AfD Preps Talks With Moscow To Reopen Cheap Gas Flows To Germany It didn’t take long for the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party – fresh off its historic taking of 43.8% of the vote in the eastern German state of Saxony-Anhalt election earlier this month which left Chancellor Friedrich Merz and his Christian Democratic Union (CDU) shaken – to embark on ties which are a serious shot across the bow and slap in the face to both Berlin […]

The Purge: Princeton Faculty Reach Perfect Zero Support For Republicans Authored by Jonathan Turley via JonathanTurley.org, We recently discussed how Yale faculty reached academic nirvana after years of purging departments of conservatives and Republicans. The university finally showed zero political donations to Republicans. Now Princeton can claim that it has succeeded in a similar cleansing, according to a new study by […]

Yen Plunges After Two Dissenters Upstage BOJ’s Rate Hike: Full Wall Street Reaction The yen sank to a two-week low against the dollar ​on Friday after two policy makers at the Bank of Japan dissented from a widely expected decision to raise ‌interest rates, extinguishing expectations for back-to-back hikes. Governor Kazuo Ueda now needs, at a minimum, to preserve expectations for a December move to prevent markets from […]

Treasury Sanctions Crypto Exchange Behind Iran’s Bitcoin Tolls On Hormuz Ships Via Decrypt.co, The U.S. Treasury has sanctioned BitBank, naming the Iranian exchange it says carried the Bitcoin that shipping companies paid for safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz. Since June, the Office of Foreign Assets Control said, the Hormuz Safe Marine Services Authority has used BitBank to pass the payments it collects on to the […]

Despite ‘Soft’ Survey Strength, US Manufacturing Unexpectedly Tumbled In August US Industrial Production disappointed in August, unchanged MoM vs expectations of a 0.3% MoM rise. Capacity Utilization was flat MoM (slight disappointment to expectations… Worse still, manufacturing production seemingly hit an unexpected wall in August, falling 0.3% MoM versus an expectation of rising 0.3% MoM. That was the biggest monthl;y drop […]

Defense Stocks Fall Out Of Favor. Polymarket Might Have The Answer As To Why The S&P Aerospace & Defense Select Industry Index is little changed year to date, despite conflicts across Eurasia and expectations that a coming rearmament cycle will substantially boost missile and bomb production. The muted performance highlights a disconnect between investor appetite and the Trump administration’s anticipated expansion of […]

Adult Film Stars Join Left-Wing Voter Registration Push Ahead Of Midterms Via American Greatness, A progressive voter-registration group is turning to adult film performers and a $100,000 advertising campaign in an effort to reach Georgia voters ahead of November’s midterm elections. Hot2Vote’s Atlanta campaign features about 100 adult performers urging residents to check their voter-registration status, according to […]

Futures Flat Ahead Of Massive $7 Trillion Quad-Witching As Yields Resume Rise US stock futures are little changed on Friday, with big tech stocks rising while sentiment is supported by another modest decline in oil prices; a near-record $7 trillion quad-witching and index rebalances add to Friday’s set-up. US tariff-delay hopes, a flattening US curve and softer diesel and WTI prices ease inflation concerns, while AI bulls are […]

Winter Is Coming: Saudis Warn European Refiners Of Crude Shipment Disruptions Next Month Hopes earlier this week that Saudi Arabia could restore roughly half the capacity of its East-West pipeline and resume crude loadings for Europe faded by the end of the week. The pipeline bypasses the Strait of Hormuz and carries crude to a Red Sea export terminal, making its recovery critical to restoring disrupted shipments to the […]

Students In UK Ordered To Undertake White Privilege Training Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News, Britain’s universities have started the new term the only way the education establishment knows how: by sitting 18-year-olds down and asking them to confess their “White privilege” before they are even allowed to unpack in halls. The same system that cannot keep White British children in grammar schools, and that now puts […]

Exxon Eyes Venezuela Return Nearly Two Decades After Nationalization Exit ExxonMobil is negotiating a return to Venezuela’s Orinoco Belt, eyeing the Petromonagas heavy-oil project and neighboring Carabobo assets, Reuters reported Wednesday, citing people familiar with the matter. No deal has been finalized, and Exxon and state oil company PDVSA did not immediately respond to Reuters. Petromonagas also has a Russian state-owned […]

Truancy Is Now A Mental Health Condition In Britain Authored by Mary Gilleece via The Daily Sceptic, Bunking off school used to be called truancy, but now ‘Emotional Based School Avoidance’, or EBSA, has joined the ever-growing list of supposed mental health conditions afflicting the nation’s youth… What used to be known as ‘truancy’ has had a smart rebrand to EBSA. Pronounced ebbsah, EBSA stands for Emotional Based School […]

Midwest Braces For Diesel Crisis After Exxon’s Joliet Refinery Suffers Disruption A major refinery in the US Midwest went offline this week after a power outage, adding to global refining disruptions as US diesel prices reach record highs. One of the largest diesel refineries in the Midwest is offline pic.twitter.com/JSwuHrNfBw — zerohedge (@zerohedge) September 18, 2026 Exxon Mobil shut its 275,000-barrel-a-day Joliet refinery […]

IRGC Announces Attack On Another Tanker In Hormuz, As Trump Mulls ‘Annihilate Them Or Not’ Decision Update(1755ET): While the White House has signaled it wishes to see ‘quiet’ in the Strait of Hormuz and de-escalation when it comes to Iran, it doesn’t seem heavily sanctioned-Tehran is yet willing to see it that way. Another foreign vessel has reportedly been hit, via Sepha News: IRGC says Togolese-flagged tanker ‘Trend’ was hit […]

The Great Diesel Crisis – How Policy Choices Made The West Vulnerable Authored by Daniel Lacalle, How taxes, regulation, refinery closures, sanctions and declining domestic production turned a geopolitical shock into a diesel-price crisis Do not blame diesel prices on the Iran war or the disruption of the Strait of Hormuz. The geopolitical risk premium attached to oil prices is relevant, but the market was already weakened by […]

GM Delivers Patriot Missile Parts To Lockheed As Rearmament Supercycle Nears A congressional report recently found that the US has “probably used” one-half to two-thirds of its missile-defense interceptors during its Iran conflict so far, intensifying new concerns about readiness for another major conflict. The US industrial response is already taking shape to ramp up missile and bomb production to replenish depleted stockpiles as […]

Putin Explains The Rise Of The AfD As The Consequence Of The EU’s Systemic Errors Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, Putin was asked about the AfD’s recent landslide victory in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt on the sidelines of this year’s BRICS Summit in Delhi. While politely declining to address the topic directly, he nevertheless said that “all that is now happening across Europe as a whole is the consequence of […]

Village Votes To Separate From UK To Fight Government Planned Migrant Invasion Is the tide finally turning against the mass immigration agenda in Europe?  Events surrounding the tiny village of Piddington have spread like wildfire concerning UK government plans to relocate and house over 1200 third world migrants.  The golden horde will be dropped in the middle of the county of Oxfordshire at an old military base less than a mile […]

Iconic British Children’s Character Used To Push Net Zero Propaganda Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News, Bob the Builder, the stop-motion tradesman who once built houses, has been hauled out of retirement to install solar panels, home batteries and “low carbon heating” for German-owned energy giant E.ON. The catchphrase is the same. The product is Net Zero. The much loved kids’ character is back on screen for the first […]

UK Proposes New Laws Giving Unmarried Women Access To Men’s Assets Men born in the 21st Century have an incredibly difficult uphill battle in front of them in face of a liberal establishment that has declared outright war.  One of the key components of this war is the use of feminism as a tool to steal hard earned assets away from men so they can be redistributed to women (and to the government).  This has been an ongoing scheme […]

Germany Weighs Market Incentives To Boost Record Low Gas Storage Level Authored by Tsvetana Paraskova via OilPrice.com, Germany is considering expanding a key market incentive to encourage traders to raise gas storage levels ahead of the winter, a government source told Reuters on Wednesday as German gas sites are barely half full at present. Europe’s biggest economy has the world’s fourth-largest natural gas storage capacity, […]

Netanyahu Calls To Strip Citizenship Of Those Who ‘Defame’ Israeli Army Via Middle East Eye Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has called for the stripping of citizenship from those who “defame” the Israeli army. His comments reflect anger from the Israeli government over the documentary NAZA, which featured soldiers testifying to the commission of war crimes in Gaza. Netanyahu said he would introduce two bills to Israel’s […]

China’s “Dogfighting” Satellites Come Into Focus As US Confirms Space Weapons The United States has publicly acknowledged that it already has weapons in orbit, adding a new dimension to a military competition increasingly defined by highly maneuverable satellites – and what they could be used for. Air Force Secretary Troy Meink revealed the space weapons in a Monday disclosure at the Air & Space Forces Association’s annual […]

NASA Chief Says Critical For US To Win Space Race With China Authored by T.J. Muscaro via The Epoch Times, NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman told members of the Air Force and Space Force that communist China will land on the moon, and it’s imperative that the United States return to the lunar surface first. “You are witnessing a very energized NASA, and we will need to be, as we are in the midst of a very real second space […]

Stanford Scientists Create Mice With Half-Human Brains Scientists at Stanford University have created mice whose brains are largely built from human cells, a shocking, first-of-its-kind experiment that is raising serious questions about how far researchers should be allowed to go. In a study published Wednesday in Nature, Stanford neuroscientist Sergiu Pașca said the development represents the most extensive integration of human […]