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Where Are Another 60,000 Ukrainian Soldiers Every Month Supposed to Come From?


Posted originally on Sep 30, 2026 by Martin Armstrong |

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Zelensky now says Ukraine needs to mobilize 50,000 to 60,000 people EVERY MONTH simply to keep pace with Russia. Stop for a moment and think about what that number actually means. At 50,000 per month, that is 600,000 people per year. At 60,000, it becomes 720,000. Zelensky is talking about finding a population roughly equivalent to a substantial European city every single year to feed into a war that has already been grinding on since 2022. Where are these people supposed to come from?

That is the question nobody wants to confront because Ukraine does not possess an unlimited reservoir of military-age men. Its population was already declining before the war. Millions of Ukrainians subsequently fled abroad, millions more live in Russian-occupied territory, and the remaining population has endured years of casualties, disability, displacement, emigration, and demographic collapse. Ukraine does not publish a complete current population count because there has been no census since 2001 and wartime migration makes estimates difficult.

Ukraine has already been forced to expand the recruitment pool. The minimum mobilization age was lowered from 27 to 25 in 2024. Men between 18 and 60 generally remain subject to wartime restrictions on leaving the country, although there are exemptions, and Kyiv has repeatedly revised mobilization procedures as the military searches for additional manpower. Rumor has it that they will start going after the young women next. Ukraine has resisted lowering compulsory mobilization to 18, instead creating voluntary contracts with enhanced financial incentives for people aged 18 to 24. I’d expect that to change as well.

A 20-year-old is not merely another soldier on a spreadsheet. He is potentially forty or fifty years of future productive labor. He is a future engineer, farmer, mechanic, entrepreneur, taxpayer, husband, and father. Kill or permanently disable enough young men and the economic consequences continue for generations after the politicians finally sign whatever peace agreement they could have negotiated years earlier.

Human capital is much harder to measure. How do you calculate the children who will never be born because their prospective fathers died at 23? How do you calculate the businesses never created, the taxes never paid, the families never formed, or the skilled workers who fled the country rather than risk being mobilized?

Ukraine already entered this war with one of Europe’s worst demographic problems. Its fertility rate had been well below replacement for years, and the war drove births still lower. That means the generation Kyiv is drawing upon today was already smaller than the generations that preceded it. You cannot manufacture another generation of 25-year-olds because the Defense Ministry needs another 50,000 recruits next month.

Then there is the issue everyone conveniently ignores when quoting mobilization figures: recruitment is not the same thing as increasing the size of the army. If Ukraine mobilizes 50,000 people while thousands of existing soldiers are killed, wounded, medically discharged, missing, deserting, or otherwise leaving service, the net increase is far smaller. They are replacing men the war has already consumed rather than expanding the military.

Russia faces the same brutal arithmetic, but Russia began with a population several times larger than Ukraine’s. Ukraine cannot simply compete with Russia soldier-for-soldier indefinitely and pretend demographics do not exist. If Moscow can recruit or mobilize from a vastly larger population, matching Russia’s monthly manpower numbers becomes increasingly expensive for Ukraine in demographic terms.

The people cheering for endless war from Washington, Brussels, London, Paris, and Berlin do not have to supply 60,000 Ukrainians every month. They supply money. They supply artillery shells. They supply missiles. They supply loans and weapons contracts. Ukraine supplies the human beings.

That is why Zelensky’s 50,000 to 60,000 figure should horrify anyone actually concerned about Ukraine’s future rather than merely its battlefield position next month. Annualize the upper end and Kyiv is talking about mobilizing 720,000 people every year merely to match what it says Russia is recruiting. That does not mean 720,000 will necessarily be mobilized or sent into combat, nor does it tell us Ukraine’s casualty total. But the scale of the stated requirement exposes the fundamental problem.

Ukraine cannot continue burning through its human capital indefinitely. Neither can Russia. There is no victory worth celebrating if, by the time politicians finally decide to negotiate, an entire generation has been buried, crippled, displaced, or driven overseas and the country supposedly being saved no longer has enough young people left to rebuild it. The weapons can eventually be replaced. The buildings can eventually be reconstructed. The debt can be rolled over and politicians will pretend somebody else will pay it later. The young men disappearing into this war cannot be printed, borrowed, or replaced.

What Happened to Swiss Neutrality?


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Posted originally on Sep 30, 2026 by Martin Armstrong |

Swiss reject tighter neutrality rules in referendum backed by right-wing  party - Los Angeles Times
Swiss reject tighter neutrality rules in referendum backed by right-wing  party - Los Angeles Times
Should Swiss neutrality be stricter? Voters will decide - SWI swissinfo.ch

Switzerland built its reputation over generations on one simple principle: NEUTRALITY. It survived two world wars without joining either side, became a diplomatic meeting ground precisely because it was outside the military alliances surrounding it, and turned that independence into an enormous economic advantage. Capital trusted Switzerland because Switzerland was supposed to stay out of everyone else’s wars. Now even that definition is changing.

Swiss voters overwhelmingly rejected an initiative that would have written a much stricter form of neutrality into the constitution. The proposal was defeated by 70.15% to 29.85%, with every single district voting against it and turnout at 47.06%. The initiative would have prohibited Switzerland from cooperating with military or defense alliances unless Switzerland itself faced an attack or an imminent attack, and it would have prevented Bern from imposing sanctions on belligerent nations unless the United Nations had approved those sanctions.

The Swiss government opposed the proposal because it wanted to preserve the freedom to cooperate with other countries on security and to impose sanctions independently. Switzerland is not joining NATO because of this vote, nor did voters formally abolish neutrality. In fact, polling still shows overwhelming public support for remaining neutral. What they rejected was a much more rigid constitutional definition of what neutrality must mean.

How neutral can a nation become before the word itself begins to lose its meaning? After the war began, Switzerland largely adopted the European Union’s sanctions against Moscow. Bern has continued aligning itself with subsequent sanctions packages, including measures targeting Russian energy, banking, and the military-industrial sector. Switzerland has also cooperated with NATO for decades through the Partnership for Peace and joint activities, while its defense minister has argued for deeper security cooperation as Europe responds to the war in Ukraine.

Supporters of the defeated initiative argued that this is precisely how neutrality disappears. It does not vanish one morning when somebody lowers the Swiss flag and raises a NATO flag. It erodes incrementally.

Opponents made the opposite argument. They said rigid neutrality would tie Switzerland’s hands, prevent it from responding economically to violations of international law, and weaken its ability to cooperate with European partners on security. That is the choice Swiss voters were actually making, and they overwhelmingly decided that neutrality should not prevent their government from using sanctions or cooperating with NATO.

Fine. That is democracy. The Swiss people voted and the result could hardly have been clearer. But there is an economic issue here that goes far beyond Russia and Ukraine. Switzerland’s neutrality was never merely some romantic political tradition. It became part of the country’s financial architecture. Neutrality helped make Switzerland a place where competing governments, businesses, and private capital could operate precisely because the country was perceived as standing apart from geopolitical conflicts. That reputation helped build Geneva as a diplomatic center and Switzerland as one of the world’s great financial centers.

Once you begin weaponizing finance, sanctions, reserves, and access to markets, capital starts examining political risk differently. This is what governments repeatedly fail to understand. Money does not care about speeches on morality. Capital asks whether the rules will remain the same tomorrow.

The seizure and freezing of Russian assets throughout the West changed the calculation for governments everywhere. Whatever one thinks about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, China, Saudi Arabia, the Gulf states, and every other holder of substantial foreign reserves watched what happened. They learned that financial assets can become geopolitical weapons when relations deteriorate. That lesson does not disappear because Western governments believe their cause is justified.

This is also part of a much larger transformation taking place across Europe. Germany is rebuilding its military and debating compulsory service. France has introduced a new voluntary national-service program as its military leadership warns the public about potential sacrifices in a confrontation with Russia. NATO members are dramatically increasing defense spending. The European Union is building an increasingly integrated defense industry. Even traditionally neutral states are reconsidering what neutrality means in an environment dominated by the Ukraine war.

Finland and Sweden have already abandoned military nonalignment and joined NATO. Austria remains formally neutral but participates in EU sanctions against Russia. Ireland is debating its own security posture. Switzerland remains militarily neutral, but the political distance between neutral Europe and NATO Europe has unquestionably narrowed.

This is how political systems change. Rarely does everything happen at once. Each decision is presented as a limited response to the crisis immediately in front of you. Governments insist nothing fundamental has changed because technically the old policy still exists. Then one day you look back and discover that the institution bearing the old name no longer resembles what previous generations understood it to mean.

The Swiss people have every right to redefine neutrality however they choose. That is one of the virtues of Switzerland’s direct democracy. Unlike Brussels, where bureaucrats make decisions several layers removed from voters, the Swiss actually put the question before their citizens. They voted overwhelmingly against locking the older definition into the constitution. But markets will make their own judgment as well.

When Confidence Turns, the Economy Follows


Posted Originally on Sep 30, 2026 by Martin Armstrong |

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There is one economic indicator governments consistently underestimate because they cannot control it with legislation or manipulate it with an interest-rate announcement: confidence. The Conference Board’s Consumer Confidence Index collapsed 6.7 points in September to 81.9, the lowest reading since April 2014. Economists expected 89.2. This was not some marginal statistical miss. Americans are becoming increasingly pessimistic about their jobs, their purchasing power, and what they see coming over the next six months.

This is how an economy changes direction. People do not wake up one morning because the government announces a recession and suddenly stop spending. They begin changing behavior long before the official statistics catch up. They cancel the vacation, stop eating out as often, hold off on that new car purchase, and begin putting whatever they can aside because they no longer TRUST what tomorrow will bring. That change in confidence then becomes economic reality because consumer spending is the backbone of the American economy.

The Conference Board’s Present Situation Index dropped 7.9 points to 109.3, while its Expectations Index fell another 5.9 points to just 63.6, the third consecutive monthly decline. The Expectations Index is particularly important because people are telling you what they THINK is coming. Confidence is not merely about whether somebody has a job today. It is whether that person believes the job will still exist six months from now.

That confidence in employment is clearly deteriorating. Only 23.6% of consumers now say jobs are “plentiful,” the lowest since February 2021. The share saying jobs are “hard to get” increased to 21.9%, the highest since January 2021. The gap between those two measures has collapsed to just 1.7 percentage points from 4.2 points in August. That labor-market differential has historically moved with unemployment, and consumers are clearly sensing weakness beneath the surface.

The government’s own job-opening data confirms that something is changing. Open positions fell by 256,000 in August to 7.079 million. There are now roughly 1.01 job openings for every unemployed person, compared with nearly two openings for every unemployed worker during the frenzy of 2022. Professional and business services lost 119,000 openings while healthcare and social assistance lost another 115,000. Construction, manufacturing, and government openings also declined. People feel these changes before economists sitting behind computers recognize them.

At the same time, the cost of living refuses to cooperate. Consumers told the Conference Board that references to prices, goods and services, and particularly oil and gasoline had risen to new highs. The University of Michigan’s separate survey tells essentially the same story. Its September Consumer Sentiment Index fell to 48.1, down 15% since January, while consumers’ one-year inflation expectations have risen to 4.6%. Views of both current and future personal finances deteriorated sharply.

This is precisely why confidence matters more than politicians understand. Inflation does not have to continue rising at 8% or 9% for people to remain angry. Prices NEVER went back to where they were before the COVID inflation. The rate of increase may slow, but the accumulated increase remains. A family paying substantially more for groceries, insurance, electricity, gasoline, housing, and automobiles does not care that some economist announces inflation has moderated. Now add interest rates.

The Federal Reserve raised rates this month for the first time in three years, taking the federal funds target to 3.75%-4.00%, because renewed inflation pressure has left policymakers with little choice. Meanwhile, the average 30-year mortgage has climbed above 7%. A young couple trying to purchase their first house is being crushed from both directions. The house itself costs more and the money required to buy it costs more.

Americans are becoming less willing to voluntarily leave their jobs. That is not necessarily a sign of a healthy labor market. During periods of strong confidence, workers quit because they believe they can find something better. When people become frightened, they cling to whatever employment they already have.

The stock market can make new highs while Main Street confidence collapses. There is nothing contradictory about that. Capital moves internationally and increasingly concentrates into assets when people lose confidence in governments, currencies, banks, or alternative investments. The Dow is not a national opinion poll. A rising stock market does not automatically mean the average household believes the economy is doing well.

Confidence is the foundation of every monetary and political system. A dollar is worth something because people have confidence somebody else will accept it tomorrow. A Treasury bond has value because investors have confidence the government will honor the obligation. A bank functions because depositors have confidence their money will be there when they ask for it. An economy expands because consumers and businesses have confidence that taking risks today will produce rewards tomorrow.

Once confidence begins to crack, governments cannot simply order it back. The September data is therefore more important than another monthly economic statistic buried in a government report. Americans across political affiliations, income groups, and age groups are becoming more pessimistic if not outright worried.

Confidence turns BEFORE the economy because the economy is nothing more than the collective decisions of human beings. Governments can manipulate interest rates, create money, borrow trillions, subsidize industries, and produce whatever economic forecast they please. What they cannot command is confidence. Once the public stops believing tomorrow will be better than today, their behavior changes, and eventually the statistics have no choice but to follow.

The Road to 2028


Posted Originally on Sep 30, 2026 by Martin Armstrong |

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As I have noted before, the Roman historian Sallust concluded that the decline of the Roman Republic truly began once Rome had eliminated its external enemies—Carthage, Corinth, and Macedonia among them. With no foreign foe left to unite against, the Romans turned inward and tore themselves apart in bitter factional strife. That observation applies with striking force to our present political crisis. The United States, Europe, Canada, and parts of Asia and the Middle East have fractured into Left versus Right, and no shared sense of unity remains—no loyalty to country or people that transcends the divide. Each side wages war to destroy the opponent it despises. Unfortunately, this is our fate, and we must recognize it as it unfolds on the road to 2032. For now, the next two years threaten to become a living hell, with no one left to defend the country or its people. While others offer personal opinions, I do not have that luxury. My job is to relay what the computer is projecting.

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The overwhelming downside of a Democratic victory is that they are the pro-war party. A Gallup poll from last April showed that only 19% of Democrats were optimistic about a possible peace deal. As I have said before, it is almost always the Democratic Party that takes us into war. Wilson led us into World War I. FDR led us into World War II. Truman nuked Japan and took us into Korea. Johnson took us into Vietnam. Dick Cheney usurped foreign policy and took us into Iraq and Afghanistan. Obama tried to take us into Syria, while Hillary Clinton oversaw the gun-running neoconservative operation in Benghazi.

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Look, for decades I have warn governments that this current system will collapse and a 2-year-old with a pocket calculator can figure that one out. For fiscal year 1980, the gross interest cost on the national debt was $74.8 billion. To put that in context, the total national debt at that time was roughly $715 billion and everyone was freaking out that it was going to hit $1 trillion.

Projections for fiscal year 2026 indicate net interest payments will reach approximately $1.0 trillion. Some data from the first nine months of the fiscal year shows net interest payments already totaled  $827 billion on a $40 trillion national debt.

Interest expenditures on U.S. national debt first exceeded military spending in 2024. The Net Interest Payments was $879.9 billion compared to National Defense Spending $850.7 billion.

It’s not rocket science – just math. What happens is that interest expenditure keep rising because they only roll the debt and NEVER pay it off. Eventually, the interest expenditures crowd out all other spending. We reach the 50% level of the national debt was accumulative interest expenditures in 2024. This will not end nicely!!!!!

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The Democrats will completely destroy the United States by 2032, and it is going to get ugly from 2028 onward. Why? I am not being partisan here, because the Republicans will not touch real reform either, fearing the people are not ready to make sacrifices. Consider Elizabeth Warren, who is determined to transform the United States into a socialist republic. She is obsessed with robbing the rich—whom she defines as anyone with more millions than she has—as if this is some kind of solution. It is just a band-aid on a bullet hole.

As reported, in a post on X Wednesday, Warren compared workers earning $60,000 and $184,500 with someone earning $10 million, saying the first two pay Social Security taxes on all their earnings while the higher earner pays the tax only on the first $184,500. “That doesn’t make sense,” Warren wrote. “We can protect Social Security if everyone paid their fair share.” Yet that contradicts what Social Security was supposed to be.

Social Security was sold to the American public as a “contribution” to present the program as social insurance, but the Supreme Court upheld it as a tax, and it was always collected through the IRS. The cap exists because Social Security was designed as a social insurance program, not a general welfare or savings account. Warren now wants to alter Social Security and transform it into a welfare benefit that will take care of all the illegal immigrants they protect to boost their voting rolls.

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There is zero understanding of the world economy. Even with inflation, people see the price, assume the price is the problem, and propose regulation—but the price is simply the message. You have not just the Middle East, with the Strait controlled by Iran, but the Houthis determined to cripple Saudi Arabia. Throw in Zelensky, and our computer warns that crude oil could reach as high as $234 by 2028—especially if the EU and NATO end up going to war with Russia. That would probably lead to the merger of the Middle East conflict with the Ukraine War and draw in China and North Korea. We have support at $80, with resistance at $125 and $188. A year-end 2026 close above $111 will be a message we should not ignore.

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Letting migrants into Europe, the United States, and Canada has been a LEFT agenda to retain power—knowing full well that their policies lower economic growth and reduce living standards. Economic growth in Germany has collapsed to 0.8%, and Italy is down to 0.5%. I first encountered this plot when I had a mandate from Hong Kong to negotiate with Australia to buy an island or allow Hong Kong residents to migrate and build their own city in the upper-left region of Australia. The 99-year lease of Hong Kong to the British expired on June 30, 1997, which was when the handover ceremony took place.

They knew I had contacts in Australia and asked me to try to strike a deal. I met with former Prime Minister Paul Keating. Everything I offered was rejected. I told him I had a blank check to pay off their national debt, but the answer was still no. I finally asked him directly if this was racism—was it because they did not like Chinese people? He said no. They were fleeing communism and would vote conservative. Keating led a Labour government. Allowing Hong Kong residents to migrate to Australia would have altered their politics.

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They understand this very well. Opening the borders has been about their knowledge that the LEFT has been losing ground and was destined to collapse. Look at this chart. Measuring the Democrats’ total number of seats by combining the Senate and House reveals the long-term trend. The Democrats held their highest percentage back in the early 19th century. Each subsequent high thereafter has been lower. Since FDR and the Great Depression, each rally has produced a declining number of seats. This is what the whole opening of the borders has been about—a desperate attempt to fight the trend and retain power, like Merz in Germany, who refuses to admit the people do not approve of his policies. It is never about the people or what is best for the country. It is always about forcing their ideas upon society.

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Politics in Europe, as well as in Canada and the United States, has degenerated into war. It is no longer about compromise, the nation, or the people. They look down upon the people as too stupid to know what is best. This is exactly what Sallust described about the fall of the Roman Republic. The two sides are so far apart that there is simply no mending this political crisis. We are forced to watch it play out, and we cannot simply change the channel.

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NEVER are they willing to look at history. And you do not even have to go back that far. Just look at the City of Detroit. They did the same thing as Mamdani in NYC. They exploited the auto industry to the point that all the car companies left town and Detroit went bust in 1933. Mamdani is doing it all over again. He is chasing Wall Street out. The Texas Exchange will reduce the NYSE. Even JPMorgan now has more employees outside of NYC than inside.

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NYC was once the largest port in the United States. The labor unions were uncompromising and hostile. The companies left town, and nobody docks in NYC anymore. No matter what you show them, they refuse to listen.

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I find it interesting that there was even a communist state in Sparta, Greece. They were the only Greek city that never issued coins, because you were effectively an economic slave to the state, barred from accumulating wealth. Maybe AOC and Elizabeth Warren were married to Mamdani in ancient Sparta in another life. It is fascinating that their philosophy of always coveting their neighbor’s wealth is expressly forbidden in the Ten Commandments. That demonstrates there is this dark side to humanity that has been around for thousands of years.

Gov Never Learns

We have incompetent people in government everywhere. While individuals learn from past mistakes in most cases, governments have no cumulative knowledge. Hence, they make the same mistakes from one generation to the next. There is no collective societal knowledge base. Thus, we are living in Groundhog Day, with the same crazy mistakes being made over and over and over again, incapable of breaking this vicious cycle.

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I have warned that the computer has been projecting that 2028 will be sheer political chaos. Between now and then, we are in an unrelenting war cycle that turned up in 2014 and is escalating into 2027 from every direction. There is no sanity left anywhere. The Middle East has no resolution, for this is a religious war with each side looking to fulfill prophecy. Ukraine is consumed with sheer hatred that prevents any reasonable solution. Europe needs war because its climate change policies destroyed the German economy, and on top of that, they opened the borders and flooded the country, altering its culture forever. As tensions rise, following Sallust, they desperately need an external enemy to create unity and retain power in Brussels. The Democrats are so pro-war that they will seize power and fund Ukraine to utter destruction.

Congressional investigations will happen on an unprecedented scale, even for Washington. The Democrats are going to focus on 2028, and the best way to take over the country will be to expose the Trump Administration as rotten to the core. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries has already said they would immediately focus on “corruption.” Jim Himes (D., Conn.) has expressed the same attitude, calling it “nakedly corrupt dealings” between the Trump administration and companies. My concerns are not so much about that, because the Democrats pander to corporations for big bucks as well. My concern is the President’s son-in-law, Kushner, who is NOT an actual government employee; he and his sidekick are “volunteers,” and this structure is meant to avoid FOIA filings, as Hillary did with her private server. If I were them, I would prepare to be torn apart limb from limb.

As we head into 2028, there will certainly be no shortage of Democratic candidates, ranging from governors and members of Congress to outsiders with thick skin. Democrats have desperately, as a whole, tried to navigate this midterm election without really confronting the differences between their Democratic Socialists of America flank and the more practical center of the party. This is what we should expect to see in the headlines as we head into 2028.

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Capital flows are shifting as money moves from PUBLIC to PRIVATE. Bond markets globally are in crisis, for as you beat the war drums, debt rises and the loser always defaults. I have warned that we are in a PRIVATE WAVE that concludes with a peak in 2032. This is when capital shifts from government bonds to private assets. We are in the EVERYTHING BUBBLE, where stocks, real estate, art, gold, silver, and commodities in general tend to be tangible assets to which capital will flee. Others are starting to notice this trend.

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When we do this year’s WEC in December 4, 5, and 6, we will have a lot to discuss. This is the only way to surve such a wave and we are in the final stages. What to avoid, and where to go.

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Mark Carney Blames USA for Layoffs of Canadian Steel Workers


Posted originally on the CTH on September 29, 2026 | Sundance |

When asked about a statement this week where Stelco Holdings Inc. announced they were laying off 500 workers from their steel plant in Hamilton, Ontario, immediately Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney blamed the United States.

He’s lying. It’s ridiculous. However, that’s all Carney can do at this point.

In reality it is (1) Canadian energy, climate and manufacturing policy; in combination with (2) the specific decision to allow the import of cheap steel from China; in combination with the decision to (3) rebuke U.S requests to stop purchasing that Chinese steel; that has driven out Canadian steel manufacturing.

(1) Canada carbon emission policy changes steel manufacturing. (2) Canada admits to lying about the import of Chinese Steel. (3) Canadian steel manufacturers warn Canada of pending exit. Mark Carney denied all three points. The receipts are in the links right there.

WATCH Prime Minister Carney blatantly lie on camera:

This announcement by Stelco happened on the exact same day that President Trump announced a new $18billion investment in U.S. steel manufacturing in Iowa. {SOURCE}

In fact, in a world full of irony, during a media segment discussing the closure of the Canadian steel plant, CBC cut away to live feed of President Trump who was making the Iowa steel plant announcement.  The timing was rather remarkable.

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President Trump Notes Super Intelligence Team Four Points for SI Frontier Research Safety


Posted originally on the CTH on September 29, 2026 | Sundance | 

After assembling some of the most influential leaders in the Super Intelligence sector of data sciences, the group came together with a standard four-point overview for internal safeguards and safety checks as the software advances continue.

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Senator Josh Hawley Confronts former Special Prosecutor Jack Smith During Explosive Senate Committee Hearing


Posted originally on the CTH on September 29, 2026 | Sundance |

Earlier today, Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley released explosive whistleblower documents showing how former Special Prosecutor Jack Smith demanded the records of donors to President Trump from December 2019 through August 2023.  [Press Release Here] – [Donor Records Here]

Records provided to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) via legally protected whistleblower disclosures reveal Smith’s team acquired at least 4,782 checks from Americans who made mainly small-dollar donations to President Trump between September 2019 to August 2023. The checks reveal the donors’ home addresses, bank account and routing numbers, and signatures.

Smith’s team acquired the checks as part of its “Arctic Frost” election case against President Trump, allowing the Biden Department of Justice (DOJ) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to gain access to nearly 5,000 Americans’ highly sensitive information, including 42 Iowans. There may be additional subpoena returns that include more donor checks. Whistleblower records show the checks were routed to former FBI Special Agent Walter Giardina. (more)

Senator Josh Hawley confronted Jack Smith on his lies during former testimony to congress. WATCH:

Republicans and President Trump have accused Jack Smith of pursuing a politically motivated case against the president. Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, referred Smith to the Justice Department for possible prosecution, alleging that Smith made false statements during an hours-long closed-door meeting with lawmakers in December.

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President Trump Hosts Meeting with Top U.S. Leaders in AI and Super Intelligence – Remarks and Video


Posted originally on the CTH on September 29, 2026 | Sundance | 

President Donald Trump hosted a luncheon at the White House for the most influential leaders in the field of Artificial Intelligence or Super Intelligence (AI/SI).  The attendees are a who’s who of the biggest names in the leading fields of technology, data processing, software design/engineering, compute capacity and super intelligence.

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President Trump delivers remarks to the assembled media pool during the meeting.  WATCH:

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The assembled leadership team addressed the assembled White House press pool after their luncheon.  President Trump led the SI leadership team out to the press pool for impromptu remarks. Most of the press pool went entirely bananas.  VIDEO BELOW:

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