Blackwater Bloodied: Erik Prince’s Congo Force Ambushed, Ex-UFC Star Tim Kennedy Shot In The Fight For The World’s Cobalt When Erik Prince signed on with Kinshasa last year, the brief was mostly about spreadsheets: help Congo’s finance ministry actually collect taxes on its minerals. But on September 17, it turned into a firefight. According to a Reuters exclusive published Friday, a team working for Prince’s Vectus Global was […]

Payback: Trump Cut Putin Diesel Deal After Zelensky Ignored Six Pleas To Stop Refinery Strikes Friday’s diesel deal between Trump and Putin wasn’t only about diesel. It was also about Kyiv. Hours after Zelensky accused Washington of using Ukraine’s negotiators as a “smokescreen” for a backroom deal with Moscow, Axios reported that Trump decided to let Russia sell diesel after Zelensky ignored half a dozen US requests to stop […]

AI Authoritarianism: A Government Without Constitutional Brakes Authored by John & Nisha Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute, “United States AI companies must be free to innovate without cumbersome regulation.” – President Donald Trump, Executive Order 14365 The era of small government is over. Anyone who tells you differently is selling you a lie. Case in point: Donald Trump promised to shrink the federal government. […]

AAA Developer Releases The Gayest $300 Million Video Game Of All Time? If gaming studios were run by smart people they would scrap any projects they launched in the early 2020s and start over from scratch.  The problem is, these are not very smart people.   Much like Hollywood, the gaming industry has been ideologically captured by Reddit-brained activists for at least a decade.  Numerous media productions that began their […]

Huckabee Top Aide Tried Quashing US Embassy Reports To Protect Israeli Govt: NYT Via Middle East Eye A top aide to US ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee has repeatedly altered or suppressed embassy reporting that would have been critical of Israeli activities in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip, according to a New York Times investigation. David Milstein, 36, has blocked, rewritten or delayed reports to Washington about […]

Grisly Discovery At Governor’s Mansion As Human Remains Unearthed A disturbing discovery at North Dakota’s governor’s mansion has uncovered seven coffins with human remains after construction crews hit a long-forgotten burial ground. Freshly smoothed dirt rests behind a fence outside the North Dakota governor’s residence in Bismarck on Sept. 30, 2026, after seven coffins containing human remains were exhumed from the site. (Photo […]

US Envoys Meet With Ukrainian Officials Over ‘Unified Proposal’; Zelensky Decries Trump’s ‘Unfair, Dishonest’ Deal With Putin Update (2000ET): We can only imagine how cold those discussions were when the Ukrainian officials heard about Trump’s deal with Putin for the release of diesel stocks to the world. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was not best pleased. He told Axios in a phone interview on Friday that President Trump’s […]

China Buys Record Amount Of Gold As India Panics, Scraps Key Tax Relief On Precious Imports Gold is climbing notably this morning, underscoring the potential for the precious metal to ratchet higher into year-end thanks to sustained buying from central banks and retail investors.  On the retail side, the total known ETF holdings of bullion are up this week, set to match the 12-week streak of gains posted through April 18, […]

Will AI Devalue The Real World? Authored by Jeffrey A. Tucker via The Epoch Times, Economic reality embeds many paradoxes, unexpected outcomes that go the opposite direction of what you might intuitively predict. The best example concerns a new innovation that seems to make more efficient use of existing resources. Intuition might suggest that the result will be less resource use but reality often goes in the other direction. […]

Nevada ‘Runaway Bride’ Who Married Multiple Men To Fund Gambling Addiction Ordered To Repay $280,000 A Nevada woman who allegedly used a string of marriages to extract money from unsuspecting men has been ordered to repay more than $280,000 after pleading guilty to bigamy and financial fraud, according to CourtTV. Jiaying Chen, 33, was accused of maintaining a yearslong operation in which she pursued romantic relationships, married […]

FCC Proposal Would End Chinese Labs’ Role In US Device Testing Authored by Kimberly Hayek via The Epoch Times, The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will vote on Oct. 29 on rules that restrict electronics testing to U.S. labs and countries that offer reciprocal recognition, with Chinese labs expected to be hit hardest. Apple iPhone’s sit for sale in Cupertino, Calif., on July 31, 2025. John Fredricks/The Epoch TimesThe […]

Katie Zacharia Becomes New White House Press Secretary President Donald Trump has chosen Katie Zacharia to be his next White House press secretary. Trump announced on Truth Social Friday that he had “just appointed” her, which she publicly announced shortly later.  “Thank you to President Trump for the distinguished privilege of serving as White House Press Secretary. Serving President Trump and the American people at this […]

War Department Expands Use Of High-Energy Laser And Microwave Capabilities Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, The Department of War (DOW) has announced the selection of four high-energy laser and high-powered microwave systems to expand its operational capabilities across the United States. The directed-energy systems were selected following a counter-drone pilot program by the Joint Interagency Task Force 401, […]

Questions Raised About Talarico’s Disappearance Texas state Rep. James Talarico, the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate, has gone roughly two weeks without an in-person campaign event in Texas, less than a month before the general election. His campaign says he has the flu. Republican rival Ken Paxton’s campaign and several conservative commentators say the explanation doesn’t account for the length of the absence or the timeline […]

Researchers Develop AI ‘Mind-Reading’ Tool That Reconstructs What Your Eyes See Authored by Jacob Burg via The Epoch Times, A cutting-edge new artificial intelligence (AI) tool can reconstruct images from a person’s vision simply by analyzing brain scans. The technology recreates a person’s visual field with startling accuracy and can also predict brain activity by analyzing what a person is looking at in real time. Professor […]

Kathleen Kennedy Reminisces On Her 14 Year Destruction Of Star Wars You can learn a lot about the political left and their true principles by simply studying their pop culture products.  Hollywood used to be a lot more savvy about hiding their intentions and their propaganda in tent pole films because they understood that they still had to make money.  Alienating the majority of their audience in favor of pushing a manifesto was […]

Feral Youth Leaves Man’s Intestines Hanging Out; Judge Lets Him Walk The Same Day Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, A 19-year-old charged with stabbing a man in Pittsburgh’s Garfield neighborhood, so badly that officers found the victim’s intestines protruding, was released the same day on a promise to come back to court. He did not have to post a dime. Eight days later he was the prime suspect in yet another […]

CNN Sees Metric That Looks ‘Darn Good’ For Republicans Before The Midterms CNN chief data analyst Harry Enten reported Wednesday that voter registration data in four swing states favors Republicans heading into the November midterms. This measure runs counter to polling showing Democrats ahead. Enten told anchor John Berman that Republicans have improved their party registration margin relative to Democrats by 4 to 8 points in […]

Guilfoyle Donor Scandal Explodes As Vance Balks, Rubio Dodges And The Donor Calls It Quid Pro Quo The left finally has something new to sink its teeth into, as the Kimberly Guilfoyle donor scandal widens – with JD Vance keeping his distance, a donor on a media tour, and a records demand sitting on the ambassador’s desk.  The allegation, reported by the WSJ late Wednesday – is that six days before her July 9, 2025, Senate […]

Russian Plague Institute Long Worked With China Authored by Petr Svab via The Epoch Times, The Russian anti-plague research institute, where a lab worker recently succumbed to an unknown form of pneumonia, has worked for many years with various Chinese institutions. A view of the entrance to the grounds of the anti-plague institute in the city of Irkutsk, Russia, on Oct. 6, 2026. AFP via Getty ImagesThe Irkutsk Anti-Plague […]

‘Flat Butt. No Friends. Bad Father’: Amazon’s Creepy ‘About You’ Dossiers Go Viral Amazon’s “About You” page, which lists traits the company has inferred about each customer, went viral this week after a Threads user posted that Amazon concluded she has a flat ass. Other shoppers began posting their own profiles, with entries such as “cannot keep real plants alive” and “has no friends.” I stumbled upon a page of assumptions […]

Obama & The ‘Sinister Shadowland’ Behind Our Politics? Authored by James Howard Kunstler via kunstler.com, The Ripening “Everybody’s restless and they got no place to go / Someone’s always trying to tell them something they already know / So their anger and resentment flow.” – Warren Zevon, Mohammed’s Radio In the stark October light, events and personalities skulk in the shadows like scavengers in an orchard of poison […]

Planning For Pitchforks: AI Labs Are War-Gaming A Catastrophe, Public Revolt, And The Crackdown That Follows The AI industry has been war gaming not only how it might destroy humanity, but is also considering what an angry public could do to the industry.  Senior executives at Anthropic, OpenAI and other AI firms are privately gaming out scenarios in which a major AI incident triggers a public and political revolt, Axios […]

Iran Strikes LPG Tanker In Strait Of Hormuz, As Houthis Reportedly Mine Bab al-Mandab Summary Houthis reportedly mine Bab al-Mandab: Saudi media reports ‘dense’ mining in the strategic Red Sea shipping route, with demining operations underway. Iran escalates tanker attacks & threats: The IRGC claims it struck an LPG tanker in the Strait of Hormuz, causing a major fire, and threatens further action against violating vessels. […]

Treasury Hits Remaining ‘Shadow Fleet’ Shipping Iranian Oil To Asia With New Sanctions The Trump administration is late this week moving to identify, punish, and cut off remaining tankers in Iran’s so-called ‘shadow fleet’ which are still engaged in shipping Iranian oil to Asia. Thursday saw the US Treasury impose sanctions on 17 vessels and their owners involved in transporting Iranian crude oil, petroleum products and […]