Guest Post by Chris MacIntosh
The parallels of history are hard to ignore.
Let’s take a look, because what’s happening today on the food front has been tried before.
From the 1930’s through the 1940’s Stalin’s Soviet Union had a “5-year Industrialization Plan” – these central planners never learn. This genius plan involved “rapid industrialization,” together with “socialized farming” and, of course, the elimination of private enterprise and property ownership.
The results? Grumpy people. A LOT of them. What brought about so many grumpy folks was this. Grain exports collapsed, economic output collapsed and more than 30 million starved to death between 1932 and 1947.
Next up, central planner numero deux.
Chairman Mao and the “Great Leap Forward.”
Like Stalin, Mao implemented a “5-year Industrialization Plan” from 1958 to 1962.
This “plan” involved rapid industrialization, socialized farming, and the elimination of private enterprise. Same ingredients.
The results?
Same results. Grumpy people. Grain exports plummeted, economic output collapsed, and this particular psychopath managed to preside over the starvation and death of 45 million people between 1958 and 1962.
The same ingredients, the same recipe, the same outcome.
We tend to look at these events and think to ourselves, “Dumb muppets.”
But here we are, and we’re doing exactly the same stupid mistakes again. I say “we” but of course mean the global elites, not us per se.
You may ask yourself. How is this done? How is it that collectively tens or hundreds of millions of people get led down this path of absolute horror?
The answer lies in the intensive use of propaganda, the unbridled and aggressive censorship of and canceling of anyone brave enough to break from the narrative.
Additionally, an enemy is always created. Every movement requires a devil. Something or someone that poses a threat. It’s the same in politics. Typically, voters don’t vote for someone as much as they vote against someone. Hate is easily weaponized while love is impossible to weaponise. So you need a devil, either a people or a threat of some sorts that galvanizes the justification for drastic action to be taken.
Are you seeing the parallels?
Today we have multiple angles being taken.
One, of course, has been the plandemic. A threat to humanity so great that drastic action, we were told, “MUST be taken.” A virus — unseen, undetected, but out there. One where only the central planners have the “science” available to dictate to us peons what it all means and, even better, what to do about it.
What better enemy than an invisible one?
But we have more than one invisible enemy. We now have two neatly crafted by the detritus that is our “elites.” COVID was the first and “climate change” is now the second.
“If you know who controls you see who you may not criticize.” – Tacitus
Under the guise of saving Gaia, reducing inequality, promoting “fairness” and implementing “social justice,” the ESG brand stands strong as a championing symbol to the woken gods.
The above here is propaganda taken from Bloomberg, but you’ll find it littering the legacy media.
Slowly but surely justifying Marxism.
Sri Lanka is a great example.
Based on an ESG agenda promoted by the sociopaths at the World Economic Forum and the UN, and further financed by the IMF, Sri-Lanka catapulted itself headlong into central planning of their agriculture. The collapse in productivity was immediate. Down 45%, which meant their balance of trade blew out, leaving them short of dollars, which are necessary to import energy, which itself is required for both food production and economic activity. This created a negative feedback loop which has now collapsed the entire economy, resulting in food shortages and the inevitable unrest that’s associated with starving people.
Sri Lanka, by the way, has now an almost perfect ESG score at 98.1. The correlation between a high ESG score and human suffering is near perfect.
But Sri Lanka is not alone.
The Netherlands is trying the same failed initiatives by “capping” nitrogen levels.
These idiots tell us they want to save the planet. Surely, that includes the plants. I mean, any self-respecting tree hugger knows that firstly, you need dreadlocks and secondly, you save the plants. Which is weird because plants love nitrogen.
Then there is England, who are paying the farmers to rewild their farmland.
And of course dear Canada. Not to be outdone by the genocidal actions elsewhere, the previously liveable country of Canada is following similar paths. Folks are definitely not going to be able to afford their gender reassignment surgery after trying to feed themselves. So there are some positives, I guess.
The list, of course, goes on. New Zealand, Australia — the guys at the World Economic Forum have their tentacles deep all over.
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That’s an especially ironic Lincoln quote, the whole destroying the Republic thing. I bet he laughed when he wrote it.
How do you know he wrote it? Were you there? Maybe it was a confederate spy that wrote it.
Why do you believe this is true ? Maybe Lincoln was a psy-op and never existed. Maybe all the photos of him are fake. Why do you take for granted that this information is true?
Could be. We really don’t know where Ancient Romans came from. Or the Sea Peoples. Or the Mycenaeans. Or the Khazarians. All perhaps the same Tribe?
All were bloodthirsty bastards.
I’ll go with b) They crawled out from under a rock.
‘The Abraham Lincoln Assassination – Another Manufactured Event’ by Miles W. Mathis
https://www.academia.edu/14445079/The_Abraham_Lincoln_Assassination_Another_Manufactured_Event_by_Miles_W_Mathis
Nod and tip of the hat to 22. Win. Mag.
i miss winnie–
btw,is francis marion still on the platform?i haven’t seen a post by him in months–
I see Winnie pretty often, he’s doing great.
Did your mom tell you just how clever you are, ’cause it’s true.
You can’t tell ’em nothin. I wonder about the over-use of “pride” in this culture when it is really a sin. It seems like we lost a word somewhere and inserted pride for it.
lol. My wife and I were laughing about people like you just last night.
actually farmer,
i was wondering if that attitude is maybe what got him shot–
What got him shot was literally making deals with the devil. The devils agents (in this case bankers) don’t like to leave loose ends, no matter what they promise.
What do you know?- you’re just a hardscrabble farmer-BKT from PDS.
Some scholars (not disciples of Abe) say that there were ~1,000,000 excess civilian deaths during the reign of terror that encompassed the war of northern aggression and the aftermath, called reconstruction. Lincoln was the greatest tyrant (so far) to rule in America, despite the efforts of alleged historians to memory hole his abuses, truth seekers know what he really did !!!
He suspended Habius Corpus
rankin,
he shipped an irksome congressman to canada–
as much as we would have loved to see trump do it to mccain,it was still beyond the pale–
We the United States of America, Americans have the will tbe know how and the capacity to meet all of our needs on shore.
We do not need the rest of the world.
Just bring everything home and take care of ourselves Fuck the rest of the world
Dream on Hal.
The USA and all of humanity is comprised of humans and humans come hardwired from the factory to self destruct.
It was fun while it lasted.
Not hard wired. Not all of them. It is very programmable, though.
This might also be worth considering the definition of human going back to Genesis from the Septuagint or equivalent.
Isn’t that what started the war to end all wars?
Scam artist are always saying ridiculous things like “The End of History”. It should be easy to recognize them as con-artists, but all of the programming inhibits that innate ability.
Good luck with diesel fuel. Rare earths may be an issue. Antimony. There are a lot of raw materials that will be a major issue.
It’s okay, Llpoh.
We have windmills and solar panels!!!
And soy milk.
Half the country hates the other half. Food shortages. 400 million guns. Should be fun.
It will make the Russian/Ukie excursion look like a snowball fight between toddlers should it ever happen.
“…400 million guns…”
Not counting Texas. Why, I swept out my garage the other day and THIS happened:
RRD, I was too lazy to sweep my garage–got many guns buried under eight–ten tons of ammo.
Hopefully stacked on a concrete slab floor and not 3/4 inch plywood over joists!!!
This is wrong. You are spouting TLPTB talking points. I fell for it too. It is more accurate to sat there are many faction in the USA that hate each other and some that just dislike others. If there were truly only 2 factions in the USA, civil war would have already broken out. But there are not 2 factions. That is a false Hegellian Dialectic that we have only heard rumors about the final synthesis.
I wonder if intergenerational planning would sound so alien if we hadn’t all been so carefully conditioned against it.
False Flag to unite the country in 3…2…1
And the dumb democrats think they will be rewarded for implementing this with dachas and big fancy important government jobs. The Bolsheviks of 1917 thought the same thing. Stalin executed them because he said you couldn’t trust people that turned on their own.
The closer you got to Stalin or Mao, the greater chance you would be executed. They feared anyone good at their job or popular with the general population as a replacement for themself, as they knew they were hated.
Fabian Socialists must die. Every last one of them.
It’s been said “The only good communist is a dead communist.”
Unless they get this settled, this will speed up the starvation.
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/railroad-strike-could-be-back-on-table-as-third-largest-union-rejects-deal-brokered-by-biden-administration-01665448397