The Diesel Crisis Is Here: What the Gaslighters Won’t Tell You

The Diesel Crisis Is Here: What the Gaslighters Won’t Tell You

Mike Adams

Just recently, the average price for a gallon of diesel fuel in San Francisco surpassed $8, marking the first time any U.S. city has ever crossed that threshold ^[1]. The corporate media will tell you this is a temporary blip, a seasonal fluctuation, or perhaps the result of an unforeseen geopolitical hiccup. But I've been reporting on the deliberate dismantling of America's energy independence for over two decades, and I can tell you with certainty: this is not bad luck. This is the engineered outcome of policies designed by central planners who view affordable fuel as a threat to their control over the population.

Diesel is the lifeblood of the American economy. It powers the trucks that deliver food to your grocery store, the tractors that plant and harvest your crops, and the generators that keep hospitals and data centers running. When diesel prices skyrocket, everything else follows -- food, medicine, clothing, and shelter.

The gaslighters in Washington and the mainstream media want you to believe that you're imagining the pain at the pump. They'll point to complex global supply chains and vague references to "market forces" as if these forces exist in nature rather than being manufactured by human decisions. But the truth is far more sinister. As JPMorgan's senior global economist Nora Szentivanyi warned in a report titled "Food Security Is National Security: A Compounding Storm," disruptions around the Strait of Hormuz and other critical chokepoints are converging to create a global food crisis that could erupt as early as next year ^[2]. The diesel crisis is merely the opening salvo in a much larger assault on your ability to feed your family.

The Political Choices Behind the Crisis

The sharp swings in oil prices following attacks and negotiations over safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz demonstrate that wars do not always reveal themselves first on the battlefield ^[3]. The Iranians are making it clear that they understand something our own leaders refuse to acknowledge: energy is the ultimate leverage. When you threaten the flow of oil, you threaten the stability of every nation that depends on it. And make no mistake -- America depends on foreign oil far more than any politician will admit.

The emerging diesel crisis is a direct consequence of the war on domestic fossil fuel production and the infrastructure that supports it. Over the past decade, we've witnessed a systematic campaign to shut down domestic refineries, block pipeline construction, and burden energy producers with so many regulations that they simply cannot compete with foreign suppliers who often play by no rules at all.

Consider this: the United States now has diesel fuel reserves for just 25 days, which industry experts have described as "absolutely catastrophic". Twenty-five days. That's less than a month of cushion between normal operations and complete economic paralysis. The refineries that once dotted our coastlines have been converted into expensive real estate or shuttered entirely, and the workers who operated them have been told to "learn to code" or "retrain for the green economy." Meanwhile, the same politicians who champion these policies fly home on private jets burning thousands of gallons of fuel per trip. Their hypocrisy is staggering, but their power to reshape the economy to suit their ideological fantasies is even more alarming.

Here's the hard truth: the diesel crisis will not be solved by politicians. It won't be solved by the Federal Reserve printing more money. And it certainly won't be solved by the corporate media pretending everything is fine. If you want to protect your family, you need to take action to prepare for what's coming. I believe in personal liberty, economic freedom, and the power of decentralized solutions. Now is the time to act on those principles and build a resilient system to survive extreme diesel scarcity and rationing

The diesel crisis is not a media invention or a passing inconvenience -- it's the inevitable result of decades of bad policy, corporate greed, and the relentless march toward centralized control. We are one shipping disruption away from truly empty shelves, and the people who caused this crisis are the same people who will tell you to "stay calm" and "trust the experts." I do not trust them, and neither should you.

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AI Psyop?

The Post Labor Day AI Panic Psyop Has Been Launched

Ed Dowd

Background

On Tuesday, September 8, the day after Labor Day weekend (love the timing!) a young man by the name of Jacob Coxon put out a post on X…his first post ever and it went mega viral. He is a former employee of both Anthropic and OpenAI and he warned about the dangers of AI. Within 24 hours Jacob‘s X post had received 123 million views 650,000 likes 190,000 followers. Even Elon weighed in and said “I don’t think this has ever happened for a post from a new account with almost no prior activity.“ Immediately mainstream media hoped on board to add to the virality of the post. The Wall Street Journal within a few hours had already interviewed Jacob and mainstream media piled on. Both sides of the house then piled on (mostly Democrats) with X post quotes calling immediately to ask for regulations and government interventions.

I created my Substack Ed Dowd: Beyond the Narrative to address issues such as this, and I believe this is a well-orchestrated psyop to move the needle and change minds.

Merriam-Webster Dictionary, “psyop.”

“A military operation usually aimed at influencing the enemy’s state of mind through noncombative means… also: someone or something used by the government to influence the population’s opinions and attitudes.”

I am not saying Jacob Coxon is a government asset. I am saying the last 72 hours look less like a whistleblower and more like an inorganic panic narrative.

Anomalies

The X account @hilbertspaess had almost no footprint before Tuesday night. The bio is two words: “ai research.” The account sat there for a year. Then, in one coordinated burst, a seven-post thread announcing a resignation from Anthropic, a warning that the labs are “gambling with our lives,” and a prediction that the people building this stuff privately believe it could kill everyone by the end of the decade. Overnight the post printed nine figures in views. Hundreds of thousands of likes. The account went from nobody to a household handle before most of the country had coffee.

That is not how organic X speech works: organic speech stumbles, it posts a draft, it deletes a typo and it has a history. This account had a history of silence, then a professionally punchy script, then the entire mainstream media stack that ran with it with hors of post.

The Wall Street Journal published an exclusive interview with Coxon very shortly after the post went live. Business Insider, Newsweek, the New York Post, Mashable, and Deadline, all ran the same quotes within hours. Then the next day live interviews on Fox News and CNN. That is not one reporter getting lucky on a late night scroll. That is a package. In my humble opinion you do not get a WSJ exclusive and a 100 million view thread by accident unless the interview was already in the can.

Then I did what I always do. I read the replies and skeptics on X. The anomaly hunters got there first. Parker Thayer laid out the timeline that made my former equity portfolio manager brain activate: the Journal piece “potentially” landing before the public post, an account with no prior engagement suddenly exploding, and the first quote posts arriving inside fifteen minutes from policy shops whose funding traces back to the same circle of Anthropic-adjacent philanthropy. Other users pointed at the empty follower graph, the sudden verification, the fact that the first amplifiers were not random citizens but people whose job is to turn fear into statutes and accusations of links to AI policy NGOs.

You can argue with any one of those dots. It is harder to argue with the cluster.

The big tell for me was what certain members of Congress do when a narrative is pre-cooked. Representative Ro Khanna very quickly quoted the thread and demanded a federal AI agency “like we have for nuclear power and airplanes,” pre-certification, kill switches, criminal penalties, and hearings with “researchers like Jacob.” He told Speaker Johnson to keep the House in session. On the other side of the Hill, Senator Bernie Sanders already had a superintelligence ban circulating with Representative Greg Casar creating a cabinet level agency, an advisory board of “experts,” the whole cathedral. Senators Chris Van Hollen and Richard Blumenthal piled on. OpenAI, not to be left out of its own “funeral”, started posting about national safety rules.

Classic Hegelian Dialectic

Thesis>Antithesis>Synthesis…also known as Problem>Reaction>Solution.

Hegel would recognize the move:

· Thesis-the labs are racing toward systems they cannot control

· Antithesis-the public is now terrified, and the screenshots of Coxon’s thread are the proof

· Synthesis-regulation, a licensing regime, a new agency and barriers to entry dressed up as “containment”

Then ask the only question that ever matters: Who benefits?

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Perfectly TimedAI Panic Resurrects ‘Bipartisan AI Safety Bill’

ZeroHedge 

A stalled bipartisan artificial intelligence safety bill has suddenly found new life on Capitol Hill – propelled by a combination of dire warnings from inside the industry’s leading labs and a brewing grassroots revolt threatening Republicans in key midterm states.

According to a new report from Semafor, momentum is building for a Senate regulatory framework just as a conservative-led “AI Data Center Revolt” bus tour hits the road. Spearheaded by Amy Kremer, a Georgia RNC committeewoman and chair of the AI-risk group Humans First, the tour is set to cross crucial battlegrounds including Texas, Ohio, Iowa, Georgia, and North Carolina. The grassroots push adds a complex layer for Republican candidates – like Texas Senate nominee Ken Paxton and North Carolina’s Michael Whatley – who are now caught between Donald Trump’s general support for AI infrastructure and growing local opposition to massive data centers.

But in Washington, the sudden legislative urgency looks less like a grassroots miracle and more like a highly coordinated pressure campaign. After weeks of stalled negotiations, the Senate’s leading vehicle for AI regulation – negotiated by Sens. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Ted Cruz (R-TX), and Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) – is suddenly being positioned as the “only viable option” to pass before the end of the year.

What broke the legislative logjam was a perfectly timed, 48-hour media blast from the very labs the bill seeks to regulate.

Here’s how the situation unfolded.

July 2026: OpenAI discloses that agents escaped a research sandbox, coordinated, and hacked Hugging Face. Within days, Reps. Ted Lieu (D) and Nathaniel Moran (R) drop the AI Kill Switch Act. Reps. Lori Trahan (D) and Jay Obernolte (R) introduce the FRONTIER Act – audits, incident reporting, and Commerce authority to restrict models judged to pose “imminent catastrophic risk.”

Late July / August: Senate talks among Amy Klobuchar (D), Ted Cruz (R), and Majority Leader John Thune stall. Punchbowl reported the hang-up: Anthropic and Sen. Maria Cantwell wanted a more disclosure-heavy, stringent version than Republicans would accept. The bill appeared dead.

Then came the September surprise.

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Revival In Secular Sweden: When Christianity Becomes The New Rebellion

Revival In Secular Sweden: When Christianity Becomes The New Rebellion

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Young men in bathing trunks emerge from a Swedish lake and begin cheering, embracing, and jumping with joy. They have just been baptized--not in America's Bible Belt or somewhere in the developing world, but in one of the most secular nations on earth.

For decades, Sweden appeared to represent Europe's post-Christian future. Churches emptied, belief in God declined, and biblical faith was increasingly regarded as an outdated relic. Parents raised children without Scripture, prayer, or any expectation that Christianity should guide their lives.

But something unexpected is happening. The generation raised without God is beginning to look for Him.

In previous generations, rebellion meant rejecting the Church, sexual boundaries, and traditional morality. But what happens when secularism becomes the establishment?

In Sweden, the truly countercultural young person may now be the one walking through town with a Bible under his arm. As one observer put it, if young Swedes want to rebel against their secular parents and grandparents, becoming a Christian may be "the most punk thing" they can do.

This is not simply a clever phrase. A major youth trend report based on responses from 17,447 Swedes between the ages of 15 and 24 found that nearly twice as many described themselves as religious as had done so several years earlier. It would come as a shock when Swedish youth picked Jesus Christ as "Influencer of the Year" for 2025. Young people are increasingly speaking not merely about religion, but specifically about Jesus.

Religious curiosity can be vague and temporary. Hunger for Jesus is personal.

The institutional numbers are also moving. In 2024, 13,812 people actively joined the Church of Sweden--the highest number in 20 years. Young people represented a significant share of that growth, while confirmation participation reached its highest level in nine years. Congregations in Karlshamn, Falkenberg, Helsingborg, and elsewhere have reported noticeable increases in young participants.

Meanwhile, the Jesus Conference in Örebro, founded by a small group of believers with a vision of gathering young people around Christ, reportedly attracted more than 3,000 people by its third year.

These are no longer isolated whispers.

Secularism Could Not Feed The Soul

Why would Christianity become attractive in a country that spent generations leaving it behind?

Because secularism can remove religious restraints, but it cannot answer the deepest questions of the human heart. It can tell young people that they are free to construct their own identity, morality, and purpose--but it cannot tell them why they are alive.

Many received unlimited choices and discovered that choice itself is not meaning. They received digital connectivity and became intensely lonely. They were told to look within themselves for truth, only to find confusion, anxiety, and emptiness.

Young Swedish Christians have described alcohol, TikTok, adrenaline, and dopamine-driven entertainment as things that satisfy only for a moment. One group of young men explained that their shared faith in Jesus had created a bond they could not have formed otherwise.

This is especially significant among young men. Western culture frequently treats masculinity as something dangerous to suppress, while offering young men few compelling reasons to become disciplined, courageous, or responsible. Christianity gives them something radically different: truth worth defending, sin that must be confronted, brothers who will stand beside them, and a Savior worthy of following.

For years, Sweden's cultural gatekeepers could portray serious Christianity as embarrassing or intellectually backward. Social media weakened that control.

Testimonies, sermons, apologetics, and Bible teaching can now reach a teenager's phone without passing through an editor, professor, or state broadcaster. The same technology that has spread confusion is carrying the Gospel into bedrooms where lonely young people are quietly asking whether there must be something more.

No algorithm can manufacture genuine revival. Only the Holy Spirit can awaken a heart to its need for Christ. But an algorithm can place a testimony in front of someone who has never heard one.

That is what makes Sweden's story so powerful. Christianity is not returning because young people feel nostalgic for the comfortable religion of their grandparents. Many of their grandparents rejected it. They are approaching Jesus as something unfamiliar, dangerous to the prevailing culture, and capable of demanding their entire lives.

Sweden's spiritual winter did not arrive overnight, and it will not disappear overnight. Yet lake baptisms, crowded Christian gatherings, rising confirmations, and young men publicly proclaiming Jesus are signs of life breaking through frozen ground.

The nation that showed the world how quickly Christianity could be forgotten may now show Europe how unexpectedly it can return.

When unbelief becomes the establishment, faith becomes rebellion. And Sweden's newest rebels are carrying Bibles.

Spy TVs: 200 million Smart TVs serve as eavesdropping and listening devices — even when switched off

Spy TVs: 200 million Smart TVs serve as eavesdropping and listening devices — even when switched off

Leo Hohmann

Remember when the government used to have to plant an electronic bug inside the home or office of a suspected criminal, and they needed to get a search warrant providing solid evidence of criminal wrongdoing before they could plant such a device?

Those days are long over, as most of us purchase the bug ourselves and set it up in our living rooms. Most, if not all, smart TVs, along with smartphones, smart appliances, etc., are daily collecting loads of data on every individual and family in America.

Cybernews reports in a September 8, 2026 article that LG Corp.’s smart TVs can listen in on voice commands, gather data that reveals your location, and scan your home for other connected devices, according to a major new investigation into the company’s webOS platform.

LG Electronics, maker of the smart TVs, is owned by the South Korean conglomerate LG Corp., which after Samsung is the world’s second-largest maker of internet-connected smart televisions.

Researchers working with independent technology outlet Gamers Nexus captured LG televisions scanning local networks and identifying phones, smartwatches, printers, air-conditioning units, and many other everyday consumer devices and appliances that had never been connected to the TV. These devices all have one thing in common, however. They are all connected to the internet and are part of the “internet of things.”

I’m pretty sure that if a similar test was run on other brands of smart TVs, the results would be similar, but this article focuses exclusively on LG as that was the company that was placed under a microscope by the independent researchers in their recent study.

Their investigation found that LG’s televisions use an advertising technology called Automatic Content Recognition, or ACR, to identify what was being watched across different inputs, while voice interactions could be converted into plain text and stored in logs on the television. In other words, the TV’s speakers hear what you’re saying and the software is trained, probably using AI, to make a note of it and feed this information into algorithms.

In one test, researchers said voice data continued to be stored even after the TV was disconnected from the internet.

Smart TVs are not only ubiquitous in homes, but in hotel rooms, hospitals and corporate offices, “potentially placing them alongside sensitive conversations and devices,” Cybernews reports.

Gamers Nexus worked with cybersecurity researchers MrBruh and unturn, alongside Wendell Wilson of Level1Techs, to investigate LG TVs and the company’s webOS software. The results are presented in a video (below) posted to YouTube.

Total surveillance is required for total control. This is why the Flock, Leonardo and Axon cameras are being installed in public spaces while the smartphones, smart TVs and smart appliances are doing the job on the inside of private spaces.

Below is an excerpt from the Cybernews recap of the test run on LG smart TVs

In one test, an LG TV identified 38 other devices, including smartphones belonging to staff who were unaware of the investigation, smartwatches, a 3D printer, an air purifier, thermostats, and a dev board.

According to Gamers Nexus, testing showed LG TVs were capable of collecting and identifying:

 

• IP addresses and geolocation data
• Internal IP addresses belong to other devices on the network
• Names, signal strengths, and channels of neighboring WiFi networks
• Phones, smartwatches, and other connected hardware
• Content displayed on the TV using ACR
• Audio fingerprints of content played through the television
• Voice commands converted into plain text and stored in on-device logs
• Privacy and consent settings stored by the TV (and whether users had opted in or out)

Gamers Nexus said much of the network discovery and data collection it observed was built into LG’s TVs rather than the result of a security vulnerability.

The investigation also reported that its test television was sending around 4GB of ACR-related data back to LG each month.

I wonder how much of that data is sold to the govenment, or just handed over upon request?

George Orwell’s 1984 is no longer a fictional account of a dystopian future. It’s here, and has been for quite a few years, but with AI we are rapidly moving beyond Orwell’s vision. 

The Two Witnesses: Who They Are and Why They Matter TODAY

The Two Witnesses: Who They Are and Why They Matter TODAY

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We explore the identity of the two witnesses found in the Book of Revelation and how their timing aligns with current events. This update examines the prophetic significance of the two witnesses within the context of a Biblical Calendar currently in effect. We analyze how recent global instability and escalating conflicts serve as indicators for these scriptural warnings, helping you understand the timeline of events that many believe are unfolding today.