🚨🚨🚨 FOOD PRICES EXPLODING — THE NEXT CRISIS NOBODY'S READY FOR:
– 🇧🇩 Bangladesh — 4 of 5 fertilizer factories SHUT DOWN. Planting season is now. No fertilizer. No crop. Full food crisis incoming.
– 🇶🇦 Qatar — World's largest single-site urea plant offline. Iranian attacks on LNG facilities killed its gas feedstock. Gone.
– 🇪🇬 Egypt — Urea up 25%+ overnight to $625/tonne. Egypt IS the global urea benchmark. When Cairo cracks, the world follows.
– 🇵🇰 Pakistan — Ranked most vulnerable by Reuters. Rolling back fertilizer production NOW. 220M people. Collapsing currency. Oil shock on top.
– 🇮🇳 India — Domestic urea plants run on Persian Gulf LNG. That supply: cut off. Forced to slash output mid-planting season.
– 🇦🇪 UAE — 70%+ of ALL food comes through Hormuz. Government to citizens: DO NOT stockpile. (When governments say that, you stockpile.)
– 🇵🇭 Philippines — Rice and cooking oil pressures accelerating. Central bank warning: inflation will "trend higher for months."
– 🇹🇷 Turkey — Most exposed per Reuters: high energy import bill, fragile currency, inflation already unanchored. This tips it.
– 🇬🇧 UK/Europe — Wheat at 2-year highs. Bread, pasta, potatoes "will carry higher price tags."
– 🇺🇸 USA — Fertilizer up $70/ton in a week. Farm bureau urging emergency action. Grocery bill about to get more expensive.
– 🌍 Africa — No oil buffer. No fertilizer reserves. UN: "will hit the most vulnerable hardest." Famine risk window is open.
Oil was Phase 1. Food is Phase 2. And Phase 2 doesn't care if a ceasefire is signed tomorrow — the fertilizer that wasn't shipped this week means the harvest that won't exist in 6 months.
Let me explain the four major differences between leftwing political violence and rightwing political violence:
1. Rightwing violence comes from the fringes of the conservative movement. Leftwing violence comes from the mainstream of the progressive movement.
2. Conservatives rarely encourage or glorify rightwing violence. Progressives routinely encourage and glorify leftwing violence.
3. Leftwing violence is such a common event that we hardly take notice of it unless it involves assassinating a major political figure--think of how routine Antifa/BLM style destruction of our cities has become. Rightwing violence is notable in its rarity.
4. Leftwing violence is often falsely attributed in the mass media to conservative beliefs. The opposite never happens.
.@FLOTUS @MELANIATRUMP announced the expansion of the @WhiteHouse honey program with the addition of a newly installed and fully functioning beehive on the South Lawn.
Hand-crafted by a local artisan in the image of the White House, the beautiful, new hive will add two new bee colonies to the existing two colonies that already produce the signature White House honey. 🍯 🐝