Material by Russian military field correspondence Aleksandr Kots
[Facebook] Do you remember how recently no one was talking about a pause in Kyiv? They were hitting St. Petersburg during the PMEF days. In June, they declared a 40-day operation to pressure Russia and took on our refineries. They tried to impose a naval blockade of the Black Sea coast and damaged more than 100 ships. And then the retaliation came through energy, logistics, and factories — and the word "ceasefire" suddenly came back on the agenda.
Energy, air, sea...
Putin explained this today without diplomatic niceties:
"The actions of the Russian Armed Forces have been so sensitive and destructive to the enemy that they are now actively raising the issue of a ceasefire in several directions, as they themselves say."
We had losses. But we will compensate them faster than Kyiv can record video appeals.
A couple of weeks before the elections to the State Duma, Kyiv announced its readiness to return to negotiations. On the night of September 20, the main day of voting, more than 1,600 drones entered the Moscow zone. The strikes hit the polling stations and the homes of the chairmen of the territorial election committees. During the day — signals of readiness for dialogue, at night — a swarm over the Moscow region. Just like trying on a suit in your pocket.
A separate program segment — the new Estonian Defense Minister Martin Herem, who is convinced that his country will deal with Russia alone. Putin responded briefly: "The circus has left, the clowns are left." And added that Russia is not preparing for war with Europe — there are no such plans. But the fear in front of us is very convenient. Why is it needed, Putin said directly:
"Kiev wants and continues to use Ukraine and Ukrainians as cannon fodder, and Ukraine as a state as a tool to fight Russia in order to prevent our development, limit our development, and slow down Russia's movement forward."
Peace will come — any war ends somehow. But while they believe on Bankova that a pause can be broken by drones, the answer will come "Iskanders," "Zirconias," and "Geraniums." Cleverly and without an interpreter.
[Breitbart] Sen. Dave McCormick (R-PA) said Saturday that China and Russia are working to turn Americans against artificial intelligence and data centers, pointing to polling he said breaks in opposite directions in the two countries.
Speaking with Breitbart News’s Washington bureau chief Matthew Boyle on Breitbart News Saturday, the Pennsylvania Republican talked about the difference in polling on attitudes towards AI and data centers between China and the United States.
McCormick tied the divide to a foreign influence effort and to the tech industry’s own early missteps.
“The reason it’s so polarized in the United States is in part because China is leading a campaign along with Russia to turn people against AI and data centers here,” McCormick said. “AI and data centers are 80-20 popular versus unpopular in China.” It’s the reverse here in America. “That’s not by accident. It’s because the Chinese are shaping the dialogue, and it’s because these big tech firms did a bad job early on in rolling out these data centers.”
The senator said losing the AI race would carry consequences beyond the economy.
“If China were to be the AI leader, it would give them a military advantage, an economic advantage, and they could set the rules for the world,” he said.
To keep pace, McCormick floated a “FINRA-like” model for AI oversight, an industry-led set of rules and enforcement guided by the federal government.
On data centers, the former hedge fund executive said no senator should dictate where they are built, describing agreements in Pennsylvania towns like Bloomsburg and Homer City that he said protect energy costs and water, expand the tax base, and hire local labor.
Amazing how those that are invested in certain related stocks and data center companies themselves, want to deflect attention. When was the last time anyone trust Gov not to abuse collected data?
Having A.I. and local Data Centers monitoring traffic and collected data pretty much voids privacy and may affect VPN circuits also.
Then they usually cite 2 nations we are in a Big Brother race with, that are well known for monitoring their own populations down to every purchase and activity already.
eg. At least 106 members of congress have disclosed that they, their spouse, or their dependent children hold stocks or other investments in AI developers, chipmakers, cloud infrastructure providers, data center companies, and specialized AI firms, with a total value of between $82.8 million and $325 million. "
Wow !!!
That much for a person "officially" only raking in $174,000 per year.
[ZERO] I need to be honest with you before we begin. I don't have all the answers. Anyone who claims to understand exactly how economic systems collapse, or precisely when, is either lying or selling something. What I have done is spend years reading, observing, and talking to people who lived through crises that most of us only read about in history books.
My grandmother kept cash sewn into the lining of her coat because she remembered 1929. My grandfather refused to invest in the stock market his entire life because he watched his father's bakery fail during a banking panic in 1931. They taught me that stability is a story we tell ourselves, not a permanent condition. That lesson took decades to sink in.
What follows is based on verified data and historical patterns. I have tried to avoid the confident predictions that make for good television but bad analysis. Instead, I have focused on mechanisms - how things break, why they break, and what happens to ordinary people when the assumptions they built their lives upon suddenly shift.
Some of this will disturb you. It should. But my goal is not to frighten you into buying gold or moving to a bunker. My goal is to help you see the patterns that emerge when economic stress moves from the financial pages into daily life. These patterns repeat across centuries because human psychology and institutional behavior follow predictable paths when pressured.
I have made mistakes in my analysis before. I underestimated the resilience of certain systems and overestimated the fragility of others. I have learned that timing is nearly impossible to predict, but direction is often visible years in advance. What I offer here is not prophecy. It is observation, carefully sourced, about what happens when the machinery we depend on begins to grind rather than hum.
Read this with skepticism. Verify the data. Check my sources. But do not dismiss the underlying reality because you find it uncomfortable. My grandparents taught me that the people who survive crises are not necessarily the ones who saw them coming first. They are the ones who took the warning signs seriously enough to prepare while others continued assuming tomorrow would look like yesterday.
That preparation begins with understanding.
The most dangerous economic crises rarely arrive with the fanfare we expect. There are no burning buildings on the first day. No immediate shortages. No government announcements that the old order has ended.
Instead, the transformation begins through decisions that appear rational when viewed individually. A company reduces its workforce to protect quarterly earnings. A government delays infrastructure maintenance because budgets are constrained. A family postpones major purchases because the future feels uncertain. Each decision makes sense in isolation.
The danger emerges when millions of similar decisions begin happening simultaneously, creating feedback loops that institutions struggle to control and individuals struggle to recognize until they are already caught in the current.
Throughout history, economic systems have appeared strongest precisely when underlying weaknesses accumulated most dangerously. Periods of prosperity create institutional expansion, debt accumulation, and consumer confidence that gradually forgets stability is never guaranteed. The prosperity itself generates the conditions that later make adjustment more painful. Businesses optimize for efficiency until redundancy disappears. Governments become comfortable with increasing obligations. Households adapt to living standards that depend on economic conditions which cannot continue indefinitely.
What concerns me is not the dramatic collapse that captures headlines. It is the quiet erosion of capacity that precedes visible breakdown - the gradual subtraction of options that masquerades as continuity until the day arrives when systems can no longer absorb stress.
Consider these developments:
1. Financial markets have become increasingly disconnected from underlying economic productivity, with asset prices rising while real wages stagnate and infrastructure deteriorates.
2. Global supply chains, optimized for maximum efficiency and minimal inventory, lack the redundancy to absorb shocks that would have been manageable decades ago when businesses maintained larger reserves.
What follows examines ten consequences that receive insufficient attention in mainstream discussions of economic crisis. These are not speculative fantasies. They are patterns observed in historical crises, visible in current data, and likely to manifest in ways that reshape daily life for billions of people.
They get in trouble for flying their country's flag so why would they die for it?
[YouTube] The E.U. Eyes Drafting Men For Russian War - Their Men Are Refusing Their Demands. Men see through the lies and deception, but even without that, they know it's not their country anymore.
Thirty minutes. Answering the low testosterone ad in the middle, more exercise and losing fat help without spending a penny.
ZURICH, Sept 27 (Reuters) - Swiss voters on Sunday firmly rejected a proposal to adopt a more restrictive form of neutrality that would have blocked their country from imposing economic sanctions or cooperating with NATO.
All cantons and about 70% of voters rejected the proposal for a strictly defined version of neutrality to be written into the Swiss constitution, final results from the Federal Statistical Office showed.
While Swiss neutrality has been internationally recognised since the end of the Napoleonic wars in 1815, how the government implements it is not spelled out.
The right-wing Swiss People's Party (SVP) has said that Switzerland's traditional position has been eroded after Bern imposed sanctions on Russia following its invasion of Ukraine.
The campaign had funded posters across the country urging people to vote "No war, yes to neutrality", featuring white peace doves, ahead of the vote.
[AT] The Trump Administration’s latest Supreme Court victory is a tribute to its persistence and innovation. It is, as well, a measure of the great changes in governance for which we owe Elon Musk and DOGE thanks.
Stymied by the congressional refusal to enact the SAVE Act, which would put teeth in the constitutional proscription against non-citizen voting in federal elections, the Administration kept searching for other ways to ensure that non-citizens did not vote in federal elections. Under a 1996 law, Section 1373(c), the federal government must provide state and local officials, upon request, verification of the citizenship of voters. The system in use before this Administration stepped in was an archaic, unworkable clunker which made a joke of the legal requirement. This relic, the Systematic Verification Act for Entitlements (SAVE, not to be confused with the proposed SAVE Act), had been in the law books since 1986. That little-utilized forty-year-old law allowed federal, state, and local governments to verify the citizenship and immigration status of noncitizens who applied for public benefits. That no one apparently used it to verify voter eligibility (or even benefit eligibility) is no surprise. This Administration dug into it, found it was not suitable for the purpose of citizen verification, and altered it. The very mechanics set up for the SAVE verification scheme were expensive for users and unwieldy (if not impossible) to meet its stated purpose of benefit eligibility, nor a broader purpose -- voter eligibility.
In March of last year, the President rectified this and signed an Executive Order directing the Department of Homeland Security to put a better-designed SAVE system in place. The new system would, for once, enable state and local authorities to speedily verify the citizenship status of existing and prospective voters. The states’ use of this system is completely voluntary. If they don’t wish to use it, they need not do so. (On the other hand, Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon has made it clear that the Department of Justice is prosecuting vote fraudsters, while election officials found to have knowingly allowed vote fraud may find themselves prosecuted for their complicity in it.)
The District Court vacated the modified SAVE program and denied the government application for a stay pending appeal. A divided Court of Appeals also denied a stay pending appeal. The Supreme Court granted the stay, ruling that the plaintiffs’ claims likely lacked merit, that Section 1373(c) contemplates an information-sharing regime like the modified SAVE program, and that the court was likely to reverse the District Court’s holding vacating SAVE.
The lead plaintiff in this case was the “League of Women Voters,” another once honestly non-partisan organization which in recent years regularly unmasked itself as a left-wing Democrat front. Forum shopping the case to D.C. Judge Sparkle Sookanan, the League tried to halt the only reasonable and efficient way to carry out a constitutional mandate: ensuring that votes in federal elections are cast only by eligible (that is, citizen) voters.
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Sparkle L. Sooknanan Sparkle Leah Sooknanan (born 1983) is a Trinidadian and Tobagonian-born American lawyer who has served as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia since 2025.
NEW YORK, Sept 25 (Reuters) - Chipmaker SK Hynix's (000660.KS), opens new tab Solidigm is considering an initial public offering as early as next year that could value the US subsidiary at up to $150 billion, according to three people familiar with the matter.
Solidigm held pitch meetings this week with investment banks competing for roles on the IPO, in a process known as a "bake-off," one of the people and a fourth person said, marking a concrete step toward what could become the largest-ever US semiconductor listing.
The company could raise $15 billion in the IPO, the three people said, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss confidential matters. The plans, including the size of deal and timing, remain at an early stage and could change depending on market conditions, they added.
The listing would rank as one of the largest semiconductor IPOs on record and could provide a standalone valuation for a business that has become a key part of SK Hynix's storage portfolio. It would also seek to tap strong investor demand for companies tied to artificial intelligence infrastructure, which has fuelled gains in semiconductor and hardware stocks.
Solidigm, based in Rancho Cordova, California, is the US-based NAND flash memory and solid-state drive (SSD) subsidiary of South Korea's SK Hynix Inc.
Solidigm declined to comment. SK Hynix said in a statement: "Solidigm is reviewing various options to strengthen its business competitiveness, but no specific plans have been confirmed at this time."
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
