Food Riots of 1795 Due to Climate Change | Armstrong Economics

The British had a long tradition of striking tokens for political purposes. There was Climate Change back then as well and it resulted in massive riots over shortages of food. The British also even issued a protest Bank of England note that stated the mere possession of a counterfeit was punishable by death. The protest was people who unknowingly accepted a bank note that was counterfeit were being routinely hanged, but the law also meant that all their assets were then forfeited to the Crown and any family was thrown out on the street. Therefore, there has been a wealth of private tokens issued by the British to record various political issues over the centuries. On February 1st, 1796, the weather had turned bitterly cold and crops had been failing. There were food riots emerging over the price of bread which culminated in in an assault upon King George III and Queen. In fact, Queen Charlotte was struck by a stone as she and King George return from a trip to the theatre. It was during the extremely cold winter of 1794-1795 where even the Thames River froze over and temperatures reached -6 (21c). A deep freeze began on December 20th, 1794, and continued until February 7th, 1795. Even when the thaw came, this resulted in major flooding of the rivers which devastated the surrounding farmlands. The weather resulted in a great famine. According to the Geast chronicler, the government had to act providing the poor a public subscription that provided bread and coal to be sold at a subsidized price. In some exceptional cases, it was provided free only when it was obvious the people could not pay. The number of deaths between 1794 and 1795 more than doubled because of the weather and crop failures. The death records of this period show that as food became scarce, disease spreads. About one-third of the deaths are attributed to disease rather than just hunger. Clearly, when there is malnutrition, diseases such as Small Pox spread rapidly. Nevertheless, as spring and summer arrived during 1795, it never really warmed up very much. There were recorded frosts well into June of 1795. Countless animals also died from the bitter cold as the grounds froze and nothing grew. The wheat harvest of 1794 had been very poor, for the summer showed extreme volatility in temperature. As we see today, the summer of 1794 was very hot and dry resulting in crop failures during that season due to the lack of rain. Today, they would call this proof of Global Warming when in fact historical records reveal such extreme swings between heat and cold are not modern events. The prices of all agricultural and livestock products rose dramatically. Then, the extreme cold and floods of the following winter affected crop production and prevented farmers from undertaking fieldwork. The bad weather during the spring of 1795 was also detrimental to agricultural production. A sack of flour costing £2.4s. in 1794 cost £4.3s. in 1795. Food prices soared because of the weather. Our models are warning that we DO NOT face Global Warming, but these same dramatic swings in temperature with colder winters and dryer summers. TIME Magazine on March 4th, 2019, ran a piece on the Australian drought and attributed it, of course, to human-caused climate change. The exact same patterns of the 1790s demonstrate that this is a natural cycle, not unknown to history, and it must be understood what is really happening or millions of people will die waiting to people to end airfare and stop driving their cars and politicians to find someone else to tax. Great Britain had been at war with Revolutionary France since 1793, therefore much of the wheat that was produced was bought by the government to supply the army and navy. Moreover, the war at that time prevented the importation of grain into Britain by ship for they would be attacked in the war. This combination of war and weather brought the country to the brink of famine and food riots. By the summer of 1795, the price of bread had doubled at around 1s for a 4lb loaf. The weekly wage of a skilled worker was around 10s per week. The lower skilled laborers were paid as little as 5s per week. We can see that bread at 1s could be 20% of the weekly wage. As prices soared, millers would hoard grain in anticipation of continually rising prices. Why sell now when you could get more next week? We see the same thing take place during storms. Prices soar and even things like air tickets and gasoline rise in front of a hurricane. This is human nature. It always takes place despite laws against price gouging in a crisis. During 1795 and 1796, the shortages, high prices, and profiteering practices all combined to produce food riots throughout the country. There was a riot involving about 200 people that erupted in Tewkesbury, England, on Tuesday, June 24th, 1795. Flour was waiting at Tewkesbury Quay to be transported by water to Birmingham where prices were even higher. On the following day, Henry Fowke, the Town Clerk of Tewkesbury, wrote to the Home Secretary, Lord Portland, reporting the event. My Lord I do myself the Honour of addressing Your Grace on the subject of extreme Rioting at this place yesterday. Several Quantities of Wheaten Flour were forcibly taken out of the Barges at the Quay & carried off by divers Persons, chiefly Females – The civil force was convened with all possible Dispatch, & after much difficulty & confusion, the Riot was suppressed, & the ringleaders committed to the county rather than the Borough Goal, as more secure – The appearance of the Town this morning, I have the pleasure to say, is pacific. I have thought it my Duty to acquaint Government, through Your Grace, of this transaction. With the greatest respect, I am My Lord, Your Grace’s most obedient servant Henry Fowke Town Clerk of the Borough of Tewkesbury Tewkesbury 25th June 1795 (Home Office: Domestic Correspondence, George III (Letters & Papers), National Archives HO 42/35 (online).) Many people were arrested and the government feared there would be yet another riot in an attempt to free them from prison many of whom were women. As a response, the government transported the prisoners to Gloucester. Many of those detained women and the city’s gaol register records the details of the charges and names four of the prisoners. They were charged effectively as terrorists. They were charged with inflicting the terror of his Majesty’s subjects and in breach of the peace. They would remain in prison until trial in late July. Many were able to carry off sacks of flour which had been the property of a James Lamb who was presumably the buyer in Birmingham rather than the seller in Tewkesbury. As is said, starve a man and the most honest soul will become a thief.
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A reoccurring theme in historical perspective.

Consumers Beware: PayPal has weaponized financial system with its ties to SPLC | Fox News

It doesn’t take a legal scholar to be concerned about the message imparted by PayPal’s CEO, Dan Schulman, in a recent Wall Street Journal interview by Peter Rudegeair. In the article titled “PayPal CEO Grapples with Fringe Groups,” Dan Schulman explains who gets booted—and why.
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Pay Pal joins the social justice mob

Nellie Ohr Worked for the Russians Via Verisign

As Tucker Carlson and others have correctly said, “whatever the Democrats are accusing Trump or his associates of doing, they are doing themselves”. Guilt projection.
So many simple minded demagogues fall for it.

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bruce and nellie ohrBruce Ohr testified that wife Nellie went to work as a Russian analyst for Verisign after leaving Fusion GPS (Sep. 2016) (see evidence below)

Hillary’s $1 billion Skolkovo, Russia project with Vladimir Putin entered a partnership with Bessemer Ventures (Apr. 16, 2012), announced by Bessemer’s David J. Cowan (see YouTube and press release evidence below)

Bessemer and Cowan co-founded Verisign (Apr. 1995), just months after the Podesta/Chandler/Carnegie FBI encryption conference (Jul. 07, 1993)  (see SEC S-1 filing below)

Nellie Ohr’s relationship to Verisign proves conspiracy among Slokovo, Hillary, Bessemer, Cowan, Mueller witch hunt, and the theft of the world’s PKI digital encryption key infrastructure

Nellie Ohr Has Ties to the Clinton Foundation

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ohr testimony 1  Bruce Ohr. (Aug. 28, 2018). TRANSCRIPT of Interview before an Executive Session jointly between the House Judiciary and Oversight Committees, p. 184. U.S. Congress.

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The Week That Perished

The Week That Perished
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The Week’s Most Divided, Misguided, and Lopsided Headlines

BIDEN’S PAST BITES HIM IN THE ASS
Joe Biden is an unnecessary politician from an unnecessary place named Delaware—a grim, postage-stamp-sized patch of land which became the nation’s first state and then gave up. Through extensive and often gory plastic surgery, as well as a hardline regimen of teeth-whitening that borders on the carcinogenic, he often manages to convince people he is less than 900 years old.

Polls show that, as a white man among a ragtag gaggle of one-eyed communist Muslim lesbian competitors, Biden has the best shot at winning 2020’s Democratic nomination for president.

But there’s one problem besides his personality: He wasn’t always as fond of Negroes as he now pretends to be. Yes, we realize he was Barack Obama’s deferential Chattanooga Shoe Shine Boy and that he once marveled that, for a black man, Obama was amazingly “clean” and “articulate,” but no amount of groveling these days can atone for once, a long, long time ago, saying things that imply that black folks are anything less than gods among humans.

Comments have recently emerged from a 1975 interview Biden gave to some local Delaware publication that nobody has ever heard about—not even in Delaware. In a political climate where one may be forgiven for raping children but never for saying bad things about The Blacks, these comments threaten to cast a Grim Reaper-sized shadow over Biden’s looming candidacy:

I do not buy the concept, popular in the ’60s, which said, “We have suppressed the black man for 300 years and the white man is now far ahead in the race for everything our society offers. In order to even the score, we must now give the black man a head start, or even hold the white man back, to even the race.” I don’t buy that…. I don’t feel responsible for the sins of my father and grandfather. I feel responsible for what the situation is today, for the sins of my own generation. And I’ll be damned if I feel responsible to pay for what happened 300 years ago….

We’ve lost our bearings since the 1954 Brown vs. School Board desegregation case. To “desegregate” is different than to “integrate.”… I am philosophically opposed to quota systems. They insure mediocrity….

It is one thing to say that you cannot keep a black man from using this bathroom, and something quite different to say that one out of every five people who use this bathroom must be black.

I oppose busing. It’s an asinine concept, the utility of which has never been proven to me.

Biden’s handlers are scurrying to reassure us that when he was young—which would have been sometime around the Civil War—Biden fought to desegregate a movie theater and thus force whites to miss all the dialogue because blacks like to scream at the movie screen. They also tell us that he was once the only white employee at a black swimming pool, which surprised us because we were unaware that black people are able to swim.

However, we are glad that these 1975 comments have been made widely available to the public. We had no idea that Joe Biden was so cool, and we plan to vote for him in 2020.

WALKING WHITE MEN ON LEASHES
It comes as no surprise to anyone with two brain cells to rub together like a cricket rubs its legs that the main reason Donald Trump and all his supporters are inhuman is because they see others as inhuman. You don’t even have to be “woke” to realize that. Basically, you simply don’t have to be in a coma to realize that it’s wrong to dehumanize others, which is why Trump and his supporters all need to be dehumanized—constantly.

“Indecline” is a group of righteous freaks who are so firmly on the right side of history that they are in danger of falling off the planet. They gained some notoriety for installing naked statues of Donald Trump all across the country as if they weren’t secretly jealous that he gets more tail in one week than all of them do in a lifetime combined.

“If you’re seeking empathy and earnest debate, don’t treat people like dogs.”

Their most recent project, which was unveiled to a gasping public of junkies and tourists last Sunday, was called “Hate Breed,” and it involved placing dog collars on 20 white men dressed in white T-shirts and MAGA hats, then walking them with leashes on all fours to visit Donald Trump’s star on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame. Each self-loathing white beta who volunteered to be part of this conceptual abortion also wore a dog tag bearing the name of someone the group considers to be racist—Ann Coulter, Steve Bannon, David Duke, and Richard Spencer all received personal dog tags.

A press release from Indecline attempts to make sense of this live-action chemical spill:

The project, entitled “Hate Breed”, speaks to race relations in America, specifically the patience exhibited by those most affected by racism and bigotry and their willingness, despite having the greatest right to anger, to walk their attackers down a path to empathy….

Even though those afflicted by hate have the greatest right to anger, often it is only through their kindness or sacrifice that we are able to walk down ignorance until it’s worn out enough to debate in earnest.

Protip: If you’re seeking empathy and earnest debate, don’t treat people like dogs.

NAZI PARTIES AROUND THE WORLD
All over the world, it seems like people wanna party like it’s 1939.

A furor of righteous outrage has spread like wildfire throughout the Southern California town of Newport Beach, inflaming the loins of decent locals who can’t wrap their innocent brains around why a group of kids suspected to be either current students or recent graduates of a local high school would dare to arrange red plastic cups to form a swastika at a recent weekend party.

Thankfully, officials at the Newport-Mesa Unified School District polished their good-guy badges and sent a letter to reassure local parents that they were not in any way, shape, or form, cool with forming swastikas out of red plastic drinking cups:

We were recently made aware of social media postings involving some students who created inappropriate anti-semitic [sic] symbols, and possible underage drinking. While these actions did not occur on any school campus or school function, we condemn all acts of anti-semitism [sic] and hate in all their forms.

Notice how they’re far less concerned with the “possible underage drinking” than they are with the swastika? Underage drinking kills over 4,300 American youths yearly. When was the last time a swastika killed anyone?

…yeah, OK, but that was a long time ago and as the saying goes, swastikas don’t kill people, but people wearing swastikas sometimes killed people.

In Washington, DC, students at the super-posh Sidwell Friends School—a Quaker joint where the yearly tuition is $42,000 and where Barack Obama sent both of his daughters—recently caused an anti-Hebraic kerfuffle when they disrupted a public presentation by flashing usernames that included swastikas onto a large projection screen, causing heartache and heartburn throughout the school and several local communities.

Once more, the school’s headmaster sent out a letter to the parents, reassuring them yet again that he was not “down” with Hitler:

I am disappointed, dismayed, and deeply sorry that such an incident could take place at our School. Racism and anti-Semitism will not be tolerated in this community.

What really sucks is that this is 2019 and people still need to say these things. What sucks even worse is that they seem to feel like they need to say these things every five minutes.

In Belgium, as reported by a journalist named Cnaan Liphshiz, the president of the Belgian League Against Anti-Semitism Joel Rubinfeld is kvetching about an anti-Semitic parade float that his fellow tribesperson Mr. Liphzhiz described thusly:

The display features two giant puppets with streimels, hats favored by some Orthodox Jews, in pink suits. They both have sidelocks. One of the puppets is grinning while smoking a cigar and extending a hand, presumably to collect money. That puppet has a white rat on his right shoulder. Both puppets are standing on gold coins and have money bags at their feet.

All along the parade route, the puppets danced to a song about “bulging coffers” that had “Jews getting extra fat.”

“Prices are rising, so who do they blame?” Rubinfeld asked and then answered before giving anyone else a chance: “The fat, greedy Jew.”

Further outrage was engendered when Belgian carnival enthusiasts on Faebook described Jews as “dick cutters” and “whiners with sausages for ears and woolly curls on their heads.”

OK, now we’re offended.

PUTTING SAUDI ARABIA FIRST
As the desert kingdom of Saudi Arabia stretches, yawns, and wipes the sand from its eyes to face the modern world, a new wave of nationalism threatens to supplant the old wave of theocratic religious psychosis.

Although the Saudis are making sensible moves such as curtailing the power of the nation’s religious police, they are also doing absolutely insane things such as allowing women to drive.

Whereas “infidel” used to be the social-shaming epithet of choice, it is being replaced by “traitor.” And ordinary, poor-as-dirt Saudi citizens are being urged to go on witch hunts against anyone perceived as less than 108.9% loyal to their homeland:

Accusations of betrayal are lobbed online, printed on threatening notes and trumpeted in red letters on newspaper front pages. Anyone perceived as showing the kingdom in a bad light can be targeted, even comedians poking fun at its idiosyncrasies.

Most people, sadly, can’t seem to breathe without feeling entitled to abuse others, whether in God’s name or that of the almighty state. Under such circumstances, being an impenitent sociopath is clearly the only moral choice.

BILLIONAIRE DIAMOND TRADER DIES DURING PENIS ENLARGEMENT
If it isn’t emasculating enough to require penis-enlargement surgery, how much more horrific is it to die during the surgery, only to be carted off to heaven by guardian angels who are laughing at you?

Thus was the fate of bloodthirsty diamond merchant Ehud Arye Laniado, who suffered a fatal heart attack after having his penis injected with an unidentified substance during a doomed quest to have his diminutive schvanz match his bank account in size.

It was a mere four years ago that Laniado sold the world’s most expensive diamond to a Chinese businessman whose last name, ominously, was “Hung.”


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Illegal Immigrants Are Now Voters

This is the real reason for open borders and no voter ID laws. Hat tip to Zero Hedge.

Democrats Vote To Give Illegal Immigrants The Right To Vote

Update: House Democrats voted Friday to defend localities that allow illegal immigrants to vote in their elections, turning back a GOP attempt to discourage the practice. As The Washington Times reports, the vote marks a stunning reversal from just six months ago, when the chamber – then under GOP control – voted to decry illegal immigrant voting.

“We are prepared to open up the political process and let all of the people come in,” Rep. John Lewis, a Georgia Democrat and hero of the civil rights movement, told colleagues as he led opposition to the GOP measure.

Texas Republican. Rep. Dan Crenshaw raged:

“It sounds like I’m making it up. What kind of government would cancel the vote of its own citizens, and replace it with noncitizens?”

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As we detailed earlier, using carefully chosen words in what appears an attempt to hide the truth, House Speaker Rep. Nancy Pelosi admitted this week  at a news conference on voting rights with Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas) in Austin, Texas on Tuesday, that Democrats want illegal immigrants to be able to come into the nation freely, across their open borders, in order to rig elections for the Democrats.

As CNSnews.com reports, Speaker Pelosi spoke on the importance of passing H.R. 1, the “For the People Act of 2019,” “to lay the foundation to pass the Voting Rights Act, strengthened after the actions of the Supreme Court, which significantly weakened it,” she said.

Specifically, Pelosi said immigrants “make America more American,” and we should not be “suppressing the vote of our newcomers to America.”

“So, when we talk about newcomers, we have to recognize the constant reinvigoration of America that they are, that we all have been – our families,” Speaker Nancy Pelosi said.

“And that, unless you’re blessed to be Native American – which is a blessing in itself that we respect – but that constant reinvigoration of hope, determination, optimism, courage, to make the future better for the next generation, those are American traits. And these newcomers make America more American. And we want them, when they come here, to be fully part of our system. And that means not suppressing the vote of our newcomers to America.”

She then quoted former President Reagan out of context to support her argument:

“In the campaign, the candidate that I, the president that I quoted the most was Ronald Reagan. Does that surprise you? Maybe. But Ronald Reagan said this: ‘This is the last speech I will make as President of the United States. And I have a message I want to communicate to the country I love.’ He went on to talk about the Statue of Liberty and what it means to the world – that beacon of hope, what it means to people who have come here and seen that statue welcoming them – he said, our ancestors, our grandparents, our parents.”

As President Trump’s son Donald Jr noted: “And there it is folks. What we all knew but no one would say. It’s only about votes for Democrats. “

Additionally, we note that friend-of-AOC, Rep. Ayanna Pressley may have outdone Pelosi with her latest stunt, an attempt to lower the federal voting age to 16.

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