The Hunger Margin: How Intel Analysts Learned To Measure The End Of Abundance Authored by Milan Adams via Preppgroup, The shift happened gradually, then all at once. By late 2024, analysts at Langley and Fort Meade who had spent careers tracking terrorist cells and nuclear programs found themselves redirected to spreadsheets showing fertilizer shipments, satellite passes over Ukrainian wheat fields, and soil moisture readings […]

Agentic Wars Begin: Amazon Blocks Meta’s Agents As Muse Takes World By Storm Amazon.com has blocked Meta’s new AI agent from its retail site after the social media company declined a request to remove the bot, Bloomberg reported. Meta’s Muse, which was introduced earlier this month and has taken the world by storm, quickly rising to the top of mobile app charts, a sign that the social media company is gaining traction in the […]

China’s Rare-Earth Magnet Exports To US Plunge As Trump-Xi Meeting Looms Chinese President Xi Jinping and President Donald Trump are scheduled to meet in Washington on Thursday. UBS analysts quoted chief China economist Yu Song as saying the meeting between the leaders of the two global superpowers is largely about strategic stability and modest progress on tariffs, rare earths, and AI safety. Political risk analyst Marcus […]

“Supply Shortage Problem Has Disappeared”: Acer CEO Says Memory Prices To Decline In 2027 As CXMT Starts Mass Production Of New Chip Platform At long last, the memory bubble may be finally bursting.  According to Jason Chen, chairman and CEO of Taiwanese PC and IT hardware giant, Acer, prices for memory chips will start reversing in the latter half of next year, dismissing the memory cartel pardon Big 3 claim that chip prices will […]

“Technically Not A Hurricane”: Rare Nor’easter Threatens Northeast This Weekend Meteorologists on X are tracking a potential nor’easter that could form off the East Coast late this week.  A powerful nor’easter could lash the East Coast this week — a rarity for September. Only around 1 percent of nor’easters have historically occurred during September. They are most common from November to April. pic.twitter.com/t9LNEgAeqD […]

Chinese County Orders Lawyers To Get Government Approval Before Defending Criminal Charges Authored by Michael Zhuang via The Epoch Times, A county justice bureau in southwestern China has ordered local law firms to report cases related to the government’s “anti-organized crime” campaign and obtain official approval before lawyers can argue that a defendant’s alleged offense should be classified differently. The No. 2 Intermediate […]

Seattle Mayor Calls For New Gun Laws While Letting Repeat Offenders Roam Free It’s the communist playbook in real time.  Allow crime to fester, then disarm law abiding citizens rather than punishing the people responsible.     Democratic Socialist Mayor of Seattle, Katie Wilson, has been a disaster for the city and she’s only been in office nine months.  So far, multiple major corporate employers are leaving Seattle to avoid […]

China Will Dominate Global Nuclear Energy Through 2035, Analyst Says Authored by Haley Zaremba via OilPrice.com, The future of nuclear energy is in China’s hands. While the United States remains the world’s largest producer of nuclear energy, China’s sector is growing at such a rapid clip that it is expected to overtake France as well as the United States to become the world’s leading nuclear power producer within the next decade. […]

DHS Lawyer Says Minnesota Judges Coordinated To Block Immigration Enforcement Authored by Matthew Vadum via The Epoch Times, The Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) top lawyer accused a federal judge of working with other judges to block immigration law enforcement after the jurist said that the Trump administration’s Minnesota enforcement surge created “a grave threat to the rule of law.” Federal law enforcement agents stand […]

Massachusetts School District Investigated Over Alleged Secret ‘Gender Transition’ Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, The Department of Education has announced that it is investigating a Massachusetts school district over allegedly enabling a minor girl student’s “gender transition” without the knowledge of parents or securing their consent. The probe was launched by the department’s Student Privacy Policy […]

Saudi Arabia Reroutes Oil Exports As Houthi Strikes Target Yanbu Satellite images gathered by Bloomberg show supertankers with capacity for 14 million barrels at Saudi Arabia’s Gulf export terminals over the weekend, the highest tanker count observed since at least June, according to data compiled from the European Union’s Sentinel-2 satellite. Source: Javier BlasHowever, as OilPrice notes, overall Hormuz traffic kept falling […]

Nvidia CEO Says “Zero Percent” Chance Of AI Making Humans Extinct Authored by Chris Summers via The Epoch Times, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has rejected the claims of some artificial intelligence researchers that the technology could wipe out humanity, calling the arguments “doomsday narratives.” Huang said in a Sept. 17 interview with CBS News that predictions made by former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon and Anthropic’s […]

Putin Plans To Skip Miami G20, Prioritizing China Trip: Officials Both the Kremlin and the White House had recently signaled mutual openness to the idea of President Putin actually attending the G20 Miami Summit which is set for December 14-15. Some reports have recently expressed optimism that some kind of grand Ukraine peace deal could emerge from such an engagement. However, Bloomberg has poured cold water on this, reporting […]

Houston-Area Birth Tourism Center Shut Down In Legal Action Authored by Kimberly Hayek via The Epoch Times, A birth tourism operation in the Houston area has agreed to close in a settlement, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced on Friday. An advertisement for a Houston-area “birth tourism” operation known as De’Ai Postpartum Care Center. The Texas attorney general filed a lawsuit against the center, claiming it has […]

Diesel Hits New Record Above $6.50 As Export Ban Fears Mount, Gasoline Squeeze Looms UBS analysts warned that the global diesel squeeze could get worse as two major suppliers potentially pull barrels from an already strained petroleum products market. Russia may extend diesel export restrictions through October, while chatter in Washington about a US fuel export ban continues to grow. As of Monday morning, AAA data show the […]

DOJ Charges 16 Individuals For Election Crimes Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, The Department of Justice (DOJ) on Sept. 18 announced charges against 16 people across seven states, alleging various election-related crimes. A voter at a polling site during the redistricting referendum in Alexandria, Va., on April 21, 2026. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch TimesThe individuals are being accused of “unlawful voting by […]

12 People Arrested After Stealing $250,000 Truckload Of Frozen Chicken Stolen chicken used to pay off a drug debt?  It’s a true barter market in action.  Memphis police serving a warrant at an Economy Inn discovered 12 people (some reports cite 13 people) behind the hotel unloading pallets of frozen chicken from a hijacked Koch Foods 18-wheeler.  The suspects fled the scene but were all captured. Memphis police arrested 13 […]

US Shipment Of F-35s Goes MIA In Shocking Detour To Hong Kong Authored by Luis Cornelio via Headline USA, Lawmakers and the Trump administration are investigating the odd disappearance of a U.S.-bound shipment of F-35 fighter jet components from Australia, which were originally meant to be repaired on U.S. soil, according to new reporting by Politico. The report, published Friday and citing three anonymous sources, noted that an […]

Kunstler: Suburban Sprawl Is A ‘Death Trap’ For America’s National Spirit Authored by James Howard Kunstler via Clusterfuck Nation, The Late, Great Debate About Suburbia, An Apologia “It is difficult to design a place that will not attract people. What is remarkable is how often this has been accomplished.” – William H Whyte Greenland, yes, yes, okay ! Smooth move. . . ! But. . . today we put aside the vagaries of national […]

Judge Rules EPA Must Reinstate $7 Billion Biden-Era Subsidies For Solar Promotion Authored by Jeremy Lott via The Epoch Times, A $7 billion federal government grant program for solar promotion, authorized during the Biden administration, was reinstated by a federal judge on Sept. 18 in a ruling that rebuffed the Trump administration’s efforts to cancel it. Solar panel array at a solar farm near Lancaster, Calif., on June 17, 2026. […]

Verizon Says Cut Cable Behind FAA Ground-Stops East Coast Airports, Not Their Fault (Update 1540ET): Verizon confirmed the “unknown equipment issue” behind the massive ground stop in the tri-state area was a cut fiber cable in New Jersey. The company says construction contractors working near an Amtrak rail line dug it up, that Verizon’s facilities were fully functional until that happened, and that the carrier bears no […]

Bessent Declares All Iran Airlines To Be ‘Shut Down Around The World’ Wednesday Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent declared on Monday that by Wednesday Sept. 23, “all the Iranian airlines will be shut down around the world.” “If they land, you cannot provide them with fuel, you cannot provide them with landing services, you cannot sell them tickets, or you will be knocked out of the dollar system,” he described. Bessent on Iran: On […]

US Opens Foreign Funding Investigations Into Duke, University Of North Dakota Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, The State Department and the Department of Education are investigating Duke University and the University of North Dakota over allegedly violating foreign funding disclosure rules. The statue of Washington Duke on Duke University’s East Campus with Baldwin Auditorium is shown in Durham, N.C., on April […]

Big Tech’s Next AI Battleground Is Your Face, Loop Capital Says Smartglasses are set to be the “next major computing platform,” according to Loop Capital analysts, as Meta currently leads the space, with Google, Samsung, Apple, and SNAP preparing their own AI-powered eyewear. Loop Capital analyst Rob Sanderson wrote in a note on Sunday that an “inflection point” has arrived for smart glasses, which are “transitioning from wearable […]

Trump’s 48-Hour Houthi Strike Whiplash Was Triggered By Desire To ‘Help His Friend’ MbS President Trump’s abrupt Saturday return to the White House from Camp David, where he had been slated to spend the whole weekend, had set off an avalanche of speculation on potential military escalation in the Middle East. The NY Times and Axios are reporting that the Commander-in-Chief was close to a ordering new anti-Houthi intervention but […]