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End of United Kingdom? Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland Sign Cardiff MoU: Celtic Leaders Plan Historic Breakup, as Trump Fuels Irish Fire

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By Uriel Araujo
September 17, 2026

For the first time, the First Ministers of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are jointly pushing for the end of the United Kingdom. The Cardiff pact, combined with Trump’s open support for Irish reunification, raises serious questions about Britain’s future, NATO’s nuclear position – and Western double standards on self-determination.

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Nation-states and empires are not eternal or natural entities. They come and go, just as Rome did, and more recently the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia. The United Kingdom (UK) is no exception.

In an unprecedented development this week, the First Ministers of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland all represent parties that want their Celtic nations to leave the English and the UK.

On 14 September 2026, Scottish First Minister John Swinney, Welsh First Minister Rhun ap Iorwerth, and Northern Ireland First Minister Michelle O’Neill all signed (as party leaders) a memorandum of understanding in Cardiff alongside Sinn Féin president Mary Lou McDonald. They declared that Westminster’s time is “coming to an end” and called on London to prepare for constitutional change. Scotland’s Swinney wants an independence referendum by 2031.

So, for the first time since devolution, the three nations have leaders committed to independence or Irish reunification. Scotland’s Swinney predicted that current UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham would be “the last” of the United Kingdom. The pact stresses self-determination and a future linked to the European Union (EU).

Back in 2022, after the death of Queen Elizabeth II, I commented that King Charles III’s greatest challenge would be keeping the United Kingdom united amid post-Brexit strains and lower royal popularity.

By then, Brexit had already reinvigorated calls for Irish reunification by creating an Irish Sea border under the Northern Ireland Protocol, leaving unionists there feeling abandoned. Those tensions have never fully gone away.

A full dissolution of the Kingdom is thus realistic enough to be a serious constitutional possibility – yet it is neither imminent nor inevitable.

Scotland remains the most advanced case for formal secession. Northern Ireland could, under the Good Friday Agreement, eventually hold a border poll on reunification – if the British government judges a majority likely. Wales is politically less advanced in this regard.

The truth is that London can still resist politically and legally, but it cannot forever block an enduring, democratically expressed demand without deepening its own legitimacy crisis.

A British breakup would shrink London’s demographic, economic and diplomatic weight. It would complicate defense, nuclear basing, intelligence sharing and English global position.

An independent Scotland might seek closer European integration. Irish reunification in turn would bring the North into an all-Ireland state inside the EU framework.

The nuclear question in itself is serious enough. Britain’s Trident submarines and support infrastructure sit at Faslane and Coulport in Scotland. A scenario of Scottish independence would thereby force difficult negotiations over the deterrent that the UK contributes to NATO.

Relocating it would take years and cost dearly. The Scottish Government itself states an independent Scotland would likely seek NATO membership, though its anti-nuclear stance creates an obvious tension.

Northern Ireland joining a united Ireland in turn would potentially remove territory from NATO’s footprint since the Republic of Ireland remains outside the Alliance.

The result would not be the end of NATO, but a reconfigured North Atlantic architecture: a smaller, still Atlanticist Kingdom; a potentially non-nuclear Scotland in the alliance; and a united Ireland maybe outside of it.

Moreover, Brexit already pushed London closer to Washington and the Anglosphere. The AUKUS security pact stands as the clearest symbol of that orientation.

The 2025 National Security Strategy calls the US the UK’s most important defense and security ally while seeking deeper technological and nuclear cooperation.

An “isolated” England after a British collapse could then double down on the relationship with Washington, Five Eyes and AUKUS to preserve influence.

Yet paradoxically, losing Scotland or Northern Ireland would also make closer European cooperation more necessary – precisely because a reduced England would have fewer independent sources of geopolitical weight, so to speak.

The tension here is real: it would be more Atlanticist militarily – and more dependent on Europe economically and geographically.

US President Donald Trump for his part has thrown more fuel on the Irish fire, in his usual manner. During his recent visit he said he would “love to see” a united Ireland and called it inevitable.

UK fragmentation could therefore sharpen the Northern Ireland question, strengthening reunification calls and risk of loyalist/protestant radicalization and Irish conflict, with religious and ethnopolitical elements.

Western double standards on secession make the situation more interesting: Kosovo’s independence, for one thing, was accepted by much of the West – while Catalonia’s movement was rejected (by the West), as were Crimea and Donbass claims.

The historical circumstances differ, yet the principle of self-determination is applied selectively according to geopolitical interest. The Kosovo precedent has thereby set a precedent that can backfire for the West, while exposing its hypocrisy.

The unity crisis inside the United Kingdom is thus yet another symptom of the wider crisis within an increasingly divided Europe, NATO and the West.

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Via https://www.globalresearch.ca/end-united-kingdom-celtic-leaders-plan-historic-breakup-trump-fuels-irish-fire/5940788?doing_wp_cron=1789939060.2055919170379638671875

Iran’s Plan to Shut Down AI in the Persian Gulf

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By Kurt Nimmo
September 20, 2026

GCC internet will go dark if Trump renews hostilities.

The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries—Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar Bahrain, and Kuwait—are heavily invested in AI as part of a strategy to diversify away from petroleum. National AI strategies across GCC countries emphasize investment in research and development, encourage public-private partnerships, and create regulatory frameworks that support innovation. The GCC AI market size increased from USD $6.22 billion in 2025 to USD $7.60 billion in 2026. It is projected to reach USD $23.03 billion by 2034.

In April, Iran’s Tasnim news agency mentioned the submarine cables, landing stations, and data hubs in the Gulf as strategic pressure points in the conflict initiated by the United States and Israel.

According to the market research company IMARC Group, subsea internet data cables in the Gulf sit at the intersection of Europe, Asia, and Africa, and damage to these networks risks connectivity losses in one of the world’s most important internet traffic zones.

The economic importance of these cable systems extends far outside internet browsing or streaming services, notes Techstory, “because financial markets, payment systems and cloud computing firms depend on uninterrupted connections between continents every second of the day. Data centers in the Gulf and Asia also depend on those same cables to connect cloud systems serving businesses around the world.” Analysts estimate that networks linked to the GCC support roughly $10 trillion worth of financial transactions daily.

Iran claims the cables are within its territorial waters and fall under its jurisdiction. Tasnim and Fars suggest Iran may charge tech companies to use the internet cables, while Ebrahim Zolfaghari, a Brigadier General and the spokesperson for Iran’s Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters, said that “companies like Google, Microsoft, Meta, and Amazon” will be required to “comply with Iranian law” and pay licensing fees for cable passage, with repair and maintenance rights given exclusively to Iranian firms.

The Islamic Republic cited the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), which includes provisions governing submarine cables. Article 79 of UNCLOS says coastal states have the right to establish conditions for cables or pipelines entering their territory or territorial sea.

On September 2, Iran’s Kayhan newspaper urged Iran’s IGRC to disrupt or sever international fiber-optic cables to pressure the United States and its allies.

“Is it not our indisputable right, in order to bring these sources of evil to their knees and cut off their lifeline, to prevent internet cables from passing through the depths of the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz?” asked Kayhan editor-in-chief Hossein Shariatmadari. “This necessary measure could be carried out by seriously disrupting the cables’ operation or even cutting them.”

Iran has the ability to take out key cable networks, including the Fibre in Gulf submarine cable system, which connects Bahrain, Iraq, Kuwait Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and UAE. The Falcon Network connects Bahrain, Egypt, India, Iraq, Kuwait, Maldives, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sri Lanka, Sudan, and Yemen, while the the Gulf Bridge International links Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, UAE, and has onward connectivity to India, and Europe.

The Islamic Republic may decide to retaliate for the imposition of crippling sanctions which have negatively affected its economy, causing an increase in inflation and unemployment. Iran’s minimum wage stands at approximately 104 million rials, equivalent to roughly $110 US monthly. Essential commodity prices have risen sharply, with the International Monetary Fund documenting an annual inflation rate of 42.4%, according to October 2025 figures. Most estimates suggest sanctions have cost Iran approximately $60 billion each year by limiting investments in the energy sector. The sanctions have also significantly reduced Iran’s petroleum exports.

In 2023, the Iranian navy unveiled the domestically developed and manufactured Chamrosh-4 VTOL, a remotely operated drone designed for detecting, locating, and destroying both anchored and sleeping naval mines. Furthermore, Iran operates an undersea fleet of roughly 4 to 6 diesel-electric attack submarines well-suited to operate in the shallow waters of the Strait of Hormuz. In short, Iran has the ability to sabotage subsea internet data cables.

On September 17, President Trump, frustrated by the current stalemate in his war, said he faces a major decision over whether to escalate military action against Iran.

“I have a big decision to make,” Trump said. “Do I want to go in and eliminate them or not? That’s a big decision. Anything can happen with me.”

Iran has given the United States an ultimatum for a period of three to four weeks, during which the United States must satisfy all Iranian demands. Failure to comply will result in severe escalation within the Strait of Hormuz and the execution of Iran’s planned preemptive military action targeting United States-backed Gulf infrastructure as well as American and Israeli assets, according to a senior Iranian official based in Tehran with direct knowledge of the situation.

The demands include $300 billion in reconstruction funds, a full release of Iran’s frozen assets of up to $120 billion, lifting of the US naval blockade, an end to war on all fronts (including Gaza and Lebanon), lifting of all sanctions on Iranian oil and gas, and acceptance of Iran’s permanent control of the Strait of Hormuz, including up to 7% of transit fees.

President Trump is unlikely to accept these conditions, and as previously mentioned, may intensify military operations before the midterm elections. Should Trump choose to escalate, Iran has indicated it will heighten the intensity of its assaults against remaining American military and commercial infrastructure throughout the GCC region and West Asia.

On September 15, Amazon Web Services disclosed that Iranian drone strikes caused substantial damage to the corporation’s data facilities located in the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain. The preceding week, officials from the UAE declared that they were modifying their AI data center initiatives in response to the strikes, thereby underscoring a critical weakness that Iran continues to leverage with considerable facility.

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Via https://www.globalresearch.ca/iran-plan-shut-down-ai-persian-gulf/5941086

Trump Expands His Plan to Have Data Centers Take Over Public Lands

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Hoses and pumps line part of the Anderson Creek, a tributary of the Hackensack River, after thousands of gallons of diesel fuel spilled from an AI data center in Secaucus, New Jersey, on September 15.Spencer Platt/Getty Images
 TNR
Sept 19, 2026

An overwhelming majority of Americans don’t want more data centers. The Trump administration is ignoring them.

President Trump is looking to potentially build 12 new data centers on federal public lands—something the vast majority of Americans are against, regardless of political affiliation.

The Washington Sun reported Friday that the Bureau of Land Management is considering placing centers on 17,600 acres of public land in six states: Arizona, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, and Wyoming. Local leaders told the publication they weren’t aware of the proposal. Valar Atomics, Copia Power, Rhea Data, and Arevia Power are the companies behind the push. It’s unclear how the nearly 18,000 acres will be divvied up among the 12 proposed centers.

The BLM argues that the plans are for the greater good, brushing off environmental and aesthetic concerns while claiming that its review process will “protect natural resources while enabling responsible infrastructure development that can deliver benefits to the American people” like “expanded broadband capacity, improved electrical reliability, and support for growing technology-driven economies.”

Trump has spent months defending AI and data centers, becoming even more vocal over the last week. Others aren’t convinced.

“If there are places where communities think it is appropriate to build data centers, focus on those,” Center for Western Priorities conservation group director Aaron Weiss said. “The Trump administration needs to stop cutting the public out of public land management. The solution is more public notice and more opportunities for stakeholders to shape projects on the front end.”

This move comes as backlash against data centers hits a fever pitch.

Over 500 counties or municipalities have either restricted or entirely banned data center development this year. And according to Data Center Watch, at least 75 projects worth a collective $130 billion were interrupted in the first quarter of 2026.

“Ongoing data center build-out represents a culmination of everything that has made the U.S. economy so harshly unequal moving in right next door,” wrote The New Republic’s Kate Aronoff. “Inside its proverbial walls are local entrepreneurs, offshore middlemen, and multinational corporations that can exploit state-sanctioned tax shelters, financial engineering schemes, and regulatory arbitrage to rapidly accumulate wealth on the basis of having started off with a decent amount of it.”

Now, in the face of this obvious opposition, with midterms drawing closer by the day, Trump wants to put 12 more on public lands.

“If there were to be more [data centers], I honestly don’t know what that would even look like,” Idaho Sierra Club Director Lisa Young told the Sun. “Would that mean even more gas plants? Would that mean turning back on coal plants longer? What does that mean for our water resources? It’s honestly kind of apocalyptic to think about.”

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Via https://newrepublic.com/post/215593/trump-plan-data-centers-public-lands

The Epstein Digital Financial System is Getting Ready to Replace the U.S. Dollar

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Leah of The Leah Files has just published Part III of her Currency Killer series, The New US Dollar: The One Epstein Built.

This series is, by far, the best intel I have read in the Alternative Media regarding the takeover of the U.S. Dollar in an attempt to replace it with digital currencies.

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Read Health Impact News‘ coverage of her first two articles in this series, which is our most-read article so far in September, here: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent Just Restructured The American Financial System to Destroy the U.S. Dollar

The New US Dollar: The One Epstein Built

Inside the private currency built by Epstein’s crypto network, legalized by this administration, and controlled by the people who killed the old one.

by The Leah Files

Excerpts:

I think they are replacing the US dollar with a private one.

Not in some distant future, not as a theory, but right now.

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The United States government banned itself from making a digital dollar. Then it crashed the real one. Then it handed the replacement to a private company connected to $17 billion in organized crime, whose co-founder spent eight years as Jeffrey Epstein’s personal crypto advisor, and whose largest shareholder was convicted of software piracy before becoming the richest man in Italy.

That company is called Tether. It controls $183 billion in digital currency and it is now the 17th largest holder of US government debt on earth. It has never completed a publicly released independent audit. The UN has linked it to $17 billion in organized crime.

Tether is a stablecoin company, but it also owns 210,000 hectares of South American farmland and operates Argentina’s sole fertilizer producer. It holds a majority stake in a brain-computer interface company. It is the lead investor in a humanoid robotics firm. It owns 48 percent of a conservative media platform. Its third-largest shareholder controls a 10 percent stake in the privatized research arm of the UK Ministry of Defence.

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Howard Lutnick’s sons’ own a piece of Tether. His firm, Cantor Fitzgerald custodies its reserves. Lutnick’s former minion, Bo Hines, championed the law regulating it from inside the White House and resigned one month after the president signed it, becoming CEO of the company the law was written for.

Scott Bessent is blocking a billion dollars in suspicious Epstein banking records while his old fund was paying an intelligence firm controlled by Epstein’s partner. Trump’s family has made over a billion dollars launching their own stablecoin.

This is not deregulation, it’s a heist. And I am going to show you what they are doing.

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What Is Tether

Most people have never heard of Tether. So let’s start there.

A stablecoin is a digital token pegged to the US dollar. You send a company one real dollar, and they give you one digital token that is supposed to be worth one dollar. The company holds your real dollar in reserve.

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Tether is the largest stablecoin on earth.

It has $183 billion of these tokens in circulation. That makes it bigger than the GDP of most countries.

The company is supposed to hold $183 billion in real reserves to back them. It earns interest on those reserves, mostly US Treasury bills, which generated $13 billion in profit in 2024 alone. It has roughly 200 employees.

Here is the problem: the CFTC found in 2021 that Tether was actually fully backed by reserves only 27.6 percent of the time. The company paid $41 million in fines.

The New York Attorney General’s office reached a separate $18.5 million settlement over similar misrepresentations. The UN has linked Tether’s token to $17 billion in criminal activity.

The DOJ has an active criminal probe. And the company has never completed a full, publicly released independent audit.

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The Man Who Built Tether

His name is Brock Pierce. Before he co-founded Tether, he was the teenage Vice President of a company called Digital Entertainment Network (DEN).

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In the late 1990s, Pierce became Vice President of Digital Entertainment Network (DEN), a pioneering internet video company founded by Marc Collins-Rector, at the age of 17, earning a salary of $250,000.

At DEN’s Hollywood Hills parties, Collins-Rector and others allegedly sexually assaulted half a dozen teenage boys, including a 15-year-old, according to civil lawsuits filed between 1999 and 2002. When Collins-Rector fled the country to avoid prosecution, Pierce went with him.

They ended up in a villa in Marbella, Spain, which police raided in 2002 and found Collins-Rector, Pierce, and a third DEN executive, along with child pornography and firearms.

Collins-Rector was convicted of child sexual abuse in 2004. Pierce was never charged, but the civil lawsuit resulted in a $2,000,030 default judgment plus $1 million in interest because Pierce and his co-defendants never responded to the allegations of rape, assault, and death threats.

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The Emails

The DOJ released over 3.5 million pages of Epstein files, including direct correspondence between Pierce and Epstein spanning 2011 to 2019.

Pierce was mentioned 1,815 times, more than almost any other private figure.

The emails continued for months after Epstein’s second arrest on federal sex trafficking charges. Here is what they show.

By 2012, the correspondence had turned dark. Pierce sent Epstein dozens of photographs of a Ukrainian woman named Anastasia, three days after Epstein asked him to “take photos and find me a present.” Pierce wrote back that “Ukraine is now my favorite country.”

In a separate exchange, Pierce told Epstein there was “a boat in Antigua full of amazing Ukraine’s finest” waiting for him.

In another email, Epstein’s assistant wrote that Brock had a “great time with the girls in St. Barths.” Pierce’s own assistant sent Epstein’s team photos from Ukraine and mentioned upcoming meetings. There were references to visits on Epstein’s boat and coordination around events with Epstein’s inner circle.

These are the emails of a man inside the operation. Not an acquaintance. Not a networking contact. Pierce was coordinating women, referencing boats, sending photographs on request, and maintaining this relationship for years after Epstein’s first conviction.

But the business side of the relationship is what changed the world.

Pierce was not just advising Epstein on crypto. He was the bridge between Epstein’s money and the people who would build the infrastructure that now threatens to replace the US dollar.

He brokered the Coinbase deal.

In December 2014, Pierce connected Epstein to Coinbase’s Series C round through his venture firm, Blockchain Capital. Epstein invested $3 million. Coinbase co-founder Fred Ehrsam emailed asking to meet Epstein in New York.

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The Network

Pierce and Epstein did not operate in a vacuum. Their shared network reached into the political and financial circles that now control American crypto policy.

Steve Bannon. Pierce and Bannon had worked together for seven years before any of this. Pierce hired Bannon in 2005 to run the financial side of his company Internet Gaming Entertainment, later saying

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Peter Thiel. Epstein invested $40 million into Thiel’s venture firm, Valar Ventures, in 2015 and 2016. Reid Hoffman made the introduction.

That bet became the single largest asset of the Epstein estate, valued at roughly $170 million by the time Epstein died.

Thiel’s proteges now run US crypto policy: JD Vance is Vice President, David Sacks served as crypto czar, and Thiel’s Founders Fund was the largest investor in Polymarket.

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Where Pierce Is Now

Brock Pierce lives in Puerto Rico, where Act 60 allows him to pay near-zero taxes on capital gains. He is still Chairman of the Bitcoin Foundation. He still runs the Integro Foundation, whose most recent IRS filing shows $78 in total assets.

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Tether Today

Now that you know what Tether is and who built it, here is who runs it.

Who Owns It

Tether has never voluntarily disclosed who owns it. It is a private company incorporated in the British Virgin Islands with no public reporting obligation.

The only known ownership data comes from leaked documents reported by the Wall Street Journal in 2023, showing stakes as of 2018. As of those documents, four people controlled 86 percent of the company.

The Empire Build

Starting in late 2023, Tether began spending its profits at an extraordinary pace, acquiring stakes in companies across sectors that have no obvious connection to stablecoin issuance.

The Farmland

This is the part of the story that made me stop and ask what we are actually looking at.

Adecoagro is not a farm. It is a vertically integrated agro-industrial conglomerate incorporated in Luxembourg and listed on the New York Stock Exchange.

When Tether took control in April 2025, it took control of the entire chain from soil to supermarket shelf: the land itself, the crops grown on it, the mills that process them, the dairy plants, the rice processing facilities, the peanut sorting plants, the branded consumer products, the export terminals, and the port infrastructure.

In mid-2026, Adecoagro launched a Bitcoin mining pilot at its Brazilian sugar mills, using surplus electricity from sugarcane bagasse cogeneration to power approximately 1,280 mining machines. This connects directly to Tether’s stated goal of becoming the world’s largest Bitcoin miner.

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Profertil

In December 2025, eight months after Tether took control of Adecoagro, the company acquired a 90 percent stake in Profertil for approximately $1.1 billion.

Profertil is Argentina’s sole producer of urea, the most widely used nitrogen fertilizer in the world. The plant in Bahia Blanca produces 1.3 million tons of granular urea per year and supplies roughly 60 percent of Argentina’s domestic fertilizer demand.

This means that a company whose co-founder was sending photos of Ukrainian women to Jeffrey Epstein and brokering introductions between Epstein and the people who now control American financial policy now also controls the fertilizer supply that South American agriculture depends on.

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Now here is the part that made me consider this one the most important articles of the Currency Killer series.

This is not a hedge fund buying farmland as an inflation hedge. Tether looks to be building something specific.

Adecoagro co-founded a company called Agrotoken, which has already created three grain-backed stablecoins: SOYA, CORA, and WHEA.

Each token represents one ton of grain.

Farmers can use them as currency. Agrotoken partnered with Visa so producers can spend grain tokens with a card. They have already tokenized 230,000 tons of grain and transacted $70 million in deals. Adecoagro’s CEO said the goal was to build “tokenized land.”

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The company is building its own real-world asset tokenization platform designed to create digital versions of bonds, stocks, funds, and physical commodities.

Now connect the pieces.

Tether now controls the land, the crops grown on that land, the fertilizer those crops need to grow, the mills that process the harvest, and the platform that can tokenize all of it into digital currency. It already issues the largest stablecoin on earth.

This is a closed loop. Own the physical asset, process it, tokenize it, and issue the currency it trades in. They are not replacing the dollar with a digital version.

They are building an entire parallel financial system backed by food, land, and fertilizer, controlled by four people who have never disclosed who they are to the public, operating out of the British Virgin Islands.

The Switch

On January 23, 2025, Trump signed Executive Order 14178. It banned all federal agencies from developing or promoting a central bank digital currency. No government digital dollar.

The only digital dollars allowed in America would be private ones.

 

The Replacement

On July 18, 2025, Trump signed the GENIUS Act into law. It created the first federal framework for privately issued stablecoins, the exact product Tether sells.

The law allows stablecoin issuers to operate under a three-year grace period before meeting full compliance requirements and does not mandate independent audits.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent signaled that the law “will drive demand from the private sector for US Treasuries,” and indicated that stablecoin firms could buy up to $1 trillion in US government debt.

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The Thiel Network

Peter Thiel took $40 million from Epstein through the Valar Ventures fund, an introduction brokered by Pierce. That investment produced $170 million in returns and became the largest single asset in the Epstein estate.

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The Demise of Saudi Arabia and Perhaps Christian Zionism. Yemen Shocks World by Taking Control of Red Sea

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Top Left image: Yemen army – Source, Top Right image Yemen military illustration – Source, Bottom Left image Saudi Mohammed bin Salman with Jeffrey Epstein – source: The Epstein Files, Bottom Right image Saudi Mohammed bin Salman with Donald Trump in the White House – Source.

by Brian Shilhavy
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The Iran War drastically changed at the end of last week, as Yemen’s Ansarullah-led Armed Forces (Houthis) took control of the country’s western coastline, capturing key positions overlooking the Bab al-Mandab Strait, including the coastal city of Mokha and strategic islands in and around the waterway, and they are now effectively controlling traffic in the Red Sea.

As far as I can tell, this was a complete surprise to everyone, especially to Saudi Arabia and the United States.

It forced the U.S. corporate media to report this, and it dominated the news stream until the fake “AI is going to destroy humanity if we don’t do something about it” narrative took control of the news stream this past weekend.

Saudi Arabia, who has been at war with Yemen since 2014 with the help of the U.S. and using U.S. military weapons, was forced to shut down their East-West oil pipeline, which was allowing Saudi Arabia to bypass the Strait of Hormuz to be able to get oil out of their country.

This pipeline in Saudi Arabia reportedly transports about 4% to 5% of the global oil supply.

Saudi Arabia is now in panic mode, and has reportedly pleaded with the U.S. to help them and start bombing the Yemen forces who have taken control of the Red Sea.

However, it appears that Saudi Arabia never got the memo about one of Trump’s objectives in the Iran War, which was to let Iran destroy the Gulf Nations’ ability to control oil prices through OPEC, while at the same time seizing Venezuela oil amid plans to make  America the center of oil sales around the world.

Trump’s response to Saudi Arabia: sorry, you’re on your own.

Scoop: MBS urged Trump to strike Houthis amid Red Sea threat

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) called President Trump twice Thursday, urging him to launch strikes against the Houthis as the Iran-backed group closed in on a vital Red Sea chokepoint, two U.S. officials told Axios.

Trump declined, and U.S. officials stressed the administration has no plans to intervene directly against the Houthis for now.

Source.

Of course, even if the U.S. did want to stop Yemen’s military and protect Saudi Arabia’s interests, it is doubtful that they would even be able to do so, given the depletion of their weapons and military assets as Iran continues to control the Strait of Hormuz.

This very well could be the demise of Saudi Arabia.

And if the Yemen takeover of the Red Sea turns the tide overall in the war against Iran, what will the Evangelical Christians do who are so positive that this war was sanctioned by God, and was to hasten the return of Jesus Christ?

Could this also be the start of the decline of Christian Zionism as well when they realize that the U.S. cannot defeat Iran and force the return of Jesus Christ after all?

The U.S. and Saudi Arabia’s War Against Yemen for Over a Decade – The Genocide that Has Been Overshadowed by the Palestinian Genocide

While estimates of how many people have died in the Yemen conflict with Saudi Arabia, including children, most of whom have died from starvation due to the U.S.-Saudi blockade on their ports, varies, the number is significant, and probably rivals the number of people killed among the Israeli Palestinians, as well as the number of dead Lebanese people killed by the U.S. and Israel.

This was published in 2018, and the situation is obviously far worse today.

YEMEN: 85,000 CHILDREN MAY HAVE DIED FROM STARVATION SINCE START OF WAR

Using data compiled by the UN, Save the Children evaluated mortality rates for untreated cases of Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM) in children under five years. Using a conservative estimate, the humanitarian aid agency discovered that approximately 84,701 children with SAM may have died between April 2015 and October 2018.[i]

After almost four years since the brutal conflict in Yemen escalated the UN says that up to 14 million people are at risk of famine. That number has increased dramatically since the Saudi and Emirati-led coalition imposed a month-long blockade of Yemen just over a year ago.[ii]

Since then, commercial imports of food through Hodeidah port have reduced by more than 55,000 metric tonnes a month. That’s enough to meet the needs of 4.4 million people, including 2.2 million children[iii]. Any further decline in imports could likely lead directly to famine.

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Like so many other stories of unrest in the Middle East, the one in Yemen follows an all-too-familiar path that I am sure ultimately leads back to the U.S. and the “intelligence” agencies like the CIA and Mossad who control world politics ensuring that candidates friendly to the Zionist Epstein agenda rise to power.

The rationale, as it has been used so many times, was to overthrow “dictatorships” and alleged “ruthless” rulers who had ruled for long period of times and replace them with “pro-democracy” leaders, and always ending in disaster for the local populations.

It was this same rationale that took down leaders such as Muammar al-Qaddafi in Libya, Hosni Mubarak in Egypt, Saddam Hussein in Iraq, and even more recently Bashar al-Assad in Syria, all of whom were replaced by pro-Western leaders aligned with the U.S. (and by proxy, Israel).

What most Americans do not realize, is that while these “ruthless dictators” were portrayed as evil by the U.S., they were very popular in their own countries, and most of them were even elected in landslides, while the U.S. declared those elections “rigged.”

Imagine the U.S. with their highly ethical election system (sarcasm) dictating to foreign governments whether their elections were “fair” or not.

During the “Arab Spring” in 2012, Ali Abdullah Saleh, the first elected president of the Republic of Yemen, suffered the same fate, and was forced from office and replaced with the pro-U.S. candidate Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi.

When the Houthis struck back at the U.S. puppet regime, the U.S. had no problems with uniting with local groups in the area opposed to the Houthis, but had officially been branded as “terrorist” groups, such as the Muslim Brotherhood and al-Qaeda.

It is very similar to what recently happened in Syria, where a former member of al-Qaeda, the group who allegedly bombed the World Trade Center towers in New York under the leadership of Osama bin Laden, was chosen by the U.S. to lead Syria today, Ahmed al-Sharaa.

But these factions in Yemen were not strong enough to fight back against the Houthis, so starting with President Obama, the U.S. got involved to prop up their puppet government in Yemen.

First U.S. Citizens Ever Executed without a Judge, Jury, or Trial Happened in Yemen

The country of Yemen has the unique distinction of being the first country where U.S. citizens were executed by drone strikes by their own government, with no judge, jury, or trial.

President Barak Obama was the first U.S. President known to authorize a drone strike on a U.S. citizen, Abdulrahman Anwar al-Awlaki, a 16-year-old boy who was in Yemen and whose father was linked to al-Qaeda.

This was headline news back in the day.

When Trump succeeded Obama and took office in 2017, he proceeded to do the same thing, by ordering a drone strike in Yemen that killed Nawar al-Awlaki, an eight-year-old American girl and the daughter of Anwar al-Awlaki. The 16-year-old U.S. citizen killed by Obama was her brother. (Source.)

Will Saudi Arabia’s Leader Survive the Yemen Uprising?

Since I lived in Saudi Arabia for several years and was a professor at one of their top universities back in the 1990s, I will offer my own opinion on the current leader of Saudi Arabia, which you will be hard-pressed to find from any other western journalist, the Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud (MBS).

MBS was quite young when he came into power, and he reportedly earned a law degree from King Saud University in Riyadh, allegedly finishing second in his class.

I have heard Muslim commentators mention that due to his being educated in Saudi Arabia, rather than going to a Western university, that MBS was better suited and trained to rule Saudi Arabia and not as prone to Western influence.

I strongly disagree.

Back in the day when I was teaching English at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, located in Dhahran, right next to the Aramco oil compound, it was well-known among the faculty back then that if any member of the Al-Saud family came to study at the University and had to complete their first year learning English, that they had basically flunked the English test needed to attend one of the top universities in the U.S. or the UK.

They were not among the “cream of the crop” among Saudi high school students. We had one or two come through during my tenure there, and they were mostly viewed as seeing themselves as “privileged” due to being part of the Al-Saud family, and not very good students at all, preferring instead to go out partying in the desert with their expensive Range Rovers.

So when I read that MBS graduated “second” in his class, I wondered why he did not graduate first, being a member of the Royal family. My best guess is that someone in the Al-Saud family higher up the ladder must have beat him out at the time.

But the true intellectuals and leaders among Saudis probably all graduated from Ivy League schools in the U.S., or from the top universities in the UK.

And of course, MBS is clearly a puppet who has served, first Obama, and now most recently has served as Trump’s lap dog, in my opinion.

So he is hardly against Western culture, even though he was educated in Saudi Arabia.

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Trump seemingly worked hard in an effort to turn MBS into a full-fledged Zionist and support Israel, but MBS stated that if he did not support the Palestinian right to have their own homeland, his own people would stone him to death.

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As I reported back in June of 2024, Saudi Arabia made the historical move to not renew an 80-year-old agreement with the United States that established the U.S. Dollar as the world currency to purchase Saudi oil, in return for U.S. military protection.

They saw the handwriting on the wall, apparently, and wanted to be able to sell oil to China in their own currency, the Yuan. See: Saudi Arabia Ends 80-Year-Old PetroDollar U.S. Agreement: Joins China-Led Central Bank Digital Currency Coalition
This, more than anything, could be the primary reason why the U.S. will not participate in helping them fight back against the Houthis anymore.

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Via https://healthimpactnews.com/2026/the-demise-of-saudi-arabia-and-perhaps-christian-zionism-yemen-shocks-the-world-by-taking-control-of-red-sea/

Yemeni army claims responsibility for strikes on sensitive sites in Saudi capital, Aramco facilities in Yanbu

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Spokesman for the Yemeni Armed Forces Brigadier General Yahya Saree delivers a televised statement from the capital, Sana’a, on September 19, 2026.

Press TV

19 Sept 2026

Yemeni armed forces have claimed responsibility for two separate missile and drone attacks on strategic installations deep inside Saudi Arabia in retaliation for Riyadh’s smear campaign and ongoing acts of aggression against the Arab Peninsula nation.

Brigadier General Yahya Saree, the spokesperson for Yemen’s military, announced in a statement on Saturday that Yemeni army units had targeted sensitive sites in the Saudi capital Riyadh, as well as Saudi Aramco oil facilities in Yanbu port city on the Red Sea coast.

He added that both operations, involving swarms of homegrown ballistic and cruise missiles as well as combat drones, were successful and caused massive blazes at the impact sites.

Saree noted that the attacks were in reprisal for Saudi Arabia’s unsubstantiated allegations of an attempted drone attack near the city of Mecca, and an unrelenting onslaught against the Yemeni nation.

The drone and missile operations were also in response to the Saudi enemy’s vile attempts to target the Yemeni capital Sana’a through tactics once employed by the Takfiri Daesh terrorist group. The tactics included indiscriminate shootings and bombings targeting civilians, he added.

The spokesperson for the Yemeni armed forces added that F-15SA and Eurofighter Typhoon fighter aircraft of the Royal Saudi Air Force (RSAF) have so far carried out 732 airstrikes across Yemen, inflicting heavy civilian casualties and destroying critical non-military infrastructure.s

Saree also vehemently denied Saudi officials’ claims that Yemeni armed forces are targeting residential neighborhoods, stressing that such baseless assertions come in light of the miserable failure of Saudi air defense systems to intercept Yemeni drones and missiles.

“Yemeni army units will uphold the siege-for-siege and escalation-for-escalation equation, and will target Saudi military buildups until the aggression ceases and the siege on our beloved country is completely lifted,” the Yemeni military spokesperson concluded.

The Sana’a administration declared a naval blockade against Saudi Arabia on July 20, in response to “an unfair and tyrannical siege” on Yemen lasting nearly 12 years.

The Yemeni military has announced a number of successful operations aimed at ships linked to Saudi Arabia in the Red Sea.

In March 2015, Saudi Arabia and its allies imposed a blockade on Yemen and launched a sweeping military campaign, backed by military, political, and logistical support from the United States and several Western countries.

The war has killed tens of thousands of Yemenis. However, Saudi Arabia has failed to achieve its stated objective of reinstating a puppet regime that serves its interests.

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Via https://www.presstv.co.uk/Detail/2026/09/19/776626/Yemeni-army-claims-responsibility-for-strikes-on-sensitive-sites-in-Saudi-capital,-Aramco-facilities-in-Yanbu

Trump claims ‘permanent control’ over Greenland security in landmark deal with Denmark

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The Cradle

SEP 19, 2026

Washington has sought to annex Greenland to control Arctic transit, secure access to critical rare-earth minerals, and counter the influence of Russia and China

US President Donald Trump on 18 September announced a deal with Denmark that will allegedly grant Washington “permanent” security control in Greenland and ensure Russia and China will not gain influence in the strategic Arctic territory.

“I am pleased to announce that the United States of America has entered into an Agreement with The Kingdom of Denmark, and Greenland, that gives the United States permanent control over security, and all other needs, in Greenland, completely addressing ALL of our many U.S. concerns,” Trump announced via social media.

After returning to office last year, Trump repeatedly threatened to take control of Greenland, a semiautonomous region of NATO member Denmark, saying he would either purchase it or seize it by force.

The text of the agreement has not been made public.

However, a State Department official told NBC News that the agreement will remain in effect “forever,” including if Greenland becomes independent from Denmark.

The US military has had a presence in Greenland since 1951, when missile early-warning systems were installed there as part of the Cold War against the Soviet Union.

However, the agreement will allow the Pentagon to drastically expand its footprint on the island.

Trump stated that the US will immediately begin developing a “large Military presence in the appropriate part of Greenland, of which there are many.”

“The agreement explicitly guarantees the United States the complete ability to do what it deems is necessary in Greenland in order to secure and defend the American continent, including permanent access, basing, and overflight rights,” the State Department official said.

This agreement reportedly bans any non-NATO base or troop presence in the territory. It includes provisions blocking Russia, China, and other states from making investments in Greenland that could threaten US interests.

Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said that the agreement recognizes Danish “sovereignty and territorial integrity” as well as Greenlanders’ “right to self-determination.”

The agreement is expected to be signed by Denmark, Greenland and the US next week in connection with the upcoming UN General Assembly in New York City.

Jens-Frederik Nielsen, chairman of the Greenland government, wrote in a statement that the deal is “to the benefit of us all.”

“It is gratifying that we are about to enter into an agreement that ensures and strengthens the security of Greenland, the Kingdom of Denmark, the United States and the Western alliance. The agreement recognizes Greenland’s interests and our place in international cooperation,” Nielsen wrote.

Though Greenland encompasses a territory of over 2 million square kilometers, roughly the size of Saudi Arabia, it has only 56,000 inhabitants.

Greenland contains vast supplies of untapped rare earth mineral resources, which could be used for making batteries, electric vehicles, and other high-tech items, including for military use.

Controlling Greenland could therefore help the US break China’s dominance in the rare earth minerals market.

Most of Greenland is inside the Arctic Circle, where Russia, China, and the US are vying for military and commercial dominance.

“Controlling the island would give Washington an outpost in an important naval corridor connecting the Atlantic Ocean and the Arctic, where climate change is melting the ice and making once unnavigable territory a theater of competition,” the New York Times observed on Friday.

“If we don’t do it, Russia or China will take over Greenland,” Trump stated in January.

Moscow and Beijing recently announced a service to ship commercial goods from China to Europe through the Arctic, cutting transit times by roughly 15 days compared to the route that passes south of Asia and through the Suez Canal.

The Russian and Chinese navies are also active in the Arctic, which is home to critical undersea internet cables.

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Via https://thecradle.co/articles/trump-claims-permanent-control-over-greenland-security-in-landmark-deal-with-denmark

Israeli army seals last road into West Bank village, trapping 47 Palestinian families

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The Cradle

SEP 19, 2026

Residents say a trench dug across the final route into Khirbet Ras al-Ahmar seeks to forcibly displace the entire community

On 19 September, Israeli occupation forces trenched over the last remaining road into the Palestinian village of Khirbet Ras al-Ahmar, southeast of Tubas in the northern occupied West Bank, leaving 47 Palestinian families under total siege.

The trench cut off the last remaining route to the village, a single rough path only suitable for livestock and farm tractors, after the Israeli military had spent over two months blocking all other roads, according to resident Thaer Basharat.

Basharat said the stranglehold on the village has been tightening for roughly three years, and the latest closure has turned it into a “cage” hemmed in by trenches, walls, and military zones.

“The 47 families in the village rely on livestock farming and are now unable to bring in their basic necessities or sheep feed,” he said.

Basharat said roughly 90 percent of the approximately 360,000 dunams that once served as grazing land for the village’s herders have been seized or declared off-limits, leaving its farmers in dire straits.

“The Israeli pressure aims to forcibly displace the entire community from the village,” he said.

The village’s enclosure comes as Israel presses ahead with the “Crimson Thread,” a military barrier of patrol roads, trenches, and earth embankments that wall off the eastern flank of the occupied West Bank, as part of its broader campaign of ethnic cleansing and forced displacement of Palestinians.

In August, Palestinian news agency WAFA reported that Israeli forces filled in three artesian wells in Ras al-Ahmar, wrecked about 300 meters of water pipeline, and demolished three livestock shelters, further strangling a community whose survival depends on water and grazing for its herds.

Israeli army and settler pogroms against Palestinians and their property have escalated across the occupied West Bank since the start of Israel’s genocide in Gaza in October 2023.

Israeli War Minister Israel Katz has threatened to unleash an “all-out war” on the occupied West Bank, targeting not only resistance factions but also the Palestinian Authority (PA), its senior officials, and its affiliated bodies.

Katz said he and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had ordered the Israeli military to prepare the campaign should PA security forces launch, or be about to launch, an attack similar to 7 October, vowing to “quickly bring about their complete defeat.”

Since the start of 2025, the Israeli army has forcibly displaced tens of thousands of Palestinians from West Bank refugee camps and demolished hundreds of homes, while illegal settlements expanded rapidly under Israeli government legislation as part of Israel’s campaign of annexation of the occupied territory.

Via https://thecradle.co/articles/israeli-army-seals-last-road-into-west-bank-village-trapping-47-palestinian-families

Hidden Harms of Modern Lighting and Fight to Bring Back Incandescent Bulbs

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A Midwestern Doctor
Decades of forgotten research show natural light is an essential nutrient our bodies are being starved of

Story at a Glance:

•Sunlight is one of the most important things for our health (e.g., it halves our risk of dying or getting cancer), yet all we ever hear is how important it is to avoid it.

•While the importance of vitamin D is generally recognized, many of the other critical functions of light within plants, animals and human beings remain almost completely unknown, and hence are the focus of this article.

•One of the defining characteristics of modern life is continual exposure to unnatural light (particularly from energy efficient light bulbs)…decades of forgotten research (and a growing body of new research) show it is a root cause of a myriad of inexplicable physical and behavioral illnesses.

•Cells communicate with each other through faint emissions of ultraviolet light. This was once one of the most active fields in biology (yielding over 700 papers, 11 Nobel nominations, and a blood test which detected cancer with over 95% accuracy) before it was abandoned for political reasons and forgotten.

•The eyes and the blood conduct light throughout the body. When this process is disrupted (e.g., by glasses with lenses that filter out critical parts of the spectrum), a variety of significant illnesses can develop.

•In 2022, the federal government effectively banned the incandescent bulb because most of its output is “wasted” infrared rather than visible light, despite our bodies using that infrared for a myriad of essential processes. Senate Energy Chairman Mike Lee introduced a bill to bring those bulbs back, which yesterday received its first hearing.

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•As discussed in a previous article, dermatology was one of the least desirable professions in medicine. They then transformed themselves into one of the most sought after ones by rebranding themselves as cancer fighters and convincing everyone to get regular skin cancer exams where any potential cancer could be quickly removed, often for thousands of dollars apiece, quickly making dermatology into one of the highest paying specialties. A centerpiece of this rebranding was making benign cancers be labeled as deadly ones and claiming sunlight caused skin cancer (which while true, omitted to mention that that a lack of sunlight is what causes fatal skin cancers). Because of this, a lot of dermatology morphed into scaring people senseless about the sun, and despite billions being spent each year on skin cancer, the total death rate from skin cancer remains almost entirely unchanged (instead we simply diagnose and “treat” far more of it).

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The Importance of Sunlight

Prior to dermatology’s disastrous war on the sun, the value of sunlight was widely recognized in medicine. For example, in the early 1900s, heliotherapy (sunbathing) was used with great success for treating many (otherwise incurable) conditions, such as the 1918 influenza, tuberculosis, and many other diseases.

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•Many different studies have found sunlight exposure dramatically reduces one’s risk of cancer (e.g., this large study found high solar UVB exposure halved one’s risk of breast and prostate cancer).

Typically, sunlight’s benefits are thought to be due to producing vitamin D (a critical nutrient) within the body. However, I have long suspected that many of the benefits of vitamin D are not due to the vitamin itself but rather that its elevation serves as an indicator that the body is having regular sunlight exposure and hence is experiencing the myriad of benefits sunlight provides. For example, when 24 healthy volunteers were exposed to UVA (which does not produce vitamin D) at a dose equivalent to about 30 minutes of summer sun, their arteries dilated and their blood pressure dropped, as nitric oxide stored in the skin was released into the circulation.

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Biophotons and Mitogenic Radiation

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A fundamental principle within biophysics is that cells emit very faint photons (predominantly within the ultraviolet spectrum) they use to control growth and communicate with other cells and that when biophoton transmissions go awry, disease results (leading to abnormal photon emissions from tissue being seen in many disease states). For example, cancers have abnormal biophoton emissions, and (when studied) carcinogenic substances significantly disrupt the wavelength of these photons.

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•Faster-growing cells tended to be mitogenic while slow-growing ones were not, with the primary exception being cancer cells.

•Certain parts of the body (brain tissue, the cornea of the eye, active muscles, and blood) had much greater emissions of MGR (and muscles from frogs freshly taken from the wild emitted far more than those from frogs kept for months in an aquarium1).

•A dissected optic nerve was found to radiate mitogenic radiation throughout the optic tract when the eye was exposed to unfiltered sunlight.
Note: recent research supports this. When freshly isolated rat eyes (and separately their lens, vitreous humor and retina) were exposed to visible light, each re-emitted photons afterwards,1 while when light of various colors was shone on one end of a rat spinal nerve root, photon activity significantly increased at the other end, something a nerve conduction blocker (procaine) or metabolic inhibitors prevented.1 Likewise, the Müller cells of the retina are already known to guide light, and physicists at the University of Calgary have shown that the myelin sheath surrounding nerve fibers could allow them to function as optical waveguides.1

•Blood vessel walls were found to not block the transmission of mitogenic radiation, and within the blood vessel, MGR was best conducted when the vessel itself was energized, a quality likely imparted into the blood by the electrical charge of the heart.

•As tissue goes through different developmental stages its MGR changes (which suggests MGR helps guide growth and differentiation, something no biochemical mechanism has been able to explain). For example, as people age, their blood emits less and less MGR (and it temporarily declines after stress or exertion), and this may account for why their bodies have more difficulty healing from injuries.

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Another Forgotten Side of Medicine

 

John Nash Ott

Note: most of this section is a summary of Ott’s book Health and Light.

As plants move quite slowly, it is typically not possible to see their movement (although exceptions do exist such as plants that reflexively contract like Venus fly traps or if one

•After a 12-hour continuous exposure to ordinary incandescent light each day for one week, an estimated 90% of the pigment granules became sluggish in their action and remained virtually motionless at one end of the cell until a bit of long UV was added (at which point the pigment granules would become active again and resume their normal movement within the cell).
Note: it’s not clear to me how Ott defined long UV, as he implied it was UV with a wavelength greater than 290nm (which is both UVA and most UVB) and that it was blacklight UV (which is near the visible boundary of UVA).

•When he studied chicken embryo heart cells, he consistently found that blue light (which is often present in laboratories) caused them to go through contortions, whereas, like the pigmented retinal cells, red light weakened their cell membranes and caused them to become more likely to burst.
Note: Ott then showed these changes to a few experts and reported: “Several well known virologists have commented that this reaction resembles cells being attacked by viruses.”

Additionally, Ott also cited the work of researchers working with slime molds who found that for them to sporulate, they had to be in a chamber for a few hours and exposed to cool light (e.g., yellow and green), whereas if they were exposed to warm light (e.g., orange pink), they did not grow.

In short, Ott found it remarkable that he could induce a greater change in cells (e.g., through increasing their metabolism or killing them) by varying what light the cells were exposed to than with the tranquilizer drugs he exposed the cells to.

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The Incandescent Bulb Ban

For over a century, the light most Americans lived under at night came from a heated filament, which (like the sun or a fire) emits a smooth spectrum that is mostly infrared. In 2007, Congress passed a law which, if the Department of Energy did not finish its own lighting standards in time, required it to prohibit the sale of any general purpose bulb producing less than 45 lumens per watt. In 2022, the Biden administration put that prohibition into effect, and in 2024 finalized a second rule which raises the minimum to roughly 120 lumens per watt in 2028.1 As incandescent bulbs produce 10-18 lumens per watt,1 this was a ban, and the 2028 standard will eliminate almost everything besides LEDs.

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In 2023, 248 scientists who had collectively published 2,697 papers on light and the circadian clock reached a consensus that the blue-enriched LEDs replacing our older bulbs disrupt circadian rhythms, that this disruption raises the risk of breast cancer, obesity, diabetes and sleep disorders, and that LED bulbs with a high blue content should carry a label warning they “may be harmful if used at night.”1 Similarly, when 52 household bulbs were recently measured, cool white LEDs and compact fluorescents were each estimated to suppress melatonin by about 12%, warm white LEDs by 3.6%, and incandescent bulbs by 1.5%,1 while a study of actual homes found those lit with energy efficient bulbs had nearly double the circadian-active light in the evening of those still using incandescents, and that nearly half of all homes were bright enough to suppress melatonin by 50%.1

The lost light is also highly consequential. Glen Jeffery’s team at University College London has spent years showing that deep red and infrared light (670-900nm) increases mitochondrial energy production, whereas the 420-450nm blue which dominates LEDs suppresses it. In 2024, they showed that shining 670nm red light on people’s backs for 15 minutes reduced the blood sugar spike from a glucose drink by around 27%.1

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Last year, Senator Mike Lee of Utah, who chairs the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, introduced the LIT Act (S. 1568) to undo this.1 It removes general purpose light bulbs from the Department of Energy’s efficiency program, cancels the 2022 and 2024 rules, and prevents the agency from writing new ones,1 while leaving LEDs on the shelf for anyone who wants them. Lee has made his case on the grounds of cost and consumer choice, and said of the rules that “these regulations have nothing to do with saving the planet — they’re about controlling people.”1 He has also introduced a broader bill to reform how the Department of Energy sets efficiency standards for the roughly 60 other products it regulates.1p

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I hence believe it is pivotal we support Senator Lee’s efforts (as many within the Democrat party are committed to supporting these green energy saving measures as their health consequences are not taken into consideration). If this matters to you, the most useful thing you can do is use this directory to ask your Senators to support advancing and consider cosponsoring S. 1568 and to ask your Representative to likewise support advancing and consider cosponsoring H.R. 3341—particularly if your senator is one of the people on that Senate committee (Barrasso-WY, Cantwell-WA, Cassidy-LA, Cortez Masto-NV, Cotton-AR, Daines-MT, Gallego-AZ, Heinrich-NM, Hickenlooper-CO, Hirono-HI, Hoeven-ND, Hyde-Smith-MS, Justice-WV, King-ME, Lee-UT, McCormick-PA, Murkowski-AK, Padilla-CA, Risch-ID, Wyden-OR).

Natural light

•Induces the release of nitric oxide (which dilates blood vessels and is one of the most important factors for cardiovascular health and increasing circulatory flow).

•Catalyzes the synthesis of cholesterol sulfate, the primary substance the body uses to form the polar base liquid crystalline water is assembled from, which both makes spontaneous flow possible and protects blood vessels from the damage which would otherwise degrade their function …

•Poor zeta potential often significantly inhibits liquid crystalline water pumps from moving fluids. UV light (as shown by the video from the previous section), in turn improves zeta potential and to some degree addresses that issue.

•As Pollack’s book shows, sunlight provides the energy that drives the formation of liquid crystalline water, as many of the wavelengths of light which are the most effective at producing liquid crystalline water are also the types of light present within sunlight.

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Via https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/the-hidden-harms-of-modern-lighting

Why Karl Rove Voting for Texas Democrat After Three Decades of GOP Loyalty

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September 18, 2026 By Egberto Willies

Summary

Karl Rove, the Republican strategist who helped build the modern Texas GOP, says he will vote for Democrat Jon Rosenthal for the Texas Railroad Commission. It will be his first vote for a Democrat since 1994. Rove made the break after Republican nominee Bo French posted an image of nonwhite University of Texas students and portrayed their presence as a problem. Rove called French a bigot and later described the post as part of “a long and ugly pattern.”

  • Rove says he will support Rosenthal, a Democratic state representative and petroleum engineer, over French in the November Railroad Commission election.
  • The vote does not represent a general party switch. Rove presented it as a candidate-specific rejection of French and a call to remove people he believes are damaging the Republican Party.
  • French’s post used the appearance of South Asian and Latino students celebrating a University of Texas football victory to imply that foreigners had displaced Texans.
  • Reporting found that students pictured in the post were American citizens; UT also admits the overwhelming majority of its undergraduate class is from Texas high schools.
  • The controversy has shifted attention to an agency that regulates oil and gas—not railroads—and to the candidates’ qualifications, conduct, and approach to public oversight.

Rove’s decision matters because it comes from an architect of Republican power in Texas. It does not erase his role in building that power, but it documents a rare public limit: he says racial and nativist attacks should disqualify a Republican nominee from receiving his vote.

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Karl Rove’s Democratic Vote Exposes a Texas Republican Breaking Point

Karl Rove helped turn Texas into a Republican stronghold. That history gives unusual political weight to his announcement that he will vote for Democrat Jon Rosenthal for the Texas Railroad Commission. Rove says it will be only the second Democratic vote of his life and his first since he supported Bob Bullock in 1994. The decision is narrow, explicit, and rooted in Republican nominee Bo French’s conduct.

French ignited the controversy after the University of Texas defeated Ohio State. He posted a photograph of jubilant Longhorn fans—many of them appearing to be South Asian or Latino—and suggested their presence reflected a worsening problem. He later framed the issue as foreigners displacing Americans and Texans at the university. Reporting subsequently identified students in the image as American citizens. The attack therefore rested on appearance: French treated brown skin as evidence that young people did not belong.

Rove rejected that message directly. At an Austin luncheon, he reportedly called French a “bigot.” In his subsequent column, he placed the episode within “a long and ugly pattern” and announced that he would support Rosenthal. Rove’s point was not that he had embraced the Democratic Party or abandoned conservative policy. He argued that figures like French were diminishing the Republican Party and that its “stables need a cleaning.” That distinction matters because accurate analysis should not inflate one protest vote into a full ideological conversion.

The break remains significant. Rove was central to George W. Bush’s rise and to the Republican consolidation of statewide power in Texas. When a strategist with that record refuses party loyalty in a statewide race, he highlights a boundary that many elected Republicans have struggled or declined to enforce. His decision also demonstrates that voters can judge a candidate’s conduct independently of the letter beside the candidate’s name.

The episode carries an additional irony. French used a photograph of students celebrating a Texas victory to question whether they belonged in Texas. Those students were participating in one of the state’s most recognizable communal rituals. Their clothes, cheers, and school allegiance displayed integration into university and state life. French converted that scene into a racial test and then used immigration rhetoric to defend the inference.

The office at stake also deserves attention. Despite its name, the Texas Railroad Commission regulates the state’s oil and gas industry, including drilling, pipeline safety, and the plugging of abandoned wells. Rosenthal is a state representative and a mechanical engineer who spent decades in the energy industry. The campaign should therefore examine regulatory competence, environmental stewardship, worker and community safety, grid-related infrastructure and whether the commission serves the public rather than merely the industry it oversees.

Rove’s intervention does not settle that policy debate, nor does his reputation make his judgment authoritative. It does, however, change the political context. A prominent Republican is telling habitual Republican voters that supporting a Democrat can be an appropriate response when their party nominates someone whose public message targets Texans based on perceived ethnicity.

The central lesson extends beyond one endorsement. Political parties shape incentives through what they reward, excuse, and condemn. If racialized attacks generate publicity, fundraising and institutional silence, candidates learn to repeat them. If voters cross party lines in response, those incentives can change. Rove’s vote represents one such response. The election will determine whether a broader group of Texans agrees.

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Via https://egbertowillies.com/2026/09/18/why-karl-rove-is-voting-for-a-texas-democrat-after-three-decades-of-gop-loyalty/