Midair Horror: FlyDubai Pilot Reportedly Stabbed, Israeli News Says Incident Treated As “Full-Fledged Terror Attack” Flydubai Flight FZ1073 from Dubai to Tel Aviv abruptly diverted to Saudi Arabia earlier today after a reported fight between the pilots triggered a distress alert, sources told CNN. Flight-tracking data from Flightradar24 shows Flydubai Flight FZ1073 diverted over Jordanian airspace toward Saudi Arabia and rapidly […]

How Do You Say “What The Actual F**k” In French? Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News, Paris Fashion Week is no longer in the business of clothes. It is in the business of humiliation. The Spring/Summer 2027 season opened in the French capital this week as a contest to see who can manufacture the most freakish garbage: outfits and makeup built to wipe out sex, wipe out beauty, and leave the human face looking like a prop […]

Bernstein Puts Timeline On When EU Rearmament Supercycle “Goes Boom” Readers by now know how we’ve laid out the looming rearmament supercycle in the West colliding with the “own the bottlenecks” theme, as resource nationalism makes industrial metals and rare earths scarce because of Beijing’s export restrictions. Adrien Rabier, Bernstein’s equity analyst covering European aerospace and defense, penned a note on Tuesday explaining […]

Europe Races To Contain Energy Crisis With Patchwork Measures Via Remix News, European governments are racing to blunt a fuel shock that even some analysts now refuse to forecast, as Brent crude holds near $100 a barrel and diesel prices climb across Europe. The international oil market has been expensive for months. What has changed is the confidence of the people paid to explain it. JPMorgan told clients on Sept. 17 that, for […]

Google Challenges EU Orders Requiring It Reveal AI, Search-Engine Information To Rivals Google parent Alphabet on Monday took Brussels to court over two European Union orders that would force the search giant to open its Android devices to rival AI services and hand competing search engines access to its search data. The Google logo at the VivaTech show in Paris on June 15, 2023. The Canadian Press/AP, Michel EulerThe European […]

Argentina Threatens UK With Court Action Over Falklands Oil Drilling Authored by Charles Kennedy via OilPrice.com, Argentina will sue the UK unless it suspends an oil drilling project off the coast of the Falkland Islands, the BBC has reported, citing an X post by Argentine president Javier Milei. “I instructed the Foreign Ministry and our legal teams to initiate international arbitration against the United Kingdom for the […]

NATO Condemns Russian ‘Nuclear Rhetoric’ Amid Kaliningrad Row NATO has called out what it dubs ‘desperate’ rhetoric on the part of the Kremlin which invokes potential use of strategic forces, also at a moment of growing accusations from European officials that Moscow is engaged in sabotage against EU interests and assets. “Russia’s use of hybrid tactics is a sign of desperation. But we will not be dissuaded from our support to […]

French President Macron’s Approval Rate Hits Record Low As Fuel Crisis Worsens Via Remix News, The popularity of French President Emmanuel Macron and his prime minister, Sébastien Lecornu, has plummeted due to the ongoing fuel crisis, BFMTV reports, citing a poll conducted by Odoxa-Mascaret for the online broadcaster Public Sénat and regional media. The poll was conducted last week, ahead of Emmanuel Macron’s speech on rising […]

Moscow Closes The Door: How Putin & Lavrov Hardened Russia’s Line On Ukraine In Ten Days Authored by Larry C. Johnson via SonarIntelligence (Sonar21), In mid-September, the Kremlin was signaling that negotiations could resume. Putin had said the trilateral talks with the United States and Ukraine would be unlikely before the State Duma elections, but that Russia would be ready to resume contacts after them. The elections ended […]

Sarah Huckabee’s Tone Deaf Political Ad And The “Young White Man Problem” America has a young white man problem, or at the very least, most popular media, corporate advertising and even political advertising seems to say so.  Either they are completely absent from the majority of media imagery, or when they are present, they are depicted as incompetent buffoons and ineffectual effeminate weaklings.  This has been an inescapable […]

Justice And Justices’ Investments Should Be Blind: The Alito Controversy Raises Persistent Problem On The Court Authored by Jonathan Turley via JonathanTurley.org, Yesterday, Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito recused himself from one of the term’s most important cases: Suncor Energy Inc. v. County Commissioners of Boulder County. As I have previously discussed, the case involving the liability of energy companies for nuisance […]

US Working To Close Visa Loophole For Chinese Visitors: Homan Authored by Frank Fang and Jan Jekielek via The Epoch Times, The Trump administration is taking steps to prevent Chinese nationals from exploiting a visa-free travel program to the Northern Mariana Islands, according to White House border czar Tom Homan. Chinese citizens wait to submit their visa applications at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing on May 2, 2012. Mark […]

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu Paying Illegals $575 To Become ‘Organizers’… And US-Born Residents Are Excluded Boston taxpayers are funding a program that teaches immigrants how to organize, lobby city officials and advocate for political change, then hands participants $575 for completing it. Illegal immigrants are eligible, while U.S.-born Boston residents are not. Boston Mayor Michelle WuThe Immigrants Lead Boston program, operated […]

Congress Ordered An Annual Accounting Of Terrorism; The Counting Has Stopped… Authored by David E. Firester via RealClearDefense, On May 1, 2026, the State Department released the 2024 edition of the Country Reports on Terrorism – a full year past the deadline in effect when the report came due, and months past even the more forgiving date Congress has since written into law. No Annex of Statistical Information, the report’s […]

87 Foreign Cruise Ship Employees Removed For Possession Of Child Abuse Material Federal authorities have now pulled 87 foreign crew members off cruise ships under Operation Tidal Wave, a Customs and Border Protection initiative aimed at child sexual abuse material aboard the vessels. Customs and Border Protection Air and Marine Operations members prepare for a patrol in San Diego, on Sept. 23, 2026. John Fredricks /The Epoch […]

Hegseth To Cut Top Generals, Admirals ‘By 20%’ Amid Ongoing Pentagon Shakeup Via The Cradle US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth is due to announce plans to reduce by 20 percent the number of positions reserved for generals and admirals, according to an exclusive released by Fox News on Tuesday.  “Hegseth approved reduction plans for the Army, Navy, Air Force and the military’s joint pool earlier this month,” the US outlet reported, […]

California Governor Vetoes DUI Bill Redefining ‘Drive’ To Include Using Autopilot Under The Influence California Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill Sept. 27 that would have added people using autopilot features in their cars after drinking or consuming drugs to the state’s driving under the influence law. The legislation would have redefined the term “drive” for certain driving under the influence, reckless driving, and vehicular […]

Waste Of The Day: Trips To Tiki Bar, Nightclubs Authored by Jeremy Portnoy via RealClearInvestigations, It’s no wonder that California’s infamous high-speed rail line has more than tripled in cost and been delayed by 20 years. The consultants working on the project have been killing time at a tiki bar, a nightclub, an escape room, a gym and more. Their travel expenses add up to more than $2 million, including $592,000 that was […]

Mystery Explosions: Syria’s Recovering Gas Network Keeps Getting Sabotaged Syria has reported at least two acts of major sabotage against its gas infrastructure in six weeks, and it raises questions over who or what group is behind it, and what this means for future energy transit projects. Monday evening saw a fire rage out of control for many hours at a gas pipeline between al-Shola and Deir Ezzor following a mystery […]

Trump Shoots Down Federal AI Regulations, Floats Watchdog ‘Committee’ And Self-Policing Update (1650ET): So after today’s big White House meeting with tech leaders, President Trump announced that they had signed a “morally binding” (lol) document governing the development of artificial intelligence.  Following the luncheon, Trump told reporters that he’s “seeing tremendous self-policing,” and that the administration is looking […]

UAE’s Next $25 Billion Bet On India Includes Energy Sector Authored by Tsvetana Paraskova via OilPrice.com, The United Arab Emirates has expressed intent to invest another $25 billion in India, including in the energy sector, Indian Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal said at a high-level meeting in Mumbai. The UAE has already invested about $25 billion in India and has signaled its intent to invest another $25 billion […]

Duke Lacrosse Hoax 2.0? Cornell DA Reopens Rape Case – Accuser Described Sex As ‘Voluntary, Conscious, And Consensual’ The Cornell fraternity rape case produced a national outrage campaign two years ago, after a student claimed she was raped at a fraternity house. Her allegations surfaced two weeks ago after the woman, known as Jane Doe in the lawsuit, sued seven men, the university, her sorority and the fraternity.  People walk […]

Another Federal Judge Strikes Down New York’s $75 Billion Climate Superfund Authored by Tom Gantert via The Epoch Times, A federal judge has struck down New York’s Climate Change Superfund Act, blocking the state from collecting $75 billion from fossil fuel companies to pay for projects addressing concerns the state attributed to climate change. The Justice Department on Sept. 28 hailed the ruling as a “significant step in … […]

Texas Governor Declares Disaster Over Soaring Diesel Prices Texas ranchers and truckers could start seeing some relief at the fuel pump starting this week after Gov. Greg Abbott proclaimed a statewide disaster on Sept. 28 to ease diesel shortages. “Texas agriculture and freight run on diesel,” Abbott said in a statement. “Record prices put both industries at risk and raise costs for every Texas family.” Record-high diesel […]

The Industrialization Of Fraud: How Global Scam Farms Are Evolving To Target Your Wealth Authored by Adam H. Douglas via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Financial fraud has morphed into a massive, highly organized global industry powered by transnational scam farms. These industrial-scale operations are largely concentrated in Southeast Asia but are rapidly expanding their reach to target your wealth. AI is helping scam farms […]