“Not Spectacular Enough”: Novogratz Says AI Is The Biggest Bubble Of Our Lifetime… And You Should Buy It The AI bubble debate has officially moved past “is it a bubble?” to “how do I make money before it isn’t.” Speaking at the Greenwich Economic Forum this week, Galaxy Digital (GLXY) founder Mike Novogratz said that AI is in the “biggest bubble of our lifetime”… and that investors should jump right in. His reasoning, via […]

Houthis Escalate Saudi Strikes, Briefly Disrupt Riyadh Air Traffic, Hit Bases Near Border Wednesday has witnessed more direct attacks on Saudi territory launched by Yemen’s Ansar Allah movement, coming soon after Turkey, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia announced they have triggered the Mecca Defense Pact. Houthi spokesman Brig. Gen. Yahya Saree announced the fresh launch of ballistic missiles and drones targeting King Khalid […]

“You’ve Got Mail”: China Got Its Hands On F-35 Stealth Parts Because A UPS Worker Missed An Email Forget hackers, honey traps and photon-counting lasers. China’s latest haul of F-35 secrets apparently came courtesy of an unread email. According to a new Bloomberg report, the F-35 cockpit canopy and weapons-bay door that ended up in Beijing’s possession were routed through Hong Kong because a United Parcel Service (UPS) employee […]

Biden’s FBI Spied On Trump Campaign Manager’s Communications And Trump Family Travel According to newly released White House documents, former special counsel Jack Smith’s team monitored the phone and email metadata of Susie Wiles while she ran Donald Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign, and the travel of Trump family members. The records show that investigators logged her contacts with journalists, defense attorneys, and political […]

Iran Slams Door On Nuclear Talks: No Deal Unless US Meets Its Conditions Via The Cradle There have been no nuclear negotiations taking place between Washington and the Islamic Republic, Reuters reported on Wednesday, citing what it said was an Iranian official.  “No negotiations [have] taken place with the US about Iran’s nuclear program… Washington must first meet Tehran’s conditions before nuclear talks can start,” the […]

Porsche Plans 20% Price Hike On Top-End 911s In Profit Push During Capital Markets Day in Weissach, new Porsche CEO Michael Leiters offered Wall Street desks a bleak outlook, warning that the turnaround will take time and that operating conditions are unlikely to improve significantly over the next few years. Leiters signaled to investors a shift toward value over volume. He said the focus is now on prioritizing higher revenue per […]

Arizona Democratic House Candidate Raped While Repairing Campaign Signs: Report Democratic congressional candidate Bernadette Greene-Placentia says she was sexually assaulted in mid-August while repairing a campaign sign late at night in the Sun City area, according to a Phoenix New Times report published October 7. The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office has confirmed it received a report on August 31 and that the investigation […]

China Says It Can Spot An F-35 With A Laser… From 38 Miles, At Night, In A Simulation Every few months, a Chinese research institute announces it has found a way to see the unseeable F-35, and every few months the fine print turns out to be doing most of the work. This week’s entry: a laser. According to the South China Morning Post, researchers at the China Airborne Missile Academy, the PLA Air Force’s main air-to-air missile […]

Hospitals Warned To Avoid Deceptive Pricing Or Wind Up In Federal Court Authored by Lawrence Wilson via The Epoch Times, Hospitals must provide complete and accurate price information to patients before they agree to an elective procedure, or they may find themselves in federal court, Andrew Ferguson, director of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), said at a healthcare transparency forum on Oct. 5. Emergency medicine center for […]

Syria’s Jolani May Send Troops To Yemen To Fight Houthis Syria is said to be “cautiously” considering sending troops to assist Saudi Arabia in the fight against the Houthis in Yemen, Reuters and others are reporting Wednesday. An anonymous US official described that this was a focus of conversation between Syria’s self-declared President Ahmed al-Sharaa and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman as the two met in Riyadh on […]

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. There’s our little test subject!The technology recreates a person’s visual field with startling accuracy and can also predict brain activity by analyzing what a person is looking […]

15 Economies Sign US-Led Statement Against Industrial Overcapacity; China, Russia, Brazil, Saudi Arabia Sit It Out Trade ministers from 15 economies, including the United States, South Korea and Japan, signed a joint statement to build sector-specific platforms addressing manufacturing overcapacity, the U.S. Trade Representative’s office said Wednesday, according to Seoul Economic Daily. The effort is effectively directed at China, […]

Survey: Young Democratic Women Far More Likely To Blame Men For Their Problems Authored by Bryan Hyde via American Greatness, A recent survey shows that a majority of young, Democratic women believe that “the challenges that women face in American society” are due in great part to the behaviors or actions of men. Breitbart reports that data from the Survey Center on American Life offers a glimpse into the perceptions of young […]

More Ukrainian-Style One-Way Attack Drones Seized In Mexico The emergence of fiber-optic one-way attack drones among Mexican cartels signals a troubling security threat just south of the US border. Images published by local outlet Luz Noticias show that the Mexican Army seized Category 1 suicide drones with fiber-optic cable reels and improvised explosives. This is sparking ongoing concerns that low-cost attack drones associated […]

NY Times Suggests Babies Are Not Conscious Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News, The New York Times has decided the open question in science this week is whether a baby is conscious. Not a cluster of cells. Not a theoretical model. An actual newborn baby. Carl Zimmer’s 5 October piece, “Are Babies Conscious?” (yes that’s a real headline) walks readers through a lab test and then informs them that a “squirming, gurgling […]

Pentagon Prepares ‘Options’ For Trump To Strike Iran Before Midterms; Tanker Attacked Off Qatar Update(1615ET): The Atlantic is reporting Wednesday afternoon that the Pentagon is preparing strike options for the Commander-in-Chief to consider, and that Trump may actually pull the trigger before the midterm elections – though the report emphasizes that the decision is still being debated: After months of on-again, off-again […]

FBI Accuses Washington Man Of Coaching Canada’s Tumbler Ridge School Shooter, Agreeing To Livestream The Attack Federal prosecutors have charged a Bellingham man with helping another person commit murder in a foreign country – alleging he coached an 18-year-old who killed eight people in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, in February and agreed to livestream the attack. At the federal courthouse in Seattle, law enforcement officials […]

Forget The Plague, CDC Reports Recent Surge In Deadly Brain Fungus Cases Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times, The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has said in a recent report that healthcare officials and providers should be aware of a rare but deadly fungal infection that can affect the brain and has seen a surge in recent years. Joel and ‘neurodivergent Ellie’ from The Last of Us, where a not-so rare and […]

Trump Wants To Build A New Camp David In The Most Trump Place Possible President Donald Trump wants to turn part of his own Florida golf course into a new presidential retreat modeled after Camp David, an unusual proposal that would further blur the line between the presidency and Trump’s sprawling private business empire. The plan calls for a portion of Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach to become an official […]

Report: Viral Posts Urge Northeast China To Stockpile Food Amid Russian Plague Scare; Trump Doubts Bioweapon Link Summary:  Unconfirmed Reports: Viral Posts Urge Residents In Northeast China To Stockpile Food And Antibiotics Trump: “We don’t think it’s a bioweapon, but we will find out.” US Reiterates “Do Not Travel” Warning For Russia After Lab Worker’s Death Raises Plague Fears Trump On Russian Plague Scare: “Don’t Think It’s […]

Iraq Formally Requests Syria Act As ‘Hormuz Bypass’ Route For Its Crude Syria’s geography has long given the country huge economic opportunities as a major energy transfer hub connecting Middle East states to the Mediterranean. But as the last decade plus of proxy war which resulted in the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad demonstrated, Syria has also long been target of foreign machinations bent on seeing a puppet state installed in […]

SpaceX Credit Risk Hits New High As AI Debt Binge Fears Spook Bondholders SpaceX’s proposed $40 billion chip-collateralized financing for Nvidia AI chips, reported overnight by the Financial Times, has restarted concerns over the pace of its debt-funded expansion, which as we discussed last night, , is starting to flash a dangerous shade of red: despite raising a record $86 billion in its June IPO, Elon Musk’s rocket and AI […]

Hawkish FOMC Minutes Show All 19 Fed Officials Supported Rate Hike, “Most” Assess Another Hike “By Year End Is Appropriate” The September FOMC minutes struck a distinctly hawkish tone, as all 19 Fed officials backed a rate hike in September, with many supporting the move to protect against the risk of intensifying inflation pressures. A separate group of officials said higher rates were necessary based on their outlook for the […]

Putin Praises Iran’s ‘Courage’ As US Gloats Over Oil Blockade & ‘Zero’ Exports The Trump administration has been busy boasting that it has brought Iran’s economy to its knees through the navy enforced oil blockade and through sweeping ‘Economic D-Day’ sanctions, but in direct contradiction to this, Russia is busy hailing Tehran’s ‘courage’. Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian and Russian President Vladimir Putin held a phone […]

USDA Investing $180 Million For American Seed Sovereignty Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has announced a $180 million investment to launch the Seed Sovereignty Initiative for strengthening domestic agricultural security by protecting plant genetic resources. The USDA will use the funding to sequence the genetics of major crops to “unlock the tremendous potential of […]