Microreactor Gets DOE Approval for Full Power Testing, Previously Contracts with Army, DIU, Navy and Air Force

The industry is getting serious momentum here.  We need these more tan grid machines.

They are heat engines after all.

We are now going through a massive energy machina expansion everywhere.  city heat matters, city power matters.  Now augment with geothermal.

Microreactor Gets DOE Approval for Full Power Testing, Previously Contracts with Army, DIU, Navy and Air Force

October 29, 2026

For the first time in American history, the Department of Energy has approved a commercial nuclear microreactor’s safety analysis for full-power operations.

https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2026/10/microreactor-gets-doe-approval-for-full-power-testing-previously-contracts-with-army-diu-navy-and-air-force.html

LA-based Radiant secured the approval, with testing planned at Idaho National Laboratory.

With the Kaleidos DSA approved, Radiant is cued for DOE’s Readiness Review, which will assess whether Kaleidos and the team responsible for operating it are prepared to begin nuclear operations. Following successful completion of the review, Radiant will fuel Kaleidos and begin its five-phase test campaign at the National Reactor Innovation Center’s Demonstration of Microreactor Experiments (DOME) facility at INL.

The campaign will progress from first criticality through increasingly higher-power operation, culminating in at least 150 hours of continuous operation at full power without operator intervention.

The approval follows DOE’s February 2026 approval of Radiant’s earlier Preliminary Documented Safety Analysis (PDSA) submission.

Radiant built Kaleidos at its El Segundo, California facility and shipped it to INL in August 2026. The DOME campaign is a key step toward Radiant’s plan to manufacture Kaleidos at its R-50 facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and deliver its first commercial units to Buckley Space Force Base and Fort Benning in 2028. Earlier this month, Radiant was selected by the U.S. Navy to deploy Kaleidos at Naval Weapons Station Crane in Indiana.

Radiant plans to deliver 15 reactors to the US military by 2030. Radiant has signed a commercial agreement with Equinix for 20 Kaleidos units and was selected by the Department of the Air Force and Defense Innovation Unit to develop and operate a microreactor at Buckley Space Force Base.Screenshot

BREAKING: For the first time in American history, the Department of Energy has approved a commercial nuclear microreactor’s safety analysis for full-power operations.

LA-based Radiant secured the approval, with testing planned at Idaho National Laboratory.

— Atoms Not Bits (@AtomsNotBits) October 29, 2026

August 26, 2026 — Radiant, the company building the world’s only plug-in ready, transportable commercial nuclear microreactors, today announced that the U.S. Army, in partnership with the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU), has executed a binding agreement totaling up to $750 million dollars to develop and deploy 15 Kaleidos nuclear microreactors through the Army’s Janus Program. Radiant’s award is one of the largest contracts ever issued by DIU across their portfolio, and the largest award within the Janus Program.

Kaleidos is a 1-megawatt nuclear microreactor, transportable by land, sea, or air and deployed directly at customer sites. Plug-in ready, each reactor provides up to five years of power before refueling and is engineered with a 20-year operating life cycle. Unlike permanently installed nuclear facilities that require long lead times and site-specific construction, Kaleidos provides energy in a box. It requires no cooling water, and it is not a “hole-in-the-ground” reactor. The reactor arrives as a sealed, fueled unit that can be plugged in immediately. Additional units can be added or relocated as energy requirements evolve. Radiant manages fueling, refueling, and spent-fuel storage at its own facilities, allowing customer sites to return to greenfield condition, within two years or less after a unit is removed. Customer sites never have onsite spent fuel storage.

Radiant’s Kaleidos reactor is undergoing the country’s most rigorous test campaign at the Idaho National Laboratory DOME facility, which was updated for small modular reactor testing in 2026. Following a competitive selection process, the Department of Energy awarded Radiant exclusive access to the facility for a full year. Kaleidos is undergoing the industry’s only full-scale, full-power, extended duration reactor test- using the same reactor design and custom spec’d fresh fuel that will be used for customers deployments.

Beyond reactor development, Radiant is standing up the entire vertically integrated industrial capability required to manufacture, fuel, deploy, and service its products. Radiant is already under construction on its 300,000-square-foot R-50 manufacturing, fueling and storage campus in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. The company will fuel its own reactors and control every step of production through end-to-end ownership of the supply chain.Screenshot

October 20, 2026 Radiant announced its selection by the Department of the Navy to deploy its Kaleidos microreactor at Naval Weapons Station Crane, Indiana.

The Navy’s selection marks another major milestone in Radiant’s drive to bring transportable nuclear power to military and commercial customers. Radiant is the only nuclear company partnered with the Army, Navy and Air Force, underscoring military confidence in Kaleidos and Radiant’s ability to deliver mission-ready nuclear power.

April 22, 2026 – The Department of the Air Force, in conjunction with the Defense Innovation Unit, today announced that it has selected Radiant to develop and operate a nuclear microreactor proposed for Buckley Space Force Base in Aurora, Colorado, in fulfillment of the Advanced Nuclear Power for Installations (ANPI) initiative. Radiant’s Kaleidos reactors aims to be America’s first commercially developed microreactor to support a military facility, ushering in the nation’s renewed commitment to nuclear power. The first Kaleidos reactors will be delivered by 2028.

“This places Buckley Space Force Base at the forefront of the Department’s next-generation energy technology initiative,” said Col. Eamon Murray, Space Base Delta 2 commander, Buckley Space Force Base, Colo. “A secure and reliable power source will enable Buckley’s warfighters from all 6 services and allied nations to support the Joint Force in all situations, and we are proud to lead the charge to advance our warfighters’ technological superiority. The success of this endeavor depends on strong community trust we’ve built through proactive engagement and communication, and we’re excited to continue that engagement and transparency throughout this process.”

The ANPI program seeks to have at least one advanced nuclear reactor operating on at least one DAF installation by 2030 or sooner. Next steps include siting and environmental analyses as part of the National Environmental Policy Act process.

Climate Change on Climate Change

The Climate Meme was invented thirty years ago on the peak of an el nino event and pushed using media assets world wide. It was never real except accidentily.

Ice age type events are induced by massive volcanic emmisions most of the time. Not accepted yet, but the great Northern ice age was abruptly ended by true sudden crustal shift in 12900 bP

The money pushing the scheme has dried up.  Pandemics now.

We are reading the obituary.

Climate Change on Climate Change

By Ira Katz

October 30, 2026

Tom Woods recently had James Taylor, president of the Heartland Institute, on his podcast. The gist of the conversation is the good news that the data keeps coming in that there is no climate “crisis” (see The Existential Crisis – LewRockwell). Furthermore, the public perception of the so-called crisis is waning. I had become aware of this climate change in the public perception of climate change in a very subtle way

I spent the last 16 years of my working life with the industrial gas company Air Liquide. I have previously written about the company and my experience in it. In my opinion the company was not “woke” but did express many of the platitudes of big western corporations (see what I wrote about an internal webinar on sustainability). Regarding climate change, and especially the need to reduce greenhouse gases, this was more than mere politics within the corporate culture. In fact, there were many big investments by the company to avoid the wrath of the environmental movement because air separation requires very large amounts of energy. So there was the “need” to find “clean” energy sources. But there were also proactive investments in technologies created by the crisis, i.e., hysteria, itself. For example, with its century of gas handling experience it was natural that the company could develop technology for carbon capture. But the really big bet was on hydrogen production and its complete value chain.

The indicator for the change in the climate change paradigm came in a speech by the former PDG (président-directeur général) of Air Liquide Benoit Potier to the Air Liquide 2026 Annual General Meeting for stock holders (full disclosure, I own Air Liquide stock bought at reduced rates for employees). His presentation was titled, Strategic scoping, where he was to give “the usual macroeconomic and geopolitical outlook on the world.” But he added, “ And as you know, this is becoming tricky.” His overview of events, especially during the current century, lead to an interesting conclusion, that “we have moved over time from industrial capitalism to financial capital capitalism to something that is more of a political capitalism today.” In particular, “the border between politics and economics is not so clear. Global trade is being reorganized, technologies, critical raw materials supplies, energy, semiconductors, defense. On all these issues, the states interfere in the role and actions of economic actors. Autonomy and sovereignty are back with a vengeance and national preference is a thing.”

Relevant to this article was his take on climate, “the global consensus is on the back foot nowadays and pragmatism is the word of the day even though progress is still very real and for key carbon capture and sacration and hydrogen are still offer significant prospects.” My emphasis on this quote from the YouTube transcript of the translation from French. The key word “pragmatism” says it all for the new consensus.

How and why did the consensus change is not an academic question. The global elites that created the consensus are always up to nefarious schemes. I think we will get the answer by following the money. All the big bucks these days are going into artificial intelligence which needs a tremendous amount of energy. So once we learn A) that Billionaire Bill Gates Has 35% of His Portfolio Invested in These 2 Artificial Intelligence (AI) Stocks: Are They No-Brainer Buys? | The Motley Fool; then we know that sure to follow is B) Listen Closely to Hear Bill Gates’ Stunning Climate Reversal.

Why the Tehran Summit Is a Game-Changer

Maybe it is ,but early days. It needs to be nurtured. The middle east has suffered a century of divide and conquer which took advantage of any faction by sending guns to hotheads.

Maybe they can do better themselves.

The USA is going to go away.

Why the Tehran Summit Is a Game-Changer

By Pepe Escobar

Strategic Culture

October 30, 2026

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2026/10/no_author/why-the-tehran-summit-is-a-game-changer/

The ball is entirely on West Asia’s court. The U.S. is not even on the table.

The optics were sensational.

The Saudi Minister of Defense, Prince Khalid, brother of MbS; the Turkey head of intel, Ibrahim Kalin; and the military head of Pakistan, Field Marshal Asim Munir, all three full members of the Mecca Defense Alliance, enter a lavish room in the proverbial Persian palace to greet – or kiss the ring – of the potentate, sorry, secretary of the Supreme National Security Council (SNSC), Moshen Rezaee, number two of the Iranian power structure right below Leader Mojtaba Khamenei

This was not the Mecca Defense Alliance ostensibly on parade – representing neo-Ottomans, Arabs and South Asians. This was the Tehran Summit – as defined by the Persians.

Iran had only agreed to hold this ground-breaking summit – actually suggested by Asim Munir during his visit to Tehran last week – outside of the framework of the Mecca deal, and explicitly within the framework of discussing “endogenous regional security.”

So yes, they did discuss Palestine, Lebanon, Yemen, Gulf security and the Strait of Hormuz, in the spirit of reducing the proverbial “regional tensions” and ending the U.S. war against Iran and the Axis of Resistance.

The Tehran Summit may eventually signify the – reluctant or otherwise – acceptance of Iran’s security demands and the final status of the Strait of Hormuz, being elaborated via the Iran-Oman agreement.

It all depends, of course, on what the House of Saud will finally decide. And this decision is directly linked to how Riyadh will solve its deadly clash against Yemen.

Tehran was explicit: we are prepared to mediate and assist in resolving the Yemen dossier; however, it’s up to Riyadh to address – and accept – Ansarallah’s conditions. Otherwise, the – pre-existing – war will keep going on.

Deconstructing the “seven conditions”

It was Dr. Ali Bagheri Kani, the immensely competent Deputy Secretary of the SNSC, who offered the best inside view of what was being discussed at the table.

1.The four nations identified Israel as the main source of regional instability, with Iran as its immediate target and other countries potentially next (italics mine). The other source is the United States. Imagine Prince Khalid agreeing to all of the above.An agreement on lasting security in West Asia must be built from within, without dependence on foreign powers.

Tehran positioned itself as the central link (italics mine) connecting Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan. Feel free to be gobsmacked.

All four nations agreed to continue talking. Iran will coordinate the next meeting. No date or location yet.

Now add to this already stunning framework a Mohsen Rezaee Unplugged special: he was definitely in a much more cheerful mood than usual.

Take this highlight:

“I feel the presence of a new atmosphere in the region. It has formed thanks to the resistance of the Iranian people and the capability of the armed forces. I have sensed an extremely positive atmosphere in the discussions with these gentlemen.”

Even as he praised “the success of this rhetorical discussion and statements”, Rezaee was cautious: “We preferred not to issue any statement at the present time, but we will issue a single joint statement in which we agree on these points and reach an understanding, and the implementation of these matters will be practical and real, and we will move forward with them.”

Meanwhile, a Sisyphean task remains: how to force the Empire of Piracy to understand diplomacy in West Asia.

Bagheri-Kani: “The United States must fulfill Iran’s seven conditions.” He then added, “Rezaee mentioned today that the seven-day plan could be shortened to five days or even four.”

Let’s deconstruct these numbers.

The seven conditions remain the same: they are the abridged version of that serially dead cat, the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), which Trump himself tore up and insists it means nothing.

Recap: lifting sanctions; ceasing military threats; recognizing Iran’s right to the peaceful use of nuclear energy; ending support for Israel; acknowledging Iran’s sovereign rights over the Strait of Hormuz; halting interference in Iran’s internal affairs; and providing credible guarantees against future aggression.

Even camels in the middle of the Nejd know the Exceptionals will never fulfill any of these commitments.

What changes now is the timeline. According to the original plan, in the unlikely event the U.S. would fulfill the conditions, on the sixth day the Strait of Hormuz would be opened; and on the seventh day, like in an act of divine will, negotiations would begin.

Rezaee’s new proposal can only be interpreted as a joyful tease: everything can be done in five days or even four days, why not?

Rezaee is essentially saying that all the seven conditions remain; but if Trump is really interested in negotiations (he’s not: he wants a capitulation), Iran doesn’t need to wait for seven days. Four will do.

Whatever happens next – and after the U.S. mid-terms might well be a Trumpian military attack – it’s Tehran that still runs the clock. Plus the seven conditions – which are the prerequisites for any negotiation. Plus the timeframe. Plus the fact that if there’s no movement, the Strait of Hormuz will remain closed.

What Bagheri-Kani and Rezaee – the top two security guys – are emphasizing is that Iran has presented an invoice to the Empire of Piracy. By the way, every single item on the invoice has already been signed off on by POTUS himself, however he tries to extricate himself.

It’s “endogenous” security or bust

At first sight the Mecca Defense Alliance was supposed to be seen as a powerful Sunni-led collective security/defense alignment.

Yet the last thing the strategically deprived Empire of Piracy would expect is that the trio would start exploring avenues of cooperation with the nation they were being forced to treat as an existential threat.

Never underestimate the Persians. Displaying their usual finesse, what they have just done is to strategically turn containment of Iran on its head.

In the near future Iran might even contemplate joining the Mecca Defense Alliance – which quite a few serious Muslim scholars actually describe as a blasphemy on Mecca.

Before that, the petro-sheikhs – those Persian Gulf counterparts of the Baltic chihuahuas – may have met their doom, in case they are helpless to defuse the relentless Anglo-Salafi incitement of sectarian wars.

Iranians are as much worshippers of sacred Mecca and Medina as Yemenis – as both were directly praised by the Prophet (Iranians were singled out as unparalleled in the discernment of knowledge and the pursuit of wisdom).

And that ultimately explains why this meeting was defined as the Tehran Summit – with nothing to do with the notion of a “Mecca” pact.

As for Yemenis, Mohammad Ali al-Houthi, a key member of Ansarallah’s Supreme Political Council, laid down the law: he blasted Saudi Arabia’s claims of seeking regional de-escalation through Prince Khalid’s visit to Tehran, emphasizing that Riyadh’s diplomatic rhetoric contradicts the continued war, blockade, and occupation of Yemen.

After the Tehran Summit, Leader Mojtaba Khamenei met Mohsen Rezaee in person. Number One talking to Number Two.

Khamenei explicitly called for ending the current state of “neither war nor peace” by ensuring that the seven conditions are met, and by “maintaining control over the Strait of Hormuz.”

Rezaee actually briefed Khamenei on the idea of “endogenous” security across West Asia. Talk about a direct counterpart to the Russian drive for “indivisibility of security” in late 2021, which was then met by a non-response response by the U.S. and NATO.

Yet now, the ball is entirely on West Asia’s court. The U.S. is not even on the table. It’s up to Turkey, Saudi, Pakistan and Iran to make it happen.

They Found An Enzyme In A Toronto Compost Heap That Dissolves Plastic Bottles In 10 Hours

Thus is important because it is how to tear down  to PET  Plastic Bottles in 10 hours.   and maybe much more to produce feedstock.

The dscovery from Japan did not survive the true working temperature but this does.  first operation is happening.

This has been an open question for decades.

They Found An Enzyme In A Toronto Compost Heap That Dissolves Plastic Bottles In 10 Hours Canadian chemists at the University of Toronto found something strange in a steaming compost heap: a heat-loving enzyme that dissolves a plastic bottle into clean liquid in just 10 hours. No toxic fumes, no melting ovens, no new oil. In this documentary, we break down how Canada’s new invention works, from the compost pile that started it all to the atomic-level engineering that stops the enzyme from clogging, and why it could shake the $120 billion plastic and petrochemical industry. You will learn: ✔ Why mechanical recycling and pyrolysis never solved the plastic crisis ✔ How a Toronto compost heap produced an enzyme that works at 65°C ✔ The 3D molecular mechanics: disulfide bridge, catalytic triad, and the fix for product inhibition ✔ How recovered monomers reach 99.8% purity for true bottle-to-bottle recycling ✔ The Hamilton, Ontario plant that aims to process 50,000 tons of plastic a year ✔ What this means for Big Oil, beverage brands, and Canada’s 2050 future ⏱ CHAPTERS 00:00 The compost heap anomaly 02:00 The 450-year plastic lie 05:30 Inside the enzyme: 3D teardown 11:00 The Big Oil fight and bottle-to-bottle recycling 15:30 The 2050 verdict

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China's New Maid Robot is Gonna Change The Red Light Industry

 

This is so far a fiction.  Yet it preconditions the market and it is a business concept.  not bad eithetr.

What they miss so far is that it is easier to make a man service robot.  The market is just as deep.  and never served.  women need this even more than men.

We need new systems for human interaction.  this is a serious component.

China's New Maid Robot is Gonna Change The Red Light Industry

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Mysterious pill-shaped UFO caught on camera by pilots flying above Middle America

We are watching stray reports actua--y getting written up without a side trip to a data ho-e somewhere.

Understannd that since 1950 we have had over 200,000 separate eyewitness reports.

The pi-ot inferred a can type design.  that is unique.  It may be one of ours been moved to another site.

or not.  Secrecy has been pretending since 1955.

Mysterious pill-shaped UFO caught on camera by pilots flying above Middle America

READ MORE: I saw unreleased UFO files at a secret meeting in the Tennessee mountains. We prayed after seeing what these 'humanoid beings' did... the world is not prepared

Published: 23:31 EDT, 28 October 2026 | Updated: 01:07 EDT, 29 October 2026

https://www.dailymail.com/sciencetech/article-16243559/ufo-pilots-ohio-airplane.html

Pilots flying over Ohio contacted air traffic control after spotting a strange object near their plane, only to be told nothing was registering on radar.

An account posted to the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC) on October 26 described a silver, pill-shaped UFO that appeared almost stationary as the aircraft approached.

One pilot captured a photograph of the object, which he described during a follow-up interview with NUFORC investigator Ben Hansen. The encounter occurred on August 16.

‘The surface was silver and highly reflective, like pure polished metal,’ reads the investigator’s report, which identified the pilot only as ‘J.’

‘J described the UAP as uniform, pill-shaped. There were no warps or creases on the surface, nor was it tapered at the bottom,' Hansen wrote.

The crew saw no other aircraft on their collision-warning system or flight-tracking app. According to the report, Cleveland Center air traffic controllers also told them no aircraft or unidentified objects were showing on radar.

J believed the object may have emerged from thunderstorm clouds the pilots were attempting to fly between.

He questioned whether a balloon could have survived those conditions, reporting that their own aircraft experienced engine icing and moderate turbulence after entering the clouds.

One pilot captured a photograph of the object, describing it as a silver, pill-shaped UFO that appeared almost stationary as the aircraft approached.

One pilot captured a photograph of the object, describing it as a silver, pill-shaped UFO that appeared almost stationary as the aircraft approached

The NUFORC confirmed the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) did not detect an object on radar and found no database matches for planned balloon launches.

'Coupled with the witness’s estimate that the object was at least 30 feet in height and uniformly shaped without tapering at the top or bottom, it presents some challenges to the balloon theory,' Hansen said in the report.

At about 8pm ET, the pilots said they had reached 41,000 feet and were approaching a large thunderstorm, with clouds rising as high as 55,000 feet.

They decided flying through a gap between the clouds was the safest route.

That was when J spotted a strange object ahead of them, slightly above their plane.

He initially reported that it was about five miles away, but later estimated the distance was closer to two or three miles.

The pilots estimated that the object was flying at about 43,000 feet, traveling in the opposite direction and passing to their left.

He initially wondered whether it was a weather balloon. However, its even shape, with no narrowing at the bottom, made him question that explanation.

The crew saw no other aircraft on their collision-warning system or flight-tracking app. According to the report, Cleveland Center air traffic controllers also told them no aircraft or unidentified objects were showing on radar.

The crew saw no other aircraft on their collision-warning system or flight-tracking app. According to the report, Cleveland Center air traffic controllers also told them no aircraft or unidentified objects were showing on radar

NUFORC shared a CGI recreation of the UFO based on the witness's description.

NUFORC shared a CGI recreation of the UFO based on the witness's description

Its surface looked like highly polished metal. J believed its brightness came from reflecting sunlight rather than producing its own light.

The encounter lasted about two minutes. Flight information he later supplied showed that their plane was traveling at roughly 380mph.

J took one photograph with his iPhone after the object had passed them. By then, he estimated it was about seven miles behind the aircraft. He stressed that his description came from seeing it much closer earlier in the encounter.

The pilot said the way they approached and passed the object reminded him of encounters with oncoming aircraft, reinforcing his impression that it was moving rather than floating in place.

I worked with NASA. UFO disclosure will finally happen... but it's not coming from the White House

About a minute after first spotting it, he contacted Cleveland Center air traffic controllers to ask whether any aircraft or weather balloons were nearby.

Nothing appeared on the plane’s collision-warning system or the pilot’s flight-tracking app. According to J’s account, controllers also told the crew that nothing was showing on radar in the area where they saw the object.

The pilots continued watching it until it disappeared into the distance behind them.

NUFORC said the encounter raises wider questions about how authorities handle reports of unidentified objects near civilian aircraft.

The organization said there was no indication the FAA had referred this sighting to other agencies for a parallel investigation, arguing that potential aviation hazards deserve closer scrutiny.

It also highlighted an exchange in the audio recording in which an air traffic controller joked about the pilots submitting a NUFORC report, saying: ‘Make sure you include what color the alien was.’

NUFORC argued that such reactions reinforce the stigma surrounding UFO sightings and can discourage pilots from reporting encounters.

Even if an object ultimately proves to be a balloon, the organization said its presence in controlled airspace can raise safety concerns.

Aircraft traveling at hundreds of miles per hour could suffer serious damage in a collision, while unidentified surveillance balloons could pose a national security threat.

We Are Being Warned That Our “Window To Prepare” Is Closing –

The systerm is way more robust than you think.  Shutting down industry in an emergency frees up 60% of power.  The Ukraine is fightin a WAR and they are coping.  That is why.

An EMP event is atomic and can be answered.  It is no ones option.

I was warning about EMp 20 years ago and it has since then risen in consciousness.  Defense knows and they have had time to fix the threat and not say a word.

We Are Being Warned That Our “Window To Prepare” Is Closing – What Would The Survival Rate Be If The Power Grid In The U.S. Went Down For 6 Months?

October 29, 2026 by Michael

There is growing anticipation that something really big is about to happen. Social media is buzzing about the fact that so many governments around the world are urging their citizens to stockpile food, water and other essential supplies right now. Why have all of those governments suddenly developed such a sense of urgency? I wish that I knew, but without a doubt global events have begun to spiral out of control.

Our world is facing crisis after crisis, and most of them have erupted in the last 12 months. The U.S. and Israel are preparing to bomb the living daylights out of Iran after the midterm elections, and the Iranians are making all sorts of apocalyptic threats in response. The Russians and the Ukrainians are absolutely pummeling one another with missiles and drones, and European leaders are being encouraged to consider sending troops into Ukraine. Cyberattacks have become much more sophisticated and much more frequent, and AI agents are infiltrating financial systems worldwide. Meanwhile, we are facing a global energy crisis, a global fertilizer crisis and a global food crisis simultaneously. On top of everything else, the most powerful Super El Niño ever recorded is causing monster storms, epic droughts and horrific wildfires all over the planet.

Unfortunately, many are warning that things could soon get far worse.

A former Defense Intelligence Agency official named Farijah “Doc” St. Clair has ominously warned that our “window to prepare” is rapidly closing…

A former Defense Intelligence Agency staffer is warning Americans that time is running out to prepare for a crisis. His post has been viewed more than 1.7 million times.

“Your window to prepare, even with the basics, is closing,” wrote Farijah “Doc” St. Clair on X. “For those tracking the indicators that an event is increasingly likely, you know that it is now undeniable that something is brewing.”

This is not just some random former DIA employee.

He is currently the head of technology and intelligence at a firm that produces “an AI-driven intelligence product built with Palantir that gives corporate executives a daily briefing modeled on the President’s Daily Brief”…

St. Clair is head of technology and intelligence at Crisis24, a GardaWorld-owned risk firm. There he leads AiiA, an AI-driven intelligence product built with Palantir that gives corporate executives a daily briefing modeled on the President’s Daily Brief. A combat-wounded Army veteran, he says he spent more than a decade in the Army and the “Defense Intelligence Enterprise,” including a stint at DIA around 2015 and 2016. His company bio says he supported efforts to counter Russian influence and deployed to multiple combat theaters.

In his post, St. Clair wrote that during his intelligence career he worked on “counterintelligence threats to Continuity of Government (COG) and Continuity of Operations (COOP).”

It is literally his job to know the risks that are ahead.

Corporate executives trust him to provide the key intelligence that they need to make wise decisions, and so the fact that St. Clair is officially freaking out is a very big deal…

“Something I can say for absolute certain is that once governments signal that their citizens need to prepare, those preparations have already been conducted for national leadership,” he wrote.

He pointed to European governments urging citizens to keep supplies on hand. He also cited reports that the Pentagon wants U.S. military bases to be able to sustain themselves for 90 days, which he called “the loudest signal concerning how significant the situation is.”

“The gravity of this can’t be understated,” he wrote. “The calls for preparedness will escalate in their time frames. 3 days will turn into a week. A week will turn in to a few weeks. A few weeks into a couple months.”

I wrote about Project FORTRESS yesterday.

For some reason, our leaders suddenly feel a very strong sense of urgency to make sure that the U.S. military will be able to continue to operate normally if all civilian infrastructure were to go down for a period of 90 days…

Every major military base in the continental US would be expected to maintain essential operations, including independent access to electricity, water, fuel and communications for 90 days.

The plan envisions portable nuclear reactors, large battery systems and independent local power grids to keep bases running during blackouts.

Civilian factories would also be prepared to switch to defense production, backed by stockpiles of ammunition, fuel, critical minerals, electronics, spare parts and medical supplies.

To me, it sounds like they are preparing for a grid down scenario.

There are several ways that the U.S. power grid could be taken down for an extended period of time.

A “kill shot” from the Sun similar to the Carrington Event of 1859 could do it.

Nuclear explosions in the atmosphere above the United States could also fry our grid.

And there is also one possibility that I don’t think is talked about nearly enough.

Simultaneous terror attacks on a relatively small number of key extra high voltage substations could cause a widespread blackout lasting 18 months or longer.

Most Americans do not realize this.

I asked Grok to tell me what would happen if the United States had no power for 6 months.

This is what I was told…

Wow.

Robert James Woolsey was one of the leading experts in this field before he passed away earlier this year.

What he once told the U.S. Senate about what would occur if the U.S. power grid went down for an extended period of time is extremely chilling…

When a large electromagnetic pulse (EMP) or geomagnetic disturbance (GMD) event occurs—which, according to Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), there is “100% certainty” will happen at some time in the future—as many as 9 out of 10 people in the U.S. could die.

Johnson, chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs, posed questions to witnesses testifying on Capitol Hill before his committee. He asked R. James Woolsey, chairman of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and former director of the Central Intelligence Agency, what would happen to society if the electrical grid were to be down for an extended period of time, such as a year or two, following an EMP event?

Woolsey responded, “It’s briefly dealt with in the commission report of [2008]. There are essentially two estimates on how many people would die from hunger, from starvation, from lack of water, and from social disruption. One estimate is that within a year or so, two-thirds of the United States population would die. The other estimate is that within a year or so, 90% of the U.S. population would die. We’re talking about total devastation. We’re not talking about just a regular catastrophe.”

We are far more vulnerable than most people realize.

Personally, I am entirely convinced that someday the U.S. will be facing a long-term grid down scenario.

What will you do when that day suddenly arrives?

Our enemies know that taking down the power grid would be one of the fastest ways to get our society to collapse.

A successful attack that takes down our grid for an extended period of time would make 9/11 look like a Sunday picnic.

If you are not prepared for such a scenario, you need to start taking action immediately.

California startup says it has injected AI-designed virus into humans for first time

Understand that this has been out there but behind a wa- of too much data.  It is something AI can fix.

In fact AI can fix ion research this way.  wehave a road forward and AI can open it up.

Most issues are not this ever.

California startup says it has injected AI-designed virus into humans for first time

Radical Numerics claims their AI-driven approach can lead to rapid, on-demand generation of phages

Vishwam SankaranFriday 23 October 2026

An artificial intelligence research lab in California said it has administered a custom AI-designed virus into a human patient for the first time as a potential scalable solution to counter antibiotic-resistant superbugs.

AI lab Radical Numerics announced the treatment on Tuesday, but it is pending scientific scrutiny in the form of a peer-reviewed study.

If verified, the treatment, named Omnii-1, could mark the first time AI-designed bacteriophages have been administered to a human patient.

These phages are viruses that specifically infect bacteria. Antibiotic-resistant superbugs are projected to cause nearly 40 million deaths by 2050.

Under current phage treatment approaches for bacterial infections, researchers undertake a time-consuming search of vast environmental collections of phages to find one that happens to match a patient's specific infection.

It starts with clinicians extracting a sample of the bacteria causing a patient's infection to find or design phages that kill the infectious bug.

Key to this challenge is understanding the genetic features of a potential phage that could kill particular bacterial strains.

Phages kill bacteria through a multi-step process in which the virus first binds to specific receptor molecules on the surface of the target bacteria.

They then proceed to enter the bacterial cell to hijack it for their own replication and break it open.

The initial binding of the virus to bacteria is very specific, as a given phage only targets particular strains or species of bacteria.

This specificity is a crucial advantage of phage therapy, which spares beneficial gut microbes that tend to be affected by broad-spectrum antibiotics.

Radical Numerics claims that their AI-driven approach can lead to rapid, on-demand generation of phages that meet patient requirements, accelerating the timeline for treatment.

“In the world's first clinical use of AI-designed phages, designs generated by Omnii-1 were administered to a patient with an antibiotic-resistant bacterial infection under an authorised, physician-led compassionate-use pathway,” Radical Numerics wrote in a blog post.

“This milestone marks an early step toward translating AI-guided genome design into personalised therapies,” it said.

The startup claimed that its AI model is trained on diverse genomic sequences and phage genomes, as well as data on previously measured phage-host interactions.

Learning from this information, the AI could identify, as well as design, candidate phages for specific therapeutic requirements.

“We synthesise Omnii-1-designed phage variants and measure their recovery and activity across bacterial strains,” the startup said.

Recovery is a measure of a phage's viability, which says whether an AI-designed viral genome can successfully come to life and replicate in the lab.

“These experiments help characterise the activity of our variants against target hosts and inform subsequent rounds of modelling and design,” Radical Numerics explained.

The company said its Omnii-1 designs were synthesised and administered to a human patient with an antibiotic-resistant infection who had very few remaining medical options.

But it did not reveal specific details of the treatment’s clinical outcomes, citing patient privacy.

They can augment on the front.  Think a running attack with humans right behind or even with.  the rest of the time, not so much.

what is does is staurate the opposing target space.

Then fixed positions can be mucked out.

Could humanoid robots soon replace soldiers on the battlefield?

Humanoid robots may one day transform warfare, but engineering and operational barriers to deployment are still stubbornly high

by Jacob Parakilas

October 28, 2026

Future wars could be fought between competing humanoid robots. Image: MrJo / Shutterstock via The Conversation

Battlefield robots were once thought of as the stuff of science fiction. But the Ukraine war has put paid to that view, with uncrewed ground vehicles (UGVs) – or ground robots – taking on an increasingly visible role.

In September 2026, Mykhailo Fedorov, the former defense minister of Ukraine – who is generally credited with modernizing the country’s use of military drones – called for an army of robots on the frontline. He also outlined an ambitious challenge: achieve the first “confirmed battlefield result using a humanoid robot” within six months.

Ukraine is not alone in exploring the potential of humanoid machines. In the wake of the widely publicized World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing, a kind of Olympics for bipedal robots, Reuters reported that the Chinese military is working towards developing humanoid robots for combat.

The US military has also been exploring the potential use of humanoid robots on the battlefield. According to the BBC, San Francisco-based Foundation Robotics has picked up US$24 million in research contracts to pilot its humanoid technology with the US military. Two of its Phantom Mk1 robots have reportedly also been undergoing tests in Ukraine.

In the age of artificial intelligence, it would be foolish to completely dismiss the prospect of rapid technological advancement. But while the concept of humanoid robots for the battlefield grabs attention, there are a number of substantial obstacles to this becoming a near term reality.

In general, though, battlefield ground robotics is developing rapidly. In Ukraine, Uncrewed Ground Vehicles (UGVs) which move on wheels or tracks have taken on an increasing range of tasks.

These include the evacuation of casualties, combat engineering and even, in limited circumstances, offensive action. Drones are also used to supply troops with rations, weapons and ammunition.

Ukraine recently commemorated their contribution to the battlefield with an Independence Day robot parade through the center of Kyiv.

In principle, a bipedal robot resembling a human would have the flexibility of an infantry soldier –, able to run, jump, crawl, climb, or potentially even swim across obstacles. This means that it could be used for a range of tasks in distinct environments.

In short, a bipedal robot offers flexibility and adaptability as its key characteristics.

Foundation Robotics’ Phantom Mk1 humanoid robot (Reuters)

But the flexibility and adaptability of the human form – driven by millions of years of evolution towards making us into a hardy, survivable all-purpose species rather than a specialist predator or herbivore – have not yet been matched by mechanical engineering.

And while the Ukrainian battlefield is not the sole indicator of what the future of war looks like, it does remind us of crucial limiting factors on technological progress. Cost matters hugely, systems matter more than individual weapons, and the most advanced and transformative technology is not necessarily the most photogenic.

Bipedal drawbacks

There are two basic problems with legged robots that even the most advanced designs are not close to overcoming in the near future.

The first is that legs are complicated. Wheels and tank tracks are both mechanically simpler than legs, which gives them an inherent resistance to damage or breakdown. It’s also worth noting that a wheeled or tracked vehicle can travel lower to the ground, which reduces its visibility and exposure to enemy fire.

Both, as we have seen in Ukraine, are matters of survivability. The relative simplicity of tracks or wheels also makes them cheaper to mass produce – and the military that chooses a small quantity of legged robots is likely to be rolled over by one that chooses plentiful, if less technically impressive, wheeled or tracked units.

These are all factors that can be mitigated by engineering. But that engineering adds development cost, mechanical complexity and, very likely, unit cost. These are not insurmountable obstacles, but they are significant ones.

The other problem, which will be familiar to anyone who owns or has driven an electric vehicle, is the limited range. After all, relatively few soldiering tasks can be accomplished while plugged in.

There are some where it’s feasible to imagine range being a minor issue. For example, a humanoid robot could presumably be assigned to guard a static facility where it would walk a prepared path and be able to recharge regularly.

But that task could also be accomplished by proven, simpler, cheaper methods, such as a combination of sensors, obstacles, and remote-controlled weapons. This undermines the case for deploying bipedal robot sentries.

In a jam

Outside such controlled environments, the open battlefield is not notable for its proliferation of reliable, high-powered recharging stations or the provision of frequent breaks so that combatants can revive themselves.

A further problem – not unique to ground robots, but exacerbated by the challenges inherent in traversing the ground – is maintaining control. Despite recent advancements in autonomy, for the foreseeable future, uncrewed ground vehicles such as those being used on Ukraine’s frontline will need live links to their human controllers.

Basically, that means a choice between a radio link or a physical fibre optic cable link.

Ukraine’s ground robots (Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty)

The general balance here is that fiber optics cannot be jammed and provide extremely high data transfer rates and high fidelity.

But they have limited range and are susceptible to being severed by terrain, obstacles, or blasts and shrapnel. Relative to flying drones, the range limitation issue is less severe and the danger of physical severance more severe for ground robots.

By contrast, radio control is susceptible to jamming, electronic interference and disruption over distance and in inclement weather. They can also be blocked by obstacles. But a radio link cannot be physically severed.

Repeaters are devices that receive signals and re-transmit them, so that two-way radio signals can cover longer distances. These provide high degrees of range and operational flexibility for remote systems.

Increasingly, remote systems are being designed with both types of control available. This, for example, allows the radio system to serve as a backup in the event that the fibre optic cable is severed. But doing so adds cost and complexity.

These factors may seem mundane, but when taken together, they should add a degree of realism to the discussion around a technological area which has long since captured the popular imagination.

After all, how many cinema tickets would have gone unsold if Robocop were taking orders via a trailing fiber optic cable and stopped the film every half hour because his battery had run low?

The technology behind humanoid robots is undoubtedly impressive – and in time it may prove transformative. But the engineering, physical and operational obstacles to humanoid soldier robots remain stubbornly in place.

'No Point': UC Berkeley Math Professor Quits Grading Homework Over Student AI Use

Can you write out a proof for the pythagorean theorem without getting AI to assist?

Can you hit the books and generate more than one?

this is not hard.  So yes we have a rising isse.  We had it before but now it is everyone.  just how did academic stars keep it going?

'No Point': UC Berkeley Math Professor Quits Grading Homework Over Student AI Use

Wednesday, Oct 28, 2026 - 06:40 AM

Authored by Bryan Hyde via American Greatness,

A prominent mathematician at the University of California, Berkeley has stopped grading homework for correctness due to the widespread and unavoidable use of artificial intelligence tools by students.

Breitbart reports Professor Richard Borcherds, a 1998 Fields Medal winner, has abandoned grading assignments after noticing that his students have been abusing AI to secure top scores.

Borcherds concluded that grading traditional, at-home assignments has become outmoded because AI can now solve undergraduate mathematics problems better than many students, making it nearly impossible to differentiate between a student's actual knowledge and a chatbot's output.

Borcherds told The California Post, "Student use of AI for homework is now widespread. Grading for correctness just adds a huge incentive for them to use AI for homework instead of doing it themselves, and penalizes students for honesty."

The professor has turned to giving his students credit for simply completing their work - paying no mind to whether the answers are right - and admits he knows of no better approach.

"There is no easy way to tell the difference between human and AI generated work. Occasionally one could tell it is AI because AI made a few characteristic errors, but AI has now improved so much that it rarely makes obvious mistakes," Borcherds said.

Borcherds noted that while his current completion-based homework system is "not a very good system," educators have yet to figure out a better alternative to counter the structural skills gap emerging from AI reliance, according to Inc.

In an interview with UC Berkeley's student newspaper, the Daily Californian, the professor expressed uncertainty about the future of mathematics, noting that five years ago, a mathematician appeared to be one of the safest careers from the AI boom.

Borcherds told the Daily Californian, "There have been plenty of technical breakthroughs in the past - hand weaving was put out of business by looms, and horses were put out of business by motor cars, and so on," adding, "This is the first time anything like this has happened in mathematics, though."

The shift follows concerns expressed by other UC Berkeley faculty regarding an educational crisis where high homework grades are masking a severe lack of foundational math and engineering skills when students are tested under proctored conditions.

Why Can't Farmers Butcher Their Own Animals? A New Bill Could Change That

This so needs to happen. the trade is basic, The equipment is here.  any one farmer can take in from his community and form a coop.

The consumer gets qua-ity and recourse.

It is how it needs to be.

Why Can't Farmers Butcher Their Own Animals? A New Bill Could Change That

Tuesday, Oct 27, 2026 - 07:35 PM

Authored by Mollie Engelhart via The Epoch Times,

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/why-cant-farmers-butcher-their-own-animals-new-bill-could-change

This past weekend, I was sitting at the Weston A. Price Foundation's Wise Traditions Conference when Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) took the stage. Before he could say a word, the audience rose to its feet in a standing ovation.

During his speech, he mentioned legislation he had introduced that would allow small American farmers to slaughter and process their own livestock and sell that meat directly to consumers without mandatory federal inspection.

I was stunned. Not because I disagreed with the legislation, but because I hadn't heard about it.

Just two months earlier, I had been with Massie at Joel Salatin's Polyface Farm when President Donald Trump posted on social media that he wanted to make it possible for farmers and ranchers to process their own meat.

I agreed wholeheartedly with the president's sentiment, and obviously Massie did too. But I remember having a conversation with the congressman that day about the reality of making such a change. The president could announce his intentions, but changing federal meat-inspection law would require an act of Congress, not simply an executive order.

I subsequently wrote an article about Massie's PRIME Act, legislation he has championed for years to expand opportunities for small-scale meat processing. With the president now publicly invested in the idea, I wondered whether we might finally have the political momentum to get meaningful meat-processing reform across the finish line.

Then life on the ranch continued. Animals needed feeding, fences needed repairing, customers needed serving, and thousands of dollars continued flowing out of our farming operation every time we took livestock to the butcher.

Meanwhile, Massie introduced the Red Meat Inspection Exemption Act, alongside Reps. Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) and Eric Burlison (R-Mo.).

Somehow, I missed it.

I raise cattle, pigs, sheep, and goats. I operate a farm store and restaurant, and I write about the obstacles facing American farmers almost daily. This particular issue is at the very center of my argument for food freedom. I believe farmers should have the right to raise animals, process those animals, and sell the meat directly to informed customers who choose to purchase it.

So when I heard Massie mention the bill, I was genuinely excited. After years of discussing this problem, there was finally new legislation specifically addressing on-farm slaughter and direct-to-consumer meat sales.

Why Can We Process Chickens but Not Cows?

Under existing federal law, qualifying poultry producers can slaughter and process thousands of chickens annually without continuous federal inspection. Some exemptions allow as many as 20,000 birds, depending on the operation and applicable state requirements.

Why chickens?

Anyone who has ever processed poultry knows that removing the intestines from a small bird without contaminating the carcass requires care. Chickens are well-known carriers of Salmonella and Campylobacter, two major causes of foodborne illness.

There is nothing inherently safer about a chicken than a cow.

Yet our regulatory system allows qualifying poultry producers to sell their products while generally prohibiting cattle, pig, sheep, and goat farmers from doing the same without inspected processing.

I am not suggesting we eliminate the poultry exemption. Quite the opposite. I am asking why we have not extended comparable opportunities to other livestock producers.

If we trust farmers to process thousands of chickens for their neighbors, why can't we trust them to process a handful of cattle?

The Forgotten Lamb and Goat Markets

One of the most significant consequences of this legislation could be its impact on American lamb and goat production.

In my area of Texas, the kill and disposal fee alone for a lamb is $130. That is before anyone cuts a chop, grinds the meat, or vacuum-seals a package.

Spread that $130 across 600 or 700 pounds of packaged beef, and it adds approximately 19 to 22 cents per pound. But spread it across the 30 or 40 pounds of meat you might get from a lamb or goat, and suddenly that same fee adds $3.25 to $4.33 per pound.

That is before additional processing charges, transportation, refrigeration, feed, labor, or the cost of raising the animal.

We have animals capable of turning grass and brush into valuable protein. We have farmers willing to raise them and consumers interested in buying locally produced meat. But the economics of getting those animals from pasture to plate can make the entire operation unprofitable.

Allowing farmers to process their own sheep and goats could open an entirely different economic opportunity for small livestock producers.

The Thousands of Dollars We Pay to Sell Our Own Meat

Every time I take animals to the processor, I write a check for thousands of dollars.

These are animals my husband and I have raised, fed, watered, and cared for, sometimes for years. We have invested in land, fencing, pasture management, equipment, veterinary care, and countless hours of labor. We have assumed the risks of drought, disease, predators, and fluctuating markets.

Then, when the animal is finally ready to become food, we must pay someone else a substantial percentage of what we expect to receive for that meat, before selling a single pound.

If my husband could process two steers a month for our farm store and restaurant, we could potentially avoid $3,000 in outside processing charges every month. That is $36,000 annually.

Of course, processing animals ourselves would still involve labor, equipment, sanitation, refrigeration, and other expenses. And the proposed legislation does not clearly establish whether meat processed under this exemption could be served in restaurants.

I am grateful to the representatives who introduced this legislation. It is a meaningful step toward restoring food freedom to American farmers. But I believe it is missing one important provision: restaurants.

If an on-farm restaurant or local restaurant wants to purchase meat directly from a farmer who raised and processed that animal, that should be allowed, provided the restaurant clearly discloses on its menu that the meat was farm-processed without government inspection.

Consumers would know exactly what they were purchasing and could make their own decisions. For a farm like ours, which operates both a farm store and a restaurant, that distinction is enormous. Without restaurant sales, we could not realize the full potential savings of processing our own livestock. With them, we could potentially keep $3,000 a month in our farming operation instead of paying it to outside processors. That is $36,000 annually that could go toward employees, infrastructure, and keeping our farm financially sustainable.

I am grateful to the legislators who are working to expand food freedom, and I respectfully urge them to include restaurants in this legislation. If food freedom is really about informed consent, why should that freedom disappear simply because someone chooses to eat their locally raised beef at a restaurant rather than cook it in their own kitchen?

I also believe we would recover more usable meat. My husband is meticulous about harvesting animals. He knows these animals, has cared for them, and understands the value of every pound. We have seen firsthand how much control a farmer loses when an animal leaves the property for processing.

The bill proposes exemptions involving 25 cattle, 60 pigs, 250 sheep, or 250 goats, although its eligibility rules are more complicated than simply counting animals. I would like to understand why Congress believes a farmer should be trusted to process 25 cattle but not 26.

A Me Neither Movement

Toward the end of Massie's speech, someone in the audience asked him what we could actually do. Could we vote our way out of the situation we find ourselves in?

His answer was no.

He talked about resistance. Be the person who refused to wear the mask on the airplane. Be the person who refused to participate in the COVID card system. Be the person who says no when everyone else is going along.

He also talked about refusing the photograph and body scanner at the airport. He mentioned that his wife never goes through the scanner.

From the audience, I yelled, "Me neither!"

Then other people started joining in. "Me neither! Me neither!"

Massie laughed and said from the stage that what we needed was a "Me Neither" movement, not a "Me Too" movement.

I have written before about refusing the body scanner and facial photograph at the airport. It is a small act of resistance, and sometimes an inconvenient one. But I believe freedom is something we practice, not simply something we vote for every few years.

And I think the same principle applies to food.

We can wait for Congress to pass the PRIME Act or the Red Meat Inspection Exemption Act. We can wait for the USDA to make exceptions, for politicians to recognize the struggles of small farmers, or for another election to deliver the changes we want.

But we also have to build the food systems we believe in. We have to buy from farmers, develop relationships with the people producing our food, and support the local infrastructure that allows communities to feed themselves.

I was standing with Massie at Polyface Farm two months ago, wondering how we could turn the president's words into legislation. This weekend, I learned that he had already taken that step.

Now Congress has an opportunity to act. But the rest of us have work to do, too.