RNC Chair Warns Republicans Have Voter Turnout Problem Republican National Committee Chair Joe Gruters said Sunday that his party faces a voter turnout problem two days before the midterm elections, as public polling and forecast models show Democrats favored to win control of both chambers of Congress. Voters in North Carolina (Photo by Melissa Sue Gerrits/Getty Images) Gruters made the remarks on NewsNation’s The Hill Sunday […]

Syria Says It’s Considering Joining Saudi-Led Mecca Defense Pact Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com,Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani, a former al-Qaeda member, said on Saturday that Damascus was considering joining the Mecca defense pact, the new military alliance between Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and Turkey.”Discussions are currently underway to evaluate Syria’s entry into the Mecca alliance,” al-Shaibani said at the […]

NASA’s 1.5 Ton Spacecraft Set For Imminent Uncontrolled Reentry NASA’s space telescope that tracks gamma-ray bursts has experienced an “ongoing attitude control issue” according to the space agency. A separate report from solar tracker website SpaceWeather warns the spacecraft is expected “to fall out of the sky” in the very near term. “NASA’s Swift observatory is about to fall out of the sky. The 1.5-ton spacecraft spent nearly 22 […]

Supreme Court Rejects DOJ Request For California To Set Aside 20,000 Ballots Update (1800ET): Following a divided appeals court’s rejection of the DOJ’s request, the Supreme Court has now rejected Trump’s push for California to set aside thousands of disputed mail ballots ahead of midterms.The brief, unsigned order from the high court did not give a rationale. There were no noted dissents.The court acted only hours after the […]

America Votes: What To Expect Authored by Lawrence Wilson via The Epoch Times,Democrats appear poised to win control of the House of Representatives and possibly the Senate on Nov. 3 as Republicans labor to overcome a decades-long pattern of midterm losses by any party controlling the White House.Voter dissatisfaction with fuel prices and the war with Iran bode well for Democrats.Yet the X-factor in this contest is the sitting […]

“Kill Me Clinics”: Disturbing New Industry Quietly Spreads Across America A controversial new industry is slowly taking root across the United States, with so-called “kill me clinics” charging terminally ill patients thousands of dollars to end their lives, according to the Daily Mail. The ‘kill me clinics’ exploding across America: Fears as pop-up opens in heart of New York… with people paying $12,000 to die | Daily Mail Online […]

‘Epstein Files’ Include Information Pertaining To National Security Authored by Ken Silva via Headline USA,Attorney General Todd Blanche has claimed that there are no national security secrets included in the “Epstein files” – the trove of documents the Justice Department holds on deceased multimillionaire sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein. FILE – Documents that were included in the U.S. Department of Justice release of the Jeffrey […]

Apple Flat After Mixed Results: Strong iPhone Sales Offset By Weak China Revenue, Declining Margins And Buybacks As we previewed earlier, today’s AAPL earnings report will be the first for Apple with new CEO John Ternus in charge. He technically has shared responsibility over the quarter, with his start date taking place on Sept. 1. But the quarter actually began several weeks before then when Tim Cook, now executive chairman, was […]

97-Year-Old Sues ‘Toy Story’ Star Over 58% Gold Markups As Bankrupt Dealer Owes Customers $49 Million A 97-year-old La Jolla man and his 85-year-old wife say former Disney star Erik von Detten talked them into putting $2.15 million of their retirement savings into overpriced gold coins worth only about $1.36 million at the time – a nearly 60% markup that left them with roughly 400 fewer ounces of gold than they would have gotten at […]

‘The Coup Is Underway’: Kunstler Sees A ‘Turnstile Into The Next Phase Of The Fourth Turning’ Authored by James Howard Kunstler via Kunstler.com,Forcing Function”Where Enlightenment philosopher Descartes said, ‘I think, therefore I am,’ the Communist says, ‘I’m right, therefore I’m in charge.’ – Data Republican on XIt was supposed to be an election, but the event we’re in is actually an attempt to overthrow the government. The coup […]

Conservatives In Disbelief Over Democrat’s Answer: “One Of The Craziest Things I’ve Ever Heard A Politician Say” Michigan Democrat Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed is facing backlash after suggesting that concerns over transgender students in girls’ sports and locker rooms are so-called manufactured political issues.The controversy erupted after El-Sayed appeared on CBS’s “60 Minutes,” where correspondent Ross Douthat pressed him about […]

From Stablecoin To Foundation: Tether CEO Unveils Asimovian Vision To “Reduce The Darkness” Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino cast the company as Asimov’s Foundation, a seed of light for the coming dark age. Somewhat ironically, the seed money, it turns out, is the Empire’s own debt, and a growing pile of Swiss gold.Ardoino envisions Tether through the eyes of Asimov’s psychohistory: civilizational decline can’t be stopped, but the […]

Trump Says ‘No Rush’ On Renewing Iran War, Oil Prices ‘Dropping Like A Rock’ SummaryTrump Delays Iran Decision: Trump says he is in no rush to resume strikes, favoring more time for diplomacy despite Netanyahu’s reported push for renewed military action.Ayatollah Signals Openness to Talks: Supreme Leader authorizes dialogue with Washington as Qatari mediation reportedly makes progress toward a draft agreement.Faster Hormuz Reopening […]

Robot Mowers Invade America’s Golf Courses, Putting Groundskeepers On Notice From Four Seasons’ Tranquilo Golf Club in Florida and Barton Hills Country Club in Michigan to Baltimore Country Club in Maryland and the Country Club of New Bedford in Massachusetts, robotic mowers are being spotted at golf courses nationwide. Their rapid adoption is reshaping course maintenance and raising fresh questions about future labor demand for the […]

“Not Acceptable At All”: Trump Blasts Former US Attorney’s $50M Concord Deal After NYT Report Authored by T.J. Muscaro via The Epoch Times,President Donald Trump said on Oct. 31 that it’s “unacceptable” that former U.S. Attorney Alina Habba Mildon signed a $50 million multi-year contract while serving in the Department of Justice.Trump is now going after his former lawyer, Alina Habba, over her $50 million deal:“I thought it was […]

Kid Rock Tells Bill Maher What He Thinks Of El-Sayed – Compares To ‘Pieces Of Sh*t’ 9/11 Hijackers Kid Rock used a Friday night appearance on Bill Maher’s HBO show to go after Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic nominee in Michigan’s Senate race, comparing a candidate he called “well-spoken, even a good-looking guy” to the hijackers who flew planes into the World Trade Center just days before Tuesday’s election. Kid Rock just TORE APART […]

Poland Launches Security Operation Along Kaliningrad Border, Fearing Russian ‘Sabotage’ More border tensions have emeged between Poland and the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad, at a moment tensions continue to soar related to the Ukraine war as well as Western accusations of Kremlin-orchestrated sabotage.Polish police and security forces have launched a special operation to ‘secure’ the border area, having picked up intelligence […]

Trump Says He’ll Turn Into ‘Mr. Veto’ And Issue Preemptive Pardons If Dems Dominate Midterms President Trump said that if Democrats win the House or the Senate on Tuesday, he will govern by veto until the two sides cut a deal, telling Fox News’ Miranda Devine that he would “become Mr. Veto.” President Donald Trump speaks to members of the media before boarding Air Force One (Getty) “Well, if that happens, I guess I’ll become Mr. […]

Skynet, Spies, And Your Vote Doesn’t Count: The 10 Biggest Red Flags In Anthropic’s IPO Filing When Anthropic’s S-1 went public on Oct 26, the headline number was a $974 million operating profit on $11.6 billion of second-quarter revenue. It also came with what we tallied as roughly $800 billion in compute commitments, including up to $120.5 billion owed to Elon Musk’s SpaceXAI.Monday’s amendment filled in the blanks, and it’s not […]

3 Midterm Outcomes & How They’d Move Stocks Submitted by QTR’s Fringe FinanceWith the midterm elections now here, I wanted to quickly lay out the three potential scenarios I see unfolding, and how I think the stock market could react to each. Most of my readers are already familiar with my first, and what I think could happen to markets as a result: Could Democrats Crash This Market?As I’ve been prattling on about for month, I […]

State Department Goes Dark After Substation “Event” Cuts Power To DC’s Foggy Bottom News broke late this morning that Washington’s Foggy Bottom neighborhood had lost power in what local reports describe as an “unscheduled loss of electrical power.”Local outlet 7News reports that more than 1,100 Pepco customers lost power this morning after an incident at the utility’s I Street Substation.Daily Wire reporter Mary Margaret Olohan […]

DOE Announces $10.1B In Loans To Constellation, Alliant, For 3.7 GW By Robert Walton, Senior Editor at UtilityDiveThe U.S. Department of Energy announced $10.1 billion in loans and loan guarantees to Constellation Energy and Alliant Energy this week, aiming to support 3.7 GW of new capacity from nuclear and other technologies.DOE’s Office of Energy Dominance Financing on Tuesday announced a conditional loan commitment of up to $5 […]

DC Judge Tosses Charges Against Former F.B.I. Officials Accused Of Lying About Hunter Biden Laptop A federal magistrate judge on Monday dismissed the criminal complaint against two former FBI officials accused of misleading Congress in 2023 about the bureau’s work on the Hunter Biden laptop investigation. Magistrate Judge Zia Faruqui said the case against Nikki Floris and Bradley Benavides “cannot be described as anything other than […]

France Votes To Tax Big Tech By The Gigabyte – And Someone Just Bent The Barrel Back France’s National Assembly voted on Friday to tax the internet by the gigabyte. An amendment to the 2027 budget would charge every company that sends data to French internet subscribers €0.055 per gigabyte, and its Socialist authors expect it to raise €10 billion a year.But by Sunday, someone had turned the tax on the party that wrote it. An […]

Mechanical, Technicals, And An Election Submitted by Peter Tchir, Academy SecuritiesAnother hectic week! This market is not getting any easier to manage.I want to refocus attention on a subject that continues to come up in conversations and that we tried to address in last week’s report: Stocks & Credit: Cheap but Getting Cheaper? Energy: Not So Much? That subject is why energy prices are still high, if, according to […]