RE: Not My Meme! #876
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you don't have to stock up food, if you can take it from those that do/did.
What I remember best from survivors of the Balkans wars in the 1990s was their statement that it wasn't the best armed people that best survived, nor those that had strong walls, or bunkers full of food. It was those that had the largest and most loyal communities/families. They said what mattered most was the ability to keep watch and alert everyone else busy sleeping or whatever to mount defenses. The ability to do things in strong groups, like go shopping, or working fields, was similarly critical. What mattered wasn't who was in the group, but the size of the group, and it's cohesion.
They also said the first to die were the raiders that lived by taking what others had, because they guarded what they had with lethal force, making raiding a bloody and often fatal occupation.
I wouldn't suggest raiding as a primary tactic, not when one can just wait for those types to not need what they collected for you.
And yes, I should have included, get to know your neighbors.
That was than, this is now. The larger the group of individuals, the more targets the drones can cancel out in one swoop from heat generated imaging.
Nothing never changes, but Hamas has revealed that no matter the technical capabilities of the raiders, having depth of personnel is the essential metric of survival today, as it has always been.
You responded, we must be reaching the clear to partly pouty stage. I'll man up here and apologize for being rude and I was only attributing it to that one comment on your behalf. Not that you were insulting me in your usual mannerism of something or the other, sometimes when dealing with a more formidable force, it makes the small stuff aggravating to deal with.
I highly doubt there's much left in the harden forces of Hamas in Gaza and more likely a bill of goods we are being sold to continue on with the genocide occurring over there. I am assuming there's a good chance of why we are seeing these on again, off again, hiring and firing going on, when people are focused on their own survival, it's hard for them to focus on the survival of others. It's easy to sell a bill of goods under those circumstances.
You told me to post elsewhere than your blog. It's your blog, so I respected your wishes.
You're probably right about Hamas, since they were formed and have been funded and facilitated by Israel.
I meant your egg nonsense. It was pretty conclusive. The chart sprung up the moment he left office, it takes time to do trade deals. He signed the deal the last few days of his admin. Sure inflation pays a part in the price of eggs. I had never denied that, but so does heavy demand put on them and especially in a time when egg production was declining due to their bird flu. I swear to god Ralph, if I said turn left, you'd turn right.
Demand for eggs is not 'heavy'. The supply of eggs has been wrecked by government eradicating hundreds of millions of laying hens with phony claims of 'bird flu' that hasn't killed a dozen chickens AFAICT. Reduced supply has the same inflationary impact on price that increased demand does.
UN-FACT: >eradicating hundreds of millions
Two years ago in my op: Tucker Carlson and His Spin The Tale On The Chickens, there were, according to department of agriculture official, 372 million chickens in the US. If each of those chickens (which not all will, right now the stat is 82.5 or 85.2 out of each hundred without having to go look at some figures I have been gathering), but if each chicken were to produce an egg a day back then, that would leave 46 million eggs left over if every man, women and child was given one egg a day. The next day the process starts all over. But to argue your point, there isn't hundreds of millions of chickens in the US, there are hundreds of millions of eggs, actually billions.
The white house Easter egg roll, egg industry suppliers of the event, said there were 9 million one dozen large eggs sold every day in the US. The small and medium eggs, they said, weren't for retail sales. If they are not selling the small and medium eggs in the country anymore, where are they? You don't see them hardly anymore, once in awhile you see medium eggs but it's rare.
I don't know why you think the USDA knows how many chickens there are in the USA. They might know how many chickens are in commercial farms, but there are a lot of folks that do not keep chickens for commercial purposes. There are even people that keep chickens secretly, indoors, because of a variety of reasons, such as recent efforts to register every chicken, even every parakeet, by the UK. So, the USDA does not know how many chickens there are in the USA.
Chickens do not lay an egg every day. If you keep them in environmentally controlled conditions under lights they will lay eggs most days, depending on breed. IME good breeds of chickens lay ~300 eggs a year. So those are things you can reconsider to try to come up with some kind of estimate of how many chickens there are in the US.
However, you make both these statments as facts:
So, you contradict yourself, and clearly don't understand what you're talking about, or you're trying to mislead me. Either way, I can't take you seriously.
Honestly, reports from serious folks claiming to know are that more than 150M chickens were euthanized over 'bird flu'. So, despite everything I just said, and proved you wrong about, you're right that 150M, or any number south of 200M, isn't 'hundreds of millions' of chickens. It's close, but no cigar. Hoist by my own petard, I concede that you are right about my claim. It is slightly hyperbolic. It is close enough to being correct to properly convey the horrific culling that has produced the egg shortage.
Shortage of supply, just like massive demand, affects price. Egg prices are falling towards normalcy even now, as the earliest culled flocks have been replaced with new layers. I just saw a carton of eggs that had been purchased at my local market for $4.29, when just a week or so ago they were $8.29, and that was down from the high, which hit over $12, so I think the problem is resolved - in the short term.
The fact there was a problem at all, because government was trying to drum up a panic, is a long term problem that will not be easily resolved, but will take people rolling their own, and not just regarding eggs, but most of the goods and services they consume. When the vast majority of people produce the vast majority of products they consume, government will become irrelevant, because there will be nothing to tax. If people aren't buying what they need, then people won't be selling stuff to make money. That's how we solve the problem of tyranny: just make government irrelevant by making dependence obsolete and becoming economically independent. I am working on doing exactly that, and providing a template that folks can use to produce the majority of the goods they need to regularly purchase themselves instead.
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They are used commercially, for cake mixes and the like produced by factories.
I thought about that after I signed off that I expressed that wrong. I just don't think of two, three hundred million chickens as hundreds upon hundreds of millions of chickens, it may be true to an extend but it is on the lower tier of the hundreds of millions.
The 375 million comes from what the USDA tracks commercially, not private back yard chickens, nor does that include the chickens that the government keeps in secure top secret guarded locations for vaccine production.
The most common stat stated for chickens lost since the 375 figure in 2022, is a loss of 122 million chickens, of which they claim the first two months of this year they lost an additional 25% of that, they claim that brought them down to 290 million chickens but obviously some have had to have been replaced before that loss otherwise it would have stood at 253 million. 82.5 out of a hundred chickens is the number they gave of each hen who lays one egg daily right now. They also said the current retail sale of eggs is nine million dozen eggs a day. So out of that 290 million chickens they say are alive, kicking, 82.5 out of a hundred of them produce one egg a day. You can go ahead and calculate all that up for a yearly total and minus the nine million dozen a day sold to see what's left over, or you can wait until I finally email a friend who is exceptionally skilled at math. Which I have intended to do since Easter when all those fresh stats came out, it's just I am not fully back up to par with the important battles being raged no matter how significant it may be to be in the know.
Your continued denial of what Trump trade agreements had on retail sales is appalling at best. The government tracks exports out of this country, they don't lie when starting as soon as he exits office having signed the agreements on his way out, those products started flying out of this country. Like I said, it takes time to do trade agreements and the spike was immediate. All the graphs prove me right. One of the one's that stands out among all the others, as I may have mentioned this already, was the stark reality of what happened with the rise in pet food and it wasn't just canned food due to aluminum price increase, it was five bucks alone on a large bag of dry pet food....due to China coming in and offering over four hundred million for chicken paws, 422 was the exact number if I remember correctly. Before that pet food manufacturers were paying 22 million for them. Chicken paws in China are a common food item over there, here they are generally ground up for pet food. 386% rise in beef to China, 79% increase of potatoes to Japan, (with potatoes it's not just the increased demand and inflation, you have to also factor in the potato price fixing scam, if I remember correctly Canadian potato farmers engaged in), that all drove a ten pound bag of potatoes up to eight to nine bucks.
Whether you like it or not, or want to keep burying your head in the sand, Trump is the master of delusions, get over the fact he sold you on that poor soybean farmer and face the reality if he'd said your steak, eggs and potatoes, you'd paid better attention.
One other thing with Trump is that timing is everything. No I do not believe they really lost 25% of chickens just in the first two months of this year. I would be of the opinion that if there was a loss of chickens they were sold off in a special deal to be used as boilers, which only saw a 2% decline in the first two months of the year. How can there be such a significant difference, it's as if the bird flu only strikes egg laying hens. That slight loss saw rotisserie chickens here drop by a buck in price. That's a steep sudden drop. I am with somewhat with you in the fact prices are now going down, and it's not because of any other reason than Trump has met his objective to spring a vaccine on the chicken industry and by no means should that even be allowed. It sort of reminds me when the amount of deaths he projected for covid was met, he said "we have met the moment". (When he first quoted the figure he thought it would be close to 60, 70, 80 thousand people, enough to fill up Yankee stadium). He has met his moment with the vaccine, it's a done deal. There probably won't be as much a spike again until they get ready to roll it out and they start arguing over it.
What does that have to do with the price of eggs in Peoria?
Because the egg shortage is being deliberately engineered, and has nothing to do with an actual virus, so the culling is targeted on laying hens.
Fred Trump was a great friend and ally of Russian emigres that Fred basically built Brighton Beach for. These Russian emigres were mostly Jews, and mostly Chabad Lubavitch, which is to say, Russian Mafia. This is the link between Vladimir Putin and the Donald. That the Jews, and particularly Lubavitchers, are the Russian Mob, is a topic that is not touched by their mutual asset the enemedia.
It so happens that Volodomyr Zelenskyyyy is also a Lubavitcher. OMG! Most people exclaim, that cannot be possible that Jews could wage war on each other like Russia and the Ukraine. The funny thing about Lubavitchers and this Slavic war, is that the Rebbe Schneerson, whom is named Moshiach by Lubavitchers (even though he died some years ago), has specifically recommended and pointed out that the Slavs cannot be ruled, but can only be genocided.
So the political administrations of both Slavic countries hurl invective back and forth, and send their Slavic Christian military forces into the field to slaughter each other, while the Russian Mob rubs it's greedy hands in glee, fulfilling the Rebbe's prophecy.
Basically, anyone with any ability to grasp what are real threats they face, and sort it from the gaslighting from the media about what they want us to fear and what they want us to remain vulnerable to, should note that eggs are something produced with facility by individuals and remaining susceptible to engineered shortages is ridiculous idiocy. In fact, this is a symbolic event, and the lesson being taught the educable is to begin producing the things you need you can, because being dependent on goods supplied by centralized means will become more and more of a noose around your neck. The Russian Mob rules the world, and they are not your friend.
They want to put a noose around your neck to kill you with it. The way to keep it off your neck is to switch from centralized to local production of the goods you depend on, whether you grow your own potatoes or buy them from a farmer's market along with your eggs. That's the lesson, and your venture off into the weeds of USDA metrics isn't useful to solving the actual problem, which is dependence on centralization is a noose around your neck.
The USDA metrics are fed in a form so that a common man needs an accountant to figure it out, if you can't figure it out, the common man, who'd only become more confused and disinterested in the whole of the opinion you wrote, will forever stay lost on the only real concerning thing to them, why are the egg prices so high and are they telling the truth about there being a shortage. That's all they want to know. Just look at Edict as a prime example, I go on like that (well, not that deep, and I'd feel sorry for you if you ever tried, he'd probably ban you), and he be like "I ain't got time for that" because you totally lose him. Put something in a sentence or two and he can hang. I know they lie because I've already caught them at it concerning the eggs. You want to argue they want to kill us, the other argument to be made is they want to make a fortune off selling vaccines for chickens. Now if you wanted to argue they may actually do something to the chickens to altar immunity and their ability to boost the human immune system, we could have a reasonable discussions on that, but going on about hundreds of years of ethic meanderings throughout history, people will find the first exit door to escape that which just sends them off wondering what the hell are you talking about and what does that have to do with the price of chickens.
There. One sentence.
Money is created by commercial banks making loans. They don't have the money they loan. They just say it's in your account, and start taking payments at interest. That's literally how money is created today. I'd tell you about the Eurodollar, but you'd have panic attacks, so I won't.
They don't care about making profits. You care about wages, and I care about them, and the rest of us care about wages and profits, but the BlackRock investors that have a controlling interest in ~90% of the stock corporations of the world do not, because they can just lend money to themselves with their pet banks whenever they want it. They can literally conjure money out of thin air.