America Spends More On Defense R&D Than Any Other OECD Country – By A Mile On the OECD’s yardstick – defense R&D budget allocations per $1,000 of GDP – the United States spends $3.64. The next country on the list, South Korea, spends $2.06, and nobody else clears a dollar. Britain is third at $0.97, Germany fourth at $0.79, France fifth at $0.50. The average across the 20 countries ranked is $0.58; the median is $0.27. […]

All Eyes Are On Belarus Ahead Of The US’ Reported European Military Drawdown Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, The potential pullback of some US forces from the Baltic States upon the completion of its force posture review could be followed by European NATO if Russia agrees to pull back some of its forces from Belarus in order to then establish partial buffers in the post-war European security architecture. NBC reported […]

Shurk: Bush’s Islamic Appeasement Greatly Damaged America Authored by J.B. Shurk via American Thinker, Last week, President George W. Bush sat down with his former secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice, to discuss the September 11, 2001, Islamic terror attacks on the United States. While reflecting on his actions twenty-five years earlier, Bush went out of his way to defend Islam: “I also made it clear that Islam was a religion of […]

Space Weapons Grabbed MSM Headlines, But USAF Secretary Hinted What Could Replace MQ-9 Reaper The Air & Space Forces Association’s Air, Space & Cyber Conference opened earlier this week at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center in National Harbor, Maryland. Air Force Secretary Troy Meink’s disclosure that the Space Force had launched “space control weapons” into orbit quickly dominated the news cycle. Beyond […]

Leftists Rally To Stop Trump’s Renovations To Crumbling Kennedy Center Why is it a bad thing to repair Washington DC’s crumbling landmarks and famous buildings?  It’s only a bad thing when Donald Trump is doing it.  This attitude has led to numerous delays and problems with overall renovations across America’s capital; from vandalism to direct interference with work crews to legal warfare as a way to stall various projects.  […]

Pentagon Releases UFO Files Examining Warp Drives, Stargates, & Cloaking Authored by Tom Gantert via The Epoch Times, The Pentagon on Sept. 18 released its sixth batch of declassified and historical UFO files, including papers examining speculative concepts such as warp drives, cloaking devices, stargates, and wormholes. In July 2025 in the northeastern United States, an eyewitness observed an intense bright light in their […]

Bechtel Splits With TerraPower As Holtec Postpones IPO Bechtel and Bill Gates-backed TerraPower are parting ways over the next phase of the Natrium reactor project in Wyoming, adding a construction headache to a sector already digesting Holtec’s postponed IPO. According to a layoff notice reported by Washington Business Journal, the companies failed to reach an agreement and “have decided to move forward separately.”  […]

Trump Announces ‘AI Force’, Plans To Name AI Czar As US Pushes Tech Dominance Authored by AG News Staff via American Greatness, President Donald Trump announced plans to form an “AI Force” and appoint an artificial intelligence czar as his administration looks to promote the rapidly growing technology while using existing laws to address potential wrongdoing. Trump argued Democrats are attempting to create public doubts about AI […]

India’s Clean Energy Boom Halts Coal Power Growth Authored by Tsvetana Paraskova via OilPrice.com, India’s coal power generation did not grow between the first half of 2024 and the first half of 2026, for the first such two-year period in over 50 years in which coal power has remained flat in the world’s second-largest coal consumer, a new analysis by the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA) for Carbon Brief showed. […]

Germany’s Merz Admits “Disaster” After AfD Victory As CDU Crash Out Of State Parliament Update: The situation for Merz’s party just went from “disaster” to full Titanic as projections signal the CDU will get just 4.9% of the vote – below the critical threshold required to enter parliament… This would be the first time the CDU failed to enter state parliament since the founding of the federal republic in 1949. Two days ago […]

Drug 10 Times Stronger Than Fentanyl Seized In San Francisco Authored by Cynthia Cai via The Epoch Times, San Francisco police have arrested four suspects, recovered multiple firearms, and seized over 20,000 counterfeit pills – some containing cychlorphine, a new synthetic drug that is up to 10 times stronger than fentanyl. The arrests resulted from a months-long investigation that started with the fatal overdose of a San […]

Trump Would ‘Probably Be Open’ To Meeting Iranian President, Who Will Address UN President Trump in a Sunday morning Fox News interview repeated some of his talking points about a big decision he is preparing to make regarding what comes next in the Iran war He told the outlet he’s currently in “deciding mode” on Iran and that “very big things” are coming, and once again suggested it would either involve major military escalation […]

“Not Enough Raw Material!” – Resource Wars Put Tungsten In Crosshairs As Western Rearmament Supercycle Looms Submitted by Almonty Industries CEO Lewis Black,  The UK just invested £71m to restart a tungsten mine, with an option on half the output. Other governments will follow. I should be pleased – I’ve spent years arguing the West needs to fund its own supply. The problem is I’ve seen what happens next. In 2008, Japan and […]

Iran’s Military Believes US Is Preparing To Resume Attacks Iran’s central military command has announced it believes the United States has made the decision to resume military attacsk on the Islamic Republic. Citing the country’s General Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces, state media IRIB states that “According to intelligence received, the US has once again decided – with the green light from certain regional countries – to resume […]

Trump Says His Planned DC Arch Would Host Drones And Snipers Via Headline USA, President Donald Trump said Sunday that the massive arch he wants to build between the Lincoln Memorial and Arlington National Cemetery would become a “top grade military complex” able to host drones and snipers while storing ammunition. It is one more example of how Trump is insisting that his initiatives to beautify the White House and the city are […]

Utah Valley University Faculty’s Sickening Post-Assassination Emails About Charlie Kirk Exposed New public records indicate that faculty members at Utah Valley University sent hostile messages regarding Charlie Kirk to the university’s administrators in the weeks following his assassination on the UVU campus, even though the university had previously issued public statements advocating civility and free expression. Utah Valley […]

With The Fed Behind Us… By Peter Tchir of Academy Securities With the Fed Behind Us… The 10-year Treasury sold off after the Fed bounced Thursday, only to resume selling, finishing the week just under 5%. Stocks, which seemed to move up and down with Treasuries, decided to move to the beat of their own drum into the close on Friday. Similarly, for the past few weeks, it seems that if you knew oil was up/down, you could predict […]

Grassley Urges Diesel Export Ban As Global Fuel Crisis Stokes Resource Nationalism Fears “With diesel at $6.57 in Iowa, why doesn’t Pres. Trump put an embargo on diesel exports like presidents in the 70s put embargoes on ag products bc food prices were inflated,” Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley wrote on X late Saturday night. Grassley warned, “High diesel prices ARE KILLING FARMERS’ INCOME.” W diesel $6.57 in Iowa why doesn’t Pres […]

Stolen $586,000 Copper Shipment Found Hours Later At Kentucky Warehouse A load of copper worth nearly $600,000 was recovered on Sept. 11 after investigators followed a trail from Illinois to Kentucky and Ohio, wrapping up the initial search only about eight hours after the theft was reported, according to Yahoo News. The case began when a shipment scheduled to travel from DeKalb, Illinois, to Rock Hill, South Carolina, never made […]

‘Keep Digging’… Says Shovel-Salesman Jensen Huang Submitted by QTR’s Fringe Finance Maybe it’s the bullshit detection genes that were passed down to me from my mother, but I simply can’t wind up trusting a word Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says about how much AI regulation the United States needs. Just call it a gut reaction from me. It doesn’t mean Huang is necessarily wrong about AI. It’s just that I look at him and all I […]

Ocean Container Freight Costs Explode, Rivaling COVID-Era Crisis Highs A worsening ocean freight price shock is reviving concerns about the supply-chain disruptions seen during the pandemic and the 2024 Red Sea crisis. If continued through the fall and winter, higher shipping costs could intensify inflationary pressure, squeeze corporate margins, and weaken growth. Together, these factors raise the risk of a broader economic […]

FBI Using AI To Stop School Shootings; Doomers Want It Paused Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News, While the same ‘current thing’ leftists who spent years on climate, oil and “Palestine” now chants that AI will wipe out the human race, FBI Director Kash Patel just announced that the agency is using the technology to actively prevent mass shootings, including school attacks, before they happen. Patel said artificial […]

Big Oil Backs Mazama’s $135 Million Bet On Superhot Geothermal Mazama Energy announced $135 million in new capital with an oversubscribed Series B that included ConocoPhillips and Shell Ventures. With Devon Energy initially backing Fervo in 2023, a pattern is emerging with oil and gas veterans placing their bets in the geothermal industry.  Some of the techniques developed by the O&G industry are translating well to […]

The Fed Rate-Hike Won’t Fix The Inflation It Targets Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, The Fed did what the bond market dared it to do. This past week, in a unanimous vote, the FOMC raised the target range for the federal funds rate by 25 basis points to 3.75%-4.00%, the first Fed rate hike since 2023. The stated reason was “price stability.” Yet this is a Fed whose own chairman has spent the past year […]

Bessent And He Lifeng Open High-Stakes Trade Talks Ahead Of Trump-Xi Summit Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer are meeting Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng at JPMorgan Chase’s Manhattan headquarters on Sunday for a critical round of trade negotiations. The all-day session marks the final ministerial push before President Donald Trump hosts Chinese President Xi Jinping in Washington beginning […]