AI Geniuses Are Decidedly Not Policy And Economic Geniuses Authored by David McGarry via RealClearMarkets, Geniuses are an odd species. To paraphrase Montesquieu, the exceptional are often also a bit loony. Cornelius Vanderbilt, a devotee of spiritualism, believed himself to have communicated with the spirit of George Washington. To improve his health, Henry Ford devoured weeds, and Thomas Alva Edison was averse to bathing. The […]

Federal Survey Of 21,990 Kids Ties COVID Shots To Autism, ADHD Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, A new analysis of the federal National Health Interview Survey finds children who received a COVID-19 shot had higher odds of autism, ADHD, anxiety, asthma and special-education use than children who did not. The authors, including epidemiologist Nicolas Hulscher and cardiologist Peter McCullough, say the pattern survived […]

Google Plugs Into Constellation’s Nuclear Reactors As PJM’s “Bring Your Own Power” Era Arrives For most of 2026, the bear case on the US power producers could be summed up in one sentence: nobody is signing data center PPAs in PJM. Last week Amazon did. This morning Google did, too, and this one is five times bigger. Google parent Alphabet has contracted for 3,590 megawatts of power from Constellation Energy (CEG) inside PJM, the […]

Americans Are Turning To AI Chatbots For Voting Advice In Midterm Elections Authored by Bryan Hyde via American Greatness, A growing number of American voters are turning to AI chatbots for voting advice in the midterm elections, including researching their ballots, comparing candidates, and fact-checking political claims. Breitbart reports about half of American adults admit they use AI chatbots, according to Pew Research […]

FBI Tracked Trump Aide’s Phone, Monitored Melania Trump Before Mar-a-Lago Raid: Declassified Memos Authored by Jill McLaughlin via The Epoch Times, Newly declassified memos released Oct. 5 by the White House show former special prosecutor Jack Smith and FBI agents during the Biden administration monitored President Donald Trump’s campaign manager’s phone and tracked First Lady Melania Trump and her son Barron Trump’s travel ahead […]

Houthis Attack Multiple Saudi Airports, Wounding Bystanders – Warn Civilian Infrastructure Now In Crosshairs Yemen’s Ansar Allah movement, or Houthis, have over the past 48 hours been targeting airports along with Aramco sites within Saudi territory, and have warned further that civilian infrastructure will increasingly be fair game in retaliation for the Saudi blockade imposed on Yemen. Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saree also […]

Rioters Torch Paris School Exit And Trap 100 Students Inside Via Remix News, Masked attackers set fires at the doors of a Paris vocational high school Monday, confining about 100 students and staff inside, as nationwide student protests over school conditions entered another week with thousands already arrested and hundreds reported injured. At the Nicolas-Louis Vauquelin High School in the 13th arrondissement, Principal Carole […]

S&P Set To Open At Record High As Oil Slides, Bond Rout Takes A Breather US equity futures are higher for a fourth day, putting the S&P on course for its longest winning streak in two months, and on pace for a record open. Tech is leading again, though the rest of the market is finally joining in, and the bond market has stopped screaming for a few hours. As of 8:00am ET, S&P futures are 0.5% higher at 7,865 and Dow […]

Sequence Of Return Risk The Math That Breaks Retirements Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, The sequence of return risk is the quiet reason two retirees with identical average returns can end up in very different places. Let’s start with an easy example. Two people retire on the same day with the same million dollars. They have the same portfolio and the same 30-year average return. They should both live […]

French Bonds Rally As Le Pen Unveils Shadow Budget To Pull France Back From Fiscal Brink European bond and currency markets are signaling growing investor unease over France’s political crisis and deteriorating fiscal position, as growing budget deficits under President Emmanuel Macron undermine confidence in the government’s ability to stabilize public finances. French bond yields rose Monday before reversing sharply on Tuesday, […]

FBI Arrests Chinese Woman At LAX For Surveilling Son Of Taiwanese President Authored by Lear Zhou via The Epoch Times, The Federal Bureau of Investigation arrested a Californian woman at Los Angeles International Airport on Oct. 4 on suspicion of acting as an unregistered agent for Beijing and surveilling a close relative of a Taiwanese government official, officials said. “Heather” Zhang Wanying, 34, who lives in Irvine, Orange […]

Tropic Disturbance Could Threaten Gulf Of America’s Critical Refineries The climatological peak of the Atlantic hurricane season was in mid-September, and so far, the season has been very quiet as El Niño wind shear breaks apart tropical disturbances in the Atlantic Basin. On Monday morning, the National Hurricane Center gave the tropical disturbance a 70% chance of development over the next seven days, up from 50%. “A […]

“Unprecedented Step”: Trump Signs Order To Ease Diesel Costs Amid Global Refining Crisis Trump Signs Executive Order Aimed At Lowering Diesel Prices  President Trump signed an executive order on Monday evening allowing for the broader use of tax-exempt dyed diesel, otherwise known as off-road diesel, seeking to ease fuel costs ahead of the midterm elections. “The order temporarily opens highway use of tax-free dyed diesel, […]

Iran Seeking To Increase Range Of Missiles: ‘Keep Enemy At Greater Distance’ Just days ago President Trump told a Republican audience at a rally that Iran “is ready to fold up,” and again expressing his belief the war will end “right after the election,” though he also said “maybe before the election” – in reference to the midterms. But Tehran on Monday is seeking to reassert its defiance and military readiness in the wake of […]

UK Universities Declare The Term Ethnic Minority Is Offensive Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Universities have decided the phrase “ethnic minority” is now an offence. The approved substitutes are “racialised minority” and “global majority.” The delivery system for this newspeak is a compulsory lecture for students. GB News hosted a short debate Saturday night over the phrases British university students are being […]

Houthis Unleash Large Missile, Drone Barrage On Saudi Arabia, Target Riyadh Airport & Aramco Facility Summary Saudi-backed forces launch major counteroffensive with roughly 100 Saudi fighter jets supporting attacks along the Red Sea coast. Mocha’s status remains disputed: Government forces claim to have retaken the strategic port, while Houthis deny the loss. Houthis announce major missile & drone attack on […]

Why Might Putin Finally Decide To Bring Ukraine To Its Knees After Nearly Five Years Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, Regardless of why Putin might have held off on this for so long, he’s now arguably motivated at least in part by the tantalizing possibility of reaching big-ticket resource deals with the US after the conflict ends, the details of which his and Trump’s envoys have been negotiating for over a year already. […]

European Utopia Burns: Far-left Riots Spread Like Cancer From France To Belgium Alternative media reports say social unrest in France has spread to Belgium. Those X accounts say that far-left groups are mobilizing young people and migrants, while corporate media coverage emphasizes the narrative that overcrowded classrooms, teacher shortages, long school days and deteriorating facilities are to blame for the chaos.  Whether the […]

UK Council’s “Anti-Islamophobia” Training Tells Staff The Virgin Mary Wore A Hijab Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, North Yorkshire staff who handle anti-terror work were shown a slide stating that “Mother Mary wore a hijab.” The line was used to argue that Islam’s attitude to women does not conflict with Western values. The same presentation told them “Jesus grew a beard,” as Muslim men are instructed to, and that “the […]

The Five-Year Fuel Crisis: Why The World Economy Is Paying For A War It Thinks Is Ending Authored by Larry C. Johnson via SonarIntelligence (Sonar21), Once again Karl W. Miller has put numbers to a problem that most of the commentariat still treats as a temporary price spike. His latest forward outlook, “The Five-Year Global Energy Crisis,” dated October 3, makes an argument that should alarm every finance ministry from Berlin to […]

An Uncomfortable Reality: China’s Rare Earth Chokehold May Outlast This Decade An inconvenient reality for the Trump administration’s race to rebuild Western conflict-free critical materials supply chains outside China, whether domestically or through friendshoring, is that it won’t break China’s chokehold this decade. The main problem for the US lies well beyond the mine, ING analysts Ewa Manthey and Coco Zhang wrote in a note on […]

Trump’s $90 Medicare Checks Raise A Question Nobody Seems To Be Asking Authored by David Manney via PJ Media, President Donald Trump is sending well over 20 million Medicare enrollees $90 apiece, and plenty of recipients will understandably welcome the money. With the standard Medicare Part B premium at $202.90 a month this year, $90 isn’t pocket change for someone living on Social Security. AP Photo/Heather KhalifaFrom the White […]

Former World Chess Champion Kasparov Says US Warned Him About Kremlin Kill Plot Authored by Chris Summers via The Epoch Times, Former world chess champion Garry Kasparov has said the security services from both the United States and Lithuania have warned him that his life was in danger, after a Russian plot was discovered which allegedly targeted Kremlin critics living abroad. Last month the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) said […]

West Virginia Wants Nuclear’s Benefits, Somebody Else Can Handle The Waste When West Virginia first announced that they had joined the race to host Nuclear Lifecycle Innovation Campuses (NLICs), the central bargain was already clear: nuclear investment comes with responsibility for used fuel.  We’ve covered this concept a couple times now, highlighting states like Texas and New Mexico that back nuclear investment while fighting […]

Pentagon Raises Combat Pay For First Time Since 2002 As Iran War Persists Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com, The Pentagon has raised combat pay for US troops for the first time since 2002, Task & Purpose has reported, as the Iran war continues and another round of escalation between the US and Iran appears to be coming. Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell announced the pay increase last week. “Our troops in harm’s way […]