Capt-jack Loc: Home

This was supposed to be the year that things "got back to normal", ( SAID BIDED and his cronies ) but here we are at the end of January and things have only gotten worse. As we move forward into February and beyond, there are two key global shortages that you may want to want to keep a very close eye on.

One of them is the rapidly growing fertilizer shortage. A few days ago, the Wall Street Journal ominously warned that "high fertilizer prices are weighing on farmers across the developing world"...

From South America's avocado, corn and coffee farms to Southeast Asia's plantations of coconuts and oil palms, high fertilizer prices are weighing on farmers across the developing world, making it much costlier to cultivate and forcing many to cut back on production.

That means grocery bills could go up even more in 2022, following a year in which global food prices rose to decade highs. An uptick would exacerbate hunger--already acute in some parts of the world because of p******c-linked job losses--and thwart efforts by politicians and central bankers to subdue inflation.


According to the International Fertilizer Development Center, exceedingly high fertilizer prices could result in a reduction of agricultural output in Africa alone "equivalent to the food needs of 100 million people".

So this is a really, really big deal.

And this crisis is going to deeply affect us here in the United States too. The following comes from a recent piece authored by U.S. Senator Roger Marshall...

It's no secret farmers are faced with a fertilizer crisis. Prices for phosphorus-based and potassium-based (potash) fertilizers have more than doubled in Kansas while Nitrogen-based fertilizers have more than quadrupled. Fertilizer is vital to feeding not only the country but the world. It contains essential nutrients for plant life, and without it, American agricultural yields will quickly suffer as well as food prices in local grocery stores.

As I discussed the other day, these crazy prices for fertilizer are going to make it impossible for many U.S. farmers to profitably plant crops this year.

That means that a lot less food is going to be grown. can you spell FEMINE?

On the other side of the world, the North Korean government is asking their citizens to start creating "homemade" fertilizer from their own waste...

State-run media has also been encouraging people to make "homemade" manure, (poop) The Daily Beast reported. A source in North Hamgyong Province told Daily NK that residents had started "producing fertilizer from human waste" after authorities launched a 10-day drive to increase production.



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The other major shortage that I want to highlight in this article is the ongoing computer chip shortage.

According to a report that was just put out by the Department of Commerce, chip inventories around the nation have become dangerously thin...

Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce released the results from the Risks in the Semiconductor Supply Chain Request for Information (RFI) issued in Sept. 2021. Key findings from the report provided data-driven information about the depths of the semiconductor shortage and underscored the need for the President's proposed $52 billion in domestic semiconductor production.

The RFI showed that median inventory held by chips consumers (including automakers or medical device manufacturers, as examples) has fallen from 40 days in 2019 to less than 5 days in 2021. If a C***D outbreak, a natural disaster, or political instability disrupts a foreign semiconductor facility for even just a few weeks, it has the potential to shut down a manufacturing facility in the U.S., putting American workers and their families at risk.

At this point, computer chips used to produce automobiles and medical devices are, particularly in short supply.

In a blog post, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo explained that a lack of chips resulted in "$210 billion in lost revenue" for automakers in 2021...

"In 2021, auto prices drove one-third of all inflation, primarily because we don't have enough chips," Raimondo wrote in her blog post. "Automakers produced nearly 8 million fewer cars last year than expected, which some analysts believe resulted in more than $210 billion in lost revenue."

If there is an additional disruption to chip production this year, 2022 could easily be even worse.

Many may wonder why we just don't plop down a bunch of factories and start pumping out more chips.

Unfortunately, it isn't that easy. Chip factories take a very long time to build, and we are being warned that it could take "until 2023" before things return to normal...

But industry executives aren't optimistic that the funding would help alleviate the crisis, the Washington Post reported. They argued federal funding could help build up the long-term supply of chips but wouldn't help in the short term because chip factories take years to build.

Chip consumers that were surveyed by the department similarly estimated that shortages wouldn't go away in the next six months, and some suggested it could take until 2023.

We should have never become so dependent on chip production in Asia. Like I have said before, taxes, regulation, the EPA, unions all drive our business and companies over seas.

Today, Taiwan accounts for a whopping 63 percent of all computer chip production in the world...also Taiwan makes chips NO ONE on earth make, not even Intel! C****e China is going to take over Taiwan soon, due to our weakling in the White House.

The majority of chip factories are currently based in Asia, which houses about 87% of the market share of semiconductor factories (with Taiwan alone accounting for some 63%), separate industry data indicates. The political climate in the region, and tensions between Taiwan and China, have come under renewed scrutiny as the shortage has exposed how much U.S. industry relies on these sources.

So what is going to happen to our economy if China invades Taiwan and our main supply of computer chips gets completely cut off?

I have been warning for years that military conflict with China is coming, and now we are closer than ever.

What is our economy going to look like if a Chinese invasion of Taiwan this year instantly puts us into a state of war with the Chinese?

How in the world will we even be able to function as a society?

You might want to start thinking about such questions, because what was once "unimaginable" threatens to become reality in 2022. Thank you, Mr. Biden, and all you fools that v**ed for him.

vernon

If something isn't done the stupid demoRATS are going to completely destroy this country. I'm not sure the republicans have the sense or guts to do or say anything.

permafrost Loc: Minnesota

Couple of very valid points Jack... do you think the burning fertilizer plant in SC(?) is a plot?

I times past the suppliers of farm inputs priced product so that farmers could just make it each year and do it again next year.. Not go bust. but 1000s did.. we shall have to watch ..

the chips.. now of all the products which should be made in the USA, these are very near the top.. I see not other solution then having control of all mfg and distribution. In a time when eve a toaster seems to have a chip, we must control our own..

But I also will point out that these are both the result of long term policy of American business and politics.

This did not happen due to short term events,, they are long standing and long enduring practice by our own businesses..

Very much hope to see some change on these and many other practices.

vernon

Do you believe the demoRATS are capable of changing any of these practices. You are right this has been going on for a very long time. but these rats and the republicans aren't about to change .if we don't change it quick we face total destruction.

permafrost Loc: Minnesota

it is my opinion that big oil and big business are running these things and short of a big change in that situation, we will never have a solution.. Matters not who is in office.. the big money will buy the v**es if needed..

vernon

Money talks ,but if the rats have their way,They are going digital and doing away with money then all they do is give you what they think you need and put it on your card. Before FJB is out of office they are going to seize property. you will own nothing .You can bet on this.

Army

So sad . There going use bio sluge machines to make body's into liquid fertilizer out if body's . So many dead have get read them . Now there finding clots body's No, # 2

https://www.fromrome.info/2022/02/01/dr-jane-ruby-and-robert-hirschman-video-footage-of-the-things-growing-in-arteries-veins/

Army

Yes an green deal ( religion ) pay farmers not to grow food destroy carbon & tax it without carbon there's no life possible no photosynthesis there plan is to destroy all life of God's Creation making the World the devil's his counterfeit that mean humans to by t***shumanism an no procreation.

JR-57 Loc: South Carolina

By their lack of action and resistance the Republicans are demonstrating their agreement with what is taking place.

Capt-jack Loc: Home

That is totally incoherent. I have no idea what you are trying to say! Maybe you need to lay off the Maui Wowie.

permafrost Loc: Minnesota

as for digital money, that has been in the background for a long time, and I think that it may happen. not quite as you see it but in more plastic cards.. maybe only one for everything we do.. but it will not be the lose of our own money.

Seize property. that is not so simply that it could be done in one 4 year term of office..

And I do not see it ever happening in our life time.. what would they use for an excuse to grab our property?

At times, we do see justice...

Capt-jack Loc: Home

I know you missed FDR with a very short stroke of his pen he removed EVERYONE GOLD. Biden with his little pen shut down XL a 30 billion dollar pipeline.
George Sores found that stealing all the Jews' real estate made him a billionaire.
The C*******t manifesto states the need to remove ALL properly from the masses. You know, that book your klan follows written by Karl Marx.

JR-57 Loc: South Carolina

The fire you mention is at the Weaver Fertilizer Plant in Winston-Salem, North Carolina; not South Carolina.

A majority of the chip technology and manufacturing capability was provided to China by Bill Clinton and industry executives in the 1990s.

permafrost Loc: Minnesota

Darn Jack... at times you do not seem to understand the world..

Backing any nations currency with gold in this age and even decades ago, would have be impossible. for reason why we would need to bring out a text book.. but stop repeating junk information whiteout knowledge of the reasons why..

The XL was no where near a 30 billion pipeline it was less the 5 miles long in the US and not one drop of oil ever passed through the pipeline..

Soros did not make him billions stealing real-estate.. that was trump.

I and my fellow Democrats know nothing about the C*******t manifesto.. that is a right wing dream..

permafrost Loc: Minnesota

NC.. yes I found that out on the noon news.. my bad.. should have recalled the WS.. location...

You could be correct, the big move began in the 80s under that fellow but continues to this day.. the big business will not let it stop if they can help it.. far to big a return for them to allow that..