Editor’s Note: Mainly, I am focusing in on our military withdrawal from Afghanistan in this commentary. So was this planned to produce the results we are seeing right now? It was, in fact, a highly disgusting move by our military and elected leaders!! How can highly paid officials and leaders be so absolutely arrogant and blind to not expect total turmoil, death and carnage from such a military disaster? But was it engineered to be this way?
Humiliate the [once] greatest nation ever on the face of the earth. What was the plan here?
Checking his watch…?!?!?!? Really…!
Has Almighty God lifted His hand now off America so we are left with spiritual blindness, chaos, confusion and moronic, demonic national leaders? Please consider what is happening now to the US. We may not have any allies left that will come to our aid if our now emboldened enemies decide to try and take down the US. Be in prayer everyone and watch daily for what comes next.
The following article was originally published by Michael Snyder at The Economic Collapse Blog. (Used by permission). See his disclaimer below.
A Very Odd Confluence Of Events
By Michael Snyder, Aug 29, 2021
August has definitely been a “turning point”, and in recent weeks we have had the opportunity to watch some incredibly shocking events unfold which will change the course of history permanently. At this moment, Hurricane Ida is the biggest story that everyone is discussing. As I warned about on Friday, Ida went through a period of “rapid intensification” in the Gulf of Mexico before coming ashore in Louisiana on Sunday as an absolutely monstrous storm. It hit New Orleans exactly 16 years to the day after Hurricane Katrina did, and many are pointing out that this seems to be a really “strange” coincidence.
When Hurricane Katrina made landfall in Louisiana in 2005, it was a Category 3 storm, but Hurricane Ida was actually a Category 4 storm when it made landfall near Port Fourchon…
Hurricane Ida’s initial impacts began early Sunday as the outer bands brought heavy rain to the Louisiana coast early Sunday. The Category 4 hurricane, packing sustained winds of 150 mph came ashore at 11:55 a.m. CDT near Port Fourchon, Louisiana.
Ida has become the first landfalling hurricane on United States soil in 2021, and AccuWeather forecasters, expecting extreme impacts for the Gulf Coast, have rated Ida a 4 on the AccuWeather RealImpact™ Scale for Hurricanes.
The extremely high winds have torn roofs from countless homes and buildings, and in some cases power lines have been snapped in two.
At this hour, hundreds of thousands of local residents are without power, and Governor John Bel Edwards is telling the press that Ida could be the most powerful storm to hit Louisiana in over 160 years…
Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards said the storm could be the most powerful to pound the state in more than 160 years. Hurricane Katrina, which flooded most of New Orleans, killing almost 2,000 people and causing damages estimated at $125 billion, made landfall 16 years ago to the day – as a Category 3 storm.
From an economic standpoint, one of the biggest concerns is that nearly all of the oil production facilities in the Gulf of Mexico have been forced to temporarily close down…
More than 95% of the Gulf of Mexico’s oil production facilities have been shut down, regulators said Sunday, indicating the massive storm is having a significant impact on energy supply.
Six refineries in the New Orleans area — including PBF, Phillips, Shell, Marathon and two Valero refineries — are shut down right now, Andy Lipow, president of Lipow Oil Associates, a Houston-based consulting firm, told CNN Business. “It’s now a waiting game to assess whatever wind and flooding damage will be caused as the hurricane passes through the area.”
Needless to say, this is likely to cause another supply crunch, and we already being warned to expect significantly higher gasoline prices…
The Gulf of Mexico federal offshore oil production accounts for 17% of the country’s crude oil production and 5% of its federal offshore dry gas production, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
Andrew Lipow, president of Lipow Oil Associates in Houston, said Saturday that if the New Orleans refineries take a direct hit from a Category 4 storm, gas prices would likely rise by about 10 cents a gallon in the Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic markets.
Meanwhile, the greatest foreign policy debacle in modern American history continues to unfold in Afghanistan.
The way that the Biden administration has handled this crisis has been utterly shameful, and it has resulted in the deaths of 13 service members.
As Hurricane Ida was pummeling Louisiana on Sunday, Joe Biden and his minions were overseeing the transfer of the remains of those service members…
In a silence broken only by the sobs of bereaved families, Joe Biden stood Sunday, hand over his heart, to pay tribute as the remains of the US service members killed in the Kabul bombing attack were transferred from a military C-17 cargo plane to a closely parked row of gray hearses.
But Biden grew impatient at one point, and footage of the event actually shows him checking his watch.
If you have not seen this shocking moment yet, you can view it right here.
Did he really think that nobody would notice?
Later on, reporters wanted to ask Biden some questions about Afghanistan, but he abruptly refused…
‘I’m not supposed to take any questions, but go ahead,’ he said as he turned to the travelling press pool.
‘On Afghanistan…’ said a reporter before he cut him off.
He snapped: ‘I’m not going to answer Afghanistan now.’
The president turned away from the press pool to talk to FEMA staff as the reporter continued with a question about whether he still believed ‘there was an extreme risk at the airport.’
This crisis has clearly demonstrated that our new “woke military” has become weak and pathetic, and it is being led by weak and pathetic brass at the Pentagon.
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