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Uh, and as I mentioned, Texas is not the only state, uh, where we've seen new updates on this front.

The, uh, governor of Virginia also recently issued an executive order on data centers, uh, which takes several steps.

Um, notably, it prohibits state agencies from entering into new NDAs that, uh, prevent disclosure of material information about proposed data centers, incentives, resource demands, or community impacts.

Um- The, uh, executive order also directs the state's Department of Environmental Quality, which is, um, Virginia's primary environmental permitting agency, to develop accelerated work plans for data center noise and for water regulations.

Uh, so what's kind of your read on, on this, uh, executive order?

Yeah, I mean, we have talked on this show previously about how the concerns around data centers are bipartisan.

We see action in, uh, Texas, a red state, in Virginia, a blue or purple state.

Um, and then I think the other thing I'll note is that, uh, I do think that NDAs around data centers are, are problematic.

That is where David Perry's work becomes particularly useful.

David is president of the Canadian Global Affairs Institute, host of its Defence Deconstructed podcast, and one of Canada's leading analysts of defence spending and procurement.

His doctoral research examined the relationship between defence budgeting and procurement, and much of his work since has focused on the difficult translation of resources into military capability.

And that translation is not neutral.

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Armed Muslims killed a pastor and a believer on their way to worship God on Sunday morning in Plateau State, Nigeria, reports International Christian Concern.

And the pastor's son is in critical condition.

This was not an isolated attack.

In Revelation 6, verses 9 and 10, it says, When Jesus opened the fifth seal, John the disciple saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain because of the word of God and the testimony they had maintained.

They called out in a loud voice, How long, sovereign Lord, holy and true, until you judge the inhabitants of the earth and avenge our blood? In a gutsy appearance before the United Nations, Argentinian President Javier Mille said, quote, the United Nations has become a useless organization whose only purpose is to sustain a cast of fatally arrogant parasites masquerading as well-intentioned bureaucrats, end quote.

Dozens of New York Democratic politicians, including incoming Democratic Socialist Congresswoman Daryliza Chevalier, were among those arrested on September 24th for ignoring police orders during an anti-Israel protest of 250 people, reports the Western Journal.

Chevalier is a socialist ally of New York City Mayor Zorhan Mamdani, who is expected to be in Congress come January.

a swedish company and an indian company but everyone was saying that the fcc ban was related to chinese robots so what's the difference here a lawnmower needs national security the fcc added foreign produced advanced robotic devices to its coverage list and then what's really interesting about this is the paperwork is now becoming part of the product Everyone thinks the FDA approval is the final decision.

It's not.

It's actually the beginning.

On July 28th, the FCC added foreign-produced advanced robotic devices to its coverage list.

That's the list covering equipment the government has determined poses an unacceptable national security risk.

For robots, the restriction applies broadly to foreign-produced advanced robotic devices unless they receive something called a conditional approval.

That approval comes after a national security review, and without it, new covered devices can't receive the FCC equipment authorization they need to enter the U.S. market.

There is, however, a way through.

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And then, as I just opened my fridge to, uh, get something out to slurp on while we're talking here, I saw that my big news is I bought a chicken.

I bought a Costco chicken, and I have never done that before, and this was a-

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I've been fascinated by the economics of it.

I've read about how Costco bought its own farm.

And while we're reviewing these chances, we should note that markets are pricing in two chances in three, that's a 67% chance, of an RBNZ rise on October the 28th, a 75% chance of an RBA rise on September the 29th, and a 70% chance of an ECB rise on October the 29th.

Meanwhile, Canada's August CPI inflation rate came in at 3%, the expected level, and unchanged from July.

Markets are currently pricing in a 75% chance of a 25 basis points hike at the Bank of Canada's October 28 review.

And India's CPI inflation rate was reported overnight too, coming in at 4.8% for August and as expected, but notably higher than the 4.4% July rate.

Food inflation, which makes up a dominant part of this measure, came in at almost 6%.

Their 5.25% policy rate is next reviewed on October 7.

So when they tested metformin, there was no lifespan extension effect seen.

Then if you come back to the human studies, The Diabetes Prevention Program, this was a trial that started in 1997, and it took high-risk individuals, but they weren't type 2 diabetic yet, so either they were overweight or they had high fasting blood sugar levels, but again, they weren't classified as type 2 diabetics.

They gave half of them metformin and then the other half a placebo, and they followed these people up for a whopping 21 years, and there was no improvement in terms of all-cause mortality or cancer rates or cardiovascular disease.

So I'm not convinced that there's any benefits for non-diabetics, and I do want to emphasize that point, for non-diabetics to be taking metformin.