Guessing Invisible Deals

 Missing Something,

  Gilbert Doctorow watched Putin's Sochi address and Q & A session, but Glenn Diesen was there, and they discuss Putin's soft stance on Trump/USA, but harder stance on EU/NATO.  Transcript of ‘Conversation with Glenn Diesen,’ 4 October

​  Doctorow:  So each day I got a menu of YouTube channels and they were consistently speaking about Putin threatens, Putin warns, Putin denounces. And they made it seem as though he was doing what everyone expected him to do, but in fact he did not do. Or to the extent that he issued warnings, they were so vague, so indefinite, that they have no meaning. Moreover, the most important fact is that the warning, the very clear red line that he described one year ago, oh, one year, two months ago, in several interviews, there’s a red line about use of long-range American or other missiles to strike deep within the Russian Federation.
​  He said very clearly that any country supplying this, And first of all, the United States, because the missiles in question, they weren’t named as Tomahawks, but it was known that all of the missiles striking Russia from Ukraine are in fact targeted and controlled by NATO member states. He said specifically that if long-range missiles were supplied to Ukraine and they struck Russia, then Russia would consider the [countries] supplying, delivering such missiles to Ukraine to be co-belligerents, co-belligerents for which Russia would reserve the right to strike back militarily.​   

​  That’s not what we heard on Thursday. That very clear and very strict warning to the United States was erased.​   https://gilbertdoctorow.com/2025/10/05/transcript-of-conversation-with-glenn-diesen-4-october/

​  File under: "All Wars Are Banker's Wars":  PUTIN OFFERS A WORLD WITHOUT WARS ~ VIDEO

​ Russia’s head of state, Vladimir Putin, offers peace to the warlike West. Will it accept? The Russian president has shown he values peaceful coexistence, but never at the cost of Russia’s national interests​.   https://michaelwalshwriter.com/2025/10/03/putin-offers-a-world-without-wars/

​  I presume that cameras monitored facial expressions in the "general audience" for AI analysis, and that there was a smaller top-secret meeting before the show:    FUHRER FASCISM — HOW DID VZGLYAD KNOW THAT TRUMP’S MEETING WITH THE GENERALS WAS A LOYALTY TEST? BECAUSE RUSSIANS REMEMBER HITLER’S FUHRERREID  OF 1935? John Helmer   https://johnhelmer.net/fuhrer-fascism-how-did-vzglyad-know-that-trumps-meeting-with-the-generals-was-a-loyalty-test-because-russians-remember-hitlers-fuhrerreid-of-1935/

  Simplicius, Putin Reveals New Casualty Insights, as Russian Infrastructure Campaign Ravages Ukraine​  

 During the Valdai discussions Putin seemed to have played-down the Tomahawk threat a little more diplomatically. But in a new impromptu interview with reporter Zarubin, Putin gives a far more declarative response to the potential issue of Tomahawks in Ukraine, outright admitting that it would destroy US-Russian relations.​   https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/putin-reveals-new-casualty-insights

  Mike Mihajlovic at Black Mountain Analysis, is very well informed on missile technology and applications:Tomahawk for Ukraine: Never-ending Saga of the Wunderwaffe to Turn the Tide 

 ​  The Tomahawk serves not as a practical option but as a symbol—a shorthand for escalation, resolve, and the promise of game-changing capability. The fact that it is logistically and operationally impossible for Ukraine to use it does not matter; what matters is the narrative power of the name.
​  At its core, then, the “Tomahawk for Ukraine” story is not about military reality. It is about theater. It appeals to audiences with a shallow grasp of defense technology and reassures them with the idea that another “silver bullet” system is on the way.​..

..In this Substack, I previously discussed several cruise-missile options — Storm Shadow/SCALP, Taurus, and the newer JASSM — and there is both technical and material availability to some degree to use the latter two alongside Storm Shadow. Tomahawk is simply out of the question. As the conflict drags on, Ukraine is suffering from steady attrition despite enormous support from NATO allies; if current trends continue, attrition will eventually exhaust Ukrainian resistance. They need to finally accept that Western policy has been mishandled; for some, an earlier negotiated end would be preferable to eventual collapse. No number of cruise missiles, or anything else the collective West can dump there, however loudly demanded by warmongers in the West, will turn the tide.   https://bmanalysis.substack.com/p/tomahawk-for-ukraine-never-ending

  Celia Farber, Hamas Accepts Trump's Peace Proposal, Approves Handover Of The Administration Of The Gaza Strip, Seeks Further Negotiations And Agrees To Release All 48 Remaining Hostages

​  Trump Demands Israel Immediately Cease Bombing Of Gaza, Israel "Readying Itself To Implement The First Stage" Of The Peace Plan" Trump Says He Believes Hamas Is "Ready For A Lasting Peace." ​   https://celiafarber.substack.com/p/hamas-accepts-trumps-peace-proposal

Israel strikes Gaza as Palestinians pin hopes on Trump peace plan​   https://www.arabnews.com/node/2617834/middle-east

​  Trump Threatens To Bomb Iran Again If It Restarts Nuclear Program, Says He’s ‘Not Going To Wait So Long’
President Trump on Sunday said that he would bomb Iran again if the country restarts its nuclear program, warning the US was “not going to wait so long this time,” a threat that comes amid growing signs that another US-Israeli war against Iran may be coming.​   https://news.antiwar.com/2025/10/05/trump-threatens-to-bomb-iran-again-if-it-restarts-nuclear-program-says-hes-not-going-to-wait-so-long/

Despite Trump’s Claimed ‘Pause’, Israel Continues Bombing Civilians – War on Gaza Day 729​   https://israelpalestinenews.org/despite-trumps-claimed-pause-israel-continues-bombing-civilians-war-on-gaza-day-729/

Netanyahu says Trump peace plan will not be implemented until all hostages are in Israel​   https://endtimeheadlines.org/2025/10/netanyahu-says-trump-peace-plan-will-not-be-implemented-until-all-hostages-are-in-israel/

Israel continues Gaza attacks, killing 60 Palestinians despite Trump ceasefire call​   https://en.yenisafak.com/world/israel-continues-gaza-attacks-killing-60-palestinians-despite-trump-ceasefire-call-3708859

​  Israeli and Hamas Negotiators Begin Indirect Talks in Egypt as the IDF Continues To Bomb Gaza
Medical sources told Al Jazeera that at least 10 Palestinians were killed so far on Monday​   

​  Egyptian sources told Reuters that Hamas is seeking clarification on a few points of the potential plan and wants guarantees that Israel would go through with a withdrawal once they give up their leverage by releasing all the Israeli captives.​..                                                                                            ..The IDF has framed its continued attacks as “defensive” operations, though children are among the victims.  https://news.antiwar.com/2025/10/06/israeli-and-hamas-negotiators-begin-indirect-talks-in-egypt-as-the-idf-continues-to-bomb-gaza/

Workers Shut Down Italy Again in Solidarity With Palestine​   https://scheerpost.com/2025/10/04/workers-shut-down-italy-again-in-solidarity-with-palestine/

How PR firms are whitewashing genocide in Gaza to rebrand Israel’s global image​   https://www.arabnews.com/node/2617797/media

​  Genocide: Israel killed 20,000 children in Gaza using 200,000 tonnes of explosives​ - Nearly two million Palestinians have been forcibly displaced since the start of Israel’s war on Gaza.​   https://www.trtworld.com/article/00edad0a1ed9

​  ‘We were treated like animals,’ deported Gaza flotilla activists say

​“Some boats were also hit by water cannon. All of the boats were taken by very heavily armed people and brought to shore,” the 29-year-old said.
​  “They put us on our knees, facing down. And if we moved, they hit us. They were laughing at us, insulting us, and hitting us,” he said.
​“They were using both psychological and physical violence.”​...
​..Romano said they tried to force them to admit they had entered Israel illegally.​ “But we never entered Israel illegally. We were in international waters, and it was our right to be there.”​   https://www.arabnews.com/node/2617783/middle-east

Israel Paying Up to $4.1M to Brainwash Americans With V​irtual R​eality, Target Churches With 'Geofencing' Ads​   https://www.informationliberation.com/?id=65051

​  Greta Thunberg says she is being held in Israeli cell ‘infested with bedbugs’​                                                                                                                          “She has received insufficient amounts of both water and food,” it said.
​  “She also stated that she had developed rashes which she suspects were caused by bedbugs. She spoke of harsh treatment and said she had been sitting for long periods on hard surfaces.”
​  The email, sent by the ministry to people close to Thunberg, said: “Another detainee reportedly told another embassy that they had seen her (Thunberg) being forced to hold flags while pictures were taken. She wondered whether images of her had been distributed.”​       
​  The email said Thunberg had also been asked by Israeli authorities to sign a document.​ “She expressed uncertainty about what the document meant and did not want to sign anything she did not understand,” it said, adding that she had​ not had access to legal counsel.​   https://www.arabnews.com/node/2617769/middle-east

​  Global Sumud Flotilla Activists Dennounce Torture and Mistreatment During Detention In Israel

​  Among the detained are 21 Spanish citizens who returned to Madrid and publicly decried the brutal treatment they endured. They described a relentless campaign by Israeli authorities to humiliate and dehumanize them. One activist recalled: “A fellow activist said if we were Palestinians, we would have been killed by now, which reflects the brutal reality.”
​  The Spanish group detailed constant sleep deprivation, denial of medical care including withholding life-saving medications, restriction of access to potable water, and exposure to racial slurs. They reported wearing the same clothes from the moment of arrest due to refusal to provide replacements and having access only to contaminated water unfit for drinking.​   https://www.telesurenglish.net/global-sumud-flotilla-activists-dennounce-torture-and-mistreatment-during-detention-in-israel/

​  Israel reportedly plans to maintain military presence at 3 military sites in Gaza after peace plan
According to KAN broadcaster, Israeli officials told Washington that Israel will hold positions inside Gaza's borders, the Philadelphi Corridor along border with Egypt, and Tel al-Mantar hill.​   https://www.trtworld.com/article/788ec22996b8

Hamas refutes media reports on its readiness to surrender arms under Trump’s plan​   https://tass.com/world/2025435

​  How Israel Controls America​, Paul Craig Roberts
The Israel Lobby Wants Thomas Massie Gone. Will American Voters Obey their Israeli Masters?
​  “Pro-Israel Republican megadonors recently set up the MAGA Kentucky super PAC with $2 million specifically to oust Massie. Paul Singer contributed $1 million, John Paulson added $250,000, and Miriam Adelson’s Preserve America PAC provided $750,000. The Republican Jewish Coalition has promised “unlimited” campaign spending if Massie runs for Senate, with CEO Matt Brooks declaring that ‘if Tom Massie chooses to enter the race for US Senate in Kentucky, the RJC campaign budget to ensure he is defeated will be unlimited.’​   https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2025/10/02/how-israel-controls-america/

​  The war in Gaza has strained Israel’s public image throughout the world, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has said.
He made his comments after the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced they would suspend offensive operations in Gaza City following an agreement between West Jerusalem and Hamas on a prisoner swap proposed last week by US President Donald Trump.
​  “Whether we agree with it or not, we have seen countries like the UK, Australia, Canada, and others come out and sort of signal support for – or announce support for – a Palestinian state. We have seen, even in our own domestic politics, some of the attacks on Israel,” Rubio told Margaret Brennan on CBS Face the Nation on Sunday.
​  “And I think that’s the point the president is making here, is that whether you believe it was justified or not, right or not, you cannot ignore the impact this has had on Israel’s global standing,” he added.​   https://swentr.site/news/625965-rubio-gaza-war-israel-image/

​  Israel deports 171 Gaza flotilla activists to Greece and Slovakia
Earlier, Israel deported around 170 flotilla activists over the past few days, with smaller groups sent to Italy and Spain.​   https://www.trtworld.com/article/c907a0358a35

​  Kyle Young looks at rumors about Erica Kirk, and finds them largely unsubstantiated. There is a big cover up about Charlie Kirk's assassination, which is an important message in itself.  Good work again from Kyle:  https://secularheretic.substack.com/p/erika-kirk

  Kyle included this excellent analysis with clear frame-images and trigonometric overlays by Chris Martensen:  Solved! Analysis Reveals Kirk Killed by Rifle Round, but Not From Robinson's Position   https://rumble.com/v6zigiw-solved-analysis-reveals-kirk-killed-by-rifle-round-but-not-from-robinsons-p.html

  I have been petitioning for 18 months fior Robert Robeson's release. He's convicted of "Shaken Baby Syndrome", which never actually existed. It's vaccine injury.

Celia Farber,  Innocent Man With Autism Scheduled To Be Executed Oct. 16 Despite Chief Detective And Jury Members Saying Exculpatory Evidence Was Withheld. Robert Robeson Did Not Kill His Baby--Sign The Petition

​  This Would Set Precedent For Executing Innocent Parents Falsely Accused of "Shaken Baby Syndrome." Please Spread.​   https://celiafarber.substack.com/p/innocent-man-with-autism-scheduled

​  The AI bubble is 17 times the size of the dot-com frenzy — and four times the subprime bubble, analyst says
Artificially low interest rates have stimulated investment into AI that has hit scaling limits, says research firm​   https://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-ai-bubble-is-17-times-the-size-of-the-dot-com-frenzy-this-analyst-argues-046e7c5c

  Charles Hugh Smith,  Will AI Crash the Economy?

The lines of dominoes being toppled run through every nook and cranny of the economy.​   https://charleshughsmith.substack.com/p/will-ai-crash-the-economy

​You might not know some of  this exists:  Torture weapons are being used on Europe's streets to put down protests   https://euobserver.com/eu-and-the-world/ar6c6cda93

  Sundance, Two More Election Wins for Sovereign Nationalism​  10/5/2025

  In addition to the Japanese election victory of Sanae Takaichi, now positioned to be the first female Prime Minister of Japan, both the Czech Republic and nation state of Georgia held elections yesterday.
  The biggest loser in the Czech election is Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy who has relied upon a sketchy assembly of Czech arms dealers to provide him weapons via highly corrupt NATO/EU payment systems. As noted by the BBC, Babis “has already vowed to scrap the successful Czech ammunition initiative – which has delivered 3.5 million shells to Ukraine since 2022​.​"...
..In essence, the Czech arms dealers delivering weapons to Ukraine are also delivering weapons to Russia. [Sound familiar?]
​  The new Czech government will continue letting NATO/USA buy weapons for Ukraine from Czech arms dealers, but the govt will no longer permit the operation from hiding the transactions. Russia will know which of their arms suppliers are also delivering weapons to Ukraine. [Oh dear]
​  The other big election outcome was the municipal elections in Georgia. Following the 2024 independent Parliamentary elections of Georgia Dream, the entire apparatus of western NGOs, western intelligence, EU and NATO alliances, have been funding opposition efforts in Georgia.
​  Their EU’s yearlong manipulation effort culminated in a massive rally, turned riot, on the streets of Tbilisi last night. However, the Georgian people rejected the pro-EU manipulation and resoundingly elected Georgia Dream (nationalists) to lead their municipal elections. Mayoral and council elections were won by candidates who supported the sovereign state of Georgia.
​  The biggest losers in the Georgia elections were EU President Ursula von der Leyen, the Brussels bureaucrats and again Volodymyr Zelenskyy.​   https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2025/10/05/two-more-election-wins-for-sovereign-nationalism/#more-276693

​  EU interfering in Hungary’s domestic politics – Orban
The Hungarian prime minister has accused the bloc’s leaders in Brussels of conspiring with Kiev to install a pro-Ukrainian government in his country​   https://swentr.site/news/625959-orban-eu-ukraine-meddling-hungarian-domestic-affairs/

Central Banks Hoard Gold, Shed U.S. Treasuries​   https://antoniusaquinas.com/2025/10/02/central-banks-hoard-gold-shed-u-s-treasuries/

​  Ellen Brown: How a Fed Overhaul Could Eliminate the Federal Debt Crisis, Part I: The Fed’s Hidden Drain

​  Quantitative easing has periodically been proposed as a way to tackle the federal debt crisis. With $9.2 trillion in Treasury debt maturing annually, in four years the Fed could theoretically shift the whole $37 trillion debt onto its own books through QE and return the interest it earns on the bonds to the Treasury. The debt would still be there, but it would be an interest-free debt to a partner government agency, the Fed. Under current laws and policies, however, there are two obstacles to this solution:
​  1. The Primary Dealer Restriction: The Fed is not allowed to buy securities directly from the Treasury. It must buy from “primary dealers” on the open market like everyone else; and these dealers (mostly very large banks) park the funds they receive for the trade in their reserve accounts, on which the Fed pays IOR.
​  2. Net Loss from IOR: As of May 2025, the Fed was paying 4.4% on reserves but earning only around 3.3% on Treasury securities. So rather than returning the interest from the bonds to the Treasury, this QE maneuver would actually cause the government to lose $101 billion annually on the $9.2 trillion in bonds ($9.2 trillion × 1.1% (4.4% – 3.3%). The banks, not the Treasury, would reap the benefits.

​  Changing these rules requires legal changes or a cooperative Fed board, which faces resistance from the banking lobby profiting from IOR’s $186 billion windfall. The Fed has issued trillions of dollars in reserves to save the banks, its real constituents. Would it do that to save the government? Only if its interests were aligned, as they were in the 1930s and 1940s.
​  Either the independence of the Fed needs to be curbed or the Treasury needs to issue money directly, as Abraham Lincoln did. As will be shown in Part II of this article, this solution has substantial successful precedent both in the U.S. and abroad; it need not create inflation, and it is the monetary “secret sauce” of our largest competitor, China. By directing central bank liquidity toward infrastructure and industrial policy, the People’s Bank of China stabilizes prices, supports employment, and reduces long-term borrowing costs.​    https://scheerpost.com/2025/10/04/ellen-brown-how-a-fed-overhaul-could-eliminate-the-federal-debt-crisis-part-i-the-feds-hidden-drain/

​  The total stablecoin supply has reached a new record of over $300 billion on Friday, marking a 46.8% year-to-date growth rate that may outpace the previous year’s stablecoin market growth, Cointelegraph reported.​
​  “Stablecoin supply may have crossed 300 billion dollars, but this is not capital waiting on the sidelines. It is moving through markets with purpose,” according to Andrei Grachev, founding partner at synthetic dollar protocol Falcon Finance.​..
​..“Transfer volumes are in the trillions each month. Velocity metrics show constant activity across networks,” Grachev told Cointelegraph. “They are being used—not just held. This is capital at work, not capital on hold.”
​  “Stablecoins are settling trades, funding positions, and giving users dollar access where banks fall short,” he added.​  https://www.zerohedge.com/crypto/stablecoin-market-boom-300b-rocket-fuel-crypto-rally

​  Escape Key,​  Mark of the Beast 

​  The six rails frequently discussed on this substack represent the operational implementation of three foundational frameworks originally developed to understand and manipulate complex systems: General Systems Theory, Input-Output Analysis, and Cybernetics.​   

​  We’ve discussed the six rails several times. Here’s a quick recap in simple terms:
Accreditation determines who’s authorised to verify compliance, and they in turn decide who meets the standards to participate.
​  Finance controls money flows based on how well you perform against predetermined targets.
Digital Identity binds every actor — whether person, company, or public authority — to verifiable credentials that carry their compliance history.
​  Audit & Assurance checks whether you’re complying both before and after transactions occour.
Data captures comprehensive records of every transaction and operation.
​  Procurement uses government buying power to cascade these requirements through entire supply chains.
Together, these six create a system enabling conditional participation at every point in the economy.​   https://escapekey.substack.com/p/mark-of-the-beast

Federal judge temporarily blocks any deployment of National Guard to Portland​   https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/05/us/oregon-trump-california-national-guard

Afraid of Antifa: Portland Police Bureau Blames Conservative Journalist for Being Attacked by Antifa, Claims She ‘Instigated’ by Simply Being There​   https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/10/portland-police-bureau-blames-conservative-journalist-being-attacked/

This got put on most Federal out of office replies, too:  Democrats Are About to Trigger Mass Layoffs of Federal Workers​   https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/10/05/if-the-schumer-shutdown-continues-democrat-layoffs-will-begin-n4944496

​  ‘Magic Bullet’: Sugar Industry Falsified Science to Sell America on Fluoride
A new study reveals the sugar industry has manipulated fluoride science since the 1930s — exaggerating benefits, concealing risks and steering attention away from sugar’s role in tooth decay. The findings show that industry influence shaped fluoridation policies, raising urgent questions about the public health guidance that persists today.​   https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/sugar-industry-falsified-science-to-sell-america-fluoride-kelloggs-ada-study/

  ​In almost every state...  Health Watch:  ‘Health Care’ Has Become the Main Employer

If your main activity is getting health care, it suggests that you are very sick.​   https://aapsonline.org/health-watch-health-care-has-become-the-main-employer/

​  The Great Lakes:  Millions are at risk after cancer-causing 'forever chemicals' are detected in America's largest water supply
Warning 100million Americans have tap water laced with PFAS​   https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-15156015/millions-risk-pfas-cancer-causing-forever-chemicals.html

​  Trump protecting Pfizer for a fee?  Secrecy Over Trump-Pfizer Deal Sparks FOIA Demands and Public Outcry

Pfizer’s stock jumped Tuesday after CEO Albert Bourla and President Donald Trump announced a deal to lower U.S. drug prices and invest $70 billion in domestic manufacturing, while shielding the company from tariffs. Critics blasted the lack of transparency, with watchdog groups filing FOIA requests to uncover the agreement’s undisclosed terms.​   https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/secrecy-over-trump-pfizer-deal-sparks-foia-demands-public-outcry/

​  Sasha Latypova,  TrumpRx deal: Congress must demand disclosure of the Trump trademark licensing arrangement.

POTUS may be violating the emoluments clause of the Constitution, and must provide full disclosure.​   https://sashalatypova.substack.com/p/trumprx-deal-congress-must-demand

​  RoundUp is in everything.  Even Tiny Doses of Glyphosate Fed to Pregnant Mice Damaged Gut Health in Offspring
A new study in mice found that even very low doses of the herbicide glyphosate — far below current safety limits — can disrupt gut health, metabolism and behavior, with effects passed on to offspring. The research raises concerns that prenatal exposure may have multigenerational impacts on immunity, hormones and brain function.​   https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/even-tiny-doses-glyphosate-pregnant-mice-damaged-gut-health-offspring-rtk/

​  A lot of things are harmful during pregnancy: Confounded Association Between Prenatal Tylenol and Childhood Neuropsychiatric Disorders

Large, Conclusive Swedish Study Finds Relationship, Demonstrates Lack of Independence​   https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/confounded-association-between-prenatal

​  All COVID Vaccines Increase Cancer Risk, New Study Concludes
A South Korean study of over 8 million people reported an increased overall cancer risk of 27% linked to mRNA and non-mRNA COVID-19 vaccines. The researchers found higher risks for six specific cancers. Mainstream media criticized the study.​   https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/all-covid-vaccines-increase-cancer-risk-new-study-concludes/

​Is it new or newly reformulated?  What if the Universe Remembers Everything? New Theory Rewrites the Rules of Physics   https://scitechdaily.com/what-if-the-universe-remembers-everything-new-theory-rewrites-the-rules-of-physics/

Forgetting Where I Put Stuff (pictured with Jenny and garden this past weekend)

Change Of Ownership

New Management,

  I am sorry to have such a mess of stories and links again, but it is the times we are in. Global finance is the control system, by which we human herds are managed by the "owners" (Carlin). This system has debt-money growing exponentially, which does not match real-economy, and is badly mismatched now, so it needs to re-set again, as it did in & after WW-2. 

  Somebody will be in a position to assign losses, so that position is now hotly contested. Old money families do not want to take losses.

  The owners need really big wars to scare the rest of us, so that we will do what they say and not complain.

The other option is change-of-ownership, whch they will never permit, but it could happen, anyway. I prefer we try the change, but it is also dangerous.

  European finance is in the worst balance-sheet trouble, and is increasingly desperate for a real WW-3 against Russia, where lots of men will die, and everybody else will take orders. This is outrageously evil, but it is the routine european management style under these circumstances.

  Russia and the US are reluctant, though the US is not done bullying smaller countries with oil yet, far from it...

  Larry Johnson explains "frangible" bullets, which disintegrate on impact, even more than hollowpoints, and his suspicions that all the generals and admirals meeting Tuesday was cover for a secret war planning meeting, Was Trump’s Meeting with the US Military Brass Today a Cover for Action? And a Charlie Kirk Update   https://sonar21.com/was-trumps-meeting-with-the-us-military-brass-today-a-cover-for-action-and-a-charlie-kirk-update/

The show was not aimed at top military brass, but TV viewers:  Welcome to the War Department. “War is Peace”. Hegseth’s “Hot War” to “Ensure Peace”   https://www.globalresearch.ca/hegseth/5901586

  Yves Smith,  Trump’s Imminent War(s) and Economic Damage as His Legitimacy Crumbles

  Trump looks to be on the verge of launching wars against one or both of Venezuela and Iran. But he looks to have overplayed his hand with the US military with calling generals and flag officers to Quantico to give them not just a bizarre set of anti-DEI and anti-fat directives, but also to have Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and then Trump himself say that they expected the military to operate against US citizens on US soil, harping on the “enemy within”. Recall that the armed services defied Trump in his first term, when he issued lawful orders to pull out Afghanistan that were simply ignored. Admittedly these directives came at the very end of his time in office.
  It is also worth keeping in mind that the armed services have served as checks on trigger-happy civilian leaders. In the Biden Administration, Lloyd Austin repeatedly and often successfully opposed Biden and Secretary of State Blinken’s Ukraine escalation plans, one suspects by pointing out the limits of US weaponry and Russia’s retaliatory options... Hegeseth’s and Trump’s addresses received a very stony faced reception, and YouTuber accounts second-hand from those in the room suggest a combination of gobsmackedness at the pathetic display and horror at the demand to operate domestically against Trump-designated demons. The measured Daniel Davis, in a talk with Colonel Macgregor, pointed out it was obvious that Trump’s definition of “radical left” threats could easily include all of Team Dem.   https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/10/trumps-imminent-wars-and-economic-damage-as-his-legitimacy-crumbles.html

  Moon of Alabama,  Musing About Trump’s Recent Moves
U.S. President Donald Trump is pushing his country into an uncomfortable direction. What might be the reasons for him to do so?

  Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth called on flag officers (Generals) to follow a conservative ideology. He has also announced a reduction of flag officer positions which will give him the chance to weed out those officers who have a more liberal standpoint.
  Trump wants the military to use U.S. cities as training grounds (archived):
  It was at that moment that the president recounted a conversation with his defense secretary: “I told Pete, we should use some of these dangerous cities as training grounds for our military.”
  This seems to be, together with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) raids, a preparation for countering severe domestic unrest.  But there is, so far no reason for any a big unrest to happen. The U.S. society is generally not a rebellious one. Why would Trump perceive that unrest is coming?  

  Trump is clearly preparing for a more global war.
 Another round of war with Iran is imminent. Air-tankers have been deployed to the Middle East, Israel’s air defenses have been beefed up with more THAAD launchers and a carrier group is entering the Mediterranean.
  The increase of forces near Venezuela is also continuing. It is clearly a build up towards a regime change attempt (archived).
Trump has increased intelligence sharing with Ukraine to allow for deep strikes into Russia.
  At the same time the U.S. seems to have largely given up on militarily countering the rise of China.
Regime change in Iran and Venezuela could bring a huge amount of additional energy resources under Washington’s control.
  When the big stock market crash that everybody is warning (archived) about (archived) will finally happen, the U.S. economy will get severely damaged.
Unrest in the U.S. could then become real.
  Having control over additional resource assets would dampen the negative effects for the U.S. dollar and debt position.
Is Trump expecting something like that?   https://www.moonofalabama.org/2025/10/musing-about-trumps-recent-moves/

  Wednesday,  Six (6) E-6B "Mercury" TACAMO Nuclear Command Aircraft Flying over CONUS

October 1, 2025, there were a total of SIX (6) E-6B Mercury Nuclear Command and Control aircraft that were airborne over the continental United States.  This is unprecedented.
  The Boeing E-6B Mercury is a U.S. Navy airborne communication relay and command post aircraft, primarily known as a "doomsday plane."
  It supports two main functions: the  Take Charge and Move Out (TACAMO) mission, which provides airborne command and control links to U.S. nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines, and the Looking Glass mission, serving as an airborne command post for launching intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs).
  Derived from the Boeing 707, the E-6B is equipped with a trailing wire antenna for very-low-frequency (VLF) communications, enabling it to reach submerged submarines.
  Usually, only one or two such aircraft are up at any given time.
In a "crisis" situation, we have seen three or four such aircraft in the sky at once.
  NEVER BEFORE have we seen SIX (6) Such planes flying at the same time.  This isn't training; this is nuclear war posture.   https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/news-selections/national-news/six-6-e-6b-mercury-tacamo-nuclear-command-aircraft-flying-over-conus

  The head of the global nuclear strike force resigned Tuesday after Trump's pep talk: Thomas Bussiere’s Retirement: A Turning Point for the U.S. Air Force  General Thomas Bussiere announced his retirement from the U.S. Air Force citing personal and family reasons.
Bussiere served as the head of Air Force Global Strike Command, overseeing nuclear and strategic bomber operations.   https://azat.tv/en/thomas-bussiere-retirement-air-force/

​  Hegseth fires Navy chief of staff​ : Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has just fired Navy Chief of Staff Jon Harrison. We don’t know why and no one is talking about the ‘why’.​   https://therightscoop.com/breaking-hegseth-fires-navy-chief-of-staff/ 

  October 2, Congress Notified: US Engaged in "non-International Armed Conflict"

  The Trump administration has determined that the US is engaged in a “non-international armed conflict” with Latin American drug cartels, according to a notification to Congress, offering further legal justification for recent strikes on alleged drug-runners from Venezuela.
  The notice, sent by the Pentagon to Congress this week, says the US “has now reached a critical point where we must use force in self-defense and defense of others against the ongoing attacks” by the groups, which President Donald Trump has also designated terrorist organizations.   https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/news-selections/world-news/congress-notified-us-engaged-in-non-international-armed-conflict

Unprecedented US Military Build-Up Near Venezuela Is Sign Of Possible War   https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/unprecedented-us-military-build-near-venezuela-sign-possible-war

Also Wednesday October 1, Iran Goes on Military Alert; Says Hostilities with Israel and U.S. "Imminent"   https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/news-selections/world-news/iran-goes-on-military-alert-says-hostilities-with-israel-and-u-s-imminent

War has changed a lot in the past 3 years: The Pentagon Should Scale Back F-35 Purchases—and Buy Drones Instead   https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/the-pentagon-should-scale-back-f-35-purchases-and-buy-drones-instead

  John Helmer, WHEN TOMAHAWK MEETS BEAR, THE HAZEL TREE (ORESHNIK) WINS

A week ago on September 23, President Donald Trump called President Vladimir Putin’s military power a “paper tiger”, and declared ”this is the time for Ukraine to act”.
  By that he said he meant “to take back their Country in its original form and, who knows, maybe even go further than that!”  
  Five days later, the successor president, Vice President J D Vance, explained that deployment on the Ukrainian battlefield by NATO-supplied Tomahawk cruise missiles, with a 2,500-km range,    is the next step he and Trump are considering.
  “Russia is really stalled,” Vance claimed,   “The Russian economy is in shambles. The Russians are not gaining much on the battlefield… The Russians have refused to sit down in any bilateral meetings with the Ukrainians. They have refused to sit down in any trilateral meetings with the President…The Russians have got to wake up and accept reality here… About Tomahawks, it’s something the President is going to make the final determination on. What the President is going to do is what’s in the best interest of the United States of America.”  
  The scheme, Vance intimated, is to allow NATO member states with Tomahawk batteries – at the moment this means the UK and Germany – to deliver them to Kiev, or for other European states to buy the missiles from the US and send them on. This means that the crews operating the Tomahawk systems in the Ukraine would be British, German, or other Europeans.  “What we’re doing,” Vance said, “is asking the Europeans to buy that weaponry that shows some European skin in the game. I think that gets them really invested in both what’s happening in their own backyard, but also in the peace process that the president has been pushing for, for the last eight months,” Vance said...  

..Then Peskov muffled a warning: “The question… is this: who can launch these missiles…? Can only Ukrainians launch them, or do American soldiers have to do that?”   The answer is already obvious – Vance made it plain. The operators of the Tomahawks would be Europeans.   https://johnhelmer.net/when-tomahawk-meets-bear-the-hazel-tree-oreshnik-wins/

  EU leaders vow to strengthen defense cooperation with Ukraine as war with Russia intensifies
'Now we need a precise Pan-European plan how to fill the capability gaps and how to move forward,' says European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen   https://www.aa.com.tr/en/europe/eu-leaders-vow-to-strengthen-defense-cooperation-with-ukraine-as-war-with-russia-intensifies/3705090

To clarify: Hungary's Orban From Copenhagen Summit: "The EU Has Decided To Go To War"   https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/hungarys-orban-copenhagen-summit-eu-has-decided-go-war

​  ‘The AfD wants a completely different country’ warns German establishment politician. The problem? Germans also want a completely different country​ - The establishment parties warn of a "revolution," "system change," and a "completely different nation," but that is eactly what AfD supporters want, writes Welt columnist Andreas Rosenfelder​   https://rmx.news/article/the-afd-wants-a-completely-different-country-warns-german-establishment-politician-the-problem-germans-also-want-a-completely-different-country/

  Rival warmongers want to run the show: Merz rivalry with von der Leyen heating up – Bloomberg

The German chancellor reportedly wants more control over decision-making within the EU, sources have told the outlet   https://swentr.site/news/625726-merz-leyen-rivalry-heating-up/

  Andrew Korybko (Putin doesn't want to lose Russia to global finance.) Re-Evaluating The Special Operation In Light Of The Valdai Club’s Startling Insight

 They wrote on page 25 that “Russia would not risk its own socioeconomic stability for a decisive victory in a military conflict. One exception is direct full-scale aggression, but the probability of such an action against a nuclear superpower is close to zero…Perhaps the purpose of wars has changed. The contemporary objective may no longer lie in victories – wherein one party achieves all its goals – but rather in maintaining a balance necessary for a period of relative peaceful development.”
  This startling insight prompts a re-evaluation of the special operation, which has been going on for over 3,5 years, in no small part due to Putin’s restraint in not waging a US-inspired “shock-and-awe” campaign at the cost of Iraqi-like civilian casualties among what he believes to be the fraternal Ukrainian people. In light of what Russia’s top policy influencers just revealed, however, a complementary reason might be his trusted policy advisors’ reluctance to risk their country’s “socioeconomic stability for a decisive victory”.   https://korybko.substack.com/p/re-evaluating-the-special-operation

Larry Johnson,  President Putin Signals Peace to Donald Trump at Valdai   https://larrycjohnson.substack.com/p/president-putin-signals-peace-to

  China's "golden dome": China deploys planetary defense prototype that can track 1,000 incoming missiles

The PLA-tested platform integrates data from land, sea, air, and space to provide real-time threat analysis.   https://interestingengineering.com/military/china-moves-before-us-golden-dome

Putin: 'All NATO Countries Are Fighting Us' While EU Leaders 'Whip Up Hysteria'   https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/putin-all-nato-countries-are-fighting-us-while-eu-leaders-whip-hysteria

Putin Blasts French 'Piracy' After 'Russia-Linked' Tanker Boarded, Captain Arrested   https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/putin-blasts-french-piracy-after-russia-linked-tanker-boarded-captain-arrested

Putin Warns US Tariffs On Russia's Partners Will Backfire: 'Oil Will Skyrocket, Exceed $100'   https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/trump-approves-giving-ukraine-intel-missile-strikes-deep-inside-russia

  RUSSIAN FROZEN ASSETS SCAM 

 1) The EU loans Ukraine Russia’s money of roughly $200 billion. The EU gives the money as a “reparations loan” to Ukraine, which Kyiv only repays when Moscow compensates it for war damage. 

 2) The EU replaces the Russian assets with an IOU note, promising to repay Russia. But due to the sanctions the EU can’t repay Russia, hence the loan will not be repaid. 

 3) If Russia wants the sanctions to be lifted, it has to pay Ukraine reparations. Which Ukraine can use to repay the loan, which then can be used to repay Russia.

Then the sanctions can be lifted, as the loan is repaid and Russian frozen assets are back in place. Essentially it means if Russia gives Ukraine $500 billion, $200 billion will come back. 

 4) But this means that all previous loans, that are taken using Russian assets as collateral, which are paid by the interest of the assets, need to be paid by Europe now. 

  Everything loaned before needs to be paid by Europe, since the interest of Russian assets will be gone... Key takeaway, previous loans are now paid by European taxpayer, though it was promised they will not be. Also Europe finally destroys its financial credibility   https://x.com/MyLordBebo/status/1973671919305028041

A $56 million US MQ-9 Reaper was launched from the Sigonella NATO base in Sicily,Italy. Heading to Crimea with transponder off. The Russians jammed it, by cutting off its guidance satellite feed. Crash The computer/telemetry memory chips were scooped up by the Russian Black Sea Fleet...   https://x.com/ricwe123/status/1973657381872562557

  Portland Police Detain Journalist, Not Antifa Soldiers, Spurring White House Probe 

Sortor was charged with second-degree disorderly conduct.
  "This was as big of a surprise to me as it was to everybody else. All of a sudden, you know, I'm being jumped by Antifa thugs," Sortor told Fox News' Bill Melugin following his release from jail. "I get back up, I stumble away and go back toward cops where I think, you know, at least, all right, well, maybe that'll be a safer place for me to go… never suspected that I was going to be the target of the arrest, that they were coming in to me."   https://www.zerohedge.com/political/portland-police-arrest-journalist-not-antifa-prompting-top-trump-officials-investigate

​  Watch: Enraged Young Conservatives Rally In Front Of Portland ICE, Chanting "USA" After Sortor Arrest​  

​  Not even a day after Portland Police arrested journalist Nick Sortor outside a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in South Portland, the totally unexpected happened overnight ... dozens of young men muscled past Antifa, chanting "USA" and "NICK."  
​  On Friday night, dozens of young men gathered in front of the ICE building in Portland to show their support for ICE and for journalist Nick Sortor, whose Thursday night arrest sparked a federal investigation into leftist corruption in the city.​   https://www.zerohedge.com/political/watch-young-masculine-men-what-democrats-fear-rally-front-portland-ice-chanting-usa

​  Conservative Female Reporter Violently Assaulted by Antifa Terrorist; Portland Police Refuse to Arrest Attacker (VIDEO)

The Antifa terrorist hit Katie Daviscourt in the face with a flag pole, leaving her with a nasty black eye.​   https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/10/conservative-female-reporter-violently-assaulted-antifa-terrorist-portland/

  Palestinian Subordination: Donald Trump’s Gaza Peace Plan. Binoy Kampmark

  He had moments of discomfort and embarrassment – pressed into calling the Qatari Prime Minister by his host to apologise for striking Doha and made to pay lip service to the prospect of a Palestinian state – but Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu had many reasons to be pleased.                                   On September 29, President Donald Trump advanced a peace proposal that essentially preserves Israeli pre-eminence regarding the fate of Palestinians, though it entails a cessation of hostilities, an affirmation that Gazans would not be expelled (those leaving would have the right to return), and an injunction against Israeli annexation of the Strip. But Hamas, militarily and politically, would have to surrender all claims, with the Palestinian Authority shepherded and supervised by foreign powers.   https://www.globalresearch.ca/donald-trump-gaza-peace-plan/5901635

  Tucker Carlson has revealed that during the brief Iran-Israel war earlier this year, Israeli soldiers were barging into U.S. military meetings at the Pentagon, issuing demands, and telling American officers what to do. He says Pentagon officials stood by in silence and is questioning why no one dared to act.   https://x.com/ShadowofEzra/status/1973562410792312939

​  New poll shows strong Democratic voter support for US sanctions on Israel
YouGov-IMEU poll shows 65% of Democratic primary voters back sanctions on Israel, including bans on credit, arms imports, and entry for Israeli officials​   https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/new-poll-shows-strong-democratic-voter-support-for-us-sanctions-on-israel/3706906

  Key Middle Eastern leaders shocked by Israeli rewrite of Gaza plan but still back it
'Maximum pressure' is now being applied to Hamas to accept the deal, despite its clear shortcomings, sources tell MEE   https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/key-middle-eastern-leaders-shocked-israeli-rewrite-gaza-plan-still-back-it

  How Hamas Is Navigating Trump’s Gaza Ultimatum
In an exclusive interview, veteran Hamas official Mohammad Nazzal discusses strategy, red lines, and Israel’s attempt to assassinate Palestinian negotiators. 

  Hamas is well aware that its only real leverage is the fact that it continues to hold Israelis in Gaza. “It is possible that this agreement will last only 72 hours, meaning they would take the Israeli captives and then not follow through with the rest of the agreement. There are no guarantees,” Nazzal said.   “That’s why I believe that when we delve into the details of the plan, we must include guarantees that ensure the agreement is fully implemented and not cut short. There must be guarantees that the release of all captives in those initial hours will not allow the Americans and Israelis to walk away from fulfilling the rest of the deal.”
  These concerns are well founded. Israel has repeatedly violated the terms of previous ceasefire agreements, including the January 2025 deal that was endorsed by both Trump and his predecessor Joe Biden. Israel conducted regular strikes inside Gaza during the first phase of the deal and then unilaterally abandoned the agreement entirely in March, imposed a sweeping blockade, and resumed its scorched earth bombing of Gaza.   https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/gaza-hamas-trump-netanyahu-ceasefire-nazzal-palestine-israel-qatar

​  Colombia’s Petro Government Once Again Shows Rest of World How to Respond to Israel’s Naked Criminality

If a mid-sized country in South America can take such strong action against arguably the world’s most dangerous rogue state, why can’t others that are far more powerful?​   https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/10/colombias-gustavo-petro-government-once-again-shows-rest-of-world-how-to-respond-to-israels-naked-criminality.html

Israeli army kills 51 Palestinians in Gaza in past 24 hours​   https://en.mehrnews.com/news/237230/Israeli-army-kills-51-Palestinians-in-Gaza-in-past-24-hours

Israel Orders Palestinians to Leave Gaza City, Saying Those Who Stay Will Be Considered Militants​   https://english.aawsat.com/arab-world/5192446-israel-orders-palestinians-leave-gaza-city-saying-those-who-stay-will-be

​  Protests erupt across Europe after Israeli attack on Gaza-bound aid flotilla
Streets fill in Rome, Barcelona, Berlin, Brussels after Israeli forces attack Global Sumud Flotilla​   https://www.aa.com.tr/en/europe/protests-erupt-across-europe-after-israeli-attack-on-gaza-bound-aid-flotilla/3705051

​  Germany approves arms exports to Israel again
Center-right government claims these approvals are exclusively ‘other military equipment’ and not ‘war weapons’​   https://www.aa.com.tr/en/europe/germany-approves-arms-exports-to-israel-again/3703938

​  Israeli forces ram Gaza-bound flotilla vessel, fire water cannons at fleet
Israel is ‘brutally mistreating peaceful detainees from 50 countries around the world,’ says International Committee for Breaking the Siege on Gaza​   https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/israeli-forces-ram-gaza-bound-flotilla-vessel-fire-water-cannons-at-fleet/3705056

​  Interdicted in international waters:  Israelis Make Illegal Arrests on Sumud Flotilla

Israeli soldiers seized 447 volunteers as they boarded the flotilla of 40 boats with 500 people on the high seas on its way to Gaza.​   https://consortiumnews.com/2025/10/01/watch-live-feed-from-sumud-flotilla/

​  Trump calls on Israel to stop bombing Gaza after Hamas agrees to parts of peace plan
Hamas agrees to terms for release of all Israeli hostages, but other issues remain unresolved​   https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/trump-hamas-deadline-ceasefire-1.7650305

Israel carries out 'merciless bombardment' on Gaza despite Trump's stop order
Palestinian officials in Gaza say the main city is under relentless Israeli fire while residents also report heavy Israeli shelling during evacuations.​   https://www.trtworld.com/article/3a24ab366e75

 Israeli bombing of Gaza City has “significantly subsided” though at least five Palestinians were killed, a hospital official said Saturday, as Israel’s army said the country’s leaders had instructed it to prepare for the first phase of the U.S. plan to end the war in Gaza.
​  Israel has moved to a defensive-only position in Gaza and will not actively strike, said an official who was not authorized to speak to the media on the record. The official said no forces have been removed from the territory.​   https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-hamas-war-news-10-04-2025-b1519189e3f65ee76b468d064c0c4afa

​  Bend the knee or die:  Erdogan threatens Syrian Kurds if 'integration' with Damascus fails

Violence has escalated in recent weeks between Syrian government forces and the US-backed SDF on the front lines in eastern Aleppo​   https://thecradle.co/articles/erdogan-threatens-syrian-kurds-if-integration-with-damascus-fails

​  Why did they have "ties"? FBI cuts ties with Anti-Defamation League amid conservative backlash

FBI Director Kash Patel announces break with anti-Semitism watchdog amid outrage over description of Charlie Kirk.

​  FBI Director Kash Patel made the announcement on Wednesday after prominent conservative influencers, including Elon Musk, pounced on the ADL’s inclusion of the murdered right-wing activist Charlie Kirk in its “Glossary of Extremism and Hate”.​   https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10/2/fbi-cuts-ties-with-anti-defamation-league-amid-conservative-backlash

​  ADL deletes extremism glossary after backlash over Turning Point USA inclusion​ - "ADL sells hate," Elon Musk said

The entry ... said that since Kirk founded the group, he "moved further to the right and has promoted numerous conspiracy theories about election fraud and Covid-19 and has demonized the transgender community. Kirk also promotes Christian nationalism: the idea that Christians should dominate the government and other areas of life in the US."​   https://justthenews.com/nation/culture/adl-deletes-extremism-glossary-after-backlash-over-turning-point-usa-inclusion

‘Full-throated assault on the First Amendment’: Judge rips into Trump over attempts to deport pro-Palestinian academics​   https://israelpalestinenews.org/judge-rips-into-trump-over-attempts-to-deport-pro-palestinian-academics/

​China stopped buying US soybeans and cotton, That's over.  Trump’s Destruction of US Economy, Starting with Agriculture. Prof. Michael Hudson   https://www.globalresearch.ca/trump-destruction-us-economy-agriculture/5901365

China and Brazil are bankrupting American cotton farmers. Bailouts coming.​   https://kdwalmsley.substack.com/p/china-and-brazil-are-bankrupting

Trump Plans Up To $14 Billion Farm Bailout Amid China Pivot To Brazil, WSJ Says​   https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/trump-bessent-hit-back-chinas-ag-purchase-pivot-promise-farm-support-next-week

​  Steely brinksmanship: China’s iron ore power play jolts Australia
Reported ban on BHP iron ore imports ultimately aims to turn China from price-taker to price-maker​   https://asiatimes.com/2025/10/steely-brinksmanship-chinas-iron-ore-power-play-jolts-australia/

  Global restructuring: Trump’s big, costly, coercive trade deals falling apart in Asia

Korea says it can’t pay $350 billion ‘signing bonus’, Japan rethinks $550 billion transfer while China avoids any deal at all

​  “Korea is going to be hurt if all of this happens,” she said in an interview in Seoul. “Other countries will be harmed, but not as much as the US will harm itself.”
​  Korean President Lee Jae-myung’s thoughts have arrived at a similar place. As he told Reuters, Trump’s ask — equivalent to more than 18% of Korea’s gross domestic product — will push the economy to the brink of near collapse if fulfilled.
​  “Without a currency swap, if we were to withdraw $350 billion in the manner that the US is demanding and to invest this all in cash in the US, South Korea would face a situation as it had in the 1997 financial crisis,” Lee said.​   https://asiatimes.com/2025/10/trumps-big-costly-coercive-trade-deals-falling-apart-in-asia/

​  Curtains for the US-Korea military alliance?
Trump seeks to reduce US entanglements and shift burdens onto allies, while Lee seeks to reclaim sovereignty and avoid overdependence. Ironically, though driven by different motivations, their policies converge in practice: a gradual loosening of the alliance masked by the rhetoric of solidarity.​ https://asiatimes.com/2025/10/curtains-for-the-us-korea-military-alliance/  

Failing to Stop Them, Russia Announces Plan to Ignore U.N. Sanctions on Iran​   https://www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2025/10/02/failing-to-stop-them-russia-announces-plan-to-ignore-u-n-sanctions-on-iran/

Unlikely-to-pay-off investments, or political pork?  Department of Energy Cancels Another $7.6 Billion in Energy Project Funding   https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Department-of-Energy-Cancels-Another-76-Billion-in-Energy-Project-Funding.html

Trump Admin Pushing For More AI, Energy, & Pharma Corporate Deals Ahead of Midterms​   https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/trump-administration-pushing-ai-energy-pharma-corporate-deals-ahead-midterms

​ Moon of Alabama,  Is The AI Bubble Ready To Pop?

At Naked Capitalism Yves Smith published a paper by Servaas Storm:​  The AI Bubble and the U.S. Economy: How Long Do “Hallucinations” Last?
​  Yves writes:
​ This is a devastating, must-read paper by Servaas Storm on how AI is failing to meet core, repeatedly hyped performance promises, and never can, irrespective of how much money and computing power is thrown at it. Yet AI, which Storm calls “Artificial Information” is still garnering worse-than-dot-com-frenzy valuations even as errors are if anything increasing.
​  Storm’s introduction:
​ This paper argues that (i) we have reached “peak GenAI” in terms of current Large Language Models (LLMs); scaling (building more data centers and using more chips) will not take us further to the goal of “Artificial General Intelligence” (AGI); returns are diminishing rapidly; (ii) the AI-LLM industry and the larger U.S. economy are experiencing a speculative bubble, which is about to burst.
​  I happen to a agree with the arguments and conclusion.
​  The current Large Language Models are part of the Generative Artificial Intelligence field. GenAI is one twig on the research tree of  Artificial Intelligence. LLMs are based on ‘neural networks’. They store billions of tiny pieces of information and probability values of how those pieces relate to each other. The method is thought to simulate a part of human thinking.
​  But human thinking does much more than storing bits of information and statistical values of how they relate. It constantly builds mental models of the world we are living in. That leads to understanding of higher level concepts and of laws of nature. The brain can simulate events in those mental model worlds. We can thus recognize what is happening around us and can anticipate what might happen next.

  Generative AI and LLMs can not do that. They do not have, or create, mental models. They are simple probabilistic systems. They are machine learning algorithms that can recognize patterns with a certain probabilistic degree of getting it right. It is inherent to such models that they make mistakes. To hope, as LLM promoters say, that they will scale up to some Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) know-all machines is futile. Making bigger LLMs will only increase the amount of defective output they will create.​..

..But the hype around LLms is real and huge amount of money is flowing into the companies that are building such models. This while none of them has found ways to create sufficient revenue to support such investments. Training and running these models at scale is very expensive. There are simply too few real use cases that would justify paying the cost for them.​..

..Dozens of specialized LLM data-centers are getting build to house a huge amount of expensive chips that lose their values faster than a newly bought hyper-car. All without a real use case for LLMs and without any hope for sufficient revenue to ever sustain the business.
​  This is bad for the U.S. economy.
​  The money that is flowing into the LLM hype is gone. It can not be invested somewhere else even when that would make way more sense for the larger society – for example in the revival of manufacturing or in apprenticeship programs.​..

..The data-centers being build will need huge amounts of additional electricity which can not be generated within the foreseeable future...
​  All recent U.S. stock market gains were powered by the LLM hype. When the bubble will burst, the stock market will sink and most people who are, directly or indirectly, invested in the LLM hype will lose a lot of their money.
​  Unfortunately there is no way to foresee when that will happen or how far the damage will spread.
​  But we can already see damage to the real economy. Investment in factories for real products gets crowded out and electricity prices are doubling and tripling, hitting manufacturers as well as private consumers.​   https://www.moonofalabama.org/2025/10/is-the-ai-bubble-ready-to-pop/

 Still the "cleanest dirty shirt" of fiat currencies:  Status of US Dollar as Global Reserve Currency: USD Share Plunges to Lowest since 1994, as USD Exchange Rates Tank, Central Banks Diversify   https://wolfstreet.com/2025/10/02/status-of-us-dollar-as-global-reserve-currency-usd-share-plunges-to-lowest-since-1994-as-usd-exchange-rates-tank-central-banks-diversify/

​  Replacing credit​ & debit cards:  All currencies will be stablecoins by 2030: Tether co-founder
Tether’s co-founder Reeve Collins said all forms of money, including dollars and euros, will probably be represented on the blockchain within the next five years.​   https://cointelegraph.com/news/all-currency-will-be-stablecoin-before-2030-reeve-collins

​Tether is big, very big, and holds massive amounts of all assets.  America’s Crypto Future Comes Into Focus: Bitcoin, Gold, Land, and Lutnick   https://www.technocracy.news/americas-crypto-future-comes-into-focus-bitcoin-gold-land-and-lutnick/

​  The Big Beautiful Bill has a SNAP Poison Pill​ - How states will get the blame for massive cuts to food stamps

​  There’s a poison pill in Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill”, which will leave millions of Americans hungry. Changes to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), colloquially known as food stamps, are projected to cause 4 million people to lose benefits—with 19 million more facing benefit cuts.
​  On average, SNAP comprises about one-quarter of beneficiaries’ household income–with 1 in every 2 children receiving these benefits before their 18th birthday—these cuts will hit hard. And ominously, the Trump Administration just eliminated a survey of SNAP beneficiaries that would tell us the impact on these families’ access to food.
​  Why will so many vulnerable Americans lose their benefits? In short, both beneficiaries and states will be overwhelmed with new administrative burdens. In addition to cuts in the value of SNAP benefits, many beneficiaries will lose coverage because of added work requirements—which have been repeatedly shown to push eligible people off the program, but not improve labor force participation.
​  Others, however, will lose benefits because *state administrators* are facing new administrative burdens, which will push them to reduce their SNAP caseloads. The bill, by design, is forcing state governments to take the blame for millions of Americans going hungry...

​..Arizona would need to pay 15% of total SNAP benefits, which is around $24 million. Oregon is facing a $500 million dollar penalty over the biennium 2029-2031, as well as $150 million in new administrative costs. Arizona is estimating that it will need around $87 million to implement both the SNAP and Medicaid eligibility changes, just for new administrative costs.
​  States will increase burdens for beneficiaries to manage their new financial costs
​  So what will states do? North Carolina’s Department of Health and Human Services told the New York Times that if the state did not provide the additional $14 million for new administrative costs and $420 million for benefits related to payment errors, they would “have to stop offering the SNAP program altogether.” Roughly 13% of North Carolina residents receive SNAP benefits, most of whom are either children, the disabled, or older adults with low incomes.​   https://donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-big-beautiful-bill-has-a-snap

​  Elon Musk exposed California NGOs are receiving nearly $1 million dollars PER HOMELESS PERSON, per year The City of Los Angeles data shows Democrats spending $900,000 per homeless person per year People getting filthy rich is why the problem will never be solved. It’s a racket​   https://x.com/WallStreetApes/status/1973630500641329513

​  "Gun Safety"; only the gub'mint gets to have 'em:  Canadian Govt Prepares to Disarm Civilians

​ Certain semi-automatic weapons were prohibited in March 2025, with a one-year amnesty period for lawful gun owners to surrender their rifles through a buyback program. The government claims the buyback program is completely voluntary “with the expectation they will comply,” according to Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree.
​  Anandasangaree does not believe the Canadian government is equipped to disarm citizens, as revealed in a leaked audio clip. “I just don’t think municipal police services have the resources to do this,” the minister says. The minister claims a gun lobbyist leaked the audio in which he was speaking in jest.​   https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/politics/canadian-govt-prepares-to-disarm-civilians/

Larry Ellison Vetted Marco Rubio for Fealty to Israel, Hacked Emails Reveal​ - The billionaire Oracle founder is on track to take control of the American media.

​  Everything is coming together for Larry Ellison. The billionaire co-founder of tech giant Oracle, on-and-off-again the richest man in the world and a staunch supporter of Israel, is set to take a lead role in reshaping TikTok in the United States. His son, David Ellison, is moving to take over large swaths of the media, including CBS News, CNN, Warner Brothers, and Paramount, reportedly bringing in the Free Press’s Bari Weiss to shape editorial direction.
​  "The Ellison family is cornering the market on attention and data the same way the Vanderbilts did railroads and the Rockefellers did oil,” as Wired recently characterized it. How they plan to operate that monopoly is on course to be tested out in what President Donald Trump is calling “New Gaza,” the techno-dystopian free trade zone that is to be administered by a Board of Peace led by Trump and Ellison’s longtime political and business vehicle, Tony Blair. Ellison has given or pledged more than $350 million to the Tony Blair Institute, which Blair has used to advance Ellison’s vision of a marriage between government, corporate power, and tech surveillance. Oracle, by providing database infrastructure and cloud-computing services to other huge enterprises like FedEx and NVIDIA, has quietly become one of the most powerful companies in the world.​   https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/larry-ellison-vetted-marco-rubio-israel-hacked-emails-ron-prosor

UK once again demands backdoor to Apple’s encrypted cloud storage​ - New order in September narrowed access request down to data of UK citizens.​  https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/10/uk-once-again-demands-backdoor-to-apples-encrypted-cloud-storage/

​"Advocating genocide", for instance, applies to whom?:  Canada Joins UK With Up to Life in Prison for Hate Speech   https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/canada/canada-joins-uk-with-up-to-life-in-prison-for-hate-speech/

​  Sundance, The NSA Report No One Has Ever Seen  

​  During the period of Nov 2015 to April 2016, the Obama administration, through the FBI under James Comey and Andrew McCabe, was conducting a political spying operation against all Republican presidential primary candidates using the power of their offices...

​..The spying operation is not an issue of FISA-702, or any FISA system or process. However, the availability of FBI access to the NSA database is what triggered the discovery of the spy operation.
​  That FBI access is created under the auspices of FISA, but FISA-702, or any aspect therein, was not the issue. ​The issue was the spying operation.
FISA, and using the NSA database to conduct the electronic surveillance, was simply the tool to exploit the electronic communication (metadata) of the targets.
​  The Obama administration was spying on their political opposition and telling the Clinton team the results of their surveillance.​..

​..Hillary Clinton manufacturing a political dirty trick against Donald Trump, accusing him of a Trump-Russia collusion conspiracy, is called “Russiagate.”
​  President Obama and every member of his cabinet, that was involved in the spying operations, used Clinton’s “Russiagate” to cover up Obama’s “Spygate.”
​  The two controversies are distinct and separate.
​  Within the evidence trail, that documents the Obama spying operation exists: (1) the NSA audit-trail, and, more importantly, (2) the specific document where the NSA notified the FISA Court. Those have never been seen.
​  While a redacted 99-page response from the court has been reviewed in granular detail, the missing piece of the puzzle; -the evidence that proves the operation beyond any reasonable doubt – is the NSA investigative outcome, the notification to the FISC given by NSA Director Mike Rogers to the FISA Court.
​  The NSA report to the FISA Court is a specific, actionable, discoverable document. I have been on the hunt for that notification report for 8 years.​   https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2025/09/30/the-nsa-report-no-one-has-ever-seen/#more-276573

​  Too many shots, too early, cause brain injuries and seizures.  Top FDA Vaccine Official Says US Vaccine Schedule May Be Suboptimal

“I think the scientific establishment blindly defending the U.S. vaccine schedule is incorrect,” Dr. Vinay Prasad, director of the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, told the Free Press in an interview published Sept. 29. “It is possible that our schedule is suboptimal.”​   https://www.zerohedge.com/political/top-fda-vaccine-official-says-us-vaccine-schedule-may-be-suboptimal

​  1-year risks of cancers associated with COVID-19 vaccination: a large population-based cohort study in South Korea

​  In terms of vaccine type, cDNA vaccines were associated with the increased risks of thyroid, gastric, colorectal, lung, and prostate cancers; mRNA vaccines were linked to the increased risks of thyroid, colorectal, lung, and breast cancers; and heterologous vaccination was related to the increased risks of thyroid and breast cancers.​   https://biomarkerres.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40364-025-00831-w

​  Steve Kirsch, The Czech Republic dataset provides amazing insights into COVID vaccine safety and efficacy. Here are the key charts showing it was all risk and no benefit. In this article, I'll summarize the 5 most important points I learned over the past year   https://kirschsubstack.com/p/the-czech-republic-dataset-provides

​  I guess we will all catch it when it "leaks": CDC Creates New Bird Flu Virus With Enhanced Immune System Evasion in Georgia Lab: Journal 'npj Viruses'

U.S. gov't makes pandemic-grade H5N1 avian influenza pathogen invisible to the immune system's defenses—in just six days.​   https://jonfleetwood.substack.com/p/cdc-creates-new-bird-flu-virus-with

​Bird Flu susceptible (pictured mowing patch of grass near drip-watered garden this morning- It has been dry)