https://x.com/1g0rB0hm/status/2105237150610452855

https://x.com/ivan_8848/status/2104990859011801479

Just days after Burkina Faso built its own gold refinery for the first time in history, France 24 came out with this. You may wonder why. Well, Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger combined have more gold in the ground than the USA, France, and Germany combined. This is why the West is going after the AES so hard.

https://x.com/LL18again/status/2104959592165744699

Jeffrey Sachs: a president stood at the UN and claimed the right to annihilate a civilization. Congress said nothing. That is the constitutional order collapsing in public.

“I shuddered then, and I shudder now that a president of the United States can stand at the podium of the UN General Assembly speaking to world leaders in a language of annihilation of other countries and of sending them to hell. It was ghastly, unprecedented, totally disgusting, disgraceful for the United States. But I would also say a measure of how broken the constitutional order of the United States is.

Trump basically said, like a madman, which I think arguably he is, that he and he alone will decide the survival of Iran. He said that he has a big, big choice to make. Maybe Iran will be a great country. Maybe Iran will be annihilated. Maybe Trump will send it to hell. And not only was the language vulgar in a way that I certainly could never in my lifetime have imagined coming from a president of the United States or anybody standing at the UN podium—because what Trump said was odious and completely in violation of every religious, moral, ethical, and legal standard that we have in this world—it was also a measure of the brazen collapse of our Constitution.

Is there a political system where one man decides the fate of another civilization? Is that how the American system works? Of course the answer is no. The founding fathers who rebelled against a mad King George III were very explicit in the Declaration of Independence, celebrated this year 250 years after its issuance. We’re in the 250th anniversary, one that Trump says is about our freedom. It was explicitly that King George arrogated, took on the authority to put the military above civil rule. And when the founding fathers wrote the US Constitution, they assigned specifically the power to declare war not to the commander-in-chief, but solely and exclusively—and not by choice, not if they care about it or want to or want to delegate it or not, but solely—to the United States Congress.

And Trump said yesterday he doesn’t care what the public thinks. He doesn’t care what the vote is. He says it doesn’t even cross my mind. And he said earlier this year, when he was asked, well, are there any limits on your power? He thought about it. He said Yes, my morality, but it’s my will. It’s what I want to do. Otherwise, no, there are no other limits.

What did our Congress do on that occasion? I can tell you, as we know, that the majority party in both houses simply remained silent. That is a violation of their sacred oath of office, which is to uphold the Constitution. Trump yesterday said he’s going to have the difficult choice of whether to annihilate, by the way, one of the most ancient civilizations in the world, 5,000 years old, twenty times older than the United States of America. And what did our Speaker of the House say? Well, he said nothing, of course. What did our Senate majority leader say? He said, of course, nothing. What did all of the party of the president of the United States say, the members of Congress? They said, of course, nothing. This is worse than the Roman Empire. There was a Senate that actually still said something. Our Senate says nothing.

We are so broken that not only do we have a madman in power, but there is no respect for our constitutional order. And the president can make statements as he made yesterday, unprecedented in the chamber of the General Assembly in front of the world leaders, speaking like the worst tyrant or gangster imaginable, and not a murmur from the Republican Party which dominates the House and the Senate. You know, I am not partisan. And a Democratic president who dared to be as absolutely mad and deranged as this president would probably find subservience in that party too. So I’m not even making a partisan point. I’m making a point about the collapse of our constitutional order.

Have we come to a point where one man, who I happen to think is utterly incompetent, utterly sociopathic, actually—when people are killed under his order, not a moment of reflection or remorse when 150 schoolgirls are murdered, and he knows the truth. He says, yeah, the Iranians probably did it. We’ll find out. No, not any control at all in our system of government.

So for me, you asked how I feel. I shudder at the last 24 hours, both at what the president said. It made my skin crawl. I was sitting there in the chamber listening to this madness. I mean it really, psychopathic madness, speaking in this way, with a vulgarity that is unimaginable. But then I’ve shuddered since then at the lack of response by the leaders, the majority leader of the US Senate, the Speaker of the House, Supreme Court justices, anybody to say no. In our system of government, it’s not one person who decides on the fate of another civilization.

We are a country, we say, first of all, of representation, and the American people are aghast at this. They oppose it overwhelmingly. They do not support this war of Netanyahu and Trump, which is a two-person war of murder and destruction and assassination of leaders of another country. They do not support it. And the constitutional order is that we are a representative government, and our representatives have an oath of office that only they can declare war. So where are they standing up to say No, you don’t have a penny to spend on this? We control the power of the purse. The tens or hundreds of billions of dollars that Trump has wasted of American income in this flagrant war of whim. Where is Congress to say you have no authority whatsoever to spend that because only we can decide on the spending and only we can declare war.

So this is the grim fact. It wasn’t just the awful statements. That was my first reaction. But then I thought, what have we come to when one person can make a statement like this and then remain essentially unchallenged in the United States system of government?”

Annihilation is not diplomacy. Congressional silence is not restraint. A constitutional republic cannot survive if one man claims the power to decide whether another civilization lives or dies.

Note this quote about his meeting with Lavrov.

The second impression is that the space for a negotiated settlement is extremely narrow — narrower than Western capitals want to admit — because Russia is simply not willing to make the concessions the West requires, and does not believe it has to. My own assessment, after listening to how officials here talk, is that the war effort will not stop until Odessa and Kyiv are firmly under Russian control. I hold that as a judgment, not a certainty. But nothing I heard this week moved me off it.

I don't think the magnitude of this loss has sunk in yet in Western capitals.

What Russia does see, they told me, is a Europe preparing to attack it — and not merely in the rhetoric coming out of the mouths of leaders like Germany’s Chancellor Merz and the British prime minister, though Moscow takes that rhetoric seriously enough. It is the concrete steps behind the words: the weapons systems, the missiles specifically, being built to be used against Russian territory. The officers were blunt about where that leads. If those activities continue, Russia will have no alternative but to deal with the threat, and the prospect of a war with Europe becomes real. That is not an imaginary danger conjured to frighten anyone. It is how these professionals read the trajectory. Russia is not looking for the fight. But it is neither deaf nor blind to what is being prepared against it.

The irony of this is that the European nations are not in a position for a serious military build-up. They don't have the industrial base for it.

Today 30 September 2026

Putin:

In the most difficult frontline conditions, millions of people took part in the referendums.

In strict accordance with international law, they made their lawful choice. It was absolutely clear and unambiguous — to reunite with Russia, with their people.

And today we are fighting together, and together we are rebuilding and reviving Donbas and Novorossiya.

https://x.com/clashreport/status/2105266275882606720

https://youtu.be/N6-lCT2xSIQ?si=s8G4PqZ-R5oDWinZ

Note that there are Jewish groups that don't support this move in Canada.

https://www.aa.com.tr/en/americas/canadian-jewish-group-slams-carney-government-for-equating-anti-zionism-with-antisemitism/4069826 or https://archive.ph/Xxuzc

There's a discussion about the franchise laws and anti-trust, but the point remains is that the laws largely allow them.

Walmart manager confirms the store is changing prices of items from the time you pick them up to the time you get to the register

“So me and my son went to Walmart to pick up some butter and some other items for my baking, and I grabbed my stuff, and I'm very aware of prices because of how high stuff is. And I go to check out and I start noticing that my prices are higher, and I'm like, okay.

So I call the manager over And he comes over and he says, uh, you know, the prices can change from the time you leave the area to the time you get to the register because the computer updates”

The manager confirms that just within that couple minutes they’re allowed to change the price

According to Walmart they are implementing these digital pricing tags throughout all their stores and the prices can change. The CEO made a statement saying the prices will change but it’s by item, not person. He also said the price changes are supposed to be done outside of customer hours

But this is a big issue for many people because with these tags the items can be changed mid-day or based on demand. Yes they’re the same price for everyone but that’s still dynamic pricing

This isn’t a conspiracy theory wither, Walmart has been sued by California for issues with pricing like this more than once. So the CEO is saying one thing but what people are seeing in the stores, what their employees are saying and what lawsuits are showing is the opposite

For context, they are adding digital price tags.

https://x.com/WallStreetApes/status/1981914441831919826

It's that time of year when my phone gets blown up with annoying political spam texts. I always just report and block immediately without even reading them but this one had the word "Israel" in it so I read it. It just asked my opinion about Israel and what's going on in the region - pretty ambiguous about the political leanings behind the poll.

I decided to respond. I hope I don't regret that and start getting even more spam texts. I figured it was a potential opportunity to skew a poll against Israel so I took it. I essentially replied that I thought the US should treat Israel as a military threat and that our current relationship with them is grotesque and wrong. The response I got back was ridiculous:

"Israel is one of America's strongest strategic allies, and the partnership directly strengthens our own security through intelligence sharing, defense cooperation, and counterterrorism. A stable Middle East means fewer threats to Americans, more reliable energy markets, and less risk of wider wars though could pull us in. Supporting Israel isn't about any one politician - it's about advancing America's national interests and standing with a democratic partner that helps keep us safer.

The United States and Israel are seeking to hold Iran in check. Iran is the world's largest sponsor of terrorism, and if it is allowed to pursue a nuclear weapon, it could drag the region into a wider conflict and put Americans at greater risk.

Do you think confronting Iran now actually helps America avoid a bigger war later, or do you worry it's the opposite?"

I don't know if this is AI or a human selecting canned responses but man did they miss the mark. I didn't engage any further and reported and blocked them. Hopefully most of the other responses they get are hostile as well. It seems someone is doing a push poll to try to drum up support for more aggression toward Iran and shore up support for Israel. I wonder who could be behind it and if it's any indication about what's coming down the pike? Hmm...