"American Pie" is the song of a world that lost...

Editor's note: ...the natural and got the artificial in its place. "American Pie" was written in 1971, just as the Bell System, the great analog network that wired the whole country together, was starting to crack, and the breakup that followed finished the job. That network was alive. Every call was a real electrical signal carried by copper from your voice to someone else's ear, with warmth, texture, and flaws, and you could trust your senses to understand it. The music dying is the moment that living thing was traded for something cold and detached. Digital reduces everything to zeros and ones, a world with no shades and no room for the human touch, and that is its tyranny: it decides what counts as real, and anything that can't be counted is thrown away. The king and the jester, the fire, and the dry levee are the stages of that takeover, each one a little more of the natural world handed over to the digital machine. What was lost wasn't just marvelously engineered old equipment. It was innocence, the time when things were what they seemed and a person could know the world by touch and by ear. This song's grief is the grief of knowing that once you've crossed over to the digital, you can't go back, and the music really did die...

Barbarians are inside the gates

Editor's note: Masked barbarians forced their way into Limoges's historic 1883 City Hall in France during "cost-of-living protests", set the building ablaze, and watched as the fire destroyed much of the structure and caused its iconic campanile (bell tower) to collapse as France commits national suicide while Macron wants to be a "gay Napoleon."

Fun times ahead...

Editor's note: All kinds of serious systemic decay and rot going on across all sectors of American society and institutions, all the way from socialists taking power after the midterm elections, New York's "Mamdami turning New York into a wasteland" like Detroit all culminating in civil unrest as political tensions mount. The we come to the US and Israel. Both the US and Israel are entering a phase of irreversible decline. We can blame post-Cold War neoconservative doctrines (including the Project for the New American Century) and Israel's alleged nuclear/biological threats, false-flag tactics, and potential mass emigration for accelerating the fall of American global dominance. Then toss in the very real possibility the massive private-sector borrowing and investment bubble in AI, driven by U.S. Big Tech's pursuit of monopoly rents rather than sustainable profits, is headed for a crash whose costs in energy, water, debt, and social disruption will ultimately be borne by the public. Description of the week: "US senate and congressional members are worms" (voting is a zero sum game). One group of worms supports Israel and the other group of worms support grift and illegal invaders.
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US Closes Fiscal 2026 With $2 Trillion Budget Deficit, Pays Record $1.4 Trillion In Interest

By Zero Hedge | October 17, 2026

With DOGE disbanded more than a year ago, and tariffs struck down by the Supreme Court, the US is no longer even pretending that there is any hope to normalize spending, or any kind of happy ending to the US debt trajectory.

Free the Persians from their Islamic yoke

Editor's note: Iranians have made their rejection of Islamic theocratic control unmistakable: a leaked 2023–2024 Ministry of Culture poll showed 73% favoring separation of religion and state (up from just 31% in 2015), while fewer than one in ten still support forcing women to wear the hijab (but hijabs in Michigan). Independent GAMAAN surveys repeatedly confirm the same reality: only about 20–22% want the Islamic Republic to continue, roughly 70% oppose it outright, and solid majorities reject governance by religious law. The 2022 Woman, Life, Freedom uprising, sparked by the morality police's killing of Mahsa Amini, saw crowds across the country chanting against the Islamic Republic itself, not merely for reforms within it. After more than four decades of compulsory veiling, gender apartheid, and clerical dictatorship, the Iranian public has turned decisively against the idea that Islam should dictate how they dress, live, or are governed. No, not destroy Persian civilization, but jettison Islam:
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US aims to destroy Iranian-Islamic civilization

By MEHR News Agency | October 15, 2026

Iranian Army spokesman said the United States aims to destroy Iranian-Islamic civilization, not merely overthrow the Islamic Republic.

Speaking on the anniversary of the founding of the Army's Political Ideological Organization, Brigadier General Akraminia said Iran's Islamic Revolution is one of the world's few great revolutions, with a cultural nature and an Islamic system rooted in Islamic teachings and the spiritual leadership of Imam Khomeini.

Canada's Carney (banker) wants 15 million migrants from India

Editor's note: A referendum is scheduled for Alberta on October 19. The referendum process has likely been deliberately structured in ways that undermine its chances of success. There are proposals for Alberta to assert greater authority over its economic future by drawing on the powers outlined in Section 92 of the BNA Act. There is a long-standing pattern of political control and limited autonomy within Alberta's system, with roots going back to the province's formation in 1905. The real issue is about Alberta's broader provincial sovereignty and economic self-determination. How would Alberta be fundamentally changed for example, if several million migrants from India are imported into the province (see Servitors of Empire: Studies in the Dark Side of Asian America)? Canada is a "wayward pseudo country" and there is concern over the possible sabotage of this scheduled referendum for October 19.
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America May Need a Wall Along the Canadian Border

October 16, 2026 | By Martin Armstrong

Canada has apparently learned absolutely NOTHING from the immigration disaster under Justin Trudeau. Prime Minister Mark Carney is already discussing increasing immigration again, and now India's High Commissioner to Canada, Dinesh K. Patnaik, has suggested that Canada's economic ambitions could require another 15 million workers over the next decade. Canada has a population of approximately 42 million people. We are talking about a number equivalent to more than one-third of the country’s existing population, yet these people discuss such enormous demographic changes as though they were simply adding employees to a corporate payroll. Nobody seems particularly concerned about where these millions of people would live, how much infrastructure would cost, or whether the Canadian economy could actually support such an expansion.

New Zealand tyrants go for asset stripping their target

Editor's note: We have seen it over and over again when people go up against tyrants, the courts and lawyers will attempt asset stripping you. Dr Sam Bailey has spent six years locked in a knock down take no prisoners fight with the Medical Council of New Zealand, a campaign her supporters describe as corrupt, vindictive, and a textbook case of lawfare. The Council labelled her a "serious risk of harm to the public," yet the appeal insists no evidence ever backed that charge, which raises uncomfortable questions about how readily New Zealand's (British commonwealth) regulatory and legal machinery can brand a practitioner "dangerous" without proof. She was then hit with a fine of roughly NZ$250,000 (roughly US$145,000), and the appeal claims she was pushed into bankruptcy through a deceit by the state, which did not even tell her it was happening. If that account is accurate, it points to a system that is heavy-handed, opaque, and more interested in crushing a dissenting voice than in basic fairness and due process. The lawyers and officials who pursued her are are wielding the law as a weapon rather than a shield, leaving a doctor to defend herself against institutions with far deeper resources. Now, hoping to prevent the seizure of her assets, Bailey has turned to a crowdfunding page titled "Can You Help Dr Sam?" and says reaching the target would let her continue the work her followers say has helped so many since 2020.
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Fighting the Tyrants [Video]

By UK Column Interviews | October 3, 2026

For six years, Dr Sam Bailey squared up to the Medical Council of New Zealand during a prolonged campaign of corruption, lawfare, and sheer vindictiveness. She was characterised as presenting a "serious risk of harm to the public", despite no evidence of such a charge. Fined to the value of NZ$250,000, Sam was entered into bankruptcy via a deceit by a state which did not even inform her.

The 1970s breakup of Ma Bell (Bell System) dismantled...

Editor's note: ...a highly engineered, extremely reliable analog telephone network once viewed as a "technological wonder", replacing it with a lower-quality digital system that tracks users while showing little concern for service failures or rising costs. This shift and likely breakup of Bell System (AT&T) was deliberately planned and was the early groundwork for surveillance capitalism, data collection economies, and the erosion of ownership into permanent subscription models across music, gaming, and even vehicles. We are being "turned into permanent renters of our goods and services with the surveillance state". Data centers, AI expansion, and Silicon Valley are cast as the core infrastructure enabling real-time tracking and control, built by converting fertile farmland into an artificial digital order that is unsustainable and completely detached from nature. The grid and electrical production output was a long-planned move away from reliability and human-centered design toward silicon-based systems of prediction and dominance. The DOE emergency order republished in the news article below directly manages data centers as large loads that can be shifted to backup power amid thin reserves and high outages on the PJM grid. This illustrates the physical electricity strain created by the very data-center and AI expansion at its core is an unsustainable digital control system. Nature has been replaced by an artificial reality. We are now prisoners in this digital reality. By its very nature digital is tyranny: there can only be 0s and 1s. Unlike nature, the digital world is not sustainable.
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DOE Declares Power Grid Emergency Across 13 States as Blackout Risks Rise

With 61,591 megawatts of generation out for maintenance, the order lets PJM summon extra power and move data centers and other large loads onto backup generation.

By Ethan Fowler | October 14, 2026

The Department of Energy has declared a statutory electric-reliability emergency across PJM's 13-state grid territory after the operator warned that elevated demand, outages, and thin reserves could jeopardize power delivery.

Honestly, when you listen carefully to these people...

Editor's note: ...like Lt. Gen. Keith Kellogg and you have a decent grasp of what is going on, they are so full of shit their eye balls are brown and Kellogg is no different. Lt. Gen. Keith Kellogg stands as Exhibit A of the American general officer corps' terminal military illiteracy: a man whose "expertise" consists of Hollywood tropes, basic arithmetic failures (claiming Ukraine casualties somehow exceed World War II's 65–70 million dead), and a lifelong losing record, yet who still postures as a serious strategist while the realities of modern warfare leave him exposed as a feeble, out-of-his-depth crude propagandist. Kellogg says he would tell the "bearded dwarf" Zelenski to "take all the god damn refineries out in Russia." What an ignorant moron. Kellogg goes on to say "Russia is targeting schools and civilians while the Ukrainians are targeting military targets." Sure thing, Kellogg, you tell them.  
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The Sheer Ignorance Of What's At Stake Globally [Video]

October 14, 2026 | By Armstrong Economics

This is a textbook case of how someone can reach the top of one field and still be utterly clueless about everything else. Lt. Gen. Keith Kellogg served as National Security Advisor to former Vice President Mike Pence and later as Special Envoy for Ukraine and Russia. He is Co-Chair at the Center for American Security, America First Policy Institute, USA, which is a Neocon think tank. The man's ignorance is staggering. He has made no effort to examine the facts—or, more likely, he knows them and deliberately refuses to discuss how Victoria Nuland helped select the interim government that started this civil war and attacked the Donbas on Neocon orders.

The only problem, Nigel Farage, is that England...

Editor's note: ...is conquered, so you can rant and rave all you want about migration into Britain. England hasn't been England since 1066 when they were conquered by the Normans. Duke William of Normandy (later called William the Conqueror) invaded England, defeated King Harold Godwinson at the Battle of Hastings on 14 October 1066, and was crowned King of England on Christmas Day that year. This replaced much of the Anglo-Saxon elite with Norman lords and introduced Norman French as the language of the ruling class, feudal land tenure, new castle architecture, and major changes to the English church and administration (including the Domesday Book survey of 1086). It is now up to the English to discover the world of their ancestors. If the English speaking world wants to get in touch with their roots, watch the movie Penda's Fen. It is about a young boy and his adventurous encounter with the pagan king, King Penda of Mercia. If the English speaking people need reinvigorating mythical guidance their motivation has to go back before the pre-Norman times. That is where your spirit lies. It doesn't lie with all these Dutch, French and German aristocratic toffs who have ruined England. These are the people who conquered England.

Singapore's National University of Singapore has...

Editor's note: ...launched a biological data centre prototype with partners Cortical Labs and DayOne, featuring 20 CL1 units that use lab grown human neurons derived from stem cells on electrode fitted silicon chips to process information. The system at the NUS Life Sciences Institute went live this past July 2026 and requires regular nutrient feeding to keep the cells viable for up to six months while consuming far less power than conventional AI servers, with "potential uses in drug discovery and energy efficient computing." Lab-grown human neurons sit on silicon chips and process information through electrical signals, while the system still needs external electricity for life support and the hardware. The cells are fed nutrients to stay alive and perform computation; they do not generate or store energy like a battery.

Servitors of Empire: Studies in the Dark Side of Asian America

Editor's note: India was conquered and ultimately controlled by the British up until 1947. Britain exercised near-total political, economic, administrative, and significant cultural control over India for roughly two centuries, peaking under the British Raj (1858–1947). Today, formal political control is zero, but institutional, linguistic, legal, cultural, and economic legacies remain substantial, alongside a strong modern bilateral partnership. In Servitors of Empire, the post-1965 influx of highly skilled Indians (and Chinese) into America, especially scientists, engineers, and IT specialists, outlines a deliberate "tactical immigration" of intellectual labor from a U.S. (and UK up until 1947) client state, recruited to staff the technetronic infrastructure of empire (British), undercut American wages in tech and services, and help entrench a centralized global control system rather than simply pursue individual opportunity. Over the past ten years alone, over 8.7 million H-1B visas have been given to Indian nationals. Roughly 70% of all H-1B approvals every year go to Indians:

8.7 million non-immigrant visas were issued to Indian nationals from March 2017 to Feb 2026. A non-immigrant visa is temporary permission to come to America for a limited time- to work, study, or visit - and then return home. 8,704,481 of those visas were issued, according to the State Department. How many do you think actually returned home?

— The Visa Files (@visafile) October 7, 2026

The Drumcree standoff in Northern Ireland...

Editor's note: ...boils down to two groups of wannabe Jews fighting over which is the more worthy wannabe Jew, each claiming superiority through its own religious and historical identity. Meanwhile, the deeper political questions surrounding the influence of Abrahamic religious sectarianism are pushed aside. That is the underlying absurdity: rival groups fighting over competing claims of religious legitimacy while ordinary people are left dealing with the consequences. Toss the Abrahamic religions out of Ireland and let Ireland return to its pagan roots.

Another insightful essay by our favorite revisionist...

Editor's note: ...of all time this time showing the FBI under J. Edgar Hoover creating criminals and shootouts to inflate the FBI's budget that ballooned out exponentially from 1933. Here are Kevin Kostner and Woody Harrelson reinforcing the FBI's budgetary demands in a Hollywood created mythical shootout with Bonnie and Clyde. In 1933, under Director J. Edgar Hoover, the FBI's predecessor (the Bureau of Investigation) operated on a budget of roughly $2.6 million, while its budget in 2026 is approximately $10.6 billion. The inference here is that since 1933, as the FBI's budget incrementally grew to its current $10.6 billion budgetary level, the more the alleged criminals and crime subsequently grew in proportion. The FBI has a bowling alley: the FBI gets to set the pins up and gets to knock them down. Kevin Costner earned an estimated $7 million for starring as Texas Ranger Frank Hamer in the 2019 Netflix film The Highwaymen, which depicts the lawmen who tracked down Bonnie and Clyde. Netflix was co-founded by Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph in 1997. Marc Randolph of course is a Jewish-American entrepreneur who co-founded Netflix and served as its first CEO. Randolph is a paternal great-nephew of Edward Bernays (1891–1995), the influential public relations propagandist pioneer of all time often called the "father of modern propaganda". He is also related to the Jewish psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud. Read the essay and it will all become apparent:

Bonnie & Clyde

James Talarico is a progressive Democrat and Texas state representative...

Editor's note: ...who is the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in 2026. A Presbyterian seminarian and aspiring minister, Talarico frequently centers his progressive politics on his Christian faith, emphasizing "politics of love," the Golden Rule, and loving one's neighbor as core motivations for his advocacy. All well and good - superficially. However, Texans need to look deeply into Talarico's progressive Democratic Christianity. Talarico's fusion of Christian rhetoric with politics aimed at remaking social and economic structures toward greater equity and transformation resembles a modern gnostic impulse: "an individualist and voluntarist drive to overcome the given order of nature and society in pursuit of an idealized future." An idealized future that will never come about. What is being brought into question is the possibility of Talarico's coming in close proximity to classical Gnosticism's dualistic rejection of the material world. Talarico's repeated emphasis on "love of neighbor, public education, and this-worldly reform" therefore sits uneasily with pure gnostic categories and remains a point of genuine philosophical disagreement rather than a settled conclusion. Contrary to where Gnosticism flees the material world as a prison and Christianity judges it by a higher moral law, paganism accepts this world as the only arena that matters: a raw, unending contest of natural law, strength, cunning, and survival in which the strong endure and the weak are forgotten.

Lloyd's of London Pricing Makes Hormuz Tanker Passage Unviable

Editor's note: Lloyds of London's insurance and reinsurance market has turned the Strait of Hormuz into a commercial dead zone for most oil tankers. War-risk premiums for a single transit now run 7.5 to 10 percent of a vessel's hull value, up from fractions of a percent before the conflict (commercial warfare). On a typical very large crude carrier that adds millions of dollars per voyage. It now costs upwards of $7.5 million per ship for a single transit. You pay at the pump. Shipping firms cannot absorb those costs while Iran's IRGC forces continue to threaten and strike commercial traffic in the Gulf. The US Navy is also destroying ships in the straight. The physical risk is real: attacks, mines, and interference have already damaged ships and killed crew. Insurance remains available in theory, but the price has made normal commercial passage unworkable for the majority of owners. The result is an 80 to 85 percent collapse in daily transits. Owners face a simple calculation: pay ruinous premiums for a voyage that still carries genuine chance of attack, or keep ships and crews out of the waterway. Most choose the latter. High insurance costs, driven by the elevated threat level, have become the decisive barrier.
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Strait of Hormuz Security Assessment: Tanker Interdictions, War Risk Premiums, and Regional Supply Line Disruptions

By Sean Hagarty | October 11, 2026

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Region Alert assesses the Region Alert Threat Index at CRITICAL as of 2026-10-11T08:00:00Z. Military actions across the Strait of Hormuz reached extreme intensity on October 10, 2026. A crude oil supertanker caught fire after an explosion in the outbound channel off the coast of the United Arab Emirates. United States Central Command (CENTCOM) disabled a Panama-flagged commercial vessel attempting to run the maritime blockade in the Gulf of Oman. Concurrently, Yemen's Houthi forces struck King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, killing 12 people and damaging domestic terminals. These strikes occurred alongside attacks against oil and gas infrastructure in Saudi Arabia's Eastern Province, including the Ghawar field and the East-West pipeline. Commercial transit through Hormuz has fallen to less than 20 vessels daily. This drop represents an 85 percent decline from historical peacetime traffic.