China’s Newest Power Plant Swaps Steam For Supercritical CO2 Authored by Haley Zaremba via OilPrice.com, China just broke ground on a revolutionary new hybridized energy production and storage facility. The power plant will store excess energy in the form of molten salt, and then produce electricity during peak demand times through a supercritical carbon dioxide system. The goal of the project is to limit energy waste while also […]

Yemen’s Saudi-Backed President Calls On Citizens To Mobilize, In Sign Of Desperation The Ansar Allah movement, commonly called the Houthis, have remained the most recognizable name and force in Yemen of late, but lesser known among many headline consumers is the country’s internationally recognized government, which is directly backed by the Saudis and recognized by the United Nations. Rashid Al-Alimi, ​president of the […]

China Sent Over 1,000 Shipments Of Missile, Drone Parts To Iran In 2026 Authored by News Desk via The Cradle, China has sent Iran around 1,300 shipments of missile and drone parts this year through the end of June, as the Islamic Republic faced a brutal US-Israeli campaign against it, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported on 23 September. (Photo credit: NurPhoto/Getty Images)One of the shipments arrived the same day the April […]

Mystery Deepens As Spy Aircraft Disappears From US Air Base Without Explanation An SR-71 Blackbird parked for years on an outdoor display at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center is no longer visible in commercial satellite imagery, and the agency has offered no public explanation of where it went. The spy aircraft, the NASA 844, has been absent from its pad since at least May 17, according to Aviation Week. Sources told […]

Federal Judge Blocks Oklahoma Religious Ban On Jewish Charter School Bid Authored by Matthew Vadum via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A federal judge in Oklahoma on Sept. 24 blocked the state from using religion as an automatic bar to a charter application, allowing a proposed Jewish virtual school to keep seeking approval after officials rejected it because of its faith. The Oklahoma Supreme Court in Oklahoma City on May 19, […]

Energy Secretary Announces $2 Billion For Improving Electric Grid With Smart Technology The U.S. Department of Energy has committed $2 billion for smart technology improvements to the nation’s electric grid, aiming to address concerns about artificial intelligence power usage, blackouts, and higher utility bills heading into the colder seasons. During a press conference on Sept. 24, Energy Secretary Chris Wright said the investment […]

Border Czar Says Illegal Immigrant In Austin Was Shot While Fleeing From Agents Authored by Jacki Thrapp and Jan Jekielek via The Epoch Times, White House border czar Tom Homan said in an exclusive interview with The Epoch Times that a Venezuelan illegal immigrant attempted to evade arrest before he was shot by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer in Austin, Texas, on Sept. 20. “We were trying to arrest him in […]

In Big Blow To Tehran, Major Iraqi Airports Halt All Iranian Flights Either everyone flies or no one flies. That’s Iran’s warning issued Friday in the face of sweeping US sanctions targeting the Islamic Republic’s airlines and aviation sector. “If Iran cannot fly and receive airport services, no country in the region will have that possibility either,” Mohammad Mokhber, a senior adviser to Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba […]

Trump Admin Asks Supreme Court To Revive Third-Country Deportations Authored by Matthew Vadum via The Epoch Times, The Department of Justice (DOJ) asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Sept. 24 to revive its third-country deportation program that sends deportees to countries that were not named in their removal orders. A person is detained by U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents near a hardware store in New Orleans on Dec. 3, 2025. […]

Jacob Coxon Reportedly Worked With AI Doom-Maxxing PR Firm To Spread Psyop An Anthropic researcher’s very quick transition from six weeks on the job at the frontier lab to an “AI doomerism” media blitz increasingly resembles a well-coordinated information-operation campaign we flagged from the start. Despite the researcher assuring Fox News’ Bret Baier that no third parties were involved in the media campaign, Pirate Wires […]

The Pentagon Flocked Itself. Should Big Brother Be Worried? Authored by Brett Heinz via Responsible Statecraft, As the headquarters to the U.S. military, the Pentagon is surrounded by billions of dollars worth of surveillance and security technology. These systems provide multiple layers of protection for the building but they also carry a risk of backfiring: any surveillance system that is vulnerable to intruders could […]

8 Sailors In Lincoln Strike Group Attempted Suicide During Lengthy Deployment: Acting Navy Secretary Eight sailors in the USS Abraham Lincoln’s carrier strike group attempted suicide during a deployment that ran 286 days at sea, acting Navy Secretary Hung Cao has told Congress, weeks after the administration waved off reports of deteriorating conditions aboard the carrier. The USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) aircraft carrier departs […]

New Mexico’s “Free” Childcare Program Is Another Costly Disaster Authored by Paul Gessing via The Pacific Research Institute, National media outlets which rarely report on any news from New Mexico were eager to report on the big news this past November that the Land of Enchantment had become the first state to have a “free” universal childcare program. Other states may head down the same path, but before they do they need to […]

California Supreme Court Orders Sheriff To Return 650,000 Seized Redistricting Referendum Ballots California’s Supreme Court on Thursday unanimously ordered Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco to hand back roughly 650,000 ballots he seized from last November’s Proposition 50 special election, and to halt his criminal investigation into the vote. Proposition 50, approved on Nov. 4, 2025, authorized a Legislature-drawn congressional […]

On The Abiding Mystery Of This ‘Lunatic’ Fourth Turning Authored by James Howard Kunstler via Clusterfuck Nation, The Deluge “The country looks pathetic because too many of its men became pathetic first and then demanded the rest of us treat the collapse as a moral achievement.” – LHGrey on Substack An abiding mystery of this lunatic Fourth Turning is how it came to be that the supposed intellectual elite of America was the […]

Assaults On ICE Officers Increased 1,600% Since January 2025: DHS Assaults against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers have increased significantly in recent months as the Trump administration has cracked down on illegal immigration across the country. Under the Trump administration, there were 647 assaults against ICE officials from Jan. 20, 2025, to Sept. 20, 2026, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) […]

Bitcoin’s ‘Last Resort’ Quantum-Safe Solution Just Got 79% Cheaper: StarkWare Authored by Felix Ng via Cointelegraph, The estimated computational cost to prepare a quantum-resistant Bitcoin transaction has fallen below $67 after a week of optimization, down from the roughly $320 spent on the first such mainnet transaction in August, according to StarkWare. The results came after participants in the Quantum-Safe Bitcoin […]

Supreme Court Clears Trump Admin To Use Voter Citizenship Verification Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times, The Supreme Court on Sept. 25 said the Trump administration can use an updated immigration database to verify the citizenship of voters. A majority of justices agreed to stay pending the outcome of an appeal of a June order from a federal judge that barred the use of a revamped database called the Systematic […]

Iran State Media Denies Technical Talks With US Are Happening Summary Tehran denes reports of ‘technical talks’ after it proposed 7-day roadmap to end the war and (eventually) restart nuclear talks. Hormuz reopening discussed in exchange for US concessions in NY, including lifting the blockade.  Tehran seeks sanctions relief, declares will hold to conditions, including restored oil exports and access to frozen funds. […]

US Cybersecurity Agency Releases Election Security Plan Ahead Of November Midterms Authored by Kimberly Hayek via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The nation’s cybersecurity agency released its election infrastructure security plan on Thursday, ahead of the November midterms set for Nov. 3. Voters cast their ballots in the primary for midterm elections at Sanbornton Town Hall in Sanbornton, N.H., on Sept. 8, 2026. CJ […]

Woke Developer Bungie Apologizes To Gamers…But Not Really The mass conservative boycott against woke companies and far-left content has been wildly successful.  While the political left has repeatedly attempted such boycotts and “cancellations” over the years, not one has ever been as effective as the “Chud” revolution against woke media.   It took a few years (along with a slowdown in outside funding from ESG programs and […]

Canada’s Oil Patch On Track For Biggest M&A Wave In A Decade Authored by Alex Kimani via OilPrice.com, Nearly a decade ago, the Canadian Oil Patch recorded a major asset sale and consolidation wave as oil majors exited the oil sands in favor of higher margins in U.S. shale oil as well as environmental concerns amid the ESG investing craze. To wit, Shell Plc (NYSE:SHEL) sold the majority of its oil sands interests to Canadian […]

“Moving The Goalposts”: BofA Downgrades Nike, Slashes Target As Turnaround Story Delayed Nike shares fell 2% in New York premarket trading after BofA retail analyst Lorraine Hutchinson downgraded the world’s largest athletic footwear and apparel company, warning that its “turnaround is taking longer” than expected. With shares trading at 2014 levels, the downgrade adds new woes to a recovery story that might not materialize until […]

Suspected US Drone Strike Kills Alleged Al-Qaeda Member In Yemen Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com, A suspected US drone strike hit a vehicle carrying two alleged al-Qaeda members in Yemen’s southeastern Hadramout province on Tuesday, China’s Xinhua news agency has reported. A local security source told the news agency that one of the men in the vehicle was killed while the other was wounded. So far, there’s been no […]

Chinese Hacking Groups Used Shared Attack Tool Against US Aerospace Firms, NGOs Authored by Arthur Zhang via The Epoch Times, Chinese cyber-espionage groups used the same sophisticated hacking tool in campaigns targeting U.S. aerospace companies, nongovernmental organizations, mining companies, and commodity traders, according to two cybersecurity firms that separately investigated the activity. A member of a hacking group is […]