Global Depression 2022 - Time to do the Breadline Boogaloo!

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Who is going to get hit the hardest?

  • North America

  • South America

  • Asia

  • Europe

  • Australia

  • Africa

  • The Middle East

  • Everyone's fucked

  • Nothing will happen

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And it's now confirmed. India has bypassed the Petrodollar.

Will the brown haze over the designated shitting streets protect them from US Drone strikes?
 
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Will the brown haze over the designated shitting streets protect them from US Drone strikes?
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Nope, a stench even worse.

The Corporations will nip any Drone Strikes in the Ass because India is a designated IP Zone and if it gets rubble-ized Microsoft and Apple won't be able to outsource Customer Service to the Pajeets and might have to pay Americans fair wages to do it.

Don't you love the smell of A "FAIR" Market where the Corporations work in partnership with the Government?
 
Nothing will ever happen to China or India. The entire administration would be assassinated if they tried to severely sanction the countries that provide cheap plastic crap and cheap phone support.
 
Honka Honka Burning Love said:
Nope, a stench even worse.

The Corporations will nip any Drone Strikes in the Ass because India is a designated IP Zone and if it gets rubble-ized Microsoft and Apple won't be able to outsource Customer Service to the Pajeets and might have to pay Americans fair wages to do it.

Don't you love the smell of A "FAIR" Market where the Corporations work in partnership with the Government?
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They already have the Philippines as backup for cheap tech support, and if worst comes to worst, they can always send it to the (allegedly) English speaking parts of Africa (probably South Africa, Ghana, Nigeria, or Kenya).
 
Kane Lives said:
Don't you love it when people tell you not to be poor?

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Its fascinating how much the mask of journalism has been ripped away.
Also, this part of the tweet is simply awe inspiringly cruel:

Take the bus
Don’t buy in bulk
Try lentils instead of meat
Nobody said this would be fun
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What a cunt.
"Ride the bus and stop being independent!"
"Only buy what we tell you to and how much we'll allow"
"Eat the bugs Lentils instead of enjoying meat like us elites do!"
"You all will suffer, WE will sit back and laugh at you serfs suffering"
Shit like this makes me want to fedpost so fucking badly.
 
MasterBaiter said:

If you want to see red keep on reading holy moly some of these bureaucracts are wall ready .

Some people want to put more land under cultivation. Scottish farmers and planners have asked the government to allow farmland programmed for “rewilding” to be put back into production in response to anticipated food shortages. But that’s too sensible for our green elites. Scotland’s Minister for Green Skills, Circular Economy and Biodiversity Lorna Slater — yes, that’s her full title — has flatly refused. According to Slater, “We are still in a nature emergency that hasn’t gone away . . . so it’s a no.”

Nature emergencies outrank human emergencies in the green world, so that’s not a surprise. Voters may feel differently as prices skyrocket

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The island nation of Sri Lanka offers a stark warning. A green experiment in abandoning artificial fertilizer there — encouraged by the Rockefeller Foundation — was a “brutal and swift” economic and humanitarian disaster, Foreign Policy reports.

“Against claims that organic methods can produce comparable yields to conventional farming, domestic rice production fell 20 percent in just the first six months. Sri Lanka, long self-sufficient in rice production, has been forced to import $450 million worth of rice even as domestic prices for this staple of the national diet surged by around 50 percent. The ban also devastated the nation’s tea crop, its primary export and source of foreign exchange.”

FP continues: “Human costs have been even greater. Prior to the pandemic’s outbreak, the country had proudly achieved upper-middle-income status. Today, half a million people have sunk back into poverty.”

Sri Lanka’s policy, which FP describes as a “farrago of magical thinking, technocratic hubris, ideological delusion, self-dealing and sheer shortsightedness,” imposed enormous human damage on the nation. But don’t worry — the government and NGO officials behind it won’t miss any meals. Consequences are for the little people.

With the triple-barreled threat of inflation, soaring fuel prices and shrunken food supplies, the world faces something like the same fate, and once again those responsible are unlikely to pay the price. (But maybe some will. After all, food shortages led to the Arab Spring riots and the overturning of governments.)

Regardless, the world’s policymakers need to take a less casual approach to the well-being of the world’s population. That very much includes those in the Biden administration. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack’s response to concerns about fertilizer and food shortages: “Maybe sacrifices are necessary.” You can rest assured Vilsack won’t be the one making them.
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well I'm one less mouth to feed because reading this made me stroke out with rage and I'm not alive anymore
 
Drag-on Knight 91873 said:
Wood IS a renewable energy source, after all. It grows from the ground.
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Technically yes. But deforestation is shit that's destroyed everything from muddy Neolithic cities in both Old and New World to the Roman Empire to a fuckton of Chinese states. It also was the cause of many debates from the 16th-19th centuries over "peak wood" much as we discuss peak oil today (and just like today, a lot of peak wood stuff was pure exaggeration and fearmongering based on regional wood shortages).

But seriously, deforestation sucks and thank god for the Industrial Age and steel. That and efficiency in agriculture is the main reason why forests worldwide have grown back, sometimes in really poor fashion like the ones on the West Coast that catch fire every year.
 
Save the Loli said:
Technically yes. But deforestation is shit that's destroyed everything from muddy Neolithic cities in both Old and New World to the Roman Empire to a fuckton of Chinese states. It also was the cause of many debates from the 16th-19th centuries over "peak wood" much as we discuss peak oil today (and just like today, a lot of peak wood stuff was pure exaggeration and fearmongering based on regional wood shortages).

But seriously, deforestation sucks and thank god for the Industrial Age and steel. That and efficiency in agriculture is the main reason why forests worldwide have grown back, sometimes in really poor fashion like the ones on the West Coast that catch fire every year.
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I'm retarded and don't look anything up but are tree farms sustainable? I know a guy that has a bunch of land for that purpose.

Wondering if it'd help or if we'd consume so much wood if be untenable.
 
Bonedome said:
I'm retarded and don't look anything up but are tree farms sustainable? I know a guy that has a bunch of land for that purpose.

Wondering if it'd help or if we'd consume so much wood if be untenable.
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Depends how much wood you're harvesting per year and what trees you're growing. But I'm not sure "peak wood" ever could happen since if our civilization collapsed to the point our demand for wood goes way up, a bunch of people will starve and freeze globally thus reducing our demand for wood. Even in the past, wood shortages were just a local annoyance because they'd just ship the wood from elsewhere. China would get it from southeast Asia, deforested Britain would get their wood from Scandinavia and America, etc.
 
Cost of guns and bullets might go up, also wtf is America doing? Ohio governor signed a bill permitting concealed carry of handguns without a permit, and Indiana governor signed a similar bill recently.



Summer 2022 might be interesting indeed.
 
FatalTater said:
Cost of guns and bullets might go up, also wtf is America doing? Ohio governor signed a bill permitting concealed carry of handguns without a permit, and Indiana governor signed a similar bill recently.
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Cost of bullets has been insane since 2020. Well, at least I just need to go fishing if I want to find the guns I bought that year.
 
Take the bus. Sucks to be me I guess. I live in the Greater San Antonio area and compared to the Wasatch Front, public transportation out in the "sticks", basically the suburbs, is non existant. I saw busses all the time back in Utah. I had a rail system I could take that would drop me in downtown SLC and the airport a few miles from my house.

Most of these journos who say "Take the Bus" probably live back Northeast where public transport is "great" and everything is closer together. Not so west of the Mississippi.

Luckily I own a car, can drive, and work from home already. But what if someone isn't lucky like me. They're basically fucked or forced to work where is close or bum a ride from a co-worker.
 
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tehpope said:
Take the bus. Sucks to be me I guess. I live in the Greater San Antonio area and compared to the Wasatch Front, public transportation out in the "sticks", basically the suburbs, is non existant. I saw busses all the time back in Utah. I had a rail system I could take that would drop me in downtown SLC and the airport a few miles from my house.

Most of these journos who say "Take the Bus" probably live back Northeast where public transport is "great" and everything is closer together. Not so west of the Mississippi.

Luckily I own a car, can drive, and work from home already. But what if someone isn't lucky like me. They're basically fucked or forced to work where is close or bum a ride from a co-worker.
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This is the same story around the world.
The mindless millions of modern, urbanized bugmen who run society from their shared 1.5m2 Hive-Pod "Mancaves" are completely unaware of the idea
that there may be people out in the countryside (and i dont mean thousands of miles away from the next Wallmart here) who may not have 24/7, 5 minute-interval public transport options.
That there may be people who are actually more screwed than just "mildly inconvenienced by higher shipping costs" when gas prices double out of the blue. Really same story as gun laws.
These people cant comprehend that there are places where either a bus or a cop is more than 15-20 minutes away.
So everyone who lives in those places can go and fuck themselves, as usually.

This entire move that most of the western societies did, the migration from smaller towns into giant urban mistakes Metropolises was and still is the problem at the heart of the death of western society. These places drive people living inside them insane and we all suffer for it. Even E-Celebs become somehow worse after moving to a place like LA.
Btw, the WEF has been planning these bugman cities (including no personal cars) for years now.
You will own nothing, Eat bugs, and be forced to live in an LA-tier shithole after the great reset is done.
The only "personal" transportation are "Rent-Per-Week" E-bikes that automatically disable at the city limits, a safe 50m away from the electric fence.

One can only hope that people actually get off their asses before it gets that bad.
 
US Inflation Rate
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There have been some interesting developments lately with the current rate of inflation for the US, where even the establishment has been forced to address the current rates of inflation during January and February of 2022. According to official sources the US rate of inflation stood at 7.87% for the month of February, compared to 7.48% in the previous month of January and a rate of 2.49% this time last year during January of 2021.

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Some users of this thread might be familiar with economic tracker John Williams, who regularly appears on several podcasts to present information and his own statistics from Shadowstats.com. John was a regular guest on Greg Hunter's now deleted podcast on Youtube and website USAwatchdog.com.

John William's has always stated that the reported level of inflation in the US is often double that of official reports and the establishment uses economic tricks (removing and changing certain indicators) to get the figure much lower than what it is for political purposes.

Originally, the CPI was determined by comparing the price of a fixed basket of goods and services spanning two different periods. In this case, the CPI was a cost of goods index (COGI). However, over time, the U.S. Congress embraced the view that the CPI should reflect changes in the cost to maintain a constant standard of living. Consequently, the CPI has evolved into a cost of living index (COLI).

John Williams, a U.S. economist, and analyst of government reporting, prefers a CPI, or inflation measure, calculated using the original methodology based on a basket of goods having quantities and qualities fixed.​
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The disagreement between John Williams and official sources appears to be the changes to calculating the Consumer Price Index (CPI) recommended to organizations like the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) by congress for obvious political purposes.

Checking John Williams data from two different analysts currently puts the true rate of inflation in the US, under the traditional methods for calculating the CPI, somewhere between 10-15%

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Food and Fuel Inflation
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The current crisis in Ukraine is set to have devastating unexpected side effects of various aspects on western economies, namely gasoline and food prices. User's have undoubtedly noticed the drastic rise in gasoline prices, especially in the US and Europe. This rise in prices will have a dramatic effect on the price of food, since the prices are often affected by the cost of transportation to stores, energy costs for manufacturing and processing and energy costs for the farmers to harvest the food themselves.

Less known is Russia's role in providing fertilizer to the worlds agricultural nations and is estimated to provide 15% of the worlds fertilizer. This is coupled with the fact that both Russia and Ukraine are estimated to provide 28% of the world's wheat.

A crucial portion of the world’s wheat, corn and barley is trapped in Russia and Ukraine because of the war, while an even larger portion of the world’s fertilizers is stuck in Russia and Belarus. The result is that global food and fertilizer prices are soaring. Since the invasion last month, wheat prices have increased by 21 percent, barley by 33 percent and some fertilizers by 40 percent.

Russia is the world’s largest fertilizer exporter, providing about 15 percent of the world supply. This month, just as farmers around the world prepared for planting, Russia told its fertilizer producers to halt exports. Sanctions already were making such transactions difficult.
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Since Russia announced its grain export ban last week, prices have once again skyrocketed. Many countries are fearing famine and protests sparked by a lack of food. Moscow's temporary ban on exports of wheat, barley, rye and other grains is expected to last until at least the end of June.

According to Germany's Federal Office for Economic Affairs and Export Control, Ukraine's wheat production accounts for 11.5% of the world market, while Russia's share is 16.8%. When it comes to corn, Ukraine supplies 17% of the world's export market.​
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You'll notice that the headlines for both articles talk of global food insecurity Ukraine War increases global food insecurity (DW) and Ukraine War Threatens to Cause a Global Food Crisis (NYtimes). The three pressures of rising energy costs, sanctions and the war itself are theorized to cause massive food insecurity and political instability in emerging and third world nations. The last time food prices rose at such a level, they were believed to be one of the major contributing factors to the Arab Spring of 2010 to 2012 which saw various middle eastern governments fail.
 
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