Trump Strikes “Biggest Oil Deal In History”: US To Take Majority Stake In Over 65BN Barrels Of Venezuela Reserves Summary: Trump announced “biggest oil deal in history” Caracas Mulls OPEC Exit  U.S. is Nears Deal For 17 Venezuelan Oil Fields under 100-year Leases Operated by U.S. oil companies Trump Close To ‘Massive’ Deal For Seizing Stake In Venezuela’s Vast Oil Fields Trump announces deal with Venezuela: 65+ billion barrels […]

Geothermal Power Is Emerging As An AI Energy Source For The Trump Administration A little-used corner of the clean-energy market is getting a potentially decisive trial in Utah. At a government-backed research site, engineers are testing whether equipment and expertise developed during America’s shale boom can turn deeply buried heat into a dependable source of electricity, according to Bloomberg. Conventional geothermal power […]

The Iran War Has Turned VLCCs Into $650,000-A-Day Assets Authored by Julianne Geiger via OilPrice.com, More Gulf oil is moving again. Getting it out now costs a fortune. Earnings on the benchmark Saudi Arabia-to-China supertanker route surged to a record $647,000 per day on Thursday, according to Baltic Exchange data cited by Bloomberg. That is more than ten times the rate a year ago-and nearly 27% above the $510,000 reached just […]

Bessent’s War On Left-Wing NGOs May Strip Soros Network, SPLC, And CAIR Of Tax-Exempt Status: Report A new report from the New York Post maps out a multi-agency Treasury task force that could soon pursue a broad review that could strip tax-exempt status from George Soros’ far-left Open Society Foundations, the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Council on American-Islamic Relations. Treasury officials are drafting a framework […]

China’s Solar Boom Hits A Wall As Industry Losses Mount Authored by Irina Slav via OilPrice.com, Three of China’s top solar market players reported deepening losses over the first half of the year, reflecting weakening demand for solar in the world’s top manufacturer and generator. Jinko Solar, JA Solar Technology, and Tongwei all reported six-month losses as overcapacity in the sector meets weakening demand, not only at home […]

Milo Yiannopoulos Detained by ICE After Overstaying Visa, Faces Deportation The Department of Homeland Security announced Friday that Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested conservative political pundit Milo Yiannopoulos for overstaying his visa and that the British commentator will soon be deported from the United States back to Britain. Federal agents took Yiannopoulos, a former Breitbart News editor, into custody […]

FDA Approves 3 New COVID-19 Vaccines Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times, The Food and Drug Administration on Aug. 27 approved COVID-19 vaccines from Pfizer, Moderna, and Sanofi. A nurse prepares to give a COVID-19 vaccine to a child in Denver, Colo., on Nov. 3, 2021. (Michael Ciaglo/Getty Images) The new shots from Pfizer and Moderna use the messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) platform and target the XFG strain, a […]

US Military Shoots Down 3 Mexican Cartel Drones With Laser Authored by Chris Summers via The Epoch Times, A laser system was used to shoot down three drug cartel drones in southern Texas, close to the Mexican border, the U.S. military said on Aug. 27. A so-called hunter drone in front of a mobile sensor unit for drone detection using optical systems and lasers at the National Test Center for Unmanned Aerial Systems of the German […]

Topless Sydney Sweeney Bakes A Cake In New ‘Birday Boobs’ Lingerie Ad With western birthrates circling the drain, Sydney Sweeney and her ‘perfect titties’ are once again fighting the good fight for humanity – this time appearing in a new ad for her new lingerie brand, Syrn, entitled “Birthday Boobs.” The 28-year-old posted the racy new ad to her Instagram page, in which she can be seen in the kitchen baking a cake – which ends […]

Welcome To FAFOland Authored by James Howard Kunstler via Clusterfuck Nation, “. . . the worse they become, the more they blame you for it.” – El Gato Malo on the Lefty-left As the Democratic Party pulls out all the stops to make itself ridiculous, their proxy warriors in the federal judiciary play chicken with the executive branch on sane, uniform standards for mail-in ballots. The Democrats don’t want sane, uniform standards […]

Arizona Border Wall Construction Begins, Targets Smuggling Corridor Authored by Owen Evans via The Epoch Times, The Trump administration has begun work on a project to build a stretch of border wall in southern Arizona. U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) said on Aug. 25 that the wall project is located along “one of the most dangerous smuggling and trafficking corridors on the Southwest border.” The wall segment is part […]

Trump Takes A Cleaver To “Big Meat” Monopoly, Moves To Let Mom-And-Pop Ranchers Process Own Meat President Trump’s move to dismantle what Republican Sen. Josh Hawley has called the “modern-day monopoly” in U.S. beef processing reflects growing concern that industry concentration has become a food-security vulnerability. Four corporations, JBS, Tyson Foods, Cargill and National Beef, dominate cattle purchasing and processing, […]

Uprising In Ceuta: Locals Have Had Enough Of Migrant Invasion Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News, In the complete absence of any meaningful government action, the people of Ceuta have taken matters into their own hands. On Wednesday night, Spanish flags filled the streets of the North African enclave. Crowds chanted for deportations. Then a column of residents pushed toward El Trampolín beach, the open-air settlement […]

FBI Director Blasts CBC’s Editorial Choice Not To Call 9/11 A Terrorist Attack Authored by Jennifer Cowan via The Epoch Times, The director of the FBI is criticizing a CBC News directive for its journalists to avoid using the term “terrorist attacks” during 25th anniversary coverage of the 9/11 terror plot that killed nearly 3,000 people in the United States. The memorandum directed to CBC News personnel instructed staff to stay […]

Rate-Hike Odds Spike As Chair Warsh Tilts Hawkish, Questions AI Productivity Timing, Prefers “Quieter” Fed Update (1000ET): The speech was hawkish in substance (see full remarks below) – Warsh framed inflation as the clear priority, said financial conditions are not restrictive, and set a high bar (“confident that underlying inflation is moving to our objective, clearly and at sufficient speed”) – while refusing to pre-commit […]

Wall Street Warns “Pervert Glasses” Backlash Threatens AI-Wearables Boom Bernstein analysts are out with a note on how Meta Platforms and EssilorLuxottica’s once-hot smart glasses business is running out of steam because of an emerging public backlash over privacy and surveillance, raising questions about whether the smart glasses industry as a whole is hitting a brick wall. Luca Solca, Bernstein’s senior equity analyst and global […]

Another Two Historic Churches Explode Into Flames… Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News, Two more historic churches are gone. Burned to the ground like hundreds more before them. In downtown Grand Rapids, fire tore through a 133-year-old building owned by LaGrave Avenue Christian Reformed Church late Wednesday night. While in Pennington, Alabama, the Ebenezer Baptist Church – a congregation founded in 1850 – was reduced […]

Truths And Omissions As US Hits $40 Trillion In Debt Authored by Veronique de Rugy via The Epoch Times, The U.S. national debt just crossed the $40 trillion threshold, doubling in less than a decade. Washington politicians have responded with their favorite fiscal game: blaming the other party. Democrats say Republican tax cuts are the culprit. Republicans say Democratic spending is the root cause. But both parties are responsible, […]

GTA 6 Leak, Netflix Preview Ignite Frenzy As BMO Declares “Gaming’s Super Bowl Moment” Nears Ahead of Rockstar Games’ first official extended preview of Grand Theft Auto 6 on Netflix on Thursday, which overwhelmed the streaming platform and generated largely positive reactions from players around the world, a person or group operating under the name “Cyberleek” dumped a series of GTA 6 leaks onto social media – which a nontrivial […]

Free Speech Advocates Rally At California Capitol Against ‘Stop Nick Shirley Act’ Authored by Jill McLaughlin via The Epoch Times, Tensions flared at the California state Capitol in Sacramento on Aug. 26 as free speech advocates rallied to overturn a new state law they dubbed the “Stop Nick Shirley Act” signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom last week. Utah independent journalist Nick Shirley joined Republican state lawmakers and hundreds […]

ICE Awards $16.7 Million No-Bid Contract For 6,000 Pairs Of Electric Shock Gloves Authored by Kimberly Hayek via The Epoch Times, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has awarded a $16.7 million contract to purchase 6,000 pairs of gloves that can deliver electric shocks. Officers would use them to control resisting detainees and protesters, according to a federal notice published Thursday. U.S. Immigration and Customs […]

Trump Stuns By Outright Dismissing Notion Putin Preparing To Attack A NATO State President Trump has added fuel to the fire of controversy and speculation over the question of why CIA Director John Ratcliffe made a surprise and highly rare trip to Moscow on Tuesday. Media accounts which seek to explain the nature of his meeting with top Kremlin intelligence officials, while apparently being snubbed by Putin in terms of a direct […]

Judge Again Rules Texas Drag Performance Law Unconstitutional Authored by Kimberly Hayek via The Epoch Times, A federal judge on Tuesday again barred a Texas law that restricts public drag performances, ruling for a second time that the measure violates the U.S. Constitution’s free-speech protections. U.S. District Judge David Hittner in Houston declared Texas Senate Bill 12 an unconstitutional restriction on speech. He […]

US Job Growth Revised Lower By 79,000 In Annual Benchmark Estimate In our preview of today’s preliminary benchmark revision of US jobs – published by the BLS ‘conveniently’ just as Kevin Warsh started to speak – we said that according to Goldman calculations, for the first time in 3 years and just the second time since 2018, the BLS was going to revisedpayrolls modestly higher “based on the nine months of data released since the […]

“Dark” Tanker Fleet Shatters Iran’s Hormuz Stranglehold As Gulf Oil Exports Top Two-Thirds Of Pre-War Level Brent crude futures initially jumped overnight after The Wall Street Journal reported that President Trump has no interest in reviving the memorandum of understanding (interim peace deal) reached with Iran in June. The war-risk premium in Brent has since faded in New York premarket trading amid mounting developments this week […]