25% Of US Offshore Gulf Oil Output Shut As Hurricane Isaias Nears, Threatens Refineries Hurricane Isaias forced offshore oil and natural gas producers in the Gulf of America to halt a sizable amount of production as the Atlantic’s first hurricane of the season churned toward the coast, with potential landfall impacts across portions of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and the Florida Panhandle. Isaias had sustained winds of 75 […]

Qatar Masses Tanker Fleet With 2% Of Global LNG Shipping Capacity Ongoing tensions in the Gulf region pushed Brent crude futures back above $101 a barrel. Reports of Houthi attacks in Saudi Arabia, missile interceptions near Riyadh, and concerns about tanker attacks in the Strait of Hormuz have produced a lot of uncertainty about supplies ahead of the Northern Hemisphere winter. In recent weeks, crude flows through the Strait of […]

US Troops Face Month-Long Curfew In Okinawa After Alleged Murder Authored by Chris Summers via The Epoch Times, The U.S. military in Okinawa, Japan, is pausing operations for 48 hours, imposing a month-long curfew, and conducting training after a Marine was arrested on suspicion of robbing and murdering a Japanese woman. MV-22 Osprey aircraft sit on a runway at Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in Ginowan, Okinawa prefecture, […]

“You’ve Got Mail”: China Got Its Hands On F-35 Stealth Parts Because A UPS Worker Missed An Email Forget hackers, honey traps and photon-counting lasers. China’s latest haul of F-35 secrets apparently came courtesy of an unread email. According to a new Bloomberg report, the F-35 cockpit canopy and weapons-bay door that ended up in Beijing’s possession were routed through Hong Kong because a United Parcel Service (UPS) employee […]

Tanker Crews Running Hormuz Describe Risky Tactics: Lights Out, Sandbags Up, Hugging Coast The Trump administration has been boasting of bigger than ever war time oil transit flows through the Strait of Hormuz, but it is happening still at great risk to tankers, captains, and crew members. American forces “have assisted thousands of ships through the Strait of Hormuz in recent months by providing coordinated protection,” […]

Macron Goes Full Orwell Authored by Jonathan Turley via JonathanTurley.org, French President Emmanuel Macron went full Orwell this week. While long the darling of Western media, Macron has been one of the most anti-free-speech leaders in the world. This week, he declared that “The so-called American ‘free speech’ today, which some people have promoted, is the opposite of free speech.” Having Emmanuel Macron holding forth on free […]

Ebola Patient Dies As Disease Spreads To Kenya A Kenyan man who had lived in Congo for seven years tested positive for Ebola caused by the Bundibugyo virus, Kenyan authorities said on Oct. 6. He traveled by vehicle to Kampala, Uganda, flew into Nairobi on Saturday, was isolated at a city hospital on arrival, and died Monday, the first Ebola death in Kenya’s history. Kenyan Secretary of Health Aden Duale briefs reporters on an Ebola […]

Spain’s Government Revives Rent Cap Decrees Ahead Of Snap Election Authored by Owen Evans via The Epoch Times, Spain’s Socialist-led government on Tuesday reapproved two housing decree laws that Parliament rejected last week, a defeat that prompted Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez to dissolve the country’s Legislature and call a snap election. Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, who is also a leader of the ruling Socialist Party, […]

Golden Naked Trump Statue Unveiled At European Parliament A golden statue of a naked Donald Trump is on display at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, at one of the busiest intersections connecting two of the Parliament’s buildings, and is scheduled to stay until Thursday. Named Orange Plague, the 8.5-foot sculpture shows the US president holding justice scales and a long golf club, its ball made to look like the world, […]

Germany’s Political Firewall Against The AfD Party Is Crumbling Authored by Remix News Staff via Remix, After yesterday’s vote in the Saxony-Anhalt Landtag, the Alternative for Germany (AfD) now holds the office of state parliament president for the first time in any German state. After winning the role, which is similar to a speaker position, 35-year-old Tobias Rausch sent shockwaves through the German political establishment […]

The Founding Fathers Never Would Have Tolerated Multiculturalism Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.us Multiculturalism as a subversive movement is the defining political schism of our time. Is is the fulcrum point for numerous civilization changing events and a direct trigger for the exponential decline of the western world. Anyone who ignores the effects of multiculturalism will be oblivious to the many disruptions coming […]

Iowa City Council Meeting Opens With “Hail Satan” Invocation A former city council member opened Tuesday’s Ottumwa, Iowa, council meeting with a satanic prayer that ended in “Hail Satan,” and the city says it had no legal way to stop him. The invocation fell within a policy the council itself adopted on Jan. 20, according to the Ottumwa Courier. In other news, Ottumwa residents had a Satanist on their city council. Matt Dalbey, a […]

Houthis Escalate Saudi Strikes, Briefly Disrupt Riyadh Air Traffic, Hit Bases Near Border Wednesday has witnessed more direct attacks on Saudi territory launched by Yemen’s Ansar Allah movement, coming soon after Turkey, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia announced they have triggered the Mecca Defense Pact. Houthi spokesman Brig. Gen. Yahya Saree announced the fresh launch of ballistic missiles and drones targeting King Khalid […]

Biden’s FBI Spied On Trump Campaign Manager’s Communications And Trump Family Travel According to newly released White House documents, former special counsel Jack Smith’s team monitored the phone and email metadata of Susie Wiles while she ran Donald Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign, and the travel of Trump family members. The records show that investigators logged her contacts with journalists, defense attorneys, and political […]

Iran Slams Door On Nuclear Talks: No Deal Unless US Meets Its Conditions Via The Cradle There have been no nuclear negotiations taking place between Washington and the Islamic Republic, Reuters reported on Wednesday, citing what it said was an Iranian official.  “No negotiations [have] taken place with the US about Iran’s nuclear program… Washington must first meet Tehran’s conditions before nuclear talks can start,” the […]

Porsche Plans 20% Price Hike On Top-End 911s In Profit Push During Capital Markets Day in Weissach, new Porsche CEO Michael Leiters offered Wall Street desks a bleak outlook, warning that the turnaround will take time and that operating conditions are unlikely to improve significantly over the next few years. Leiters signaled to investors a shift toward value over volume. He said the focus is now on prioritizing higher revenue per […]

Arizona Democratic House Candidate Raped While Repairing Campaign Signs: Report Democratic congressional candidate Bernadette Greene-Placentia says she was sexually assaulted in mid-August while repairing a campaign sign late at night in the Sun City area, according to a Phoenix New Times report published October 7. The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office has confirmed it received a report on August 31 and that the investigation […]

China Says It Can Spot An F-35 With A Laser… From 38 Miles, At Night, In A Simulation Every few months, a Chinese research institute announces it has found a way to see the unseeable F-35, and every few months the fine print turns out to be doing most of the work. This week’s entry: a laser. According to the South China Morning Post, researchers at the China Airborne Missile Academy, the PLA Air Force’s main air-to-air missile […]

Hospitals Warned To Avoid Deceptive Pricing Or Wind Up In Federal Court Authored by Lawrence Wilson via The Epoch Times, Hospitals must provide complete and accurate price information to patients before they agree to an elective procedure, or they may find themselves in federal court, Andrew Ferguson, director of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), said at a healthcare transparency forum on Oct. 5. Emergency medicine center for […]

Syria’s Jolani May Send Troops To Yemen To Fight Houthis Syria is said to be “cautiously” considering sending troops to assist Saudi Arabia in the fight against the Houthis in Yemen, Reuters and others are reporting Wednesday. An anonymous US official described that this was a focus of conversation between Syria’s self-declared President Ahmed al-Sharaa and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman as the two met in Riyadh on […]

Researchers Develop AI ‘Mind-Reading’ Tool That Reconstructs What Your Eyes See Authored by Jacob Burg via The Epoch Times, A cutting-edge new artificial intelligence (AI) tool can reconstruct images from a person’s vision simply by analyzing brain scans. There’s our little test subject!The technology recreates a person’s visual field with startling accuracy and can also predict brain activity by analyzing what a person is looking […]

15 Economies Sign US-Led Statement Against Industrial Overcapacity; China, Russia, Brazil, Saudi Arabia Sit It Out Trade ministers from 15 economies, including the United States, South Korea and Japan, signed a joint statement to build sector-specific platforms addressing manufacturing overcapacity, the U.S. Trade Representative’s office said Wednesday, according to Seoul Economic Daily. The effort is effectively directed at China, […]

Survey: Young Democratic Women Far More Likely To Blame Men For Their Problems Authored by Bryan Hyde via American Greatness, A recent survey shows that a majority of young, Democratic women believe that “the challenges that women face in American society” are due in great part to the behaviors or actions of men. Breitbart reports that data from the Survey Center on American Life offers a glimpse into the perceptions of young […]

More Ukrainian-Style One-Way Attack Drones Seized In Mexico The emergence of fiber-optic one-way attack drones among Mexican cartels signals a troubling security threat just south of the US border. Images published by local outlet Luz Noticias show that the Mexican Army seized Category 1 suicide drones with fiber-optic cable reels and improvised explosives. This is sparking ongoing concerns that low-cost attack drones associated […]

NY Times Suggests Babies Are Not Conscious Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News, The New York Times has decided the open question in science this week is whether a baby is conscious. Not a cluster of cells. Not a theoretical model. An actual newborn baby. Carl Zimmer’s 5 October piece, “Are Babies Conscious?” (yes that’s a real headline) walks readers through a lab test and then informs them that a “squirming, gurgling […]