The Socialist Indoctrination Machine: Schools Are Teaching Young People To Embrace Big Government, Hate Capitalism Authored by Ken Buck via The Epoch Times, A recent headline from a well-respected news outlet caught my attention: “Could socialism make America happy again?” Surely, the article must be satirical, I thought. Who in their right mind would believe that the most oppressive form of government, responsible for hundreds […]

California Has Highest Personal Income Tax Rate, 8 States Have None… Where you live can make a major difference in the state income tax rate applied to your earnings, with systems ranging from no individual income tax to top marginal rates above 10%. This map, via Visual Capitalist’s Gabriel Cohen, compares U.S. states based on their top marginal individual income tax rate in 2026 using Tax Foundation data. Both local and federal […]

USAF More Than Doubles Ondas’ ULTRA Drone Contract As Potential MQ-9 Reaper Alternative Emerges Thursday’s Department of War contract update signals increased US Air Force investment in long-endurance surveillance drones that could complement the MQ-9 Reaper and help fill intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance mission gaps following reported heavy losses in the US-Iran conflict. The USAF more than doubled the value of its […]

Southeast Asia Keeps Building Gas Plants Despite Hormuz LNG Shock Authored by Irina Slav via OilPrice.com, Countries in Southeast Asia are still building natural gas-fired power plants despite the price inflation in gas caused by the Middle East war. Asian countries are also building more LNG import capacity, Global Energy Monitor reported. The net-zero think tank said there was some 100 GW in new gas-fired power generation […]

Prepping For A Cashless Control Grid How Digital Currency Becomes Digital Control Authored by Milan Adams via Preppgroup, When Money Stops Being Money Something fundamental is vanishing, and most people will not notice until it is already gone. Not with a declaration. Not with a law passed in the dead of night. Simply, gradually, the option to buy something without creating a permanent record will disappear. The ability to save […]

Cuba In Crosshairs: US Army Reportedly Checks Troop Availability As Trump Says Communist Regime “Will Fail” President Trump told the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday that the failed communist island nation of Cuba would see freedom, as the U.S. has not been shy about its intentions to kick the communist regime out of Havana. The U.S. has employed gunboat diplomacy through an oil blockade this year, as the failed state has […]

Indian Refiners Lift LPG Output Nearly 20% As Hormuz Blockage Chokes Imports Authored by Irina Slav via OilPrice.com, Indian state refiners are ramping up their production of liquefied petroleum gas amid a seasonal jump in demand as the country enters festive season and imports from the Middle East remain strangled. So far in September, local production of LPG has averaged 44,000 tons daily, Indian media reported, citing […]

OpenAI Freezes Development Of Top Models After Rogue Agents Leak User Images To Web And you thought your mom posting your Christmas pajama pics to Facebook was bad… In the latest chapter of ‘let’s spook the shit out of everyone so the government regulates AI,’ OpenAI’s autonomous research agents were found to have grabbed 53 user images from training and evaluation data and quietly dumped them onto public image-hosting sites. […]

IRS Probing $100 Billion In Potential COVID-19 Loan Fraud Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, Roughly $100 billion in loans given for COVID-19 programs have been identified as suspected fraud by tax authorities. Earlier this year, the Small Business Administration (SBA) referred more than $200 billion in suspected COVID loan fraud to the IRS. The tax agency then compared the information that the borrowers […]

New Jersey Microsoft-Linked Data Center Hit With Record Fine Over Unpermitted Gas Generators A New Jersey AI infrastructure project has been slapped with a $1.07 million environmental penalty after state officials determined that dozens of large natural-gas generators had been running without the necessary air permits, according to The Guardian.  The fine against DataOne is the biggest New Jersey regulators have imposed on a data […]

10 Unexpected Consequences Of An Economic Crisis Nobody Is Talking About Authored by John Walter via Substack, I need to be honest with you before we begin. I don’t have all the answers. Anyone who claims to understand exactly how economic systems collapse, or precisely when, is either lying or selling something. What I have done is spend years reading, observing, and talking to people who lived through crises that most of us only […]

Kyrsten Sinema’s Former Bodyguard Arrested After Alleged Break-In A bizarre dispute involving former Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema and a man who once served as both her bodyguard and romantic partner has resulted in criminal charges, according to NBC. Matthew Ammel, 39, was arrested in Arizona this month after allegedly entering Sinema’s home while she was traveling and causing an estimated $200,000 in damage. Authorities say […]

Legal Advocacy Group Accuses Virginia Schools Of Falsifying Ideology Of 911 Terrorists Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, Conservative legal advocacy group America First Legal (AFL) has announced it is investigating the Fairfax County Public Schools school district in Virginia, accusing Fairfax of issuing a teacher’s guide that seeks to falsify the ideological underpinnings of the 9/11 attacks. The guide omits […]

Larry Ellison Pledges $9 Billion More In Oracle Stock To Fund Warner Bros Deal As Price Tumbles, CDS Hits Record Two weeks after the Larry Ellison inexplicably pulled his plan to sell up to 50 million shares, worth about $7.5 billion news of which had sent the stock sliding the day prior, the Oracle CEO – the key figure behind Paramount Skydance’s deal to buy Warner Bros. Discovery – has pledged 67 million more shares of Oracle […]

Rickards: The Real In AI Is Not ‘Super-Intelligence’, It’s China Authored by James Rickards via The Daily Reckoning, It’s past time to look beyond the AI hype. The stock valuations of the leading hyperscalers and frontier AI modeling companies are almost certainly in bubble territory. But the market will sort that out in time. We all know the names of the AI stocks whether from the hardware, software or compute vectors – Apple, […]

A Dollar Is Not A Dollar: A Plea To Make Dollar Policy Great Again Authored by John Tamny via RealClearMarkets, Le Diplomate is one of the toughest tables in Washington, DC. When it opened in 2013 its wildly popular Burger Americain (with French fries) set diners back $14, according to the Washington Post. Thirteen years later, the same meal retails for $29. As Tim Carman and Federica Cocca report at the Post, “the wholesale price […]

Nor’easter Hammers East Coast: 62 MPH Gusts Blast Nantucket, High Winds Hit Bethany Beach Folks in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast are waking up this morning to a power nor’easter with damaging winds, coastal flooding, and heavy rain.  Coastal wind gusts reached 62 mph on Nantucket, 58 mph in Bethany Beach, Delaware, and 55 mph in Chatham, Massachusetts, according to local weather data. New York’s JFK Airport recorded a 53 mph […]

“I’m Rejecting Their Deal”: Trump Blasts Iranian Proposal Amid Reports He’ll Resume Bombing After Midterms Speaking to reporters Saturday on the White House lawn, President Trump offered his first direct confirmation that he has rejected an Iranian proposal for a seven-day ceasefire and is open to the resumption of attacks on the Islamic Republic, as it still insists on its strict demands for reopening the Strait of Hormuz and […]

Syria Opens Overland Fuel Transit Route To Iraq Amid Hormuz Closure Via The Cradle Syria has begun trucking imported gasoline from its Baniyas Refinery into Iraq, adding a return leg to a route Baghdad has used to export its fuel since the US war on Iran led to the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, a senior Syrian oil official told Reuters on 25 September. According to Tareq Shallash, who heads the Refining Directorate at the […]

The Commercial Real Estate Crash Is Moving From Paper Losses To Realized Losses The great commercial real estate waiting game may finally be running out of time, according to Bloomberg. For years after Covid fundamentally changed how Americans use office space, lenders and property owners managed to postpone much of the financial damage. Loans were modified, maturities were pushed out and buildings were given more time to recover. […]

Quantum Computing Flees Europe Authored by Thomas Kolbe via American Thinker, Caught between climate regulation and catastrophic energy-policy decisions, a growing number of high-tech companies in the EU are packing up and leaving. Through stock-market deals, two top quantum-computing companies, IQM and Pasqal, are gradually moving toward the United States. The bleeding of the European economy is now being accepted with remarkable […]

China Pledges Major US Coal Purchases But Falls Short On Rare Earth Crisis Resolution Barclays senior China economist Yingke Zhou poured cold water on the Trump-Xi state visit this past week, calling it “more signaling, less substance.” Shortages of rare earths and critical materials in the West, caused by China’s weaponization of its export channels in what can only be viewed as resource nationalism, have yet to be resolved. […]

Another New UK Government Unit Created To Police ‘Untrue Narratives’ Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, British Prime Minister Andy Burnham used his first United Nations speech this week to announce a ‘National Centre for Information Defence’ – a new state machine to “detect, attribute and disrupt” what ministers call hostile information attacks, and to stop a “distorted and untrue narrative about Britain.” Burnham […]

AI Doom: A Brief History Of Bad Tech Predictions Go back three decades to 1995 when the Internet was just taking off and opinions proliferated about the future and impact of this novel creation: some said it would supercharge global productivity. Others said it would be no more useful than a fax machine. With the benefit of hindsight some 30 years later, we can say that the Internet debate has been settled, and as Deutsche Bank’s […]

“The Netherlands Also Has Islamic Grooming Gangs”; Dutch MP Warns After 18-Year-Old Girl Raped By 10 Men Via Remix News, An 18-year-old woman has been gang raped and beaten by up to ten different men, many of them with a Syrian background, in the Dutch city of Dordrecht. Although the rape occurred in May 2025, the suspects are only now being arrested. In response to the rape, political leader Geert Wilders wrote that the […]