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A recent financial editorial from financial guru, Dan Ferris, said the following: “We are one demand spike away from a crisis that will ripple across the country in a matter of days, possibly even hours…Store shelves will empty. Farming, construction, and mining will shut down. Trucks will sit, stranded. And the entire U.S. military – except perhaps for nuclear-powered submarines – will be locked in place, unable to move an inch. It won’t be Wall Street’s fault. It won’t be Washington’s either… or the billionaires everyone loves to hate. This crisis will begin with a single failure: a power outage so major that it will force the new mega-consumers at the heart of the U.S. economy – data centers – to demand huge amounts of energy all at the same time. If the power grid ever fails, data-center servers will rely on backup generators to keep operations running. And those generators will all draw from one fuel source… diesel. Yes, the most advanced technological systems on the planet still use dirty diesel. See, for all the hubbub from environmentalists about the evil of fossil fuels and the bright, green future of renewables, diesel remains the quiet lifeblood of the modern U.S. economy. It moves nearly everything we eat, build, wear, and export. When diesel flows, so does the economy. When it doesn’t, everything stops. I suspect many folks think data-center power is a localized issue that doesn’t apply to them. They’re wrong. It’s a nationwide problem, and our country’s civil engineers will tell you that the aging of our electric grid makes disaster more likely by the day.” This certainly seems like a perfect worsening of things, to have unprecedented power demands that make us dangle by a thread, while all along, tidal power outages are planned to escalate fear while crippling the world economy. Is there a connection here?
ClosedNicola asked 2 days ago • 
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Forbes reported: “On October 20, 2025, Amazon Web Services, the backbone of much of the modern digital economy, suffered a widespread outage in its U.S. East region. The disruption brought down major websites, applications and systems around the world. From airlines to banks to social platforms, the effect was immediate and far reaching. This incident is not just another technical glitch. It is a reminder that even the largest and most sophisticated platforms in history can fail. The question is not whether it will happen again, but what every business will do differently now that it has.” While this outage caused inconvenience for consumers, it also carries a deeper warning for every enterprise and for the nation as a whole. Cloud dependence has become total and many industries would struggle to operate without it. The concentration of workloads in AWS’s U.S. East region highlights a serious vulnerability, particularly for sectors tied to national security. Much of the Defense Industrial Base relies on that same region for hosting, authentication and data management. A prolonged outage in U.S. East would not just disrupt business operations; it could affect defense readiness, logistics and the ability of contractors to deliver on sensitive government programs. Aside from unavoidable technical vulnerabilities, was there anything sinister behind this outage and could it be tied to the coming events like power outages we’ve been expecting? What can Creator tell us?
ClosedNicola asked 3 months ago • 
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