Posted on 04/03/2022 10:11:29 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Editor’s Commentary: There was a time not so long ago when I would lambast “Chicken Littles” for claiming we’re on the verge of an economic collapse. I’ve been hearing it for decades and I’ve made a habit of pushing back. Even as recently as 2020, I railed against those who were buying up all the face masks, flour, and hand sanitizer because I thought the unhinged reaction to the pandemic was destructive, not to mention my annoyance of having to go to the grocery store several days in a row to find out they still had no toilet paper.
This is very different. For the last several months, I’ve become a “Late Prepper” with the intention of not only learning about and preparing for whatever is to come, but also to help others who find themselves in a similar situation. I researched all the emergency supply stores and chose to take on My Patriot Supply as a sponsor. I even recently started a new podcast about it. After being the guy who shook my head at people who bought a bunker ahead of Y2K, I’m now finding myself feeling ill-prepared for the current situation.
The article below by Arsenio Toledo focuses on Europe, but we have to assume that such challenges there will also reach our shores. It will be for different reasons; the Biden-Harris regime seems determined to do their part to usher in The Great Reset with open borders, energy production restrictions, and intentional failures on every economic front. What we’re seeing in Europe is a harbinger for what we’re almost certainly going to see in the United States very soon. Here’s Arsenio…
Countries all over the world, especially in Europe, have started implementing policies that ration food and fuel.
Europe’s struggles with its food and fuel supplies began after most nations on the continent imposed economic sanctions on Russia following its invasion of Ukraine. This threatened the flow of already-critical commodities in Europe and threatened to collapse already-struggling global supply chains.
As a result, the prices of everything from oil to wheat have soared, leading to multi-decade high inflation rates. Supplies of these essential products have also dwindled after exports from Russia were completely strangled.
In Spain, the country started experiencing sporadic shortages of different products like eggs, milk and other dairy products almost immediately following the outbreak of the war in Ukraine. In early March, major supermarkets like Mercadona and Makro began rationing sunflower oil.
Spain’s left-wing government even went further and gave stores the option to temporarily impose limits on the number of certain products customers purchase.
In Greece, at least four national supermarket chains have started rationing food products like flour and sunflower oil due to critically low supplies caused by the crippled supply chains coming out of Russia and Ukraine.
The supermarkets claim the current rationing is only a preventive measure that will be rolled back once Greece’s supplies of flour and sunflower oil stabilize. Around 30 percent of Greece’s wheat imports come from Russia and Ukraine.
“The reason for the cap on these products is only precautionary, as our customers are concerned about the war in Ukraine,” said one official from supermarket chain Alfa-Beta Vassilopoulos. “We want to ensure we will be able to serve our customers’ needs in the future too.”
“Flour and sunflower oil are the two products which, apart from energy, the war has affected more than anything else,” said Greek Minister for Development and Investment Adonis Georgiadis. “There are already shortages throughout Europe.”
In Germany, the nation triggered the first part of a three-stage emergency plan to conserve the country’s natural gas supply. This move came after Russian President Vladimir Putin demanded that Germany pay for Russian gas in rubles in an attempt to twist Western sanctions against Russia.
The first stage of the emergency plan will lead to “targeted” shutdowns of the flow of natural gas to “specified individual large consumers.”
German Vice-Chancellor and Minister for Economic Affairs Robert Habeck explained that the current rationing plan is a preventive measure implemented to make sure the country doesn’t experience a critical shortage.
Germany is also attempting to reduce or outright eliminate its dependence on Russian gas. Before the war, 55 percent of Germany’s natural gas came from Russia. Now, that number has been reduced to 40 percent with the help of natural gas flows from the Netherlands, France and Belgium.
“The collapse is on … and no signs of slowing down anytime soon,” said Harrison Smith of InfoWars. “In fact, all evidence points to the contrary. It points to those in charge and with the ability to prevent the downside doing everything they can to exacerbate and perpetuate the total collapse of the world economy, particularly in Western countries.” (Related: Gas rationing, food vouchers and hunger are now being normalized for the war phase of the plandemic.)
Smith, the host of “American Journal” on InfoWars, noted that if the global economy wasn’t so dependent on imports from other nations, the war in Ukraine would not have caused such a massive problem for the food and fuel supplies of other nations.
“All of this is really just predicated on globalism. It wouldn’t really be that big of an issue if we didn’t get our toilet paper from China,” he said. “If some ship running aground in the Suez Canal, quite literally on the polar opposite side of the world, somehow makes it so that I can’t buy toilet paper … that’s a problem, and it’s a problem in our world structure.”
Ping.
Too bad most politicians only care about lining their pockets with stolen money instead of helping their own citizens.
Damn that putin and his plan to undermine branDUHn with help from “OMB”!
Putin’s fault
Visit Patriot Supply, and prepare for the apocalypse ahead. Mention you come from Free Republic and get an extra ten percent off! But you must act NOW!
Ping
Hardly.
Mencken said it best long ago: “The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.”
The Left’s supply of hobgoblins seems endless.
Of course. This has been desired by the radical left for some time. They want you and me poor and begging for food while the ruling elite eats caviar and drinks Chivas with our money.
Oh noes! What will we do without sunflower oil!
We might be forced to use identical tasting vegetable or canola oil!
Know who you are buying from-
9https://www.survivalistboards.com/threads/opinions-wanted-regarding-my-patriot-supply.970697/#post-20912852)
A search here shows-
My Patriot Supply (MPS) (Emergency Preparedness, Food Storage & Supplies)
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Main warehouse
My Patriot Supply
1175 South Meridian Park Road, Suite A
Salt Lake City, UT 84104
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this returns zip on Google maps - a new one for me.
Loopnet shows:
428,854 sq. ft. of new construction. 400’ building depth. 50’ x 54’ column spacing with 60’ x 65’ end bays. 36’ clear height. ESFR. Build to suit office and lighting. Gas forced heat in the warehouse. 145 trailer parking stalls. Located at the NW corner of Bangerter Highway & California Avenue. - a large multiuser warehouse type building.
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Business listings for the address shows multiple businesses here:
Ready Hour (readyhour.com)(seems this is a Brand? of MPS)
Patriot Seeds
Emergency Essentials (Contact Emergency Essentials mailing addr in Sandpoint ID)
Alexapure ( shows as water treatment supplies)
Camping Survival (Improvise, Adapt and Overcome) (Sells Ready Hour food packets)
MPS also offers and ‘affiliate’ program. You can read the details if you have any interest - just know that it is offered.
The “About us” page from the MPS site makes no mention of Emergency Essentials.
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State of Utah Business license data
The business name “My Patriot Supply” appears to be available! To find out, register the business name “My Patriot Supply” »
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State of Utah business license for Emergency Essentials
Entity Number: 11309566-0151
Company Type: DBA
Address: 1911 SOUTH 3850 WEST Salt Lake City, UT 84104 Registered Agent: Gary Bringhurst
Registered Agent Address: 1911 SOUTH 3850 WEST
Salt Lake City, UT 84104
NOTE how these (MPS/EE) are related is unknown. See below
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The business name “ReadyHour” appears to be available! To find out, register the business name “ReadyHour” »
Where are you going to get them?
Hush war 🐷 pig.
Probably from the local Kroger.
We began preparing for what is about to come when barry the muslim was installed, I knew then that this country was on a collision course with Evil.
When the emergency is upon us, the time for preparedness has past.
You are so clueless.
Green Giant and Del Monte dominated the region.
Democrats in California turned it into a dustbowl over a tiny fish that lived hundreds of miles away.
-PJ
Exhibit B, Your Honor:
“The collapse is on … and no signs of slowing down anytime soon,” said Harrison Smith of InfoWars.
Anybody else think they smell the real reason behind this "article"?
Politicians “helping citizens” are what causes the problems.
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