Comment: How many Palestinians will be forced from their homes and lands to make room for those "returning to Zion"?

Comment: Biden 'did that' effect in California: $7.599 regular - $7.999 unleaded - $8.499 premium, as of last week.

Comment: RT Germany, the broadcaster that is currently blocked by many of the US social media giants, reports:

Cooking oil and wheat flour: Empty shelves in German supermarkets

In some places it was already evident over the weekend: Sunflower oil and wheat flour are hard to come by. The oil is already completely sold out at the discounter Lidl, and Aldi Süd is rationing cooking oil to two liters per household. Cheap flour is becoming scarce at Edeka. Toilet paper is also increasingly being hoarded.

The effects of the war in Ukraine and the sanctions can already be observed in German supermarkets and discounters. Sunflower and rapeseed oil are becoming scarce at Aldi, Rewe, Edeka and other grocers, like that Focus reported.

Note that toilet paper hoarding became notorious during the lockdowns, so this is not merely because of the US proxy-war against Russia in Ukraine, this is a response to what people see as an increasingly unstable situation, and they're responding in the only way they know how.

In Berlin, the corresponding shelves at Edeka or Lidl were already emptied on Saturday. Aldi has already reacted and limited the amount of cooking oil sold per household.

A saleswoman said to a customer in the Aldi market in Fürstenfeldbruck, Bavaria:

"We don't get any more deliveries. (...) It's now rationed so that only two liters of oil can be sold per household."

"Those who now hoard the cheap #Mehl [flour] and #Sonnenblumenöl [sunflower oil] are usually not those who are particularly affected when #Nahrungsmittelpreisen [food price] rises, because these people cannot afford to buy things in advance. #Armut"

There are several reasons for this: In addition to a poor harvest last year and supply chains destroyed by corona measures such as lockdowns, rising production costs for cooking oil are also responsible for the lower production volume.

There we have it; what's happening is a culmination of events that have been building over at least a decade (crop failures in particular), but the food supply issues accelerated with the lockdowns and are being compounded by the pathological behaviour of the Western establishment.

Now comes the war in Ukraine. The country is the largest producer of sunflower oil in the world. Russia follows in second place. In addition, Russia is the world's largest exporter of wheat, with Ukraine in third place. German consumers can now also observe this in retail: Cheap wheat flour is hard to come by at the beginning of the week.

A similar shortage could follow for corn: Ukraine is the world's fourth largest exporter of the yellow vegetable. No new deliveries are currently coming from the Ukrainian ports - it is completely unclear when this will be the case again.

And with springtime planting just around the corner, and with fertilizer exports reduced by half, with Belarus and Russia being the world's largest exporters, it's highly likely that planting will be delayed and reduced.

In addition, with grain prices nearing all time highs, it's possible that farmers will be forced to sell off cattle that they can't afford to feed; and worse, because a similar scenario is still unfolding in the UK where tens of thousands of perfectly healthy pigs had to be 'culled' (killed and then dumped in land fills) because there weren't the staff to process them, the space to keep them, and supermarkets refused to sell them because they were 'too big'.

According to information from the company Ukr-AgroConsult, 500,000 tons of wheat and 1.7 million tons of corn are currently stored in the country. Sunflower oil, where Ukraine is the world's largest producer and exporter, is also threatened by further massive shortages and price increases.

Momme Matthiesen, Managing Director of the Association of the Oilseed Processing Industry (OVID), takes a similar view. In principle, security of supply in Germany is not in danger.

But there is also a rush for another product that is particularly popular in Germany: the current run on toilet paper is reminiscent of the first lockdown in the Corona crisis. On Monday, the shelves in some cities emptied clearly.

Evidence of the bare shelves and rationing have been appearing online:


See also:

• #BareShelvesBiden trends again as US supply chain crisis continues
• UK food supply chain crisis worsens, industries appeal to government to intervene
• China to issue 20b yuan to farmers due to commodity price spike, financial institutions sacrifice earnings to shore up economy
• Europe will soon run out of sunflower oil after exports from Ukraine end

And check out SOTT radio's: NewsReal: Is The Government Hyping Shortages? And is 'Vaccination Shedding' Really a Thing?

Comment: Since it's likely that China's establishment are aware that the coronavirus is relatively harmless, and it's almost certain they know that it's the result of bioweapon experiments, one wonders just why it continues with demonstrably excessive and harmful measures, including lockdowns.

It's notable that one of Russia's goals in Ukraine was to expose and neutralise the US-funded bioweapons labs on its borders, and that prior to this it had tabled the creation of laboratories set up at check points near Russia's borders in order to tackle biological threats.

Could it be that these actions reflect an expectation that both manmade as well as naturally arising biological threats are one of the more significant threats for the future? Could its location near Hong Kong, that has been the focal point for the West's hybrid warfare in the region, also be a factor?

• New Light on the Black Death: The Viral and Cosmic Connection
• Pentagon Biological Weapons Program Never Ended: US Bio-labs Around The World
• China criticises 'anti-science' US intel Covid-19 origins report, suggests investigation into US bioweapons lab Fort Detrick
• Russia building network of labs working with dangerous viruses to understand pathogens, develop new vaccines & enable testing checkpoints along whole border

Also check out SOTT radio's: The Truth Perspective: Interview with Dilyana Gaytandzhieva: Pentagon Biological Warfare And Arms Trafficking to Terrorists

Comment: More from Haaretz:

A number of Israeli government websites went down on Monday in an apparent cyberattack. The Israeli cyber authority confirmed the attack was a DDos (Digital-denial of service) attack that had blocked access to government websites, and that all websites were back online.

The websites of the interior, health, justice and welfare ministries had been taken offline, as was that of the Prime Minister's Office.

Earlier on Monday, a senior defense official confirmed to Haaretz that a massive cyberattack was carried out Monday evening against Israeli government websites, and cybersecurity industry sources said that the operation was a wide-scale distributed denial of service (DDos) attack.

A defense establishment source claims that this was the largest-ever cyberattack carried out against Israel. They believe that a state actor or large organization carried out the attack, but cannot yet determine who is behind it.

The defense establishment and the National Cyber Directorate have declared a state of emergency in order to study the extent of the damage, while checking strategic Israeli websites and government infrastructure, such as Israel's electric and water companies, to see whether they were also attacked.

The defense establishment claims that the attack hit websites using the .GOV.IL domain, which is used for all government websites save for defense-related ones. Another website that uses this domain is the government database. Despite this, some of the websites can still be accessed via smartphone.

Following the attack, Communications Minister Yoaz Hendel convened a meeting with officials at the Communications Ministry. Telecommunications companies have been working to get the downed websites back online; service is being restored gradually.

The National Cyber Directorate said: "In the past few hours, a denial of service attack against a communications provider was identified. As a result, access to a number of websites, among them government websites, was blocked for a short time. As of now, all of the websites are operational."

Comment: Their power is based on lies, fear and coercion and threatening the weaker and smaller. It is an empire of lies indeed.

See also:

• 'Ukraine on Fire': How US, Not Russia, Destroyed Ukraine - Oliver Stone Documentary
• NewsReal: Russian Operations in Ukraine Proceeding as Planned, But Risk of War Contagion Grows
• MindMatters: Princely Politics: Why Machiavelli Still Matters Today
• The Truth Perspective: Interview with Dilyana Gaytandzhieva: Pentagon Biological Warfare And Arms Trafficking to Terrorists
• Russia's Existential Reasons For Intervening in Ukraine
• Vice President Harris says US backs Kiev 'in defense of NATO alliance'
• NATO Plotted 'Skripal Case' to Justify Their Defense Spendings - Moscow
• North Macedonia becomes official NATO pawn
• Ukraine, NATO confirm approved military roadmap
• Yugoslavia, interrupted: A European success story ruined by NATO invasion

Comment: See also:

• The Russian Ministry of Defenсe: Original documents show Kiev planned offensive operation against Donbass in March of this year
• Nuland admits US has biological research labs in Ukraine, Washington working with Kiev to prevent "falling into Russian hands"
• Russia can halt offensive right away if Kiev agrees to Moscow's terms
• 'We will never go back to Ukraine': DPR fighter jailed for his views by Kiev talks to RT
• Day 11 of Russian incursion into Ukraine: Encirclement of Kiev forces in Donetsk, operational pause in north