My Grandmother’s “Just-In-Case” Cupboard Doesn’t Look So Eccentric Anymore Authored by Madge Waggy via A lot will happen in 2026!, My grandmother kept a cupboard she called the just-in-case, and for most of my childhood I read it as a harmless eccentricity rather than what it was – a wound made edible. She had been a girl during the Depression, and somewhere in her twenties she had learned to keep tinned beans, sacks of flour, jars […]

DeepSeek Is Now Designing Huawei’s AI Chips… Just As DHS Orders It Ripped Out Of Federal Systems Two DeepSeek headlines landed within hours of each other on Monday, and read side by side they tell you pretty much everything about where the US-China AI race is heading: two separate stacks, built by two separate camps, with less and less overlap every month. Let’s start in Hangzhou. According to The Information, DeepSeek has gone […]

How Brazil’s Government Is Making Work Illegal Authored by Henrique Torrescasana Trevisan via Mises Institute, More than 38 million Brazilian workers fall outside the reach of one of the most extensive labor codes in Latin America, and yet the National Congress is close to making that code even more rigid through a bill that would abolish the six-day work schedule known as “6×1.” In the first half of 2026, the country’s […]

Vance Blindsided By Grieving Military Husband Who Blasts ‘Fundamental Failures’ Of Iran War A CBS News town hall Saturday night saw Vice President JD Vance several times put in a very tough spot. It was a rare moment that a top White House official like him was put directly before voters as they fired off questions. A one point he was somewhat blindsided by a grieving military husband’s necessary and very blunt question over how […]

Too Broken For Frontier: Indonesian Markets Suffer Worst Rout Since 1998 As MSCI Threatens The “Argentina Treatment” Back in January, MSCI fired a warning shot at Jakarta. On Friday it fired the real thing. Indonesian markets extended their selloff on Monday, with stocks deepening their worst rout in almost 30 years and losses spreading to bonds and the rupiah after MSCI warned the country may face a two-step downgrade: straight […]

US Prohibits Unauthorized Drones Along US-Mexico Border Authored by Timothy Frudd via The Epoch Times, The Trump administration banned unauthorized drone activity along the U.S.-Mexico border on Oct. 16 to increase airspace security as it cracks down on drug cartel drone operations. The ban, established through a temporary flight restriction for drones, was announced in a joint statement by the Department of War, the Department […]

Supreme Showdown: Investigative Reporter And Accused Chinese Operative Face Off In Press Freedom Case Authored by Jonathan Turley via JonathanTurley.org, Below is my column in The Hill on an important case currently before the Supreme Court on the free press and the ability to protect confidential sources. The underlying facts may seem like something out of The Onion: an accused Chinese operative and PLA Colonel who was viewed as a […]

Brookfield, NextEra To Build $100 Billion AI Hub On Cold War Nuclear Site Authored by Alex Kimani via OilPrice, The U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) has announced a landmark $100-billion private investment to turn the former uranium enrichment site in Western Kentucky into the new Paducah American Energy Hub, marking one of the largest economic development projects in Kentucky’s history. Led by U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris […]

‘Once He Leaves, The Case Is Over’: Judge Jails OpenAI Bugging Suspect After Saudi Consulate Offers ‘Blank-Check’ Bail When a foreign government volunteers to bankroll your release from federal custody, it may be time to reconsider the “no ties to a foreign state” defense. On Monday, a San Francisco federal magistrate ordered Abdulrahman Alfozan, the 35-year-old Saudi national accused of bugging an executive conference room at […]

Iran’s New Defense Minister Is A Veteran Arms Industry Chief, Vows Tech Expansion Via The Cradle Tehran appointed a new Defense Minister, military industry veteran Mehrdad Akhlaghi, on Sunday during a vote of confidence at an open session of the Iranian parliament. Akhlaghi received 237 votes in favor and 15 against, with no abstentions. Former Defense Minister Aziz Nasirzadeh was killed in US-Israeli strikes at the start of the […]

Another Nor’easter Brews In Atlantic, Putting Mid-Atlantic In Potential Crosshairs Meteorologists are monitoring the risk of a coastal storm developing off the southeastern US early next week, raising concerns about a storm similar to the powerful nor’easter that hit the US East Coast in late September. The potential threat comes as the East Coast has had a quiet hurricane season so far, with no tropical cyclones. “Will need to […]

‘Operation Protect The Vote’: Feds Arrest 28 Foreign Nationals In California Monday For Illegal Voting Authored by Debra Heine via American Greatness, Federal agents arrested more than two dozen foreign nationals across California on Monday, for fraudulently registering and voting in U.S. elections. Specifically, the 28 suspects are being charged with a combination of illegal voting, making a false claim of U.S. citizenship in […]

Trump Favorable On Trilateral Meeting With Xi, Putin: “I Would Do It” Zelensky Should Get Out of the Way, Trump Suggests President Trump has once again put Zelensky in his place, in a Monday afternoon exchange with reporters he actually again suggested that the Ukrainian leader needs to be booted from leadership, and cut out of negotiations in an effort to find peace in the war with Russia. “Zelensky is a man that should’ve had […]

Intifada For All… Authored by James Howard Kunstler via kunstler.com, “The Dems are a total mess of cluster B psychopathology. They will continue to humiliate themselves & alienate the normal population.” – JD Haltigan on X Looks like the punishments will continue across the pond until morale improves. France on fire in the “mostly peaceful” riots – according to the BBC – this past weekend could yet ignite a final, […]

Houthis Target More Saudi Airports, Aramco Sites As US Issues Urgent Alert For 12 Mideast States Embassies in the Middle East – and broadly the State Department – have issued warnings that the Iran and Yemen conflicts may soon escalate unpredictably, including a blanket new travel alert covering for no less than a dozen regional countries. More missiles were launched on Saudi Arabia Monday: “Yemen’s Houthis said on Monday they […]

This Is Perhaps The Most Dystopian Thing Ever… Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, France’s streets burned, shops were looted and stripped bare and a historic town hall collapsed under arson. Yet the most striking images from Saturday night were not the fires. They were the people who carried on as if nothing was happening. One woman jogged straight through thick black smoke past a burning barricade, treating the […]

44% Of Americans Have Trouble Paying For Basic Necessities As Lifetime Cost Of The American Dream Tops $5 Million Authored by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse Blog, How did we get to a point where nearly half of the entire population is struggling to even pay for the most basic necessities? A lot of people talk about “economic collapse” as something that will occur someday in the future. The truth is that “economic […]

Trump Admin, US Businesses ‘Need To Be Wary’ Of AI Espionage, Intelligence Chief Warns Authored by Timothy Frudd via The Epoch Times, Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton warned that both the Trump administration and American companies “need to be wary” of foreign espionage with the rise of artificial intelligence (AI), which the government now refers to as super intelligence. Clayton, who leads the Trump […]

Geothermal Just Undercut Solar-Plus-Storage In Sunny Nevada Geothermal has long been the clean, firm power source that was always a few breakthroughs away from being cheap enough to matter. Numbers buried in a Nevada utility filing suggest that day may have arrived. Joel Edwards, co-founder and CTO of geothermal developer Zanskar, put it bluntly earlier this month: “to all the geothermal believers out there, the flippening has […]

AI CapEx And Earnings: What Happens When Growth Slows Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, AI capex and earnings are now so tightly tied that spending doesn’t have to fall to hurt profits. It only has to stop accelerating. Almost half of the S&P 500’s earnings growth this year traces back to one activity: companies buying chips, servers, power gear, and concrete to build artificial intelligence. That’s the […]

Kylie Jenner Sparks Backlash Over $50 Million Bra At Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show Kylie Jenner is facing backlash from fans after making her Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show debut in a staggering $50 million diamond-encrusted bra as furious viewers accused the lingerie giant of snubbing veteran supermodels in favor of the reality television star. Getty ImagesThe 29-year-old beauty mogul stunned audiences Sunday night when she […]

House Panel Warns Singham-Linked Nonprofits Of Possible Depositions Over Subpoenas Authored by Arthur Zhang via The Epoch Times, Three U.S. tax-exempt organizations linked to Shanghai-based businessman Neville Roy Singham have until Oct. 20 to comply with congressional subpoenas or face further action, including possible depositions of 21 officials and staff members, as lawmakers investigate alleged Chinese Communist Party (CCP) […]

Uber Warns Proposed DC Rules Could Spark Driver Exodus And Fare Spike More regulation means higher prices for consumers, and Washington, DC’s newly proposed rideshare regulations could soon do just that. Axios reports that Uber warns proposed DC regulations could push fares up another 10% in the first year. With rides already expensive, that increase would make the ride-hailing service even more unaffordable for lower-income […]

France Slaps 8PM Curfews On Cities As Interior Minister Admits Police ‘Lost Control’; Macron Flees To The Gulf France moved Monday to put riot-hit cities under curfew after Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez admitted that authorities had lost control of the streets in several major cities over the weekend. President Emmanuel Macron refused Nuñez’s offer to resign and then left for a Gulf tour to secure fuel supplies. Protesters […]

Musk Pledges A SpaceX Share To “Every Kid In America” After Anthropic Unveils Murky Public Benefit Fund Elon Musk said Monday that he will give one of his SpaceX shares to every child in the United States next year. “Next year, I will give one of my SpaceX shares to every kid in America,” he wrote in an Oct. 19 post on X, adding, “This will be the first of many,” the Epoch Times reported. Next year, I will give one of my SpaceX […]