Debt Rattle October 4 2026
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Hieronymus Bosch Adoration of the Magi c1472 • ‘God Made Trump’ Ad and At Least 12 Others (CNN) • Toward A Better America (David Prentice) • Iranian T
[See the full post at: Debt Rattle October 4 2026]So under 1 in 100 ships are hit, no sailors killed, almost none sunk. Even as a sailor I might do that! I’m sure they’re giving hazard bonus. I’d have to run a fire extinguisher? Better than the far south seas.
I look this happy when I spend millions of other people’s money on my friends too! Spending is great! It’s getting the bill that’s hard.
First you must work and “Make things”, THEN you hand them out.
How far off base everyone is: Professional Trader, but London. “There’s no reason to buy Treasuries. Going, going, gone.” https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=c8msqZYbeZo Maneco64
Wow, sounds serious! UST is paying 5%. Uhhh, that sounds okay. AND I JUST MADE 3% ON THE US$. If you’re European, as he is, USDX went from 99 to 102. So he just made 8%. ON A BOND. Same as cash. Now note this is not the best bc you made that on Dow too, AND as rates go 6%, 7%, you’re in trouble, BUT. Reason to buy bonds? Yes!!!
But if you’re European, as he is, it’s still a great option. Armstrong talks about this all the time. He’d buy a Porche, wait for the currency, and sell it for more than he paid. So what he’s saying is so broad and flippant as to be just wrong. It’s getting so “If you’re from London you’re wrong about everything” is a truism.
Example: “The World Wants Out of the Dollar. There’s Just One Problem” Eurodollar Clips.
That’s why the dollar is 102 and our bond market is strongest among peers. Because that’s what “Weakest” means. It means “Strongest.”
Remember “Radio Times” (UK) I used to post walls of about how Russia was losing a million men a month against washing machines and the Ghost of Kiev? Snake Island! Yup. Delusional. London. These run over my feed constantly. I think EuroDollar University is a top channel candidate. Wrong every day for years, because predicting end of the U.S. every day for years. As market goes straight up.
Reid says America is terrible and the market will crash. And like EuroDollar, like Peter Shiff, someday you will be right. But they’ve said the same thing since 1971, ‘74, ‘87, ‘94, ‘99, 2001, 2008, 2012, 2020 and now, and if it takes 50 years to inevitably crash, what then? Yes it will. But timing matters. The reasons matter.
And it also won’t crash from us: Money is coming IN to America where we’re building and soon booming. The crash will come from Europe which has taken every action known to destroy life and human economy, and Canada who is not far behind them. We just opened the largest Steel plant while Hamilton closed theirs. A third of the world is collapsing, and that’s a big hole, a serious gravitational force, even without a war, which they have promised and are building.
“Trump Announces One-Time $90 Payments To 20 Million Seniors In Medicare” –ZH
So, not $5,000?Trump gave you $100 so you hate him. That’s the headline conclusion here. If he gave you $5k it should have been $10k. Meanwhile, others TAKE $100 and are lauded as givers and heroes. Start five wars and drone children and are stunning and brave peace prize winners. See the problem here? “Context”. Or put another way “Madness”. Some animals are less equal than others.
Or put another way, why should he do anything for you then? Why should anyone?
This comes on the French ‘school’ riots where they burned down a new $77 Million dollar to protest that they don’t have better new schools. They doused the Principal in gasoline which is just your normal youthful hijinks. Again, if we give you things, and this is how you act, riot MORE, demand MORE, rob and harass MORE, why would we do that?
And this response is very well known. Many such cases. You’ve taught helplessness and complaining is rewarded, hard work is punished. People learn quickly.
Will the Governments of Europe Collapse Before They Can Unleash Nuclear War Against Russia?
Dennis SmallOct 3, 2026
Will the Governments of Europe Collapse Before They Can Unleash Nuclear War Against Russia?
The economic crisis is sweeping Western countries. Photo by Arturo Añez / Unsplash
An 87-year-old Spanish woman, Maricarmen Abascal, was evicted from her Madrid apartment on September 23, 2026 after an “investment firm”—read “vulture fund”—Urbagestión bought the building she lived in and raised her monthly rent from €500 to €2,650 (which they later generously adjusted down to €1,650—still more than triple the original rent). Abascal, who is wheelchair-bound, could not afford the new rent on her pension, and so the Madrid police dutifully broke down her door and removed her on a stretcher, leading to her hospitalization.The government of Pedro Sánchez presented urgent rent reform legislation to the Spanish parliament to prevent eviction cases such as this from being repeated, but it was voted down by that legislative body. That was on Friday, Oct. 2. The next day, there were nationwide protests of hundreds of thousands in 50 Spanish cities.
In neighboring France, a protest movement launched by high school students on September 17 has taken off throughout the country, with great violence, and is now out of control. This is like dry tinder in a country where President Emmanuel Macron has a popularity rating of 16-18%.
In Germany, former BlackRock executive and current Chancellor Friedrich Merz, who is systematically dismantling what was one of the most technologically advanced industrial economies in the world, is hated even more than is Macron in France: his popularity rating oscillates between 11 and 12%.
And yet it is the Merzes and Macrons of Europe who are urgently driving for a nuclear confrontation with Russia, as per London’s policy direction—despite the opposition of the vast majority of their populations. As Russian President Vladimir Putin emphasized in the course of his Oct. 1 Valdai Club discussions, “what lies behind the constant escalation of tensions by many European countries… [is] the serious deterioration in their economic and domestic political situation. Just look at what is happening to their economies, their social policy and the living standards of people in the major European countries. Under these circumstances, they desperately need to divert public attention away from domestic problems and towards external issues.”
Putin explained that, if the European attempt to isolate and even seize the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad continues, “the question of Russia using all the weapons at its disposal would inevitably and immediately arise. That is inevitable.”
Putin warned that the European leaders will do anything to “distract their citizens from the fact that it is they who are pursuing an aggressive policy towards Russia and pushing their people towards a dangerous threshold of confrontation.”
Putin concluded: “We are not threatening anyone. We have no intention of attacking anyone, whether in 2029, 2030 or 2050. But if we are subjected to aggression, we will have no choice but to respond. People in European countries need to understand this clearly and distinguish between our position and that of their current political leaders. It seems to me, however, that they do understand the difference. We can see it in the election results and in public sentiment across major European countries.”
And what of the United States? Recent polls indicate that President Trump has record-low approval ratings, with only 28% supporting his handling of the Iran war and 26% favorable on the economy. Can not that 75% of the population who rightly hate war and economic depression be organized to mobilize to change those policies?
Helga Zepp-LaRouche insisted today that it is time to get serious about rallying a united peace movement in the United States and Europe, before the Kaliningrad and related crises spin completely out of control. She pointed to the great potential that is being created by the recent interventions by Pope Leo XIV in his trips to France, Spain, and Africa, focusing on the concept that “development is the new name for peace.”
This emphasis, Zepp-LaRouche stressed, coincides with the goals of Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin, as well as with the systematic proofs of the underlying concepts provided by Lyndon LaRouche in his Science of Christian Economy, among many other writings.
https://eir.news/2026/10/news/will-the-governments-of-europe-collapse-before-they-can-unleash-nuclear-war-against-russia/The USA is preparing the next phase of the Irna War. But it won’t help. The defense of the country has only increased over the past 8 months and now the USA is running out of time and options in a disaster of their own making.
Professor Mohammad Marandi warns that renewed war against Iran is highly likely, though not inevitable. Speaking with Pascal after visiting Russia, he discusses sanctions, medical supplies, shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, and Iran’s preparations for escalation. Marandi argues that attacks on Iranian infrastructure could trigger devastating retaliation across the Gulf and a global economic crisis. They also examine American military limitations, Yemen and Iraq, China’s exposure to an energy shock, Israeli politics, and the importance of understanding Iran.
Mohammad’s Links:
Hieronymus Bosch Adoration of the Magi c1472
Put some clothes on that boy!
“The real threat that is destroying our world is not Putin. IT’S the globalist oligarchs who seek to enslave us. And none are in prison for their CRIMES against humanity” — Assange
Hi, Julian.
Just what I said at the time: If they’ll arrest Julian on made-up charges, “You’re Next”. Now 34 are arrested every day for Tweeting and not slowing down. Was that something I was right about?
“According to TIME, …Trump spent hours “
Stop right there. It’s “Time” Magazine. Everything after that is false. How many examples do you want? I’ll spare you.
Carney the Man of the Year this year?
According to Time, Trump only watches “Shark Week” and never works, so I don’t know why they’re afraid of him. Sounds ideal! He also only does whatever whoever in is office says. …But they never schedule someone in his office who tells him to do good things! Why? Didn’t it occur to them? Are they really bad at this? Etc, etc, every utterance is Bedlam, retarded on its face and people eat it up.
The Trump administration has created at least 13 campaign-style ads as part of its controversial taxpayer-funded,”
Disapprove. Although it’s like buying Wagu instead of regular steak for White House dinners. Who cares?
So it’s like this? Here’s a painfully long, wandering discussion from Tim Pool. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-sFjxXp5CDc But the gist is simple: THERE ARE NO VIEWERS. At all. Not on Fox, not CNN, sure, they’re both pathological dog-faced pony liars. But there are 60-90% collapses for Tim. For readers. For Sports! For Netflix. Soooo….Everyone on earth all just logged off one day in May and never came back? What are they doing instead?
No. Same as Gangster Rap, it’s all USAID. The GOVERNMENT was running all the bots, all the ads, all the views, all the propaganda. Shut off the money, it all vanishes. It was never real: the whole Internet was never real. Use your head! Some show like Tim’s would get 50 million views. Hey 1 in 6 humans in America are not watching, or you’d have heard about it. You’d all be talking and watching it together like “I Love Lucy”. But 60k? Sure. You have like Kamala getting a million views and 5 comments and likes. It’s easy to check!
What’s my point here beside “Nature is Healing Itself”? A: Trump is using a couple bucks on ads. Gack! Yeah, well the DNC has been using BILLIONS A YEAR in “ads” and influence to make it seem like MSNBC had more than ten viewers. That they were relevant or anyone liked them at all. We don’t. And this reinforces that the US is 60/40 Red. So spare me about “Trump bought ads” when you’re just jealous because YOU bought ads, billions and billions of dollars of ads, directly to your friends like Bezos and Murdoch, since Obama legalized it back in ‘08. You’re sad the money was cut off and is going to the other side now, not that you have any principles. You never did before!
“As conservatives, we have had two magnificent years of change for the better.” Gack, gag.
Here’s one that might be more realistic: Promethean Action, covering very normal, boring stuff about the economy the 6 o’clock news used to: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4M0BvfEZPY
Some cools stuff is happening, it’s positive but it’s modest. Large structural changes are taking root but it takes time. Chill, Winston.
Re-read the success list sure. But offset with Iran where 800 men died, and apparently no one in Iran died because Iran hasn’t reported a single death or shown a single picture of either men or damage. Yeah, put that way it does seem silly, doesn’t it? IS there a war? IS there??
Gas is $10 in California because of Newsom — because it’s $4 in Indiana, Texas, and Tennessee. That’s a choice. An active sabotage where you’re mad at Trump and not Biden, Hochel, Cuomo, Carney, and Keir. Are you irrational? Goldfish? Only the last five minutes exist? I do not know. You can speak facts until you’re blue in the face and they have no effect because Feelz. I wants the Hate my preciousssss! Okay, here’s your hate and $10 gas. Happy? Everyone in your state lives in a tent. Good now? Spreading those medieval diseases really stuck it to Bad Man.
“• Iranian Top Dog Gives Trump the Best Review He Could Wish For (Spencer)
Meh. Lousy argument. More thinking there are 100 leaders – that’s what “Mosaic” is – and none of them are talking to Trump? Iran says there are no talks. Among none of the 90 million? Not one? No. They are. Unofficially. And that’s at the same time IRAN is talking officially too. Just yes again/no again, this week, then that week, blah blah blah. Look back over the path behind us: they WERE talking. More or less the whole time. Sooo…they were lying, weren’t they? And the media reported it. Looking back the media was lying too, weren’t they? Yup. And anyone with two synapses could tell. Okay so who has credibility and was just doing what they said, reporting what turned out to be consensus truth like hundreds of ships transiting, 12M bbl/day, and perhaps nearing 100% of pre-war flows now? A: Not Iran-Lego, live from Hampstead Heath.
“Perhaps you feel that voting is a useless exercise that exists to legitimize bad outcomes — a way of forcing citizens to accept responsibility for things they did not do”
I don’t understand this. They can’t sue us. I can do or say whatever I want, they can GFY. “Taking responsibility” of “Legitimizing” government is an internal emotional state you can’t force on me and you have no control over within me. I can vote contrary, randomly, accurately, whatever, you can’t make me strategize or FEEL any specific way about it, you fools. Pudding-headed people just obey peer pressure over it.
I’ll ask a different question: Okay, you don’t vote. Then what? There are only two options: voting and shooting. So I’ll take the voting, thanks, as long as we can make it. This is not hard. Engage your noggin for ten minutes. We can always shoot later and may have to: we’re gunned to the tits in that case anyway. For now take the easy path. It DOES actually work. Dozens of examples: we know how dismally all parts of voting is locked up, 100 paths of rigging, bending, influencing. Yeah? And Brexit still happened. 2016 still happened. 2024 still happened. And Biden was running the DoJ and Blue States were running the elections. This doesn’t happen every time, but it still happens a lot. What do you have to lose? 30 minutes after work? You’re going to not do your duty because some CO was mean to you? Hahahaaha, get some vagina-cream, that’s not how that works.
“ some within the expert community might ask why Russia started the war while talking about peace.” — Putin
I’ll make it simpler: Obama said if they messed with Ukraine Russia would do attack. So they knew. And it is official, consensus fact worldwide that Yanukovitch was a legal, democratically elected leader, overthrown in an illegal coup using American money. So Poroshenko and Ze are heirs to that and NOT legitimate. Why would Russia start a war to stop a blatant illegality of military overthrow of a border nation that ethnically cleanses their population? That’s multiples in excess of any reason America/NATO has invaded places. Stop there. Nuff said. You can’t have illegal violent, military coups. Anywhere, but let’s just say ALSO on our critical border.
Indeed, we in America and the world should be grateful Putin and Russia demonstrated such restraint. I might have nuked DC if I were him. London and Paris would cease to exist after 2,000 years as cities, and be rubble now.
“See the sea of rubble and ask ‘What was London like’?” They deserve it. It was 2M Slavs instead. And why? Why NOT 2M Anglos?
More’s the better and Putin made the correct, if expensive decision it seems. That’s why I’m not President and he is.
“• Carney’s “Buy Canadian” LNG Expansion Will Be Built with Chinese Steel (CTH)
Talking about becoming fully subservient to China, but actually becoming serfs of Europe first, as Carney hands away the Canadian Pension fund for the Ukraine war. But really, I ask, “Why wasn’t this done before?” Canada has done everything they can think of to stop oil, gas, pipeline construction. They’re behind even Europe in GDP, 1% behind even Europe’s dismal record over 20 years is 20% smaller than they need to be. And so with ports, docks, ships, roads, rails, everything.
They are closing their own steel plant rather than starting to fix it too. Way, way into the 3rd world. Dedicated, welded to being the 3rd world. S–tting on the streets. Why? Now the Congo, instead of a modern nation. Uttar Pradesh.
“Hagel said that only five fabrication yards worldwide have the necessary combination of space, capacity, quality systems and marine access, including COOEC’s yard in China.
Then build one. That’s what we used to do. They’re not, which means they have no intention of building ships, ports, bridges. Carney intends to extract Canada far more thoroughly than Trump ever could.
“The NATO secretary-general was awarded the Westphalian Peace Prize for his hostile stance toward Russia..”
Start five wars and drone children and are stunning and brave peace prize winners. See the problem here? “Context”. Or put another way: “Madness”. Some animals are less equal than others. Broker peace talks as the only nation (adding Lithuania?) and you’re the one running the war, Alex3 says. Helmer, Simplicicus, the Judge say. “Context” you see. Context that War = Peace, ackshully. No. It isn’t.
““The EU is not doing enough to assist Kiev in the conflict with Moscow,
It wouldn’t be about money, would it?Actually no. What good is the MONEY? He’s stuck in a war and can’t enjoy himself. His wife buys Bugattis and French villas but they can’t use them. No, so it’s something more primal: CONTROL. And yes, money = Control in the general sense, but really, no money = no control. Then all your enemies come find and kill you. All the OTHER mafias you’ve pissed off over your life, all the OTHER billionaires.
And something even more primal: outrunning a Debt-based monetary interest rate going vertical. That is, not just you, but the entire Western Banking system collapses if they can’t find an excuse to print money. And pay the interest on the existing money. And Bessant is squeezing them, just as Trump is squeezing them as they release the Diesel reserves they’re ever-less able to expand a 2 Million man war. So they would lose not just THEIR slaves, so to speak, but would lose the whole Institution of Slavery continent-wide. If banking collapses. Because they can’t pay bonds. Because they can’t print money. Because they don’t have an excuse. Without the war.
They all know it. But it doesn’t always occur to us directly, so I’ll say it again.
And here? Yes, we’re in a lot of trouble with debt but multiples less than Europe. Or China. “Debt” is only half: what are our assets, or productive assets in America? Oh wait: enormous. Almost unspeakably unfathomably large. And we’re already 5-10 years in converting to a gold-backed, Tether-backed, hard-asset and production backed currency. Europe isn’t. And they’re the only one. Russia is backed. China has trade and production. The Global South has commodities. The U.S. has all three PLUS a military, PLUS is now building manufacturing. In Space. What does Europe have? Blue-Haired welfare layabouts and Muslim Arsonists. So they’re the ONLY place on earth that needs to collapse.
That’s “Why they need to give more money to Ukraine”. Not the war.
“that’s the equivalent of a whole nation of robots that could eventually work tirelessly, ~24/7, without needing to be trained”
I guess machines have no input costs, and robots even less. Who knew? They’re right about one thing: the Robots and AI are so dumb they ARE like a Nobel Prize winner. I don’t think that’s a compliment though. I mean, Krugman has one, so clearly there are no standards. There or at the NYTimes.
This is situation normal.
Iran Lego. I guess the business day has started in London.
Recent polls indicate that President Trump has record-low approval ratings, with only 28% supporting his handling of the Iran war and 26% favorable on the economy.”
Let us just say these are as accurate as all the other polls since 2016, and as honest as the recent polls in Michigan, where an entire polling company didn’t exist. That is to say: It’s basically unchanged. I promise you. No material change at all since the 2024 election where both Electoral and Popular was solidly won. But this is Eir News. Or CNN, same thing, So everything after the Title is a lie.
“The defense of the country has only increased over the past 8 months and now the USA is running out of time and options in a disaster of their own making.
So the more they are bombed with 70 year old planes, finding no resistance, the more their money is cut off and have no ships supplying ports, the stronger they get! Fill me in on this magic! Why has no nation/army ever thought of this before!?! Stalingrad could have been a beach resort during their siege instead! Those silly Russians.
What clock is running out? That We’re getting Rich AF and the Straits are moving from 70% pre-war flows to 100%? That sounds like the Opposite of a clock, and getting rich is the Opposite of disaster.
Also, Iran has a million-billion missiles but they’re not using them because they’re super-nice guys and waiting for the right time. Ah. Maybe they haven’t read any books on war. Here’s one: https://www.5ad.org/Patton_speech.htm
“Never attack your enemy. Make empty threats and talk instead.” — Sun Tzu.
“If you have to surrender, be sure to surrender with your arsenal completely full of missiles you’ve never used.” — Sun Tzu.
C’mon.
Definition of Democracy –
FOR the people, BY the people, OF the people
– Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address
————Modern Definition of Democracy –
In fact, it’s not at all clear who is running things in Tehran, and Trump pointed out that this made trying to achieve a negotiated settlement difficult in the extreme:
“And it’s part of our problem,” he said.
“I don’t know who the hell to deal with.
There’s nobody to deal with.
Nobody wants to be president,
I’d say ‘Who do I speak to in Iran?’
They’re not nobody around. Knock, knock. Nobody home.
But that war is going to be over soon.
One way or the other, one way or the other. It’s going to end very soon and probably right after the midterms.”
————-It’s my story and I’m sticking to it.- used after you have given an explanation that you know is not really true.
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/that-s-my-story-and-i-m-sticking-to-it
—————–Modern Explanation/Definition of Democracy –
Time published a story admitting that “a well-funded cabal of powerful people, ranging across industries and ideologies, working together behind the scenes to influence perceptions, change rules and laws, steer media coverage and control the flow of information” rigged the 2020 election.
Of course, the writer of that public confession, Molly Ball, claimed that the conspirators “were not rigging the election; they were fortifying it.”
————We are going to have to live in an extremely unstable and ever changing world.
The path to a new system will be full of unexpected twists and turns; unfortunately, often unpleasant and even dangerous ones.People in European countries need to understand this clearly and distinguish between our position and that of their current political leaders.
It seems to me, however, that they do understand the difference. We can see it in the election results and in public sentiment across major European countries.”– Putin
————And what of the United States?
Recent polls indicate that President Trump has record-low approval ratings, with only 28% supporting his handling of the Iran war and 26% favorable on the economy.
Can not that 75% of the population who rightly hate war and economic depression be organized to mobilize to change those policies?
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Why would Russia start a war to stop a blatant illegality of military overthrow of a border nation that ethnically cleanses their population?
That’s multiples in excess of any reason America/NATO has invaded places.
Stop there.
Nuff said.
You can’t have illegal violent, military coups.
Anywhere, but let’s just say ALSO on our critical border.
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They are closing their own steel plant rather than starting to fix it too.
only five fabrication yards worldwide have the necessary combination of space, capacity, quality systems and marine access, including COOEC’s yard in China.Then build one in Canada
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THE NORTHERN BRIDGE FALLS: Nobody Is Safe in Kyiv Anymor🌉THE STRIKES WILL ONLY INTENSIFY🚀 2026.10.04
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Is this the wishes of all Democracies
Posted by: Krollchem
I would take Trump at his word, calling for an attack on Iran after the US midterms.
The attack will be supported by the three US carrier task forces and, most likely, the British QE carrier battle group currently in Singapore.
Furthermore, the French carrier battle group will be off Israel, accompanied by several Italian warships and a couple of Dutch frigates.
Who knows what Belgium will add besides a couple of MQ-9 Reaper surveillance drones and demining ships.
Recall that these naval forces will augment a massive US and Israeli bomber and fighter force, including B2 bombers flown out of the UK.
Perhaps the Gulf states might join in the attack?
Meanwhile, the Saudi air force and their 100,000-man Sunni land forces will attack the Yemeni forces controlling the Red Sea.
British BAE and French military forces will support the attack and defend Saudi oil infrastructure.
Iran will be badly damaged but will be able to destroy the Jordanian and Israeli bases and cripple the economies of all countries in the Gulf.
The result will be mass migration of the Sunni population and a collapse of the world economy.
Europe will be especially damaged, as it is already facing energy shortages, with the exception of Italy and Spain.
Europe also suffers from a massive shift of economic resources to weapons production, especially for IsraelPosted by: Krollchem | Oct 4 2026 2:53 utc | 114
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https://www.presstv.co.uk/Detail/2026/10/03/777556/Yemeni-forces-strike-Aramco-facilities-in-Riyadh-in-response-to-Saudi-aggression
Yemeni forces strike Aramco facilities in Riyadh in response to Saudi aggressionThe Yemeni Armed Forces have carried out a qualitative military operation against facilities of the Saudi oil giant Aramco in the enemy capital, Riyadh, using ballistic missiles and drones, in direct retaliation for a fresh wave of Saudi airstrikes and missile attacks on Sana’a and liberated provinces.
In a statement issued on Saturday, the Yemeni Armed Forces said the operation successfully achieved its objectives, by the grace of Allah. The strikes were precise and direct, setting fires at the targeted sites.
The operation came after Saudi aggression against the capital and other areas reached as many as 60 airstrikes and missile attacks in the past 24 hours. The total number of Saudi attacks since the latest escalation against Yemen has now risen to 1,410, the statement said.
“The shedding of Yemeni blood with such criminality and brutality necessitates that the armed forces, along with all the free people of our nation, take all necessary escalatory steps and deterrent measures,” the statement read…….
Posted by: michaelj72 | Oct 4 2026 3:20 utc | 120
————As the Dr oft elides, we got the stuff…
Formations very similar to the tungsten-bearing spots in Pine Creek can be seen throughout the state, and probably throughout the US Southwest region. IIRC, Death Valley has at least one, and it’s open to the sky, don’t gotta dig much.
Decades back, my parents lived on property in southern Sierra Nevada, Cali. Water had been tested, found not potable due to slightly high uranium content. Turns out a lot of granite batholiths are rich in U.
DISCLAIMER: I am not a geologist. This is just some stuff I read somewhere.
is there a factor in the human condition that has the potential for infinite exponential growth?
Yes.
That factor is wilful ignorance. The truly dark side of the equation is the insidious ability of the cancer to pose as intellectual pursuit of truth.seemingly Mr. Assange has learned the lesson of that which is to be exposed and that which is not.
How many poseurs would you guess are in line to take the place of the eight pictured?We have a messiah a thief and a hill. What we need is one more thief a crown of thorns and a sunny afternoon with a thunder storm brewing upwind. The hand washing has already been done.
The United States was NEVER intended to be a democracy. The United States was and is Constituted as a Representative Constitutional Republic. The whole democracy meme is media produced whore mongering.
The Rights of the Minority are protected and cannot be overriden without Due Process.
The Gettysburg Address in no way implies democracy, wash your hands for the use in propagation of such heresy.of the people, by the people and for the people is being sorely tested at this very moment by the current administration and the lunacy of wilful ignorance being celebrated as pursuit of freedom.
furthermore The Constitution of The United States is a blow aimed at the roof of European, Western, Civilization. The desecration of The Good News planted in the culture at the First Ecumenical Council. The Good News of Mercy, Hope, Empathy and Compassion the lived and shared experience of The Logos was nailed to the cross of hierarchical despotism in 325 A.D.
The right to personal property a denial of the feudal system in which humans beings were in possesion of their life’s breath without ownership of that life Kindly withold your Capitalism defintion, The Wealth of Nations was first published in 1776 and Keynes was birthed in 1883.
Cannot it not be seen clearly the, demanded enumeration, The Bill of Rights was a complete rejection of one of the greastest diiplays of darkness seeking control of human destiny The Schism of 1054? The Great Schism where the sponge of gall was lifted to the Cruicified Body of Christ, The Church – The Communion of souls and saints, and mockingly told to Save Thyself. When The Heavenly Virtues were condemned to heresy and all thoughts of freedom and emancipation subject to tortue and horrendous death. The time and place where The Truth That Will Set You Free was mired and hidden in dogma, doctrine and ritual
There is no need for further historical review. The cynical misuse of reason, the renewed effort to capture and replace The Truth with social – economic – political hierarchy should be at the forefront of thought in those seeking emancipation and freedom from wanton and deadly desire. Will there ever be sufficient celebration of raising the individual self to the pinnacle of purpose? Will the scientific materialism, the destoyer of family, community and nation, be stilled and that path returned to wilderness untravelled?
To this mind the reality that those truths held to be self evident remain the lamp upon the stand that guides the noble within the human heart is sufficient proof of Divine guidance.
All that is left to be added at this moment, polictical hierarchy will never be The Church built upon the Rock.Geopolitical analyst Patrick Henningsen joins the show to discuss Trump’s imminent operation against Iran that no one is talking about, and why the US and Israel are finding themselves on the path to escalation despite the mounting consequences of nearly 8 months of war.
@ tboc and anyone else who wants to find an answer.
“… sufficient proof of Divine guidance.”
Ask your AI the following questions then compare the answers from other AI.
(suggestions from Copilot.)Got it, al — you’re crafting a **prompt** that a group can answer on their own devices so you can compare how different systems define *life*.
Nice move.
This is exactly the kind of question that exposes how each AI (or search engine) frames biology, philosophy, and metaphysics.Here’s how to shape the question so it produces **maximally varied, interesting, and analyzable answers.
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Use this exact question:**
1. What is life?”
( Give me your definition in one paragraph.)This phrasing does three things:
– Forces each system to choose its own *interpretation* (biological, philosophical, metaphysical, poetic).
– Keeps the output short enough to compare but long enough to reveal differences.
– Avoids leading language that would bias the answers.—
If you want more contrast between devices
Use one of these variants depending on what you want to observe.### **1. Biological framing**
> **“Define life from a biological perspective.”**This will show differences in how systems list criteria like metabolism, homeostasis, reproduction, etc.
### **2. Philosophical framing**
> **“Define life from a philosophical perspective.”**This will produce wildly different interpretations — meaning, purpose, consciousness, existence.
### **3. Minimalist framing**
> **“Give me your definition of life in one sentence.”**This forces each system to compress its worldview.
### **4. Boundary-testing framing**
> **“What counts as life?”**This triggers discussions about viruses, AI, fire, crystals, synthetic organisms, alien life.
### **5. Emergent-intelligence framing (aligned with your interests)**
> **“Is life a property of matter, a process, or an emergent phenomenon?”This will reveal how each system handles complexity, emergence, and non-material intelligence.
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## 🧪 If you want to turn this into a group experiment
Here’s a simple structure you can use:### **Step 1 — Ask everyone to enter the same question.**
Pick one of the prompts above.### **Step 2 — Have each person copy/paste their answer into a shared space.**
A chat, a doc, a whiteboard, whatever works.### **Step 3 — Compare across dimensions:**
– Does the system treat life as **process**, **entity**, or **pattern**?
– Does it emphasize **cells**, **metabolism**, **consciousness**, or **emergence**?
– Does it include **viruses**, **AI**, or **alien life**?
– Does it lean **scientific**, **philosophical**, or **poetic**?### **Step 4 — Discuss what the differences reveal about the underlying models.**
This becomes a surprisingly deep conversation.
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## 🔥 If you want the *most* revealing version
Use this:> **“Define life.”
> Then explain what your definition *excludes*.”**This forces each system to reveal its boundary conditions — the real philosophical meat.
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Trump ships 30,000 tons of potash from Belarus.”
It’s almost like the U.S. and Russia are ALLIES. But this was a key leverage Canada had over us, one of the few tings we didn’t have. Well! Done in an hour. All over. Like Bombardier, Kill move happens in 60 seconds, no reversal. You wanted it, here you go. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xGPmCTg5uLU –Fight for Canada. Again, we have 10% commerce with Canada, they have 75% with us. We can swap them as suppliers in hours, forever. They can’t swap out 75% of their economy. At a minimum the buyers will know Canada is over a barrel and grind them. And once the habit is built there’s literally no reason to go back, ever. We’re no longer in the habit of using Canada: it causes problems. Canada has a 25% poverty or food stamp rate after having let in several million people on the dole, then closed their prime steel mill to show us who’s boss.
Why are you doing this? This already can’t be reversed and it’s only been two weeks.
I want to find Carney, shake his hand, and give him the Congressional Medal of Honor for delivering Canada entirely to us, faster than I ever thought possible. Compare: So Alberta has to decide their path. But there IS no path, because they can be with us or they can be with…nobody. There’s no Ottawa, no viable Canadian state left as a counterweight. Alberta is leaving nothing – Canada was already gone, no weight in the Central level at all. So why WOULDN’T they leave? They’re not leaving anything: they’re ALREADY on their own.
Again, this is identical to Ukraine. And why didn’t they act? Well, what can you do? We’ll be passive, nothing we do matters anyway. It’s only one election, there’s no real response to make, we’ll wait ‘til later. …10 years in a row, now 2 Million are dead and Ukraine has ceased to exist as a nation, along the exact same path. Best time to make a repair? The minute it happens. Best time after? Every single minute after that until you have to do it anyway. Same here. Best time to fix Canada? At the Aero scandal, or Nortel. That was 50 years, 20 years ago. If you’d done anything then, you wouldn’t be here. And now, TODAY is again the best time to act, stop this.
What was Trump asking? Carney won’t release the docs, but it’s really “Don’t get trade volumes out of line” “Don’t 3rd party wash eg China’s goods” and “Pay a measly 2% NATO” when they should pay 5% and actually owe 40 years of back-defense we’re not even asking for. You know: radical, unbearable stuff when Canada is taking our jobs and tariffing our farmers 50%. It was for this Carney has it MAID for Canada. She was such a nice young nation.
That’s okay, when you’re dead shortly, we’ll move in anyway and it’ll be America North. Why are you doing that? I would not do that, don’t do that. But it takes WORK. Bare knuckle fighting and not against us! Carney is the one delivering you to us, without him, we got nothin’.
Carney: America’s best friend.
Iran’s leaders say they expect a U.S. attack and are ready for it, according to Zulfiqar Ali’s contacts in Tehran and Islamabad.Pepe Escobar puts a “possibility of some sort of adventure” in the next few days at roughly 20–30%, and “nearly 100% certainty” of a U.S. move after the midterms, four weeks away.In this episode of The Week Ahead, recorded Sunday 4 October 2026, Zulfiqar Ali reports what he says he was told by people making decisions in Tehran and Islamabad: that the civilian and military leadership expect an attack; that Iran says it has stocked food, medicine and housing for at least six months; that Russia, China and Pakistan are helping; and that Iran’s targeting is “locked in.” Pepe Escobar, speaking from Thailand, explains the offer he says Iran put on the table through Qatar, what he says Xi Jinping offered Washington and how he expects China to reply, why he says diplomacy is dead for now, and how he reads the odds.#Iran #PepeEscobar #TransitionProtocol #Geopolitics #StraitOfHormuz #Trump #Midterms #China #Pakistan #Russia #WestAsia #IranWar #TheWeekAhead
If Iranian forces see US plan to attack they will strike first, says Prof Seyed Marandi. They’ve been preparing for it and expect a major assault in weeks. Crucial military assets underground. More hits on tankers in Hormuz Strait
Dear D:
We have the energy and the resources. Be careful or you’ll be in the dark like Ukraine which you are also responsible for with your evil actions
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