I recently appeared on the Daily Pulse, where Maria Zeee and I discussed the unfolding polycrisis threatening global food security. We covered alarming new data from the American Farm Bureau showing that 70% of U.S. farmers can’t afford the fertilizer they need for 2026, alongside a disturbing wave of fires and attacks hitting fertilizer plants, energy facilities, and refineries worldwide, many of which are far from active war zones. This isn’t isolated. It’s compounding shortages in oil, natural gas, urea, phosphates, and other inputs at a time when governments are already prepping populations for rationing reminiscent of WWII, with little emphasis on practical solutions like victory gardens. We explored how this ties into broader energy constraints, data center demands sucking up resources, questionable targeting of production infrastructure, and the hard physics of supply chains that printing money or optimistic narratives can’t override.
Food is the underserved story here, and people must take it seriously now. The full interview is below!
Great! I’ll listen to this while putting in another row of potatoes and the last of the onions starts. Garlic is looking good, peas are up. Last year’s onions as green onions have been gangbusters for a while and are soon to be onion seeds - my first attempt at this. Been a soggy, cold spring interspersed with blazing heat followed by frost. But I think the fruit blossoms survived. My other spring crops are going in late because of the weather but still giving it a go.
Still trying to nudge more suburban grass growers to put in some food. Cause these skills aren’t easy and take time to learn. But pearls before swine.
Very difficult to discuss this with the general population because the news doesn’t cover reality and people don’t want to hear unpleasent facts. It became obvious to me about 4 weeks ago that “someone” decided that there were too many people on this ride and keeping the straight closed will lead to the desired result. A few billion people are going to have to get off this ride so that the rest can continue. I keep looking for more used solar panels because they are still cheap used on marketplace. We have power and in Arizona we will survive winter even without power. But the southwest has the same problem as the Middle East, too many people and not enough water. The Colorado river is completely over allocated and running dry. We are setting up water harvesting but we get only summer and winter rain and it doesn’t rain for months at a time.
Technology in science fiction eventually gets invented and they have invented Star Wars wind catchers. The first products on the market were from Zero Mass water, renamed Source Water and they are self contained off grid panels 4x8 feet and expensive, supposedly producing a gallon or so a day. There is a new technology, Metal Organic Framework (MOF) for creating molecules that can grab water from the air and release it at lower temperature that looks promising but not fully commercialized yet. This will allow off grid water atmospheric harvesting at scale. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6T3ICXWqjc
The little people are being tipped off - about the upcoming financial crisis, private credit, energy shock and AI. I suppose you are now officially “allowed” to say these things and, if a “Normie” says you are nuts, you can point them to their beloved BBC!
So, here is the BBC’s version of Chris’s Fat Pipe. Not as good, but they only have an annual budget of about £5bn or so!
In particular:
Sarah Breeden is the deputy governor of the Bank of England, with specific responsibility for financial stability. She says the new world of private credit has grown quickly, has yet to be tested by financial adversity and is poorly understood.
“There are echoes of the global financial crisis in what we’re seeing now,” she says. “Private credit has gone from nothing to two and a half trillion dollars in the last 15 to 20 years. There is leverage [borrowed money], there’s opacity, there’s complexity, there’s interconnections with the rest of the financial system. All of that rhymes with what we saw in the GFC.”
So she knows all about it (well, except for the stuff that she poorly understands) and is responsible for stability, but has just been watching it happen, like she is an NPC rather than someone with a job to do. So we probably could have saved ourselves her (probably massive) salary and pension cost.
Excellent points made by Armstrong in this short read. Excerpt below.
"… Geopolitical conflict will increasingly dictate energy flows. When supply routes are threatened and production becomes a strategic asset, countries will prioritize control over cooperation. Energy becomes a tool of leverage rather than a shared economic resource.
The contradiction globally is becoming impossible to ignore. While policymakers in Europe continue to push for eliminating fossil fuels, producers are expanding output and repositioning themselves to control supply. This divergence guarantees instability. There is no substitute capable of replacing this level of energy demand, and the attempt to force that transition is colliding directly with geopolitical reality.
The UAE’s exit is not an isolated event. It is a signal that the system is changing. Energy markets are moving away from coordinated control and toward fragmentation driven by national interest. Once that shift takes hold, it does not reverse easily.
The real takeaway is simple. When supply is disrupted, cooperation breaks down, and producers begin acting independently, the result is sustained volatility. Prices rise, markets become unstable, and geopolitical tension intensifies. This is not a short-term disruption. It is the early stage of a much larger transformation in the global energy order."
In ancient Egypt, Ostrich Eggs were Status Symbols as they could only be accessed via control over external trade, like the Precious Gasoline in the Mad Max movies.
How did the CIA blackmail and build Epstein Files-type “Control Files” on Hash-smoking peasant Muslim Goatherds with predilections for young effeminate boys in Afghanistan?
One reference (BBC?) suggests the story goes back 4000 years.
Child Sacrifice sure was a thing way back then. Abraham comes to mind. Nothing says “show your committment” like handing over the life of your first born.
Now “the Imp” makes this exact same demand with “vaccination” via the 72-shot schedule.
If it wasn’t a normalized practice back then … there’s a zero percent chance Abraham would have gone along with it. He would have freaked out and told “whomever” to go F* themselves, like any father would have done.
In today’s world, would any normal father go along with an actual child sacrifice demand? Only to be told later - “just kidding, it was a loyalty test.”
Long story short: “The powerful ones” demanded child sacrifice. It was normal practice, and we can see that from Abraham’s response. That’s my conclusion.
And “the Imp” made the exact same demand. But maybe that’s just a coincidence. Safe & Effective. Save Grandma.
