"WHEN COPS RUN OUT OF AMMO"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Up5OgP_LmZc

Disturbing that the violent collapse of South Africa is not headlined every day in our media. We are being distracted by covid for a reason.

I just got a message from a personal friend who delivers to big chain grocery stores. He says the meat shortage is already acute and other necessities are in short supply right now!

I recently visited a restaurant supply store and it had some pork, very little beef and no chicken. Fresh produce was in short supply, flour was largely absent and there were no institutional quantities of toilet paper. Buckle up. It's gonna be a rough ride.

If the collapse is coming, I hope it's coming soon so we have "General Winter" on our side.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Up5OgP_LmZc

These are Americans in a once proud and historic American City. What did it cost to arrive here? Citizen filming the street. It's hard to watch. I Wonder if they vote.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyUGlCvfMcQ&t=238s

"Opioid abuse has skyrocketed over the last two decades (2001-2021) in the United States and Philadelphia is no exception"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium_production_in_Afghanistan

Soviet period (1979–1989)

Hekmatyar, the leading recipient of aid from the CIA and Pakistan, developed at least six heroin refineries in Koh-i-Sultan in southwestern Pakistan

"In July 2000, Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar, collaborating with the UN to eradicate heroin production in Afghanistan, declared that growing poppies was un-Islamic, resulting in one of the world's most successful anti-drug campaigns. The Taliban enforced a ban on poppy farming via threats, forced eradication, and public punishment of transgressors. The result was a 99% reduction in the area of opium poppy farming in Taliban-controlled areas, roughly three quarters of the world's supply of heroin at the time.'

Afghan War (2001–2021)

By November 2001, and with the start of the Afghan War, the collapse of the economy and the scarcity of other sources of revenue forced many of the country's farmers to resort to growing opium for export

"The country has been the world's leading illicit drug producer since 2001"

CIA. September 1, 2021: "Looks like our work here is done".

What DID it cost to arrive here?

Afghan civilians killed, through April: 47,245

American service members killed in Afghanistan: 2,461

U.S. contractors, through April: 3,846

Afghan national military and police, through April: 66,000

Other allied service members, including from other NATO member states, through April: 1,144.

Taliban and other opposition fighters, through April: 51,191

Aid workers, through April: 444

Journalists, through April: 72

And about $2,200,000,000,000. Not a typo. Over $2.2 TRILLION.

"War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small 'inside' group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of war a few people make huge fortunes."

Smedley Darlington Butler (1881 - 1940)

https://roanoke.com/news/local/quote-of-the-day-smedley-butler-on-war-and-rackets/article_5622d13b-9a8a-5299-a22e-c5ad7b7cdab6.html