Request for Information (RFI) – Weekly SITREP

General Location: Upper New England

Food Price / Shortages: Elevated/ None

Fuel Prices / Shortages: Elevated $3.49 Gl Reg /None

Unusual Military Movement:
None

Civil Unrest / Crime:

Raids on large scale Chicom cannabis grow operations in Maine continue. The county sheriffs and local police now seem to be taking these seriously while the DEA and the DHS offer only token support. As seems to be case each time this happens, No arrests were made despite there typically being one or 2 Chinese crop tenders in residence. There is also no indication that these properties are being seized under drug asset forfeiture laws as was common in the “War on Drugs” era. The owners are usually Chinese nationals living in New York City or Boston. One can only conclude that the authorities do not wish to deal with processing illegal Chinese nationals engaged in felony drug trafficking.

Interesting Local News / Events: None

Public Service Interruptions: None

Changes in Patterns of Life: Small towns in this region are dealing with mining industry pressure to exploit known deposits of Lithium and other minerals useful for the “green” energy psyop.

Any additional observations or comments: None

AO: southern greece

fuel/energy prices: slightly higher, specially gasoline – EUR 2.10-2.40/liter
diesel, kerosene, and propane about the same .

shortages: seems that powder for reloading (shotshells only, but people do reload as every penny saved counts) is almost impossible to obtain. nobody has any in stock. all other components , primers, wads, cards, cups, etc, all available.

other news: local to this AO only, but the local municipal council just decided to raise water rates to _roughly five times_ their current level! This effectively subsidizes the drilling of more wells etc for supplying tourist industry sites with water (tourism in summertime uses 5x the amount of water as actual residents use- in e.g. july there are about 20,000 actual residents here and 60-80 thousand tourists, and theyre filling swimming pools and laundering the whole suite’s linens every few days)..
our village water source is a well and a spring. the well was dug at least five centuries ago, so the municipal govt certainly had no hand in that. the spring was bought by a group of villagers in a private sale in the 70s and donated to the village, along with private donations that funded the 2 miles or so of pipe to bring the spring water down to the village. then early 2000s the central government just up and abolished all local village government and rolled it all into the municipality, and the municipality just up and declared that the water belonged to them and sends everyone a bill now. out water and its network is not even connected to anything else, but now we’re paying to subsidize the tourists wasting water instead of charging the resort and hotel owners an arm and a leg for using our water!)

this year is looking like its going to be a pretty bad year for water. last year was marginal and this past winter was very poor. Expect some fights to flare up over this new move.
About 5 years ago when the municipality drilled a new well on the edge of the uplands, to steal even more water for tourism in the lowlands, after they’d unloaded several miles of plastic pipe but before theyd installed it, protestors set the pipes on fire and damaged hundreds of them. the town council brought in about 30 swat cops from the mainland to put down what had become a round the clock demonstration at the drilling site. you can see why guns are almost completely prohibited here, the govt pushes people around any way they like.

On that same subject another bit of old news, also about 5 years ago, when the central govt sent a crew of about 100 swat cops to another island to shut down much more organized local resistance to the construction of a humongous housing complex for illegal immigrants, in that case all the local council and mayor were siding with the people, when those cops arrived from the mainland they all stayed of course in some hotel they’d booked in its entirety for the purpose. the first night they were there, citizens stormed the place, catching most of them in bed, and beat the crap out of them with sticks, clubs, crowbars, their bare hands, etc. the govt recalled the cops to the mainland and postponed the project.