Planning For Pitchforks: AI Labs Are War-Gaming A Catastrophe, Public Revolt, And The Crackdown That Follows The AI industry has been war gaming not only how it might destroy humanity, but is also considering what an angry public could do to the industry.  Senior executives at Anthropic, OpenAI and other AI firms are privately gaming out scenarios in which a major AI incident triggers a public and political revolt, Axios […]

Iran Strikes LPG Tanker In Strait Of Hormuz, As Houthis Reportedly Mine Bab al-Mandab Summary Houthis reportedly mine Bab al-Mandab: Saudi media reports ‘dense’ mining in the strategic Red Sea shipping route, with demining operations underway. Iran escalates tanker attacks & threats: The IRGC claims it struck an LPG tanker in the Strait of Hormuz, causing a major fire, and threatens further action against violating vessels. […]

Treasury Hits Remaining ‘Shadow Fleet’ Shipping Iranian Oil To Asia With New Sanctions The Trump administration is late this week moving to identify, punish, and cut off remaining tankers in Iran’s so-called ‘shadow fleet’ which are still engaged in shipping Iranian oil to Asia. Thursday saw the US Treasury impose sanctions on 17 vessels and their owners involved in transporting Iranian crude oil, petroleum products and […]

Oil Drops After Trump Says Putin Agreed To Release Some Diesel Into Global Market With less than a month left until the midterms, and with Trump’s approval rating at daily all time lows largely due to record – for this time of year- gasoline and especially diesel prices – the President badly needed some good news, even if largely superficial, and he announced it late on Friday just an hour before the close when Trump posted on Truth […]

US Grants Safety Feature Exemption For Self-Driving Trucks Authored by Kimberly Hayek via The Epoch Times, Federal regulators have approved a five-year exemption for self-driving trucking companies from rules that require drivers to place warning devices around a stopped truck. The Aurora Driver, in this undated photograph. Courtesy of AuroraThe Department of Transportation said Wednesday it has agreed to allow autonomous trucking […]

“Delayed Revenue, Delayed Cash Flow”: Morgan Stanley Warns Oracle Data Center Delays Could Crush Its Debt There is a comforting story going around credit desks about Oracle’s data center problems: if the buildings are late, the capex is late too, and that buys the balance sheet some time. Morgan Stanley isn’t buying it. In a new note titled “ORCL Credit: Lighthouse in the Fog” (available to pro subs), MS credit analysts Lindsay […]

Communist Cox Heir Denied Release Over Alleged Hamas Funding, Claimed Openness To “Global Terror Activities” Local news outlet El Español reports that Spain’s National Court denied release for Jim “Fergie” Chambers, the communist centimillionaire and heir to the massive Cox media fortune, for the fourth time, citing a flight risk while US authorities seek his extradition over allegations of financing Hamas and money […]

Massive 8.0-Magnitude Quake Strikes Panama A magnitude 8.0 earthquake struck Panama at around 1:56 p.m. EST, according to the US Geological Survey.  Notable quake, preliminary info: M 8.0 – 14 km SW of Pitaloza Arriba, Panama https://t.co/qnQAspzMXy — USGS Earthquakes (@USGS_Quakes) October 9, 2026 What’s known so far: Alerts: Tsunami Info Stmt: M8.0 General Area of Panama 1056 PDT Oct 9: Potential to generate destructive […]

Trump Didn’t Politicize The Smithsonian; He’s Responding To Those Who Did… Authored by Jody Edward Ginn via The Epoch Times, Museums have long occupied a rare and enviable position in American life: they have been trusted. While confidence in nearly every other major institution has cratered, museums have quietly held the line. The numbers tell the story. Fewer than one in five Americans express confidence in newspapers, […]

Trump Forms Committee To Probe Federal Reserve’s Lisa Cook Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times, President Donald Trump on Oct. 9 announced a new committee to investigate whether a Federal Reserve governor made false statements. Federal Reserve Board of Governors member Lisa Cook listens during an open meeting of the Board of Governors at the Federal Reserve in Washington on June 25, 2025. Mark Schiefelbein /AP PhotoThe […]

Mamdani Faces Bipartisan Backlash Over Criticism Of Israel On Oct. 7 Authored by Nicholas Zifcak via The Epoch Times, Mayor Zohran Mamdani is getting backlash from members of both major parties for marking Oct. 7 with a statement criticizing Israel’s military response to the terrorist attacks against it that took place on Oct. 7, 2023. On the third anniversary of the Hamas-led attacks on Israel that killed 1,200 people, mostly […]

“Wouldn’t Call That A Surprise”: Delta Slashes Profit Outlook As Jet Fuel Prices Near Record Highs Delta Air Lines shares fell as much as 3.5% early in the US cash session after the carrier slashed its full-year earnings forecast as soaring jet fuel costs squeezed margins. The cut isn’t totally unexpected given today’s jet fuel prices, but it serves as a warning: Delta owns a refinery that helps cushion the refining crisis blow, […]

US Hits ‘Rogue’ International Criminal Court With Sweeping Sanctions On Friday the Trump administration rolled out sweeping sanctions on the International Criminal Court, calling it a “rogue” organization and declaring that the action is part of an effort to ultimately dismantle the tribunal. “We will ban transactions with this rogue court, cutting off their resources and crippling its ability to operate against us,” US Secretary […]

Watch: Influencer Fights “Terminator” Robot In Wild Cage Match A social media influencer stepped into the ring against a real-life “Terminator” robot in a bizarre showdown that offered a startling glimpse into the rapidly advancing world of humanoid robotics. Frankie LaPenna, a 29-year-old influencer known for his outrageous online stunts, faced off against a six-foot-tall humanoid robot, one of three REK machines he fought, during […]

Big Banks And The Democrats Killed Clarity; This Is The Next Target In Their Sights… Authored by Jordan Schachtel via American Greatness, Just before the Senate adjourned for campaign season, big banks joined forces with longtime critic Elizabeth Warren and Senate Democrats to kill the Clarity Act. The bill would have clarified federal rules for cryptocurrency markets and created a reliable, trustworthy entrance point for […]

Saudi Pilot Among 3 Killed In Riyadh Airport Attack; Houthis Under Pressure On Red Sea Coast Saudi Arabia has finally reopened King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh on Friday following attacks by the Houthis that killed three people and injured several on Thursday, and caused widespread flight suspensions and delays in the region. Airport facilities and aircraft were hit in the attack, with at least one Saudi Airlines […]

IMF Warns Tokenized Markets Could Amplify Financial Risks Authored by Nate Kostar via CoinTelegraph.com, Tokenization could reshape financial markets by making trading and settlement more efficient, but legal uncertainty and risks to financial stability could hinder wider adoption, according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF). In a Thursday analysis, the IMF said tokenized financial markets are growing rapidly but remain […]

Guilfoyle Donor Scandal Explodes As Vance Balks, Rubio Dodges And The Donor Calls It Quid Pro Quo The left finally has something new to sink its teeth into, as the Kimberly Guilfoyle donor scandal widens – with JD Vance keeping his distance, a donor on a media tour, and a records demand sitting on the ambassador’s desk.  The allegation, reported by the WSJ late Wednesday – is that six days before her July 9, 2025, Senate […]

Unwanted, Not Unwarranted By Maartje Wijffelaars, senior economist Rabobank Oil prices rose again yesterday, reaching a session high of about $105 per barrel as Iran struck tankers – an outcome our energy analysts warned about if Iran appeared to be losing control over Hormuz. Reports that the US could strike Iran before the midterms and a hurricane hitting US output added pressure. Brent crude then fell after President Trump […]

The BBC Seems To Hate White People… Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, The corporation that lectures Britain about “fair” pay has published its own wage numbers. In six of its seven career bands, white staff took home a lower median wage than black, Asian, mixed and other ethnic minority colleagues. The figures come from the BBC’s own 2025/26 pay-gap tables. Black, Asian, mixed and other ethnic minority employees […]

UMich ‘Current Conditions’ Sentiment Crashes To Record Low As ‘Independents’ Lose Faith After sliding back near cycle lows in September (as Republicans lost faith in the recovery and MidEast tensions re-escalated), analysts expected UMich consumer sentiment to fall further in preliminary October data released this morning. And the analysts were right as The University of Michigan’s preliminary sentiment index decreased to 46.3, […]

Masa Passes The Hat: SoftBank Seeks $100 Billion From The Gulf After Maxing Out Junk Bonds, Margin Loans And Japanese Retail The scramble for AI cash is on (or rather, accelerating). Just hours after the FT reported that OpenAI’s annualized revenue is roughly $20 billion lower than the figure that had been making the rounds previously, the same paper reported that Masayoshi Son is trying to raise up to $100 billion from Gulf […]

“Migrants Join Forces With Antifa” As EU Riots Spread From France To Belgium Europe is demonstrating that the globalist progressive experiment is crashing and burning, as far-left riots, which we pointed out at the start of the week, were “spreading like cancer” from France to Belgium, continue on Friday. What’s to say the social unrest will stop there? The chaos and social unrest mimic the US Marxist BLM riots in 2020, when […]

RFK Jr. Announces New Clinic For People Injured By Vaccines Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and other officials have opened a new clinic to treat patients with vaccine injuries and announced other new developments on Oct. 8 that they say will change how the government handles reports of health problems following vaccination. The new National Institutes of Health (NIH) […]

DOE Presses PJM On Ratepayer Protections From Large Load Costs By Ethan Howland of UtilityDive The U.S. Department of Energy on Wednesday urged the PJM Interconnection to revise its reliability backstop procurement plan to prevent cost shifts onto existing utility customers from data centers and other large loads. PJM should file a proposal by Oct. 29 in response to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s decision last […]