{"id":68084,"date":"2023-08-09T04:58:19","date_gmt":"2023-08-09T09:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/?p=68084"},"modified":"2023-08-09T04:58:19","modified_gmt":"2023-08-09T09:58:19","slug":"which-story-is-more-important","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/09\/which-story-is-more-important\/","title":{"rendered":"Which Story Is More Important?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-68085 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Black-Horse.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"537\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Black-Horse.jpg 720w, https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Black-Horse-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/h1>\n<h1 class=\"entry-title\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ncrenegade.com\/which-story-is-more-important\/\">Which Story Is More Important?<\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">TURKEY-  a powerful explosion has destroyed The Turkish Grain depot.<\/p>\n<p>This holds up to 8 million tons of wheat, barley, legumes, chickpeas and lentils and has been highly stocked to lessen the impact of war.<\/p>\n<p>Extremely bad news for citizens!<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TQef7V8ABY\">pic.twitter.com\/TQef7V8ABY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Bernie&#39;s Tweets (@BernieSpofforth) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BernieSpofforth\/status\/1688536718465462272?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 7, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>I checked the current\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/commodities\/?commodity=wheat\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">price<\/a>\u00a0for a ton of wheat: $345.50 per ton. That would be $2,764,000,000 or 2,525,190,400 euros. I will use the cost of wheat for this article since no breakdown was given and I will assume that it is the cheapest of the grains. Chickpeas and lentils are\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.indexbox.io\/blog\/chick-peas-price-per-ton-in-august-2022\/\">$1285<\/a>\u00a0per ton so the true cost of this loss is more.<\/h2>\n<h2>Now consider the stock market losses today due to Italy\u2019s decision to tax banks\u2019 windfall profits. If the tax is approved,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/europe\/italy-approves-40-windfall-tax-on-banks-be-limited-2023-2023-08-07\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">sources said the Treasury expected to collect less than 3 billion euros ($3.3 billion) from the measure<\/a>.<\/h2>\n<h2>My best guess is that the cost of the lost grains is higher than the proposed tax but the loss in the world\u2019s stock markets is much more. We have yet to see the impact this explosion and fire will have on the grain market. I expect the banks will continue to receive the bulk of the news since the powers in charge what to reduce our food supply.<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-68086 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Revelation.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Revelation.jpg 400w, https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Revelation-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Revelation-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crosswalk.com\/church\/pastors-or-leadership\/ask-roger\/what-are-the-4-horses-of-the-apocalypse-and-why-do-they-matter.html\"><strong>The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse<\/strong><\/a><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Which Story Is More Important? &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; I checked the current\u00a0price\u00a0for a ton of wheat: $345.50 per ton. That would be $2,764,000,000 or 2,525,190,400 euros. I will use the cost of wheat for this article since no breakdown was given and I will assume that it is the cheapest of the grains. Chickpeas and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[15710,74,3812],"tags":[16282,16283,6918,7817,15380,16284],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68084"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68084"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68088,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68084\/revisions\/68088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}