FBI Cuts All Ties With ADL, Calling It ‘Political Front’ Disguised As A Watchdog In a striking move for an administration that caters to the State of Israel and its American supporters, the FBI has severed its ties with the staunchly pro-Israel Anti-Defamation League (ADL), with Director Kash Patel saying the bureau refuses to team up with “political fronts masquerading as watchdogs.”  The move comes after the ADL found itself […]

Homeland Security Removes 5 TSA Officials Over Biden-Era Watchlist Authored by Victoria Friedman via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said on Sept. 30 that it removed five senior officials from the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), accusing them of weaponizing a now-abolished aviation security watchlist to target innocent Americans. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem […]

Intel Reportedly In Early Stage Talks To Make Chips For AMD Intel’s stock jumped over 7% Wednesday after Semafor reported the company is in early talks to make chips for longtime rival AMD in its foundry business. AMD shares also ticked higher, up more than 1% on Wednesday – and is up nearly 4% in Thursday trade. Such a deal would be a major boost for Intel’s relatively new manufacturing arm, which has struggled to attract […]

Searching For Alternative Options By Bas van Geffen, Senior Macro Strategist at Rabobank Searching For Alternative Options The US shutdown enters another day. Moderates on both sides of the aisle are exploring ways to strike a deal to reopen the government. The senators’ ideas include a shorter stopgap bill than the seven-week extension provided in the bill that was passed in the House of Representatives, combined with possible […]

Tesla Shares Surge To 2025 High After Q3 Deliveries Smash Expectations Tesla shares jumped 3.5%, rising to a fresh 2025 high and pushing Elon’s wealth above $500 billion, after the company reported stronger-than-expected third-quarter delivery figures. Deliveries came in at 497,099 vehicles, a 7.4% increase from a year earlier and smashing Bloomberg consensus estimates of 439,612. The numbers also beat the recently-boosted guidance […]

Manchester Synagogue Attack Leaves 2 Dead, Several Wounded On Judaism’s Holiest Day A horrific vehicle-ramming and stabbing attack occurred earlier today at the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue, located in a suburb of Manchester, Greater Manchester, England. The incident took place during Yom Kippur, the holiest day in Judaism. Greater Manchester Police declared the Crumpsall synagogue attack a “marauding terrorist attack” […]

Even As A Free Man, Ross Ulbricht Still Under Fire Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via The Epoch Times, In 2009, I received an email from an obviously brilliant young software developer named Ross Ulbricht. We discussed a “venture to create a free market computer simulation based on the Austrian theory.” His idea was to use many of the newest digital tools to create a digital marketplace, one that would experiment with a new form of […]

Stocks Hit Record Highs Around The Globe As AI Mania Hits Escape Velocity US equity futures are higher with tech and small caps both outperforming as the screaming AI euphoria drove global indexes to fresh highs after an OpenAI share sale valued the company at an eye-popping $500 billion, catapulting the firm to become the world’s most valuable startup, surpassing SpaceX. As of 8:00am ET,  S&P futures were 0.2% higher, […]

Low-Speed Collision Between Two Delta Jets At LaGuardia A low-speed collision between two Delta Air Lines regional jets occurred in the overnight hours on a taxiway at New York’s LaGuardia Airport. *TWO DELTA JETS COLLIDE AT SLOW SPEED AT LAGUARDIA:ABC AFFILIATE — zerohedge (@zerohedge) October 2, 2025 Endeavor Flight 5155 was taxiing for departure when its wing struck the cockpit of Flight 5047, which had just arrived from […]

Boeing Gets Contract To Replace Bunker Busting Bombs The US Dropped On Iran Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com, Boeing is set to receive a contract worth up to $123 million to replace the massive 30,000-pound bunker-busting bombs that the US dropped on Iranian nuclear facilities in June as part of the 12-day US-Israeli war against Iran, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday. On June 22, US B-2 Spirit bombers dropped 14 GBU-57 […]

Medvedev Again Trolls Trump: US Submarines A ‘Black Cat In A Dark Room’ Outspoken Russian hawk and firebrand Dmitri Medvedev has not stopped trolling Trump over the US nuclear submarine deployment, and the US President’s annoyance over the issue continues to show. The former Russian president and current Security Council Deputy Chairman has said in fresh remarks tinged with sarcasm that the situation brings to mind the saying about […]

The Stunning Math Behind The AI Vendor Financing “Circle Jerk” “If something cannot go on forever, it will stop” – Charles P Kindleberger, “Manias, Panics, and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises”, 1978 Every six months it happens like clockwork.  The first time the AI sector was rocked over fears of low/zero ROI, and gargantuan cash burn with nothing to show for it, was June 2024, when Goldman asked point blank […]

Tether Expands Hard Asset Strategy With More Bitcoin, Gold, And Land Authored by Will Izuchukwu via TheMerkle.com, Tether has purchased another 8,888 BTC, increasing its total on-chain holdings to 86,335 BTC. At current prices, that’s worth over $9.7 billion, according to CoinMarketCap. The company, however, claims its real stash is much larger. Tether reports holding over 100,000 BTC along with 50 tons of gold. It has also […]

Mass Shutdown Firings To Begin ‘In A Day Or Two’: Trump Admin Update (1405ET): The thing that the Trump administration said would happen if Democrats insisted on adding $1.5 trillion in spending – is happening.  Illustration by Janet Loehrke, USA Today / Getty Images On Wednesday, OMB chief Russ Vought told House Republicans on a private call that the administration will begin mass layoffs of federal workers “in a day or two,” […]

Germany Says It Busted Up Hamas Terror Plot Targeting Jews German prosecutors announced in a statement Wednesday that authorities have apprehended three suspected Hamas members who were allegedly procuring weapons “for assassinations targeting Israeli or Jewish institutions.” The trio has been charged with membership in a foreign terrorist organization and preparing an act of violence endangering the state, in a somewhat rare […]

Netherlands’ Top Pension Fund Dumps Caterpillar Over Gaza Demolitions Via The Cradle The Netherlands’ largest pension fund, ABP, announced Wednesday that it had divested from US manufacturer Caterpillar, citing concerns over the use of its equipment by Israeli forces in Gaza. ABP, which manages investments on behalf of three million government and education employees, confirmed it had sold its stake worth around $454 million as […]

Iran Says No Limits On Missile Program After Europe Demands It Curb Reach Amid UN snapback sanctions targeting Tehran, Europe has also been calling for Iran to curb its missile program, but obviously the country just came under unprovoked Israeli and US attack last June, and launched dozens or possibly hundreds of ballistic missiles on Tel Aviv and other locations in Israel. “Our missiles will reach the range that they need to,” a […]

Germany’s Biggest Tax Hike Since WWII: SPD Targets Families Submitted by Thomas Kolbe Faced with a rapidly worsening budget outlook, German Finance Minister Lars Klingbeil (SPD) believes he has finally found a fresh source of revenue. By scrapping the long-standing “marriage splitting” tax benefit—a system that allows couples to pool income and reduce their tax bill—he hopes to plug the ever-widening budget holes. It marks […]

Turkey Joins Arab States In Backing Trump’s Gaza Plan, But Hamas Likely To Reject It As of Tuesday, President Trump gave Hamas “two or three” days to respond positively to his 20-point Gaza peace plan, which is now being studied by Hamas. Axios says that Qatar and Egypt are the prime mediators, having presented the plan to Hamas leaders in Doha, while Turkey is also said to be urging Hamas to agree to the plan, or at least some […]

Assessing The Veracity Of SVR’s Report About A Polish-Ukrainian False Flag Attack In Poland Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, There’s little doubt that Ukraine has an interest in escalating NATO-Russian tensions through these means, including by employing anti-government Russian and Belarusian nationals in this reported plot, but it’s debatable whether Poland is involved in this and the extent to which it might be if […]

Will AI Eat Our Brains? Authored by Jeffrey A. Tucker via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Doug McMillon, chief executive of WalMart, has said that artificial intelligence (AI) is disrupting every single job in the corporation at all levels, impacting every sector. Many jobs will be eliminated, some created, and most all retooled in some way. It’s all happening very quickly. Image credit: Sanjeev Das, your nightmares There is […]

Iran-Aligned Houthis Sanction US Oil Majors By Charles Kennedy of OIlPrice.com Major U.S. oil companies and their top managers were targeted by sanctions by a Yemeni body affiliated with the Iran-aligned Houthi rebels, for what they say is violating a Houthi embargo. The Humanitarian Operations Coordination Center (HOCC), a Houthi-affiliated body created last year to liaise between the Houthis and commercial shipping operators, […]

Hegseth Plans Widespread Random Polygraphs, NDAs Amid Leak Fears First there was a short-notice all generals and admirals meeting at Quantico Tuesday, following a summer of some top command firings and reshufflings, and on Wednesday The Washington Post is reporting that polygraph testing will commence for some high-placed Pentagon commanders. This is reportedly to prevent leaks to the press, amid a climate of perceived ‘disloyalty’ […]

Asia-West Coast Container Rates Plummet; Demand Seen Waning Through Year-End By Stuart Chirls of FreightWaves Container rates on the eastbound trans-Pacific continued their plunge as ocean lines increase blank sailings amid weak demand that’s expected to persist through the end of this year. The SONAR Inbound Ocean TEUs Volume Index for Oct. 1 was down less than 1% from the previous week, but off 14.58% year-on-year.  Demand […]

Kremlin Highly Doubtful Trump Will Authorize Tomahawks For Ukraine Earlier this week Vice President J.D. Vance raised eyebrows amid possible major escalation with Russia in acknowledging that the US administration is “looking at” supplying Ukraine with Tomahawk long range missiles, at the request of the Europeans. Interestingly, the Kremlin has openly voiced that it is highly doubtful that President Trump would do such a thing. […]