As we Progress through 2022 – One BIG Issue is the Failure of Global Supply Chains and Britain is Highly Vulnerable – Letter from Great Britain [01-22-22]

“The Financial Jigsaw” has been serialised here and is replaced by this weekly “Letter from Great Britain.”  NOTEIf anyone would like an electronic copy of the complete book, I should be pleased to email a free PDF on request to: [email protected].

BREAKING NEWS UPDATE – We have won the first round!  The Health Secretary (Sajid Javid) has said Covid passes will be scrapped in England this month as the country’s Omicron wave continues to collapse.

“The PM’s chief Brexit negotiator Lord Frost dramatically resigned in protest over the rollout of the curbs. Yesterday he slammed the “Covid theatre” of masks and passes, and called lockdown a “serious mistake”.

https://dailysceptic.org/2022/01/14/covid-passes-to-be-scrapped-within-two-weeks/

“This begs the question: Why have all these advocates of lockdowns and related restrictions been flagrantly ignoring the rules?  The only explanation I can think of is that they knew some of these rules were pointless. But this begs another question: If they knew the rules were pointless, why did these political panjandrums advocate for them in the first place?”  https://dailysceptic.org/2022/01/14/parties-at-number-10-suggest-boris-and-his-team-thought-covid-restrictions-were-pointless-so-why-did-they-impose-them/

When the MSM start questioning the very basis of these crazy laws you know we are winning [for the moment]: As Boris Johnson sits lamely on political death row – literally cowering at the scene of the crime, Number 10 Downing Streetvirtually everyone is missing the point about what PartyGate tells us.

The public are rightly apoplectic with rage that Boris broke the inhumane and frankly ludicrous rules that he inflicted on all of us with far too much zeal so he could cheer on his very social staff (and wife) while downing Tesco rose wine and gin.” Read the Mail Online for the argument: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-10400169/DAN-WOOTTON-real-lesson-Partygate-lockdown-laws-ass-been.html

UPDATE 2: Tory whips are accused of intimidating MPs who oppose Boris Johnson: “The Guardian has been told of at least five MPs who have expressed concerns about the government threatening funding for their constituency or encouraging damaging stories to be published in newspapers:  MPs said the tactic had been used not only during the so-called PartyGate scandal, but ahead of the votes on Uighur genocide, cutting international aid, free school meals and the rise in national insurance. The Times reported that rebels were considering releasing texts or recordings of their conversations with whips to show their tactics.”  https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/jan/20/boris-johnson-ministers-confidence-vote-whipping  It’s now degenerated into no better than a cat & dog fight among MPs in Westminster – getting worse by the day.

AND NOW – Hancock has surfaced (literally)! How can he ever recover from this? My big fear is that he’ll go on another comeback tour and make more of those “man on the street” videos he’s so fond of, where he walks around Suffolk, while locals fruitlessly attempt to console him.  Let’s hope it doesn’t come to that. Yes, we have all suffered enough already.

Do say: “Matt Hancock breached social distancing laws, cheated on his wife, handed out PPE contracts without publishing details, rode maskless in a chauffeur-driven car and may now have broken swimming regulations.” Don’t say: “Still not the least trustworthy Conservative MP, though. Weird.” https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/jan/19/matt-hancock-the-mp-who-cant-even-take-a-swim-without-getting-into-trouble

SO TO BUSINESS – IN my book I explain the How & Why of risk in the globalised supply chain failure which is set to increase as this year pans out. But it’s not enough to be aware of all the implications; it is important to prepare in advance because when the crisis occurs it’s going to be fast – likely days before all trade seizes up as happened in 2007-8 when we were merely hours away from a complete freeze of global credit and trade.

Preparation for this event, that can happen any time, requires everyone to revert to a more local, personal supply chain, providing direct access to essentials without the multitude of intermediaries needed in a global system. Hugh Charles Smith has some very good advice on the subject and which is dear to my heart as we take action here in rural SW England.

“How vulnerable is your personal supply chain? For the average American, the answer is: very.”  “Americans consider abundance and ready availability as birthrights so basic they’re like the air we breathe. The idea that shelves could become bare and stay bare is incomprehensible, yet that is the world we’re entering, for a number of complex reasons.

One is that the world added not just another billion humans (now 7.9 billion), but one billion middle-class consumers, consumers who use about 100 times more energy per person than poor people. These additional billion middle-class consumers doubled the number of high-energy consuming humans in a few decades, and this enormous expansion of demand has consumed all the easy-to-extract resources of the planet. There are no cheap, easy-to-extract resources left; all that’s left is expensive to reach, extract, transport, etc., and since energy is the master resource, as its cost rises, so does the cost of literally everything that depends on energy.

Consider a poor person in a rural village. Most of their food is grown locally, and their income is so limited they do not have the means to consume much energy or items shipped halfway around the world via the global supply chain. They might have a cheap mobile phone and a few consumer items gifted to them by relatives working in the developed world, but very little of their consumption depends on long global supply chains. If those chains break, the impact on the poor villagers is relatively modest.

Compare this relative self-sufficiency to the extreme dependence on long supply chains of the average American. Very little, if any, of their everyday consumption is sourced locally, i.e., within walking distance. Every item on the shelves requires immense consumption of energy to be manufactured / produced and shipped to the shelf, and every item has a long dependency chain of intermediaries, each of which is dependent on numerous components, specialty materials, machinery and processes.  Every intermediary, and every process and source used by each intermediary, is a potential source of failure of the entire supply chain”. https://www.oftwominds.com/blogdec21/personal-supply-chain12-21.html

AND Jim Rickards agrees – I have been arguing this for years so much so that I put it all in my book having read Jim’s wonderfully descriptive book: “The Road to Ruin”.

“Supply chain disruptions have not been resolved, and it’s not clear when they will be. You’re seeing the effects of these disruptions at the store in the forms of shortages and higher prices.  Yet the supply chain is a subject that very few are familiar with beyond a superficial acquaintance. [we can agree that inflation is also exacerbated by excess money printing]

Most people think the supply chain is just part of the global economy. That’s not entirely true. The supply chain is the global economy, when  the global supply chain is broken, then the global economy is broken. That increasingly appears to be the case.  The supply chain difficulties will grow worse. Even more troubling is the fact that the remedies will take years and sometimes decades to implement.

            It’s difficult to tell if the supply chain is being intentionally sabotaged or whether it’s just collapsing under its own weight, possibly both.  In a way, it doesn’t matter because anything as complex and as highly scaled as the global supply chain will always collapse; it’s just a question of when.

For 30 years, the goal of supply chain management has been efficiency, usually defined as the elimination of redundancy, inventory and latency (more on that below). That’s fine in the short run but it results in a system that is brittle and has no tolerance for even small disruptions. The nature of complex systems is that small causes have tremendous impacts to the point of total collapse.” https://dailyreckoning.com/globalisms-achilles-heel/

BUT in Britain the economic inactivity rate has increased by 0.2 percentage points to 21.3%, showing that more people have dropped out of the labour market – either because they are studying, retiring early, or sick, [or doing something more productive than wage-slavery!] says the Guardian.  This is 462,000 more than before the pandemic, with most industries displaying record numbers of vacancies, and the ratio of vacancies to every 100 employee jobs at a record high.  However, the rate of growth in vacancies did slow, the ONS warns.  This is a lot of people ‘out of the work force’ and I guess they are not really ‘economically inactive’. As in South Africa, with 35% unemployment, these people are doing their own thing and prospering without interference from the State; we call it ‘The Black Market’ and it’s growing fast. Charles Hugh Smith is on the case: http://charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2022/01/the-real-revolution-is-underway-but.html

BUT as the Covid hysteria grows during 2022, the Vaxx Refuseniks will be even more demonised unless we call out the Covidians at every opportunity.

There are many reasons a person may choose not to be vaccinated, particularly if he or she is young, healthy, or has had Covid already, and is wary of the novel genetic technology and unusually high level of reported adverse events. This should be respected, without prejudice or discrimination. There should be no question of penalising him or her, any more than, say, smokers, drinkers or motorcyclists should be penalised for making what is [wrongly] deemed by health authorities to be a higher risk choice.

Previously the haters-of-the-unvaccinated focused on infection rates and the claim that the unvaccinated spread the disease far more than the vaccinated. Once that claim collapsed they switched to hospital admissions. When the data there is lacking, they either make stuff up, use data from six months ago, or find obscure statistics involving tiny numbers of people to find something, anything, that sounds sufficiently scary to demonise the unvaccinated.  Apart from anything else, whatever happened to simply being a decent human being?” https://dailysceptic.org/2021/12/22/no-the-nhs-is-not-being-overwhelmed-by-the-unvaccinated/

THUS there must be something much more to this Vaxx question than just a ‘caring government’ looking after your health.  Kit Knightly has some interesting observations on the changing narrative as the globalist elites manically push their Vaxx boosters

The Covid19 “vaccines” don’t work. They’ve admitted it, and now they’re seriously trying to tell us it’s actually a good thing [to be infected]. Such infections are called “breakthrough cases”, and their existence has run a familiar course in the media.

First they didn’t exist, then they did exist but they were rare, then they weren’t that rare but they were mild…and now they’re not just mild, they’re actually a good thing…because of “super immunity”.

            So, it turns out, if you get the double-jab, but still get sick anyway, that’s not a sign you’ve just been conned into taking an experimental gene therapy that doesn’t do what it claims to do.

It’s not an indication that the entire narrative is just a construction built on assigning a new name to standard cold and flu symptoms via a faulty test.  And it definitely doesn’t mean the vaccines don’t work…it means the super-duper-mega work, and you’re basically invulnerable.” https://off-guardian.org/2021/12/23/super-immunity-pandemic-collapses-into-self-parody/

AND if you don’t yet believe that Britain is leading the Great Reset – check out what our Ministry of Defence is thinking about (and look at the side notes of UN2030 etc).  Thing is they are hiding nothing – it’s there in plain sight but I doubt one in a million Brits will even know it exists.  And do not to forget 80* years ago we were dropping bombs on the bastards!

“The Development, Concepts and Doctrine Centre (DCDC) has worked in partnership with the German Bundeswehr Office for Defence Planning to understand the future implications of human augmentation (HA), setting the foundation for more detailed Defence research and development.” https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/human-augmentation-the-dawn-of-a-new-paradigm  *Fourth Turning anybody?

In America we now have a ‘Threat-Free Index’ to consider which destroys Biden’s ranting about the unvaccinated. “As we pass through winter, into the teeth of what used to be called “cold and flu season.” Seasonality has been politically forgotten, however, deposited down the virtual memory hole with such other inconvenient stuff as ‘Everything We Know About How the Immune System Works’, piles of research into ‘Why Face Masks Don’t Work Against Airborne Viruses’, promises last year that ‘Hey We Only Need to Do These Things Till the Vaccines Arrive’, and millennia of history that ‘Scientific Inquiry Begins With Questioning the Current Science’.

When people catch Covid, it will never be said it’s because terrible government powers cannot dictate to natural forces; no, it will be blamed on disobedient people wickedly disrupting their plans. The Biden administration is setting a new low for that tone. White House Covid-19 Response Coordinator, Jeff Zients, a title as impressive as ‘Canute’s Royal Director of the Tides’, recently unveiled the new messaging: “For the unvaccinated, you’re looking at a winter of severe illness and death for yourselves, your families, and the hospitals you may soon overwhelm.”

There remains no acknowledgment of nor accommodation for people with natural immunity from prior infection, even as 140 research studies and counting attest to the superior strength and breadth of natural immunity to Covid-19. Recognizing such an obvious, large, and growing population with no need for being forced to receive two shots plus boosters every six months in perpetuity would significantly undercut the formidable new business model of the providers of those products. Dissonant data (or should that be dissident?) will continue to be squelched, and fear will continue to be fomented.

The ‘Threat-Free Index’ is a response to this unhealthy diet of fear.”  Here are the details and they are revealing: https://www.aier.org/article/how-threat-free-are-americans-from-covid-19-december-2021-update/

AND speaking of America, which has exported so much moral deprivation to the world, I thank God for Putin who at least is out to protect his own nation from the corruption of our traditional social values.

“Russian President Vladimir Putin once again vowed to defend Russian society against the intrusion of the corrupted values of the West, in particular blasting the “gender obscurantism” pushed by the United States and Europe.

“I am a proponent of the traditional approach that a woman is a woman and a man is a man,” Putin laid out, which it goes without saying also reflects basic Biology 101 and humans’ self-understanding for thousands upon thousands of years. He continued in the remarks on gender: “A mother is a mother, a father is a father. And I hope that our society has the internal moral protection dictated by the traditional religious denominations of the Russian Federation.”

            As Putin’s comments suggested, the whole ‘rans’ and LGBTQ++ movement seems to be bound up with US foreign policy abroad. In prior months, Kremlin officials have accused US-based NGOs of intentionally trying to influence Russian society with these “new ethics” – resulting in a crackdown on the degree which they can freely operate. This as Russia has laws on the books that make it illegal to propagandize children on these issues outside of parental consent.” https://www.zerohedge.com/political/woman-woman-man-man-putin-vows-protect-russia-wests-gender-obscurantism

(As many I know are looking to find a new place to live away for all this madness, perhaps Russia might not be a bad choice?  For myself – I plan to leave UK for good and move to Cape Town where I spent 10 happy years.)

OMICRON MONITOR:  “There are nearly 100,000 excess deaths happening per month in the USA right now, according to life insurance companies that are sounding the alarm over what Dr. Robert Malone calls a “mass casualty event” that’s unfolding due to covid vaccines.” Full story: https://www.naturalnews.com/2022-01-03-life-insurance-companies-sound-death-alert-warnings-over-excess-deaths-covid.html  There is a strong indication that vaccinees will be severely impacted by the common cold – otherwise now known as Omicron.

AND – This is encouraging: “It’s really time for people to be living; to make the decisions they want regarding vaccination; to enjoy the fact that many people have natural immunity; and to unwind this preoccupation with only COVID as determining the boundaries and constraints and possibilities of life.”  “And we’re going to start that in Florida.” At least some medic has got some sense: https://www.theepochtimes.com/florida-surgeon-general-if-you-have-no-symptoms-please-dont-get-tested

ADVERSE REACTIONS:  “34,337 Deaths 3,120,439 Injuries Following COVID Shots in European Database as UK Public Data Show 35 Deaths 213 Hospitalizations Among Booster Triple Vaccinated” https://healthimpactnews.com/2021/34337-deaths-3120439-injuries-following-covid-shots-in-european-database-as-uk-public-data-show-35-deaths-213-hospitalizations-among-booster-triple-vaccinated/

To be continued next week:  “Don’t Stay Safe — Enjoy Life”

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Author: Austrian Peter

Peter J. Underwood is a retired international accountant and qualified humanistic counsellor living in Bruton, UK, with his wife, Yvonne. He pursued a career as an entrepreneur and business consultant, having founded several successful businesses in the UK and South Africa His latest Substack blog describes the African concept of Ubuntu - a system of localised community support using a gift economy model.

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NickelthroweR
NickelthroweR
January 22, 2022 10:12 am

Because the people in government have never had to produce anything of value, they have zero clue as to how the real world works especially just-in-time systems. They do not understand that something that requires 400 inputs must have all 400 inputs. 99% of what you need is still zero but these Karens in government operate off of feelings and not facts and their feelings were “hurt” when people didn’t goosestep to their every command.

They thought that disruptions in supply meant that everyone would get a little less which was fine by them because these monster-Karens were hell-bent on punishing the public. They didn’t understand that supply chain disruptions meant everyone wasn’t going to be getting a little less but, instead, zero. Nothing.

I have an acquaintance that works at the local power generating facility. He was telling me that the power company had no plans to implement any vax mandates even if the Supreme Court themselves appeared at their gate and insisted upon it. Why? Well, because 60% of the workforce is unjabbed and requiring them to be jabbed would instantly result in several major US cities having no power. It was a situation that even a Karen could understand.

As I see it, GB finds itself in the same situation. After all, GB without food imports would begin to starve within a week. Not a little bit of starvation but full blown Four Horsemen starvation. I certainly wouldn’t want to depend on food imports in a world where long established supply chains are being carpet bombed by useless Karens and that is where GB finds itself today.

Somehow the message got through to the few remaining adults in the room that continued mandates = 100% famine and that maybe, just maybe it could be averted if all that silliness were instantly dropped.

It is probably too late though as food production has fallen and regions that had excess with which to feed GB no longer have those supplies and even if they did, governments are imposing bans on food exports.

NickelthroweR
NickelthroweR
  Austrian Peter
January 22, 2022 7:10 pm

Speaking of S. Africa, the Tonga eruption was probably the very worst thing that could have happened to the S. hemisphere given that they are right in the middle of their growing season. Yields most certainly will go down.

Up here in the North, we can look forward to fertilizer & pesticide shortages during a grand solar minimum. A 30% reduction in yields is already baked into the cake.

It wont be that everyone will be eating less. That is a happy outcome that the Beatles might sing about. What will happen is that entire regions of the world are going to experience famine.

Red River D
Red River D
  NickelthroweR
January 22, 2022 7:23 pm

Famine? War? Pestilence?

Why, it’s almost as if the four riders of the apocalypse have been loosed!!!

Ghost
Ghost
  Red River D
January 29, 2022 8:06 pm

Did you see that there was a 6.2 magnitude earthquake near Tonga just a couple days ago? Am wondering about that shock wave predicted to circle the world three or four times.

Wait, did I say circle? I must have meant “cross and recross.”

rhs jr
rhs jr
January 22, 2022 10:17 am

Thank you for another informative report from the UK; so glad that UK and USA citizens are turning the corner on the flu and waking up to Shot Gate; looking forward to the Medical-Government Complex’s “money” Tables getting over turned and the Needle Nazis being brought to trial for their Medical Genocide Holocaust, among other numerous NWO Conspiracy Crimes currently in process.

Walt
Walt
January 22, 2022 10:26 am

And do not to forget 80* years ago we were dropping bombs on the bastards!
Ah, no. You were dropping bombs for the bastards.
And truth be told, you’re still doing it.

Brought to you by Pfizer.

Red River D
Red River D
  Austrian Peter
January 22, 2022 3:28 pm

Assuming Walt is an American…

…that is indeed a thick layer of it.

Ghost
Ghost
  Walt
January 29, 2022 8:08 pm

And the Rockefeller Foundation, among others.

Iska Waran
Iska Waran
January 22, 2022 11:05 am

From what I can tell, the only sensible people in Britain are Tommy Robinson and Austrian Peter.

Red River D
Red River D
  Austrian Peter
January 22, 2022 3:30 pm

And the Mohammedans haven’t yet issued a FATWAH against you as they have Robinson.

But there’s still time!!!

Red River D
Red River D
  Austrian Peter
January 22, 2022 6:35 pm

Ah, so you’re not Austrian Peter after all.

You’re actually Northern Ireland Seamus!!!

Clever disguise!!!

Good to keep those wily Mohammedans guessing.

daddy Joe
daddy Joe
January 22, 2022 11:51 am

Thank you for a perspective across the pond. Loved “Royal Director of the Tides”. That’s what all the current “science” advisors are. Climate change, covidiocy, supply chain fantasy, food supply, energy replacement—All BS now with not a touch of reality or real scientific foundations.
Our societies are now living off the fat and accumulated capital of times that are gone with the wind. Your warning is heeded. Most people don’t yet see that Hunger is stalking the land. It will emerge in all the usual places, but this time unexpectedly much closer to home.

Steve
Steve
January 22, 2022 2:00 pm

Talking of collapsing supply chains, Biden is banning unvaxxed truckers from crossing the Mexican and Canadian borders. How can this NOT be a deliberate attempt to destroy the US economy? Our governments hate us and want us impoverished and enslaved.

cannuck21
cannuck21
  Steve
January 22, 2022 6:42 pm

Agree with you Steve.
There is a Go Fund Me collection to support our Canadian Truckers. This is an important time for all of us.
https://www.gofundme.com/f/taking-back-our-freedom-convoy-2022

90s Revolutionary warfare crusher
90s Revolutionary warfare crusher
  cannuck21
January 22, 2022 8:15 pm

@ Cannuck21,
I left a long comment on the funding article above related to this matter – explaining why this sort of protest is doomed to fail (as the Australian “Truckies” protest failed as they tried a half-hearted “blockade”).

The truckers just need to park up safely and legally off the road (to avoid having their trucks seized) and then disable them – better to this at home / at the depot so they cant be requesitioned / confescated by the state.

The drivers then just need to stay at home a few weeks and stay out of trouble (and they will acheive more than any blockade or active protest which will just attract state violence and state sanctions).

Cannuck21
Cannuck21
  90s Revolutionary warfare crusher
January 22, 2022 8:29 pm

Very good points!

Gerold
Gerold
January 22, 2022 3:46 pm

Got news for you. The “disappeared workers” aren’t disappeared; they’re dead.
The CEO of AmericaOne, the U.S.’s largest group insurer says that the deaths of working-age Americans have increased by 40%, and he’s hearing the same from the rest of the industry.

rhs jr
rhs jr
  Austrian Peter
January 22, 2022 7:47 pm

First, the cash not paid for death claims becomes profit. Second, the above natural death rate will increase exponentially for several years from strokes, heart attacks, Immune System fails and AIDS, auto-immune diseases, mad cow prions and cancer kill, etc. The huge numbers and the skyrocketing trend will become as obvious as the incompetence of FJB bumble reading his teleprompter.

90s Revolutionary warfare crusher
90s Revolutionary warfare crusher
  Austrian Peter
January 22, 2022 8:21 pm

Serious health issues are occuring in the aviation sector (Pilots and Flight deck crew esp) and causing problems for several airlines now.

Big coverup in progress in plain sight via the story of “flights being cancelled due to 5G rollout and switch on”.

Just a heads up to watch for more of this – especially if EU follows US example.

cannuck21
cannuck21
January 22, 2022 6:38 pm

Sorry, but not surprised, to read that you are leaving the UK Peter. Yours was one source of sanity that I looked forward to reading.
Enjoy Cape Town. Perhaps a new – “Letter from South Africa”? 🙂

Jdog
Jdog
January 23, 2022 4:20 pm

Anyone who believes that the winding down of the Covid panic constitutes a return to the normal of the past is deluding themselves. The Covid panic will morph into the worldwide economic, market, and asset value collapse in which falling productivity will devastate economies worldwide.
Governments now have the excuses they need to deny responsibility of their past irresponsibility, and to allow the financial collapse that will expand their control over the masses who will for the first time in their existence experience real and severe hardship. The same media propaganda machine that sold the public the lies of Covid, will convince the public the governments failing economic policies are actually in their best interests.
We already know that due to cuts in fertilizer and pesticide production, that food production worldwide will be severely impacted next year. It is logical to assume this will be followed with panic buying which will create even more serious shortages and dramatically higher prices.
Smart people will begin getting serious about building their stocks to act as a buffer against future shortages and outages while it is still possible to do so.. The systems people have become comfortable trusting for their survival are breaking down as can clearly be seen by the massive failure in the healthcare systems over the past 2 years. Expect the failure of several other critical survival systems going forward. Be prepared.

BL
BL
January 23, 2022 8:35 pm

Is a “Mass Casualty Event” code for genocide? Jack The Ripper was just trying to help all those dead hookers.