More on the looming food crisis

More on the looming food shortages from the CEO of Goya, via The Liberty Daily:

Goya Foods primarily serves lower-income people. Now, Goya Foods’ CEO is warning America that a “food crisis” is coming.

When [Bob] Unanue says a “food crisis,” he’s not talking about Wagyu beef. He’s talking about beans, rice, and the staples of a basic diet.

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“We are on the precipice of a global food crisis. God created humanity. Humanity has created every way to destroy itself — from nuclear to biological to chemical. But now we’ve waged a war — we’ve weaponized food. In the Ukraine — between the Ukraine and Russia — they represent 50% of the world’s production of fertilizer, 30% of wheat, 20% of corn, 2.5 million acres of sunflowers, other food and minerals . . .

“We’re going to have to tighten our belt and consume less. We’ve gone from oil independence to oil dependence. We’ve given up that position — to have our oil at cost . . . When we bring in stuff from — let’s say, Thailand — coconut water. We’re paying 10 times the freight we usually pay…

“The biggest component in food and anything is transportation. The transportation has skyrocketed because we’ve given up our independence.

Lots more here.  More reasons to stock up. 

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Victor Davis Hanson: The Real Reset

 

Victor Davis Hanson thinks that things will get better. His column at American Greatness, “The Real ‘Reset’ Is Coming” concludes:

In the November 2022 midterms, we are likely to see a historic “No!” to the orthodox left-wing agenda that has resulted in unsustainable inflation, unaffordable energy, war, and humiliation abroad, spiraling crime, racial hostility—and arrogant defiance from those who deliberately enacted these disastrous policies. 

What will replace it is a return to what until recently had worked. 

Closed and secure borders with only legal and measured immigration will return. Americans will demand tough police enforcement and deterrent sentencing, and a return to integration and the primacy of individual character rather than separatist fixations on the “color our skin.”

The public will continue to tune out of the partisan and mediocre “mainstream” media. We will see greater increased production of oil and natural gas to transition us slowly to a wider variety of energy, strong national defense, and deterrent foreign policies.

The prophets of the new world order sowed the wind and they will soon reap the whirlwind of an angry public worn out by elite incompetence, arrogance, and ignorance.

I hope he’s right.  But if election integrity is not restored, all bets are off.  His full column is here.

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An assessment of morons

 

I have always been a fan of Alicia Colon.  Her most recent column at Jewish World Review is Part II of her assessment of morons. Here’s a big chunk:

No one likes to be called a moron, an imbecile or just plain stupid but if you're a conservative, as I am, you will eventually regard that appellation as a badge of honor for speaking the truth.

In 2016, Hillary Clinton called me deplorable for daring to vote for Donald Trump and consequently that word's meaning has changed from a negative to a positive as it now means someone who disagrees with the left.

I did not vote for Bill Clinton, Barack Obama or Joe Biden but when they won, I certainly didn't fall apart like the Hillary supporters after Donald Trump won in 2016. Their anguish and screams are on perpetual view on YouTube. When I first watched the compilation of this post 2016 election hysteria, I found it very amusing at first then it just seemed sad.

Wouldn't it be interesting, however, for someone to interview that poor soul, shown screaming in agony, and ask her to compare the four years of Trump's presidency to the current disaster that belongs to Biden. Then I'd ask her why she believed that Hillary Clinton would be a good president as she mentions her beauty and her potential?

This is what I do not understand and why I've resorted to categorizing such behavior as moronic. Anyone who has vetted Ms. Clinton's past in depth would come away conceding that Trump was right. She deserved to be locked up. She was my Senator for eight years but didn't do much except vote against George Bush's tax cuts. But she has been linked to scandals since her days in Arkansas as the governor's wife. Do these Hillary acolytes ever Google the words, Whitewater; Benghazi; Uranium One; Haiti and the Clinton Foundation? I think not and suggest that they read the book [Peter Schweizer's]  “Clinton Cash” to learn how the Clintons got rich from foreign governments and why they are both totally corrupt.

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I previously wrote how the media has conned its readers on the global warming hoax and the Clintons but the most egregious harm these mechanisms caused was to the black community. Under the guise of liberal concern, the lamestream press salivated over every edict issued from Democrat politicians and found that using the charge of racism against conservatives was very successful.

Black Lives Matter was founded on a lie. One that ignorant NBA players fell for while they raised their arms imitating Michael Brown's supposed surrender to the cop that fatally shot him. Michael Brown was killed because he was stoned on pot and went to grab the cop's gun. A Washington Post columnist, Jonathan Capehart, himself a black man, was demonized for telling the truth and wrote: "We must never allow ourselves to march under the banner of a false narrative," he wrote in his final paragraph. "And when we discover that we have, we must acknowledge it, admit our error and keep on marching." No one listened and the rest is infamous history.

The toadies in the blue states knelt before the BLM god, defunded the police and let the anarchists destroy the cities while the media ignored the havoc.

For a few years, common sense was on board with Donald Trump in charge. He opened the pipelines, lowered taxes, did more for Israel than any other president and made America once again the number one superpower. Every Trump success has been steamrolled over by the Biden administration and we now have rampant inflation, exorbitant gas prices, and a real possibility of a WWIII. Notice- I said a Biden administration not Joe Biden because Joe Biden isn't even in charge. We don't know who is for sure but it's clear to anyone that Biden is not operating on all cylinders and the global community is terrified.

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What now? Polls mean nothing if massive fraud is still on the table. . . .

Lots more here.  And it includes a video of that crazy lady (same as the one in photo above) screaming at the sky when Trump won in 2016.

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Energy independence: gone

 Usual fun and satire at The Week In Pictures at Powerline, including this meme:

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