Oil Surges As Saudi Pipeline Crisis Puts 4% Of Global Supply At Risk; Bernstein Warns Of $150 Crude Brent crude futures jumped overnight after Saudi Arabia shut its East-West pipeline following drone attacks last week, threatening a critical route for bypassing the highly contested Strait of Hormuz chokepoint and a loss of what could amount to 4% of global supply.  The global oil benchmark rose as much as 3.7% to above $108 a […]

Unfair Gains? Let’s Talk About A European Windfall Tax Authored by Mark Nayler via FEE, After another summer of heatwaves and wildfires, Spain is petitioning the EU to create a climate adaptation fund. In a letter sent to the EU’s climate commissioner Wopke Hoekstra, the Spanish minister for the ecological transition Sara Aagesen Muñoz said that Europe needs a blanket strategy to help its member states cope with climate change, […]

Trump Rejects AI “Pause” As Obama Urges Democrats To Regulate It Update (1455ET): President Trump and former President Obama have now weighed in on the ‘pause’ – with Trump calling for full steam ahead, and Obama endorsing the pause so the government can regulate AI (good luck with that). From the Irish Open in Doonbeg on Sunday, Trump dismissed Saturday’s “pace the frontier” pile-on from Dario Amodei, Sam Altman, and Elon Musk. […]

Gas Turbine Shortage Sends AI Developers Back To Boilers And Steam Elon Musk recently warned that “turbines are sold out through 2030,” saying SpaceX and Tesla would probably need to make turbine blades and vanes internally. ELON MUSK: “Turbines are sold out through 2030. In order to bring enough power online, SpaceX and Tesla will probably have to make the turbine blades and vanes internally. There are only three casting […]

Commerce Department Finalizes Steep Duties On Solar Imports From India, Indonesia, Laos Authored by Kimberly Hayek via The Epoch Times, The Commerce Department on Friday finalized steep duty rates on imports of solar cells and panels from India, Indonesia, and Laos, stating that it found that producers in those countries dumped cheap products in the United States and benefited from unfair government subsidies. Anti-dumping margins […]

Turkey Arrests 162 In LGBTQ+ Raids Turkish police arrested at least 162 people and searched the offices of six LGBTQ+ associations in weekend raids designed to support the country’s campaign to protect family values. The Ankara-based LGBTQ+ rights group Kaos GL claimed that beyond arrests, the government had also cut access to dozens of websites and social media accounts belonging to associate groups and rights advocates. Turkish […]

The UN Arms Embargo On Sudan Is Broken. America Has A Plan To Fix It Authored by Hussain Abdul-Hussain via RealClearWorld, The U.S. is rightly pushing the UN Security Council to expand the Sudan arms embargo before it expires this Saturday. Outlined by Ambassador Mike Waltz and Senior Advisor Massad Boulos, the proposal would expand restrictions nationwide to cover all territory and warring factions. A comprehensive countrywide […]

Is Britain Abandoning Military Defense To Fund More Socialism? It’s a curious position for European governments; for the past few years they have been rattling their sabers over the Russian war in Ukraine, calling for boots on the ground.  It’s the kind of intervention that would automatically trigger WWIII.  Yet, these same governments are completely unprepared in terms of military spending, armament and training.   When the […]

Foreigners Responsible For 87% Of Thefts, 61% Of Sexual Violence On Paris Public Transport Via Remix News, Foreigners account for a massive share of thefts, sexual violence, and robberies on Paris public transport in 2025, according to new government data. According to compilations from the SSMSI data files, foreigners accounted in 2025 for 87 percent of simple thefts on Île-de-France public transport, 60 percent of robberies, […]

“Human Extinction By 2030″… Remember That Major AI Psy-Op We Talked About? Authored by Kit Knightly via OffGuardian, I’ve been documenting the increasingly hysterical coverage of ‘rogue AI’ for the last six weeks, predicting a major psy-op or false flag. Well, kids it looks like the psy-op part is here. So far no false flag…but with the greatest level of hysteria since the early days of Covid circulating, maybe they won’t […]

Trump Calls On Zelenskyy To Stop Attacks On Russian Diesel Facilities By Tom Gantert of Epoch Times President Donald Trump has called on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to stop targeting Russian diesel fuel as the attacks are causing a global shortage and diesel in the United States has hit a record high. Trump was asked by a reporter on Sunday if he’d had conversations with Zelenskyy about the issue. Zelenskyy “has […]

Federal Investigation Of Gavin Newsom Expands According to a new report, the Justice Department has expanded its federal criminal investigation into California Gov. Gavin Newsom to include his international travel and personal expenses related to a nonprofit that funds his trips through private donations rather than taxpayer money. Earlier this month, the US Attorney’s Office served subpoenas asking for about six years’ worth of […]

BRICS Steps Off The Dollar, With Iran Pressing Hardest Authored by former CIA officer Larry Johnson The 18th BRICS summit opened on Saturday with the bloc taking its most concrete step yet toward loosening the grip of the US dollar, adopting a 45-page New Delhi Declaration on the first day and endorsing a payments architecture built to route cross-border trade around the Western financial system. For most members the move was […]

Trump’s Grid Battery Ban Leaves Developers Guessing Authored by Haley Zaremba via OilPrice.com, The United States is trying to build up its energy storage capacities at a rapid scale. At the same time, it is trying to wean itself off of Chinese battery tech. In many ways, these two goals are in direct opposition to each other. China dominates global supply chains for clean energy tech in general, but especially when it comes to […]

Arab Spring 2.0? Fuel Riots Erupt In Syria As Instability Spreads Across Mideast New footage posted on X shows what appear to be protests, with Israeli news organizations saying the anger is erupting because of skyrocketing fuel costs, reminiscent of the Arab Spring food riots 15 years ago. i24NEWS reports that demonstrations have popped up in parts of Raqqa, Hasakah and Deir ez-Zor provinces, with protesters blocking roads and […]

Truckers Hauled Hundreds Of Kilos Of Cartel Cocaine On US-Canada Freight Lanes By Phil Brink of FreightWaves.com, Federal prosecutors charged a California restaurant operator after agents seized more than 40 pounds of methamphetamine. Investigators found the drugs inside his residence and Hyundai Sonata, according to a federal affidavit. Searches also uncovered three firearms, a digital scale and $11,800 in cash. The operation grew […]

Bill Maher Delivers A Brutal 9/11 Reality Check To The Left Bill Maher used the 25th anniversary of the September 11 attacks to say something that once required no courage at all: terrorists are terrorists. That the observation now counts as provocative says something about how far we’ve come since 2001. On Real Time with Bill Maher, in a segment titled “Clash of Civilizations,” Maher walked through what has happened in the 25 […]

Shareholder Ownership Gives Way To Corporate Control Authored by Iain O’Brien via RealClearMarkets, Today’s business ownership landscape is increasingly complicated by financial, voting, contractual and capital arrangements. A direct relationship between ownership and control can no longer be assumed, particularly for strategically important companies. Sika, a Swiss chemicals company, entered a four-year corporate battle in […]

Johnson Says $5,000 Trump Payments Require Congress To Act House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) said on Sunday that President Trump’s plan to send $5,000 dividend checks to American adults if Republicans keep both the House and Senate would require an act of Congress.  House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) speaks during the second day of the 2026 Republican Midterm Convention in Dallas on Sept. 10, 2026. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times […]

The Extremism – And Irrelevancy – Of The ‘Democratic Socialists’ Authored by Rob Natelson via The Epoch Times, This column may provide you with all you need to know about the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA). This is the fringe group that the media and a relatively small handful of voters have turned into a supposedly significant force. The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) have been much in the news lately. Their […]

California Enacts New Child Safety Laws On Social Media And AI Chatbots Authored by Kimberly Hayek via The Epoch Times, Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday signed bills that restrict how social media companies may design products for children and that tighten rules for AI companion chatbots. California Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks to reporters in Stockton, Calif., on Oct. 22, 2025. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images He announced the package on […]

Resource Nationalism Hits Tungsten: US Locks Down Scrap, UK Funds Mine, Zimbabwe Bans Exports, Vietnam Weighs Curbs Governments are tightening control over tungsten supplies, creating an opening for Almonty Industries as Western buyers seek alternatives to China’s quasi-monopolistic market position on not just tungsten but rare earths. Tungsten and other critical materials underpin defense production, semiconductor manufacturing, AI […]

Hormuz Deal Hits Snag: Monday’s Gulf-Iran Shipping Talks “Postponed” Summary: Monday’s Hormuz Meeting With Iran and Gulf Nations “Postponed”  UAE Meets With Iran Leaders As Tehran Teases Oman Shipping Deal A planned meeting for Monday morning between several Gulf nations and Iran has been postponed. The meeting was supposed to hammer out a possible deal on a temporary shipping route through the Strait of Hormuz. “In the […]

New Report Exposes Climate Litigants’ Campaign To Influence The Judiciary Authored by Michael Toth via RealClearEnergy, Thousands of judges across the nation have sat through climate-science training and received literature from trusted federal bodies and scientific institutes. Those judges had every right to expect that the information they received was neutral, objective, settled science. They were mistaken. My latest […]

The Fauci Diary Entry That Explains Why MAHA Must Exist Authored by Peter Navarro via The Epoch Times, I fought Anthony Fauci across a White House table over the China travel ban, lockdowns, masks, hydroxychloroquine, vaccines, and boosters. Yet one of the most damning pieces of evidence I have ever seen against the man did not surface until six years later, when Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) released Fauci’s private pandemic diary. […]