I still see certain types/brands of soft drinks completely gone from the shelves.  

I think I saw where the the ability around the world to made carbonation was in short supply because of the factories shutting down in Germany.  Not sure though.

Don’t know since I didn’t check on flour and yeast.  

As already mentioned, COVID did teach us to have multiple sources for products.  Sometimes it works, sometimes it’s still a challenge.

I’m still seeing notable shortages in cat food & kitty litter.  If food shortages happen worldwide, I could easily see pet food supplies being nonexistent.

Michael Yon@MichaelYon
1 hour ago
Killing Millions of Green Trees across Europe to Keep Warm
03 October 2022
Belfast, Northern Ireland
Mind burst, sans edit

Green and Globalist Policy — including their exciting war in Ukraine — their Ukrainian flags, and their Rainbow flags hanging everywhere — are destroying Europe and human life across the globe. And tree life.

Forests across large swaths of Europe are being felled at a rate that surely will make telling satellite imagery. Cold humans need the firewood.

And so they are busy cutting millions of green trees. Wood that is unready to burn. Hard to cut when green. And just not ready.

Leftist dreams are incompatible with sustainable life.

For an idea of the amount of wood needed, watch this:

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NEW - Blinken on Nord Stream sabotage: "A tremendous opportunity to once and for all remove the dependence on Russian energy... offers tremendous strategic opportunity for the years to come."

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JUST IN - Supreme Leader Khamenei blames the United States and "the Zionist regime" in Israel for the "riots" in Iran.

"2023 Will Be Year From Hell" - Martin Armstrong Warns Europe 'Could Suck The Rest Of The World Down The Tubes'

Armstrong says the plunge in the stock market last week is all because of “extreme uncertainty.” Armstrong predicted a stock market crash two months ago and contends, “It’s not over.”

Europe is in big financial trouble with Russian natural gas turned off as a retaliation from the sanctions. Armstrong explains:

“In Europe, I believe they are actually deliberately doing this, and this is Klaus Schwab’s ‘Great Reset.’

They know they have a serious problem.

They lowered rates to below 0% in 2014. They just started raising interest rates. Meanwhile, you ordered all the pension funds throughout Europe to have more than 70% in government bonds. Then they took it negative.

All the pension funds are insolvent. Europe is fiscal mismanagement on a grand scale. There is no way it can sustain itself, and we are looking at Europe breaking apart.”

So, could Europe suck the rest of the world down the tubes? Armstrong says, “Oh, absolutely. Europe is the problem..."

"The crisis in banking will start in Europe...The debt is collapsing. They have no way to sustain themselves.

The debt market over there is undermining the stability of all the banks.

You have to understand that reserves are tied to government debt, and this is the perfect storm.

Yes, the (U.S.) stock market will go down short term. We are not facing a 1929 event or a 90% fall here... Europeans, probably by January of 2023, as this crisis in Ukraine escalates, anybody with half a brain is going to take whatever money they have and get it over here.”

So, where is smart money going to go? Armstrong says, “Stocks are like gold, it is on the same side of the table and is opposite government debt..."

"People are not going to be buying government debt. They are going to be looking at anything in the private sector. . . . People are buying whatever they can to get off the grid.”


Armstrong says governments are borrowing and spend huge amounts of money. The Fed will keep raising interest rates to fight inflation, but Armstrong says,

“Raising interest rates will only make things worse. We have supply shortages, and raising rates will not fill the gaps.”

Armstrong has never been more positive on buying gold. Why? Armstrong explains,

“We are looking at a sovereign debt default. This is what’s going on. This is why Biden will spend whatever he wants because he knows he doesn’t have to pay it back. Eventually, this is what’s going to happen. This is Schwab’s agenda.”

Armstrong has predicted “2023 will be the year from Hell.”

Armstrong says, “Civil unrest will only get worse” this year, and he is predicting we will have full blown war next year.

Armstrong contends Democrats are desperate and will do things like granting illegal aliens citizenship so they can vote in the mid-term elections.


In closing, Armstrong says, “Something is going to spark a collapse in government again. It’s going to be something, I think, in Europe where they do something drastic because they have no other choice. . . . They need war as the excuse for the defaults of all the government debt.”

There is much more in the nearly 59-minute interview.





https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/2023-will-be-year-hell-martin-armstrong-warns-europe-could-suck-rest-world-down-tubes

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Lots of folks down here do their grocery shopping starting Friday night and during the weekend. By Sunday evening, it mostly looks like a storm hit. Still plenty of produce but a lot of the staples are sold out. That's saying there's less than 3 days worth of the basics in storage at the grocery stores down here. Not sure how it is elsewhere.

Now that you mention it, I read about some kind of CO2 shortage as well. It was in the context of a potential beer shortage. I wasn't aware that CO2 is used in commercial scale production of beer. Something about taking too long to get the bubbles into the beer via "natural" means. Strange.

It's surprising how interconnected various aspects of the supply chain are and how second and third order effects you wouldn't think about can impact things.

Down here, kitty litter isn't a problem. Dog and cat food definitely are, though, especially the canned stuff. Even kibbles are hard to come by sometimes.

One has to wonder how the critters will fare if there is a genuine food shortage.

This is the "norm" and  has been forever.  Grocery stores are not warehouses.
I worked for nearly 15 years (80s into 90s) in grocery stores during my youth.   Big orders delivered on Friday, vendor stocking on Saturday, nothing delivered on Sunday.  
Hating life if traffic or other snafu messed up the Monday delivery.  

Empty shelves and displays starting Saturday morning(warehouse unfulfilled), getting worse until noon'ish on Monday.
And this was the era when grocery stores closed at 9pm during the week and 6pm on Sunday.  

I was in the Civil Air Patrol 1985 - 1990, first as a cadet and then as a senior member. Our mentors were a mix of active duty, PA National Guard, US Army reserve, and vets who served in WW2, Korea, and Vietnam. One of the things they had us do whenever we were in the field was to carry a spoon in the left breast pocket of our fatigue blouses (we wore the pickle suit since BDUs were not yet approved for CAP).

Welcome to the Long Titanium Spoon Master Race!

A genuine food shortage?  Anywhere from rare to well done.

My $0.02 and worth what you paid for it: Sporks like that are sub-optimal. They are passable forks but really don't work well as a spoon for eating soup. Too much fluid drains out between the tines. Pair it with a long spoon made from titanium or aluminum. You're not adding any significant bulk or weight to your kit but you gain a lot of functionality.

YMMV of course.

Yep, Mondays between 11am - 12pm was the time I hit my local grocery store for my Mrs. Baird’s Honey Wheat.  As I remember, off-brand white bread was usually not a problem throughout the week.

That's the kind of "green" effort that appears to make sense.

I remember learning about biogas from a copy of the Mother Earth News Handbook of Homemade Power  when I was in HS. With the support of one of my science teachers I actually built a small digester but for whatever reason we never got it going.

Maybe the norm for you but in my 46 years of life in anywhere I have lived have I ever seen things like this in America. Central America for sure, America, not a chance.

I’ll refrain from posting the music video for Spoonman.

There are smartphone apps that will display incidents in your locality. For example on iOS, go into the App Store and search for "incidents" to see if there's anything for your AO. I'm sure that the Google Play store has something similar.

Get one or even a couple of these if you don’t have one.  They work very well.  You can find them pretty much everywhere.








Oops.  Posted wrong video.

Urban Phoenix AZ.  
You don't notice it until the items you are looking for are the bare spots.  
The guy who had to stock the shelves notices all the bare spots and back fills them with another item until the correct product was delivered.

While working for a single chain, I was in stores that were small and slow enough that a single semi truck, three times a week was enough for the entire store.  And also at a store that received two loads a day of produce, but nothing on Sunday....

Like a said, grocery stores aren't warehouses.  When those are bare, then we are in a world of hurt.

Yep.  My wife buys cat food through Chewy.  They have not had the kind she used to buy for several months now.  She either has to order it from somewhere else at a much higher price, or get some other brand.  I found some of what she wanted on Amazon, but it was something like $3.00 for those little cans.  Dang, I can feed them human grade tuna fish cheaper than that.

It hasn't been the norm anywhere I've lived until the past couple of years. Most stores planned for weekend shopping. Now most don't or they can't get the volume required. One would think with all the computerized tracking available, it wouldn't be hard to keep that from happening. That suggests there is a lack of logistics in the pipeline somewhere that stores can't overcome.

Pre-'20, it was very, very rare for a store to be out of any of the items I usually shop for.  I can't really recall a single incident, though that could be more a function of my stuttering memory than an accurate record of the past.

Yes, even in my day, sonny, we planned for weekend shopping.

In the last two years a LOT off people were shopping for meals that previously would have been a "business lunch" or take out instead of making dinner.   A lot has changed in the food supply chain and a grocery store has no more back room storage than they did in 2020.  Which leads some spots being empty on a shelf.   The lack of professionalism and motivation in grocery store workers is also a problem.

I am not saying you aren't seeing empty spots for the things you are buying.  I often notice empty shelves also, it is "muscle memory".   I'm saying that using empty spots on a shelf is an indicator of many things, but (for the moment) comparison to third world countries is nonsensical.

EDIT:  The pipeline has a very strong flow problem at the store level.  As I said, they are not a warehouse and storage was designed with anticipated sales and some growth in mind.

Ex:  One story I worked at was in a post WWII neighborhood that boomed in the '80s(Camelback area).  In our department, we literally could not store enough to get through a weekend.  Physically impossible.   Our walk in cooler would hold four pallets on the floor and we would often receive 12, or left them on the trailer. (Which caused another set of problems.)
That store was finally demolished and rebuilt, but that is impossible on a national scale.  Particularly as things may "return to normal".

Green wood isn't great to burn, but it's much easier to cut/split when green than when dried.  

Least it was for the oak that we cut on the farm.

Having owned property and lived in Panama I would say it is actually very similar to that. Its normal to not find your brand or variety now and have to switch to something else and the next time something else yet again. having to hit multiple stores to find a particular item. A shelf being empty for days or weeks at a time.

Maybe Panama isnt third world, I dont really think of it as so, but there are definitely some parallels.

Well now that you said it I can't resist posting Chris Rodrigues and The Spoon Lady.

TommyRobinsonOfficial@TommyRobinsonOfficial
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Welcome to Europe 2022.

https://gab.com/TommyRobinsonOfficial/posts/109104822612923776



TommyRobinsonOfficial@TommyRobinsonOfficial
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Weddings booked by Britons at a stunning Victorian country mansion have been cancelled after the Home Office announced it needed the hotel for migrants.

At least three weddings have reportedly been cancelled at the Grade II-listed Stoke Rochford Hall in Lincolnshire.

While you're forced to choose between heating or eating this winter, illegal immigrants are here.


https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2022/10/02/uk-govt-cancels-weddings-victorian-country-mansion-hotel-make-way-migrants/

Nice.

Yeah, I doubt titanium has the resonance of good old stainless steel.


Speaking of stainless steel, that’s one of the noted products that will cease in Germany.  Get your stainless steel items while you can or at least before prices go too crazy.



In before the Munich Hand Saw Orchestra plays a benefit concert after they’ve cut down all of the trees in Germany.

Not a smart choice for you cats' health. Look it up before you do harm to them.

I'm not feeding them tuna.  It was a rhetorical answer.

That window has already closed.

I use a lot of various alloys of stainless and my price per bar has increased again and again in the last few years. As an idea:

Cool. We have a manual can opener but not the safe-edge kind. Just ordered two of those. One for home and one for my camping gear.

Thanks man.

That is a fine looking spoon.

Back in the ole' timey days we used to use Ice Tea/Sunday Spoons, they were the only ones long enough to reach down into an MRE main entrée if opened from the short end (which is the way to go). Drill a hole in the handle end and attach a 550 dummy cord.

That gentleman has been saying this for years. He’s tuned in. Should be the Pope.

OUCH!!

So are energy costs is Europe going to drop in 6 weeks?
I doubt it. So does this become an open/close then open/close cycle?
How is that going to affect workers and productivity when they do reopen? What a shitshow.



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You can attach a P38 to the handle of your spork.

Yeah, that don’t make no sense.


Michael Yon@MichaelYon
1 hour ago
Europe Titanic
03 October 2022
Titanic Museum, Belfast, Ireland

News comes about more food supply shutdown. The likelihood of this plant surviving is about same as Titanic floating to the surface and arriving safely to New York.

The company who made Titanic went on to produce wind turbines. Seriously.

Wow

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https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/turkeys-inflation-hits-fresh-24-year-high-83-after-rate-cuts-2022-10-03/

I’ve seen that and have a few P38s too but love the ability of this one to be able to put the lid back on the can if all of the contents aren’t used.

I just ordered a pack of 20 p-38s literally not twenty minutes ago. Just because they are cheap. Virtually every other can opener in the word is better. But I figure I will spread them around the vehicle and bags. At the end of the day other can openers may be better but any can opener when you don’t have one is a god send.

I’m somewhat surprised he hasn’t been excommunicated yet.

Safer than a knife.

You can get the manly P38.