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Sergey Glazyev: The World Economy Is Moving East and the West Can’t Stop It Radhika Desai: That’s a very interesting Russian perspective on it. Trump is Gorbachev and Yeltsin rolled into one. They both destroyed a lot of things, didn’t they? This Global Governance Initiative, what do you think of it? Sergey Glazyev: Well, I think it is very simple. If you look at what Chairman Xi is saying about global governance, it is exactly the rule of law in international relations, which was declared just after the Second World War. But in fact it was never implemented, because during the bipolar imperialist order we had two political systems which were competing with each other and which were ruling their parts of the world, not really taking care of the United Nations declarations and international law. The Soviet Union established its own system with its own rules. The United States established its own system with its own rules, with its hegemony. For instance, it was mentioned today that 1971 marked the change of the monetary system, when President Nixon declared that the dollar was no longer exchangeable for gold. So it became totally fiat money, printed by the private Federal Reserve to finance the growing government debt. And after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the United States became the only leader for the time being. But it continued to use this double standard approach, to use the supremacy in the West which was based on the competition with the Soviet system. After the Soviet Union collapsed, they were trying to use their hegemony in their own private interests. For this reason it couldn’t work efficiently, because the whole world had to finance the government debt of the United States, which was growing like a financial pyramid. And finally, exactly according to long wave economic theory and the theory of the century cycles of capital accumulation, we see the emergence of a new system of management in China, which was more successful because it was more efficient, combining central planning strategy together with market competition mechanisms. And finally China became, to the huge surprise of everybody, the main promoter of the liberal trade regime, the free market approach, because China became the most competitive. For this reason, in the institutions which were created by the United States, China became more competitive than the United States... ..Sergey Glazyev: What we see is a huge financial bubble, which concentrated about 40% of the American financial market in these IT companies, which continue to show good health. But what they’re doing is moving towards technofascism. In fact, the main strategic planning centre of all these wars is the American technofascists, because they are trying to maintain their leadership not only in the United States but also in the world. They have a huge influence on the Trump administration. They tell the American president that they can create a weapons system which can help him make America great again. And they show that they really have such capabilities, using today’s information technologies to kill anybody anywhere. They showed this in Iran. They give information services to Ukrainian drones which attack Russian plants. So we see that these really are technofascists who are sure that they can rule the world with these new technologies. It is very dangerous for the world, but it will not work, because in fact the maintenance of this artificial intelligence psychosis is based on virtual...
Radhika Desai: Sorry, based on what?
Sergey Glazyev: Not real, but virtual... ..Sergey Glazyev: Until now, the American administration has used the Brzezinski strategy, which has five phases. The first phase was to create an anti-Russian state in Ukraine. They did this by means of the Maidan coup in 2014. The second phase was to take Europe away from Russia. They did this a little later, including the bombing of the pipelines in the Baltic Sea. Then the third phase was to organise a revolution in Russia and bring to power a regime which would be under Western control. This phase failed. The fourth phase, according to the Brzezinski plan, was to ruin Iran. This fourth phase failed as well.
Sergey Glazyev: Not real, but virtual... ..Sergey Glazyev: Until now, the American administration has used the Brzezinski strategy, which has five phases. The first phase was to create an anti-Russian state in Ukraine. They did this by means of the Maidan coup in 2014. The second phase was to take Europe away from Russia. They did this a little later, including the bombing of the pipelines in the Baltic Sea. Then the third phase was to organise a revolution in Russia and bring to power a regime which would be under Western control. This phase failed. The fourth phase, according to the Brzezinski plan, was to ruin Iran. This fourth phase failed as well.
Radhika Desai: And what does Iran have to do with breaking up Russia?
Sergey Glazyev: Just a moment. And the final phase, the fifth phase, was to isolate China. So this was a five stage plan, but it was not realistic...
Sergey Glazyev: Just a moment. And the final phase, the fifth phase, was to isolate China. So this was a five stage plan, but it was not realistic...
..Sergey Glazyev: Which was trying to implement the Brzezinski plan. Today it doesn’t work. Trump understands this. By the way, Europe was the main loser in this war. Of course, the worst position is that of Ukraine and the Ukrainian people. They lost their homes, they lost their country in fact. So of course Ukraine became the victim of this Western strategy. But Europe was the loser. Europe now has a huge economic crisis without Russian commodities, and energy in Europe has become the most expensive in the world. Productivity is much lower than in China. So it has no chance to survive. And the Americans, the American elite I mean, are trying to use the situation in Europe to take capital and talent from Europe to the United States, as happened in the 20th century during the wars in Europe. It certainly happens...
..Sergey Glazyev: Russia, you see, for all these years, starting from 2014, has in fact been in a hybrid war with the whole West. What we see is that the drones in Ukraine are manufactured in the West, the rockets are manufactured in the West, the arms come from the West. So it is not a war between Russia and Ukraine. In fact, it is a war between Russia and the West.
Radhika Desai: Yes, absolutely. But can Russia win it? We hear that Russia is making progress on the ground.
Sergey Glazyev: I can tell you that the war will finish together with the collapse of the artificial intelligence financial bubble.
Radhika Desai: That’s very interesting. And how do you see that relationship? What does the collapse of the artificial intelligence bubble have to do with it?
Sergey Glazyev: Because the main driving force of this war is the American technofascists...
..Sergey Glazyev: They are the only strategic planning centre in the US today. The technofascists around Trump are the major strategic planning centre in the United States, together with corrupt European politicians. https://radicaldesai.
..Sergey Glazyev: Russia, you see, for all these years, starting from 2014, has in fact been in a hybrid war with the whole West. What we see is that the drones in Ukraine are manufactured in the West, the rockets are manufactured in the West, the arms come from the West. So it is not a war between Russia and Ukraine. In fact, it is a war between Russia and the West.
Radhika Desai: Yes, absolutely. But can Russia win it? We hear that Russia is making progress on the ground.
Sergey Glazyev: I can tell you that the war will finish together with the collapse of the artificial intelligence financial bubble.
Radhika Desai: That’s very interesting. And how do you see that relationship? What does the collapse of the artificial intelligence bubble have to do with it?
Sergey Glazyev: Because the main driving force of this war is the American technofascists...
..Sergey Glazyev: They are the only strategic planning centre in the US today. The technofascists around Trump are the major strategic planning centre in the United States, together with corrupt European politicians. https://radicaldesai.
But these problems pale when compared with the alternative. Long experience has shown a profound collective inability to back away from behaviours which confront humanity with existential environmental risk.
Involuntary economic de-growth should, or at least could, be manageable. Mass extinction events are not.
Human behaviours, which we seem unable to change, have been driving the Holocene (“sixth”) mass extinction event, so the ending and reversal of economic growth – something that we are powerless to halt, let alone reverse – is, in all probability, the only process which can save us from ourselves.
Three different outcomes, then, are on the table. The grimmest is that nothing can now halt the “sixth extinction”. The second is that our collective behaviours change in time to avert this outcome, but this seems extraordinarily unlikely.
The third – perhaps optimistic, but very well supported by the evidence – is that a new factor intervenes to stave off the worst version of the extinction. That “new factor” is the ending and reversal of economic growth. The stand-off between growth and the environment must be the most profound issue with which we are confronted...
..We are, in fact, being sold a misleading environmental nostrum in much the same way that we are sold cartons of cornflakes or packages of political promises. The fault-lines in this nostrum are miles wide.
First of all, the claim that the entirety of environmental risk can be wrapped as “climate change” is untrue. Rising temperatures are just one of three core risks. The others are pollution and the loss of biodiversity.
Both the worsening toxicity of the land, sea and atmosphere, and the far-above-trend rate of species extinction, are harmful, in some cases lethal, even if they do not contribute directly to increases in global temperatures. We could, as it were, experience an environmental disaster even if the thermometer were to stick right where it is...
First of all, the claim that the entirety of environmental risk can be wrapped as “climate change” is untrue. Rising temperatures are just one of three core risks. The others are pollution and the loss of biodiversity.
Both the worsening toxicity of the land, sea and atmosphere, and the far-above-trend rate of species extinction, are harmful, in some cases lethal, even if they do not contribute directly to increases in global temperatures. We could, as it were, experience an environmental disaster even if the thermometer were to stick right where it is...
..The principle of surplus energy is pretty close to a law of life. “An animal or a bird survives if, and only if, the energy it obtains from its nutrition exceeds the energy expended in sourcing its food”. No creature can survive if its energy surplus turns negative...
..For hunter-gatherers, the surplus energy equation was rather hit-and-miss. In good times, surplus energy was positive, and they survived. In adverse conditions – poor weather, ill health, a dearth of food sources – they perished.
The development of agriculture created an increase in collective surplus energy, though, by more recent standards, this surplus remained very small indeed. By way of analogy, twenty people or households could now subsist on the labour of nineteen...
The development of agriculture created an increase in collective surplus energy, though, by more recent standards, this surplus remained very small indeed. By way of analogy, twenty people or households could now subsist on the labour of nineteen...
..The big change occurred, of course, from the symbolic date of 1776, in which year James Watt completed the first truly efficient machine for the conversion of heat into work. Coal, previously used for cooking and warmth, could now drive machinery.
At the infancy of the Industrial Revolution, the aggregate of surplus energy remained very small. This was why subsequent progress was pedestrian. More than half a century would elapse between Watt’s achievement and the arrival of the truly transformatory technology of the age, which was the railway.
Over time, the growth of aggregate surplus energy was compound in character, with each increase in the energy surplus freeing more people and more resources for the development of new capabilities.
This progression embraced energy supply itself, notably with the harnessing of oil and natural gas, whose energy characteristics were superior to those of coal.
Over time, we extended the geographical reach of the energy industries, scouring the World for larger and low-cost sources of carbon energy. Likewise, economies of scale worked in our favour – we could double the size of, say, a refinery, a pipeline or a tanker, without doubling its cost...
At the infancy of the Industrial Revolution, the aggregate of surplus energy remained very small. This was why subsequent progress was pedestrian. More than half a century would elapse between Watt’s achievement and the arrival of the truly transformatory technology of the age, which was the railway.
Over time, the growth of aggregate surplus energy was compound in character, with each increase in the energy surplus freeing more people and more resources for the development of new capabilities.
This progression embraced energy supply itself, notably with the harnessing of oil and natural gas, whose energy characteristics were superior to those of coal.
Over time, we extended the geographical reach of the energy industries, scouring the World for larger and low-cost sources of carbon energy. Likewise, economies of scale worked in our favour – we could double the size of, say, a refinery, a pipeline or a tanker, without doubling its cost...
..A point was reached, almost certainly in the years immediately after the Second World War, when the potential benefits of scale and reach had been maximised. Thereafter, a new driver of energy supply capability took over. This is depletion, a term which describes our natural propensity to use lowest-cost resources first, and leave costlier alternatives for later.
All natural resources are subject to depletion – minerals, soil and so on – but energy, as the master factor in the material, is more significantly exposed to it than others.
All natural resources are subject to depletion – minerals, soil and so on – but energy, as the master factor in the material, is more significantly exposed to it than others.
The surplus energy equation has just two components, though the interconnections between them are more complex than they might at first sight appear.
In brief, one of these components is the supply of energy itself, and the other is the proportionate cost of supply. Energy is never “free”, because it cannot be put to use without a delivery infrastructure. This infrastructure, being material, cannot be created, operated, maintained or replaced without the use of energy. We “have to use energy”, then, “to get energy”.
In Surplus Energy Economics, the energy that we must “use” in order to “get” energy is known as the proportionate Energy Cost of Energy.
Because we know the sequential processes that shape its course – reach, scale, depletion and very gradual technological innovation – we can infer a parabolic course over time, and can further infer the general path of this parabola for a period extending further back in time than the data necessary for its calibration exists...
In brief, one of these components is the supply of energy itself, and the other is the proportionate cost of supply. Energy is never “free”, because it cannot be put to use without a delivery infrastructure. This infrastructure, being material, cannot be created, operated, maintained or replaced without the use of energy. We “have to use energy”, then, “to get energy”.
In Surplus Energy Economics, the energy that we must “use” in order to “get” energy is known as the proportionate Energy Cost of Energy.
Because we know the sequential processes that shape its course – reach, scale, depletion and very gradual technological innovation – we can infer a parabolic course over time, and can further infer the general path of this parabola for a period extending further back in time than the data necessary for its calibration exists...
..Aggregate material economic prosperity seems to have grown at a comparatively modest annual rate until the inter-war years, when a process of deceleration set in. This can be associated with the maturing of the coal-based economic system.
Thereafter, the harnessing of oil and natural gas reinvigorated the economy, such that aggregate economic prosperity grew by an unprecedented 4.7% annually during the 1950s, and 5.1% in the 1960s, before slowing to 3.8% in the 1970s.
The latter may seem surprisingly robust given the traumas of those years, but those traumas were political and financial, not material – oil and gas remained abundant in potential availability, and low in material cost, during those years.
Annual rates of population increase naturally followed the trend in prosperity, and equally naturally at something of a remove in years.
The result was that the World’s “average” person became materially more prosperous at annual rates of about 2.7% in the 1950s, 3.0% in the 1960s, and 1.9% in the 1970s.
Latterly, these rates of per capita improvement have fallen dramatically, such that our average person started becoming poorer in the 1990s, and experienced an annual decrease in his or her prosperity of 0.4% between 2010 and 2020.
We’ve tried to reverse (or at least disguise) this trend, of course, using increasingly hazardous monetary expansion. But, as we know, monetary expansionism cannot reinvigorate the material economy, because money is no more than an adjunct to, and a proxy for, the material. Having no intrinsic worth, money commands value only as an “exercisable claim” on those material things for which it can be exchanged.
The sequence described here explains why reported “growth” has been so dramatically exceeded by the reckless expansion of debts and quasi-debts in modern times, and why the so-called “cost of living crisis” has become an established trend, and is not some kind of temporary “crisis” phenomenon...
..In brief, energy supply in aggregate might carry on expanding gradually for some years yet, but this linear expansion cannot possibly keep up with the exponential rate at which ECoEs are rising.
Thereafter, the harnessing of oil and natural gas reinvigorated the economy, such that aggregate economic prosperity grew by an unprecedented 4.7% annually during the 1950s, and 5.1% in the 1960s, before slowing to 3.8% in the 1970s.
The latter may seem surprisingly robust given the traumas of those years, but those traumas were political and financial, not material – oil and gas remained abundant in potential availability, and low in material cost, during those years.
Annual rates of population increase naturally followed the trend in prosperity, and equally naturally at something of a remove in years.
The result was that the World’s “average” person became materially more prosperous at annual rates of about 2.7% in the 1950s, 3.0% in the 1960s, and 1.9% in the 1970s.
Latterly, these rates of per capita improvement have fallen dramatically, such that our average person started becoming poorer in the 1990s, and experienced an annual decrease in his or her prosperity of 0.4% between 2010 and 2020.
We’ve tried to reverse (or at least disguise) this trend, of course, using increasingly hazardous monetary expansion. But, as we know, monetary expansionism cannot reinvigorate the material economy, because money is no more than an adjunct to, and a proxy for, the material. Having no intrinsic worth, money commands value only as an “exercisable claim” on those material things for which it can be exchanged.
The sequence described here explains why reported “growth” has been so dramatically exceeded by the reckless expansion of debts and quasi-debts in modern times, and why the so-called “cost of living crisis” has become an established trend, and is not some kind of temporary “crisis” phenomenon...
..In brief, energy supply in aggregate might carry on expanding gradually for some years yet, but this linear expansion cannot possibly keep up with the exponential rate at which ECoEs are rising.
Ex-ECoE surplus energy, which is the direct correlate of material economic prosperity, is thus trending downwards (Fig. 3B), a process which looks even worse when related to the continuing (though decelerating) rate of increase in population numbers.
A further (though lesser and more gradual) head-wind exists in the form of the depletion of non-energy raw materials. For this reason, the rate at which energy use converts into the supply of physical goods, artefacts and infrastructures is inclining downwards (Fig. 3C).
The result, which is energy trends transposed into material economic outcomes through the prism of conversion, is that, economic output might not yet have peaked, but the all-important metric of physical economic prosperity is already inflecting into contraction (Fig 4C).
We shall, of course, refuse to accept any of this, and try to reverse it. We’ll throw money at the problem, and vest almost supernatural faith in our technological genius, but neither will succeed. https://surplusenergyeconomics.wordpress.com/2026/10/24/330-a-lesser-evil/
An imperial grand plan of destabilization or a series of hubristic decisions that will have disastrous consequences? In recent years the US-led “West” have accelerated the systematic dismantling of whatever was left of international law and institutions, trashed the freedom of the seas, ignited conflicts across the world, and created a global energy and food crisis that brings with it severe inflation and debt crunches.
Whether by chance or design, what’s certain is that global destabilization is arriving fast on a scale that could make the Arab Spring look minor by comparison. And with it will no doubt come imperial efforts to capitalize off the chaos...
..Energy and Food System Destabilization - Through its conflicts with Iran and Russia, the US has achieved the following:
Massive destruction of fertilizer supplies.
Natural gas shortages on which fertilizer production relies.
Diesel shortages, which means reduced harvests.
The throttling of global chokepoints and seaborne trade is making the transport of export of agricultural products more expensive and challenging.
All of this means higher prices. The US and Europe seem to believe they’ll simply outbid poorer countries, and they likely will, although they’re unlikely to get off that easily. Already the jolt to the system seems to—finally— be awakening Europeans to a future of conflict and declining living standards, and they aren’t happy about it.
Perhaps the elites in what’s referred to as “The West” believe their police-surveillance states are advanced enough to handle any resulting unrest. They’ll surely be put to the test.
..Energy and Food System Destabilization - Through its conflicts with Iran and Russia, the US has achieved the following:
Massive destruction of fertilizer supplies.
Natural gas shortages on which fertilizer production relies.
Diesel shortages, which means reduced harvests.
The throttling of global chokepoints and seaborne trade is making the transport of export of agricultural products more expensive and challenging.
All of this means higher prices. The US and Europe seem to believe they’ll simply outbid poorer countries, and they likely will, although they’re unlikely to get off that easily. Already the jolt to the system seems to—finally— be awakening Europeans to a future of conflict and declining living standards, and they aren’t happy about it.
Perhaps the elites in what’s referred to as “The West” believe their police-surveillance states are advanced enough to handle any resulting unrest. They’ll surely be put to the test.
Elsewhere the risk rises of famine, destabilization, mass migration, and more conflict. The combination of droughts, El Niño and the Fertilizer crisis are set to cause mass suffering starting early next year.
Imperial efforts to starve non-compliant states into submission are nothing new; what is unique about this go-round is that it will be global in scale—including the empire’s own population in yet another sign that the international financial class has largely left the notion of nation states behind. It’s the Nation of Davos vs everyone else. https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2026/10/the-coming-global-spring.html
Imperial efforts to starve non-compliant states into submission are nothing new; what is unique about this go-round is that it will be global in scale—including the empire’s own population in yet another sign that the international financial class has largely left the notion of nation states behind. It’s the Nation of Davos vs everyone else. https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2026/10/the-coming-global-spring.html
Merely routine precautions, catching up to the Mormons: "Doomsday": U.S. Military Planning To Survive 90 Days Without Power Grid
The Department of Defense is preparing for a potential "doomsday" scenario in which America's power grid collapses, supply chains grind to a halt, and military installations are forced to operate for three months without outside support, according to Fox News.
The unprecetended plan, branded FORTRESS by Pentagon planners, aims to make major military bases across the continental United States capable of functioning independently for at least 90 days, according to documents obtained by the news outlet. https://www.zerohedge.com/ Martin Armstrong, Britain Tells Citizens to Stockpile Supplies as the War Cycle Escalates - The new “Be Ready” campaign advises households to maintain at least 72 hours of essential supplies, warning that electricity, communications, transportation, and even supermarket payment systems could suddenly become unavailable. This is coming from the same political establishment that has spent years promoting a society increasingly dependent upon electricity, digital banking, and centralized infrastructure. https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/war/britain-tells-citizens-to-stockpile-supplies-as-the-war-cycle-escalates/
Former BlackRock insider warns AI cyberattack will be used to end cash, usher in new digital financial controls on all Americans
U.S. military also preparing for 90-day grid down event. This has the earmarks of a false flag attack all over it.
Former BlackRock portfolio manager Ed Dowd predicts a rogue AI cyberattack will be used as a pretext to roll out some form of crypto-based digital currency to replace the paper dollar system.This would give globalist power elites unprecedented control over the financial transactions of every human being on the planet, including Americans.
Dowd warns that digitized currencies will ultimately enable governments to impose arbitrary limits on purchases, using AI to surveil programmable “money” that can be turned on or off, or programmed to apply only for the purchase of certain goods to the exclusion of others...
On Judging Freedom Robert Barnes, who is claimed to have internal contacts in the White House, is predicting a shellacking (video):
They’re behind in more than 240 House seats currently by their own internal polling.
They could lose over 260 House seats due to the way early voting is trending. And in the Senate, they’re currently behind in 55 Senate races or within the margin of error within those races. Uh and there’s three more races that they’re carefully watching. I mean, you even have Senator Cotton in Arkansas spending money on campaign advertising because he’s concerned about single digit margin.
Starting in January in the new House investigations against Trump and the people working for him will be launched immediately. In nine to twelve months there will be the first impeachments. From January onward, Trump will be a lame duck.
This outcome is the price President Trump has to pay for diverting from nearly all of his campaign promises. He did not end the war in Ukraine. He has launched a completely unnecessary war against Iran (twice) which led to a significant inflation increase. He has enriched himself through unethical schemes (crypto). The people around him are openly corrupt.
Trump will respond by firing some of his people. To regain some standing, he may try to shut down the two wars – Iran and Ukraine – he is directly involved in. The first pawn to go will be Secretary of Defense Hegseth. Nobody will lose a tear for him.
The two people behind the war in Iran are Trump’s chief of staff (and Netanyahoo confident) Susie Wiles, as well as Trump’s Mossad handler and son in law Jared Kushner. There are plenty of reasons, including corruption, to fire both.
To end the war in Ukraine will necessitate to get rid of CIA Director Ratcliffe. It is the CIA, not the Pentagon, which is running the show in Kiev. This will be difficult to do as Ratcliffe is a deep-state plant. The Democrats want to continue the war in Ukraine and give him some cover.
The real mess for Trump will only start after the popping AI bubble drags down the markets. The damage to people’s prosperity will be huge and there is little that he can do about it. But there are still a few month until that happens. After that it will be Treasury Secretary Bessent who will be fired.
There is a significant chance that Trump will not survive the next two years. https://www.moonofalabama.org/2026/10/u-s-midterm-consequence-review.html
U.S. military also preparing for 90-day grid down event. This has the earmarks of a false flag attack all over it.
Former BlackRock portfolio manager Ed Dowd predicts a rogue AI cyberattack will be used as a pretext to roll out some form of crypto-based digital currency to replace the paper dollar system.This would give globalist power elites unprecedented control over the financial transactions of every human being on the planet, including Americans.
Dowd warns that digitized currencies will ultimately enable governments to impose arbitrary limits on purchases, using AI to surveil programmable “money” that can be turned on or off, or programmed to apply only for the purchase of certain goods to the exclusion of others...
..Dowd referred to Covid restrictions, saying vaccine passports were planned to be linked to a digital ID and twice-a-year boosters, and that this was the first attempt to roll out a central bank digital currency or CBDC.
The current plan is behind schedule, which is why governments will try again during an economic meltdown, Dowd argued, adding that a rogue AI cyberattack, in which money disappears from banks, could be the triggering mechanism.
“Right now, we’re free to express ourselves economically with people, for the most part, either cash or credit. But they want an AI-surveilled third option to determine whether or not that transaction is allowed to happen,” Dowd said in an interview with Clayton Morris of the YouTube podcast channel Redacted. “And the only way you can do that is with the CBDC. So that’s the ultimate goal. It’s control freaks.” https://leohohmann.substack.com/p/former-blackrock-insider-warns-ai
The current plan is behind schedule, which is why governments will try again during an economic meltdown, Dowd argued, adding that a rogue AI cyberattack, in which money disappears from banks, could be the triggering mechanism.
“Right now, we’re free to express ourselves economically with people, for the most part, either cash or credit. But they want an AI-surveilled third option to determine whether or not that transaction is allowed to happen,” Dowd said in an interview with Clayton Morris of the YouTube podcast channel Redacted. “And the only way you can do that is with the CBDC. So that’s the ultimate goal. It’s control freaks.” https://leohohmann.substack.com/p/former-blackrock-insider-warns-ai
US government says hackers are now exploiting critical PHP web bugs https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/27/us-government-says-hackers-are-now-exploiting-critical-php-web-bugs/
Utilities Deploy AI to Manage Rising Power Demand (From AI) https://www.naturalnews.com/2026-10-27-utilities-deploy-ai-manage-rising-power-demand.html
Anthropic Appears to Be the First Company to Go Public by Warning That It May Destroy Humankind - "Sufficiently advanced AI systems could pose catastrophic or existential risks to society if not developed and deployed responsibly." https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/anthropic-first-company-public-destroy-humankind
In 2017, Jared Kushner showed Saudi Prince MBS classified information that included who the dissenters were He used this information to kill Khashoggi in Turkey and others at home Jared was paid $2 billion, and he allegedly hired a hitman with some of that money https://x.com/jakeshieldsajj/status/2114264516372594747
This projects a worst-case scenario for Trump Republicans. Moon of Alabama, U.S. Midterm Consequence Preview
The Republicans are very likely going to lose significantly in the upcoming midterms election. The Democrats will retake a majority in the House and likely also the Senate. Stash a month's worth of cash, perhaps? What about water, food and propane? Meryl Nass MD, Financial freedom requires retaining cash as a medium of trade, and avoiding electronic, programmable money that can control you via your spending. Here’s how to stay free
A Solari webinar open to everyone, this Thursday, 2-4 pm EDT https://merylnass.substack.com/p/financial-freedom-requires-retainingJohn Leake and Ron Paul, Trump on Iran: “We’re making a fortune!” - War has always been very profitable for guys like President Trump and his friends. https://www.thefocalpoints.
Trump and Epstein’s intrasexual competition - Former Miss Switzerland contestant accuses Trump of ‘brutal’ rape after event attended by Jeffrey Epstein
A new sex allegation has surfaced against President Donald Trump by a former Miss Switzerland contestant who alleges that he brutally raped her during one of his beauty pageants events in 1993.
The details of her story mirror those of other women who have accused Trump of sexual abuse and even rape. But what’s also noteworthy about this story is the gawking and grinning Trump and Epstein did at these model gatherings. They hardly seemed interested in the business of modeling; if true, it was as if they were engaged in an intrasexual competition.
The beauty queen, Beatrice Keul, has previously said she was 24 and attending Trump’s pageant when Trump tried to attack her in a hotel room. She now says that the attack was much more violent than she previously recounted, telling the Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee that Trump raped her during his American Dream Pageant.
At the event, she also recalled meeting Epstein and that he invited her to parties that he said he arranged for Trump at Mar-a-Lago. “I’m Jeffrey, Don’s best friend,” Epstein told her at the pageant, according to the report.
The details of her story mirror those of other women who have accused Trump of sexual abuse and even rape. But what’s also noteworthy about this story is the gawking and grinning Trump and Epstein did at these model gatherings. They hardly seemed interested in the business of modeling; if true, it was as if they were engaged in an intrasexual competition.
The beauty queen, Beatrice Keul, has previously said she was 24 and attending Trump’s pageant when Trump tried to attack her in a hotel room. She now says that the attack was much more violent than she previously recounted, telling the Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee that Trump raped her during his American Dream Pageant.
At the event, she also recalled meeting Epstein and that he invited her to parties that he said he arranged for Trump at Mar-a-Lago. “I’m Jeffrey, Don’s best friend,” Epstein told her at the pageant, according to the report.
The claim is part of a 53-page report compiled by Democrats on the House judiciary committee, which on Monday called for a special prosecutor to investigate Trump’s ties to Epstein and the administration’s “cover-up” of potential sex trafficking crimes by Epstein and other men, including Trump. https://jkbjournalist.substack.com/p/trump-and-epsteins-intrasexual-competition
New Evidence Tying Trump to Epstein-Style Sex Assaults
Eleven women in a House Judiciary Committee report either accuse the U.S. president of rape or sexual assault or say they were offered to him for sex by Epstein or Ghislaine Maxwell, Sharon Zhang reports. https://consortiumnews.com/2026/10/27/new-evidence-tying-trump-to-epstein-style-sex-assaults/
Eleven women in a House Judiciary Committee report either accuse the U.S. president of rape or sexual assault or say they were offered to him for sex by Epstein or Ghislaine Maxwell, Sharon Zhang reports. https://consortiumnews.com/2026/10/27/new-evidence-tying-trump-to-epstein-style-sex-assaults/
Celia Farber, KUSHNER-GATE: John Kiriakou Blasts Matthew Cole, Warns His Sources: “Your Life As You Knew It Is As Good As Over.”
“Categorically False and Defamatory” Says Kushner Lawyer, Threatening To Sue https://celiafarber.substack.On Judging Freedom Robert Barnes, who is claimed to have internal contacts in the White House, is predicting a shellacking (video):
They’re behind in more than 240 House seats currently by their own internal polling.
They could lose over 260 House seats due to the way early voting is trending. And in the Senate, they’re currently behind in 55 Senate races or within the margin of error within those races. Uh and there’s three more races that they’re carefully watching. I mean, you even have Senator Cotton in Arkansas spending money on campaign advertising because he’s concerned about single digit margin.
Starting in January in the new House investigations against Trump and the people working for him will be launched immediately. In nine to twelve months there will be the first impeachments. From January onward, Trump will be a lame duck.
This outcome is the price President Trump has to pay for diverting from nearly all of his campaign promises. He did not end the war in Ukraine. He has launched a completely unnecessary war against Iran (twice) which led to a significant inflation increase. He has enriched himself through unethical schemes (crypto). The people around him are openly corrupt.
Trump will respond by firing some of his people. To regain some standing, he may try to shut down the two wars – Iran and Ukraine – he is directly involved in. The first pawn to go will be Secretary of Defense Hegseth. Nobody will lose a tear for him.
The two people behind the war in Iran are Trump’s chief of staff (and Netanyahoo confident) Susie Wiles, as well as Trump’s Mossad handler and son in law Jared Kushner. There are plenty of reasons, including corruption, to fire both.
To end the war in Ukraine will necessitate to get rid of CIA Director Ratcliffe. It is the CIA, not the Pentagon, which is running the show in Kiev. This will be difficult to do as Ratcliffe is a deep-state plant. The Democrats want to continue the war in Ukraine and give him some cover.
The real mess for Trump will only start after the popping AI bubble drags down the markets. The damage to people’s prosperity will be huge and there is little that he can do about it. But there are still a few month until that happens. After that it will be Treasury Secretary Bessent who will be fired.
There is a significant chance that Trump will not survive the next two years. https://www.moonofalabama.org/2026/10/u-s-midterm-consequence-review.html
The American Government’s Shameful Economic Warfare Against Cuba
The Trump administration has shown no interest in pursuing a policy of peaceful engagement with Cuba based on respect for national sovereignty and the principle of self-determination, during either his first term in office or his current presidency. In fact, on both occasions, the US government has implemented coercive economic measures designed to increase pressure on the Cuban government, with the broader objective of weakening the existing political system and encouraging political change without direct military intervention.
More recently, however, there has been a noticeable shift in attitude, as President Trump suggested that there could be “a friendly takeover, it may not be a friendly takeover.” Other provocative and undiplomatic statements included: “whether I free it, take it, I think I can do anything I want with it”; and, “You want to know the truth? They’re a very weakened nation now.” President Trump even went so far as to state that he believed he would have the “honor of taking Cuba.” These comments imply that the administration has not ruled out the possibility of even more coercive measures, including the use of military force.
Speaking to reporters after a G7 meeting in France on March 27, 2026, Secretary of State Marco Rubio argued that Cuba was a disaster due to the failure of its economic system and asserted that improving the future of the country would require replacing its leadership, transforming the political regime, and restructuring its economic model. Accordingly, the Trump administration is seeking the removal of Cuban President Miguel Mario Díaz-Canel Bermúdez and the transfer of power away from the Communist Party to a more compliant leadership that would be willing to pursue the economic restructuring long advocated by foreign investors and Cuban exiles in South Florida. https://www.globalresearch.ca/american-government-shameful-economic-warfare-against-cuba/5944660
The Trump administration has shown no interest in pursuing a policy of peaceful engagement with Cuba based on respect for national sovereignty and the principle of self-determination, during either his first term in office or his current presidency. In fact, on both occasions, the US government has implemented coercive economic measures designed to increase pressure on the Cuban government, with the broader objective of weakening the existing political system and encouraging political change without direct military intervention.
More recently, however, there has been a noticeable shift in attitude, as President Trump suggested that there could be “a friendly takeover, it may not be a friendly takeover.” Other provocative and undiplomatic statements included: “whether I free it, take it, I think I can do anything I want with it”; and, “You want to know the truth? They’re a very weakened nation now.” President Trump even went so far as to state that he believed he would have the “honor of taking Cuba.” These comments imply that the administration has not ruled out the possibility of even more coercive measures, including the use of military force.
Speaking to reporters after a G7 meeting in France on March 27, 2026, Secretary of State Marco Rubio argued that Cuba was a disaster due to the failure of its economic system and asserted that improving the future of the country would require replacing its leadership, transforming the political regime, and restructuring its economic model. Accordingly, the Trump administration is seeking the removal of Cuban President Miguel Mario Díaz-Canel Bermúdez and the transfer of power away from the Communist Party to a more compliant leadership that would be willing to pursue the economic restructuring long advocated by foreign investors and Cuban exiles in South Florida. https://www.globalresearch.ca/american-government-shameful-economic-warfare-against-cuba/5944660
Footage Shows Iranian Missile Breaking Through Three Rounds of Patriot Air Defence Fire to Strike Key Base https://militarywatchmagazine.com/article/footage-iranian-missile-three-rounds-patriot
Iran says 4-nation talks back regional security free of outside interference
Iran Rejects 'Unacceptable' Qatar Draft Proposal To End War https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/new-draft-peace-deal-floated-even-us-warns-short-intense-iran-war-renewal
WSJ: Trump will strike Iran's nuclear facilities after the election https://en.topcor.ru/75212-wsj-tramp-posle-vyborov-udarit-po-jadernym-obektam-irana.html
US warns Gulf states of possible 'short, intense' Iran war after midterms: Report - ‘You’ll see Iran in a couple of weeks,’ Trump tells Texas rally https://www.aa.com.tr/en/americas/us-warns-gulf-states-of-possible-short-intense-iran-war-after-midterms-report/4103239US Forces Ready to Launch Operations Against Iran Within 96 Hours of Trump Order https://english.aawsat.com/world/5334072-us-forces-ready-launch-operations-against-iran-within-96-hours-trump-order
Beware the U.S. False Flag Conspiracy Against Iran: 'Trumped-up' ThreatsI saw this headline recently across several mainstream ‘news’ sites: “Iran in ‘Advanced Stages’ of Planning Attacks on Americans,” ‘officials’ say. My very first thought was what type of attack on Americans will be perpetrated by the U.S. to blame on Iran?
The U.S. and Zionist Israel are the two most prolific false flag operators in the world, and seemingly use these tactics on a constant basis in order to fool gullible American imbeciles into supporting more U.S. war and terror against an innocent ‘enemy’ nation and Americans alike. Consider Fort Sumpter, Pearl Harbor, the USS Liberty, the Gulf of Tonkin incident, 1993 World Trade Center bombing, Oklahoma City bombing, 9/11, the ‘covid’ hoax; just to name a minuscule handful of the multitude of U.S. planned false flag events throughout history. https://www.lewrockwell.com/2026/10/gary-d-barnett/beware-the-u-s-false-flag-conspiracy-against-iran-trumped-up-threats/
In an extraordinary move, the UAE has been covertly sharing targeting assistance with the Iranian-aligned Ansarallah in its conflict against Saudi-backed forces inside Yemen. https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/uae-yemen-ansarallah-houthis-saudi-arabia-covert
BREAKING: Trump allies are secretly cutting a deal to keep Benjamin Netanyahu in power even if he loses Tuesday’s election, with the White House exploring a unity government in which Netanyahu would abandon his far-right partners and share power with rival Gadi Eisenkot, per The Washington Post. Netanyahu has privately promised U.S. and European officials that he would drop Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich if it meant forming a more moderate coalition, and has argued to Washington that he is the best Israeli partner to resume the war against Iran. Trump allies have discussed the unity government scenario with Israeli officials. https://x.com/HormuzReport/status/2114807025779851351?s=43
Gold & Geopolitics, Daily digest: 2026-10-28
Israel voted and nobody won. With 77% counted, Netanyahu's bloc has 54 seats, Eisenkot's has 47 and the Arab parties have 19. Exit polls had put the opposition ahead, and prediction markets swung from 64% Eisenkot to 53% Netanyahu overnight. The other big changes are a WSJ report that Washington told Gulf states to brace for a "short, intense" Iran campaign after the Nov 3 midterms, and Flavio Bolsonaro leaving Brazil through Argentina despite a court travel ban. Houthi strikes on Saudi Arabia, Russia's grind in Sumy and Kharkiv and the metals washout are continuation. The Fed decides later today, with a hold 93% priced. US warns the Gulf of an Iran campaign after the midterms. Per WSJ, several Gulf states were told to prepare for a "short, intense military campaign" after the Nov 3 vote. Trump hasn't decided but leans toward a large strike on infrastructure and nuclear sites (zerohedge, KobeissiLetter, shanaka86, Currentreport1).
Israel: no bloc reaches 61. Exit polls had the anti-Netanyahu camp narrowly ahead. The count reversed it: 54 / 47 / 19 at 76.8% counted (ILRedAlert, MilitarySummary, BBCBreaking, zerohedge)...
..Coalition math: - The opposition plus both Arab parties reaches 65, but the Joint List offers only outside support (MilitarySummary). Israel: no bloc reaches 61. Exit polls had the anti-Netanyahu camp narrowly ahead. The count reversed it: 54 / 47 / 19 at 76.8% counted (ILRedAlert, MilitarySummary, BBCBreaking, zerohedge)...
Golan urges Eisenkot to govern with the Arab parties (ILRedAlert).
Ra'am's leader claims Likud also approached the Arab parties, after a campaign built on warning against exactly that (MyLordBebo).
Positions: Eisenkot calls Netanyahu "a transitional prime minister, without a mandate" and tells security chiefs they have his backing (wmiddelkoop). Netanyahu calls for a "strong, right-wing" government (AP)...
..Iran link: Netanyahu told supporters "it is within our power, together with our wonderful friend President Trump, to remove this threat once and for all" (shanaka86).
One unconfirmed source says Trump allies are discussing keeping Netanyahu on as caretaker, restarting the Iran war and forcing another vote (HormuzLetter). https://no1sdailydigest.substack.com/p/daily-digest-2026-10-28
UN inquiry finds Israel committed age-based persecution of Palestinian children in West Bank - Investigators say the genocide in Gaza continues while extermination, torture and rape form part of a widespread and systematic attack on Palestinian civilians in the occupied West Bank https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/un-inquiry-finds-israel-committed-age-based-persecution-palestinian-children-west-bank
Israel blocks international visitors from West Bank – what is it trying to hide? https://israelpalestinenews.org/israel-blocks-international-visitors-from-west-bank-what-is-it-trying-to-hide/
Israel's 942 barriers are reshaping Palestinian life in the occupied West Bank - Israel's West Bank closures restrict Palestinian movement and worsen economic hardship, advancing Israel's ever more explicit goals of annexation and expulsion. https://www.newarab.com/news/israels-942-barriers-are-reshaping-life-west-bank
The ceasefire, which the Trump administration announced last week, should allow humanitarian aid deliveries and evacuations from the frontline town as residents grapple with acute shortages of food and medicine.
U.S. First Lady Melania Trump said later Tuesday that the ceasefire had been expanded beyond Oleshky to other parts of the Kherson region to allow humanitarian convoys to pass safely. “Timing was accelerated two days ahead of schedule to protect the safety of civilians and to facilitate the delivery of critical humanitarian aid,” she said in a post on X. “The ceasefire’s geographic area has expanded beyond Oleshky, within the Kherson region, to provide safe passage for the humanitarian convoys.” https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2026/10/27/us-brokered-ceasefire-appears-to-hold-in-ukrainian-town-close-to-starvation-a94092
One unconfirmed source says Trump allies are discussing keeping Netanyahu on as caretaker, restarting the Iran war and forcing another vote (HormuzLetter). https://no1sdailydigest.substack.com/p/daily-digest-2026-10-28
Palestinian girl dies of wounds sustained by Israeli gunfire in southern Gaza https://english.wafa.ps/Pages/Details/176376
West Bank Raids: Homes Seized, Palestinians Detained and Vehicles Burned https://www.palestinechronicle.com/west-bank-raids-homes-seized-palestinians-detained-and-vehicles-burned/
IOF forcibly displaces 4,969 Palestinians in al-Khalil as military siege enters fifth day https://english.palinfo.com/news/2026/10/27/372690/
Israeli colonists release livestock into crops east of Tubas, damaging farmland https://english-wafa-ps.translate.goog/Pages/Details/176370?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp
After his detention at olive harvest, Israel revokes US politician’s entry visa
Immigration authority tells Brad Lander, Democratic nominee for Congress in New York, and several activist rabbis their visas were canceled due to ‘change in circumstances’ https://www.timesofisrael.com/after-his-detention-at-olive-harvest-israel-revokes-us-politicians-entry-visa/
UN Report Details Israeli Crimes Against Humanity - The report on Palestine comes as Israel intensifies an ethnic cleansing in the West Bank and affirms that Israel’s genocidal acts continue in Gaza, despite a nominal yearlong ceasefire. https://consortiumnews.com/2026/10/27/un-report-details-israeli-crimes-against-humanity-in-palestine/
Israeli forces kill 14 in Gaza as UN commission says genocide continues https://israelpalestinenews.org/israeli-forces-kill-14-in-gaza-as-un-commission-says-genocide-continues/
Immigration authority tells Brad Lander, Democratic nominee for Congress in New York, and several activist rabbis their visas were canceled due to ‘change in circumstances’ https://www.timesofisrael.com/after-his-detention-at-olive-harvest-israel-revokes-us-politicians-entry-visa/
Israeli forces kill 14 in Gaza as UN commission says genocide continues https://israelpalestinenews.org/israeli-forces-kill-14-in-gaza-as-un-commission-says-genocide-continues/
Syria: Israeli forces raid homes during new incursion into rural Al-Quneitra https://www.syriahr.com/en/387372/
Melania's ceasefire: U.S.-Brokered Ceasefire Appears to Hold in Ukrainian Town Close to Starvation
Russia and Ukraine have begun a local ceasefire in the occupied town of Oleshky in southern Ukraine, both sides said Tuesday, but strikes continued elsewhere across Ukrainian and Russian territory, with several people being reported killed. The ceasefire, which the Trump administration announced last week, should allow humanitarian aid deliveries and evacuations from the frontline town as residents grapple with acute shortages of food and medicine.
U.S. First Lady Melania Trump said later Tuesday that the ceasefire had been expanded beyond Oleshky to other parts of the Kherson region to allow humanitarian convoys to pass safely. “Timing was accelerated two days ahead of schedule to protect the safety of civilians and to facilitate the delivery of critical humanitarian aid,” she said in a post on X. “The ceasefire’s geographic area has expanded beyond Oleshky, within the Kherson region, to provide safe passage for the humanitarian convoys.” https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2026/10/27/us-brokered-ceasefire-appears-to-hold-in-ukrainian-town-close-to-starvation-a94092
Anything could happen November 4: Trump Hints Trilateral Ukraine Peace Talks May Not Happen In Person https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/trump-hints-trilateral-ukraine-peace-talks-may-not-happen-person
Was it a tentative peace overture or a veiled threat against Russian export shipping? Ian Proud, Norway and Finland’s Mediation on Ukraine Will Fail: Europe Cannot do Diplomacy - A conversation with Dr Matthew Blackburn https://thepeacemonger.substack.com/p/norway-and-finlands-mediation-on
France will go over the precipice first. Thomas Kolbe, Hand In Hand Toward The Abyss - Hand in hand, Germany and France are steering toward the abyss -- with different domestic political goals, perhaps, but with the same fatal outcome. https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2026/10/hand-in-hand-toward-the-abyss/
Researchers at the University of Minnesota have engineered the building blocks of artificial life from nonliving materials. https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/scientists-create-the-first-synthetic
There is also another well-described mechanism. BREAKING: New Paper Reveals How mRNA Vaccine Materials Could Spread From Vaccinated to Unvaccinated People - We identified two distinct forms of mRNA vaccine shedding: internal transcriptional spread and potential human-to-human transfer. https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/breaking-new-paper-reveals-how-mrna
Walter M. Chesnut on ongoing spike-protein production in "long COVID" (mostly (m)mRNA COVID-19 "vaccine" recipients): Persistent Spike Present in All Subjects of a New Study: Smoldering Macrophage Syndrome can explain Long COVID Bronchoalveolar Lavage Findings
Three inflammatory subtypes of Post-COVID Lung Disease can all be explained by the presence of Spike-laden macrophages. https://wmcresearch.substack.com/p/persistent-spike-present-in-all-subjects1000 mg of oral vitamin-C daily was a good thing for survival. Dr. Marik, Vitamin C in Hematological Malignancies and Sepsis: Lessons from the EVITA Trial https://paulmarik.substack.com/p/vitamin-c-in-hematological-malignancies
IV vitamin-C is different from oral dosing. NEW STUDY: Vitamin C and Mistletoe Linked to Significantly Improved Survival in Breast Cancer Patients
Study of 748 breast cancer patients finds mistletoe and high-dose IV vitamin C were associated with 54% and 44% lower mortality risks, respectively, even after adjusting for major clinical factors. https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/new-study-vitamin-c-and-mistletoe Dr. Marik shows coffee to be basically supportive and good, not a treatment for cancer. Coffee in Patients With Metastatic Cancer: Potential Benefits, Limitations, and Practical Considerations https://paulmarik.substack.com/p/coffee-in-patients-with-metastatic
Bruce Danckwerts, a southern African, proposes a beneficial competition, satellite-monitored: A Project to Challenge Rural Communities of Southern Africa to Restore Their Resources of Trees, Soils and Water, Thereby Strengthening the Terrestrial Water Cycle - A Founding Charter. This is not a request for funding. A separate Funding Document will be prepared by the interim Board. https://bioticregulation.substack.com/p/a-project-to-challenge-rural-communities
Regenerative Agronomist (pictured with Jenny in agronomy lab)
