Global Gas Crunch Makes Europe’s Remaining Coal Plants Profitable By Michael Kern of OilPrice.com The global LNG supply crunch has made Europe’s last-standing coal-fired power plants profitable this year as gas supply costs soar while the need for conventional generation to stabilize grids remains. In Germany and Poland, which host most of the remaining operational or back-up-ready coal power capacity in Europe, coal-fired […]

After Brutal Hannity Interview, Katie Zacharia Sets Record For Fastest-Fired Trump Official Katie Zacharia, the Truth Social communications adviser and Fox/Newsmax fixture whom President Trump appointed on October 9 as his sixth White House press secretary, was fired Friday, barely a week after taking the job, the New York Times reported, citing three people familiar with the matter. Neither the White House nor Zacharia has […]

Two More Tankers Hit Off Saudi Coast As Brent Tops $110 Brent crude topped $110 a barrel to end the week for the first time since May as drone and missile attacks on energy infrastructure, from the Gulf to the war in Ukraine, cast a very dark cloud over oil and products market ahead of the Northern Hemisphere winter. The global benchmark rose 3.7% Friday, marking the second consecutive week of gains as traders ramped up bullish […]

Under Pressure From Trump, EU Introduces Corporate Levy Instead Of Digital Tax Submitted by Thomas Kolbe In the end, are we working only for the state? What was once dismissed as a light-hearted exaggeration is becoming reality step by step. In the midst of the worst economic crisis since the end of World War II, Germany has developed a fever for taxation. Berlin is raising levies unreasonably, from the sugar tax to tobacco and […]

Yellow Vests Return As French Protests Spread And Macron’s Crisis Deepens Remnants of the original Yellow Vests (Gilets Jaunes) movement are joining the ongoing far-left riots/protests, potentially broadening social instability and increasing pressure on President Emmanuel Macron as he approaches the end of his term in crisis. France’s political, social and fiscal pressures are increasingly reinforcing one another, with high […]

Watch: Migrant Mobs Are Terrorizing German Children At School Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, A young German student was punched, kicked in the head, and left defenseless on the ground by a mob of roughly ten youths outside the Heinrich-von-Kleist School in Frankfurt (Oder) this week. The attack is part of a widespread pattern of mobs of feral migrant background youths attacking German children. The attackers filmed […]

Zelensky Warns That 20 Million Ukrainians Would Pour Into EU If Russia Wins Is that a threat? Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told EU leaders on Friday that if his country loses the war to Russia, as many as 20 million Ukrainians could be forced to flee to Europe. Such numbers would make the 2015 European migrant crisis look like a walk in the park. Zelensky warns: What will happen if we fall? 20 million Ukrainians will […]

Le Pen And AfD Join Forces: Heavy Headwinds For Von Der Leyen’s EU Mega-Budget Submitted by Thomas Kolbe A breather in the European bond market. After yields on ten-year French government bonds brushed against the 5-percent mark in late trading on Friday, the situation calmed again at the start of the week. Two politically significant developments, one from Germany and the other from France, apparently acted like circuit breakers […]

Everything Is Russia’s Fault (Even Global Warming!) Authored by J.B. Shurk via American Thinker, In the old days (which, in the age of social media, were only ten years or so ago), every problem in the world was blamed on “global warming.” Hot summers? Global warming. Cold winters? That was global warming, too. Christian churches mysteriously burning to the ground? Ooh…obviously global warming. Endless hordes of foreigners […]

Chinese Researchers Unveil Plans For Tank That Can Remain Submerged For Two Hours China is working on a military vehicle concept that could allow a tank to remain underwater for up to two hours, potentially giving its armed forces a new way to approach enemy coastlines during amphibious operations, according to the South China Morning Post. The proposed system would allow an armored vehicle to travel at depths of up to 164 feet […]

New Dementia Cases Projected To More Than Double Globally By 2050 Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, The number of new annual dementia cases worldwide is estimated to increase more than twofold by 2050 from 2023 levels, according to a recently published peer-reviewed study. Published in the JAMA Neurology journal on Oct. 12, the study analyzed data from more than 38,000 individuals across 18 nations and […]

Qatar’s Government Revenue Plunges 42% In First Half As Iran War Knocks Out Gas Exports Qatar’s government revenue fell 42% in the first half of 2026, Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani told the Shura Council on Tuesday, October 13. The figure puts an official number on the damage that the Iran war and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz have inflicted on what was previously the world’s second-largest liquefied natural gas (LNG) […]

US Offers Another 17 Million SPR Barrels As Fuel Crisis Deepens By Julianne Geiger of OilPrice.com, The United States is putting another 17 million barrels of crude from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve on offer, one day after the IEA accelerated emergency stock releases as governments scramble to get more oil and fuel into a tight market. The Department of Energy issued a request for proposals Friday for an exchange of up to 17 […]

Relief At The Butcher? Beef Prices Show Signs Of Easing Some promising government data show retail ground beef prices have begun to stall in the second half of the year, offering relief to consumers who have watched beef prices soar month after month. Prices still remain near record highs as the Trump administration seeks to ease the nation’s most severe cattle shortage in a generation.  Bloomberg reports that ground beef prices […]

The Precious Metals Crisis That Could Trigger A Global Financial Reckoning Authored by Milan Adams via Preppgroup, It ended, apparently, in the spring. Gold ran to a record in the last days of January 2026 – $5,608 an ounce on one spot reading, roughly $5,405 on the LBMA benchmark, and $5,318.40 on COMEX futures, three figures describing the same metal and differing by nearly $300, which is a reminder that the price depends on […]

Why Have Saudi Air Defenses Failed To Intercept Houthi Missiles? Via Middle East Eye For years, Yemen’s Houthis have demonstrated their ability to strike some of Saudi Arabia’s most strategically important targets, from oil infrastructure to the kingdom’s capital. But repeated missile and drone strikes on Riyadh’s main international airport have raised fresh questions about the limits of the kingdom’s sophisticated air defenses. […]

A Horror Movie List To Get You In The Mood For Spooky Season The horror entertainment genre is a lot like comedy – Both require deep immersion and instinctive reactions.  Being browbeaten with overt political messaging in the middle of such films ruins them completely.  Nobody wants to hear a feminist sermon in the middle of Texas Chainsaw Massacre, they just want to watch that messed up dinner table scene. Parable and subtle […]

The Future Of American Drone Warfare Authored by Adam Sharp via The Daily Reckoning, While the war with Iran might be nearing a resolution, the war in Ukraine is heating up. Whether this is the next stage in escalation, or the grand finale remains unclear. But lessons continue to emerge from this conflict, and world powers are beginning to act on them at scale. Ukrainian long-range drones continue to hammer Russian energy and […]

“We have A Zero-Tolerance Policy”: High School Student “Punished” For Expressing Support For The ‘Cornell 7’ Authored by Jonathan Turley via JonathanTurley.org, We have previously discussed high school administrators and teachers who engage in censorship and speech regulation, often targeting religious and conservative students. These cases cost school districts millions in court costs, but the school officials never seem to face […]

Trump DOJ Opens Civil Rights Probe Into Liberal New Jersey Town Over Gun Permit Delays The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division has opened an investigation into the city of Pennsauken, New Jersey, on Wednesday to determine whether the township police department’s handling of firearm permits has become so slow that it violates the Second Amendment.  Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon said the division’s Second […]

NYC Sanctuary Laws Survive As Judge Rules Feds Can’t Force City To Help ICE Authored by Aldgra Fredly via The Epoch Times, A federal judge on Oct. 15 dismissed the federal government’s lawsuit challenging New York City’s sanctuary policy, saying that states are not obligated to participate in federal immigration enforcement. The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) sued New York City in July 2025, alleging that its sanctuary policy […]

“Whore Reporting For Duty”: Former SNL Actress Ego Nwodim Taunts Shane Gillis After SNL Monologue Shane Gillis is facing criticism from several former “Saturday Night Live” performers after a joke about women’s workout clothes during his latest appearance as host drew accusations of sexism, according to NBC News. The comedian used part of his seven-minute opening monologue to poke fun at increasingly revealing gym attire, […]

Negative Political Ads: Voters Despise Them, But Campaigns Keep Using Them Authored by Russ Jones via The Epoch Times, Campaign season has arrived with its usual barrage of attack ads, and this cycle is no exception. Polls consistently show voters say they dislike negative advertising, yet campaigns across the country keep pouring money into it. Political scientists, strategists and marketing experts say the answer lies in a […]

Supreme Court Leaves Self-Described Antifa Member Jailed Before Trial The Supreme Court this week turned down an emergency request to let Kyle Wagner, a 37-year-old self-described Antifa member from Minneapolis, out of jail before his trial. Wagner is charged in federal court in Michigan with one count of cyberstalking and one count of transmitting interstate threats.  Kyle WagnerBoth counts stem from his dealings with a man […]

Things Have Changed… Authored by James Howard Kunstler via kunstler.com, I remind you once again: history is a trickster. Sometimes things turn out, and sometimes they just turn, and these days they’re turning hard. Get this: Russia is not our mortal enemy anymore. This is not 1956 or even 1986. It is no longer the so-called Free World against the wicked Hammer and Sickle. Russia is no longer a weird political science […]