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The 21st Century Will Belong to China, Demographics is Destiny This article is part of our documentary series Rationed State.  Rationed State Part 2 - Rationing is available here.  By The Mighty Humanzee [shared_counts]Watch the video, it is central to this discussion. “The World IsFlat” by Tom Friedman extolled the virtues of a global economy, and it became the de facto talking points for liberal intelligentsia to declare “Demographics is destiny, China will own the 21st Century”.  This best destiny described by Tom Friedman and Paul Krugman of the New York Times has become so ingrained in our business strategies we became convinced that this prognostication was indeed an accurate forecast as we sent manufacturing off shore. https://youtu.be/XopSDJq6w8EADV China offers a well balanced look at China.  Watch this video, it…

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…