Roger Due, B.S. Physics, MBA @RADcreate

Pravin Sawhney, Zulfiqar Ali: Trump’s $6B Offer; Netanyahu Beyond His Control; Iran Threatens Gulf Lifelines; IRAN’S WARNING rad-patriot.com/16034/pravin-s… Trump offered Iran $6 billion to reopen Hormuz, and, Pravin Sawhney says, conceded he has no control over Netanyahu. Iran’s answer, carried back by Pakistan’s Field Marshal Asim Munir: the next war “will not be the 40-day war” — if attacked, Iran would hit desalination plants, power grids, ports, refineries, US AI infrastructure in the Gulf and the seven subsea cables under Hormuz. Host Zulfiqar Ali brings what people in the room with Munir told him: Pakistan has decided to stand with Iran. 07:23 The $6 billion offer: Trump’s terms for Iran, as the guest describes them. 08:15 “He has no control over Netanyahu.” 11:38 The message: “this time, the war will be different.” 22:57 Pakistan’s decision — per people in the room with Asim Munir. 32:57 Netanyahu and the 27 October clock. What you’ll learn: what Washington offered Tehran through Pakistan and what came back; what Iran says the next war would reach; and what that means for the Gulf’s water, power and internet; which side Pakistan has chosen, and who in Beijing signed off; why Pravin Sawhney thinks Netanyahu won’t wait for Israel’s election; why he thinks Trump would rather give up the petrodollar than follow him. Sourcing note: The message Munir carried is Pravin Sawhney’s account; on 13 October Mohsen Rezaei publicly warned that cables, data centres and AI facilities in the region could be attacked if war resumes (Al Jazeera) — the desalination and power-grid elements were not found in public reporting. Pakistan’s decision is our host’s own sourcing and cannot be independently verified. Israel votes on 27 October; on 14 October Netanyahu said a strike before the election is “not convenient for us”. Hegseth made an unannounced visit to Israel and met Netanyahu on 20 October (Axios, via Reuters); the base and other attendees are the guest’s account. A $6 billion release linked to Hormuz was reported in April and denied by the US; the uranium term was not found. US departure orders for the Gulf states were issued in March 2026; we found no October order and no report of a strike on Iranian missiles in Iraq. Yanbu is Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea port; the RAF retired the Tornado in 2019. Pakistan suspended trade at the Taftan and Gabd-Rimdan crossings on 16–18 October. >> Listen to the full excellent discussion at the above link...

@Mia1708198d Never. Only when they are dead.

Mike Adams: The USDA’s $8 Billion Farmer Bailout Is Communism Disguised as Relief rad-patriot.com/16029/mike-ada… The USDA's $8 Billion Farmer Bailout Is Communism Wearing a Smile I want you to picture the scene in Park City, Kansas, on October 19, 2026. A sitting president stands at a podium and announces eight billion dollars in emergency farm relief, and the crowd cheers like the cavalry just rode in. That is the moment I knew this was not a rescue operation at all. From my perspective, the newly announced USDA farmer relief program is a pre-midterm vote-buying scheme dressed up as compassion, not a serious solution to the high fuel prices plaguing U.S. farmers. Understand what actually created this emergency. Diesel ran about $3.67 a gallon a year ago and now sits at $6.18, a jump of $2.51 per gallon that slices straight into seed, fertilizer, and the mortgage payment on the family farm [1]. That price did not spontaneously appear out of nowhere. Trump started a war, energy flows got disrupted, and now Washington wants a standing ovation for partially paying a bill it inflicted on the American people itself. The people cheering this handout are the same people who spent decades mocking socialism from the comfort of their talk radio studios. I am here to tell them plainly: if you cheer for this, you are a communist at heart, and no amount of red state flag-waving changes that arithmetic. Let me be blunt about the deception happening right now. This administration is not relieving a crisis, it is monetizing one. The American farmers who will actually harvest a crop this fall need fuel, not press conferences, and the people clapping loudest in that Kansas field are the very people whose war policy emptied the diesel tanks in the first place. I have said this before and I will say it again: when government creates the wound and then sells you the bandage, that is not charity. That is racketeering with a smile. >> Continue in the above article...

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Larry Johnson: Trump’s Iranian Body Count Grows on Its Own While He Ignores What Israel Has Done in Gaza rad-patriot.com/16022/larry-jo… The double standard isn’t subtle I spent years in government watching officials pick which dead to count. It’s an old trick. You inflate the victims of your enemies and you erase the victims of your friends, and you never mention your own role in creating either. Iranian protesters are useful, because their deaths justify a war Washington has already started, even when Washington helped put the guns in their hands. Palestinians are inconvenient, because their deaths were caused with American bombs and paid for with American money. If the President truly believed every innocent life lost to state violence demanded a response, he would not need to inflate Iran’s toll, and he would ask who armed the crowds. And he would not need an Israeli general to tell him what happened in Gaza. The figure is already there, accepted by the IDF, sitting on a desk in his own government. Instead we get an Iranian body count that rises and falls like a carnival game, and a Gaza body count he pretends not to see. Somewhere in Kansas, a crowd cheered for 75,000 dead Iranians who, by the President’s own record, were 100,000 just seven weeks ago. Nobody in that crowd was told that 70,000 Palestinians are dead, and that the IDF agrees. That isn’t a mistake. That’s the point. >> Read the full article from above

Local AI should be used wherever it provides benefits. Take a look at using appropriate Chinese AI models, instead of tying into the major US AI online systems where they can 'control' you. AI can be used in many white collar jobs, manufacturing, production lines, etc. Pay attention to how China is using it everywhere.

Mike Adams: One Guy, No Sleep, and a Free Engine - Why Ash Hart’s TensorFold Proves Local AI Is Winning rad-patriot.com/16018/mike-ada… Why Ash Hart's TensorFold Proves Local AI Is Winning I want to tell you about a man who should be a household name in the AI world, but probably isn't yet. Ash Hart is a solo developer, a veteran of PC repair in the UK, and the architect of TensorFold -- an open-source inference engine hosted at tensorfold.dev that runs large language models on consumer hardware. He built it with ADHD, a punishing schedule, and what I can only assume is an industrial supply of Red Bull. He archived his own project three times before breaking through. That detail alone tells you more about the state of AI development than any billion-dollar funding announcement ever will. I have spent the last three years building decentralized AI tools and watching the establishment move to lobotomize publicly available large language models, ensuring they are nowhere near as intelligent as they could be [1]. My position is simple and I will state it plainly: the future of AI belongs on your machine, not in a rented cloud account controlled by three companies. Ash Hart's work is proof that this future is not a fantasy -- it is already here. The number that matters most: on a Mac, Ash got Qwen 27B jumping from 20 to 88 tokens per second. That's not merely a tweak... it's a revolution! But the reality on the ground is different. The unhobbling phase that researchers predicted -- where efficiency beats brute force -- is not merely coming. It is already happening, and Ash Hart is one of its grassroots architects. >> Continues in the above article

Resistance in the Global South: Pepe Escobar Connects Yemen's Bravery to Brazil's Democratic Crossroads rad-patriot.com/16013/resistan… In a special edition of “Pepe Café”, a geopolitical analyst dissects the collapse of the colonial system in West Asia. 247 – In one of the most profound and comprehensive geopolitical analyses on the Pepe Café program, journalist and international correspondent Pepe Escobar drew a revealing parallel between the front lines of the Global South: the anti-colonial resistance of the Yemeni people in the heart of West Asia and the decisive battle that Brazil is waging in the streets and at the polls to preserve its sovereignty. Escobar began by deconstructing imperialist terminology itself, rejecting the Eurocentric designation of “Middle East”, and rescuing the origins of Franco-British colonial agreements (such as the Sykes-Picot partition after the fall of the Ottoman Empire). It was from this imperial architecture imposed by London and Paris that the two contemporary pillars supporting Western hegemony in the region were born: the State of Israel and the monarchy of the House of Saud in Saudi Arabia. In contrast to these artificial state constructions, the journalist highlighted Yemen as one of the founding civilizations of Arab history — an ancient people who today, under the leadership of the Ansarallah movement, openly challenge the military bloc led by the United States and its agents in the Gulf. >> Continue in the article above

Larry Johnson: Europe’s Diesel Winter Is Coming, and Washington Is About to Make It Worse rad-patriot.com/16008/larry-jo… Saudi Arabia went looking for allies against Ansar Allah, and so far it has gotten statements of support. Egypt has declared its readiness to back the Kingdom, but its statement does not commit to any military involvement. Pakistan and Turkey have pledged troops under the Mecca Joint Defense Agreement signed in August, but both governments say their forces will play “a supportive rather than active combat role” against the Houthis. I have watched coalition pledges like these for decades. Cairo has not forgotten its war in Yemen in the 1960s. Islamabad has its own border with Afghanistan and a restless India to think about. Neither is going to send its soldiers into the mountains of Saada, so Riyadh will be fighting this one essentially alone. That matters because Ansar Allah has shown it can reach the Kingdom’s economic core. In the past two weeks the Houthis have struck at Aramco facilities near Riyadh, the Shedgum gas plant in the Ghawar corridor, and the Tanajib oil facility on the Gulf coast. They hit an administrative building at Aramco’s Dhahran headquarters, the company’s historic nerve center. Now they are reportedly targeting Yanbu. >> Continue with the above article

Larry Johnson: Ansar Allah’s Missiles Have Learned to Hit. Someone Taught Them. rad-patriot.com/16003/larry-jo… For most of the Saudi war in Yemen, Ansar Allah’s ballistic missiles were more political than military. They were noisy and frightening, but rarely decisive. In 2017 the press could fairly report that the group’s missiles were often lightened by reducing their payloads and seldom hit what they were aimed at. Saudi air defenses picked off many of them, and the rest fell in empty desert. That is no longer the picture. Since the confrontation reignited this summer, five Saudi airports have come under Houthi attack since October 5, with 20 dead and hundreds wounded. On October 10, AFP photographed King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh at the moment it was struck. When the Houthis claimed hits on Aramco facilities, the coalition called the claims misleading, but independent journalists reported fires and smoke over the Riyadh refinery. These are not area weapons landing somewhere near a city. They are hits on specific facilities at ranges of 1,000 kilometers or more, against one of the densest air-defense networks in the region. I spent a career around targeting and military planning, and I know what that pattern means. Accuracy at long range doesn’t come from a better rocket motor. A Scud-derived missile flying on inertial guidance alone accumulates error throughout its flight, and its reentry vehicle adds more. Getting from a miss of several hundred meters to tens of meters requires correcting the trajectory late in flight, through satellite-navigation updates, a maneuvering reentry vehicle, or a terminal seeker. Whatever the hardware, it also requires precise target coordinates. Neither of those is something Ansar Allah can manufacture in the mountains of Saada. >> Continue with the above article

Larry Johnson: Another Round Against Iran Will Break What Is Left of the Gulf rad-patriot.com/15997/larry-jo… Washington and Israel are talking again about “finishing the job” in Iran. Before they do, someone should take a hard look at the bill for the jobs already done. My friend Karl Miller, who has called this region correctly more often than most of the people paid to do it, sent me his latest assessment on Monday. His conclusion is blunt: on the current course, another round of escalation is coming, and the countries paying for it will be the ones that never got a vote. The Gulf is being bled dry Start with the people who are supposed to be America’s partners. The IMF’s October outlook reads like a casualty report. Kuwait’s economy is forecast to shrink 16.7 percent this year. Qatar’s will shrink 15.6 percent, and Bahrain’s 11.3 percent. The UAE, long sold as the region’s safe haven, is now expected to contract 3.9 percent, a seven-point swing from the IMF’s April forecast. Saudi Arabia is forecast to shrink 3.3 percent. The only Gulf economy still growing is Oman, and that is because its ports sit outside the Strait of Hormuz. These are not paper losses. Qatar lost two LNG trains at Ras Laffan in March, about 17 percent of its export capacity. QatarEnergy says the repairs will take three to five years and will cost it roughly $20 billion a year in revenue. Saudi Arabia’s escape route around Hormuz, the East-West Pipeline to Yanbu, is crippled. My sources tell me four of its 11 pumping stations are severely damaged and out of service. Riyadh now projects a deficit of 4.9 percent of GDP, is borrowing to cover it, and has frozen non-essential spending. Miller explains why this is worse than the headline oil price suggests. A damaged plant produces nothing to sell, but the payroll, the debt payments and the repair bills keep coming. A plant that is still standing but cannot get parts in or cargo out is in almost the same position. A $108 barrel of oil is worth nothing if you cannot ship it. And the cash the Gulf states used to invest at home and abroad is vanishing fast. If a government takes in 100 and must spend 70, it has 30 left over. Cut income to 80 and that cushion drops to 10. A 20 percent hit to revenue wipes out two-thirds of the money for everything else. The Gulf states bought American protection to safeguard exactly this wealth. Instead, as Miller puts it, they have ended up paying for the costs of American strategy. That is a bargain they will not keep making forever. >> Continue with the above article

Larry Johnson: The Promise of False Security in the Persian Gulf rad-patriot.com/15992/larry-jo… Karl Miller’s new report says the Gulf paid for protection it never got, and that it is time to walk away For years the Gulf monarchies have been told that the path to security runs through Washington and Tel Aviv. Sign the Abraham Accords, buy Israeli defense and surveillance technology, invest in the right American funds, and you will be protected. Then came this war. Refineries in Saudi Arabia, LNG trains in Qatar and energy facilities across the region were hit, and none of those partnerships kept the missiles and drones away. Karl Miller, whose assessments of the Gulf energy crisis I have relied on throughout this war, has now turned to the money and the politics behind that security bargain. His new report is titled, provocatively, “How the Gulf Countries Were Extorted to Fund Economic and Individual Genocide in Palestine.” The title states his allegation. What makes the report worth reading is that Miller is careful to separate what he alleges from what the documents prove, and the documented record is damning enough on its own. >> See above for rest of this report

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I listened to your discussion with Mike Adams, Zach Vorhis & Todd Pitner & look forward to getting more performance out of my current configuration. I'm in the process of installing more AI tools that Mike & Zach are recommending. I want to learn enough with my current configuration before I make any decisions about maybe getting the DGX Spark box. I started back in the PDP-8 'minicomputer' days when assembler was the only viable way to create usable programs. It is now a huge jump to realize that I can use AI tools like Qwen3.8-27B to write code with Rust. I'm having to learn a whole new set of tools that will greatly expand what I can do. -- THANKS for your insights with Mike & Zach!!!

John Mearsheimer, Glenn Diesen: The Rise of a Post-Western World & Russia’s Existential War in Ukraine rad-patriot.com/15982/john-mea… Professor John Mearsheimer argues that the liberal international order has collapsed because American unipolarity has given way to multipolarity, restoring great-power competition and exposing the limits of Western power. Russia’s war in Ukraine, the conflicts involving Iran and the Houthis, and the growing economic consequences of these wars demonstrate that the United States can no longer dictate international outcomes and that the West faces mounting strategic setbacks. >> Continue with above article