Rioters Torch Paris School Exit And Trap 100 Students Inside Via Remix News, Masked attackers set fires at the doors of a Paris vocational high school Monday, confining about 100 students and staff inside, as nationwide student protests over school conditions entered another week with thousands already arrested and hundreds reported injured. At the Nicolas-Louis Vauquelin High School in the 13th arrondissement, Principal Carole […]

S&P Set To Open At Record High As Oil Slides, Bond Rout Takes A Breather US equity futures are higher for a fourth day, putting the S&P on course for its longest winning streak in two months, and on pace for a record open. Tech is leading again, though the rest of the market is finally joining in, and the bond market has stopped screaming for a few hours. As of 8:00am ET, S&P futures are 0.5% higher at 7,865 and Dow […]

Sequence Of Return Risk The Math That Breaks Retirements Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, The sequence of return risk is the quiet reason two retirees with identical average returns can end up in very different places. Let’s start with an easy example. Two people retire on the same day with the same million dollars. They have the same portfolio and the same 30-year average return. They should both live […]

French Bonds Rally As Le Pen Unveils Shadow Budget To Pull France Back From Fiscal Brink European bond and currency markets are signaling growing investor unease over France’s political crisis and deteriorating fiscal position, as growing budget deficits under President Emmanuel Macron undermine confidence in the government’s ability to stabilize public finances. French bond yields rose Monday before reversing sharply on Tuesday, […]

FBI Arrests Chinese Woman At LAX For Surveilling Son Of Taiwanese President Authored by Lear Zhou via The Epoch Times, The Federal Bureau of Investigation arrested a Californian woman at Los Angeles International Airport on Oct. 4 on suspicion of acting as an unregistered agent for Beijing and surveilling a close relative of a Taiwanese government official, officials said. “Heather” Zhang Wanying, 34, who lives in Irvine, Orange […]

Tropic Disturbance Could Threaten Gulf Of America’s Critical Refineries The climatological peak of the Atlantic hurricane season was in mid-September, and so far, the season has been very quiet as El Niño wind shear breaks apart tropical disturbances in the Atlantic Basin. On Monday morning, the National Hurricane Center gave the tropical disturbance a 70% chance of development over the next seven days, up from 50%. “A […]

“Unprecedented Step”: Trump Signs Order To Ease Diesel Costs Amid Global Refining Crisis Trump Signs Executive Order Aimed At Lowering Diesel Prices  President Trump signed an executive order on Monday evening allowing for the broader use of tax-exempt dyed diesel, otherwise known as off-road diesel, seeking to ease fuel costs ahead of the midterm elections. “The order temporarily opens highway use of tax-free dyed diesel, […]

Iran Seeking To Increase Range Of Missiles: ‘Keep Enemy At Greater Distance’ Just days ago President Trump told a Republican audience at a rally that Iran “is ready to fold up,” and again expressing his belief the war will end “right after the election,” though he also said “maybe before the election” – in reference to the midterms. But Tehran on Monday is seeking to reassert its defiance and military readiness in the wake of […]

UK Universities Declare The Term Ethnic Minority Is Offensive Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Universities have decided the phrase “ethnic minority” is now an offence. The approved substitutes are “racialised minority” and “global majority.” The delivery system for this newspeak is a compulsory lecture for students. GB News hosted a short debate Saturday night over the phrases British university students are being […]

Houthis Unleash Large Missile, Drone Barrage On Saudi Arabia, Target Riyadh Airport & Aramco Facility Summary Saudi-backed forces launch major counteroffensive with roughly 100 Saudi fighter jets supporting attacks along the Red Sea coast. Mocha’s status remains disputed: Government forces claim to have retaken the strategic port, while Houthis deny the loss. Houthis announce major missile & drone attack on […]

Why Might Putin Finally Decide To Bring Ukraine To Its Knees After Nearly Five Years Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, Regardless of why Putin might have held off on this for so long, he’s now arguably motivated at least in part by the tantalizing possibility of reaching big-ticket resource deals with the US after the conflict ends, the details of which his and Trump’s envoys have been negotiating for over a year already. […]

European Utopia Burns: Far-left Riots Spread Like Cancer From France To Belgium Alternative media reports say social unrest in France has spread to Belgium. Those X accounts say that far-left groups are mobilizing young people and migrants, while corporate media coverage emphasizes the narrative that overcrowded classrooms, teacher shortages, long school days and deteriorating facilities are to blame for the chaos.  Whether the […]

UK Council’s “Anti-Islamophobia” Training Tells Staff The Virgin Mary Wore A Hijab Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, North Yorkshire staff who handle anti-terror work were shown a slide stating that “Mother Mary wore a hijab.” The line was used to argue that Islam’s attitude to women does not conflict with Western values. The same presentation told them “Jesus grew a beard,” as Muslim men are instructed to, and that “the […]

The Five-Year Fuel Crisis: Why The World Economy Is Paying For A War It Thinks Is Ending Authored by Larry C. Johnson via SonarIntelligence (Sonar21), Once again Karl W. Miller has put numbers to a problem that most of the commentariat still treats as a temporary price spike. His latest forward outlook, “The Five-Year Global Energy Crisis,” dated October 3, makes an argument that should alarm every finance ministry from Berlin to […]

An Uncomfortable Reality: China’s Rare Earth Chokehold May Outlast This Decade An inconvenient reality for the Trump administration’s race to rebuild Western conflict-free critical materials supply chains outside China, whether domestically or through friendshoring, is that it won’t break China’s chokehold this decade. The main problem for the US lies well beyond the mine, ING analysts Ewa Manthey and Coco Zhang wrote in a note on […]

Trump’s $90 Medicare Checks Raise A Question Nobody Seems To Be Asking Authored by David Manney via PJ Media, President Donald Trump is sending well over 20 million Medicare enrollees $90 apiece, and plenty of recipients will understandably welcome the money. With the standard Medicare Part B premium at $202.90 a month this year, $90 isn’t pocket change for someone living on Social Security. AP Photo/Heather KhalifaFrom the White […]

Former World Chess Champion Kasparov Says US Warned Him About Kremlin Kill Plot Authored by Chris Summers via The Epoch Times, Former world chess champion Garry Kasparov has said the security services from both the United States and Lithuania have warned him that his life was in danger, after a Russian plot was discovered which allegedly targeted Kremlin critics living abroad. Last month the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) said […]

West Virginia Wants Nuclear’s Benefits, Somebody Else Can Handle The Waste When West Virginia first announced that they had joined the race to host Nuclear Lifecycle Innovation Campuses (NLICs), the central bargain was already clear: nuclear investment comes with responsibility for used fuel.  We’ve covered this concept a couple times now, highlighting states like Texas and New Mexico that back nuclear investment while fighting […]

Pentagon Raises Combat Pay For First Time Since 2002 As Iran War Persists Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com, The Pentagon has raised combat pay for US troops for the first time since 2002, Task & Purpose has reported, as the Iran war continues and another round of escalation between the US and Iran appears to be coming. Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell announced the pay increase last week. “Our troops in harm’s way […]

Canada Has The Nuclear Technology. Why Buy The Dependency? Saskatchewan’s recent announcement envisages two large reactors supplying more than 2,000 MW in the northwest, potentially starting in 2042, plus at least 600 MW from small modular reactors near Estevan. The ambition makes sense. The willingness to acquire more foreign dependencies… does not. The list of potential vendors for large reactors is short: Westinghouse and […]

Gunmen Attack Christian Town In Syria, Wounding Woman & Smashing Shops Via The Cradle Gunmen on motorcycles attacked the Christian town of Suqaylabiyah in the Hama countryside in Syria on Saturday, smashing shops and opening fire on residents, the Syrian Justice Archive (SJA) reported. Armed men coming from the nearby Sunni town of Qalaat al-Madiq attacked Christian-owned shops and opened fire on residents with Kalashnikov […]

DOJ Sues University Of Delaware: Illegal Aliens Get In-State Tuition, Out-Of-State Americans Pay 2.7x More The Justice Department has sued the University of Delaware, alleging the school “grants in-state tuition for illegal aliens while denying reduced tuition to U.S. citizens.” The math comes straight from UD’s own 2026-27 cost-of-attendance page. Undergraduate tuition for Delaware residents is $15,740. For non-residents it is […]

Backlash Rolls In After Rutgers Womxns Rugby Name Change Welcomes Men Who Identify As Female Authored by Jennifer Kabbany via The College Fix, A female recreational rugby team at Rutgers University is facing backlash for changing its name to “Rutgers Womxn’s Rugby” to signify inclusion and the intent to allow biological males who identity as female to play on the team. The criticism was swift and severe, prompting the […]

Guinness Pulls Plug On Baltimore Brewery As Costs Soar In Democrat-Run State Amid Consumer Beer Retreat The first Guinness brewery to open in the US in more than 60 years, located in the Baltimore metro area, will shutter operations next month as shifting consumer demand and the challenges of operating in the Democrat-run state have made the operation increasingly difficult to sustain. Diageo, the British alcoholic-beverages […]

America’s Wile E. Coyote Moment Authored by Matthew Piepenburg via VonGreyerz.gold, When it comes to contextualizing the tech, bond, gold and policy headlines of Q4 2026, it’s easier to foresee their pathway ahead by first looking backwards. Once understood, we mathematically realize that our problems are not in the future, they are right now. The 1970s Ah, the 1970s. It was an era of bellbottom jeans, checkered suits, wide ties, […]