (20 square kilometers) overnightto an area more than twice as large as the city of Philadelphia. #15 We are being told that steak prices in the United States will “keep rising” in the days ahead. #16 Due to hail and frost, the Spanish apricot crop is going tobe way below expectations… In Spain, the latest forecasts suggest production will not reach 60,000 tonnes, compared with 110,000 tonnes in 2019 and 100,000 tonnes in 2020 and 90,000 tonnes in 2021. In Murcia, where around two-thirds of Spain’s apricot production is located, farmers in the Mula River and northwest regions have been forced to write off the entire seasonfollowing a severe hailstorm on Monday which not only resulted in the loss of the fruit, but also caused widespread damage to trees. #17 Overall, Spanish fruit production is expected to drop to thelowest level in 40 years. #18 Kansas Senator Roger Marshall is openly warning that a horrifyingworldwide famine is coming… The war in Ukraine will lead to a worldwide famine in the next two years, warned Sen. Roger Marshall (R-Ky.), who serves on the Senate Agriculture Committee, warned on Tuesday. “You know I’m a big agriculture guy. Twelve, 15 percent of the agriculture products – corn and wheat, sunflower oil – come through that Black Sea, so— and fertilizers comefrom that area as well, so there actually is going to be a famine one to two years from now. I think two years from now will be even worse,” he told Fox Business’s “Mornings with Maria Bartiromo” on Tuesday. The alarm bells are ringing. Are you listening? In all of the years that I have been writing, I have never seen anything even close to this, and this crisis is only going to intensify as the months roll along. -------------------------- The fight against liberty - Bill Wilson � www.dailyjot.com Now more than any time in the history of the United States the citizens� rights to freedom of religion and speech are not only under attack, but in danger. The Founding Fathersknew that unless there was freedom of religion, freedom of speech and freedom to peaceably assemble that a nation falls into tyranny. In most every instance when a dictator seizes power, these freedoms are revoked. Today in America, the government, the legacynews media and powerful corporations are working together to take these rights away from YOU. An example of people who are standing up to this attack on your rights is the lawsuit by Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt and Louisiana Attorney General JeffLandry. Filed May 5 in the US District Court in Louisiana, the 86-page report accuses top government officials of conspiring to suppress information with social media giants Meta,Twitter and YouTube �under the guise of combating misinformation.� According to the New York Post and Fox News, the suit accuses the federal government of violating free speech rights by threatening big tech companies into silencing conservative viewpoints.It names former Biden Press Secretary Jen Psaki, COVID Czar Anthony Fauci, and Nina Jankowicz, the head of the Department of Homeland Security�s new Disinformation Governance Board. The filing claims: �Having threatened and cajoled social-media platforms for years to censor viewpoints and speakers disfavored by the Left, senior government officials inthe Executive Branch have moved into a phase of open collusion with social media companies to suppress disfavored speakers, viewpoints, and content on social-media platforms under the Orwellian guise of halting so-called �disinformation.� �misinformation,� and �malinformation��Labeling disfavored speech �misinformation� or �disinformation� does not strip it of First Amendment Protection � with the common understanding that some false statements are inevitable if there is to be an open and vigorous expressionof views in public and private conversation � the First Amendment seeks to guarantee.� The list of examples is extensive�Suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story, the handling of COVID, election security issues among them. Add to that the Russian collusionstory, the withholding of military aid to Ukraine story, and the list goes on and on. Now, the replacement for Psaki, who is leaving the White House pre-arranging a job with NBC, is openly gay Deputy Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, who �wife� is CNN nationalcorrespondent Suzanne Malveaux. Cozy, no? In April, Jankowicz told NPR, �I shudder to think about if free speech absolutists were taking over more platforms, what that would look like for the marginalized communities all around the world.� Jankowicz apparentlybelieves free speech does no apply to criticism of LGBTQ+ grooming of minor children in schools, for example. Another example of marginalizing dissent is Joe Biden attacking the Make America Great Again movement, saying �this MAGA crowd is really the most extreme political organizationthat�s existed in American history�in recent American history.� He sees people who stand against his politics as extreme and he has taken steps to shut them down. The leftists also encouraged protesters to harass Supreme Court Justices at their homes, andto become violent against pro-life demonstrators. This is all the makings of a tyrannical environment. Galatians 5:1 exhorts, �Stand fast therefore in the Liberty by which Christ made you free and be not again entangled in the yoke of bondage.� We need tostand against those who would lead us into the chainwork of satan. What we face today is a real and present threat to this and future generations. --------------------------- The Currency Reset Is Coming - 90% Of Nations Planning Digital Currency � Kit Knightly - https://www.prophecynewswatch.com/article.cfm?recent_news_id=5350 A new report from the Bank for International Settlements estimates that up to 90% of national central banks are at least in the planning stages for launching a central bankdigital currency (CBDC): Nine out of 10 central banks are exploring central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), and more than half are now developing them or running concrete experiments. In particular,work on retail CBDCs has moved to more advanced stages This echoes a March report from the IMF, which claimed over one hundred nations are at least in the planning stages of releasing their own CBDC. You can read the entire IMF report here, or a summary published by Bloomberg here. It seems programs of government-issued digital money have been gaining momentum all around the world since at least 2020, and apparently, now they exist in over half the countrieson the planet. The newest of these � Brazil and Namibia � announced their plans only last month. As with all globalist agendas, the push for CBDCs is always part of 'the current thing'. First, it was a response to Covid. Then they could help us halt climate change. Then they�re a response to the war in Ukraine. Using that method they have moved from a barely-discussed fringe idea to regular mainstream coverage and 90% of the world trying them out, all within the space of a coupleof years. Interestingly, while CBDCs are being talked about more and more, there is one specific feature of them which is being talked about less and less: Programmability. Programmability is a major feature of digital currency which would allow the issuer to set limits and controls over its use. Essentially, any CBDC would give either the state, the central bank or the corporation issuing the money as wages the power to control how and where the money is spent. The end of economic freedom is coming and it's coming soon on a global scale. ------------------------ Now We Are Being Warned That Shortages Of Diesel Fuel And Electricity Are Coming In The Months Ahead - by Michael Snyder - http://endoftheamericandream.com/now-we-are-being-warned-that-shortages-of-diesel-fuel-and-electricity-are-coming-in-the-months-ahead/ On top of everything else that is going wrong, shall we add a diesel fuel shortage and a nationwide electricity shortage to the equation? I never imagined that I would bewriting about such things in the middle of 2022, but here we are. I will discuss the potential electricity shortage in a moment, but first I want people to understand how serious a widespread diesel shortage would be. Without diesel, our trains and trucksdon�t run, and if they don�t run America�s supply chains completely and utterly collapse. So even a moderate shortage would be absolutely paralyzing for the U.S. economy. Unfortunately, supplies are rapidly dwindling and we are being warned that a �globaldiesel shortage that will shock people� could begin as soon as next month� We are looking at a nightmare in terms of global diesel shortage that will shock people starting June. Diesel inventory on the east coast is 18 million (About 3 days demand) as of today, we will run down to sub 10 million. Let us hope that a way can be found to keep all of our trains and all of our trucks running. But even if an unprecedented supply crunch can be averted, everyone agrees that the price of diesel is going to be going way up� Diesel prices are surging, contributing to inflationary headwinds due to the fuel�s vital role in the American and global economy. Tankers, trains and trucks all run on diesel.The fuel is also used across industries including farming, manufacturing, metals and mining. �Diesel is the fuel that powers the economy,� said Patrick De Haan, head of petroleum analysis at GasBuddy. Higher prices are �certainly going to translate into more expensivegoods,� he said, since these higher fuel costs will be passed along to consumers. �Especially at the grocery store, the hardware store, anywhere you shop.� Meanwhile, we are also being warned of �potential electricity shortages� in the United States in the months ahead� The Midcontinent Independent System Operator, or MISO, operating in 15 states across the US Central region, said last month that capacity shortages this summer due to soaringsummer demand might result in outages. Last Friday, California Independent System Operator, or California ISO, outlined energy shortfalls this summer because of heat and wildfires. Texas over the weekend saw triple-digit temperatures in some portions of thestate, though grid stability was maintained despite several power plants being offline for maintenance. WSJ explains grid instability and increased risk of power shortages this summer comes as fossil fuel power plants are �being retired more quickly than they can be replacedby renewable energy and battery storage.� Power grids are racing to retire conventional power plants fueled by natural gas, coal, and diesel to green forms of energy, such as solar power and wind. There�s also the retirement of aging nuclear power plants. Why are we �racing� to retire conventional power facilities in the midst of a growing global energy crisis? That doesn�t make any sense at all. It seems that we have a long, hot summer ahead of us, and major blackouts could apparently happen at any moment. And of course this all comes at a time when tensions are rising all over the country and anger is starting to boil over because of the potential overturn of Roe v. Wade. I warned that we would see violence, and it has already started to erupt. On Tuesday, a Catholic facility in Colorado was �vandalized with pro-abortion graffiti�� The Sacred Heart of Mary Catholic Church in Boulder, Colorado was vandalized with pro-abortion graffiti again Tuesday, the second time in less than a year. Abortion activists targeted the church after news broke of a leaked draft opinion from the U.S. Supreme Court that overturns Roe v. Wade. Pro-life pregnancy centers and pro-lifeadvocates also have been the targets of vandalism, violence and harassment this week. Spraying graffiti everywhere is certainly not nice, but it won�t kill or injure anyone. However, firebombing the headquarters of a pro-life group could definitely injure or kill people, and that just happened in Madison, Wisconsin� Radical abortion activists have firebombed a pro-life group�s office in Madison, Wisconsin. A leftist radical threw Molotov cocktails into Wisconsin Family Action�s officein the capital city and a picture of the destruction shows the office heavily damaged from the bomb. Apparently at least one Molotov cocktail was used in the attack, and whoever did this left a very chilling message� Arriving at the office at 2801 International Lane at the same time as a reporter, Appling and group event coordinator Diane Westphall found shattered glass from a broken windowcovering a corner office riddled with burned books. The smell of smoke persisted for hours after the fire, which damaged the corner office carpet and the wall beneath the window. The outside of the building also was sprayed with graffiti depicting an anarchy symbol, a coded anti-police slogan and the phrase, �If abortions aren�t safe then you aren�teither.� Then on Sunday, another firebombing was reported at the offices of Oregon Right to Life� This second attack has occurred in Salem, Oregon as radical leftists targeted Oregon Right to Life, a longtime pro-life organization. In the late evening on Sunday, May 8, the offices of Oregon Right to Life were attacked. An individual used incendiary devices, one of which exploded and caught the buildingon fire. The office was vacant at the time, and no one was harmed. Fire and police departments responded quickly, minimizing damage to the building. The agencies are actively investigating the incident. So why didn�t the big corporate news networks devote endless coverage to these attacks? I think that we all know why. Of course if pro-abortion facilities had been attacked, it would have been top news for days. Before I end this article, there is one more very disturbing incident that I wanted to mention� A Texas-based pro-life activist organization received a new bomb threat against one of its offices, allegedly due to its support for the state�s controversial heartbeat abortionban restricting abortion as early as six weeks into pregnancy. Texas Right to Life released a statement Monday explaining that its legislative office in Austin had received a bomb threat that morning. Sadly, this is just the beginning. If Roe v. Wade is actually formally overturned, the violence will get a lot worse. The stage is being set for the sort of �internal revolution� that radical leftists have been talking about for years. As I have been warning about for a very long time, great civil unrest is coming to this nation. So let us pray for peace, but let us also be aware that there are lots of very angry and very violent people out there right now. -------------------------- Assault on Christianity - Bill Wilson � www.dailyjot.com Many people are having a difficult time understanding how the Biden Administration, the mainstream news media and corporations assault on �misinformation� and �disinformation� relates to Christian persecution. There is a reason why the Founding Fathers placed freedom of speech, religion, the press, and peaceful assembly together as enumerated rights in the First Amendment. Without free speech there can be no peaceable assembly.The absence of free speech begets religious persecution. A free press is supposed to hold accountability to overreaching government. This new era of government, media and corporate collusion to censor free speech is now taking an extreme turn toward religiousfreedom. Case in point is the extreme radical reaction to the leaked Supreme Court decision to end federally-legalized abortion and kick it back to the states to decide. Those whoare pro-life are targeted by the pro-death crowd. Crisis Pregnancy Centers that offer alternatives to abortion and are often operated by Christians have been vandalized and protested. Churches across America, Catholic churches in particular, have been targetedwith vandalism and protests because of their pro-life convictions. Joe Biden, a� Catholic, is largely silent on the attacks, but his Press Secretary Jen Psaki danced around the violence and vandalism: We don�t support that�We understand the passion. We understandthe concern. But what the President�s position is is that that should be peaceful�the protests.� This is a far cry from violence will be met with force. The President and leaders of the Democratic Party have encouraged protests, knowing full well that they will include, incite or intend vandalism and violence. They also knowthat the pro-life side of the abortion issue is majority Christian. And this is where free speech and religious persecution intersect. The pro-death crowd is using their aggressive form of weaponized free speech to persecute Christians who do not believe asthey do. And because the hypocritical Democratic Party leadership, many of whom are Catholic, disagree with both the Catholic Church�s pro-life stance and individuals who are pro-life, they turn a blind eye toward protecting the religious and free speech rightsof pro-life Christians, encouraging �protests� yet �understanding the passion.� Talk about a dog whistle. And the angry dogs are descending on the homes of Supreme Court justices. Breitbart reported that about 100 abortion activists marched on the homes of Justice Brett Kavanaughand Chief Justice John Roberts. Activists said none of the justices homes were out of bounds. Lacie Wooten-Holway told The Washington Post, referring to Kavanaugh, �We�re about to get doomsday, so I�m not going to be civil to that man at all.� MSNBC, a leftistmedia outlet, held a panel discussing the leaked SCOTUS decision. The outcome was summed up on a Twitter post: �MSNBC panel�s Amy Hagstrom Miller: �Christian extremism� drives the �terrorist� pro-life movement.� On one hand, free speech is being weaponized against Christians at the encouragement of government, while on the other hand, free speech is being censored or drowned out fromthe pro-life movement. This is the short step toward violent persecution when free speech is allowed to be one sided. Whether it is abortion or COVID or other issues, your free speech is being censored by collusion of government, media and corporations. Italways leads to religious persecution�think WWII Germany, current China, Soviet Russia. The First Amendment stands in the breech, and even that is weaponized when it is one sided. Learn Ephesians 6. Memorize verse 19: �And for me, that utterance may be givenunto me, that I may open my mouth boldly, to make known the mystery of the gospel.� If you do not, there may come a time when you can�t. ----------------------- Global Supply Chain Crisis Bigger than 2020 � Todd Strandberg - https://www.raptureready.com/category/nearing-midnight/ Last year the world suffered a huge supply chain meltdown over the COVID-19 virus. Events have now conspired to create a supply chain snag for the later part of 2022 thatwill easily surpass the mess that occurred in 2020. China is in lockdown over fresh COVID-19 outbreaks, and we also have the supply breakdowns from Russia�s invasion of Ukraine. It�s still not clear what will be the impactof the war in central Europe. Russia and Ukraine have been major exports of several key commodities. The is no way Ukraine is going to produce various crops while fighting a war. With its southern ports locked up, the country can�t even export grain from previous years. Rightafter the invasion, wheat got up $13 per bushel, and it has leveled off at around $11 per bushel. This still leaves the price of wheat nearly double what it was at the beginning of the year. The war has resulted in the loss of many key commodities. Russia and Ukraine account for about 80% of the global sunflower oil market, 25% of the production of coal, 30% ofthe petroleum supply, and 20% of iron ore. Because food is vital to a nation�s stability, many counties have banned the export of several products. Indonesia banned the export of palm oil, which amounts to 30% of globalcooking oil demand. The Indonesian government made this move to lower the cost of palm oil for the domestic market. With local farmers unable to export their palm oil to a global market, they have no incentive to increase their production. The export ban couldbackfire as some local marketers are showing a shortage of cooking oil. The biggest supply problem is Europe�s dependency on Russian natural gas. Germany gets 40% of its gas supply from Russia. If the war had taken place 20 years ago, Germanywould be in a far better place. After the Fukushima nuclear disaster, Germany became fixated on closing all of its nuclear plants. At a peak in the early 2000s, nuclear power generated 40% percent of German electricity. Today only 20% of electricity comes from nuclear. The current plan is to close allnuclear plants by 2025. Russia�s invasion of Ukraine seemed initially to prompt a rethinking of Berlin�s nuclear policy, with Green economics minister Robert Habeck saying he would not stand in theway on ideological grounds of any decision to keep nuclear power plants running for longer. The CEO of Eon, Germany�s largest electrical utility, has ruled out extending the life of its nuclear power plants in Germany, even as Europe�s largest economy prepares forthe rationing of energy supplies and to wean itself off Russian hydrocarbons. �There is no future for nuclear in Germany, period,� said chief executive Leo Birnbaum. �It is too emotional. There will be no change in legislation and opinion.� The companyhas three remaining nuclear sites in the country, near Munich. China�s COVID-19 lockdown is just pure insanity. Media outlets around the world, from the Chinese Ministry of Propaganda to the New York Times, were quick to declare thatChina had �won� the pandemic, having decisively defeated the virus and demonstrated the virtues of unbridled autocracy. Xi Jinping was set to use China�s apparent COVID success as a central argument for enshrining himself at the upcoming Communist Party Congressin October 2022 as emperor for life. Beijing�s zero-COVID policy has resulted in the shutdown of huge portions of the Chinese economy. In Shanghai, hundreds of factories have been closed, and all shipping trafficis on hold. At Shanghai�s port, 344 ships are dead in the water. Shipping something from a warehouse in China to one in the United States now takes 74 days longer than usual. Authorities are now enforcing a full or partial lockdown in at least 27 cities across the country, with these restrictions affecting up to 180 million people. This level ofmonetary restraint could be economic suicide for the nation. Another reason why the supply chains are becoming unstable is that we are using exchanges to over-manage various commodities. One recent example is nickel. Last month, shortlyafter the war in Ukraine began, nickel futures on the London Metal Exchange popped by 250%, jumping from about $29,000 to $100,000 per metric ton in a matter of days. The LME halted trading for a week and retroactively canceled about 9,000 trades worth nearly$4 billion. The metal is chiefly used in alloys; about 68% of the world�s production is used in stainless steel. We can create all the paper nickel we want, but when steelmakers needthe physical metal, the monetary games come to an end. Over the past 12 years, I have become very fascinated by the endless parade of financial panics that have come our way. Each one seems to have the power to destroy our economy,but none have been able to trigger a crash. Because the rapture will occur during a time of �think not� tranquility, I think we have an explanation for why we have a historic ability to avoid a major recession. If we manage to traverse the Supply Chain Crisisof 2022 without harm, it will be one more indication that the forthcoming rapture is holding up the global economy. �Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh� (Matthew 24:44). -------------------------- The inflation debate - Bill Wilson � www.dailyjot.com Democrats, and the Biden Administration in particular, are running hard for the November mid-term elections�that is, running hard away from the policies that have destroyeda perfectly robust American economy. Their policies have produced record gasoline prices. The cost of living for some people in this country has become unbearable. One nearly needs a loan from the bank to fill up their car and get a week�s worth of groceries.Yet White House Council of Economic Advisors Chair Cecilia Rouse told CNN�s �New Day� on Tuesday that inflation �has been the consequence of mounting an effective response to the pandemic.� What? If this is effective, maybe there is beachfront property forsale in Arizona. Rouse said, �Because while we supported households and businesses, got shots into arms, which allowed people to start to come out of their homes and regain their lives, oursupply chains could not support that demand. So, this is � we are not alone. All advanced countries are addressing�this. So, this is a consequence of having an effective strategy against the pandemic.� She earlier said that the higher gasoline prices weredue to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. She juked a question about government spending causing inflation. Both Rouse and the CNN reporter neglected to mention that under Donald Trump, the economy was beginning to recover. Ongoing business lockdowns disruptsupply chains. Democrats ignore this. Biden, in a speech Tuesday, also said that the two leading causes of inflation were Russia and the supply chain disruption of the pandemic. He blamed inflation on everythingbut his policies. Remember his very first day in office, Biden placed a stop work order on the keystone pipeline and then he stopped drilling on public lands. On January 18, 2021 just before Joe Biden took office, the national average price of gasoline atthe pump was $2.464 per gallon. On March 1, 2021 it was $2.796, an increase of 33 cents per gallon in only 40 days. Now it�s $4.279. Let�s remember the COVID mandates in Democrat-run cities that caused a record backlog of supply ships waiting to be unloaded�that�spolicy, not pandemic. Biden, in the same speech also struck a delusional chord. He began by saying, �And as I see it, everything�everything� across the country is�as I go across the country, oureconomy has gone from being on the mend to on the move.� I don�t know what country Biden is seeing, but people are hurting and his solution is to blame everything on Russia and the pandemic instead of fixing the stupidity he and his cronies created. Proverbs18:2 says, �A fool has no delight in understanding, but that his heart may discover itself.� Biden�s policies on oil and COVID caused this inflation. It should be no debate. Every time government spending is out of control and leftists seek to stop the useof oil with no viable replacement, inflation happens. But as Proverbs says, a fool has no delight in understanding. Say it with me�Stupidocrisy. --------------------------- Take action against the WHO treaty - Bill Wilson � www.dailyjot.com Part of the reason why the COVID response was so devastating is that the World Health Organization (WHO) was allowed to dictate response and treatment because of internationalregulations agreed to in 2005 in response to the SARS epidemic of 2003. The 194 WHO member countries agreed to allow WHO unprecedented power over how pandemics are handled. WHO is currently convening under the radar negotiations for a treaty that will greatlyexpand its powers to take precedent over Constitutional rights of member states. In other words, WHO will be used to establish world governing authority under the guise of a health emergency. This will no doubt impact free speech and religious freedom. Let us remember how WHO handled the COVID pandemic by dictating the standard for �defeating� COVID�A historic global lockdown of healthy people and the control of their actions.WHO�s tentacles extended to the US, where the government dictated that there was no treatment for the disease, except for remdesivir and ventilators, which it mandated. This mandated treatment resulted in the deaths of tens of thousands, while life-savingtreatments were denied by the US government and governments around the world. Then came the Emergency Use Authorized vaccines and the propaganda campaign that demonized anyone who refused to take the serum. Now WHO seeks a binding international treaty codifying its powers to not only declare a pandemic based on its own definition, but also taking over the global management ofthe pandemic response. This, according to several sources such as Canadian Member of Parliament Leslyn Lewis, includes how doctors can respond, which drugs can and cannot be used, and which vaccines will be used or mandated. In addition, WHO will be empoweredto implement digital verification technology to create international trust networks that can dictate an individual�s mobility, purchases and interactions based on whether they are following WHO dictates. It also will establish response teams to enforce compliance.In short, this is a health back door to a one world order that will determine life and death and socio-political compliance of ideals. To preserve America�s sovereignty and our guaranteed freedoms of religion, speech and assembly, the United States must be stopped from participating in this �treaty.� Thecomment period for WHO is June 16 and 17. Check the WHO homepage at https://worldcouncilforhealth.org for instructions on how to comment. Contact your senators and demand withdrawal from this so-called �treaty.� For information on what to say and more peopleto contact, visit https://jamesroguski.substack.com/p/speaking-truth-to-power?s=r as a resource. This is important as America�s sovereignty and your rights are at stake. Ezekiel 22:30 says, �And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge,and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it.� Let us be among them so that the last sentence of that verse never occurs: �But I found none.� Take some time and register your opposition to this tyranny. ------------------------------------ Is �Meltdown� The Correct Term to Describe the Current State Of The U.S. Economy?- by Michael Snyder - http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/is-meltdown-the-correct-term-to-describe-the-current-state-of-the-u-s-economy/ I have really been struggling to come up with an accurate way of describing the current state of the U.S. economy, because none of the traditional labels seem to apply. Inflationis out of control, and that normally happens when an economy is overheating. But of course the U.S. economy is not overheating. In fact, if U.S. GDP falls once again during the second quarter, that will officially confirm that we are actually in a recessionright now. There are some that have suggested that �stagflation� is a good description of current economic conditions, but the truth is that what we are facing is so much worse than anything that we dealt with during the 1970s. Let me give you an example. The Bureau of Labor Statistics just informed us that the consumer price index is 8.3 percent higher than it was a year ago� Inflation rose again in April, continuing a climb that has pushed consumers to the brink and is threatening the economic expansion, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reportedWednesday. The consumer price index, a broad-based measure of prices for goods and services, increased 8.3% from a year ago, higher than the Dow Jones estimate for an 8.1% gain. That is a really bad number, but it doesn�t accurately reflect reality. If inflation was still calculated the way that it was back in 1980, the official rate of inflation would be well over 15 percent right now, and that is far worse than at anypoint during the Jimmy Carter era. And if you can believe it, the real rate of inflation is now the highest that it has ever been in the entire modern history of the United States. The term �meltdown� comes to mind, but I don�t think that completely captures what we are facing either. Of course Joe Biden says he has a plan, and he insists that reducing inflation is his �top economic priority�� President Biden, reacting to April�s consumer price index Wednesday, acknowledged that inflation is �unacceptably high,� and maintained that lowering prices for American familiesis his �top economic priority,� while again blaming the surging numbers on COVID-19 and Russian President Vladimir Putin. Meanwhile, tens of millions of ordinary Americans continue to deeply suffer as prices spiral out of control. Earlier today, I was stunned to see that even CNN is admitting that some Americans are �skipping meals� these days in order to make ends meet� The price of groceries, gas, rent and utilities has marched higher over the past year; but wages have not kept up � and more than half of single parents make less than $15an hour, according to recent research from Oxfam. That has left many single parents skipping meals so their children have plenty of food, providing less healthy meals for their families, and culling expenses to the pointwhere any unforeseen cost could mean more debt � or worse. If people are skipping meals already, what will things be like a year from now when economic conditions are even worse? Most people don�t realize this, but we are extremely vulnerable. When the next major downturn strikes, millions upon millions of Americans will be instantly wiped out. According to a report that was just released, almost two-thirds of all Americans are currently living paycheck to paycheck� As of March, close to two-thirds, or 64%, of the U.S. population was living paycheck to paycheck, just shy of the high of 65% in 2020, according to a LendingClub report. �The number of people living paycheck to paycheck today is reminiscent of the early days of the pandemic and it has become the dominant lifestyle across income brackets,� said Anuj Nayar, LendingClub�s financial health officer. Living on the edge is fine as long as a paycheck keeps coming in like clockwork. But if things suddenly shift, millions upon millions of Americans could suddenly find themselves plunged into poverty. Before I end this article, I would be remiss if I did not mention the fact that financial markets were way down yet again today. In fact, the Nasdaq dropped another 3 percent. But the big news is what is happening to the cryptocurrency industry. Cryptos are crashing harder than Hunter Biden after a drug-fueled night with a Chinese hooker, and Coinbaseis coming apart like a 20 dollar suit� The cryptocurrency brokerage reported a first-quarter loss late Tuesday and revenue that fell 27% from a year ago, missing Wall Street�s forecasts. Coinbase shares plummetednearly 25% in early trading Wednesday morning and hit their lowest level ever. Coinbase stock is now down more than 75% this year and is trading nearly 85% below its all-time high price from November. Shares have lost more than half their value in justthe past week alone. If you have money with Coinbase, you may want to consider your options, because it is being reported that �users might lose all the cryptocurrency stored in their accounts� if Coinbase actually goes bankrupt� Hidden away in Coinbase Global�s disappointing first-quarter earnings report�in which the U.S.�s largest cryptocurrency exchange reported a quarterly loss of $430 millionand a 19% drop in monthly users�is an update on the risks of using Coinbase�s service that may come as a surprise to its millions of users. In the event the crypto exchange goes bankrupt, Coinbase says, its users might lose all the cryptocurrency stored in their accounts too. I was absolutely floored when I first read that. Right now, Coinbase is holding more than 250 billion dollars worth of assets for its customers, and there is a danger that all of it could become �inaccessible�� Coinbase said in its earnings report Tuesday that it holds $256 billion in both fiat currencies and cryptocurrencies on behalf of its customers. Yet the exchange noted thatin the event it ever declared bankruptcy, �the crypto assets we hold in custody on behalf of our customers could be subject to bankruptcy proceedings.� Coinbase users would become �general unsecured creditors,� meaning they have no right to claim any specificproperty from the exchange in proceedings. Their funds would become inaccessible. So there are some people out there that currently believe that they are crypto millionaires that could literally end up with nothing. At this point, the crypto industry is in the process of melting down. But so are the financial markets. And so is the overall economy. The great unraveling that we have been warned about is here, and we are still only in the early chapters. I would greatly encourage you to protect your assets while you still can. A rush for the exits has now begun, and you don�t want to be caught holding the bag. ----------------------------