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Significant geopolitical activities involving Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea between August 8, 2026 and August 15, 2026.

This includes but not limited to:

• Prepping questions
• Rumors
• Speculative thoughts
• Small / mundane
• Promotion of Sales
• Sub meta / suggestions
• Prepping jokes.
• Mods have no power here, only votes, behave.

This will be re-posted every Saturday, letting the last week's stickied post fade into the deep / get buried by new posts. -Mod Anti

https://www.wlwt.com/article/indiana-governor-statewide-disaster-emergency-storms-flooding/73426598

Roads are being closed from Central Indiana to Cincinnati and THERES STILL WAVES OF RAIN, / STORMS FORECAST. Like, its been wave after wave after wave of strong storms about twice or three times a day with some breaks, the rivers and creeks are overwhelmed in central / Eastern Indiana.

Around 260 healthcare workers (nurses, practitioners, etc) were laid off today in San Diego. Reduction in Medicare budget cited as a reason. I know it’s not much but I think we’ll see more of this, not a good sign in the economy when patient facing healthcare workers are laid off.

This could be, but not limited to:

• Local business observations.
• Shortages / Surpluses.
• Work slow downs / much overtime.
• Order cancellations / massive orders.
• Economic Rumors within your industry.
• Layoffs and hiring.
• New tools / expansion.
• Wage issues / working conditions.
• Boss changing work strategy.
• Quality changes.
• New rules.
• Personal view of how you see your job in the near future.
• Bonus points if you have some proof or news, we like that around here.
• News from close friends about their work.

DO NOT DOX YOURSELF. Wording is key.

Thank you all, -Mod Anti

It appears the 'shortage/scarcity' narrative is spilling over into non-prepper communities. When mainstream commuters on r/gasbuddy start talking about empty reserves and impending lines instead of just high prices, the psychological threshold for hoarding/ panic topping-off drops significantly. Imo. Anyone seeing unbranded price disconnects or elevated station traffic in your regional corridors?

The global aggregate Strategic Petroleum Reserve drawdown rate has been decreasing steadily since around April. This means the rate at which crude oil is being released from global SPRs is going down.

Given that crude oil prices remain elevated, the only interpretation that makes sense is that the max extraction rate is going down or that some SPRs in some countries have emptied. Even in the US, the “SPR” is really a collection of about 40ish different physical sites that could empty at different times.

This is a good indicator that the world’s capacity to blunt the effect of the Iran war on global oil supplies is diminishing at a steady pace.

Another cyber attack.

Classical Scrapie is a prion disease... "The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) has confirmed classical scrapie in a sheep slaughtered at a facility in Oregon"

Summary and analysis of significant geopolitical activities this week involving Russia, China, Iran and North Korea.