Debt Rattle September 14 2026
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[See the full post at: Debt Rattle September 14 2026]9/11 is a celebration of Western elites’ power over its citizens through corrupt media
Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su9/11 architects keep having their dirty work replicated as we still don’t learn the lesson that the ‘enemy’ that media presents to us is nearly always false.
What is it called when you hear about one of your enemies planning an attack on you and, far from blocking it, you let it happen so as to open a sluice of opportunities and leverage not only against those who carried it out but also against your own people, as you take away all their civil liberties? Some call this a false flag attack, and we’re reminded of this recently as Americans revered all those lost in the 9/11 attacks some 25 years ago. Just before the anniversary, some of our social media timelines featured reports claiming that Benjamin Netanyahu must have known about the October 7th attacks by Hamas – but let them happen so as to begin a new war against Gazans in particular, which would ethnically cleanse them from the face of Palestine. Indeed, it seems unbelievable to think that Mossad, which we are told is the best intelligence agency in the world, would not have informers who would have tipped Bibi off. And if you examine how much of Israel’s longer-term objectives were reached – a genocide which could be presented to the world as a war against Hamas – there can be little doubt that his more recent statements about being as shocked as everyone else while it was happening cannot be true. If Mossad has the resources, technical knowledge and informer base to hunt down all of the Munich 1972 bombers and murder them in cold blood in Europe, then it should have had the intelligence beforehand on October 7th.
How do 19 jihadists enter the U.S., train in flying schools and not get spotted by either the CIA or the FBI? The answer is they didn’t. But if you assert the probability that 9/11 was an inside job, the accusation of ‘conspiracy theorist’ is usually wheeled out in rapid time – just as if you question the narrative from London and Washington on the Ukraine war, you are labelled “on Putin’s payroll”. The truth about 9/11 is that it was almost certainly staged by Mossad, who had used their technical abilities to reach out and control the bombers via chat windows, letting them believe they were being recruited by Osama Bin Laden. The intelligence agencies knew about the plot and, with George W. Bush’s approval, let it happen, as the benefits to the President and his cronies were considerable – but not as great as Israel’s. The Zionist entity hit the jackpot with 9/11. For decades, the fear from people like Bibi was that Western woke values would finally whitewash Palestinians and demonise the Zionists and everything they did. Israel needed a gigantic and immediate new level of Muslim hatred from ignorant Westerners, which would transform that anger into greater support and sympathy for what Israel had in mind for its Palestinians. It wanted that hatred to be translated into global political support, but also financial help from the U.S. in particular – but what the Zionists didn’t count on was the cherry on top of the cake. The objective was always to get the U.S. military to invade the Middle East and start a war against “jihadists”, further fuelling Muslim hatred via the body bags returning home. What they hadn’t reckoned on was that, in the chaos of the Iraq war, George W. would refuse to pay the back pay of Saddam’s regular soldiers – which, in essence, became the catalyst for what is ISIS today being formed. This, the Israelis couldn’t have dreamt of in their initial 9/11 plan – as the birth of Al Qaeda and then ISIS became not only the enemy of convenience for Obama and then Trump in their “war against terror”, which worked for Israel on many levels; but oddly enough, the same groups became useful mercenaries to do America and Israel’s dirty work in the region when they were needed to hit Iran and its allies. The attacks in London and Paris by individuals there inspired by what they saw of ISIS on YouTube just kept paying dividends for Israel.
9/11 was not the first of its kind. We should never forget that Pearl Harbour was also a false flag attack, as Truman (a senator at the time) and FDR knew it was coming and didn’t do anything to block it. They had the intelligence that an attack in the Pacific was imminent, and their own people told them Pearl Harbour was a sitting duck.
Yet the oddest thing about 9/11 is the role of mainstream media. The compliance with the official narrative has shown elites that there is actually no level of dirty work American intelligence agencies can do – or Mossad, for that matter – which big media will not help cover up. The current genocide in Gaza, written up as “conflict” by Western journalists, was carried out by Israel and America confident, from what they learnt post-9/11, that the press would support them with their grotesque and elaborate tranche of lies. 9/11 is full of so many inaccuracies and oddities which make the facts presented – that two commercial airliners were flown into two Manhattan skyscrapers, bringing both buildings down due to the impact – impassable even by scientific facts. But the Mossad conspiracy theory is at least worth investigating, given that no Jews were in the buildings at the time of impact, four Israelis were seen celebrating as the buildings burnt, and that the owner of the buildings – a wealthy Jew – who had just signed a new lease for the buildings, plus an “anti-terrorist” insurance policy paying him $3 billion USD, was mysteriously and uncharacteristically not in his office in the Twin Towers on the morning of the attacks.
The truth is that America has very few top-notch journalists who are not in the pocket of the elite. The vast majority simply want to keep their jobs and continue to be pseudo-journalists, stenographers for the elite, and keep their heads down – just as it is in the UK, where media is entirely risk-averse and desk editors who have the say about such stories being printed are too focused on their careers and stay clear of great journalism when it bites them in the arse.
Only a very, very small number, like Tucker Carlson, are prepared to ask the most obvious questions about 9/11 – the most obvious one being: how does a commercial airliner even penetrate the exterior of those metal-framed buildings which were designed to withstand even larger planes hitting them? Or perhaps a second one: how do the buildings come down when the temperature which melts or deforms the girders was much higher than what aviation fuel burns at? You don’t have to be Tucker Carlson, though, to watch the video of the collapsing buildings and, slowed down, it is clear to see explosions happening within a split second of each floor pancaking onto the one beneath. That’s a controlled explosion which blows apart the main supporting vertical beams. Fact. No steel-framed building has ever collapsed due to a fire before 9/11, nor since. There are too many architects who state that the most that could have happened by the impact of the jets was that the top floors would collapse, but the rest of the towers would hold.
What we’re being presented with via the 9/11 Commission Report is a cover-up of the real events on a scale that America has never seen, assisted by big media on both sides of the Atlantic which is entirely owned by the billionaires. And it’s a pattern we might as well get used to, as we see it more and more on a daily basis – in recent days with the Lockerbie case in the U.S., which is about to charge a Libyan intelligence officer with the bombing of Pan Am 103: a heinous miscarriage of justice aimed at deflecting media away from the real story in case they stumble onto it by mistake. Lockerbie was a U.S. drug-running operation which rogue CIA officers hijacked for their own ideology, to bring down as a false flag attack to get Gaddafi framed – as revenge for a Berlin nightclub frequented by U.S. soldiers being bombed in 1986.
These cover-ups are numerous. Most of what Americans read in their national press about the Iran war is just plain bullshit designed as a control mechanism so that public-spirited people don’t take up arms and cause the markets to tumble through civil disobedience. 9/11 is a very sad and sorry stain on America’s history, where Israel showed the U.S. who was the real master and who was the servant. And it was not even the first time that America’s elite brought down a U.S. plane and killed its own people for a greater political cause to serve those same elites – and who are blackmailing them. 9/11, Lockerbie, the Iran War, October 7th and the “conflict” in Gaza are all symptoms of a grave political malady where corruption has outgrown the hosts that feed it. The flea has outgrown in size the dog it once inhabited. Trump is not running America. Not even close.
9/11 is a celebration of Western elites’ power over its citizens through corrupt media
“[Florida] has five times MORE people on Obamacare in the free category than live in Florida.”
and they are all Democrats!“9/11 is a celebration of Western elites’ power over its citizens through corrupt media”
Oh BULLSHIT!!
911 is Kagan and Kristol’s new Pearl Harbor
there were so many WASPs complicit in 911 it was impossible for US citizens not to get stung. The Patriot Act and TSA within the creation of the total surveillance state are just two shining examples of the desecation of civil liberties in Los Estados Unidos. Strategic Culture, with a name like that how can one not know they are being played?
There was a time when debauchery applied to a percentage of a population. In the new normal debauchery applies to an entire nation. To play on Hunter S. Thompson – when the going get’s debauched the debauched go hedonistic epicurean.
we know they’re lying, they know we know they are lying, we believe them anyway. The first person accomplished liars must convince is themself.on Fermi’s paradox and Ai
we’ve been here before, may be the last timeDeluded, Dilaudid is there a difference?
and Bill Maher remains an obnoxious prick – the new right’s Colbert$104.50
Penny Lane
Motivator – AI fear – Illusion
Lost of control
Lost of power
Lost of secret
Lost of finance
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September 14, 2026
Price Of Diesel – Lack Of Foresight Is Catching Up With TrumpPrice Of Diesel – Lack Of Foresight Is Catching Up With Trump
Some eight weeks before the midterm election the Trump administration has a fuel price problem:
Diesel prices sped past $6.00 a gallon today for the first time ever – NPR, Sep 11 2026
Diesel prices sped past $6.00 a gallon today for the first time ever, with the national average at $6.05.
This rise in diesel prices has been rapid, going up 42 cents a gallon in September alone — and since the U.S. war with Iran started, diesel’s up $2.30.
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Calif. diesel prices near $10 as fuel crisis deepens – Newsmax, Sep 13 2026At a Shell station in San Diego’s Serra Mesa neighborhood, diesel was posted at $9.999 a gallon, effectively maxing out the three-digit price displays many gas stations use.
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“Foreigners Responsible For 87% Of Thefts, 61% Of Sexual Violence On Paris Public Transport
Why do they want to deport foreigners tho? Is it just racism?
“Zelenskyy “has to do one thing. He has to stop knocking out diesel fuel in Russia,” Trump told reporters on the sidelines of the Irish Open. “There are plenty of other targets. Don’t hit diesel fuel, because that’s hurting, that’s hurting the world.”
Yes but Europe WANTS him to. Or he wouldn’t do it. First, it kills Europeans, which is awesome, but second, it might throw a few points in the midterm.
It’s always worth killing everyone you see so Trump will have a sad. That’s what Good People™ do.
“I sort of hate to see what’s happening with Europe… you’re just killing yourselves,” –DJT
“you’re paying $1,000. And since storage facilities are empty, the price will hit $1,500 this winter… You got what you asked for.” — Putin
It kills all Europeans tho. That makes them HAPPY. Thus they say there is a food shortage and import 1 Million more.
“BRICS Steps Off The Dollar, With Iran Pressing Hardest
Duh, but we also had the best US Auction ever. That does not say the end of the dollar. In fact, China is edging away from BRICS and adding more options BECAUSE of Iran as a partner.
“”[Florida] has five times MORE people on Obamacare in the free category than live in Florida.”
How dare they have DOGE! It was a political stunt and a scam! What did I say yesterday people would rather be scammed – omg I can’t imagine how many times over with these numbers, 50 times over? — rather than let Trump or anyone stop it and their side lose one french fry off the plate. It would bruise their ego to re-think and now everyone coast to coast must die.
“when an obscure person resigns from his job for supposed ethical concerns, his resignation was the subject of an exclusive article in the Wall Street Journal, Oh and a simultaneously published thread on Twitter/X – from what is allegedly Coxon’s own account that had – so far as can be seen – never been used before.
AMAZINGLY, within hours Coxon’s alarming claims had gone “viral”.Classic. What’s odd here is a reporter was doing their job. Don’t worry: it won’t matter. Everyone will believe it anyway, even though reporters and editors have been saying the NYT and WaPo have been printing nothing but lies for 25 years. I believe Chris Hedges. Do you?
“A 10% chance of killing every single person on Earth in the next three and a half years.”
Meaning “By Friday”. Thank you. Putting that in context. I also missed that, focusing on the hand-waving as most of us did.
“would it achieve? And who will be in control?”
Thus the very POINT of government: to pick winners and losers I can then choose by having golf with a Senator. ‘Coz governments aren’t corrupt and we all love and trust government with Donald Trump in charge. Or Huey Long. Or Boss Tweed. Or Stalin.
Now do these exist and should the laws be done? Maybe. Probably. No opinion. But If they pass this law no one will shoot anyone and heroin will be off the streets like today, nowhere to be found? Explain.
“Bill Maher used the 25th anniversary of the September 11 attacks to say something that once required no courage at all: terrorists are terrorists. That the observation now counts as provocative says something about how far we’ve come”
Also NOT Terrorists. As not every act by humans on earth is terrorism. Just as not all words and/or actions are Racism, or whatever the new magic “I claim power over you” word is today. Some things are being a dick. Some things are wars. Some things are accidents.
“I have lost confidence in Trump, who represents Israel and not Americans. But when you look at the Democrat alternative it is genuinely scary.”
Thanks to Trump’s actions, the power of Israel is plummeting. Abroad, but especially at home. Crushing the nation you actually represent and expelling them from American politics is what Israel directed and asked for, right? Use your head: things are not their #Opposites, as I say daily.
Having the Democrats be truly unhinged is precisely the Weimar Plan where they forced the Germans away from the truly, savagely insane World Socialists into accepting the National Socialists as compromise and lesser evil. It’s just Judo: can I push you too far in any direction then run “Disaster Capitalism”? Then I’ll do that – could care less what words or people are used. I’ll say there are cat invaders from outer space if you’d buy it.
“found himself led by Netanyahu into a losing war with Iran, a war for Israel, not for the United States. Now he is frustrated beyond belief. When have you last seen anyone wearing a MAGA hat in Walmart, a diner, a bar, a supermarket?”
First 1) I see such hats and symbols all the time. 2) Internal emotional state of Trump, his DonaldTelepathy sez Trump is sooper sad playing golf and eating 5-star meals all day. 3) How is the war losing? Iran is boxed in and power radically reduced, so much the local nations can almost take them, and the straits are open or nearly open. — Not that we care since if they’re closed we get rich, we don’t need them.
“Getting Rich = Losing.” — PCR
“His frustration makes him dangerous, and there has been talk in the Trump administration of using nuclear weapons against Iran
Okay run this by you again: Trump attacked Iran to stop the use of nuclear weapons. So he is going to use nuclear weapons. Nevermind if he would, should, they would, we would, we must, anything else – does that make sense as a story?
Then where’s your head at? Yes, AFTER the straits are mostly open, THEN we use the nuclear weapons. Got it.
These are the Experts. Trust us. We’re from the government and here to help.
“Dems WILL make America a socialist country. Is that what you want?
• The Democrat Chicken—or the Socialist Egg? (Victor Davis Hanson)It’s fun to watch, but WHY are we important? Why? Why is the spotlight on us? We’re just some guys, another nation among many. There are thousands of important things worldwide. Brazil’s election for instance.
A: Because it IS important. As Sargon, or eg Europeans say daily, if there weren’t the United States, they’d have no resistance, no hope of sovereignty at all. Stop. But we are supposed to be the EMPIRE, directing and running everything everywhere: how can we ALSO be the anti-Empire, Freeing everyone everywhere? And if we stop fighting and fall, Darkness? If we are the Center, we are the Dragon, then obviously if we fall, there is finally Light. What’s going on here? If we are the evil, who are we fighting then? Who is fighting us? Perhaps a 3rd thing is happening?
“• The Supreme Court Orders New York to Respond in 2nd Amendment Case (Turley)
Just read the premise of those cases and realize how insane all that is. In an attempt to not do the obvious, they made it 1000 times worse. 1) “In common use” in 1789 means everyone can have a warship and cannons, with grapeshot. 2) It clearly says “Arms”. That’s it. Are these weapons “Arms”? Then you can bear them. Everywhere.
Now I agree that maybe we SHOULD pass an amendment against nuclear missiles and attack helicopters but there is a process to do so that no one’s tried. ‘Cause that would be the law, and doing things correctly. Judges live to do things incorrectly. So you end up with this: guns that shoot 6 bullets automatically are legal EXCEPT for these other, identical guns that shoot 6 bullets automatically, UNLESS they have black handles, BUT ALSO on alternate Thursdays but only in a School Zone…which extends to the miles of houses in neighborhoods surrounding it. And Never at Dusk.
ENFORCE the law, or PASS the law, but STOP MAKING S—T UP. DO we have to outlaw the Supreme Court to get a little law around here?
BTW, this is referring to NY State, which ALSO has a State Constitution affirming the unlimited right to Keep and Bare Arms. They ignore that too, as do most states. But we can pass a law!
“SPACEX ISN’T JUST A ROCKET COMPANY ANYMORE
It was pointed out that All Tesla companies are MICMAC alone. But outside the Military-Industrial-(Congressional)Complex which was almost fully captured and hostile to the US. Go ask Ike who said he would be visiting Area 51 either invited, or riding a tank at the head of Patton’s Third Army. That was then, 65 years ago. They already said no to Presidents and almost certainly did NOT let him fully in. …As he famously said in his farewell speech.
Since THEY are the Derp State, the Breakaway civilization, and radically Anti-American if not anti-human, then if you need these things made, compete, out there, at a price that’s not $100B per socket-screw, then Poof! You create a Musk out of thin air, defend him in the stock market, and have him make the rockets we could/should have had in 1959.
So no, Musk is not just a Rocket Company. Musk IS the Competing Deep State. The visible one. Versus the Invisible one. So just imaging how evil the secret one is, if Musk is considered good.
“IS INFLATION ABOUT TO SKYROCKET? – w/ Raymond Zucaro
Well the Market says no. And he’s a market guy, so he already knows that. So he’s lying.
“9/11 is a celebration of Western elites’ power over its citizens through corrupt media”
Incredibly ironic, considering Iran is even MORE power, and MORE elite, and MORE corrupt in their media. I mean, we didn’t think such a thing was possible, but Iran said, “Wait, hold my beer!” (That’s a Muslim joke)
Newsflash, Iran: You ain’t tellin’ us anything we don’t already know. So stop shooting the good guys and join us against our collective enemy, will ya?
Canada watch, just a guy in Canada, commenting. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WEOwV0hEg2E
Canada is a nice country, because they HATE HATE HATE the United States, everything we do, everything we think, everything we say, our President, our military, our history, and our flag. …As one does when one is a very nice and good people.
He points out that EVERY politician doesn’t run for office to help Canada. No. They are all running against Donald Trump, and outdoing each other for Hate of La Homme Orange. Wait: how does that work? Shouldn’t you two be running against each OTHER, in Saskatoon? Nope! Neither of you have any ability to decide on anything having to do with Donald Trump OR the United States. Heck, Don Ford almost doesn’t have that power. A: Don’t Care! I must HATE!
I don’t know how he captured all your brains so that you can’t think about the health and well being of Canada anymore, but it reminds me of Eastern Europe in the 20s. Politicians would get up, speak, “We need to do this work for the greatness of Romania!” and get booed off the stage because they wouldn’t attack the Jews. Huh? The Jews have nothing to do with trade policy in Sophia and factory conditions in Prague, wtf? NOPE! You could NOT speak anywhere or be a politician unless you did this thing – no one would rally or listen to you. (Why is an different and interesting question, ie IT WAS ALL PAID BY GLOBALISTS to be that way. Familiar?)
But thankfully, reflexively bashing a group of people had no bad effects later in the 30s and 40s, so it all turned out fine.
As it will for Canada I’m sure, who as of yesterday no longer has an airplane industry.
Please do not do this thing. Globalists in Europe and London want you a smoking crater, a failed state on the US Northern Border, as ruined and lawless as Ukraine. It’s fine if you don’t want to deal with the U.S., but don’t follow into that plan. Which is already half-complete.I can post such things from Canadian (alt)media all day if you wish. What they are doing is removing a source of US power against the Globalists in Europe, where we all could use your talents, your work, your resources to crush oligarchs, but instead are to be made rubble just to trip us no bigger than dropping a banana peel. How can you fall for this? Don’t.
Experts Declare Ukraine Losing Its Technical Edge to Breakthrough Russian Innovation
Simplicius
Sep 13, 2026https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/experts-declare-ukraine-losing-its
————How bad is it.
https://dailyfuels.com/diesel-prices-map/Fill an auditorium with 5000 random people and ask them to solve Captchas identifying Donald Duck. Take all identified images and composite them into the Uber Duck that the machine can confidently say is Donald Duck, even if it looks like a Hirshfield. As I’ve previously maintained, you can probably perform a BTC transaction on abacus, but it will take a little time.
…OTOH…
I know a company (wink wink) that is using Accelerated Inferrencing to pick keywords from live audio of phone convo, start searching the db to regurgitate helpful text snippets that can help the agent be useful to the caller. Also wrapped in this is Sentiment Analysis (‘take the temperature of the caller’) to gauge whether the caller should be immediately routed to a Super.
Article yesterday about IBM and NASA confabbing on some LLM that is a Moon Knowledge Base. The magic is a reduction in the need to normalize datasets.
There are many (seriously, countless unknowns!!!!!) applications for the stuff, but making it a public oracle will turn the lumpen proletariat into Eloi. It can only ‘kill all humanity’ if some very powerful humans follow it’s advice.
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Much you could learn here as the U.S. has gone to the dark side some time ago and the (Wall Street/City of London) will do whatever it can get away with in its treatment of the United States of Israel and vassals.
Michael:
Have you scored a license for some red meat, this year?
Your iron levels must be pretty low by now.
Zerosum i have been amazed at the thought process since Kurweil started talking about The Singularity. This transhumanist Ai rage is, as McCluhan noted, the future in the rear view mirror for most. All of the current hype is adverstising needed to sell the product. Cue Ry Cooder- No Banker Was Left Behind
The Ai is not really what is dangerous. The danger lies in human beings justifying atrocity at the calling of higher intelligence. Dr.John made a comment recently about murder as God’s will. What is your god is the question to be asked.
There is nothing any human being will ever do that will have any effect on the course of the local group or beyond. The reality, as defined by the rapid expansion group, is there is light borne information in the cosmos that will never reach this solar sytem.
Color me irreversibly indifferent on this Ai matter.Twenty first century Hula Hoop
Never had a pair of plastic birkenstocksas a humorous aside doesn’t tilt head and his minions say the globalists are crashing the ecomony? if the shoe fits i guess
“Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)”
Sweet dreams are made of this
Who am I to disagree?
I’ve traveled the world and the seven seas
Everybody’s lookin’ for somethingSome of them want to use you
Some of them want to get used by you
Some of them want to abuse you
Some of them want to be abusedPepe Escobar, past midnight in Moscow, on the week the map flipped. Saudi Arabia’s Hormuz-bypass pipeline is shut after drone strikes. Yemen’s Ansarallah took the entire west coast and the Bab al-Mandeb island of Mayun. MBS called Trump twice asking for strikes on the Houthis and was refused, as reported by Axios and Reuters. Pakistan says no military response was discussed under the Makkah pact.
One ring…TO RULE THEM ALL.
“AI” will continue apace.Best point I’ve read is that they could behave themselves without regulations.
Hey Bill Maher, EVERYBODY is a “terrorist” now. I miss there being “Guerillas” and “assymetric warriors” and stuff.
Luke Skywalker is a “terr’rist” (Bush accent) by current standards.
The Google AI says “Life During Wartime” by The Talking Heads is about being a “terrorist” in New York…
Scuttlebut from Athens is that King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud with most of his family, and some camping-gear are vacationing in Greece as of today.
EUROPE burst into Flames: NATO’s Strategic Arms Factory was BLOWN to Pieces in the Heart of the E.U.
******************************************************Amid increased support for the Ukrainian army from NATO countries, powerful explosions and fire began to engulf Europe in the full sense of the word. So, it became known that last night a powerful explosion occurred in the warehouses of an arms factory owned by the company ‘EMCO’. This incident occurred near the settlement of ‘Tsarev-Livada’, a few kilometers from the town of ‘Tryavna’, in central Bulgaria
American diesel just set an all-time record — $6.05 a gallon nationally, $7.87 in California, and six pumps in the state stuck at $9.999 because the hardware cannot display a fourth digit. On Sunday the President said the cause was Ukraine. Larry Johnson says it is the wrong war.
Recorded 14 September 2026. Military analyst Larry Johnson joins Dr. Zulfiqar Ali from Russia to explain the mechanism almost no one is reporting: roughly 70% of US refineries are configured for heavy and sour crude, the grades that used to arrive from Russia, Iran, Venezuela and the Persian Gulf. Those inputs are gone. You cannot make diesel from crude your refinery was not built to process — and no strategic reserve holds finished diesel.
Also in this episode, from sources in Tehran and Islamabad contacted within the hour before recording:
• Why Saudi Arabia was refused three times — twice by Washington, and once by Pakistan under the Mecca Defence Accord it signed in August, reportedly on the grounds that the Yemen war is “a pre-existing condition”
• Dr. Ali’s reporting that MBS asked Field Marshal Asim Munir directly for military support and was turned down flat
• Why the UAE and Kuwait have repaired relations with Tehran, leaving Bahrain as the only holdout in the Gulf
• The arrangement taking shape behind the postponed Oman talks: a safe passage administered by Iran and Oman, with a toll the Gulf states are reportedly prepared to pay
• Larry Johnson’s assessment that Donald Trump has two or three days to reverse course before the midterm economy is beyond recovery
• What the East–West pipeline shutdown means now that Yanbu holds only days of export stock
Stress Before Snapping https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/stress-before-snapping
Are we at “peak copper”? Military use takes precedence, you know. The Honest Sorcerer, The Era of Material Scarcity Has Arrived
Copper is critical to AI, defense, electrification and grid expansion—yet supply is failing to catch up with demand, despite an unprecedented rise in the red metal’s price. A global physical shortage of copper is taking shape before our eyes and it won’t ease anytime soon.
Tariff and prices—as usual—are just noise compared to a now decade long rise in copper’s production costs. Over the past 12 months the price producers ask for copper has jumped by 25%—or by a whopping 150% since the summer of 2016—driven by higher energy and input costs and declining resource quality... The real problem lies in going after ores with an ever worsening metal content, while trying hard not to go bankrupt doing so...
..We haven’t made a large, close-to-surface, easy-to-mine discovery since the 1990’s—and what we have found since then lies in ever smaller more deeply buried pockets, containing low-grade ores. New copper projects, as a result, are becoming more expensive and more complex, suffering from longer and longer delays and cost overruns...
..So, while in the first quarter of the 21st century more copper was mined than in the entire history of humanity, this was a one-time boom based on huge deposits mined to exhaustion...
..Some of the material cannot be collected, or is simply not economic to recycle. Think: copper used in fungicides (sprayed on crops), thin copper wires in holiday lights, internet and telephone cables, small chargers and building wires featuring very thin copper strands heavily bound in protective sheathing. Not to mention copper in printed circuit boards, cars, consumer goods, household appliances, A/C units, old TV sets etc. where this valuable metal is buried deep inside complex physical assemblies, with mountains of plastic molded around them. Hence the 50-60% recycling rate… Recycling, while playing an important role in cushioning the blow from peak mine production, will not save us from the coming copper crunch…
..Weapons manufacturing and the AI build-out, however, also demands a larger and larger share of the now physically constrained supply, leading to a “competition for critical minerals between energy transition and military applications.” Instead of an energy transition, which never was, we will thus see a mad scramble for mineral resources—including copper—with security becoming the primary motivation…
..Mined copper production is unlikely to exceed 23-24 million tons by 2030, leaving us with a serious math problem—a supply hole of ~2 million tonnes, capable of swallowing the entire AI industry as a whole…
..Since military use means strategic metals literally going up in smoke, as Kurt Cobb put it, that leaves less than zero chance for the future use of these minerals—not to mention the metals in infrastructure these explosives hit—further reducing the pool of material available for recycling…
..The world economy is entering an era of growing scarcity. Not only when it comes to copper, which is essential to everything electric and cannot be easily substituted, but also diesel fuel, fertilizer, sulfur, helium, and in a few months time: food...
..War and geopolitics act as an accelerator here, pushing the world far faster and far deeper into disarray than it otherwise would be the case. Viewed from a higher perspective the US-Iran war was thus never really about Iran but Asia—and especially China. By limiting oil supplies to the region (which used to source 80% of its petroleum imports from the Persian Gulf) the US has managed to throw Chinese domestic consumption growth into reverse, and imposed a considerable cost increase on Chinese manufacturing—squeezing profit margins there, as well as putting a strain on Chinese banks financing these activities. It also reduced South-East Asian growth rates by imposing much higher fuel costs on the region, and increased US political leverage by becoming these nations’ biggest LNG and LPG supplier. Last but not least, the lasting impacts of this war has reduced Asia’s future critical mineral demand growth potential. https://thehonestsorcerer.substack.com/p/the-era-of-material-scarcity-hasIndustrial copper production and consumption details: The US Copper Industry Needs a Strategy, Not a Contradiction
Copper underpins everything from energy grids to EVs and home wiring, yet U.S. copper policy remains fragmented. It needs a long-term, strategic approach to close a growing supply and demand gap. https://www.wri.org/insights/us-copper-industry-needs-strategy-not-contradictionSimplicius, Ansar Allah Forces Launch Lightning Campaign to Change Region Calculus https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/ansar-allah-forces-launch-lightning
Colorful Pepe Escobar, Yemen Rocks the Gate of Tears- Ansarallah now has the luxury of installing a toll gate, arguably multi-layered, in the Bab al-Mandab, if they want it.
The overall collapse of the Saudi mercenary gangs in Yemen is so swift that even Epstein Syndicate mainstream media has been forced to acknowledge it. The Ansarallah Rolling Thunder is seizing cities; islands; capturing thousands of thugs; liberating all prisoners – and granting them amnesty; taking control of an untold number of US tanks and weapons – Afghanistan reloaded; and being greeted as liberators of Yemeni land across the whole tribal spectrum. And of course Ansarallah from now on, officially, has taken full control (italics mine) of the mega-strategic Bab al-Mandab, or “Gate of Tears”. ...The intel behind the Ansarallah Rolling Thunder – described as the largest mass-capture operation in modern warfare – was carefully coordinated with the IRGC. The Axis of Resistance was fully aware that after devastating Iranian attacks on the Jordan bases, the US was strangled in its capacity to help the Saudis prevent a Yemeni onslaught...
..Unflapabble spokesman of Yemeni Armed Forces, Brigadier Yahya Saree – who I had the honor to meet last year in Yemen – confirmed that Made in Yemen surface-to-air missiles forced Saudis and mercenaries to abandon the base in Taiz, one of those specifically designed to harass Yemen.
Taiz is key: one of Yemen’s largest cities. Ansarallah is now in full control – a massive strategic asset.
As strategic assets go, few compare to Mayun island – also knows as Perim, smack in the middle of the Bab al-Mandab. There’s a military airfield and a military base built by the UAE with Israeli cooperation, crammed with high-tech weapons. All that is now Ansarallah property.
And onslaught it was, along the entire Yemeni western coast: from Hays to Al-Khokha and Al-Mokha via Al-Wazi’iyah, including the military camps of Khaled and Jabal al-Nar, plus Red Sea islands...
..Now couple it with the Big Bang: the coordinated multiple strike on the Abqaiq-to-Yanbu pipeline, the last remaining route for Saudi oil exports after the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, a massive 100 km black smoke column rising to the desert sky captured on Sentinel-3 satellite imagery.
Consequences: expect production costs for nitrogen fertilizer plants from Europe to Asia to go totally out of control. Wheat, rice and maize yields are certified to fall, drastically, in tandem with skyrocketing diesel prices. Irrigation and harvesting will become a privilege for the wealthy. https://strategic-culture.su/news/2026/09/11/yemen-rocks-the-gate-of-tears/Satellite Imagery Shows Heavy Damage to Saudi East–West Oil Pipeline Pumping Stations https://www.thedefensenews.com/Satellite-Imagery-Shows-Heavy-Damage-to-Saudi-EastWest-Oil-Pipeline-Pumping-Stations/
Saudi Arabia’s East-West Pipeline is Shut: Why Does It Matter?
The 1,200-kilometer East-West Pipeline can carry up to seven million barrels of crude per day from eastern Saudi Arabia to the Red Sea.
Its importance has increased sharply as the Iran war disrupted shipping through the Strait of Hormuz.
Its Red Sea outlet now faces separate pressure as Ansarallah advances to Bab al-Mandeb and threatens Saudi shipping. https://www.palestinechronicle.com/saudi-arabias-east-west-pipeline-is-shut-why-does-it-matter/Supertanker Explodes After Hitting Mine, IRGC Says, & Asserts ‘Strait Of Hormuz Is Closed’ https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/houthis-unleash-major-missile-barrage-saudi-arabias-sprawling-king-khalid-air-base
Martin Armstrong, Saudi Oil Production Collapses – This Is How the War Screws Everyone
Saudi Arabia just reported something that should scare the hell out of anyone who understands how the Middle East actually functions. According to Bloomberg, Riyadh told OPEC that crude production collapsed by 1.9 million barrels per day in August to just 6.238 million barrels per day, the lowest Saudi production since 1990 and even below the wartime low reached earlier this year. Saudi exports have reportedly fallen to around 3.1 million barrels per day, the lowest in more than a decade. This is not because the Saudis suddenly decided to tighten the market to make a few extra dollars. The war with Iran and renewed Houthi threats have disrupted the export routes that keep the entire Saudi financial system alive…
..Saudi Arabia can have all the oil beneath the ground it wants. If it cannot pump it, ship it, insure the tankers, and deliver it to customers, that oil does not pay the bills. Saudi Arabia already recorded a budget deficit of 125.7 billion riyals, roughly $33.5 billion, in the first quarter of 2026 alone. That was nearly as large as the $44 billion deficit the government had projected for the entire year...
..Saudi Arabia is not alone. The fiscal systems throughout the Gulf were constructed during an era when oil revenue could finance enormous government expenditures, subsidies, public employment, infrastructure, defense, and social programs. These governments have attempted to diversify, but oil still provides the financial foundation supporting the transformation...
..Saudi Arabia spent years building the East-West pipeline so crude could be moved to Yanbu on the Red Sea and bypass Hormuz, but now the Houthi threat has demonstrated that the western route is not immune either. When both sides of the Arabian Peninsula become geopolitical choke points, Saudi Arabia has a problem that no central bank can solve by changing interest rates...
..Diesel rises and the farmer pays more to operate machinery. The trucking company pays more to deliver food. The container ship pays more to cross the ocean. Airlines increase fares. Manufacturers pay more for raw materials and transportation. Those costs eventually reach the consumer.
Then comes the second wave that almost nobody talks about: sovereign debt. Higher energy prices feed inflation. Inflation prevents central banks from aggressively cutting interest rates. Higher rates increase government debt-service costs. Governments already buried beneath debt must then borrow even more merely to service what they previously borrowed. Europe is especially vulnerable because it deliberately destroyed much of its cheap energy structure in the name of climate ideology and then sanctioned Russia without having a viable replacement...
..There is no free war. Saudi Arabia pumping the least oil since 1990 is not merely a Saudi story. It is a warning that the financial arteries of the Middle East are being squeezed at precisely the moment the sovereign debt crisis is accelerating worldwide. If oil-producing governments lose revenue, they borrow more. If oil-importing governments face higher prices, they subsidize more and borrow more. The producer gets fucked by falling volume while the consumer gets screwed by rising prices. https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/sovereign-debt-crisis/saudi-oil-production-collapses-this-is-how-the-war-screws-everyone/At what point does it become the banks that have a problem? Houthis Unleash Major Missile Barrage On Saudi Arabia’s Sprawling King Khalid Air Base
Houthis seized more Red Sea territory, including Perim Island near the Bab al-Mandab Strait.
Shipping risks are rising, with vessels avoiding the Red Sea and taking longer routes around Africa.
Iran-Gulf diplomacy was postponed, delaying efforts to address the Strait of Hormuz crisis in what was to be a rare GCC-Iran meeting.
Saudi oil exports face ongoing disruption after a pipeline shutdown, pushing oil prices above $100/barrel. https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/houthis-unleash-major-missile-barrage-saudi-arabias-sprawling-king-khalid-air-baseTehran Says US Seeks Step-by-Step Agreement After Trump Claims ‘Iran Wants To Make A Deal’ https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/houthis-unleash-major-missile-barrage-saudi-arabias-sprawling-king-khalid-air-base
Gold & Geopolitics, Daily digest: 2026-09-14
Saudi Arabia’s East-West pipeline is now confirmed burned out end-to-end on high-res imagery, with Reuters reporting Yanbu has days – not weeks – of export stock left, and the Gulf-Iran Hormuz meeting that was supposed to fix the strait got postponed before it started. Meanwhile the frontier AI labs’ “slow down” call detonated across Asian markets overnight: KOSPI -3.1%, Nikkei -2%, SoftBank -10%, and a Fed that markets now expect to hike on Wednesday...
..Repair-time claims diverge and are worth holding separately: >1 month (IranObserver0), 5–6 weeks per Reuters sources with a second source suggesting faster partial pumping (shanaka86), and “double whatever Saudi says” given how long the Jizan repair took (DarioCpx)...
..Hormuz: Saudi amendments kill the Monday meeting; Iran fires ASBMs at an escorted UAE tanker – Barak Ravid reported Saudi Arabia submitted amendments to the Omani-Iranian proposal over concern about establishing a new status quo – read as the proximate cause of the collapse (MenchOsint).
Before the postponement, the plan had Gulf diplomats and Iranian officials negotiating a reopening framework with Washington absent, Iran demanding compliance with the June Islamabad memorandum, and a routing system placing the Gulf entry lane inside Iranian territorial waters (HormuzReport).
Per IRIB, Iran struck a UAE-owned tanker with anti-ship ballistic missiles inside the US-backed southern Omani corridor, under US escort – vessel drifting and leaking (OilHeadlineNews, Mark4XX)…
..Energy Secretary Wright told the IAEA conference the US will end Iran’s nuclear programme “one way or another” (zerohedge)…
..Yemen: Ansarallah takes the heights over Bab al-Mandab; King Khalid Air Base hit with “dozens” of missiles – Ansarallah announced targeting King Khalid Air Base at Khamis Mushait – hangars, radars, runways, ammunition depots (MenchOsint), framed as retaliation for more than 300 Saudi airstrikes in five days with a warning of larger strikes (MilitarySummary)...
..Saudi Aramco’s Abha fuel depot destroyed – at least six storage tanks gone on Sep 13 imagery (SoarAtlas)…
..Human cost, which is getting buried under the oil chart: Saudi-backed forces themselves report 500+ killed and 1,500 wounded in the recent West Coast clashes (ME_Observer_). Ansarallah’s spokesman counts 58 Saudi airstrikes in 24 hours across Taiz, Lahij, Al-Jawf, Hajjah, Al-Bayda and Saada, flown by F-15s out of Khamis Mushait (MenchOsint)...
..CNN’s reconstruction of Mocha’s fall is the most damaging item of the day for Riyadh: battalions at ~20% of paper strength (“ghost names” collecting salaries), zero Saudi airstrikes that day despite minute-by-minute updates, CENTCOM’s Adm. Cooper in-kingdom, 100+ US advisers deployed, MBS calling Trump twice and being refused. One regional source: “Saudi-American f**k up of epic proportions” (thetect0nic, zerohedge)...
..AI: the “slow down” call collapses into a regulatory-capture argument within 24 hours – Amodei: “for too long the industry lied” about AI risks (Polymarket). Trump rejected the pause outright – “whoever wins AI, wins” (KobeissiLetter). Zuckerberg went the other way entirely: AI needs to move faster (Kalshi_Finance)...
..Fitch reportedly warns a slowdown could take indices down 35% and trigger a US recession (rdd147) – which, as the poster notes, is itself the bubble diagnosis...
..Fed: Goldman capitulates to a 25bp hike on Wednesday, three days after Trump demanded the lowest rates in the world … Warsh faces an “incredibly difficult dilemma” in his first rate move (zerohedge); markets expect the exact opposite of what Trump wants, and Trump has threatened to halt trade with every deficit partner if the Fed doesn’t cut (KobeissiLetter)...
..Russia-Ukraine: largest drone attack of the war, impacts 300–400m from the Polish border – 863+ Gerans launched, 741 downed, leaving 122+ impacts (official figures, possibly higher): at least 5 gas stations, 2 trains and 1 electrical substation confirmed hit along the Poland-Kyiv highway corridor, timed for bad weather to blind air defence, flown in groups along the Belarusian border (MilitarySummary).
Strikes landed 300–400m from the Polish border, damaging the Yagodin crossing checkpoints and rail infrastructure (MilitarySummary); one hit a train carrying Boris Johnson, an adviser to Chancellor Merz, German MPs and UK/French/Italian security advisers returning from Kyiv (MyLordBebo, zerohedge)…
..UK: three first ministers meet in Cardiff today to demand referendum rights – Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland’s first ministers meet to sign an agreement calling for the right to hold independence referendums (europa, Glenn_Diesen, BRICSinfo). https://no1sdailydigest.substack.com/p/daily-digest-2026-09-14 Gold & Geopolitics, Daily digest: 2026-09-13
The tanker-for-tanker phase went live overnight: Iran fired at least four waves at a US-escorted convoy in the Omani corridor, UKMTO confirmed a vessel hit and burning, and hours later an Iranian commercial ship was struck off Qeshm with one dead. Meanwhile Mayyun Island fell, handing Ansarallah both sides of Bab el-Mandeb, and Reuters put the East-West pipeline outage at 4% of global supply with repairs running up to six weeks. Second front: Dario Amodei’s “pace the frontier” essay got Altman, Musk and Hassabis to sign on, OpenAI’s IPO slipped to 2027, and Ellison cancelled his $7.5bn Oracle sale – with the 30Y closing at a 22-year high underneath all of it. https://no1sdailydigest.substack.com/p/daily-digest-2026-09-13 Gold & Geopolitics, Daily digest: 2026-09-12
Ansarallah completed its sweep of Yemen’s entire Red Sea coastline and now holds both sides of Bab el-Mandeb, and Saudi Arabia shut in the East-West pipeline after drone strikes gutted two pump stations – removing the last major Hormuz bypass. Riyadh then chose not to retaliate, called Washington twice, and got told no; Pakistan declined too.
Meanwhile a 0.3% core CPI print flipped Goldman, JPMorgan, MUFG and Citi to a September hike inside a single afternoon, with the 30Y closing at its highest weekly level since 2004. https://no1sdailydigest.substack.com/p/daily-digest-2026-09-12Trump Advisers Warn Iran Conflict May Last Through End of His Term, WSJ Reports https://archive.vn/GQ4PZ#selection-1015.1-1015.79
Oil Industry Braces for Years-Long Iran War https://oilprice.com/Energy/Oil-Prices/Oil-Industry-Braces-for-Years-Long-Iran-War.html
Martin Armstrong (Does he think “Netanyahu” is alive in the flesh?) I am concerned about nuclear war, mainly with Netanyahu.
I think he is really a loose cannon. I believe he has been trying to talk Trump into it, but I do not think Trump will do it. If Trump does not do it, I think he will. His opponents are saying they are too weak to defend Israel. I would look at the week of October 5th. If he is going to pull off anything, it might be that week. https://x.com/ArmstrongEcon/status/2096611850926305768Last week’s strike on a Jordanian airbase: A-10 Loses Wing, F-15s Damaged in Major Iranian Missile Strike https://www.palestinechronicle.com/a-10-loses-wing-f-15s-damaged-in-major-iranian-missile-strike-report/
Bibi had to ignore warnings because he needed the attack to be “successful” to justify Palestinian genocide: Three Major Revelations About The Gaza Holocaust In The Israeli Press
The Israeli press has published three significant revelations about the Gaza holocaust, reporting (1) that Benjamin Netanyahu concealed advanced knowledge of the Hamas attack on October 7, (2) that Israel rejected a Hamas offer to release all civilian hostages immediately after October 7, and (3) that according to an IDF drone operator, the Israeli military was intentionally firing on civilians throughout Gaza during its operations in the Palestinian territory. https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/three-major-revelations-about-the ‘NAZA’: Israeli Officers Reveal System behind Mass Civilian Targeting in Gaza
Twenty-four Israeli intelligence officers and soldiers described AI-assisted targeting, phone hacking, surveillance and attacks knowingly expected to kill Palestinian families.
The documentary focuses on institutional policies and military systems rather than isolated misconduct, with several interviewees describing accepted practices behind civilian killings.
NAZA premiered at the Venice International Film Festival, where it reportedly received a nearly 25-minute standing ovation. https://www.palestinechronicle.com/naza-israeli-officers-reveal-system-behind-mass-civilian-targeting-in-gaza/ Confessions of an Israeli Army Drone Operator
That night, Nir was sitting in a trailer filled with screens, at a base in the Gaza border area. On the screens, he watched ambulances driving down a road and then saw Golani Brigade troops ambush them.
“These were clearly identifiable as emergency vehicles, even when ground fire opened on them,” Nir (a pseudonym) recounts. “Without any apparent reason, the ground troops stormed the convoy. They shot at the first vehicle, the medical staff exited, hid behind the ambulances and pleaded for their lives, and the soldiers shot them, one after another.”
That happened in the early morning of March 23, 2025, in Rafah’s Tel-al Sultan neighborhood, at the southwestern tip of the Gaza Strip. The incident is now known as the “Gaza paramedic killings,” or “Rafah paramedic massacre.” The Israel Defense Forces have claimed it was an identification mistake, a professional error. https://israelpalestinenews.org/confessions-of-an-israeli-army-drone-operator/ You can’t see their small, starved brains: Israel starved Gaza. Now doctors fear it has permanently damaged a generation.
Tahrir Zidan, 41, repeatedly brings his five-year-old daughter, Tala, to the malnutrition clinic at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, hoping to receive nutritional supplements or treatment that might help his children grow.
According to Zidan, Tala is 94 centimeters tall. The average height for a child her age is 109-110 centimeters. He says that her height and weight have barely changed over the past two years, and that at times she has actually lost weight. “She was diagnosed with malnutrition and short stature,” he explained.
Zidan, who is now displaced in the Mawasi area of Khan Younis after being forced from his home in Khuza’a, east of Khan Younis, says he cannot afford to provide his three children with a balanced diet. Two of them, including Tala, suffer from malnutrition.
Since the beginning of the war, he says, he has been unable to buy fruit or provide his family with a complete protein-rich meal. Instead, they depend heavily on food distributed by charitable kitchens to displaced people.
“I have not been able to buy even one kilogram of meat, a chicken, or a kilogram of fruit. We are living through conditions harsher than words can describe. The result is that my children are now suffering from problems that are difficult to treat,” Zidan told Mondoweiss.
Zidan says that his family sometimes obtains only one meal, and it’s not enough for the whole family. “The meal I obtain from the charity kitchen usually finishes while most of us are still hungry,” he said. https://israelpalestinenews.org/israel-starved-gaza-now-doctors-fear-it-has-permanently-damaged-a-generation/Israeli bulldozers level Palestinian-owned land in Al-Mughayyir https://english-wafa-ps.translate.goog/Pages/Details/174636?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp
Gazans Feel Despair as Israeli Officials Cement Plans for Permanent Occupation https://scheerpost.com/2026/09/12/gazans-feel-despair-as-israeli-officials-cement-plans-for-permanent-occupation/
Israel Bombs South Lebanon as Report Documents 23 White Phosphorus Attacks https://israelpalestinenews.org/israel-bombs-south-lebanon-as-report-documents-23-white-phosphorus-attacks/
Lebanon says Israeli army violated framework deal approximately 7,700 times – Israeli forces have also opened fire in close proximity to army elements and patrols, military says on X https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/lebanon-says-israeli-army-violated-framework-deal-approximately-7-700-times/4052431
‘Ongoing Genocide against Palestine’: Ramaphosa Demands Accountability at BRICS https://www.palestinechronicle.com/ongoing-genocide-against-palestine-ramaphosa-demands-accountability-at-brics/
Kit Klarenberg, German Sponsorship Of Zionist Settlements Exposed
Exploiting academic institutions as a cover, between 2017 – 2021 the German government surreptitiously funnelled millions into a highly discriminatory project facilitating expansion of Zionist settlements in the occupied West Bank. Under its auspices, public money and knowledge production were committed to an inherently unlawful, immoral enterprise in flagrant breach of Berlin’s international legal obligations, and domestic restrictions on academic research efforts. The unknown scandal is just one component of how, in plain sight, Germany covertly assists Zionist settlement expansion and Palestine’s total erasure...
..The tool identifies ideal areas for construction of new wells, in a territory where Palestinian water sources are systematically demolished, and Palestinians are refused permits to drill new ones. Known as the Western Mountain Aquifer, it’s the largest and most productive groundwater body shared between Israel and the occupied West Bank. Palestinians were completely absent from working sessions convened in illegally occupied Jerusalem related to MedWater, and there is no apparent way in which Palestinians will, or even can, benefit from the effort in any way...
..Only Zionist settlers could realise that vision on-the-ground, of which the consortium was well-aware.
Even more damningly, at the project’s end the tool was contracted to Israel’s national water company Mekorot, which manages wells in Zionist settlements throughout the West Bank. By contrast, the Palestinian Water Authority, initially named as a MedWater partner, was not provided a subcontract and is not publicly listed among its beneficiaries today...
..In its July 2024 Advisory Opinion, the International Court of Justice ruled unambiguously all states are obliged “to distinguish, in their dealings with Israel, between Israeli territory and the territory occupied since 1967, and not to render aid or assistance in maintaining that situation.” https://scheerpost.com/2026/09/07/german-sponsorship-of-zionist-settlements-exposed/ Germany asks ICJ to dismiss Gaza genocide case brought by Nicaragua
Berlin argues that UN court lacks jurisdiction over allegations that it enabled Israeli violations of international law in Gaza https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/germany-asks-icj-dismiss-nicaragua-genocide-case-over-arms-supplies-israel A firecracker in the doorway they had just exited: Financial Times: Russia strikes Ukraine train line moments after foreign dignitaries pass/ Train struck on route used by David Petraeus, Boris Johnson, Carl Bildt and other senior officials
Quote: A Russian drone hit a train near Ukraine’s border with Poland shortly after a group of visiting dignitaries passed through the crossing on Sunday, as Moscow launched its biggest drone barrage in months. The former British prime minister Boris Johnson, the former Swedish prime minister Carl Bildt and various European security officials had crossed to Poland along the same line just before the strike, according to Bildt and a representative of the summit the dignitaries were attending. Unquote
The names listed constitute a rogues’ gallery of Russia haters who used their time in office in Washington, London, Stockholm and other capitals to destroy European relations with the neighbor to the East over the course of a couple of decades. Surely there are many in the Kremlin who would have opened the shampanskoye had there been a direct hit and killed them all at one go.
Boris Johnson was this morning quoted on BBC News as saying that the drone strike was just an example of the random nature of Russian attacks which pose a direct threat to European security.
However, we may assume with confidence that the decision by Moscow was not to kill this gang but to frighten to their boots the cowardly European leaders who regularly carry on diplomatic tourism to Kiev via the rail link from Warsaw for the sake of photo opportunities that win cheers from their home electorates. https://gilbertdoctorow.substack.com/p/financial-times-russia-strikes-ukraine Comments to Europeans from Vladimir Putin: Russia has never been and will never be your enemy!
We do not want European raw materials or wealth; we have our own. We absolutely do not need your raw materials. Russia is the richest country in the world in terms of raw materials.
We want neither your land nor your territory. Look at the vastness of Russia on the map. It is twice as large as all of Europe. What good would your land do us? What would we do with it?
Why do you think Russia is an enemy of Europe? What harm has Russia ever done to you?
Have we sold you gas and raw materials at prices lower than those charged by your ‘friends’? YES
Did Russia sacrifice 20 million people during World War II to get rid of the Nazis? YES
Was Russia the first country to help Europe during the COVID-19 pandemic? YES
Have we helped Europe during fires and natural disasters? YES
What has Russia done to them for them to hate it so much?
Russia is not your enemy; your true enemies are your leaders, those who govern you.” https://x.com/PutinVladimirv0/status/2098085347712246160 Mel Gibson has some clips of firemen reporting their experience on 9/11/01: September 11th…. Never forget what firemen said on that day, and what the Govt and Media have tried to erase…. 9/11 https://x.com/MelGibsonstory/status/2097869200257597495
“A Rare Photo of the Plane That Hit The Pentagon” https://x.com/dc_flake/status/2098462043959328875
David Hughes, Where were the Weapons Located that Destroyed the Twin Towers?
Conventional nuclear weapons were not used, yet some of the observed effects were similar. What does this mean? https://dhughes.substack.com/p/where-the-weapons-located-that-destroyedVideo: Revealing 9/11 Truth: What Happened on September 11, 2001 https://www.globalresearch.ca/video-revealing-911-truth-what-happened-on-september-11-2001/5939803
Martin Armstrong, Taiwan Is Preparing for the Drone War
Taiwan has proposed another $4.6 billion in defense spending, and what is particularly interesting is where a substantial portion of that money is going. Taipei wants more than 600 coastal surveillance and reconnaissance drones, over 40,000 coastal attack drones, and an initial fleet of more than 100 unmanned suicide boats. This comes only days after Taiwan’s parliament approved a six-year drone program capped at NT$240 billion, roughly $7.6 billion. Taiwan is not buying drones as some technological experiment. It is preparing for what it believes a future war with China would actually look like.
Ukraine changed warfare because it demonstrated that a relatively inexpensive drone can destroy equipment costing millions of dollars. The Middle East has reinforced the same lesson. https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/war/taiwan-is-preparing-for-the-drone-war/ Kurt Cobb, Modern Warfare Is Burning Through the Metals Needed for a High-Tech Future
Modern weapons, drones, communications systems, and other military technologies rely on strategic metals such as germanium, and material incorporated into destroyed weapons can be difficult or uneconomic to recover.
Demand for many critical minerals is already rising rapidly because they are also required for electric vehicles, renewable energy, electronics, semiconductors, and other advanced technologies.
Accelerating mineral extraction cannot continue indefinitely, and warfare increases the risk of scarce materials being dispersed rather than recycled for future use. https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Modern-Warfare-Is-Burning-Through-the-Metals-Needed-for-a-High-Tech-Future.htmlUS Data Centers To Burn More Natural Gas Than Most Nations https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/us-data-centers-burn-more-natural-gas-most-nations
Light Brigade Lemmings charge off cliff? Trump Slams “Perfect Little Angel” Dario, Demands Full Steam Ahead For AI
“The Trump Administration has stopped AI “people” from doing bad, or potentially bad, “things,” like Dario (Anthropic!), who is now pretending to be a “perfect little angel” and will continue to do so!” Trump wrote.
“We already have tremendous CRIMINAL and REGULATORY power over these companies! There is a SICK conspiracy going on against AI and Data Centers, and the only one that is happy about it is China. WHOEVER WINS AI, WINS!” https://www.zerohedge.com/ai/full-stop-amodei-altman-musk-team-against-ai-singularity-while-china-goes-full-send They know which side their bread is buttered upon… UK Government Reserves Two-Thirds Of Elite Jobs By Race; Leaked Doc Exposes
Sixty-six per cent of the slots are ringfenced for staff who are ethnic minority, disabled, or from a lower socio-economic background. Everyone else – including the white working-class kids the same government claims to champion – can take whatever is left. https://www.zerohedge.com/political/uk-government-reserves-two-thirds-elite-jobs-race-leaked-doc-exposes“Free Palestine” works, I hear”: More Than 62,000 Arrested for Speech-Related Offenses in Britain, Report Finds https://amgreatness.com/2026/09/10/more-than-62000-arrested-for-speech-related-offenses-in-britain-report-finds/
BREAKING: Leaked Data Show Israel Covered Up HUNDREDS of COVID Shot Deaths and Hospitalizations Within Weeks of Vaccine Rollout
The cover-up of COVID-19 “vaccine” deaths, injuries, and disabilities appears to have been a coordinated GLOBAL OPERATION. https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/breaking-leaked-data-show-israel Meryl Nass MD, My talk today on the anthrax letters and what they ushered in–Please watch – Lots of interesting talks at Turning the Tide–all free and online now https://merylnass.substack.com/p/my-talk-today-on-the-anthrax-letters
Reporter, Rodney Palmer ratted out his boss, the CBC. Good man: Stunning Testimony from Former CBC Reporter Rodney Palmer
How the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation became a state propaganda organ. https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/stunning-testimony-from-former-cbc Celia Farber, also from last week: GOING VIRAL: Day Two Of The “Allison Inquiry:” Devastating Testimonials About Covid “Vaccine” Damage And Death On Parliament Hill In Ottowa, Viewers Sky-Rocket On Day Two, Amidst Total Media Blackout
“It’s Like Canada’s Dirty Little Secret,” Shawn Buckley. “MPs Do Not Feel It Is Politically Viable To Be At This Table.” “Fire. It Just Feels Like My Brain Is On Fire.” Carrie Sakamoto. https://celiafarber.substack.com/p/day-two-of-the-allison-inquiry-devastating Celia Farber, Canada Is Post-People, The Horror Fully Revealed: “When I Say Canadians Are Abandoned, I Mean We Are Completely Abandoned.” Michelle Worton, Allison Inquiry, Says Injured Candians Are Accepting MAID
Canadians Were Poisoned, Crippled, Refused ALL Medical Help, Forced To Either Seek Treatment In The US At Great Cost, Or, If They So Choose, Be Euthanized By The State https://celiafarber.substack.com/p/canada-is-post-people-the-horror NEW STUDY: Tylenol Use During Pregnancy Linked to 41% Smaller Ovaries, 23% Fewer Ovarian Follicles, and 13% Smaller Uteruses in Infant Girls
The first-ever human study looking at prenatal Tylenol exposure and female reproductive development found alarming reproductive alterations that persisted into adolescence. https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/new-study-tylenol-use-during-pregnancySteve Kirsch, A list of evidence consistent with the hypothesis that “vaccines cause autism” – Not an exhaustive list. https://kirschsubstack.com/p/a-list-of-evidence-consistent-with
It is how the payments are set-up, especially if >90% vaccinated-on-schedule: Why Do Pediatricians Blast Babies with Multiple Vaccines on Same Visit?
Super-inflammation, systemic reactions, subclinical encephalitis all risked by this intensive, profit-driven practice in babies and toddlers before age 4 https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/why-do-pediatricians-blast-babiesEverybody has to get the shot anyway, so why remove the cancer-promoting piece? Health Canada asks Pfizer to remove SV40. Pfizer says Pf$ck off https://anandamide.substack.com/p/health-canada-asks-pfizer-to-remove
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