Thousands Of Dropbox Accounts Breached In ‘Verification’ Hack Hackers were able to gain access to approximately 5,000 Dropbox accounts last month after exploiting a flaw in Lenovo’s email verification process to register fraudulent Lenovo IDs.  Clouds are seen in front of the Dropbox logo in this illustration taken February 27, 2022. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration According to a notification sent to the affected users, “an issue […]

US Diesel At Pump Nears April War High As Global Refining Crisis Deepens A diesel-price shock may be approaching Western economies. That’s because the industrial fuel sits at the epicenter of freight, agriculture, construction, and heavy industry; soaring prices ripple quickly through supply chains, raising transportation and construction costs, reigniting food inflation, weakening consumer sentiment, and intensifying margin […]

Hunter Biden, Who Slept With Late Brother’s Widow, ‘Comes Out As 48.6% Gay’ Authored by Luis Cornelio via Headline USA, Former first son Hunter Biden is now claiming that he is “48.6 percent gay,” despite his long record of sexual activities with women, including allegations that he hired prostitutes and had a sexual relationship with the widow of his late brother, Beau Biden. Appearing on The Luke Beasley Show on Aug. 16, Hunter […]

The West’s Answer To Break China’s Tungsten Stranglehold Before Historic Rearmament Cycle Ramps New reports emerged late Tuesday during the US cash session that the US military had struck targets inside Iran. If confirmed, the operation would mark a rare instance of US strikes occurring during regular market hours. Market(ing) tactics aside, the now six-month military campaign against Iran has also exposed a critical operational […]

‘Operation Rotten Apple’: Nearly 2,200 Illegal Immigrants Arrested In New York Authored by Jill McLaughlin via The Epoch Times, The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) arrested nearly 2,200 illegal immigrants during an enforcement sweep in New York dubbed “Operation Rotten Apple,” officials announced Sept. 1. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers participated in the operation from from July 27 to Aug. 29, […]

Dersh V Dave: Lawyer And Libertarian To Face Off Tonight On Iran War Tonight at 7pm ET, two prominent voices on opposite ends of the Iran debate will face off as constitutional lawyer and professor Alan Dershowitz debates  the world’s most famous libertarian, Dave Smith, over the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran. Just days ago was the six month-mark for the conflict that has become considerably larger than the initial strikes on […]

House To Vote On Locking Supreme Court At 9 Justices As Democrats Float Expanding It Authored by Chase Smith via The Epoch Times, The House is expected to vote this week on a proposed constitutional amendment that would fix the size of the Supreme Court at nine justices. The number of justices is currently set by statute, which Congress can change by simple majority. If ratified, the amendment would place the figure in the […]

Second Largest US Grid Operator Proposes Reliability Rules For Data Centers By Ethan Howland of UtilityDive The Midcontinent Independent System Operator – the second largest US grid operator after PJM Interconnection – on Friday proposed a set of requirements large loads must meet before they can connect to the grid, including ramping and ride-through specifications. The “interconnection reliability requirements” framework […]

WTI At 5-Week Highs As US-Iran Fighting Resumes; US Production At Record High As Cushing & SPR Hit ‘Tank Bottoms’ Oil prices were volatile but are trading around unchanged this morning, but still near the highest closing level in five weeks (WTI topped $92 overnight) as hostilities broke out again between the US and Iran, renewing the threat to energy exports from the Middle East. The US conducted a second day of strikes on the […]

Energy Secretary Wright Says Venezuela Could More Than Double Oil Production Venezuela’s crude oil production rate could double in the next few years thanks to new deals set to be signed with U.S. and other foreign energy companies, U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright has said.  “The investment in these deals will massively grow available oil production, which will give downward pressure on oil prices, but the biggest kink […]

Factory Orders Rebound Strongly in July Despite Manufacturing PMIs sliding, US Factory orders were expected to rebound from a two-month decline in July (the latest data reported today) and rebound they did, rising 0.9% MoM (more than the expected 0.7% increase) with June’s 0.3% decline revised up to a 0.2% decline… That is the best monthly rise since April, lifting orders up 9.9% YoY – the second best annual gain since Oct […]

192 House Democrats Refuse To Condemn Socialism As Party Scrambles To Avert DSA Civil War It is not surprising whatsoever that nearly every House Democrat voted against a Republican-led resolution condemning socialism, giving Republicans fresh campaign material for the upcoming midterm elections amid the rise of the cancerous Democratic Socialists of America within the increasingly unhinged left-wing party.  The nonbinding […]

The ‘Great Satan’ Strikes, The ‘Snake’ Bites Back: Damage Assessed From Iran Flare-Up After Deadly US Attacks Iran is assessing the aftermath in terms of casualties and damage in the wake of the new flare-up in fighting, after the US launched a series of deadly attacks on the Islamic Republic Tuesday, focused in the south and Hormuz Strait area, and Tehran in expected fashion retaliated with drone-and-missile strikes against Gulf […]

Yen Suddenly Spikes Sparking Intervention Chatter Having broken hand held above 160/USD, this morning (as the G20 meeting comes to an end), the yen is suddenly spiking higher, prompting desk chatter of another intervention… “The market remains on high intervention alert,” said Alex Cohen, a foreign-exchange strategist at Bank of America. There was no obvious news or macro catalyst for such a move, and for now, there is no […]

Tokenmaxxing Turns To Layoffmaxxing: Uber Slashes Thousands In “Significant” Overhaul Bloomberg obtained a letter from Uber Technologies CEO Dara Khosrowshahi to employees announcing “significant organizational changes” across the company aimed at reallocating spending toward delivery, artificial intelligence, and an increasingly expensive robotaxi buildout. “Today, we’re making several significant organizational changes across […]

The Leipzig Incident Has All The Hallmarks Of A False Flag Authored by Andrew Korybko, It was carried out to justify the German economy’s evolution to war footing, distract from the resultant problems, and legitimize a future serious escalation against Russia. Germany blamed Russia for last month’s incident in Leipzig when one explosives-laden drone was found on the tarmac in proximity to Ukrainian cargo planes, another […]

Bloomberg Agri Index Posts Biggest Monthly Jump Since Arab Spring Riots As Food-Crisis Risks Mount The Bloomberg Agriculture Spot Index (BCOMAGSP) posted its largest monthly gain since the chaotic days of the Arab Spring riots and is nearing a breakout above its 2023 highs, signaling a broad-based acceleration in agricultural commodity prices. The upside momentum comes as Wall Street increasingly warns that a perfect storm of […]

ADP Reports August Saw Weakest Job Growth Since January, Wage Growth Dips Following a weak JOLTS report (and mixed manufacturing PMI employment reports), ADP was expected to report a modest 47k increase in American jobs in August. It disappointed with only 37K jobs added in August (while July’s 44k addition was revised up modestly to 46k)… This is the weakest monthly addition since January. Goods Producers shed jobs at the […]

Futures Swing As Global Bond Yields Follow Oil Tick For Tick US equity futures are lower with Tech underperforming as oil prices / bond yields move higher (although off session highs), both in response to an acceleration in “kinetic hostilities” in the Middle East. As of 8:00am ET, S&P futures are down 0.1%, off session lows, while Nasdaq futures rise 0.4% after Dell shares jumped after the company boosted its annual sales […]

Utah Judge Rules Charlie Kirk’s Alleged Assassin To Stand Trial Authored by Darlene McCormick Sanchez and Janice Hisle via The Epoch Times, The man accused of assassinating conservative commentator Charlie Kirk with a bullet to the neck will stand trial for aggravated murder, a Utah judge ruled on Sept. 1, almost a year after the fatal shooting rocked the nation. Defendant Tyler James Robinson, 23, potentially faces the death […]

Bessent Blames China For Derailing G20 Joint Communiqué The Group of 20 finance meetings in Asheville, North Carolina, concluded on Tuesday after four days of discussions among finance ministers and central bank chiefs on global trade. The news late Tuesday was that China had derailed the group’s efforts to issue a joint communiqué by refusing to endorse specific language targeting trade surpluses and export-dependent economic […]

Iran Targets Marine Barracks In Jordan, Sends Drones On Bahrain & Kuwait, After Trump’s New Strikes Summary Explosions in Jordan reported amid initial Iranian retaliation, drones on Bahrain. Reports of fresh US strike wave on southern Iran, oil soars Bessent Says Hormuz Will Be “Worthless Piece of Water” In Two Years Iran offers conditional ceasefire: Pezeshkian says Iran will return to talks if the US honors prior […]

FBI Now Says Past Prostitution And Theft May Not Disqualify Applicants The FBI has reportedly loosened some of its automatic disqualifiers for prospective employees, allowing applicants with certain past conduct to be considered on a case-by-case basis, according to The Times Of India. Under the revised standards, previously hiring a sex worker is no longer necessarily disqualifying. Applicants may still be eligible if it happened […]

How To Engineer A Food Crisis Via UNSHADOWED Substack, The UK paid farmers to stop producing, and now blames a food crisis on the weather… The UK seems to be in a world of hurt. The media has been abuzz about the need to stock canned goods due to “food shortages,” blaming global warming and hostile nations: – Guardian, August 25, 2026 Remarkably, these were exactly the causes blamed in many tabletop exercises, including […]

Mainstream Media Runs Spin Campaign As Deportations To Haiti Increase When the Trump Administration ended Temporary Protection Status for migrants from 11 different countries, the mainstream media’s attention immediately gravitated to only one:  Haiti.   It was the numerous problems surrounding the NGO and Biden organized surge of 15,000+ Haitian migrants into Springfield, OH that captured the interest of the American public […]