First it was ‘Climate Cooling.’ Then, when temperatures increased and defeated that hysteria… it became ‘Climate Warming.’ And when a cooling cycle started decades later… the environmentalists threw their hands up in frustration of Mother Nature not cooperating with their frenzied certainty that man is changing weather cycles and harming our environment. Being proven wrong as above, they now have settled into a safety zone and call it ‘Climate Change,’ so neither heat nor cold can defeat their agenda… and they can’t be called wrong. Opportunistic crazies.
Both the devious promoters and the self-horrified of the environmental people push an agenda claiming man is responsible for Climate Change. This goes against sound science. This is another means of elites making money, curtailing individual liberties and instituting draconian control over the common person. The responsibility of Climate Change, Carbon Based Credits and ridiculous proposed restrictions and regulations shouldn’t be put on mans’ shoulders… mans’ contribution is miniscule.
So, is Climate Change bullshytte?
Climate Change is here now… make no mistake about it. It’s real, you will see, as you read further. But none of draconian government regulations and restrictions will affect slowing or stopping it anymore than a person’s body standing in a hurricane stopping the horrendous winds blowing.
Who’s the culprit?
If I believe Climate Change is real, then why do I call the proponents of it crazies? Weather patterns are little affected by man or as a result of any of his pollution of our environment… in comparison to what the real perpetrator does. Who is that!?
The culprit is Mother Nature. Years ago, I researched this and found that scientists were stating that we’ve just entered what’s known as a new Maunder Solar Minimum period. A cyclic change in Sun intensity that affects weather on our planet.
What the bloody hell is a Maunder?
Edward Walter Maunder and his wife Annie Russell Maunder studied how Sunspots changed starting in the mid-19th Century. Their conclusions were published in two scientific papers, one in 1890 and one in1894. They researched the ‘Little Ice Age’ of the 1400s to the 1500s and this is now termed the Maunder Solar Minimum Period. These cold cycles have occurred before and are reoccurring now, since the Maunders’ study of the Sun and the Little Ice Age it produced.
Additional studies have determined a Maunder Solar Minimum period can last for decades and one is reoccurring now, starting about two years ago. The Sun has a ‘heartbeat,’ so to speak, that occurs every 11 years. The Sun goes through cycles of highs and lows of Sun Spots and Solar Flares each 11 years… overlaid by a 172-year hot and cold cycle driven by the changing brilliance and dimmer periods of the Sun. This occurs like clockwork.
Why is this dangerous?
The low Sun intensity periods are termed ‘Solar Minimums’ and are way more dangerous now than ever. We have way too many people on this planet to suffer the effects that the planet and its population has in the past. Cold weather drastically affects crop and food production. Civil Unrest from high food prices and famine have been historically associated closely with these ‘Solar Minimum’ periods.
Throw in issues such as blight disease, that destroyed the Irish potatoes in 1845 and the world gets closer yet to the edge of the abyss. There are just too many facets of food production, processing and storage that can go wrong… for a world full of hungry mouths.
Disease also rears its ugly head during famine periods because of unsanitary conditions and human and animal immune systems weakened by malnourishment. Disease abounds… and not the “Covid-believe-it’s-a-pandemic-because-we-say-it-is” type of disease that kills a very small percentage of people… but the Bubonic Plague or Small Pox type of disease that can come close to eradicating the human race.
If my belief in Covid sounds callused and cavalier… but live in Africa during a Cholera or Typhus Epidemic and you will understand my cynicism towards the hysteria over our current ‘Pandemic.’
Famine will occur during these low Sun spot and Sun flare periods in most of the food production areas of the world, of that you can be assured. Snow was reported in wheat fields in the heat of summers in France during one of these ‘Sun Minimums.’ Not enough food was produced to feed people. Hence… starvation. With the billions of people the planet now must sustain, we will not be able to weather one bad crop producing year without starvation and massive civil unrest from food shortages.
Americans take food and water for granted
We go over in detail Emergency Food and water storage in the Civil Defense Manual. Two necessary Life Critical Supplies and Service essentials.
But there are other essentials to the maintenance, health and wellbeing of the human body that are thought of as ‘just there’ by people.
Salt? People of the Industrialize World take Salt for granted… just like air… it’s just there! Salt is a necessity to keep your body functioning. People used to get paid in Salt and it was equal to gold ounce for ounce… hence the term ‘Salary,’ one of the ancestors of the word Salt. The Civil Defense Manual gives you about every conceivable means of procuring Salt just about anywhere.
And ever wonder how the restaurant put fresh eggs on your plate for breakfast in 1880 in the middle of Chicago and New York without refrigeration!? How did they keep them from spoiling? You can keep eggs fresh for up to TWO YEARS without refrigeration. How did they do that!? …it’s in the CivilDefenseManual.com
Our complex food supply system
In addition to taking clean, drinkable potable water for granted, America’s Normal Civility has become increasingly fragile because of one item on the ‘most necessary list’ of Critical Life Supplies and Services… food. Americans and most Industrialized Nations today have moved almost entirely away from the ‘Garden to Table’ existence of past generations… more than ever before in history.
America and the Industrialized World now rely on a food system that is extremely complex and fragile. A ‘Garden to Table’ existence is how families used to live, like the next diagram shows. Families and local farmers grew much of what was consumed and it was locally processed. In the past, food was widely produced by many people on a low-level technical and localized basis.
Food was fresh and immediately available. The food went literally from ‘the garden to their table’ making most people Self-Dependent regarding food. In addition, food stocks were ‘canned’ and stored to live on as a result of bad growing seasons, difficult financial times and for the off-growing seasons. During hard times one winter, our family of eleven ate all our meals from these reserves.
America and the Industrialized World’s present food supply system is, for the most part, a result of the past and continuing ‘Age of Abundance’ and our comfortable lifestyle. One benefit of this is that it has allowed us the luxury to eat cuisine from all over the world. This extravagance occurs right at our dinner table, wherever people live in America and most of the world… after only a simple trip to the store.
Unfortunately, as a side effect, food is less fresh, is adulterated with chemicals and has far from the nutritional content it used to have. Experiment by buying some ‘farmer’s market home grown tomatoes’…and then compare the taste of these home-grown tomatoes to those from the store. Midwesterners ate copious amounts of pork, chicken and beef… rarely seafood… but seafood was an abundant principal food type of coastal people and they ate less pork, chicken and beef.
Regardless of this luxury… the growing and processing of almost ALL food items is now dependent, not only on transportation and proper storage… but each item is dependent upon processing, packaging, chemicals, and preservatives.
These items are usually produced hundreds and sometimes thousands of miles away from the processing facilities. Without the ability to transport these processing items… the food production line comes to a standstill.
If you live next door to a chicken farmer, hog farmer, or cattle feeder… the chicken, pork or beef from these producers that you put on your table will most likely have made a meandering trip of thousands of miles to get back to your dinner table after weeks of processing, storage, and transportation.
It is necessary that food in this system be processed with chemicals and treated with preservatives because of this time-intensive delay through remote and centralized processing, storage, and transportation systems.
Each item you put on your table endures weeks of transportation. To processing facilities, through processing, transportation to storage and distribution warehouses… then distributed by truck to your grocery store. Of all the items in your grocery store… it’s an average 1400-mile trip for each one to get to your table.
This movement away from the ‘Garden to Table’ existence is compounded further by our reliance on electricity and an electronic digital infrastructure that virtually controls every facet of our food production line, yet is susceptible to interruption and in some cases even protracted disruption or destruction.
Even though people eat foods now that in the past would have been a great delicacy and food is readily available… few people now stockpile food reserves as in the past. People live a ‘hand to mouth’ existence now because the grocery store is… ‘just down the street.’
This electrical and electronic digital infrastructure system is the caretaker of virtually everything we use or consume today… but most critically our food supply. The growing, processing, storage and distribution of it. It is also the caretaker of another critical element of food production… the water supply.
After one Extraordinary Catastrophic Event, almost all transportation will come to a standstill… no transportation system will function as before. Most vehicles… including trucks… farm equipment, railroads, aircraft and even ships will cease to operate. Delivery drones will cease to function. The grocery store delivery man on the bicycle will… wait! I digress… golldangit! …that was in Africa, Argentina, Honduras and Cambodia.
Well, they’ll stop too… because they most likely will have few, ‘produced in a faraway factory,’ pre-packaged, preservative laden groceries to deliver… even though these countries will still have their ‘Garden to Table’ supply during this chaos. Our present food supply system will not only break down in the transportation of food stocks… but the growing, the processing, the storage… including refrigeration… will stop.
Even the manufacture of packaging and chemicals, critical in processing foods, will cease… let alone be able to be transported from their manufacture point to the processing facilities, sometimes thousands of miles away. This goes for medicines and almost everything else we depend on daily for our existence and well-being. Including the other essential of the survival equation… water.
Interruption of the supply system
It’s not just food and water that are growing concerns prone to interruption or shortages…
An Intel Summary (INTSUM) from Analyst Samuel Culper of Forward Observer…
Supplier delivery times continue to expand
According to the latest ISM data, manufacturing supplier delivery times continue to increase, which has been the trend for the past year. Suppliers cite labor markets, increased shipping prices and shortages of raw materials for lengthening lead times.
“We have experienced a higher rate of delinquent shipments from our ingredient suppliers in the last month. We are still struggling keeping our production lines fully manned. We anticipate a fast and large order surge in the food-service sector as restaurants open back up,” said one survey respondent in the restaurant industry.
“Supply chains are depleted; inventories up and down the supply chain are empty. Lead times increasing, prices increasing, demand increasing,” said another survey respondent who works in the chemical industry.
(Analyst Comment: I went to purchase a new printer last week, and saw that two major chain stores had very low inventory. Lower inventory and selection, and higher prices, are the downstream impact of supply chain shortages. I’ve previously mentioned the bottlenecks at ports like Long Beach, where container ships were backed up. This week’s fiasco at the Suez Canal, which sees 10% of global trade, is also likely to cause some supply disruption. I haven’t found an estimate for how long these conditions will persist, but continued supply shortages will weigh on predictions of booming economic growth this year. It’s kind of difficult to hire more workers when you can’t get materials to make things. – S.C.)
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S.C. indicates analyst commentary from Samuel Culper
The information provided by Forward Observer in this report is for informational purposes only. It should not be considered financial advice. You should consult with a financial advisor to determine what may be best for your financial needs.
S.C. indicates analyst commentary from Samuel Culper
The information provided by Forward Observer in this report is for informational purposes only. It should not be considered financial advice. You should consult with a financial advisor to determine what may be best for your financial needs.
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From the Author Jack Lawson…
Don’t be a DIPSHIT !!! Break your hesitancy of starting to store food… buy just one can for storage…
Don’t be a Dipshit! ‘Dipshit’ was a term I first heard from my Drill Instructor in basic training. Dipshit described the bumpkins who knew little and were just-off-the-farm and figuratively still had livestock shytte on them from the barnyard when they arrived for basic training… like we’d been ‘dipped in it’ …thus the term ‘Dipshit.’ It literarily did describe some of us however, shytte on the shoes and all as we got off the bus. Being from a farm, there was always some on the bottom of shoes.
I’m using the term ‘dipshit,’ to shock you. How do I know you’re not a dipshit!? Simply because you’re reading this. You’re concerned!I use that term to put the following thought in your memory the next time you’re in your grocery store.
Buy just one extra can of calorie dense food the next time you go to the grocery store like navy beans. Just one can to put aside for Emergency Food. By doing that you’ve broken the hesitancy to store food. Then, I hope you buy a few more cans on your next grocery shopping trip. Then bagged rice and beans… and bags of Salt. They’re cheap… and you’ve started.
Put these aside and you’ll soon have a stock of food to survive on, when others are hungry. It’s just common sense. You can then start storing water in empty soda bottles and adding a couple of drops of unscented bleach to keep it drinkable for six months. When you start with buying one extra can of food, you’re on the way to providing for you and your family. You’re on the way to surviving when things go bad.
I wish I had a dollar for every person I’ve heard something like this from… “Yeah, I’m going to start storing some Emergency Food, when… (they mention an obstacle that is preventing them from doing this).” Then a year later, they have no more food stored than when I first heard their statement. They’ve done nothing.
Most Americans have a hesitancy to start storing food. Much of it’s an attitude of “it hasn’t happened… and I don’t really think I really need Emergency Food stored…” thought that is how they really feel. Then there are those who know they need to store food and the thought floats numbly around their subconscious at a barely noticeable level, but it keeps them from starting any food storage. Add that to the hindrance of work, limited leisure time, financial hardships and all of life’s other problems and they just never get around to starting it. The hardest part of any job… is starting it.
I started storing Emergency Food years ago when I was flat-assed broke. One item at a time… then I sacrificed other ‘necessities’ that I realized we really didn’t need and became obsessed with storing food. It felt better than building up a bank account with money. It gave me a profound peace of mind in knowing I could feed my three little ones, my wife and myself. No matter what!
I always seemed to stick my neck out and buy more than I should have, for the money I had at the time. I felt doubts and frustration after doing it. I even hid this food store from my wife fearing she’d be angry. Her curiosity of why I always volunteered to go to the grocery store was soon satisfied when she stumbled across some of our concealed hoard of food, under the bed.
She missed what I’d stored and covered in the back of closets. But with money tight, she was actually pleased when she saw it all. She’s fully on board with this now, especially after going back to her birth country of Zimbabwe, Africa and witnessing the starvation and empty grocery store shelves there. Zimbabwe… the ‘Bread Basket of Africa’ …and the black and white African’s thought that… “it could never happen here!” The Communists create the mess in their drive towards their ‘paradise.’ Communists leaders chauffeured around in gold plated (and I mean gold plated) Rolls-Royce limousines. Equality.
Me!? I have no feelings of guilt or frustration now buying Emergency Foods… unless the store is out of what I want. ‘Emergency Foods’ as I describe in the Civil Defense Manual… the type of food, its storage and how to cook them… and our free to use ‘until the chickens come home to roost’ Emergency Food Calculator at CivilDefenseManual.com This calculator will tell you how much real food you have and how long it will last you and your family.
Why store food?
There are numerous reasons to store food. Like insurance, it just makes for common sense living which will give you peace of mind. Our late family members and some older current members of our families… being without the modern-day food supply chain… or their inability to afford to buy from it during difficult financial times, stored food and grew gardens.
We have been lulled into the thought of ‘the grocery store will always be there.’ The store probably will, but will there be food in it!? Ask my wife… while visiting Africa she’s seen grocery stores in her homeland with NOTHING… NOT ONE EDIBLE ITEM IN THEM.
Massive exports of American farm products, natural and man-made disasters, civil unrest, trucking strikes, disease epidemics and pandemics amongst a host of other cause… threatens you having food on your table.
I find it curious that Bill Gates of Microsoft fame has bought 242,000 acres of prime farmland and is still buying. For those of you not from the farm and who don’t know what an acre is, I give you this illustration…
That many acres, one mile wide, means you’d have to drive a little over 390 miles next to Interstate 90 along the entire southern Minnesota border and through a good part of South Dakota to see it all. Food will be the primary currency in the future and Gates knows it. But he won’t be charitable… nor will any other mega agricultural corporation… food will go to the highest bidder. Most will probably be exported to China.
The added bonus of storing food… The price of food will not go down in the years to come… it will go up. If you buy two cans of black beans now, it won’t be long before the same amount of money that bought those TWO cans… will buy ONLY ONE. Now, if your salary doubled in that time, you’d be okay… but it won’t. Food is a much better investment than money in the bank or invested in many other ways.
I want you to read about one of the most dangerous Catastrophic Events… We’re in it now! It started about 2 years ago.
Read these articles… watch the short video…
Solar activity predicted to fall 60% in 2030s, to ‘mini ice age’ levels: Sun driven by double dynamo
July 9, 2015 Source: Royal Astronomical Society (RAS)
Summary:
A new model of the Sun’s solar cycle is producing unprecedentedly accurate predictions of irregularities within the Sun’s 11-year heartbeat. The model draws on dynamo effects in two layers of the Sun, one close to the surface and one deep within its convection zone. Predictions from the model suggest that solar activity will fall by 60 per cent during the 2030s to conditions last seen during the ‘mini ice age’ that began in 1645.
Every 172 years like clockwork
(a 5 minute and 30 second video)
Climate change may trigger severe food shortages for US consumers
So… don’t be a ‘dipshit !’ Start your food storage on your next trip to the grocery store.
Get yourself a copy of the Civil Defense Manual at www.CivilDefenseManual.com
Remember… Just one can of beans will start you off storing Emergency Foods.
“Be prepared. Then relax, enjoy each and every moment of life… and love your family with uninhibited passion” – Jack Lawson
