NOAA Winter Outlook: Record El Niño Points To Wetter South, Warmer North El Niño is a warm patch of water in the equatorial Pacific that shows up every few years and confuses everyone as to what it’s actually going to do. When the eastern Pacific runs hot, the jet stream drops south and drags the storm track with it. That is why a water temperature reading off South America decides whether California floods and the Gulf gets […]

The Politics Of Denial: When Americans Stop Seeing The Warning Signs Authored by John & Nisha Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute, “You see them on the street. You watch them on TV. You might even vote for one this fall. You think they’re people just like you. You’re wrong. Dead wrong.” – They Live The spectacle of public executions. Deadly military strikes on foreign countries. Innocent civilian lives lost to war. […]

Yemen Prime Minister, Cabinet Survives Houthi Attack On Presidential Palace The Houthis are apparently trying to take the fight straight to the heart of the Saudi-backed government in Yemen. The Shia group allied to Iran targeted Aden’s presidential palace with one or more ballistic missiles on Thursday, killing two security personnel in a strike that hit the complex. Widely circulating image of smoke billowing from site of […]

57 California Dams In Poor Or Unsatisfactory Condition, State Auditor Says Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, A new report from the state auditor says 57 dams in California are in poor or unsatisfactory condition, posing a safety risk to hundreds of thousands of residents. Out of those 57 dams, 40 have “high or extremely high” hazard classifications as of May, the Oct. 13 report said. “Failure of just one of […]

Iran War Has Cost Nearly $2,000 Per US Household: Moody’s Top Economist Moody’s Analytics chief economist Mark Zandi estimated Oct. 12 that the Iran war has cost the average U.S. household nearly $2,000 since it began, or about $265 billion nationwide. He put roughly $1,100 per household on higher energy and transportation costs, $540 on higher interest rates and $360 on military spending, and said the energy tab is still rising by […]

Time’s Up! DOJ To Seek ‘Emergency Relief’ Against California Over Suspected Non-Citizen Voters Authored by Tom Gantert via The Epoch Times, The U.S. Department of Justice on Oct. 13 sent letters to California election officials demanding a review within 48 hours of registered voters it suspects are noncitizens and asking officials to set aside their mail ballots until their citizenship status can be determined. If the prescribed […]

RFK Jr. Removes 189,000 Improper Health Care Enrollments Authored by AG News Staff via American Greatness, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced Wednesday that the Trump administration has eliminated 189,000 improper government-subsidized health care enrollments, a move expected to save American taxpayers as much as $1.5 billion annually. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) […]

New DRAM Demand Source Could Surge 20-Fold By 2030 Last month, Jason Chen, chairman and CEO of Taiwanese PC maker Acer, offered some relief from the memory shortage, saying chip prices could begin falling in the second half of next year. That outlook challenges the memory cartel, pardon, the Big Three’s claims that prices will keep rising well beyond 2027. Meanwhile, Chinese memory-chip manufacturer ChangXin Memory Technologies, […]

Bitcoin Will Become “Less Volatile” And Larger Than Gold: ‘The Bitcoin Standard’ Author Authored by Zoltan Vardai via CoinTelegraph.com, Saifedean Ammous, the author of the 2018 academic book “The Bitcoin Standard,” said that Bitcoin already functions as a medium of exchange and that volatility’s effect on that is likely to diminish. Bitcoin (BTC) can serve as a medium of exchange as it becomes less volatile than gold while […]

Pentagon Eyes ‘Mother Of All Bombs’ For Future Iran Strikes Anonymous Trump admin officials are apparently once again ‘leaking’ Iran war military plans to the media. The newest claim is that among potential Pentagon ‘options’ for a new bombing campaign against the Islamic Republic include deploying the “mother of all bombs”. Prior mainstream media reports suggested President Trump is mulling the resumption of a bombing campaign […]

Think Rates Are Peaking? Consider Mortgage-Backed Securities Authored by Michael Lebowitz via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, Think interest rates are peaking? If so, agency mortgage-backed securities (MBS) deserve a look. Think rates have further to climb? MBS may still earn a place in your fixed-income allocation, potentially offering more yield than Treasuries and essentially no credit risk. Here is the twist. In 2022 and 2023, MBS […]

Defiant Zelenskyy Resumes Russian Refinery Drone Strikes A defiant President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told the Financial Times on Thursday morning that Ukrainian forces will resume attacks on Russian refineries. The move certainly seems more political than anything else. Such attacks have been described as one of the drivers behind the global refining crisis, which has collided with Strait of Hormuz disruptions. “The block [on attacking […]

US Issues First Outbound Investment Penalty Over Chinese Robotics AI Deal Authored by Arthur Zhang via The Epoch Times, The U.S. Treasury Department has fined Amidi LLC $200,000 for failing to report an investment in a Chinese tech startup – the first penalty under U.S. restrictions on investments in sensitive Chinese technologies. The Department of the Treasury in Washington on Oct. 3, 2024. Madalina Vasiliu/The Epoch TimesAmidi […]

“Worst Is Yet To Come”: Global Smartphone Shipments Crash 22% As Memory Crisis Squeezes Consumers Technology research firm IDC’s latest report confirms our warning earlier this week of “more pain to come,” with global smartphone shipments plunging in the third quarter as rising memory chip costs squeeze margins, boost handset prices, and make these devices more expensive than ever. Preliminary data from the advisory firm show […]

Europe Is Falling: Riots Spread From France And Belgium To Albania Social unrest in France, Belgium, and now Albania raises the risk of riot contagion across Europe. Young rioters’ involvement gives far-left groups opportunities to exploit grievances and channel them into broader anti-government mobilization. Government buildings torched in violent Albanian protests. Protesters and riot police clashed in Tirana as thousands of […]

Robot “Ahmed” Gropes Teen Girl Live On TikTok – World’s First Robot Sex Assault? Via Remix News, Cologne police are investigating an unprecedented incident in which a humanoid robot was allegedly used to sexually harass a 16-year-old girl on a busy city street, with the act filmed and livestreamed. Videos of the assault appear to show two men with a migration background controlling the robot, which they named “Ahmed,” an Arabic […]

Lisa Cook’s Attorney Challenges Fairness Of White House Probe Authored by Matthew Vadum via The Epoch Times, Federal Reserve board member Lisa Cook’s attorney called into question the fairness and objectivity of a White House probe after President Donald Trump announced a new committee to investigate whether Cook made false statements. In an Oct. 13 letter to White House counsel William Scharf obtained by The Epoch Times, lawyer […]

Currie Slams ‘Vibe’ Oil Contracts As Trump Admin Halts SPR Drains, IEA Urges Massive Reserve Release Oil prices are extending gains again this morning as traders weigh a weaker global demand outlook and signs of recovering Middle East crude supplies against persistent shipping risks around the Strait of Hormuz and escalating/spreading violence between the Houthis and Saudis. An overnight lull in prices (set with hopes for more […]

MS NOW Retracts Report That FBI Director Kash Patel Landed In Russia Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times, MS NOW has retracted a report that FBI Director Kash Patel landed in Russia on Oct. 14. “We regret this error,” Ken Dilanian, an MS Now reporter, said on air during an afternoon show. MS Now host Peter Alexander had said during a broadcast on Wednesday morning that he had breaking news to report – that Patel […]

After Jensen Saves The World, Nasdaq Breaks Nasdaq has been soaring higher for the last hours following supportive statements from Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang: HUANG: “COREWEAVE’S STRENGTH IS IMPROVING EVERY DAY” HUANG: COREWEAVE’S COST OF CAPITAL IS “ACTUALLY DECREASING” HUANG SAYS NVIDIA DOESN’T NEED TO BACKSTOP COREWEAVE As a reminder, Nvidia helped rescue CoreWeave’s downsized IPO and holds a ~$2 billion stake. Then […]

Nord Stream Sabotage Trial Begins With Explosive Allegations Against Ukraine Authored by RFE/RL staff via OilPrice.com, A German court is trying former Ukrainian officer Serhii Kuznetsov over his alleged role in coordinating the September 2022 Nord Stream pipeline sabotage. German prosecutors allege the operation was conducted on behalf of Ukrainian state authorities, although Kyiv denies involvement and no Ukrainian […]

NRC Approves Security Plan For NANO’s Laser Enrichment Partner As SWU Spot Hit Record HIgh Last week the uranium showed up. This week Washington signed off on who gets to look at what happens to it. On Thursday morning LIS Technologies (LIST), the private laser enrichment developer in which NANO Nuclear is a shareholder and strategic partner, announced that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has approved its Standard Practice […]

Ghalibaf Says US ‘Must Be Punished’ Into Accepting Iran’s Demands Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammed Bagher Ghalibaf said in a televised speech on Wednesday that the US must be “punished” in order for it to accept Iran’s demands to end the war. Ghalibaf made the comments in the context of the latest response Iran received from the US in indirect negotiations, which Mohsen Rezaei, head of […]

Another ‘Violating’ Oil Tanker Caught Fire East Of Hormuz Strait: Iran Navy Iran’s military has announced Thursday that it has disabled another ‘trespassing’ tanker in the Hormuz Strait area, which caught fire after possibly hitting a sea mine – or else coming under direct attack. “A few hours ago, the Iranian Navy’s surveillance teams, while patrolling and controlling the eastern part of the Strait of Hormuz, identified a […]

Trump Admin Floats Unfreezing Russian Assets In Big Move To Restart Talks President Trump appears to be busy rolling back years of entrenched Ukraine policy. Starting last week he announced the controversial diesel deal with Putin, and this week Ukraine’s Zelensky is complaining that intelligence-sharing has been throttled, and possibly even cut off. The possibility or even likelihood of this heading to another TACO moment aside, […]