Ukraine Front, Three Cauldrons & Trump's False Hope w/ Stanislav Krapivnik

California Has Highest Personal Income Tax Rate, 8 States Have None...

Where you live can make a major difference in the state income tax rate applied to your earnings...

https://www.zerohedge.com/personal-finance/california-has-highest-personal-income-tax-rate-8-states-have-none

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Most Ukrainian TV Channels Taken Off the Air After Relentless Russian Strikes on Data Centers

 https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/09/now-most-ukrainian-tv-channels-taken-air-after/

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Dick Durbin Bolted on Female Athletes Without Hearing a Single One and Katie Britt Unloaded

 The Senate Judiciary Committee gaveled in on September 23, 2026, for a hearing titled "Standing Up for Women in Sports: Ensuring Opportunity, Fairness and Safety for Female Athletes."

Chairman Chuck Grassley ran the room.

Not one of the committee's nine Democrats stayed to hear the testimony.

 https://247politics.net/dick-durbin-bolted-on-female-athletes-without-hearing-a-single-one-and-katie-britt-unloaded/?utm_medium=email

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WHEN MONEY STOPS BEING MONEY

Posted by Tyler Durden:  Authored by Milan Adams via Preppgroup,

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.

Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) are the mechanism of this transformation. The digital euro, the potential digital dollar, the digital yuan already operational in China - these are not simply modernizations of payment systems. They are structural changes to the relationship between the individual and the state, between commerce and surveillance, between freedom and permission. Once fully implemented, they would create a financial infrastructure where every transaction is visible, every purchase is logged, and every economic decision requires implicit or explicit approval from authorities.

 https://www.zerohedge.com/personal-finance/prepping-cashless-control-grid-how-digital-currency-becomes-digital-control

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 Tennessee Plans All-Female Lethal Injection Team at Request of State’s First Woman Being Executed in 200 Years

 https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/09/tennessee-plans-all-female-lethal-injection-team-request/

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10 Unexpected Consequences Of An Economic Crisis Nobody Is Talking About

 Posted by Tyler Durden: Authored by John Walter via Substack,

The most dangerous economic crises rarely arrive with the fanfare we expect. There are no burning buildings on the first day. No immediate shortages. No government announcements that the old order has ended.

Instead, the transformation begins through decisions that appear rational when viewed individually. A company reduces its workforce to protect quarterly earnings. A government delays infrastructure maintenance because budgets are constrained. A family postpones major purchases because the future feels uncertain. Each decision makes sense in isolation.

The danger emerges when millions of similar decisions begin happening simultaneously, creating feedback loops that institutions struggle to control and individuals struggle to recognize until they are already caught in the current.

Throughout history, economic systems have appeared strongest precisely when underlying weaknesses accumulated most dangerously. Periods of prosperity create institutional expansion, debt accumulation, and consumer confidence that gradually forgets stability is never guaranteed. The prosperity itself generates the conditions that later make adjustment more painful. Businesses optimize for efficiency until redundancy disappears. Governments become comfortable with increasing obligations. Households adapt to living standards that depend on economic conditions which cannot continue indefinitely.

What concerns me is not the dramatic collapse that captures headlines. It is the quiet erosion of capacity that precedes visible breakdown - the gradual subtraction of options that masquerades as continuity until the day arrives when systems can no longer absorb stress.

 https://www.zerohedge.com/personal-finance/10-unexpected-consequences-economic-crisis-nobody-talking-about