Debt Rattle September 26 2026

[Raúl Ilargi Meijer]

Egon Schiele Port of Trieste 1907 • Trump Rejects Iran’s 7-Day Ceasefire Proposal (ZH) • The Deluge (James Howard Kunstler) • Trump Made Democrats Loo
[See the full post at: Debt Rattle September 26 2026]

[Dr. D]

“Trump Rejects Iran 7-Day Ceasefire Plan, Likely To Renew Bombing After Midterms

Yup, Trump is desperate for an off-ramp. Can’t wait to surrender before the midterms. Haven’t I heard this 200 days in a row now? When does someone get discredited?

Now – I – don’t know what’s going on, but it’s not that. Same as how bigger countries tend to beat smaller ones and the side with the floating navy won. Very simple truisms. First principles.

Article? “Tehran’s proposal would have reopened the Strait of Hormuz”

No. The straits are already open, though dangerous. It would have opened them FOR IRAN. Iran is the only one who can’t use them now. So it would give them money at the moment they (that is, London) is choking out.

When almost every article is hot garbage, I may be able to start forwarding every reasonable one:
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/fog-bezmenov-warned-about-has-american-address

I asked Citizen what he’s doing. Get a website and help out. Be positive. Unfortunately I either am, or got myself into the mode of begin the Devil’s Advocate, poking holes. That was useful at the time when “The CIA wiretapping” or “Financial collapse/coups” were conspiracy theories that were very, very, very, obviously true. But is that helpful now? I shift around for a different application to talents developed for the last decade(century).

“China Sent Over 1,000 Shipments Of Missile, Drone Parts To Iran In 2026

In “Hot Garbage” media, you mean 1,000 paper envelopes or 1,000 boxcars? It’s the WSJ, they can’t be arsed.

“Energy Secretary Announces $2 Billion For Improving Electric Grid With Smart Technology

Like all “Smart” things including AI, it’s the dumbest thing out there, the most breakable and controlling. I’ll save a long explanation, but imagine the data stream of 500,000 meters per city, all chatting back to the central control database in real time, even 1 minute at a time, even every 5 minutes. Then they think they can shut off your washing machine to save 2c when they’re really shutting off Grandma’s CPAP machine. That’s IF any of it works, which if you’ve ever met a computer, half the meters will be malfunctioning at any given time. Mechanical gear ones were installed in WWII and still work. New ones die faster than your washing machine, at $100s a pop and need a $100/hr man to swap out. …Those are your FIRST problems, the obvious ones. You dips.

You want to save that power and NOT break everything and monitor everyone? SHUT OFF YOUR D—N POWER CUBES. Your TV is always-on, all these – again, computer – items are always drawing power for no reason. Or because they’re monitoring you. Shut them off and save 20%. Done. Ah, but that would be LOGIC; what we really want is CONTROL. To spy on you and meddle in your life. They want to SPEND money we don’t have to install what won’t work. When we need like 80 years of infrastructure backlog in I dunno, normal transformers and wires n’ stuff. All the non-sexy things, as usual, same as the water system. It’s a miracle every city isn’t dark half the year, the Engineers Rating for it is D-. They blame Global Warming for the results of their own laziness. PS we need to rebuild our transformer factories, as China can shut us off — as everyone told them. Every problem is intentional. From our values.

“8 Sailors In Lincoln Strike Group Attempted Suicide During Lengthy Deployment: Acting Navy Secretary

What’s the baseline? And is that normal? Not that I believe his numbers, but officially the Iran war has been safer than normal training exercises, with fewer deaths. Since Iran blew up every base, explain? So they were NOT already in hotels? Iran just has really, really bad aim? Use your head. Something’s going on.

Suspected US Drone Strike Kills Alleged Al-Qaeda Member In Yemen

So the US Army killed another CIA asset? Okay by me. Kill all the Black CIA you want. The American people officially think we’ve been at war with a rogue CIA since 1963. So good work, boys. Good work Director Casey.

[Michael Reid]

‘Always Under Human Control’: From Petrov to the Summit
Jason RossSep 25, 2026
‘Always Under Human Control’: From Petrov to the Summit
The United Nations chose Sept. 26, 1983 as International Day for the Total elimination of Nuclear Weapons. Credit: UN Photo
On Sept. 26, 1983, the screens at a Soviet early-warning center reported five American intercontinental ballistic missiles in flight. The duty officer, Lt. Col. Stanislav Petrov, had minutes to pass the alarm up a chain of command that would likely have ordered a counterstrike, and with it a thermonuclear exchange that would leave most human beings dead in its aftermath. He reasoned that a United States starting a nuclear war would not start it with five missiles, and reported a malfunction. He was right: the satellites had mistaken sunlight on high clouds for rocket exhaust. Petrov was not a system or a protocol. He was a human being exercising the judgment that cannot be reduced to a statistical outcome, and the UN General Assembly chose the date of his decision as the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons, which it now marks.

Look at the present from that standpoint. On Tuesday the President of the United States told the Assembly he was weighing whether to make a deal with Iran or “annihilate the Islamic Republic and do it quickly.” On Wednesday the Security Council heard from the people building artificial intelligence. Yoshua Bengio, co-chair of the UN’s scientific panel on AI, said the companies admit their products pose catastrophic risks, offer no convincing technical solutions, and “say they are locked in a race to make those AIs even more powerful.” Panama’s foreign minister stated Petrov’s principle: “There are decisions which, by their nature, cannot be reduced to a statistical outcome.” The U.S. reply was that international dialogue “cannot be allowed to drift towards global governance.”

Then consider the Trump-Xi summit. President Trump met Xi Jinping’s plane at Joint Base Andrews—the first president to meet a visiting political leader there since Kennedy in 1962—and at the White House the next morning Xi laid out his view of U.S.-China relations: “The Thucydides Trap can be overcome.” The “trap” is a statistical claim about history—that a rising power and a ruling one usually end in war. Xi’s answer to it is Petrov’s: it is a decision. He said the two countries have “the capability and responsibility” to “ensure that the development of AI is always under human control,” and “shoulder a historic responsibility of advancing human development and progress.” Trump said the two “have never gotten along better.” What the governments agreed, by the reporting so far—an AI dialogue, an AI “hotline,” military channels, a trade truce extended to Jan. 10—is what Xi called “mechanisms for crisis communication and prevention.” The comity is real and worth having. But the relationship must move beyond improved forms of crisis management, to the establishment of a new paradigm.

Lyndon LaRouche described the obstacle to such relations, and the alternative, in March 1983, half a year before Petrov’s night and eighteen days before Reagan’s address on strategic defense, in a televised speech to the citizens of San Diego:

This doctrine is called Mutually Assured Destruction, or appropriately, MAD. The doctrine essentially is that thermonuclear ballistic missiles are the ultimate weapon—a weapon so terrible that neither the United States nor the Soviet Union would actually ever launch a nuclear war. The argument is that we can eliminate war by maintaining static garrisons, static forces of this type, and by setting up arrangements which are in general called “crisis management.” This means red telephones, special conferences, and so forth, to make sure nothing goes out of control, and that the two governments do not find themselves wandering by miscalculation into a situation in which they might actually set off a thermonuclear war.
His alternative was not a better telephone but a joint program: the two powers, “independently but in parallel,” to end the missile’s standing as “the ultimate weapon,” and “then proceed on the basis of that agreement to a program of eliminating thermonuclear weapons”—”to free the world from more than 20 years of thermonuclear terror”—turning the science “to assist the development of developing countries, to increase the general welfare of mankind on this planet.”

The hotline is just a start. Helga Zepp-LaRouche told the International Peace Coalition on Friday that whether the United States goes to war to keep its dominance “is the question which will decide if mankind exists or not”—and of Xi’s claim that the trap can be overcome: “I eminently think it’s possible.”

Many are putting their names to that possibility. More than 2,000 organizations and individuals have endorsed the appeal that goes to the General Assembly on Sept. 26—no first use, abolition by 2045, the budgets redirected. At least sixty of them have also signed the Appeal to Pope Leo XIV to convene the heads of the three principal nuclear powers, as John XXIII gave Kennedy and Khrushchev a way out in 1962, among them Peter Kuznick, who co-wrote it. In Paris on Friday, ten Schiller Institute organizers put eight thousand copies of it into the hands of the crowds waiting for the Pope.

Will the two presidents stop at the hotline, or proceed to a program? What is needed is the summit at which the management of differences gives way to the coincidence of interests.
https://eir.news/2026/09/news/always-under-human-control-from-petrov-to-the-summit/

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