COSCO Denies US Claims Its Container Ships Serve As Beijing’s Global Spy Network China’s state-owned shipping giant COSCO rejected a report published last week alleging that the company had concealed advanced surveillance equipment aboard its cargo ships to monitor US military communications near the coastlines of target nations, including the US. Reuters quoted COSCO on Friday as calling the allegations “totally unfounded” and […]

Iran Releases Footage Of Drone Swarm Attacks On Several ‘US-Linked’ Ships In Hormuz Strait Summary: Iran says it has attacked 3 ‘US-linked’ along with 3 American ships in the Hormuz Strait State media released footage of foreign vessels under attack in “response” to US aggression CENTCOM Confirms Iranian Tankers Hit Near Kharg Island Iranian Tanker Reportedly Hit By Missiles Near Kharg Island *  *  * Iran Unleashes Large […]

“Experiencing A Psychotic Episode…”: First ‘Clancy Copycat?’ Mom Hangs 2-Year-Old Son Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News, A horrific copycat Lindsay Clancy murder of a child has been committed by a woman in Frankfort, Illinois. Prosecutors say Corie Walsh hanged her 2-year-old son, Barrett, from a basement rafter on Tuesday, then tried to kill herself with a knife. She told police she did it because the boy was the […]

‘Not Simple’: Witkoff, Kushner Meet Putin For High-Level Peace Talks Under 72-Hour Ukraine Air Truce Summary:  Putin Tells Witkoff and Kushner that Ukraine War “Not Simple”  Putin Meets Witkoff and Kushner for Peace Talks  US Envoys Witkoff, Kushner Land In Moscow For Peace Talks As Putin Halts Attacks On Kiev New details have emerged about the meeting between US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner and Russian President […]

Citadel Eyes US Shale As Oil Trading Moves Closer To The Wellhead Authored by Julianne Geiger via OilPrice.com, Citadel is shopping for U.S. oil production assets, including a previous bid for WildFire Energy before Magnolia Oil & Gas agreed to buy the Eagle Ford producer for $4.06 billion. Reuters reported Friday that the hedge fund and commodities trader has held talks with several private-equity owners of oil-weighted […]

DeepSeek’s 160,000 Huawei Order Is A Real Threat To Nvidia In 2027 Roughly 350 kilometers northwest of Beijing, in the city of Ulanqab, DeepSeek is constructing a data center measured in gigawatts. Running at full capacity, the site would draw enough power to supply 750,000 homes. On Friday, Bloomberg reported that DeepSeek intends to fill a portion of this massive footprint with at least 160,000 of Huawei’s newest AI processors, […]

With Its War On Prediction Markets, The Gaming Lobby Plays A Bad Hand Authored by Dean Heller via RealClearMarkets, There’s a saying in Vegas, the house always wins. I represented Nevada in Congress for more than a decade and I can attest to the truth behind that phrase. But what I learned is that it’s rarely a fair fight. The gaming industry works to stack the odds against competition, whether it’s at the tables, in courtrooms, or […]

Under-The-Radar Oklahoma Bitcoin Mining Site Condemned After Leaking 3 Million Gallons Of Water A massive water leak in El Reno, Oklahoma has brought new scrutiny to a Bitcoin mining operation that city officials say had been operating without required approvals and in violation of multiple building and safety codes, according to KFOR 4. Three million gallons of water were leaked, according to KOCO ABC.  The facility, operated by […]

FICO Crashes As Trump Housing Chief Pulte Cracks Mortgage-Score Monopoly “Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion have been overcharging Americans for far too long,” Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Bill Pulte wrote on X late Thursday. The Trump administration’s campaign against the cost of credit scores and reports used in the mortgage industry sent shares of Fair Isaac, the company behind FICO scores, as well as Equifax and […]

The Soft Antichrist Of The AI Age: What Everyone Is Missing About The US-China Arms Race Authored by Patrick Feeley via Substack, I. The word Peter Thiel spent the back half of last year giving private lectures on the Antichrist, and the word has been loose in the discourse ever since. His political reading is the old one. The Antichrist is not a cartoon devil. He is the figure who arrives offering peace and safety, and who uses […]

Foldable iPhone Production Reportedly Limited Ahead Of Launch Apple is expected to unveil its first, long-awaited foldable iPhone next Wednesday at its product event in Cupertino, California. Rumored to be called the iPhone Ultra, the device could start at more than $2,000, with MacRumors estimating that the new iPhone could cost as much as $2,499. Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo expects the company to introduce the foldable alongside […]

Thank You Rick Santelli, You Legend Submitted by QTR’s Fringe Finance It was announced this past week that Rick Santelli will be retiring next month. So today I offer a tribute to perhaps the last man standing on CNBC with a functioning economics textbook, and one of the few figures in financial media who could simply tell you that one plus one equaled two without disappearing into an academic sounding, postmodern, jargon filled […]

NANO Nuclear Advances KRONOS With Baker Hughes, Adds Enveniam To Fuel Efforts Three weeks after we noted that NANO Nuclear Energy’s vertical-integration strategy was beginning to look more like a physical fuel cycle than a corporate slide deck, the company has delivered a pair of updates spanning both ends of the nuclear value chain. NANO’s announcement from Thursday details ongoing progress for the design of a circulation pump […]

Biden-Appointed Judge Dismisses DOJ Lawsuit Against New Jersey Law Restricting ICE Operations Authored by Troy Myers via The Epoch Times, A district judge ruled on Friday that New Jersey can continue restricting federal immigration officers from using state property for immigration enforcement-related purposes. New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill is shown in this file photo. Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/Getty Images The Department of Justice […]

AI Bears: Right About The Excess, May Be Wrong On The Trade Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, While the AI bears focus on concentration and circular financing, the last tech overbuild was financed with debt, and this one is being paid for in cash. Before I discuss why I disagree with the “AI bears,” I want to state that I respect their opinions, have evaluated their concerns, and have simply derived a […]

2.3 Million Illegals Gone: America’s Immigrant Population Plummets For First Time In A Century Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News, The numbers the open-borders crowd swore were impossible are now in black and white. A new Center for Immigration Studies analysis of the Census Bureau’s Current Population Survey finds the illegal immigrant population has fallen by about 2.3 million since President Trump returned to office […]

Alarm Bells Ring As Global Food Prices Hit 2022 Highs, Perfect Storm Stokes New Inflation Shock The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization’s global food-commodity index climbed in August to its highest level since 2022, with the index now gaining momentum to the upside. The upside reinforces warnings from several major Wall Street desks, which we have covered extensively, that global food shortages could materialize next […]

Mistrial Formally Declared In Lindsay Clancy Murder Trial After State Supremes Refuse Stay Update (1505ET): The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court denied an emergency stay Friday afternoon in the Lindsay Clancy case, after which the judge formally declared a mistrial.  JUST IN – Massachusetts Supreme Court Justice Dalila Argaez Wendlandt is hearing Lindsay Clancy’s defense appeal to stay the mistrial judgement. […]

Ukraine Pushes Congress For Russia Sanctions Before Election Recess Authored by RFE/RL staff via OilPrice.com, Ukraine’s top sanctions official says he remains optimistic about prospects for a sweeping Russia sanctions bill in the US Congress despite growing uncertainty over when the House of Representatives will take it up, as lawmakers face a sharply shortened legislative calendar ahead of the November elections. Vladyslav […]

Germany Braces For AfD Election Breakthrough In Saxony-Anhalt Voters in Saxony-Anhalt head to the polls on Sunday, followed two weeks later by elections in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Berlin. With the right-wing Alternative for Germany leading the national polls, the elections could be the opening act of an 18-month period in which Europe “lurches to the right,” as Nomura analysts explained last month. UniCredit’s chief […]

Meanwhile In Ceuta… Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News, Viral footage out of the invaded Spanish enclave of Ceuta shows a bottlenose dolphin calf came in close to the sand at Playa del Trampolín in Ceuta this week, disoriented and still alive. A group of men who entered illegally in the July surge pulled it from the water, hoisted it like a prize, and – according to local reporting, a conservation complaint, and […]

How To Tackle Domestic Extremists’ Foreign Enablers Authored by Daniel McCarthy via The Epoch Times, Left-wing terrorism is a serious problem in the United States, though for political reasons it doesn’t receive anything like the attention right-wing violence gets. When most people think of violence connected to abortion, they imagine attacks on abortion clinics – yet lately, pro-abortion extremists have been firebombing crisis […]

Starbase Louisiana 101: A Look At Elon’s New Space City Following the Starbase Louisiana announcement last week, questions have swirled over Musk’s motivation for choosing this location. In response, Deutsche Bank analyst Edison Yu takes a closer and identifies four main reasons including i) orbital trajectory (optimizing for ODCs), ii) geography, iii) regulation, and iv) propellant (bringing processing/production onsite). New […]

The Politics Of Measles Authored by Jeffrey A. Tucker via The Epoch Times, By the middle point of 20th-century American history, measles was widely considered a rite of passage for kids. You get it and you shake it off. You earn lifetime immunity. This was true of every generation just before mine. For the previous century, measles had become ever less dangerous with sanitation and nutrition. By the time the vaccine came along, […]

Warner Bros. “Lanterns” Series Is Another Whiny Woke DEI Disaster Comic book content is largely dead in Hollywood.  Not because audiences don’t want to see it anymore (Spider-Man: Brand New Day brought in nearly $2.4 billion in global box office, absolutely crushing Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey film), but because the studios have turned most of these franchises radioactive with woke politics.   James Gunn’s DCU projects for […]