Source: BBC News [UK state media]
“The developing El Niño climate phenomenon is now the strongest on record, according to scientists monitoring Pacific Ocean temperatures. Daily sea surface temperatures in a key region of the central-eastern Pacific were 3.05C above average on 19 September – exceeding the previous record of 3.02C set during the very strong El Niño of 2015. Some longer-term measures of El Niño have not yet hit record levels but this is likely to change, with the peak not expected until later this year. El Niño can cause major shifts in weather patterns around the world, with the Met Office saying many of the expected impacts are already being felt.” (09/22/26)
https://www.bbc.com/weather/articles/cmvgy4nv9d62o
Source: Responsible Statecraft
“Our hosts try to understand why Artificial Intel CEOs are so eager to push the ‘end of humanity’ narrative.” (09/22/26)
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/ai-apocalypse/
Source: Bet On It
by Bryan Caplan
“The Median Voter Model says that democratic competition impels politicians to offer whatever policies maximally satisfy the median voter. Actual democracies have never met its highly restrictive assumptions: There is more than one election, fought over more than one issue, and in any case, nothing forces politicians to fulfill their campaign promises. Yet for decades, this Median Voter Model has been extremely useful — much more useful than these restrictive assumptions would have you believe. … But U.S. politics has grown so weird during the last decade that I suspect a revision to the Median Voter Model is in order. I dub this the Neo-Median Voter Model. It works roughly like this …” (09/22/26)
https://www.betonit.ai/p/the-neo-median-voter-model
Source: Town Hall
by Mark Lewis
“‘If the states do not have the right to secede, then they have no rights at all.’ — Dr. Walter Williams … Dr. Williams is one of the few men I’ve ever read who understood the American Constitution. That marvelous document has been so warped all through U.S. history that very few Americans truly understand what our Founders did in the Constitution. It isn’t going to change any time soon, and Dr. Williams’ statement is probably shocking to many. Let’s look at it. The Declaration of Independence created 13 ‘free and independent states’; it did not create the United States of America (read it). Those states (colonies under England) jealously guarded their individual colonial rights and privileges. When they declared independence, leading minds convinced most colonists that there were certain matters (like fighting a war) that were better accomplished collectively than individually.” (09/22/26)
https://townhall.com/columnists/marklewis/2026/09/22/a-states-right-to-secede-n2683334
Source: US News & World Report
“Senator John Curtis wrote a letter to a Senate panel to call for an investigation into businesses owned by Trump’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., and payments by a Russian oligarch for his wedding celebrations in the Bahamas this year. Congressional Democrats launched an investigation last week into the wedding payments. The open letter marks the second time in two days that prominent Republicans have broken with the increasingly unpopular president, six weeks from midterm elections in which his party is defending thin majorities in the US Congress. Republicans Ashley Hinson and Mike Rogers, who are both running for Senate, on Monday called for a swift end to the Iran war, trying to distance themselves from the unpopular conflict that has pushed energy prices higher and driven up the cost of living, Americans’ top concern heading into the midterms.” (09/22/26)
https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2026-09-22/republican-senator-calls-for-probe-into-trump-familys-business-dealings
Source: Reason
“Fauci’s diary reveals a self-obsessed career bureaucrat who refused to consider the possibility that his research contributed to origin of COVID-19.” (09/22/26)
https://reason.com/video/2026/09/22/how-will-history-remember-anthony-fauci/
Source: BBC News [UK state media]
“Lithuania’s prime minister has told the BBC his country has made evacuation plans in the face of threats from Russia, but added they ‘will not surrender’ if attacked. Prime Minister Mindaugas Sinkevičius told Newsnight that Lithuanians feel ‘constantly threatened’ by Russia, in part because of drones entering the nation’s airspace. He told Newsnight if his country was attacked, ‘we will fight back… we will engage’. But he said there were plans for ‘a variety of scenarios’ and used an example of getting elderly citizens out of cities ‘smoothly’ and avoiding traffic jams. Lithuania, a Nato member, shares a land border with the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad. NATO is thought to have several thousand troops stationed in the Baltic state, including US and German forces.” (09/22/26)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ck5yw8npxzrlo
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
“Destroying Iran and Maintaining Socialist Tyranny in Venezuela.” (09/22/26)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exF7wCqptXc
Source: Wired
by Robert A Pape
“Public disagreement about whether political violence is rising and who is responsible for it stems not from ideology alone but from competing definitions about what should be counted.” (09/22/26)
https://archive.is/9FEMy
Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone
“The biggest AI threat isn’t artificial superintelligence wiping out humanity in a fit of mechanical vengeance like some digital Old Testament God, it’s the same oligarchs and empire managers as usual inflicting the same evils and abuses as usual upon their fellow man. We’re already presently watching the empire building AI into its killing machines and causing all kinds of horrifying problems while these technologies become more and more complex and unpredictable. CNN reports that US military AI ‘almost started a war’ with China when it hallucinated intelligence showing a Chinese ship transporting nuclear weapon components to Iran; US military planes were apparently already in the air preparing to attack the vessel before human intelligence picked up on the error.” (09/22/26)
https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2026/09/22/the-real-danger-of-ai-is-that-it-is-run-by-evil-warmongers/
