Those Chinese are starving from stupidity. They know from recent experience that their government will seal them inside their apartments to counter covid outbreaks, and yet they are still too stupid to stock up on food. Let the idiots starve.
Revolution in Shanghai?
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Don't underestimate the Chinese. They don't plan to the next shareholder meeting only, the plan for generations.
And yet they can't plan for their next meal.
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“California Wants to Pay Farmers to Not Farm This Year
By Shea Swenson ON MARCH 31, 2022
The state is taking extreme measures to conserve water.
Both state and federal officials, as well as some major water companies in the region, signed the plan on Tuesday. Their hope is to keep upwards of 824,000 acre-feet of water every year in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta. The Capital Pressexplains that one acre-foot of water adds up to around 325,000 gallons of water—or typically enough to supply water to two households for a year.
“The most impacted sector will be the rice industry, as the plan would leave 35,000 acres of rice fields in the northern Central Valley—adding up to about six percent of the yearly crop—unused.
Despite getting the signatures, including those from major water companies such as Metropolitan Water District of Southern California—which provides drinking water to 19 million people—and Westlands Water District—the largest agricultural water district in the country—the plan still needs to run through a regulatory review process before it is official.”
https://modernfarmer.com/2022/03/california-drought-pay-farmers/
So, not in affect yet apparently.
“California Wants to Pay Farmers to Not Farm This Year
By Shea Swenson ON MARCH 31, 2022
The state is taking extreme measures to conserve water.
Both state and federal officials, as well as some major water companies in the region, signed the plan on Tuesday. Their hope is to keep upwards of 824,000 acre-feet of water every year in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta. The Capital Pressexplains that one acre-foot of water adds up to around 325,000 gallons of water—or typically enough to supply water to two households for a year.
“The most impacted sector will be the rice industry, as the plan would leave 35,000 acres of rice fields in the northern Central Valley—adding up to about six percent of the yearly crop—unused.
Despite getting the signatures, including those from major water companies such as Metropolitan Water District of Southern California—which provides drinking water to 19 million people—and Westlands Water District—the largest agricultural water district in the country—the plan still needs to run through a regulatory review process before it is official.”
https://modernfarmer.com/2022/03/california-drought-pay-farmers/
So, not in affect yet apparently.
Yes. A lot of rice, no MOST Texas' rice, is grown down around Beaumont/Orange area on the coast. A lot of rice is also grown farther on into Louiasana across the state line from there. We could see rice fields along I-10 driving from Galveston to New Orleans. A side note, I read an article around 10 years ago on a rice research study about arsenic levels in soil. They tested samples, if I remember correctly, as far up as Ohio & New York in the study. Seems like very few producers were under FDA's maximum allowed level, and some were 5 times the allowed level. Arsenic occurs in the soil likely as a result of fertilizer usage runoff throughout the length of the Mississippi. The data indicated it is at the greatest levels in the delta around southern TX (Beaumont area) and southern LA. I studied the data for quite awhile because I didn't know rice 'absorbed' arsenic from the soil. Never heard that before. The conclusion of the study was that it was in the soil from fertilizer and rain/river water action getting it into the surround paddies. Made me stop eating rice totally, which still saddens me, because I LOVE rice and wild rice. Chinese food and Indian food are diminished without rice.
If I may go off-topic a moment: I stopped eating all wheat product in 2009 when I went low-carb, long before reading the research study on arsenic levels found in U.S. rice. All wheat is GMO nowadays. It all contains gliadin. Got to have that better tomato and the higher yields, non? Gliadin is one of the reasons so many people are getting fat nowadays! Gliaden makes you want to eat MORE because it disrupts grelin (I'm hungry! gut hormone) and leptin (I'm full gut hormone) signaling from your stomach to your brain.
Instead, in very small amounts, I cook with Einkorn non-GMO wheat (from Jovial Foods) mixed with nut flours. Einkorn wheat has a totally different chromosomal profile from ordinary wheat (different number of chromosomes) therefore the two types of wheat literally CANNOT cross-pollinate, not even if the neighboring field is Monsanto GMO wheat! Not many people have heard of it, so I thought I'd just ention Einkors.
At our house, we only eat potatoes, sweet potatoes and occasionally things baked with Einkorn flour as a starch source. I prefer to avoid arsenic even if some of that rice-born arsenic is already in me from a lifetime of not knowing this before. The one exception in my last 12 years of low-carbing is our SHTF food prepping. Have lots of rice stored in buckets. We'll all be glad to have ANY food when it comes down to starvation, no matter what kind of wheat we must consume. Getting fat will be the least of my worries at our BOL. Interestingly, imported Indian basmati and Thai jasmine rice had some of the lowest levels of arsenic of all tested samples.
https://www.niehs.nih.gov/health/topics/agents/arsenic/index.cfmhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1892142/
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A few years back when we were in a severe drought, there was a similar debate going on in Central Texas.
We have a chain of lakes they call the Highland Lakes, it ends with Lady Bird lake, right in Austin that provides the city drinking water and recreation. The lake above that is Lake Travis where there is a large "variable level" lake controlled by a dam.
Austin demanded water from the lakes above, and the water levels in those lakes sunk to record lows. Many "fingers" of the lake were completely dry for a couple of years. Homeowners on the lake had docks sitting on dry land and many places that made a living off of the lake went out of business. The towns that relied on the upper lakes for their water, had to pay a big sum to relocate their inlets to provide water for their towns. Down stream in Austin though, that lake was filled to normal levels.
The rice farmers south of there did not get their allotments of water from the lake either so that the city folk could enjoy kayaking and jogging at the park.
When push comes to shove regarding resources, people in the cities will still have their swimming pools, while rural land owner's wells dry up. But still, they just keep building. It is ridiculous.
Drinking water is, was and always will be a ground to fight for...
Three minutes to live without air
Three day to live without water
Three weeks to live without food...
Basic survival rules. Love my well. Water for me and water for my garden and animals.
Three minutes to live without air
Three day to live without water
Three weeks to live without food...
Basic survival rules. Love my well. Water for me and water for my garden and animals.
A friend of mine had to drill a new well once the lake was gone 950'! It was crazy expensive. Every well in his rural area went dry. He had livestock and had no choice but to drill no matter the cost.
My father had a well drilled back in 1980 in OK near the town of Bristow. The guy who was drilling said there was no water in the area...but he was making money. The lady across the dirt road had a well around 25 feet deep that ran dry in summer but gave her about 10 gallons daily and then turned muddy...
But, dad wanted a good well and they hit 5 gallons per minute at around 35 feet and the guy said wow. Dad said keep going: minimum of 100 feet. The driller says there are oil wells 300 feet from here if you hit oil you will ruin the water table!!! Dad: keep drilling! At around 60 feet: 30 gallons per minute! Dad: keep drilling!!! At around 95 feet, they hit water so strong that it blew the drilling rig over and shot up 18-20 feet high for 3 days till it subsided. Dad had 6 artesian wells in his lake below the house which kept the lake full with cold clean water and the lake is about a hundred feet lower than the house downhill. He knew there was water there. Filled a 13,000 gallon lowboy pool in three days and the fire dept. from Bristow and Tulsa fill their trucks there when fighting brush fires now. The lab in Tulsa had to come out and take a sample themselves for testing since they thought there was NO well water anywhere in the NW corner of OK and definitely not that clean. Clean drinking water is PRICELESS.
But, dad wanted a good well and they hit 5 gallons per minute at around 35 feet and the guy said wow. Dad said keep going: minimum of 100 feet. The driller says there are oil wells 300 feet from here if you hit oil you will ruin the water table!!! Dad: keep drilling! At around 60 feet: 30 gallons per minute! Dad: keep drilling!!! At around 95 feet, they hit water so strong that it blew the drilling rig over and shot up 18-20 feet high for 3 days till it subsided. Dad had 6 artesian wells in his lake below the house which kept the lake full with cold clean water and the lake is about a hundred feet lower than the house downhill. He knew there was water there. Filled a 13,000 gallon lowboy pool in three days and the fire dept. from Bristow and Tulsa fill their trucks there when fighting brush fires now. The lab in Tulsa had to come out and take a sample themselves for testing since they thought there was NO well water anywhere in the NW corner of OK and definitely not that clean. Clean drinking water is PRICELESS.
Our well at BOL1 is 250'. Neighbors had to go to 450'. At BOL2 there was a hand dug well from about 1940 that was at 30 feet...I'm going to be interested to see when we drill there how far they have to go. There are oil wells and natural gas wells all around. The creek is spring fed and fairly clear but, has very high iron content.
We have two pieces of rural property. The larger piece has a well. The smaller one, (an investment purchse) only has two stock tanks on it. Our sharp realtor of many years encouraged us to go ahead and get on the local water cooperative's customer list NOW at least. "You may not be able to in t he near future. Water shortages in some parts of Central TX are denying well permits (around Waco) or are not adding new customers AT ALL". We had a meter installed ASAP in case we ever decided to build a home on the place downstream. A boon to Lucky next owners, as she told us the day we applied their $3300 set up was going up to $5000 at the end of that month. My jaw dropped!
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The area around Sacramento is where several rivers converge. They have tons of water in a drought-ridden state. But instead of actually using the water, it goes out to sea. The only concession is rice agriculture. In this area and this area alone, you can drive by and see rice being grown.
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Let me guess...
They are worried some obscure mussel nobody ever heard of will be too lazy to move 100 yards to where the saline content is low enough for them.
China's (genocide) program described in more detail, one thing is for sure, the Chinese government is no longer ticking normally or they want the first position as far as the big reset is concerned.
https://www.wochenblick.at/corona/m...ne-knast-der-zero-covid-abgrund-von-shanghai/
https://www.wochenblick.at/corona/m...ne-knast-der-zero-covid-abgrund-von-shanghai/
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And IF the WHO votes this next month to take control. basically world wide, when the next pandemic happens, I can foresee the "China genocide" happening. The WHO backs forced vaccines and also vaccine passports. I also believe the WEF already have the next pandemic planned out. Obviously lockdowns did not work. The states here that just locked down for a couple weeks faired way better than those with the hard lockdowns. Apparently China hasn't reached heard immunity yet. What is happening in Shanghai and Beijing is insane.
I wonder if they stockpiled to feed their armed services? They do have a lot of soldiers. I have a bad feeling that something worse that the Ukraine invasion is about to happen.
What is going on in China? Does anyone know? About 450 million people are locked down. How could this just be for covid, a cold?
The CCP opened their mouths and stuck their foot into it. Now it is all about saving face, no matter the cost to the people or their economy.
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China's Zero Covid Policy prevented them from reaching herd immunity.
Whole heartily agree with this.
I will use an example of a microclimate (for lack of a better term)
A Vet Clinic that had such strict procedures, they never closed for the first 2 years. Many others did. Had sporadic cases.
Things opened up, they dropped their mandates. They are now having 3-4 cases causing notification a week, for the past 3 weeks. Mind you, these are 3-4 times vaccinated people. And this is in a population of 50 employees.
The problem is-this is what will be used to justify lockdowns again.
The closure of China is already smashing our working, taxpaying middle class and the big industies here in Germany. The service sector still working but also damaged due to the Covidrestrictions. With the exploding inflation and the non existing shipments there will be some fun.
I expect Europe to burst into flames in the end of the year 22. Those who destroyed the wealth and globalised everything to cheaper grounds need a real big war to flee their responsibilities and stay in power.
The next time lockdowns are going to be realised, there will be a lot of new deaths due to sickness of body and soul. Over here the cases of not reasonable sickness mainly araound the heart rise.
And additionally the "boosterd" people often have to fight formerly hardly bad illnesses.
With this small a sample, you can pinpoint it back to a cause. Outbreaks happen when one person isn’t careful. Most have been when 1 Dr travels. Ok, she is a party girl. She just got back from Thailand 3 weeks ago.
I don’t even want to get into the adverse effects of the vaccine. The vaccine does not prevent reoccurrence. It doesn’t work, period. The Dr and I both know adverse effects.
My wife wrote the protocols and kept the clinic relatively sequestered for 2 years.
I was supporting the Drs point of Herd Immunity.
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Im not sure about the Sacramento River but it could have something to do with protecting salmon runs.
