The 5 Places In America You Want To Be When Society Begins To Collapse Authored by John Walter via Substack, There is a moment before the fall. You will miss it. Everyone does. The shelves still hold food. The lights still work. The news still talks about politics, sports, the usual noise. But somewhere in the background, something has shifted. The supply chain that moved your breakfast cereal every Tuesday for twenty years now […]

Morgan Stanley: Oil Traders Are “More Precise” With Risk As Wars Drag On By Michael Kern of OilPrice.com Uncertainty about how the wars in Iran and Ukraine will unfold is keeping many traders away from taking positions in longer-dated futures contracts, according to Morgan Stanley. Most traders have now moved to bet on futures prices within a three to six-month period, instead of longer-dated futures contracts, as volatility has […]

An AI-Designed Drug Just Moved Six Different Aging Clocks At Once An experimental drug designed using AI has produced measurable shifts toward a younger biological-age profile in patients. Developed by Insilico Medicine, the drug – rentosertib – was initially engineered to treat idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), a progressive, age-associated lung-scarring disease. When researchers analyzed blood samples from a Phase IIa […]

NextEra Secures $1.9BN Loan From Dept Of Energy For Restart Of Duane Arnold Nuclear Power Plant By Zachary Skidmore of DataCenterDynamics NextEra Energy has secured a $1.9 billion loan from the US Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Dominance Financing (EDF) to support the restart of the Duane Arnold nuclear power plant, which is tied to a long-term Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Google. The plant, located in Linn […]

“Not Behind Us”: Major US Tool Distributor Warns Tungsten Cost Shock Is Hitting Factory Floors Speaking at the Jefferies Industrials Conference earlier on Wednesday, MSC Industrial executive Martina McIsaac warned of a tungsten supply shock rippling through the company’s supply chain and continuing to drive up industrial tooling costs. McIsaac told Steve Volkmann, an industrial analyst at Jefferies, that inflation affecting […]

D.C. Gas Ban Gets Favorable Hearing In Federal Appeals Court Authored by Julianne Geiger via OilPrice.com, A federal appeals panel appeared inclined Tuesday to let Washington, D.C.’s restrictions on natural gas in certain new buildings stand. The case turns on the Energy Policy and Conservation Act, or EPCA, which gives the Department of Energy authority to set efficiency and energy-use standards for appliances including […]

Iran State Media Says ‘Enemy’ Attacks On Southern Iran Overnight Summary Iran state media: ‘Enemy’ attacks on southern Iran overnight Trump: “This war will end immediately after our election.” Iran escalates with “20 for 2” response doctrine: 20 targets for every 2-3 targets struck. Iran sets heightened conditions for war’s end: Tehran calls for an end to attacks, Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon, an end to the […]

“Really Bright Future”: Wall Street’s Big Bet on Booming Red America Escalates Goldman Sachs is nearing a major milestone on its new Dallas campus, where the exterior of an 800,000-square-foot building is nearly complete and the Wall Street firm is preparing to begin work on the interior ahead of a planned January 2028 opening. The new Goldman Sachs campus in downtown Dallas is under construction, with a projected opening in January […]

University Of Washington Settles Case Against Professor Disciplined For Mocking Land Acknowledgment Authored by Jonathan Turley via JonathanTurley.org, Land acknowledgments have become standard at academic and political events, including the opening of the Obama Presidential Library and a recent Michigan Democratic event. While supporters insist it merely shows respect for original inhabitants, critics argue it is the ultimate […]

Appeals Court Blocks IRS From Sharing Data With Immigration Authorities Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times, The IRS may not disclose the addresses of illegal immigrants to immigration officials, a U.S. appeals court said on Sept. 8. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit upheld a February ruling from a district court that deemed an IRS policy to share the addresses of […]

Data Center Revolt Accelerates Ahead Of Midterms As Wells Fargo Warns Of Fourfold Jump In Active Moratoriums With the midterm elections just 55 days away, the data-center buildout story has become a major political issue. Socialists Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., have proposed a nationwide moratorium on new data-center buildouts. President Trump, meanwhile, has promoted data centers and […]

Jack Dorsey’s Block Seeks US Trust Bank Charter For Bitcoin, Stablecoin Authored by Ezra Reguerra via Cointelegraph, Jack Dorsey’s payments company Block seeks to establish a federally regulated trust bank to provide custody services for Bitcoin and stablecoins. Block said Tuesday it had submitted an application to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) to create Builders Bank & Trust, an uninsured national […]

Internet Loses It After Russian Official Turns Out To Be Peter Griffin’s Twin A newly appointed Russian government official has exploded across social media after users seized on a press-conference photograph and began joking that Russian President Vladimir Putin would have a difficult time pushing a man of his size out of a window, according to the Daily Star. 🍖🍔🍩 “Russia and Armenia are like one big family — […]

29 Health Systems Dropping Medicare Advantage Plans Authored by Sylvia Xu via The Epoch Times, Twenty-nine health systems are dropping Medicare Advantage plans in 2026, citing prior authorization denials, reimbursement issues, and deal renegotiations. A Medicare Advantage PPO card sits on top of a Medicare card, in this file photo. AP/Jenny Kane The number of terminated contracts this year is down from 40 in 2025 and 32 in 2024, […]

Hunter Biden Blames Liquidity, “Predatory Snipers” For LAPTOP Memecoin Collapse Update: Straight from the horse’s mouth – it crashed because of “predatory snipers” or something, according to a post by Hunter on X.  As you may have seen, the LAPTOP memecoin saw a sharp swing in token price during its first hours of trading. The headlines are all the same. Token down 99%. Rug pull. Biden Crime Family. The list goes on. This […]

Hyped Mecca Joint Defense Pact Is MIA After Houthis Targeted Four Saudi Cities Saudi Arabia got pummeled by cross-border Houthi ballistic missiles and drones on Tuesday, where a reported four Saudi cities were targeted. …So what about those much hyped Mecca Defense accords that were just signed last month? The pact between Riyadh, Islamabad, and Ankara has been likened to NATO Article 5, where an attack on one is an ‘attack on […]

Japan Is Telling You To Run To Gold Authored by Matthew Piepenburg via Von Greyerz, Below, we look at lessons from Japan and its latest signals to prepare for a market sell-off, a debasement acceleration and a golden endgame. Pattern Recognition My father taught me long ago that the years teach things the days do not always notice. In all areas of our lives, we slowly acquire perspectives earned by experience over theory and […]

Elon Musk’s PAC Bets Trans Issue Push Will Drive GOP Voters To The Polls Elon Musk’s America PAC has opened its 2026 midterm ad campaign with a barrage of ads centered on trans issues. Musk has reportedly authorized the PAC to spend more than $100 million this cycle and is targeting four Democratic Senate candidates in competitive races: Sherrod Brown in Ohio, Josh Turek in Iowa, James Talarico in Texas and Mary Peltola in Alaska. […]

“You Better Get Ready For… War”: Socialists Call For “War In The Streets” & The End Of Capitalism Authored by Jonathan Turley via JonathanTurley.org, “You better get ready for … war.” Across the country, radicals are openly planning for the next stage of their movement, and notably, the Democratic establishment is not part of their plans. Despite the talk of a “Big Tent Party,” socialists are riding high on a surge of […]

US Students Still Behind Much Of The World In Math And Reading: Global Assessment Authored by Aaron Gifford via The Epoch Times, Results from a recent global assessment indicate that reading scores for American high school students have dropped over the past three years, while math and science performance still falls behind their peers in several other developed countries. The Program for International Student Assessment (PISA), […]

Pentagon Informs Allies Prepare For “Protracted” War In Ukraine The full-scale war in Ukraine lately blew past four years and six months since February 24, 2022, and has also long been a proxy conflict, pitting the US and NATO against Russia. Beyond this, there’s been what can be described as a raging ‘dirty war’ stretching back over 12 years since at least February 2014. Lest anyone think this is an exaggeration, or that it’s not […]

We May Only Get One Chance To Stop AI Submitted by QTR’s Fringe Finance It’s awful to say but at this point I’m kind of praying that AI industry valuations crash and the industry faces setbacks that give us months to reflect on its companies. Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon is leaving the AI industry because he believes the race to build self-improving systems is moving faster than the industry’s ability to control them, it […]

Comcast Plunges As CFO Warns Broadband Subscriber Bleeding Won’t Stop Comcast shares tumbled after CFO Jason Armstrong warned at the Goldman Sachs Communacopia + Technology Conference that broadband subscriber losses would not improve this quarter from a year earlier. Bloomberg first reported Armstrong’s comments, which sent shares down as much as 8.1% around 11:16 a.m. ET, their largest decline in months. Armstrong told the […]

FCC Chairman Says Agency May Issue Guidance On ‘Fake Polls’ Ahead Of Midterms Authored by AG News Staff via American Greatness, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr said the agency may soon issue guidance to television broadcasters over what he called “fake polls,” particularly if they are intended to suppress voter participation ahead of November’s midterm elections. Carr said Sunday that broadcasters face […]

Scarcity Warnings In Physical World Send Commodities To 14-Year High, Threatening Stock Rally Readers are familiar by now with the broad-based commodity rally, with energy, agricultural products and metals moving sharply higher as former Goldman Sachs commodities head Jeff Currie warned this summer of growing scarcity in the physical economy. The Bloomberg Commodity Index has climbed to levels last seen in 2012… … while the […]