With a constant stream of Hollywood end-of-the-world calamity blockbuster movies, Americans are generally distracted from the real-life disaster scenario that threatens us.  Growing dependency on processed foods, often shipped long distances via crammed distribution systems, has created a vulnerability to food supply disruption unparalleled in human history.

The Real Threat to Your Way of Life Unprecedented Dependency

The Southern sharecropper of a century ago generally possessed a healthier and more secure food supply than the vast majority of today’s urban denizens.  The sharecropper was essentially an indentured servant to the landowner, but he could produce a substantial amount of his own sustenance.  Most modern Westerners (especially Americans) may own land freely, but they are indentured servants to industrial food manufacturers and the phalanx of captured regulatory agencies that oversee food and agriculture.

We tend to suppress or dismiss alarms that the American food supply — for decades the global leader in technological and genetic advances in plants and livestock — could in fact be vulnerable to a seismic disruption.  Americans have come to take their food for granted, perhaps understandably: the average household food budget has long hovered at a mere 9% of income, and food choice diversity in products (including ethnic choices) has never been greater.

Yet there are fractures within this amazingly productive system: not everything produced is healthful for humans or ecosystems.  Economic and other trade-offs involved in the creation of this “Green Revolution” in agriculture and food distribution may be a devil’s bargain.  It is not the intention here to forecast doom, but to critically assess some profound and growing threats against which preventive measures might be employed.

Trapped in Suburbia?

The migration of rural Americans into cities for better pay and amenities over the last century or so has accompanied standards of comfort and plenty unimagined in the past.  City workers overflowed into suburbs, where more and more land was irrevocably withdrawn from local agricultural uses in favor of cheaper foods shipped from larger, more efficient, or more productive areas.  Indeed, much of Americans’ domestic produce is now grown in California and Arizona and then trucked or flown to points east and south — a very different demographic picture from 1924.

The trade-off for cheap food was consolidation and mechanization, which dramatically shifted the nation’s food production and distribution from the local and diverse to the massive and homogeneous. Much like Walmart and Applebee’s displaced Mom-and-Pop general stores and family restaurants, the consolidation of farming and food processing (including especially meats, an industry now tightly consolidated under the control of a handful of gargantuan corporate conglomerates) lowered prices but also choice. This rapid transition was made possible by technology fed a reliable diet of cheap fossil fuels to replace the historic labor of mule, horse, and human.

The resultant benefits of this conversion in agricultural infrastructure are obvious, though so too are numerous health problems.  But what is not readily apparent to most consumers is how vulnerable this seemingly miraculous system is to disruption or destruction.  Consider the weak links and the potential modern threats.

Food System Vulnerabilities

Many of the technological advances that have improved agricultural efficiency or yields carry accompanying novel risks.  Today, most food is transported long distances, including internationally, in container ships that clog a paltry handful of backed up ports, frantic to transfer goods onto a fleet of tractor-trailer trucks.

Tractor trailers, often refrigerated, are the chief means by which Americans get their goodies in plenty, whether from Amazon or Dollar General.  American roadways are congested with constant truck traffic, packed into overflowing truck stops and paused in breakdown lanes.  It is a fantastic feat of free-market capitalism.

But infrastructure has been poorly stewarded, especially of the nation’s bridges. Finding skilled drivers is a growing problem. The nation’s fleet of trucks is dependent on Taiwan for microchips and foreign sources (particularly China) for diesel exhaust fluid (DEF), without which the trucks don’t budge.

Food System Threats

The shift to industrial agriculture has inflicted profound assaults on the nation’s precious underground water aquifers and its healthy soils.  Soils are eroding at alarming rates in many regions, while water draw-downs are not naturally replenished by winter snows or spring rains.  The San Joaquin Valley produces 25% of Americans’ food on 1% of the nation’s land, yet some sections of this fertile breadbasket had subsided some 28 feet by 1970 and now subside approximately a foot every year due to water withdrawals!  These long-term threats are far easier to demonstrate than climate change and are unaddressed by Chinese-manufactured solar panels or E.V.s.  A greater threat than these slow-moving crises may be potential sudden events (including a repeat on a far greater scale of the Great Flood of 1862).

The war in Ukraine impacted world grain supplies and prices.  The COVID pandemic was accompanied by unprecedented spikes in fertilizer prices that persist.  DEF supplies were at one point crucially threatened, and could be again.  Microchip shortages left thousands of trucks stranded or idle.  An expanding war in Ukraine, an incursion by China into Taiwan, an electromagnetic pulse (EMP), an oil crisis, or even a trade war with China could send ripples of supply disruptions around the globe almost overnight — including in the U.S.

America’s tumultuous social fabric is torn: extreme social unrest could close major highways.  The fiat dollar is weak and declining, aggravated by reckless money supply policies and weak regulatory oversight: hyperinflation, currency collapse, and an electronic government replacement currency looming over the nation and its fragile food distribution system.  The creepy crew at the WEF claim that the next great threat to the world is a cyber-attack.  How would the U.S. food supply system fare, given the myriad of potential vulnerabilities that scenario presents?  The WEF was almost prescient about the pandemic.  Will there be another of those, this time with a higher mortality rate and a more panicked run on grocery stores?

Globalization offers many cost savings and efficiencies but obscures unique threats.  A balanced domestic agricultural system requires small or medium-sized farms distributed throughout the rural landscape.  Having abandoned that interconnectedness in favor of the “big,” America is gambling big like no society in human history.  No people has ever been so divorced from its soil.

Support your local farmer, and keep your eye on that food birdie.  Stalin, Mao, and Pol Pot all understood the colossal power of food to subjugate the masses.  Klaus Schwab and his ilk are not nobler.  The real reason European farmers are being undermined has little to do with carbon dioxide or nitrates.

 

John Klar is an Attorney, farmer, and author. Mostly farmer… And Regular Contributor to GraniteGrok and VermontGrok.

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He’s back. We previously covered State Rep Damond Ford in: State Rep Damond Ford Doesn’t Know Much About History and State Rep Damond Ford … You CANNOT Be Progressive And Pro-Israel and Rep Damond Ford: Heaven Is Only For Communists. But there is more. Damond Ford, just yesterday, back to spewing his Woke-Communist hate for Israel:

Are Woke Communists like Damond Ford who Manchester voters want “representing” them? Or are they clueless that Damond Ford, like so many other “Democrat” Reps from Manchester, is actually a Woke Communist? And what does it say about the current state of politics in Manchester, New Hampshire, and the focus of the NHGOP that Damond Ford does not even try to hide it?

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To all those who are sending in memes, thank you!  Many, many good ones!  Please do share this post, and if you share an individual meme, consider mentioning you saw it on the Grok!

Speaking of, from this week, Monday Edition and Wednesday Edition.  Note that my weekly Israel post will be out on late Saturday.

 

*** Warning, a few possibly off-color ones, in case tender eyes are about ***

 

 

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To all my Christian readers, I wish you a wonderful and celebratory Easter.  In these times of trouble, and in all times, may He be a blessing and a comfort to you.

 

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Assuming this is true, this is yet another poke at the Bear.

TPTB seem desperate to provoke WWIII.

 

 

 

 

 

Very sad but true.  There’s a reason I refer to the population, as a whole, as “sheeple”.

 

 

 

 

There’s an old joke that lab rats are being replaced by politicians.  Why?  Because there are some things rats won’t do.

 

 

 

 

Just heard her mentioned on the radio the other day.

 

 

 

 

 

Coming soon: We must obey the DS “for the greater good”…  I was rereading one of my old essays and read a quote from a lib who PREFERRED living under the enlightened rule of panels of experts.

 

 

 

Strength is currency in the Middle East (and around the world).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Didn’t she actually issue a press release saying she’d never done the deed with Trump?

 

 

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PSA – PSA – PSA – PSA – PSA

 

 

 

 

The data are clear.  But so many won’t see – because it would either disrupt their paychecks, or their vision of themselves as superior.

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Just saw a video on Telegram about how laden Dunkin’ Donuts is with glycophosphate.

 

 

 

Am I an advocate of corporeal punishment as a general rule?  No.  But sometimes it’s necessary when all other avenues fail.  In particular, when the kids were young, one swat on the butt was mainly to get their attention.

 

 

 

IMHO there is no innocent explanation for stopping this.

 

 

 

 

 

Excellent costume idea!

 

 

 

Don’t just boycott them.  Write them a physical letter to tell them why.  No, no emails or comment forms – those can be set to ignore most keyword messages.  A physical letter, especially in swarms, is harder to ignore.

 

 

 

And they do so openly, not by “nudging”…

The Fly on the Urinal – Urban Scoop

 

 

It makes you wonder – do they really think people are that unobservant?

 

 

 

 

Remember, this is a multi-generational faith.

 

 

 

Well, sunlight is great in dosed amounts.  If you get fried / lobsterized, that’s different.  Over the course of a summer I build up a nice tan, but I’m careful about it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Link Section (some mine, some from my Jarhead friend):

 

Regarding the container ship Dali that lost power (twice) just before crashing into the Francis Scott Key bridge in Baltimore.  This site has videos from several sources showing the ship made a last minute course change literally seconds before impact.  Given the course change, and the power going out (twice) just before impact, it certainly seems like a cyber attack set up to make the impact cause the most damage possible.  The bridge was a major artery for goods moving North-South on the Eastern seaboard, and the pieces of the bridge are now blocking access to the port, which was the 9th busiest port in America.  If this was a cyber attack, they sure got the bang for their buck:

It WAS NOT an accident: Ship changed course and kept it… something is fishy yet again – Whatfinger News’ Choice Clips

Related:

Bayou Renaissance Man: The Baltimore bridge collapse and supply chains

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Looks like Biden is considering blanket amnesty for illegal aliens.  So we allow them to come, then make them instant citizens.  Just in time for them to register to vote for the 2024 election, isn’t that great!  The scary part is, short of trying Biden for treason (which the UniParty won’t do), I don’t see how to stop it:

Biden Is Considering Illegal Immigrant Amnesty – HotAir

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This is the article from the Epoch Times about Steve Baker, a journalist who covered January 6th, 2021 at the capitol, and how he was not arrested until he started becoming effective at debunking the “narrative”.  He was charged with 4 misdemeanors, and voluntarily turned himself in (as requested) to the FBI in Dallas.  They arrested him, placed him in leg chains, shackles, and handcuffs (with a belly chain) to perp walk him in front of the judge.  The message is:  “Don’t mess with our narrative, or we’ll take you down”:

https://www.theepochtimes.com/article/steve-baker-on-the-jan-6-front-lines-and-in-the-dojs-crosshairs-5609736

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Wisconsin election integrity group Omega 4 America has found another method by which the Dems plan to steal the 2024 election, and it also explains why Biden et.al. are flying illegals into swing states in the middle of the night:

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/03/wisconsin-researchers-find-illegal-aliens-are-flooding-voter/

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The WEF et.al. is now coming for your garden (seriously, they want to ban private food production).  However, a bill being introduced in the U.S. Congress will allow having private food production means, and make it so the government cannot dictate regarding food sold within a state (only that passing across state lines).  Maine has already done the right thing, as they passed a law last year that allows Mainers to grow, harvest, and sell food from private food sources (MANY Mainers, on BOTH sides of the aisle supported this bill).  Of course that will only work if the Feds keep their hands off…

https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/great-reset/the-right-to-grow-food/

 

 

Funny how the government used to encourage self-sufficiency.  Now they’re on a jihad against it.

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A good article on the “new cars” (which are really rolling surveillance platforms), and how they won’t LET you go over the speed limit, or pass another car, or whatever.  You are no longer a “driver”, but an “observer”.  This started in 2017, and all new cars are getting it now (some system more “active” then others).  And as of 2025, all new cars are required to have a “kill switch” installed so law enforcement (or the government) can shut your car off if you don’t obey.   And once they have enough cars on the road “under control” (say 60% or more), how long before they pass a law requiring you to have a “monitoring device with a kill switch” installed in order to drive on public roads?  And pretty soon after that, ANY car that is not “government controllable” will be outlawed.

https://www.ericpetersautos.com/2024/03/24/would-you-still-want-to-drive/

In fact, in the future, I predict you won’t even be able to BUY a car anymore, at best, you MAY be allowed to lease one (you’ll own nothing, and LIKE it, peasant).

Eight States Plan to Ban the Sale of Gas-Powered Vehicles as Joe Biden Issues New Rules to Begin Killing Them Off | The Gateway Pundit | by Cullen Linebarger

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For those who wish to get blood from “un-jabbed” donors, several sites are setting that up (because the Red Cross doesn’t care).  Full disclosure:  I’ve been giving blood since I was 18 (always through the Red Cross), and I’ve given over 10 gallons now (gotta love the Oreos…).  However, the last couple times I gave, I asked the Red Cross folks about unjabbed blood (I’m unjabbed), and they didn’t care.  So now I’m considering donating to one of these organizations:

https://granitegrok.com/blog/2024/03/looking-for-safe-blood-in-the-post-pandemic-era

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If you like watching YouTube videos about subjects that may make government nervous (gorilla warfare, how to conceal your face from facial recognition, how to make maps from drone video, etc.), Google is now ratting you out to the Feds.  Better get a REALLY good VPN, and maybe route through TOR (although the Feds take a special interest in you if you start using TOR):

https://hotair.com/jazz-shaw/2024/03/24/google-has-been-ratting-out-youtube-viewers-to-the-feds-n3785282

Somewhat related:

A whistle blower is saying that Google and Meta are basically extensions of the NSA, CIA, DHS, DOJ, and FBI now.  Anything they have on you (your searches, likes, comments, reviews, purchases, etc.) the government has it.  Who cares about that pesky 4th Amendment anyway…

https://gellerreport.com/2024/03/google-and-meta-function-as-extensions-of-the-us-intelligence-community.html/

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A (very) short “future history” story on X, showing a very plausible look on what will happen:

:https://twitter.com/Matt_Bracken48/status/1771897931676713128

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Here’s Bill Gates on X, explaining why it’s OK for him to fly in a private jet and travel, but YOU shouldn’t:

https://twitter.com/wideawake_media/status/1772213468684296547

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Right now, the Republicans hold a very slim majority in the US House (217-213).  However, Representative Mike Gallagher (R-Wisc) and Representative Ken Buck (R-Colo) have both “designed to resign” before their term is up, leaving April 19th.  If they left NOW, their districts could hold a special election before November.  And given that they both come from deep red districts, a special election would give the R’s a solid chance to put R’s back in those seats.  But by waiting until mid-April, there will not be enough time for the special election, and those seats will be vacant, while the Dems are busy with special elections to REPLACE the Dems in the positions they lost.  Why is this important?  Besides holding the majority in the House, the House members are who certifies elections.  If the Dems control the house, they could vote to NOT CERTIFY the 2024 election! Or vote to accept “alternate electors”, so that Slo-Joe “wins” even though he didn’t win.  Having these RINOs wait until mid-April to quit seems like another UniParty set-up to deny Trump the White House (assuming he wins).

https://www.forbes.com/sites/saradorn/2024/03/22/another-house-republican-is-resigning-narrowing-gop-edge-to-one-seat

Related (shows the details better):

DC RINOs Attempt to Sabotage President Trump’s Re-Election With Retirements, Insurrection Legislation – ISRAPUNDIT

Susan Collins is openly saying she will NOT endorse Trump, and in fact, may renounce the Republican party altogether and become Independent.  The Swamp really, REALLY, doesn’t want Trump back in the White House.  Gee, maybe because he might actually correct our course?

Sens. Murkowski and Collins Could Leave the GOP (independentsentinel.com)

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Baltimore voted to “defund” their police.  Now they have major crime happening all over.  So what do they do?  Defund some more!:

Baltimore City Implodes: Police Force Collapses, Only Three Officers Patrolled Major District  | ZeroHedge

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Globalists are itching to implement CBDC, and the folks running the SWIFT system (controls the bank transactions in the Western world) are planning to transition to CBDC in 12-24 months:

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2024/03/25/swift-planning-launch-of-central-bank-digital-currency-trading-platform-in-12-months

Related:

https://www.reuters.com/technology/blackrocks-fink-says-russia-ukraine-crisis-could-accelerate-digital-currencies-2022-03-24

I’ve mentioned that with a CBDC your account could be frozen.  And 99% of the time, I get some version of “That can’t happen here”.  And disbelief, utter disbelief, when I tell them about what happened to Canadians during the trucker protests.

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A good piece from TL Davis on why we need citizen militias:

https://tldavis.substack.com/p/bucking-for-a-new-waco

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We bitch about the Millennials (and some of them do whine a LOT), but here’s a sobering look at where they stand financially.  The long & short of it is this:  Most will never own a house, and never be able to retire:

Hopelessness setting in and leading to depression – Gun Free Zone

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The national debt is piling up at a rate that is totally unsustainable, as just the INTEREST is $1.1 Trillion (yes, with a “T”) per year.  When it all collapses, people will be using $100 bills as fire-starter.  Here’s a good article laying it all out.  Take a look at your finances and use your cash to pay off any debt you have, as that will be used to enslave you:

CBO Director Warns Of Debt Market Meltdown With US Debt On “Unprecedented” Trajectory | ZeroHedge

Fiscal Collapse Accelerates – by Peter St Onge (profstonge.com)

A reminder.  I hate being right all the time:

 

E I Feel Like Sarah Connor The Coming Financial Collapse

 

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Make it like the old Indian practice of Sati; burn them alive on the funeral pyre with the carcass of their owner.  Just MHO.

 

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Palate Cleansers:

 

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So little of what we see in the news these days can be called good.  In fact, one has to look pretty hard to find it.  Few would argue the chaos in New Hampshire (exploding violent attacks, joblessness, high cost of living, reckless politicians, etc.) is reflective of the larger global chaos.  The evidence and outcomes of two world wars you think would have been enough to avoid a third, yet here we are staring it in its big, ugly, insatiable maw.

Who couldn’t go for a little good news right now?

Today marks the annual holiday recognized as Good Friday among the faithful.  It’s a holiday that harkens us back to a day similarly dark and brutal full of suffering, where mankind proved beyond a shadow of a doubt we were, as we are today, morally bankrupt and depraved, collectively conspiring to kill the greatest servant and most peaceful human being to ever walk the earth – God the Son – Jesus Christ.

If you haven’t seen the Passion of the Christ, Mel Gibson’s award winning movie about the time leading up to Jesus’ crucifixion, today would be a good day to watch it.  Despite Christian movies being notoriously poor quality, full of clichés and the kind of contrived or dispassionate acting one expects from low budget filmmaking, this movie impressed even anti-Christ Hollywood.

How?

Gibson, despite his publicly flawed life, shares the passion of the Christ, both in name and deed, by pouring himself entirely into reenacting the capture, mock trial and capital punishment of Jesus.  By all accounts the movie is a masterpiece, and perhaps the only movie about Jesus that rises to the level of being worthy of calling itself Biblical.

Not one for spoiler alerts, if you don’t already know the story then you’ve somehow managed to live this long without hearing the greatest story ever told from the most popular book of all-time.  You might want to catch up.  However, even if you do know the story, the artistic rendering in Gibson’s film will leave you profoundly moved at what Jesus was willing to suffer on your behalf.  If you’re not stirred in your soul to admire what Jesus went through at the hands of evil men to save you from an eternity of suffering and replace it with an eternity of peace and joy among loved ones, knowing that He neither deserved nor had to do it, then you are as spiritually dead as He says you are.

What makes this fake religious, conspiratorial, bloody, painful, and evil act of mankind so good is the One who suffered through it so we wouldn’t.

When asked by a young rich ruler “Good teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?” Jesus responded with a keen rhetorical question:

“Why do you call me good?” Jesus answered. “No one is good—except God alone.” (Mark 10:18)

The young wealthy man, just like most of his Jewish contemporaries, could not see Jesus was not just their long awaited Messiah, but God in the flesh.  Jesus was offering yet another clue, but spiritual blindness makes it difficult to see.

In fact, none of us can see the truth of God until He opens our eyes.  Gibson’s film is intended to help us get there.

So what makes this Friday so particularly good if it recalls yet another of man’s brutal deeds against even God Himself?

It’s the moment in time we are allowed to see the deep, deep goodness and love of God the Son, Jesus the Christ, alluded to here:

Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. (John 15:13)

The God of the Universe sees our spiritual bankruptcy.  He knows our need of saving, and He knows we are powerless to save ourselves.  He also knew that we would conspire and plot to kill even His precious and most innocent only Son, yet somehow uses our own evil act to extend forgiveness and save us from ourselves.

That’s what makes Him the only one who can truly be called good, and that’s what we are called to remember this day each year.

Happy Good Friday New Hampshire.

“For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish, but have eternal life.” (John 3:16)

Originally published April 7, 2023

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