You know, farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil, and you’re a thousand miles from the corn field.” Love this quote by President Eisenhower. The ruling class is clueless when it comes to producing food. Just who is Samantha? One dangerous lady who dislikes America with a passion. More to follow.
Our gal Samantha. Never was there a war she didn’t like. She, Susan Rice and Hillary Clinton who managed to blow up the Middle East and who can forget Libya. Back in 2011 I posted:
Three women who brought us the new long war in Libya
So she breeches again. How about the food shortages in Libya Samantha?
A Biden administration member said that “catastrophic” food and fertilizer shortages caused by the Russian invasion of Ukraine are a great opportunity to implement left-wing policies.
Samantha Power, the administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development, made the comments during an interview with “This Week” on Sunday.
“We’re seeing global food shortages all around the world,” said anchor George Stephanopoulos, “as the administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development, what more can be done to address those shortages?”
Hint: Power said they were working to increase food production from farmers, but also wanted to use the opportunity to make farmers choose green energy alternatives to fertilizer.
Flashback
In 2002 Samantha Power made a statement, calling for a U.S. military invasion of Israel. Full transcript available at the youtube site.
Commentary Magazine: (An excellent piece, well worth the full read on our gal)
In a 2003 article for the New Republic, Power: “The U.S,” she wrote, “came to be seen less as it sees itself (the cop protecting the world from rogue nations) than as the very runaway state international law needs to contain.”
Power wrote that America’s record in world affairs had been so harmful to the freedoms of people around the world that the United States could remedy the problem only through profound self-criticism and the wholesale adoption of new policies. Acknowledging that President Bush was correct in saying that “some America-bashers” hate the American people’s freedoms, Ms. Power stated that much anti-Americanism derives from the role that U.S. power “has played in denying such freedoms to others” and concluded:
U.S. foreign policy has to be rethought. It needs not tweaking but overhauling….Instituting a doctrine of mea culpa would enhance our credibility by showing that American decision-makers do not endorse the sins of their predecessors. When [then German Chancellor] Willie [sic] Brandt went down on one knee in the Warsaw ghetto, his gesture was gratifying to World War II survivors, but it was also ennobling and cathartic for Germany. Would such an approach be futile for the United States?
Who is Samantha Power, Irish Pro-Palestinian Activist (see also Ed Lasky, American Thinker) -a good piece on the danger to Israel.
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[…] Samantha Power celebrates fertilizer shortages that threaten the food supply and will force farmers … […]
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May 3, 2022 at 3:34 pm
“Green energy alternatives to fertilizer” is just reflexive authoritarian bull s**t. BTW, there are FABULOUS alternatives to the chemical fertilizers which build topsoil quickly, nourish crops – and hence people – better, sequester precious water and carbon in copious amounts, and reclaim lost land. It’s been proven around the globe. See Gabe Brown’s Dirt to Soil for domestic, and the Savory Institute which grandfathered the principles by which land and lives have been saved. And this transition is relatively quick, but politically impossible with the big ag lobby and Bill Gates poking his ignorant nose into affairs he knows little about.
Unfortunately, THIS isn’t what she means. What she means is “here’s another emotionally reflexive sound bite to take advantage of the current handy crisis to control you.” The rest, about a genuine food crisis, is true. I prayed for this in our bible study. As people prayed for Ukraine with a general “please stop the war God” I focused on the impacts on this farming season and the lands beyond that rely on Ukraine’s food. Red Famine still burns in my memory.
Yes, the ruling class is clueless when it comes to producing food. But they are skilled in getting what they want for themselves and in giving your stuff away to others without regard for your health or welfare to promote their leveling agenda that tears us down and empowers them. Bunk is right. This is far from the final play. So for now, buy food!
I agree with Mark, too. It makes a handy play to demonize Russia as another swipe at Trump for Hillary’s defeat.
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May 3, 2022 at 4:15 pm
Oh what a tangled web… I have to say this week’s news has not been boring.
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May 3, 2022 at 9:56 pm
PS Vance won…. one small step. Let us get to 60 this November…thanks for the comment.
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May 3, 2022 at 11:41 pm
I asked my mom if she was watching all the ‘splodey heads over toe v wade.
She said she was on her way to vote and she’d call in a few minutes.
I forgot to ask who she voted for!
We talked the other day about the dismal Senate prospects.
We are both so happy Portman is gone!! What a loser!!
So, Vance won, huh? I sure hope his tune change is a true change!
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May 4, 2022 at 4:43 am
yes, only happy because of Trump.
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May 4, 2022 at 11:22 am
Hahaha….
I just saw my typo.
I meant ROE V WADE.
Not TOE. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
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May 3, 2022 at 12:39 pm
Russia invading Ukraine did not CAUSE these problems – fertilizer shortage, food shortage, high gas prices, supply chain issues!!!
COVID and the IRRESPONSIBLE lockdowns worldwide caused this!!!
Since globalists – including the good old U S of A – were the ones who created covid and released it…then locked down the world….THEY are the ones who DELIBERATELY created this crisis and now aren’t letting ot go to waste.
I loathe these people!!!
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May 3, 2022 at 12:44 pm
To say it lightly L…. This was all planned and deliberate.. they have a plan.. there is always one more shoe to drop isn’t there.
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May 3, 2022 at 12:04 pm
Last summer I said to family and friends, “by next summer (2022), the US will be Venezuela,” (empty shelves at the supermarket, no energy, no nothing). I think I was off by 18 months. This year’s winter could be the Dark Winter Diaper President warned about.
We all need to pray so darn hard and unceasingly for the salvation of our country.
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May 3, 2022 at 12:13 pm
I agree. And they are exhausting our military armaments its turns out.. Fox news Military guy…can’t think of his name, says there are 50 chips either in a stinger or similar weapon… missed which one… and it will take years to replace. I am loading up… she will make sure we suffer… as she hates America.
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May 3, 2022 at 11:21 am
In order to never let a good crisis go to waste one must first create a crisis. The Clown Circus also known as the Harris/Biden regime is not satisfied with the run-of-the-mill, every day crises occurring across the globe. No, they must create more unique varieties to further crash the machine of free market economics. What appears as simply gross incompetence to the naive is really a deliberate, World Economic Forum drive campaign to disrupt the world and replace the classical liberal order with totalitarianism. We are watching it unfold. In re Powers: There are fools and there are useful fools.
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May 3, 2022 at 12:15 pm
I was curious why Power was in charge of food aid.. considering she has done wonders in much higher level positions. Now we know… little covered position but she will clear out our food manufacturing for the world. All planned. Once again Plus one for your comment.
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May 3, 2022 at 3:41 pm
+ 1 to you both!
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May 3, 2022 at 10:26 am
This is a small point, but when she advocates the use of “natural fertilizers like manure and compost” she betrays ignorance. Compost is a useful soil amendment but it is NOT fertilizer, as it contains no nutrients such as nitrogen, potassium or the like.
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May 3, 2022 at 10:58 am
Actually, compost can rob the soil of nitrogen (depending on the stage of decomposition). Still, as a carbon-rich compound, it might release a little nitrogen in later stages of decomp.
I have always added chicken manure to the compost (which I use on a lemon tree — something that is notoriously always in need of nitrogen).
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May 3, 2022 at 11:10 am
Chicken manure eh? I didn’t know you worked for the government!
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May 3, 2022 at 1:58 pm
C’mon, man! You know government is composted bull shit.
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May 3, 2022 at 12:46 pm
As I suspect you know, since you are adding it to compost, chicken manure must be used with great caution, as it is so high in nitrogen that it will burn the beejezus out of your plants.
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May 3, 2022 at 1:55 pm
Exactly.
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May 3, 2022 at 3:50 pm
Compost is a kind of fertilizer. It has macro and micro nutrients. But it is not a huge, fact acting supply of one of the big 3. It brings oodles of worms and conditions the soil to hold water better. Honestly, you can dump in old eggs (or a dead chicken) near a grow row and get better plants. You can do the same with veggie scraps but must wait! Mark’s right, if it isn’t fully composted it can rob the soil of the nitrogen it will take first to do that. I’m torn this spring. I grew a cover crop in my best garden spot, which I will spade in as soon as the vetch flowers. Threw in a bunch of biochar, too. But spading in all that green will rob new plants of the nitrogen they need. Patience, patience.
And this is the problem with the Big Ag perspective. Our way is labor intensive, and takes a far nimbler mind than spraying fertilizer over a monocrop on an automated system.
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May 3, 2022 at 8:51 am
Is it just me, or does anyone else find it “very odd” that the people whom the Jews/Israelis most admire, the communists, are the very people who (next to Palestinians) most seek to destroy Israel?
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May 3, 2022 at 9:38 am
I am sure you will be taken to task for the never discuss the Jews who don’t support Israel crowd. Good luck. It’s an untouchable topic apparently. Here it comes
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May 3, 2022 at 11:02 am
I have armed myself. 🙂
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May 3, 2022 at 12:43 pm
I like to touch those…
😉😉😉
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May 3, 2022 at 10:02 am
Mustang:
I can introduce you to some uber rich self hating New York Jews who would break bread with ex-nazis rather than with Trump. Dr Michael Savage calls them red diaper dopper babies raised on the linoleum kitchen floor of their walk up flat. I’ve always characterized their unwavering devotion to those who would need no excuse to wipe them out as a generational rite of passage. Bernie in his filthy unpressed Moe Ginsberg suit anyone?
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May 3, 2022 at 11:01 am
Ah … you mean like self-circumcision?
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May 3, 2022 at 12:42 pm
Humans are a self-destructive race.
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May 3, 2022 at 12:50 pm
Having an Anthropologist background and studied many cultures, you are on to something. There are some worth studying who have broken away from this detriment but they are few and far apart…. Sociobiology….by Wilson is a textbook that covers it. I took the last class at Penn taught on the subject… explains a lot.
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May 3, 2022 at 1:14 pm
— And some of us are more self-destructive than others. No one more so than Jews, who cannot seem to do one thing our Good Lord told them to do. You’d think that after a while … .
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May 3, 2022 at 8:38 am
I think America’s politics has always been over-populated by low creatures. All that has really changed, say since the 1930s and 1940s is that we transitioned from gangster-like back-room boys capable of cold-blooded murder (LBJ comes to mind) to radical communists reminiscent of the lawyers who murdered the Russian Czar and his family in cold blood (Samantha Power comes to mind). Yesterday’s filth was simply lumpier.
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May 3, 2022 at 11:04 am
Point made…. Interesting that good old Samantha will be sending whatever we have via U.S. Aid department and let us eat cake.
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May 3, 2022 at 8:28 am
Give me all the sad eyes and sob stories through George Snuffleupagus that you want, I am still not believing that this is Putin inflation.
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May 3, 2022 at 8:42 am
@ Mark
Don’t you wonder? On the one hand, we’re being told that UKR forces are killing, maiming, and destroying gazillions of Russian Federation troops — it’s a proverbial route (they say), but yet, Uncle Joe wants another $30 Billion to help UKR defeat the Ruskies. So, which is it?
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May 3, 2022 at 10:04 am
Show me the money!
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May 3, 2022 at 10:41 am
I think that the Democrats want to be the new home of the war hawks and they are priming us for a war with Russia.
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May 3, 2022 at 11:06 am
Oh but there are so many extra goodies in the 22Billion grab bag… its just coming out but we are going to help out Europe big time… more to follow.
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May 3, 2022 at 11:07 am
While reviewing drawings, I listened to a Tucker Carlson video. He suggested that the current Democrat push in Ukraine is an effort to play to the base that believed the bilge on the “Russia cost Hillary the 2016 election.” For that fictional interference, they want to put us in a real war.
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May 3, 2022 at 12:45 pm
That’s logic, Mustang….
Stop it!!
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May 3, 2022 at 1:09 pm
You’re right, LG … I don’t know what gets into me. 🙂
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May 3, 2022 at 8:20 am
Yes, since Russia is at war with Ukraine and Russia has suspended oil/gas exports to countries sanctioning Russia (and since urea, a compound used in the creation of nitrogenous fertilizers, is derived from oil), we are seeing a resulting decrease in fertilizer.
However, don’t forget that some 2 years ago, America was not throttled by someone, um can anyone remember who:
1. Shut down major pipelines in favor of tankers
2. Shut our federal lands (ANWR, the majority of land in the Western states, off shore drilling, …)
3. Raised fees on drilling permits nine times the previous levels while saying “there are 9,000 oil leases out there” and “greedy oil companies”
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May 3, 2022 at 8:23 am
BTW, the benefit of using tankers (such as those provided by Democrat philanthropist Warren Buffett) is that they can be stopped at any point. Oddly, shutting down a pipeline (such as the Colonial) proves much more difficult.
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May 3, 2022 at 8:39 am
Dunno, Mark. It didn’t take Biden very long to shut down the pipeline. What was it … a snap of his fingers?
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May 3, 2022 at 2:19 pm
That was one of several incomplete pipelines. Oddly, Obama had enough brains to slow-walk the shutdown. Biden saw how close the Keystone was, so he jumped. Then, seeing that he got a pass from the press, he went on with the Embridge Line 5, the Dakota Access, and (to make certain that Europe could not have other-than-Russian gas) the Eastern Mediterranean Gas Pipeline.
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