Geopolitics & Empire

21/08/2026

A small aircraft climbed out of Turkestan airport on July 10 with hygroscopic salt flares fixed beneath its wings. Operated by the United Arab Emirates’ National Center of Meteorology, it was searching for a cloud suitable for seeding. Pilot Ahmed Aljaberi described the aircraft as “specifically equipped with a cloud-seeding flare system.” But no suitable cloud appeared during the mission. Cloud seeding can try to draw more rain from an existing cloud, but it cannot make one from clear air.

Kazakhstan launched the project in Turkestan on May 16, targeting more than 911,000 hectares of arable land in the country’s leading cotton-belt. The government puts the potential economic benefit at up to 35 billion tenge, roughly $75 million a year.

A small aircraft climbed out of Turkestan airport on July 10 with hygroscopic salt flares fixed beneath its wings. Operated by the United Arab Emirates’

21/08/2026

A note on how the economy is doing, from the view of a small fabrication shop.

28 years in buisness, we have seen and survived this type of econo...

21/08/2026

Today’s totalitarian supranational technocracy is not some future dystopia, but something happening right now, before our very eyes. People still find discussions of transhumanism, posthumanism, dehumanization, and the erosion of human personhood abstract. Yet all of these concepts ultimately point to one stark fact: at this very moment, the technocratic regime is systematically taking its victims, every single day.

Who killed Brigitte Stegemann?

21/08/2026

It is the architecture of a national police force.

And increasingly, ICE is being positioned to serve the role that secret police forces have historically served in authoritarian systems: operating with extraordinary powers, obscured identities, limited accountability, and a broad mandate to identify, track, detain and remove people whom the government has designated as undesirable.

This does not mean America has suddenly become N**i Germany, Stalinist Russia or some other totalitarian regime. History rarely repeats itself so neatly.

What history does teach, however, is that authoritarian governments do not begin with death camps and firing squads.
They begin by normalizing powers that once would have been considered intolerable.

They begin by identifying a population that can be stripped of rights with minimal political consequences. They begin by convincing citizens that extraordinary government powers are necessary because the people being targeted are dangerous, criminal, foreign or undeserving. They begin by making government agents harder to identify and harder to hold accountable. They begin by expanding detention. They begin by expanding surveillance. They begin by lowering the threshold for the use of force.

And they teach the public that obedience is the price of safety.

ICE is serving as the prototype for what a much broader system of authoritarian enforcement could look like.

Masked agents. Mass surveillance. Detention camps. Weak oversight. Now add electric shock gloves to the arsenal.

21/08/2026

If United Nations General Assembly issues a declaration, MEGA and Climate Governance Commission will be ready to assemble a “smart coalition” with champion states and global civil society “to push work forward”.

The World Federalist Movements goal is to “create more effective, transparent, and accountable global governance leading to democratic world federation.”

CGC's envisioned system will prove irresistible to individuals belonging to the Dark Triad, who will likely fully appropriate it for their own ends—ends in which contempt for humanity reigns supreme.

21/08/2026

: Russia is moving to make digital identity verification standard practice at hotels nationwide. Hotels will soon be required to check in guests who arrive without an internal passport using the state-backed messaging app Max.

Russia will require hotels with over 50 rooms to use the Max app for guest check-ins from 1 September 2026, replacing paper passports.

07/08/2026

A Wisconsin court has ruled that repeated trips between Wisconsin and Michigan can help establish probable cause in a ma*****na investigation.

The case relied in part on data collected by Flock license plate cameras, raising new questions about how travel history can be used during criminal investigations.

The ruling is already sparking debate over privacy, surveillance, and law enforcement.

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07/08/2026