UBS Maps Super El Nino’s Energy Impact And ‘Black Swan’ Winter Weather Risks We extensively covered the unusually strong El Niño, its weather impacts by region, and the risks this adverse weather poses to crop production and global food inflation.  Here’s what this year’s El Niño looks like next to the three strongest that came before it. What stands out to you? https://t.co/owJvWsOvZl — Ben Noll (@BenNollWeather) October 3, […]

Former UK Prime Minister Listed As ‘Core Participant’ In Grooming Gang Inquiry Authored by Robert Spencer via PJ Media, The Muslim grooming gang scandal in Britain just keeps getting larger and more bizarre. Hundreds of thousands of British girls were victimized, and to add insult to injury, British police and other officials often turned a blind eye to their suffering, with their eyes more on political calculations than on the […]

China Emits 2.7 Times As Much Greenhouse Gas As America, New EU Data Show China emitted 15,981 million metric tons of greenhouse gases in 2025, about 30% of the world’s total and 2.7 times the United States, according to the European Commission’s EDGAR database. The U.S. ranked second at 6,018 million tons (11.4%), followed by India (4,508 million, 8.5%), Russia (2,574 million, 4.9%) and Indonesia (1,359 million, 2.6%). The five […]

Turkey Begins Ratifying Mecca Defense Pact With Saudi Arabia And Pakistan Authored by Evgenia Filimianova via The Epoch Times, Turkey has begun ratifying the Mecca Joint Defense Agreement, a new pact signed with Saudi Arabia and Pakistan. The agreement has drawn increased attention since it was signed in August. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (L), Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (C), and Pakistani Prime Minister […]

Israel Has Its Pretext For Total War On West Bank Authored by Joe Lauria via Consortium News Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has threatened a major military offensive against the West Bank four days before he stands for re-election after two Israeli soldiers were killed on Friday in Hebron.  Consortium News on Thursday predicted that Palestinians killing an Israeli on the West Bank could trigger an all-out war against […]

Is It Time For Another Worldwide Civilizational Collapse? Authored by Robert Arvay via American Thinker, It has happened before in history. Those who think it can’t happen again are out of their minds… In 1200 B.C., worldwide civilization fell into ruin. That is only partially an overstatement. The Americas and Asia were on a separate path, but the Mediterranean complex of civilizations, the “known world,” was all but […]

Kentucky Could Go From Zero Reactors To America’s Biggest Nuclear Plant The Nuclear Company (TNC) unveiled plans on October 21st for Prosperity One, a campus on the Ohio River in Lewis County, Kentucky, with room for up to six Westinghouse AP1000 reactors. At roughly 6.6 GW, a fully built Prosperity One would top Georgia’s four-unit Plant Vogtle as the largest nuclear plant in the country. That’s more than a third of the roughly […]

Seattle Plans 200 New Public EV Chargers Despite Slowing U.S. Electric Vehicle Sales Seattle is moving ahead with a significant expansion of its electric vehicle charging infrastructure, announcing plans to bring another 200 public charging stations to city streets as part of an effort to make EV ownership more practical for residents without private garages or driveways, according to MyBallard. The project represents the next […]

Meanwhile, Today In ‘Everything Is Racist’… Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, A Harlem bagel shop that has served its neighborhood for nearly a decade was forced to pull a cartoon mascot from the sidewalk after an influencer declared the smiling, sunglasses-wearing bagel a “blackface bagel.” Yes, really. Bagels are now racist. Threats and harassment followed. The offense was a piece of local street art. […]

America Can’t Stockpile Missiles Without Reloading On Conflict-Free Critical Materials Authored by Anthony Milewski of The Oregon Group,  Sixteen days of the Iran war left coalition forces needing an estimated 4,000kg of tungsten just to replace the expended gun ammunition — but US mines produced none of the metal in 2025 and, instead, China accounted for 79% of global tungsten mine production. And it’s not just tungsten. In […]

Lula Leads After Last-Minute Voting Extension As “Bolsonaro Trade” Implodes; Trader Warns Of “Circuit Breaker” Chaos Summary: NYT: Several electoral lawyers say today’s vote could be annulled With 99.7% of ballots counted, Lula has 51.8% of the vote, while Bolsonaro has 48.2%. Brazilian Supreme Court Judge Extends Voting Time By Two Hours Brazil Runoff Enters Final Hour: Left-Right Showdown Could Reshape Latin America’s […]

Trump Treasury Lining Up Private Debt Collectors To Seize Wages From Nearly 10 Million Student Loan Defaulters: Report Trump administration officials are preparing to penalize millions of Americans in default on their federal student loans next year, The Washington Sun reported, citing five people familiar with the matter. The Treasury Department is moving forward with plans to hire private debt collectors, possibly as soon as […]

Disarming The Pencil Pushers? Administrative Agencies Begin To Cut Spending On Guns, Ammo Authored by OpenTheBooks via Substack, One would expect federal law enforcement agencies like the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Secret Service, Customs and Border Protection and Drug Enforcement Administration to have guns to carry out their daily responsibilities. But what about the administrative […]

Democrats Retreat From House Races They Hoped To Flip History favors the party out of power in a midterm, but one problem has dogged the Democratic Party for months, and it’s now undermining their plans to win as many seats as possible: money. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY)House Majority PAC, the main super PAC supporting House Democrats, has begun pulling advertising money from several Republican-leaning districts […]

Trump Says He Might Support Student Loan Interest Cap Authored by Tom Gantert via The Epoch Times, President Donald Trump said on Saturday that he might support a bill capping federal student loan interest at 2.5 percent. Interest rates for newer federal student loans range from 6.52 percent to 9.07 percent, depending on the loan type. President Donald Trump (L) speaks to reporters alongside First Lady Melania Trump after they […]

Ottawa’s Counter-Tariffs On US Costing Canadians $100 Million Weekly, Economist Says Authored by Jason G. Antonio via The Epoch Times, Canada’s retaliatory tariffs on U.S. imports are costing consumers an estimated $100 million a week and raising prices by about 0.25 percent, an economist told MPs. Trucks stop near the Peace Bridge US-Canada border crossing, on March 20, 2026, in Buffalo, N.Y. AP Photo/Yuki IwamuraUniversity of […]

Ilhan Omar’s Deleted 2013 Tweet Could Be Key Evidence In Federal Probe Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) once posted a Father’s Day message that appears to identify her father as “Nur Said,” a name that closely matches that of her ex-husband, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi. “Happy Father’s Day to my aabo Nur Said, I am forever grateful to Allah for giving me the best father …” Omar wrote in June 2013. She removed the post on the morning of Sept. […]

House Dems Target Hegseth For Impeachment If They Win Midterms Authored by AG News Staff via American Greatness, House Democrats are already plotting to impeach Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth if they regain control of Congress in November, making the Trump administration official a top target of their anticipated return to power. While Democratic leaders have largely avoided discussing another impeachment of President Donald […]

Trump’s Reverse Nixon Strategy: Bring Russia In, Shut China Out Authored by Robert Berke via OilPrice, On October 9, hours after a phone call between President Trump and President Putin, the Treasury Department issued a six-month waiver allowing Russian diesel to be sold on the global market. The stated aim is to bring down fuel prices before the November 3 midterms. But I believe the deal is more consequential than that. It […]

Mamdani Drops Spanish-Language Video Telling Migrants To Keep The Door Shut On ICE, Sparking Cries Of ‘Sedition’ New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani posted a Spanish-language video on Oct. 23 walking residents through what to do if immigration agents come to their door or stop them on the street, and Republicans reacted within hours. The clip went up on Instagram and X, according to Latin Times, and reaffirms the city’s sanctuary […]

Bill Gates Faces Court Over Claims COVID Jabs Were ‘Lethal Biological Weapons’ Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity, In a packed courtroom in Leeuwarden, the official COVID story is being put on trial as Dutch plaintiffs demand personal liability from Bill Gates, Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla, former Prime Minister Mark Rutte and others for what their lawyer calls a coordinated global deception. The civil case, filed in 2023, […]

They Went To A Pro Women’s Soccer Match And A Communist Purge Broke Out. Feds Investigating… Authored by Victoria Taft via PJ Media, Confirmed: the women’s sports world in Portland, Ore., is nothing if not a political mob. This mob consists of disaffected men who want to be women, their allies, lesbian activists, and finally, a sprinkling of normal families who want their kids exposed to women’s professional athletics. Notice […]

Obama Says Iran Is “In A Stronger Strategic Position Now Than Before The War Started” With midterms right around the corner, Democrats are capitalizing on Trump’s unpopular war in Iran. At a Saturday campaign rally in Michigan, former President Obama said Iran “now has veto power over the Strait of Hormuz,” the route oil takes to reach the rest of the world. “So they’re in a stronger strategic position now than before the war […]

Stocks & Credit: Cheap, But Getting Cheaper? Energy: Not So Much? By Peter Tchir of Academy Securities Last weekend, in If This Was A Normal Week…, we focused on diesel and credit risk. Here it is, another weekend, and it seems like we once again need to focus on diesel and credit risk. We got to discuss this on Bloomberg TV on Monday. Bloomberg published this segment of the entire interview as a separate clip: AI Debt May […]

Nearly 100 Election Ballots Discovered Among Discarded Mail in Seattle Dumpster Nearly 100 voters in Washington state have been issued replacement ballots after election workers recovered a large collection of undelivered mail from a dumpster at a Seattle park, just days before the midterm elections, according to KOMO News. The incident came to light when a resident alerted King County Elections to suspicious mail disposal at […]