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Daily Bread for 6.8.26: 100 Days of War

Good morning.

Monday in Whitewater will be rainy with a high of 81. Sunrise is 5:16 and sunset is 8:31 for 15 hours 15 minutes of daylight. The moon is in its last quarter with 49.1 percent of its visible disk illuminated.

Whitewater’s Plan & Architectural Review Commission meets at 6 PM.

On this day in 1949, George Orwell‘s dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four is published.


It’s been one hundred days of war, with shifting goals, declarations that it’s not a war, declarations that it was a war that’s now over, and intermittent pleas to Israel to stop attacking others in the Middle East. Not all developments, however, are uncertain:

Inflation on the rise

Economic data has started to show the broader impact the war is having beyond financial markets. 

As the ongoing war keeps energy costs high, inflation prints across various major economies have begun to show prices rising — driven by surging costs of oil, gas, jet fuel and gasoline. 

In the U.S., the consumer price index hit an annual rate of 3.8% in April, its highest level in almost three years. 

Dwindling energy supplies from the Middle East have been a major driver of inflation upticks, although surging prices have prompted government interventions from some countries, including Germany and India.

See Chloe Taylor, 100 days of the Iran war: How global markets and the economy have been affected, in charts, CNBC, June 7, 2026.

Mr. Trump claimed he would bring about lower prices. How a man who advocated throughout his life for inflationary tariffs was to bring about lower prices was left unstated. Trump was supposed to end needless wars, too, but is now denying that he promised what he did, in fact, promise.

It’s almost as though this calm, cool, and collected gentleman’s election was a mistake.

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Upcoming posts (in no decided order): A Whitewater Comparative Analysis, Whitewater’s Workforce, Outcome-Driven Argumentation, and a New Ethics Ordinance.


Interceptions seen over Jerusalem and West Bank as Israel, Iran exchange fire:

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