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UAE Moves To 'War-Proof' Data Centers After Iranian Retaliatory Strikes

Via The Cradle

The UAE is redrawing its plans for a five-gigawatt artificial intelligence (AI) data center project, one of the largest anywhere outside the US, after Iranian retaliatory strikes on infrastructure across the Gulf forced the Emirates to rethink how and where critical facilities are built, Reuters reported on Friday. 

Speaking in anonymity, six people familiar with the matter told Reuters that Emirati authorities began reassessing where and how sensitive facilities should be built once the war reached the Gulf. 

Four of those sources said the campus, first designed as a single 26-square-kilometer site in Abu Dhabi, is now expected to take shape as several data centers distributed across the country. 

Authorities are weighing ways to shield the facilities from drone and missile strikes, the sources said, including installing air defenses and putting some of the centers underground.

Sources also said interceptors and electronic jamming equipment are being written into the redesign, with blast-resistant concrete and additional backup power and cooling systems also under consideration, and with the most sensitive material, including military data, possibly housed inside mountains. 

Iran began striking Gulf states hosting US forces with missiles and drones in response to US and Israeli airstrikes on Iranian territory. Two Amazon Web Services data centers in the UAE and one in Bahrain were damaged in March, and the company's regional cloud services remain disrupted.

In April, the Iranian armed forces released a video naming Stargate UAE, the $30 billion, one-gigawatt first phase of the campus, as a potential target for retaliatory strikes, showing a map of the site alongside the caption “Nothing stays hidden from our sight.”

Stargate UAE is shaping up to be the fastest AI data center buildout in the world with 5GW of total planned capacity. pic.twitter.com/tXsFxfJgTb

— Shay Boloor (@StockSavvyShay) February 13, 2026

Daniel Benaim, a former US deputy assistant secretary of state for Arabian Peninsula affairs, called the war an “economic earthquake” for Gulf states that had spent years selling themselves as safe havens, adding that hardening critical infrastructure was now vitally necessary.

Data centers have moved from commercial facilities into the category of critical infrastructure, processing financial flows, sustaining public services, and feeding into military communications and intelligence work. 

Tyler Durden Fri, 09/11/2026 - 17:25

Oprah Audience Calls For 'Same Passion' For Black Child-Killers As For Lindsay Clancy

Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News,

Oprah Winfrey flew into Massachusetts to host a "watershed" conversation about Lindsay Clancy.

What the cameras captured was not a sombre conversation regarding her three dead children. It was a room brainwashed into treating a child-killer as a ideological cause - and then demand the same energy for black women who have murdered their kids.

Yes really. The takeaway from this particular creepy corner of culture is no longer "killing your children is unthinkable." Rather, it is "lets make sure we support child killers of color just as much as white child killers."

As we now know, Clancy strangled her three children - 5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson and 8-month-old Callan - with exercise bands in the family basement on January 24, 2023, then cut herself and jumped from a second-story window. She has never denied the killings. Her defense argued postpartum psychosis and a lack of criminal responsibility. Prosecutors said the acts were planned. After 21 days of testimony and more than 80 witnesses, the jury hung. A mistrial was declared in early September.

Days later Oprah's podcast put the case on a soundstage with medical experts, legal voices, a former colleague who testified at trial, and women describing their own postpartum breakdowns. Official branding called it "Understanding Postpartum Psychosis." The clip that detonated online was something else entirely.

A doctor in the room told the audience she wanted the same passion for women "who don't look like Lindsay."

Okaaaaaay. "Passion"?

"I want us to have the same passion for people who don't look like Lindsay, who don't have her same access... who don't have her same access and education, her melanin, her privilege," she said.

Right, you can see where this is going.

"There are women of color sitting around this country in prisons for this same thing that we've never heard of. And I just want to remind us to have the pink shirts and the energy for them as well."

The room cheered.

Room full of women on the Oprah show starts cheering after a doctor says that black female child murderers need to be supported too, not just the white child murderers like Lindsay Clancy.

"I want us to have the same passion for [female child murderers] who don't look like... pic.twitter.com/VbaQfq9BYi

— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) September 10, 2026

What the actual fuck is this? It's demented.

The moral argument slid, in one breath, from mental-health treatment to racial bookkeeping for filicide. Not "stop this." Not "the children come first." The demand was representation - pink shirts and energy for other mothers who killed their kids.

Once the killer is recast as the victim, the next move is to complain that some victims of this new compassion have the wrong skin tone.

AND OF COURSE they're trying to make child murder"more racially inclusive" now.

Throw this whole timeline into the Sun. It needs to be purged https://t.co/HSyi8sr3df

— TrippyLiberty (@TrippyLiberty) September 11, 2026

Let's be equally empathetic to black mothers who kill their babies. pic.twitter.com/YuJD0h7AIu

— Gad Saad (@GadSaad) September 11, 2026

If you tried to write the darkest possible parody of this movement, I don't think you could do much better than "it's important to support child-stranglers of color" https://t.co/S0a48D8gLi

— Mary Katharine Ham (@mkhammer) September 11, 2026

There was a break in the madness. A young woman stood up and said the sentence the rest of the room had spent an hour avoiding.

"I do believe she's a murderer..."

Oprah answered: "After all you've heard today?"

Oprah Brought together a bunch of crazy ass women to normalize what Lindsay Clancy did...

One young woman wasn't buying it, and stood up amongst the crowd, and she brought the entire room to silence.

Girl
"I do believe she's a murderer..."

Oprah:
"After all you've heard today?"... pic.twitter.com/Qu0n3gmEzH

— MJTruthUltra (@MJTruthUltra) September 10, 2026

Belief that a mother who strangled three small children is a murderer was treated as a failure to absorb the program. The safe answer in that room was not the names Cora, Dawson and Callan. It was the sermon: hormones, sleep, the medical system, "access," "melanin," "privilege."

Mothers are supposed to be the safest place for children. That used to be the one thing that did not require a panel debate.

The rest of the taping ran on the same track: identification with Clancy, regardless of the murdered children.

One woman described hearing a man's voice whispering in her ear to drown her baby. The camera found tears on cue.

In an effort to sympathize with Lindsay Clancy, woman who says she had postpartum depression says she heard the voice of a man whispering in her ear to drown her baby.

Make sure you watch the woman at the end of the clip crying just in time for the camera.... https://t.co/QVZFCIgboX pic.twitter.com/zyP37MxXqw

— MJTruthUltra (@MJTruthUltra) September 10, 2026

Another told Oprah she sat in her son's bedroom and saw his toys as weapons. She played out strangling him in her mind. When Clancy's case hit the news, she said she recognized the same intrusive thoughts. "The reason my story ended differently is because who my husband is," she stated.

Oprah told her she had "a lot of courage."

Oprah:
You have a lot of courage.

Woman:
Before I was hospitalized— I sat in my son's bedroom and I saw all of their toys as weapons. I played out in my mind me strangling my son.

And when I saw that play out in real life with Lindsay Clancy, I said this is a lady who had the... https://t.co/hj2Mwcj2l7 pic.twitter.com/Fk6UJPGwyK

— MJTruthUltra (@MJTruthUltra) September 10, 2026

A third guest said she began hearing voices telling her that her daughter was the second coming of Christ and that she wanted to rewrite the Bible. She said she improved after 17 days in a hospital. The point of the story, in that room, was kinship with Clancy.

This woman tells Oprah she sympathizes with Lindsay Clancy because she started hearing voices telling her that her daughter was the second coming of Christ and she wanted to rewrite the Bible... and she got better after being hospitalized for 17 days https://t.co/WLp1iQywHI pic.twitter.com/vVuNyDhc9y

— MJTruthUltra (@MJTruthUltra) September 10, 2026

An 'expert' then offered "Society expects women to be perfect. So what are we supposed to do? This bliss-myth of what it is to be a mother is so society engrained, it's very hard to ask for help."

Expert defends Lindsay Clancy:

"Society expects women to be perfect. So what are we supposed to do?

This bliss-myth of what it is to be a mother is so society engrained, it's very hard to ask for help."https://t.co/vLSGQY6H5D https://t.co/O2AEX3tRwN pic.twitter.com/AFNp7yPwfQ

— MJTruthUltra (@MJTruthUltra) September 10, 2026

Most mothers have been exhausted. Most mothers have not treated their children as a problem to be solved with an exercise band.

Ladies... I'm listening to this thing Oprah hosted and it is absolutely scary insane to me— the common theme they're trying to push is that hormones and sleep deprecation is a justifiable reason for women to murder their children.

Most of you have had kids. Did you ever once... https://t.co/QVZFCIgboX

— MJTruthUltra (@MJTruthUltra) September 10, 2026

The pink-shirt movement formed outside Plymouth Superior Court. In mid-August, hundreds of women in pink treated Clancy's van like a homecoming. Organizer Renee Kimball said, "I think that every one of us women believe that it could be any one of us." She added that women who have dealt with anxiety, depression and postpartum "just know that any one of us could be sitting in her chair."

Days earlier the same scene was already apparent online: TikTok mothers filming themselves relating to a confessed child-killer while holding their own babies, a GoFundMe for Clancy's parents swelling toward seven figures, and comment threads that talked more about her treatment than about the murdered kids.

Bill Maher, no MAGA activist, asked the question the pink crowd still will not. "What I don't get is why does she have fans?" He compared the courthouse scene to the folk-hero treatment of Luigi Mangione. He could grant that postpartum illness is real. He could not explain the merch, the cheers, or the need for a fandom.

Joe Rogan was less delicate. "If those ladies could see the crime scene and see those dead kids with their vacant eyes staring up because their mother took their life, the last thing that they saw was their mother standing over them, choking them to death, I don't think they would feel so bad." He added that if she walks, "her supporters should have to let her babysit."

Prosecutors in Frankfort, Illinois, say Corie Walsh hanged her 2-year-old son, Barrett, from a basement rafter, then tried to kill herself. She told police the boy was the "devil" and the "anti-Christ." Witnesses said she had become "very invested" in the Clancy trial and was still texting friends about it hours before the child was found.

Meanwhile the living victim of the original crime - Patrick Clancy, the father who came home to three dead children - has been hunted online by the same ecosystem. His attorney, Howard Cooper, said Patrick and his family have been "subjected to a relentless, escalating and destructive defamation campaign" from "minor celebrities, so-called influencers and outright conspiracy theorists." Cooper's demand was simple: "Enough is enough - this spread of blatant and baseless falsehoods must stop."

Lindsay confessed. Nobody in the courtroom argued Patrick did it. The pink movement needed a villain who was not the woman with the bands in her hands, so they invented one.

Plymouth County District Attorney Tim Cruz has said "This case has always been about those three children. We are here today because they are not."

Latarsha Sanders was convicted in 2022 in the same county, before the same judge, of stabbing her sons Edson, 8, and La'son, 5, in their Brockton apartment in 2018. Prosecutors said the boys were found in bed after being stabbed roughly 100 times between them. Sanders received two mandatory life terms.

Erin Merdy of Brooklyn pleaded guilty this year to drowning her three children - Zachary, 7, Liliana, 4, and 3-month-old Oliver - in the ocean near Coney Island in 2022. Relatives had said she may have been struggling with postpartum depression. A judge sentenced her to 20 years to life. Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez said, "No sentence can fully measure the loss of a seven-year-old, a four-year-old and a three-month-old baby, or the grief their loved ones will carry forever."

None of this requires a studio audience to cheer a racial audit of child murder.

A movement that cannot say "do not kill your children" without attaching a demographic rider has abandoned all morality.

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Tyler Durden Fri, 09/11/2026 - 17:24

A homeless woman tried to torch a luxury SUV outside a high end lighting business in Manhattan -- one of several terrifying encounters workers say they have endured after the resurgence of a West Side encampment.

They've got great taste.

Is An Elite 'Clash Of The Titans' Looming?

Authored by James Howard Kunstler via Clusterfuck Nation,

Light and Dark

"It's astonishing that anything exists."

- Ludwig Wittgenstein

Is this a week to drain our souls, or what? Yesterday, the memory of Charlie Kirk, a decent young man known for acting nobly in an ignoble era, cut down (it is alleged in court) by a pathetic product of Woke cultism - the trans avenging angel, avatar of our national mental illness. And today, the memory of 9/11, for which no alt-theory or engineering lecture can obviate the lonely arc of those little bodies free-falling out of the flaming towers into nothingness.

So, we move on because there is nothing else you can do, really. . . sad, furious, or what. . . and then do what you can to fix this joint. If this was a house in a storm, you'd be hearing the joists groan and the rafters squeak as they torque out of true, like just before the whole shootin' match goes down. Meanwhile, news is out that Joe DiGenova, the former DC federal attorney supervising the grand jury action in Florida concerning RussiaGate and associated treasons, is out. He said he "resigned." That's usually a cover. Somebody gave him the boot, and it was either Todd Blanche or President Trump. Cuz, why? I suppose we'll find out.

Trollish insinuations are flying in the usual channels that he couldn't get enough evidence to bring any proper cases, but I don't believe that for a horse-face Hochul's New York minute, nor that Mr. DiGenova actually said anything like that. Anyway, at least twenty million civilians 'out there' have been following this constitutional death dance closely for years. We know the names, the acts, the memos, the emails, the money trails, the dots and the receipts by heart. Many can even recite long legal memoranda on the likes of John Brennan, Adam Schiff, Jim Comey, Hillary, Strzok, Page, blah blah, dates, times, document numbers.

Joe DiGenova is old, others say. Not a good organizer, turns out. . . not a good team leader. . . things like that. Well, maybe his force of personality or renowned avidity to correct epic insults to the nation concealed all that. Anyway, he was brought in to replace a federal attorney name of Maria Medetis Long, and I bet none of you even know her name. She was on the case down there in Florida during Pam Bondi's unfortunate commission, too blah even to go down in infamy. To the casual observer, the whole wicked business begins to look like a Chinese fire drill.

Or possibly a circle-jerk. And, of course, everybody is wondering: what's the blast radius on this one? Can the DOJ's Southern District of Florida recover some kind of equipoise and carry on and usher this pretty large troupe of scoundrels into courts of law? Or is folding like a Broadway tryout in New Haven? Does it now all get sucked into some vortex of lost causes? And wouldn't that be demoralizing?

My guess: these acts against the country and its people are too grave, too important, to just go away, and won't go away. What the diGenova fumble seems to point to is that persons and parties behind that treason - and you might suppose I'm thinking: the Intel (so-called) "community" and its many-footed ancillaries - are both desperate and powerful enough to try to derail the process. Just imagine how many retired Intel rogues are out there after seventy-plus years of, say, the CIA alone. Must be a lot of them, including the fifty-one ex-Intel bigshots who signed the Hunter Biden laptop public letter in 2020 to queer the election.

You've got to wonder whether the agency that John Ratcliffe is supposedly in charge of has an equally large shadow org of these people, perhaps operating under the likes of one ex-CIA honcho John Brennan. And then you have to wonder what machinery of government they've still got their mitts on? Or maybe they just put the word out that pursuing any just resolution of the traitorous trips laid on America by them could be bad for anyone's health. In any case, I don't hesitate to point out that the legions of ex-spooks and their bag-men all have names and records and. . . well. . . apply a little Anthropic hocus-pocus. . . we'll know where you live and what you had for breakfast before the ten a.m. break.

What I'm getting at - and I regret even having to affect coyness - is that the departure of Joe diGenova could signify some Battle of the Titans, a civil war not on the ground between plain citizens too bamboozled by sexual hysteria to put up a fight, but between the general officer ranks of two opposing elite dominions, the legitimate and the shadow, the light and the dark.

The action won't stay backstage for long. Barbarians really are at the gate, and that gate is the midterm election. America has gone so crazy that it doesn't seem to even recognize how crazy many of the candidates for high office are. The shadow dominion appears to be behind them, too: Telarico, el-Sayed, Peggy Flanagan, Becerra, Hochul. . . Lord have mercy! These are not just not-normal people. They are outright sickies, working hard to wreck the country.

Well, Labor Day is gone and the blandishments of summer with it. Time to stop sulking. All hands on deck. The bell has rung.

Tyler Durden Fri, 09/11/2026 - 17:20

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