Excellent piece. Recommended...

"Kissinger’s role as a neo-Malthusian was known to all, as his infamous National Security Study Memorandum 200 (NSSM-200) of 1974 had already transformed American foreign policy from pro-development to pro-population reduction, with the assumption that the computer models used in the Club of Rome’s Limits to Growth (1972) were somehow based in reality despite their total rejection of creative reason and technological progress."
https://substack.com/home/post/p-149379029#:~:text=Kissinger%E2%80%99s%20role%20as,and%20technological%20progress.

Incompetent message discipline. The cabal running the US government needs to pick one narrative and run with it, not send mixed messages.

"What is “sickening” about an embarrassingly “ineffective” attack [that] “failed to leave a mark” and harmed almost no one? And how is one salvo of missiles a “major escalation” in response to a) days of relentless bombing of a foreign country and b) a ground invasion of a foreign country?"

https://voxday.net/2024/10/02/an-incoherent-narrative/

The aftermath of Helene is visible from space.

A MASSIVE X7.1 Solar Flare Has Occurred on the Sun—it became the second most powerful in the last seven years.

Scientists are expecting strong geomagnetic storms rated G3 to G5 and auroras across the entire Northern Hemisphere.

An enormous plasma ejection will hit Earth on the night from Friday to Saturday.

"Now Eric P Dollard happens to know more about electricity than any man since Nikola Tesla, and he’s worked out whose house this is, so he’s chuckling to himself about the TV, and Philo gets loud and starts boasting about things he did with electricity when he was younger, trying to show that he’s his father’s son.

"But Eric can trump all his stories. In his teens he had a 10-kilowatt generator in the garage and a 3,300-volt switchboard in his bedroom. He and his friends would gather to do crazy things with electricity and salvaged vacuum tubes. More than once they had created surges so powerful — the beginnings of fusion reactions, he suspects — that they jammed out all the radar systems at Hamilton Air Force Base."

https://thelethaltext.substack.com/p/the-cosmogony-of-eric-p-dollard

"Springfield, a city of less than 60,000, fell on hard times in the 1980s with the decline of manufacturing, and then the opioid crisis hit, compounding the misery and creating a new form of human wreckage that’s strewn across the length and breadth of the nation, from the poor communities of Appalachia to Ohio and the Rust Belt. The Biden-Harris “solution” to this problem wasn’t to bring back jobs for the local residents and invest in education, but instead to ship in large numbers of foreigners in an attempt to “revive” local industry. 20,000 Haitians, to be precise, or a third of the original population of the city. Local businessmen benefitted, naturally, from the cheap dependent labour, and so did local landlords, who charge the Haitians by the bed rather than the rental unit. Even the city’s mayor is in on that scam, it seems. As for the native people of Springfield, they’ve been ejected from their homes, forced to compete with the newcomers to access public services that simply can’t cope with the numbers of people now using them, and made to feel unsafe in their own communities by people who don’t understand how to drive properly, who sexually harass their children and eat their pets."

https://www.infowars.com/posts/controlled-demolition

The carbonized remains of the last loaves of Roman bread ever baked in Pompeii, Dr Jo Ball on Twitter

🎈Children's balloons destroyed a Ukrainian drone.

Ukrainian drone engages in combat with cow-shaped balloons. After ramming, the UAV loses stability and crashes down.

"The FBI is seeking contract workers across the country to translate Haitian Creole.

"The state of Alabama has seen an influx of Haitian migrants, likely leading to the need for the positions. Haitian Creole is difficult to translate and has caused issues for law enforcement in places with larger numbers of migrants."

https://1819news.com/news/item/fbi-hiring-contract-haitian-creole-translators-across-18-alabama-counties#:~:text=The%20FBI%20is,numbers%20of%20migrants.

"Ninety-nine degree-granting institutions closed in the past year, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. That includes community colleges, four-year schools, and universities. Seventeen of the schools were four-year nonprofit private schools, some of which had operated for more than a century before encountering severe financial problems in recent years.

"Particularly impacted are small, private residential liberal arts colleges, where a typical student is in their late teens or early 20s and attends full-time and in-person.

"Stocker said he expects that at least another 99 schools will announce their closures in the coming months. He estimates there are more than 2 million unfilled student slots across U.S. colleges and universities."

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/99-college-campuses-closed-over-past-year-yours-next

More than 300 organizations from 65 countries participated in Cyber Polygon 2024. https://bi.zone/eng/news/v-cyber-polygon-2024-prinyali-uchastie-bolee-300-organizatsiy-iz-65-stran

Russian Anti-Air Missiles Likely Engaged Israeli Jets Attacking Syria's Coast
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/russian-anti-air-missiles-likely-engaged-israeli-jets-attacking-syrias-coast

Israeli strikes have hit Syria for multiple straight days, with the latest being on the outskirts of Damascus, in the western part of the Rif Dimashq Governorate near Lebanon, on Thursday morning.

But it was an overnight major attack on Syria's coast which has for the first time brought Israel close to clashing with the Russian military.

An Israeli drone as well as warplanes reportedly targeted sites in the coastal Syrian city of Jableh before daybreak.

A weapons depot was apparently targeted and destroyed, which crucially was situated near the Hmeimim Air Base, the largest Russian air base in Syria.

"Syrian air defenses and Russian forces responded to the attack within 40 to 50 minutes."

Large explosions were heard and witnessed throughout the area, and resulted in large fires, to which emergency personnel responded.

Unverified reports in Arabic media say that the Russian airbase was directly struck, but other reports dispute this...