Category Archives: Business/Economics

Paying the Pandemic Piper: “My family is starving, I have to sell my daughter.” Get ready for real Hunger Games!

“…you’re going to lose more people by putting a country into a massive recession, or depression. You’re going to lose people.  You’re going to have suicides by the thousands….. You’re going to have instability, you can’t just come in and say ‘let’s close-up the United States of America’!”President Donald Trump, Fox News interview 24 March 2020

In the age of pandemic perfidy, food is now a major tool for government control of the global population.  Incomplete list of links to news reports and food industry articles as of 09SEP2021:

African organizations accuse the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), and other donors, of destroying agriculture through out the African continent under the guise of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa!

AFGHANISTAN: Because the United States froze $7-billion worth of Afghanistan’s assets, and the International Monetary Fund halting financing, the United Nations says the country’s economy is collapsing and already there is a food shortage!

“My family is starving, I have to sell my daughter.”

AUSTRALIA: Fake meat food producers are tricking consumers by using words like beef and meat, and putting the fact that it is vegan in small print!

ETHIOPIA: United Nations warns 7-million people are going hungry!

150 people starved to death last month!

GERMANY: Food poisoning at a university makes students sick and turns their skin blue!

Do you know what Campylobacter is?

Why does Germany have such a high rate of Listeria?

Once an Afghan government official, now just a food delivery-man in Germany.

INDIA: Scammers are convincing investors to pump money into food industry brands that are fake!

Cattle die due to extreme drought, cattle feed prices skyrocket 150%!

ITALY: Italy accuses the United States of selling Europeans fake pasta!

JAPAN: Australia donates more than 8-thousand meals to Japan’s national food bank!

Tokyo-based Space Foodsphere wants to build farms on the Moon.

Uber Eats halts hiring foreigners for food delivery operations, after being accused of employing illegals!

LEBANNON:

KENYA: 63-thousand people starving to death!

KOREA:  North Korea blames climate disasters, not pandemic, for famines:

NETHERLANDS: Massive automated food factory to be built, in operation by 2024.

SRI LANKA:

SPAIN: 

U.S. Navy photo by Yeoman Third Class Sarah Weaver.

Volunteers on U.S. Naval Station Rota greeted Afghan refugees with food, 02SEP2021.

SINGAPORE: Fake chicken is served to rich people in upscale restaurants.

UNITED KINGDOM: Trucker strike results in food shortages!

Brexit reveals that the U.K. became dependent upon the EU for food.

Food logistics company decides to use air-conditioned conex boxes (shipping containers) as mini-food warehouses through out London, because there is no more space to build traditional warehouses to meet growing food demand.

UNITED STATES:  

USN photo by Valerie Maigue.

U.S. Naval Hospital Guam delivered nearly 2-thousand pounds of food and paper products to the Kamalen Karidat soup kitchen, 31AUG2021.

Walmart expands pandemic inspired Ghost Kitchen operations.

Kroger joins pandemic inspired Ghost Kitchen concept.

Why one chain cafe refuses to adopt pandemic Ghost Kitchen concept.

Arizona pecan processor shuts down, 130 jobs lost, blamed on trade wars and the pandemic!

King 5 video report, Washington state schools don’t have enough food:

KCTV5 video report, Kansas City schools lack food, blames pandemic logistics:

 2020 Census reveals U.S. citizens are getting the hell outta farming!

Biden to give migrant farm workers $700-million in additional taxpayer pandemic funding!

The USDA releases 2020 pandemic lockdown food insecurity data.

New Jersey’s largest dairy farm ripped by tornado.

Lawsuit says national restaurant chain’s onion rings use no onions!

Local Illinois restaurant halts sale of onion rings due to no available onions!

Fake fish made out of plants, or grown in laboratories!

Fake milk products are creating new flavor challenges for scientists.

Yet another fake chicken nugget is being forced down your throat.

Better Business Bureau warning of false online food delivery services!

Costs to ship food by train are going up!

Charity food farm in Missouri issues a warning; not enough volunteers to harvest all the crops!

Louisiana Air National Guard photo by Staff Sergeant Ryan J. Sonnier.

Louisiana National Guard conducts food operations after Hurricane Ida, 01SEP2021.

Orange County, California, warns that even with improving economy food insecurity is only going to get worse!

California’s San Mateo County (5th wealthiest in the state) blames pandemic for leading the state in applications for taxpayer funded food program!

Food insecurity for Kentucky 50-year-olds is the worst in the nation!

Food Bank of Southeastern Virginia reports 18% increase in people who cannot buy food!

The NFL continues its 19th season fighting hunger in Wisconsin!

Afghan refugee trolled for complaining about food in Texas!

People are using food availability as the deciding factor when moving to a new city.

More lawsuits aimed at lax U.S. food labeling regulations.

Ireland owned Dole hired an Arizona company to design a cloud-based system to attempt to manage its global food delivery operations.

Uber to sell part of its stake in Russian food delivery company!

U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued more than $350-million in penalties to several companies involved in illegally shipping seafood from Alaska to the eastern United States!

A California food bank is expanding its food storage by 1200 square feet!

Edwardsville, Indiana, considering allowing food trucks to operate in a greater area through out the city.

Global food industry growth credited to “The rapid rise in the prevalence of e-commerce in the food and retail sectors….” 

Food transportation and warehouse operators are blaming the pandemic for major problems with shipping/delivery!

VIETNAM: Pandemic blamed for shutting down food industry.

Military deployed to deliver food!

U.S. Pandemic Logistics Shenanigans, August 2021: HOLY CRAP BATMAN, ANOTHER BUTT-WIPER & FOOD SHORTAGE!?!

U.S. Medical & Food Disaster, July 2021: THIS IS NOT A DRILL! MILITARY DRUG DEALERS TAKE OVER LOCAL HIGH SCHOOL CAFETERIAS?

U.S. Food Crisis, June 2021: “EXPONENTIALLY BIGGER” “GHOSTS IN THE LAND.”

U.S. Food Crisis, March 2021: MILITARY DISTRIBUTION SUCCESS PROVES THE MARKET SYSTEM HAS FAILED!

Pandemic Shenanigans, February 2021: RESTAURANT HELL!

Operation CoViD-19, April 2020: COVERT OPERATION TO CONTROL THE GLOBAL FOOD SUPPLY?

U.S. Food Crisis, March 2019: “NOBODY HAS ANY MONEY”

Control through Chaos: USING THE BIBLE AS YOUR GUIDE TO DESTROY SOCIETY!

“I looked and there before me was a pale horse! Its rider was named Death, and Hades was following close behind him. They were given power over a fourth of the earth to kill by sword, famine and plague, and by the wild beasts of the earth.-Revelation 6:8, New International Bible

U.S. Pandemic Logistics Shenanigans: Holy Crap Batman, another Butt-Wiper & food shortage!?!

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The 26th of August is national toilet paper day in the United States.  Here are some links to the latest butt-wiper and mouth-stuffer shenanigans:

The Arizona National Guard has been directly involved with food distribution operations since the pandemic officially started in the U.S., and they still are directly involved, here is their latest year-n-half in review video as of 13AUG2021:

Computer chip shortage now causing kitchen appliance shortage!

Costco shoppers return to panic buying of butt-wipers and bottled water?

Costco limits food purchases!

One of the largest food distributors in North America halts shipments!

Shortages of pet food still plagues parts of North America!

Walmart recalling five food items!

Video report, new food supplier for Colorado school district under fire for delivering disgusting food:

Video report, another Colorado school district blames food problems on lack of people willing to work for peanuts in the school food system:

Photo by Valerie Maigue.

On 09AUG2021, U.S. Navy and Marines conducted an Emergency Food Assistance operation on the U.S. territory of Guam.

Video report, “unprecedented” food shortage for South Carolina schools:

There is so much food waste in Florida (at least 90 tons) that private efforts to deal with it have expanded!

Hillsborough County, Florida, warning that it cannot treat the water supply due to lack of liquid oxygen!

Louisiana farmers warn of food shortage due to Delta Pandemic panic!

Is it about the money? Analysts predict ecologically friendly global recycled butt-wiper market.

Global butt-wiper industry expected to be worth U.S.$39.5-billion by 2028!

Penny pincher blames pandemic, and cost of living in NYC, for why she stopped buying butt-wipers.

Pumpkin spice scented butt-wipers!

Bear caught on video stealing box of butt-wipers in Connecticut!

Florida high school student arrested for setting fire to butt-wipers in school toilet room!

Video report about East Idaho school district getting shorted at both ends; not enough food and not enough butt-wipers (‘paper products’):

Idaho man wastes 101 butt-wiper rolls to set world record!

Idahoans are panic buying ice!

Video report, food service industry in Idaho’s Treasure Valley say they can’t get the supplies required to serve food:

Indiana school district reports lack of food!

Pennsylvania school system blames food shortage on labor shortage.

On 30JUL2021, the Washington National Guard halted their CoViD-19 food operations, calling it a success.

Pandemic Logistics Shenanigans: CANNED PET FOOD? CONSPIRACY TO JACK-UP PRICES? BLAME CHINA?

Pandemic Panic-Attack: HOSPITAL SHORTAGE? DON’T BLAME PANDEMIC, BLAME OBAMACARE!

Pandemic Panic-Attack: SHOPPING MAYHEM AT POCATELLO WINCO!

Pandemic Logistics Shenanigans: Canned Pet Food? Conspiracy to jack-up prices? Blame China?

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Photo by AAron Hutchins, 25APR2021.

A recent visit to the Pocatello, Idaho, Fred Meyer revealed that not only are they still out of cat litter, but now they are out of canned cat food!  Notice the blue stickers all over the shelf fronts, they say “Sorry for the inconvenience”.

Across the street at Winco, they are still low on the top selling cat litters, but are also showing fewer stock of canned cat and dog food.  Fred Meyer is also showing a declining stock of canned dog food, but they’re not out of stock, yet.

It doesn’t help that in the past month several brands of pet food, in the U.S., were recalled due to salmonella.

A quick check of the inter-web and I discovered that shortages of pet food is making way more international news than shortages of cat litter, and this time most of the international news media isn’t blaming the pandemic (except for a Fox TV station and other news outlets in New York).

India:  Government orders pet food makers to boost production.

New Zealand:  Global supply issues and shipping delays hit the family cat’s dinner plate.

United States: Cat Food Shortage Leaves Pet Owners in a Bind.

Pet food shortage: Fancy Feast, Friskies and 9 Lives.

These Three Beloved Pet Food Brands Are About to Skyrocket in Price.

I also checked for news regarding the logistics industry.

An interesting report out of India revealed that several India airline companies are now contracting to be CoViD-19 oxygen and vaccine cargo haulers in Hong Kong, India and for “private entities” in the United States.  Also, Singapore government-owned Temasek has partnered with Air India and Amazon to airlift oxygen concentrators.

The fact that so many shipping companies are shifting to more profitable CoViD operations can only negatively affect the supplies of everything else.

Siddharth Jain of Inox Air Products, revealed in a recent interview why the current craze of shipping liquid oxygen to CoViD hospitals is screwing up the supply chain, at least in India: “….this has never been done anywhere in the world. Liquid oxygen is not designed to travel thousands of kilometers. Usually, plants are set up where there is a requirement…” 

In New Zealand, University of Auckland Centre for Supply Chain Management director Tava Olsen said supply chains were supposed to flow smoothly like water, but the whole chain had become ‘lumpy’….blames it partly on China.

Covenant Logistics Group just revealed they’ve been restructuring their operations, and admitted that “…supply chain disruptions, and an intensifying national driver shortage, all of which have continued into the second quarter.”

Crain’s New York Business interviewed an ‘expert’ who stated that the pandemic shift to more e-commerce revealed that there is not enough warehouses (believe it or not) dedicated to stocking merchandise for e-commerce sales.  The expert also said the logistics industry is ramping up its use of A-I and robots.

A new article by Logistics Manager says the advent of the pandemic, Brexit, China trade problems, and the recent blockage of the Suez Canal, revealed that the shift to a logistical system operated more with A-I and robots, and less humans, doesn’t work!  It also agrees with the Crain’s New York Business ‘expert’ who says there just aren’t enough warehouses to support the new logistics system.

Photo by AAron Hutchins, November 2013.

At the end of last year the Pocatello, Idaho, Fred Meyer began operating as a ‘fulfilment’ center for their e-commerce and pandemic ‘pick-up’ sales.  The brick-n-mortar store is now serving double duty as an e-commerce warehouse, but that doesn’t mean they’re carrying more stock.

I’ve written several times in the past that the so-called pandemic panic attack buying is actually a major problem with the globalized supply system, in which bigger logistics companies were taking over and shutting down smaller competitors, and switching to a new A-I system with robot workers instead of humans, just before the pandemic hit.

March 2021: PANDEMIC PANIC-ATTACK HITS CAT LITTER? BLAME LOGISTICS COMPETITION AND ROBOTS!

February 2021: GLOBAL SUGAR CRISIS, BETTER STOCK UP NOW!

U.S. Food Crisis: MILITARY DISTRIBUTION SUCCESS PROVES THE MARKET SYSTEM HAS FAILED!

Operation CoViD-19: COVERT OP TO CONTROL THE GLOBAL FOOD SUPPLY?

Pandemic Shenanigans: More false positives! J&J vax under study for infertility! Shutdowns falsely blamed on CoViD!

Here’s an incomplete list of links to news media reports on the latest pandemic panic-attack shenanigans, as of 14MAR2021:

Hotel tries to attract tourists by offering free CoViD testing across Caribbean and Mexico.

Why has Covid’s toll been surprisingly low across much of Africa and Asia?

AUSTRALIA: Supposedly the residents of Western Australia re-elected their state government, by a landslide, despite crazy-strict pandemic panic-attack restrictions.

Government allows pharmacies to substitute medications due to shortages blamed on pandemic panic-attack!

BRAZIL: Why did Brazil greatly reduce testing for CoViD when supposedly infections and deaths were skyrocketing?

CANADA: “As of March 11, a total of 2,986 variants of concern have been reported across Canada…”

Variant versus Strain

New cross-border CoViD testing operation run by hotel chain, for Canada and United States.

Travelers hit with big fine for providing false CoViD test results.

‘Free’ CoViD test in Nova Scotia cost Canadian woman more than CAD$1-thousand!

Amazon ordered to shutdown distribution center due to skyrocketing infections!

CZECH REPUBLIC: Businesses are backing government mandated CoViD testing in the hopes the government won’t shut them down!

ITALY: Red Zone panic-attack restrictions tightened!

JAPAN: Government officials beg China not to butt-test people visiting from Japan!

Health officials report new Philippine strain of CoViD, amid 60% increase in variants, a total of 271 cases of variant-strains!

KOREA: CoViD tests are now mandatory for foreigners!

MEXICO: CoViD testing conducted by dogs!

U.S. health ‘expert’ Fauci admits, in detailed interview by Eugenio Derbez, that CoViD ‘vaccines’ are not vaccines, but experimental technology! Admits studies do not show that vaccines actually stop infection, they just prevent symptoms, that’s why you must still comply with pandemic panic-attack restrictions! Admits vaccines will turn people into ‘carriers’! Admits the vaccines are not working on new strains/variants of CoViD! At end of interview reveals that a third CoViD ‘booster’ vaccine is on the way!  The intro is in Spanish, the interview is in English.

Also in the Fauci interview he refers to “a fund” to compensate people injured by vaccines.  That fund was established by the U.S. government decades ago due to the fact that people are being injured or killed by vaccines, it’s called National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program.

THAILAND: Bang Kae Market shutdown due to high positive test rate!

UNITED KINGDOM:  Police raided a workout joint and forcefully shut it down, for violating the city of Preston’s pandemic panic-attack closure order!  Ten people inside the gym were also fined £200 each.

UNITED STATES: 45% of laboratories testing for CoViD-19 cannot properly test due to lack of supplies, and this is an improvement from 2020: “Access to testing supplies ultimately affects our ability to provide an accurate, timely diagnosis.”-Patrick Godbey, College of American Pathologists

Canadian TV news reports new problem in the United States with CoViD infections, ‘sudden onset diabetes’!

U.S. Marines Corps Logistics Command explains “known” risks of mRNA vaccines:

California; Continued problems with CoViD testing shuts down high school football!

CoViD testing being expanded in The Golden State.

Major CoViD testing lab found to have “significant deficiencies” by state inspectors!

Florida; Health clinics in Tampa Bay now require an expensive vitamin deficiency test before getting a CoViD vaccine, no specific reason given but reading the article you get the sense that there is concern about giving the vaccine to people who are not considered healthy!

University of Miami suspects Johnson & Johnson vaccine might cause infertility in men because: “The J&J vaccine is the actual virus. And so now all of the concerns about the potential virus binding to the testes and impacting sperm count remains….”-Ranjith Ramasamy, University of Miami 

Georgia; Steady decrease in demand for CoViD testing results in future testing being canceled!

Idaho;  In Chubbuck, the 27 years old Red Lobster suddenly shutdown on 13Mar2021, posting a note on the door blaming pandemic panic-attack restrictions (of which there are none mandated in Chubbuck!), and despite the fact they are crowded at the lunch and diner hours (local reports say the restaurant was packed as usual the night before the sudden shutdown)!   While the corporate statement partly blames “government actions” regarding CoViD-19, it actually shutdown due to a failed attempt at a new rent scheme with the owners of Pine Ridge Mall: “This is without question the most challenging time Red Lobster has faced in our 53 years of operation. Like many other full-service restaurants, the COVID-19 pandemic continues to change the way we are able to operate, and because of the crisis and consequent government actions, our restaurants, including our restaurant in Pocatello [it’s actually in Chubbuck] have been significantly impacted. After more than 27 years of being part of the Pocatello [Chubbuck, damn it!] community, we have made the incredibly difficult decision to close our restaurant at 4105 Yellowstone Highway. This decision was not made lightly, but it is necessary after being unable to reach an agreement with our landlord. We understand the impact this situation has on our guests as well as our employees’ ability to work. These decisions have not been taken lightly, but they are necessary for our business in these unprecedented times.”

Iowa; CoViD testing revealed operations at the State Hygienic Laboratory, in the University of Iowa Research Park, was a joke!

After more than ten years, live events ticket seller Tickly shutdown blaming pandemic panic-attack restrictions!

Minnesota; Gym that refused to follow state pandemic panic-attack shutdown orders will pay USD$5-thousand fine.  If caught open again, the fine goes up to $25-thousand.

Nevada; Positive CoViD test results at only 5.8%

New Mexico; Otero County reports only 4.98% positive test rate.

North Carolina;  All Duke University undergrads must quarantine!

Oregon; Oregon State University conducting random CoViD testing of people and wastewater in Corvallis.

Pennsylvania;  Five counties demand permanent/long term CoViD test operations!

Tennessee; University of Tennessee students refuse to take CoViD test, school administrators refuse to relax pandemic restrictions as a result!

Texas; Without warning Red Lobster suddenly shutdown its restaurant in Sugar Land, blaming pandemic panic-attack restrictions.  It should be noted that at the beginning of 2020 the Florida based Red Lobster chain was in trouble financially, yet denied rumors that it would soon begin mass shutdowns of restaurants.  However by Spring 2020 dozens of Red Lobsters were shutdown across the U.S., blamed on pandemic panic-attack restrictions.  Red Lobster administrators claimed they were temporary shutdowns, but many are still closed and now in 2021 there are have permanent shutdowns taking place.

CoViD testing rates for The Lone Star State at lowest level since Autumn 2020.

Vermont; National Guard’s Task Force Coyote halts CoViD testing, switches to vaccinations!

Washington; Skagit County shuts down USD$1.4-million drive-thru CoViD test site, saying they’re not able to conduct mass-testing and mass-vaccinations at the same time!

Despite free CoViD-19 testing many people are reporting that they are getting hit with bills (as much as $300 per test!) for said ‘free’ tests!

Despite claims that CoViD vaccines are issued free of charge, people in The Evergreen State are getting bills for said ‘free’ vaccines!

Washington DC; Biden to make White House news media pay for their own CoViD testing?

The U.S. Food Drug Administration now says a popular test for CoViD and influenza doesn’t work!  Roche’s cobas test gives high number of false positives!

FDA pushes new T-cell CoViD test.

Biden admin begs China not to butt-test Biden staff!

Wisconsin; Waukesha County halts CoViD testing?

Amusement park indefinitely shuts down, blaming pandemic panic-attack!

UZBEHKISTAN: Ends mandatory CoViD testing at border crossings.

Pandemic Shenanigans: COURT RULES NOT ENOUGH SCIENTIFIC DATA FOR CURFEWS?

Pandemic Panic-Attack hits Cat Litter? Blame logistics competition and Robots!

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For the past couple of weeks I’ve noticed a growing shortage of cat litter products at stores in Bannock County, Idaho.

Photo by AAron Hutchins.

I took this photo in the Pocatello Fred Meyer, on 05MAR2021 at about 22:50, just before they closed for the night.  Notice that even litter boxes and some other litter accessories are short supply as well.

Across the street at Winco, they’ve been shifting around slow selling basic clay litter to fill in the empty spaces of the faster selling clumping litter.  Is the litter shortage due to panic buying, or continued problems with a new global logistical supply system that still doesn’t work?

In September 2020, a Canadian news report suggested that cat litter shortages were the result of panic buying and that ‘experts’ expected high demand to last long after the ‘pandemic’ ended!

However, in April 2020, a possibly ignorant Alabama Public Radio stated that pet products were not subject to panic buying, but at the same time encouraged their listeners to stock up on pet supplies!

That Alabama Public Radio report came a few months after a report out of the United Kingdom, in January 2020, which stated that a big supplier of cat litter had “collapsed”, leaving British stores without litter!

But what about now, in 2021?  On 06MAR2021, a study was made available regarding the global cat litter market, saying pandemic panic-attacks had changed the dynamics of the litter market.  The ‘pay-per-view’ study gives predictions through 2025.

Another cat litter market study, also released in March, gives predictions through 2027.

Yet another litter market study predicts that post-pandemic litter sales will hit $5.37-billion by 2027!

And yet another study says it’s not just litter but litter boxes that are experiencing skyrocketing demand!

There are dozens of cat litter market studies out there, all saying demand is only going to go up, and it’s blamed on what I call pandemic panic-attack syndrome.

Recently, a cat litter company called Dr. Elsey’s moved production from Colorado to Wyoming, into a bigger factory to meet high demand for their products.

Pretty Litter recently joined up with Marquee Brands/Martha Stewart in an attempt to increase sales.

Logistics, better known as the supply chain, is partly to blame for random shortages as well.  It’s one reason why Arizona has been relying on its National Guard to deliver food to grocery stores ever since the pandemic panic-attack began.

An article by DHL, about the difficulties of distributing the CoViD vaccines, indicates that such global vaccine operations are impacting the supply of everything else!

In Pennsylvania, a large trucking company just shutdown a distribution operation, affecting at least one thousand employees!  The reason was that the client they were serving dumped them and signed a new contract with a new supplier.

Globally, a lot of bigger supply companies are taking over smaller logistics providers, and whenever that happens operations are shutdown and people lose their jobs, and that has to affect supply chain.

An article by Logistics Management says the pandemic panic-attack “amplified existing logistics challenges around the world”.  Meaning the global supply system was already in trouble.

But even more importantly, the logistics industry is actually getting rid of human labor.  Recently, Swiss logistics company CEVA announced it is replacing human labor in Canada with robots, those robots are made by a Massachusetts company called Berkshire Grey.  This is very important because according to another article, Berkshire Grey’s sudden involvement in automating the North American logistics industry began just before the pandemic panic-attack: “When I visited its Massachusetts headquarters last year, following a massive $263 million Series B, the company discussed some pretty aggressive growth plans. Mind you, that was before the pandemic had really touched down in the U.S. in a meaningful way.

If anything, COVID-19 has accelerated interest in automation….”-Brian Heater, TechCrunch

Manufacturing.net: The Future of Warehouse Logistics

Shipping Watch UK: Logistics chain bottlenecks trigger longer contracts for container carriers

U.S. Food Crisis: MILITARY DISTRIBUTION SUCCESS PROVES THE MARKET SYSTEM HAS FAILED!

Pandemic Panic-Attack: GLOBAL SUGAR CRISIS, BETTER STOCK UP NOW!

Pandemic Panic-Attack: HOSPITAL SHORTAGE? DON’T BLAME PANDEMIC, BLAME OBAMACARE!

Pandemic Panic-Attack: SHOPPING MAYHEM AT POCATELLO WINCO!

Global Sugar Crisis, better stock up now!

Since the end of 2019, agricultural analysts have been warning of a global sugar shortage and thanks to a combination of pandemic, logistics, market and labor shenanigans, it is now upon us.  Here’s a list of links to news reports and food industry analysis, as of 10FEB2021.

New medical study says sugar promotes cancer killing Gamma-Delta T-cells!

Sugar shortage results in massive growth of sugar free chocolate market!

Global organic coconut sugar market expect to be worth U.S.-$442.8-million by 2027.

Monk Fruit sugar market expects steady growth until 2026.

Pandemic to affect organic sugar markets until 2025?

Predictions for the future of the global sugar market.

Brown sugar market predictions until 2029.

Powdered sugar market predictions until 2026.

Is there demand for sugar made from Dates?

Myths about sugar health risks debunked

European Food Agency:  Decades of logistical and government policy failures of European Union’s sugar industry, and now global shortages, results in a massive taxpayer funded study to solve the EU’s sugar supply chain problem.

AUSTRALIA: Aussie farmers told to focus on sugar production, to profit off the sugar shortage in Europe!

INDIA: Sugar farmers go on strike saying they haven’t been paid for their last sugar harvest!

Shipping container shortage and skyrocketing transportation costs halt sugar exports: “India has exported around 70,000 tonne [metric tons] so far. The container shortage, however, is affecting exports. Sri Lanka consumes around 60,000 tonne of sugar from India every month. But the freight costs have gone up from $250 per container to $1,000 between January 2020 and January 2021. Afghanistan consumes 60,000 tonne of sugar from India every month and freight costs for Afghanistan have gone up from $125 per container to $550 per container. There has been a sharp increase in freight rates and shipping is pretty tight at the moment.”-Rahil Shaikh, ‎MEIR Commodities India

INDONESIA: Government tries to expand sugar production by relaxing sugar licensing regulations, it fails due to lack of technologies and skyrocketing costs of operations.

KOREA: North Korea blames food shortages, including sugar, on the pandemic.

PAKISTAN: Government to attempt to import another 0.5m tonnes of sugar to overcome shortage.

PHILIPPINES:  Long term sugar shortage expected.

THAILAND: Black Sugar (the result of farmers burning sugarcane fields, not to be confused with Japanese Kuru Sato) increases due to lack of migrant farm workers caused by pandemic restrictions!

UNITED STATES: Sugar Processors Raise Prices as U.S. Faces Possible Sugar Shortage.

Florida; NASA releases images of Florida’s burning sugarcane farms (black sugar)

Georgia; Coca-Cola reports largest drop in volume production since World War Two, blames it on the pandemic!

Idaho; I live in Southeastern Idaho and since last year soda-pops made with 100% sugar (instead of 100% high fructose corn syrup, which is what the overwhelming majority of sodas are made with) have been disappearing.  In the past two weeks 100% sugar sodas have all but completely disappeared from local grocery store shelves (except for some very expensive gourmet sodas sold in individual bottles).

Amalgamated Sugar 2020 crop comes in at just over 40 tons per acre.

Idaho sugar beet growers report 29% increase in sugar beet revenues.

New York; Sugar High On Wall Street As White-Sugar Futures Climb On Container Shipping Worries.

 

Food Crisis:  SOYLENT GREEN PET FOOD? OR, ARE PEOPLE BEING PREPPED TO EAT PET FOOD?

Operation CoViD-19: COVERT OP TO CONTROL THE GLOBAL FOOD SUPPLY?

U.S. Food Crisis, February 2019: “LONG HOURS, EMPLOYEE TURNOVER, EQUIPMENT FAILURES, WAGE HIKES”

Winglets, or Once again NASA saves the Private Sector!

In another fine example that the capitalist country of United States spends taxpayer money to help-out private sector corporations; between 1979 and 1980, NASA used a KC-135 to special-test the use of winglets in reducing drag and thus reducing fuel consumption.  The study led to the use of winglets on commercial aircraft.

The winglets were developed by NASA’s Richard Whitcomb, who discovered through wind-tunnel testing that winglets could actually produce forward thrust.  Whitcomb is also credited with developing the supercritical wing, also used by commercial airliners (F-8 SUPER-CRITICAL-CRUSADER, FATHER OF MODERN AIRLINER WING DESIGN).

Silent NASA video:

The winglets used by NASA were much bigger than the winglets being used by the commercial sector.

The U.S. Air Force’s -135 family of aircraft are not modified Boeing 707s!!!   It’s amazing to me that even aviation periodicals will refer to the -135 as having evolved from the 707.  Both the -135 and the 707 evolved from the earlier prototype 367-80 (first flight 1954), the -135 (first flight 1956) was actually created before the 707 (first flight 1957).  The -135, also known as the Boeing 717, is smaller than the 707 and structurally there is nothing similar about the two aircraft (like the fuselages having totally different cross sections, the 707 being taller and wider), the major components cannot be interchanged.

Some confusion can be blamed on Boeing itself, as the manufacturer offered militarized 707s to other countries’ air forces, such as Iran (which got both 707s and 747s converted for use as airborne fuelers).  Boeing’s militarized 707 production continued into the 1990s, they are nothing like the -135.

 

KC-135:   BATS & BEARS, OH MY!

Bare Metal: NASA TRUCKS saving the trucking industry

“…a potential wipe out of an entire generation…”: Pandemic lockdowns prove to be worse than the Pandemic!

12 October 2020 / 10:27 (UTC-07 Tango 06)/ 21 Mehr 1399/24 Safar 1442/26 Bing-Xu 4718

Incomplete list of links to official reports from around the world:

David Nabarro, World Health Organization special envoy for CoViD-19, warned in 08OCT2020 video interview, with the Spectator’s The Week in 60 Minutes, admits that nobody knows how to properly respond to CoViD and that lockdowns could be worse than the pandemic“We in the World Health Organization do not advocate lockdowns as the primary means of control…..  …..lockdowns have just one consequence….making poor people an awful lot poorer.”

This is from a UN WHO report about the economic realities of lockdowns and mass-testing, made public in July 2020: “In larger populations, however, such comprehensive surveillance may be impracticable or too costly and the test workload may rapidly outstrip capacity and resources….. long-term lockdowns may not be an option because economic necessity could preclude self-isolation.”

Despite what some leftist liberal environmentalists said about the pandemic lockdowns reducing pollution, the facts show the opposite happened! 

 

AUSTRALIA: Discriminatory lockdowns being imposed? 

JAPAN: Suicide Spike in Japan Shows Mental Health Toll of Covid-19

MALAWI: ‘Drastic rise’ in suicide rate linked to Covid economic downturn

UNITED KINGDOM: Local lockdowns dreamed up in London are causing nightmares for the rest of England

UNITED STATES: “You’re going to lose more people by putting a country into a massive recession or depression. You’re going to lose people. You’re going to have suicides by the thousands.”-President Donald Trump, 24MAR2020, regarding a possible national lockdown

 

 

05OCT2020 U.S. Army Corps of Engineers video report, by Michael Glasch, revealing that responding to natural disasters is being made more complicated due to CoViD-19 restrictions:  

 The American Institute for Economic Research declares “COVID lockdowns unnecessary”

Arizona National Guard delivers a trailer full of food and supplies to the Navajo Nation, 06OCT2020.  Since the beginning of the outbreak the Arizona National Guard took over transportation of food throughout the state.

Arizona National Guard stock the shelves of a food pantry in Sun City, 09OCT2020.  Since the beginning of the outbreak in the U.S., the Arizona National Guard took over civilian food operations across the state.

  California university doctors say lockdowns are worse than the pandemic! 

A sign your system has failed; 08OCT2020 video report by Staff Sergeant Eddie Siguenza, California National Guard delivers record 100-million meals to people due to CoViD lockdown:

Pop-up food pantries a new tactic to fight CoViD lockdown food insecurity in Illinois.

  The Covid-19 pandemic will be outlasted by the grief pandemic — and no one is preparing for it

My 3-year-old was handling the pandemic well. Then his mom was diagnosed with cancer.

05OCT2020, Texas National Guard taking part in food growing operations in San Antonio, as part of Joint Task Force Longhorn.  Texas mobilized its Guard units in April 2020, for CoViD-19 response.
                                                                                                                                      Wisconsin reports 40 years of gender progress in employment erased by pandemic restrictions:“What we’re really facing is a potential wipe out of an entire generation of mothers’ careers…”-Joan Williams, University of California-Hastings Law, Center for WorkLife Law

Wisconsin blames CoViD-19 restrictions for more job layoffs and increased food insecurity.

Cybercriminals steal 8-billion tax dollars worth of Covid relief funds

U.S. airline industry already got 50-billion in taxpayer funded CoViD-19 support, now it demands another $25-billion, or else!

03OCT2020: COVID-19 SHENANIGANS

18SEP2020: COVID-19 = ECONOMIC & SOCIAL DEATHS OF DESPAIR!

U.S. Army warns of new pandemic: CHIKrisk 2021

CoViD-19 Shenanigans

03 October 2020 / 03:48 (UTC-07 Tango 06)/ 12 Mehr 1399/15 Safar 1442/17 Bing-Xu 4718

Incomplete list of links to news reports from around the world:

United Nations World Health Organization now admits that harsh pandemic lockdowns cause more harm than the pandemic and “must be avoided at all costs.” 

Countries without CoViD infections are still being killed-off by CoViD restrictions in pandemic countries:

CHINA:  Hong Kong’s massive USD$68.4-million mass testing during its Third Wave now considered a waste of time and money!

GERMANY: Neanderthal gene increases risk of severe coronavirus illness

FINLAND:

 INDIA: Experimental vaccine maker is somehow already producing millions of doses

Scientific contact tracing study discovers that children are the CoViD-19 super-spreaders!                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            CoViD-19 restrictions force migrant workers to flee                                                                                                                                                                                                Coronavirus Shatters India’s Economy

City of Mumbai discovers possible second CoViD-19 antibody

JAPAN: Fourth suicide by a Japanese star during COVID-19 highlights country’s crisis

Suicides among young women increasing sharply, government response to coronavirus blamed

Coronavirus government subsidy fraud on the rise

Retail store sales continue to crash and burn due to CoViD restrictions

National Center for Global Health and Medicine confirms that pre-existing medical problems are the main reason people are dying after getting infected with CoViD-19

PAKISTAN: Begins Phase-3 Trial of Chinese COVID-19 Vaccine

Is Covid-19 ‘herd immunity’ really working in Pakistan?                                                                                                                                                                                         Schizophrenic government response as on one hand all education facilities are re-opened, yet on the other hand restaurants are being forced to shutdown                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       RUSSIA: ‘Mushrooms Have Kidnapped You’; Pandemic Obsession With Forest Fungi                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Recovery of tourism industry will take at least two years once the pandemic is finished                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       SWEDEN:

UNITED KINGDOM:  Study says loss of smell is best indicator that you are infected                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         UNTIED STATES: 50 Most Popular U.S. Restaurants That Won’t Reopen After the Pandemic
                                                                                                                                                           Idaho;     After 18 years the Golden Corral restaurant in Pocatello gave up the ghost, blaming CoVid-19,  adding another nail in the slow-death-economic-coffin for Pocatello.

Photo by AAron Hutchins, October 2020.

CoViD-19 fearmongering restrictions kill-off more restaurants in Eastern Idaho (some of those fearmongering restrictions are the fault of the restaurant owners themselves, one Asian style buffet in Pocatello is now open only four days per week and requires you to wear a mask, except when you are actually shoveling food into your mouth, and if you don’t have a mask they force you to buy one of theirs)

                                                                                                                                                          Pub owner in Western Idaho tries to be responsible in the age of CoViD, resulting in the permanent shutdown of the popular Irish gathering spot after 18 years “of fun”                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Coronavirus Cases Rise In What Is Called Idaho’s Third Spike (Wave)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    State officials already developing CoViD vaccine distribution operation                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             Even god can’t stop the mormon owned BYU-Idaho from possible shutdown due to an invisible virus                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Arrests made at church’s ‘psalm sing’ in Moscow, Idaho, over coronavirus violations                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Man shutdown Idaho high school football game by refusing to wear a mask, yet in the photo you can see that even the responding cops, as well as other people, refused to wear masks!                                                                                                                                                                                                          Leftist group warns of new anti-pandemic lockdown organization based in Idaho                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Washington DC; President Trump gets experimental antibody cocktail to treat COVID-19                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      President Trump is correct about suicides versus CoViD-19: “Every 1% hike in the unemployment rate will likely produce a 3.3% increase in drug overdose deaths and a 0.99% increase in suicides according to data provided by the National Bureau of Economic Research and the medical journal Lancet. These are facts based on experience, not models. If unemployment hits 32%, some 77,000 Americans are likely to die from suicide and drug overdoses as a result of layoffs. Scientists call these fatalities ‘deaths of despair’.Betsy McCaughey                                                                                                                                                                                                            VENEZUELA: Thanks Russia for 2-thousand experimental CoViD-19 vaccines
CoViD-19, April 2020:  ‘EXPERTS’ ADMITTING TO WHAT I ALREADY WARNED ABOUT, MASKS CAN’T PROTECT YOU!                                                                                                                                                                          March 2020: CoViD-19 fearmongering shuts down WINCO’s 24 hours grocery operations in Pocatello, Idaho

CoViD-19 = economic & social Deaths of Despair!

18 September 2020 / 07:46 (UTC-07 Tango 06)/ 28 Shahrivar 1399/30 Muharram 1442/02 Yi-You(8th month) 4718

“You’re going to lose more people by putting a country into a massive recession or depression. You’re going to lose people. You’re going to have suicides by the thousands.”-President Donald Trump, 24MAR2020, regarding a possible national lockdown

Below is an incomplete list of links to some of the many real news media reports about the suicidal impact of coronavirus 2019 lockdowns.

“Every 1% hike in the unemployment rate will likely produce a 3.3% increase in drug overdose deaths and a 0.99% increase in suicides according to data provided by the National Bureau of Economic Research and the medical journal Lancet. These are facts based on experience, not models. If unemployment hits 32%, some 77,000 Americans are likely to die from suicide and drug overdoses as a result of layoffs. Scientists call these fatalities ‘deaths of despair’.-Betsy McCaughey

CANADA:  Suicide rates expected to rise as COVID-19 grinds on

CHINA: Children in China Experienced an Increase in Depression and Suicidal Attempts During COVID School Closures

INDIA:  Covid-19 patient commits suicide

KOREA: Suicide rates among young Korean women on the rise

German news media reports that South Korea’s suicide/self-harm rate is up due to CoViD-19

THAILAND: 22% increase in suicide blamed on CoViD-19

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Arizona Army National Guard works to assemble and distribute PPE, 02SEP2020.

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Colorado: 40% decrease in suicides, yet 48% increase in suicide hotline calls, during CoViD-19 lockdowns

Denver Regional Transportation District revises budget projections downward (again) due to crashing revenues, could eliminate 500 jobs!  Fails to mention CoViD-19 lockdowns which prevent people from getting out-and-about and using public transportation.

Florida:  A major financial company eliminating more than 500 jobs, and blames it on CoViD-19! 

Georgia: Atlanta Braves have layoffs ahead of playoffs

Hawaii: Hawaiian Airlines expands CoViD-19 layoffs to 2-thousand-501 jobs! 

National Guard conduct ‘surge’ testing in the Tetsuo Harano Tunnel, 03SEP2020.

U.S. Army video revealing that even army training is being severely impacted by CoViD-19 fearmongering on Wheeler Army Base:

Idaho:  Despite boasting that year on year suicide rate is down, The Gem State still has the highest self-kill rate in the U.S., but now they blame CoViD-19.

Also, and despite boasting that year on year suicide rate being down, self-kill rate for youths using guns is actually up. 

Illinois: Concerns rise over teen suicide rate during pandemic

Indiana: Layoffs coming to LaPorte’s Howmet Aerospace

Iowa: Des Moines based publishing/news media empire Meredith Corporation eliminating at least 180 jobs due to crashing advertising revenues caused by CoViD-19 fearmongering by (ironically) the news media and state governments!

Kansas: Another round of layoffs at Spirit Aerosystems 

Kentucky: Operations and Planning officer Joel Tiotuico claims that he worked on a 2007 flu pandemic war game/table-top scenario, at Fort Knox, which is eerily similar to what is happening with CoViD-19.  The original article about the 2007 flu pandemic wargame was published in the now defunct Turret newspaper.

Massachusetts: Waltham based Raytheon Technologies eliminating 15-thousand jobs due to the crashing airline industry, which in turn is blamed on the CoViD-19 fearmongering by governments and news media worldwide! 

Michigan: 

Michigan National Guard’s now permanent COVID-19 Joint Task Force continues to distribute food to the public, 03SEP2020.

Minnesota: Hotel to eliminate 126 jobs due to CoViD-19 lockdowns restricting travel

Nevada:  Several Las Vegas companies report layoffs

New Jersey: State administrators claims suicides went down, yet also report skyrocketing ‘helpline’ calls

New Mexico: Farmington reports spike in suicides

New York: More proof hospitals are not full of CoViD-19 patients; Buffalo based Delaware North eliminates 517 food service jobs at its hospital operations, on top of the 100 jobs eliminated two months ago, ostensibly due to CoViD-19!  

The City of New York says it could still eliminate 22-thousand jobs due to crashing tax/fee revenues caused by the city’s own CoViD-19 lockdown!

NYC based debt financier Citi to continue with CoViD-19 layoffs

Adelphi University eliminating 62 jobs and blaming CoViD-19.

The Schenectady school board approved dozens of additional CoViD-19 layoffs.

North Carolina: Duke University study says suicide rates might increase as result of financial strain from COVID-19

North Dakota:  Microsoft confirmed to local news media that layoffs will impact its Fargo campus, but refused to give any details.

PennsylvaniaCOVID-19 school closings linked to increase in depression

Texas: Texas psychologists worry the suicide rate will rise 

Round Rock based tech giant Dell plans to layoff an unspecified number of employees this week, blaming declining sales on the ongoing Covid-19 crisis. 

Washington: Puget Sound suicide hotline reports 65% spike in calls for help during pandemic

West Virginia:  Video update on state National Guard CoViD-19 response, as of 09SEP2020;

 

Wisconsin: Suicide Rate In Wisconsin Increased 40 Percent

More economic decline for Eastern Idaho: COVID-19 SHUTDOWN 24HRS WINCO?

Sears-Kmart death spiral, June 2019: “WE ARE THROWING IN THE TOWEL”

U.S. economic collapse, December 2018: “WE WERE HIT SO HARD…WE CAN’T RECOVER”