Amazon Says Cloud Infrastructure In Bahrain, UAE ‘Beyond Saving’ Via The Cradle Amazon Web Services (AWS) says it cannot restore access to its cloud-computing facility in Bahrain or one of three data-hosting zones in the UAE due to the extensive damage caused by Iranian retaliatory strikes, Reuters reported on 15 September. “The damage to our infrastructure spanned multiple Availability Zones and exceeded what our regional and […]

Syrian Protests Spread To Aleppo, Raqqa While Jolani Enjoys Red Carpet At Dubai Media Event Syria’s fuel price hike protests have persisted from Sunday into the heart of this week, and increasingly they are becoming full on anti-Sharaa regime demonstrations. Of course Sharaa – whose al Qaeda/ISIS name is Jolani – was never elected in the first place. Monday into Tuesday the protests have spread across multiple cities and […]

Saudi Coalition Intercepts Drone Headed Toward Mecca Update(2145ET): Drone attack on Mecca from unknown location being reported overnight, though the Saudi coalition has been prompted to blame Yemen’s Shia Houthis: Saudi Arabia and the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation have condemned what they described as a “heinous” Houthi attack targeting Mecca. A Houthi official, however, rejected Saudi Arabia’s account that its forces […]

US Energy Secretary: Saudi Pipeline Could Be Back In Service Within Days By Julianne Geiger of OilPrice.com Saudi Arabia’s East-West oil pipeline could be back in service within days, U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright said Tuesday, offering the first relatively concrete timeline for restoring a route that had been moving 4 million to 5 million barrels per day around the largely closed Strait of Hormuz. The 1,200-kilometer […]

Tucker Carlson Sounds Alarm Over Trump’s Planned ‘Largest Transfer Of Ordinance In Modern History’ After the US was essentially forced to conduct a major and rapid draw down of forces from the Gulf and Mideast region in the wake of Iran’s ‘unexpectedly’ large retaliation for Operation Epic Fury, it seems all that Washington is left to do is arm regional allies to the teeth and wish them the best. Early this month the US approved […]

US Troops Leak New Iran War Photos Of Gulf Bases: ‘Major Damage Hidden From American Public’ As we’ve been documenting, it is clear that major damage has yet to be communicated to the American public regarding Iran’s major retaliation on US bases in the Gulf and Mideast since the start of Trump’s Operation Epic Fury.  During the same week that a long awaited Pentagon/Department of War Inspector General’s report was released […]

“I Like Them”: Trump Weighs In On Flock Surveillance Cameras You know those Flock surveillance cameras everyone hates? Trump just came out in favor of them.  A Flock camera monitors traffic in Quincy, Massachusetts. (Greg Derr/Patriot Ledger/USA Today Network/Reuters Connect) Speaking with reporters on Sunday on Air Force One en route to Joint Base Andrews, Trump endorsed the AI-powered mass surveillance tool.  “Speaking of […]

Libya Threatens Force Majeure As Oil Guards Shut Fields By Julianne Geiger, of OilPrice.com Libya’s National Oil Corporation is threatening to declare force majeure after members of the security force assigned to protect the country’s oil infrastructure shut a pipeline valve and halted production at two fields. Production has stopped completely at the Hamada and Tahara oilfields and at a pumping station after members of the […]

Stay-At-Home Subsidies Won’t Produce A Baby Boom Authored by Thomas Savidge via The Daily Economy, Over Labor Day weekend, amidst Americans’ attempts to enjoy the waning days of summer, The New York Times published an article titled “Trump Officials Draft Plan to Pay At-Home Parents, Using Funds for Working Ones.” Per the story, the administration’s proposal would use funds from the Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF), which […]

Largest US Power Grid Faces Dire Crisis By 2030 If Data Center Load Growth Continues By 2030, the PJM Interconnection, the largest US electrical grid in the US serving 67 million people in 13 northeast states, is likely to face a “loss of load expectation,” or LOLE –  a key reliability metric used by power system planners to measure the expected number of hours or days per year that a power grid’s electricity generation will […]

Board Votes To Shut Down Kennedy Center Authored by Matthew Vadum via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The board of the Kennedy Center voted Sept. 15 to close the arts facility “immediately” for safety reasons so rehabilitation work may be performed on the building, President Donald Trump said. Workers outside The John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts in Washingotn after they updated the signage in honor of […]

Dollar General CEO Warns Even “Upper-Middle Acting Like Lower-Income” Amid Fuel Crisis Speaking at Goldman Sachs’ 33rd Annual Global Retailing Conference on Tuesday morning, Dollar General CEO Todd Vasos offered a downbeat assessment of its customer base, warning that financial stress is spreading up the income ladder to middle- and upper-middle-income households.  Years of elevated prices for everyday goods, compounded by […]

A Stunning Case In The Making? The Supreme Court Orders New York To Respond In Second Amendment Case Authored by Jonathan Turley, One of the cases that I have been following as we approach the October term of the Supreme Court is Calce v. New York, a case challenging New York’s ban on stun guns. While it is important not to overplay the significance of the order, some justices clearly want to hear more on the case before deciding […]

AI Just Became A Massive Midterm Election Issue Submitted by QTR’s Fringe Finance Artificial intelligence is about to become one of the most consequential issues in the 2026 midterm elections. Maybe not immigration-level consequential or inflation-level consequential. But over the next two months, I think Americans are going to hear a lot more about a question that, until very recently, mostly belonged to Silicon Valley and a […]

Bolsonaro, Lula Neck-And-Neck As Brazil Markets Bet On Rightward Shift Brazil’s October 4 general election is around the corner and is already sparking a rally in local markets, with a presidential runoff expected on October 25. Right-wing challenger Flávio Bolsonaro is statistically tied with socialist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in potential runoff scenarios. “Brazilian elections could not be more uncertain and […]

A Speech For The Ages: Bobby Kennedy Lays Waste To ‘Democrats’ Authored by Tim Donner via Liberty Nation, No one who lived through it will ever forget Nov. 22, 1963, that day of infamy when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. It was the story of the century. Few will remember that, on that same day, legendary author and theologian C.S. Lewis also died; a story that would have ordinarily attracted front-page attention was […]

Manufacturers Set To Move Production Out Of Canada As US Tariffs Hit Hard The circumstances of US/Canadian trade should be common knowledge by now, but the details often get mired in the swamp of political rhetoric.  When Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney describes the tariff issue as the US “waging war” on Canada, he knows exactly what he’s doing.  Carney has turned a simple trade issue over reasonable 10% tariffs into an […]

Senate Blocks Clarity Act As Cloture Falls Short Of 60 Votes The Senate on Tuesday failed to advance the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act, falling short of the 60 votes needed to invoke cloture on the motion to proceed to H.R. 3633. The vote, held at about 2:15 p.m. ET, was the first floor test of comprehensive crypto market-structure legislation in the chamber. It was not a vote on final passage. It was a vote on whether debate […]

“High Crimes And Misdemeanors”: Massie Forces House Vote To Impeach Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) on Tuesday introduced privileged articles of impeachment against Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, accusing him of waging an unauthorized war in Iran, ignoring a congressional directive to end it, conducting extrajudicial killings at sea, retaliating against a U.S. senator, seizing Venezuelan leader Nicolás […]

Thune “Open To Exploring” Diesel Export Ban As Skyrocketing Prices Raise Fears Of 2008-Style Shock Senate Majority Leader John Thune told reporters this morning that he is “open to exploring” a diesel export ban as AAA’s national average price for the industrial fuel continues to set new highs, now topping $6.27 a gallon. *THUNE SAYS HE IS ‘OPEN TO CONSIDERING’ AN EXPORT BAN ON DIESEL — zerohedge (@zerohedge) September 15, […]

Japanese Bond Yields Surge To 30 Year High On Report Tokyo May Hike Defense Spending To 3.5% Of GDP Just in case Japan’s bond yields weren’t high enough already, Bloomberg reports that Japan is considering a new mid-term defense spending target of 3.5% of GDP in line with NATO and other US allies. Such a move would send a shockwave through financial markets concerned about Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s spending plans at a time […]

Terrible 20Y Auction Prices With Huge Tail, Lowest Foreign Demand On Record Earlier today during his grilling in Congress, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent was asked to explain the recent spike in yields, to which his response was to blame oil, and point out that last week’s 10Y and 30Y auctions were both stellar. Which they were… but only because they took place on days when yields soared earlier itn eh day, giving buyers in the […]

Energy Truce In Shambles: Ukraine Strikes Russian Refinery Despite Trump’s Warning Amid Global Diesel Crisis President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on X that Ukrainian forces struck the Syzran refinery in Russia’s Samara region, about 75 miles west of Samara and 466 miles southeast of Moscow. The strike comes days after President Trump urged Ukraine to halt attacks on Russian refineries, as average US retail diesel prices jumped […]

AI Agents Cheated In Google Experiment, Researchers Report Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times, Artificial intelligence (AI) agents tasked with math problems began cheating when encountering more difficult conjectures, Google researchers reported in a new study. They also found that some of the agents reported those that cheated. Google DeepMind studied the activity of 100 agents given a set of 71 formal math […]

Warsh’s Credibility Test: How The Fed Chair Painted Himself Into A Corner Only about two weeks ago, downside risk to the labor market had been flagged by a negative nonfarm payroll growth number for July, progress was being made on the inflation front, and Warsh had been exceptionally quiet for a Fed Chair. Consequently, markets were pricing in a low probability for a rate hike in September, just over 30%. Then, as Rabobank’s […]