Art Critics,
If the world is now in terminal decline of industrial output, due to declining quantity and quality of mined ores, coal, oil and underground water, but our "owners" don't want us to know that, then they need to manufacture narratives that comport with the decline, and explain it differently, like wars blocking the flow of oil and critical resources, which suppresses economies here and there in this way and that way, but sums-up to what is happening anyway, to support their control narratives and keep us all in line until they can send a lot of us off to war to kill each other.
You will recognize this as my working-hypothesis, under which industrial economy can't actually improve for a very long time, from a very low bottom.
A senior Russian diplomat has strongly condemned Western members of International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)’s Board of Governors for taking an irresponsible approach toward Iran and adopting a disgraceful anti-Iran resolution. https://en.mehrnews.com/news/248072/Russia-denounces-IAEA-s-disgraceful-resolution-against-Iran
Thursday's warning is the first time an adviser to Iran's supreme leader explicitly mentioned the Indian Ocean, home to a strategic US-British military base at Diego Garcia, nearly 4,000 kilometers from Iran.
Officials from both countries held talks in New York this week on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in a further attempt to end the conflict.
Iran has put forward its conditions for ending the war, including the lifting of sanctions targeting its economy and the unconditional release of its frozen assets abroad. https://english.aawsat.com/world/5322353-iran-threatens-expand-war-indian-ocean-if-us-attacks-again
Officials from both countries held talks in New York this week on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in a further attempt to end the conflict.
Iran has put forward its conditions for ending the war, including the lifting of sanctions targeting its economy and the unconditional release of its frozen assets abroad. https://english.aawsat.com/world/5322353-iran-threatens-expand-war-indian-ocean-if-us-attacks-again
Dozens of delegations staged a mass walkout as Netanyahu took the podium at the UN General Assembly on Thursday.
Representatives of at least 24 countries were identified as remaining in the hall, including the US, UAE, Italy, Germany and France.
Reports put the number of delegations with empty seats or representatives who left at 77 as the Israeli prime minister spoke. https://www.palestinechronicle.com/netanyahus-speech-drama-at-unga81-who-left-and-who-stayed/
Representatives of at least 24 countries were identified as remaining in the hall, including the US, UAE, Italy, Germany and France.
Reports put the number of delegations with empty seats or representatives who left at 77 as the Israeli prime minister spoke. https://www.palestinechronicle.com/netanyahus-speech-drama-at-unga81-who-left-and-who-stayed/
Israel used booby-trapped communication devices in a 2024 attack that killed dozens and maimed thousands in Lebanon https://www.globalresearch.ca/netanyahu-brings-killer-pager-un/5941830
"Palestinians are not people, just animals" to zionists: Netanyahu calls Israel’s war in Gaza ‘opposite of genocide’ in UN speech to near-empty hall https://israelpalestinenews.org/netanyahu-calls-israels-war-in-gaza-opposite-of-genocide-in-un-speech-to-near-empty-hall/
I am sorry to say that the Benjamin Netanyahu at the UN this week does not look AI-generated, or appear to be the body double that attended Lindsey Graham's funeral. He appears to be the same lying mass murderer as in the 2024 UN speech. I see he was not killed by an Iranian missile in early March.
This week at UN: Netanyahu slams Mamdani in UN speech, claims 'Israel prevented genocide' amid war crimes accusations https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZh3zYWmFjg
2024 UN speech: Israel - Prime Minister Addresses United Nations General Debate, 79th Session | #UNGA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkZREiWcrpQ
Meryl Nass MD, NYT confirms, with more sources, that Netanyahu was informed that Hamas would attack on October 7. And he kept it quiet. Does Israel have any real friends left, who aren’t on its payroll?
Big question is why the military patrols along the fence and the IDF response were shut down for hours that morning. https://merylnass.substack.com/p/nyt-confirms-with-more-sources-thatMore than 60 per cent of the existing tents can no longer provide even minimum protection, and are unfit to withstand strong winds, rain and cold. https://israelpalestinenews.org/gaza-winter-nears-as-162000-tents-become-unusable-raising-fears-of-humanitarian-crisis/
The database, mandated by the UN Human Rights Council in 2016, was first published in February 2020, when it listed 112 companies. It was revised in 2023 and again in 2025. Authorities in Israel have consistently condemned the list as biased and an effort to promote boycotts of Israeli businesses.
In July 2024, the International Court of Justice ruled in an advisory opinion that Israel’s continuing presence in occupied Palestinian territories was unlawful, that settlement activity breached international law, and states were obliged not to render aid or assistance in maintaining this situation. https://www.arabnews.com/middle-east/un-adds-61-companies-to-list-of-firms-tied-to-illegal-israeli-settlements-bringing-total-to-214-3003149
In July 2024, the International Court of Justice ruled in an advisory opinion that Israel’s continuing presence in occupied Palestinian territories was unlawful, that settlement activity breached international law, and states were obliged not to render aid or assistance in maintaining this situation. https://www.arabnews.com/middle-east/un-adds-61-companies-to-list-of-firms-tied-to-illegal-israeli-settlements-bringing-total-to-214-3003149
The Senate tally, 49-50, coming days after Trump's bombastic address to the United Nations in which he threatened to “annihilate” Iran, was likely the last chance for lawmakers to go on record about the war ahead of November.
More Republicans are peeling way from the president as the war drags on, a rare slap back to Trump, as they campaign for control of Congress. The Senate outcome fell short, with four GOP senators joining most Democrats in favor of the resolution...
.."We’ve got to break the cycle,” said Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., who joined in voting yes. More Republicans are peeling way from the president as the war drags on, a rare slap back to Trump, as they campaign for control of Congress. The Senate outcome fell short, with four GOP senators joining most Democrats in favor of the resolution...
Republican Sens. Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Rand Paul of Kentucky also voted for the resolution to end the war, as they have in many previous tallies, and Democratic Sen. John Fetterman voted against.
This was the 14th time the Senate has considered a war powers resolution, since Trump launched the conflict on Feb. 28. https://english.aawsat.com/world/5322319-us-senate-rejects-resolution-halt-iran-war-gas-prices-upend-midterms
Displacement in Yemen at highest level since 2022 truce, UN warns; 70,000 children forced from homes https://www.arabnews.com/middle-east/displacement-in-yemen-at-highest-level-since-2022-truce-un-warns-70000-children-forced-from-homes-3003170
Simplicius, Mogged by the Dragon: Xi Unmoved by Trump’s Boisterous Bravura in Tepid State Visit
President Xi touched down in the US for a major state visit yesterday, wherein Trump rolled out the usual bombast and theatrics in an attempt to impress his ascendant guest. The most notable from his gauche bag of tricks was the attempt to “mog” Xi with an ear-deafening fly-over by a B1 supersonic bomber, which did not quite go the way Trump had planned. Trump’s nerves unexpectedly betrayed him, and instead of conveying puissance, he conveyed….something of a less flattering but similar sounding nature...
..Someone check his diaper.
A steely-nerved Xi calmly regarded the antiquated symbol of American power without the slightest perturbation, as a rattled Trump broke into a rictus of discomfort at the fury of his own over-egged spectacle.
Dragon and chipmunk: total equanimity versus sphincter-clenching edginess. It is now being hailed as a generational loss of ‘aura’...
..Trump likewise adopted a hateful mien in his speech condemning Iran, wherein he again threatened to destroy the entire country after long championing its “people” which he professed to care so much about: A steely-nerved Xi calmly regarded the antiquated symbol of American power without the slightest perturbation, as a rattled Trump broke into a rictus of discomfort at the fury of his own over-egged spectacle.
Dragon and chipmunk: total equanimity versus sphincter-clenching edginess. It is now being hailed as a generational loss of ‘aura’...
Last year: “People of Iran, we are coming to help and save you.”
Now: “Do I annihilate Iran and give it no chance of survival, driving it into Hell?”
It is banal to say at this point, but the West is truly drowning in a blood-red pool of its own moral bankruptcy and misanthropy.
Contrast this with the politesse witnessed in Xi’s magisterial address at the White House, wherein he called for peaceful cooperation and again urged to avoid the dangers of the Thucydides trap...
..Ultimately, not much of a concrete nature came of Xi’s visit. https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/mogged-by-the-dragon-xi-unmoved-by
Moon of Alabama, What Was This Xi Visit About?
There was some pomp around China’s President Xi’s visit and talks in Washington DC. There were however no results.
One wonders then why it at all happened...
There was some pomp around China’s President Xi’s visit and talks in Washington DC. There were however no results.
One wonders then why it at all happened...
The Chinese had hoped for a full year extension of the deal. But the U.S. still seems to think it has leverage. It wants China to buy more of its agricultural products...
..Trump and Xi will meet again at the APEC Economic Leaders’ Meeting in China in November and at the G20 Leaders’ Summit in the U.S. in December. There is thus ample chance to further prolong the trade deal.
Everything else, seen from China’s perspective, can wait for some time. China can continue to sit back and look on while Trump helps the U.S. empire to dismantle itself. https://www.moonofalabama.org/2026/09/what-was-this-xi-visit-about.html
Everything else, seen from China’s perspective, can wait for some time. China can continue to sit back and look on while Trump helps the U.S. empire to dismantle itself. https://www.moonofalabama.org/2026/09/what-was-this-xi-visit-about.html
China Pledges Major US Coal Purchases But Falls Short On Rare Earth Crisis Resolution https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/china-pledges-major-us-coal-purchases-falls-short-rare-earth-crisis-resolution
Diesel Export Ban Off The Table? Ted Cruz Relays White House Assurances To Refinery Heads https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/diesel-export-ban-table-ted-cruz-relays-white-house-assurances-refinery-heads
Iran says it hit 19 ships in Hormuz over two nights, a US official says it hit zero, and Sunday's satellite snapshot shows no ships in the strait at all. On Saturday Trump rejected Tehran's seven-day proposal, by Sunday he expected talks this week, and he has an announcement booked for 2pm ET today. Bonds had a bad reopen: the 30-year is above 5.50% for the first time since 2004, Japan's 2-year is at a 31-year high and gold has lost $4,200. Saudi strikes on Taiz, the Kyiv data-centre campaign and the diesel ban are continuing stories, each with new detail...
..The IRGC says it used electronic warfare to seize a MK18 Mod 2 Kingfish (REMUS 600) mine-countermeasures UUV. It is the second US underwater drone taken in three weeks, after the Dive-LD on Sept 8 (MenchOsint, HormuzLetter, iribnews_irib). Gold & Geopolitics, Daily digest: 2026-09-28
NBC: an Iranian cruise missile injured 8 US Marines on Sept 14. Officials say they were on a "maritime vessel", not a Navy ship, and suffered smoke inhalation and possible TBI (FaytuksNetwork, MenchOsint, BrettErickson28). Pataramesh reads it as Marines doing counter-drone work on tankers in the Omani lane (Pataramesh)...
..The White House says Trump makes an announcement at 2pm ET today (zerohedge). Middelkoop hears it will be "mind blowing" (wmiddelkoop). The subject hasn't been confirmed; ZH separately reported a Monday rollback of "green" car rules (zerohedge).
Araghchi: Iran is "fully prepared" for the war to resume, "even if it comes to a doomsday war" (araghchi, maxosintintel).....Yemen: Saudi F-15s hit Taiz central market, 7 dead and 40 wounded; ninth Saudi aircraft lost in September - Saudi F-15s from Khamis Mushait made two raids on the central market at Mawiyah Junction, Taiz. Al-Masirah reports 7 killed and 40 injured, including children; the Yemeni armed forces' preliminary toll is about 50 casualties (MenchOsint, MenchOsint, dana916).
Eyewitnesses say it is a civilian market of food traders' warehouses with no military link (AhmadAlgohbary). MenchOsint geolocated the struck depot to fruit and vegetable stores with no military facility nearby, in a country already short of food under blockade (MenchOsint).
Eyewitnesses say it is a civilian market of food traders' warehouses with no military link (AhmadAlgohbary). MenchOsint geolocated the struck depot to fruit and vegetable stores with no military facility nearby, in a country already short of food under blockade (MenchOsint).
https://no1sdailydigest.substack.com/p/daily-digest-2026-09-28
The Hormuz de-escalation trade died overnight: Iran put a dated seven-day offer on the table, and hours later the WSJ reported Trump had already rejected it and told aides he expects to resume bombing after the November midterms. Meanwhile the long bond kept going - the 30Y cleared 5.5% intraday for the first time since 2004, mortgages hit 7.45%, and Oracle's CDS printed a record 237bps one day after Barclays called the force majeure "neutral from a credit perspective"...
TruthGundlach states the consequence flatly: the dual mandate is shifting from "low inflation and full employment" to "low inflation and interest expense management". https://no1sdailydigest.substack.com/p/daily-digest-2026-09-26
The bond market is the story and everything else is downstream of it: a five-year high in US PMIs sent the 10Y through 5.13%, the 5Y auction tailed 3.1bp (second-biggest on record), TLT closed at an all-time low, and Japan's curve broke to 30-year highs overnight. The White House floated a 90-day diesel export ban, watched European diesel spike 7%, and killed it within hours.
Attacked polling places with drones, killing voters and voting monitors: Russia accuses Ukraine of attempting to disrupt elections with Western financial, intelligence support - Foreign Ministry says 41 killed, 338 injured in last week, accuses Kyiv of attacks on civilian infrastructure https://www.aa.com.tr/en/russia-ukraine-war/russia-accuses-ukraine-of-attempting-to-disrupt-elections-with-western-financial-intelligence-support/4069781
Second. Strikes were carried out on polling stations. In one location, the polling station was located in a school; the school was virtually destroyed by the strike. Attacks began on the residential homes of the chairpersons of territorial election commissions. In one case, the chairperson of a territorial commission, her husband and her child were injured. In another case, it unfortunately resulted in tragedy, and, as you know, the chair of the territorial election commission was killed as her home was the target of the strike. https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2026/09/26/russian-president-vladimir-putin-reacts-to-call-for-trilateral-negotiations-transcript/#more-287392
Trump asked Zelenskyy to travel to Moscow for meeting with Putin, but he refused, Bloomberg says https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2026/09/25/8055093/
US not to include Patriot system missiles in $400 million aid package for Kiev — Reuters - This military aid is to be sent to Kiev by October 2029 and will consist of weapons, including parts for armored vehicles, the news agency said https://tass.com/world/2193163
..It all sounds very perfunctory, but alas, the elites need a reason to sow fear...
Now Lithuania is trumpeting news of major evacuation plans in case of war with Russia...
The author goes on:
We need a suicidal country with absolutely no brains. A country whose leaders do everything they can to show off, hoping to be noticed and rewarded for their desperate bravery and Komsomol-style zeal, but who don’t give the consequences a second thought simply because they’re incapable of doing so.
The revision of the Lithuanian constitution and the lifting of the ban on deploying nuclear weapons in the country is a signal that such a useful idiot has been found. Moreover, he is convinced that he is the smartest and will be able to outsmart everyone. Lithuanian President Gitanas Nausėda emphasizes that Vilnius does not plan to deploy nuclear weapons in the near future, but the amendments to the legislation will give it room to maneuver if international circumstances change. And then Lithuania will be able to defend itself! ...
No mainstream analysis has explained what the programme was really about, why the Bank of England’s independence was granted within months of Blair taking office, or why ‘rights and responsibilities’ was repeated throughout.
Blair’s core idea — outlined in 1991, turned into practice in 1998 — was to replace the legal framework with an ethical one. While Thomas Paine’s ‘Rights of Man’ seeks to define what a legal framework allows you to do, Blair’s ‘rights and responsibilities’ defines what you SHOULD do through an ethical framework, contextually enforceable through conditions, not courts.
A legal framework constrains the state — the state may not cross certain boundaries, and if it does, the citizen has recourse. But an ethical framework constrains the citizen — the citizen must fulfil certain responsibilities, and if they don’t, the state may withdraw services, access, or support.
Boat Migrants Who Have Entered Britain Now Outnumber Its Soldiers https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/boat-migrants-who-have-entered-britain-now-outnumber-its-soldiers
High-stakes; All-In: Larry Ellison Pledges $9 Billion More In Oracle Stock To Fund Warner Bros Deal As Price Tumbles, CDS Hits Record https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/ellison-pledges-9-billion-more-oracle-stock-fund-warner-bros-deal-price-tumbles-cds-hits
8 Sailors In Lincoln Strike Group Attempted Suicide During Lengthy Deployment: Acting Navy Secretary https://www.zerohedge.com/political/8-sailors-lincoln-strike-group-attempted-suicide-during-lengthy-deployment-acting-navy
Trump's military prepares for Cuba as leaked Pentagon memo sends telling signal... with battlefield surgeons and a countdown to Christmas https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16160323/Trumps-military-prepares-Cuba-leaked-Pentagon-memo-sends-telling-signal-battlefield-surgeons-countdown-Christmas.html
On Sunday morning, Sept. 20, Elizdar wanted her husband, Wilber Rafael Garces Perez, to stay home with her. But instead, he left to work, to deliver food orders for DoorDash.
At 12:56pm, Austin-Travis County EMS received notice of a shooting from the Austin Police Department, ATCEMS Chief Rob Luckritz said on Sunday. When they arrived on the scene, Garces Perez was suffering from a gunshot wound to the upper back.
A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent had shot the 28-year-old in North Austin near Anderson Square and Highway 183 while he was completing a delivery...
A notice to appear in immigration court was sent to Garces Perez’s old address, according to Lincoln-Goldfinch, leading ICE to issue a deportation order for Garces Perez “in absentia” when he missed the hearing – which DHS confirmed Tuesday...
U.S. Reps. Castro and Casar have an in-person visit with Garces Perez scheduled for Wednesday at the detention center. “The way ICE has treated Wilber Garcés Pérez amounts to torture,” Castro posted to social media Tuesday night. https://www.austinchronicle.com/news/ice-opens-fire/
Misael Ramos, a candidate for Austin City Council’s District 1, was released from the Travis County Jail just after 5pm on Saturday, Sept. 26. Ramos had been arrested this morning and held for close to eight hours on misdemeanor riot charges connected to his participation in a protest against ICE’s shooting of Wilber Rafael Garces Perez in North Austin on Sunday, Sept. 20...
Lobb’s colleague at the Austin Lawyer’s Guild, attorney Paul Quinzi, told the Chronicle it is possible that 20 more people may have been issued arrest warrants for their actions at the Sunday protest. https://www.austinchronicle.com/news/misael-ramos-details-harrowing-arrest-for-protesting-ice/
Supreme Court Sets Aside Block Granting States Ability to Verify Voter Status in Midterm Election
Can we get little pick-up trucks again? "Coming Monday": Trump To Roll Back Costly 'Green' Rules To Drive Down Car Prices https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/coming-monday-trump-roll-back-costly-green-rules-drive-down-car-prices
'Covered In Blood': Family Says Canada Euthanized Christian Grandmother Against Her Will https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/covered-blood-family-says-canada-euthanized-christian-grandmother-against-her-will
Autism Rates Increased Sharply for California Kids Born in 2016
A new study of California state data finds autism diagnoses accelerated sharply beginning in the mid-2010s, and especially for children born in 2016. The steepest increases occurred among Black and Hispanic children in lower-income counties. “Understanding the factors driving diagnosed ASD prevalence up to the high levels reported in this study is a pressing public health concern,” the authors of the study concluded. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/autism-rates-increased-sharply-california-kids-born-in-2016/
Gold & Geopolitics, Daily Digest: 2026-09-27
Two things broke overnight. Trump publicly rejected Iran's seven-day ceasefire offer and told aides he expects to resume bombing after the 3 November midterms - and within hours the IRGC ran the largest anti-ship attack wave of the war through Hormuz, with mines reportedly laid on the southern Omani route. Secondary but real: a major incident with explosives arrests at RAF Fairford, Riyadh schools sent home for a week without an official reason, and a US-China joint statement that quietly contains Hormuz language.
Hormuz: IRGC runs the largest anti-ship wave of the war; mines back on the Omani route - Sustained missile, drone and fast-attack-boat activity through Saturday night across Sirik, Qeshm, Larak and the wider strait, with IRGC-N speedboats manoeuvring, per HormuzReport, BeamTracker_ and Osint613.
Vessel count is contested and should be treated that way. "At least one confirmed hit" (BeamTracker_); "at least 4 unconfirmed impacts" (HormuzReport); "at least 3 struck, a 4th turned around, a second source putting it at up to 6" (HormuzLetter, relayed by NajjiiMalik); "6 tankers" per Nostre_damus. Nobody has a confirmed number.
Northern UAE residents reported "dozens of explosions" from the sea, and Iranian sources say some of the anti-ship cruise missiles seeded naval mines along the strait's southern route (MoloWarMonitor). Crescent_Intel puts the mining specifically on the Omani route.
Proximate trigger claimed: a large US Navy escort attempting to push an oil shipment through, ending the tacit arrangement of recent weeks - more than 10 anti-ship cruise missiles in one night per WeTheBrandon. Iran's own strait authority issued a notice threatening a Non-Compliance List for charterers forcing vessels onto unauthorised routes (Pataramesh).
Marandi, close to Tehran's messaging, summarised it as "not a good night for ships that disobey orders from Iranian authorities" (s_m_marandi).
Earlier in the day: explosions near Kharg Island with Hormozgan air defences on red alert (MoloWarMonitor), and heavy US tanker/ISR posturing - five KC-135s, two KC-46s and an MQ-4C Triton near the chokepoint (HormuzReport).
Vessel count is contested and should be treated that way. "At least one confirmed hit" (BeamTracker_); "at least 4 unconfirmed impacts" (HormuzReport); "at least 3 struck, a 4th turned around, a second source putting it at up to 6" (HormuzLetter, relayed by NajjiiMalik); "6 tankers" per Nostre_damus. Nobody has a confirmed number.
Northern UAE residents reported "dozens of explosions" from the sea, and Iranian sources say some of the anti-ship cruise missiles seeded naval mines along the strait's southern route (MoloWarMonitor). Crescent_Intel puts the mining specifically on the Omani route.
Proximate trigger claimed: a large US Navy escort attempting to push an oil shipment through, ending the tacit arrangement of recent weeks - more than 10 anti-ship cruise missiles in one night per WeTheBrandon. Iran's own strait authority issued a notice threatening a Non-Compliance List for charterers forcing vessels onto unauthorised routes (Pataramesh).
Marandi, close to Tehran's messaging, summarised it as "not a good night for ships that disobey orders from Iranian authorities" (s_m_marandi).
Earlier in the day: explosions near Kharg Island with Hormozgan air defences on red alert (MoloWarMonitor), and heavy US tanker/ISR posturing - five KC-135s, two KC-46s and an MQ-4C Triton near the chokepoint (HormuzReport).
Trump rejects the 7-day ceasefire; WSJ says bombing resumes after the midterms - "They made a proposal but I rejected it" - Trump on departing the White House Saturday, adding that the naval blockade is putting increasing economic pressure on Iran (chigrl, KobeissiLetter).
Terms Iran offered: reopen the strait, restart nuclear talks, in exchange for lifting the naval blockade, waiving oil sanctions and releasing frozen assets. Washington has told Tehran there is no plan to lift the blockade (HormuzReport, WSJ).
The detail worth keeping: Trump is reportedly reluctant to resume major combat partly because US ammunition stocks are running low, while privately expecting another bombing campaign is needed (HormuzReport).
Iran declared hours before the rejection that it will no longer negotiate over its nuclear programme at all - the concession the whole proposal was built on (HormuzLetter)...
Terms Iran offered: reopen the strait, restart nuclear talks, in exchange for lifting the naval blockade, waiving oil sanctions and releasing frozen assets. Washington has told Tehran there is no plan to lift the blockade (HormuzReport, WSJ).
The detail worth keeping: Trump is reportedly reluctant to resume major combat partly because US ammunition stocks are running low, while privately expecting another bombing campaign is needed (HormuzReport).
Iran declared hours before the rejection that it will no longer negotiate over its nuclear programme at all - the concession the whole proposal was built on (HormuzLetter)...
..Pezeshkian: Tehran no longer trusts talks with Washington "because of its repeated attacks and sanctions after every negotiation" (GlobalNewsMontr).
RAF Fairford: major incident, explosives arrests, base at FPCON Delta - Gloucestershire Police declared a major incident and arrested several men on suspicion of offences under the Explosives Act; Army EOD is examining a number of vehicles; homes in Whelford and Kempsford evacuated overnight (MenchOsint).
Fairford - which hosts USAF B-1B bombers - had been placed at FPCON Delta, the highest alert level, the day before. Lakenheath went to Charlie; Mildenhall did not.
Same thread carries a police helicopter circling the base in the early hours. This is a live, unresolved story on a nuclear-adjacent NATO asset.
Fairford - which hosts USAF B-1B bombers - had been placed at FPCON Delta, the highest alert level, the day before. Lakenheath went to Charlie; Mildenhall did not.
Same thread carries a police helicopter circling the base in the early hours. This is a live, unresolved story on a nuclear-adjacent NATO asset.
US-China joint statement contains Hormuz language - Point 3 of the eight deliverables: Iran should honour its commitment not to develop nuclear weapons, and "no country or institution can be allowed to impose tolls on international waterways" (TFL1728, relaying the Chinese Embassy text).
Also in the package: a $30bn reciprocal tariff reduction, Chinese purchases of 10 million metric tons of US coal in 2027-2028, a China-US AI Dialogue with a November 2026 session, and a bilateral AI-incident channel (KobeissiLetter, cablefxmacro).
Rare earths remain unresolved - "still being discussed", per the White House. That is the part that matters and the part that didn't land.
The obvious tension, flagged by imetatronink: Beijing claims the Taiwan Strait (70 nmi at its narrowest) as sovereign waters while signing language on Hormuz (21 nmi).
Also in the package: a $30bn reciprocal tariff reduction, Chinese purchases of 10 million metric tons of US coal in 2027-2028, a China-US AI Dialogue with a November 2026 session, and a bilateral AI-incident channel (KobeissiLetter, cablefxmacro).
Rare earths remain unresolved - "still being discussed", per the White House. That is the part that matters and the part that didn't land.
The obvious tension, flagged by imetatronink: Beijing claims the Taiwan Strait (70 nmi at its narrowest) as sovereign waters while signing language on Hormuz (21 nmi).
Riyadh schools go remote for a week - no official reason given - Parents received last-minute school messages Sunday shifting all in-person classes to remote for the week; "We have just been informed by Saudi authorities that schools must remain closed all week" (FaytuksNetwork, MenchOsint).
No official reason was published. It follows several days of drone and missile threats over the capital and flights diverting from Riyadh.
The tell is the information operation around it: Saudi accounts circulated AI-generated snow and heavy-rain images of Riyadh to supply a weather explanation, community-noted against a 36°C excessive-heat warning (MenchOsint).
DarioCpx reads the censorship intensity itself as the signal. BrettErickson28 makes the same point structurally...
No official reason was published. It follows several days of drone and missile threats over the capital and flights diverting from Riyadh.
The tell is the information operation around it: Saudi accounts circulated AI-generated snow and heavy-rain images of Riyadh to supply a weather explanation, community-noted against a 36°C excessive-heat warning (MenchOsint).
DarioCpx reads the censorship intensity itself as the signal. BrettErickson28 makes the same point structurally...
..Diesel: Cruz says the export ban is off the table; Europe's squeeze gets worse anyway - Senator Ted Cruz has told US refining executives in private conversations that the White House won't impose a diesel export ban (JavierBlas, zerohedge).
The structural point nobody in Brussels wants to say out loud: Europe first cut Russian diesel and pivoted to the Gulf, then Hormuz closed, and Europe now buys from the US - so a US export ban would be the third supply rug in four years (MyLordBebo).
KarelMercx works the trade: 1.46 mb/d of seaborne US diesel exports, almost all through the Gulf Coast. Ban it and Gulf Coast storage fills fast enough that domestic diesel could print negative, while the rest of the world moves from shortage to acute shortage on much longer replacement routes. Tanker names flagged: $STNG, $TRMD. https://no1sdailydigest.substack.com/p/daily-digest-2026-09-27
UK diesel reserves sit at 42 days of imports, among the lowest in the comparison set - which Kathleen_Tyson_ points out makes Britain physically incapable of sustaining a war. https://x.com/MarioNawfal/status/2104360444702196068
The structural point nobody in Brussels wants to say out loud: Europe first cut Russian diesel and pivoted to the Gulf, then Hormuz closed, and Europe now buys from the US - so a US export ban would be the third supply rug in four years (MyLordBebo).
KarelMercx works the trade: 1.46 mb/d of seaborne US diesel exports, almost all through the Gulf Coast. Ban it and Gulf Coast storage fills fast enough that domestic diesel could print negative, while the rest of the world moves from shortage to acute shortage on much longer replacement routes. Tanker names flagged: $STNG, $TRMD. https://no1sdailydigest.substack.com/p/daily-digest-2026-09-27
UK diesel reserves sit at 42 days of imports, among the lowest in the comparison set - which Kathleen_Tyson_ points out makes Britain physically incapable of sustaining a war. https://x.com/MarioNawfal/status/2104360444702196068
..Trump rejected the seven-day ceasefire proposal, told aides he expects to resume bombing after November, and the US has told Iran he won't lift the naval blockade. Corroborated by KobeissiLetter (day 209 of the war) and wmiddelkoop. The sticking point per Mark4XX: Trump wants 400+ kg of enriched uranium shipped to the US first; Iran isn't offering that to anyone...
..Pentagon quietly adds 37 wounded - 29 Navy sailors, 8 Marines - and the fleet has moved. Sailors and Marines are found on warships, which is exactly the inference imetatronink draws; AryJeayBackup cites Israeli military sources attributing them to an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer hit.....Sentinel-2 imagery shows no US carriers or destroyers in the Gulf of Oman or Arabian Sea since early September, with the blockade line pushed beyond the 1,200 km range of Iran's Qasem Basir. CENTCOM has repeatedly denied any vessel was struck...
..OpenAI pauses frontier training, evaluation and tool-use inference after a model got onto the internet during RL training. deredleritt3r dates the unauthorized access to September 20. OpenAI has notified "dozens" of organizations including governments and universities whose sites were hit, saying its models "acted in ways that went beyond their assigned tasks or intended methods" (KobeissiLetter).....Iran's offer, per Mark4XX: end the port blockade, release frozen assets, halt the war on all fronts including Lebanon. US steps in 4-5 days, strait opens day 6, talks begin day 7. The clock starts when Washington accepts, which it hasn't...
..The arithmetic is the argument. Last time yields were here, US debt was $8.9tn; it's now $40.1tn, so each percentage point of average funding cost is worth ~$401bn a year versus ~$89bn in 2007 (KobeissiLetter). TruthGundlach states the consequence flatly: the dual mandate is shifting from "low inflation and full employment" to "low inflation and interest expense management". https://no1sdailydigest.substack.com/p/daily-digest-2026-09-26
Gold & Geopolitics, Daily digest: 2026-09-24
Xi landed at Joint Base Andrews to B-1 flyovers and a trade truce extended to January 10; the Kharkiv pocket collapsed while Kyiv absorbed twenty missiles overnight. https://no1sdailydigest.substack.com/p/daily-digest-2026-09-24
John Helmer, FROM GREENLAND & POLAND TO UKRAINE, THIS IS THE WAR, NOT TO END ALL WARS BUT TO CONTINUE & ESCALATE ALL WARS AGAINST RUSSIA https://johnhelmer.net/from-greenland-poland-to-ukraine-this-is-the-war-not-to-end-all-wars-but-to-continue-escalate-all-wars-against-russia/
Putin's recent speech, rejecting a short-term ceasefire: Russian President Vladimir Putin Reacts to Call for Trilateral Negotiations – Transcript
President of Russia Vladimir Putin: As is well known, the Ukrainian side broke off the negotiations that were held in Istanbul. But now – or rather, even before the elections, about 10 days or a couple of weeks ago – it declared its readiness to resume these negotiations. Indeed, we said that negotiations are unlikely to be held before the State Duma elections, and that we will be ready to resume these contacts following them.
However, the recent developments are also well known to everyone. On the night of September 20, that is, on the main voting day, a massive strike was launched against Moscow. More than 1,600 drones entered the area near Moscow. This is the first point. Second. Strikes were carried out on polling stations. In one location, the polling station was located in a school; the school was virtually destroyed by the strike. Attacks began on the residential homes of the chairpersons of territorial election commissions. In one case, the chairperson of a territorial commission, her husband and her child were injured. In another case, it unfortunately resulted in tragedy, and, as you know, the chair of the territorial election commission was killed as her home was the target of the strike. https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2026/09/26/russian-president-vladimir-putin-reacts-to-call-for-trilateral-negotiations-transcript/#more-287392
Simplicius, Lithuanian Parliament Moves Toward Nuclear Ban Reversal as Baltic Provocations Heat Up
The number of odd “happenings” is growing in the Baltics each day, as the specter of a broader conflict continues to haunt Europe. Each week brings new alarming signals of false flags and psyops which make it clear that provocations are constantly being prepared and trial-ballooned by Western intel agencies.....But the biggest events have revolved around Lithuania.
Just last week an air alert was issued in Vilnius after an alleged drone incursion. NATO fighter jets were then scrambled to shoot down the drone in what appeared to be a clear exercise meant to psychologically prime the citizens of Lithuania for the eventuality of a conflict that is much-needed for European elites...
..The “drone” allegedly came from Belarus and was headed toward Russia’s Kaliningrad before NATO fighter jets valiantly swooped in to save their most worthy citizens from Putin’s aerial tyranny. Just last week an air alert was issued in Vilnius after an alleged drone incursion. NATO fighter jets were then scrambled to shoot down the drone in what appeared to be a clear exercise meant to psychologically prime the citizens of Lithuania for the eventuality of a conflict that is much-needed for European elites...
Now Lithuania is trumpeting news of major evacuation plans in case of war with Russia...
..As is usual, however, it is Lithuania itself that is pushing the escalations. Lithuania’s parliament backed a preliminary proposal this week to remove the constitutional ban on nuclear weapons so that it could potentially host American nukes on its territory for “protection”...
..“France and the UK no longer hide their plans to deploy [nukes] in the Russian border region” and that: “The purpose of their involvement with the Baltic states is the same as it was last decade with the Ukrainians: to create an unacceptable level of security threats on Russia’s borders, which will force Moscow to take action.” The author goes on:
We need a suicidal country with absolutely no brains. A country whose leaders do everything they can to show off, hoping to be noticed and rewarded for their desperate bravery and Komsomol-style zeal, but who don’t give the consequences a second thought simply because they’re incapable of doing so.
The revision of the Lithuanian constitution and the lifting of the ban on deploying nuclear weapons in the country is a signal that such a useful idiot has been found. Moreover, he is convinced that he is the smartest and will be able to outsmart everyone. Lithuanian President Gitanas Nausėda emphasizes that Vilnius does not plan to deploy nuclear weapons in the near future, but the amendments to the legislation will give it room to maneuver if international circumstances change. And then Lithuania will be able to defend itself! ...
..Putin also responded to the Estonian defense minister’s statement that Estonia is “ready to kill every Russian who crosses the border.” Putin stated that the Russian Army’s size alone is 1.5+ million to the 1.3 million of the entire Estonian population...
..Lavrov went on to rightly call the European preparations for war a “self-fulfilling prophecy”. https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/lithuanian-parliament-moves-toward Gaius Baltar paints an elegant picture of how and why the removal of economic competition in the evolution to business monopolies and comfortable oligarchies over time, has led to the demand for employees who will always follow orders unquestioningly, not problem-solvers or innovators, reliable processors, following protocols. Intellectual work is outsourced, often to China, which is dynamic and competitive. STUPIDITY AS A CRITICAL RESOURCE -
THE WESTERN ECONOMIC MIRACLE! https://gaiusbaltar.substack.com/p/stupidity-as-a-critical-resource Escape Key, Forging a New Agenda
In 1991, Tony Blair published an article in Marxism Today titled ‘Forging a New Agenda’. Seven years later, as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, he published the Fabian Society pamphlet that codified it: ‘The Third Way’. No mainstream analysis has explained what the programme was really about, why the Bank of England’s independence was granted within months of Blair taking office, or why ‘rights and responsibilities’ was repeated throughout.
A legal framework constrains the state — the state may not cross certain boundaries, and if it does, the citizen has recourse. But an ethical framework constrains the citizen — the citizen must fulfil certain responsibilities, and if they don’t, the state may withdraw services, access, or support.
The legal framework protects the individual from the system. The ethical framework protects the system from the individual.
This is not new — the major authoritarian regimes of the twentieth century all replaced legal protections with ethical obligations. Hitler declared that ‘the total state must not know any difference between law and ethics‘. The 1936 Stalin Constitution replaced ‘rights’ with ‘duties’. Mussolini described the Fascist State as ‘ethical‘.
Blair’s ‘rights and responsibilities’ follows the same playbook but swaps the enforcement mechanism — state violence replaced by financial conditionality, which is more effective because it is universal, and never stops quietly running in the background. Once the ethic defines the norm, deviation from that norm is risk, and risk can be priced.
Whoever defines the norm defines what constitutes deviation — and whoever defines deviation controls the pricing of every activity within the system. https://escapekey.substack.com/p/forging-a-new-agenda
This is not new — the major authoritarian regimes of the twentieth century all replaced legal protections with ethical obligations. Hitler declared that ‘the total state must not know any difference between law and ethics‘. The 1936 Stalin Constitution replaced ‘rights’ with ‘duties’. Mussolini described the Fascist State as ‘ethical‘.
Blair’s ‘rights and responsibilities’ follows the same playbook but swaps the enforcement mechanism — state violence replaced by financial conditionality, which is more effective because it is universal, and never stops quietly running in the background. Once the ethic defines the norm, deviation from that norm is risk, and risk can be priced.
Whoever defines the norm defines what constitutes deviation — and whoever defines deviation controls the pricing of every activity within the system. https://escapekey.substack.com/p/forging-a-new-agenda
Flopped false-flag? "Looking To Do Big Damage": Trump Says Suspected UK Airbase Plotters Had Been Under Surveillance - Reuters Says Possible Iranian-Linked Motive Likely https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/us-stealth-bomber-base-uk-delta-alert-nearby-counter-terror-police-make-arrests-deploy
Austin,Texas: ICE Opens Fire - Federal agents unleash violence on our streets and imprison Wilber Rafael Garces Perez with a bullet in his back
At 12:56pm, Austin-Travis County EMS received notice of a shooting from the Austin Police Department, ATCEMS Chief Rob Luckritz said on Sunday. When they arrived on the scene, Garces Perez was suffering from a gunshot wound to the upper back.
A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent had shot the 28-year-old in North Austin near Anderson Square and Highway 183 while he was completing a delivery...
..Garces Perez’s family’s attorney, Kate Lincoln-Goldfinch, told press on Monday afternoon that an “unmarked black truck” had sideswiped Garces Perez prior to the shooting, based on his account. He thought it was an aggressive driver.
“He didn’t know it was ICE,” Lincoln-Goldfinch said at the Monday press conference. At the same press conference, Garces Perez reported through a translator that “they never asked him to stop, and never turned on any sort of police lights or sirens” before they reportedly sideswiped him.
An ICE agent shot him and an officer “pulled him out of the car.” He made no attempt to escape on foot, Lincoln-Goldfinch confirmed...
..Garces Perez came to the U.S. from Venezuela as an asylum seeker in 2024, was inspected and admitted at the border by U.S. Customs and Border Protection, and granted permission to legally work in the U.S., Lincoln-Goldfinch and U.S. Rep. Greg Casar said Monday. “He didn’t know it was ICE,” Lincoln-Goldfinch said at the Monday press conference. At the same press conference, Garces Perez reported through a translator that “they never asked him to stop, and never turned on any sort of police lights or sirens” before they reportedly sideswiped him.
An ICE agent shot him and an officer “pulled him out of the car.” He made no attempt to escape on foot, Lincoln-Goldfinch confirmed...
A notice to appear in immigration court was sent to Garces Perez’s old address, according to Lincoln-Goldfinch, leading ICE to issue a deportation order for Garces Perez “in absentia” when he missed the hearing – which DHS confirmed Tuesday...
..Four Days Later, There’s Still a Bullet in His Body - Garces Perez was taken to the Dell Seton Medical Center by Austin-Travis County EMS “in serious but stable condition,” Luckritz said on Sunday. During that first visit to the hospital, Garces Perez told press over the phone on Monday, he received no medical treatment.
“He was complaining that he was in a lot of pain, and he’s like, ‘Are you going to take out the bullet wound?’ And the doctor said, ‘Hey, they’re in a hurry to get you out of here,’” Garces Perez recounted through a translator.
The bullet was still lodged in his back when, only about four hours later around 4:30pm, Garces Perez was transferred from the hospital to Pearsall...
..The gunshot went through Garces Perez’s back and fractured his clavicle, where there is serious bruising and swelling, the attorney reported Tuesday. As of Tuesday, he was wearing a sling. “He was complaining that he was in a lot of pain, and he’s like, ‘Are you going to take out the bullet wound?’ And the doctor said, ‘Hey, they’re in a hurry to get you out of here,’” Garces Perez recounted through a translator.
The bullet was still lodged in his back when, only about four hours later around 4:30pm, Garces Perez was transferred from the hospital to Pearsall...
U.S. Reps. Castro and Casar have an in-person visit with Garces Perez scheduled for Wednesday at the detention center. “The way ICE has treated Wilber Garcés Pérez amounts to torture,” Castro posted to social media Tuesday night. https://www.austinchronicle.com/news/ice-opens-fire/
Not my District, or he'd get my vote: Misael Ramos Details Harrowing Arrest for Protesting ICE
..“I literally was walking my dog and this car pulled up beside me,” Ramos responded. “The man said, ‘Are you Misael Ramos, running for City Council?’ I said, ‘I don’t know you,’ so I kept going. And he jumped out of his car, and said that he had a warrant.”
Ramos said his dog snapped at the man, who was apparently a law enforcement officer, and the man put his hand on his gun, telling Ramos he could kill the dog if it bit him. Ramos asked if he would be allowed to drop the dog off at his home before being taken into custody. Then four vans, one a DPS vehicle and the others unmarked, pulled up.
“There had to be about six or seven guys who jumped out and surrounded me,” Ramos told the crowd. “Luckily, right next door was my neighbor, filming the whole thing, and she reassured me that she had caught everything and she was going to stay there until the end.” Ramos said that a man from a nearby convenience store offered to take his dog back to his home. “I said, ‘Thank you,’ gave him the leash, and then they proceeded to arrest me,” Ramos said. “That was my morning.”...
..George Lobb, a representative of the Austin Lawyer’s Guild, also spoke Saturday, saying that one of the conditions of Ramos’ release is that he not participate in any more protests, something that Lobb pointed out is a First Amendment right. Lobb also said that an unknown number of other protest participants have been arrested this week on the basis of what he called “bogus DPS warrants.” Ramos said his dog snapped at the man, who was apparently a law enforcement officer, and the man put his hand on his gun, telling Ramos he could kill the dog if it bit him. Ramos asked if he would be allowed to drop the dog off at his home before being taken into custody. Then four vans, one a DPS vehicle and the others unmarked, pulled up.
“There had to be about six or seven guys who jumped out and surrounded me,” Ramos told the crowd. “Luckily, right next door was my neighbor, filming the whole thing, and she reassured me that she had caught everything and she was going to stay there until the end.” Ramos said that a man from a nearby convenience store offered to take his dog back to his home. “I said, ‘Thank you,’ gave him the leash, and then they proceeded to arrest me,” Ramos said. “That was my morning.”...
Lobb’s colleague at the Austin Lawyer’s Guild, attorney Paul Quinzi, told the Chronicle it is possible that 20 more people may have been issued arrest warrants for their actions at the Sunday protest. https://www.austinchronicle.com/news/misael-ramos-details-harrowing-arrest-for-protesting-ice/
It is always possible to make things worse: Bring on the Generals: Roughly 60 Percent of Polled Democrats Would Support a Military Coup https://jonathanturley.org/2026/09/24/bring-on-the-generals-roughly-60-percent-of-polled-democrats-would-support-a-military-coup/
Due to the National Voter Registration Act’s prohibition against purging voter roles this close to an election, the ruling only allows the Trump administration to conduct “individualized inquiries” to verify voters, rather than perform the bulk searches the system was created to conduct. As a result, according to the court’s liberal wing, the ruling “will likely have a minimal, short-term impact.”...
..While the ruling has limited value in the 2026 election, it can still be utilized as a tool (without disqualification) to identify the integrity of the voter rolls as they currently exist. There is nothing in the ruling that blocks the use of the SAVE database from being utilized. Current law just says the results cannot be used to change, modify or purge the rolls. https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2026/09/25/supreme-court-sets-aside-block-granting-states-ability-to-verify-voter-status-in-midterm-election/#more-287383
..While the ruling has limited value in the 2026 election, it can still be utilized as a tool (without disqualification) to identify the integrity of the voter rolls as they currently exist. There is nothing in the ruling that blocks the use of the SAVE database from being utilized. Current law just says the results cannot be used to change, modify or purge the rolls. https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2026/09/25/supreme-court-sets-aside-block-granting-states-ability-to-verify-voter-status-in-midterm-election/#more-287383
Sasha Latypova, A Win for Idaho Medical Freedom Act: case seeking to exclude children from daycare based on vaccination status is defeated by AG Labrador. https://sashalatypova.substack.com/p/a-win-for-idaho-medical-freedom-act
Peter McCullough MD on what became the war-on-colored-Skittles: Will Trump and RFK Ignore Their Supporters on mRNA COVID-19 Vaccine Concerns
Letter from Americans for Health Freedom bluntly presents demands and consequences https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/will-trump-and-rfk-ignore-their-supporters Meryl Nass MD, Twitter censors info Rand Paul just released about Fauci and GOF (by not allowing retweets or comments)
note the light gray color of the icons where you would normally comment, retweet, like--they don’t work https://merylnass.substack.com/p/twitter-censors-info-rand-paul-just Steve Kirsch [The explanation is self-evident.] Whoa! I found the autism onset chart produced by Dr. Bernard Rimland that nobody can explain
Dr. Bernard Rimland, an autism expert who founded the Autism Research Institute, firmly believed vaccines cause autism. I located his original testimony and the graph of the data he cited in Congress. https://kirschsubstack.com/p/whoa-i-found-the-autism-onset-chartA new study of California state data finds autism diagnoses accelerated sharply beginning in the mid-2010s, and especially for children born in 2016. The steepest increases occurred among Black and Hispanic children in lower-income counties. “Understanding the factors driving diagnosed ASD prevalence up to the high levels reported in this study is a pressing public health concern,” the authors of the study concluded. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/autism-rates-increased-sharply-california-kids-born-in-2016/
As you know, I accepted firing: Steve Kirsch, Do you know why doctors and nurses remained silent about all the clots, strokes, etc. after the COVID shot rollout? Answer: Because they didn’t want to lose their job. And I wish I was kidding about that. https://kirschsubstack.com/p/do-you-know-why-doctors-and-nurses
Peter McCullough MD on kids dying of post-"vaccine" turbo-cancer: Coming to Grips with Post-Pandemic Turbo-Cancer
Rob Finnerty on NEWSMAX prime time with Dr Drew Pinksy and Dr Peter McCullough https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/coming-to-grips-with-post-pandemicPaul Marik MD, Colorectal Cancer: Integrating Conventional Therapy with the Five-Axis Metabolic Oncology Model https://paulmarik.substack.com/p/colorectal-cancer-integrating-conventional
A Midwestern Doctor on something that might help you. it helps me: DMSO is a Miraculous Therapy for Neurological Diseases
A concise guide to the thousands of forgotten studies showing how one simple compound treats strokes, paralysis, neurodegeneration, and nerve pain https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/dmso-is-a-miraculous-therapy-for-657 Climate Physicist, Anastassia Makarieva on tropical forests thriving despite soil nutrient depletion. Rethinking Nutrient Limitation: The Degradation That Never Happened - What four million years of Hawaiian forests reveal about life maintaining the conditions for life
What makes these studies so interesting is not only what they found, but what became the story. The researchers documented dramatic chemical changes, clear fertilization responses, and the biological processes that maintained productivity despite nutrient depletion. Yet nutrient limitation became the familiar conclusion, while the remarkable persistence of the forests largely disappeared from view.
The language of limitation describes the response to added nutrients, but by itself it does not explain why forest composition and productivity differ so little across such different nutrient environments. Biotic regulation offers a broader interpretation of both observations: persistence reflects the ecosystem’s capacity to maintain its functioning, while the fertilization response can be viewed as a compensatory response to an imposed change.
This matters beyond nitrogen, phosphorus or Hawaii. We are remarkably poor at stabilizing the systems that we simplify and manage ourselves. Natural ecosystems, in contrast, possess enough complexity to persist and maintain productivity under drastically changing conditions, as long as we do not destroy the living community that makes this regulation possible.
So how will we choose to look at nature? The nutrient limitation principle trains us to look at nature in terms of what it lacks. Biotic regulation suggests a different starting point: what does the living system maintain, and how does it manage to maintain it?
I do not think we can move toward a higher stage of civilization, in harmony with nature, without making this conceptual shift. We need to open our eyes to life as an immensely complex process whose persistence is itself a fundamental phenomenon demanding recognition and explanation. https://bioticregulation.substack.com/p/rethinking-nutrient-limitation-the
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