Biden-Nominated Judge Dismisses Michigan Case Accusing Oil Majors Of Suppressing Renewables Authored by Owen Evans via The Epoch Times, A federal judge dismissed an antitrust lawsuit in which Michigan accused four major oil companies of acting as a cartel to block renewable energy. U.S. District Judge Jane Beckering in Grand Rapids on Tuesday rejected a lawsuit filed in January by Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel, a […]

Panic At CNN As Paramount Seeks Elon Musk Equity Investment Paramount is weighing whether to bring Elon Musk on as an equity investor in its takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery, according to a report from Semafor. David Ellison has been sizing up potential investors as he works to lock down financing before the merger closes. Paramount has not said how much money it hopes to raise, and the size of any Musk investment remains […]

Futures Tumble As Yields Hit Multi-Decade Highs, Oil Surges Futures are lower with Tech underperforming as part of a global risk-off tone with few areas of safety, driven by a global bond rout that has sent yields across the globe to levels not seen in a generation. As of 8:00am ET, S&P futures are 0.6% lower with Nasdaq futures sliding 1.0% and reflecting the fallout from Wednesday’s barrage of inflationary signals, which […]

“Way Shorter Than Beijing Hoped”: China Stocks Tumble As Trade Truce Disappoints Chinese stocks slipped overnight as the two-month extension of the US-China trade truce fell short of some Wall Street expectations (some desks were hoping for +6 months), offering limited reassurance that today’s talks would deliver a long-lasting trade deal, stabilize bilateral ties, and ease uncertainty over global trade. The mainland CSI 300 […]

They Used AI To Race-Swap Him… Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Stanford University took a real photograph of three students in a dining hall, ran it through artificial intelligence, and published the result as a “Welcome Home” banner. However, one of those students, Hispanic undergrad Billy Ramirez, class of 2027, was gone. In his place stood an AI-generated Black woman. The two students next to him had their […]

Oil Jumps As Iran Warns War Could Expand To Indian Ocean If US Attacks Resume It was just this month which saw the Iran conflict spill over into a renewed fight between the Saudi coalition and Yemen’s Houthi rebels. Now Iran is threatening to expand the fight further, even into the Indian Ocean. Yahya Rahim Safavi, an adviser to Iran’s Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, warned Thursday of another significant expanse of the war if […]

Japan Breaks The ‘Debt Causes Inflation’ Narrative Authored by Michael Lebowitz via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, A dollar today buys nearly twice as many Japanese yen as it did fifteen years ago. Crude oil, in yen terms, is up roughly 70% year to date. Food prices are similarly elevated. Japan imports most of the energy and much of the food it consumes, paying for it in dollars that keep getting more expensive. Those facts alone […]

Aramco CEO Eyes “Fourth & Fifth” Oil Export Routes To Break Hormuz Chokehold Brent crude futures climbed back above $104 a barrel early Thursday as Iran threatened to widen the Middle East conflict into the Indian Ocean and optimism surrounding yesterday’s meetings between US and Iranian officials on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly faded. A focal point this morning is Nikkei Asia’s interview with Saudi Aramco CEO […]

Judge Orders Trump To Temporarily Restore CNN, MS NOW, And Politico Access To White House Authored by Melanie Sun via The Epoch Times, A federal judge has ordered President Donald Trump to temporarily restore White House access for CNN, MS NOW, and Politico while they challenge the revocation of their press passes in court. Federal Judge Timothy Kelly of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia issued a temporary […]

Poland Suspects “Hybrid Warfare” After Starlink Station Fire As War Spillover Fears Mount A fire erupted at a ground-based Starlink communications station in central Poland, raising new concerns about sabotage as spillover risks from the Russia-Ukraine war mount. Reuters reports that the fire broke out overnight Wednesday at the ground station’s power equipment and generator. The report cited Deputy Prime Minister Krzysztof […]

60 Minutes’ “Pardon Economy” Bombshell Ignored The Clintons… And Joe Biden Authored by Paul D. Thacker via RealClearInvestigations, When Bari Weiss was hired to lead CBS News last year, many of the network’s star reporters feared the centrist founder of The Free Press news site would turn the network into a mouthpiece for the Trump administration. Longtime “60 Minutes” correspondent Scott Pelley was fired after he accused Weiss […]

Escobar: The Calm Before The Showdown Authored by Pepe Escobar via LewRockwell.com, The only art that the Prince must totally master it’s the art of war – Machiavelli The Supreme Warrior Wins Without Fighting -Sun Tzu This was supposed to be the calm before the storm. Where the Epstein Syndicate would schmooze the Global South gathered in New York for the – comatose – UN General Assembly and seduce them with assorted “gifts”, […]

NATO Jets Scrambled After Russian Military Helicopter Breaches Polish Airspace Another dangerous border breach incident has occurred involving Russia’s military and a NATO ‘eastern flank’ country. Polish military officials announced Wednesday that a Russian military helicopter made a brief incursion into Poland’s sovereign airspace from the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad. AFP/Getty ImagesKaliningrad and Poland share a 130-mile […]

“The Danes Lied The Most”: What’s Really In The Text Of Trump’s Landmark Deal With Greenland Authored by John Weeks via AntiWar.com US To Establish Two New Military Bases In Greenland The United States plans to open two new military bases in Greenland, an expansion made possible by a new security agreement between the US, Denmark, and the semi-autonomous Danish territory of Greenland. On Tuesday, President Donald Trump, Danish […]

In Red Sea Crisis, Somaliland Seizes Leverage For US Recognition Authored by Dan M. Ford via Responsible Statecraft, The president of Somaliland took advantage of the geopolitical and global economic turmoil caused by the Iran War to visit Washington this week in an effort to advocate for American recognition of Somaliland and for the deepening of economic ties between the two. President Abdirahman Mohamed Abdullahi, known as […]

China Floods Europe With Cheap Cars, Grabs Record Market Share As Domestic Brands Buckle Europe is becoming a glaring case study in how globalist leaders can destroy an entire automotive manufacturing base by flooding the continent with cheap Chinese cars and sending domestic automakers spiraling into crisis, while their policies simultaneously spark what Nomura analysts have said will be political blowback over an 18-month […]

Anti-Immigration AfD Now The Most Popular Party In Key Western German State In A National Vote Via Remix News, The anti-immigration Alternative for Germany (AfD) party is known for its strength in the east of the country, but its popularity in Western Germany is also only growing, including in the country’s most populous state, North Rhine-Westphalia. This latest Forsa poll points to incredible growth of the AfD in a very short […]

Something Has Changed And World War Over Ukraine Is Back On The Table Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.us The eyes of the world have been fixated on the war in Iran for the past six months, meanwhile, the single-most dangerous flashpoint on the planet has gone mostly ignored. Until, that is, waves of Ukrainian drone strikes activated a run on global diesel markets. Suddenly, everyone is paying attention again… Russia is […]

Korea Picks A $22 Billion Texas Gas Plant As First Down Payment On Its $350 Billion Pledge To Trump Ten months, one tariff threat and several “sleepless nights” later, South Korea has finally found somewhere to put the first piece of the $350 billion it promised to invest in America. The winner is a gas-fired power complex in Encinal, Texas (population 540, where real estate is about to ballistic), and it is built to feed the one […]

Hurricane Polo Disrupts Mexican Ports, Puts Key Asia Trade Gateways At Risk Hurricane Polo weakened to a Category 4 storm early Wednesday after strengthening into an “extremely dangerous” Category 5 storm and churning 210 miles south of Zihuatanejo, Mexico, in the Pacific Ocean. The storm risks disrupting critical maritime shipping lanes along Mexico’s Pacific coast. FreightWaves reports that Mexico’s Navy restricted major […]

China Expands Export Controls On Drug Precursor Chemicals Ahead Of Trump-Xi Talks Authored by Aldgra Fredly via The Epoch Times, China has added more chemicals to its export control list for drug precursor substances ahead of a high-stakes meeting between President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping in Washington. Fentanyl precursors are displayed at Reuters’ office in Mexico City on Oct. 4, 2023. Claudia Daut/ReutersThe […]

Marxist-Maxxing: Hasan Piker Calls For “Literal Communist Revolution” Inside Dem Party The Democratic Socialists of America’s unofficial cheerleader, far-left streamer Hasan Piker, has stated an inconvenient truth for the Democratic Party: its far-left fringe will eat the party alive, quite literally. Listen to Piker in his own words: “I will throw you in prison. I want Chinese-style communism to happen inside of the Democratic […]

Harvey Weinstein (Finally) Sentenced To 15 Years In Prison Authored by Savannah Hulsey Pointer via The Epoch Times, Disgraced film producer Harvey Weinstein has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for a 2006 sex crime. The Sept. 23 sentencing was for the sexual assault of then-TV production assistant Miriam Haley, and comes after Weinstein’s 2020 conviction was overturned. A jury found Weinstein guilty at last year’s retrial. […]

Zelensky To UN: Russia’s Deficit ‘Bigger Than Any Other Year’ – More Sanctions Needed Among the more interesting parts of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s speech before the UN General Assembly on Wednesday afternoon was when he lashed out at North Korea. Zelensky said while issuing leveling a litany of charges against Russia for its war that “The leader of North Korea sent his troops to Russia to support the weak points of […]

The Sudden AI Panic Has A Lot To Do With The November Midterms Authored by Victor Davis Hanson via The Daily Signal, We’re about 40 days, close to 40 days, out of the midterm, and all of a sudden there’s been a melodramatic announcement that artificial intelligence could destroy the human race. I think everybody’s always accepted that remote possibility, and it’s been very popular in popular culture, such as “The Terminator” […]