US Stealth Bomber Base In UK On “Delta” Alert As Counter-Terror Police Make Arrests, Deploy Bomb Squad Search Of Vans British counterterrorism police declared a major incident near RAF Fairford, an airbase used by the US Air Force, after several men were arrested on suspicion of explosives offenses. RAF Fairford was reportedly placed on “Delta,” the highest threat level, according to the national news agency Press Association, now […]

Iran ‘Fully Prepared’ To Resume War, We Don’t Trust Trump: Iran FM The two big weekend Iran war developments are 1) President Trump has rejected Tehran’s seven day ceasefire roadmap proposal, and reportedly plans to resume bombing Iran – likely after the November midterm elections; 2) the Iranian government announced Sunday its forces have struck 19 ships in the Strait of Hormuz over the past two nights, per Fars News Agency. The […]

Xi Will Return And Put His Foot On The Pedal To Develop Better Chips, Better Models, And The Energy To Drive That Compute We came into this week with a list of things to think about with the Fed Behind Us, and a SITREP focusing on the Houthis vs Saudi Arabia. We also kicked off the week with a preview on CNBC. Our “official scoring” was stocks did well, Bessent faced setbacks on bonds and the yen, and for the world, well, […]

Tech CEO Found Guilty In $2 Million Ponzi Scheme Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, Michelle Bisnoff, the CEO of wearable tech company Esos Rings Inc., was convicted of running a nearly $2 million Ponzi scheme. Michelle BisnoffBisnoff tricked investors into believing she owned patents for “smart rings” payment technology that rightfully belonged to her former employer, according to a statement by the Department of […]

The DOE Demands Faster Uranium Enrichment Buildout. Who’s Answering The Call? DOE officials told Reuters they are pressing Centrus Energy, General Matter, and France’s Orano to accelerate their new build programs. The start of the Russia-Ukraine war in 2022 sent prices soaring across the nuclear fuel chain, as the start of the war was also followed by the US implementing a ban on importing Russian enriched uranium. The panic of […]

The Easy Money Fairy Tale Is About To End…Violently Submitted by QTR’s Fringe Finance For the better part of the last couple years, I have wondered whether financial markets are permanently broken. Not simply overvalued or temporarily irrational, but actually broken at the mechanical level and permanently distorted. I’ve written about it. The basic process that is supposed to make capitalism work goes like this. Capital […]

FDA Commissioner Nominee Says Every Vaccine On US Market Is Safe, Effective The doctor nominated by President Trump to lead the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) told senators this week that vaccines available in the United States are safe and effective. Dr. Heidi Overton, the nominee, said that if confirmed, she could use her scientific training and clinical background to describe to the American public what is currently known […]

Consumer Credit Stress: What The Data Really Shows Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, A viral stat claims credit card delinquencies just hit their worst level since 2008. However, the New York Fed’s own data shows the opposite, and the real consumer credit stress is hiding exactly where the headlines aren’t looking. A number has been making the rounds all year, and it’s misleading. The claim: roughly […]

DHS Ends Biden-Era Solicitation Of Donations For Illegal Aliens In Custody Authored by Catherine Salgado via PJ Media, Under the Biden administration, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) was asking for and accepting private donations for illegal aliens in federal custody. The Trump administration just realized it had never officially ended that directive, so it did so this week to remove any lingering confusion. CBP Commissioner […]

“Coming Monday”: Trump To Roll Back Costly ‘Green’ Rules To Drive Down Car Prices All this “green” technology embedded in vehicles over the last two decades, such as automatic stop-start, cylinder deactivation, turbocharging, advanced transmissions, hybrid systems, and other forms of electric assistance designed to reduce fuel consumption and improve miles per gallon, has made the upfront cost of purchasing a new vehicle […]

Mamdani: Socialism “Will Absolutely Translate” Nationwide Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has stopped pretending his socialist vision is just a local experiment. On CNN International’s Amanpour, the Democratic Socialist was asked whether America is ready to elect people on the hard left – and whether the 2026 midterms will be a referendum not only on President Trump, but on the […]

Hormuz Oil Flows Rebound To Two-Thirds Prewar Level As Iran’s Grip Erodes, Attacks 19 Ships Rory Johnston, a Toronto-based oil analyst and the founder of Commodity Context, an independent oil market research firm, wrote on X this weekend that oil shipments through the Strait of Hormuz have recovered to roughly two-thirds of prewar levels, driven by a surge in Saudi exports. This suggests that Tehran’s leverage over the critical […]

How Many Ministries Of Truth Does One Country Need How many Ministries of Truth does one country need? With Andy Burnham announcing yet another, Prof Michael Rainsborough points out that Britain’s “narratives of decline” arise because the country is, in fact, declining… Authored by Michael Rainsborough via The Daily Sceptic In previous essays I have sought to describe the political condition into which Britain and other […]

Saudi Arabia Could Use Trump Deal To Get A Nuke: Intel Assessment A classified US intelligence assessment’s conclusions have been reported in The Washington Post at the end of this week, and the report says that Saudi Arabia has not ruled out developing nuclear weapons. The report comes as Congress is scrutinizing President Trump’s controversial nuclear cooperation agreement with Riyadh, which was signed by Energy Secretary Chris […]

Is Putin Caught In An “Escalation Trap”? The Long War In Eastern Europe Authored by Larry Johnson via Sonar21.com Yves Smith of Naked Capitalism has flagged a recent interview that Professor Robert Pape did with Mario Nawfal. During the interview, Pape argued that Vladimir Putin is caught in an “escalation trap.” In his telling, Russia launched a preventive war in February 2022 to seize Kyiv and roughly 60 percent of Ukraine. That […]

The Socialist Indoctrination Machine: Schools Are Teaching Young People To Embrace Big Government, Hate Capitalism Authored by Ken Buck via The Epoch Times, A recent headline from a well-respected news outlet caught my attention: “Could socialism make America happy again?” Surely, the article must be satirical, I thought. Who in their right mind would believe that the most oppressive form of government, responsible for hundreds […]

California Has Highest Personal Income Tax Rate, 8 States Have None… Where you live can make a major difference in the state income tax rate applied to your earnings, with systems ranging from no individual income tax to top marginal rates above 10%. This map, via Visual Capitalist’s Gabriel Cohen, compares U.S. states based on their top marginal individual income tax rate in 2026 using Tax Foundation data. Both local and federal […]

USAF More Than Doubles Ondas’ ULTRA Drone Contract As Potential MQ-9 Reaper Alternative Emerges Thursday’s Department of War contract update signals increased US Air Force investment in long-endurance surveillance drones that could complement the MQ-9 Reaper and help fill intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance mission gaps following reported heavy losses in the US-Iran conflict. The USAF more than doubled the value of its […]

Southeast Asia Keeps Building Gas Plants Despite Hormuz LNG Shock Authored by Irina Slav via OilPrice.com, Countries in Southeast Asia are still building natural gas-fired power plants despite the price inflation in gas caused by the Middle East war. Asian countries are also building more LNG import capacity, Global Energy Monitor reported. The net-zero think tank said there was some 100 GW in new gas-fired power generation […]

Prepping For A Cashless Control Grid How Digital Currency Becomes Digital Control Authored by Milan Adams via Preppgroup, When Money Stops Being Money Something fundamental is vanishing, and most people will not notice until it is already gone. Not with a declaration. Not with a law passed in the dead of night. Simply, gradually, the option to buy something without creating a permanent record will disappear. The ability to save […]

Cuba In Crosshairs: US Army Reportedly Checks Troop Availability As Trump Says Communist Regime “Will Fail” President Trump told the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday that the failed communist island nation of Cuba would see freedom, as the U.S. has not been shy about its intentions to kick the communist regime out of Havana. The U.S. has employed gunboat diplomacy through an oil blockade this year, as the failed state has […]

Indian Refiners Lift LPG Output Nearly 20% As Hormuz Blockage Chokes Imports Authored by Irina Slav via OilPrice.com, Indian state refiners are ramping up their production of liquefied petroleum gas amid a seasonal jump in demand as the country enters festive season and imports from the Middle East remain strangled. So far in September, local production of LPG has averaged 44,000 tons daily, Indian media reported, citing […]

OpenAI Freezes Development Of Top Models After Rogue Agents Leak User Images To Web And you thought your mom posting your Christmas pajama pics to Facebook was bad… In the latest chapter of ‘let’s spook the shit out of everyone so the government regulates AI,’ OpenAI’s autonomous research agents were found to have grabbed 53 user images from training and evaluation data and quietly dumped them onto public image-hosting sites. […]

IRS Probing $100 Billion In Potential COVID-19 Loan Fraud Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, Roughly $100 billion in loans given for COVID-19 programs have been identified as suspected fraud by tax authorities. Earlier this year, the Small Business Administration (SBA) referred more than $200 billion in suspected COVID loan fraud to the IRS. The tax agency then compared the information that the borrowers […]

New Jersey Microsoft-Linked Data Center Hit With Record Fine Over Unpermitted Gas Generators A New Jersey AI infrastructure project has been slapped with a $1.07 million environmental penalty after state officials determined that dozens of large natural-gas generators had been running without the necessary air permits, according to The Guardian.  The fine against DataOne is the biggest New Jersey regulators have imposed on a data […]