Southern Italy ran out of food this week because truckers could not afford the diesel to deliver it. Produce, meat, dairy and frozen goods went bare in Palermo and Catania over the weekend. Shelves in Calabria and Puglia look the same. Farmers and truckers have been blocking highways since early October over diesel at 2.16 to 2.40 euros a liter. Trucks stopped rolling and deliveries stopped landing, so stores built on just-in-time restocking emptied in days. Reports put the population of the affected regions near twenty million. Panic buying finished off whatever the blockades missed. Diesel in the United States averaged 6.18 a gallon for the week ending October 12, per EIA data. That is more than 2.50 above a year ago, and it ran 3.50 to 3.80 back in February. Every load of food in this country moves on that same fuel. Bank of America's input basket of wages, diesel and commodities jumped from 46 percent in August to 68 percent in September. Their read is food-at-home prices climbing roughly 8 percent over the next six months. Full Spectrum Survival put the blunt version of it in that breakdown: an empty shelf does not care about the reason behind it. If you cannot feed your family, you have nothing. I look at the diesel bill on my feed truck and hay haul before I look at anything else each month. When it doubles, the squeeze comes out of the cattle or out of the price on your plate. That is why I sell beef by the quarter and the half straight off this ranch. Fuel touches my price once, and then the meat is in your freezer. Your rancher, Jason Hanley | 208-714-0478

Ramsey Lyons sucker-punched a 16-year-old holding a door at a Florida Wawa in 2025 Instead of jail, the court put him in a mental health diversion program The boy's mother asked prosecutors for jail time. She warned them he was dangerous. July 6: the court ended his probation early. The State Attorney didn't object. The minutes read "Graduation! Congratulations!" with a smiley face. October 10: police say Lyons walked into a Punta Gorda Publix and slashed a 70-year-old man from cheek to neck with a box cutter. He told police he'd planned it for two days and wanted to kill someone He could have been locked up. Instead, he was out free

USAA fired all of its American workers and replaced them with H1B’s, and now a bunch of people had all of their money vanish.

HOLY FUCK!

If a job can’t be done by an American then it doesn’t need to exist in the American market 🇺🇸

The despair of a Parisian - pleading with the feral smooth brains not to destroy her store The death rattle of Paris as western civ breathes its last gasps. Notre Dame was no accident. It was the beginning of the end.

🚨BREAKING: The historic Limoges town hall has just completely collapsed after far-left rioters set it on fire It was built in 1876. It survived World Wars. It did not survive modern France.

We are told that Ethiopia is one of those great African civilizations because it was never colonized In reality, it was conquered by the British because the blood-mad, Caligula-like tyrant who ruled it took British subjects hostage; they conquered it easily enough, but found nothing of value worth staying for, even compared to the rest of Africa. Describing the operation in his The Decline and Fall of the British Empire, 1781-1997, Piers Brendon writes: "In 1868 General Sir Robert Napier, a grizzled veteran of many wars, was sent to invade Ethiopia. The purpose of his expedition was to rescue some sixty European prisoners incarcerated by the Emperor Theodore. But it was also a parade of power. It was designed to uphold British prestige in Africa, to buttress the Raj in India and to show possible rivals elsewhere that Britannia's reach extended well beyond the waves. As America began to rebuild in the wake of Lee's surrender at Appomattox, as Germany moved towards unification after Bismarck's Prussia defeated Austria at Sadowa (1866), as Napoleon III's France, which had just acquired part of Cochin China, looked set to exploit the Suez Canal, Queen Victoria's subjects were painfully reminded of "the ephemeral nature of Britain's supremacy overseas. Anxiety about decline, in the economic as well as the political sphere, was a root cause of British participation in the scramble for Africafor which the Abyssinian adventure was a rehearsal. What immediately prompted Napier's mission, though, was the repeated cry of "Civis Romanus sum," uttered by a public stirred over the plight of white captives in the hands of a "horrible barbarian." This characterisation of the Emperor did not just stem from prejudice since Theodore, who had waded through blood to the throne, was an Ethiopian Caligula. He presided cruelly and capriciously over an isolated realm whose people had (as Gibbon said) 'slept near a thousand years, forgetful of the world, by whom they were forgotten.'"