Jeremiah Babe, 9/21/26
"We Are On The Verge Of A Full Blown Collapse -
Get Ready For Massive Food Shortages"
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So, we rise from the rubble...
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Monday, September 21, 2026
"When WW3 Begins These Will Be Targets, No Nukes Needed"
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Canadian Prepper, 9/21/26
"When WW3 Begins These Will Be Targets,
No Nukes Needed"
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"Stock Up On Heating Fuel Now Because This Is Going To Be A Really Dark Winter"
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Epic Economist 9/21/26
"Stock Up On Heating Fuel Now Because
This Is Going To Be A Really Dark Winter"
"Heating a home in America has turned into a monthly gamble, and a lot of families are losing it. In this video the people living it tell it first-hand, on their own phones, in their own words - the bills, the shutoffs, the propane deliveries they cannot pay for, and what they do to get through the night. One family watches their heating bill jump from about two hundred fifty dollars to over six hundred. A Chicago mom wakes up to a freezing apartment with no heat. A renter lives through a sixth winter without heat in a forty-seven degree living room. The gas company cuts off one family's heat after demanding seven hundred dollars more. An oil company asks for an eight hundred twenty-five dollar hold before it will even deliver. A propane tank runs dry after a snowstorm, and the company locks it while the kids are home sick with fevers. One woman is staring at a twenty thousand dollar propane bill she cannot pay, and another expects half her tax refund to go to January's heat. And at the end, two households show how they got out from under it with wood. Every clip is a real person, filmed on their own phone, telling what happened in their own words. Nothing here is staged."
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"Ukraine Just Wiped Out 45% of Russia's Fuel - US Prices Explode"
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Snyder Reports, 9/21/26
"Ukraine Just Wiped Out 45% of Russia's Fuel -
US Prices Explode"
"Diesel just hit $6.51 per gallon - the highest recorded average price EVER. Gas is now $4.47 nationally and Trump is pressuring Zelensky to STOP hitting Russian refineries. Ukraine has knocked out over 45% of Russia's projected refining capacity, and even though the US doesn't buy Russian oil, YOU are footing the bill. In this video I break down why diesel prices and gas prices today are surging, how the trump Zelensky call over diesel could decide what you pay this winter, and why Michigan drivers just saw a 61-cent spike overnight while Florida hit $4.28. When diesel jumps $2.82 in one year - from $3.69 to $6.51 - everything from food to furniture to clothing to utility bills goes up because everything requires oil to produce and ship. With the midterm election coming and experts warning the end of 2026 will be worse than the start, here's what it means for you and how to prepare before early to mid-2027."
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Musical Interlude: Moby, "Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad"
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Moby, "Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad"
"A Look to the Heavens"
"NGC 1333 is seen in visible light as a reflection nebula, dominated by bluish hues characteristic of starlight reflected by interstellar dust. A mere 1,000 light-years distant toward the heroic constellation Perseus, it lies at the edge of a large, star-forming molecular cloud.
This telescopic close-up spans about two full moons on the sky or just over 15 light-years at the estimated distance of NGC 1333. It shows details of the dusty region along with telltale hints of contrasty red emission from Herbig-Haro objects, jets and shocked glowing gas emanating from recently formed stars. In fact, NGC 1333 contains hundreds of stars less than a million years old, most still hidden from optical telescopes by the pervasive stardust. The chaotic environment may be similar to one in which our own Sun formed over 4.5 billion years ago."
World Of Art, "The Quiet Road of Returning Sheep"
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"The Quiet Road of Returning Sheep"
"A Very Unusual Town is a surreal cinematic AI art channel about quiet sheep villages, warm lantern light, handmade worlds, and the slow beauty of everyday life. Inspired by handcrafted stop-motion aesthetics, each film blends emotional storytelling, wool-felt fantasy visuals, atmospheric music, and peaceful cinematic pacing to create calm and nostalgic experiences. This is a place for viewers who still love gentle stories, old souls, soft rain, glowing windows, drifting fog, and worlds that do not hurry."
Native American Elder, "7 Truths tHey Never Taught You In School"
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Native American Elder,
"7 Truths tHey Never Taught You In School"
Blues Masterpiece, "I Told Me So"
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Blues Masterpiece, "I Told Me So"
“I Told Me So” is a reflective, slightly humorous blues about the things we already knew deep down but chose not to listen to. The singer looks back at old mistakes, bad decisions, and warning signs he ignored, realizing that somewhere along the way, he had already given himself the right advice. Driven by warm, gritty blues guitar and the soulful cry of the harmonica, the song carries the wisdom that only comes after living through your own choices. The weathered voice isn't blaming anybody else - it just shakes its head and admits that sometimes the hardest person to listen to is yourself. I knew better… I just didn't listen to me."
The Poet: David Romano, "If Tomorrow Starts Without Me"
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David Romano, "If Tomorrow Starts Without Me"
Read by Tom O'Bedlam
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"Dog's Last Day"
So sadly beautiful...
"Hell..."
"Many people don't fear a hell after this life and that's because hell is on this earth, in this life. In this life there are many forms of hell that people walk through, sometimes for a day, sometimes for years, sometimes it doesn't end. The kind of hell that doesn't burn your skin; but burns your soul. The kind of hell that people can't see; but the flames lap at your spirit. Heaven is a place on earth, too! It's where you feel freedom, where you're not afraid. No more chains. And you hear your soul laughing." - C. JoyBell C.
I believe it was Sartre who said, "This is Hell, cleverly disguised just enough
to keep us from escaping." Look at the world... look around closely. What do you see?
I believe he may have been right...
- CP
"Facts..."
"What are the facts? Again and again and againwhat are the facts? Shun wishful thinking, ignore divine revelation, forget what the stars foretell, avoid opinion, care not what the neighbors think, never mind the un-guessable verdict of history - what are the facts, and to how many decimal places? You pilot always into an unknown future; facts are your single clue. Get the facts!"
- Robert A. Heinlein
And always remember...
"When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains,
however improbable, must be the truth."
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, "Sherlock Holmes"
"Yes, There Are Objective Standards"
"Yes, There Are Objective Standards"
by Paul Rosenberg
"The existence of objective standards threatens power, and so it has been ridiculed and excluded from open consideration. Reality, however, cannot be changed, and the fact is that we all act for life and against death. So does every other living thing on this planet. That makes life and death objective, definable standards.
Actions trump words, they trump ridicule, and they trump academic theories.The absolute standard of life as good is upheld, in actual practice, by every person who takes medicine or by anyone who avoids danger. Oceans of rhetoric can’t negate this. We and every other creature on this planet act to stay alive and to flee death. And so those trying to fight against absolute, objective standards betray themselves every time they take an antibiotic or buy organic produce. Accordingly, these statements stand:
• That which sustains and extends life is good or right.
• That which hinders or ends life is bad or wrong.
Why All The Opposition? Our need to extend and improve life has driven more or less every medical, technological and agricultural improvement of human history. Why, then, would anyone want to exclude it? The first answer is that they simply don’t see it. They've come to see an abstract, constructed reality as the whole playing field of life, and are struggling to find status within it. A second answer is the more important one: Life, if held to and pursued, negates power structures.
Life spawns chosen, decentralized and organic organization. Power structures, on the other hand, require humans (life-bearing beings) to be constrained: they require automatic compliance and couldn’t survive any other way. The lords of the abstract and constructed reality, then, must keep life and those using it within their constraints. They fear the recognition of an objective standard because it would make auto-compliance nearly impossible.
Life-spawned organization is everywhere, of course: It’s the way healthy families organize themselves. It’s how small businesses organize themselves. It’s the way little leagues and book clubs and tutoring clubs and a hundred similar groups organize themselves. This is the model of chosen grouping, and it injects life, decency and progress into the world.
The lords of the constructed reality require enforced grouping. They forbid, by any number of means, alternatives to themselves. That fact should condemn them right off, except that most people have been confused and conditioned otherwise... they’ve been taught (by the constructed reality) that the construct is the only reality, and that advocates for anything else are maniacs. The constructed reality, then, must destroy its opponents, beginning with God, who would be the ultimate objective standard. It must also trivialize life, which also stands as an absolute standard.
And So...And so, if life is a good value, we should act to extend and enhance it. We do that by using life-friendly tools like chosen grouping, voluntary trade, honest money, unhindered innovation and the virtues which accompany these things. We also do that by stepping away from the constructed reality: the virtual world of manufactured images, narratives and fears.
Fear, as I’ve noted often but probably not often enough, is a brain hack: It chains people within the construct: where they’re informed, endlessly, that they must believe what they’re told, because everyone else does. Life in the construct, then, becomes all virtual, all vicarious and all externally-derived. It is the antithesis of the model of Jesus, Jung and more or less every other independent thinker.
The alternative to the construct is to build a chosen society, centered on the golden rule. This model is known to work for us, being, again, the model of the healthy family, the productive small business and so on. Our way is the better way: the way that takes life as an objective standard. Because it is."
Todd Hayen, "Surface Thinking"
"Surface Thinking"
by Todd Hayen
"People don’t care because they don’t know. Simple as that. I know I’ve been through this a million times, but I just don’t think I’ve nailed it. Maybe now. It’s nuance, still, but it’s something more than I have written about before.
My stepson got married a few weeks ago, and I officiated the ceremony. Even though I did not know everyone who attended, I had the chance to talk to a lot of people. The wedding, by the way, was beautiful. I’m not really a fan of all the expense and hoopla that goes into these events, but I do believe rituals like weddings are important for keeping the psyche healthy.
Most people these days still adhere to the rituals of dressing up, looking their best, and formalizing the affair as much as they feel comfortable with - “I do” statements, walking down the aisle, the formal declaration of “husband and wife,” even “kissing the bride.” So it was fun and meaningful in that regard.
The thing I found strangely disturbing - and what inspired this article - were the odd conversations I had over the two days we were in attendance. Everyone involved, and most of the guests I am presuming, were liberals. Many, I am sure, would classify as woke, or at least leaning toward the radical left. I had one conversation with a distant family member who will remain unnamed (of course) who proceeded to tell me how Trump was the “most evil man in the world today” and how horrible it was that he was “in charge of the world.”
Well, Trump is certainly an ass, and he very well may be doing some horrible things, but he isn’t, by far, “the most evil man in the world.” And is he “in charge”? Maybe - and this is a stretch - he has power in the US to do his bidding, but he is hardly “in charge of the world.”
I suppose I can see how people see it this way, particularly considering recent events, but there is so much nuance out there regarding what’s going on in the world that we can hardly draw such black-and-white conclusions. I may know 10% of the whole story (that’s stretching it); you may know 20% plus; and I am sure there are people out there who know far more than 50%. But these people I talked to at the wedding (not just the conversation about evil Trump) probably know less than 1%.
Of course, the obvious reason is the source of information these one-percenters use. I doubt a single one of them reads anything but the New York Times, the Washington Post, or listens to NPR or some other tainted news source. Or, of course, they get their social-media news fix from Facebook, Instagram, or X. They join other liberal echo chambers where the aforementioned news sources’ propaganda is chewed up, spit out, and mangled beyond recognition - like a pack of hyenas devouring roadkill.
No wonder. How do I get to 10%? I read any and everything I can get my hands on. Mostly books by contrarian authors such as Orwell, Huxley, Patrick Wood, Desmet, RFK Jr., Malone, Whitney Webb, Michael Nehls, and Iain McGilchrist (among many others). I also read a lot of conventional history and conventional views.
I read Substacks, alternative news articles (OffGuardian, of course), and listen to and watch podcasts - not just the alternative stuff, but also the mainstream crap that is out there (you can’t avoid that nonsense). And after all that, I would hardly call myself “well informed.” But I do know more than the surface stuff. I know enough to know I don’t know enough. They don’t.
And there is good reason they don’t absorb the stuff they just so happen to come across that is different from the usual crap they gnaw on. I have gone over this dozens of times, so you all know it well. It isn’t just that they don’t read, listen to, or look at anything outside the mainstream - if they fall over something by accident, their mental system completely ignores it. We have been trying for years to get this stuff to them, and they are blind to it. But by some miracle, if it were injected into their brains - bypassing their woke filtering system - and if they were not brain-dead, they actually would know something more than the surface gives them.
So, what’s my point? Isn’t this the same thing we have all been griping about since the beginning? Yes and no. I actually thought at one time that “critical thinking” was the primary issue. That even if more detailed information were forced into these resistant brains, they would not be able to decipher it and come up with conclusions similar to ours. Not that they weren’t smart enough (IQ has not diminished substantially enough among the liberal population to make that a plausible explanation). It would just be a matter of a thinking method, and I believed they could not think critically.
Now I am not so sure. Now I wonder whether, if they had the details in their brains, they would be able to piece it all together and make sense of it. Take this whole Carney/Trump thing, for example. This is a clear circus of nonsense. On both sides. If people only listen to Carney complaining about what a bully Trump is, how he “surprised” him with new deal points at the last minute of negotiations, slapping his hand for trading with China, and claiming the French language isn’t good enough to consider - along with listening to Trump calling Carney “governor” and renaming Lake Ontario to Lake America (why not Lake Trump?) - how could anyone even begin to think they are getting any information at all from which to draw an intelligent conclusion?
Read something, sheepsters! Go deeper. What do the actual economic negotiators say? U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer and Canada’s Minister responsible for Canada-U.S. Trade, Dominic LeBlanc (along with Chief Negotiator Janice Charette)? What about the dozens of other highly qualified people working on these trade issues behind the scenes? What are they saying? It is astounding to me that people only listen to these two numb-nuts when it comes to such complicated issues.
Obviously, most people are just too lazy to do more than listen to mainstream media sound bites. It is simply too much work to shove real information into a hardened and swollen brain. Have these people all lost their ability to think critically? Yes. But it doesn’t take a genius to put two and two together. The people I am talking about not only lack critical thinking. They lack the ability to think at all."
"I Still Believe Humanity Is Headed for A Mass Awakening"
"I Still Believe Humanity Is Headed for A Mass Awakening"
by Caitlin Johnstone
"I still believe humanity is headed toward a mass awakening, as unfashionable as that is to admit here in the late 2020s. The fashionable thing to say these days is that everything’s f*cked and we are headed to our doom, and that if anything changes it will be because the insanity of our capitalist system causes our material conditions to deteriorate so drastically that we are forced into revolution to survive. That things are bad because we’re a rotten people with selfish hearts who haven’t forced the revolutionary changes the world needs because, deep down, we actually like things the way they are.
People who want to look cool and smart in revolutionary political circles tend to say that if a mass-scale transformation of human consciousness were going to happen, it would have happened by now. That everyone’s already basically aware that we live in an abusive, propaganda-saturated dystopia ruled by tyrants, therefore our continued compliance with status quo politics is a conscious and deliberate choice made by the overwhelming majority of the western world.
But here’s the thing: anyone who has taken a deep dive down the rabbit hole of human consciousness and come out the other side knows it doesn’t actually work that way. Not on a personal level, anyhow.
Anyone who has had an authentic transformational awakening after a prolonged period of spiritual seeking will have experienced a sloppy, awkward, tumble of a journey into eventual freedom from egoic delusion. It’s not pretty. It doesn’t happen the way the mind imagines it happening. It doesn’t unfold in linear fashion, and, while it might have significant climactic moments after which nothing is ever the same, it doesn’t unpack all at once. It’s a clumsy, two-steps-forward-one-step-back ordeal whose most prominent characteristic is an absence of control.
But it does eventually happen. After a chaotic, unpredictable, frequently uncomfortable internal adventure, there’s a freedom, clarity, gracefulness and joy the likes of which you never could have imagined before the avalanche began.
I see no reason to believe our collective awakening should be any different. It’s not going to be a neat and tidy affair. It’s not going to look like the hippies imagined back in the sixties, with a prevalence of psychedelic drugs leading to a swift societal movement away from egocentric psychology and dominator politics. But we’ll get there. We are in the process of getting there already.
We are already a much more conscious species than we were at the turn of this century. Our ability to network and share information has exploded in ways that have turned us into a fundamentally different sort of animal. Young people care about a genocide which poses no direct threat to them as passionately as their grandparents cared about a war in Vietnam which they were being personally drafted to fight in. Concepts like “trauma” and “inner healing” are now household terms that our parents and grandparents were only ever dimly aware of. Any skillful spiritual teacher who’s been helping people reach enlightenment for a few decades will tell you that humans are popping out of their egos far more readily and frequently than they used to be. I myself am seeing the people around me in my personal life awaken and heal in ways I’d never dared hope for a few years ago.
I’ve seen too much to believe we cannot become a conscious species. I am more convinced than ever that we are headed there already. It’s going to be a shambling, shuffling mess of a journey, but we’ll get there. The human potential for spiritual enlightenment has long been an unaddressed elephant in the room in our estimations of what we can achieve as a species, but that elephant has been loudly clearing its throat as of late. We can’t run from our true nature forever."
"I Still Believe Humanity Is Headed for A Mass Awakening"
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A Reader Comment by Jackabond: "There is no coherent argument from nature that suggests humans can transcend our natural selfishness. That is, in fact, an argument from super nature. The belief in an evolutionary, collective mass awakening that cures all that ails humanity is a comforting but childish absurdity.
Life is a complex struggle to find truth and meaning from an astonishing variety of contradictory and competing interests. Expecting billions of unique individuals to achieve collective enlightenment is pure fantasy. As Caitlin describes, progress is a slow, messy, and agonizingly incremental grind that takes us backwards as often as forwards. There’s no doubt that the world is better in many ways than ever before but can anyone truly argue that time has made the world any ‘gooder’? The penultimate ugliness of the current moment is sufficient to put that idea to rest.
Waiting for a mystical shift to make everything “all right” while remaining true to our nature is ultimately just a form of lazy optimism that keeps us from doing both the spiritual work and the hard practical work to to deal with our broken reality. That’s not being a naysayer Caitlin, it’s being realistic. Spell out your ‘naturalistic’ action plan and let’s put it to the test.
There are certainly natural processes that support a trend toward greater cooperation, but no coherent naturalistic argument reaches the strong claim of a collective awakening that eliminates our fundamental natural selfishness. That final step requires a non-natural cause."
Bill Bonner, "Back to the Zoo"
"Back to the Zoo"
by Bill Bonner
We’ve been using “inflate or die” as our model for the path
of the crisis. I’m retiring the model. “Inflate or die” is
no longer valid. The model has turned into “die or die.”
- Tom Dyson
Ardmore, Ireland - "We begin the week on a sepulcher note. Death awaits us all. And the Bubble Empire too. The Bubble, however, is still alive and kicking. But Mr. Trump’s excuse for a financial advisor - Pete Navarro - is already laying the blame for its demise — on Kevin Warsh. The Hill: "Peter Navarro says Fed’s rate raise is ‘a bad decision’. In a nutshell, Navarro wants more inflation...and he wants it before lunch. He thinks a little more gin in the punch will keep the party going a bit longer - at least until after the midterm elections. Warsh thinks we should all get some exercise instead.
‘Inflate or Die’ was merely a policy choice. The feds had no other option. They could keep the music playing by inflating the bubble, further and further...with more fake money and lower interest rates. Or, they could pull the plug and let it deflate, sag, and die a natural death. Either way, the end result was a corpse. The ‘die’ option was simply faster...more dignified, and more controlled. Hitting the ‘inflate’ button, on the other hand, led to chaos, disruption, corruption, re-election, depression...and often, to war...before ending in death anyway.
Inflation makes it possible for you to spend money that doesn’t exist on things you can’t afford. At a certain point, though, you just can’t afford anymore inflation. Only then will politicians give up on it. Which is why Navarro can relax. He’ll get his inflation...and get it good and hard.
Here’s how it works. You ‘print’ an extra dollar...and people take it up, say, at a 5% discount. Then, you ‘print’ another one...and another one. Each one is taken by the marketplace at a larger discount, until...the discount is more than 100%! Sounds absurd. But eventually, the fake money has negative value. When that happens, printing more money just makes things worse...real values go down, not up.
You run a restaurant. You serve a decent meal for $100. Then, with a little inflation, it goes to $120...then, to $200...and $1,000. You’re not making more money; you’re just trying to keep up with inflation. But at some point, traders give up on dollars. Then, the price tag - even if it is $100 trillion dollars - is actually worth less than your original $100 menu price.
Inflation upsets the economy. It distorts prices...causes financial ‘mistakes’...impedes investment...reduces output...and makes people crazy. Most people have less spending power...so ‘demand’ falls. Real things become cheap - in real money. We looked last week at how houses and automobiles have become very cheap - in gold terms. Labor has become very cheap too. In 1999, the median household earned 145 ounces of gold per year. Now, it earns barely 20.
Paper money always knows where it is going...and always gets there. $1,000 bills blow down alleyways; no one stoops to pick them up. Just since 2020, the dollar has lost 23% of its purchasing power. At that rate, around 2044, the dollar should be just about worthless. That is when it will be time to bring in the mahogany coffin; by then, the economy has already decomposed.
As we saw a few days ago, for many decades, the growth in US money supply has been two or three times greater than GDP growth. That will continue. Given the ‘inflate or die’ choice, politicians and central bankers will almost always choose inflation, as long as they can get away with it. They’ll want to ‘kick the can’ down the road...making it someone else’s problem. Sometimes, however, they will stand firm, tighten up, and let the bubble die. That’s what Paul Volcker did in 1980. But that was when the US government owed less than $1 trillion. Now, the total is $40 trillion...with about $90 trillion more in private debt...and trillions more in federal obligations.
Today, the politicians still want to inflate. But now, they are trapped. Dying is too painful to contemplate. But living is not so easy either. The interest rate cycle has turned against them. They inflate by borrowing. More borrowing means more debt. More debt means more debt service (interest rates), which increases debt and requires more inflation.
This is why Tom says it’s time to update our ‘inflate or die’ dictum. The whole problem is the dollar is overvalued...AND the government has made promises it can’t honor, many of which haven’t even come due yet. The debt has become such a crushing weight...that they cannot pursue either austerity (die) or more borrow and spend (inflate). Both paths lead to the same place...a gigantic default.
Now, there is no Volcker. And no Reagan to back him up. $39 trillion more debt on the feds’ books. And no way to deflate the Bubble Empire without striking the tents...firing the ringmaster...and sending the elephants back to the zoo. Stay tuned."
Dan, I Allegedly, "People Refuse To Accept Reality"
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Dan, I Allegedly, 9/21/26
"People Refuse To Accept Reality"
"The world is changing, and many people are struggling to accept the new economic reality. In this episode of iAllegedly, Dan discusses the rising cost of living, financial pressure on American families, older workers facing challenges in the job market, artificial intelligence replacing traditional work, and the difficulties businesses face today. From people struggling to pay their bills to companies reconsidering where they operate, the economic landscape is changing faster than many people realize. Dan shares personal stories, observations, and a candid perspective on what it takes to adapt and prepare for an uncertain future. We also discuss tax refund delays, buy now pay later financing, car loan problems, repossessions, business closures, and the potential economic impact of entertainment production moving out of California. This episode explores personal finance, job security, business challenges, economic change, and the importance of preparing for difficult times. Watch iAllegedly with Dan Golka for business news you can use, real-world financial observations, and an honest conversation about the challenges facing everyday Americans."
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Adventures With Danno, "Gas Prices Skyrocket, This Is About To Get Worse"
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Adventures With Danno, 9/21/26
"Gas Prices Skyrocket, This Is About To Get Worse"
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