Category: OZ Fest

Why Do We Constantly See Listeria Outbreaks? For the second week in a row we see an announcement concerning our food supply.  In Rationed State Part 2 - Rationing, we noted that Canada and the US has had issues with food supply stemming from contamination.  But shortages result none the less, and panic is becoming common.  By The Mighty Humanzee [shared_counts] For the second time in two weeks we learn that listeria has been spotted in our food supply, this time in cheese.  As reported by the Sun the Old Europe Cheese Inc, based in Michigan, has issued a voluntary recall of 25 of its products.   Listeria is a bacterial disease that affects the elderly and those with compromised immune symptoms.  It’s important to note that healthy people are…

Those Who Tell Us We Need to Re-engineer Food Production Allow Disaster To Fester The summer of 2022 was filled with stories of fires at meat packing plants and large cattle die off.  Now we hear that there is a recall similar to the baby formula recall that plagued this spring.  Our series Rationed State looks at how the promise of “Sustainable” systems is undermined by another terrible reality. By The Mighty Humanzee [shared_counts] -Listeria monocytogenes consumption may lead to a serious infection that primarily affects the elderly, individuals with weakened immune systems, pregnant women and newborns- https://t.co/vFaDBSofJv— Orange🇺🇸 (@Orangezipple1) September 26, 2022 Today we are all specialists.  Our society, we are taught, functions because of a division of labor, and it is crucial that people choose professions, technical trades,…

Why Is The Federal Reserve Choking An Economy In Recession? Chance and Black Swan Events can make the best of experts look foolish.  But what does it mean when each an every step is the worst measure that can applied, guaranteed to bring the worst result?  This article is a part of the Rationed State documentary series.  Please view Rationed State - Victory Gardens here. By The Mighty Humanzee [shared_counts] Brandonomics has been at work erasing the success of the Trump presidency sector by sector.  While Trump’s monetary policy did not focus on debt, he relied on the American “ingenuity” engine and unleashed unparalleled productivity and prosperity with policies that allowed the US to become energy independent, that repatriated corporate dollars to our economy and that began a process of…

Baby Formula Shortages Should Be Unheard Of, Right? We have been conditioned that our society, superior product of science, technocratic management, and focus on the better good, is robust.  The idea that food shortages are an issue in America is something that in 2018 people would have scoffed at.  But now we are being conditioned for something else.  This article is part of the supporting materials for our documentary Rationed State. By The Mighty Humanzee [shared_counts] In spring of 2022, the US entered yet another crisis, this time baby formula was not available on shelves. The US had to airlift formula into the United States, bizarre version of the Berlin Airlift. The manufacturer voluntarily issued a recall, but this is not what created the scarcity.  Government, and the FDA in…

This Ends Sooner If We All Comply. Sound Eerily Familiar? During crisis and national emergencies, we are instructed that if we follow certain course of action, the crisis abates earlier.  In part one of our series Rationed State:  Victory Gardens we compare propaganda from earlier crisis to the COVID pandemic, and ask where does this lead us.  This article illustrates our points further. By The Mighty Humanzee [shared_counts] "It's Up To You", US Department of Agriculture, 1943.  Please watch before reading. War on Poverty, War on Crime, War on Terror, and War on an Invisible Enemy.  We have a lexicon that evokes feelings of patriotism, and this is by design.  People flock to victors, and war analogies are a means to jump start activity in a people, and saying these…