Trump announced that Greenland has agreed to allow two new American military bases to be built on the permafrost, while also securing the mineral rights and other “economic privileges” for the Empire to exploit.

Is the 1932 Technocracy movement primed for a revival now that the American Empire is trying to lock up everything from Greenland to Venezuela? Cuba must know they are next, so is there anything that can stop the ambitions of the technocrats before things get out of hand? Possibly, but it also feels as if nobody is coming to save anyone this time.

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A Healthline report has identified six categories of food and drink that may increase the risk of some cancers: processed meats, fried foods, overcooked foods, dairy, sugar and refined carbohydrates, and alcohol [1].

A NaturalNews.com article described the standard American diet as one that typically consists of “a myriad of processed carbs, processed meat products, and a few fruits and vegetables” [2]. The report’s findings align with a broader body of research that has examined dietary links to cancer risk [1].

Processed Meats, Fried Foods, and Overcooked Foods

A recent NaturalNews.com report said research found that men in the highest fifth of nitrite intake had a 23% higher risk of colorectal cancer compared with the lowest fifth [3].

A 2007 analysis by the World Cancer Research Fund previously linked processed meats to increased cancer risk, male infertility, and early death [4].

The report also stated that overcooking meat with high heat creates carcinogenic PAHs and heterocyclic amines (HCAs). Another NaturalNews.com article reported that acrylamide, described as a probable carcinogen, can form in certain foods exposed to high levels of heat during cooking or processing [5].

A separate Mercola.com article stated that a World Health Organization (WHO) meeting was held in 2002 to respond to the discovery of “unexpectedly high levels of acrylamide, a potent carcinogen, in a wide variety of carbohydrate-rich foods cooked with traditional high-temperature cooking” [6].

Dairy, Sugar and Refined Carbohydrates, and Alcohol

A recent NaturalNews.com report on a study published in a peer-reviewed journal stated that individuals who drank sugar-sweetened beverages more than once per day had over twice the gastric cancer risk compared with those who rarely consumed them [7].

Experts suggest that families can build healthier eating habits by making small, lasting changes together. Rather than changing everything at once, choosing one or two simple ideas can make the process easier for everyone [12].

A regular meal pattern can help children develop consistent eating habits. Parents can decide what, when, and where food is offered, while children can decide whether and how much they eat. Children should have three meals and two to three snacks each day, with water offered between meals and snacks [12].

Snacks can be treated as mini meals by combining foods from two or three food groups, added health experts. Meals can include protein, grains, fruits, vegetables, and dairy, while about half the plate can be filled with fruits and vegetables. Whole grains, a variety of colorful produce, and foods such as fish, nuts, avocado, and oils can also be included [12].

Family meals provide an opportunity for children to observe healthy choices. Eating slowly, avoiding distractions such as screens, and allowing everyone to serve themselves can help children practice recognizing when they are full [12].

Families can also make healthy choices easier by keeping fruits and vegetables available for snacks and avoiding grocery shopping while hungry. Involving children in food preparation, visiting a farmers market or garden, and using activities such as family walks as rewards can make healthy habits more enjoyable [12].

Sugary drinks such as soda and juice can be limited, while restaurant and fast-food meals can remain an occasional special treat [12]. These changes can help improve overall health and reduce cancer risk for the whole family.

Foods That May Lower Risk and Alternative Perspectives

Another NaturalNews.com report on a study published in Frontiers in Nutrition stated that women with the highest intake of phytochemicals from food had 31% lower odds of ovarian cancer compared with those with the lowest intake [8].

According to a separate NaturalNews.com report on a study, a phytochemical-rich diet was linked to 52% lower colorectal cancer odds [9].

A Mercola.com article suggested that “the vast majority of cancers could be prevented by strictly applying basic, common-sense healthy lifestyle strategies” [10].

References

1. 6 Foods That May Increase Your Risk of Cancer – Healthline. https://www.healthline.com/health/cancer/cancer-causing-foods
2. Is the Standard American Diet (SAD) Bad for Y – NaturalNews.com, December 06, 2007
3. Study Finds Nitrite, Not Nitrate, Linked to Colorectal Cancer Risk in Men. https://www.naturalnews.com/2026-09-26-nitrite-not-nitrate-linked-cancer-in-men.html
4. Processed Meats Declared Carcinogenic – Mercola.com, November 11, 2015
5. Health warning: Consumption of fried foods increases cancer risk – NaturalNews.com, February 11, 2019
6. Fantastic Voyage: Live Long Enough to Live Forever by Grossman Terry Kurzweil Ray
7. Daily Consumption of Sugar-Sweetened Beverages Linked to Higher Gastric Cancer Risk, Study Finds. https://www.naturalnews.com/2026-08-30-daily-consumption-sugar-sweetened-beverages-linked-gastric-cancer.html
8. Higher Intake of Phytochemical-Rich Foods Tied to Lower Ovarian Cancer Odds, Study Finds. https://www.naturalnews.com/2026-09-07-higher-intake-high-phytochemical-foods-lower-ovarian-cancer.html
9. Study Links Phytochemical-Rich Diet to 52% Lower Colorectal Cancer Odds. https://www.naturalnews.com/2026-09-17-study-phytochemical-food-lower-colorectal-cancer-odds.html
10. Why Breast Density Matters When It Comes to B – Mercola.com, December 19, 2015
11. Brighteon Broadcast News. by Mike Adams – Brighteon.com
12. Healthy Eating Habits. https://www.seattlechildrens.org/health-safety/nutrition-wellness/healthy-eating-habits/

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Longest and Shortest U.S. Visa Interview Wait Times by City

Key Takeaways:

• Sydney has the longest listed wait for a U.S. visitor visa interview at 21 months, compared with under two weeks in Perth.
• Six Canadian cities are among the 20 longest waits, including Toronto (20 months) and Vancouver (18 months).
• Average global visitor visa interview waits rose from 26 days in 2019 to 201 days in 2025, even as visa processing surpassed pre-pandemic levels.

Getting an interview for a U.S. visitor visa can take anywhere from a few days to nearly two years, depending on where you apply.

This visualization uses September 17, 2026, data from the U.S. Department of State to compare the next available interview appointments for B1/B2 visas, which cover temporary business and tourism visits.

Where Are U.S. Visa Interview Waits the Longest?

Sydney and Toronto top the ranking at 21 and 20 months, respectively. Monrovia, Liberia, and Vancouver, Canada, are tied for third at 18 months.

The table below shows locations where applicants face waits of six months or longer.

City/Post	Country	B1/B2 Next Available Appointment
Sydney	Australia	21 Months
Toronto	Canada	20 Months
Monrovia	Liberia	18 Months
Vancouver	Canada	18 Months
Halifax	Canada	15 Months
Ottawa	Canada	15 Months
Quebec	Canada	15 Months
Calgary	Canada	14 Months
Abu Dhabi	United Arab Emirates	12.5 Months
Algiers	Algeria	12.5 Months
Islamabad	Pakistan	12.5 Months
Hyderabad	India	12 Months
Dubai	United Arab Emirates	11.5 Months
Mumbai (Bombay)	India	11.5 Months
New Delhi	India	10 Months

Lima	Peru	9 Months
San Jose	Costa Rica	9 Months
Santo Domingo	Dominican Republic	9 Months
Chennai (Madras)	India	7.5 Months
Karachi	Pakistan	7.5 Months
Melbourne	Australia	7.5 Months
Bogota	Colombia	7 Months
Kolkata	India	6.5 Months
Abidjan	Cote d’Ivoire	6 Months
Baghdad	Iraq	6 Months
Erbil	Iraq	6 Months
Guadalajara	Mexico	6 Months

Canada’s prominence is particularly notable. Most Canadian citizens do not need a visitor visa to enter the United States, meaning many applicants at U.S. consulates in Canada are foreign nationals. The country also hosts a large population of international students and foreign workers, some of whom may require U.S. visitor visas.

India also faces widespread delays, with Hyderabad at 12 months, Mumbai at 11.5 months, and New Delhi at 10 months.

Staffing shortages and rising demand have made it harder for U.S. consulates to keep up with visa applications. According to a U.S. Government Accountability Office report, the number of officers working on nonimmigrant visas fell from 1,342 in 2024 to 904 in 2025, a decline of nearly one-third. Backlogs accumulated during COVID-19 have added to the pressure, contributing to longer interview waits.

Where Visa Interview Waits Are Four to Six Weeks

The following table covers consulates with waits of approximately four to six weeks:

City/Post	Country	B1/B2 Next Available Appointment
Auckland	New Zealand	1.5 Months
Bangkok	Thailand	1.5 Months
Belgrade	Serbia	1.5 Months
Brussels	Belgium	1.5 Months
Cape Town	South Africa	1.5 Months
Dhahran	Saudi Arabia	1.5 Months
Hermosillo	Mexico	1.5 Months
Jakarta	Indonesia	1.5 Months
Naha	Japan	1.5 Months
Osaka/Kobe	Japan	1.5 Months
Phnom Penh	Cambodia	1.5 Months
Santiago	Chile	1.5 Months
Suva	Fiji	1.5 Months
Tashkent	Uzbekistan	1.5 Months
Tijuana	Mexico	1.5 Months
Almaty	Kazakhstan	1 Month
Amman	Jordan	1 Month
Amsterdam	Netherlands	1 Month
Astana	Kazakhstan	1 Month
Belfast	United Kingdom	1 Month

Berlin	Germany	1 Month
Brasilia	Brazil	1 Month
Budapest	Hungary	1 Month
Cairo	Egypt	1 Month
Guatemala City	Guatemala	1 Month
Johannesburg	South Africa	1 Month
Kigali	Rwanda	1 Month
Kingston	Jamaica	1 Month
Koror	Palau	1 Month
Kuwait	Kuwait	1 Month
Lisbon	Portugal	1 Month
Lome	Togo	1 Month
London	United Kingdom	1 Month
Nairobi	Kenya	1 Month
Nassau	Bahamas	1 Month
Panama City	Panama	1 Month
Quito	Ecuador	1 Month
Sao Paulo	Brazil	1 Month
Stockholm	Sweden	1 Month
Auckland	New Zealand	1.5 Months

Bangkok	Thailand	1.5 Months
Belgrade	Serbia	1.5 Months
Brussels	Belgium	1.5 Months
Cape Town	South Africa	1.5 Months
Dhahran	Saudi Arabia	1.5 Months
Hermosillo	Mexico	1.5 Months
Jakarta	Indonesia	1.5 Months
Naha	Japan	1.5 Months
Osaka/Kobe	Japan	1.5 Months
Phnom Penh	Cambodia	1.5 Months
Santiago	Chile	1.5 Months
Suva	Fiji	1.5 Months
Tashkent	Uzbekistan	1.5 Months
Tijuana	Mexico	1.5 Months
Almaty	Kazakhstan	1 Month
Amman	Jordan	1 Month
Amsterdam	Netherlands	1 Month
Astana	Kazakhstan	1 Month
Belfast	United Kingdom	1 Month
Berlin	Germany	1 Month

Brasilia	Brazil	1 Month
Budapest	Hungary	1 Month
Cairo	Egypt	1 Month
Guatemala City	Guatemala	1 Month
Johannesburg	South Africa	1 Month
Kigali	Rwanda	1 Month
Kingston	Jamaica	1 Month
Koror	Palau	1 Month
Kuwait	Kuwait	1 Month
Lisbon	Portugal	1 Month
Lome	Togo	1 Month
London	United Kingdom	1 Month
Nairobi	Kenya	1 Month
Nassau	Bahamas	1 Month
Panama City	Panama	1 Month
Quito	Ecuador	1 Month
Sao Paulo	Brazil	1 Month
Stockholm	Sweden	1 Month

Cities including Auckland, Bangkok, and Brussels offer interviews in around 1.5 months, contrasting sharply with longer queues elsewhere.

The gap between consulates reflects differences in application volumes and staffing capacity. The GAO found that India handled approximately 21,400 nonimmigrant visa applications per consular officer in 2025, compared with around 10,100 in China. These figures illustrate the differing workloads faced by U.S. consulates, although they do not directly explain every city’s interview wait time.

Where Are Visa Interviews Available in 15 Days?

The following locations offer interview appointments within approximately 15 days.

City/Post	Country	B1/B2 Next Available Appointment
Riyadh	Saudi Arabia	0.5 Month
Ashgabat	Turkmenistan	< 0.5 Month
Asuncion	Paraguay	< 0.5 Month
Athens	Greece	< 0.5 Month
Baku	Azerbaijan	< 0.5 Month
Bandar Seri Begawan	Brunei	< 0.5 Month
Belmopan	Belize	< 0.5 Month
Bishkek	Kyrgyzstan	< 0.5 Month
Bratislava	Slovakia	< 0.5 Month
Bridgetown	Barbados	< 0.5 Month
Bucharest	Romania	< 0.5 Month
Buenos Aires	Argentina	< 0.5 Month
Chisinau	Moldova	< 0.5 Month
Copenhagen	Denmark	< 0.5 Month
Curacao	Curaçao	< 0.5 Month

Dakar	Senegal	< 0.5 Month
Dhaka	Bangladesh	< 0.5 Month
Dili	Timor-Leste	< 0.5 Month
Djibouti	Djibouti	< 0.5 Month
Dublin	Ireland	< 0.5 Month
Dushanbe	Tajikistan	< 0.5 Month
Fukuoka	Japan	< 0.5 Month
Hamilton	Bermuda	< 0.5 Month
Hanoi	Vietnam	< 0.5 Month
Helsinki	Finland	< 0.5 Month
Ho Chi Minh City	Vietnam	< 0.5 Month
Hong Kong	Hong Kong	< 0.5 Month
Jeddah	Saudi Arabia	< 0.5 Month
Kathmandu	Nepal	< 0.5 Month
Kolonia	Micronesia	< 0.5 Month

Krakow	Poland	< 0.5 Month
Kuala Lumpur	Malaysia	< 0.5 Month
La Paz	Bolivia	< 0.5 Month
Lagos	Nigeria	< 0.5 Month
Libreville	Gabon	< 0.5 Month
Ljubljana	Slovenia	< 0.5 Month
Luanda	Angola	< 0.5 Month
Luxembourg	Luxembourg	< 0.5 Month
Madrid	Spain	< 0.5 Month
Majuro	Marshall Islands	< 0.5 Month
Malabo	Equatorial Guinea	< 0.5 Month
Managua	Nicaragua	< 0.5 Month
Manama	Bahrain	< 0.5 Month
Manila	Philippines	< 0.5 Month
Montevideo	Uruguay	< 0.5 Month

Munich	Germany	< 0.5 Month
Nicosia	Cyprus	< 0.5 Month
Nogales	Mexico	< 0.5 Month
Oslo	Norway	< 0.5 Month
Paramaribo	Suriname	< 0.5 Month
Paris	France	< 0.5 Month
Perth	Australia	< 0.5 Month
Podgorica	Montenegro	< 0.5 Month
Port Louis	Mauritius	< 0.5 Month
Port Moresby	Papua New Guinea	< 0.5 Month
Port Of Spain	Trinidad and Tobago	< 0.5 Month
Prague	Czechia	< 0.5 Month
Praia	Cabo Verde	< 0.5 Month
Pristina	Kosovo	< 0.5 Month
Rangoon	Myanmar	< 0.5 Month

Recife	Brazil	< 0.5 Month
Reykjavik	Iceland	< 0.5 Month
Riga	Latvia	< 0.5 Month
Rio De Janeiro	Brazil	< 0.5 Month
San Salvador	El Salvador	< 0.5 Month
Sarajevo	Bosnia and Herzegovina	< 0.5 Month
Seoul	South Korea	< 0.5 Month
Shenyang	China	< 0.5 Month
Singapore	Singapore	< 0.5 Month
Skopje	North Macedonia	< 0.5 Month
Sofia	Bulgaria	< 0.5 Month
Surabaya	Indonesia	< 0.5 Month
Taipei	Taiwan	< 0.5 Month
Tallinn	Estonia	< 0.5 Month
Tbilisi	Georgia	< 0.5 Month

Tegucigalpa	Honduras	< 0.5 Month
Tirana	Albania	< 0.5 Month
Ulaanbaatar	Mongolia	< 0.5 Month
Valletta	Malta	< 0.5 Month
Vienna	Austria	< 0.5 Month
Vientiane	Laos	< 0.5 Month
Vilnius	Lithuania	< 0.5 Month
Warsaw	Poland	< 0.5 Month
Yaounde	Cameroon	< 0.5 Month
Yerevan	Armenia	< 0.5 Month
Zagreb	Croatia	< 0.5 Month

Australia offers one of the clearest examples of how sharply appointment availability can differ within the same country. While Sydney has a 21-month wait, Melbourne’s is 7.5 months and Perth’s is under two weeks.

Major Asian cities, including Manila, Seoul, Hanoi, and Singapore, also have exceptionally short waits. However, applicants cannot necessarily avoid backlogs by booking abroad. State Department guidance generally directs applicants to schedule interviews in their country of nationality or residence.

These figures represent the next available interview appointments, not the total time required to obtain a visa. Wait times can change as consulates release new appointment slots, and additional administrative processing may be required after an interview.

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The rules are set to take effect next week, allowing crypto ETFs to trade exclusively on the Stock Exchange of Thailand.

Update (Oct. 9 at 1:10 pm UTC): This article has been updated to include a comment from Binance Thailand CEO Nirun Fuwattananukul.

Thailand’s Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday finalized rules allowing crypto exchange-traded funds (ETFs) to list on Thailand’s main stock exchange, limited initially to Bitcoin and Ether.

The regulator said the rules will take effect on Oct. 16, 2026. Crypto ETFs must be listed for trading exclusively on the Stock Exchange of Thailand. Products linked to foreign crypto ETFs, such as depositary receipts, will not be permitted initially, while Thai brokers will remain barred from facilitating investments in overseas crypto ETFs for retail investors outside institutions and ultra-high-net-worth individuals.

“For many investors, particularly those who have been cautious about opening an exchange account or managing a wallet, an ETF through their existing brokerage account removes a real barrier,” Binance Thailand CEO Nirun Fuwattananukul told Cointelegraph.

The framework opens a new route for Thai investors to gain exposure to Bitcoin and Ether through the stock market. The SEC also amended its rules to allow mutual funds and private funds to invest in Thai-established crypto ETFs, whereas previously they could invest only in foreign crypto ETFs. 

Issuers still need to complete fund registration, obtain product approval, secure a SET listing and arrange custody before launching, Fuwattananukul said.

“Whether these products draw meaningful investment will depend on a few things: competitive fees, tight tracking of the underlying asset, and investor education,” he said.

Related: Thailand SEC proposes retail access to regulated overseas crypto derivatives 

The framework also prohibits brokers from providing margin loans to purchase crypto ETFs and requires fund assets to be held with SEC-regulated digital asset custodians. Investors must receive information about the products and confirm that they understand the risks before trading.

Crypto ETFs must be managed as a passive investment vehicle seeking to track the price of the crypto asset in which it invests. It must maintain net exposure to a single cryptocurrency averaging at least 80% of net asset value over each accounting year.

The SEC consulted on the proposed principles in April and May and on draft regulations in August and September. Most respondents supported the proposals, the regulator said.

Magazine: China’s P2P stablecoin wallets surge 43x, Korea’s $450B crypto economy: Asia Express

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The systematic erosion of purchasing power over the last few decades has coincided directly with a devastating decline in living standards for middle-class wage earners and prudent savers alike. You can visibly see it in most cities across America.

Areas that a generation ago were nice, clean neighborhoods are now blighted and decayed. Those with the means to do so moved on long ago. Those who remain are left with the ugliness.

But that’s not all. As we recently noted, when central planners intentionally debase a currency, they don’t just erode hard-earned savings; they tear apart the very moral fabric of society.

From revolutionary France’s catastrophic reliance on paper assignats to the modern Federal Reserve’s relentless balance-sheet expansions, the ruinous playbook never changes. Hard work and patient, disciplined saving are gradually replaced by financial desperation and wild, speculative gambling.

And once a populace begins to feel the suffocating squeeze of rapid dollar debasement, they look for someone – anyone – to stop the bleeding. They don’t typically point their angry fingers at the central bank or the reckless spending sprees in Washington. Instead, they look at the retail checkout counter, wrongly blaming local merchants and business owners.

They demand immediate, forceful relief from high prices. And opportunistic politicians, eager to avoid blame for the inflation they created, are more than happy to offer the brainless, counterproductive solution of government-imposed price controls.

Here in the USA, and across the entire planet, we’ve arrived at a dangerous and muddled place where the appetite for heavy-handed government intervention has crossed party lines entirely. Unaware that state-sponsored dollar debasement is the real thief in the night, everyday citizens are crying out for the state to slap artificial price caps on basic necessities.

Screwing Over American Voters

Polling reveals a startling, bipartisan consensus. According to a recent Wall Street Journal survey, voters across the entire political spectrum are rallying behind populist ideas that were once limited to the inane ramblings of socialist lunatics.

Whether it’s capping the cost of prescription drugs, childcare, or credit card interest rates, Americans are begging the government to step in and fix the price tag.

The WSJ’s findings are identical in the healthcare sector. The Center Square Voters’ Voice Poll, conducted by Noble Predictive Insights, found that an overwhelming 59 percent of American voters believe the government should limit healthcare prices to make care affordable. Only 24 percent voiced concern that such controls might limit access or stifle medical innovation. Here, pollster Mike Noble frankly summarizes the public’s temperament:

“It’s less about access to care. It’s just reining in the medical companies so they’re not screwing over the average American voter like they feel they have.”

This urge spans almost every demographic. The poll showed that 66 percent of Democrats, 56 percent of voters earning over $100,000, and 60 percent of those making under $50,000 all want healthcare price limits. Age makes little difference either. Fifty-eight percent of 18-to-29-year-olds and 56 percent of seniors over 65 agree that force is needed to get costs under control.

And it doesn’t stop with doctor bills. At the grocery store, Americans are hitting a wall of severe sticker shock. A survey by Consumer Action for a Strong Economy found that 27 percent of Americans cite groceries as their single largest affordability concern. Pew Research reports that 66 percent of the public is deeply worried about the soaring price of basic goods.

American voters, without question, are getting screwed over. But it’s not how they perceive. Higher costs, in most instances, are not the result of price gouging. Rather, they’re the effect of an eroding dollar.

Distorting Market Signals

In response, politicians are serving up the exact poison the public is asking for. Banning “price gouging” and introducing legislative crackdowns on price discrimination. There are even proposals for tens of millions in taxpayer funds for government-run grocery stores being peddled as mainstream solutions.

It sounds simple. It sounds compassionate. If food is too expensive, just pass a law that makes high prices illegal. Won’t that solve the problem?

Alas, supply and demand and the price signals that guide economic production cannot be legislated out of existence.

To understand why price controls fail every time they are attempted, you have to understand what a price represents. A price is not an arbitrary number dreamed up by a greedy shopkeeper. It is a vital signal. It communicates real-time information about supply, demand, scarcity, and input costs across a complex web of global supply chains. When a government steps in and sets an artificial price ceiling below market value, it destroys that communication system.

Take retail groceries, for example. The grocery industry operates on razor-thin profit margins, a mere 1.3 percent. Furthermore, food is highly perishable, and its supply chains are exceptionally sensitive to weather, disease outbreaks, fuel costs, and global commodity swings.

When a government tells a grocer that they cannot raise prices to reflect their skyrocketing input costs, the store doesn’t just absorb the loss forever. It stops stocking the items it’s being forced to lose money on.

When profit margins turn negative, production halts, investment dries up, and distribution breaks down. The immediate result of a price ceiling isn’t cheap abundance. It is instant scarcity, black markets, and empty shelves.

Lessons Unlearned

Proponents of price caps like to market them as modern, progressive tools for economic fairness. In reality, they’re worn-out failures with a 100 percent track record of causing disaster.

History provides a relentless string of warnings that modern policy makers choose to ignore. In America, there were numerous failed experiments with price controls in the 20th century.

For example, as part of the New Deal era economic interventions, under the Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937, the federal government established agricultural marketing orders. These orders forced raisin growers to surrender a portion of their annual crop to a government-controlled reserve to artificially limit market supply and prop up wholesale prices. The policy restricted supply and failed to increase farmer income. Yet it dragged on for decades until the Supreme Court finally struck it down in 2015.

During World War II, the Emergency Price Control Act of 1942 stabilized official price tags. But it directly caused a 7.1 percent increase in product shortages. To survive, businesses turned to extreme quality degradation (debasement of goods).

Hot dogs were filled with potato meals. Coffee was stretched using ground roasted grains. Grass and wild foliage were packaged and sold as tea leaves. Shoes were manufactured with weak synthetic soles. And textiles were made with thinner weaves. By preventing honest price discovery, citizens ended up paying the full price for severely debased goods.

Tricky Dick Nixon, in addition to closing the gold window in August 1971, also placed an executive freeze on wages and prices. While intended to control inflation, the intervention crippled agricultural supply chains.

Executive price caps on wholesale and retail food prevented farmers from raising prices to cover escalating input costs, such as feed, fuel, and fertilizer. As profit margins collapsed, farmers deliberately culled herds, culled poultry populations, and reduced livestock expansion to cut losses.

Nixon’s policies did not solve the underlying monetary causes of inflation. When price controls were lifted in 1974, pent-up price pressures exploded, resulting in double-digit inflation surges and years of stagflation throughout the remainder of the decade.

Scarcity By Design

So, too, there are countless examples of failed experiments with price controls across history and the planet. In Zimbabwe and Venezuela in the 2000s, strict price caps destroyed local manufacturing and agriculture, turning once-thriving nations into barren wasteland economies plagued by mass famine and rampant black-market trading.

There was also Argentina’s Precios Cuidados, circa 2007–2015, which targeted grocery price controls. This prompted manufacturers to rebrand products into un-capped sizes to survive. In the end, the policy did less than squat to control overall inflation or make food cheaper.

And in early 2022, facing soaring inflation, the Hungarian government introduced statutory price caps on several essential food items, including chicken breasts, pork leg, sunflower oil, sugar, wheat flour, and milk. This forced retailers to sell these food items at or below October 2021 price levels. Predictably, widespread scarcity followed, as retailers imposed strict quantity limits, and suppliers withdrew their goods from wholesale markets because selling at capped prices meant financial ruin.

Of course, the ultimate danger of price controls isn’t just empty store shelves or lower-quality goods. It’s the total destruction of civic trust. When price caps produce shortages, politicians never admit their economic policies failed. Instead, they double down. They accuse businesses of hoarding, label struggling store owners as greedy capitalists, and incite the public against their neighbors.

Regrettably, we see the early stages of this exact mindset taking root today. When gas, healthcare, and food prices surge due to the Fed printing trillions of unbacked dollars, politicians like Liz Warren line up in front of cameras to blame corporate greed. The public, desperate and confused, falls for the lies. They demand caps, taxes, and state crackdowns.

The idea that a government can print trillions of paper dollars out of thin air, inflate the monetary base, and then simply outlaw the resulting price increases is a dangerous delusion. It is the economic equivalent of trying to control diarrhea using adhesive tape.

A society that destroys its money will inevitably destroy its markets. And a society that destroys its markets will soon find itself picking through empty shelves, fighting over rations, and wondering how a country of such vast abundance turned into another cautionary tale.

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The World Economic Forum (WEF) will hold its first-ever Annual Meeting of Global Future Leaders (AMGFL) in Dubai, UAE from October 13-15, and is slated to include a presentation from the researcher behind the technology to detect people and objects through walls using WiFi and radio signals.

Not to be confused with the Annual Meeting of the Global Future Councils, which used to be held in the same place during the same week, the inaugural AMGFL describes itself as “the premier next-generation leadership platform” bringing together “emerging pioneers under 40 alongside established global leaders, innovators, scientists, entrepreneurs, policymakers, and cultural voices.”

This year’s meeting will debut two specific formats: Unknown Tomorrows, which deals with simulating possible futures, and Opportunity Labs, which are collaborative working sessions.

At the time of this publication, there are only nine sessions scheduled for public viewing between October 14 and 15.

• Trust Test for Agentic AI
• The Human-Machine Line
• Opening Plenary
• Trade In a Changing World
• Fair by Design
• Economics after Certainty
• Reading the Youth Pulse
• Sensing the Invisible
• Closing Plenary

One session of particular interest to The  Sociable is a talk by Cartesian Systems co-founder and MIT Signal Kinetics Research Lab founding director Dr. Fadel Adib called “Sensing the Invisible,” which is about wireless sensing and how it can read “biological signals beneath our skin and information moving through the ocean.”

Apart from being a WEF Young Global Leader, Dr. Adib is one of the first researchers to develop technology to sense, detect, and track people and objects through walls using radio and WiFi signals.

Dr. Adib’s past research includes:

• Seeing through walls with WiFi: including 3D tracking, gesture recognition, and reconstructing human figures through walls.
• Smart homes that measure vital signs including breathing, heartbeats, micro-cardiac events, emotions, and stress levels.
• Batteryless micro-implants for in-body connectivity, sensing, self-reconfiguring with security/privacy.
• RFID and RFID-vision fusion: localization, tracking, food/liquid sensing, drone-based inventory, reinforcement learning, robotic picking, and augmented reality.

On top of Dr. Adib’s work in transhumanism, the Internet of Bodies, smart homes, and track-and-trace technologies, his team’s research is now being directed towards:

• Ocean IoT: including batteryless networking, underwater GPS, backscatter theory, underwater-to-air communications, battery-free wireless cameras, and underwater AI.
• Imaging with Wireless Signals: including non-line-of-sight 3D reconstruction, generative-AI-powered wireless vision, and indoor scene reconstruction.
• Robot/Drone Perception and Manipulation: including RF-Visual reinforcement learning, mechanical search, and drone localization/navigation with millimeter-wave backscatter tags.

Another AMGFL session of interest is a presentation by Atonaton founder and principal researcher Madeline Gannon called “The Human-Machine Line.”

Last June Gannon gave a presentation at the WEF’s Annual Meeting of the New Champions, aka Summer Davos, in China where she said that our acceptance of robots will be based on our feelings towards them rather than their actual functions.

“What I think we’re missing in the robotics world, and in the technology world in general, is that the future is not really going to be about function — what the robots do — it’s really going to be about feeling the experience of these machines”Madeline Gannon, WEF Annual Meeting of the New Champions, June 2026

“For mass adoption, for mass acceptance, how they make us feel is going to be more important,” said Gannon.

“As the hardware gets commoditized, as the models get commoditized, the only differentiating factor is going to be the experience of these machines.”

In other words, it’s not about what these soulless, empathy-lacking lackeys do or don’t do for us, but rather how we feel about them.

For more on that, check out our story, “Accepting robots will be about human feelings, not machine functions: WEF ‘Summer Davos’ in China” here.

Although sessions, speakers, and times are subject to change, there is no sign of WEF interim co-chairs Larry Fink and Andre Hoffmann on the program schedule.

However, the newly-appointed WEF president and CEO Alois Zwinggi is slated to speak during the opening plenary.

Zwinggi assumed his role when former president and CEO Borge Brende left the WEF in disgrace following the partial release of the so-called Epstein Files.

Meanwhile, WEF founder Klaus Schwab, who also resigned after 53-years at the helm, has gone on record to say that he was still exploring avenues to choose his successor.

The only other full-time WEF employee on the schedule is Managing Director Sebastian Buckup, who is to speak on both the opening and closing plenaries.

As far as events go, the WEF has cut back considerably on the scale of its offerings.

Every year in September, the WEF holds its Sustainable Development Impact Meetings to coincide with the UN General Assembly in New York.

Whereas in the past, multiple sessions were broadcast over several days, this year’s Sustainable Development Impact Meeting consisted of only a single session: The Chief Economists Outlook.

Previously, the Sustainable Development Impact Meetings gave us such gems as “We Own The Science” from UN Under-Secretary-General for Global Communications Melissa Fleming in 2022, and “Our First Amendment stands as a major block to the ability to just hammer [disinformation] out of existence” from John Kerry in 2024. 

This year, the WEF’s Annual Meeting on Cybersecurity has also disappeared from the meetings schedule, along with the Annual Meeting of the Global Futures Council, which were both combined into one event last year in October.

This year’s inaugural Annual Meeting of Global Future Leaders will focus on six thematic pillars:

• AI, technology and human agency
• Science, discovery and innovation
• Economic growth
• Geopolitics, security and trade
• Leadership, business innovation and human flourishing
• Climate and nature

Its stated purpose is “to shape the future by jointly creating bold opportunities in a volatile world, while building the capacity to withstand setbacks and respond to the unthinkable.”

Image Source: AI generated with ChatGPT

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If the Florida Department of Health adopts the rule change, children would no longer be required to receive the Hep B, varicella (chickenpox), Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib), and pneumococcal conjugate vaccines. Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo told those who attended a three-hour contentious hearing that the proposed rule change is about the “right of a parent to make a decision about what’s best for their child” — not science.

Florida health officials on Thursday held a contentious three-hour hearing on the pros and cons of eliminating mandates for four vaccines currently required for children to attend K-12 public and private schools and daycares.

If the Florida Department of Health (DOH) adopts the rule change, children would no longer be required to receive the hepatitis B (Hep B), varicella (chickenpox), Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib), and pneumococcal conjugate vaccines.

Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo told the crowd the proposed rule change was about parental rights, not science.

“This isn’t about the scientific effectiveness of one vaccine or the other, the safety of one vaccine or the other,” he told a crowd at the hearing.

It’s about the “right of a parent to make a decision about what’s best for their child. Period. It’s not complicated. It’s very simple in that respect.”

After the hearing, Ladapo wrote on X that the public needs “fewer mandates, more informed decision-making.”

Mother shares how her newborn son was injured by Hep B vaccine

Dozens of parents, doctors and other medical professionals delivered public comments on the proposed rule change during the hearing, held at a hotel in Lake Mary.

Some expressed concern that fewer vaccine mandates would threaten the health of children who have cancer or are otherwise immunocompromised and unable to get vaccinated.

Dr. Brandon Chatani, a pediatric infectious disease specialist and vice president of the Florida Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics, said, “When immunization rates fall below the threshold needed for community immunity, the burden does not fall evenly.”

Others told stories of vaccine injury.

Susan Sweden said her son was injured as a newborn after receiving the Hep B vaccine. “He stopped breathing every hour on the hour for the first 24 hours of his life.”

Her son’s adverse reaction is documented in the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), she said.

“My newborn wasn’t sexually active, wasn’t sharing needles, and as a mother, I wasn’t infected. Yet he was vaccinated without my fully informed consent,” she added.

Allison Uker, also the mother of a vaccine-injured child, thanked Ladapo for “being the light in the darkness of the captured medical system, for protecting children from medical harm and honoring true informed consent.”

The proposed rule change would align DOH’s administrative code with Florida state law so that both require the same shots for school and daycare attendance, according to a DOH press release.

DOH currently requires more shots than what Florida law prescribes. Florida law requires vaccination only for polio, diphtheria, measles, mumps, rubella, tetanus, and whooping cough.

The hearing, just one step in Florida’s rulemaking process, does not constitute final adoption of the rule, the DOH said.

As of press time, it is unclear when the agency will issue a final decision on the rule change.

Ladapo, DeSantis previously asked lawmakers to end mandates

In September 2025, Ladapo announced plans to eliminate all vaccine mandates in the state, including for children to attend school.

Although Gov. Ron DeSantis and Ladapo asked the legislature to change state law to remove the vaccine mandates, “no legislator filed a bill in any of the legislative sessions in 2026,” CBS News reported.

Alexandra Hill, a Florida mother of five who volunteers with Children’s Health Defense’s Florida Chapter, told The Defender she still hopes Ladapo will work toward eliminating all vaccine mandates. “None of them should be mandated,” she said.

Hill said she’s witnessed first-hand numerous vaccine injuries among members of her family and extended family.

“I saw the damage in my daughter, who has thankfully recovered through multiple health remedies … so she is doing really well. But that is not the case for everyone who has a vaccine-injured child,” she added.

Ladapo’s office did not comment by the deadline.

Watch the hearing here:

Related articles in The Defender

• Florida to ‘End All Vaccine Mandates,’ State’s Surgeon General Announces
• Florida AG Sues Pfizer, Bourla Over Deceptive Marketing of COVID Vaccines
• ‘Cody’s Law’: Florida Lawmakers Weigh First State Law to Compensate Vaccine Injury Victims

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Speaking on the Bitcoin Rails podcast, Cake Wallet’s Seth for Privacy said people need to take more precautions to protect their identities when using the biggest cryptocurrency.

Just one transaction can compromise years of discreet Bitcoin activity, Cake Wallet’s chief operating officer has warned. 

Speaking on the Bitcoin Rails podcast this week, activist Seth for Privacy talked about different ways of protecting one’s privacy when using Bitcoin and said that focusing on privacy was a must for the West. 

Bitcoin privacy is a hot topic again ever since the developers of private coin mixer Samourai Wallet went on trial last year and were subsequently imprisoned. 

But just this week, the U.S. Department of Treasury scrapped two long-stalled crypto surveillance proposals, handing a major win to privacy advocates and the digital asset industry.

“If you ever spend your no-KYC coins with one of your KYC coins — which if you just let the wallet do its thing, it could do because it doesn’t know the difference — you immediately connect all of the non-KYC Bitcoin that you spend in that with your identity,” Seth said, referring to UTXO management, also called “coin control” by some wallets. 

Bitcoin wallets don’t hold a single balance but a collection of separate unspent transaction outputs — UTXOs — each one a discrete “coin” from a specific past transaction. 

When you send a payment larger than any one UTXO, the wallet picks several and combines them as inputs to the same transaction — an easy mistake to make, Seth highlighted. 

Seth added that unlike in the global South, where people have experienced more oppressive states, citizens in the West will need to “feel pain” in order to realize how important privacy is.

Still, he added that attitudes were changing and people were getting more serious about protecting their privacy. 

“It has been shifting, in the last five or six years a lot of people — even in the West — are starting to think [privacy] really matters, we really need to think about this seriously now,” he said. 

Cake Wallet is a privacy-oriented, self-custody, open-source wallet. The wallet earlier this year integrated Bitcoin’s Lightning Network into its platform. 

Using the second layer solution is not only faster and cheaper, it also offers more privacy than Bitcoin’s main chain. 

While Cake Wallet supports other cryptocurrencies, including privacy coin Monero, Seth for Privacy added that he’d love it if the digital coin didn’t exist. 

“If Bitcoin’s privacy got good enough that you could use it and have at least almost as good privacy as Monero without massive hoops to jump through, and Monero ceased to exist, that’s fine,” he said. 

“I would much rather the thing that more people use has better privacy than a more niche tool that has perfect privacy, and that’s something that less people are using because it’s less well known.”

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Amid secret talks between Washington and Tehran, Israel has new demands on nuclear verification

I have been reliably told by American and Israeli sources that things are quietly happening in secret talks between Washington and Tehran as the economy in Iran continues to plummet and the only way forward for Iran’s leadership is to obtain a settlement focused on its nuclear program. Talk is cheap, but the current conversations have spurred some anxious Israelis with experience in military and nuclear activities to produce a position paper entitled “What an Air-Tight Nuclear Verification Regime in Iran Should Look Like.”

The existence and circulation of the paper to a small group of verification experts makes clear that the ongoing secret talks have profoundly distressed Israel, which is facing worldwide condemnation of its ongoing killings and abuses of Palestine civilians in Gaza and the West Bank that many call genocide. Israel remains convinced that zealots in Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps are secretly keeping the nuclear flame alive. The paper’s key point is that any newfound nuclear inspection regime “requires an unprecedented level of intrusiveness, far outstripping standard international safeguards.

“Because trust is nonexistent and Iran possesses deep technical knowledge and a history of covert sites,” the paper notes, “the regime must be built on the principle of absolute verification.” The normal verification procedures of the International Atomic Energy Agency that deal with declared nuclear material will no longer satisfy Israel. The Trump White House and Iran must go further and permit IAEA inspectors access to all information and locations. IAEA inspectors also must be given authority to access any nuclear site in Iran—military or civilian—within twenty-four hours “to prevent the sanitation of evidence.” In other words, there can be no cheating.

Another longstanding Israeli concern is the Iranian stockpile of uranium enriched to 60 percent known to be stored at various underground nuclear sites. The paper says the stockpile must either be completely blended down or shipped out of the country. (That condition indicates that Israel, despite its talk of a covert operation to find and remove or destroy the materials, has understood all along that such a mission would be impossible.)

I was given a copy of the paper, and I shared it with an American expert who found it to be a first-rate discussion of the technical and verification issues involved in shutting down Iran’s nuclear facilities. The paper does not, the American pointed out, deal with the political issues involved in preventing Iran from obtaining the bomb. Nonetheless, he added, speaking of the Israelis, “They’ve put something on the table.”

The Iranian regime, the American acknowledged, is now facing a collapse of institutions, including the IRGC. Many Iranian citizens are out of work, hungry, and financially desperate. He believes the population could soon be on the verge of open revolt that would not, as in earlier demonstrations, be subject to murderous retaliation from IRGC members because many in the rank and file are unpaid and demoralized. He noted that just this past weekend there were demonstrations throughout Iran, including in Tehran, by retirees and workers who, according to published reports, were protesting rising poverty and unpaid retirement funds. There was no intervention by the IRGC, although executions of dissidents are still being authorized by the Iranian judiciary.

The most recent round of talks between the United States and Iran have been far more substantial and technical than earlier discussions involving Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law, and Steve Witkoff, a New York real estate mogul and longtime friend of the president. Neither of those envoys knows much about nuclear weapons.

Iran is still capable of producing and firing drones and rockets, but its economy, as has been widely reported, is in shambles. I’ve been told that Iran’s longtime trucking and smuggling outlets for its oil to Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria are no longer functioning as before.

The American expert cautioned that progress with Tehran while “great” is very limited. He said he believes the White House “is not going to start a ‘we won’ election ploy.” He reminded me that the Iranians had made similar promises on nonproliferation to the Biden administration “and then proceeded with weapons-grade refinement capability. No let-up this time because the current economic pressure is working. We are not going to ease the pressure until it’s in the bag.” (After alluding in a speech Monday night in Nebraska to Iran’s ability to “take out” Los Angeles and San Diego if it developed a nuclear bomb, Trump said that the ongoing war is “going to end very soon.”)

The American said that “the Israelis want verification negotiations to fail to avoid settling short of obliteration of the whole of Iran’s weapon program.” The visceral Israeli fear of a US settlement with Iran that falls short of that objective, unlikely as that may be in the Trump era, explains the production of what the official called Israeli’s “super requirement list” of safeguards, laid out in the paper cited above, for any nuclear agreement with Iran.

The conflict between Israel’s security demands and the international demand for the opening of the Strait of Hormuz makes for complex diplomacy, the American told me. The first step is to define and respond to the Iranian view of “peaceful development” that would deal with nuclear energy for domestic use. At the same time, Israel possesses dozens of nuclear weapons that it has never officially acknowledged, although its reactor in Dimona is widely known to have begun producing warheads by the late 1960s.

The Israeli view, according to the author of the paper on nuclear verification, is that the Trump administration, anxious for a nuclear agreement before the November elections, is being suckered by an Iranian regime that “will lie and cheat with a smile and double down when their backs are up against a wall.” The expert said he is convinced that the Iranian leadership is “buying time to improve” the economy and, with that accomplished, “will improve the defenses” around three of its major nuclear sites, at Natanz, Isfahan, and Fordow. All three sites have been heavily bombed in recent years by US and Israeli aircraft.

Israel is “terrified,” the Israeli said, because “the Iranians believe that the only way to survive is to lash out.” He said the Iranian leadership has learned, like Mohammed Ali, the great American boxer, when to do “rope-a-dope” before lashing out.

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At least 16 trucking, delivery, and transportation companies entered bankruptcy proceedings between late August and September 21. These filings extend across general freight, construction materials, agricultural hauling, and even an Amazon delivery contractor. Some are seeking Chapter 11 protection to reorganize; others have entered Chapter 7 liquidation. We should not pretend every filing means a company has closed, but we should certainly ask why businesses moving the goods this economy depends upon are struggling to remain solvent.

Globemaster reported between $500,000 and $1 million in assets against liabilities ranging from $1 million to $10 million. Pacer Transport listed less than $50,000 in assets against $1 million to $10 million in liabilities. FreightWaves also points to rising diesel prices and elevated operating costs. A trucker cannot pay for fuel with a politician’s speech about how well the economy is doing.

I keep coming back to the distinction between spending and prosperity. A household spending more money to obtain the same necessities has not become wealthier. Neither has a business whose revenue rises while its expenses rise faster. You can move more dollars through an economy while leaving the people doing the work with less. That is why aggregate figures can look respectable while the operator sitting at his kitchen table discovers there is nothing left after paying everybody else.

If customers resist higher freight charges, the carrier absorbs the pressure until there is no margin left. Borrowing may buy time, but another loan does not repair an operation that cannot consistently earn enough to meet its obligations. Eventually, the creditor wants cash.

Energy costs are part of this squeeze. Fuel must be paid for immediately, while payment for hauling a load may come later. A carrier can collect a fuel surcharge and still face a cash shortage before that money arrives. Add truck payments, insurance, maintenance, and wages, and there is very little room for error. If freight revenue cannot keep pace with those bills, running the truck may produce activity without producing a profit. That is how a business can remain busy right up to the day it goes bankrupt.

When smaller operators disappear, surviving businesses may acquire their equipment and customers. That can help restore balance in an overcrowded market, but the adjustment comes through lost businesses, damaged credit, and interrupted livelihoods. The man who spent years building a fleet does not experience this as an encouraging economic correction. He experiences it as the destruction of everything he worked for.

These bankruptcies alone do not prove the entire country is in recession. They do show why I would pay attention to the businesses carrying the goods rather than accept every reassuring national average at face value. An economy needs people willing to take risks and enough profit to justify taking them. Keep squeezing that profit and eventually the trucks, the jobs, and the tax revenue go with it. Washington can roll over its debts and congratulate itself on another spending package. The private businessman has to make payroll on Friday.

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