(Putin learned early on that Trump said the right things but that didn't matter.
All that mattered was what the US Intel Agencies decided Trump should do.)
Midlife Crisis: US Navy Nimitz-Class Nuclear Aircraft Carriers Need a Massive Overhaul in 25 Years That Keep Them Out of Action for Years
The reactors on a Nimitz-class carrier are buried behind structural compartments, radiation shielding, machinery spaces and armor. That is deliberate, and in combat it is exactly what you want. Every 25 years it becomes the problem. Workers at Newport News have to carve controlled access routes down through the ship, stripping out components to reach the reactor spaces, under nuclear-grade radiation monitoring, contamination control and documentation – and then put all of it back
(The US has 11 carriers but can only deploy 3 at one time. None in the Pacific.)
https://www.19fortyfive.com/2026/09/midlife-crisis-us-navy-nimitz-class-nuclear-aircraft-carriers-need-a-massive-overhaul-in-25-years-that-keep-them-out-of-action-for-years/
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Voters Revolt: Dems Flip On Womens Sports
A new poll shows even most Democrats want to keep biological men out of women’s sports.
Story Snapshot
73% of Americans say they are uncomfortable with transgender athletes competing on teams that don’t match their birth sex, according to Pew Research Center.
66% of U.S. adults back laws or policies requiring transgender athletes to compete based on their sex at birth.
Gallup polling shows support for birth-sex-based teams climbed from 62% in 2021 to 69% in recent years.
Polling shows a majority of Democrats now side with Republicans on the issue, breaking from party leadership.
https://royalpatriot.com/voters-revolt-dems-flip-on-womens-sports/
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Gloria Steinem, Trailblazing Feminist Icon and Activist, Dies at 92
Gloria Steinem never gave up the good fight. Despite publishing a dozen books and dedicating decades of her life to feminist advocacy, by the time she reached the age of 92, the trailblazing feminist icon still feared leaving the Earth mid-battle.
“I don’t want to die saying but—” Steinem told Vanity Fair over Zoom from her Manhattan home earlier this year in a conversation about her final memoir, titled An Unexpected Life, scheduled for release on September 22. “We have the idea that our lives are planned in order to be worthwhile. And that may be true in some cases,” Steinem said. “But I think our ability to respond to and learn from the unexpected is really much more likely to be helpful.”
Steinem’s death was announced in a post on social media Thursday. "Yesterday, Gloria Steinem passed away peacefully at her home in New York City, surrounded by some of the many who loved her. Gloria’s near-century on earth were years well-lived, and she continued working for equality until the very end,” it read. “Gloria’s greatest gift was her ability to listen to others, to make others feel seen and heard. Her words, actions, and example gave people permission to be their truest selves. Gloria lived true to her independent spirit, always with curiosity and a great sense of humor.”
She was also a know CIA asset. The goal of feminism was to get women out of the home to double the tax base and leave the children alone to be indoctrinated by government schools.
https://www.vanityfair.com/story/gloria-steinem-trailblazing-feminist-icon-and-activist-dies-at-92
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UK Government To Fund School Forcing Seven-Year-Olds Into Hijabs
Posted by Tyler Durden, Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News,
A Labour-run London council has put an Islamic primary school that makes girls as young as seven wear the hijab onto the public payroll.
Barnet Hill Academy has operated as an independent Islamic day school since 2006, but until this week families paid more than £6,500 a year. Those fees will now vanish, as the Dedicated Schools Grant takes over.
Voluntary-aided status is the mechanism. The local authority maintains the school and pays the bills. The governing body keeps the religious character, employs the staff and sets the admissions rules. Faith designation lets a VA school give priority to 100 per cent of places on religious grounds and appoint teachers by faith.
The school's own uniform page is blunt. For girls in Years 3 and 4 a white hijab sits in the same list as the branded pinafore, black shoes and book bag. In Years 5 and 6 the hijab remains, with a jilbab or ankle-length skirt as the alternative lower garment.
It appears that the "Divided Kingdom", FKA the "United Kingdom", has officially moved from "Creeping Sharia" to "Crept Sharia Accomplished" in a number of its school systems.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/uk-government-fund-school-forcing-seven-year-olds-hijabs
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Ukraine's Drone Warfare Devouring 4% Of Global Germanium Demand As China Chokes Supplies
The latest signals suggest that bilateral tensions are once again deteriorating. China was the sole G20 holdout on language addressing trade imbalances and an unsustainable export-oriented economic model, while Treasury has widened its Iran sanctions campaign to include Chinese entities, refiners and shipping networks.
The response from the Trump administration and other Western governments has been to accelerate efforts to restart dormant mines, expand processing capacity and build critical minerals supply chains outside Beijing's control.
Wall Street may not fully recognize the decoupling theme until regulatory restrictions translate into physical shortages. Some analysts are beginning to understand the grim outlook facing the West. But Beijing does not need to announce a formal trade embargo to shock markets into a crisis. Slowing export approvals, restricting volumes, or denying shipments to select end users have already made it clear that the West must rebuild critical supply chains outside China, either domestically or through friend-shoring.
Another indication that Western critical material supply chains could become a major decoupling theme for Wall Street is the emerging global rearmament cycle.
BMO analyst George Heppel noted that the Russia-Ukraine war is expected to account for more than 4% of global germanium demand this year, with an estimated 15 million drones set to be deployed in an environment where China has weaponized critical materials supply chains, given its control of much of the space.
Heppel said the massive deployment of drones has opened a new front in the global scramble for germanium, gallium and rare earth magnets. These critical materials are used throughout the drone and counter-drone parts ecosystem, including in systems designed to detect, track, jam and destroy one-way attack drones.
https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/ukraines-drone-warfare-devouring-4-global-germanium-demand-china-chokes-supplies-how
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"Save Us From Our Traitor Gov't": Massive Madrid Protests Erupt Over Socialist Regime's Handling Of Ceuta Invasion
"A united Ceuta will never be defeated."
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/save-us-our-traitor-govt-massive-madrid-protests-erupt-over-socialist-regimes-handling
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ICE Arrests More Than 120 Illegal Immigrants At Memphis Nightclub
Those arrested included people with criminal records such assault, drug possession, and child endangerment, according to officials...
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/ice-arrests-more-120-illegal-immigrants-memphis-nightclub
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Spain & Greece Have The Best Pension/Salary Replacement Rate In The World
How much of your paycheck would a pension replace in retirement?
Depending on the country, the answer ranges from more than 80% to less than 20%.
This graphic, via Visual Capitalist's Dorothy Neufeld, ranks countries by their projected gross pension replacement rate, based on data from the OECD. The rate compares pension benefits with pre-retirement earnings, with both measured before taxes and contributions.
Spain Leads the Ranking Southern European countries dominate the top of the ranking, with Spain, Greece, Portugal, and Italy all placing in the top 10. Spain and Greece stand out at 80.4% and 79.6%, respectively.
National prosperity is not a reliable predictor of pension replacement rates. Mexico and Turkiye are both near 70%, while Germany stands at 42.1% and the U.S. at 39.7%, reflecting substantial differences in how national retirement systems are structured.
At the bottom, Lithuania's replacement rate is just 17.4%, less than one-quarter of Spain's 80.4%. South Korea and Japan also rank relatively low, at 33.4% and 36.5%, respectively.
Where Low Pensions Meet High Senior PovertyA low replacement rate does not automatically mean high senior poverty, but several countries near the bottom of the pension ranking also have elevated old-age poverty rates. In Lithuania, more than 20% of people aged 65 and older live in relative income poverty.
The pattern extends across the Baltics. Old-age poverty exceeds 30% in Estonia and Latvia, compared with an OECD average of 14.8%. In the U.S., the rate is also relatively high at 22.9%.
At the other extreme, the Netherlands combines a 74.7% replacement rate with an old-age poverty rate of just 4.6%. Denmark, Finland, and Norway also have poverty rates at or below 5%.
Replacement rates are only one part of retirement security, but these comparisons show how differently pension systems replace workers' earnings across the OECD.
https://www.zerohedge.com/personal-finance/spain-greece-have-best-pensionsalary-replacement-rate-world
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Dallas Police To Shut Down Hundreds Of Flock Cameras
Dallas police officials said 321 Flock cameras that were supported via grant funding will no longer be eligible.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/dallas-police-shut-down-hundreds-flock-cameras
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MIT Student Claims To Make One Of The World’s Deadliest Chemicals, Sparking HAZMAT Response
The university closed a chemistry building and cleaned parts of a dorm as officials investigated.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/mit-student-sparks-massive-hazmat-response-after-they-claim-have-made-one-worlds-deadliest
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Another ActBlue Official Pleads Fifth In House Probe of Alleged Foreign Donations
"We have an entity here with ActBlue, that has raised roughly $20 billion since its creation..."
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/another-actblue-official-pleads-fifth-house-probe-alleged-foreign-donations
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Rival Ukrainian Agencies In Lengthy Street Shootout, Officers Wounded
Some sources say a standoff ensued for many hours in the capital's Dniprovskyi district, during which time the SBU dispatched its elite " Special Operations Center Alpha". The situation appears to have resolved only once all armed entities jointly agreed to lay down their weapons.
Reports that Officers from the Security Bureau of Ukraine (SBU) opened fire against officers from Ukraine's military intelligence agency (GUR). Some sources say that possibly at least 10 officers are receiving treatment for bullet wounds..
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The Money Supply Is EXPLODING…Is This The Beginning Of Hyperinflation? George Gammon
(M2 up, Gold up, BTC, maybe but whiskey and ammunition.)
https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/the-money-supply-is-exploding-is-this-the-beginning-of-hyperinflation/
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Pegasus (Turkish airline) dropped Moscow flights after Zelensky sky warning
https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/pegasus-dumped-moscow-flights-after-zelensky-sky-warning/
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FBI: 153 million license scans on Dark Web
The FBI is investigating what could be one of the most devastating identity-data breaches ever uncovered in North America.
A newly launched dark-web service called “Nexus” claims to be selling actual digital scans of more than 153 million driver’s licenses belonging to people across the United States and Canada, according to cybersecurity journalist Brian Krebs, who first reported the incident.
This is not merely another database containing stolen names, email addresses, and passwords.
The criminals reportedly obtained digital images of government-issued identification documents, including front-and-back scans and, in some cases, the infrared and ultraviolet images used to authenticate them.
According to cybersecurity journalist Brian Krebs, the massive collection allegedly includes:
More than 153 million driver’s licenses
More than 10 million identification cards
More than 3 million travel documents and international IDs
At least 579,000 medical cards
The database reportedly contains the driver’s license of Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, along with identification documents belonging to other high-ranking federal officials, including an assistant director of the FBI. According to the report, the hacker offered Hegseth’s driver’s license for $100.
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/09/fbi-probes-service-selling-153m-drivers-licenses/
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A 90 year old woman randomly attacked in New York
Assaults on Gotham’s elderly are up 14% compared to last year — and have skyrocketed 143% over the same span in 2018, according to NYPD data obtained by The Post.
There have been 2,112 felony assaults on one of the city’s most vulnerable groups so far this year, compared to 1,853 in the period last year, the data show. There were only 870 assaults on seniors in the same span of 2018.
Nearly 80% of the 2,112 assaults in 2026 have led to an arrest, and the NYPD said many of them are being committed by repeat offenders.
“This is happening because the same perps keep getting arrested and released through this revolving criminal justice system that seems to prioritize the rights of criminals over law-abiding citizens,” said retired NYPD detective and John Jay adjunct professor Michael Alcazar.
“The mentally ill are left out in the wild and New Yorkers must keep their heads on a swivel and be vigilant in avoiding this population. Seniors end up becoming low-hanging fruit and easy pickings for the criminals.”
In 2025, 462 suspects were arrested for three or more felony assaults in a year. That was a 192% increase over the 158 individuals arrested for three or more felony assaults in 2018, according to the NYPD.
https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/a-90-year-old-woman-randomly-attacked-in-new-york/
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Germany: No deportations for migrants who have have committed serious crimes
Some of those on the Coesfeld list who are required to leave the country are said to have committed serious crimes, reports the Cologne newspaper Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger.
The so-called Coesfeld list, containing 471 migrants required to leave the country and largely ignored by the city of Cologne , also includes suspected serious criminals. This was reported by the Cologne newspaper Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger, citing security sources.
The alleged crimes include four rapes, four robberies, and one case of serious sexual abuse of children. Security authorities classify 14 suspects as belonging to the realm of organized crime .
The list concerns people primarily from the Western Balkans, for whom deportation is generally straightforward because the receiving countries are cooperative. This was precisely the target of the list compiled by the Coesfeld Central Immigration Authority. They were surprised that the deportation flights were so empty and inquired with the immigration authorities in North Rhine-Westphalia as to why.
https://www1.wdr.de/nrw/koeln/coesfelder-liste-gravierende-straftaten-100.html
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Russian robot tries to attack customer after he pushed it.
A few versions later…
https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/russian-robot-tries-to-attack-customer-after-he-pushed-it/
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The $13,000,000,000 USS Gerald R. Ford Nuclear Aircraft Carrier Has 30 Miles of Sewage Pipe. It Doesn’t Take Much To Clog It
https://www.19fortyfive.com/2026/09/the-13000000000-uss-gerald-r-ford-nuclear-aircraft-carrier-has-30-miles-of-sewage-pipe-it-doesnt-take-much-to-clog-it/
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I Am a Retired US Army Special Forces NCO: There Is Nothing Like the Mossberg 590 Shotgun and the US Military Agrees
https://www.19fortyfive.com/2026/09/i-am-a-retired-us-army-special-forces-nco-there-is-nothing-like-the-mossberg-590-shotgun-and-the-us-military-agrees/
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Chinese Ships, Cranes, Tractors, EVs Could Contain ‘Spying Devices’
Russia develops better weapons and in faster turn around time
(CCP is doomed.)
China’s Great Depression Is Here: Empty Streets, Empty Malls, Empty Factories, Shanghai Collapses