(No) Debt Rattle October 14 2025
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Musk’s AI supercomputer, used by U.S. military, secretly relies on Chinese hardware
Records obtained by Oligarch Watch reveal that the facility relies on Chinese transformers, creating a major security vulnerability. https://oligarchwatch.substack.com/p/musks-ai-supercomputer-used-by-us Britain plots atomic reboot as datacenter demand surges
Taskforce calls UK the priciest place on Earth to build nuclear projects and urges radical regulatory reset https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/25/uk_nuclear_power_reform/ ‘The precedent is Flint’: How Oregon’s data center boom is supercharging a water crisis
Amazon has come to the state’s eastern farmland, worsening a water pollution problem that’s been linked to cancer and miscarriages https://thefern.org/2025/11/the-precedent-is-flint-how-oregons-data-center-boom-is-supercharging-a-water-crisis/?‘It’s hell for us here’: Mumbai families suffer as datacentres keep the city hooked on coal https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/nov/24/mumbai-datacentres-coal-air-pollution
When the well runs dry – As the water evaporates in their overheated world, crop farmers and livestock herders in Chad are spilling blood instead. https://continent.substack.com/p/when-the-well-runs-dry
I didn’t know they had one: Thailand to send aircraft carrier for flood relief as rain intensifies https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/thailand-to-send-aircraft-carrier-for-flood-relief-as-rains-intensify
Chemical pollution drives prostate cancer, falling sperm counts – Chemical pollution drives prostate cancer, falling sperm counts https://climateandcapitalism.com/2025/11/25/chemical-pollution-drives-prostate-cancer-falling-sperm-counts/
NEW STUDY: High-Dose Vitamin C Is a Potent Anti-Cancer Agent
Decades of evidence reveal that vitamin C attacks cancer through four powerful mechanisms: pro-oxidative cytotoxicity, epigenetic reprogramming, signaling-pathway suppression, and immune activation. https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/new-study-high-dose-vitamin-c-isIt’s good to hear from you, WES.
It’s a little melancholy to put summer to bed, but I’ve come to like winter more as I’ve gotten older.I’m waiting for Luongo, etal to talk about the Lone Ranger’s horse.
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Japan.Twenty-five is near the end,
And still we are all here.
One more month to round the bend.
And laugh at our past fear.Trump Only Needs 1 More Peace Deal Before Getting Free Taco” Bbee
Nothing could be worse more embarrassing than peace.
From last year. “DOJ Warns If Trump Is Elected He Will Do To Them All The Stuff They’re Doing To Him” –BBee
How could they possibly have known??? Are they a prophet?
Weekend, gold $4200, Silver $56, on a leap. This is odd as it’s on an improbable server crash that stopped trading (while other co-markets were open causing unusual plumbing pressures). No reason to think it wasn’t legit though, in a market that’s constantly under many stresses. Once you have a snowmass, the last snowflake is somewhat immaterial.
Just strikes me that several moves right now all show pressure is increasing for a hard break. Like expelling 3rd world, DNC calling for open rebellion, some market positioning and pre-bailout, but nothing to hang your hat on. This is of course linked to Ukraine, which events lead all. Estonian bank apparently embezzled most of the money, so there’s your motive, but are shut off (sez who) as the U.S. now tracks and blackmails Europe eg Ursula. Sooo…you can fight this and I’ll tell Americans that England stole our $150B which is why they’re starving and kids finance ramen noodles, OR you can knock it off and end the war. Either way is fine. So much was stolen that we’ll have so much blackmail that we will be able to order just about anyone what to do. So look for who refuses and who weasels after saying yes.
Again, I hate it, arrest and extradite them, but I understand it. Russia continues in no hurry, but at the same time taking towns per day which is just not reported. Someone HIMARs their nuclear radar, which is not reported. Ze’s topmost cabinet is arrested which is not reported. Probably Trump/US has control of those Ukr corruption investigators, which is not reported. Similar things are going on in England, which is not reported.
Belgium fully bucks the whole EU. That means something. Democrats are widely named in Epstein files, which the media has now gone completely silent. — No surprise as Jeffy was just about personally questioning Trump’s lawyer in Congressional session. How much MORE inside can you get? The wild majority of their donations were to DNC, no surprise. And several by name including Dershowitz.
Tether seems firmly a proxy Fed or Treasury for the Crypto-facing market at this point. That makes sense, but that means no free distributed direct ledger. Sirs? That’s not the government, that’s YOU. You Krypto-Kids refused to use the blockchain and hang our on JPM’s crypto-trading platform, every bit as controlled and unreal as anything ever made. Almost certainly we will find that the failure of the 2025 run is because they keep bleeding off $100B’s into ETFs that like most ETF have nothing inside them but promissory notes and SEC-Approved accounting fraud. Whatever. It does mean USG wants Crypto high, they just want to control it, which was all expected. Buy. Buy. Sigh.
@Michael Reid: Thanks for the Armstrong perspective piece on global reserve-currency status. (Physical gold remains Plan-B, as always, I think.)
@Dr.D: Yeah, Bart DeWever in Belgium directly confronted von der Leyen, slapped her face with a glove and tossed it down.
Whoo-Wooo!
;-DIt doesn’t take an AI Superintelligence to see that the power consumption alone (not to mention the practically incalculable man-hours spent on it, one way or another) is headed for a stone wall of having completely inadequate material resources to continue the expansion.
Imagining the consequences does not paint a pretty picture. It is literally impossible to voluntarily abandon the technology. It is also impossible to build and run more technology without the materials and energy that is required for building and running. (Duh!)
There is only one way out of the dilemma, and that is to use the technology to reign in the technology.
I don’t know the precise details of HOW we’re going to do that, but I do know with 100% certainty we ARE being faced with the necessity of doing that, because the collision of those two realities is upon us. Do or die.
My AI did the search.
Here’s a timeline of the most significant depopulation events over the last 1,000 years — pandemics, wars, and famines that caused sharp declines in population.Pandemics
– Black Death (1347–1351): Killed an estimated 75–200 million people across Europe, Asia, and North Africa, wiping out up to 50% of Europe’s population.
– Smallpox in the Americas (16th–17th centuries): Following European contact, Indigenous populations declined by up to 90% in some regions due to smallpox, measles, and influenza.
– Spanish Flu (1918–1920): Infected one‑third of the world’s population, killing 50–100 million people globally.
– HIV/AIDS (1980s–present): Though not a sudden crash, it has caused over 40 million deaths worldwide.
– COVID‑19 (2020–2022 peak): Over 7 million confirmed deaths, with indirect effects on population growth and health systems.Wars
– Mongol Conquests (13th century): Estimated 30–40 million deaths, depopulating large parts of Asia and Eastern Europe.
– Thirty Years’ War (1618–1648): Reduced Germany’s population by 20–40%, with famine and disease compounding losses.
– Taiping Rebellion (1850–1864): Deadliest civil war in history, with 20–30 million deaths in China.
– World War I (1914–1918): About 20 million deaths (soldiers and civilians).
– World War II (1939–1945): The deadliest conflict in history, with 70–85 million deaths, ~3% of the world’s population at the time.Famines
– Great European Famine (1315–1317): Millions died due to crop failures and harsh winters.
– Irish Potato Famine (1845–1852): About 1 million deaths and mass emigration, reducing Ireland’s population by 25%.
– Chinese Famines (19th–20th centuries): Repeated famines killed tens of millions, including the Great Chinese Famine (1959–1961) with 15–45 million deaths.
– Bengal Famine (1943): About 3 million deaths in British India.
– Ethiopian Famines (1970s–1980s): Hundreds of thousands died, with global attention focused on the 1983–1985 famine.Takeaway
Across the last millennium, pandemics and wars were the largest drivers of depopulation, often wiping out 20–50% of regional populations. Famines compounded these losses, especially in agrarian societies. The Black Death, Mongol invasions, and World War II stand out as the most catastrophic events in terms of sheer numbers and long‑term demographic impact.It seems that acceptance of the quest for money and power as morally worthy (even desirable!) primary drivers of human activity is not working out very well in the long run. Individuals and humanity as a whole might want to reevaluate that social decision to worship power and wealth above all other values and valuables.
No need to listen to me talk about. Reality itself is saying it. Sooner or later (and I think that sooner rather than later is a good bet) everybody is going to be listening.
If major depopulation events had not occurred, the world today could plausibly have 11–12 billion people instead of 8 billion. The biggest differences come from:
– The Black Death in Europe,
– The collapse of Indigenous populations in the Americas,
– Famines in Asia,
– And the World Wars.
These events didn’t just reduce numbers — they reshaped societies, economies, and migration patterns. Without them, humanity would be far more numerous, but also facing even greater resource pressures earlier.There are other activities that I would put under “Depopulation”.
Drugs and obesity are modern depopulation drivers. Instead of mass die-offs, they create slow demographic erosion: fewer births, more premature deaths, and shrinking working-age populations.
affordability is one of the most powerful modern depopulation drivers, though it works differently than plagues or wars. Instead of killing people directly, it suppresses birth rates and accelerates population aging.Affordability is one of the most powerful modern depopulation drivers, though it works differently than plagues or wars. Instead of killing people directly, it suppresses birth rates and accelerates population aging.
Affordability acts as a modern depopulation mechanism:
It doesn’t reduce population through mass death, but through prevented births.Perverse Reasons The War In Ukraine Must Not End In Peace:
1. Washington’s Money Laundrymat. A veto – proof 70 US Senators signed up for never ending “grift” payoffs by approving aid to Ukraine. So, they will oppose any “Peace” that ends their “grift” payouts.n
2. All UK/EU/US loans/bonds etc. given to Ukraine contain “unacceptable terms” should “Peace” ever breakout! Much better that the war continues to the last “Ukrainian”, so losing the war also eliminates these “unacceptable terms” with more politically acceptable and blame – less defaulting.
Supply and demand
One of Russia’s largest oil terminals has suspended operations following an overnight drone attack.P.S.
Now, you know why there are never ending calls for a war cease fire!
A war cease fire is not considered to be “Peace”!
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For that reason, I hope Raul is able to fight his way back to better health.
Thanks Michael Reid for the Steve Quayle piece, where he asserts that Russian S-400 (“and S-500”) air defense missiles are in Venezuela, which would be a good reason for the US to not have attacked last weekend. This is more of a threat than even what they had before, which was a significant threat. Hypersonic anti-ship missiles should be enough. What an expensive loss of face it would be to have “the world’s biggest aircraft carrier” Gerald R. Ford get sunk by Venezuela.
For Better or for Worst.
What will happen After Trump and the republicans leave office.
People don’t change their minds.
————“The attack on Russia’s Novorossiisk oil terminal which has shut down 80% of Kazakhstan’s oil exports was by one or more Ukrainian naval drones. It is reasonable to believe that the British have enabled this attack which punishes not Russia but the American companies that own the wells and partly own the pipeline transporting the oil to the now damaged port terminal on the Black Sea…”
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I am appalled at the cowardice of the six Democrat members of Congress who have spoken in general terms about the duty of service members and intelligence personnel to refuse “illegal” or “unlawful” orders, but not said one damn word about these attacks on boats departing Venezuela. If they don’t make it specific, then they are just engaged in a cheap political stunt. Although Donald Trump and Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, insist that they have the law on their side, neither is a lawyer and neither seems to understand the US Constitution. Just because some political hack at the Department of Justice (DOJ) writes a memo justifying illegal and immoral actions, that does not permit anyone — the President included — to carry out extrajudicial killings. I still remember that this same tactic was used by George W Bush to justify torture… the US DOJ said it was okay, but it was not.
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