howling wasteland

HOWLING WASTELAND

In the early 1800's after a relatively large volcano blew its top, North America had its Year Without A Summer. I haven't researched that to any degree, but left unsaid seems to be a feeling that there was no deprivation as a result. Don't get me wrong, there could have been a famine and it was Soviet Expunged ( there is a good amount of propaganda going on the last hundred years and it couldn't have been difficult to ignore any data that ran contrary to the paradigm of Waddling Masses Feeding At The Never Ending Trough Of Surplus ).

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We have few discussions on the number of civilian deaths during the War Of Northern Colonialism, Reconstruction or The Great Depression Of 1930 ( as opposed to the Great Depression Of 2008 To 2022-and in case you were wondering, the 22 is when we lose the fracking oil and the Great Unraveling begins. Oh, and 2022 might be optimistically long of a time line ). I don't know if I really believe that Russian author article ( and subsequent identical claim by “our” Russian, Orlov ) on 10 million dead in the famine of the Great Depression, but I do know governments love to lie, especially ours.

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But let us not delve too long on that distraction. Even if there were quite a few deaths from massive crop failures in 1814, the major disruptions were at higher elevations in marginal agricultural areas on the east coast. Even with prices increasing eight fold, most folks were feeding themselves. At least at lower elevations, in more populous areas. Essentially, surplus eaters on unimportant areas were eliminated. Their cereal crop failures had little national effect. Thirty years later, western farms started seeing mechanization, and within a short time soil was being denuded.

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That was the beginning of our colonial empire, started way before Hawaii and the Philippines and even before The War Of Northern Aggression. We had to find and claim bird crap islands in the warmer sections of the oceans, to feed the midwest soil. Even in the lush South, from the beginning to pay for the Farming Implements ( the law making more slave imports illegal in 1807 was one of the first shots of the Civil War, even if it might have been supported by southern states as a ill sighted move towards short term profit ), soil depletion was an issue.

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We've talked about the rain barrier, Fort Worth to Fargo. Slavery was not practical past that point west, not with the cost of raising slaves ( remember, a fresh worker off the boat didn't require 15 years of feed to reach maturity. And for any bleeding heart reading this, Blacks enslaved Blacks over if Africa. Without them as co-conspirators, there wouldn't have been a slave trade. Also, New England Puritans financed a lot of those ships. The Blue Bloods have been controlling the economy since ). Using up its soil, the South had to move.

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Having moved as far west and south as possible, they had to turn North. There was where very bloody fighting, guerrilla war prior to the hot one, took place. John Brown and the like might have been the true believer abolitionists, but you can bet northern industry money was funding them, just as Soros and ilk fund the Antifa factions today. The simple minded are swayed by propaganda and stay that way with treasure. The fight in allowing new slave states or not was a war from northerners who wanted to wrestle the vote from the South ( as was the immigration efforts from Ireland, a vote stuffing effort as is done today ).

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And impoverish the South. It was expansion or die for the South, as ruined farms were left ( with denuded soil ) for the poor Whites. In the even larger picture, this was industrialization fighting to wrestle the economic power from agriculture ( and hence, factory owners stealing the economic power from the nobility, with funding from the bankers who wanted back in the picture ). As you can see, the Civil War was not decided in a vacuum of the superficial Question Of Slavery.

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If you look at that from a macro perspective, it really was just a war for power using food as a weapon. It might have started with The Whiskey Rebellion, everybody's golden boy ( as Lincoln used to be ) enforcing the federal ascension of power started with the coup of the Constitution, and given fuel by increasing the cost of Farming Implements, then given legitimacy as the FedGov “saved us” by going abroad to secure vital fertilizer ( one also has to wonder if securing German patents for artificial fertilizer on the cheap had any bearing on our decision to bail out JP Morgan by joining in fighting for the allies in WWI ).

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If you look at agriculture today, things are even worse. Our Evil Triangle of bankers, government and corporations almost completely control food production in this country. Which would be fine, under a fascist order, but unfortunately we are living under communism where the legions of peasants grovel in the dirt to enrich a very small number of elite Party Members ( the Rich Party ). I don't mean we literally live under communism, because technically it is an oligarchy, but it helps to visualize the rest of society all equal in poverty and lacking any vote.

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I mostly approach the coming issues of feeding ourselves through the lens of Peak Oil, but that does ignore the coming civil war and how the very same forces that controlled food before are still at it, and still don't mind a little famine to consolidate and keep power. Of course, fracking oil and gas is very much tied into our food production, but the bankers and government fund and protect the drilling industry. Rather than jumping for joy and jerking off that fracking is feeding us, we should be concerned that the elites can turn off that spigot at will.

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By just focusing on Peak Oil, I sinned by allowing the conversation to be hijacked by the Imperial Party cheerleaders. And I'll admit, I'm one of those myself, or at least partially. By forgiving the practice as it allowed us an extra decade for preparedness, you become a de facto supporter of the current regime. I don't see much wrong with this, as it is every man/family for himself and nothing will save the current system ( no voting yourself out of clown world! ), but it does also allow one to become complacent in the danger.

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Let me put it this way. I think that Richard Heinberg in his book “Snake Oil”, and Steve St Angelo of SRS Rocco Report, are the Gary North's ( reporting on Y2K ) of today and we are Gott Damn fools if we aren't listening to them on the fracking industry. We are already at the point of the Red Queen Moment, running faster and faster to stay exactly at the same point of production. The GROWTH of fracking oil has stopped, an exact repeat of global oil in 2005. Economic chaos following both events is guaranteed.

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It is little accident that our economic contraction started as fracking oil failed to grow in production. And fracking oil was NEVER profitable, in either money or EROI. Only the banks throwing money at the drillers produced any energy. As the bankers fail from the growth of production, the bankers cannot continue to fund production, leading to increased failure of fracking companies, leading to more economic problems. It is a vicious cycle and it has already started. I guar-an-damn-tee you a jelly filled donut. Continued tomorrow.

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