Prosecutors In Huawei Criminal Trial Allege Company 'Cultivated Culture Of Crime And Corruption'

I understood all this 25 years ago and it is now coming out.  tart with CCP INTEL practise and this is exactly what you are looking for.  The CCP knew they could never win on a level playing field.

so they stole any which way.  and commercial security was then weak.

You can figure out the rest.  hack corporate comms in order to frtont run contracts.

Prosecutors In Huawei Criminal Trial Allege Company 'Cultivated Culture Of Crime And Corruption'

Friday, Sep 11, 2026 - 05:55 PM

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/prosecutors-huawei-criminal-trial-allege-company-cultivated-culture-crime-and-corruption

Authored by Nicholas Zifcak via The Epoch Times,

NEW YORK CITY - Prosecutors in the criminal trial against Chinese telecoms firm Huawei alleged that the company used lies, theft, cover-up, and a criminal conspiracy in its efforts to dominate the global telecommunications market.A worker stands in the window of a Huawei store in a commercial area in Beijing on Nov. 5, 2024. Photo by Kevin Frayer/Getty Images

In opening remarks at a federal court in the Brooklyn borough of New York City on Sept. 9, Assistant U.S. Attorney Taylor Stout said that Huawei "engaged in a pattern of criminal activity to expand its business empire." He alleged that its two subsidiaries in the United States, Huawei Device USA and Futurewei Technologies, served as outposts to steal technology.

The trial covers 20 years of Huawei business activity in the United States and around the globe.

The prosecution said it will present evidence against Huawei in three categories: alleged theft of trade secrets from competitors, alleged bank and wire fraud in relation to efforts to skirt sanctions against Iran, and Huawei's alleged cover-up and efforts to block law enforcement from investigating its business activities.

A subsidiary of Huawei, Skycom, provided Iran's government with tools to spy on its own citizens, specifically during 2009 protests in Tehran, according to the U.S. government. Huawei employees falsely claimed that Skycom was not owned by Huawei.

Prosecutors allege that Huawei used confidentiality agreements, competitors' employees, and third parties to acquire trade secrets on technology for routers, storage, and wireless technology.

Huawei "cultivated a culture of crime and corruption," said Stout, such that employees who stole from competitors were just "following company practice." Stout alleged that an engineer who stole from New York state-based Quintel, which develops cellular antennae technology, received a bonus for the information obtained.

Huawei defense attorney Brian Heberlig portrayed Huawei as a global player serving underserved and remote communities. He said the government is relying on five incidents that happened over the course of 20 years.

Heberlig argued that the prosecution's witnesses are unreliable, as many were involved in civil litigation over commercial disputes with Huawei, including Cisco, T-Mobile, and Quintel. He also claimed that the government cherry-picked incidents to support racketeering charges but won't be able to prove a broad overarching conspiracy.

He challenged the government narrative that Huawei fostered a culture of stealing trade secrets, saying that when such activity was discovered, "Huawei acted appropriately in all three incidents," including by firing the employee caught taking pictures of a Fujitsu device at a conference.

Heberlig said that to prove a racketeering conspiracy, the government must prove that the "same people agreed to carry out the same criminal plan." He said the incidents cited by the government are isolated and insufficient to prove that there was some "blueprint for a criminal conspiracy."

The government also alleges that Huawei violated U.S. sanctions by involving the U.S. financial system in its business dealings with Iran and North Korea.

Heberlig contested prosecutors' narrative that Huawei knowingly violated U.S. sanctions, arguing that Huawei had no intention to violate U.S. laws but that the banks it was using in its business with Iran caused the funds to route through the U.S. financial system.

Prosecutors allege that Huawei misrepresented to banks its connection with Skycom, a subsidiary that was doing business with Iran, which prosecutors say received instructions to remove all Huawei logos from hardware sold to Iran.

The Secret Space Program IS REAL and this Whistleblower is EXPOSING all of it

for what it is worth the secret program began mid fifties and was based on gravity control.  This is supported by a wide collection of conforming evidence and eye witness reports.  It substantially explains the mass of sightings around the desert states.

It is not the sole source but certainly the actual majority.  just understand that they do not want you to know about gravity control because this will launch an investment race by everyone.  All UfO phenom can be explained by gravity manipulation and we certainly have it.

This also means we can demass an asteroid and send it at least half light speed to the next star or two.  

I have been seeing my universe for decades and slowly stuff is coming out.


The Secret Space Program IS REAL and this Whistleblower is EXPOSING all of it

09-11-2026 • https://www.youtube.com, Redacted

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=EP-5tLp5xv8

The Secret Space Program IS REAL and this Whistleblower is EXPOSING all of it

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Sweden Discovers That Deporting Immigrant Gangsters Reduces Crime...

The small number of actual felons is not something ever made clear and it matters.  Undersd that AI can harvest all comms and  identify operating felons even with burner phones.  Ths is possible.

This can make organizing a crime almost impossible.  The secret is identifying the known operators and even catch and release deliberately.  Then interigate everyone he talks to after.  soon, not even your mother will talk to you.

The small number tells us that identifying is important and now possible.

Sweden Discovers That Deporting Immigrant Gangsters Reduces Crime...

Saturday, Sep 12, 2026 - 11:00 AM

Authored by Mike McDaniel via AmericanThinker.com,

Among the things a police career taught me is that a small number—usually single digits—of felons commit most felonies. They’ll draw in other criminals, involve them in their crimes, and when convenient, abandon them to arrest. There is no honor among thieves. And the number of the most prolific felons increases and decreases slightly from place to place, and in relation to the specific type of crime.

In some places, crooks specialize in home or business burglaries. In others, specialization might involve burglarizing vehicles or carjacking.

But one thing is certain: take these small bands of crooks out of circulation, and the number of their crimes in those areas immediately, dramatically plummets. The trick is identifying the crooks and rolling them over on each other. Catch some in the act or with the evidence, and the second part is usually easier than the first. When they’re put away, innumerable people we’ll never know don’t end up as victims.

Of course, these kinds of positive results also rely on prosecutors willing to prosecute and judges willing to keep criminals in jail and hand down realistic sentences. That’s a real issue in blue cities and states.

Now it seems Sweden is discovering this reality, particularly where gang-committed, immigrant crime is involved. And it’s about time too. Reports out of Sweden, which has shown suicidal empathy for third-world barbarians, indicate that hand grenade(?!) attacks have become common. At PJ Media, Stephen Green explains:

So Sweden elected a conservative prime minister four years ago who promised to send criminal migrants back to their home countries, and you'll never believe what happened next.

Violent crime went down. Way down. Particularly gang violence, according to a new report out this week.

Imagine that.

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When he campaigned for the PM spot in 2022, Ulf Kristersson — then a member of the Swedish parliament or riksdag — said of violent acts: "If you commit such crimes in Sweden and are not a Swedish citizen, you should be thrown out of the country.”

Apparently, Swedes got tired of dodging grenades and having their women raped.

By the summer of '22, escalating gang shootings and even bombings were commonplace in what had once been a country better known for spas than jihads. In total, Sweden suffered 361 shootings, 62 shooting deaths, and 90 bombings. The problem with migrant gangs escalated so quickly that Swedish authorities didn't bother to record bombings until 2018.

By the last election, even the governing soft-on-crime Social Democrats promised tougher measures, but that wasn't enough to stop Kristersson from putting together a coalition big enough to oust the SD.

Sweden didn’t bother to report bombings until 2018? That’s terminal suicidal empathy, but the Swedes had enough. They better funded the police, did more wiretapping, and directly focused on stopping gang recruitment among the young.

As it turns out — and again, you won't be shocked by this — sending foreign criminals home is just as effective as locking up homegrown thugs. But the numbers must be seen to be believed.

Shootings are down "by 80 per cent since their 2022 peak," the Financial Times reported on Monday, and Kristersson reduced "the number of asylum seekers to its lowest in four decades."

It was apparently a huge deal earlier this year when one Swedish paper reported "No shootings in May."

“The fact that you have headlines saying no shootings at all this month: it says something,” Kristersson told the FT.

Sadly, the national tendency toward suicide may once again assert itself:

Still, Sweden holds another national election on Sunday, and the Social Democrats could very well take power again. “There’s a lot of discussion about the Winston Churchill effect,” Mattias Karlsson, the nationalist Sweden Democrats' chief ideologue, said.

Having all but won the war, will Swedish voters reject the man who got them this far?

The “Churchill effect” refers to what happened to Winston Churchill after WWII. Without him, England likely would have fallen to the Nazis. He was, during the war, the indispensable man, but once the war was won, he was put out to pasture, and the kinds of political forces that would have lost the war wormed their way back into power.

Having once again discovered the benefits of national sanity, Will Sweden fall back into leftist delusion and defeat? Perhaps there’s a lesson there for our midterms and beyond.

"Riyadh In Difficult Position": Saudis Shutter Critical East-West Pipeline After Drone Attacks

So far annoying, but it points to a real problem.  We need true interdiction of drones.   Perhaps hunter drones aiming and firing a cloud of buckshot.

combined with sensing tech able to spot the drones and we can do this.

Again drone tech is evolving and counter drone tech has to be also drones.

"Riyadh In Difficult Position": Saudis Shutter Critical East-West Pipeline After Drone Attacks

Saturday, Sep 12, 2026 - 06:55 AM

https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/riyadh-difficult-position-saudis-shutter-critical-east-west-pipeline-after-drone-attacks

Saudi Arabia temporarily shut its 7 million-barrel-a-day East-West pipeline following multiple drone attacks, exposing a massive vulnerability in a critical export route used to bypass the Strait of Hormuz during more than six months of US-Iran conflict.

The closure puts new pressure on Saudi oil exports as the pipeline designed to bypass the Hormuz chokepoint becomes a target. The Energy Ministry described the shutdown as precautionary while emergency crews secured the pipeline and assessed its safety.

Here's the ministry's statement:

An official source at the Ministry of Energy stated that the East-West Pipeline in the Riyadh and Madinah regions was subjected to multiple attacks on the morning of Thursday, 10 September 2026. The pipeline was shut down as a precautionary measure. The attacks resulted in a number of injuries, and medical care was provided to those affected.

The source said emergency and specialised technical teams responded immediately following the attacks, taking the necessary measures to secure the pipeline and assess its safety in line with approved safety procedures and emergency response plans, in coordination with the relevant authorities. Any further developments will be announced in due course.

The shutdown deepens an already severe export squeeze on the kingdom. Saudi oil shipments fell to about 3 million barrels a day in August, the lowest level on record since early 2017.

Iran-backed Houthis seized the strategic island of Mayun in the Bab al-Mandeb Strait last week, tightening pressure on the kingdom's Red Sea export hub. With Hormuz already disrupted, ongoing threats to both maritime chokepoints are narrowing the kingdom's options for moving crude to global markets.

"Riyadh is in a difficult position," said Rapidan Energy Group analyst Fernando Ferreira. "As the US maintains the blockade and succeeds in escorting more tankers out of the region, Iran will pivot toward increased attacks on Gulf energy facilities."

Brics to Quad: How India keeps both sides of the world open

understand that India is geographically the size of Western Europe.  Its population is 1.4 billion which is likely twice the true size of China. and ten times anyone else locally.  It has every reason to engage with everyone and make that foreign policy.

It is also wonderfully defended by geography against all forms of military adventurism as recent Chinese nonsense proved.

So this is a pragmatic approach.

Brics to Quad: How India keeps both sides of the world open

India is deepening ties with Brics for energy, trade and Global South cooperation while relying on the US and its Indo-Pacific partners for technology, defence and maritime security. The strategy allows New Delhi to pursue its interests without becoming dependent on any one bloc

A member of both Brics and the Quad, New Delhi balances ties with major powers while pursuing its strategic interests across economic, security and diplomatic fronts. (Reuters)

Sneha Swaminathan|Sep 11, 2026, 11:55:49 IST

https://www.firstpost.com/india/brics-to-quad-how-india-keeps-both-sides-of-the-world-open-14044901.html#goog_rewarded

India's foreign policy is built around a simple idea. It does not have to choose one side of the global divide.

Instead of treating the Western alliance and non-Western groupings as opposing camps, India uses different international platforms for different strategic goals. Brics and the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), for instance, provide avenues for India to strengthen energy ties, expand trade, push for changes to the global financial system and deepen its engagement with the Global South.

At the same time, India's partnerships with the US and other Western countries are important for advanced technology, defence cooperation, semiconductor supply chains and security in the Indo-Pacific.

This approach is often described as multi-alignment. The objective is to keep India's strategic options open while ensuring that no single power becomes indispensable to its economic or security interests.

Russia, energy and India's balancing act

The clearest example of this approach is India's relationship with Russia.

After Russia invaded Ukraine, India sharply increased its purchases of Russian crude. Russian oil, which accounted for less than 1 per cent of India's oil imports before the war, rose to more than 40 per cent of the country's oil basket.

New Delhi faced criticism and pressure from Washington over its continued purchases of Russian energy, particularly as the US and its allies imposed sanctions on Moscow. India, however, defended its position by arguing that buying Russian crude was necessary for its domestic economy and helped prevent a sharper rise in global oil prices.

At the same time, India did not allow its relationship with Russia to stop it from deepening ties with the US. It expanded defence and technology cooperation under the Initiative on Critical and Emerging Technology, or iCET, and continued maritime exercises with the US, Japan and Australia through the Quad.

In other words, India maintained its energy relationship with Moscow while building stronger security and technology partnerships with Washington and its allies.

Brics, the dollar and local currencies

Finance is another area where India's multi-alignment is visible.

Countries such as Russia, China and Iran have pushed within Brics for reducing dependence on the US dollar. There have also been proposals for a common Brics currency.

India, however, has been more cautious.

Rather than backing an explicitly anti-dollar currency bloc, New Delhi has promoted trade settlements in local currencies. This could include arrangements such as rupee-dirham or rupee-rouble trade, allowing businesses to reduce transaction costs and their exposure to currency fluctuations.

At the same time, India has not sought to cut itself off from the existing global financial system. Its financial institutions remain connected to Western capital markets and international payment networks such as SWIFT.

India has also sought to expand the international use of its own digital infrastructure, including the Unified Payments Interface, or UPI.

The approach therefore is not about replacing one financial system with another overnight. It is about creating more options while remaining connected to the dollar-based global economy.

Managing China while working with Beijing

China presents an even more complicated challenge.

Beijing remains India's biggest strategic competitor along its northern border, particularly after the 2020 Galwan clash. At the same time, China is a major trading partner and dominates India's trade with Brics countries.

India imported commodities worth $321.8 billion from Brics countries, with China accounting for the largest share.

Despite their differences, India continues to participate actively in Brics alongside China. New Delhi's presence allows it to shape the group's agenda and prevent Brics from becoming entirely centred on an anti-Western narrative.

But India is also building partnerships that can help counter China's growing influence, particularly in the Indian Ocean.

Through the Quad, India works with the US, Japan and Australia on maritime security, information sharing, supply chain resilience and other areas aimed at maintaining a free and open Indo-Pacific.

This creates a careful balance: India can cooperate with China within Brics while simultaneously working with countries such as the US, Japan and Australia to protect its own strategic interests.

Two tracks, one foreign policy

India's economic and strategic relationships operate on two broad tracks, with each set of partnerships serving a different purpose. Through Brics and other non-Western groupings, India focuses on energy security, access to raw materials, trade with emerging economies and a greater role for the Global South in global institutions. Intra-Brics trade stood at $417.5 billion in FY26, driven in part by energy imports and trade with the UAE.

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Energy remains a major priority. India's ties with Russia provide access to discounted crude, while Brics also offers opportunities to strengthen trade in fertilisers and other raw materials. At the institutional level, India uses the grouping to push for reforms in organisations such as the UN, IMF and World Bank and to seek a greater voice for developing economies.

India's partnerships with the US, Europe and Indo-Pacific countries serve a different set of interests. Trade with the US and EU is worth more than $200 billion, with IT, technology and services forming an important part of these economic ties. India is also seeking greater cooperation in advanced manufacturing, semiconductor investments and emerging technologies.

On the security front, Western and Indo-Pacific partnerships give India access to defence technology and closer cooperation on maritime security. Through the Quad, India works with the US, Japan and Australia on areas such as maritime awareness, supply chain resilience and joint exercises.

The financial strategy follows the same pattern. Within Brics, India supports greater use of local currencies for trade and efforts to reform global financial institutions. At the same time, it remains connected to Western capital markets and the existing international financial system.

Why multi-alignment matters

For India, the strategy is ultimately about retaining room to manoeuvre.

The country needs Russian energy and defence relationships, access to Western technology and capital, stable trade with China, and stronger partnerships across the Global South. Choosing one camp at the expense of the others could limit India's economic and strategic options.

That is why New Delhi has resisted the idea that Brics must become an anti-Western grouping. At the same time, it has avoided becoming fully dependent on Western alliances.

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has summed up the approach with the phrase 'non-West, but not anti-West'.

India's multi-alignment is therefore less about balancing two fixed camps and more about using each partnership where it serves the country's interests. The aim is to secure energy, technology, trade and national security while preserving strategic autonomy.

9/11 After a Quarter of a Century

This points out what i observed.  The shock was so great, it was impossible to initially go against the official media narritive and this lasted for years.  I used the time to research eye witness accounts and death bed confessions regarding the JfK event.

It appears that the shock itself serves to imprint the chosen narritive against all evidence and even common sense.

We are not yet more wary because the events do not generate direct damage.

Understand this all provided a pretext for the USA to launch a full on middle east war against any form of Muslim hegemony.  somehow Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Libya have been knocked down for a generation.  And it is obviously ongoing with Iran and no excuses even.

9/11 After a Quarter of a Century

September 10, 2026

9/11 After a Quarter of a Century

Paul Craig Roberts

https://paulcraigroberts.org/9-11-after-a-quarter-of-a-century/

The shock of September 11, 2001, was so great that, despite some initial skepticism, it was four or five years afterward that professional and scientific independent investigators presented evidence that the official narrative had serious problems. Over the years as the evidential problems for the official narratives grew in number and magnitude, I reported the findings. On many anniversaries of the event, I reminded readers that there was more evidence against the official narrative than there was evidence for it. I am not going to repeat all of this information today, as it would be book length. Instead, I am going to show you a different way to think about what is in some ways a defining event.

Before we begin, keep in mind that as early as 2006–long before evidence began accumulating that the official narrative was a lie–a Zogby Poll found that 42% of Americans believed the government concealed and refused to investigate important evidence. How could they believe otherwise with New York’s Chief Fire Marshall protesting that in violation of law the forensic evidence contained in the debris of the Twin Towers and Building 7 was carried away and shipped out of the country before it could be investigated? How could they believe otherwise when the Cheney/Bush/Zionist Neoconservative administration refused for one year to even convene, not an investigation, but a politically selected committee to ratify the official narrative, especially when afterward the co-chairman of the committee and chief legal counsel wrote books saying the committee was set up to fail, that information was withheld from the committee and that the committee had considered criminal referrals?

Of course, the whore American media reported all doubts as conspiracy theory. Any skeptic of the official narrative was a “conspiracy theorist,” as an AI check using the official narrative as the data base will tell you today.

If memory serves–I am not going to go back and read my years of columns and search my archives for the documents as my memory is problem-free–the first professional assault on the official 9/11 narrative was by a professor of physics at Brigham Young University. Being a physics professor, he understood force. He knew that the Twin Towers had been built according to code to withstand airliner hits. He knew that the effect of an airliner hitting a massive structure of steel and concrete would be the disintegration of the airliner, not the disintegration of the building, just as the airliner that allegedly hit the Pentagon, a structure not built to withstand an airliner strike, disintegrated without a trace with little damage to the building. The official narrative did not explain why the airliner that allegedly hit the Pentagon disappeared into dust, but the airliner hits on the twin towers caused the massive buildings to disintegrate into dust.

The physics professor’s name was Steven E. Jones. He obtained dust from the twin towers, which existed in abundance. Being a scientist, he knew evidence was in the dust. He examined and tested the dust and found unequivocal evidence that the dust contained both reacted and unreacted nano-thermite, the substance used in controlled demolitions.

In September 2006 a federally intimidated BYU administration placed Professor Jones, a tenured professor, on paid leave to investigate his controversial public claims. Think for a moment. When have you ever heard of a professionally qualified professor placed on leave and investigated for reporting a finding? In my opinion based on my Washington and university experience, the BYU administration was told by the George W. Bush regime to shut down Professor Jones or lose federal funding. Professor Jones, if memory serves, realized that his career was over and was paid $850,000 to resign. Jones’ removal served as an indication of what the fate would be for any physicist who took exception to the official narrative.

Ask yourselves, why would a physics professor destroy his career by concocting a false report, indeed, a report that to this day has not been shown to be incorrect. Why would a mistake, if it was, be a suspension worthy of an investigation? Clearly the corrupt George W. Bush Zionist regime intended the shutdown of a truth-teller.

In 2009 Jones together with University of Copenhagen scientist Niels Harrit and other scientists again proved the presence of nano-thermite (“Active Thermitic Material Discovered in Dust from the 9/11 World Trade Center Catastrophe,” Open Chemical Physics Journal, April 2009).

American science depends heavily on federal funding, and this was too hot for dependent scientists. In my opinion no physicist anywhere in the world is stupid enough to believe the official 9/11 story. What they do know is that to challenge it is a career-ending event as it was for Professor Jones. Therefore, with mortgages, car payments, children to educate they don’t jeopardize their career and family by endorsing studies that contradict the official narrative. The despicable Wikipedia still labels all factual findings by scientists “conspiracy theory.”

In 2006 architect Richard Gage realized five years after the event that the official narrative had serious problems. He organized the Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth. Enormous information poured out that the official 9/11 narrative was impossible. The NIST fabricated explanation for Building 7 was discredited by a high school physics professor, who showed that the building collapsed at free fall acceleration, which can only be achieved by controlled demolition. The NIST fabrication was discredited again by structural and forensic engineers at the University of Alaska, apparently the only university in America willing to risk federal funding for the truth.

https://www.uaa.alaska.edu/academics/college-of-engineering/community/professional-development-seminars/_documents/Hulsey_Leroy%20J_2023-01-20_Accessible.pdf#:~:text=ABSTRACT%3A%20Building%207%20(WTC7)%20was,that%20the%20Twin%20towers%20were

Washington and its whore media labeled the facts a “conspiracy theory” but failed to discredit the independent reports. If it were a conspiracy theory, the establishment would have supported an investigation, as that would have proven that it was a conspiracy theory. Instead the regime worked to prevent and to discredit investigation. The facts were the official narrative. Anything else was a conspiracy theory. The American whore media went along with the fiction.

Structurel architects and high rise engineers face the same problem as professors of physics. If they say what they know, they loose clients. Washington and the whore media have been very successful in turning expressions of truth into anti-Americanism. If you don’t go along with official narratives you are not only a tin hat conspiracy theorist, you are also an anti-American on the side of “Muslim terrorists,” and you lose your clients.

Today anyone who believes the official story of 9/11 is brainwashed. The stupidity of a large percentage of the American population serves to suppress truth. Washington has learned that a story that implants fear in the feeble-minded American population is a success.

We can expect more such instances.

Dry needling: How it rewires pain and restores muscle

When accupunture came out, most were credulous. That was almost fifty years ago. since then good work has come out of europe and this looks to be a local variationn.


All understandable because stimilating nereve ends triggers a strong redsponse able to override micplaced signallling. So yes, there is empiracle sense behind it all.

turning all ths into an organized body of knowledge is happening.


Dry needling: How it rewires pain and restores muscle

Dr. Owen Campbell
September 10, 2026

https://activistpost.com/dry-needling-how-it-rewires-pain-and-restores-muscle/

Chronic pain and immobility are unfortunately a common part of the human experience. Chronic migraines, injuries, or even just some muscle stiffness can all negatively affect daily life. Thankfully, there are solutions to manage this discomfort. If your muscles feel perpetually locked, weak, or trapped in pain, it’s a good idea to try dry needling.

Dry needling is a practice primarily administered by licensed physical therapists, causing muscles to directly reset. It is highly effective for almost any condition involving neuromuscular function, such as headaches, joint pain, and more. By inserting ultra-thin needles directly into affected muscle tissue and trigger points, it produces a rapid reset that relaxes overactive muscles, awakens underactive muscles, and promotes healing.

Benefits of dry needling

Dry needling has several benefits. It reduces chronic pain conditions such as back pain, neck pain, and headaches as well as alleviates acute pain from injuries or overuse.

Dry needling enhances range of motion by reducing muscle tightness, allowing for greater flexibility, movement and comfort. It also accelerates the healing process for muscles that are injured or overworked. It reduces muscle-related tension and stress, enhances athletic performance, and helps prevent future injuries.

Conditions that can be treated with dry needling include chronic pain, sciatica, migraine, shoulder pain and rotator cuff issues, tennis and golfer’s elbow, plantar fasciitis, muscle strains and sports injuries.

How dry needling works

Dry needling is similar to acupuncture. It uses the same type of ultra-thin needles; however, it’s grounded in modern Western medicine. A practitioner evaluates specific muscular dysfunctions and anatomical trigger points, whereas acupuncture focuses on balancing the flow of energy along designated pathways throughout the body, rather than evaluating localized physical muscle tissue.

When a needle enters an underactive or overactive muscle, it stimulates nerve endings that send an immediate signal back to the brain. Think of it as being similar to a teacher slapping a desk in a classroom. Whether a student is yelling and running around (an overactive, tight muscle) or fast asleep (an underactive, dormant muscle), that sudden noise interrupts the behavior and resets focus. The needle creates a similar wake-up call for your muscles.

During the session, an evaluation will be conducted to identify the specific muscles causing pain or movement restriction. A thin needle, a quarter of the size of a Novocain needle, is gently inserted into the muscle. Patients barely feel the needle going in, experiencing a mild pinch at most.

As the needle hits the area, the physical therapist will feel for a brief muscle twitch. This is sometimes mildly felt by the patient, but not painful. The needles are left in place for a short, few-minute period before being removed.

Side effects, safety, and recovery

For most people, recovery feels like you experienced an intense deep tissue massage; therefore, it’s normal to feel mild muscle soreness after treatment. Make sure to stay well-hydrated post-session to help aid muscle recovery.

If dry needling is performed around the head, neck, or upper shoulders, the angle at which your head is used to resting can slightly change. This shift can temporarily cause lightheadedness, an off-balance feeling, or mild nausea. This goes away as your body readjusts.

Because the needles used are so thin, there’s no risk of puncturing an artery or a vein. However, there are a few concerns if you have needles inserted around the lungs or neck. If the needle is inserted too close to the thorax, it can cause a collapsed lung. Therefore, it’s critical that you only receive this treatment from a licensed physical therapist with experience administering dry needling.

When it comes to this procedure, nicking standard blood vessels is rarely dangerous. However, individuals taking blood thinners, those who bruise easily, and elderly individuals with fragile skin integrity should proceed cautiously.

While the idea of needles can sound intimidating at first, dry needling is a pain-free, effective tool great for hitting the reset button on muscular pain. It offers a fast track back to comfort. If chronic stiffness, headaches, or lingering injuries are preventing you from feeling your best, consult a certified, experienced physical therapist to see if dry needling can help.

Hidden Winners of the Commodity and Infrastructure Boom… And the Biggest Loser

I hate to say this but the bears have been wrong forever.  It just feels awful between expansions yet they always set up the next almost random expansion.

The end game is universal participation in operational modernity.  That demands a massive expansion in resources to get there.  this is happening in front of us.

and yellow machines in pits are no longer new tech.  we may even sidestep some resources but no matter.  after fifty years around mining, the only thing i am sure of is that if the price gooes up a hundred mines will blossom with Mark Twain beating the drum..

 Hidden Winners of the Commodity and Infrastructure Boom… And the Biggest Loser

By Doug Casey

International Man

September 11, 2026

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2026/09/doug-casey/hidden-winners-of-the-commodity-and-infrastructure-boom-and-the-biggest-loser/

International Man: Investors tend to chase whatever is most fashionable at the moment. Where do you see important investment opportunities developing today that most people are overlooking because they aren’t exciting or widely discussed yet?

Doug Casey: I’ve specialized in resource stocks for most of my investing life. They’ve treated me very well, although they’re highly cyclical and ultra-volatile. In the roughly five great resource bull markets starting in 1971, the average gold stock went up 10-1. Some went up 100-1. And, purely by accident, I owned one that rose 1000-1. I’m not talking about in the course of a lifetime, but in about five years.

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https://www.lewrockwell.com/2026/09/doug-casey/hidden-winners-of-the-commodity-and-infrastructure-boom-and-the-biggest-loser/

Then, when a bear market inevitably hits, most collapse at least 90%, with many going to zero—or close to it. Few legitimate investors even acknowledge their existence because their market caps are so small. Most aren’t even microcaps. They’re nanocaps. Some are picocaps. Because resource stocks are so small and so volatile, few pay attention to them, despite the fact that gold has risen more than a hundred times over the last 50 years.

What’s interesting this time around is that the companies producing the raw materials of civilization don’t adequately reflect the values of their products. As we speak, both mining and energy stocks are at about the cheapest levels in history relative to other sectors. The public is totally uninterested in them. Their attention is focused entirely on the tech stocks.

Resource stocks have done pretty well over the last couple of years. But the bull market is just beginning. I think we have several years to go, and it’s going to be breathtaking. That’s where you should be.

International Man: A huge amount of money is going into new infrastructure, manufacturing, power generation, data centers, and electrification. Rather than betting on the headline companies, are there “picks and shovels” businesses or industries that stand to benefit regardless of which technologies or companies ultimately win?

Doug Casey: You’re referring to the AI boom, of course. AI stocks have had a spectacular boom, adding trillions of dollars of market value.

The public has become aware of this and, as they always do, are piling in only after the big money has already been made. More experienced investors are looking for less expensive ways to participate, things that haven’t already moved—indirect plays that make “picks and shovels” to build AI facilities. Good idea, but they’re late to the party. Unfortunately, nothing that’s AI-adjacent is cheap anymore. The whole area is dangerous.

AI is certainly one of the greatest advances ever in technology. I’m a fan. But the trillions spent on data centers are questionable, at best. All that money flowing into one area at once is resulting in huge misallocations of capital and outright waste on a historic scale. It’s a mania that will result in immense overbuilding. I can’t see how there can be any reasonable return on the trillions of dollars going into this area.

Worse, it seems very little of the data centers are being used for research in science, technology, engineering, math, medicine, and the like. They’re not making advances in biology or nuclear physics. They’re mostly just gathering data about people—who they are, where they are, what they’re thinking, saying, and doing. Sure, that data can result in short-term profits. But the profits are from manipulating people, not creating things in the physical world.

I believe that what’s going on will not only be grossly uneconomic, but will wind up compromising personal freedom in many ways. Data centers enable you to be monitored 24/7. No wonder there’s a groundswell of fear and hate surrounding them from the average citizen.

It’s no longer early days for investing in AI and data centers. And that goes for the “picks and shovels” plays catering to them. The public are latecomers to this game. At this stage, the only way to win this game is not to play.

International Man: Copper seems to sit at the intersection of several major trends—electrification, power grids, construction, manufacturing, and data centers—while new supply remains difficult and expensive to develop. How bullish are you on copper, and where do you think the best opportunities for investors might be?

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Doug Casey: We’ve all heard the meme: More copper needs to be mined in the next decade than has been mined in all of history so far. Meanwhile, old copper mines are depleting, and there have been few major discoveries over the past few decades. And if you make a discovery, it takes a billion dollars in drilling to prove it up. Then another decade, and billions more in capital to get it permitted, in the hope of producing it. So the price of copper should go much higher.

I own a number of copper stocks. They’ve done fine. But copper—like iron, nickel, and other base metals—is a highly capital-intensive business. I’m much more interested in gold and silver because they’re monetary metals. As long as we have paper money, fiat currency, and bankrupt governments, the demand for gold and silver will only strengthen.

On the other hand, there are lots of reasons why the bull case for copper could collapse. Not least is the current mania for data centers, which will require megatons of the metal—assuming they’re built and used the way everyone thinks.

I’m not a bear on copper. It’s just that copper usage, because it’s a high-tech metal, should only increase at slightly more than the growth rate in the economy as a whole. The demand from data centers is causing a distortion in the market. Is it crazy to say that at some point soon all the copper going into data centers will be torn out, to become a huge source of copper supply? I think it’s a real possibility. Stranger things have happened.

International Man: For years, investors favored businesses that required little physical capital. But we may now be entering a period where the world needs massive investment in mines, energy, power infrastructure, factories, and transportation. Could that shift create a new bull market in the old economy—and where would you look for the biggest mispricings?

Doug Casey: The big advantage of investing in tech stocks is that innovators can build fortunes in their living room with a laptop. Or in the garage with limited materials. The public is quite aware of that. No wonder everybody wants to get involved in a startup today.

That leads me to another point about these giant data centers, some of them covering square miles. The whole history of tech has been towards things that are smaller, cheaper, and less centralized. The current mania runs totally counter to that. Data centers are gigantic, ultra-expensive, and super concentrated. Has the trend of high tech reversed 180 degrees? Maybe, as they say, “This time is different!”

In other words, I’m willing to bet that the future of AI will be local, dispersed, and smaller. The giant data centers, which are currently all the rage, may well be analogous to dinosaurs or pyramids…

The resource business, on the other hand, has always been highly capital intensive. That’s one of the reasons why it’s usually a terrible place to put your money. Who wants to play around in the dirt with big yellow machines when you can make a lot more money much more quickly by moving some digits around on the internet?

Markets are cyclical. Few people, for instance, remember that back in the early 1980s, oil stocks alone were about 20% of the S&P. Now they’re about 4%. But the raw materials of civilization are just as important as ever. That’s where you should be.

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International Man: When you look beyond the obvious investment themes today, what scarce resources, neglected industries, or capital-intensive businesses do you think could surprise investors with much greater upside over the next several years?

Doug Casey: The important thing is to remember that we’re at the top of the greatest inflationary super bubble in all of history.

The world has made great advances in science, technology, and engineering, especially in the areas of computing and artificial intelligence. These things have increased the average person’s standard of living immensely. They’ve supercharged a trend that’s been underway for about 10,000 years. We’re probably on the cusp of Ray Kurzweil’s Singularity. There are plenty of reasons for optimism.

But much of the recent increase in the standard of living has been because of consumer debt, which includes almost all government debt. Consumer debt dissipates the capital that’s been saved by past generations, while it mortgages the future of those yet unborn.

There are many reasons—which we’ve discussed in the past—why we’re on the precipice of what I call the Greater Depression. Consumer debt is one of them.

There’s not much you can do to change the course of civilization or the primary trend of the markets. But it is possible to insulate yourself, and even profit from some scary things that are looming. It’s why I suggest readers look at the suggestions we make in Contrarian Insider and at Crisis Investing.

Why is candy getting SO EXPENSIVE?

The really bad news is that all candy consumption is optional.  I think that I ate one candy bar this past year.  I am also not happy with the inferior ice cream on offer.  Abstinance is a good health move anyway.  I also like properly make pastries, but only the first mouthful.  Get your hit and go.

all this suffers from excess consumption patterns.  Price cuts that back and folks learn to do with much less.

At the same time fruit is abundent in all forms and steadily increasing market penetration.

Why is candy getting SO EXPENSIVE? 

The surprising reasons your M&Ms and Snickers cost so much more - even as you get fewer treats in each bag

By SADIE WHITELOCKS, US SENIOR REPORTER

Updated: 11:57 EDT, 9 September 2026

There was a time when grabbing a candy bar at the checkout was the very definition of a cheap treat.

Now, that same impulse purchase can feel surprisingly expensive – and the package may contain less candy than it used to.

From chocolate bars to bags of Halloween candy, America's shoppers have been noticing that their favorite sweets are costing more, while some products appear to be getting smaller.

And it turns out there is a lot more behind the price hikes than companies simply deciding to charge more.

New research from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) breaks down exactly what has been happening to candy prices – and found that the cost of some of the ingredients used to make confectionery has exploded.

Between December 2019 and November 2024, the consumer price index for candy and chewing gum jumped 32 percent.

Over the same period, the producer price index for confectionery materials – including ingredients such as cocoa products and corn sweeteners – soared 87.6 percent.

The import price index for sugar and confectionery manufacturing also climbed 73.3 percent.

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The BLS found that around 65 percent of ingredient costs for the US confectionery industry come from just three inputs: cocoa beans, sugar and corn syrup

So what is making candy so expensive? One of the biggest culprits is cocoa.

The BLS found that around 65 percent of ingredient costs for the US confectionery industry come from just three inputs: cocoa beans, sugar and corn syrup.

Cocoa alone accounts for around 28.4 percent, while corn syrup makes up 28.1 percent and sugar 8.7 percent.

And cocoa supplies have been under enormous pressure. Global cocoa production fell more than 13 percent in the 2023-24 season, dropping from around 5.04 million metric tons to 4.37 million metric tons. At the same time, demand remained relatively strong.

The biggest problem has been concentrated in West Africa, where Cote d'Ivoire and Ghana typically produce between 50 and 60 percent of the world's cocoa.

Both countries have experienced difficult weather conditions. Hotter and drier weather reduced soil moisture and affected bean sizes, while heavy rainfall subsequently contributed to diseases including cacao swollen shoot virus and black pod disease.

The rain also caused delays getting cocoa to ports. Ghana's 2023-24 crop eventually reached a 23-year low. The result was a nasty supply squeeze just as chocolate manufacturers were desperately trying to secure enough beans.

And the price of cocoa went through the roof. Cocoa futures, which had generally traded between $1,000 and $3,500 per metric ton from 2000 through the third quarter of 2022, climbed sharply from late 2022.

They briefly passed $11,000 per metric ton in April 2024, before reaching a record $12,565 per metric ton in December 2024, according to the BLS.

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The price of cocoa went through the roof. Cocoa futures, which had generally traded between $1,000 and $3,500 per metric ton, briefly passed $11,000 per metric ton in April 2024, before reaching a record $12,565 per metric ton in December 2024

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But there is another way consumers can end up paying more without seeing an obvious price increase: shrinkflation

Hedge funds and other traders also poured into the cocoa futures market, buying a record $8.7 billion worth of contracts between London and New York in early 2024.

The BLS says speculation was probably not the main cause of the price explosion, but it added to the pressure.

And while farmers eventually received higher prices for their cocoa, that did not happen immediately because many contracts had been agreed months before the dramatic price increases.

Cocoa isn't the only problem. Sugar has also become more expensive. The US sugar market is unusual because government policies restrict sugar imports, helping keep domestic prices above those in much of the rest of the world.

Mexico has traditionally supplied almost half of US sugar imports, but drought has badly affected its production.

The 2023-24 season was particularly poor, with Mexican sugar production falling to its lowest level in 24 years and exports to the US hitting their lowest level in 17 years.

Weather problems were also felt elsewhere. El Niño brought unusually dry conditions to India and Thailand, two of the world's biggest sugar exporters, while Brazil – the world's largest exporter – faced port problems, a fire and competition for shipping capacity.

There is another twist in Brazil: sugarcane can be turned into ethanol. Around 51 percent of Brazil's 2023 sugarcane crop went toward domestic ethanol production rather than sugar.

All of this means candy manufacturers have faced higher costs before a single chocolate bar reaches the supermarket shelf.

And those costs have increasingly been passed on to shoppers. The BLS found that prices for US-made products containing cacao jumped 143.9 percent between December 2019 and November 2024. Imported cocoa products rose 107.4 percent.

Sugar manufacturing prices increased 43.8 percent, while corn sweeteners rose 26.2 percent.

But there is another way consumers can end up paying more without seeing an obvious price increase. It's called shrinkflation: Instead of increasing the price of a bag of candy, a manufacturer keeps the price unchanged while reducing the amount of product in each bag.

In most cases, the packaging looks almost identical, so shoppers don't necessarily notice the change immediately.

BLS research found that downsizing accounted for a 2.1 percent increase in candy and chewing gum prices between January 2019 and October 2023.

That may sound relatively small, but it adds another layer to an already expensive category.

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Consumer spending on sugar and other sweets reached $31.1 billion in 2024, according to BLS data

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Halloween, Christmas, Valentine's Day and Easter together account for around two-thirds of annual confectionery sales

On Reddit, consumers have repeatedly complained about candy getting smaller while becoming more expensive.

One user on the r/shrinkflation subreddit recently complained that candy had become little more than an expensive impulse purchase, describing tiny bags of M&M's and Snickers bars and saying some products cost $3 to $4 for very little candy.

Another Reddit user posted in March after noticing that a Hershey's bag appeared to have lost an entire ounce while keeping the same price.

The post attracted hundreds of upvotes, with commenters complaining that the change was particularly frustrating because cocoa prices were already rising.

There have been similar complaints about Halloween candy. One 2025 Reddit post showed a Mars Halloween assortment and complained that the supposedly 'fun size' pieces looked dramatically smaller than consumers remembered.

The BLS data suggests these shoppers are not entirely imagining things. But despite higher prices, Americans have continued to spend heavily on sweets.

Consumer spending on sugar and other sweets reached $31.1 billion in 2024, according to BLS data.

That was down from $32.2 billion in 2023, but still substantially higher than the $21.8 billion recorded in 2019.

There are signs, however, that consumers are beginning to change their behavior. Nonseasonal chocolate unit sales started declining in mid-2022, while cocoa demand fell almost 5 percent during the 2023-24 season.

The timing is particularly important because candy is heavily tied to holidays. Halloween, Christmas, Valentine's Day and Easter together account for around two-thirds of annual confectionery sales.

That makes candy a particularly noticeable expense for families during the year's biggest celebrations.

And there could be more pressure ahead. The European Union's Deforestation Regulation is designed to force companies sourcing commodities such as cocoa to demonstrate greater traceability and ensure products are not linked to deforestation.

The rules have been delayed several times and are now scheduled to come into force at the end of 2026.

So the next time a $3 candy bar makes you stop and think twice, you're not imagining the price shock. The ingredients really have become more expensive. And in some cases, the candy itself has become a little smaller too.

Watch Tesla's Wild 'Unboxed' Manufacturing For The Cybercab In Action

wotrth noting that complex casting is allowing line efficiencies in which multiple lines converge.  this is still an incremental improvement overall and will inform engineers everywhere.

Tesla remains the visible leader in just the way Hennry ford did it a century ago.

and yes China is in there fror the sme reasons.

Watch Tesla's Wild 'Unboxed' Manufacturing For The Cybercab In Action

By building the two-door EV in modules on parallel lines, Tesla says it can cut the overall line size in half.

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By: Iulian Dnistran

Sep 9, at 1:58am ET

Tesla’s smallest new EV is being assembled using a new technique.

The company released a video showcasing its “Unboxed” assembly process.

Similar to Ford’s Universal EV Production System, Tesla’s approach assembles the car in individual modules, which are put together at the end.

For over a century, cars have been built roughly the same way. Thousands of individual parts are put together on a conveyor belt that slowly runs through the factory, and as it moves along, the car takes shape on it.

It’s how the Ford Model T was built over a century ago, but things are starting to change. Now, car companies are trying to streamline the assembly process to cut costs and boost output while also slimming down the size of their factories.

Tesla is one of those companies, and its so-called "Unboxed" technique is now being used to build the new two-door Cybercab. The American technology giant published a video on the official Robotaxi account on X yesterday, offering a first glimpse into how it makes the steering-wheel-less EV.

Instead of bolting separate pieces onto the main chassis, the Cybercab is made from individual modules that are assembled on parallel lines. The video shows the battery box, front section, and rear section being built at the same time. Then, they’re framed together at the end of the line, where the side sections, roof, and doors are added.

Tesla says this technique reduces the assembly line by half, presumably compared to a traditional car factory, which unlocks a higher production capacity in the same footprint. The company bills its new building strategy as “the first real revolution in automotive manufacturing in over a century,” but it’s worth noting that Ford, which invented the modern car production line back in the 1900s, is also gearing up to disrupt the assembly game.

Its Universal EV Production System, which will be used to make the upcoming Fathom electric pickup truck, divides the assembly process into three individual lines. The front, middle, and rear of the vehicle are built on parallel lines, and they’re joined together at the end.

What do you think?

Mind you, Tesla claims to be mass-producing the Cybercab right now, whereas the first customer Ford Fathom pickups will start rolling off the line next year.

A key part of making this type of production viable is the extensive use of large metal parts that are cast by huge presses. It eliminates the need for hundreds of individual parts that need to be formed and joined together, which makes the whole process faster and cheaper.

An AI-Designed Drug Just Moved Six Different Aging Clocks At Once

AI based work shook out on six different protocols which is very good.

AI is really getting there on biological problems.  that was the most prospective because the pool of data points and first level inferance were always way beyond our trained manpower pool.

allvpromising news.

An AI-Designed Drug Just Moved Six Different Aging Clocks At Once

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https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/ai-designed-drug-just-moved-six-different-aging-clocks-once

An experimental drug designed using AI has produced measurable shifts toward a younger biological-age profile in patients.

Developed by Insilico Medicine, the drug - rentosertib - was initially engineered to treat idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), a progressive, age-associated lung-scarring disease. When researchers analyzed blood samples from a Phase IIa clinical trial, they applied six proteomic profiling "aging clocks" among 42 participants. All six detected reductions in predicted biological age, whereas the placebo group showed little change or slight increases. The most pronounced and consistent effects emerged around week four of treatment.

The study was authored by Insilico with academic collaborators from Harvard, Stanford, the Broad Institute, RWTH Aachen, Peking University and Westlake University.

Insilico used AI not only to identify a specific enzyme (TNIK) linked to both fibrosis and aging pathways, but also to generate and optimize the specific molecule designed to inhibit it. That dual application makes rentosertib a rare clinical test of AI uncovering a target case and building new therapeutics from scratch.

In the earlier Phase IIa, patients in the 60mg once-daily arm recorded a mean improvement in forced vital capacity of 98.4 milliliters against a mean decline of 20.3 milliliters on placebo. FVC declines with age in healthy people over 65 at roughly 20 to 50 milliliters a year, which is why Insilico treats it as a physiological aging marker as well as an efficacy endpoint.

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"If you manage to add 3 years to everyone's life, the drug should be able to significantly extend the healthy portion of life as well, translating into trillions of dollars in productivity and savings," said Alex Zhavoronkov, Insilico's founder and co-CEO.

And according to 2013 chemistry Nobel laureate Michael Levitt, "What convinces me is not the size of the effect but the agreement, because these models share neither their features nor their training data," he said of the six clocks reaching the same conclusion on the same 42 patients.

Rentosertib is no longer confined to early-stage laboratory work. In July, Insilico announced that the drug had entered a randomized Phase III trial, expected to enroll 320 IPF patients for a 52-week, once-daily regimen. That trial is designed to evaluate pulmonary-fibrosis efficacy and safety, not life extension - but it advances an AI-generated molecule into the final phase of clinical development. Of note - the study does not prove that rentosertib extends human lifespan or literally shaves years off a patient's age. But the clock results, the senescence and metabolic pathway shifts, and the dose-dependent FVC gains all point the same way, and more study is needed to understand the possibilities.

If the drug succeeds clinically, it validates AI-driven drug discovery, and offers a template for testing future medicines against both specific age-related diseases and the biomarkers of aging itself. If it fails in Phase III, the aging clocks will have been measuring a lung.