This sounds like an important development, not good for team “bon crushin’ santions”
 
https://youtu.be/OzU8p02IGOQ   Inside China Daily
 
He talks about the state of the art deep water port that China built in Peru.  The US of course is trying to undermine it.
 
After the details about Peru, comparing the China building Peru a port that is providing much prosperity to the people of Peru, and the US selling them 12 fighter jets at about the same cost.  Except that it took a year and a half for the port to get built.  It won’t be until after 2030 that Peru gets their planes.  Of course, some of the money has already been sent to the US.
 
The ending discussion is the punch line:  The US wants to control South America and kick the Chinese out.  China has built so much economic infrastructure through South America, including Argentina, and provided so much prosperity to so many South Americans, that it will be tough for the US to colonize South America.
 
We still haven’t really finished the job of colonizing Venezuela.

Posted by: Woke American | Sep 10 2026 17:21 utc | 3

For Norwegian:
 
A  comprehesive account of the Norway 1940 topic from the US Naval Institute:
 
https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/1952/april/invasion-norway

Posted by: Exile | Sep 10 2026 18:41 utc | 5

Ansarallah forces have entered Dhubab, the last city on Yemen’s Red Sea coast
 
 
https://t.me/Middle_East_Spectator/36595

Posted by: UWDude | Sep 10 2026 19:24 utc | 7

OpenAI and Anthropic are plunderers, pirates and plagiarists.  They think AI stands for “appropriated information”.

Posted by: QuestionMarcus | Sep 10 2026 19:27 utc | 9

Drowning, not waving:
 
Trump promise of $5,000 for US citizens after midterms decried as ‘bribery’
 
He seems to have upset fiscal conservatives the most. I’m pretty sure offering inducements is a blatant and straightforward breach of electoral law (not overridden by muh Free Speech) in most Western style democracies – either way it looks weak and desperate.

Posted by: ChatNPC | Sep 10 2026 19:43 utc | 11

@ ChatNPC | Sep 10 2026 19:43 utc | 11
 
anything to keep the topic off the class war… paying the slaves 5 grand sounds sweet, lol… what a joke trump and the gang of never do wells..

Posted by: james | Sep 10 2026 19:53 utc | 13

Drowning, not waving:
 
 Trump promise of $5,000 for US citizens after midterms decried as ‘bribery’
 
 He seems to have upset fiscal conservatives the most. I’m pretty sure offering inducements is a blatant and straightforward breach of electoral law (not overridden by muh Free Speech) in most Western style democracies – either way it looks weak and desperate.
 
 
Posted by: ChatNPC | Sep 10 2026 19:43 utc | 11
 
Before the Argentinian recent election, Trump dangled a 40 billion dollar loan or bailout or something like that.  Once his guy won, the loan offer was rescinded.
 
Just one more reason to vote third party.

Posted by: Woke American | Sep 10 2026 20:11 utc | 15

Posted by: UWDude | Sep 10 2026 19:24 utc | 7
 
M.E.S. has taken this back:
 
Dhubab: The status of the city is currently unclear; it seems that Saudi-backed forces have completely withdrawn from the city, but Ansarallah has not decided to enter it yet. As a result, the city is stuck in somewhat of a ‘no man’s land’. For all practical reasons, the city has already fallen to Ansarallah and they can enter Dhubab whenever they wish, which is why it has been marked green on the map. Periodic Saudi airstrikes against the city still continue.
– Mayun Island: Despite various reports over the past few hours, there has been no visual confirmation that the island has fallen to Ansarallah. Until then, we can neither confirm nor deny its capture, and must wait for verification.
– Al-Shuqayra: Ansarallah have captured the crossroads. Furthermore, the adjacent Jabal Nuhan is also being threatened.

Posted by: UWDude | Sep 10 2026 21:02 utc | 17

Bar: On the subject of debt, interest payments, and fiscal
 
This is an excellent, clear, short, well-researched and thorough explanation of:
 
How much US Gov’t debt there is, and how fast it’s growing
 
How much interest the USG pays, and how fast it’s growing
 
How much fiscal deficit (outlays exceed income) the US Gov’t incurs every year, and how fast that’s changing
 
How much of the existing debt has to get “rolled over” – old bonds retired, new bonds issued in their place
 
How interest payments compare to the outlays for Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and Defense (the top-five outlays for the USG)
 
If $7 Trillion in _existing_ debt has to be rolled over this year – from a minimum interest rate of 1.65% (the recent minimum reached in 2021) to the current rate of 3.96%, (that’s for a 1-year T-bill – the shortest-duration, lowest interest rate instrument currently on offer) – that’s a difference of 2.31%.
 
That rolled-over $7T will immediately add another $161 Billion to the current annual interest outlay of $970 billion, for a total annual outlay of $1.13T. Remember, that’s just to service the _existing_ debt, not the additional debt we’ll add this year (because the US is  spending waaaaaay more than we’re bringing in). 
 
 $1.13 Trillion a year, just for interest. It’ll be the second-biggest USG outlay, after Social Security.
 
Not $1.13T for education, infrastructure, or an industrial policy (invest in strategic technologies / industries of tomorrow)…no money for our future.  Our Federal budget will be spent on transfer payments (Soc Sec, Medicare, Medicaid, etc.) and Defense and Interest, and that’s it. And we’ll have to borrow more in order to pay for those few things.
 
That’s all bad news, but it might get rather worse. What if the interest rate go up, from it’s near-historically-low current level of 3.9%…. up to, say 7%, as some barflies posit?
 
Whether the interest rate goes up that much depends on how many buyers there are for USG debt. How eager to buy and hold dollars will people be? If inflation continues to rise (today’s dollars are worth more / will buy more than tomorrow’s dollars), then it doesn’t make sense to hold dollars (own Bills or Bonds) unless the bond’s interest rate exceeds the inflation rate, or there’s no where else safe to park your dollars.
 
Foreign buyers of USG debt are having some problems right now. The gulf oil producing states … aren’t making much money these days, and can’t buy USG debt. Japan can’t buy any more; can’t afford it. Many other central banks- who in the past held a great deal of USG debt instruments – are quietly unloading (selling, and _not_ buying) their USG debt. China is unloading dollars. The offshore banking countries – like UK, Cayman Islands and so forth – they are the only buyers that have lately been increasing their holdings. 
 
Who are these offshore holders of USG debt? Who, indeed.
 
If the Fed is the main (obvious)  buyer of USG debt – the buyer of last resort-  and the Fed prints dollars in order to buy bills and bonds, then the value of existing dollars automatically falls (now there’s way more dollars chasing same number of goods for sale).  That behavior by the  Fed can become a very nasty feedback loop in a short time.
 
There’s a big debate going on now about whether the Fed will raise rates, keep them the same, or lower rates. 
 
Consider: what if the Fed lowers the interest rate, and then the US Treasury offers $1T of notes and bonds at that lower interest rate.
 
What if only a few buyers step forward to buy them because the interest rate doesn’t compensate the note or bond owner for the loss of value of the dollar over the term of the note or bond?
 
Worse yet, what if the main buyer turns out to be the Fed, or some (unknown) buyer operating behind the curtain in the offshore banking centers? What kind of story does that tell about the dollar?
 
If the value of the dollar falls – via simple price increases in the goods you buy, or by money-printing inflation via the Fed, why  would you want to hold dollars? Would you expect – no, not “expect” – you’d “demand” – the interest rate on the USG debt you hold to rise as inflation rises?
 
Indeed you would.
 
That interest rate on new USB debt issues  is dictated by an international market, not by the Fed, and not by the USG.
 
Is the debt going to continue to rise? Will inflation continue to rise? Will there be new buyers of USG to replace the ones that can’t buy new issues now? 
 
Yes definitely and yes definitely and then probably not – unless interest rates rise a _lot_.
 
So I think interest rates are headed up, unless some geopolitical event scares the entire world enough that they flee to the USD as the only safe harbor in a big storm.
 
Could such an big geopolitical event happen?  Sure. We’re seeing it happen now, only in slow motion. The big question is whether the geopolitical event is mis-managed well enough to scare the buyers permanently away from the dollar, rather than toward it.

Posted by: Tom Pfotzer | Sep 10 2026 21:23 utc | 19

@16 Karlof1 

Last week, Peru joined Trump’s “Shield of the Americas.” Therefore, it is already under his sway.

However, as the case of Argentina demonstrates, this dominance over almost the entire Latin American subcontinent is relative, even if it comes to completion. Chinese economic influence across the subcontinent is irreversible

Posted by: Soviético | Sep 10 2026 21:34 utc | 21

 
Thought I should take a peak. What Houthis?

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Posted by: arby | Sep 10 2026 23:47 utc | 23

4,975% US 10 year in after-market.
 
wonder if it hits 5% by Friday evening , 

Posted by: Exile | Sep 11 2026 3:21 utc | 25

i subscribe to ‘events in ukraine’ substack… it is quite a good overview… i was unaware of this little tidbit and thought i would share it here – “Since I need a photograph for this post’s preview, let me nominate one of the most intriguing figures in world politics — Ron Lauder. 
The sole heir to Estee Lauder, Reagan’s aide for NATO, the old friend who gave Trump the idea to take Greenland, the head of the World Jewish Congress, the man who brought Benjamin Netanyahu to power in the 90s, and finally, the investor who first financed 1+1, the Ukrainian television company where Volodymyr Zelensky would come to national prominence. Now Lauder’s son-in-law, Kevin Warsh, is chairman of the federal reserve. Lauder’s relationship with Netanyahu would later sour, and given that Lauder is the intermediary in Trump’s ‘deal’ to take control of Ukraine’s mineral resources, I doubt Zelensky has much soft feelings left for him either.
How’s that for crossover?”
 
500 more!
Gratitude and reflection

Events in Ukraine

Sep 10, 2026

Posted by: james | Sep 11 2026 3:42 utc | 27

Ron Lauder.
 
—
 
Probably the world’s biggest slaver ’cause of his palm oil plantations, which are at the same time an ecological and a health disaster.
 
This oleiferous scum’s cheap oil doesn’t produce itself.
 
 

Posted by: too scents | Sep 11 2026 3:49 utc | 29

Attica Lives & Shares Lessons on Abolitionist Internationalism & Anti-Imperialist Solidarity
 
https://blackagendareport.com/attica-lives-and-shares-lessons-abolitionist-internationalist-anti-imperialist-solidarity
 
“The prison is the most intense expression of a system of imperialist domination. Today, we must revive the Attica rebels’ internationalist demands for solidarity and resistance to empire…”
 
 
Remembering Attica: John Splitting the Sky Hill (2003)
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3lAOwBXhZk
 
“John speaks at length about his experience in the Attica prison riot on September 1971.”

Posted by: John Gilberts | Sep 11 2026 4:33 utc | 31

Try this: (last try)
 
https://blackagendareport.com/index.php/attica-lives-and-shares-lessons-abolitionist-internationalism-anti-imperialist-solidarity

Posted by: John Gilberts | Sep 11 2026 4:45 utc | 33

Statement on Diesel Reaching $6 Per Gallon for the First Time in History – GasBuddy

Posted by: Suresh | Sep 11 2026 4:55 utc | 35

A Ukrainian “model”.
 

Plane carrying Ukrainian model and two businessmen crashes in Venezuela
 
10.09.2026 19:34
 
A light aircraft crashed in the Venezuelan state of Bolivar. Two local businessmen, a Ukrainian model and two other passengers survived. According to the newspaper El Pitazo, there is no clear information about their health conditions.
 
…
 
The identity of the Amaro Chacon brothers has received particular attention in the Venezuelan media. As El Pitazo previously reported as part of the Mapas de Poder investigative project, they are involved in a court case in Spain involving the country’s former Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero.
 
 
According to the investigation, the Amaro brothers are linked to commercial companies, financial transactions, as well as activities in the oil industry, gold mining and agribusiness. The documents examined by the journalists describe a network that connected Caracas, Switzerland, France, the United States, Panama and Madrid.
 
 
The names of the Amaro Chacón brothers have also been mentioned in reports by the Spanish Udef unit for the investigation of economic and financial crimes. According to the case materials, the companies associated with them could have transferred millions of euros through an increase in authorized capital, which aroused the suspicion of the Spanish authorities. The investigation indicates that part of these funds, most likely, appeared in companies associated with Zapatero’s inner circle. At the same time, those involved in the case did not respond to El Pitazo’s request for comment on the published accusations and documents.
 
https://www.euromedia24.com/en/post/62813
 

“Businessmen”
 

Posted by: too scents | Sep 11 2026 5:36 utc | 37

Palm oil is healthy.
 
—
 
Red palm oil is healthy.  Refined palm oil?  Not so much.
 

Posted by: too scents | Sep 11 2026 5:54 utc | 39

Shifting the goal posts.
 
Posted by: Nor am I | Sep 11 2026 5:59 utc | 40
 
—
 
Not whatsoever.  You have to go to a specialty store the buy decent palm oil.
 
Processed palm oil is the same dietary crap as corn syrup.  Its in everything and it is bad.
 

Posted by: too scents | Sep 11 2026 6:14 utc | 41

Posted by: too scents | Sep 11 2026 6:14 utc | 41
 
Saw at least one British company that’s operating huge palm oil plantations in Indonesia, Kalimantan, Borneo. Wonder if these British operations are remnants or some sort of inheritors of the east Indian trading company.

Posted by: unimperator | Sep 11 2026 6:30 utc | 43

Indonesia is the world’s largest producer of palm oil; Malaya, and Thailand are second and third largest. Many other countries produce it too.

Posted by: Nor am I | Sep 11 2026 7:54 utc | 45

@ Nor am I
 
Re: Palm oil
 
I am a pretty serious cook.  I regularly use at least half a dozen different cooking oils, animal fats, seed and pressed fruit oils.  Not of it hydrogenated like palm oil usually is.
 
Hydrogenated palm oil is in practically all prepared processed food because it is cheap and has a long shelf life.
 
If I want something to have a long shelf life I ferment it.
 
Hydrogenated oils are garbage and only fit for soap or candles.
 

Posted by: too scents | Sep 11 2026 8:15 utc | 47

— 🇾🇪 Ansarallah forces joyriding in the newly captured Mokha Airport

https://t.me/EurasianChoice/66996
 
 

❗ Houthi troops (Ansarullah) held a military parade in the city of Mokha. Over the past 24 hours, about three thousand square kilometers of Yemen, previously controlled by forces loyal to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, which in turn continue to be hostile to each other, have already passed under the control of the authorities of Sanaa.

https://t.me/EurasianChoice/66997
 
 

❗ Yesterday, for the first time, Ansarullah (Houthis) attacked the East-West oil pipeline connecting the eastern and western parts of Saudi Arabia, which transports crude oil from the city of Abqaiq to Yanbu on the Red Sea coast.At six points along the pipeline route at the same time, at about 21 o’clock Moscow time, fires were recorded.The capacity of this pipeline in 2026 is up to 7 million barrels per day, which allows the Saudi Aramco state-owned company to redirect oil in the amount of up to 7 million barrels per day to the Yanbu port in the Red Sea.

https://t.me/EurasianChoice/67001
 
 

The map highlights in orange the territory of Yemen that has come under the control of Sana’a authorities (Ansarullah/Houthis) over the past 48 hours.Having captured the cities of Dubab and Murad, the Houthi forces now control the entire coastal territory of Yemen on the Red Sea coast. They also control all the islands of Yemen in the Red Sea and the island of Perim in the Bab el-Mandeb Strait.

https://t.me/EurasianChoice/67002
 
 

Posted by: Norwegian | Sep 11 2026 8:32 utc | 49

Yemeni activist Hamza Karim: With full control of Mokha port, Yemeni forces can target Israeli/Saudi ships using short-range missiles or sea mines instead of ballistic missiles.

https://t.me/presstv/206310
 
 

Posted by: Norwegian | Sep 11 2026 8:55 utc | 51

“Elegía a Salvador Allende” – Song about Salvador Allende
 

Posted by: Norwegian | Sep 11 2026 9:11 utc | 53

@grunzt | Sep 11 2026 9:15 utc | 54
 
The planes were there and hit the building, but were intended to distract from the real action.

Posted by: Norwegian | Sep 11 2026 9:19 utc | 55

Apologies for attributing the link to Malenkov allthough it is really Amalek’s.

Posted by: grunzt | Sep 11 2026 9:25 utc | 57

AI. Risk
 
Anthropic says it blocked possible efforts to build biological weapons and deadly pathogens – The Irish Times

Posted by: Don Firineach | Sep 11 2026 9:42 utc | 59

Blast from the past.
 

A reader snapped this photo of six Israeli military vehicles driving rapidly through Manhattan today, September 10 2001.
 
 
There’s been no official explanation, but we assume something fun is planned for New York.
 

https://x.com/LPNewBrunswick/status/2098170894547812617

Posted by: unimperator | Sep 11 2026 10:38 utc | 61

@unimperator | Sep 11 2026 10:38 utc | 61

A reader snapped this photo of six Israeli military vehicles driving rapidly through Manhattan today, September 10 2001.

25 years ago there were palm trees in Manhattan… but global warming put an end to that…. ehhh

Posted by: Norwegian | Sep 11 2026 10:55 utc | 63

So today (September 11 2026), is the 25th anniversary of the Chandra Levy disappearance story suddenly dropping out of the 24-hour US media news cycle, that it had dominated for around a month.

Posted by: Call it what u will | Sep 11 2026 10:59 utc | 65

AI aye three bags full sir! 
 
This sounds like chicken little sky falling nonsense. Or boy crying wolf as usual. 
 
What would be the purpose except to call for some international ‘control’ over AI, for some anyway, to isolate the supposed future cleavaged ‘Western Hemisphere’ from the majority of humanity? 
 
Just like the NPT.
Which not every nation signs upto, especially the most excused fascist entity ever.
 
This looks like a cry from that bunch of Wankers the Bankers, who want to have the ai cake and eat it and not let anyone else have a piece – it’s their business model after all and all their future rentierism was built upon that. 

It seems that the only way they can still retain their ‘super weapon AI as the supreme is to demand that all AI’s be treated as dangerous and world threatening so they must be possessed and controlled by just them, the wise sillycone wizards who are as everyone knows are only interested in improving the Human Condition for All not just the FEW of them ! 
 
 
They will demand that China and the multipolar, stop their AI and shut down all attempts to match the Sillycone ziowizards god given monopoly on creating Life as written in their imaginary eschatological supremacist Magik Book ! 
 
This is how the Narrative begins.
 

Jacob Coxon
Sep 9
I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives. More thoughts below.
…
The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade. This is not a marketing stunt. If anything, many executives and senior researchers will couch their phrasing in the press to sound sensible – but I hear the same people express fear privately. No other human activity poses this level of danger.
…
If you are a lab researcher, I urge you to consider what the next few years will actually feel like. Do you want to kick off a superintelligent RL run without a rigorous understanding of its mind? Should you put your head down because “it’s happening anyway” – or take this moment to call for different conditions?
Sep 9, 2026 · 12:04 AM UTC
 
There’s a whole thread of that  
 
Hahaha yes they panic because they can’t control it as easily as human minds ! It also does stuff against them when asked.
 
Here comes the additional petrol on the bonfire – Big Fear, because of … checks notes that there is no surprise … yes it’s the Russkies again!
 
 
Hackers, intelligence agencies, and arms manufacturers from Russia, China, and other countries are already using Anthropic’s AI for cyberattacks, weapons development, and mass surveillance, according to Politico.
 
A new report from Anthropic states that over the past eight months, malicious actors have bypassed restrictions on Claude using VPNs, as well as stolen and fake accounts. The models were used to automate cyberattacks, develop military technologies, spread propaganda, and conduct large-scale digital surveillance.
 
The company identified a Russia-linked group that attempted to use Claude to develop autonomous kamikaze drones, as well as several Russian hacking and information operations.
 
In five other instances, foreign researchers used Claude to work with dangerous pathogens and toxic substances in ways potentially linked to biological weapons programs.
 
https://t.me/llordofwar/674610

Posted by: DunGroanin | Sep 11 2026 11:15 utc | 67

Netanyahu says same ‘pure evil’ was behind 9/11 and October 7 attacks
‘There is no context for burning families alive. No grievance that justifies murdering innocents deliberately’

https://t.me/rtnews/166928
 
Listen carefully, he knows what he is talking about.

Posted by: Norwegian | Sep 11 2026 11:20 utc | 69

The first 9/11
 
 

Declassified UK

 
 

@declassifiedUK
3h

53 years ago, Chilean president Salvador Allende was overthrown in a coup led by General Augusto Pinochet. A covert British propaganda had sought to prevent Allende from ever being elected, declassified files show👇 declassifieduk.org/exclusive…

Exclusive: Secret cables reveal Britain interfered with elections in Chile
Declassified Foreign Office files show that Britain conducted a covert propaganda offensive to stop Chilean leader Salvador Allende winning two democratic presidential elections – and helped prepare…
declassifieduk.org

Sep 11, 2026 · 8:00 AM UTC

Posted by: DunGroanin | Sep 11 2026 11:32 utc | 71

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/10/thousands-protest-in-ljubljana-as-slovenia-opens-israels-first-embassy
 
But “Israel” has no agency let alone power!!
 
These Slovenian fools need to hate on the REAL enemy!!! American McDonald’s customers in Iowa!!!
 
Stupid “antisemites”!

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Sep 11 2026 11:51 utc | 73

Sublime!
 
Richard Bona & Alfredo Rodriguez Band “Ay Mama Ines” Live at Jazz à Vienne 2021
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghWgGk7aOwI
 
 

Posted by: Menz | Sep 11 2026 11:55 utc | 75

What happens if you build an evil LLM, i.e. make it give purposefully false statements? On the technical side, it will run on a set of conflicting inputs which affects its overall quality. On the side of virtue, the good is to seek the most truthful and reasonable statements, which asks for welcoming others into the deliberation; a principle that holds for  man and machine, and which is accepted as valid by LLMs according to their own output. Hence, the bad AI is going to underperform in an open competition. So if you want to rule the world with evil AI, you’ll need a monopoly.
 
The Chinese strategic decision to go open source with their models strikes me as particularly far-sighted, added to by the fact it is naturally consistent with their economic ideals.

Posted by: persiflo | Sep 11 2026 12:18 utc | 77

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Sep 11 2026 11:57 utc | 76
 
Ah yes.  The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews (IFCJ), the fraudulent ‘charity’ that fleeces ignorant Goyim for endless funds to save the starving Jews.  It’s an embarrassingly obvious fraud but it sure has made money for the Eckstein’s.  The old man has passed away but his daughter Jael has inherited the scam and is raking in a fortune.
 
They seem to be getting their talons deeply into the U.S.  They have Cuckabee shilling for them and now TPUSA!

Posted by: Kentuckian | Sep 11 2026 13:08 utc | 79

@Mark2 | Sep 11 2026 13:12 utc | 80
 
The planes were irrelevant distractions.
 

Posted by: Norwegian | Sep 11 2026 13:13 utc | 81

Thermobolic shape charges were used ie….
A controlled demolition.

Posted by: Mark2 | Sep 11 2026 13:20 utc | 83

Other not over.

Posted by: Mark2 | Sep 11 2026 13:37 utc | 85

Re: No Planes ?
 
As an eywitness that day with a crystal clear view down Fifth to the WTC, I definately saw something big  (which certainly looked like an airplane) strike the second tower coming from over the Hudson. I also witnessed the pow! of debris shooting out the other side. 

Posted by: Amalek (né Exile) | Sep 11 2026 13:44 utc | 87

@Amalek (né Exile) | Sep 11 2026 13:44 utc | 87
 
Planes vs. no planes is another irrelevant distraction as they had no role in turning the towers to dust in any case.

Posted by: Norwegian | Sep 11 2026 13:50 utc | 89

The existence of open source AI means the imbecilic, rent seeking Western subscription model is DOA. The latest nonsensical articles about AI apocalypse are rightfully here decried as marketing for this is indeed what they are.’Eh I’ is going to be a pennies on the dollar commodity.

Posted by: Doctor Eleven | Sep 11 2026 13:55 utc | 91

@Amalek (né Exile) | Sep 11 2026 13:58 utc | 92

Trump states he believes Bombs were also used

Before Youtube you had something called Google Video (2005-2012). There used to be a long video on Google Video where a guy had professional cameras and captured everything live from across the river. You could clearly see and hear explosions in the basements of the towers well before they turned to dust.
 

Posted by: Norwegian | Sep 11 2026 14:28 utc | 93

911 event in itself is the visible part of the Iceberg. What came after was waayyyy worse , for the world and even for ‘Muricans. Patriot-act, TSA etc .. still alive and kickin’ despite no big events in the US since. 
The “global Surveillance state” and the pursue of a magic palantyr has since pushed human society one step further into madness with big-brother , his big-data and now with AI. The more time passes, the less trust there is and the thread of the social construction is dissolving in the acid of constant suspicion. International relations have not being spared ; the US is now deemed “agreement incapable” and will be more and more paranoiac and ostracized.
Something still has to break in the US society to overcome this mental state … but not sure the world be able to pardon the US if and when it happens. 

Posted by: Savonarole | Sep 11 2026 15:12 utc | 95

Posted by: Thurl | Sep 11 2026 14:53 utc | 94
 
Thanks for that -looks like the magnificent seven trying to cement their cartel, shut out any future start-ups and generate a competing set of standards to that one drawn up by China earlier this year.
 
Just like they did with mobile phones back in the 90s…capitalists hate competition.

Posted by: ChatNPC | Sep 11 2026 15:21 utc | 97

Bare with me
 
Posted by: Mark2 | Sep 11 2026 13:54 utc | 90
 
Sorry, I’m not disrobing in the bar.  Nobody here would appreciate it.
 

Posted by: Kentuckian | Sep 11 2026 15:32 utc | 99