a youtube short displaying the state of 'migrations' cost and volume in the uk;
Sunday, September 27, 2026
the title below says it all. as an intro;
When Money Stops Being Money
Something fundamental is vanishing, and most people will not notice until it is already gone. Not with a declaration. Not with a law passed in the dead of night. Simply, gradually, the option to buy something without creating a permanent record will disappear. The ability to save purchasing power outside of a system that can freeze it, monitor it, or program it will become a memory that seems almost fictional to those who never experienced it.
I have watched this unfold over years of observing payment systems, reading central bank white papers that few citizens bother to examine, and noticing how my own transactions leave increasingly detailed trails. The pattern is consistent across nations: convenience precedes surveillance, and surveillance precedes control.
We are not approaching a cashless society. We are sleepwalking into it. And for anyone who values independence, privacy, or the basic human right to conduct commerce without surveillance, this represents not progress but regression toward a form of control that previous generations would have recognized immediately and resisted forcefully..........more........
caitlin speaks about the tech giants that are doing their best to own us all, after they remove a few million;
Tech plutocrats are the high-budget expression of the “everyone is twelve now” theory. You wanna go to Mars? Of course you do, you’re twelve. You think you can merge your consciousness with machinery and unlock the key to immortality? Hell yeah my twelve year-old homie. You’re gonna invent an Artificial Superintelligence God who will solve all our problems? Bless your twelve year-old heart.
Their visions for the future of humanity are never particularly wise or intelligent. It’s just a bunch of drugged-up rich guys using their vast fortunes to chart a course for our species that would sound totally awesome to the average preadolescent boy.
You ever hear about Jeff Bezos’ vision for our future? He brings it up once in a while. He wants to ship most of humanity offworld and have us all living in these giant spinning space tubes called O’Neill cylinders while only a few lucky individuals get to remain on humanity’s home planet. It’s true, look it up.........more...........
larry johnson brings us news of diesel fuel;
Karl Miller has provided me with another excellent report on the diesel/aviation fuel crisis that is confronting the world. On paper, the United States should be the world’s safety valve in this fuel crisis. American refineries make far more diesel than Americans burn. But every one of those barrels is already spoken for. Between rising domestic demand, heavy export commitments and refineries running near their limit, the U.S. is drawing down its own stocks, not sitting on a surplus. As Miller argues in a new assessment, America has no spare diesel to offer a world that has lost 1.6 million barrels a day of diesel exports. Until finished-fuel supply recovers, the gap will be closed by higher prices, less economic activity, or both.
A physical shortage, not just a price spike
Miller’s central point is that this crisis is about missing barrels, not just expensive ones. He estimates that 2-3 million barrels a day of refined products disappeared from global supply by early September. If that persists, 60-90 million barrels have to be replaced, rationed or drawn from inventories every month.
Diesel is at the center of it. World consumption of diesel and gasoil runs about 29.4 million barrels a day, and diesel runs the trucks, harvesters, mines and backup generators of the global economy. Miller calculates that Gulf and Russian diesel exports in August were 1.6 million barrels a day below February levels. That isn’t a one-time loss that a few emergency cargoes can cover. Importers need a replacement cargo every day, in the right grade, delivered to the right terminal before their tanks run down..........more.............
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