US Treasury Grants Sanctions Waiver For Some Iranian Flights To Iraq Via The Cradle The office of Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi announced on Friday that Baghdad has secured a narrow exemption from US sanctions on Iran’s aviation sector, allowing Iranian airlines to resume up to 40 daily flights to Najaf International Airport. The deal excludes Mahan Air, the statement said, welcoming US “cooperation in granting the […]

Brazil Elections: Right-Wing Bolsonaro Takes Early Lead Over Socialist Lula As Vote Count Begins Summary:  Right-Wing Bolsonaro Leads Socialist Lula Polling closed at 4 pm local time  Brazil Votes In Tight Presidential Election With South America’s Future On The Line Latest Election Count Right-wing Senator Flávio Bolsonaro leads socialist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva 51.2% to 40.7%, with just 18.7% of votes counted […]

We Cannot Trust The CDC Estimates Of Flu Vaccine Effectiveness Authored by Eyal Shahar via The Brownstone Institute, Each year the CDC publishes an estimate of the effectiveness of the flu vaccine in the previous flu season. Recently, the NIH director criticized the test-negative design from which the estimates are derived. He was right. The basic premise of the design is a two-edged sword: on the one hand, restricting the sample […]

California Attorney General Subpoenas OpenAI In Cybersecurity Inquiry Authored by Kimberly Hayek via The Epoch Times, California Attorney General Rob Bonta served an investigative subpoena to OpenAI on Wednesday, according to a statement released Thursday. The OpenAI logo on May 20, 2024. Dado Ruvic/Illustration/ReutersThe demand is part of the California Department of Justice’s ongoing investigation into incidents arising from […]

Judge Freezes Border Wall In Big Bend, A Sector Covering A Quarter Of The Border But Just 1-3% Of Apprehensions A federal judge in El Paso on Friday halted border wall construction across Texas’s Big Bend region, a stretch of the frontier that accounts for only a sliver of illegal crossings. US District Judge Kathleen Cardone read her order from the bench, issuing a preliminary injunction against “ground-disturbing activities” […]

Something Is Rotten In The State Of Yields Submitted by Peter Tchir of Academy Securities Treasuries, European Sovereign, and even Credit. Something seemed rotten this week, with Thursday’s price action in all 3 of those markets triggering the need to focus on this more. Debt markets underpin the entire global financial system and when things don’t “look,” or “feel,” or “smell” right, it warrants our collective […]

The US Doesn’t Have An Oil Problem – It Has A Refinery Problem One of the enduring weaknesses of the modern US economy is the lack of redundancy.  As long as most of the world is operating normally and there are no serious geopolitical disruptions, America’s “just in time” system works fine.  But, throw a monkey-wrench into distribution, global exports, freight systems, shipping or elements of production and cracks quickly form in […]

US, Australia Halt Consular Services In Brazil Before Presidential Election, Citing Security Concerns Authored by Aldgra Fredly via The Epoch Times, The United States and Australia on Oct. 2 suspended consular services in Brazil, citing security concerns ahead of the country’s high-stakes presidential elections. Security personnel stand outside the U.S. embassy after consular services were suspended due to security concerns in […]

“First Time In History”: Bessent Says Iran Faces Zero Oil Revenue As Tanker Loadings Collapse Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent joined Mike Allen for a new episode of “The Axios Show,” published Saturday morning. Bessent spoke about the Iran war’s effect on the cost of living for US consumers and his “I am the house” comment early last month, which warned anyone betting against the Treasury’s defense of the long end of the market. […]

Why So Many Social Science Claims Are False Authored by Christopher J. Ferguson via RealClearInvestigations, One of the most urgent questions facing society today is the potential impact of AI on education and labor markets. So it’s no surprise that two scientists attempted to provide an answer, producing a meta-analysis suggesting that incorporating ChatGPT in schooling dramatically improved student outcomes. Social media and […]

“In The Name Of God”: Yemen Leader Orders All-Out Offensive Against Iran-Backed Houthis Saudi Arabia and Yemeni government forces have been preparing for a major offensive against Iran-backed Houthis, whose latest advances along Yemen’s western coast have tightened their control over coastal areas and disrupted a critical maritime chokepoint known as the Bab el-Mandeb Strait. Bloomberg now reports that the operation is underway. […]

10-Year Cost Of Democratic Socialist Policies Could Hit $350,000 Per Household, White House Says Authored by Jacki Thrapp via The Epoch Times, American taxpayers would face a net fiscal burden of over $350,000 per household in the next decade if the Democratic Socialists of America’s top policies were adopted, according to a report released Oct. 1 by President Donald Trump’s Council of Economic Advisers. The report predicted a […]

Zelensky Vows To Hammer More Russian Refineries As G7 Greenlights Emergency Fuel Dump President Volodymyr Zelensky told Reuters in an exclusive interview that Ukraine plans to intensify attacks on Russian oil refineries in response to continued strikes on Ukrainian cities. The threat comes as the Trump administration pressures European allies to release up to 100 million barrels of emergency oil and diesel stocks ahead of the […]

French Feminist Convicted Of The Crime Of “Public Insult” For Refusing To Call Transgender Mayor A “Woman” Authored by Jonathan Turley via JonathanTurley.org, Dora Moutot is a feminist who has dedicated much of her life to fighting for women’s rights and has built a following on social media. Like other feminists, Moutot does not view transgender women the same as biological women. She has now joined others who are facing criminal […]

“We Don’t Need To Sell The Story Anymore”: Nuclear Wins The Argument At WNA 2026… Now Everyone Is Racing For Bronze For most of the 2010s, the annual World Nuclear Association symposium in London was an exercise in group therapy: an industry reeling from Fukushima, German shutdowns and a seven-year uranium bear market, explaining to an indifferent world why it deserved to exist. Not anymore. This year’s gathering (Sept 9-11) drew […]

Black Smoke Reported Over Critical Aramco Refinery As Saudis Weigh Major Assault On Houthi Rebels Unverified reports and footage circulating on X early Saturday morning appear to show smoke rising from Saudi Aramco’s Riyadh refinery. The cause and any impact on operations remain unclear. Separately, Axios reports that Saudi Arabia is preparing a major offensive against Iran-backed Houthis in the coming days. President Trump’s […]

Why Apartments In Tokyo Are So Much Cheaper Than In NYC Authored by Julia R. Cartwright via The Daily Economy, Imagine it’s January in New York and you’re sharing a tiny apartment with two roommates. The walls are crumbling around you, and there’s a hole in your bedroom wall big enough to see outside. Every time it rains or snows, water drips into your room. You call your landlord to fix it over and over again, but nothing […]

IRS Takes Aim At AQR’s Tax-Slashing “Holy Grail”, Warns Crackdown May Be Retroactive For three years Wall Street’s hottest product wasn’t a stock, a sector or even an AI trade – it was losing money. Specifically, losing it in a very precise, very engineered way so that the “losses” could be handed to the IRS while the portfolio itself kept compounding. But now the taxman has finally noticed. On Monday, Treasury and the IRS released […]

Multi-Million Dollar TRICARE Fraud Bought A Gold-Plated Cybertruck And Casino Parties Authored by Austin Campbell via Task & Purpose, Millions of dollars spent on casino-themed parties, expensive hotels and a gold-plated Cybertruck. It sounds like the spending spree of a character from The Wolf of Wall Street. Instead, federal prosecutors say the absurd spending was financed by a 64-year-old mental health clinic owner named […]

Victorian Doctors Seek Answers From OpenAI And Governments Over Medicare Breach Authored by Rex Widerstrom via The Epoch Times, The Australian Medical Association (AMA) Victorian branch has called on OpenAI and the Victorian and federal governments to explain how they will protect patient health data following a security incident in which an OpenAI agent gained unauthorized access to a Medicare statistics portal. The ChatGPT app […]

11 Million US Workers May Need To Switch Careers By 2035 This month has made it very clear how AI doom narratives are promoted in an information operation through public relations firms, billionaires, and endless streams of climate-like doom corporate media headlines. These efforts aim to shape public opinion about AI and push for tighter regulation, giving those at the top of frontier labs moats.  The headlines have ranged from […]

Chinese Hackers Impersonate Former White House Official In Attempt To Steal US AI Policy Secrets Authored by AG News Staff via American Greatness, Chinese-linked hackers have allegedly been impersonating American artificial intelligence experts, including a former White House official, in a targeted cyberespionage campaign aimed at obtaining sensitive information about U.S. AI policymaking. Cybersecurity firm Proofpoint revealed […]

Minnesota Might Hand Republicans A Senate Upset Nobody Predicted Democrats entered this year’s midterms aiming to flip Senate seats in Maine, North Carolina, Alaska, and Ohio, and hold Georgia and Michigan. With the national mood really riding against the GOP, they see opportunities in Texas and Iowa as well. But things appear to be changing. That Democrats plan to flip the Senate assumed they wouldn’t lose any seats they […]

25 States Ask Supreme Court To End Maine’s 72-Hour Gun-Purchase Wait A Montana-led coalition of 24 state attorneys general and the Arizona Legislature is urging the Supreme Court to hear a challenge to Maine’s three-day waiting period for gun purchases. Under Maine’s law, a seller can’t hand over a firearm until 72 hours after the buyer and seller agree to the sale. The wait runs even if the buyer’s background check clears right […]

US To Allow Online Applications For 1st-Time Passports: Rubio Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, Beginning next year, U.S. citizens can apply for their first passport fully online, according to Secretary of State Marco Rubio. A woman applies for a U.S. passport online. Shutterstock”By the end of 2027, our goal is for the vast majority of Americans to be able to apply for a passport or a passport card on […]