The US expands war efforts against unaligned South American countries, this time pressuring Colombia with the USN and USCG^[https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/09/us-shifts-focus-to-colombia-in-its-fake-war-on-drugs-colombia-responds-by-threatening-to-stop-buying-us-weapons.html]. Colombia responds by threatening to stop purchasing US weapons. These trends are likely to push many South American states closer to China for naval defense. I could see this being used by the PLAN to test their UUVs against the USN in preparation for a hypothetical Pacific war without direct risk.

The RSF massacres 43 civilians in a dronestrike on a mosque^[https://www.irishtimes.com/world/africa/2025/09/19/sudanese-paramilitary-group-kills-43-in-mosque-drone-strike-say-medics/]

Republicans confirm 48 of President Trump's nominees at once, including Kimberly Guilfoyle and Callista Gingrich, after changing the Senate's rules.

Germany's AfD first in polls

Polling conducted from 12.09.–15.09, by YouGov.

^17.09.2025^

Photo by Oliver Mueller: "Our Land First!".

Polling results:

AfD – 27% (+2)

CDU/CSU – 26% (-1)

SPD – 15% (+1)

GRÜNE – 11% (-1)

LINKE – 9% (-1)

BSW – 5% (≈)

FDP – 4% (+1)

Argentina to privatize 44% of state nuclear power company

The decision has caused controversy because Nucleoeléctrica Argentina is one of the country’s few state companies that turns a profit.

The government will privatize part of the state-owned company in charge of Argentina’s three nuclear power plants, presidential spokesman Manuel Adorni confirmed in a press conference on Tuesday.

A 44% share of Nucleoeléctrica Argentina will be put up for sale. The company controls the Atucha I, Atucha II, and Embalse nuclear plants. Together, they have a capacity of 1,763 MW and generate about 7% of the country’s power.

The decision was met with criticism. “If [Nucleoeléctrica Argentina] is privatized, we run the risk of increased power bills, and once the deal is done, private companies will take the profits and leave us with the environmental liabilities,” wrote Adriana Serquis, former head of the National Atomic Energy Commission, on X. “It’s a measure that completely surrenders our sovereignty, development, and rights.”

Nucleoeléctrica is one of the few state-owned companies that makes money: in the first quarter of this year, it turned a profit of AR$17.2 billion (US$11.7 million). The company was made eligible for privatization under the Ley Bases passed in 2024. It could be valued at between US$560 million and US$1 billion, according to official estimations.

The government says it will sell 44% of Nucleoeléctrica’s shares through a national and international tender. The national government will keep 51% of the capital and, with it, control of the company. The company will organize an employee share ownership program for up to 5% of the share capital. Currently, the company is owned by the Economy Ministry (79%), the National Atomic Energy Commission (20%), and public company Energía Argentina (ENARSA).

The administration made the privatization announcement after firing three of the company’s senior managers, local media reported. The company’s head, Demián Reidel, is also the self-styled architect of Milei’s “nuclear plan,” which includes the construction of a privately-financed small nuclear reactor called the ACR-300. Argentina had already started building a state-funded small reactor, the CAREM, in 2014 — but the Milei administration slashed its funding on the grounds that it was not “commercially viable,” according to Guido Lavalle, the president of the National Atomic Energy Commission.

(milei wanted to build small nuclear power plants to fuel AI servers, this isn't a joke)

The CAREM is 85% complete. Construction has stopped, but sources at the commission told the Herald that some engineers are still working on it of their own initiative. Due to the pay freeze in the state’s nuclear sector, some engineers previously employed by the government — including some working on the CAREM — are flocking to Meitner, the company founded to build the ACR-300, sources close to the matter told the Herald.

Reidel’s nuclear plan also includes turning Argentina into a uranium-exporting nation and building a “nuclear city” in Patagonia — a metropolis completely powered by atomic energy, where he aims for Big Tech companies to set up Artificial Intelligence (AI) data centers.

Let's just privatise our strategic industries, what could go wrong?

Can't we just toss milei, his sister and his entire government into a filled with radioactive waste?

Tyler Robinson is ex-Mormon. That really explains everything to me about the motive and character of this assassination. The family is Mormon and active in the local church still, and the rat father is LDS.

For those who did not grow up in the LDS church, it is fairly all-consuming. You spend 3 hours on Sunday at Church, ~2 hour each Wednesday at Youth Group, ~5 hours per week at Seminary before school, ~2 hours cleaning the church once a month or so, time doing service, time doing your assigned roles in the church as it's all unpaid lay clergy. You hang out with Mormons all day every day. You have a certain certainty as you have the "gift of the holy ghost" which is basically deputized emotions given prophetic power, what you feel is always right. There is huge emphasis on the church being true, the only true church, with very specific rites and rituals that are required. This instills them a deep idealistic and romantic outlook, symbolic things are very real and materialism is a thing of the world. There are literal truths about existence that they have access to, the earthly world was one realm of many and they would eventually become Gods.

They are also very much into gun culture and vigilante non-government violence, as seen by the dudes who occupied the Malheur refuge in Oregon and the entire hundreds year history of Utah and their clashes with the US government, the native peoples they occupied and even just non-Mormon white settlers (Look up Mountain Meadow Massacre for starts, that's the tip of the iceberg).

It's not that they're "rebellious". They are very obsequious and subservient to authority. They just believe the authority of the world is mostly fake, or secondary, to the authority of the church and the prophet and Mormon material interests as a whole. Remember, Mormons are very rich and powerful and connected in Utah especially. Remember, the entire goal of their stated theology is to become Gods by accruing wives and children and obeying authority until they are rewarded.

When you first become ex-Mormon and leave the church, it doesn't come off all at once. For some, they only partially do it and become Jack Mormons, drinking and sinning and doing drugs but maybe attending church once in a while when your active Mormon friends come pick you up. But those who break more radically are often pissed off and angry at the lies they've been fed their whole lives, justifiably so. However, they still feel that there is an absolute truth, have a very idealistic and romantic outlook and very violent outlook that shirks popular opinion and widespread culture as shallow and material.

I remember when I went through the nu-Atheist phase of my early ex-Mormondom, I consumed hours of atheist "philosophy" on YouTube and forums and chats. I was in college and also taking philosophy 101 classes and my mind was being blown. I was moving to the left, very pissed and rebellious against the Bush-era conservatism of my father and family. I could see if I was familiar in hunting and handling guns I might just do something stupid out of the "principle" of the thing, if caught in a weird mood. This is like radliberalism times one hundred. Mormons are the most American religion, and an ex-Mormon is the most American radical.