Everything including oil, natural gas, wheat, and fertilizer is skyrocketing in price right now. Ten- and twenty-year records are being eclipsed, as energy prices are soaring on the back of oil flirting with $114 a barrel. Unfortunately, here comes more inflationary pain, and everything is being blamed on the Russia-Ukraine conflict.
Toward the end of last year, we warned that fertilizer costs were going to harvest costs in 2022 (field to fork, go deep), long before Ukraine came into the picture. Unfortunately, future wheat prices reached $10.59 a bushel today, the highest since March 2008. Additionally, corn prices have passed their highest rate since December 2012.
It may seem like those crops are not that important. However, keep in mind that corn, wheat and soybeans represent the baseline for not only grain production in the U.S, but they are also the primary feed products for proteins: chicken, pork and beef. We are going to feel this second wave surge at the grocery store. Hopefully everyone has prepped.
Additionally, oil prices have jumped to near eight-year highs. Brent crude, the global oil benchmark, rose as high as $113.94 a barrel, the highest since June 2014, and has been trading around $111 for most of the day. If you were paying $4/gal for gas, these oil rates add around another .50¢ today alone. Yes, you read that correctly, inbound tankers of gasoline will offload at your convenience store at a rate ten percent higher than yesterday.
Making matters worse, the Joe Biden energy policy -focused almost exclusively on green energy- is making any investment in domestic oil production tenuous at best. The major oil companies are wary of spending money for U.S. energy development in a climate where the U.S. government is specifically against that effort.
(WASHINGTON) – […] investors seem to be reluctant to invest in fossil fuel stocks. Major US oil stocks have lagged behind the broader market for most of the last two years, teaching executives a hard lesson: Use the recent windfalls to reward investors, not sink more wells.
“Oil and gas companies do not want to drill more,” said Pavel Molchanov, an analyst at Raymond James. “They are under pressure from the financial community to pay more dividends, to do more share buybacks instead of the proverbial ‘drill baby drill,’ which is the way they would have done things 10 years ago. Corporate strategy has fundamentally changed.”
To that end, while companies like ExxonMobil, Chevron, Marathon and Phillips 66 expect to spend more on exploration and other capital spending in 2022, none of those companies expect to hit 2019 spending levels. (read more)
This economic pain is being intentionally inflicted on a national and international level. This is a feature, not a flaw, in the ideological quest for a “Build Back Better” society, or in the words of the World Economic Forum, “The Great Reset.”
The use of the Russia-Ukraine conflict is the purposeful deployment of a distraction and justification for economic hardships that have little to do with Ukraine or Russia. We were on this path long before Ukraine entered the picture. Global government, including our own, are using the Ukraine crisis as an excuse for an energy based economic outcome they created.
The multinational corporations who drive WEF financial policy, are targeting the policy of government. From their corporate perspective, this is all a simple matter of increasing income. This is a very bad scenario right now.
Fascism was traditionally defined as an authoritarian government working hand-in-glove with corporations to achieve objectives. A centralized autocratic government, headed by a dictatorial leader, using severe economic and social regimentation and forcible suppression of opposition.
The World Economic Forum (WEF) was created to use the same fundamental associations of government and corporations. Only this time, it was the multinational corporations who organized to tell the government(s) what to do. The WEF was organized for multinational corporations to assemble and tell the various governments how to cooperate with them, in order to be rewarded by them. Corporatism was/is the outcome. The government is now doing what the multinationals tell them to do, and in return, the multinationals install the compliant politicians.
Fascism, the cooperation between government and corporations, is still the underlying premise; the World Economic Forum simply flipped the internal dynamic putting the corporations in charge of handing out the instructions.
What results is a slightly modified definition of fascism:
…A massive multinational corporate conglomerate, telling a centralized autocratic government leader what to do, and using severe economic and social regimentation as a control mechanism, combined with forcible suppression of opposition by both the corporations and government.
Doesn’t that define our current reality?
The instructions from the multinational corporations to government would be called the “Great Reset“, or as commonly transposed by the government officials receiving the instructions, “Build Back Better”.
I firmly believe everything that is happening is by design. Covid was created and released and now presto it’s gone just like that. It had major economic consequences on countries all over the world and many leaders followed the exact same disastrous policies despite the consequences. Now Russia Ukraine another problem that will have world wide economic consequences. We may soon have hyper inflation, asset bubbles, shortages of food and energy. The inevitable collapse will usher in the great reset as the new world order will build back better from the mess they created. Unless of course we unite and save ourselves.
Fear of Putin cured the fear of Covid.
Raised on Reagan: It’s the Putin variant.
They MUST keep the people distracted. Because if you aren’t, you will notice what they are doing.
I do know what they are doing, anyone with 10 brain cells or more can see what they have planned.
These are not intelligent people. They have been playing the same record over and over for 90 years. All that is missing is Patriots that are willing to destroy these bastards.
Should have done that at the STOU. The whole enclave was housed in one spot. A smaller MOAB would have been good. Just dreamin.
Notice for many conservatives the fear of Putin took over their fear of Biden. The Ukraine Supported by Soros and every despot leader including Biden in the World now has the support of many frightened so called conservatives
Agree Fangdog. I see it here and on other supposedly “conservative” boards.
Well stated, FD. Still trying to understand all of this, so much conflicting information! But your point/argument makes sense, to me. Please keep posting. Thanks.
I’m not afraid of Putin but am very concerned about the corner Neo Liberals/Neo Conservatives/Globalists are going to paint him into. The people who were deathly afraid of the disease are the ones calling for escalating the response. They seem to want to setup no fly zones without any ability to reason the consequences. We cannot or better not think we can fight a war with Russia. Anyone who thinks that would be a reasonable option has never been in an actual fight PERIOD. The risks of going full tilt nuclear are way to high. If we go anywhere near kinetic with the Bear it’s time for us all to “duck & cover.”
I happen to think that Putin has thought of all this happening to his Country, way before he went into Ukraine. If he has found any info about the Bio Labs and what they were trying to produce prior to blowing them up, that is something he can show the entire world. Now I am hearing that there might be BIO Labs in Tawain which the Chinese want to blow up. And if they crush the Ruble, there might be a worldwide economic crash because of that. There is much more going on than what we are seeing.
Here’s a great read of what I believe is going down. I think this answers a lot of questions.
https://tomluongo.me/2022/03/02/opening-salvos-tossed-putin-next-moves-ukraine/
Yes Sir…..(or Ma’am )….Unity of The Remnant is the Key..
Why should OPEC bend a knee for Biden?
The West has been demonizing carbon 24/7 for years.
OPEC needs to tell the West to go pound sand.
They have lots of sand and sand is WEF compliant.
A grand design of the WEF.
“Unless of coarse we unite and save ourselves.”
Unity triumphs over division, love overcomes fear.
They sew DIVISION, because a populace divided can not stand in Unity against THEM.
There are only TWO motivators for human behavior; LOVE and Fear.
When a mother steps in front of their child, to shield them from onrushing danger,…that is LOVE, overcoming FEAR.
There IS a LOT of “Design” in what the WEF’ers are doing, however they are attempting something never done before (establishing a One World Government) and making that attempt based on fatally flawed assumptions.
If left unchecked, they may succeed in tearing everything down,, while having no ability to build anything, let alone build back “Better”.
Yes, they will tear down everything intentionally while unable to rebuild the world will left in shambles.
Anarchy will spread over the world
Jrod:
For so long I read mainstream journalists who dismissed all conspiracy theories. One of these conventional thinkers was George Will.
The last time I heard the voice of George Will, he was on Sunday morning TV insisting that the January 6 demonstration was worse than 9/11.
After the “Russia stole the 2016 election” conspiracy theory was adopted by all Democrats and most Republican establishment types, I now fiercely believe that “there are no conspiracies” is the biggest conspiracy of all.
No conspiracies AND no coincidences.
h/t Bannon
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while we are at it.
On purpose to bring the US to its knees
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/ukraines-deadly-gamble
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1498491107902062592.html
Excellent thread.
Thanks for that.
I was fooled by the Bush Chainy crowd to support Iraq
I’m not getting fooled again
FJB
In doing more reading on WEF, with admittedly still more to go,…they make no attempt to actually PURSUADE the people to accept their dictates, because they think they don’t NEED to.
In a way, it is our own complacency, and the KEY elements of our belief in the credibility of Institutions, and the stealth nature of their true nature which enabled them to get as far as they have.
They now have the firm conviction that “We have gotten away with so much, for so long, that we can now get away with ANYTHING!”
They gaslighted us into Viet Nam war, then gaslighted us into Afganistan and Iraq wars.
They gaslighted us into drug testing by employers, and mandatory flu vaccines by employers.
In short, they “boiled the frog slowly” for so many years, that they now think they can turn the heat all the way up, without consequence.
They SHREDDED the two previous things which had enabled them to make so much progress, in their hubris.
One is CREDIBILITY. Their earlier gaslighting worked, because most believed Walter Chronkite when he said “And thats the way it was”, most believed we had a two-party system, that those who called themselves “Republican and Conservative” WERE, and were honestly representing us.
By actions and words, with reckless abandonment, they have gleefully shucked any pretences, throwing away credibility like an old coat.
With less eagerness, they have shedded their cloak of STEATH, the RINOS for instance act like they still have the Republican base fooled, as to their true nature.
Never the less, EVENTS beyond their control, initiated by THE PEOPLE, have forced them to emerge from stealth mode, so most can see their true nature.
Brexit, “Trump” and the Convoy are examples of such moves, initiated by THE PEOPLE, which have forced their hand, forced them to reveal their true natures, and INCREASED OUR “side” as more and more “red pill”.
Such efforts have also helped us to realise our #’s, and our power, thru unity to defeat them.
Now, it is not WE who are blind to their machinations, it is THEY who are blind to their vulnerabilities. Continueing to attack them in ways which exploit their vulnerabilities, while it WILL entail casualties, is essential, and learning by each battle, and adapting to overcome, we will ultimately prevail.
Brexit, PDJT, And the CanadianConvoy were all three successes.
BECAUSE they each caused the enemy to make a “forced error” and expose itself. They each forced the enemy to shred its credibility, and drop its stealth mode, in order to defend itself from an intrinsic and existential threat.
Doesn’t matter that, for example Brandon has undone virtually ALL of PDJT’s accomplishments.
In fact, the rapid undoing is actually a victory, as again at this point, EXPOSURE which triggers red-pilling, is a victory.
Like any war, its ultimately about “hearts and minds” and they aren’t actually ENGAGING on this battlefield, relying on a credibility they no longer have, and so depending on propoganda which no longer works.
Great summation.
Robert Malone
Propaganda, Corporatism & The Hidden Global Coup
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Good read.
Frog in the pot getting warmer !
When you have huge populations in cities and their transportation is primarily public transportation. …
No big deal to them..they shrug it off.
Now that price increases are hitting food and heating,etc. they are paying a little more attention.
Public transportation will be raising fees.
Yup..water getting warm…but not hot enough to grab their attention.
Public transportation is heavily subsidized and will only increase…..and we pay the subsidies. I’m sure the plan will be to keep costs low for inner city and continue to hammer the burbs and beyond. Double tax. 1. Energy we buy. 2. Subsidies we pay for in taxes. Plan is to drive by force folks to live in cities.
Only the people who are working or investing pay taxes. A huge swath of those living in the cities pay for almost nothing.
Government is a store front. Behind the door is corporations getting the best return on capital by establishing policies that benefit them as well as us.
EVERY American is yoked to corporations in one way or another. Shop at Walmart, Target, Home Depot, Lowes, Dollar, Tractor supply you paying Chinese to destroy our country. Note grocery chains are in on it as well. Check your fish, shrimp, olives, most are imports. Processed foods are safe for now, but that will be moved out as well. China owns most of the pork you eat as well. Your toilet seat ls are made in China, toilets in Mexico. Those wet 2×4’s in The lumber section come from Canada, after enviros claimed spotted owls endangered and tree huggers spiked northwest forest.
EVERY corporation or industry gets a Congressional carve out removing taxes while citizens pay more for everything.
In the end ALL this is self induced government fratricide because corporations pay for congressional campaigns and direct them what to legislate.
The average amount raised to run for a House seat has increased by more than 60 percent over the past decade, and now stands at almost $2.7 million. The figure for a Senate race is nearly $9.6 million, an increase of more than 200 percent.)
Spend all that coin to get 200k salary. We must put an end to Corporate coin in our governance. Allow the market to correct itself and remove Congress from interfering in our lives.
Rant over, rant out.
I’m building some fence. I buy only Southern PT ground contact pine.
You can get it at Home Depot.
“Spend all that coin to get a $200k salary.”
That’s just base pay. Once the old foot is in the door there is all that luscious insider trading money plus that sweet, sweet bribe…er…lobby dosh. Never mind the perpetual income after leaving office. They’ll more than recoup the initial “investment”.
Sorry, AG…the above meant as an answer to Mike. Fat fingers.
Don’t forget the human trafficked bennies.
I had forgotten about them.
Is there no end to the perks??
Well, if you’re talking about human trafficking, there is no end to the perks, but there is also no end to the pert.
And the best part for them? It’s not even their $9.7 million initial outlay. Multinational corporations and even we stupid plebs who think we’re “participating in democracy” pay the upfront $9.7 million for them. The public, other than the handful of Peter Thiels, Mark Cubans, etc., will NEVER come close to having our donations influence policy.
I stopped giving to PACs, GOP committees 4–5 years ago. I’d love to hear other Treepers (or Sundance’s) thoughts on whether our strategy should include cutting off all contributions to the political process. On the one hand, we want to help candidates who we think will support our causes. On the other, do they EVER deliver on that? On the one hand, taking away our millions of $50 donations will give Multinationals greater influence. On the other, are our millions of $50 donations giving us ANY influence at all?
If corporations are really driving the train (and I appreciate Sundance opening our eyes to the possibility that the controls have shifted to them) , should we target our efforts at the most offensive of them? Can we have any influence if we collectively boycott the major banks and move to local or regional banks? Just grasping at straws here for how the people supposedly represented by this horrible machine can identify and leverage any opportunities to break the cycle.
I’m grasping all the time. We have started moving our money from a big bank to one you’d know well in Texas…a very well known state one, for whatever good it will do. But I feel decidedly uneasy and probably rightly about the big ones. When we opened our new account the very efficient woman who handled all the necessaries said to us when we told her why we were opening it that they were quite busy doing the same for others who had expressed the same reasons we had.
As for donating to putative candidates directly, there are a lot of those who declare to be one party but who in fact are lying carpetbaggers…running as conservative but who are actually wolves in sheep’s clothing.
One such candidate who sounded for all the world like someone I’d vote for produced an ad with no affiliation in it, not that means anything anymore. I trust none of them. This is why I agree with Catherine Aistin Fitts that the place to start working politically is at the local level. And yes, it is a long term project that requires time we simply don’t have as the ones working overtime to destroy everything are floor boarding their efforts…and the ones who could throw a spanner in the works are clearly in lockstep with them.
Just have to research as best we can and pray God Himself helps us make the right decisions come voting day. And that’s all I’ve got…which isn’t much.
Two most important words…remove congress!!
We must defund gov’t
It’s ok, because Biden said it can be solved if businesses lower their prices. Obviously, the real issue with inflation is that businesses are greedy and charging too much. *eyeroll*
No Mensa member. Actually if cows could speak, they would say things that insipid.
I thought he said it could be solved if businesses lowered their costs while at the same time raising wages. Either way it shows he and his handlers are complete idiots and have no business writing any kind of economic policy.
No they think we’re the idiots that we believe whatever they say
He made the same idiotic argument about lowering child care costs while raising wages. Who the hell does he think cares for children, robots?
How dare they expect any profit! Particularly the Mom and Pop outfits! \s
It’s not simply blame casting, it’s setting the stage for demonization, targeting, and price controls.
With inflation terms (I know a loaded question), what is the highest price for oil a barrel? What was it in 1970s?
Highest was $117/bbl during the Arab Spring (2011). It averaged over $80/bbl during the reign of Barry. During the 70’s it peaked about $55/bbl
I might add that I was a geological consultant in the oil business from 1979-1986. It was around $34/bbl during most of that time. In the spring of 1986, the Saudi’s opened the spicket and drove the price to $12/bbl and I lost my job (along with 35,000 other geologists. We heard later it was Reagan who brokered that deal with them
booger71, are those prices you quote adjusted for inflation? Tx
No
Not kidding – the illegal occupiers of our American Federal Government are a threat to humanity.
Agreed. We are no longer grumbling about “death and taxes” and the poor service at the drivers’ license office.
I’m not in any way, shape, or form a fan of the evil kleptocrat known as Vladimir Putin, but if Russia were to focus their attention to the US Capital while Congress was in session and Davos, Switzerland while the WEF was in session, many of the world’s problems would be solved overnight. Then, of course, we’d have the new problem of a new corrupt autocrat. Pretty sure there’s no such thing as a “good politician”.
…consequences have consequences…
The last time oil was at $100 there were over 200 rigs working in North Dakota. Now there is 23. Thanks Brandon…. When Trump was in office and oil was less than $50 there were 52 rigs working in ND.
This Brandon guy is an idiot and stolen elections have consequences.
https://outrunchange.com/2015/01/13/historical-count-of-drilling-rigs-in-north-dakota/
https://www.dmr.nd.gov/oilgas/riglist.asp
Had to run an errand today. On my way out of my neighborhood, someone had put a “Let’s Go Brandon” sign in their yard. An hour later when I returned, someone had taken it. I guess trespassing and theft are now socially acceptable if your neighbor is guilty of wrongthink.
Farmers are the next to rebel.
Racist white supremacists all :-p sarc
Including the ones who aren’t even white as we’ve recently found out. Anyone engaging in wrongthink is a white supremacist.
It seems someone is trying to run farmers out of business and get their land.
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Many ultra wealthy 1 per-centers seem to like farmland.
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/apr/05/bill-gates-climate-crisis-farmland
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https://www.farmlandriches.com/bill-gates-farmland/
Rebel or go bankrupt?
Melinda Gates is about to spill the beans over her divorce from Billious
It’s a marketing campaign for the new foundation she is gonna create.
God bless each and every one of our farmers, but unless you’re ADM or Monsanto, good luck getting anyone to care.
Imagine that.
And we’re still buy 500K barrels a day from Putin!
He may be evil but he is not stupid.
600K
From what I have read today, the oil in that pipeline (no pun intended) is drying up because those dealers in the energy supply chain are afraid of the sanctions. They worry that if they buy a tanker of Russian oil, new sanctions or rules may make it impossible for them to sell it. And so that Russian oil that is important to the West is being dried up by this Ukraine nonsense.
The West just shot itself in the foot. Russia can hold out longer with its stockpiles and its trade relationships with China, India, and Brasil than the NATO nations can hold out with record level energy costs.
At best, maybe ten percent of the population of the NATO nations has any idea that we are in any kind of war, and the rest are completely unprepared, psychologically or stockpile wise, for war.
Contrast that with the entire population of Russia that has been run through nuclear attack drills, and where habits of everyone having a large summer garden have hung on from the Soviet era. Or with Xi warning the Chinese population that war is imminent and that times would be difficult and food scarce.
United States is sitting on top of 200 years of oil.
More oil from Russi than Saudi Arabia.
(WEF) was created to use the same fundamental associations of government and corporations. Only this time, it was the multinational corporations who organized to tell the government(s) what to do.
— sundance
The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks.
— Lord Acton
Do people see how easy it is for the globalist to reach in our pockets while stealing from their countries ?
At some point, the pain of “how much does it (food, gasoline) cost?” is going to shift to “is any (food, gasoline) available….anywhere?”
I knew, when Jack and Jill moved into the white house, that inevitably we would be dealing with costs and/or inventories. Of course, it’s both.
I didn’t include war in my thinking at the time, but I should have. Democrats love to make war, and have always found a way to make war. I’m 77 years old.
That is what they do. Every time they have the opportunity.
Democrats love to make war, because their whole mindset is Rule By Brute Force. Domestically by mandate, mandate, mandate, externally “by any means necessary”.
Republicans love war more.
Yes they make a mess whenever they go
They feed on fear, division, confusion and destruction
They themselves are virus on humanity
Unfortunately, all of our elected “representatives” of both parties have found ways to profit from war.
haha, look at the dumb Bidenbots after DeSantis gets through with them
Saw the headline. Went immediately to top off my tank. Thankfully I don’t drive the distances I once did for regular commuting but the price as a matter of principle stings even if in actual terms, hurts me less than many others.
This is one way to eventually unify the nation.
Lucky me – I’m retired on a rural farm with a 500 gallon farm tank in reserve. I go out once a week at most, usually just 12 miles to shop.
But was talking wth a friend in Idaho last night about the legion of low-wage workers (many are illegals) who service the ultra-rich up in Ketchum, (Sun Valley). No housing for them there, so most have been driving FIFTY MILES EACH WAY from Shoshone. Now they can’t afford that, so some apartment houses in Bellevue have become crash pads for so many workers that their parked cars are blocking residential streets.
There doesn’t appear to be much of a public display of anger over rising gasoline prices perhaps the State run corrupt leftist msm isn’t covering it? I was certain that heating oil in the Northeast would increase dramatically this winter but I haven’t heard any complaints by anyone here or elsewhere? Maybe the big increases in heating oil will occur next winter? Just wondering if these energy increases have been explained as necessary to “save the planet from climate change” and the docile public have accepted all of it without so much as a whimper? Am I’m wrong, hope so?
Such people will be living the news, and they will be angry without any help from the useless M.S.M., when they see e.g. that their BMW with a 24-gallon tank now needs over $100.00 for a fill-up.
The mathematics ($5.00 x Number of Gallons) will be the catalyst for anger.
I placed an article elsewhere here on The Conservative Treehouse about the “quiet” request from the illegal junta in the White House now asking oil companies to “drill and pump more.”
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/white-house-quietly-calls-u-180000579.html
That will only have a short term effect. While prices over $100 bbl give oil and gas companies more funds they are not likely to develop any large fields especially offshore due to the upfront capital costs in the current climate of demonizing and shutting down fossil fuels! The flip side is that the downstream business is tied up with Lilliputian like regulations and a new refinery hasn’t been built in decades! It’s all they can do to just keep the current refineries up and running let alone do the proper turnaround maintenance! If just one of the major refineries goes down for any significant amount of time it will be disastrous, creating a massive shortage of gasoline! The oil and gas business has been the economic engine supplying our energy needs since Spindletop was discovered in 1901! The Democrats want that all to end without any catastrophic effect on the economy! Good luck with that!
Right: the overall hostility of The Manchurian Marionette’s illegal junta toward the oil industry will not convince them to drill and pump more.
The current information is that gasoline is going up to $10 a gallon.
Look at the public displays of support, for the PeoplesConvoy.
WATCH John Spiropolis videos, where he focuses on what he calls “the Overpass brigades” with people driving hundreds of miles, to stand on overpass waving flags.
Granted, no mention is made of gas prices, it is about MANDATES. That is the CAUSE to unite.
However, as you watch the brief interviews, ask yourself “Do ANY of these people support Brandon, or ANY of his policies?”
ANY worried that the Convoy will contribute to Climate Change?
ANY that agree that $7/gal gas is “worth it” to “save the planet”?
Covid mandates is the straw, added on top of bales and bales, tons and tons of bullshit, piled on our backs, and so Covid mandates is the excuse for us to say ENOUGH, and dump the WHOLE LOAD, not just get them to remove the straw.
I’m not sure it affects his voters – the dead, wealthy, carless millennial urbanites, welfare people, or upper middle class white collar suburbanite.
What does 7 dollars a gallon do to food prices and shipping rates? I’m not sure when his voters care.
Carless millennials rely on Uber and Lyft, trips are costing a lot more due to gas and regulations.
Overnight the price of regular in my town jumped $.25! From $3.74 to $3.99. Amazing how that gas sitting in the storage tank just goes up in price w/o even having to touch it! Another three years of the madness residing in the WH.
The problem is, knowing the complex underpinnings of economic processes is going to be less influential with the general public than war visuals and propaganda shown 24/7 on ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, FOX, WaPo, NYTimes, etc. It’s not even close.
I disagree, respectfully. I think a lot of “average Americans” got an education in Economics over the last 20 years or so,..what with Carter inflation followed by Reagan rebound, then 2008, followed by 8 years of Obummers hopeless change, and then Trump Train.
While they don’t understand Sundances detailed explanations, they know when they are being HOSED, and have an accute sense of smell for bullshit.
Those who think of themselves as our “Betters” consistently underestimate the intelligence of their enemies, while overestimating THEIR intelligence.
Brexit, Trump, Convoy are all examples of this.
Their blind spot on the intelligence extends to the people they aspire to rule.
In the end, this WILL prove to be their downfall.
Putin causes all kinds of problems…
Not sure how a GOP sweep in 2022 would have a big impact on the Demented Fraud’s puppet masters war on US energy production. Unless they can get a firm 2/3 majority to override the Fraud’s EO’s what difference does it make? I’m not sure there are enough open seats to accomplish that in 2022.
The gop would not actually override his veto’s. They would cower in fear of being called racists and climate deniers and anti science and…….
On and on and on.
The people we elect run on a platform they know will get votes……
And they immediately pivot into something else when they take office……until it’s time to get votes again.
Do what you said you will do, republicans. I believe Jim Jordan says something to that effect and last I heard, *REPUBLICANS* in Ohio are trying to redraw his district and get him out of congress.
The current crop of GOP will almost nothing to solve the problems for the middle class. They will make a weak show in order to keep the scam going. Their first priority is and will always be the dictates from their donor-masters and their income sources, both domestic and foreign.
We need Gregory Markov’s umbrella for Biden
Another obscene aspect of corporatism we are likely to see is government effectively subsidizing the corporations in good standing with the State.
In a climate of hyper-inflation, we can expect price controls subjectively and erratically applied. The usual canard that gas prices are rising because the oil companies are greedy will appear (AOC, that bell cow of the Left, has already said this). Price controls on oil and gas are a splendid way to choke off a commodity the Left wants to restrict anyway. Gasoline shortages will swiftly follow, and then comes rationing.
As usual, I don the black robes of Cassandra. The millions of Americans who have adopted the suburban lifestyle should start shopping for a condo in the city, because the Left are coming for you, hard. Obama and his acolytes hate your guts. Your daily routine of commuting an hour in your SUV to your job in the city is anathema to them. Never mind paying “a little more” for your gasoline. Try no gas available, for months on end. How would that change your world?
They’d love to herd you into their cities for the slaughter. If you can’t work from home, real hard times ahead wherever you are.
If the commuters move into a city condo they’ll be greeted with the trolls and homeless, who are bivouacked outside their building, coming at them with a baseball to beat them over the head with when/if they go outside to the drugstore to get aspirin.
Gas in Pittsburgh went up $.20 overnight…
Happened in SW Missouri too. Sounds like collusion to me
The winter of death, financial ruin, starvation, joblessness, homelessness, brought to you by the Democrates and Pfizer.
Oh look a squirrel…..
Oh look, Ukraine!
The gibbering numbnuts resident of the White House, at the State of the Disunion, said his goal is for the US to use no carbon energy within 13 years.
Its no longer “welcome to the new boss, same as the old boss” its “welcome to the new boss, who is stark raving MAD.”
For Democrats, stupidity is the best defense because they can’t come out and say they’re corrupt communists? Remember Sandy “Classified documents in my socks-oops! Everybody knows I’m just a big loveable goofball!” Berger? That works a lot better than Sandy “Corrupt, mendacious, and socialist Clinton operative” Berger.
Seriously, do they have brains at all? No carbon energy means they ain’t gonna be jettin’ all over the world in those private carbon gobblers. Oh… wait! Net Zero is just for us, not for them.
Let’s call the following what it is…
TECHNO-FASCISM
”The World Economic Forum (WEF) was created to use the same fundamental associations of government and corporations. Only this time, it was the multinational corporations who organized to tell the government(s) what to do. The WEF was organized for multinational corporations to assemble and tell the various governments how to cooperate with them, in order to be rewarded by them.”
Add their “secret ingredient”:
ENFORCEMENT TECHNOLOGY
Was confused until recently about MIT as I still thought of them as the smart guys behind the Apollo program and Richard Feynman. Only recently appreciated that they’re the ones provide the “techno” to TECHNO-FASCISM and “technology” to ENFORCEMENT TECHNOLOGY. Oops…
Believe Feynman was at Cal Tech. A great physicist with a fantastic sense of humor.
Enforcement will equal digital currency and your one card will be monitored for all mandates. Otherwise…. You get the picture.
Practical stuff… trying to figure out how to get a small solar system set up on a tight budget just to run the well pump because if energy costs go through the roof there’s little else I can afford other than making sure there’s running water.
Other than that, it’s heart breaking to see the devastation wrought in a bit over a year by a corrupt demented old white guy who is being manipulated by a bunch of people who apparently have not comprehended yet what it’s going to be like living under Communist rule because of their idealism. And if they move Pelosi’s eyebrows up any further, they’ll be in her hairline – another corrupt demented drunk old white woman who just won’t go away. I wonder how much Russian vodka (the best) is sitting in her liquor closet. But, #whatever.
I appreciate everything you are doing Sundance. You’re my Go To for the truth. I’ll go back outside now and talk to the animals because they’re the only ones making sense.
We all know what’s happening and it’s on purpose to destroy our country!!! But what CAN we do to stop it or change the directions??? I’m tired of reading stupid comments like “ ammo up”. No as American citizens how do we actually regain control of our government. Right now evil has control of all branches. We realize BO, GS and others are running things and are laughing gleefully because someone else is the fall guy.
Town by town, school board by school board, county by county, state by state… as Sundance has often said, “extreme federalism”. It starts at home. It is the only way. At this point, we have no magic wand to stop the cascading affects of these policies.
I do see some of that happening from parents in schools. Perhaps it is occurring in other areas but we need to bring it more to the forefront being over 80 disabled yet still working my 40 year old business and battling all of the garbage gets discouraging. And yes I am a deep believer in God and prayer. We just can’t keep going like this or we won’t be free anymore. I both studied and taught history and remember how others have fallen.
Everything must be completely peaceful and respectful of all races, religions and peoples. Never even hint at violence of any kind.
Totally agree with the peaceful and lawful. That’s why I said I was tired of hearing solutions that were saying “ ammo up”. That’s not a solution. The evil that is our current government doesn’t care what laws they break or lies they tell. Look at those poor J6 people. Look what happened to the truckers in Canada. We must continually call them out as liars and traitors as a country. Just keep hammering in home so those who don’t see maybe will open their eyes and hearts.
Fascism II.
The globalists outsourcing control of the consumer class to the political totalitarian fascists.
A new Class Warfare.
Now watch, Putin will stop the war, will topple the Ukrainians and the “Green Economy” will collapse.
Anyone heard from the GOP lately ?
No–they’re too busy cashing their checks and pretending they’re not Democrats. Oh wait, saw RINO Thune this morning doing the chaff and countermeasures thing…
Retired Magistrate here: Thankfully our older home is paid for; not fancy, but everything works. Cars are older but they run and are paid for. We have stocked up the best we can, but still go to the store to replace items that we have used.
The four years under President Trump were the best years for the average American in my 74 years. I don’t think any other president was so concerned about the welfare of Main Street; not even President Regan. Regan’s first term was good, but after the assassination attempt he was never the same.
Thankfully the area we live in is still mostly rural, although it is starting to change. We live by a river with plenty of fish, have a well, a septic system and if needed, a generator. Our house is on top of a hill with a long winding drive so we can see who is coming up the driveway. Most people are to terrified to even attempt it, which is a good thing.
So, in our twilight years we are thankful for what we have, especially each other. Keep like minded friends close, embrace family members (well, at least those who will still speak to you if you haven’t taken the covid shot) attend a Bible believing church and life your life to the fullest. GOD Bless.
Thanks Marcia. I always appreciate your posts. They centre me.
same here, Marcia. everything paid for and no debt. our river is tidal and floods lower pastures and county road. in addition to well we mainly use gravity spring. do not have a generator. we use wood heat and have three year supply cut and stacked plus 70 acres forest. we, too are on top of a hill and built of masonry with metal roof so hope we can get through fire. no good churches in coastal Oregon as they were taken over by the devil 30 years ago. we do our religion at home with Holy Ghost
We are ten years younger, and ever so grateful that our frugality and Gos blessings.
IMO consumerism ( including consumer debt) is largely responsible for our collective mess.
Just last week I bought a one owner 2003 Toyota Corolla 5 spd with 120,000 miles on it for approx $2100.00 U.S.
The vehicle is in excellent condition.
Our younger of the two sons is a G.M. for a major automobile dealership.
The average tax and fees on a new vehicle purchase is in excess of $5000.00
Many finance the tax and fees😟😟
Cheers to all!
You got a gem of a vehicle that’s for sure! Good for u!
You might want to buy two new cars soon before they ban internal combustion vehicles. It’s coming fast!
From what I understand, the Fed as well as Wall Street banks urged Biden not to sanction Russia, as they were aware that an already untenable situation would get worse.
And…that SOBs will plunge us to war. MIC won again. And congress has been pushing for military draft in the past years. Say NO to conscription.
Everything in past 30+ years in retrospect has led to where we are. In order to destroy America they had to attempt to destroy love for America. The swamp always starts with little things like “I’m qu_eer and I’m here” “Diversity is our strength” “Think globally and act locally” “The war on drugs” “The war on terrorism” “The Patriot Act” on and on… with this dumb sh_it.
Now look at each one when we first heard these slogans and look at our reality for instance; “Diversity is our Strength” If you say anything about the invasion of our Southern border you are racist, anti-immigrant, jingoist, closed minded, and then wholly owned (WEF) MSM pick up on the tripe and screams the company line 24/7 making it seem like the majority support this lunacy. They do not.
They will then create whole extra-constitutional departments, install judges (see Prop 187 it was voted in at 63% to 37% to cut off benefits to the illegal squatters, the left went judge shopping and just like that the voters will was set aside and CA was lost) …and think tanks crank up Brookings, Cato, CFR et al and sell the swill on every panel in the MSM.
You get the point. We must stop caring what the enemy has to say, we know, they know, we are the vast majority and it stops when we Just Say No!
Turn of the MSM.
With all due respect, these people are Bolshevik communists they are not fascists.
Totalitarians yes–they freak out and overreact at the slightest hint of opposition…
Madness.
Democrats.
The risks of Biden breaking through the polling “floor” are increasing astronomically. He’s already at the 40% mark, on average, only because of a few inflated polls keeping him out of the mid 30% range.
He’s going to be comfortably in the low 30%’s by summer with polls showing him in the 20% range being called “oh those are outliers” (just like they said about the 30% polls last Fall).
The basic legitimacy of the Government – already tenuous – is going to collapse if gas hits $7…with all the massive impacts on food and basic necessities that go with it.
If he gets into the 20%’s, mass social unrest is very likely. The “elites” better build some bigger bunkers. We know who they are, what they believe, and where they live.
The geriatric class in DC cannot withstand what is coming for them. They’re enfeebled, corrupt, and stupid.
At that point is where UBI(universal basic income) comes in attached with the social credit system.
EBT cards filled to the brim still won’t work if the grocery shelves are bare.
Look at Venezuela. We know how the price control and UBI gambit plays out. Starvation and Soviet bread lines.
Even the pundits on cable tv are saying, if they were trying to completely destroy our country, what would the Bidenistas do differently?
Listening to James Golden, aka Bo Snerdly on the way home today, I heard people saying, what the hell can we do?? How are we going to survive another 3 years of this fake President?
Somehow voting Republican does not inspire that much confidence.
Lots of people owe Alex Jones an apology…..
Remember being in a hotel breakfast area with the news on and CBS was vilifying Alex Jones, and I was thinking, “That’s cuz Alex Jones has it 99% correct.”
The psycho DemocRATS and the scumbag “media” will always tell you who they are deathly afraid of by vilifying them.
New Jersey and other states giving millions to illegal aliens
https://www.northjersey.com/story/news/2022/01/20/nj-excluded-immigrant-fund-reallocation/6583144001/
This administration is doing exactly as they planned to do. This is all well thought out in advance and has the Green New Deal written all over it. The globalists planned for high gas prices for Americans, lack of food availability as well as high prices in all sectors. When prices go this high they never come down to where they belong and should be. Their bone to throw is we made it go down, but never to real levels. We are standing by and watching them doing exactly what they want. Machiavelli stated that everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are. We are seeing things as they appear to be, rising prices, war, virus, but not enough are realizing the true motives behind each. Their end justifies the means. At some point only one way will stop them.
UKRAINES RICHES:
Metals and gas reserves:
Ukraine ranks: 1st in Europe in proven recoverable reserves of uranium ores;
2nd place in Europe and 10th place in the world in terms of titanium ore reserves;
2nd place in the world in terms of explored reserves of manganese ores (2.3 billion tons, or 12% of the world’s reserves);
2nd largest iron ore reserves in the world (30 billion tons);
2nd place in Europe in terms of mercury ore reserves;
3rd place in Europe (13th place in the world) in shale gas reserves (22 trillion cubic meters)
4th in the world by the total value of natural resources;
7th place in the world in coal reserves (33.9 billion tons)
Ukraine is an important agricultural country:
1st in Europe in terms of arable land area;
3rd place in the world by the area of black soil (25% of world’s volume);
1st place in the world in exports of sunflower and sunflower oil;
2nd place in the world in barley production and 4th place in barley exports;
3rd largest producer and 4th largest exporter of corn in the world;
4th largest producer of potatoes in the world;
5th largest rye producer in the world;
5th place in the world in bee production (75,000 tons);
8th place in the world in wheat exports;
9th place in the world in the production of chicken eggs;
16th place in the world in cheese exports.
Ukraine can meet the food needs of 600 million people.
Ukraine is an important industrialised country:
1st in Europe in ammonia production;
Europe’s 2nd’s and the world’s 4th largest natural gas pipeline system;
3rd largest in Europe and 8th largest in the world in terms of installed capacity of nuclear power plants;
3rd place in Europe and 11th in the world in terms of rail network length (21,700 km);
3rd place in the world (after the U.S. and France) in production of locators and locating equipment;
3rd largest iron exporter in the world
4th largest exporter of turbines for nuclear power plants in the world;
4th world’s largest manufacturer of rocket launchers;
4th place in the world in clay exports
4th place in the world in titanium exports
8th place in the world in exports of ores and concentrates;
9th place in the world in exports of defence industry products;
10th largest steel producer in the world (32.4 million tons).
And with all that noted, What is the average per Ukrainian household earnings per year?
Anyone know?
Less than El Salvador is all I know.
Internet is your friend. You could’ve looked this up.
$200/mo
When Biden and Obola ran their coup in Ukraine in 2014, they installed all their own people in the top echelons of the Govt’. What happened next is what you see here, they had their installed finance minister increase Taxes and regulations. Then the inflation/ monthly expenses of average citizens ran rampant. I remember my Ukrainian friends complaining about it and how it was hurting their family’s ability to pay bills and survive.
Maybe some liberals will wake up and realize Sundance’s oil and gas plan is the way out of this
.
Naw, they would rather
have worldwide starvation than give up on The Green New Deal. Pearl clutching while exclaiming ” Oh but the enVironment”
Last Wednesday filled up my vehicle, gas was $4.05 a gallon; yesterday, at the same station it was $4.15 a gallon; drove by it this afternoon and it jumped up to $4.25 a gallon. Reno, Nevada area, one of the least expensive stations in the county.
At the shell next to Tanforan near San Francisco International Airport it was $5.29 yesterday.
Yes, we’re all suffering and not comatose to the prices of gas. Are we gonna start reporting the price of gas in each of the 3000 counties in the country now just like everyone is posting the price of milk in their local grocery?
Since you asked for a follow up, today, March 4th, that same gas station the price is now $4.65 per gallon. Thanks for playing.
More proof that federalism and the two party system has completely failed us!
Maybe one day people will realize neither political corporation is on their side.
The stubborn, obtuse way the oil situation is being handled can be explained in a lot of different ways. I know all of the more popular reasons but another one has occurred to me recently.
This is a mechanism to wring out the excess cash liquidity in the US that’s causing inflation. I suspect that crashing the stock market will be a similar mechanism to soak up cash and destroy it.
I took macro econ about 35 years ago so I am not completely sure if this is what is happening, however I did make an ‘A’ in that class.
Always look on the bright side of life….
The higher the price the fewer travelling fishermen on my rivers.
And this just proves that the Founders were brilliant when they drafted the 2nd A, The USA will never have chicken & beer police.
No one will use their guns. Propaganda is stronger than individual will. Like it or not, it’s the world we were cursed to live in.