"The Man Who Called 2008 Is Warning You Again - So Is JPMorgan’s CEO"

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Dan, I Allegedly, 10/19/26

"The Man Who Called 2008 Is Warning You Again - 

So Is JPMorgan’s CEO"

"Michael Burry, the investor who famously bet against the housing market before the 2008 financial crisis, is sounding the alarm again. He describes today's stock market as a “Supervolcano,” warning that record highs may be hiding serious risks. Meanwhile, JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon has raised concerns about inflation, rising borrowing costs, and mounting credit problems. Are investors overlooking the warning signs?"

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"Snyder Reports, 10/19/26"

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Snyder Reports, 10/19/26

"Food Banks Can't Keep Up With Demand - 

America's Next Big Problem?"

"Food banks nationwide are warning of empty shelves as 1 in 5 Texans face food insecurity and thousands lose food stamps. Here's what the NBC survey of 90 food banks found, why diesel costs and benefit cuts are making it worse, and what you need to stock now. In this video we break down the NBC survey of 90 of the largest food banks, with 48 responding across 35 states and DC. You'll hear why West Virginia pantries are struggling to keep up, why a North Dakota food bank is getting panic calls weekly over bare shelves, why an Oregon food bank says diesel is eating more of its budget than food itself, and why Maine is now limiting visits and rationing milk, meat and produce. 

We also cover 1 in 5 Texans experiencing food insecurity, 1 in 7 Delawareans facing hunger near Thanksgiving, CalFresh benefits reduced or lost driving first-time visitors, and why more Americans are using Klarna, Affirm and Afterpay to buy groceries at Walmart. Plus why grocery stores are slashing prices instead of donating, why farmers say food shortage 2026 prices will rise, and my practical prep list: water, eggs, beans and rice, and frozen chicken. This is about preparation, not panic. If food banks are asking for money just to transport food, now is the time to get ready before it's too late."

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Snyder Reports, 10/19/26

"Your Grandparents Knew Something

 About Grocery Shopping That We Forgot!"

"What if I told you I could save you $200 per month or more on groceries? I slashed my grocery budget from $1,200+ down to about $400/month to feed a family of four - and in this video I share 6 simple strategies to help you save money on groceries this year. Grocery prices continue to go up and millions of households are wondering when they'll get relief. These are practical grocery shopping tips that actually work - from digital coupons at Walmart, Target and Costco, to planning meals around sales, buying whole chicken for 3 meals, buying store brand, never shopping hungry, stocking up in bulk, freezing leftovers, and shopping online with a grocery app to stay under budget. You'll also hear tips from Rachel Cruz on where you shop, meal planning and sticking to a list, plus how one family keeps it under $175/week and how to use AI meal-plan tools and rewards points for gas. These are the old-school 70s, 80s and 90s habits - clip coupons, buy what's on sale, buy whole, freeze everything - updated for 2026 to find cheap groceries without sacrificing meals."

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"Economic Market Snapshot 10/19/26"

"Economic Market Snapshot 10/19/26"

Down the rabbit hole of psychopathic greed and insanity...

Only the consequences are real - to you!

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"It's a Big Club, and you ain't in it. 

You and I are not in the Big Club."

- George Carlin

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Market Data Center, Live Updates:

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Financial Stress Index

"The OFR Financial Stress Index (OFR FSI) is a daily market-based snapshot of stress in global financial markets. It is constructed from 33 financial market variables, such as yield spreads, valuation measures, and interest rates. The OFR FSI is positive when stress levels are above average, and negative when stress levels are below average. The OFR FSI incorporates five categories of indicators: credit, equity valuation, funding, safe assets and volatility. The FSI shows stress contributions by three regions: United States, other advanced economies, and emerging markets."

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- https://www.dailyjobcuts.com/

Job cuts and much more.

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- https://www.zerohedge.com/

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- https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/

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- https://wallstreetonparade.com/

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- https://www.whatreallyhappened.com/

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- https://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/

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Commentary, highly recommended:

- https://www.theburningplatform.com/

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"The more I see of the monied classes,

the better I understand the guillotine."

- George Bernard Shaw

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Oh yeah... beyond words. Any I know anyway...

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And now... The End Game...

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Bill Bonner, "What Else Could Go Wrong?"

Violent protests in Paris, France.

"What Else Could Go Wrong?"

by Bill Bonner

Ardmore, Ireland - "Another fun-filled, wacko week! Poor Katie, we hardly knew ye. CNBC: "Katie Zacharia out as Trump’s White House press secretary." The poor girl had barely finished stumbling through her first and last press conference when she was shown the door. Ms. Zacharia had just told us about Kimberly Guilfoyle’s fall from grace...and then, it was just a matter of hours before she joined Ms. Guilfoyle tumbling down with the MAGA outcasts.

The Trumps had tried to get rid of Guilfoyle by sending her to Athens. But even there she made a nuisance of herself. Commentators said that Kimberly had ‘gone too far.’ That seems unlikely, since the Trump Team has thus far shown a remarkable tolerance for incompetence and self-dealing. More likely, Guilfoyle was viewed as an embarrassing and expendable small-time crook - unworthy of the company of people like Witkoff, Kushner and other pros. Women must be either useful or decorative, say the misanthropes. Ms. Guilfoyle had become neither.

We feel more sympathy for Zacharia. Is she a liar? Of course, she is. That is a job requirement. Asked where she had practiced law, she replied ‘um...in China,’ an obvious fib. Her problem was not that she lied, but that she wasn’t able to do it to White House standards. On her first day on the job, Ms. Zacharia was visibly nervous and painfully aware that she was in over her head. That at least left her with a certain vulnerable charm, which couldn’t be said for many of the rest of the rejects - Kimberly, Pam, Kristi, Tulsi...et al.

While this drama was playing out, came a report on Friday, that the US deficit for the fiscal year hit the $1.99 trillion mark. We’ve been saying for months that the deficit for the year would be $2 trillion. Okay, we were off by 0.5%. We’ll try to do better. Business Line: "US budget deficit rises to nearly $2 trillion in 2026, highest in five years." Record federal outlays and rising debt servicing costs weighed on US finances, while tariff refunds and higher defence spending added pressure .

And then came word that the situation was even worse than we thought. Fortune: "US debt interest payments hit $3 billion a day and jumped 8% in fiscal 2026 - faster than total federal spending, revenue and GDP growth…"

At this stage what voters are probably hoping for is reliability and predictability. A steady and sensible hand on the tiller! Alas, those are not Mr. Trump’s best qualities. Perhaps that is why his poll numbers are going where few poll numbers have ever gone before. Daily Beast: "Trump Hits Worst Poll Numbers Ever." No president has posted a higher disapproval rating since George W. Bush left office.

This is shocking...shocking I tell you! Not that his numbers are so bad; that is what you’d expect. The shock is that they’re not worse. And then came this from USA Today: "A new NBC News Decision Desk poll – taken with SurveyMonkey – found that 71% of adults think the country is on the “wrong track,” which marks the highest margin of Trump’s second term.

Trump’s approval rating fell to 34% among U.S. adults, a second-term low in NBC polling, while his disapproval rating sat at 66 percent. Fifty-one percent of respondents said they “strongly disapprove” of Trump’s performance, a second-term high."

Out on the Eastern Front, the war between the Ukraine and Russia has been a flop from almost every point of view. Russia hasn’t won. The Ukraine hasn’t lost. And billions of dollars are spent keeping it going. The US chose to root for the Ukrainians; Mr. Zelensky was greeted by a joint session of Congress, on its feet, cheering his defense of ‘freedom,’ and declaring that the Ukraine’s borders - established by Stalin and Khrushchev - were sacred and inviolable.

But Mr. Trump is not restrained by matters of principle, even when they are genuine. Last week, he ‘flipped the flop’ and made a deal with Putin...hoping that a few more barrels of diesel fuel will leave him in better shape after the midterm election. CNN: "Trump waives Russia-related sanctions before they even kick in as Ukraine ties worsen." He also seems to have acquiesced to Russia’s request for the US to stop aiding Zelensky with SpaceX Starshield tracking of Russia’s incoming attacks. True or not, we don’t know, but it was reported that more of Putin’s missiles were finding their targets.

But back in the financial news, AI debt got more attention. CNN: "Nasdaq sinks more than 2% as investors raise questions about AI debt." The AI companies have borrowed billions - far more than was required for the canals or railroads or any other technical advance. The money can only be repaid if AI proves not only clever and amusing...but extremely profitable. So far, there are few signs of it. AI can write sonnets, of that we have proof. But can it pay the rent? Probably not.

While stocks sank, oil rose. The Hill: "Oil hits $110 per barrel for first time since May." And finally, September’s inflation numbers came out last week, the last report before the election. Washington Post: "Inflation rose to a 3.7 percent annual pace in September, extending a relentless climb this year pushed by surging energy prices, which have soured Americans on the economy as they head to the polls. Gas and energy prices spiked sharply, driving a hotter-than-expected increase…"

What else could go wrong? That’s what we’ll find out this week! Stay tuned."

- https://www.bonnerprivateresearch.com/

John Wilder, "France In Freefall"

"France In Freefall"

by John Wilder

"I ordered a copy of "The Camp of the Saints" by Jean Raspail way back in 2015. At that point it was dystopian fiction about a failed future world. It’s a bleak read. The plot? The Third World had successfully weaponized Western Guilt and decided to invade by the millions. These invaders didn’t like Europeans and didn’t want to become like the Europeans. They hate Europeans.

They wanted to destroy the West and to destroy everything beautiful and to destroy every Western nation. They were abetted by Globoleftists who used virtue signaling and calling people “racist” if they opposed allowing their country to be invaded. Even the fictional Pope was in on it. The book ends with the extinction of Western civilization.

The book was published in 1973. That was fictional version of France. How is it tracking reality in France? Somewhere around 70% of the French are against importing infinity legal and illegal non-European stock people. This is also the number of French people who are observably French: people with no non-French parent or grandparent. That’s also about 70%.

I doubt many of them, before this weekend, wanted complete repatriation. But I think that’s a sentiment that is now shared by many. There’s a moment when shock overcomes the complacency.

Keep in mind that this is in a country that perfected the art of rioting “because it’s Tuesday” as far back as the French Revolution. Along with baguettes and cigarettes, the French just love riots, or riotettes as they would call them if I were making up the language. They have them slightly more often than the Olympics© and slightly less often than French women shave their legs.

So, even without the 15% to 20% Africans and Arabs that they imported, France is a riot-y place. To be clear, this 15% to 20% foreign invader group isn’t spread uniformly over France. Nope. They’re lumpy, because they moved to France not to be French, but because they wanted the free stuff and also to conquer the place. What free stuff? The are at least €10 billion spent every year to convince Arabs and Africans to move there. A € is like a metric $, and many Europeans keep their savings in the euro, although really rich Europeans have two euros.

That €10 billion doesn’t include things like medical care, food, schools, housing, clothing and all the other benefits which add at least €20 billion, and up to €50 billion more. Those totals don’t cover the violence and rape and theft. The non-European Diversity accounts for at least twice their population share in murders and rapes, and over four times their share in some theft categories. Those totals also don’t include the amount of damage caused in the latest riots. Who is going to pay for the free stuff? Well, almost certainly working French people who will pay the invaders to kill, rape, and reproduce.

Who benefits? The non-Europeans and the Leftists that are providing the services. Import a people to replace the ones they don’t like, and also get resources to the GloboLeft soldiers in the form of jobs and cash. Moving on from money, what evidence is there that this is a conquest?

Obviously, all doctors and engineers.

Well, the murders and rapes is a data point. That’s what conquerors do. The riots are another. The mass prayers that shut down streets is another, since they don’t do that in their own countries.

Among Moslems aged 15-24, slightly less than 60% want sharia law, and rules that favor islam. A 2025 French report showed that the Moslem Brotherhood® is infiltrating schools, clubs, charities, and other French bodies to islamize France. The Archbishop of Strasbourg reported that moslems had told him that, “One day all this will be ours.” Oh, and the no-go zones. White people.

To be clear, if the “far right” was doing this in Paris or Peoria or Plymouth, the army would be sent out, weapons-free. Because this hasn’t been done, nor has there been any meaningful attempt to stop it, this is what the system wants.

Riots mean more centralized government power. And the rioters will be rewarded with more of what they want, which means that the cycle will continue until the French are replaced. Thus, the government does nothing and Macron goes to a (spins wheel) Celine Dion concert while Paris burns. Could there be anything more apt?

I think that it’s clear that, immigration can lead the West to cultural oblivion. To be fair, I think it’s clear now that stopping immigration isn’t enough, and that demanding immigrant remigration is now a moderate position. If Jean Raspail tried to write "The Camp of the Saints" today, it would be a surprise because Raspail died in 2020. He never backed away from its core message, that the West is in danger and that anyone who denied that was lying.

They hate France, and they will burn France. Will they burn us here? If they can, they will, that much is clear. The earlier we stop them and send them home, the more blood that will be saved. It’s not racist to want to protect the nation your ancestors built. It’s not racist to want to protect your family and see your lineage continue. It’s not racist to want to give that nation to your children. But if it was racist, it still wouldn’t be wrong."

- https://wilderwealthywise.com/

Freely download "The Camp Of The Saints", by Jean Raspail, here:

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Jim Kunstler, "Intifada for All"

A Nice Bordeaux with Your Intifada?

"Intifada for All"

by Jim Kunstler

“The Dems are a total mess of cluster B psychopathology. 

They will continue to humiliate themselves & alienate the normal population.” 

- JD Haltigan on X

"Looks like the punishments will continue across the pond until morale improves. France on fire in the “mostly peaceful” riots - according to the BBC - this past weekend could yet ignite a final, furious, Globalist-Jacobin bid to wreck Western Civ as populist nationalism looms ever larger to defeat them. That is, whatever the demonic coalition of desperate Euro elites backed by the Soros NGO empire, the WEF, the UN bureaucracy, possibly the British Crown, and the EU, can induce their Lefty-left useful idiots to act out intifada-style against the people and their culture.

President Macron stepped up Sunday to ask, “How can French people do this to France?” as the ancient tower of the Limoges city hall collapsed in flames. Somebody please inform him that the parties responsible for all the fiery chaos are not necessarily French people. Any way you cut it, this has got to be the end-of-pretend that flooding Europe with jihadis for two decades was a grand and noble idea. Where’s that whiff of grapeshot when you really need it?

You also must wonder whether the American Lefty-left has riot-envy. Their handlers in the Democratic Party and its dark entourage of “resistance” foundations, billionaire NGO-funders, and Deep State seditionists must be itching to unleash similar punishments across the USA, as they managed to do in 2020 to honor the saintly George Floyd. Of course, they don’t have the same resources they enjoyed back then. The US president - know who that is? - has choked off a good deal of their money-laundered cash-flow.

The main question seems to be: will any street-fighting commence here before or after the mid-term election? Before Nov. 3, let’s face it, would not be such a good look for the Dems. Flash mobs of “teens” looting the sneaker stores and burning down 7-Eleven shops might only prompt the Trump-weary Republican hold-outs to show up at the polls bigly in swing states. Certainly, big, violent street demonstrations full of jihadi and communist iconography won’t reflect well on Mamdani wannabe Senate candidates Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan or Minnesota Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan, who assisted Tim Walz in covering-up the Somali fraud operations for years and years, and ran the Signal comms network during the Minneapolis ICE riots of last winter.

Of course, if the Euroland riots keep going, the American Lefties just might bust out anyway. “Solidarity,” and all that. Comically, the “No Kings” demos of Saturday were hamstrung when Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta company (formerly Facebook) suspended the No Kings Instagram account around the peak time of scheduled events around the country (starting at 1:30 p.m. ET) and for nearly two hours after. Meta later explained something about an automated security system triggered by a high volume of bot postings linked to an Anthropic AI tool. The No Kings organizers lost their action coordination platform. Fizzle fizzle. . . Boo-hoo.

After the election, however, you might consider that the same Lefty-left minions in America will take to the streets whether they win or lose the big contest over who gets to run Congress. For one thing, do not underestimate the degree of scrutiny that the federal government will give to balloting in previously sketchy corners of the land such as Michigan, Arizona, Minnesota, California, and many other places.

Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon, head of the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division, sent letters to fifty states last summer warning officials they could face criminal liability for allowing or enabling non-citizens to vote. This ain’t no fool’ around. The DOJ is also sending attorneys by the hundreds to “observe” election proceedings. The Department of Homeland Security announced and is taking multiple actions framed as “protecting election integrity and addressing voter fraud.”

The Democratic Party is already royally pissed-off at the prospect that their manifold cheating operations might be stifled this time around. You can bet that a failure to win the House and Senate will produce a vigorous reaction, easily turning violent, along with a massive effort led by lawfare ninjas Norm Eisen and Marc Elias to foul up all efforts at certifying the vote in a thousand frivolous lawsuits. Is it not time to recognize that as a form of seditious conspiracy and prosecute it accordingly?

The last big question, then, is how the president might respond to post-election shenanigans. Well, for one thing, and whatever the outcome, Mr. Trump will no longer be constrained by the need to avoid the appearance of election interference. My guess is that he will finally go medieval on these vile seditionists, even if it requires declaring some sort of national emergency or invoking the Insurrection Act. He is not going to allow a replay of anything like the 2020 mayhem.

Whatever the Europeans choose to do, it would be a shame if they lose their countries. We won’t lose ours, and we are not coming to rescue them this time."

- https://www.kunstler.com/

"Europe's Diesel Winter Is Coming, and Washington Is About to Make It Worse"

Paris is burning.

"Europe's Diesel Winter Is Coming, 

and Washington Is About to Make It Worse"

"Saudi Arabia went looking for allies against Ansar Allah, and so far it has gotten statements of support. Egypt has declared its readiness to back the Kingdom, but its statement does not commit to any military involvement. Pakistan and Turkey have pledged troops under the Mecca Joint Defense Agreement signed in August, but both governments say their forces will play “a supportive rather than active combat role” against the Houthis. I have watched coalition pledges like these for decades. Cairo has not forgotten its war in Yemen in the 1960s. Islamabad has its own border with Afghanistan and a restless India to think about. Neither is going to send its soldiers into the mountains of Saada, so Riyadh will be fighting this one essentially alone.

That matters because Ansar Allah has shown it can reach the Kingdom’s economic core. In the past two weeks the Houthis have struck at Aramco facilities near Riyadh, the Shedgum gas plant in the Ghawar corridor, and the Tanajib oil facility on the Gulf coast. They hit an administrative building at Aramco’s Dhahran headquarters, the company’s historic nerve center. Now they are reportedly targeting Yanbu.

Riyadh says little about the damage, and Aramco’s chief executive insists the company’s system is intact and can be restored to its full 12 million barrels a day within days. I don’t believe it. Karl Miller, who is on the ground in the region, tells me the Saudis have suffered significant damage. That matches what we can see from the outside: a coalition that keeps announcing interceptions while fires keep burning at the targets. Repairing gas-processing trains, stabilization units and refinery components is not a matter of days. After the 2019 Abqaiq-Khurais strike, Saudi output fell by 5.7 million barrels a day, and it took about two months to recover from a single attack on an undefended site. This time the attacks are sustained and repeated, and the repair crews are working under fire.

Yanbu is the crucial target. With Iran’s navy declaring the Strait of Hormuz closed except to vessels it authorizes, Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea terminal at Yanbu, fed by the East-West Pipeline, is the Kingdom’s escape route to world markets. Flows through Hormuz fell to 11.62 million barrels a day in the week to October 13, against a baseline of 17.15 million. That bypass is already badly damaged. The East-West Pipeline is designed to carry up to 7 million barrels a day across the peninsula, pushed along by 11 pumping stations. According to my sources in the region, four of those 11 stations have been severely damaged and are not functioning. This did not come out of nowhere. In September, an attack damaged pumping facilities and knocked the pipeline largely out of service, and regional officials told the Associated Press repairs would take three to five weeks. Aramco got the line back up, and it has been hit again. A pipeline missing more than a third of its pumping stations cannot move anything close to its rated volume, however much crude is waiting in the Eastern Province.

Meanwhile Ansar Allah has seized Greater and Lesser Hanish islands and Perim inside the Bab al-Mandab, putting it astride the very sea lanes that tankers leaving Yanbu must use. Damaged production, a crippled pipeline and a contested Red Sea together mean the world loses Saudi barrels three times over: some cannot be produced, some cannot reach the coast, and what reaches the coast cannot be shipped safely.

Diesel is where this hits hardest. Diesel moves the trucks, tractors, trains and ships that carry everything else, and Europe is one of the world’s dominant diesel importers. The International Energy Agency’s October report is blunt. Middle Eastern fuel exports are below half of pre-war levels, and diesel markets “will remain tight well into 2027.” The IEA does not expect lost diesel stocks to be replenished before the second half of 2027. Diesel benchmarks topped $200 a barrel in September and remain nearly double the price of crude, which is itself around $108 for Brent, up more than 75 percent from a year ago. Ukrainian drones keep hitting Russian refineries and export terminals, so Europe’s other traditional source of middle distillates is also impaired.

So when people ask me when diesel supply returns to normal, my answer is not soon. The IEA’s timeline, which does not account for sustained damage to Saudi facilities, points to the second half of 2027 at the earliest. A real recovery is at least a year away, and probably longer.

Don’t expect the Trump-Putin diesel deal to change that. As I have argued before, the Russian barrels are a rounding error. Moscow has cleared 500,000 tons for export, roughly 3.7 million barrels, with no shipping timeline. Even if every tranche Trump announced is delivered, about 4.8 million tons in total, that comes to roughly 36 million barrels spread over months. The first 300,000 tons equals less than one day of American transport diesel demand, and the full program equals less than four. Measured against the world’s lost Middle Eastern distillate exports, it is negligible. It also depends on Russian refineries that Ukrainian drones continue to hit, and on sanctioned tankers to carry it. The deal may make for a good headline. It will not move the supply curve, and so it will not bring down the price of diesel.

Europe is already paying the political price. On Saturday, France saw its worst rioting in years. The CGT union estimated more than 500,000 people in the streets protesting the cost of gasoline, energy and food, and more than 270 were arrested. In Milan, a demonstration against wars and rising living costs ended with barricades on fire and shops looted. Protests over the cost of living have spread to Belgium and Portugal. Albania has had five straight days of violent clashes in Tirana. The immediate trigger there is anger at Prime Minister Edi Rama, but it is part of the same continental mood of people who feel their governments have stopped listening.

This is the context in which Washington is considering new strikes on Iran. The ceasefire collapsed in July and has not been rebuilt. Every round of escalation since then has raised the price of oil, and each one has given Tehran a reason to tighten its grip on Hormuz and its allies in Yemen a reason to widen their target list. Another U.S. campaign will not reopen the Strait. It will further close it. It will push diesel prices back toward their September records just as Europe heads into winter, when heating oil demand peaks.

American policymakers seem to believe the costs of this war can be exported. They cannot. Europe’s economies were already weak before the war. Factories that run on diesel-powered logistics, farmers who need diesel for the harvest, and households that heat with fuel oil cannot absorb another price spike. The riots in Paris and Milan are a warning of what a long diesel shortage does to a society. If Washington widens this war, it will be choosing to make that shortage longer and deeper, and Europe will pay the bill on its streets."

- https://larrycjohnson.substack.com/

"What Is Happening In France Will Also Happen Here In The United States Too"

by Michael Snyder

"The same alliance that is doing it in France will also bring rioting, looting and civil unrest to the United States as well. It is known as “the Red/Green alliance”, and their shared goal is “revolution” all over the western world. Right now we are witnessing an unprecedented tactical convergence between far-left/Marxist movements (“red”) and radical Islamist groups (“green”), and this should deeply alarm all of us. Ultimately, the long-term goals of far-left organizations are much different from the long-term goals of the radical Islamists. But they both deeply hate the same people, and they both want to see the established order overthrown. So for now they are allies of convenience, and they are not afraid to use violence to achieve what they want.

It is certainly true that a relentless cost of living crisis that stretches all the way back to the beginning of this decade is causing immense economic distress both here in the United States and all over the western world. The far left and radical Islamists are attempting to use this economic turmoil to help fuel their anti-government riots. What we are witnessing in France is a perfect example of this.

It is being estimated that 550,000 people participated in the riots on Saturday, including 110,000 in the Paris metro area alone…Chaos exploded across France on Saturday as 550,000 protesters flooded the streets, torched cars and buildings, looted from posh stores including Louis Vuitton and Hermès, and even threatened to storm the Élysée Palace - prompting a defiant President Emmanuel Macron to rage: “Let them come and get me!”

In Paris alone, an estimated 110,000 demonstrators took to the streets, with masked protestors backed by the country’s far-left opposition leader smashing storefronts, targeting luxury business and confronting riot police armed with tear gas and water cannons. The mainstream media tried to frame the riots as “mostly peaceful protests”, but everyone could clearly see that was not true at all. Many of the rioters seemed to revel in the destruction that they were causing.

In one particularly disturbing incident, a historic town hall that had somehow survived both world wars was purposely set on fire… The iconic Limoges Town Hall, which was built in 1883 and survived both world wars, came tumbling down in a blaze after it was torched by rioters in the south-west of France. A video seen by 1.4 million people on X showed the building, which played a significant role in the French Resistance during the Second World War, collapsing, with its bell tower engulfed in flames.

So where were the police? They were on the run. The rioters vastly outnumbered them, and one official described the chaos in the streets as “apocalyptic”…‘It was apocalyptic,’ a senior commander told Sunday’s Le Parisien newspaper. ‘Law enforcement was unable to contain the multitude of simultaneous attacks occurring across the country, and was quickly overwhelmed by determined protesters.’ Explaining how a number of districts fell into ‘the hands of rioters’, the source said ‘there weren’t enough personnel or ammunition.’

The ‘apocalyptic rioting’ followed intense violence in recent weeks which saw gangs of agitators taking part in running battles with the forces of law and order. Of course whenever there is rioting, there will also be looting. In Paris, very large groups of “masked men wearing black hoodies” were grabbing whatever they could get their hands on… Smashing shop windows and snatching boxes of goods, looters in Paris poured into stores across the capital on Saturday, facing no resistance from authorities as nationwide protests degenerated into violence. Crowds of masked men wearing black hoodies yanked at metal store shutters until they gave way, clearing shelves of cigarettes, sunglasses, clothes, jewellery and food.

It appears that in many cases the looting was not spontaneous at all. In fact, it appears that some groups of looters were “highly organized”… According to AFP, some looting appeared highly organized. Groups of approximately six young men, wearing masks and gloves, approached stores and first disconnected their security cameras. Only then did they smash the windows, break into the premises and steal merchandise. The businesses targeted included supermarkets, pharmacies, luxury boutiques, clothing stores, electronics retailers, cosmetics shops and opticians. In Paris, footage showed looters stripping mobile phone stores of their merchandise and throwing products to accomplices waiting outside.

One widely circulated video, said to have been filmed in Paris, showed a woman desperately trying to stop masked looters from breaking into a supermarket. “Why are you doing this?” she shouted as the intruders pushed through the entrance. One initially placed a hand on her back, apparently trying to move her aside gently, but others surged forward and forced their way into the store. “Stop! That’s not the point!” she cried as she was pushed away. Her appeals failed to stop the looting.

This is what the far left does. They riot, loot and commit acts of random violence. The largest far left party in France knew what would happen, but they publicly backed the “protests” anyway…The disorder is backed by the far-left opposition leader La France Insoumise (France Unbowed) party. Its leader, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, is second in the polls for next year’s presidential elections, which take place in six months. Mélenchon blamed the authorities for blocking protesters from reaching Place de la République in Paris, which he said had been designated as the start of the protest.

It would be bad enough for leaders of France Unbowed to openly encourage the rioters. But the truth is that many of them have also been active participants in the “protests”… French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu took a more direct approach than Macron, saying the student movement has been “instrumentalized by the allies of France Unbowed (LFI)… for electoral reasons.” The left-wing LFI’s presidential candidate, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, even participated in one of the Paris protests this week, while LFI councilors, deputies, and mayors have joined student blockades in multiple cities.

Jean-Luc Mélenchon wants to turn France into a communist nation. And he is thrilled to have hordes and hordes of young Muslim radicals as his allies. Many of those young Muslim radicals proudly carry Palestinian flags with them, and that flag has become the most visible symbol of the French riots…

“Palestinian flags were visible among demonstrators as violence spread through French cities. A municipal police station was also attacked, shops were vandalized, and riot police deployed tear gas. Storming government buildings and attacking police are acts of political violence, not peaceful protest. President Macron called for calm before the violence erupted. The question now is what his government will do to restore order,” Pamela Geller reported.

The civil unrest is far from over. Of course it isn’t just France that has been thrown into a state of turmoil. Yesterday, protests in Italy got quite violent…Italian police fired tear gas at Italian protesters in the square in front of Milan’s Gothic cathedral, after rioters allegedly threw stones at officers, France 24 reported. Protesters in Milan also gathered in the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II – a luxury shopping centre. Shop owners put down their shutters and tourists appeared to flee the central area as the clashes turned violent, with the central Duomo metro station being temporarily closed.

And the riots in Albania just continue to escalate…Thousands of young Albanians gathered outside the Education Ministry in ​the center of the capital Tirana on Saturday on the fifth day of a growing student-led movement ‌to force Prime Minister Edi Rama to resign. The protest turned violent when a group of young people wearing masks hurled rocks at riot police, who responded with stun grenades, tear gas and a water cannon.

We are being told that people all over Europe are angry about the rising cost of living. And that is true. But it isn’t conservatives that are rioting. It isn’t Christians that are rioting. It is always the far left and the Muslims. That same alliance is going to bring rioting, looting and civil unrest to the United States too. We have seen various instances when this has occurred in recent years, but much worse is coming.

As Americans become increasingly frustrated with our seemingly endless cost of living crisis, “the Red/Green alliance” will use economic pain to stir up anger. But rioting, looting and civil unrest is not going to fix anything. The far left and the radical Muslims know this. They do not intend to fix the current system. Instead, they want “revolution” so that the current system can be completely wiped out."

- https://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/

Jeremiah Babe, "The World Is Entering The Point Of No Return"

Jeremiah Babe, 10/18/26

"The World Is Entering The Point Of No Return"

Comments here:

- https://www.youtube.com/

"Alert! Worldwide War Preparations Underway; Russia, Europe, Canada, Hormuz Are on Fire!"

Full screen recommended.

Canadian Prepper, 10/18/26

"Alert! Worldwide War Preparations Underway; 

Russia, Europe, Canada, Hormuz Are on Fire!"

Comments here:

- https://www.youtube.com/

"Landlords Are Raising Rent Everywhere! And Tenants Can't Afford To Stay"

Full screen recommended.

Epic Economist, 10/18/26

"Landlords Are Raising Rent Everywhere! 

And Tenants Can't Afford To Stay"

"Landlords are raising rent everywhere, and tenants simply can't afford to stay anymore. In this video, Americans show it from their side: a luxury apartment that went from $2,100 to $2,700 a month plus $125 parking, then listed the same unit for $1,950 to new tenants, a West Palm Beach renewal from $4,190 to $4,732, a Dallas renewal letter jumping from $1,800 to $2,200, a San Francisco three-bed raised 38% to $8,000 and then relisted 55% higher, a $5,200 Mission Street lease relisted at $8,200 after one year, $3,800 a month for a one-bedroom in Woodland Hills, New York City renewals that went up nearly $1,000, a one-bedroom that cost $575 in 2003 and $1,400 now, a $900 one-bedroom from 2019 that is now $1,700, a $350 college room in a city where rent has gone up two and a half times, Georgia landlords adding $200 to $300 every year, a $300 apartment from the 90s that now rents for $1,000, a Nashville renewal to $2,806, and a $236 rent hike after a few wood floors went in."

Comments here:

- https://www.youtube.com/

Dan, I Allegedly, "Wall Street Is Ignoring This Dangerous Warning"

Full screen recommended.

Dan, I Allegedly, 10/18/26

"Wall Street Is Ignoring This Dangerous Warning"

Comments here:

- https://www.youtube.com/

"Power Grid Warning: America Is Facing A Problem We Can't Ignore"

Full screen recommended.

Snyder Reports, 10/18/26

"Power Grid Warning: 

America Is Facing A Problem We Can't Ignore"

"One of the nation's largest grid operators just warned there is little room for error - and 13 states plus DC are already feeling it. In this video I break down why PJM Interconnection says year-round data center demand plus wild fall weather wiped out the maintenance window, the Trump Energy Department emergency order to prevent blackouts across 13 states amid unusual October heat, the planned 6-hour power outage for 11 South Dakota towns on October 29th, and what freeze warnings this morning plus a coming El Nino winter mean for you. If you use electricity for anything, you need to see what is putting the power grid under stress and how to prepare for winter blackouts."

Comments here:

- https://www.youtube.com/

Musical Interlude: Procol Harum, "A Salty Dog"

Procol Harum, "A Salty Dog"

After all the bad news, a much needed interlude...

Hey, we need it! lol

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"Ulysses"

"There lies the port; the vessel puffs her sail:

There gloom the dark, broad seas. My mariners,

Souls that have toil'd, and wrought, and thought with me -

That ever with a frolic welcome took

The thunder and the sunshine, and opposed

Free hearts, free foreheads - you and I are old;

Old age hath yet his honor and his toil;

Death closes all: but something ere the end,

Some work of noble note, may yet be done,

Not unbecoming men that strove with Gods.

The lights begin to twinkle from the rocks:

The long day wanes: the slow moon climbs: the deep

Moans round with many voices. Come, my friends,

'Tis not too late to seek a newer world.

Push off, and sitting well in order smite

The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds

To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths

Of all the western stars, until I die.

It may be that the gulfs will wash us down:

It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles,

And see the great Achilles, whom we knew.

Tho' much is taken, much abides; and tho'

We are not now that strength which in old days

Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;

One equal temper of heroic hearts,

Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will

To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield."

- Alfred, Lord Tennyson

"A Look to the Heavens"

"In silhouette against a crowded star field along the tail of the arachnalogical constellation Scorpius, this dusty cosmic cloud evokes for some the image of an ominous dark tower.

In fact, clumps of dust and molecular gas collapsing to form stars may well lurk within the dark nebula, a structure that spans almost 40 light-years across this gorgeous telescopic portrait. Known as a cometary globule, the swept-back cloud, is shaped by intense ultraviolet radiation from the OB association of very hot stars in NGC 6231, off the upper edge of the scene. That energetic ultraviolet light also powers the globule's bordering reddish glow of hydrogen gas. Hot stars embedded in the dust can be seen as bluish reflection nebulae. This dark tower, NGC 6231, and associated nebulae are about 5,000 light-years away."

- https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap210715.html

Three-Quarter Town, "A Hen Paid Her Rent With One Brown Egg"

Full screen recommended.

Three-Quarter Town,

"A Hen Paid Her Rent With One Brown Egg"

"Miss Agatha keeps the cleanest doorstep in town and wants it left exactly that way. Then a stubborn brown hen named Henrietta settles on her doormat and refuses every attempt to send her away. When Henrietta leaves one brown egg as “rent,” Agatha’s perfectly ordered life begins to make room for an unexpected friend. Henrietta follows her walks, guards the gate from the postman, claims the rocking chair, and eventually crosses the doorway during a terrible storm. Before long, two breakfasts are waiting in the kitchen and Agatha is no longer quite so alone. Carried by an original acoustic folk duet, this warm song-story is about unlikely friendship, quiet loneliness, and the small disorder that sometimes turns a house into a home. A quiet song-story from Three-Quarter Town."

The Poet: Rod McKuen, “A Cat Named Sloopy”

 

“A Cat Named Sloopy”

“For awhile

the only earth that Sloopy knew

was in her sandbox.

Two rooms were her domain.

Every night she’d sit in the window

among the avocado plants

waiting for me to come home,

my arms full of canned liver and love.

We’d talk into the night then,

contented,

but missing something.

She the earth she never knew,

me the hills I ran

while growing bent.

Sloopy should have been a cowboy’s cat,

with prairies to run,

not linoleum,

and real-live catnip mice,

no one to depend on but herself.

I never told her,

but in my mind

I was a midnight cowboy even then.

Riding my imaginary horse

down Forty-second street,

going off with strangers

to live an hour-long cowboy’s life.

But always coming home to Sloopy,

who loved me best.

For a dozen summers

we lived against the world.

An island on an island.

She’d comfort me with purring,

I’d fatten her with smiles.

We grew rich on trust,

needing not the beach or butterflies.

I had a friend named Ben

Who painted buildings like Roualt men.

He went away.

My laughter tired Lillian

after a time,

she found a man who only smiled.

But Sloopy stayed and stayed.

Winter,

Nineteen fifty-nine,

Old men walk their dogs.

Some are walked so often

that their feet leave

little pink tracks

in the soft snow.

Women, fur on fur,

elegant and easy,

only slightly pure,

hailing cabs to take them

round the block and back.

Who is not a love seeker

when December comes?

Even children pray to Santa Claus.

I had my own love safe at home,

and yet I stayed out all one night,

the next day too.

They must have thought me crazy

screaming SLOOPY!

SLOOPY!

as the snow came falling

down around me.

I was a madman

to have stayed away

one minute more

than the appointed hour.

I’d like to think a golden cowboy

snatched her from the window sill,

and safely saddlebagged

she rode to Arizona.

She’s stalking lizards

in the cactus now perhaps,

bitter, but free.

I’m bitter too,

and not a free man anymore.

But once upon a time,

In New York’s jungle in a tree,

before I went into the world

in search of other kinds of love,

nobody owned me but a cat named Sloopy.

Looking back,

perhaps she’s been

the only human thing

that ever gave back love to me.”

- Rod McKuen 

"For the Souls Who Are Tired of Everything"

The Silent Grace,

"For the Souls Who Are Tired of Everything"

Blues Masterpiece, "When I Was Young"

Full screen recommended.

Blues Masterpiece, "When I Was Young"

“When I Was Young” is a reflective blues journey back to earlier days, when life felt simpler, time moved slower, and the world seemed wide open. The singer looks back with a mix of warmth and quiet sadness, remembering moments that didn’t seem important then but mean everything now. Carried by gentle blues guitar and the soft, nostalgic cry of the harmonica, the song drifts through memories of youth, mistakes, dreams, and the passage of time. The voice is calm and honest, holding both appreciation and longing in every line. A look back… with wiser eyes."

The Daily "Near You?"

Peterborough, New Hampshire, USA. Thanks for stopping by!

"Looters of the World, Unite!"

The moment the “mostly peaceful protests” saw

the tower on the 143-year old town hall in Limoges collapse.

"Looters of the World, Unite!"

The Republic burns as riots spread across Europe...

by Joel Bowman

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. 

It was their final, most essential command.”

~ George Orwell, "1984"

Buenos Aires, Argentina - "The world turns, dear reader, some places towards the light… others toward the darkness. From our downside-up perch here in the ‘Paris of the South,’ we watch with no pleasure the scenes of chaos and havoc ripping through the ‘Buenos Aires of the North.’

What began in France as a loosely organized student tantrum, where an entitled generation of loafers spit their pacifiers out of the oppressive confines of their UPPAbaby strollers, quickly morphed into a sweeping, multicultural fête, in which (mostly) left-wing agitators, lunatic Islamists, cosplaying communist radicals and other unlikely bedfellows gathered round to raze France’s fine cities to the ground.

You know… kinda like the usual suspects do when their soccer teams lose. Or win. Or draw. Or don’t even play. Here they are, presumably rummaging for school supplies in Louis Vuitton…

The situation in France is completely out of control. This France has no future.

And here again, eschewing the bourgeois trappings of predatory, consumerist capitalism at the heritage luxury brand store, Pyrenex. Coz nothing says “sticking it to the man” quite like some quality goose down outerwear, AmIRight?!?!

France in total chaos, they enter, smash everything, loot, violence like never seen before. They are not students, they are criminals. This is the multicultural France they dreamed of, but it turned into a nightmare. Europe, America, Canada, South America, Japan, watch and learn.

Monkey See, Monkey Do: Mobs being what they are – averse to independent thinking, by definition – a series of copycat riots soon exploded across the country, with high school students masked hoodlums setting fire to public buildings and looting luxury brand stores in Marseille… Bordeaux… Lyon… Lille… Toulouse… and Limoges…

As one writer posted of the latter, historic city: A crowd of very young people stormed the city hall, a protected historic monument built in the 1880s. They flipped police cars in front of it and set them ablaze, then set the building itself on fire. The flames took the roof, the wedding hall, and the civil registry, the office that records every birth, every marriage, every death in the city. Tonight, the bell tower that has crowned Limoges for nearly 150 years collapsed.

Not wanting to miss all the fun, fellow anti-capitalist Looters of the World soon took up “the cause” (their own, naturally) in neighboring Belgium and Spain. Before long, the pandemonium had spread to Italy and Albania, too…

But lest you go searching for videos online (there are literally thousands of actual, eye-witness recordings) and find yourself tempted to believe your own “lying eyes,” why not sit back and let the mainstream media frame reality for you?

According to the long-disgraced legacy mastheads, what you see as organized violence and rampant destruction of private property is really just a few “scuffles” between a few heroic students and public servants. They’re not rioting, you see, pilfering and burning historic monuments, they’re merely “demonstrating.”

And of course, the Old Gray Lady was on hand to peddle her own “Mostly Peaceful Protest” gaslighting credulous normies while painting the shameless criminals as Quixotic heroes, bravely carrying forth the torch of “civil resistance”…

The proximate causes of the spreading conflagration, according to the popular presses: the cost of living crisis, underfunded schools, high fuel prices, etc.

And yet, few stop to examine the root causes of these symptoms… to understand that inflation is “everywhere and always a monetary phenomenon”… that destroying domestic energy production capacity (Net Zero madness) inevitably leads to higher energy prices… that there is no such thing as a “free lunch” (someone, somewhere must pay for all that “free” education, “free” healthcare, etc.)…and that public schools that fail to teach these basic realities are probably not worth attending anyway, regardless of the fees.

Unless, of course, it’s not really about students’ “right” to a miseducation after all… but something altogether more sinister…And that, dear reader, will be the subject for a future Note…"

- https://joelbowman.substack.com/