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Mar 7, 2022Liked by NE - nakedemperor.substack.com

Allowing government to control the flow of goods has always seemed like a bad idea to me. This confirms it.

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Mar 7, 2022Liked by NE - nakedemperor.substack.com

A positive unintended consequence of this will be that obesity and diabetes rates in the West will drop. Most Americans could stand dropping their carb intake by 50%.

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Mar 7, 2022Liked by NE - nakedemperor.substack.com

This is the wake-up call for reducing our reliance on chemical fertiliser.

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Mar 7, 2022Liked by NE - nakedemperor.substack.com

Glad I listened to my granny. So much knowledge is and has been lost.

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Mar 7, 2022Liked by NE - nakedemperor.substack.com

And don’t forget that fertilizer is a fossil fuel product. Specifically nitrogen fertilizer, which is overwhelmingly the worlds number one fertilizer. In a fertilizer production plant huge amounts of natural gas are converted to ammonia, a nitrogen rich gas. Natural gas is responsible for feeding half the world today. Connect the dots.

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Mar 7, 2022Liked by NE - nakedemperor.substack.com

All the government decisions of the past two years will ensure three things: runaway inflation, food shortages, and finally, famines. Not that they will ever take responsibility ...that is only for the common herd...but I predict that having a garden and a few chickens, as we did during the War, is going to make a big comeback.

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Mar 7, 2022Liked by NE - nakedemperor.substack.com

Thanks for reminding me of my idea to buy an extra bag of rice and an extra few cans of beans every time I go grocery shopping these days. Cheap and lasts, I think. Just in case.

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Mar 7, 2022Liked by NE - nakedemperor.substack.com

I have a few friends who are farmers here in the UK. They are literally at their wits end. I am convinced one of them is suicidal. Not for his own woes, but those of his country. Fertilizer has just doubled, having already doubled during lockdowns. Seed has trebled. Fuel to run the tractors has shot up too. He said point blank, there is NO WAY he will be ABLE to plan crops next year. He has looked at every possible avenue and all are closed, unless he runs at a significant loss and starves his own family. He said growing Daffodils is the only option left, and they fetch about a penny each which barely covers the (Romanian) workers to pick them.

I have been an optimist most of my life. Hence why I feel very odd saying this, but it's my honest belief: It's all over.

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Mar 7, 2022Liked by NE - nakedemperor.substack.com

Coming soon, a depression that will make '29 look like a bad party.

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Mar 7, 2022Liked by NE - nakedemperor.substack.com

Bill Gates was buying stakes at Biontex, Moderna, Pfizer before the pLandemic hit. So he made a killing of 20x his initial investment.

Lest year there were reports he became the largest farmland owner in the US. Yet another miraculously good investment, no?

I gues the starving world and Europe will pay dearly for his GMO crap.

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Mar 7, 2022Liked by NE - nakedemperor.substack.com

I have successfully learned to grow food without agribusiness inputs.

Aside from the Fact these inputs you mention do not grow nutrient dense food, this method of production also degrades the soil to the point of carbon exhaustion. Then no amount of this fertilizer will work. Like the region named the Fertile Crescent, these soils will no longer be fertile. So sooner of later.. Probably sooner reading about missiles sinking ships slowing global trade.

Growing food without inputs requires small scale operating biointensively. The numbers work out less than 5% of the land now under cultivation could feed this planet full of people. But small scale requires people to grow the food they eat, major problem number one, and the land has been hoarded by the fascists who control food/land production.

Tough luck for the island, even if all of the land went into biointensive production, it couldn't feed 10% of its population.

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Mar 8, 2022Liked by NE - nakedemperor.substack.com

Yeah, we really are quite fucked aren't we. I was talking to a bloke the other day about all this shit, in a quite abstract way to be fair, but he got the message that I am both anarchistic and quite pessimistic about the future. He was a little sceptical of the governement but still a long way off being awake to the truth in this world. He told me that I shouldn't be so pessimistic, and that he was always optimistic. I told him that anyone who is presently optimistic is a fucking fantacist. On that not, the conversation ended.

https://robdubya.substack.com/p/not-quite-a-sonnet-but-when-youre?s=w

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Watching day 5 of grand-jury.net talks about the lead up to this. This has been a long time coming, and those in power are trying to hasten the fall.

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Mar 7, 2022Liked by NE - nakedemperor.substack.com

Yes Hungary banned export. Also I can report that weather is absolutely horrendous. Not enough rain.

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Mar 8, 2022Liked by NE - nakedemperor.substack.com

Are you familiar with the work of Ice Age Farmer? He was kicked off Twitter I think back in 2020. He was talking about coming food shortages back then... so far, things are unfolding in a way that the crazy conspiracy theorists predicted... or should I call the crazy conspiracy theorists "very good analysts." :)

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Mar 7, 2022Liked by NE - nakedemperor.substack.com

Igor, I have been following you (for free) for a while. Because you asked, and because you do such a stellar job, I do not want to see you have to beg to support your work. I am now a year long subscriber. Please accept my sincere thanks for everything you have done this past year and for allowing me to follow you for so long for free. You are so worthy.

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