Yes, not statistically significant on it's own. It becomes something larger when you zoom out and see "bird flu" culling by the tens of millions on multiple continents simultaneously. The intentional economic destruction via supply chain disruptions, engineered war in the bread basket of the world, fertilizer shortages, energy inflation that makes food production cost prohibitive, and recognize we're coming off two years of a bioweapon depopulation agenda and it all becomes something else entirely. Throw in floods in Iowa (geoengineering "seeding" clouds?) to prevent crop planting there, drought in the southwest to hinder crop mgmt there (why not seed clouds in the drought lands?), and Bill Gates who wants to bring the population down a few billion owning the most farm land and shit really starts to smell horrid.
Could be a case of pattern recognition arriving at a broadly correct conclusion but including data that, strictly speaking, doesn't actually support the conclusion.
In other words: the agenda to control the world food supply, to restrict the supply of certain 'bad' foods (i.e. meat) while encouraging consumption of 'good' foods (you vill eat ze bugs), and to restrict calories in order to cull the population while ensuring control of the surviving population - all of this may be entirely real. However, specific elements of the dataset (food production plant fires) may in fact be completely coincidental, and ascribed an undeserved significance because they seem to slot so well into the big picture.
"what’s the likelihood that 24 arsons in a row got away with it despite this elevated level of scrutiny?" - here gato is inventing their own data. While it's a logical *assumption* there would be more scrutiny, nobody actually said there's more scrutiny. Who is the biggest supporter of ending the poultry industry? Tyson foods. Ditto for other meat producers, who are supporting lab-grown meat, and the dismantling of our animal based agriculture. Under circumstances like this, it's illogical to assume the food facilities are *against* fires. It's difficult for normal people to understand such a notion, which is precisely how *they* keep getting away with it.
Folks would do well to follow people like Ice Age Farmer for analysis like this, not a statistician who's only just departed the mainstream and dipped their toes in the waters of "conspiracy theory" - https://www.youtube.com/c/IceAgeFarmer
That and I read somewhere else the average over the last 10 years is around 9 facilities. By the end of April I think the US was actually at 29 (some are missing from the Cat’s list - like the plane crashing into the GA plant in April).
Annualized that’s 87 facilities. Very statistically significant and the potential for a huge impact on food availability.
Also add to the massive stop in planting, particularly soy based animal feed and the culling of almost 30 million birds by April.
Germany already has an egg shortage. The UK has experienced an unusually high level of food plant catastrophes.
I love the cat, but I think his analysis is off because his information, even just on food plants alone, appears incomplete.
That makes me feel better. I knew of a couple missing from your list like the GA plane crash and a potato plant in Maine for 2022. I thought I had read it was 29 in the US YTD 2022, but I can’t find the actual list to re-check. That peaks my attention. If it’s 29 in the last 12 months, it’s like the bird culling, even if it is an attempt to destroy production, the destruction is too slow to accomplish the goal. Thank you!!
No worries. I don’t mind it being pointed out, even if it’s twice. Truth means more to me than my feelings - I want objective truth and I only get it if someone points out when I’m wrong......
Keep in mind that the Georgia incident in April did not damage the plant, just some empty truck trailers on the lot.
Don't get fooled by randomness and the proclivity of the media (even the non-liberal, non-mainstream media) to bias toward fear mongering...it brings the eyeballs and clicks
I agree!!!! Honestly I wasn’t creeped out until my father-in-law, who sees no conspiracy, told us planting in his area of rural VA where he owns a small farm services business, was down at least 40%. That’s purely on the fertilizer economics. On the other side, pre-Covid, he sold about 125 live little chickens once a year and took orders for a couple of weeks from the general public (not peeps, but babies, I don’t remember what they are called). Since Covid he’s stopped at 500 and it only takes 2 hours. He’s constantly out of seeds for personal farms and gardens since Covid. So I guess even if there is something going on on the industrial side, lots of people seem to be making up for it on an individual basis.
Fear is a powerful tool I get and consider. I also have a healthy skepticism because lots of factors seem to be coming together at once so I’m not yet ready to cast aside as a 100% nothing burger, even though I think the odds point to nothing burger, at least here. I think North Africa is going to have lots of heart break and despair and starvation compliments of Brandon if they don’t quickly get around the sanctions and get fertilizer at an affordable cost.
AND Xiden paying farmers to destroy their crops this year. Plus, I recall a few weeks ago some environmental terrorist was arrested for arson at food processing plants, so that's the one that was caught. Then, the level of destruction matters. These plants have burned to the ground. And the above incidents, plus the TWO small plane crashes were in FOUR MONTHS!! This article does not answer anything at all.
Not to mention the 2 lists are, seemingly, 2 different time frames. The snopes list seemingly from all of 2001 and 17 or 18 of the current list from the first 4 months of 2022. When you add in 2 more years to the mix (the new list), of course, things will appear a little more reasonable. Also, add in that BlackRock and Vanguard are now the majority owners of most food plants, it continues to appear sketchy. Additionally, the 2001 list does not say if the plants were destroyed or only damaged. The ones from this year seem to be, from what I have seen, destoyed.
Bill Gates owning farm land doesn’t make me too nervous, we have a bunch. Bill Gates releasing genetically modified mosquitos without much lab testing or many control measures scares me. Bill Gates and Harvard releasing particles into the upper atmosphere to reflect sunlight and “cool the Earth” is outright terrifying.
Bill Gate’s did well in one industry, but he is an idiot on many things - especially food. Humans have had easy access to eating bugs as long as there have been humans, and yet, bug farms have not been a common theme in human history. They’ve mostly been pests (with some exceptions). Perhaps human males haven’t typically sought out man boobs like Gates has. 😂
Indeed, although it is apparently the single largest agricultural land holding in the US.
It's rather similar to the dodge pulled by the vaccinators: 95% efficacy sounds impressive until you realize that the basal risk level is less than 1%.
It's an undeserved courtesy to even credit Them with aspiration in "announcing" this "data." It was certainly not reality; it was simple misrepresentation.
The fact that the Gates of Hell is invested in farmland at all is significant. He invested in the vax thing because he wanted to make a mint. He made a mint I think—at least I heard him bragging about it.
So why would a geek billionaire who invests for really fat profits buy farmland? A geek billionaire who has shown that he can and will tweak the market in his favor?
He doesn’t have to control a huge percentage of arable land to make bank, he just has to know how the market is going to go—which, I submit, he does before making the investment.
Agricultural products are going to provide fat margins or he wouldn’t be in farmland.
Yes he can't keep his mits off anything. Xbox, Minecraft, Twitch etc. etc.
The one area he/MS got continually spanked was mobile, he lost a ton of money trying to get Windows Phone OS and hardware going. And got repeatedly spanked by Samsung and Apple. If you add Zune, you can maybe say small devices in general aren't his thing.
Feb 04, 2022 · In the most recent survey, there were 2.02 million U.S. farms in 2020, down from 2.20 million in 2007. With 897 million acres of land in farms in 2020, the average farm size was 444 acres. Gates has 550 times as much land as the average farm but he's not the only billionaire farmer.. How many suits do we need to control our prime farmland?
that one is a favorite, especially as it ignores the move to satellite monitoring and the move to higher res imaging on top of the newfound penchant for naming anything that blows hard enough to ruffle a beach umbrella.
It isn't just storms. The weather app on my phone has clickbaity "special weather alert warning!" messages on an almost daily basis, virtually none of which refer to anything out of the ordinary.
Like in UK. Named the wind and stopped the life. Asked everyone to stay at home and kids were out of school because of the wind of 100km/h. Is it strong? Yes it is. Overreacting? Definitely.
Doppler is good at identifying possible tornadoes. The radar tells where exactly to look to find the unreported F0 tornadoes that used to go uncounted.
They also include more satellite tornados in the count that otherwise would have been counted as part of the main tornado
And consider this: Hurricane Season (sic) runs from June 1 to November 30, even though 'canes have hit outside that window. So then why June 1 to November 30?
Because THEY say so. And they say so, because it gives them HALF THE YEAR to fearmonger. There's NOTHING scientific about June-November for a hurricane "season."
In reality, hurricane "season" is August 1-October 31 if it's anything. That's when something like 96% of hurricanes historically have happened.
Otherwise we may as well say that "winter season" is October to May, because snow has fallen in both those months in the Northeast.
I agree, and it should be instructive for us. Thanks for taking this on gato as it's a good example of something that's been bothering me as of late.
Our side risks becoming exactly what we despise about the covidians, namely fear-driven irrational actors driven by hysterical emotions rather than data-driven risk management. It's not surprising based on the dumbing down of education over the last fifty years. Instead of teaching people to think logically, use common sense, and weigh risk vs. benefit, people are taught that their emotions must rule the day.
How big is the hysteria list on our side so far? Food processing plants, Gates buying farmland, and vaccine "shedding" are three that pop to mind, no doubt there are plenty of others. None of these have any real data that shows it's a legitimate threat. Something to watch perhaps, but sky-is-falling fearmongering is counterproductive at best. There are plenty of legitimate threats such as vaccine coercion and unexplained excess deaths without inventing new ones.
Along those same line we really need to stop using words such as terrifying, frightening, and horrifying when describing the actions of those pulling the strings. They represent a mindset of panic-driven helplessness and are the exact opposite of the words used by confident people. Despicable, corrupt, and evil are far more appropriate. The response to evil people and actions is confidence, good data, a plan, and prayer, not fear and worry.
“What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?” Romans 8:31
Which is why the 'great reset' must include getting rid of almost all national police -- they have been co-opted and now act as the paid thugs of the dictocrats.
Aren’t there some missing from gato’s list too though? The plane that hit the food processing plant in GA in April jumps out at me as a missing plant closure.
Also, my understanding is that for the last 10 years the average was around 8-9 food processing facilities destroyed in the US a year. That has increased since 2020. And I read by the end of April we were at 29 (annualized to 87). My information could be wrong, but that seems very statistically significant.
Especially with huge reductions in plant, huge increases in the number of culled poultry, and the fact other places like the UK are also seeing an increase in food plants being destroyed.
Perhaps Russia, men can give birth, the 2020 election fraud, and Covid fraud have me in a tin foil hat suspecting a cabal that doesn’t exist, but let’s just say I went from unarmed with no emergency food 3 years ago to well armed, we bought a second home, and always have 3 months of food on hand today. I’d rather be wrong and only having spent a little extra money than be unprepared like a Chinese urbanite.
Glad you took this one. I have been wondering if it’s actually escalating, or if we’re just paying attention. Or worried about food supply chains. I actually had this kind of feeling like, as escalated as I feel like everything is sometimes, did my parents feel like that in the ‘70s? There were plenty of events that probably FELT like humanity-ending crises over the last however-many decades. Yet, here we are. Haha.
Yes! And there is enough crazy out there right now without assuming everything that is happening is intentional. The supply chain is majorly screwed up obviously, so every (probably normal) issue feels like a bigger deal!
But, keep in mind that the things that are happening could be intentional, especially if numerous unlikely things happen at around the same time. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
I've been wondering the same thing myself. Does it just seem crazy now because I just started paying attention now, due to it being more relevant to me personally? I never paid attention to the Iraq War, or to the situation around 9-11 - I was younger and had other things to concern myself with. But if I'd been paying attention I'm sure there would have been many distressing and jaw-dropping revelations. And looking back, I don't feel like I missed out on anything!
Right? Good reminder to not make this the kids’ problem right now, too. I’ve tried to make a point of highlighting major events for my 14yo daughter (like the Canadian trucker convoy), because she’s not likely to remember much from this period except stupid masks and when the school made them sit behind plexiglass at lunch. And that’s how it should work. The major crime is really that we dragged the kids into this and have repeatedly emotionally assaulted them on things that are not their problem.
My daughter is 12, and we went to the convoy. It was an amazing experience for her, but the lack of real change since then is disappointing to her (me too, TBH). She thought it would be a major turning point, even though I cautioned her that's not how things work. We're still wearing masks in public here in Quebec until May 14th, so they say (it's been postponed 3 times already). She's feeling discouraged and wants to DO something, and unfortunately there is not a lot she can do besides flaunt the "masks in the hallways or while standing" at school rule. She's going to write to our Member of Parliament, but it's another action that doesn't result in immediate change...I hope that just having the chance to express her opinion to someone in power might lift her spirits.
I do wonder when the youth will get so fed up that they’ll push - and push hard. And I’m sure that’ll have all kinds of unintended consequences. But read any story with a dystopian bent to it - underestimating the kids never ends well for corrupt leadership. Something I try to remind my daughter of occasionally - they’re more powerful than they think. :)
It's a difficult balance to inform teens enough that they are sufficiently wary of public messaging (and learn to protect themselves, for example when they may go to college) without overalarming them. The world already feels so bleak to many teens right now.
Just anecdotally, they seem to be really struggling. Church youth groups where drug use had once been very rare are now awash in it. Youth workers don't know how to deal with it. And of course schools and everywhere teens congregate are having terrible drug problems if even church youth groups are. I hear of a girl (friend of my teen) who works at a fast food restaurant in Colorado and when she goes to work, the teens are doing drugs even at the workplace. Since my daughter has close friends in scattered states, it seems the problem is everywhere. There's a lot of despair. I feel so bad for them.
Seriously. My daughter’s friend group all pivoted in the last 12 months from “we’re kids and we’re enjoying it” to all of them adopting some queer identity group. And being alternatingly secretive and bullying about it. And those are her church friends. The kids are definitely not all right.
Human beings aren’t very good at understanding random processes. We expect random events to be more evenly distributed than they actually are… That explains a good deal of superstition and tin foil hat conspiracy theorizing.
“Randomness creates counter-intuitively large clusters, such as a run of five heads in 30 flips of a coin, which leads to unexpected results.”
There's a branch of mathematics called 'queuing theory' that deals with this exact phenomenon. Just ask anyone who's worked in a fast food joint. They call them 'rushes' and they happen all the time. But if a 'rush' always happens at say 12:05 PM, then it is fair to say that there may be some non-random, causative factor involved. A wise observer, while being aware of randomness and the need to avoid drawing unwarranted conclusions, must nevertheless be open to the possibility that there exist systematic causative factors outside of the randomness of the process itself.
Agreed. That’s why I think everyone should study introductory statistics in high school. Everyone ought to learn about Poison processes, for example…
I don’t have a strong opinion about the fires, though Gato has offered good reasons to think this might be much ado about nothing.
It just good to note that human beings a very good at noticing patterns—even when they don’t really exist. Like seeing the Virgin Mary in a grilled cheese sandwich, or a unicorn in a cloud.
Yes. And when one makes what seems to be an unexpected observation, it is time to begin looking in more depth at the process to figure out what's up. That requires understanding statistical and observational tools along with a good sense of skepticism, moderated by an open mind. Such skills are not always easy to muster, especially in reactionary times.
Agreed. I think of the Wuhan Institute of Virology. It was of course possible that Covid originated there merely by chance, but this coincidence merited further scrutiny than it got.
You’re right. And just for clarity, I did not mean to suggest that people raising this issue were nutty tin foil hat types. I neither know nor claim to know what’s going on with these fires. I just wanted to point out that we often interpret random events and mere coincidences as if there were some deeper pattern or meaning… Even scientists succumb to this tendency at times.
I try to be cautious about making positive claims in general. To paraphrase Socrates ‘Wisdom begins in the recognition of one’s own ignorance’.
Oddly the green house at my kid’s private K-12 school, with fish to feed the plants in it, burned down in an unexplained fire 4 nights ago....... (sadly, I’m not kidding)............ it didn’t produce that much, but it leads to a new and also weird social contagion question.
Exactly. While other countries have deemed things like, say, chemical food dyes as problematic and not fit for human consumption, our FDA is like, nothing to see here, folks. Just eat your lucky charms. No, it’s not making you sick. Or your kids crazy. That’s disinformation. 🙄
Another reality is that the Puppet-In-Chief himself said there would be food shortages even in the US. And the elsewhere noted problem with fertilizer costs and availability. And the reduced grain production from Ukraine and the curtailment of exports from Russia. And the significantly increased input cost of diesel and scarcity of Diesel Exhaust Fluid, necessary for operating modern farm equipment.
Those amount to a lot of wounds for global agriculture to sustain.
And the shocking, constantly increasing sabre rattling against a peer military adversary possessing highly advanced and possibly superior strategic and tactical weapons.
I could go on, Ms Monica, but suffice it to say, my weather eye tells me it’s time to bend on the storm sails and batten down the hatches.
There’s a very ugly squall line fast approaching. A confluence of perfect storms
The food processing plants burning down aren’t going to affect the food supply unless the prevalence increases 10 to 100 fold. I suspect the food shortages will end up like COVID, mostly propaganda and exacerbation by whatever measures the governments introduce. This is because if the developed world experiences real food shortages, the third world is going to burn and that level of chaos isn’t in anyone’s interests that is currently in charge.
My question is, what do they mean by "food shortages"? Literally not having any viable food available is a bit different then a shortage of designer bread and high-end ingredients.
Food shortages? I don't hear much promoting home gardens or programs to fix the problems. You went into the gaslighting too fervently. Why not look at the impact of the events per industry or by time down and real dollar cost. You being a stats guy, impress me. Tell me why 32 Globalists are building massive CO2 scrubbers to remove the 0.04% fraction of air that means life energy through photosynthesis, painting the sky with nano-poison to block the sun, push deadly food, increasing subsidies this year to not grow food, and are actively releasing volcanoes and messing with the weather to do harm.
Instead of taking your payola from the enemy to hurt your own chances of survival, do something to awaken people from this mass psychosis.
Yes, not statistically significant on it's own. It becomes something larger when you zoom out and see "bird flu" culling by the tens of millions on multiple continents simultaneously. The intentional economic destruction via supply chain disruptions, engineered war in the bread basket of the world, fertilizer shortages, energy inflation that makes food production cost prohibitive, and recognize we're coming off two years of a bioweapon depopulation agenda and it all becomes something else entirely. Throw in floods in Iowa (geoengineering "seeding" clouds?) to prevent crop planting there, drought in the southwest to hinder crop mgmt there (why not seed clouds in the drought lands?), and Bill Gates who wants to bring the population down a few billion owning the most farm land and shit really starts to smell horrid.
Could be a case of pattern recognition arriving at a broadly correct conclusion but including data that, strictly speaking, doesn't actually support the conclusion.
In other words: the agenda to control the world food supply, to restrict the supply of certain 'bad' foods (i.e. meat) while encouraging consumption of 'good' foods (you vill eat ze bugs), and to restrict calories in order to cull the population while ensuring control of the surviving population - all of this may be entirely real. However, specific elements of the dataset (food production plant fires) may in fact be completely coincidental, and ascribed an undeserved significance because they seem to slot so well into the big picture.
"Union Pacific Curtails Fertilizer Shipments, Delaying Deliveries and Preventing New Rail Orders from Being Taken" https://anthraxvaccine.blogspot.com/2022/04/union-pacific-rail-told-worlds-largest.html
"what’s the likelihood that 24 arsons in a row got away with it despite this elevated level of scrutiny?" - here gato is inventing their own data. While it's a logical *assumption* there would be more scrutiny, nobody actually said there's more scrutiny. Who is the biggest supporter of ending the poultry industry? Tyson foods. Ditto for other meat producers, who are supporting lab-grown meat, and the dismantling of our animal based agriculture. Under circumstances like this, it's illogical to assume the food facilities are *against* fires. It's difficult for normal people to understand such a notion, which is precisely how *they* keep getting away with it.
Folks would do well to follow people like Ice Age Farmer for analysis like this, not a statistician who's only just departed the mainstream and dipped their toes in the waters of "conspiracy theory" - https://www.youtube.com/c/IceAgeFarmer
That and I read somewhere else the average over the last 10 years is around 9 facilities. By the end of April I think the US was actually at 29 (some are missing from the Cat’s list - like the plane crashing into the GA plant in April).
Annualized that’s 87 facilities. Very statistically significant and the potential for a huge impact on food availability.
Also add to the massive stop in planting, particularly soy based animal feed and the culling of almost 30 million birds by April.
Germany already has an egg shortage. The UK has experienced an unusually high level of food plant catastrophes.
I love the cat, but I think his analysis is off because his information, even just on food plants alone, appears incomplete.
I’ll take my tin foil hat please.
that figure is going back over more than 12 months. i think you're annualizing an already more than annual figure.
That makes me feel better. I knew of a couple missing from your list like the GA plane crash and a potato plant in Maine for 2022. I thought I had read it was 29 in the US YTD 2022, but I can’t find the actual list to re-check. That peaks my attention. If it’s 29 in the last 12 months, it’s like the bird culling, even if it is an attempt to destroy production, the destruction is too slow to accomplish the goal. Thank you!!
I've looked at a list on another stack, saw 1 dated 1987! As Gato wrote, without a baseline to work from it has no meaning.
Reading through the comments I see that someone else had already mentioned the parking lot aspect of the Georgia plane crash, so I'll delete mine.
No worries. I don’t mind it being pointed out, even if it’s twice. Truth means more to me than my feelings - I want objective truth and I only get it if someone points out when I’m wrong......
Does this seem extra suspicious, though, or is this something more common than we think? "Union Pacific Curtails Fertilizer Shipments, Delaying Deliveries and Preventing New Rail Orders from Being Taken" https://anthraxvaccine.blogspot.com/2022/04/union-pacific-rail-told-worlds-largest.html
50% increase in energy negative agrofuels is far, far more significant which use 40% of the US corn crop and additional rapeseed and soybean crops:
http://www.williamengdahl.com/englishNEO26Apr2022.php
Keep in mind that the Georgia incident in April did not damage the plant, just some empty truck trailers on the lot.
Don't get fooled by randomness and the proclivity of the media (even the non-liberal, non-mainstream media) to bias toward fear mongering...it brings the eyeballs and clicks
I agree!!!! Honestly I wasn’t creeped out until my father-in-law, who sees no conspiracy, told us planting in his area of rural VA where he owns a small farm services business, was down at least 40%. That’s purely on the fertilizer economics. On the other side, pre-Covid, he sold about 125 live little chickens once a year and took orders for a couple of weeks from the general public (not peeps, but babies, I don’t remember what they are called). Since Covid he’s stopped at 500 and it only takes 2 hours. He’s constantly out of seeds for personal farms and gardens since Covid. So I guess even if there is something going on on the industrial side, lots of people seem to be making up for it on an individual basis.
Fear is a powerful tool I get and consider. I also have a healthy skepticism because lots of factors seem to be coming together at once so I’m not yet ready to cast aside as a 100% nothing burger, even though I think the odds point to nothing burger, at least here. I think North Africa is going to have lots of heart break and despair and starvation compliments of Brandon if they don’t quickly get around the sanctions and get fertilizer at an affordable cost.
Living in Ga: " Y'all? AnitaBilly, Jonathan,Ray, Cole,Katie,n them lost their trucks... we're taking up a collection,but other than that?..."
Iowa is not flooding
In the last 30 days the rainfall across the state has ranged from 3 to 6 inches which is *in an ominous voice* entirely average for spring
Yes indeed, the longer term big picture stinks like week old fish.
AND Xiden paying farmers to destroy their crops this year. Plus, I recall a few weeks ago some environmental terrorist was arrested for arson at food processing plants, so that's the one that was caught. Then, the level of destruction matters. These plants have burned to the ground. And the above incidents, plus the TWO small plane crashes were in FOUR MONTHS!! This article does not answer anything at all.
Not to mention the 2 lists are, seemingly, 2 different time frames. The snopes list seemingly from all of 2001 and 17 or 18 of the current list from the first 4 months of 2022. When you add in 2 more years to the mix (the new list), of course, things will appear a little more reasonable. Also, add in that BlackRock and Vanguard are now the majority owners of most food plants, it continues to appear sketchy. Additionally, the 2001 list does not say if the plants were destroyed or only damaged. The ones from this year seem to be, from what I have seen, destoyed.
"Bill Gates ...owning the most farm land"
err. try 0.03%
Bill Gates owning farm land doesn’t make me too nervous, we have a bunch. Bill Gates releasing genetically modified mosquitos without much lab testing or many control measures scares me. Bill Gates and Harvard releasing particles into the upper atmosphere to reflect sunlight and “cool the Earth” is outright terrifying.
Bill Gate’s did well in one industry, but he is an idiot on many things - especially food. Humans have had easy access to eating bugs as long as there have been humans, and yet, bug farms have not been a common theme in human history. They’ve mostly been pests (with some exceptions). Perhaps human males haven’t typically sought out man boobs like Gates has. 😂
Gates doing well in computers is like the mafia doing well in garbage collection.
True
Indeed, although it is apparently the single largest agricultural land holding in the US.
It's rather similar to the dodge pulled by the vaccinators: 95% efficacy sounds impressive until you realize that the basal risk level is less than 1%.
And 95% efficiency was aspiration not reality.
It's an undeserved courtesy to even credit Them with aspiration in "announcing" this "data." It was certainly not reality; it was simple misrepresentation.
The fact that the Gates of Hell is invested in farmland at all is significant. He invested in the vax thing because he wanted to make a mint. He made a mint I think—at least I heard him bragging about it.
So why would a geek billionaire who invests for really fat profits buy farmland? A geek billionaire who has shown that he can and will tweak the market in his favor?
He doesn’t have to control a huge percentage of arable land to make bank, he just has to know how the market is going to go—which, I submit, he does before making the investment.
Agricultural products are going to provide fat margins or he wouldn’t be in farmland.
Yes he can't keep his mits off anything. Xbox, Minecraft, Twitch etc. etc.
The one area he/MS got continually spanked was mobile, he lost a ton of money trying to get Windows Phone OS and hardware going. And got repeatedly spanked by Samsung and Apple. If you add Zune, you can maybe say small devices in general aren't his thing.
For that matter, define 'farm land'
Montana scrub land use for grazing is not the same as prime corn and bean land in Iowa
They are both farm land but one is considerably more productive than the other
Feb 04, 2022 · In the most recent survey, there were 2.02 million U.S. farms in 2020, down from 2.20 million in 2007. With 897 million acres of land in farms in 2020, the average farm size was 444 acres. Gates has 550 times as much land as the average farm but he's not the only billionaire farmer.. How many suits do we need to control our prime farmland?
https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/ag-and-food-statistics-charting-the-essentials/farming-and-farm-income/
https://web.archive.org/web/20210613143253/https://www.dw.com/en/bill-gates-buys-big-on-a-farmland-shopping-spree/a-57134690
Gates awn more farmland than any other single individual. There are corporations that make him look small.
perhaps, "owning the most farm land [of any individual human]" ~ ?
Can we name another human who owns more farm land than Bill does?
Exactly.
“Colorado inmate is 1st human case of bird flu in US”
Killing two birds with one paw?
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/colorado-inmate-1st-human-case-bird-flu-us/story?id=84395779
"There has been a significant increase in the number of 'named storms' over the past fifty years." said the climate alarmist, breathlessly.
"Who named the storms?" asked the Mayor of Simpleton.
"Errrr..." replied the climate alarmist.
that one is a favorite, especially as it ignores the move to satellite monitoring and the move to higher res imaging on top of the newfound penchant for naming anything that blows hard enough to ruffle a beach umbrella.
It isn't just storms. The weather app on my phone has clickbaity "special weather alert warning!" messages on an almost daily basis, virtually none of which refer to anything out of the ordinary.
He he. Our neighbor, we just found out, writes letters to Environment Canada complaining about weather report fear porning of the last few years..
Like in UK. Named the wind and stopped the life. Asked everyone to stay at home and kids were out of school because of the wind of 100km/h. Is it strong? Yes it is. Overreacting? Definitely.
Tornados too
Doppler is good at identifying possible tornadoes. The radar tells where exactly to look to find the unreported F0 tornadoes that used to go uncounted.
They also include more satellite tornados in the count that otherwise would have been counted as part of the main tornado
Now they name "events". People eventually tune out. "Snowpocolypse? Meh". Rightfully so.
Arctic vortex. 😂
And consider this: Hurricane Season (sic) runs from June 1 to November 30, even though 'canes have hit outside that window. So then why June 1 to November 30?
Because THEY say so. And they say so, because it gives them HALF THE YEAR to fearmonger. There's NOTHING scientific about June-November for a hurricane "season."
In reality, hurricane "season" is August 1-October 31 if it's anything. That's when something like 96% of hurricanes historically have happened.
Otherwise we may as well say that "winter season" is October to May, because snow has fallen in both those months in the Northeast.
Thanks for the cool glass of water. I needed that! I love the tinfoil hat on the kitty.
Re: arsonists getting away with it 24 times in a row: Churches burned across Canada, and I can only find mention of one arrest (I could be wrong, as I've been "preoccupied). Amazing how the RCMP can track down a 50 dollar donation to the freedom convoy, but can't find the arsonists responsible for the attacks on Christian churches: https://tnc.news/2021/08/23/a-map-of-every-church-burnt-or-vandalized-since-the-residential-school-announcements/
I agree, and it should be instructive for us. Thanks for taking this on gato as it's a good example of something that's been bothering me as of late.
Our side risks becoming exactly what we despise about the covidians, namely fear-driven irrational actors driven by hysterical emotions rather than data-driven risk management. It's not surprising based on the dumbing down of education over the last fifty years. Instead of teaching people to think logically, use common sense, and weigh risk vs. benefit, people are taught that their emotions must rule the day.
How big is the hysteria list on our side so far? Food processing plants, Gates buying farmland, and vaccine "shedding" are three that pop to mind, no doubt there are plenty of others. None of these have any real data that shows it's a legitimate threat. Something to watch perhaps, but sky-is-falling fearmongering is counterproductive at best. There are plenty of legitimate threats such as vaccine coercion and unexplained excess deaths without inventing new ones.
Along those same line we really need to stop using words such as terrifying, frightening, and horrifying when describing the actions of those pulling the strings. They represent a mindset of panic-driven helplessness and are the exact opposite of the words used by confident people. Despicable, corrupt, and evil are far more appropriate. The response to evil people and actions is confidence, good data, a plan, and prayer, not fear and worry.
“What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?” Romans 8:31
Same in France.
Which is why the 'great reset' must include getting rid of almost all national police -- they have been co-opted and now act as the paid thugs of the dictocrats.
Thanks Gato. Another thing we really need an idea of baseline is athletes collapsing
The fires may be within the norm but food security is definitely more lax recently.
https://nakedemperor.substack.com/p/food-security-and-shortages?s=w
Aren’t there some missing from gato’s list too though? The plane that hit the food processing plant in GA in April jumps out at me as a missing plant closure.
Also, my understanding is that for the last 10 years the average was around 8-9 food processing facilities destroyed in the US a year. That has increased since 2020. And I read by the end of April we were at 29 (annualized to 87). My information could be wrong, but that seems very statistically significant.
Especially with huge reductions in plant, huge increases in the number of culled poultry, and the fact other places like the UK are also seeing an increase in food plants being destroyed.
Perhaps Russia, men can give birth, the 2020 election fraud, and Covid fraud have me in a tin foil hat suspecting a cabal that doesn’t exist, but let’s just say I went from unarmed with no emergency food 3 years ago to well armed, we bought a second home, and always have 3 months of food on hand today. I’d rather be wrong and only having spent a little extra money than be unprepared like a Chinese urbanite.
Glad you took this one. I have been wondering if it’s actually escalating, or if we’re just paying attention. Or worried about food supply chains. I actually had this kind of feeling like, as escalated as I feel like everything is sometimes, did my parents feel like that in the ‘70s? There were plenty of events that probably FELT like humanity-ending crises over the last however-many decades. Yet, here we are. Haha.
Yes! And there is enough crazy out there right now without assuming everything that is happening is intentional. The supply chain is majorly screwed up obviously, so every (probably normal) issue feels like a bigger deal!
But, keep in mind that the things that are happening could be intentional, especially if numerous unlikely things happen at around the same time. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
I've been wondering the same thing myself. Does it just seem crazy now because I just started paying attention now, due to it being more relevant to me personally? I never paid attention to the Iraq War, or to the situation around 9-11 - I was younger and had other things to concern myself with. But if I'd been paying attention I'm sure there would have been many distressing and jaw-dropping revelations. And looking back, I don't feel like I missed out on anything!
Right? Good reminder to not make this the kids’ problem right now, too. I’ve tried to make a point of highlighting major events for my 14yo daughter (like the Canadian trucker convoy), because she’s not likely to remember much from this period except stupid masks and when the school made them sit behind plexiglass at lunch. And that’s how it should work. The major crime is really that we dragged the kids into this and have repeatedly emotionally assaulted them on things that are not their problem.
My daughter is 12, and we went to the convoy. It was an amazing experience for her, but the lack of real change since then is disappointing to her (me too, TBH). She thought it would be a major turning point, even though I cautioned her that's not how things work. We're still wearing masks in public here in Quebec until May 14th, so they say (it's been postponed 3 times already). She's feeling discouraged and wants to DO something, and unfortunately there is not a lot she can do besides flaunt the "masks in the hallways or while standing" at school rule. She's going to write to our Member of Parliament, but it's another action that doesn't result in immediate change...I hope that just having the chance to express her opinion to someone in power might lift her spirits.
I do wonder when the youth will get so fed up that they’ll push - and push hard. And I’m sure that’ll have all kinds of unintended consequences. But read any story with a dystopian bent to it - underestimating the kids never ends well for corrupt leadership. Something I try to remind my daughter of occasionally - they’re more powerful than they think. :)
I feel for her!
It's a difficult balance to inform teens enough that they are sufficiently wary of public messaging (and learn to protect themselves, for example when they may go to college) without overalarming them. The world already feels so bleak to many teens right now.
Just anecdotally, they seem to be really struggling. Church youth groups where drug use had once been very rare are now awash in it. Youth workers don't know how to deal with it. And of course schools and everywhere teens congregate are having terrible drug problems if even church youth groups are. I hear of a girl (friend of my teen) who works at a fast food restaurant in Colorado and when she goes to work, the teens are doing drugs even at the workplace. Since my daughter has close friends in scattered states, it seems the problem is everywhere. There's a lot of despair. I feel so bad for them.
Seriously. My daughter’s friend group all pivoted in the last 12 months from “we’re kids and we’re enjoying it” to all of them adopting some queer identity group. And being alternatingly secretive and bullying about it. And those are her church friends. The kids are definitely not all right.
food plant fires = distraction
viruses don't exist = distraction
Qanon nonsense = distraction
we need to recognize the distractions better
Human beings aren’t very good at understanding random processes. We expect random events to be more evenly distributed than they actually are… That explains a good deal of superstition and tin foil hat conspiracy theorizing.
“Randomness creates counter-intuitively large clusters, such as a run of five heads in 30 flips of a coin, which leads to unexpected results.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/moslive/article-1334712/Humans-concept-randomness-hard-understand.html
There's a branch of mathematics called 'queuing theory' that deals with this exact phenomenon. Just ask anyone who's worked in a fast food joint. They call them 'rushes' and they happen all the time. But if a 'rush' always happens at say 12:05 PM, then it is fair to say that there may be some non-random, causative factor involved. A wise observer, while being aware of randomness and the need to avoid drawing unwarranted conclusions, must nevertheless be open to the possibility that there exist systematic causative factors outside of the randomness of the process itself.
Agreed. That’s why I think everyone should study introductory statistics in high school. Everyone ought to learn about Poison processes, for example…
I don’t have a strong opinion about the fires, though Gato has offered good reasons to think this might be much ado about nothing.
It just good to note that human beings a very good at noticing patterns—even when they don’t really exist. Like seeing the Virgin Mary in a grilled cheese sandwich, or a unicorn in a cloud.
Yes. And when one makes what seems to be an unexpected observation, it is time to begin looking in more depth at the process to figure out what's up. That requires understanding statistical and observational tools along with a good sense of skepticism, moderated by an open mind. Such skills are not always easy to muster, especially in reactionary times.
Agreed. I think of the Wuhan Institute of Virology. It was of course possible that Covid originated there merely by chance, but this coincidence merited further scrutiny than it got.
Such observations can lead to accusations of choice in hat styles, often involving tin foil...😎
You’re right. And just for clarity, I did not mean to suggest that people raising this issue were nutty tin foil hat types. I neither know nor claim to know what’s going on with these fires. I just wanted to point out that we often interpret random events and mere coincidences as if there were some deeper pattern or meaning… Even scientists succumb to this tendency at times.
I try to be cautious about making positive claims in general. To paraphrase Socrates ‘Wisdom begins in the recognition of one’s own ignorance’.
build stuff and grow food or be slave to those that do
Oddly the green house at my kid’s private K-12 school, with fish to feed the plants in it, burned down in an unexplained fire 4 nights ago....... (sadly, I’m not kidding)............ it didn’t produce that much, but it leads to a new and also weird social contagion question.
I guess the real issue is, does it really matter if the CIA is going around blowing up factories?
We the People have allowed the FDA to pump adolescents with poison and have done nothing.
Exactly. While other countries have deemed things like, say, chemical food dyes as problematic and not fit for human consumption, our FDA is like, nothing to see here, folks. Just eat your lucky charms. No, it’s not making you sick. Or your kids crazy. That’s disinformation. 🙄
And obviously the shots are the imminent problem. But the FDA had a looong history of failing America. On so many things.
I'll bet Nina won't do anything about it...
Ok. Yeah.
I’m still growing stuff and canning.
Because it’s the year of the sh!t storm.
Yes. There's still inflation to contend with. THAT is real.
Another reality is that the Puppet-In-Chief himself said there would be food shortages even in the US. And the elsewhere noted problem with fertilizer costs and availability. And the reduced grain production from Ukraine and the curtailment of exports from Russia. And the significantly increased input cost of diesel and scarcity of Diesel Exhaust Fluid, necessary for operating modern farm equipment.
Those amount to a lot of wounds for global agriculture to sustain.
And the shocking, constantly increasing sabre rattling against a peer military adversary possessing highly advanced and possibly superior strategic and tactical weapons.
I could go on, Ms Monica, but suffice it to say, my weather eye tells me it’s time to bend on the storm sails and batten down the hatches.
There’s a very ugly squall line fast approaching. A confluence of perfect storms
Tang, Count Chocula and Pop Tarts.... It's been a year of the sh!t storm since the 70s.
The food processing plants burning down aren’t going to affect the food supply unless the prevalence increases 10 to 100 fold. I suspect the food shortages will end up like COVID, mostly propaganda and exacerbation by whatever measures the governments introduce. This is because if the developed world experiences real food shortages, the third world is going to burn and that level of chaos isn’t in anyone’s interests that is currently in charge.
My question is, what do they mean by "food shortages"? Literally not having any viable food available is a bit different then a shortage of designer bread and high-end ingredients.
No. The food processing plant fires are just the tip of an iceberg:
http://www.williamengdahl.com/englishNEO26Apr2022.php
Thanks for taking some "mania" out of all this. Good read.
Food is racist.
Food shortages? I don't hear much promoting home gardens or programs to fix the problems. You went into the gaslighting too fervently. Why not look at the impact of the events per industry or by time down and real dollar cost. You being a stats guy, impress me. Tell me why 32 Globalists are building massive CO2 scrubbers to remove the 0.04% fraction of air that means life energy through photosynthesis, painting the sky with nano-poison to block the sun, push deadly food, increasing subsidies this year to not grow food, and are actively releasing volcanoes and messing with the weather to do harm.
Instead of taking your payola from the enemy to hurt your own chances of survival, do something to awaken people from this mass psychosis.