The fact that the U.S. cannot defend the Gulf Cooperation Council countries, Japan, and Taiwan is a Huge Attack Signal, right?
Akin to having one side of your castle wall collapse with the enemy’s army camped nearby?
Potentially very dangerous?
Trump: “What collapsed wall? We’ve got the greatest castle ever in the history of castles!”
Apparently, the U.S. military bases in the Gulf Cooperation Council countries didn’t have any bunkers. It’s not possible that the Americans didn’t know that the Iranians have big missiles and drones, right?
That’s right up there with the French Maginot Line at the opening salvos of WWI? It would have never occurred to the Germans to try to go around the Maginot Line….
Typo: WWII
Haha yes we are doing all the escavator works we can fit in for the next few season.. i was shocked driving into town seeing it that low! Will be bringing in the jerries next trip, might also book a trip to brissy to visit a friend and her newborn while its at basement prices 
But on a serious note, I want to be able to explain the reality drift to myself and family when it comes up this weekend over ANZAC day events.
That was really good, who is that guy?
I’ve been watching a bunch of people lately, as it is good to get a variety of viewpoints. It is also therapeutic, in the sense of not feeling alone with all this. We are many. Enjoyed this Canadian Prepper interview.
What I am noticing is a similar sense of gravity among everyone. It is palpable. I can see the weight they are carrying with the knowledge that is dawning upon them. It’s not business as usual. These are people like us who think about this stuff every day and now going through this transition to “it’s happening.” We are all carrying a great weight and responsibility. All of our hearts are heavy and the prospect of millions dying of starvation is a terrible thought.
I talked to a 19 yr old man today, a check-out guy at the grocery store. I know him by now, and he is very sweet. I engaged him in a conversation about what is happening and he totally got it. Unlike some older people I have talked to. He said he feels very uncertain about his future and didn’t know what he should do. I told him to learn physical skills that will always be useful. It was a great interaction.
Some others I have talked to are not responding well. I see them like dying baby birds who can hardly stand a drop of water, but I have to give them the water anyway. I see the world around me as being comprised of 2 distinct groups: those who know and those who don’t. Sort of like vaxed and unvaxed. Once again, we see people separating and their inner states revealed.
In my NY neck of the woods gas is at $4.05.
Optics.
Keeping the populace placid while the storyline evolves.
I noticed as I endured exposure to a main channel news report tonight that the storyline was ‘bad Iranians board ship’. This followed by a US military skills ‘propoganda’ clip of capabilities over the Gulf. 
The propoganda is catching up to the reality slooowly. So they are tweaking reality where they can til the two shall meet.
Calm before the Shi#storm.
The future is deep underground.
The future is deep underground. Predictive programming? /sarc
BTW, have never watched any of this one, or any of the other crap that gets produced.
The irony is that they only care about optics for the people they already believe are tuned out and disinterested..
Then there are new generation farmers that I follow that are talking about fertiliser orders are not being filled anymore and the ports have shut down any further shipments already! They aint gobbling up the propoganda, thats for sure.
Tara Farms Youtube 5.21 timestamp:
And yet diesel still drops in price. Square that circle Australians..
Ugh, it’s exhausting living in two realities.
The only shitstorm I’m interested in these days:
Morlocks versus Eloi? Hard pass for me. I’m living where the sun can shine on my face.
Here is one potential answer to my perplexed mind as to why fuel went down by so much in Australia.
If true.. maybe we’re going to see something similar to silver where fuel is quite affordable but unobtainium in a few more weeks time? I know I’ve planned storage for 3months of normal usage, 6months plus if it gets real dicey.. and I won’t have been the only one keeping constantly topped up.
Out and about this arvo and local servo had no diesel again. This morning the price has dropped by a good margin and now they are all out ! Go figure…
Definitely living in clown world
I particularly loved the media framing the US actions as ‘stopping a sanctioned tanker’ and the Iranian’s as ‘piracy’.
Lofton Henderson and Smedley Butler would be spinning in their graves as they hummed ‘from the Halls of Montezuma To the shores of Tripoli…’
And apologising to the Barbary pirates.
Chris, if someone in the White House is stealing Trump’s strawberries, should I go long steel 1” ball bearing futures?
Might be a bogart, I mean bogus question but thought I’d check.
I’m beginning to think that all crisis are connected and engineered to deceive the public and serve the hidden ultra elite class. You know, those wealthy people who used to put their name on famous buildings, centers, parks in the 1800’s. Their descendants are still working the levers of power around the globe. Wars, banking, and things like closing the SOH is a good way to reduce “carbon” in all sorts of ways, human carbon too. The farther along the path we go, the more resolution we see of this antihuman agenda. AI is a coming factor as well. It’ll be our re-education camp once all other forms of information is either corrupted or removed. Thank God for books! At least we have those to fall back on even though AI will make powerful arguments against the validity and accuracy of them. Alex Jones was genius by picking infowars as his company name. Look what it got him in return. Things were a lot easier for them when the world ran on printed newspapers and TV.
Yes. Every. Single. Decision. Made. Hurts. Us. As Chris is fond of saying, you can’t keep flipping a coin and coming up tails 20 times in a row without it being a fixed coin. “Oh yeah? Show me where the coin is fixed, mr smart guy, looks legit to me and NPR says it’s an honest coin. Sheesh, yeah I thought so, another conspiracy theorist.”
I am weary of these ongoing connected and engineered crises, but they will go on until something seriously breaks, in which case I’m (mostly/hope so) ready. Kind of ready for things to wrap up – though I am sure I’ll say “no, no! I didn’t really want this” after a couple of years of real horror.
They halved the fuel excise - that’s 26c per litre right there. The other 45c is because oil markets are down and the refiners aren’t cutting us out.
Cutting the fuel excise this early is a bit dumb - we need demand destruction to fill this, and mercy should happen to cut off the top. Still, they have the other half of it if they want.
