UK confirms it will not insure ships carrying Russian oil (90% of insurers now)

The UK has gone completely mad, as the treasury has confirmed it will not allow any British insurers to cover ships carrying Russian oil from December 5.

By December 5, tanker owners that fly any European Union flag or carry P&I insurance from an EU or UK club can no longer have crude oil onboard that originated in Russia, unless Russia has sold the crude to the buyer at or under a price cap pushed for by G7 members. The US is expected to join the insurance ban shortly meaning more than 90% of the world’s insurers will shun Russian-linked crude tanker business from next month.

[IAF: remember the #AbsoluteZero plan was to eliminate shipping by 2030]

“We continue to stand by Ukraine in the face of Putin’s barbaric and illegal invasion,” UK finance minister Jeremy Hunt said

#shipping

https://splash247.com/uk-confirms-it-will-not-insure-ships-carrying-russian-oil/

DIESEL SHORTAGE: I’ve been hearing an increased number of reports of diesel outages.

It’s been spotty for the last few weeks, localized issues, but now seems to really be hitting home.

Above is Allentown, PA.

What are you seeing in your neck of the woods?

Are they going to pull the rug after the election?

It’s a good day to top off tanks, charge batteries, rotate supplies, …

#usa #diesel #AbsoluteZero

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Years ago the WEF announced they would mess things up so badly that people would beg for AI to run things. People were alarmed, and said "We'll never allow this to happen! Klaus is evil!"

And yet, now some of those same people are cheering on Trump/Musk, hailing technonationalism, and demanding AI government, walking right into the digital convergence of the 4th Industrial Revolution...

It's pretty surreal — and it's a clear indicator that waiting for some strongman or tech magnate to save the day is not going to pan out. Ever. We each have to do our part of the work. This channel is returning to look at what that work is, and how we do it. Stick around if you want to save the world 🙏

Empty shelves are reported widely across the US, blamed on the cyberattack on UNFI (North America's largest food distributor). Not just Whole Foods, as empire media is claiming.

If they are trying to really mix things up leading up to this Saturday's birthday military march vs. the growing riots — food shortages would certainly be a highly incendiary fuel to throw on that fire.

"What the Truck" covers the cyberattack here: https://x.com/FWwhatthetruck/status/1932875692964003976

Be ready for anything, my friends...

- iceagefarmer

AI: Decoding the Psyop [NEW (first) substack post!]

AI is powerful, and the idea that anyone could have this power is not attractive to the powers that be — it can't be allowed in our hands. AI is seen as the new weapon, and an informed populace therewith, a threat to the state. "AI Regulation" is the new gun control.

WEF, OpenAI, and others are rapidly moving to "regulate AI" by limiting access to compute capacity. As they build super-intelligent systems, they are simultaneously setting up the regulation to keep it only to themselves.

They will run realtime simulations populated by our digital twins, with perfect data on all resources from supply chain blockchain, to control their 4th industrial revolution. We will not be allowed access to any significant compute capacity. There will be no competing. There will be no innovating.

This regulation of compute power is the key that turns the lock on the technocratic prison.

So, why is there no “Freedom of Compute?” Where is the equivalent of an NRA fighting for the individual’s right to compute? We’ve never heard these concepts before, yet it is now equally important as the First and Second Amendment — where is the movement for a Bill of Rights for Compute Power?

I love humanity. I love our art, our music, our spirit, our history. I personally find downright distasteful an AI-created facsimile of truly inspired creative and intellectual work. BUT — I will defend our right to use it. This technology is here now; the bizarre but powerful genie is popping out of the bottle, and we must ensure no group claims exclusive ownership of it to control society.

The stakes are high here. If we fail, we lose forever the ability to create our own models with real history, alternative viewpoints, alternative medicine, herbalism, permaculture, decentralized solutions, and we, and the coming generations, will be doomed to accept the already disappointing, disempowering consumerist technoserf rhetoric that ChatGPT or Grok serve up, sourced from establishment-approved sources. We will live in reality dictated by Snopes and Wikipedia.

FULL ARTICLE:
https://unshadowed.substack.com/p/ai-decoding-the-psyop

- iceagefarmer

The idea that anyone could use powerful AI is not attractive to the powers that be.

Don’t take my word for it. Here is Bill Gates admitting that “managing AI” is right up there in terms of importance with climate change, bioterrorism, and nuclear war:

Gates is not just winging it, these are highly intentional words, each with decades of planning behind them. He is signaling the agenda to control AI. AI is seen as so powerful that it is a threat to the technocratic takeover. It can't be allowed in our hands. This is the new gun control. AI is seen as the new weapon, and an informed populace therewith, a threat to the state.

LEARN MORE — FULL ARTICLE: https://unshadowed.substack.com/p/ai-decoding-the-psyop

- iceagefarmer

I actually have a strong aversion to AI; call me old school. I like hand-drawn art. I like hand-made music (OK, biased guitarist). I worry about people who think they are falling in love with an AI chatbot. And naturally I find it insane that the transhumanist elite intend to first use AI as a beastly control system, and ultimately merge with some "AI supergod."

But my own preferences had blinded me to this OPEN agenda to control all computational power on the planet. They are OPENLY saying AI is too powerful for people to use.

Imagine if the ruling elite in 15th century Germany had tracked down Gutenberg and taken his printing press, with an old-fashioned Klaus Schwab proclaiming, “Mass communication is too powerful, we must ensure that the printing press is only used for social good.” That's EXACTLY what's going on now.

The typical problem-reaction-solution social engineering script dictates that we will experience an “AI False Flag” which will be hugely damaging and scary. And then the politicians will point at it, and say “Ooh, big AI scary! We can't let terrorists have it. Thank goodness the WEF & OpenAI already have these regulations on compute that we can just adopt.” The technocrats have their perfect technology, and we are FORCED to use ChatGPT, feeding their system. Eat ze bugs indeed.

Having now seen the agenda, I have refined my thinking. This technology must belong to all of us. Whether or not we use it is personal choice. Just as with the 2nd Amendment, not everyone wants to carry a firearm, but everyone should have the right to do so.

{
- Right to Free Speech
- Right to Bear Arms
- Right to Compute
}

If AI didn't pose a problem for the elite — they wouldn't be furiously working to keep it out of your hands.

LEARN MORE — FULL ARTICLE:

https://unshadowed.substack.com/p/ai-decoding-the-psyop

- iceagefarmer

NEW - U.S. Army swears in senior tech leaders from Meta, Palantir, OpenAI as lieutenant colonels to be part-time advisors.

https://www.disclose.tv/id/jbna6z7jcv/

@disclosetv

^ So, with all eyes on the fireworks over the middle east, the US military OPENLY merges with big AI. (Or should I say "re-joins," since most of this tech came out of DARPA in the first place — but this represents a new level of defense/AI partnership).

Tell me again how AI is not a potent tool/weapon. While the public is dazzled by explosions, the establishment rushes to strip us of our #RightToCompute, before anyone even realizes it's a thing.

"Computers for me but not for thee!" says Sam Altman, laughing...

#RightToCompute

- iceagefarmer

Side note: Thank you genuinely 🙏 for the warm "welcome back." I have heard the requests for a video, the questioning of whether this is an fake AI version of Christian, AND to learn whatever happened to Ice Age Farmer. I dusted off my microphone last night and am working to post something real soon on that front. (Or maybe I'm rendering a video of the AI Christian now..! 🧌)

But most importantly: thank you, I sincerely appreciate it, and it's good to see you again too.
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- iceagefarmer

Whoa! New Hampshire's legislature has proposed a Constitutional Amendment protecting the #RightToCompute. Check out the wording:

the right of individuals to use computation resources shall not be infringed.

As I said, if AI (compute) is seen as the new class of weapons system (implying information is the modern space of warfare, as NATO acknowledges), then then the Right to Compute is just as fundamental a right as the 1st & 2nd Amendments — and I LOVE that NH's proposed amendment reflects this by mirroring the language.

These people are literally trying to ban math. "Too powerful, terrorists might use it." Don't let it happen.

RIGHT TO COMPUTE
SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED
🔥

[read my full article here]

➤ NH Constitutional amendment (CACR 6) here: https://gc.nh.gov/lsr_search/billText.aspx?id=828&type=4

- iceagefarmer

Facebook AI is the military now.

Detachment 201: yeah, sure, a reference to a HTTP status code. Sure this has nothing to do with other 201s, like Event 201...

Trump's post advising people to evacuate Tehran is more concerning even than the drastic movement of military assets, his dramatic departure of the G7 to assemble the National Security Council, and rolling out the old equipment for the USS Liberty/Lusitania false flag.

"Everyone should immediately evacuate Tehran!"

Remember when he posted "This is a great time to buy!" then pushed back the trade sanctions, causing the market to pop. Later he shrugged, "told you to buy."

... "told you to evacuate."

Let's hope they don't execute this script. But they may. Now may be a good time to check your preps and top off your gas.

- iceagefarmer

This week has seen a massive acceleration in world events. It’s particularly surreal to witness the systems of civilization and the last vestiges of economic, social and geopolitical stability being finally fully dismantled before our eyes to make way for a new system. It is abundantly clear that there are no political solutions, and that neither strongman nor tech magnate can save us.

But it’s not just a man-made “poly-crisis.” When one throws in grand solar cycles, a pole excursion, a weakening magnetosphere, the possibility of a solar micronova, the irreversible sabotage being done to the human genome—just to name a few!—we see that humanity is really facing an “omni-crisis.” It’s like every red light is flashing in the cockpit of human awareness. To address this omni-crisis by encouraging steps we can take in reality (“So grow those gardens!”) is to understate the severity of the situation.

In deeply studying outward reality, it seems, there are no solutions for the problems humanity faces.

How do we respond to the omni-crisis?

➤ FULL ARTICLE: https://unshadowed.substack.com/p/unshadowed 👈

Cold-Plasma Seed Treatment !

Did you know treating seeds with "cold plasma" can increase seed germination rate AND improve growth of your plants?

One of the first videos on Ice Age Farmer was on Cold-Plasma Treatment for seeds. I noted studies like this one that indicate treating seeds with electrically-generated non-thermal plasma can improve germination, growth rate, disease resistance and more.

Cold Plasma is like the gorgeous plasma bolts shooting off a Tesla coil—except it is generated in a special way such that the seeds won't burn.

Many cold plasma generators seem reasonably easy to create (especially DBD) — and I think there's a potential here to create something that could be used (even in off-grid setups) to help homesteaders improve their own yields AND offer a service (treating seeds) that they could provide in their area.

If YOU have experience generating cold plasma, I'd love to hear from you. Send me a note:

iceagefarmer@protonmail.com

[ image via Plasma Channel ]

- @iceagefarmer

The Strait of Hormuz is not just an artery of the global energy system, it is also one of the primary paths in the global food trade system:

- Qatar imports 90% of its food, the bulk of it through the strait.
- Bahrain & Kuwait are also reliant on food imports, depending heavily on maritime trade there.
- The UAE also imports a large % of food, much of it passing through the strait (although some could re-route to other ports like Fujairah)

- even Iran, ironically, relies on the strait, importing the bulk of its grains and sugar.

The grains mentioned above aren't just for people — it's also ANIMAL FEED. In fact, the UAE, Qatar and Kuwait import nearly ALL their animal feed.

So, a closure of the strait—even for a time—could cause massively cascading problems, the loss of many livestock across the M.E., and spur a global food security crisis.

So ... how's your garden growing this year? Now would be a great time to STOP depending on the system to feed your family.

- @iceagefarmer

Elon Musk casually announces he will rewrite history...

1737: Andrew Ramsay "Freemasonry will furnish the materials for a Universal Dictionary ... By this means the lights of ALL NATIONS WILL BE UNITED in one single work, which will be a universal library of all that is beautiful, great, luminous, solid, and useful in all the sciences and in all noble arts. This work will augment in each century, according to the increase of knowledge."

1936: H. G. Wells describes a "World Brain": a new, free, synthetic, authoritative, permanent "World Encyclopedia" that could help WORLD CITIZENS make the best use of universal information resources and make the best contribution to WORLD PEACE.

2025: Elon Musk announces his AI is "rewriting the corpus of human knowledge" to "correct the errors."

History is written by the victors, and AI is trained on it. (Yet another reason to train/use your own models -- #RightToCompute)

- @iceagefarmer