The BASF keystone: as goes the gas, so goes BASF, so goes Germany, so goes Europe . . .

"Everything is connected at the German chemical firm BASF’s Ludwigshafen site, a 10 sq km industrial complex so large that byproducts from making ammonia, for example, are funnelled through a 1,771-mile pipe network to produce fertiliser, disinfectant, diesel exhaust fluid, or CO2 for fizzy drinks.

The plant is a giant integrated process — and it cannot run without a supply of natural gas.

“Once we can receive < 50% of our maximum requirements, we would need to wind down the entire site,” says a spokesperson.

The consequences of a BASF shutdown would be far-reaching, not just in Germany but the entire continent.

BASF-produced chemicals are used to make anything from toothpaste to vitamins, [and animal feed]. It's a top manufacturer of painkillers, and its largest customer industry is the automobile industry [— and AdBlue, which is required to run diesel engines, and keep trucking running ... ].

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Power down? Try salt curing for a low-electricity alternative

Power cuts, rationing or sky-high energy prices? Who knows what this season will hold. Cooking without power may sound apocalyptic, but there are plenty of ways to get creative in the kitchen, all while keeping electricity use to a minimum.

One alternative is to cure food with salt.

From a chemical point of view, salt also has hygroscopic properties. When in contact with moist food, salt has the ability to absorb the water contained in the food. And it is this phenomenon that is interesting to note when it comes to cutting power use.

https://www.citizen.co.za/lifestyle/daily-hacks-power-down-try-salt-curing-food/

Good piece : BIG VEGANISM is cover for corporate takeover of food production!

“Multinationals love the phrase “plant-based” because it is a euphemism for the messianic, cultish, modish cause they have adopted: veganism.”

Some of the alt-protein research in Food Valley is directed towards consuming insects (“entomophagy”); some is more focused on algae, fungi — or mycobacterial this, that and the other. But the big research bucks are flowing one way only, and that is to plant-based alternatives to meat.

#WarOnMeat

https://unherd.com/2022/10/big-veganism-is-coming-for-you/

Another pipeline damaged — “Accidental” — just like all those food processing plants and refining facilities.

#eu #EnergyCrisis

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/12/druzhba-poland-says-leak-detected-on-russian-oil-pipeline-accidental.html

Massive piles of beans as barge traffic shutdown, cant move harvest:

“Some warm and wet weather down south and I see very bad things happening." 

Sad to see the USA cant even move the food harvested…

#usa #SupplyChain

https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/massive-bean-piles-spotted-and-down-mississippi-river-barges-cant-meet-harvest-demand

starve your digital twin!

- Leave your phone at home
- do analog things ( offline )
- Use cash

The system wants your data — deny it!

How have you starved your digital twin today?

“Many agrifood sectors are now controlled by just four to six dominant firms, enabling these companies to wield enormous influence over markets, agricultural research and policy-development, which undermines food sovereignty.

2020 was a horrific year for food security and health – but a bonanza for Big Food and Big Ag. Food Barons made the most of the converging crises in order to tighten their grip on every link in the Industrial Food Chain. In doing so, they undermine the rights of peasants, smallholders, fishers and pastoralists to produce food for their own communities and many others.

The Food Barrons are accelerating digitalization of food and agriculture across the chain in order to hold on to, naturalize and expand their power, despite their many failings.

It’s time to divest from the Industrial Food Chain.”

Although they arent critical of climate hoax, the analysis of multinational companies seeking to control is worthwhile - full report: https://www.etcgroup.org/sites/www.etcgroup.org/files/files/food-barons-2022-full_sectors-final_16_sept.pdf

China stops exporting natural gas - cuts off sales to Europe (where they are already shutting down greenhouses because gas prices are too high):

https://news.yahoo.com/china-stopped-sales-lng-europe-103248207.html

#EnergyCrisis

Germany: gas prices to rise ANOTHER 38%

#EnergyCrisis

https://www.rt.com/news/564795-germany-hospitals-bankruptcy-lauterbach/

Undersea cables damaged to cut communications ? More predictive media around this from US Naval Institute:

Repairing Submarine Cables Is a Wartime Necessity

Options to repair underseas fiber-optic cables in the event of war or sabotage are limited.

“What should the U.S. do when the transoceanic submarine fiber optic cables that supply, at the speed of light, more than 99 percent of the international voice, data, video, and internet communications between the United States and the rest of the world are damaged or cut during wartime?

Declare an emergency? Then what?”

#5gWar

https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/2022/october/repairing-submarine-cables-wartime-necessity

GPS signal jamming causes flights to be rerouted around DFW airport (Dallas, TX):

Is this the interference from 5G or someone testing the waters for active jamming? A lot of logistics AND farm equipment depends on GPS:

#5gWar

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/gps-signal-mysteriously-disrupted-around-dallas-airports

John Deere GPS-dependent farm equipment failures also reported. One example here. Coincident with GPS jamming (see previous post)—but can not say necessarily caused by…

#5gWar

I have to say… it is interesting that mainstream media has started talking about the Mandela Effect.

Are they trying to convince people that they can’t rely on their memories? Is this the ultimate goal of psyop?

What do you make of it?

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2022/10/17/what-is-the-mandela-effect-explained/10276859002/

Undersea cable CUT to Shetland, communications down.

I’d warned once pipelines started blowing up that undersea cables would be the next bit of critical infrastructure to be targeted - here we go.

- Get hard copies of materials you need
- Write down critical radio frequencies for your family/group, nearby repeaters
- Know where and HOW to get information if comms go out

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-63326102

Food Collapse:

Yara has now closed another European fertilizer plant - due to the cost of energy.

Yara’s site in Wallonia has been offline from 15 September. It is no longer financially viable to make fertiliser in Europe, given that natural gas is key to the process.

They aren’t alone. Steel producers, yarn factories, are all shutting down…

#Deindustrialization #AbsoluteZero

https://www.brusselstimes.com/belgium/278843/spiralling-energy-costs-force-belgian-companies-to-shut-down

Rapid deindustrialization presages rapid depopulation.

The Zero Carbon pursuit is the most severe genocide and crime against humanity in recorded history.

#Deindustrialization #AbsoluteZero

Empty Shelves as Inflation Leaves Products Unprofitable

“Not only Mars [who worked hand in hand with Rockefeller Foundation on "Reset the Table”], but also Coca Cola [WEF partner] or Procter & Gamble [WEF Partner] are currently trying to ride the wave of inflation with excessive price demands in order to increase their returns,” a spokesman for the Edaka chain of supermarkets claimed.

The official went on to claim that a number of major companies have now halted deliveries to the chain, something that they alleged is being used to put pressure on supermarkets.

[IceAgeFarmer: the Rockefeller/WEF partners are squeezing you as hard as they can.]

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Products ranging from Kellogg’s cornflakes to Coca Cola have disappeared from supermarkets throughout Germany, with many shops being left with empty shelves as products become simply unprofitable to sell due to differentials in inflation.

It comes as overall inflation hit 10% in the country in September, with EU-wide inflation for the month falling just short of 11% as a result of the ongoing #EnergyCrisis, which has in turn hiked the cost of food and other essential goods.

Retailers in the country however have strongly resisted this, with one supermarket chain in the country going so far as to accuse major companies of “price gouging” and “usury”.

“The situation in the industry is critical to catastrophic,” Federal Association of the Food Industry general manager Christoph Minhoff remarked regarding the feud, which has seen some individual rows even reportedly ending up in court as companies are unable to come to a compromise.

As a result of these ongoing hostilities between supermarkets and producers, a wide variety of well-known brands have disappeared from supermarkets throughout Germany, leaving many shops with empty shelves.

The likes of Coca Cola, Pepsi, Snickers, Kellogg’s Cornflakes, Milka Chocolate, Ritter Sport chocolate, Wrigley’s chewing gum, along with many other products ranging from mayonnaise to pet food have all been affected, though availability reportedly varies between supermarket chains.

#FoodPrices #FoodShortage #Retail

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