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Author's Note: Dear reader, if you believe in the work we do here and want to help keep us in the fight there are a couple of ways you can do that here, and it is sincerely appreciated. Now back to the article at hand:         Our supply chain is an incredibly complex and incredibly fragile (fragility increases exponentially with complexity) global just-in-the-nick-of-time production and delivery system, and right now it is breaking down all across the world. Of particular note is our industrial food production which is run by large machinery - tractors, food processing plants, and trucks - from farm to fork. When those machines break down without spare parts available, food production and distribution will shut down. As you will see in the following section - and reported by all major news organizations - this problem has no end in sight, so please prepare accordingly. Civilization - goes an old maxim - is only nine meals away from barbarism—Once the food deliveries stop, so does law and order. Try to envision the vast interlinking network of moving parts required to get those meals to 300 million Americans every day, and all of the things that must go right in order for that to network to function. October 14, 2021: Bloomberg release a video showing a staggering backlog of shipping containers at a port in Los Angeles. It will take months to clear this, and in the meantime the contents of those containers - finished goods, spare parts, raw materials - will be will missing from our economy.  March 23, 2022: Jumping ahead seven months, China goes back into lockdown creating yet another container ship backlog on top of the one ongoing in the US.   October 20, 2021 & April 22, 2022: On top of all of the dire news that follows this entry, American intelligence agencies are now warning our food producers are under threat from cyber/ransomware-attacks which could cause major disruption to food production and transport similar to what happened to JBS - one of the largest meat packers in the world - earlier this year. You may click one of the following links to jump to your preferred news outlet's take on the supply chain meltdown, or continue scrolling down from here to read them all: Al.com ● Reuters ● NPR ● ABC ● Newsweek ● The Epoch Times ● Zero Hedge                    And finally, here is a trucker of 20 years explaining why the supply chain backlog will not get better and will not get fixed—If you read nothing else in this article, be sure to read this. _____________________________ Author's Note - Please share this far and wide to get the word out so people can stock up before the coming tsunami clears the store shelves (like that old adage about going bankrupt - the shelves will get more and more bare until all at once they are empty). Also, please reach out to me with any questions or comments at the email address at the top of this report. And finally, an enormous amount of work and research goes into these articles and the accompanying images. If you found this information valuable and would like to support it there are some options to do so here. |
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