on May 11, 2022, in Kankakee, Illinois.
Joe Biden Versus We the People |
by Josh Hammer
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Last June, the Biden administration unveiled its “National Strategy for Countering Domestic Terrorism.” Despite its anodyne-sounding name, the “National Strategy” was anything but anodyne. The pamphlet represented the logical culmination of the Left’s cynical use of the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol riot as a means of ginning up large-scale, nationwide anti-Republican/anti-Trump voter sentiment.
The result, evinced again by Attorney General Merrick Garland’s disgraceful October 2021 memo directing the FBI to intrude on local school board meetings and crack down on anti-critical race theory parental revolts, has been a roiling cold war waged by the ruling class against us “deplorables” and our political “wrong-think.”
Now, seven months after Garland’s infamous Oct. 4 memo, the better question to ask is not whether President Joe Biden is engaged in a cold war merely against the “deplorables.” We know the answer to that: yes. Instead, the more relevant question is whether the Biden administration is now engaged in a cold war against a broader target: the entire American citizenry. The answer to that question, based on all relevant data and metrics, seems to be the same: yes.
Let’s review.
Most obvious and perhaps most important, inflation—which the Federal Reserve finally recently conceded is not “transitory” but here to stay for a while—is now the highest it has been in four decades. The Consumer Price Index increased 8.3% in April on an annualized basis—slightly lower than March’s 8.5% clip, but still painfully above the Fed’s 2% target. Biden has recently declared fighting inflation to be his top domestic priority, but he shows no appetite for curbing the mass inflationary deficit spending that has characterized his presidency. Nor has Biden communicated to Fed Chair Jerome Powell that he is prepared to accommodate the drastic interest rate hikes that are now necessary to bring inflation back under control.
Biden is also looking to “fight” inflation—a de facto regressive tax that eats away everyone’s savings, but hits lower- and middle-class earners the hardest—in all the wrong places. The traditional economic definition of inflation is too much money chasing too few goods, but Democrats seem wholly uninterested in working with Republicans on the sort of industrial policy measures needed to immediately revamp domestic production.
On the contrary, Biden’s priorities are completely backward.
Amidst unprecedented—and potentially lethal—shortages in baby formula, he has not acted swiftly to either invoke the Defense Production Act to ramp up domestic production (after his own FDA shut down a baby formula production facility) or temporarily lift the import tariffs that have helped cartelize the domestic baby formula market. At the same time, Biden has openly mused about ending the Trump administration’s signature tariffs on China. But all that would accomplish is make the median American consumer even more dependent on our geopolitical arch-foe. Fed-driven monetary policy aside, the way to fight inflation on the fiscal side is to accelerate production—not to fortify China’s cheap-labor sword of Damocles that dangles over the American economy.
Perhaps most revealing, as reported by the Washington Examiner, Rep. Kat Cammack (R-FL) tweeted photos appearing to show “[s]helves and pallets packed with baby formula” at holding facilities for illegal aliens. This, of course, while actual U.S. citizen parents are frantically scrambling from store to store to ensure their babies don’t starve.
Translation: Illegal aliens rule the roost.
But it’s not just the open borders/pro-illegal alien lobby that plays our ruling class like a fiddle; it’s also the zealots in the environmentalist movement. During the same week that nearly 30 states are reporting all-time highs for average gas price at the pump, the Biden administration has canceled offshore oil and natural gas leases in both Alaska and the Gulf of Mexico. But Biden has simultaneously admitted that energy accounts for a whopping 60% of the inflation Americans are now experiencing. Higher fuel prices for trucks and tractors, after all, trickle down and affect all goods and foodstuffs farmed and shipped.
Amidst this carnage to Americans’ savings and retirement accounts, it is unfathomable for the administration to further restrict domestic energy production. The only effect of such restrictions, intended to appease the greenie and Malthusian radicals who increasingly dominate the Democratic donor base, is to make Americans even more energy-dependent on such human rights bastions as Venezuela and Saudi Arabia. Our ruling class, full of virtue-signaling electric car owners, no doubt sleeps well at night as normal gasoline-dependent Americans get annihilated at the pump.
Meanwhile, Congress is racing to pass an emergency $40 billion appropriation in aid to Ukraine—a faraway land now roiling in its fourth calendar month of a crippling humanitarian crisis, but hardly a pressing domestic concern. Post-Maidan Revolution Ukraine is a well-known playground for venal slush funds and parochial NGO interests, but that apparently did not give the U.S. House any pause in reviewing the legislation to minimize any gratuitous pork; it rapidly passed Congress’ lower chamber by a lopsided tally of 368-57.
The situation in Ukraine is tragic—but so is the situation at the porous U.S.-Mexico border, which has been completely overrun in recent months by transnational drug cartel-trafficked illegal migrants. Those migrants and cartels are incentivized to make and orchestrate the hazardous journey north due to the Biden administration’s various amnesty magnets, such as its return of Obama-era “catch-and-release” policy for illegal aliens in the U.S. interior.
Translation: Ukraine’s border with Russia matters more than America’s own border with Mexico.
It is difficult to recall the last time a U.S. president persistently acted in a manner so contrary to the interests of the median citizen to whom that president purportedly takes a constitutional oath to protect and defend. Fortunately, Biden’s historically low approval ratings hint at a ballot box remedy for our national woes: A red wave beckons this fall.
Josh Hammer is Newsweek opinion editor, host of “The Josh Hammer Show,” a syndicated columnist and a research fellow with the Edmund Burke Foundation.
Twitter: @josh_hammer.
The views expressed in this article are the writer’s own.
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18 Signs That Food Shortages Will Get A Lot Worse SHTF!
By Michael Snyder
The alarm bells are ringing.
Are you listening?
18 Signs Food Shortages Will Get A Lot Worse As We Head Into The Second Half Of 2022
If you think that things are bad now, just wait until we get into the second half of this year. Global food supplies have already also gotten very tight, but it is the food that won’t be produced during this current growing season in the northern hemisphere that will be the real problem.
Worldwide fertilizer prices have doubled or tripled, the war in Ukraine has greatly reduced exports from one of the key breadbaskets of the world, a nightmarish bird flu pandemic is wiping out millions of chickens and turkeys, and bizarre weather patterns are absolutely hammering agricultural production all over the planet.
I have often used the phrase “a perfect storm” to describe what we are facing, but even that phrase really doesn’t seem to do justice to the crisis that we will be dealing with in the months ahead. The following are 18 signs that food shortages will get a lot worse as we head into the second half of 2022…
#1 The largest fertilizer company on the entire planet is publicly warning that severe supply disruptions “could last well beyond 2022”…
THE WORLD’S LARGEST FERTILIZER COMPANY WARNED SUPPLY DISRUPTIONS COULD EXTEND INTO 2023.
A BULK OF THE WORLD’S SUPPLY HAS BEEN TAKEN OFFLINE DUE TO THE INVASION OF UKRAINE BY RUSSIA.
THIS HAS SPARKED SOARING PRICES AND SHORTAGES OF CROP NUTRIENTS IN TOP GROWING AREAS WORLDWIDE; AN EARLY INDICATION OF A GLOBAL FOOD CRISIS COULD BE IN THE BEGINNING INNINGS.
BLOOMBERG REPORTS CANADA-BASED NUTRIEN LTD.’S CEO KEN SEITZ TOLD INVESTORS ON TUESDAY DURING A CONFERENCE CALL THAT HE EXPECTS TO INCREASE POTASH PRODUCTION FOLLOWING SUPPLY DISRUPTIONS IN RUSSIA AND UKRAINE (BOTH MAJOR FERTILIZER SUPPLIERS). SEITZ EXPECTS DISRUPTIONS “COULD LAST WELL BEYOND 2022.”
#2 THE WORLD FERTILIZER PRICE INDEX HAS SKYROCKETED TO ABSURD HEIGHTS THAT HAVE NEVER BEEN SEEN BEFORE.
#3 It is being reported that global grain reserves have dropped to “extremely low” levels…
“GLOBAL GRAINS STOCKS REMAIN EXTREMELY LOW, AN ISSUE THAT HAS BECOME AMPLIFIED BECAUSE OF RUSSIA’S INVASION OF UKRAINE.
“WE THINK IT WILL TAKE AT LEAST 2-3 YEARS TO REPLENISH GLOBAL GRAINS STOCKS,” ILLINOIS-BASED CF INDUSTRIES HOLDINGS INC.’S PRESIDENT AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER TONY WILL SAID IN A STATEMENT IN WEDNESDAY’S EARNINGS REPORT.
#4 Due to the war, agricultural exports from Ukraine have been completely paralyzed…
EARLY 25 MILLION TONNES OF GRAINS ARE STUCK IN UKRAINE AND UNABLE TO LEAVE THE COUNTRY DUE TO INFRASTRUCTURE CHALLENGES AND BLOCKED BLACK SEA PORTS INCLUDING MARIUPOL, A U.N. FOOD AGENCY OFFICIAL SAID ON FRIDAY.
THE BLOCKAGES ARE SEEN AS A FACTOR BEHIND HIGH FOOD PRICES WHICH HIT A RECORD HIGH IN MARCH IN THE WAKE OF RUSSIA’S INVASION OF UKRAINE, BEFORE EASING SLIGHTLY IN APRIL, THE FAO SAID ON FRIDAY.
#5 The out-of-stock rate for baby formula in the United States has now reached 40 percent…
THE OUT-OF-STOCK RATE FOR BABY FORMULA HOVERED BETWEEN 2% AND 8% IN THE FIRST HALF OF 2021, BUT BEGAN RISING SHARPLY LAST JULY. BETWEEN NOVEMBER 2021 AND EARLY APRIL 2022, THE OUT-OF-STOCK RATE JUMPED TO 31%, DATA FROM DATASEMBLY SHOWED.
THAT RATE INCREASED ANOTHER 9 PERCENTAGE POINTS IN JUST THREE WEEKS IN APRIL, AND NOW STANDS AT 40%, THE STATISTICS SHOW. IN SIX STATES — IOWA, SOUTH DAKOTA, NORTH DAKOTA, MISSOURI, TEXAS AND TENNESSEE — MORE THAN HALF OF BABY FORMULA WAS COMPLETELY SOLD OUT DURING THE WEEK STARTING APRIL 24, DATASEMBLY SAID.
#6 In six U.S. states, the out-of-stock rate for baby formula has actually risen to 50 percent or greater.
#7 Searches for the phrase “how to make homemade formula for babies” on Google have spiked 120 percent.
#8 We are being told that this is a “perfect storm” as shelves become increasingly bare at food banks all around the nation.
#9 In Canada, more than 1.7 million chickens and turkeys have already been lost in recent months due to the global bird flu pandemic.
#10 In the United States, more than 37 million chickens and turkeys have already been wiped out due to the global bird flu pandemic.
#11 The two largest reservoirs in California, Shasta Lake and Lake Oroville, have both fallen to “critically low levels”.
#12 Some communities in southern California won’t be able to make it through the coming summer months without “significantly cutting back” on their water usage.
#13 Many of the largest lakes around the world are currently in the process of disappearing because they are rapidly drying up.
#14 Wildfires continue to absolutely devastate agricultural land all across the western half of the United States. This weekend, it was New Mexico’s turn to be hit the hardest…
AFTER A FEW DAYS OF CALM THAT ALLOWED SOME FAMILIES WHO HAD FLED WILDFIRES RAGING IN NORTHEAST NEW MEXICO TO RETURN TO THEIR HOMES, DANGEROUS WINDS PICKED UP AGAIN SUNDAY, THREATENING TO SPREAD SPOT FIRES AND COMPLICATE WORK FOR FIREFIGHTERS.
MORE THAN 1,500 FIREFIGHTERS WERE ON THE FIRE LINES AT THE BIGGEST BLAZE EAST AND NORTHEAST OF SANTA FE, WHICH GREW ANOTHER 8 SQUARE MILES (20 SQUARE KILOMETERS) OVERNIGHT TO AN AREA MORE THAN TWICE AS LARGE AS THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA.
#15 We are being told that steak prices in the United States will “keep rising” in the days ahead.
#16 Due to hail and frost, the Spanish apricot crop is going to be way below expectations…
IN SPAIN, THE LATEST FORECASTS SUGGEST PRODUCTION WILL NOT REACH 60,000 TONNES, COMPARED WITH 110,000 TONNES IN 2019 AND 100,000 TONNES IN 2020 AND 90,000 TONNES IN 2021.
IN MURCIA, WHERE AROUND TWO-THIRDS OF SPAIN’S APRICOT PRODUCTION IS LOCATED, FARMERS IN THE MULA RIVER AND NORTHWEST REGIONS HAVE BEEN FORCED TO WRITE OFF THE ENTIRE SEASON FOLLOWING A SEVERE HAILSTORM ON MONDAY WHICH NOT ONLY RESULTED IN THE LOSS OF THE FRUIT, BUT ALSO CAUSED WIDESPREAD DAMAGE TO TREES.
#17 Overall, Spanish fruit production is expected to drop to the lowest level in 40 years.
#18 Kansas Senator Roger Marshall is openly warning that a horrifying worldwide famine is coming within the next two years …
THE WAR IN UKRAINE WILL LEAD TO A WORLDWIDE FAMINE IN THE NEXT TWO YEARS, WARNED SEN. ROGER MARSHALL (R-KY.), WHO SERVES ON THE SENATE AGRICULTURE COMMITTEE, WARNED ON TUESDAY.
“YOU KNOW I’M A BIG AGRICULTURE GUY. TWELVE, 15 PERCENT OF THE AGRICULTURE PRODUCTS – CORN AND WHEAT, SUNFLOWER OIL – COME THROUGH THAT BLACK SEA, SO— AND FERTILIZERS COME FROM THAT AREA AS WELL, SO THERE ACTUALLY IS GOING TO BE A FAMINE ONE TO TWO YEARS FROM NOW. I THINK TWO YEARS FROM NOW WILL BE EVEN WORSE,” HE TOLD FOX BUSINESS’S “MORNINGS WITH MARIA BARTIROMO” ON TUESDAY.
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